With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...

We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

CLOUD EXPO SPEAKER NAME: Bernard Golden

TWITTER: @bernardgolden

COMPANY: HyperStratus

10TH CLOUD EXPO SESSION TITLE: Private vs. Public vs. Hybrid: Moving Beyond the Soundbites

SESSION DESCRIPTION: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2143496

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Listed as one of the Top 100 Bloggers in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem, Bernard Golden is CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet and Hewlett-Packard.

His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called "brilliant and incisive." He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published.

BLOG: www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/3112

RECENT CLOUD COMPUTING QUOTE:

"Cloud providers of every stripe are converging on what will be the development battleground of tomorrow - PaaS. They've clearly identified this as a crucial market - one in which the victors will enjoy huge spoils. It's also a market that will present significant challenges to users.

 

The evidence of this convergence is all around us. Amazon, by far the most successful IaaS provider, has steadily been surrounding its core services with additional functionality that, while not announced as "platform," has the undeniable effect of providing a set of services that help build applications faster and manage collections of resources easier. Think RDS for managing and scaling databases; direct connect for securing external application access; virtual private cloud to segregate applications within AWS (Amazon Web Services) data centers; and CloudFormation for application management.

At last week's Dreamforce event, Salesforce outlined its PaaS offering based on the recent acquisition of Heroku. While once a Ruby on Rails-oriented offering, Heroku has been extended to support Java. It's also been integrated with Salesforce's Database.com. And it's supported by the Database Rights Option, which integrates on-premise data with Salesforce applications. Salesforce may call it "the social enterprise," but the collective offering is clearly aimed at providing a generalized platform for application development.

Of course, it's not just big players staking a claim here. A number of small firms have recently been funded, each providing a slightly different framework for building cloud-based applications."

[from Bernard's "Virtualization and Cloud Advisor" blog]