I’m pleased to announce that Doug Harr, the CIO at Splunk, a leading provider of real-time operational intelligence solutions, will present his views about how the Cloud is redefining business intelligence (BI) and analytics at the Cloud Analytics Summit on Wednesday, April 25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.The Cloud Analytics Summit will provide a meeting place for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud solutions aimed at addressing their BI and analytics needs, so they can harness their ‘Big Data’ sources, and integrate their systems and applications into a more productive enterprise-wide resource to satisfy their corporate requirements.

Doug Harr has been in the forefront of the migration to Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions over the past decade, leading IT organizations at a number of leading companies such as Ingres Corporation, Portal Software and Hewlett Packard.

At Splunk, Doug is responsible for the team … Read More »

I’m very pleased with the immediate response we have received regarding our upcoming Cloud Analytics, Management and Cloud Channel Summit conferences.

In order to systematically respond to the steady stream of speaking requests we are receiving, we have established an online submission process to ensure that we can select the best speakers for our events.

Please go to the following links to submit speaking proposals for each of the Cloud Summits:

Cloud Analytics Summit
Cloud Management Summit
Cloud Channel Summit 

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis. However, preferential treatment will be given to proposals focused on key business issues rather than specific technical topics.

We will also prioritize proposals that suggest CIO speakers for the Cloud Analytics and Management Summits, and channel company executives with first-hand experience working in Cloud environments. Summit sponsors and start-ups with a track-record of success will also receive greater consideration.

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