Prasad Rampalli, Vice President of the Digital Enterprise Group and director of End-User Platform Integration for Intel Corporation, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009.

Rampalli will discuss how cloud computing is changing the face of business. The cloud's impact is felt in transforming business models, architectures, and usage. He will be discussing the disruption and changes in business models that cloud is bringing to all forms of businesses, and the areas for the new cloud operating environment that is required for the business models to be successful. Rampalli will focus on various examples in the consumer, small-medium business, and large enterprise markets, and the architectural transformational efforts these firms employ to harness the power of cloud and deliver new performance in business.

Speaker Bio
Prasad L. Rampalli is the vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and director of End-User Platform Integration for Intel Corporation. Rampalli is a 25-year Intel veteran and has led significant transformational roles in Manufacturing, Information technology and Platform Business Units.

In his current assignment, Rampalli is leading an End user R&D function responsible for driving usage model innovation into enterprise platforms and rapid integration into IT /End user environments. Rampalli plays a strategic role as the Enterprise CIO "proxy" for the Digital Enterprise group (DEG) which accounts for greater than 50% of Intel's revenue. His team is leading the charge on game changing enterprise strategies focused on DEG's growth. These include stateless computing/software as a service (SaaS) models, service delivery based appliance and business models in small and medium enterprises (SME) and Data Center virtualization. These emerging usages entail partnering extensively with select end users, software ISVs and systems integrators.

Prior to this, Rampalli spent twelve years in Intel's Information technology group and lead most of IT's major technology transitions including client/server standardization on windows, ERP (SAP) worldwide rollout, 100% eCorp build out and Service oriented architectures (SOA). Rampalli was the Chief architect and Vice President responsible for application development and engineering functions across a 3000 person technical team in 25+ sites worldwide. He was Intel's executive partner for joint solutions development with leading ISVs (SAP, MSFT, and TIBCO).

Rampalli joined Intel in 1983 and spent seven years in TMG leading the deployment and standardization of Intel's shop floor control and equipment performance management system across Intel's factories.

Rampalli was named to CIO Magazine's Top 100 Honoree List in 2001 and 2002. He is on the advisory board of UC Davis Graduate School of business and a founder of IT "center of excellence" at UCD. Rampalli has received three Intel Achievement Awards.

Rampalli received a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.

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