Cloud Computing and IT as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges

This panel brings together technology experts and business leaders and provide first hand insight to the evolution of cloud computing and IT as a service (ITaaS), from both technology and business model perspectives. The panel will discuss the disruptive nature of cloud computing and its business model, including the impact to the current enterprise IT industry, to the service provider industry, to the enterprise software industry, to the networking industry, and to the service industry. The panel will also discuss the confluence of SOA paradigm and SaaS paradigm and examine its implication to the enterprise IT architecture. The panel will also help audience understand the limitation and challenges for cloud computing and ITaaS. The audience of this panel is targeted at the technology leaders and business decision makers in enterprise IT, software industry, and networking industry.