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Cloud is Changing the Economics of Business

Details of Mike Kavis's upcoming session at 12th Cloud Expo / Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013]

The economics of business are radically changing due to the way in which software and services are being delivered thanks to cloud computing. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [10-13 June, 2013], Mike Kavis will cover the following six reasons for the disruption:

  1. Cloud Culture
  2. Investing in Reality
  3. Changing Labor Pool
  4. New business models
  5. Founder’s dilemma
  6. PaaS is the game changer

Speaker Bio:
Mike Kavis is Chief Technologist at Kavis Technology Consulting. He has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. A pioneer in cloud computing, Kavis led a team that built the world's first high speed transaction network in Amazon's public cloud and won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge. He is currently writing a book for Wiley Publishing called Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) which is expected to be released in 2013.

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Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. and Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series. He appears regularly at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of Cloud Expo's "Power Panels" on SYS-CON.TV.

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