The BoF session which was hosted at OGF was a success. Over 100 people showed up and the interest was great. Overall the session went well and the Idea to create an Interface for Service Providers/Users was accepted. For more details and the slides see: http://ogf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=1567
Some more pictures from the session (view from the stage) and some pictures from lunch 🙂
Second day of the Open Grid Forum Meeting just started. Currently there are presentations about ‘Grid Application Experiences’. After the break at 11am it is time for the Cloud Interface APIÂ BoF session. So more information is going to follow. For now some photos from yesterday evening and this morning.
Today the Open Grid Forum opened it’s gates here in Catania, Italy. For now nothing real spectacular has been going on. Some presentations about great software solutions like Gridway or Opennebula. The Keynotes and opening talks have yet to start after lunch.
The location is quite great (Attached some pictures). seems to be an old industrial area which they reused as a conference and cultural center. A cinema is also integrate. Quite nice…
From now on I do not state this question anymore. It will ask instead: What is not a Cloud? Any sometimes you can get the feeling the answer is nothing 🙂
I strive not to say that this is cloud computing: but backing up your data online is a very nice idea. Sadly enough HP’s upline.com will close it’s doors soon. Now it’s time to look at the other players. I still now of fabrik.com and mozy.com. Both offering free online backup up to 2GB and unlimited for a little few.
Still the question is: is this cloud computing? I say no! This is an online service. Do not sell everything in this hype 🙂