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	A 5-Step Framework for Understanding and Achieving the Strategic Value of Cloud Computing

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ABOUT THIS WEBCAST

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When:
October 23, 2008 at 2:00 PM ET (18:00 GMT)

Speakers:
Frank Gillett- (Featured Guest) Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Billy Marshall- Chief Strategy Officer, rPath

Jeff Barr- (Featured Guest) Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Sponsor:
rPath

Summary:
With confusion and vendor competition rising, cloud computing can sound like hype and empty promises. In an upcoming webinar, rPath and featured guests Amazon Web Services and Forrester Research will bring clarity to cloud computing, with:

Featured guest Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, defining cloud computing;
Featured guest Jeff Barr, senior evangelist and evangelist at Amazon Web Services, discussing the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2); and,
Host Billy Marshall, CEO at rPath, proposing a graduated, Cloud Computing Adoption Model.

Attendees will gain a context for understanding the role of cloud computing and its potential for their organizations as well as a pragmatic, actionable, step-by-step framework for achieving measurable benefits now, while laying the foundation for the strategic benefits of a cloud infrastructure over time. They will also learn:

Emerging trends related to cloud infrastructure;
Common myths about cloud services;
Five levels of cloud computing adoption;
How to incrementally adopt cloud and virtualization technologies using a stepwise approach that yields real ROI and lays the foundation for next-generation computing; and
The usability and economic benefits of scalable, hosted, and virtually infinite infrastructure of platforms like Amazon Web Services.