Acknowledgments

I have learned a great deal about cloud architecture and deployment from my many colleagues on the various standards working groups in which I have participated. Notable among these are Larry Lamers of VMware, Shishir Pardikar of Citrix, Alan Sill of the Open Grid Forum, Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, Eric Wells of Hitachi, and Ali Ghazanfar of ZTE Corporation.

I would like to give recognition to Paul Lipton, my friend and CA Technologies representative on the DMTF board of directors. Paul is also co-chairman of the OASIS TOSCA Technical Committee. Paul is a longtime participant in many computing standards groups and has been a friend and colleague for several years.

Jacob Lamm of CA is the executive sponsor for this book. Jacob and ...

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