Working the Clouds:
NextGen Infrastructure for
New Entrepreneurs
Geva Perry, GigaSpaces
Jason Hoffman, Joyent
Tony Lucas, XCalibre
Lew Moorman, Rackspace
Christophe Bisciglia, Google
Joe Weinman, AT&T

Why is this different from
grid computing or
timesharing?

Are we selling our
souls?
Or should we not
worry about lock-
in?

Can we have our old toys?
Can I drag my
database into
the cloud, or do
I have to start
using Big Data?

What has to change for
enterprises to use it?

What’s the bigger lock-in?
Formal Informal
I can’t build it
Proprietary APIs
myself even if I
and languages
want to

Standards of portability