The morning of day 2 at the Enterprise Cloud Summit wrapped up with a fireside chat with Lew Moorman, CSO of Rackspace (Mosso). Here are some of the more interesting quotes:

“We believe in the cloud. Sometimes people need to do certain things outside of the cloud (e.g. direct access to the physical drive for optimization). But you should go up as high in the stack as you can.”

“Sometimes you need your own house which you can decorate exactly how you like it”

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Next up at ECS was a panel session led by Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner at Panorama Capital

The speakers were:

• Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, Rightscale
• Richard Dym, Chief Marketing Officer, OpSource
• Grace Kim, Sr. Manager, Marketing, WebEx
• Jesse Robbins, Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode

Allan opened with the example of MCI, who owed a lot of its success to the introduction of a “Friends & Family” scheme. No new technology, nothing new, just a new billing model. This is why clouds are exciting, they offer an opportunity to revolutionise the domain with new pricing models.

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Next up at ECS was a panel session moderated by Ian Rae, CEO of Syntenic.

The Speakers were:

• Jon Beck, SVP Sales and Client Services, OpSource, Inc.
• Chad Swartz, Senior Manager, IT Operations, Preferred Hotel Group
• Geir Magnusson, Consulting Architect, Platform, Gilt
• Scott Clark, Director of Engineering Infrastructure, Broadcom
• Josh Litwin, President and CEO, Memento Press

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Greg Ness, Marketing Executive, Infoblox led a panel of four speakers to explore the dark side of cloud computing.

The speakers are:

• Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, salesforce.com
• Randy Rowland, General Manager, Managed Hosting & Cloud Computing Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
• Geva Perry, Founder, Thinking Out Cloud
• Bill McGee, Vice President, Products and Technology, Third Brigade

What types of cloud architectures are there and are they all alike?

Peter Coffee: “It would be a mistake to think that cloud computing is a whole new thing” It’s more useful to look at what they have in common with enterprise deployment.

Geva: Although there are some services such as Hadoop are uniquely tailored to take advantage of cloud architecture. ”

Peter (a bit later on): There are new skill sets, there is experimentation to be done and things to learn. It’s like replacing a horse pulling a horse drawn carriage with a big motor – you need to tailor to the environment you will be running in.

Are all cloud vendors offering the same thing?

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