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

Whitebeards and Cloudsters: Is Enterprise Architecture relevant in the Cloud?

Cloud computing simplifies service design and implementation, enabling almost anyone to create something that can quickly ignite and reach a global audience of users. Most cloud developers would scoff/laugh at the heavyweight notions that TOGAF and enterprise architects would bring to the table, and most enterprise businesses are trying to figure out what to do about the disruption and opportunities that cloud computing presents.

How should the Open Group respond to the new reality of young cloudsters? Is there a place for whitebeards in this new space? Has nothing actually changed, or is everything really different?

Scott will facilitate an audience discussion and capture answers to a set of disruptive questions. Bring your passion and help the Open Group decide how to respond to this new (yes it is, no it isn't) paradigm.

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