Stephen Herrod: The Private Cloud: Enterprise-ready on and off premise.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Stephen Herrod, Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer, VMware .
Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware’s new technologies such as mobile phone virtualization and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. Stephen joined VMware in 2001 and has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases.

Prior to joining VMware, he was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University , where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.

Keynote Abstract.
The Private Cloud: Enterprise-ready on and off premise.

Join VMware CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod as he explains how enterprises can leverage virtualization to continue their optimization into the cloud. He will describe the benefits and features of a Private Cloud, explore the key ingredients to building the internal private cloud, what to look for when you explore external private clouds, and unveil new VMware offerings that make the private enterprise cloud possible.
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