BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190218T004617Z UID:233FCFA6-EC62-427A-800B-BB8302F70DE3 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T193000 DESCRIPTION:So let's talk about software for just a moment. Software can be very difficult to create. In fact\, if you want to create a software syst em that does anything\, you're going to have to tie together a bunch of di fferent pieces of software. Each piece will do part of the task and then w ill have to communicate with other pieces of the software in order to get anything done. Just to make things even more complicated each piece of sof tware may be made up of a bunch of different add-ins and libraries that al l have to be there when the software runs. How complicated is this!\n\nIt turns out that it's really\, really complicated. Just in case all of that wasn't complicated enough\, now instead of running all of this complicated software on a computer that sits on your desk and you can touch\, now eve ryone wants to run their software in "the cloud". If we're not careful\, t his is all going to get out of hand very quickly and nothing is going to w ork correctly.\n\nI've got some good news for you – there is a solution to all of this madness. A little company called Docker came up with a real ly smart idea called "containers". The basic idea is that if you shove all of your software into a container then you can move it around\, run it an ywhere\, and it will always work. Oh\, then all of sudden everyone started to use a lot of containers and things started to get complicated again!\n \nSoftware containers are the wave of the future. Currently they are cutti ng edge stuff that people are only starting to understand. Your chance to get a look at containers\, understand how they can be used\, realize what their limitations are\, and even get a peek at the really fancy ways that people are starting to deal with managing containers is going to happen at this IEEE Computer Society meeting.\n\nJust in case you didn't understand how big of deal containers are\, IBM agreed to buy the company Red Hat fo r $34 billion because Red Hat is very good at dealing with containers. Now do I have your attention?\n\nJoin us on Wednesday evening\, February 13th at 6:00pm. We'll be meeting at TECO Hall which is located at TECO Plaza\, 702 N. Franklin St.\, Tampa. If you have any questions\, feel free to con tact the meeting organizer\, Jim Anderson at [813-417-8854](tel:813-417-88 54). I'll see you there!\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Jim Anderson\, \n\nTECO Plaza\ , 702 N. Franklin St\, Tampa\, Florida\, United States\, 33625-3307 LOCATION:TECO Plaza\, 702 N. Franklin St\, Tampa\, Florida\, United States\ , 33625-3307 ORGANIZER:jim.anderson@ieee.org SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:Are You Ready For Cloud-Based Software Containers? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/187012 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>So let's talk about software for just a mo ment. Software can be very difficult to create. In fact\, if you want to c reate a software system that does anything\, you're going to have to tie t ogether a bunch of different pieces of software. Each piece will do part o f the task and then will have to communicate with other pieces of the soft ware in order to get anything done. Just to make things even more complica ted each piece of software may be made up of a bunch of different add-ins and libraries that all have to be there when the software runs. How compli cated is this!</p>\n<p>It turns out that it's really\, really complicated. Just in case all of that wasn't complicated enough\, now instead of runni ng all of this complicated software on a computer that sits on your desk a nd you can touch\, now everyone wants to run their software in "the cloud" . If we're not careful\, this is all going to get out of hand very quickly and nothing is going to work correctly.</p>\n<p>I've got some good news f or you &ndash\; there is a solution to all of this madness. A little compa ny called Docker came up with a really smart idea called "containers". The basic idea is that if you shove all of your software into a container the n you can move it around\, run it anywhere\, and it will always work. Oh\, then all of sudden everyone started to use a lot of containers and things started to get complicated again!</p>\n<p>Software containers are the wav e of the future. Currently they are cutting edge stuff that people are onl y starting to understand. Your chance to get a look at containers\, unders tand how they can be used\, realize what their limitations are\, and even get a peek at the really fancy ways that people are starting to deal with managing containers is going to happen at this IEEE Computer Society meeti ng.</p>\n<p>Just in case you didn't understand how big of deal containers are\, IBM agreed to buy the company Red Hat for $34 billion because Red Ha t is very good at dealing with containers. Now do I have your attention?&n bsp\;</p>\n<p>Join us on Wednesday evening\, February 13th at 6:00pm. We'l l be meeting at TECO Hall which is located at TECO Plaza\, 702 N. Franklin St.\, Tampa. If you have any questions\, feel free to contact the meeting organizer\, Jim Anderson at <u><a href="tel:813-417-8854">813-417-8854</a ></u>. I'll see you there!</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR