This post is basically just to try out embedding a google wave post in a blog post :) There is some news however. I am giving a lecture to a Masters of IT class at Monash. This wave is the place where I am gathering information about what I will present. I will also provide access to the students during the class, if they wish to participate or continue the discussion at a later date.

I'm presenting a session at EJA tomorrow, entitled "Choose Your Cloud". I'll be comparing the different cloud vendors, with a particular focus on Google App Engine. As an experiment, I've done my presentation in Prezi. I'm not sure if its cool or distracting. I'll check with my audience tomorrow to find out :) Choose your Cloud on Prezi

A lot of people are saying that using Google Wave to discuss conferences live is the new hotness. Given that there will be a special google wave announcement at tomorrow's Enterprise Futures Forum in Melbourne, I'm willing to guess there will be waves for the conference. In anticipation, I have created a wave for the tech discussion session I am running on local implications for cloud computing. There's not much there at the moment.

Enterprise Java Australia are holding a conference on the 17th of November in Melbourne, with keynote speeches on the Broadband initiative, Green IT, SOA, andGoogle Wave.  I will be facilitating one of the afternoon tech sessions on Cloud Computing.  If you're at the event, come and say hi to me. There's a 2 for 1 registration offer open until mid day on Friday.

Virtualisation is a pretty commonly known practice these days. IT operations staff use it as a method of consolidation and getting rid of old legacy hardware. Now we are being presented with virtualisation on demand facilities, usually referred to as Cloud Computing. This allows any user to create a virtual machine as a clone of a disk image at any time, use it for a while, and then throw it away.