Panel 1:
Cloud Computing and IT as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges

Chair:

Geng Lin, CTO, Cisco, USA

Theme:

The panel will bring together technology experts and business leaders and provide first-hand insight to the evolution of cloud computing and IT as a Service, from both technology and business model development perspectives. The panel will discuss the disruptive nature of Cloud computing and its business model, including the impact to the current enterprise IT industry, impact to the service provider industry, impact to the enterprise software industry, impact to the networking industry, and impact to the service industry. The panel will also discuss the confluence of SOA paradigm and SaaS paradigm and examine its implication to the enterprise IT architecture. The panel will also help audience understand the limitations and challenges of cloud computing and ITaaS. The audience of this panel is targeted at the technology leaders and business decision makers in enterprise IT, software industry, and network industry.