Stop Kidding Yourself: Cloud Realities You Need to Embrace

You stand to gain a lot from the cloud, but your journey there is as important as the goals you aspire to. Join this radio show to truly understand what a CIO needs to do to build a successful private cloud and what skills and values the IT team will need to embody.

From this radio show you’ll also learn:

• The pitfalls of running your own cloud
• The costs, both hidden and otherwise, of setting the cloud up
• The constraints to be aware of
• The real-world approach needed for a successful cloud

Catherine Spence is an Enterprise Architect (EA) and PaaS Lead for Intel IT’s award-winning Cloud Computing program. Her technical focus includes SaaS and PaaS, client-side virtualization/streaming, and real-time applications. Catherine has published a number of papers on cloud computing and has won an industry EA award for Architectural Excellence. At Intel since 1996, she has also served as Computing Director, Consulting Practice Manager, and Senior Software Engineer. She holds degrees in engineering, computer science, and software engineering from Trinity College and Harvard University.

Ganesh Padmanabhan is a Senior Manager of Product Management & Planning at Dell Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG). He is currently responsible for Dell’s converged infrastructure and cloud solutions portfolio with products like Active System and vStart. In this capacity, he leads the strategic product planning and product management for these solutions. He had been one of the original members of the VIS product marketing team, which helped incubate and launch the first set of enterprise software products for Dell. He has been with Dell for six years and has held a variety of roles in engineering, product development, and marketing, with products like the VIS Creator, AIM, Dell PERC controllers, and PowerVault Storage.