Sponsor: VMware, Inc.
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Tom Bittman, Paul Maritz
Type: Video (17 minutes)
Experts agree that cloud computing is the second-hottest trend in IT, right behind virtualization. There is huge potential in cloud computing, but there is also much confusion in the market. While it's clear that clouds promise to deliver a new lower cost model, many offerings ignore the security, application compatibility and reliability required to serve the needs of enterprises.
Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and VMware, Inc., as they explore this new market of cloud computing and introduce the concept of an enterprise-ready private cloud. They will show you how your company should address the cloud, what other successful enterprises are doing with cloud computing, what you should look for in the cloud and where the cloud is headed.
Cloud computing is a style of computing where elastic and scalable IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.
- What is driving cloud computing?
- What things are coming together to make cloud computing real?
- What are the benefits of cloud computing?
- How will cloud computing take hold?
- What are the top challenges of cloud computing?
- How should CIOs prepare for the cloud?
- What are the motivators behind building an internal cloud?
- What is the impact of virtualization on the cloud?
- What do the experts think of cloud computing?
- What is the future of applications for the cloud?
Find out the answers to these questions and more in this new program now.
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About Tom Bittman
Thomas Bittman is a vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research, where he is the chief of research for Infrastructure and Operations, and serves as a member of Gartner's Senior Research Board. Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as virtualization and infrastructure evolution. He currently plays a leadership role for the company in the area of cloud computing. Mr. Bittman co-invented the concept of real-time infrastructure, which has been adopted by major vendors and many enterprises as their infrastructure direction. He has served as Gartner's lead analyst covering IBM and Microsoft. In 2005, he earned Gartner's Analyst of the Year Award. Before joining Gartner, Mr. Bittman was a division plan manager and chief software engineer with IBM, where he had development responsibility for four operating systems. consultancy management.
About Paul Maritz
Paul Maritz joined VMware in July 2008 as President and CEO. Prior to joining VMware, he was President of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division at EMC after the company's February 2008 acquisition of Pi, where he was the founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, he spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company. As Vice President of the Platform Strategy and Developer Group, among other roles, he oversaw the development and marketing of System Software Products (including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 2000), Development Tools (Visual Studio) and Database Products (SQL Server) and the complete Office and Exchange Product Lines. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years working at Intel as a software and tools developer.
