Yousef A. Khalidi, a Distinguished Engineer in the Clouds Infrastructure Services group at Microsoft - leader of a team responsible for several components of Windows Azure - is the latest software luminary to join the all-star Speaker Faculty at SYS-CON's upcoming 3-day 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (March 30-April 1, 2009), co-located with the 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, in New York City.

Khalidi's team is laser-focused on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources.

Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group.

Before joining Microsoft, Khalidi was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years tenure at Sun, he held several development, architecture, and management positions in Sun’s software division as well as in Sun Labs. Khalidi was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect and Director of the Sun Cluster product line, Chief Architect of Sun's N1 utility computing initiative, as well as a principal architect of Solaris MC and Spring operating systems. He shipped several releases of Sun Cluster and the Solaris operating system, and hasworked on system management software, high speed networking, and memory management hardware designs.

Khalidi has published works in several areas, including operating systems, high availability, distributed systems, object-oriented software, high speed networking, memory management, and computer architecture. He holds 27 patents in these areas. Khalidi has a Ph.D. and a Master ofScience in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia.

He will be speaking in General Session on March 30, 2009. Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East is a three-day event, which is being held at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo took place last November with more than 1,200 delegates. See conference photo album here.

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Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 East features a top-notch lineup of speakers from the leading industry players of the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications and services. The lineup includes, among others:

• Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Keynote)
• Dr Kristof Kloeckner - VP of Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM (Keynote)
• Davis Douglas, Sr. VP, Cloud Computing, Sun (Keynote)
• Vik Chaudhary - VP of Corporate Development, Keynote Systems
• Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
• Russ Daniels - CTO of Cloud Services Strategy, HP
• Doug Tidwell - Senior Software Engineer, IBM
• Ajay Anand - Director of Grid Computing, Yahoo!
• Martin Ingram - VP of Strategy AppSense
• Jim Blakley - Director of Data Center Virtualization, Intel
• Brian H. Prince - Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
• Ronnie Thomson - Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Quark
• Tim Crawford - Director of IT Operations, Stanford University
• David Bernstein - VP & GM of Cloud Computing, Cisco
• Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun
• Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
• Ken Oestreich - Vice President, Egenera
• Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA
• Warren Wilbee - Director of ISV Evangelism, Microsoft
• Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov - Director of Business Strategy, VIRTERA
• Patrick Kerpan - CTO, CohesiveFT
• Jim Rymarczyk - Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM
• Thorsten von Eicken - CTO and Co-Founder, RightScale
• Owen Garrett - PM and Technologist, Zeus
• Scott Sanchez - Chief Technology Architect, Unisys
• Scott Wiener - Co-Founder & CTO, Cloud9 Analytics
• Jeff Bauer - Creative Director, Forbes.com
• Anthony Arrott - Special Assistant to the CTO, Trend Micro
• Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
• David Bressler - Principal Architect, Progress Software
• Clod Barrera - Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM
• Tien Tzuo - CEO, Zuora
• Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
• Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
• John Trembley - Vice President, Xeround
• Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO, Cumulux
• John Barr - COO & VP Engineering, Yieldex
• William Fellows - Principal Analyst, The 451 Group
• Kevin L. Jackson - Director of Business Development, Dataline
• Bob Quinn - Founder, Chairman & CTO of 3Leaf Systems
• Pau Garcia-Mila - Founder, eyeOS
• David Linthicum - Editor-in-Chief, Virtualization Journal
• Bryan Wade - Director of Channel Partnerships, ExactTarget
• Bill McColl - Founder & CEO, Cloudscale
• Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
• Jon Pyke - Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys
• Daniel Beveridge - Director of Virtualization Strategy, VIRTERA
• JP Morgenthal - IT Architecture Consultant
• John Gauntt - Founder, Media Dojo
• Ed Sullivan - Founder & CEO, Aria Systems
• Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
• Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
• Simon Wardley - Software Services Manager, Canonical
• Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
• Michael Hill - VP Enteprise Initiatives, Sales, Services & Business Development, IBM
• Steve Milroy - Solution Architect, OnTerra Systems
• Prof Rich Wolski - University of California, Santa Barbara
  

Record Attendance For Cloud Computing Expo with More Than 1,200 Delegates
1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, last November in San Jose attracted more than 1,200 delegates from 43 different countries.

Virtualization Conference Attracts More Delegates Than Any Recent Gartner Event
Last year's Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City was larger than any recent Gartner event with more than 1,500 delegates attending from 37 different countries.

Leading Virtualization and Cloud Computing Companies As Conference Sponsors
Upcoming event in New York City is sponsored by more than 30 leading Virtualization and  Cloud Computing technology providers including such companies as: 3Tera, Aria Systems, AppSense, CA, Corporate Technologies, Cycle Computing, EMC, ExactTarget, IBM, MeetTheBoss.com, Metron, Microsoft, mindSHIFT, ParaScale, RightScale, Sun Microsystems, Tranxition, VIRTERA, and Zeus Technology.

Most Distinguished Conference Faculty of 2009
2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, colocated with 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo presents the most distinguished faculty of speakers on any technology conference taking place in 2009. Speakers, general session  and keynote presenters include such names as: ,Ajay Anand (Yahoo!), Alan Williamson (AW 2.0 Ltd), Anthony Arrott (Trend Micro), Bill McColl (Cloudscale), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian H. Prince (Microsoft), Brian Zanghi (Kadient), Bryan Wade (ExactTarget), Clod Barrera (IBM), Daniel Beveridge (VIRTERA), David Bernstein (Cisco), David Bressler (Progress Software), David Douglas (Sun Microsytems), David Linthicum (Blue Mountain Labs), Doug Tidwell (IBM), Ed Sullivan (Aria Systems), Glenn Brunette (Sun Microsystems), Jeff Bauer (Forbes.com), Jeremy Geelan (SYS-CON Media), Jim Rymarczyk (IBM), Joe Gregorio (Google), Joel York (Xignite), John Barr (Yieldex), John du Pre Gauntt (Media Dojo), John Laferriere (Corporate Technologies), Jon Pyke (Cordys), JP Morgenthal (J.P. Morgenthal Blog), Kenneth Oestreich (Egenera), Kevin L. Jackson (Dataline), Kristof Kloeckner (IBM), Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov (VIRTERA), Martin Ingram (AppSense), Matt Holleran (Emergence Capital), Michael Hill (IBM), Omer Trajman (Vertica), Owen Garrett (Zeus Technology), Patrick Kerpan (CohesiveFT), Pau Garcia-Mila (eyeOS), Peter Coffee Salesforce.com), Peter Nickolov (3Tera), Phil Fritz (IBM), Prasad Rampalli (Intel), Raghavan Srinivas (Intuit), Ranjith Ramakrishnan (Cumulux), Reuven Cohen (Cloud Interoperability Forum), Rich Wolski (University of California), Ronnie Thomson (Quark), Russ Daniels (HP), Sajai Krishnan (ParaScale), Scott Wiener (Cloud9 Analytics), Simon Wardley (Canonical), Stephen Elliot (CA), Steve Milroy (OnTerra Systems), Stuart Charlton (Elastra), Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale), Tien Tzuo (Zuora), Tim Crawford (Stanford University), Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems), Warren Wilbee (Microsoft), Werner Vogels (Amazon.com), William Fellows (The 451 Group).

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