SDForum: Business Intelligence Eve: Data Management in the Cloud July 20, 2010

Data Management in the Cloud

Public Clouds and Private Clouds have seized the imagination of cash strapped CIOs and user departments seeking quick ways to provision applications. This session starts with basics of cloud computing, including pricing trends, typical uses, virtualization trends, benefits, negatives, and some of the leading vendors. The primary discussion will center on Infrastructure-as-a-Service, that is hardware for rent. Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service will be mentioned.

Once past cloud concepts and definitions, how are data marts implemented in cloud computing? We can use data marts as a proxy for databases in general. With this we explore the concepts of cloud configurations, getting data into and out of the cloud, load balancing, and security. A brief "day in the life" of a cloud data mart will be used to illustrate the typical ways public and private clouds are used. This session applies to both public clouds (Amazon Web Services) and private clouds (VMware/vSphere 4)

Speaker: Daniel Graham
Mr. Graham started as a field engineer and systems programmer with UNIVAC in 1971. In the 1980s, he was Asst. Vice President of Database Administration at California Federal Savings and Loan managing an IBM 3084 and UNIVAC 1100/80. He then joined Teradata Corporation as Senior Marketing Product Manager of the DBC/1012 parallel database computer. He joined IBM in August 1993, to lead a Product Planning Group tasked with designing and launching the RS/6000 SP. In December of 1995, Mr. Graham was named Strategy and Operations Executive within IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions unit. In this role he developed competitive programs and established the $75 million IBM Teraplex Centers. He later developed strategic plans for WebSphere Portal, DB2, and managed DB2 BI Marketing. Dan rejoined Teradata to lead their Active Data Warehouse marketing programs.

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