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Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

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Summary

Simon Wardley explains the commoditization of IT through cloud computing: why it is happening, how clouds will impact IT, the associated benefits and risks, how to manage the risks, why openness matters and he presents a canonical vision on the cloud.

Bio

Simon works as the Software Services Manager for Canonical, helping define future cloud computing strategies for Ubuntu. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditisation, innovation and cybernetics.

About the conference

QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Aug 26, 2009

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