September Meeting - 9/23 from 6PM - 8PM

[dkav...@gmail.com]

We will be kicking off our new season of RAWSUG meetings in style.
Jinesh Varia, a technology evangelist from Amazon Web Services will be
joining us for the evening with lots of great information about
current AWS activity and some insight about what might be coming down
the road. See Jin's abstract below for more info.

The meeting will be held on the RIT campus in room 70-2400 (the IT
department's conference room) on 9/23 from 6PM until 8PM. Pizza will
be provided by our sponsor, CloudRight. Don't miss out!

Cloud Architectures – Amazon Web Services

In this session, Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web
Services, will discuss the latest innovations and new technology
trends like Utility computing (Paying by the hour, paying by the
Gigabyte usage), Virtualization and Web Services in the Cloud and most
importantly, discuss a new and emerging way to designing
architectures.

In this session, we will learn about a unique way to build service
oriented architectures by building it in-the-cloud. Cloud
Architectures are Service-Oriented Architectures designed for On-
demand Infrastructure. Infrastructure come alive on trigger of user
request or a job request, scale elastically up and down and dispose
themselves automatically when the job is processed. We will learn how
developers can take advantage of this new concept that can quickly
scale up their infrastructure programmatically (using web services)
and without any upfront heavy infrastructure investment. Often termed
as Cloud Computing, we will see how these technologies are changing
the way we do business today.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
that allows requisition of machines on-demand using simple web service
call and paying for computation by the hour. Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) which is infinite storage in the cloud and Amazon
SimpleDB which is the Database in the cloud and how these services can
help local companies to scale-out and go live quickly. Also, we will
see some exciting apps and some unique business models that are built
on AWS that have become profitable businesses and others that are just
simply cool to see.

PRESENTER
JINESH VARIA, TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST, AMAZON WEB SERVICES
As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers
take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the
way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses
compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 50
conferences/User Groups. He is focused on furthering awareness of web
services and often helps developers on 1:1 basis in implementing their
own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services.
Jinesh has over 9 years experience in XML and Web services and has
worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining
Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix
including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software
engineer, working on various financial services projects including
Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn
State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s
publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally
from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from
Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek.

[dkav...@gmail.com]

As a reminder and to provide more details about location and
parking...

The linked map indicates the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing
and Information Sciences (building 70) where the meeting will be held.
There is visitor parking in lot J.

Hope to see you all there!

David
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