It was great meeting folks at the inaugural Next Generation Data Center 2007 event last week in San Francisco. Here are the decks from each of my two talks.

The first, a GeoEye Case Study [pdf, 2 mb] covers how a leading provider of satellite imagery and derivative products (think lots and lots of time-sensitive computing with transactional reliability sensitivities) is making big strides in breaking from the previous industry norms (heavy servers) and moving to application fabrics.

The second, Application Fabrics - A Google-Like Approach to Service-Oriented Applications and Enterprise 2.0 [pdf, 2 mb] (say that fast 3 times!) examines the underlying technology of application fabrics more closely, with particular focus on how to fabric-enable existing applications.

There'll probably be narrated versions posted at some point, btw.

The announcement of Appistry EAF EnergySaver at the show was also well-received. I'll post more on how this works and the implications soon, but for now consider that to the benefits of easy, reliable scale you can now ensure that a fabric-enabled application will automatically save large amounts of power ... all a direct result of fabric-enabling the application.

Easy on the developers, easy on the operational folks, now even easier on the budget.

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