Maximilian Ahrens: Keeping an Open Cloud.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Maximilian Ahrens, CTO of Zimory.
Ahrens is an expert and frequent speaker on international conferences for service oriented architecture and virtualization. Before co-founding Zimory, he served as a project manager and research scientist at the innovation development entity of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. Responsible for infrastructure and enterprise IT projects spanning multiple divisions of the Deutsche Telekom group -- Ahrens is an expert on enterprise IT and business processes. Before Deutsche Telekom, he led several business process reengineering projects for major German companies. Ahrens received his degree in computer science and business administration from Technische Universität Berlin.

Keynote Abstract: Keeping an Open Cloud
If the Open Source revolution taught us anything -- it was that by using open standards, open development processes and a community, resources could be built quickly, securely and better. Ahrens will discuss the benefits of an open cloud -- including the benefits of security, lock-in and getting the most from the cloud.

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