The Cloud3 Crowd: Photos from Xconomy’s Cloud Computing Forum

Xconomy’s Cloud3 Forum on December 10 attracted a capacity crowd of more than 200 people—and now we’ve got the photos to prove it!

We used the morning event, which was hosted by Microsoft, to hash out some of the stickiest issues around cloud computing, such as cost and security, and to bring the audience up to speed on cloud-related offerings from big local players like EMC, Akamai, and Iron Mountain as well as emerging startups like Pixily, Sonian, and Litl. If you missed the event—or if you were there, and you’d just like to relive it—the pictures and captions on the following pages will walk you through the main points made by all of our keynote speakers and “Cloudburst” presenters. We’ve also got some great candid shots of Cloud3 audience members and “unpanel” participants.

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All of our photos were taken by Alexis Hauk, a blog editor at Vernacular who is graduating this month with a master’s degree in publishing and writing from Emerson College and has been doing a bit of freelance work for Xconomy. We’d like to thank Alexis and everyone else who helped to make the Cloud3 a big success. We’ve published the speaker presentations from Cloud3, if you want to check those out. And we look forward to seeing you at Xconomy’s next round of networking forums in 2010, including the Battle of the Tech Bands 3 in February and a big mobile computing event in March.

Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/