Opening Remarks by SN at Cloud Symposium, at ACM Bangalore COmpute 2009

1. Welcome to
ACM Bangalore Chapter
Compute-2009 Conference
Compute-
Symposium on Cloud Computing
Friday January 9, 2009

2. “Computing may someday be
organized as a public utility, just as
the telephone system is organized
as a public utility.”
(John McCarthy, speech at MIT in 1961)
1961)

3. Enabling technologies
Service-oriented architecture
Service-

Web services

Distributed computing/processing, Scale-out
Scale-

architectures
Utility model for computing

Virtualization

Dramatic improvements in the languages & development

environment
Dramatic improvements in performance/price of

processor, storage and networking
Systems management: load balancing, automatic

provisioning, policy-based, event-driven
policy- event-
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4. Key Note: Perspectives on the Cloud Computing
Dr. Prasaad Ram
Engineering & Site Director
Google India Pvt. Ltd.,
Bangalore