Events Featuring Grid Dynamics
This page contains notices of future events and capsule descriptions of contributions to past events made by executives and senior technical members of Grid Dynamics.
Grid Dynamics CEO to Speak in Salt Lake City
Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will speak at the Association of Information Management (AIM) luncheon in Salt Lake City, March 11, 2010. Her topic will be "Cloud Computing: The Practitioner's Perspective." Registration information is available here.
Grid Dynamics to Speak to Bay Area Java SIGs
Taylor Gautier, Principal Client Architect at Grid Dynamics, will speak to Java special interest groups from Silicon Valley and the East Bay on March 11, 2010, 7 PM, at the Terracotta offices in San Francisco. Further logistical details are available here. The talk will have the following abstract.
TITLE: Scaling from 1 node to 1000 with the absolute minimum changes
DESCRIPTION: Scaling from 1 node to 1000 is traditionally a complex proposition. One node requires a bit of performance tuning but not much else. Getting to 2 nodes requires the introduction of new technologies such as clustered caches, messaging frameworks, and transactions in order to keep data correct across the cluster. From there, lots of tuning work has to be done to get from 2 nodes to medium-sized 20 node clusters. And, 200 or more nodes usually requires partitioning/sharding and lots of custom tuning and logic; perhaps even a NoSQL solution. In this talk, we will spend time on how to use Ehcache, Hibernate, Quartz, Tomcat (or other containers) in conjunction with Terracotta to get to hundreds of nodes without all the separate stages of architecture and design such as messaging, partitioning, NoSQL, and more--this recipe for scaling from 1 node to 1000 provides a seamless continuum within which your applications can operate and scale. This scalability continuum has implications on EC2 and EC2 has implications on the continuum. In this talk, we will also cover the ramifications of cloud on large-scale data management and we will apply the scalability continuum to our cloud-based applications to lessen our dependence on the database and, thus, take full advantage of the cloud's elasticity.
Grid Dynamics CEO featured on TechnoGirlTalk
Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, was a featured guest in a podcast at TechnoGirlTalk.com on February 15, 2010. Victoria was interviewed along with another female CEO and the female owner of a technical consulting firm. The sponsors of the interview said "To say that our guests were breaking the mold would be such an understatement that we hesitate to even make a statement about them. Anyone who wants to know what it's like navigating one's way through the sometimes choppy waters of a career in tech will find something in this week's podcast." The podcast is available for listening or download here.
Grid Dynamics CEO to Speak at Cloud Connect 2010
Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will participate in a panel discussion at Cloud Connect 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, 1:30 pm, March 16, 2010. The panel topic will be "Moving to Clouds: It's all or nothing." Logistical information about the session is available here.
Grid Dynamics CEO to Speak at Global Tech Symposium 2010
Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will participate in a panel discussion at the Global Tech Symposium 2010 at Stanford University, 10:15 am, March 25, 2010. The panel topic will be "Disruptive Technology." Logistical information about the session is available here.
Grid Dynamics Speaks at Palo Alto Java SIG
Taylor Gautier, Principal Client Architect at Grid Dynamics, spoke at the Software Developers Forum, Java Special Interest Group, on February 2, 2010, in Palo Alto, California. Taylor's talk was on Terracotta Ehcache. His abstract: "In this presentation learn how to use Terracotta Ehcache to dramatically boost application performance. Terracotta Ehcache provides a high performance Hibernate second level cache that boosts application performance as much as 10x. Understanding performance behavior specific to your application can be a challenging task. Every application workload is unique. To provide reliable metrics for comparison, Terracotta Ehcache has benchmarked the Spring PetClinic reference application against competitive solutions such as Memcached, Commercial IMDG, My SQL and a leading In Memory Data Grid including the impressive performance increases from the latest Terracotta 3.2 Server Array. Terracotta Ehcache EX and FX bring unparalleled scale and performance that hundreds of thousands of deployments depend on today. Some of the world’s largest companies rely on the enterprise scale of Terracotta. Whether your application simply needs easier monitoring and management capabilities or demands high performance and high availability, Terracotta Ehcache is the best solution on the market."
Grid Dynamics Speaks at New York Oracle Coherence Special Interest Group
Grid Dynamics' Principal Client Architect Taylor Gautier spoke in New York City at the Oracle Coherence Special Interest meeting on January 14, 2010. Taylor's presentation was "Extreme Transaction Processing - Leveraging Oracle Coherence as a SEDA-based Scalable Event Transaction Processor." Taylor's slides are available here. Information about the NYCSIG meeting is available here.
Grid Dynamics EVP Led AmBAR Panel, October 8
Boris Renski, EVP of Marketing and Alliances at Grid Dynamics, led a panel of distinguished technologists at the American Business Association of Russian-speaking Professionals's event, Virtualization and Beyond: Emerging Technologies that Redefine IT, at 6:45 PM on October 8, 2009, in Palo Alto, California.
