Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Designing a
state of the art user interface (UI) in a very visual application that is
managing a lot of elements posed significant challenge due to the nature of the
application: virtualizing and running entire data centers through a browser.
With thousands of objects to coordinate the UI architecture proved as critical
as the implementation details.
Attendees will get a full case study on building
application UI with AJAX
– from architecture decisions, tool choice, and design implementation to
performance testing procedures for multiple http calls per page refresh; rich
client-like user interactions; security testing; and dealing with support of
different browser versions.
After investigating different approached to the UI,
3Tera came to the conclusion that AJAX
is the only technology that allows to build utility computing in a browse.
Atendees will hear a highly compelling insight on the process of developing
functionally rich front end to a very complex system. The presentation also
addresses business and IT concerns, and will educate the audience with
real-world examples of how companies are already operating and leveraging
utility computing in a browser and benefiting from the AJAX based UI to
deliver, provision and scale Web applications with ease.
Speaker Bio: Peter is a recognized expert in
scalable infrastructure technologies including operating systems, networks and
storage. One of the 3Tera founders, he has unique experience in delivering
successfully new types of products in a fast-paced startup environment. Peter
is the architect of the core technology behind 3Tera's award winning AppLogic
grid operating system that enables utility computing for SaaS and Web 2.0
services. He is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four technology
companies.
Prior to
3Tera, he founded Z-force, a storage networking company that pioneered file
switching and NAS aggregation and was named one of Network World's "Top 10
Startups to Watch"; and Object Dynamics, a software company providing
network infrastructure software.
In the last
20 years Peter has authored 24 patents and has over 30 innovations in the areas
of operating systems, multithreading, kernel mode and real-time software,
network protocols, file systems and computing resource aggregation.
Other AJAXWorld 2008 East speakers include...
Danny Allan, Watchfire - Director of Security Research
Jean-Francois Arcand, Sun - GlassFish Technical Lead
Roland Barcia, IBM - Lead Web 2.0 Architect for IBM Software Services
Robb Beal, Laszlo Systems - Principal Systems Engineer
Sumeer Bhola, IBM - Research Staff member, T.J. Watson Research Center
Robert Boedigheimer, Schwans Shared Services - Web Designer & Developer
David Boloker, IBM - CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies
Jeff Brown, G2One - Director of North American Operations
Shane Bryzak, JBoss/Red Hat - Senior Software Engineer
Bob Buffone, Nexaweb - Chief Architect, Apache XAP Project committer
Kurt Cagle, XForms.org - Author & Webmaster
Marco Casario, Comtaste - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Next October's Conference is already receiving higher-caliber submissions from all over the Rich Internet Applications ecosphere.
The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is now open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.
Submissions featuring such use cases as well as on dozens of other RIA topics have already begun streaming in to AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West, being held in San Jose, CA, on October 20-22, 2008.
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
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