Cloud Computing and Community One East

Community One East is happening this week and I for sure will be attending. The event is taking place at Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY. I am especially looking forward to the announcements tomorrow which sound very interesting :). Unfortunately, I can't go into details about what Sun Microsystems is announcing.

The first day of Community One is a free event featuring. The second day of the event is focused on Deep Dives with two half-day sessions on MySQL and two full-day sessions on Java and Web development. I will be attending the session, "Using Java EE and SOA to Architect and Design Robust Enterprise Applications."

Following the conference, I will be a panelist at a Cloud Computing Panel, "How Cloud Computing Affects Small Business," at Microsoft office in NY.

After the cloud computing panel, I must rush home to attend a conference call. It's going to be a long but exciting day!

It will be great to catch up with old and new friends at the event. I will also be Twitter-ing the event on my Twitter account.

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I've posted the job description for web developer and graphic designers at my MySQL blog.

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Azul Systems Wine Tasting Event @ Rainbow Room

Tonight, I went to a wine tasting event hosted by Azul Systems at Rainbow Room. Before the wine tasting began, there was an informative case study by Tony Bishop, Former SVP, Chief Architect of Wachovia Corporate Investment Bank. Tony pointed out that Azul Systems has become an important component of Wachovia's infrastructure and it allowed Wachovia to replace three racks with one machine by Azul Systems. He also mentioned that since IT never gets credit for increased revenue, his team had to make a case for protecting lost revenue to get funding approval for Azul Systems.

Following the keynote, there was a panel discussion with Scott Sellers (President and CEO) Gil Tene, (CTO) and Shyam Pillalamarri (VP of Software Engineering).

Azul was founded on 9/11/2001 and decision to target Java primarily was made at Java One. Azul also introduced Vega 3 which is available in 5U and 13U sizes.

At the event, I had great conversations with Maureen Fleming (Program Director, Business Process Integration and Deployment Software @ IDC) and Jonathan Levine (CTO of LinkShare).

As we were leaving the event, Azul presented each attendee with a bottle of wine.