Boris's panel included David Allen, CTO of i365, Seagate's SaaS storage management company; Shai Fulheim, CEO of ScaleMP, a Sequoia-backed virtualization startup; John Keagy, Founder and CEO of GoGrid, a cloud hosting service, and; Daniel Templeton of the Sun Grid Engine team at Sun Microsystems.
For additional information, see the AmBAR website.
Grid Dynamics Keynotes at Australian Cloud Conference, October 2009
Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, was a keynote speaker at the "Cloud Computing - The Silver Lining" event, October 8-9, 2009, in Sydney, Australia. Victoria also led a special full day interactive Cloud Computing workshop with Eugene Steinberg, Grid Dynamics CTO, and Kirill Ishanov, Principal Engineer of Grid Dynamics' Cloud Computing Practice.
The agenda is available here.
For more information about the event: http://www.marcusevans.com/html/sponsor.asp?eventID=15759&SectorID=17&pageID=2
Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at International Virtualization Conference
Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, spoke at the International Virtualization Conference and Expo West, November 2-4, 2009, at the Santa Clara, California, Convention Center. Victoria's session, November 3 at 6:30 PM, was part of the track named Hot Topics: RIAs in the Cloud: "Moving HPC Apps to the Cloud: The Practitioner's Perspective." Her abstract and bio are at http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/session/591.
Grid Dynamics Speaks at Silicon Valley Code Camp
Taylor Gautier, principal architect at Grid Dynamics, conducted a session at the Silicon Valley Code Camp, October 3, entitled "Scaling Hibernate Apps with Terracotta." Abstract:
Terracotta is a high performance open source Java clustering technology which includes native support via plug-ins to seamlessly integrate with applications based on Hibernate, EHCache, Spring and more. In this session, learn how to integrate Terracotta into your Hibernate application in just a few simple steps. Then visualize your application in real-time and tune it's performance using the Terracotta developer console, a sophisticated runtime visualization, profiling and debugging tool included with the core Terracotta kit.
Information about Taylor's session and the rest of the program at the code camp can be found here.
Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at Software Development Forum, Palo Alto
| Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, spoke at the SDForum meeting, Palo Alto, September 22. Her topic was "Moving HPC Apps to the Cloud." Event details are here. |  |
Grid Dynamics CTO Speaks at Sun Microsystems HPC Software Workshop 2009 and Advanced Seminars
Eugene Steinberg, CTO of Grid Dynamics, spoke at the Sun Microsystems HPC Software Workshop 2009 and Advanced Seminars in Regensburg, Germany, September 7-10, 2009. Eugene led a panel discussion that addressed questions about managing workloads and their associated data in public and hybrid cloud environments. The panel consisted of members from the Grid Engine and Lustre product teams, Oracle, GigaSpaces, and Univa. Access Eugene's slides on data-aware routing in the cloud.
Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneur's Forum
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Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, spoke at the FountainBlue, TEN, and CCICE joint-event on Monday, June 8, 2009, during the High Tech Entrepreneur's Forum, on the topic of "Entrepreneur Success Stories." Mrs. Lischitz was one of the featured speakers of the Forum, which included executives from Microsoft and IBM Venture Capital Group. A summary of the panel discussion is available for downloading here. For more information on the event, please visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=162330 and http://fountainblue.biz/resources/hightech.html. |
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Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at International Business Panel in Palo Alto
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Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, spoke on an international business panel—Leadership in a downturn economy—on May 19, 2009, in Palo Alto, CA, focused on the High Tech industry and the economy. The event was co-hosted by the CSPA, the German and French Chambers of Commerce. The panel was titled "Is the Sky Falling?" She was among the Conference's featured speakers, which included prominent business executives such as Jean-Louis Gassée, former CEO of Apple. For more info on the event: CSPA website |
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Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at Waters Powers Conference
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Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, spoke at the Waters Powers 2009 Conference in New York City, on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, during the plenary session "A Silver Lining for Cloud Computing" discussion, immediately after the keynote speech. Mrs. Livschitz was among the Conference's featured speakers, which included prominent business executives. Other speakers included Jeffrey Birnbaum, CTO of Merrill Lynch, Sinan Baskan of Sybase and Phil Albinus, Editor at WATERS magazine. A complete report on the conference is hosted in our Grid Designers' Blog. About the Waters Powers Conference Since its launch in 1993, Waters has been relied on by financial technology professionals worldwide for focused, in-depth coverage of financial market data and technology. |
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Interview with Victoria Livschitz at the Waters Powers Conference
Grid Dynamics CEO Speaks at Stanford Global Technology Symposium
Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics talked at Sixth Annual Global Technology Symposium at Stanford University on Friday, March 27, 2009, during the "Global Entrepreneurship" Panel discussion. Mrs. Lischitz was among the Symposium's featured speakers—prominent business and political experts—who participated on panels and fireside chats. Speakers included former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell and noted venture capitalists Bill Draper,Steve Jurvetson, and Ann Winblad.
About the Global Technology Forum
The 2009 Symposium brought over 300 international business, finance, political, and technology leaders to the Stanford campus to discuss how the technology sector can seize the opportunities of globalization despite the current recession.
http://globaltechsymposium.com/stanford/live/default.asp?menuid=11447