Keynote Address
Monday, 13 April, 0910 hours
"Clouds Moving Into The Enterprise"
Speaker: Dr. Zhou Songnian CEO (Platform Computing)
Session Chair: Dr. Hing-Yan Lee
Abstract
The relevance of cloud computing to enterprise is not well understood. Like Internet, cloud computing does not come out of blue. In this talk, Dr. Zhou Songnian will review the historical evolution of cloud computing including the adoption of grid computing to share IT resources in large enterprises. The applicability of public/external clouds and private/internal clouds to Web 2.0, HPC, and business applications will be discussed. Dr. Zhou will also describe the evolutionary steps required to adopt cloud computing and the hurdles to overcome. Finally, business benefits of cloud computing, such as saving costs and enabling competitive advantage, will be quantified using production user cases.
Biodata
Songnian received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and subsequently took a faculty position at the University of Toronto as a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Songnian's doctoral thesis established the field of distributed resource management, which provides the foundation for grid computing, hailed by industry experts as the next evolution of IT. This research was the catalyst for the creation of Platform Computing, which he co-founded with two partners in 1992. Under Songnian's leadership, Platform has grown from a company of three employees to 500 strong, with 15 offices around the globe.
Songnian has been recognized for his excellence in leadership and innovation with the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and received the Innovation Award for Leadership in Product Development from the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario for Platform LSF in 1995.
Plenary Address
Tuesday, 14 April, 0900 hours
"Next Generation Internet-scale Computing"
Speaker: Chidambaran Kollengode Director Grid Engineering, Cloud Computing and Data Infrastructure (Yahoo! India R&D)
Session Chair: Ku Kai Li
Abstract
The information age is producing humungous amount of data that requires a paradigm shift in thinking about how to store and process this data. Traditional architectures fade into cost overruns, scalability and ROI issues. Distributed computing is the answer. In traditional High Performance computing setting, one often assumes a "well-behaved" system: no faults or failures, minimal security requirements, consistency of state among application components, availability of global information and simple resource sharing policies. While those assumptions are arguably valid in tightly coupled systems, they break down as systems become more distributed. This presentation will share about Cloud Computing at Yahoo with emphasis on Hadoop Grid. The Grid Computing group at Yahoo! Bangalore focuses on Grid frameworks that scale to thousands of machines and handle peta-bytes of data. The group is especially involved in the development of the Open Source Hadoop platform and its deployment within Yahoo!
Biodata
Chidambaran is systems professional with over 20 years of progressively responsible experiences, with last eight years in senior leadership roles. He has a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Pennsylvania State University, with major in Information Systems and a Bachelor degree in Engineering from NIT, Trichy (formerly REC, Trichy).
He has a wealth of experience in technology development and organization building as well as a successful track record in building models and sustainable infrastructures for evidence-based management and quantitative fact-based analysis. He is a frequent presenter in enterprise architecture forums (India and abroad) is founder president of Data Management Association, Bangalore (since 2006), the first chapter in the Southeast Asia region, and a member of the Data Management Association, Philadelphia (since 1996). He has taught at the University of Phoenix as a visiting professor and continues to be practitioner faculty member and faculty mentor, teaching masters and undergraduate courses.
He is currently working in Cloud Computing in Yahoo! India R&D, Bangalore exploring the boundaries of distributed computing for very large volume data processing with high availability. Prior to coming to Yahoo, he worked at Amazon building a highly scalable distributed architecture for processing huge amounts of search and advertisement (Internet) data. |
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