AWS & ActiveState launch cloud training conference

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Maxwell Cooter.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ActiveState have teamed up to offer enterprises the ability to get trained in a multitude of different cloud systems, without being tied to a particular vendor. The organisers of the IT Cloud Computing Conference (IC3) claim it will not only offer IT managers the chance to get hands-on experience of different cloud vendors, but also enable them to evaluate platforms and demonstrate proofs of concept for cloud implementations.

IC3, which will be held in San Francisco in October, will provide attendees with first-hand experience of products from Amazon, Google, Chef, Puppet and various others. A notable omission, however, is Microsoft, although ActiveState’s Bernard Golden, one of the conference trainers, said it was possible that Microsoft could still join…

“We’re speaking to Microsoft and SoftLayer,” he said, pointing that “Google and Amazon are the two companies most ready for this.” Jay Lineman from The 451 Group, another one of the speakers at the conference, said the event had been driven by the need for enterprises to move quickly and adopt new ways of doing business…

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