On 29th July Toby Hobson will be delivering a free presentation on private clouds at the Skillsmatter exchange in London:

Cloud technology has been around for some time but it’s generally been confined to large public clouds like Amazon and Google app engine. The world is changing … organizations are now starting to build their own clouds to support their agile teams.

In this talk Toby Hobson will give an overview of cloud technology before exploring the benefits and pitfalls of private cloud technology for agile development teams. The talk will conclude with a comparison of the commercial and open source technologies on the market today. Topics addressed will include:

• Why infrastructure is the Achilles heel of agile development
• How clouds can empower development teams
• Development teams as customers
• Current trends
• Dealing with legacy systems

Technologies covered will include:

XEN, KVM, VM Ware, Eucalyptus/Ubuntu Enterprise cloud, 3Tera and OpenQRM along with an overview of Amazon’s private cloud offering

More information can be found on the Skillsmatter site