Securing the Cloud, Preventing Lock-in - Are Open Cloud Standards the Answer?

TYPE: Combined Session DATE: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 TIME: 14:00-15:00 LOCATION: Alpsee

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Securing the Cloud, Preventing Lock-in - Are Open Cloud Standards the Answer?

Mike Small
Information Security Management Advisor, Fellow Analyst
KuppingerCole

Speaker:

Mike Small Information Security Management Advisor, Fellow Analyst

KuppingerCole

Mike Small is the retired director of security management strategy of CA, where he was responsible for the technical strategy for CA's security management software product line within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mike did work for CA between 1994 and 2009, where he developed CA’s...

Cloud Standardization: From Open Systems to Closed Clouds?

Marcus Lasance
User Centric Identity Architect
Verizon Business

Gregor Petri
Advisor Lean IT and Cloud Computing
CA Technologies

Gary Thompson
CEO
CLOUD, Inc.

Vendors are making massive investments into cloud computing, but beware... they are doing so for a reason. In many cases the reason is they see an opportunity to take a leading position which leads to larger lock-in and higher pricing power. Will the cloud lead us back to the time where powerful mega-vendors offered complete closed stacks - from hardware to applications? Or will it be an open competitive market with low switching cost as intended by Adam Smith. In this session we examine some risks that will play in the cloud and how current standardization efforts will improve competition.

Speakers:

Marcus Lasance User Centric Identity Architect

Verizon Business

Gregor Petri Advisor Lean IT and Cloud Computing

CA Technologies

Gregor Petri is Advisor Lean IT and Cloud Computing at CA Technologies and currently rolling out The Cloud Academy, an initiative he started in Europe. He is a regular speaker at industry events and wrote the cloud primer “Shedding Light on Cloud Computing”. He is also a columnist at...

Gary Thompson CEO

CLOUD, Inc.

Gary Thompson is the Co-founder and CEO of CLOUD, Inc. (www.cloudinc.org), a non-profit technology standard consortia founded in March 2009 and based in Austin, Texas. CLOUD has been featured as a keynote speaker at SWIFT's annual Sibos conference in October 2010 in Amsterdam and will be...

Moderator:

Mike Small Information Security Management Advisor, Fellow Analyst

KuppingerCole

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European Identity Conference 2011

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Securing the Cloud, Preventing Lock-in - Are Open Cloud Standards the Answer?

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