Last Friday, TechCrunch hosted a very well well attended roundtable on Cloud Computing with a number of cloud luminaries. Hosted by Steve Gilmor and Erick Shonfeld the panel had a blue chip panel of Cloud Computing experts:
- John Engates, CTO, Rackspace
- Paul Buchheit, Co-founder, FriendFeed.
- Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, Google
- Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning
- Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
- Werner Vogel, Amazon Web Services CTO
- Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate VP, Windows Azure
- Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
- Scott Dietzen, SVP Communications Product, Yahoo!
- Lew Tucker, CTO Cloud Computing, Sun
The size of the panel was a bit large for great interaction, but you can't beat the line-up. It was a little tiresome listening to Benioff always talk about his firm's earnings, but listen for yourself and see if you agree.
The event was held at Microsoft's offices in Mountain View.