Cloud Fair 2012, April 17 – 19 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, is packed end to end with sessions designed by and for technology insiders only. We’re the premier conference dedicated to helping businesses of all sizes – from small, medium, and large, up to the enterprise – bring the power of Cloud Computing down to earth by providing simple, easy to understand, real world solutions to the problems they face today.

Can’t miss keynotes include:
Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com
Dan Levin, Chief Operating Officer at Box
Linda Bernardi, Founder & CEO StraTerra Partners
Simon Crosby, CTO at Bromium, Inc
Marten Mickos, Chief Executive Officer at Eucalyptus Systems Inc.

To learn more about SH Worldwide’s Cloud Fair 2012 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in April, please visit the conference website. http://www.cloudfairconference.com/

This panel will focus how the Big Data problems of today (scale, distribution, diversity) require new paradigms in cloud computing, databases, and analytics capabilities.

To learn more about SH Worldwide’s Cloud Fair 2012 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel this April, please visit the conference website. http://www.cloudfairconference.com/

Ho! Ho! Ho! The holidays are almost here! Join your SH Worldwide friends at The Shops at The Bravern in Bellevue on Friday, November 18th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm as we kick off the holiday season with a Tree Lighting Ceremony, hosted by Kevin Joyce.

Santa will arrive at 6:00pm in a horse-drawn carriage with Jamie & Karen Moyer from The Moyer Foundation and two campers from Camp Mariposa. Santa’s arrival will be led by Bells of The Sound and accompanied by Captain Smartypants and Sensible Shoes of the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus.

From 5:00pm – 8:00pm enjoy fireside beverages, The Dickens Carolers and pony rides for the kids. Donations will be accepted for fireside beverages and the pony rides. All proceeds benefit The Moyer Foundation.

For more information, visit http://thebravern.com/

As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a small start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After being acquired by Sun Microsystems, Mickos served as Senior Vice President of Sun’s Database Group.

Mickos has held CEO and senior executive positions for multiple companies and has a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology.

Simon Crosby, CTO at Bromium, Inc. recently closed a $9.2 million series A round of funding with Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Founded by Gaurav Banga, Simon Crosby, and Ian Pratt, Bromium is focused on the delivery of infrastructure solutions that permit enterprises to safely embrace two major trends in IT: consumerization and cloud computing.

Simon was formerly CTO for Data Center & Cloud, at Citrix Systems, and was founder and CTO of XenSource, later acquired by Citrix. He was also the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.

In other roles, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. He was also a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems.

Well known in the Cloud Community for his technical expertise, Simon is the author of over 35 research papers and holds patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance.

To learn more about keynote speakers or to submit a speaker proposal, visit the Cloud Fair Conference website. http://cloudfairconference.com/

Mark your calendars – registration opens December 2011.

Cloud Fair 2012
Making Cloud Computing Simple, Secure and Financially Successful”
April 17 – 19, 2012
Sheraton Seattle Hotel

The hottest topic in computing today is “The Cloud” – you see it on websites, television, and in newspapers, magazines, and billboards across the globe. And Cloud Conferences have popped up like mushrooms, each one promising a full plate of speakers, technologies, and solutions. You’ve heard the hype. The promises of lower costs, scalability, and increased reliability sound wonderful. But you want clear answers to real questions about its use, its security, and its cost-effectiveness. Where can you go to find solutions not just jargon? Cloud Fair 2012.

To learn more about becoming a sponsor, speaker or attending, visit the Cloud Fair Conference website. http://cloudfairconference.com/

Photos courtesy of Susie Atchison.

For those of you keeping track, this makes eight girls born in a row at SHW! It must be the water.

On Wednesday, members of SH Worldwide participated in the Cake Boss FAM hosted by American Outback Adventures & Events. This fun, hands-on activity is inspired by the reality show Cake Boss on TLC. Led by a culinary instructor from South Seattle Community College, each group was challenged to decorate a cake inspired by the various teambuilding options that American Outback and Adventures & Events facilitates. In addition, each cake was required to include a rose, a figure sculpted from gum paste and lettering in red piping. The SHW team chose to create a pirate ship inspired by American Outback’s group sailing opportunities. The pirate ship, named the SHW Rose, was manned by a gummy bear crew and featured black licorice cannons and a skull and crossbones. While the SHW crew didn’t end up winning the Cake Boss title, their “all hands on deck” effort secured a tie for 2nd place and they had a swashbuckling good time!