More than 20 years ago, Sun Microsystems, one of the pioneering companies of the technology revolution, marketed its wares with a simple catchphrase: “The network is the computer.” That network has grown up quite a bit since then, to the point where it’s pretty clear to the creators and users of technology that in today’s world, the cloud is the computer.
It’s time once again for our annual state of the cloud conference, formally known as Structure 2014. Over the next two days at UCSF in San Francisco, we’ll have a chance to hear from some of the best and brightest among the leaders in enterprise computing, including Werner Vogels of Amazon(s AMZN), Urs Hölzle of Google(s goog), Diane Bryant of Intel(s intc) and Scott Guthrie of Microsoft(s msft). We’ll showcase startups that vow to challenge this establishment in our Launchpad session, and hear from a lot of folks outside of the traditional tech industry who are challenged with bringing the benefits of the cloud and other enterprise technologies in their companies.
Structure 2014 is the largest conference Gigaom has ever produced. We’ve sold more tickets to this event than any other single event in our history, and we expect more people at this event than ever before. If you can’t make it, there’s a link to a livestream in the image above, and you’ll find links to all of our coverage from the event in this post.
Follow us on Twitter @gigaom for more updates, and the hashtag for the conference is #gigaomlive. Please join us for what promises to be an exciting and informative couple of days.
Day 2:
- Cloud companies have to act on privacy, even if the government won’t
- DARPA: Without better security, the internet of things will be messy
- Rackspace announces new line of servers, developed with the help of the Open Compute Project
- Why it’s the right time to connect cloud services around the world
- Genomic sequencing could help cure cancer, but first we must manage the data
- Why the internet of things needs a new class of storage and an I.T. evolution
- Red Hat is busy making acquisitions so it can become the Red Hat of the cloud with OpenStack
- The “internet of things” could be great, but first we need a platform to support it
- The New York Times is looking to machine learning to help it understand reader behavior
- Cloud soothsayer predicts OpenStack fragmentation, Azure catchup in public cloud
- Despite major growth, the internet of things is still the “Wild West”
- Why designing enterprise software is about more than looks
- The cloud is like the World Cup: never underestimate emerging countries
- The cloud isn’t all “ponies and rainbows,” and it’s not for everyone
- How the cloud reshapes smart business strategy
- It’s time to stop the open-on-open violence in cloud computing
Day 1:
- The best defense against surveillance in the cloud is strong locks, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
- Facebook has built its own switch. And it looks a lot like a server
- Gap: Thanks to Target’s woes, retailers really get the importance of security now
- Vinod Khosla: A huge opportunity is removing the humans from IT
- Google shows the world how to better compute in the cloud
- Intel will offer a customizable chip to keep data center clients happy
- Twitter’s infrastructure is designed to keep away the Fail Whale
- Microsoft bucks its own history , embraces “openness” in push for Azure adoption
- Airbnb wants to recommend trips to users before they even start to search for them
- At GE, shutting down its data centers is like cleaning out a closet
- The future of computing may be about balancing anarchy and control
- What the value of the cloud means to SoftLayer
- To the cloud, right? Actually, it’s not always that simple
- Most of the cash in enterprise cloud is unclaimed. HP thinks OpenStack can help it collect
- VMware: NSA revelations have been the single biggest issue for cloud clients
- Crate and Nimboxx are the winners of the 2014 Structure Launchpad competition
Photo by Jakub Mosur