Schedule: Keynote sessions

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9:00am - 9:15am Monday, 06/23/2008
Welcome
Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google), Jesse Robbins (O'Reilly Radar)
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9:15am - 9:30am Monday, 06/23/2008
Green Data Centers
Location: Salons E-F
Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation)
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9:30am - 9:45am Monday, 06/23/2008
Keynote Systems Launches KITE
Location: Salons E-F
Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.), Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)
Get an early look at KITE - the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. KITE tests and analyzes the performance of web applications from your desktop and locations around the world. KITE allows advanced scripting, detailed network performance and DOM analysis, and the ability to gather data from hundreds of geographic locations worldwide. Read more.
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10:15am - 10:30am Monday, 06/23/2008
Innovation That Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure
Location: Salons E-F
John Fowler (Sun Microsystems)
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11:45am - 12:00pm Monday, 06/23/2008
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
Location: Salons E-F
Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)
Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. We’ll talk about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations. Read more.
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9:00am - 9:15am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Announcements
Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google), Jesse Robbins (O'Reilly Radar)
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10:00am - 10:15am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
How to Accelerate Non-cacheable, Dynamic Sites Leveraging a Globally Distributed Platform
Location: Salons E-F
Harald Prokop (Akamai Technologies)
Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with 30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai's technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications. Read more.
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11:45am - 12:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Storage at Scale
Location: Salons E-F
Sean Quinlan (Google, Inc.)
At Google, we have built several large-scale storage systems on top of commodity machines and networking. This talk will briefly describe our storage infrastructure, highlight some of the approaches we use to achieve reliability and availability, and discuss future challenges. Read more.

Diamond Sponsors

  • Akamai
  • Google
  • Hyperic
  • Sun Microsystems

Gold Sponsors

  • 3Tera, Inc
  • Coradiant
  • Keynote Systems
  • Limelight Networks, Inc.
  • OpSource

Premier Media Partner

  • TechRepublic

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