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What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? What security issues remain in the clouds being stood up in 2012, compared to cloud computing's earlier days? How are multi-national cloud initiatives faring, technically and from a compliance perspective? How *green* is cloud computing? Why does big data analytics need clouds, and where will the two-step between Big Data and the Cloud lead to next?

In this CTO Power Panel at the 11th International Cloud Expo, these and a host of other questions will be asked and answered in this fast-moving industry panel, featuring leading Cloud & Big Data practitioners and thought leaders and moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.

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Panelist Bios:
Alistair Farquharson is CTO at SOA Software. His skills span many industries and include designing and implementing system architectures, as well as spearheading initiatives as development/team lead. He's an expert in custom application development, distributed environments, architecting scalable hardware and software applications and systems, and Web services application development. At SOA Software, Farquharson spearheads product development and provides thought leadership to enterprise customers implementing Web Services. Prior to joining SOA Software, he worked at US Interactive, where he was a key advisor to CTOs of many companies regarding Internet architecture issues. He was also a member of the architectural guiding committee, which helped to design the next generation of Internet architecture.

Wayne Ariola is Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft, a leading provider of integrated software development management, quality lifecycle management, and dev/test environment management solutions. He leverages customer input and fosters partnerships with industry leaders to ensure that Parasoft solutions continuously evolve to support the ever-changing complexities of real-world business processes and systems. Ariola has more than 15 years of strategic consulting experience within the technology and software development industries. He holds a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Indiana University.

Dr. John Bates is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software. In this role, he is responsible for creating, evolving and evangelizing Progress' market strategy and technology vision. Previously, he was General Manager of Progress Software's Apama Division - the market leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) solutions. In this role, he was responsible for Divisional P&L including sales, marketing, products and consulting services and in 3 years grew revenue by over 300%.

Alok Rishi is a Chief Technologist at Coraid and is leading the development of EtherCloud, the industry's first software-defined storage platform for architects of the modern data center. Alok has a BS in Computer Science from USF, an MS in Computer Engineering/Artificial Intelligence from SCU, and an MS in Software Management from CMU.

Gordon Haff is Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat.

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.

The recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 11th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."

Sponsorship Opportunities
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Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley "show prospectus" has shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.

Early Bird Registration Options
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