ITPI’s Kurt Milne Selected to Present at CloudSlam’11TM

ITPI’s Kurt Milne Selected to Present at CloudSlam’11^TM

Eugene, OR, April 8, 2011 – IT Process Institute’s Managing Director Kurt Milne will be a featured speaker at CloudSlam'11^TM, the world's premier cloud computing virtual conference April 18-22. Milne's session is entitled, "Private Cloud Journey Made Easy: 4 Step Prescriptive Guidance.”

In this session, Milne will present key concepts from the new book Visible Ops Private Cloud: from virtualization to private cloud in 4 practical steps, which will be released April 12, 2011.

Milne will present with co-authors Andi Mann, Vice President at CA Technologies, and Jeanne Morain, Director Alliances and Flexera Software.

Session Date and Time: Thursday April 21, 2PM PST.

Register for CloudSlam: http://cloudslam.org/register

Commenting on the impact of this session, Milne reflected, "Deploying a successful private cloud solution requires solving technical issues related to architecture, infrastructure, and automation. However, success largely depends on getting users comfortable with consuming IT as a service and getting internal IT staff comfortable with designing and delivering IT as a service. With private cloud, IT is built differently, IT is run differently, IT is governed differently, IT is sourced differently, and most importantly IT is consumed differently. This book was written to help those responsible for private cloud success directly address these differences and plan accordingly.”

Follow Kurt Milne on Twitter @kurtmilne.

Visible Operations Private Cloud: From Virtualization to Private Cloud in 4 Practical Steps is available now from the IT Process Institute www.itpi.org and Amazon.com.

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