David Young, Co-Founder & CEO of cloud-computing specialist Joyent, is the latest Cloud Computing pioneer to join the distinguished Speaking Faculty of SYS-CON's pathbreaking "Cloud Computing Expo" being held November 19-21, 2008 in San Jose, California. He will speak on "The Open Cloud: Building a Customer-Centric Cloud Computer" - a session in which Young willl explore the essential characteristics of building a cloud infrastructure that gives customers the freedom to change vendors while exploiting the values of cloud computing.

Young joins a star-studded lineup covering the hottest IT topic for years, with IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Intel, HP and Amazon all offering, using or developing high-end computing services typically described as “cloud computing” - through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies.

Forrester Research analyst James Staten calls cloud computing "classic disruptive innovation - where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value." But there are so many offerings just now that what infrastructure architects are looking for above all is a set of organizing principles they can use to guide them in choosing between them all.

Such principles. and a host of associated topics, will be addressed in San Jose by:

• Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Keynote)
• Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly
• Mike Eaton - CEO, Cloudworks
• Jonathan Bryce - Founder at Mosso (Rackspace)
• Nati Shalom - CTO, GigaSpaces
• Don MacAskill - CEO & Chief Geek, SmugMug
• Mike Feinberg - Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
• Billy Marshall - Founder & CEO, rPath
• Dr Thorsten von Eicken - CTO & Founder, RightScale
• Songnian Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO, Platform Computing
• Patrick Harr, CEO - Nirvanix
• Dave Durkee - CEO, ENKI
• John Janakiraman - CTO, Skytap
• Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
• Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Dr Rich Wolski - Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
• Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO of Hyperic
• Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
• Rachel Chalmers - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group

The sessions are all listed here.

• Clouds Should Be Open, Not Proprietary
• Cloud Computing Journal: Current Themes & Topics
• Merrill Lynch Estimates "Cloud Computing" To Be $100 Billion Market
• Cloud Computing - Morgan Stanley is Banking on the Cloud
• Twenty-One Experts Define Cloud Computing
• Are Enterprises Ready for Cloud Computing?
• A Brief History of Cloud Computing: Is the Cloud There Yet?
• SYS-CON Launches Another Worldwide First: "Cloud Computing Journal"
• What is Cloud Computing?
• The Three Levels of Cloud Computing
• Virtualization & Cloud Computing: Perfect Together
• How Do You Qualify Something as Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Security: The Need for Two-Factor Authentication in Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing and the "Cloud Dining" Analogy
• Cloud Computing Expo: Introducing the Cloud Pyramid
• Cloud Computing: Who Can Help Me Get an Application onto EC2 and Storage onto S3?
• Virtualization, SOA, and the Rise of Social Media
• On-Demand Resource Provisioning - The Fundamental Principle that Defines Cloud Computing
• President & CTO of 3Tera to Speak at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
• Chief Software Architect for Elastra to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
• Blog-City.com Founder Alan Williamson to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
• Microsoft's Cloud Platform Vision is Coming Together
• How Do PaaS Solutions Enable Better Use of Enterprise IT Dollars?
• Hummer Winblad to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
• Is Cloud Computing the Wave of the Future?
• Google Chrome and Business Intelligence in the Cloud
• Citrix Cloud Center + 3Tera AppLogic Platform = Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing
• Oracle Supports Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
• Jetty and the Cost-Effective Cloud
• Is Nick Carr Right About Cloud Computing?
• Google, Akamai, and VMware: Cloud Computing's Top Three?
• Who Has the Industry Lead in Cloud Computing?
• Cloud CEOs, CTOs & SVPs to Speak at 4th International Cloud Computing Expo
• Cloud Computing Keynote at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley
• The Cloud Comes This Week to San Jose
• The Hybrid Cloud Multiverse (IPv6 VLANS)
• Introducing the Open Cloud Manifesto
• The Essential Cloud Considerations
• The Realtime Cloud Arrives