John Rhoton

John provides global strategy consulting to enterprise customers with a focus on public, private and hybrid cloud computing. He also speaks regularly on the technology and strategy and has published several books, including Cloud Computing Explained, currently ranked as Amazon's most popular book on the topic.

Led national development of .cloud business targeting all segments from small and medium enterprises to international corporations and service providers. Symantec's portfolio includes hosted services, such as antivirus/antispam, encryption, continuity, archiving and end-point protection, as well as a suite of solutions to protect, control and maintain infrastructure, platforms and software delivered as a service.

Office of Strategy and Technology Promoted: defined and implemented the strategy and services portfolio for HP Enterprise Services around several emerging technologies including cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and next-generation networking. Directed architectural designs for key customer engagements.

Vienna, Austria Compaq Global Services Technology Leadership Group. Responsible for qualifying the impact of emerging technology; building business plans and designing technical training and collateral to support the introduction of new technologies such as mobility, wireless networking, IPv6 and unified communications

Managed worldwide infrastructure upgrades and deployments for Fortune 100 customers with long-term assignments to Asia and the Americas. Lead the architecture and design of large-scale Windows and Exchange deployments involving complex backbone designs for heterogeneous messaging and directory systems.

Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong Responsible for the South East Asian Windows and Messaging Practice

St. Louis, Missouri: Software Consultant Paris, France: Software Development Team Lead Turin, Italy: Senior Software Engineer Vienna, Austria: Enterprise Architect