I went to the Cloudcamp Vancouver event last Saturday – a little bit technnical to my taste – but here are what I learned for the day:

• cloud computing has existed as long as the internet existed. Gmail, hotmail are long using the cloud technology.
• Why was it called Cloud computing? Because in any network maps, we don’t really care how the data outside of our world is like, and we always draw a  big cloud indicating that “things just works!”
• There are 3 layers of the cloud  computing:

1. Infrastructure as a service (Amazon S3, Rackspace)
2. Platform as a service (Google App Engine, Chrome OS?)
3. Software as a service (Gmail, facebook)

• Things do blur between infrastructure, platform, and software.  For example, Facebook provides API, so  it technically can be  called Platform  as a  service too.

Here are the following meeting notes from the organizers:

Meeting Notes

We have put together a Google doc containing the flip charts and we need your help to fill in the notes. To read them, you can view this document. To edit the document, click here. We’ll give you permission and we’d love it if you’d share your notes with the rest of us by putting them into the appropriate place in the Google document.

Other resources:

Here are some other relevant links:

• View the Flip Chart Notes
  • ask for permission to edit the notes here
• Flickr Search
• Twitter Search
• Troy Angrignon’s Comprehensive BC Cloud Computing Ecosystem article is here
  • the associated list is here
• Boris Mann (@bmann) is collecting cloud companies in this wiki

User Group:

There was some discussion of how to “keep the energy going” after the fact. For those of you who would like to discuss setting up a cloud computing user group here in Vancouver, why not sign up for the Cloudcamp Vancouver Google grouphere.

Bonus Gartner report

For those of you who attended, you can download a free not-for-redistribution-or-copying-a-zillion-times PPT presentation by Gartner’s David Michael Smith. This is an excellent high-value deck that I think you’ll all get a lot more out of now that you’ve been through Cloudcamp.

OPTION 1 EXPIRES MARCH 21, 2010. You can watch and/or download it here. Please do not share, redistribute, reupload, or republish that link anywhere. This was provided free of charge by Gartner to our attendees.

OPTION 2: GOOGLE GROUP: We have also uploaded it into the Google Group for longer-term storage so you can sign into that here.

Donate to help Cloudcamp

Thanks to those of you who donated during registration. If you haven’t yet donated but would like to do so, you can still do sohere. Anything you can donate helps to keep the events going. 

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