CTO Forum – “Cloud Computing: the Dawning of the Utility Age”

I have accepted Basheer Janjua’s invitation to participate to this CTO Forum hosted by Fujitsu in Sunnyvale. I took on the double duty of being a panelist and a session leader. I really liked Andy Bechtolsheim’s keynote. He’s quite excited about Clouds (“they are the biggest thing since the Web”) and the macro-economic conditions playing in favor of cloud adoption. I chaired the session on Accountability, Compliance, Reliability and Security in the ‘Cloud’. To kick-off the discussion, I used some of the slides that I presented at the Cisco Symposium a few days earlier. The ensuing dialogue in the room reflected the diverse viewpoints and pain points, which span the whole spectrum of people + process + technology + information (as a technologist, I know that I tend to over-emphasize the technology angle).