Dr. Scott Radeztsky is the Chief Technologist for Sun's Systems Engineering organization in North and South America.

Scott's responsibilities include close ties with other customer CTOs, and representing Sun's technical community to Sun's Engineering and Sales leadership.

In over 10 years with Sun, Scott has worked exclusively in customer facing organizations, where he has focused on understanding customer business problems and solving those problems using Open architecture and systems approaches.

He is one of Sun's 6 Principal Engineers, the author of the Sun Blueprint Book "N1 Grid: Preparing, Architecting and Implementing Service-centric Data Centers", and is currently based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and the Sun representative on the Open Group Board.

Presentation

Ask 5 people about clouds, and you'll probably get 6 opinions. While arguing about some of the finer points of cloud computing / philosophy has its time and place, in this talk Scott will go back to basics and show examples that illustrate how you may use open standards to build clouds that achieve very real business results.

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