We know. You’re counting the minutes until Turkey Day. We are too, but here’s a quick reminder that our annual cloud computing event — CloudBeat 2012 — is next Wednesday and Thursday! This will be the most valuable cloud event this year, and the ROI you’ll get from attending is huge.
Here’s how CloudBeat is unique: Other cloud events focus mainly on legacy technologies and incremental change, and tend to let the cloud “vendors” do the talking. Now, that’s understandable, because the big legacy cloud vendors, with their big pockets, have until now dictated the conversation. Our CloudBeat event, by contrast, focuses on the most disruptive technologies out there, regardless of who peddles them…
So while we do talk about what the big players — Oracle, SAP, VMWare — are doing to help CIOs manage and adopt the cloud, we actually focus just as much attention on the new wave of technologies that promise more radical breakthroughs in performance and efficiency. These range from the innovations around OpenStack to the game-changing things happening right now around NoSQL and big data. And we’re not letting vendors hijack the show. We’re showcasing customers, and their real stories…
Read more from the source @ http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/21/what-were-thankful-for-the-amazing-lineup-at-cloudbeat-2012/