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Cloud Expo Speaker Profile: James Thomason - Gale Technologies

James Thomason - CTO at Gale Technologies

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...

We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from Nov 7 through Nov 10 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT?

CLOUD EXPO SPEAKER NAME: James Thomason

TWITTER: @fef1f0

COMPANY: Gale Technologies


9TH CLOUD EXPO SESSION TITLE: Scheduling and Optimization for the Cloud

SESSION DESCRIPTION: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1909067

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: James Thomason is CTO at Gale Technologies, driving the company’s vision in developing the latest cloud computing technologies.

A 16-year technology executive, Thomason was most recently CTO and founder of Virtiv. Previously, he led the technical architecture and operations efforts at Ning, the third largest social network website

BLOG: Gale Technologies

RECENT CLOUD COMPUTING QUOTE:

"Our

key company goal in all this to turn legacy silos of IT environments into fully automated and shared dynamic environments that can be securely accessed 24/7 from anywhere in the world."

[via GaleTechnologies.com website]

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Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. He is Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series, of the Virtualization Conference series, and of the upcoming UlitzerLIVE! event. During his tenure with SYS-CON Media, he launched Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-technology portals for the firm. From 2006 to 2010, as Sr. VP of Editorial & Events, he had complete responsibility for the content of SYS-CON's events portfolio. He regularly represents SYS-CON Media & Events at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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