“We focus on solving a very specific problem in the cloud, which is the ability to guarantee performance to the high performance applications in a really large environment. The concert of performance management, inline efficiencies, and system automation – when you combine these three things together you get a powerful play in the cloud provider space,” states Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire, in this SYS-CON.TV interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 9th Internat...| By Jeremy Geelan | Article Rating: |
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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:
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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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SYS-CON Events announced today that SHI, a $4 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services, has been named Platinum Plus Sponsor of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
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