2012 Cloud Summit: Moving from Theory to Practice - Accelerating your Business with the Cloud

In just a few years, cloud computing has steadily become an integral part of every CIO’s and CTO’s toolbox used to increase efficiency, reduce capital costs and accelerate business. The cloud has become impossible to ignore as enterprises operate leaner and use more agile tools and methodologies to support innovation.

However, many still believe the Cloud is still in its infancy. With all the buzz over the past few years on the Cloud, what is pushing it forward and what is holding it back?  And with some of the recent outages, how do you balance the promise with the risk? What are the true business benefits that are rapidly shifting companies to the cloud and how is this measured?

Below is Michael Skok's keynote presentation.