Cloud Expo Summary

Here's one attendees perspective on the CloudExpo in NYC: click here.

Two key observations:

One; "In general, attendees have moved from being there to learn what cloud is to learning how they can use it in their business."

Two, "“Cloud Security” is still an oxymoron. No big surprise here. Customers know they want it, vendors and software companies say they have it, and few are getting or delivering anything close. I pointed so many people to the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit projects that I’m actually tired of talking about them. There were a number of booths that said something like “We are the cloud security experts” – and from talking to them, there wasn’t a single person at the booth that could tell me why they were ‘experts’"