SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal seeks to boost your understanding of Cloud Computing concepts and to bring you the latest news, views, and developments - but we couldn't do so without our amazing high-energy pool of contributors, including many of the hard-working executives driving some of today's most successful Cloud strategies, technologies and techniques.

To date the distinguished author roster includes, among others:

David Abramowski - CEO of MorphLabs

• Getting Your Groovy On with Grails and Cloud Computing

Ilya Baimetov - Director of Technology, Saas at Parallel

• Is Virtualization a Feature or a Platform?

Craig Balding - Security Practitioner at a Fortune 500 company

• 12 Signs that Your Company is Already in the Cloud

Steve Brodie - Chief product and marketing officer, Skytap

• Out of the Boardroom into the Cloud

Sam Charrington - VP of Product Management & Marketing at Appistry

• Cloud Computing: It's the Future of Enterprise IT

Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly

• Cloud Computing and Virtualization - A Perfect Match
• The Geopolitical Cloud
• The Business of Building Clouds
• Forget the Darknets, Make Way for The Dark Cloud
• Morgan Stanley is Banking on the Cloud

Trevor Doerksen - CEO & Founder of MoboVivo

• Who Can Help Me Get an Application onto EC2 and Storage onto S3?

Daniel Feller - Sr. Architect at Citrix

• Cloud Computing Is a Big White Board

Jeff Fisher - Senior Director of Strategic Development at Desktone

• Desktops as a Service (DaaS) and Cloud Computing – An Overview
• Cloud Hosted Desktops
  

Jeremy Geelan - Publisher of Cloud Computing Journal; Conference Chair, Cloud Computing Expo

• Twenty Experts Define Cloud Computing
• Is Google the Elephant in the Cloud?
• Cisco Aims Higher Even Than Cloud Computing
• Are These the Top 50 Cloud Computing Companies?
• Google, Akamai, and VMware: Cloud Computing's Top Three?
• Exclusive Q&A with Rajeev Kutty, Keynote Systems
• Exclusive Q&A with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix
• Exclusive Q&A with Rob Weltman, Director of Grid Services, Yahoo!

lka Gupta - Solutions Architect at Sun

• A Sneak Peek at Sun's Cloud Computing Offerings

David Jevans - Chief Executive Officer of IronKey

• The Need for Two-Factor Authentication in Cloud Computing

Sam Johnston - WC3 Invited Expert, Entrepreneur & Strategist

• Cloud Computing: What Privacy Issues Does it Raise?
• Google Chrome = Cloud Operating Environment
• Cloud Computing Bill of Rights
• The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?

Christopher Keene, Christopher - Chairman & CEO of WaveMaker

• Deployment Tools for Cloud Computing

Markus Klems - Research assistant, FZI Research Center for Information Technology

• The Cloud Computing Ecosphere

Barry X. Lynn - Chairman & CEO, 3tera

• Are Enterprises Ready for Cloud Computing?
  
  

Don MacAskill - CEO and Chief Geek of SmugMug

• Cloud Computing: The SmugMug Approach to Using Amazon's S3 and EC2

Billy Marshall - Founder of rPath

• Cloud Computing Casts Shadow on Walled Gardens

Mike Maxey - Director of product management, ParaScale

• 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo: Observations
• Cloud Computing Public or Private? How to Choose Cloud Storage

Nati Shalom - CTO, GigaSpaces

• Scalable Pricing in a Scalable World

Michael Sheehan - Technology Evangelist, GoGrid/ServePath

• Introducing the Cloud Pyramid
• Cloud Computing vs Grid Computing
• Understanding "Clouded" Terms of Cloud Computing
• How To Survive the Global Recession Through Cloud Computing
• The Past, Present and Future of The Cloud

Omar Sultan - Cisco

• Cloud Computing and the "Cloud Dining" Analogy

Thorsten von Eicken - Founder & CTO of RightScale

• The Three Levels of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing vs. Grid Computing - What's the Difference?
• Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Opens Up S3 and The Cloud
• The Cloud is Coming of Age

Alan Williamson - Editor-in-Chief, Cloud Computing Journal & Founder of Blog-City.com

• Cloud Computing Is Real and It's Changing How We in the Software World Work
• Amazon S3 and How to Calculate Your Cloud Storage Costs
  
• Profiling Netbeans within Amazon EC2
• Cloud Computing Bootcamp Announced, Learn What All the Fuss Is About
• Amazon Raising the Bar Again with EC2 Load Balancing
• Microsoft's Azure Bullet Points
• "Clouds" Is a Place on the Earth
• Clouds Do Blow Away - Live With It
• Is Aptana Really a Cloud?
• Cloud Computing Bootcamp Announces Special Guest Appearance

Paul Wallis - CTO at Stroma Software

• Is the Cloud There Yet? - A Brief History of Cloud Computing

Hon Wong - CEO of Symphoniq Corporation

• Compute in the Cloud, Not the Fog
  
  

David Young - CEO of Joyent

• The Nine Features of an Ideal PaaS Cloud

Jian Zhen Senior Director of Product Management at LogLogic

• The Five Key Challenges of Enterprise Cloud Computing