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Last week I was in New York, NY for the vPower Tour as a guest speaker. My Northeast teeamates (we spell it that way at Veeam) asked me to present as a blogger, so I put together “Seeding The Cloud. The Conversation.” The actual presentation is embedded later in this post, but I wanted to provide a few notes about some of the slides first.

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Special Thanks to Yung Chou for not only helping me understand the Cloud Conversation better with his 5-3-2 Cloud Principle, but for also letting me use 3 of his slides. I also want to thank Mark Minasi for his recent speech at the Techstravaganza Event in Atlanta and his great article “Avoid Being Plowed By The Cloud”. Mark’s economist views of the Cloud were very inspirational and informative to me and for my presentation. I love his “numerological proctology” expression!

I used the Cloud

I used Google Docs to build the preso, and I streamed it live from the Cloud when I delivered it. I guess I owe thanks to Sprint for 3G being up that day too! Thanks to VMware and Intel for the YouTube video. That still cracks me up every time I watch it.

Did You Know

Real Cloud Seeding examples slides:

1. Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics – before both opening and closing ceremonies
2. Woodstock 1969 – several reports from witnesses
3. Project Stormfury – 1960s experiment to seed hurricanes in the Atlantic
4. Chernobyl – Russian pilots seeded radioactive clouds before they reached Moscow

The Points

• You (and your company) are already using the Cloud.
• Define YOUR Cloud Conversation.
• Understand your IT Department’s value and services before you try to determine if The Cloud is a good alternative.
• Be a Numerological Proctologist yourself!
• Consider DR as a “low hanging fruit” reason to use The Cloud.

The rest should be self explanatory.

Who knows. Maybe I’ll get to deliver it again sometime!

This coming Thursday (June 16, 2011) I will be in New York, NY for the “Feel the Power in vPower” Veeam Tour. Although I am a Veeam employee and this is a Veeam sponsored event, I am not there to deliver the Veeam Backup and Replication presentation. That will be handled by my Northeast U.S. peer, Gaylord Friend. (Worth your time all by itself and a you get a free meal!) Instead, I’ll be there to do a vendor neutral presentation called “Seed The Cloud’.  The presentation is my own and will not reflect the opinions or thoughts, or represent current or future products of my employer.

Register for the New York event and the other East Coast Veeam Tour events here:

http://go.veeam.com/tour-feel-power-vpower-east.html 

A Blog Post Delivered With Slides

With “Seed The Cloud” I am attempting to present a new VMETC.com blog post in slides. So, just like with my usual writing style, this presentation will offer a light-hearted, (hopefully) entertaining agenda of my thoughts and opinions on “The Cloud conversation”. As always, I will be referencing other bloggers and analysts who are Cloud experts, but adding my own “2 cents” to the mix. The (still subject to last minute changes) outline is currently:

• Real Cloud Seeding
• Virtual Cloud Seeding
• Virtual Cloud Confusion 
• Why Seed The Virtual Cloud
• Virtual Cloud Seeding Options
• Have a Seeding Plan
• Have a UnSeeding Plan

I will post the slides here on VMETC.com after the event.

Be sure to be at the Atlanta Event June 23 too!

In 2 weeks my Southeast team will host our Veeam Tour event. If you’ll be in the Atlanta area on June 23 and would like to attend register at the same links above!