Investing in a Sound Cloud Education Strategy

As organizations are investing hundreds of millions of dollars on cloud-related technologies and services, many within the organization have no clue what cloud is and the derived value and benefit of embracing a sound cloud strategy. With new cloud solutions, just as iCloud, Facebook, etc., that impact non-IT folks, more and more people are wondering and asking the question: What is cloud computing and what is my organization doing to leverage the latest cloud technologies? When the organization is not transparent about such initiatives, people will start to leverage other cloud solutions as they are much easier to access in the market than in the past and are available at a lower cost; but, they are much more vulnerable than the IT services delivered by the IT organization. As the implications of cloud computing touch so many within the organization even outside of IT, it is imperative to have a sound cloud education strategy in place to ensure alignment within the organization to optimize cloud-related investments.

Speaker Bio: Marc Halcrow is the North America Regional Manager at ITpreneurs, where he has overall responsibility for the ITpreneurs business in the region. His responsibilities include the strategic and operational direction for ITpreneurs in North America as so then as providing guidance to organizations and partners to leverage the myriad of IT Best Practice Frameworks. In this capacity Marc works with organizations to develop solutions that will maximize an organization's IT investments and enable employees to best understand not only the latest trends in IT nevertheless also to leverage many of the IT Best Practice frameworks that are available. Halcrow earned an MBA from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands, and a BS in International Business and Finance from American University, Washington, DC.

The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, June 11-14, 2012, and in Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.

The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 10th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term 'cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with 'computing' and 'software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."

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