Keeping Your Options Open, Even if the Cloud is Not.

Session Date and Time: Day 3, March 25, 5:30pm EST (2.30pm PST) – 60 min
Keywords: standards, cloud use cases, programming, design patterns.
Authors: Doug Tidwell, Senior Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Technology group.
Abstract: Cloud computing is a major shift in the way applications and data are deployed and managed. Once you've chosen a cloud vendor, how do you avoid being locked in to a proprietary API or service? And even if you're happy with your cloud provider, what happens when you partner with someone who uses a different provider? In this session we'll look at design patterns and running code that will make your cloud applications as robust, vendor-independent and open as possible. We'll also take a look at the efforts of various standards bodies and talk about how you can get involved. To maximize flexibility, speed of development and return on your investments in the cloud, the right level of standardization is crucial.

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Technology group.

He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has been working with markup languages, Web services and SOA technologies for many years. His job as a technology evangelist is to explain the standards and technologies behind Cloud Computing and to help customers integrate them into their overall business architectures and strategies. He is the author of many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site (ibm.com/developerWorks).