Lew Tucker, CTO Cloud Computing, Cisco:

An unparalleled 20 years of software and engineering experience under his belt, Lew Tucker is one of the senior most directors of the OpenStack Foundation. Also the current CTO of cloud computing at Cisco, Tucker also had been the CTO and VP of engineering at Radar networks and the CTO of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems. His big-company experience brought a different voice to the debate over cloud. Tucker believed that cloud not only could be, but also should be the next wave of computing.

At a recent expo, Tucker grabbed headlines by praising Rich Wolski, head of the Eucalyptus open source project and one of the biggest OpenStack competitors. Tucker saw Wolski to be another passionate cloud enthusiast who can work out magic in the essentials of cloud computing.

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