Lauren States joined IBM as a systems engineering after graduating from the Wharton School. She has led the company's client/server emerging business and Midwest sales teams and has served as global technical sales and customer deployment executive. In her current role she leads a global team responsible for establishing market presence while driving overall Cloud and Utility computing strategies at IBM. Her team partners with early adopting customers for joint success, delivering leading-edge capabilities to forerunners while integrating their requirements into IBM strategy, offerings and plans. As a senior executive on IBM's Integration and Values Leadership Team, she jump-started the company-wide Client Value Initiative — a strategic reshaping of IBM's external profile testing and deploying innovative techniques for supporting globally integrated enterprises. In 2006, The Network Journal recognized States as one of the 25 Most Influential Black Women in American Business.

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Business Adoption of Cloud Computing
Much is being written and spoken about cloud computing, by IT analysts, industry and business leaders and others. Organizations are facing accelerating business change, global and domestic competitive pressure, and social responsibility demands. They are looking to cloud computing as a way to address these business demands. The demand is being matched by hardware, software and service providers trying to find ways to address this model of computing in the most efficient way possible. This session attempts to look at how businesses are adopting cloud computing and their concerns.

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