About the Author

James Bond has more than 25 years’ experience in the IT industry and has designed and deployed countless datacenters, server farms, networks, and enterprise applications for large commercial and public sector government clients—he was building hosted application services long before the term “cloud” was first used in the industry. Mr. Bond is a business and technical cloud subject matter expert, providing cloud strategy, guidance, and implementation planning to C-level executives seeking to transition from legacy enterprise IT to cloud computing.

Mr. Bond currently works for Hewlett-Packard as a cloud chief technologist. He routinely presents executive briefings at industry conferences and in-depth consulting workshops on lessons learned to large commercial and government organizations. His specialties are enterprise IT transformation to private and hybrid cloud as well as cloud brokering. Prior to Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Bond built numerous cloud computing companies and practices serving in the roles of chief technology officer, product vice president, chief architect, and software development management.

Mr. Bond has a bachelor’s degree in information technology from the University of Maryland and has received numerous industry certifications and awards throughout his career. He is a well-respected industry leader and long-time contributor to numerous trade magazines and a featured speaker at IT conferences. This is his first published book.