Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing

In summary, CloudConnect offered a ton of topics both stimulating and thought-provoking. For me, devops was the really interesting subject to take away - that and the understanding gap between users who expect IaaS providers to take responsibility for their applications and what IaaS providers actually assume responsibility for. Cloud computing supports and imposes vast changes to established methods of creating and delivering applications and, as the old saying goes, offers both opportunity and threat.

Bernard Golden is CEO of consulting firm HyperStratus, which specializes in virtualization, cloud computing and related issues. He is also the author of "Virtualization for Dummies," the best-selling book on virtualization to date.

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