Chris+A

This is the Wiki space page for Christopher Atkins Cert 4 in Programming stage 1 semester 2

**Presentation** This is my presentation on Creating an animated GIF using Photoshop CS3

Here is my handout file: My presentation used a video demostration. The avi file is over 100 mb so I have not uploaded it to the wikispace because i belive it is too large. Although I have yet to, I will hand the video to a lecturer.

**External Lecturer** The external lecture I attend was at Challenger TAFE at the E-Tech centre in Fremantle. The lecture was provided by the Diploma students at E-Tech contained 2 guest speakers as well as supper. One of the guest speakers was from VMWare and one was from CISCO. Both speakers spoke about similar things. I am not sure if there was a theme for the nights speeches but regardless if there was or not, both speeches focused on virtulisation of networks in a corperate enviroment. My knowledge about networking is quite limited at this time and as such didnt understand a lot of what the speakers were talking about compared to other people.

The VMWare speaker spoke about a term I had not heard before called Cloud Computing. As I understood it, Cloud Computing is essentially processing power provided by a company from a computer farm. The user would no longer have a desktop computer only a screen and then would log onto a virtual computer powered by the computer farm. Then the user would send signals to the computer farm to do a certain task (presumably over the internet) and then the computer farm would run and complete the task and finally send the user the final result. This was the future visions of VMWare and their products were being devolped towards this final task.

The CISCO speaker spoke less about the IT industry and more about its own products. He discussed the technological advances CISCO had made with their networking abilities as well their new products being virtulised. From what I understood of the CISCO speakers speech, CISCO is now providing smaller and more efficent data farms and networks with less physical hardware but is placing several virtual servers to run on the one physical server in conjuction with VMWare products.