MORRISTOWN, NJ—August 10, 2010—With the Cloud Services promise meant to transform the way enterprises operate today, TM Forum is at the forefront, announcing their Cloud Summit at Management World Americas 2010, (November 9-11, Orlando, FL.) Bringing together enterprise customers, cloud service providers and technology suppliers to remove barriers to adoption, create a vibrant marketplace for cloud services, and support transparency through industry standards, TM Forum’s Cloud Summit will see open discussion and debates with industry leaders and attendees.
With three days full of user case studies, panels, intensive debates and enterprise roundtables, senior executives from Boeing, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deutsche Bank, Washington Post and Schumacher will join others to discuss strategies to enable Cloud service providers and enterprise users to turn cloud services into business reality.
The key issues addressed at the Summit will be;
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– Enhanced security
– Optimizing management and operations of cloud services
– How to combine TM Forum Business Process Framework (Frameworx) and ITIL in the context of the cloud
– Client billing and partner revenue sharing
– Defining and maintaining a set of standardized definitions of common cloud computing services
– Reducing deployment costs for services such as desktop as a service, database as a service and Virtual Private Clouds
Speakers include:
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David Nelson, Chief Cloud Strategist, Boeing Company
Doug Menefee, CIO, Schumacher Group
Sean Kelley, CIO, Deutsche Bank and Chair, TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC)
Yuvi Kochar, CTO & VP Technology – Washington Post
Dedicated panel discussions include:
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A “Buyer Meets Provider” Panel – bringing together the key stakeholders in the cloud eco-system to examine the role of standards in removing risk and barriers to entry. Panelists include Jon Waldron, Executive Architect, Commonwealth Bank of Australia; John Engates, Chief Technology Officer, Rackspace Hosting; Douglas Menefee, CIO, Schumacher Group; Joe Weinman, VP Strategy & Business Development, AT&T; and Michael Lawrey, Executive Director – Network & Technology, Telstra
War stories from the front, featuring Brett Piatt, Director Technical Alliances, Rackspace; Michael Crandell, CEO, Rightscale; Trae Chancellor, VP, salesforce.com; and Joe Graves, CIO, Stratus Technologies focusing on applications and how enterprises can make the most of them
Hearing how China Mobile has rolled out a full scale mobile cloud computing solution, offering tangible benefits to their enterprise customers
Cloud services are expected to hit $68.3 billion this year, a 16.6% rise compared to 2009 Cloud services revenue and $148.8 billion by 2014, according to Gartner.