Sam Charrington is responsible for the Appistry's overall marketing efforts, including marketing and brand strategy, product marketing and product management. Formerly, Sam was an early employee at Plumtree Software, where he made pivotal contributions in a variety of sales and marketing roles as the company grew from pre-revenue to over $80 million in annual income. Most recently, as Director of Business Development, he was responsible for defining and executing the company's technology partnering strategy. Previously, Sam held sales and marketing positions in AT&T's Business Multimedia Systems organization.

Sam holds a bachelor's degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.

Contributions

• Article: Don't Pass on PaaS in 2010 - February 2010
  While IaaS solutions are interesting, they fail to fully deliver on the scalability, elasticity and cost improvements enterprises seek to gain by moving applications to the cloud. This is due to the fact that the true costs of delivering applications and services in a cloud environment relate not to the racking and stacking of infrastructure, but rather to the development, deployment and management of applications - and only PaaS solutions can address these costs. Here is a look at what a platform-oriented cloud solution provides.
  
  
• Video: Mainstream Meanings for the Cloud - August 2009
  Standardization, Simplification, and Jumping in Headfirst
  At the CloudWorld event in San Francisco, panelists question whether cloud computing, quickly gaining mainstream adoption, could replace system ownership entirely. The Panel was moderated by Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies and the panelists included Joe Weinman of AT&T Business Solutions, Sam Charrington of Appistry, James Urquhart of Cisco Systems and the CNET Blog Network, and Timothy Chou of Ming Holdings.
  
  
  
• Presentation: Government Trends in Cloud Computing Featuring FedEx - August 2009
  A presentation from Appistry's Success in the Clouds seminar in Washington DC designed to share cloud success stories with government. The VP of Product Management & Marketing of Appistry, Sam Charrington, provides an overview of a variety of cloud computing topics and trends.
  
  
  
• Video: An interview with Sam Charrington at CloudConnect - January 2009
  
  
  
• Presentation: Cloud Taxonomy: Platform vs Infrastructure - January 2009
  A slideshow that helps distinguish the different types of clouds.
  
  
  
• Presentation: Inside the Cloud: Cloud Computing Community Survey - November 2008
  A survey given to the participants of the Appistry/CloudCamp Silicon Valley on cloud leadership, market conditions, innovation, challenges to cloud adoption, critical cloud attributes, and relevant cloud applications.
  
  
  

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