Cloud Computing - Platforms and Opportunities
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Description
Introduction
We have assembled a panel of experts on cloud computing from SaaS to IaaS to enlighten you with how organisations can achieve significant operational efficiencies and cost reductions through maximising the use of Internet, both in terms of infrastructure, platform and applications to manage day-to-day operations.
- Tim Barker - Having sold his own early stage technology company to salesforce.com, he now leads their product marketing in EMEA.
- John Lunn - Many of us have used or integrated paypal into our products, yet we know very little about their platform capability. Now is the chance to be enlightened by their chief wizzard
- Gary Turner - A man truly converted from on-premise software to SaaS, now leading the beautifully design Xero, an accounting application targeted at small businesses.
What is Cloud Computing all about?
Cloud computing is a major disruptive and transformational technology driving a major shift in computing by four major categories of vendors: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or applications (Salesforce.com, xero.com, edocr.com), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (Force.com, Microsoft Azure, NetSuite-Suiteflex, Google App Exchange), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (Amazon, IBM, EMC, Google, Microsoft) and enablers (VMware, Adobe, Sun, HP).
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"You can scale your infrastructure on demand within minutes or even seconds, instead of days or weeks, thereby avoiding under-utilization (idle servers) and over-utilization (blue screen) of in-house resources. With monitoring and increasing automation of resource provisioning we might one day wake up in a world where we don’t have to care about scaling our Web applications because they can do it alone." Ref: Markus Klems
Speakers and Panelists
Tim Barker - Salesforce.com, Senior Director Product Marketing EMEAI head up EMEA Product Marketing at Salesforce.com. Previously, I was a co-founder of Koral Inc. which was acquired by Salesforce.com in March 2007. Specializes in Product Marketing strategy, execution and innovation; and Product Management & Leading tech teams to build great products.
John Lunn - Paypal, Head of Platform and IntegrationJohn has been building payments and fraud systems on the internet for over 15 years and has advised many of the successful and less successful start-ups on their payment strategies. Originally a java certified developer and now an all purpose hacker and Seedcamp mentor. John heads up the technology for PayPals new developer network PayPalX in the EU.
Gary Turner - Xero, UK Managing DirectorGary Turner has twenty years experience in the technology business. His passion for technology, his inspirational leadership style and his solid sales foundations have informed and guided him towards an outstanding track record of success. Previously, Gary was the Managing Director of Pegasus. He then spent a two year stint at Microsoft Dynamics before joining Xero in 2009 as UK Managing Director.
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