RightScale Compute Conference: Cloud Computing’s Present and Future

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

In a clear sign that cloud computing is now front and center on the channel’s agenda, there are dozens of conferences that now serve VARs, MSPs and cloud services providers. One of the biggest of this spring, RightScale Compute 2013, is approaching fast. Here’s what to expect — along with a discount code just for Talkin’ Cloud readers who might want to attend.

Scheduled for April 23-26 in San Francisco, RightScale Compute will combine technical presentations to promote a better understanding of some key cloud technologies with sessions and keynotes that focus on the bigger picture of where the cloud is going in the future and how it relates to the channel at large…

On the technical front, the conference will include sessions that address not only more basic (but vitally important) stuff — like "Delivering SaaS Using IaaS" and solutions for monitoring and automating the cloud — that will likely be familiar to channel veterans, but also some of the newest technological strategies for the cloud. For example, there will be sessions on configuration management using Puppet and "next-generation" computing via the Google Cloud Platform…

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