You can be in my Cloud if I can be in yours!

With apologies to Bob Dylan for borrowing from Talkin' World War III Blues which still packs a heck of a punch 45 years on and closes with the haunting refrain

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours," I said that.

Anyway I figured it was good segue to highlight our participation in High Performance Linux on Wall Street in New York on April 6.

I'm a huge fan of this family of shows having been involved with them one way or another for nearly a decade.  Pete Harris and Russ Flagg have settled on a stripped down one day format that works really well.

We are delighted to be a sponsor of their latest show and I am really looking forward to moderating a session on Cloud computing -

You can be in my Cloud if I can be in yours? The case for a Financial Services Cloud

We bring together a panel from Industry and Financial Services to debate the finer points of establishing a Financial Services Cloud. While it is clear that establishing a Private Cloud can provide many of the economic benefits of Cloud Computing for a large enterprise there will always be value in moving beyond your firewall and going off premise. We discuss the pros and cons of establishing a Financial Services Cloud - provided by a trusted third party - with differentiated Financial Services Cloud Services backed by strong SLAs, as an alternative to some of the Public Cloud offerings available today. In short is there a sector Cloud play here?

We've lined up a great panel including Linda Bernardi (Founder, StraTerra Partners), David Crosbie (CTO, Leostream) and Larry Tabb (Founder and CEO, TABB Group) so I hope to see you there.

Comments

[Mike DiPetrillo]

I've been saying for a while now that the key to this whole "the cloud is not secure" thing is for people to build clouds specifically suited for different environments. There are already Pharmas building a Pharma cloud for FDA compliance. There are financials building clouds for PCI compliance. There's even an uber healthcare cloud being built for HIPAA compliance. I think sector clouds are going to be a huge part of cloud enablement and it easily addresses some of the security concerns.

Now it's on to the next problem - comfort.