President & Chief Strategy Officer of Cloud Business at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
Lew lead Rackspace's move into cloud hosting and cloud applications in 2006 by spearheading the launch of Mosso, now The Rackspace Cloud, and driving the acquisition of webmail.us, now the backbone of Rackspace's Cloud Applications offer. As the hosting and cloud computing market evolves, Lew is responsible for leading Rackspace's efforts into new models to meet customer needs and maintain market leadership. Along with talented teams, Lew has built the cloud offers into the fastest growing piece of the business and home to more than 40,000 customers. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served in a variety of strategy, product and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Lew held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues.
Lew received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Rackspace Hosting's Lew Moorman reviews the rise of cloud computing and offers insights on the future of the Cloud at Ingram Micro's Cloud Summit conference.
There has been a huge amount of talk about the need for standards in the cloud world. One of the key issues around establishing an Open Cloud is figuring out what should be standardized. To Rackspace the key is to allow customers the ability to move applications from one cloud to another seamlessly.
As Google's search share approaches 85%, there is constant debate over who could possibly challenge them. Twitter could have a chance if they introduce search into their business plan.
The Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace, Lew Moorman, discusses how the recession is helping speed along the adoption of cloud and which companies will come out on top. He also talks about Rackspace's three areas of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service (storage and compute power are the cornerstones), Platform as a Service (the ability to deploy code on a ready-made platform), and Application as a Service (SaaS).
Rackspace takes over a million-square-foot mall in a bad part of town. Why? Well, in this two part presentation, Graham Weston, chairman, Dirk Elmendorf, Chief Technology Evangelist and Founder, and Lew Moorman, SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development, tell us why, give us a tour, and discuss the future plans of its business. Hear how weston convinced 1,400 people to move after they all were against the idea.
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