Forex Dreamer: Join tomorrow's LIVE Fireside Chat - Cloud Utilization and Costs, Expert Panel

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Join tomorrow's LIVE Fireside Chat - Cloud Utilization and Costs, Expert Panel

Dear sherly,

Do IT organizations truly understand the economics of their cloud strategy? How is understanding costs in a cloud environment different than in a traditional IT setting? Join us tomorrow for an expert panel discussion on these critical issues.

Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy at ActiveState, this edition of the Cloud Luminary Fireside Chats features guest panelists John Cowan, Co-Founder and CEO of 6fusion, Sharon Wagner, Founder and CEO of Cloudyn, and Owen Rogers, Senior Analyst at 451 Research.

When: Tomorrow, Jan. 29th, 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT
Format: 1 hour with real-time Q&A via Twitter #cfchat

This expert panel will discuss topics such as:

What does the new role of IT mean for understanding IT costs?
Can one truly compare the costs of one cloud's usage against another?
Key challenges enterprise IT groups face when analyzing their cloud economics

Panel Guests:

John Cowan, Co-Founder and CEO, 6fusion
John is a 6fusion founder and is regarded as the company's business model visionary. 6fusion standardizes the economic measurement of IT infrastructure, enabling a global marketplace for buyers and sellers.

Sharon Wagner, Founder and CEO, Cloudyn
Sharon is responsible for strategic company direction and operations at Cloudyn. Cloudyn helps businesses select the right mix of cloud vendors, increase operational performance, reduce cloud costs and capitalize on customer choice.

Owen Rogers, Senior Analyst, Digital Economics, 451 Research
Owen Rogers helps customers understand the economics behind digital and cloud technology, so they can make informed choices when costing and pricing their own products and services, and those from their vendors, suppliers and competitors.