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Tuesday, Mar. 10th, Hosted by Bernard Golden

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The Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats are a series of webcasts with world-renowned thought leaders focused on the state of cloud computing and its impact on the software development and IT industries.

Hosted by best-selling author and cloud expert Bernard Golden, each fireside chat covers key topics of discussion with an acclaimed business leader or industry analyst. Attendees can expect an open conversation with audience Q&A and thought-provoking insights on the challenges and opportunities at the forefront of cloud computing.

Talks on the Frontier of Cloud Computing

About the Host

Mike Kavis
VP/Principal Architect, 
Cloud Technology Partners

Caroline McCrory
Sr. Director, Product, Gigaom Research

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Bernard Golden
Vice President of Strategy, ActiveState

Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has extensive experience working with organizations to help them adopt and integrate cloud computing effectively. He is the author or co-author of four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies – the most popular book on the topic ever published – and Amazon Web Services for Dummies. Bernard is also the cloud computing advisor for CIO Magazine, where his highly respected blog is read by tens of thousands of people each month.

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Alexis Richardson, Founder & CEO, Weaveworks

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Donnie Berkholz
Analyst and Resident PhD, RedMonk

JDonnie Berkholz is an IT industry analyst at RedMonk as well as an open-source developer and leader of Gentoo Linux. He brings a strong quantitative and analytical background as a Ph.D.-trained scientist to bear on software development and community management.

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Recorded 9/26/2014

Dave McCrory
CTO, Basho Technologies

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Mark Thiele
Executive VP, Data Center Technologies, Switch SUPERNAP

Mark Thiele evaluates new data center technologies, develops partners, and provides thought leadership at Switch, developer of the SUPERNAP chain of modern data centers, where he also writes the SwitchScribe blog. Prior to joining Switch, Mark was VP of data center strategy at ServiceMesh, a cloud management company acquired by CSC in 2013. He is also founder and president of Data Center Pulse, a not-for-profit group focused on improving data center efficiency.

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Recorded 10/29/2014

Andi Mann
VP of Strategic Solutions, Office of the CTO, CA Technologies

Matt Asay
VP, Mobile, Adobe

JP Morgenthal
Director, Cloud Computing & DevOps Practices, Perficient

JP Morgenthal is one of the world's foremost experts in IT strategy and cloud computing. He has over twenty-five years of expertise applying technology solutions to complex business problems. JP has strong business acumen complemented by technical depth and breadth. He is a respected author on topics of integration, software development and cloud computing, and is a contributor on the book, "Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks".

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Recorded 11/20/2014

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Tom Lounibos
CEO & Co-founder, SOASTA

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The explosion of interest in Docker has made clear that containers will profoundly affect the computing environment of the future. But how they will integrate with infrastructure, application architectures and operations is, as yet, unclear. Issues such as networking, storage access, orchestration and the application lifecycle are still to be defined.

In this fireside chat, entrepreneur and investor Alexis Richardson joins us to discuss the future of Docker and containerization, and his open source project Weave, a Docker virtual networking technology.

Date: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
Time: 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 5 pm GMT
Duration: 1 hour

Discussion Topics

  • Who owns containers – applications or operations?
  • Integrating containers into infrastructure environments
  • How does Weave integrate with containers and what service does it provide?
  • Is Weave complimentary or competitive with other container technologies like Kubernetes and Mesos?
  • Containers and the application lifecycle 

Tim Crawford
CIO Strategic Advisor, AVOA

John Cowan
Co-Founder and CEO,
6fusion

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Recorded 02/05/2015

Sharon Wagner
Founder and CEO,
Cloudyn

Owen Rogers
Senior Analyst,
Digital Economics,
451 Research

Cloud Utilization and Cost Analytics - Expert Panel

This fireside chat brings together a panel of experts to discuss how IT organizations can get a better handle on their use of cloud computing. Topics include: How understanding utilization and costs in a cloud environment is different than in a traditional IT setting; Whether one can truly and accurately compare one cloud's utilization and costs against another; And, what are the key challenges enterprise IT groups face when analyzing their cloud economics.

Sam Ramji
CEO, Cloud Foundry Foundation

Sam Ramji discusses the future of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, open source community and PaaS industry. A 20 year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji brings a wealth of business, product and open source experience to the CEO role at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Sam has led strategy at API powerhouse Apigee, designed and led Microsoft's open source strategy and driven product strategy for BEA WebLogic Integration. He is the board secretary of the Outercurve Foundation and a member of multiple industry advisory boards.

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Recorded 02/20/2015

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Alexis Richardson is the founder of Weaveworks, makers of Weave - a new product for Docker and containerized applications. Previously, Alexis was Head of Product for App Suite & Real Time Intelligence at Pivotal, where he led commercial vFabric products that moved to Pivotal from VMware, including open source projects Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis and Tomcat.

Along with Weaveworks, Alexis is a co-founder of four companies, including Rabbit Technologies Ltd. (RabbitMQ), Cohesive Networks and MetaLogic Oy. He has also been active in the cloud and web standards community, as a co-founder of CloudCamp, co-chair of OCCI (Open Cloud Computing Interface), a member of the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) working group, and a contributor to Google's PSHB open protocol.

In a previous life, Alexis worked as quantitative trader in fixed income derivatives after a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematics at Oxford University.

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