Cloud computing
Should companies do most of their computing in the cloud?
May 26th 2015 to Jun 5th 2015
Day 6
of 11
Representing the sides
Moderator
Ludwig Siegele, The Economist's technology editor
Ludwig Siegele is The Economist's technology editor. He joined the newspaper as US technology correspondent in 1998. In 2003 he went to Berlin as Germany correspondent, relocated to London in 2008 to cover the IT industry until 2011, and then ran part of The Economist's website as online business and finance editor. He started his journalistic career in 1990 as the Paris business correspondent of Die Zeit, a Germany weekly. In 1995 he moved from France to California to write about the internet for several German publications. He is co-author of a book on SAP, "Matrix der Welt: SAP und der neue globale Kapitalismus" and is the author of The Economist's special report on startups.
Yes
Simon Crosby, Co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Bromium Inc.
Simon Crosby is a co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Bromium Inc., a pioneer of micro-virtualisation, which enables PCs to defend themselves by design from all malware. Previously he was CTO, data centre and cloud, at Citrix Systems, which acquired XenSource, where he was co-founder and CTO; a principal engineer at Intel, where he led strategic research on platform security and trust; and founder and CTO of CPlane Inc., a pioneer in software defined networking. He was a faculty member in the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2000.
No
Bruce Schneier, Chief technology officer at Resilient Systems
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist. He is chief technology officer at Resilient Systems, a cyber-security firm, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). His latest book is “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World”. He blogs and tweets at @schneierblog.