Your IT organization needs to support creativity and enable disruption through developing new products more quickly, and cutting free of old rules and rethinking business models. Cloud should be the answer...but in many cases it’s only the answer for certain types of workloads and applications due to performance, dependency, management and security challenges.

The cloud needs be so much more than it currently is for the next great wave of innovation to take off - we need a fundamentally better cloud. In this General Session, oin Verizon to learn about the current challenges in cloud computing, the features needed in future cloud services, and Verizon’s next-generation platform that will deliver a new level of simplicity and performance with a new approach designed to make the cloud fast, predictable and cost-effective.

Speaker Bio:Jim Anthony is Vice-President of Sales Engineering at Verizon Terremark, where he leads a global team of highly technical System Architects, Security Specialists and Custom Engineers. His team is responsible for all configurations, solutions and proposals generated by the Company’s direct sales team and channel partners.

In addition to his responsibilities above, Anthony also spends considerable time evangelizing the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions at trade shows, and customer/channel events.

Prior to joining Terremark in 2009, he spent 20 years serving various management and consulting roles for technology companies - such as AT&T; and Sybase. He has a diverse background managing large complex IT organizations and a deep technical knowledge of complex systems and applications.

Anthony earned his Bachelors of Science in Accounting and Computer Science from Minnesota State University.