Randy Bias, CEO & Founder, Cloudscaling, USA

Think building a large scale cloud is tough? It is. It requires a multi-disciplinarian team, massive automation, homogeneous systems, and scalable architectures. Much of this is anathema to your average big enterprise. Take a journey with me through the challenges of building private clouds for enterprises that were deliberately designed along the principles of cloud pioneers Amazon and Google. Find out about the political challenges, cultural land mines, and technological hurdles. What happens when security, application developers, business owners, storage administrators, network engineers, systems admins and DBAs all want something different? Today's typical enterprise datacenter is the result. True clouds demand breaking down silos of all kind.

If building infrastructure clouds properly requires breaking down barriers and aligning interests, how does one go about it? Is it possible? Yes, but only with tremendous difficulty, willpower, and most of all, executive buy-in and support. I will walk you through a real-world use case and provide a strategy and roadmap for your journey.