Join us at GigaSpaces CloudCrowd Evening Gathering that will present how GigaSpaces' customers are using XAP as a platform for public and private clouds.

• Case studies that will be presented in this event:

• Private Cloud at Fortune 100 Company: Alejandro Ramallo, Global Head of Technology at British American Tobacco, will present the project of implementing a private cloud using GigaSpaces XAP
• Production Application on Public Cloud: Mandhir Gidda, Head of Technology at Avenue A Razorfish, a GigaSpaces partner, will discuss how he deployed a production application for a major UK telco on the Amazon EC2 cloud, using GigaSpaces XAP

• The event will take place at Crosse Keys pub from 3pm thruogh 7pm
• Seasting is limited! please confirm your registration
• The event is sponserd by Nt/e

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The Crosse Keys public house address:

9 Gracechurch Street

City of London, London

EC3V 0DR (map)

• Full agenga

• Time	Presentation
  3:00PM	Introduction - James Liddle, Sales and Operations Director, UK, Ireland & Scandinavia at GigaSpaces
  3:15PM	Practical considerations of building a Private Cloud - Alejandor Ramallo, Global Head of Technology at British American Tobacco, will discuss the work that British American Tocacco are doing on building a cloud on top of their Back-Office systems that exposes data services to their clients
  3:55PM	Building a hybrid Public / Private Cloud - Mandhir Gidda, Head of Technology at Avenue A Razorfish, a GigaSpaces partner, will discuss how they build a hybrid cloud for a leading UK Telco, with an Application that was hosted on Amazon EC2 that connected to SOA services and data that resided on
  4:30PM	Break
  4:45PM	Enabling high-performance transactions for public & private clouds - Matthew Fowler, Director and Founder of NT/e, will discuss 'CloudSave', a product which enables high performance persistence, combined with increased speed, for applications in public and private clouds
  5:20PM	Trading in the cloud while keeping your feet on the ground!- Cedric Roll and Francis Otshudi, Co-Founders at ORbyte Solutions will talk about how ORbyte Solutions current FX and CFD trading platform runs in Amazon EC2 on top of GigaSpaces. and will share their experience to illustrate the benefits and potentials of these technologies.
  5:55PM	New cloud features of GigaSpaces 7.0.1, GigaSpaces will discuss the new features of GigaSpaces 7.01 which will include the new GoGrid integration and also the forthcoming VMWARE integration features
  7:00PM	Session closes for further beers and networking!