Elastra CTO to Lead Discussion on Cloud Computing Design and Agile Operations at QCon 2009

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Elastra:

What: Stuart Charlton, Chief Technology Officer for Elastra, a leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, will lead two presentations at QCon San Francisco the week of November 16, 2009. Mr. Charlton will address the audience on the topics of "Agile Development to Agile Operations" and "Design in the Cloud."

Mr. Charlton specializes in the areas of systems architecture, RESTful web architecture, and data warehousing, and is an avid student of lean & agile approaches to business processes and product development. He is the co-author of CodeNotes for J2EE, published by Random House, and has written for several leading online publications.

Join Mr. Charlton as he introduces IT developers and architects to the emerging cloud computing industry and its impact on systems design.

Tutorials: "Design for Cloud Computing"
Time: Monday, Nov. 16th, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: City Ballroom

Cloud computing has become a major force for change in how we design, configure, provision, and manage IT infrastructure. Instead of custom-provisioning individual systems or clusters, an architect administrator is expected to have hundreds, or even thousands of resources under their control.

The trend towards Cloud Computing engenders much confusion and disparity in toolsets. It straddles the areas of virtualization, IT management, clustering, Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web Architecture, with the overall goal of providing easily accessible interfaces for using and manipulating infrastructure. This infrastructure then needs to be configured to ensure strong reliability and scalability properties to support 24x7 enterprise or internet services.

This tutorial is targeted at developers and architects who want to understand the impact of cloud computing on systems design. Both commercial and open source solutions will be used as examples to explore solutions in these areas.

"Agile Development to Agile Operations"
Thursday, Nov. 19th, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Metropolitan Ballroom

Agile software development has been well influenced by "lean thinking" in manufacturing and product development, with a relentless focus on continuous improvement and encouraging ever smaller cycle times to delivering value. But the focus of Agile has primarily been on the development side of IT, while the operational side of IT continues to struggle with a large-batch mentality for new system deployments, and highly variable lead times in responding to change.

Cloud computing now offers the potential to drastically reduce the lead times to enacting change in the operational environment. This talk describes the organizational and technical advances that help to enable "The Rise of Lean IT" - on-demand provisioning, end-to-end service models, collaborative system administration, declarative configuration management, and lean IT accounting.

Event: QCon San Francisco 2009, Nov. 16 - 20
QCon is a conference organized by the community, for the community of software developers and architects. The show is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads.

Where: Westin San Francisco
50 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 974-8709

URL: http://qconsf.com/sf2009/

About Elastra

Elastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling,
deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our
products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to
orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run
complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to
accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and
virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications
faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.

For more about Elastra, visit us on the Web at www.elastra.com.

Voce Communications
Katie Watson, 408-439-2002
kwatson@vocecomm.com

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