About the Author

Joe Weinman is currently Senior Vice President, Cloud Services and Strategy, Telx, a leading carrier-neutral colocation, data center, and cloud computing service provider. Prior to joining Telx, Weinman held executive leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories.

TechTarget has named him a “Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader,” GigaOM.com says he is a “deep thinker on the economics of cloud computing,” George Gilder has called him a “brilliant strategist,” IDG claims he is “one of the nation’s leading cloud computing strategists,” Search Cloud Computing has called him a “serial deep thinker” and “cloud brainiac,” Light Reading says he is “undoubtedly one of the keenest cloud evangelists,” and Yankee Group declares that he “has long been at the forefront of cloud computing thought leadership.”

Weinman is a frequent global keynote speaker, industry and academic conference presenter, blogger, and the founder of the Cloudonomics® blog and Cloudonomics—a rigorous, multidisciplinary approach to valuing the cloud incorporating statistics, computational complexity, system dynamics, calculus, economics, and behavioral economics.

Weinman brings a wealth of experience in corporate strategy and business development, partnerships, alliances, product management and marketing, emerging technologies, and research and development.

He has been awarded 14 U.S. and international patents in diverse fields such as pseudoternary data communications, cloud services, ...

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