Sponsored post: Mission-critical apps in the cloud? Yes!

Join GigaOM Research analyst David Linthicum and Luke Norris, the founder and CEO of Peak®, formerly PeakColo®, as they discuss the characteristics all CIOs must demand of their cloud service providers in order to safely and successfully manage any workload type in the cloud. Register now for “Mission-critical workloads in the cloud? Yes!” on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 12 p.m. EST.

About Peak (formerly PeakColo)
Peak® is an enterprise-class IaaS cloud service provider to channel partners. White-labeling Peak’s cloud services as their own, resellers and agents rapidly enter the cloud marketplace under their own brand without capital expenditure, enjoying a faster route to profitability. With cloud nodes in six geographies worldwide, Peak offers both Cisco UCS FlexPod as a Service and Open Compute platforms, is a Platinum-level NetApp Service Providers, and is VMware vCloud® Powered.

About Luke Norris
As the founder and CEO of Peak®, Luke Norris is responsible for the company’s strategic direction and overall management. Under his expert guidance, Peak has consistently experienced triple-digit growth year over year since 2009. Norris holds several patents, is the recipient of numerous individual industry achievement awards, and is a frequent keynote speaker on the topic of cloud computing at technology conferences worldwide.

About David Linthicum
David Linthicum is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader and the author and co-author of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling Enterprise Application Integration (Addison Wesley). Linthicum keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing and enterprise architecture.


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