World Summit of Cloud Computing, December 1-2, 2008, Wohl Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel

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I am proud to announce that I’ve been invited to speak at the “World Summit of Cloud Computing“, December 1-2, 2008, at the Wohl Centre in Ramat Gan, Israel. As their homepage attests;


…the maturity of the Virtualization technologies, both at the VM and at the IT infrastructure levels, and the convergence of the Grid, Virtualization and SOA concepts, enables the business implementation of the Cloud Computing for utility and SaaS services.”

This year’s anual IGT event will focus on cloud computing and its impact on enterprise IT, the next generation data center, sofware as a service, and utility computing. I am honored to be sharing the stage with representatives from Google, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo, ebay, Sun, HP, IBM, 3Tera, Forrester, Salesforce.com and a host of other prominent cloud computing community leaders.

My presentation will be centered on the goverment customer insights expected to be gained from the MIT Cloud Computing Survey. Please visit the summit website at https://www.cloudcomputing.org.il/ for more information or email the organizers at info@grid.org.il .

You should also visit their Cloud Information Center for a wealth of information in this exploding area.


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