The SOA Consortium has been hosting SOA & enterprise architecture end user panels at Gartner’s AADI conference for the last couple of years. This year they’re introducing a Cloud Computing panel. This session will address cloud computing as it goes beyond use cases in the realms of: the simplistic (email and calendaring), enterprise irrelevant (Twitter, Facebook), and extreme (Google Datacenter).
Read: we’re all a little tired of those stories!!
For a change of pace, this conference will include government and enterprise practitioners discussing the cloud computing use cases they are considering, actively pursuing, and rejecting. In addition to the use case specifics, the panelists will share insights on financial benefits, true implementation costs, assessing and managing risk, governance, standards and their cloud computing wish list.
Next Century, an Appistry client, will be speaking on the panel, and this DC-based company, which serves the U.S. Gov’t, is teaching computers to pick items of interest (military ships) from millions of geospatial images. But indeed ships were too simple a task for Next Century so… in order to test their application’s mettle, their proof-of-concept project involved teaching the computer to pick housecats from various photographs.
Finding cats is a good deal more difficult than the ship assignment, and Next Century proved it could be done, using cloud computing to test algorithms overnight, instead over the course of weeks. The software even beat a human at finding more cats more quickly!
Clark Dorman, Sr. Systems Architect at Next Century, will talk about Next Century’s experience working with the Appistry CloudIQ Platform on several projects, addressing how cloud computing helped the company reach specific goals such as:
- Achieve monumental computing tasks while ensuring cost savings
- Accelerate time-to-solution
- Reduce waste typical of old methods
- Achieve full knowledge about outcomes/results of every IT dollar spent
Should be good stuff — cloud computing as applied to real-world problems.
For more on what Appistry customers are doing with CloudIQ Platform, check out these recent case studies and webinars:
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