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September 02, 2010

ITEXPO's Cloud Communications Summit Reaches for the Sky

By Erin Monda, TMCnet Contributor


Curious as to what’s going on up in the clouds?

ITEXPO West, to be held on Oct. 4-6, 2010 in Los Angeles, Calif., has plenty of presenters in line to help shed a little light on cloud technology and all things related.The Cloud Communications Summit, moderated by Thomas Howe (News - Alert), which will address the growing needs of businesses as far as integrating and leveraging cloud based communications applications, processing enhancement techniques and network based communications interfaces and architectures.

A full itinerary is available here.

A whole host of industry speakers that are experts on the cloud, some of whom I’ve highlighted below:

Mike Ross, chief operating officer and directorof the Americas for 4PSA, has quite a bit of experience in the cloud communications industry. He will be sharing some of his experience when he speaks on "Cloud Communications and its Impact on the Future of VoIP and Unified Communications."

Simon Aspinall (News - Alert), Cisco Systems Inc.'s senior director of service provider practices in Europe, also has some advanced insight into the cloud. He will be speaking on "How Service Providers can Benefit from Cloud Communications."And that’s not to delineate from the rest of the speakers that will be presenting at the summit.

Stefan Karapetkov (News - Alert), emerging technologies director at Polycom, will be sharing his “Cloudy with a Chance of Collaboration,” discussion.

Marc Fribush,president of Aretta Communications (News - Alert), Inc., will be sharing his cleverly titled views during "SMB Cloud Communications Adoption Trends: What's Hot and What's Not?"

Russell Shriver, vice president of product management at Level 3 Communications, will be delivering his presentation, “Public or Private: Clearing up the Clouds.”

Mark Denny, senior product line manager of the service provider division at Brocade (News - Alert), will be speaking at “How Service Providers can Benefit from Cloud Communications.”

These are just a few of the many, experienced, cloud industry-experts that will be discussing the cloud at ITEXPO West. To attend, please register now.


Erin Monda recently graduated from W.C.S.U. with a degree in professional writing. She primarily writes about network technologies, including cloud computing, virtualization and network optimization, however she also has a focus on E911 technologies and legislation.

Edited by Erin Monda