I decided to attend a couple of sessions today.  The format of the sessions is called Workshop.  Its more like experience sharing by industry leaders and some panel discussions around the topic.  Since panel discussions can take a long time, duration of the session is 4hrs, which means one can attend only one session in the moring and one in the afternoon. 

I decided to go for cloud related sessions today.  Morning session was on Security aspects on the cloud.

  • Security and Identity aspects of cloud

Presenters were from Burton Group (Dan Blum), Sun, ebay and CSA.  All are worried about security.  eBay mentioned that they encrypt the data at the source, so they are not much worried about the data security.Their main concern is performance.  They do 200 million logins a day and expect same kind of performance when they move to cloud.  Sun suggested that enterprises and cloud vendors should use industry standard provisioning and other security standards such as SPML and XACML.

  • Building Applications for Deployment in the Cloud

Burton suggested that customers should build their applications by consuming various services available in the cloud rather than building themselves.  Simply migrating applications is not a cloud application architect.  They also presented a reference architecture. 

Here are some more photographs from the venue.
This is the bay (south) side of the hotel

Same side, more of the bay area

And a front view…

Lawn in front of the hotel

and an evening view of the bay area.