As hype cools and work gets under way, there is a general hunger for practical, experience-based advice. In his session at the Cloud Computing Conference, Greg O’Connor follows a real world customer’s use of a single gold server-application image for cross-domain provisioning of the data center, to multiple clouds and back. The ability to move server-based applications into a stateless world across VMs – VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V – without any modifications freed this Fortune 100 Company from infrastructure lock-in.

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