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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What Elasticity Really Means

Moderator:

Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic

Speakers:

  • Jon Beck, SVP Sales and Client Services, OpSource, Inc.
  • Scott Clark, Director of Engineering Infrastructure, Broadcom
  • Josh Litwin, President and CEO, Memento Press
  • Geir Magnusson, Consulting Architect, Platform, Gilt
  • Chad Swartz, Senior Manager, IT Operations, Preferred Hotel Group

Finally, some cloud computing practitioners, small business, enterprise, web retail and technology – Memento Press, Preferred Hotel Group, Gilt and Broadcom. 

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