Up Close with Zane Adams - Deciphering the cloud (17 May 2010)

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Up Close with Zane Adams – Deciphering the cloud (17 May 2010)

Special Invite Agenda

Date: 17th May 2010 (Monday)
Time: 7.00pm to 8.30pm (Registration Starts at 6.30pm)
Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #21-00,MS Singapore–Auditorium Level 21

6.30pm: Registration (Light refreshments will be served)
7.00pm: Cloud Computing Deciphered for IT Pros
8.30pm: Home Sweet Home

Cloud Computing Deciphered for IT Pros

Is Cloud Computing confusing? The answer is No. It is about choice and options. Join us in this special behind-the-doors session with Zane Adam, General Manager, SQL Azure and Middleware. Zane will present Microsoft’s overall cloud strategy and how Microsoft helps customers and partners in building private and public cloud infrastructure. We will hear about the many choices and options available to businesses and individuals, covering what and how SQL Azure, Windows Azure, AppFabric, BPOS and Virtualization stack up in our cloud vision and the path forward.

Skill Level: 100-200

About Zane Adam

clip_image002Zane Adam
General Manager
Product Management
SQL Azure and Middleware
Microsoft Corporation

Zane leads the product management group on SQL Azure, Windows Server AppFabric, Windows Azure AppFabric, BizTalk and related technologies critical to our innovation and industry. He is focused on helping customers and partners in building private and public cloud infrastructure for the future.

Over the last 11 years, Zane Adam held many key roles, most recently as General Manager of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft Corp., prior to that he was Senior Director in the Windows Server division where he managed the enterprise infrastructure marketing teams for Windows Server, Windows Compute Cluster Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows Storage Server.

He had also worked in Europe as business and marketing officer for Microsoft’s Eastern European HQ. In that role he managed marketing strategy and execution for 16 Eastern European countries that includes the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia.

From 2003 to 2005 Adam worked in Microsoft’s then newly formed Storage Division, where he established and ran the marketing group. Before that he worked on the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group, where he led a team focused on Web workload and point-of-sales offerings. Adam started his career at the company as a consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services

Registration

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/Dennis