Acknowledgements

US Advisory

Sponsoring & Technology Leader
Paul Horowitz

US Thought Leadership

Partner-in-Charge
Tom Craren

Center for Technology and Innovation

Managing Editor
Bo Parker

Editors
Vinod Baya, Alan Morrison

Contributors
Brian Butte, Galen Gruman, Larry Marion, Bill Roberts, John Verity

Editorial Advisors
Larry Best, Gary Delooze, Glen Hobbs, Jim Kinsman, Bud Mathaisel, Justin McPherson, Jonathan Reichental, Terry Retter, Deepak Sahi, Joe Tagliaferro, Gerard Verweij

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Van Collins

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Illustrations
Donald R. Bernhardt

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Diana Lira
Marina Waltz

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Reviewers

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Special thanks to

Gregg Agens, Robert Moline, Victoria Huff,
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Industry perspectives

During the preparation of this report, we benefited greatly from interviews and conversations with the following executives:

Erich Clementi, general manager of
Enterprise Initiatives, IBM

Simon Crosby, chief technology officer,
Virtualization and Management Division,
Citrix Systems

Russ Daniels, chief technology officer,
EDS, an HP company

Eran Feigenbaum, director of security,
Google Apps, Google

Doug Hauger, general manager of Business Strategy, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Microsoft

Geir Ramleth, chief information officer,
Bechtel Corporation

Kirill Sheynkman, founder, president,
and chief executive officer, Elastra

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, chairman emeritus,
IBM Academy of Technology, IBM