Once again we have a great lineup for the New England Cloud User Group meeting:

4th Silver-lining Meeting – The New England Cloud User Group

Date: January 13, 2009
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7
Meeting: 7-9
Location: Papa Razzi Wellsley MA (private room)
16 Washington St
Wellesley, MA 02481

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=16%20Washington%20Street,02481&hl=en

Last meeting we had two presenter - a vendor who is looking at the cloud (RSA) and a startup that is using the cloud to offer their service (Pixiliy). The conversation was lively and enlightening in what these companies viewed were their challenges - current and future.

This months meeting we have two interesting speakers - Greg Arnette CTO and co-founder from Sonian (http://www.sonian.net/) and Angelo Rajadurai is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Sun helping startup companies use SUN’s technology which includes the cloud.

 Speakers Bio’s:

Greg Arnette is the CTO and co-founder of Sonian, a two year old cloud compute application start-up that provides enterprise archiving services for compliance, e-disocvery and storage management. Sonian
has built it’s entire hosted infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, and was recently awarded a finalist position in the 2008 Start Up Challenge. Sonian uses AWS EC2, S3, SDB, SQS and EBS web services.

Angelo Rajadurai is a Senior Technical Evangelist specializing in application optimization at Sun Microsystems. Angelo has been with Sun Microsystems for over 15 years  where he has held various technical roles.  Angelo’s areas of focus have varied from working on the Solaris x86 kernel, to supporting Sun’s strategic partners and customers on various engineering and optimization projects.  More recently Angelo is addressing the technology challenges experienced by the Startup Community.  He has presented on web technologies to audiences worldwide.