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We are hard at work on the convention’s schedule, together with our partners in Israel and around the world, which makes this the perfect time to suggest important professional lectures for one of our panels.
We’re pretty sure we will be holding an enterprise panel, an ISV development manager panel, a security and regulation panel as well as a SmartPilot panel for start-ups and venture capital investors. All these panels, of course, will deal with the cloud in some way, shape or form.

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By way of celebration, here is the video documenting CloudCon2010 to provide both a nice reminiscence as well as a motivation to make CloudCon2011 bigger and better than before.

DataBase2011

The first lecture will be given by Bartal Vindzberg, CTO for Kaminario, and will deal with “accelerating databases using SSD storage systems”. Kaminario received a venture capital investment from the Sequoia and Pitango funds, and was first exposed to the global computing community and venture capital investments was at the SmartPilot1 event. Held one year ago, the company then asked not to film and reveal the video of its presentation, but I’m happy to announce that in DataBase2011, to be held on January 13th, it will present to the relevant audiences its partners in Israel and the correct way to implement its solution into the data center.

The second start-up lecture at DataBase will be by David Maman, CTO for GreenSQL. David gave a fascinating lecture at Open2010, on open sourced security solutions released by GreenSQL for MySQL, and now he will expand about GreenSQL’s commerical solution which is geared towards MS SQL Server as well. His lecture is called “Securing and Accelerating Databases in Minutes”, and if you’re interested in security and accelerating of databases, I wouldn’t miss it. David is sure to give a fascinating and interesting lecture.

Database2011’s third start-up lecture will deal with columnar databases, and will be given by Elad Israeli, founder and CEO of SiSense. Sisense enjoys a recent venture capital investment by the Opus and Genesis venture capital funds, and this will be their first appearance in such a convention. I can tell you that, after spending a few hours with Elad and listening to him talk about Columnar Databases and what they can do, I nearly purchased one of these databases myself. Not because I need to calculate immense amounts of data at lightning quick speeds, because I don’t, but only because it sounds so interesting. Elad calls his lecture “The Impact of Columnar/NoSQL Databases on BI Solutions”, and I assume it will prove interesting to anyone who needs to quickly form BI reports out of an unthinkable amount of data.