Have you managed to get the “Grease”-inspired “Summer Shows” tune out of your head yet? I can attest that it is far from forgotten at our office … both because it is painfully catchy and because we’re in the midst of executing on the schedule referenced in it.

This week, we return to the beautiful city of San Francisco to attend Structure 2010. If you’re unfamiliar with Structure, it’s designed to bring together industry leaders to discuss the future of cloud computing and make predictions as to where the industry is headed. Discussions center around which technologies are emerging as standards, and conference speakers discuss best practices for implementing cloud infrastructures in the enterprise. With our investment in cloud innovation, it’s the perfect place to talk about the future of the cloud.

If you’re interested in learning more about The Planet’s contrarian approach to the cloud, swing by our booth in the sponsor room. You’ll be able to find us by looking for the crowd of people gathered around our new interactive display:

One of our goals at every trade show is to engage attendees, and this screen is our latest brainchild. Instead of cycling through a slide show or showing off our website, we wanted to empower our booth’s visitors to explore our enterprise hosting environment very simply. Step up to the screen, pull up pictures, move them around, expand and shrink them, ask questions … We want you to “experience” The Planet.

Conference Panel

In addition to our event sponsorship and booth activities, Carl Meadows, The Planet’s senior product manager for cloud services, will participate in a conference panel tomorrow (June 24) titled, “Different Cloud, Different Purposes: A Taxonomy of Clouds.” The panel begins at 4:35 p.m. and will also feature executives from Yahoo!, Verizon, StrataScale and NetApp. The content of the session will be spectacular, and if you have questions for Carl, he will be available to chat at our booth after the panel.

If you happen to be at the UCSF Mission Bay conference center, stop by our booth and interact with our data centers. If you can’t make it, don’t worry … We’ll be posting the new infrastructure pictures on Flickr soon. As you can see in the right-hand sidebar, our DC tour blogs are some of our most popular posts, and they’re due for a refresh.

-Kevin