Paying for It: Cloud Costs and Billing Models

Moderator:

Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital

Speakers:

  • Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, Rightscale
  • Grace Kim, Sr. Manager, Marketing, WebEx (Cisco)
  • Jesse Robbins, Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode
  • Richard Dym, Chief Marketing Officer, OpSource

Allan Leinwand opens with telecommunications innovation story, how “friends and family” plan broke AT&T’s monopoly and points out that “friends and family” is back now in cell phones. As such, he sub-heads the panel as “Why Pricing Matters”.

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This morning’s focus in on the business case for cloud computing, ROI & migration.  "What’s the promise? Despite the downsides, there’s little doubt that on-demand computing services are the future of both consumer and enterprise IT.”

First up in a panel discussion: The Case for Cloud Infrastructure: On-Demand Economics

Moderator:

John Willis, Owner, Zabovo

Panelists:

David Bernstein, VP/GM Software Group, Cisco on fundamentals of cloud interoperability and standards.  Echoes Russ Daniels’ statement that "The cloud is the internet’s next stage of evolution".  Says pay attention to what google and microsoft are saying and doing in cloud space.

What is Cisco doing?

Cisco doesn’t run a cloud.  Does run a SaaS application, WebEx.  Cisco has helped a lot of people build a lot of infrastructure.  Cisco is ‘arms dealer’ in cloud computing.

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