GigaOM Structure 2013

EXAMINING THE NEXT TWO YEARS OF THE CLOUD

The Next Two Years of The Cloud -- Structure is the industry’s leading Cloud Computing conference by prestige of speakers, editorial integrity and forward looking agenda. Be informed on the tectonic changes that will affect your company and your future technology decisions.

Grand Challenges: Building The Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s Problems -- The Facebook’s and Google’s of this world are creating the infrastructures that will store and index a lifetime of memories for billions of people. That “moon mission” style technology race will spill over and shape the more humble needs of the enterprise next. Find out what you need to plan for by looking at these interesting, important and extreme cases.

Infrastructure At The Edge: Will “Data Center” be the new Oxymoron? -- The growing demands for performance and the sheer limits of physics is forcing the datacenter to break up and go to the edge. We assemble some of the leading edge practitioners and architects to discuss their reasons why and understand better what role technology service providers have to play in this growing market.

Creating The Business Ecosystem For Software Defined Data Center -- In a world where your next data center is software defined, the real enabler is not hardware, logic or software – it will be business contracts and trust relationships that define how well (or not) your software defined data center will perform. We look at what will be needed for the “contacts and contracts” ecosystem to flourish and what considerations you need to make to plan correctly your contract purchases.

Future Hardware Architectures – Highly Distributed and Message Passing -- Processor speeds and hard drive capacities have raced ahead but the bit in between – the bus – is failing badly. As demand grows for faster, cheaper and more performant architectures for the cloud, we look at what is being done to address the bottlenecks – from the pragmatic and immediate to the complete reinvention of compute architectures for a more distributed reality.

“The Software Is Free, The Money Is In The Service”: Business models for cloud service providers -- Everyone knows that in the mobile world the big profits come from the integration of services in the form of experiences. But in cloud infrastructure and platforms, we’re rapidly moving to a world where the software is “free” and the profits are in operating the software to deliver it “as-a-service”. We examine along which axes the services are evolving and what buyers should prepare for now as these innovative new technology services reify themselves into the marketplace.

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