How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities Cloud Computing provides?
A CTO Roundtable discussion to give practitioners useful advice on how to evaluate cloud computing for their organizations. Five current thought leaders discuss the potential of cloud computing to solve business problems. They explore some of the basic principles behind cloud computing and highlight some of the key issues and opportunities that arise when computing moves from in-house to the cloud.
Moderator: Mache Creeger, Principal at Emergent Technology Associates
Panelists: Wener Vogels – CTO at Amazon.com; Greg Olsen - CTO & Founder of Coghead; Lew Tucker – CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems; Greg Badros - Sr Director, Engineering at Google; Geir Ramleth – CIO at Bechtel; Steve Bourne - CTO at El Dorado Ventures
James, Geva and Lew discuss Platform-as-a-Service lessons learned from AppExchange and the network effect, implementing internal clouds at large enterprises, and Sun's role in cloud computing and relevant compute, storage and software assets it has, such as Project Caroline, Sun Grid Engine, Solaris and More.
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