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A Learning Lunch with Amazon.com

Submitted by: Phil Yanov on Jun 02, 2009 at 2:47 am Tagged with: Gsatc Source: GSA Technology Council

What is a book company doing in the Cloud Computing business? What is Cloud Computing anyway? Amazon has been in the hosting and data center management business for many years. Amazon’s experience with running its retail business maps directly into how to run Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Amazon Web Services is now exposing this flexible infrastructure for customers to use for creating scalable, available, durable, secure and highly reliable applications in the Cloud.

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GSATC Learning Lunch
Topic: A look at Cloud Computing at Amazon
Presented by: Kevin Kelly, Amazon
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Embassy Suites

Agenda
11:30 - 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 - 12:10 Announcements
12:10 - 12:50 Presentation
12:50 - 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn

This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.
Lunch is $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

About our Speaker:

Kevin Kelly is in Business Development for Amazon Web Services helping accounts on the East Coast.
Before joining Amazon Kevin was a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Tools for IBM Global Business Services (GBS) providing strategic guidance and direction for software development and support tooling usage worldwide. Prior to that he had several roles in IBM Software Group where he managed and lead successful product development and delivery of Eclipse client and Web based applications using Java, XML, and JavaScript. Before that he was a Senior Development Manager and Architect leading development in change request management and requirements tooling for the IBM Rational Brand.

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