Conveners
Matching Public Clouds to the Needs of the Research Community
- David Blundell (100 Percent IT)
Dr
Kenji Takeda
(Microsoft Research)
28/11/2013, 14:15
Windows Azure is an open and flexible global cloud platform supporting any language, tool, or framework, and is ideally suited to researchers’ needs across disciplines. The Windows Azure for Research program provides researchers with a variety of tools and resources to help them use Windows Azure to access the power of cloud computing for on-demand computation, collaboration, and...
Adam Ryan
(Q Associates)
28/11/2013, 14:45
An open and frank recount of the challenges faced by Cloud providers in meeting the varied requirements of Cloud consumers, from the technical challenges through to the operational alignments with clients from different market sectors and how with the latest technologies can solve many of the issues that existed with Cloud 1.0.
Chris Hayman
(Amazon Web Services)
28/11/2013, 15:45
In this session I'll describe some of the building block services available through AWS that can be leveraged to enable greater agility and speed in delivery of Research outcomes.
Martin Hamilton
(University of Loughborough)
28/11/2013, 16:15
The Higher Education sector has recently benefited from substantial government investment in e-Infrastructure services for use by research and industry, such as the regional supercomputing centres. This talk will look at the steps the sector needs to take to create trustworthy services that our R&D partners in industry will be happy to use, drawing upon Martin's experience running the HPC...
