Ynema Mangum: The Human Cloud

So, the Sun Cloud has finally been announced.  And, on the same day, IBM leaked news about a bid to buy Sun.  Fortunately, the IBM stuff did not rain on our cloud.  Developers, startups, and partners were buzzing all over our booth at Community One East asking about storage in the cloud, how we are different from Amazon and the rest of the market, how we are alike, and when they can give us their credit card.  Wednesday was an exciting day, especially for this product manager.

Here's where you can go for more info leading up to our summer launch:

1. sun.com/cloud - This site will keep you up to date with what we are doing across the board in cloud computing.
   


2. kenai.com - We're using our own "forge" to host the project containing the APIs for the Sun Cloud.
   


3. network.com - Well, that now just redirects back to the sun.com/cloud page.
   


4. wikis.sun.com - You can find some other stuff there about the Sun Cloud that is delivered from our business operations side.
   

Make sure you sign up for CommunityOne West in San Francisco and JavaOne, where we'll be announcing more about the Sun Cloud.  Or, just stay tuned to our Web announcements.  Either way, if you're interested in the cloud computing space, Sun has some intriguing services coming your way.

It's 10:30pm on March 17th and here's what you see if you go to CommunityOne or if you go to Network.com:

I flew into New York today, headfirst into a sea of green.  It is St. Patrick's Day after all, and there doesn't seem to be a better place to be Irish than NY, NY.

I missed the parade.  I also missed the memo that would have reminded me to wear green.  Thankfully (though there were many opportunities), I escaped the crowds without a single pinch.

Now, I'm in my hotel room anticipating an exciting day for Sun tomorrow.  I'll be tweeting live from the event and also doing some demos.  So, if you're in town, swing by the Marriott Marquis and look me up.  Meanwhile, tune into the Web event.

WEB EVENT DETAILS:

• Rich web event at sun.com/communityone including a live chat and live and on-demand webcasts of CommunityOne content. 


• Where: sun.com/communityone (Page goes LIVE at 9 a.m. ET on March 18.)
  

LIVE EVENT DETAILS:

• What:  Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker will unveil details about Sun's public cloud service during the opening keynote of the CommunityOne East Conference


• When:  March 18, 9:00 a.m. ET


• Where:  New York Marriott Marquis, Salon 1 & 2.  1535 Broadway, New York, NY


• Registration: http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/east/


• CommunityOne East website: http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/east/

CommunityOne East Web Event Agenda - (all times are EDT)

9:00 a.m.  General Session featuring Dave Douglas and Lew Tucker, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
10:10 a.m.  MySQL and PHP - State of the Union, Hans Zaunere, New York PHP, LLC
11:10 a.m.  Open Storage with OpenSolaris, Peter Buckingham, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
12:40 p.m.  NetBeans 6.5 and Glassfish v3 - The Synergy for Pragmatic Java EE 6 Development, Adam Bien, Consultant
1:40 p.m.  Analyzing PHP Web Applications with DTrace, David Soria Parra, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
3:00 p.m.  The Third Wave of Open: Open Source and Business Models, Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4:00 p.m.  Persistent Clouds: New Models for Data Storage, Geir Magnusson Jr., 10gen
5:00 p.m.  Cloud Panel discussion, moderated by David Berlind