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CloudStorm European Tour launches from Brussels to showcase “real” Cloud Computing Solutions

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CloudStorm, a European focused cloud computing event has announced that Brussels’ will be the inaugural venue of its tour around major European cities. The event, funded equally by its 10 participants, provides a showcase of cloud computing solutions covering a wide range of areas including application development and deployment, infrastructure, storage, video management and SAAS from leading European technology vendors.

Participants, who have just 10 minutes each to present their cloud based offering to the audience, follow a highly interactive “un-conference” format to encourage audience participation with a no-holds bared question and answer section at the end. The sponsors, in alphabetical order, include:

  • A-Server, a specialist in cloud computing platforms for service providers.
  • B-Virtual, an emerging leader in cloud storage solutions.
  • Calamares, Video Management Systems as a cloud compatible service.
  • ContactOffice, one of the first cloud-based collaboration providers.
  • Microsoft Azure, a platform for a wide range of internet services.
  • SaaSforce, a cloud based software-as-a-service distributor.
  • Sun Microsystems, a technology provider for public clouds
  • REP42, a provider of a mobile cloud services platform.
  • WDC CloudSphere, a European cloud computing service for medium enterprises.

In October, London will be the second stop for the tour with further events planned for later in the year in Paris and Munich with the same core sponsors plus additional regional cloud computing specialists. Patrick De Schutter, CEO of ContactOffice explains, “We are pleased to be involved with CloudStorm and look forward to helping to showcase real world examples of how Cloud computing can help improve a wide range of business and IT activities for a diverse set of customers.”

Attendance to CloudStorm is entirely free but the small venue means that places are limited.

VMware Europe 2009: Call For Papers

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VMworld Europe is coming up soon (February 24-26, 2009) and is once again being held in Cannes, France. The team has just issued a call for papers, deadline January 16th, so if you’re interested in participating don’t hesitate too long to submit.

VMworld Europe is looking for content on the following subjects:

  • Networking

  • Security
  • Storage
  • Real World Stories from Customers
  • Programming and Scripting
  • Business Continuity
  • Green Computing and Cost
  • Automation

CloudCamp Sailing Into Brussels On A Boat (30 October)

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CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

There was one in London previously, and now there’s one being held in (our home town) Brussels on the Biouel boat the 30th of October.

Tarry Singh, Founder & CEO at Avastu, alerted us on the news and will be speaking at the event, as will Q-layer‘s Tom Leyden.

Registration is free of charge, you can sign up for the event right here.

Countdown For The Business Technology Summit (India)

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The power team for Workhorse IT – SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, Virtualization and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) – will be center stage at Saltmarch Media‘s Business Technology Summit, for which Virtualization.com is proud to be one of the media sponsors.

The premier annual gathering for business technology stakeholders from across the world, the 2008 edition of Business Technology Summit will be held September 22-26 in Bangalore and Mumbai. (Also make sure you check out our Events page)

Expected to attend the four day conference and expo will be nearly 800 decision makers, analysts, product managers, architects, engineers, project managers, designers, developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, VC, marketers and business strategists – who are embracing the opportunities created by these mature and workhorse enterprise technologies. The attendee spectrum will also encompass the IT Channel – Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Value Added Resellers (VARs), System Integrators (SIs), and Distributors.

Centered around the theme of “Riding the Workhorse IT Hockey Stick”, BT Summit features four co-located tracks — SOA & Web Services, SaaS/PaaS, that offer complimentary synergistic for a robust IT infrastructure that no IT decision-maker, manager, architect or professional can afford to ignore in their quest for business technology success. Attendees to the summit will be able to attend talks from all four tracks.

Speakers, handpicked by the BT Summit chair, include Alan Pelz-Sharpe (ECM Analyst), Chris Harding (SOA Visionary), Peter Coffee (SaaS/PaaS Expert), Ismael Ghalimi (BPM Pioneer) Robert Marcus (Grid Visionary), Matjaz B. Juric (BPEL Mentor) Ravi Gururaj (Founder, VMLogix), Morris Panner (SaaS Workflow Expert) Sasa Ana (SOA Researcher) Nitin Borwankar (Father of Data 2.0), Hans de Groot (Web Globalization Expert).

In addition to keynotes, power panels, focussed sessions, and hands-on workshops over four days, one of the best reasons to attend BT Summit is the vibrant exhibition, which features leading business technology companies and their projects and services. Intalio, SDL Tridion, Progress Software and OpenAir among others are sponsors at the summit. Business Technology Summit sponsorship information is available here.

Event: Virtualization Congress Announced

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Virtualization.info just announced what promises to be one of the most interesting virtualization events of the year: Virtualization Congress bills itself as the world’s first vendor independent virtualization event and will be held from 14 to 16 October at the ExCel centre in London.

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From the about page:

It is not a secret that virtualization technologies are changing companies’ data centers. The immense popularity that these technologies are obtaining is equal only to the need for knowledge about them. And as we try to build that knowledge, virtualization is already changing. There are many new products each month, and hundreds of new features each year.

At virtualization.info, we have covered the market evolution for a long time. We know how fast the landscape is evolving, and how complex it can be keeping up the pace. Thus, we decided to shape an event with unique characteristics, different from the typical conference, which can bridge the gap between innovation and implementation in a more effective way.

Congratulations to Alessandro Perilli and watch out for extensive coverage on Virtualization.com!

30% reduction to attend Profoss, the European Virtualization Conference in Brussels

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As a reader of Virtualization.com you receive a 30% discount to attend the European Virtualisation Conference in Brussel on  22 and 23 january 2008.

Participation to this 2 day event normally costs 290 euros excluding VAT, but is now reduced to 203 EUR ,when you use our promo code VIRTDOTCOM at registration.  Participation for one day only is possible at half this cost. This unique conference is organised by Profoss at the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre (walking distance from the North Station). Major players will be present such as Sun Microsystems, AMD, HP, Unisys, Oracle, Citrix and Microsoft to name just a few.

Day 1: 22 january 2008: Strategy Day

09:45 Current state and evolution of the virtualisation market by John Abbott
11:00 Virtualization: Shift happens by Tarry Singh
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Networking and discussion time
13:30 Case study by Kris Buytaert
14:30 Closed and open source solutions: an open discussion. panel
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 The impact of virtualization on the enterprise infrastructure by Duncan Hardie
17:00 The future is in the management tools by Niko Nelissen

Day 2: 23 january 2008: Technical Day

09:30 Integrating virtualization in the OS by Frank Kohler
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Conform deployment of virtual and physical machines with openQRM and Xen by Matthias Rechenburg
12:15 Lunch
13:00 Networking and discussion time
13:30 Optimal storage platform for a virtualized environment by Kristof De Spiegeleer
14:30 HA clustering made simple with OpenVZ by Werner Fischer
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Linux-VServer: light-weight and resource efficient OS level virtualization by Herbert Poetzl
17:00 Hardware Acceleration for optimal Virtualized Performance by Mike Kreiten

We hope to meet many of you in real life as we will cover this event on-line.