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The Catalyst for Cloud

I  just spent two great days in Banff at the Cloud Matters conference representing IT World Canada.  The conference had over 175 people and a star-studded list of speakers.  At the end of the conference, I was part of a panel where each member was asked to give three minutes on what we could do to provide a Catalyst for Cloud Computing in Canada.

Our panel consisted of:

• Jim Love, CIO IT World Canada
• Timothy Grayson, Director epost Product Development Canada Post
• Chris C. Kemp, CEO Nebula and Co-Founder Open Stack
• Peter Coffee, VP/CTO and Head of Platform Research Salesforce.com
• William Dupley, Chief Solutions Officer HP Canada
• Harpreet Dhillon, Cloud and Open Source Program Manager City of Calgary
• Robert Hart, Founder and CEO Canadian Cloud Council
• Wayne Walls, Chief Cloud Strategist Rackspace
• Ian Rae, CEO CloudOps

My contribution took the form of a “rant” which I dubbed The Cloud Manifesto – A Catalyst for Cloud.  It was partly original opinion, partly ideas inspired by the speakers over the two days of the conference.    Here it is…

The Cloud Manifesto – A Catalyst for Cloud

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