[TriLUG] Raleigh.pm meeting Thursday June 17, 2010, 7:15pm

[Brad Oaks]

Hello Perl Mongers, and TriLUGgers,

Please join us next Thursday, June 17th at WebAssign.

Michael Peters of Plus Three, L.P. will present:

Survey of Cloud Hosting Providers

It seems these days that every other tech article you read mentions
cloud computing. Cloud hosting providers allow projects to easily and
quickly expand capacity while offering the prospect of reducing costs.
As an emerging field there is a lot of money to be made and lots of
vendors are trying to win our business and our wallets.

This talk will compare the major cloud hosting companies and what
products and services they offer. Google's App Engine, Amazon's AWS,
Rackspace's Cloud Services and Linode will be compared. We will go
beyond a mere checklist of features and dive into such topics as Perl
support, cost structures, development strategies, underlying
architectures, performance and security.

Whether you've decided to move to the cloud or just want to test the
waters this talk will help you make your decisions. Every company and
project is different and you should have the information to pick the
right host for your constraint


If you are interested in attending, please RSVP, though it is not
required. (mailto:bradoaks at gmail.com?subject=rsvp+June+meeting)

When: 7:15pm start
Where: 1730 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
WebAssign is in the Venture 4 building on NCSU's Centennial Campus.
(It is near RedHat)
These details are also on http://raleigh.pm.org/

http://tinyurl.com/venture4

 * After turning onto Varsity Drive from Avent Ferry:
 * Pass Capability Drive.
 * Take the second driveway on the right -- the one after the
building. Guest parking in the deck is reachable from this driveway.
 * Walk around to the entrance on Varsity Drive to get into the building.

Hope to see you out,
--bradoaks