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Tim Marsden
Director, Cloud Vertical
Telefonica

Tim leads the worldwide Cloud vertical within Telefonica Digital Services driving business strategy, portfolio management & development, business development, P&L performance, operator alliances and go to market through Telefonica operating businesses and direct.

Tim was previously with Hewlett-Packard Communications, Media & Entertainment for over 5 years where he held leadership positions as Director of Applications & Cloud Enablement; helping communications providers to grow cloud, M2M and Apps businesses and CME Chief Technologist; leading new product innovation, customer and industry CTO engagements.

Tim has over 20 years’ experience in IT and Communications, holding senior Product Management & Development positions with leading pan-European multimedia and communications service providers. He began his career as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen leading finance, IT and business consulting engagements.

Tim lives in London, UK with his wife and two sons.

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Kiran Bellare Director – Product Marketing	Skip Chilcott Senior Product Marketing Manage -	Erik Linask Editorial Director
Mike McCarthy VP of Cloud Computing

Competition is nothing new to the technology arena – it’s what breeds innovation and defines new trends.  When new ideas reach the point of becoming disruptive, competition heats up to the point of a tech war, which is where cloud computing has taken the industry, with vendors large and small making a play in the clouds, and businesses of all sizes evaluating their options in the cloud.

The idea that any computing and communications resources will be delivered on an “as-a-Service” basis from server farms physically located anywhere in the world represents a powerful shift in computing theory.  Despite the hype, media attention, and adoption to date, the cloud is still a relatively new technology with many questions still to be answered.  Still, the concept of moving sensitive business information and applications into an off-premises environment managed by a third party is profoundly changing how businesses think about, purchase, and manage technology.

What does that change mean?  How will providers and users alike handle concerns over privacy and security? Which cloud model will dominate the others?  Where does open source fit into the picture?  Does cloud mean the end of local computing completely?  

The only thing that is certain about the future of the cloud is the battle for supremacy will be fierce.  TMC’s Editorial Director Erik Linask will lead a panel of cloud computing leaders to find out  what it will dominate the cloud landscape and what the next major shift will be, and who will emerge victorious in this battle.