With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under three weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...

We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

CLOUD EXPO SPEAKER NAME: GeorgeGerchow

TWITTER: @GeorgeGerchow

COMPANY: VMware

10TH CLOUD EXPO SESSION TITLE: Control and Secure the Cloud with Confidence

SESSION DESCRIPTION: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2211649

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: As Director of the Center for Policy & Compliance at VMware, George Gerchow brings 16 years of IT and Systems Management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines that impact the security, compliance and operational status of complex, heterogeneous, virtual & cloud computing environments.

Gerchow's practical experience and insight from managing the infrastructures of some of the world's largest corporate and government institutions makes him a highly regarded speaker and invited panelist on topics including Virtualization, ITSM\ITIL, configuration management, operational and security compliance. He holds ITIL, CISSP, Cisco and Microsoft Certifications.

BLOG: Regular contributor to VMware's Security & Compliance Blog: www.blogs.vmware.com/security/

RECENT CLOUD COMPUTING QUOTE:

"It is my opinion that most people are not up to speed on Virtualization Security and Compliance Solutions.

If you can prove that the systems in a mixed mode are not communicating, you should be golden. If your QSA does not agree, it might be time to get a new QSA. Jkjkjkjkj, not really but...

Click here to see what we talked about at VMworld. I was misquoted in this article, Computer World and several others. (I NEVER said QSA’s were ten years behind ;-) ) Seriously, I have some good friends that are QSA’s and they will also be tracking this blog to help answer questions. BTW: This got heated at VMworld during our trusted cloud session."

[from George's VMware blog]