CEO & Founder, Cloudscaling, USA

Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, KT, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His independent cloud engineering services firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente on cloud strategy. Randy has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.

Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers and won a 2009 ‘Cloudie‘ award for Most Influential Cloud Blogger. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month and is widely referenced in the cloud world Randy’s innovative open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware.

Randy is a cloud computing thought leader who is frequently asked to present and participate on panels at technology conferences.