Authors
Raj Asava
Raj Asava
VP Strategy, Dell Computer
An Information Technology industry veteran, Raj has a proven track record of success as a strategist, entrepreneur, and a global leader. He has over three decades of experience, working in various geographies and providing innovative solutions to clients in several industries. Raj has led organizational units to optimum performance by leveraging information technology, strategic planning and knowledge management strategies.
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Jon Brodkin
Senior Writer, Network World
Jon Brodkin is a senior writer and editor at Network World, covering cloud computing, virtualization, Google, open source, social networking, and the enterprise data center.
Diptarup Chakraborti
Principal Research Analyst, Gartner
Diptarup is a principal research analyst in the Gartner Technology and Service Provider Research group. He tracks the personal and mobile computing ecosystem across Asia/Pacific. In addition, he actively pursues his research interests in emerging markets and technologies.
Justin Crotty
Vice President Services North America,Ingram Micro
Bob Daly
Vice President of Managed Services, FalconStor Software
With more than 30 years of experience in the technology services industry, Bob is responsible for the strategy and development of managed service solutions in the areas of backup and disaster recovery.
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John Foley
Editor, InformationWeek Government
Since joining InformationWeek, John has written or managed many stories on IT implementation by local, state, and federal agencies and governments. With the launch of InformationWeek Government, Foley is the editorial team leader for InformationWeek’s expanded coverage of technologies and strategies for CIOs and IT professionals in the government sector.
Dana Gardner
President and Principal Analyst, Interarbor Solutions
Doug Gross
Reporter, CNN
David Hamilton
Chris Kanaracus
Chris Kanaracus is U.S. Correspondent for the IDG News Service, based in Boston. He covers enterprise software, including ERP, CRM, SOA and business process management.
Vivek Kundra
Federal CIO & Administrator for E-Gov & IT
Vivek Kundra was appointed as the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States by President Obama in March 2009. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Kundra served in Mayor Fenty's cabinet as the CTO for the District of Columbia and Governor Kaine's cabinet as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served in leadership roles in the private sector.
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Stephen Lawson
Writer, ComputerWorld
David Linthicum
Dave is an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. In addition, Dave is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal. For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. Linthicum has authored 10 books, including the ground-breaking “Enterprise Application Integration” and “B2B Application Integration.”
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David Macias
Master Story Teller, Cloudbook
David’s career has led him up to the clouds and back again. He has led the charge, in marketing, as well as building a myriad of cloud services, content that rains from the cloud, and rain catching devices, as well. These include game distribution services, games, social networking sites, consumer electronic devices and accessories as well as numerous software platforms to deliver them all.
Nicolas Mokhoff
Reporter, EE Times
Ellen Rubin
Founder & VP of Products at CloudSwitch, Inc
Ellen Rubin is the Founder & VP of Products at CloudSwitch. She’s an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in founding innovative technology companies and leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was a member of the early management team at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and market leader in data warehouse appliances, where she helped grow the company to over $125M in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Prior to Netezza, she founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Rubin began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College.
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Roshan Sequeira
Sr Consultant, Appistry
Roshan has been active in the Cloud Computing arena for a few years now. Roshan is involved in distributed and cloud computing primarily as IT architect guiding clients setup private clouds, transform data centers into virtualized cloud environments, and develop/migrate applications to public and private clouds.
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Laura Smith
Features Writer, SearchCIO.com
Liz Tay
Journalist
Liz is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. With a background in physics, she is most interested in stories about scientific or technological R&D. A long-time technology enthusiast, Tay joined the IT journalism industry in June 2006. She has been writing for iTnews in various roles since late 2007, and currently reports on all things business IT for iTnews, CRN, and SC Magazine.
James Urquhart
Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Datacenters Marketing at Cisco Systems
James Urquhart manages cloud computing and data center virtualization marketing for the Data Center Solutions group at Cisco. One of the most respected subject matter experts on the cloud, he is also the author of the popular CNET Blog, The Wisdom of Clouds. Mr Urquhart is a seasoned field technologist with almost 20 years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment, focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, and virtualization.
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Jeff Vance
Freelance Writer
Jeff is a freelance writer who focuses on next-generation technology trends. Recent feature stories have appeared in CIO and Network World, among others. He also works with private clients, including OpenAir, Code Green Networks and MediaPR, writing white papers, case studies and thought-leadership articles.
Vince Vasquez
CEO and Co-Founder, Cloudbook
As one of the founders of Cloudbook, Vince assists emerging Cloud Computing companies in telling their stories to the broader community interested in everything Cloud related.
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Mike Vizard
Mike Vizard has been covering IT issues in the enterprise for 25 years as an editor and columnist for publications such as InfoWorld, eWeek, Baseline, CRN, ComputerWorld and Digital Review.
Alex Williams
Editor, ReadWriteWeb
Alex manages ReadWriteEnterprise and ReadWriteCloud. Alex is old enough to have started his career with a daily newspaper, working a one-man bureau in rural Georgia back in 1989. He has worked as a writer and editor for daily newspapers, magazines and did a year in broadcast as a business anchor. He caught the technology bug back in 1994 and has been obsessed about its implications ever since. Past work includes RWW Winterfest in 2004 and Podcast Hotel, the event he produced that explored the intersection of art and commerce and how digital media affects independent culture.
Cloudbook Magazine Jul 2010