What's going on with the infamous cloud? Is it actually catching on or it held up for security reasons? We start this great panel off with a debate about how secure the cloud is and get to the other key issues that have slowed the projected adoption of the cloud. Are the barriers psychological or technical? Is Amazon's AWS dead?

Cloud isn't just cheaper, it's an entirely new channel, a new way to use computing, a new (very low) level of committment. As Treb Ryan of OpSource said: Want a free trial for a day? Here's a quarter! You'll be buying $50,000 worth of our services by the end of the year.

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How are Hot Private SaaS/Cloud Companies Moving from Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0?

07/28/2010, 12:45 pm

• Host: Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies
• Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource
• Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus
• Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM
• Swayne Hill, CEO, Cloud9 Analytics
• Manmeet Singh, CEO, dataguise