Jason Bloomberg, President of ZapThink, a Dovèl Technologies Company, will be presenting at the Open Group Conference on February 1, 2012. The topic of his presentation is “Architecting a RESTful Cloud: The key to Elasticity.”

The conference is being held at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco on Nob Hill. Jason’s talk will be at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, February 1.

The abstract for his talk is as follows:

Architecting a RESTful Cloud: The key to Elasticity

It’s a common misconception that the Cloud is nothing more than a virtual server in the sky, where you can take any on-premise, legacy app, drop it into the Cloud, and expect it to both work properly and leverage the Cloud’s advantages. In reality, it’s essential to architect applications properly, both to mitigate the Cloud’s shortcomings as well as leverage the most important Cloud benefit: elasticity.

The problem? Cloud environments are inherently partition tolerant, which impacts both data consistency and application state. As a result, architects must utilize different approaches from traditional application environments, instead leveraging best practices for creating hypermedia applications. In particular, they must move application state off the server to the client, following an architectural style known as Representational State Transfer, or REST.

Attendees of this session will:

• Obtain an understanding of the unique architectural requirements for Cloud-based applications
• Gain a new perspective on how the Cloud can support and complement existing applications
• Learn how REST is essential for achieving elasticity in Cloud-based applications.