Monday, April 19 was the latest installment of the Chicago tech community-run event all about cloud. Despite the weather and the news, the crowd was great.
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We kicked off with Pequod's Pizza, plenty of beverages and some networking. Ryan Koop, of CohesiveFT, started the "unconference" out by explaining red cards. If at any point, an audience member thinks a speaker, panelist or discussion is too vendor sales heavy, he or she can just raise a red card and give the speaker the boot!
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The theme was “Read, Set, Cloud”
This theme was aimed at answering just what is "cloud ready" and what are the first steps toward Cloud.
The unpanel, with many lightning speakers doing an encoure, fielded questions from hybrid cloudreg, cloud IaaS vendor stregnths and weaknesses, to data center geolocations.
Watch the videos: [video:http://vimeopro.com/cohesiveft/cloudcamp-chicago]
The speakers and lightning talks included:
Advancing cloud adoption through hybrid scenarios" - Ed Mondek, Technical Specialist at Microsoft @EdMondek
“Cloud Readiness” - Dominic Pedroza, VCP-Cloud, CCNA, NCDA @dpvmtl
"How to Plan for Failure" - Gene Jannece, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Model Metrics Inc @modelmetricsInc
"Investing in the Cloud through Experimentation" - Alex Mattson, Senior Technical Architect at AHEAD @alexsmattson
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Slides for April's event:
Cloud Camp Chicago - "Ready, Set, Cloud" from CohesiveFT
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