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I posted a feature today based on an interview I did in mid-December with Shannon Williams, VP of business development at VMOps (www.vmops.com), a company that very recently launched the generally available version of its software platform for cloud computing, a product specifically designed to be deployed by hosting providers.
As I discuss in the feature, the product is interesting partly because, like a few other significant pieces of hosting software, it helps to level the playing field for hosting providers who might not have the resources to develop the technology they’d need to develop cloud computing products of this kind of complexity on their own.
It stands to reason that, as a potential consumer of the product, or even simply as an interested observer, you might have some questions specifically for Shannon.
I’m pleased to report that he, along with Jason Baker, CTO of VMOps customer VISI (www.visi.com) will be joining me on Thursday, January 21 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time (that’s this Thursday, just to be clear) for a webinar entitled “How to Build a Computing Cloud.”
The webinar will include a bit of a case-study look at VISI’s deployment of VMOps platform in the building of its ReliaCloud (www.reliacloud.com) product, currently available in beta.
In case it isn’t clear at this point, this webinar, like all our WHIR webinars, is free to attend.
It will also include some general discussion of VMOps product, and a bit about the nature of cloud computing services in the hosting industry in general.
One aspect of our ongoing webinar series that is proving to be increasingly popular is the live Q&A session, during which I will put attendee questions to our panelists and presenters. So register for the webinar and tune in Thursday if you’d like to ask any questions of Shannon or Jason.
In the interest of perhaps expanding that aspect of these sessions a bit, I’d also encourage anyone with a question to post it in the comments section of this post. I’ll take a look at them before we run the webinar and try to bring up anything pertinent during the session.
If you can’t make it Thursday, you’ll be able to watch an archived copy of the webinar on our webinars page, where you can currently view saved copies of the webinars we’ve already run.
