[LIS-Forum] Workshop on cloud computing 18-20, Aug at IIT Madras

[hrmohan at vsnl.com]

Dear all,

A three day workshop on Cloud Computing is being organised by CSI &
IEEE during 18-20, Aug 2010 at Chennai bringing together major leaders
in cloud computing.

The details of the pgm is given below.

For the pdf brochure and other details, pl. visit the website
http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/

With the generous sponsorship from the organizations, we are able to
offer subsidized fee (as detailed below) for this THREE days event
with a no. of takeaways including a ref. book
(http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/cc-book.pdf) and Amazon AWS coupon
worth USD 25.

Industry Delegates:  Rs. 1500
Members of CSI, IEEE:  Rs. 1250
Academic Faculty & Researchers:  Rs. 1250
Student Members of CSI & IEEE: Rs. 1000
We will be thankful if you could attend the pgm and also sponsor some
of your colleagues for this programme.

Also, pl. forward this msg to some of your friends who may find this pgm useful.

Or, pl. provide their email ids to us so that we can send them the msg.

With regards
HR Mohan
Chairman, CSI Div IV & IEEE CS
Ph: +91 98414 32179


PROGRAMME DETAILS
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Workshop on
Cloud Computing

18-20, Aug 2010
at IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Organised by

Computer Society of India
Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Grid Computing
and
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter

Supported by
Platinum Sponsors: Yahoo, Google, HP, Amazon, IBM, HCL, TCS, Hitachi
Gold Sponsors: Novell, VMware, CSS Corp, Ramco, Cognizant

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: In the past decade, the advent of Internet has
opened up several exciting new opportunities for business excellence,
cost effectiveness and efficiency. Cloud Computing is the latest in
such innovations that has brought computing power within reach of
every organization. Cloud computing describes a new supplement,
consumption and delivery model for IT services over the Internet. This
model follows that of typical utilities like electricity and water
which we have got used to in the past century. Cloud Computing offers
the computing processing power, storage, network bandwidth, software
usage, software development, testing, security, identity etc., as
services over the Internet. This model offers unprecedented
scalability wherein the user can add resources on demand and give them
up when not needed, instead of the classical model of over-investing
in infrastructure and managing at a huge cost; tremendous
cost-effectiveness by providing a “pay per use” model and ensures
professional management of the infrastructure. It is fair to say that
this model is bound to change the facade of IT usage across the world
in the immediate near future.

Analysts estimate that by 2012, in India, 30% of the organizations
(both corporate & SMEs) will move their applications on the cloud.
Also, CIOs will be under tremendous pressure to optimize their
expenses which will make them to look at cloud as the natural choice
in the years to come. Further, according to a recent study by Zinnov
Management Consulting, the global cloud computing market is estimated
to touch over $ 70 billion by 2015 with an offshorable piece of about
$ 20 billion, of which Indian IT companies are well placed to grab 30%
by building applications on the cloud platform, doing support work, or
product engineering etc., Further, cloud-based services are estimated
to create over 3 lakh jobs in India in the next five years.

This three day workshop on Cloud Computing, organized by the Computer
Society of India and IEEE Computer Society, provides a platform in
which experts from top notch organizations that are rewriting
computing history such as Yahoo, Google, HP, IBM, Amazon, HCL, TCS,
Hitachi, VMware, Novell, CSS Corp, Ramco and Cognizant will share
their experiences apart from introducing various aspects of cloud
computing. Some of the typical sessions would include Virtualization
and its effect on cloud; Yahoo’s Hadoop framework for cloud
application development; Google applications on cloud; Amazon’s EC2
and S3 services; Storage as a Service; Cloud infrastructure and
services offerings; Open source stack for cloud computing and identity
services; Best practices, migration strategies, management & security
issues for cloud applications.

With a session on “Research Trends in Cloud Computing” and a panel
discussion on “Are we Ready for Cloud Computing” along with a few user
experience sharing sessions, this workshop would offer the
participants, the best opportunity to get a first hand knowledge by
hearing “from the horse’s mouth”, the specifics -- both business and
technology perspectives  of the emerging area
of cloud computing.

TARGET AUDIENCE: The workshop is designed to appeal to a wide variety
of participants and include: CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT Heads of  both
corporate enterprises and SME organizations from all verticals such as
manufacturing, retail, healthcare, BFSI, telecom, hospitality,
education, e-Governance etc., Project Managers, Application Developers
from IT/ITES organizations, Entrepreneurs venturing into setting up
their businesses by offering cloud based applications, Academic
Faculty, Researchers and final year BE/BTech/MCA students aspiring to
join the IT industry.

VENUE:  IC & SR Auditorium, IIT Madras, Chennai

DATES & TIMINGS:  18 – 20, Aug 2010 :: 09.30 to 17.30 hrs

TAKEAWAYS: Apart from the opportunity to hear the technical
presentations from the Industry leaders in Cloud Computing, each
delegate will be provided with the following five items.

- Workshop Kit

- Presentations along with white papers, user case studies, success
stories on a CD (subject to the IPR guidelines by the resource persons
and their organizations)

- AWS coupon worth USD 25 to try out Amazon Web Services
- A hard copy of the best selling book
(http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/cc-book.pdf ) "Cloud Computing: A
Practical Approach" by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert C.
Elsenpeter, published by TMH and priced at Rs. 475/= or a standard
book on Cloud Computing for reference

- Certificate of Participation

PROGRAMME FEE: With the generous sponsorship from the organizations,
we are able to offer subsidized fee for this THREE days event with a
no. of takeaways listed above.

Industry Delegates:  Rs. 1500
Members of CSI, IEEE:  Rs. 1250
Academic Faculty, Researchers & Students:  Rs. 1250
Student Members of CSI & IEEE: Rs. 1000

(Note: Students should attach a copy of the membership card and a
certificate from the HOD / Principal along with registration form and
payment. Right of acceptance is reserved based on the flow of
registrations.)
REGISTRATION: Registration will be done on "First come first served"
basis. As seats are limited, early registration is highly recommended
to avoid disappointment.

DD/Cheque to be drawn in favour of  “COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA –
CHENNAI CHAPTER” and payable at Chennai.  Pl. mail your registration
form with the payment on or before 5th Aug 2010 to:

Mr. S. Ramasamy
c/o Integrated Databases India Ltd
Rosy Towers, 3rd  Floor
7, Nungambakkam High Road
Chennai – 600034

For registration related information, please contact

Mr. S. Ramaswamy, Mobile: +91 98400 09417 :: Email: sypsys at vsnl.com OR

Mr. K. Adhivarahan, Mobile: +91 94442 75315 :: Email: adhivarahan at gmail.com

Website: http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/index.html

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For further assistance, please contact

Mr. H.R. Mohan,  Chairman - CSI Div IV & IEEE CS, hrmohan.csi at gmail.com
Mr. G. Ramesh, Chairman  - Programme, gopalaswamy_ramesh at yahoo.com
Dr. D. Janakiram,  Chairman - SIG-DS, djram at iitm.ac.in
Dr. P. Sakthivel,  Chairman  -  CSI Chennai, sakthi_velp at yahoo.com



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