Speakers -> Defining Clouds and When to Use Them

QCon New York 2012 Speakers Schedule Tutorials Tracks Social Events Sponsors Registration Volunteers Venue Travel Hotels Video Calendar Follow Us Brought to you by Contacts Exhibit Sponsors General Information Registration Speakers	Presentation: "Defining Clouds and When to Use Them" Track: Battle of the Clouds! Time: Tuesday 10:50 - 11:50 Location: Salon I Abstract: To many, it may seem that the battle lines have already been drawn in the battle of the clouds, but in reality, it’s still early days. Join Paul Weiss, Sr. Cloud Engineer for Eucalyptus, in this informative session where we’ll discuss what exactly is cloud computing and compare on-premise, public, and hybrid clouds. You’ll learn how your organization can take advantage of cloud computing now and in the future, and in which situations the various types of on-premise and/or public clouds apply best. You’ll also learn how to define a strategy for moving workloads between clouds and how to build your own on-premise cloud in minutes.		Paul Weiss, Senior Cloud Engineer at Eucalyptus Paul Weiss is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Eucalyptus Systems working with Enterprise customers across the globe. He worked at VMware for over 3 years and has worked with virtualization products for many years. He has also worked as a VMware Specialist at a Premier VMware Partner, a Senior Systems Architect with a primary focus on large Sun environments, and as a Sun Certified Instructor. Paul has over 16 years of Enterprise IT experience and is certified in many solutions like Solaris, Red Hat and VMware. Paul also served in the U.S. Army for 15 years and is a Gulf War veteran.