Authors
Jon Brodkin
Jon Brodkin is a senior editor at Network World, covering cloud computing, virtualization, Google, open source, social networking, and the enterprise data center.
Anders Bylund
Writer, Analyst and Contributor at Fool.com
Gretchen Curtis
Director of Communications for Nebula at NASA Ames Research Center
Gretchen Curtis is a Marketing and Communications consultant based in Silicon Valley, California. She began her career ten years ago in technical staffing, helping to build teams at Bay Area companies such as AOL, Fujitsu, Sun and Oracle. In 2006 her love of Web 2.0, social media and viral marketing led her join Flock, Inc., the social web browser. As Sr. Manager of Business Operations at Flock, Gretchen oversaw the Finance, Human Resource and Legal Departments, established the company’s Canadian subsidiary in British Columbia and helped secure its third round of financing in 2007. Today Gretchen is the Director of Communications for Nebula, NASA’s Cloud Computing Platform based at Ames Research Center. She is an active participant in the Gov 2.0 Community and a vocal proponent of the Federal Cloud Computing initiative.
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Bruce Daley
A recognized expert in software Bruce Daley has founded or co-founded six enterprises with very different business models - a publication (The Siebel Observer), a radio business (eCommerce Update), an event (The Enterprise Software Summit), a consulting business (Great Divide Research) an investment advisory firm (Rabbit Ears Capital Advisors) and a social network to test software (Test Common). His publications have been read in over 34 countries and he has a patent (pending) for software testing.
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Joshua Greenbaum
Principal at Enterprise Application Consulting
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Andrew R Hickey
Andrew is an experienced high tech reporter/editor covering cloud computing and the IT sales channel.
Kathryn Koegel
Kathryn Koegel is a multi-disciplinary marketing professional with experience in online, mobile, television and print media and advertising. Her expertise includes company positioning, corporate communications, sales development, primary market research and whitepaper development and speechwriting.
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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Robert Lemos
Robert Lemos is a technology and science journalist, formerly a staff writer for ZDNet and CNET News.com.
Ellen Messmer
Senior Editor at Networkworld.com.
Cade Metz
US Editor at The Register
Robert L Mitchell
Robert Mitchell is a National Correspondent for Computerworld. He writes features and a monthly column and has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Computerworld he was the manager of business development for an IT services company. He has served in a variety of editorial roles at several IT publications, including BYTE Magazine and Network World. For several years he also served as a marketing manager, where he helped deploy IT to automate sales and marketing efforts.
Stephanie Overby
Stephanie Overby is a Boston-based freelance writer.
Aaron Ricadela
Aaron Ricadela edits online technology and science coverage from Bloomberg Businessweek’s San Francisco bureau. Previously, he was an editor-at-large at InformationWeek. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, and Germany’s Focus magazine and Die Suddeutsche Zeitung. In 2003, Ricadela was awarded an Arthur F Burns fellowship from the International Center for Journalists. He holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in English and Journalism from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Pat Romanski
Writer for SYS-CON.com.
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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Alan Rudolph
A successful businessman, Alan Rudolph is an expert on the economics of cloud computing and in the acquisition and integration of consulting companies. Alan Rudolph has been actively involved in the successful implementation of applications and the building of consulting practices for over 25 years. He was a Managing Director at ACS responsible for the company’s Applications Solutions Group. Prior to coming to ACS, he was director of product delivery at Corio before and after its acquisition by IBM. Prior to that, Mr. Rudolph served as COO of Planalytics, a business intelligence company, where he was recruited to reorganize the company’s sales and marketing, product development, and financial operations. He was also a managing director at Answerthink and served in several capacities for Oracle Corporation. In the course of his career Mr. Rudolph has been involved in $400 million worth of mergers and acquisitions.
James Staten
Principal Analyst, Forrester
James serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals providing insights into server-centric issues including infrastructure consolidation and virtualization, data center migration and reconfiguration (including the transition to 10GbE), cloud computing (public and internal), and high performance and technical computing infrastructures. Staten is the author of best practice analysis on IT consolidation, the new IT service outsourcing (strategic right-sourcing), maturing your virtualization practice, building a cloud computing consumption strategy and optimizing web site infrastructures for blazing fast performance.
Darryl K Taft
Darryl K Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop.
Raffi Tchakmakjian
Vice President of Product Management at Trellia
Vince Vasquez
Co-Founder, Cloudbook.net
Vince is the Co-Founder of Cloudbook.net. Previously he provided business development for Sun's public cloud, along with managing Sun's partner SaaS program called Solaris On Demand.
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Thomas Wailgum
Senior Editor at CIO.com
Joe Weinman
VP of Strategy and Business Development, AT&T
Joe Weinman leads the Strategic Solutions Sales organization, with responsibility for working with AT&T’s largest customers globally to co-create leading edge solutions that develop competitive advantage in their industry. His team focuses on network-centric solutions for industry verticals as well as customer strategic imperatives such as unified communications and data center evolution.
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Robert Westervelt
News Editor at SearchSecurity.com
Robert Westervelt is a news reporter and editor for SearchSecurity.com. Since joining TechTarget in 2003, he has covered SAP, Oracle and the database industry for SearchDatabase.com, SearchSAP.com and SearchOracle.com. Prior to joining TechTarget, he was a newspaper reporter for five years at the Day in New London, Conn, where he wrote a variety of crime, general news, government and business stories while covering towns in Southeastern Connecticut. A military veteran, he served four years with the US Air Force, US Forces Police in Kaiserslautern Germany. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Connecticut.
Alex Williams
Alex Williams is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. He lives in Portland, OR, where he works as a community management consultant.
Brett Winterford
Brett Winterford is a journalist and editor of iTnews who has written about the business of technology for over ten years. Awarded Business Journalist and Technology Journalist of the year in the 2004 ITjourno awards, Winterford has extensive experience in both the business and technology press. In the business press. Winterford has penned some 75 articles in the Australian Financial Review, as well as numerous features for Management Today and Charter – a trade press magazine published by the Instiitute of Chartered Accountants. He has also worked as the News Editor of ARN and penned technology feature stories for MIS, CIO, Voice and Data, Technology and Business, Australian Personal Computer and ZDNet.
Cloudbook Magazine Jun 2010