Cloud Connect Webcast SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) promises to trim development and deployment time from months and years to days and weeks, which has given rise to several hosted PaaS offerings. But while the promise of PaaS is intriguing, many enterprises are demanding PaaS capabilities on their own terms. They want a PaaS behind their own firewall to enable a secure cloud - a private PaaS. Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120227/CG60756 Can implementing a private PaaS solve concerns over security and privacy of data? Does private PaaS provide automatic upgrades and elasticity? Can you develop in multiple languages? Is it possible to migrate existing apps to the cloud easily with a private PaaS? Join Bart Copeland, ActiveState CEO on this webcast to discuss: The landscape and drivers for Private PaaS Issues for enterprises moving development resources to the cloud How a Private PaaS differs from a Public PaaS Avoiding vendor lock-in What to consider when implementing and deploying a Private PaaS Date:Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Time:10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET Duration: 60 minutes Sponsored by ActiveState, presented by Cloud Connect Register now for this free Webcast. Come to this session armed with your questions. You'll be able to submit questions directly to our panelists for a live Q&A session during the hour. Presenters: Bart Copeland, ActiveState CEO As President & CEO of ActiveState Software, Bart Copeland brings more than twenty years of management, finance, and technology business experience to his role. With a passion for technologies that help people lead more productive and enjoyable lives, Bart is currently focused on ActiveState's private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, Stackato. John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research John Burke is a Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, where he advises key enterprise and vendor clients, conducts and analyzes primary research, and writes thought-leadership pieces across a wide variety of topics. John leads research on virtual enterprise, focusing primarily on the virtual and mobile desktop, Application Delivery Optimization (ADO), and management and orchestration tools for the virtualized data center and the cloud. Moderator: Steve Wylie, General Manager, Cloud Connect Conference industry veteran Steve Wylie has been involved with some of the World's leading business technology conferences for the past 15 years. As the General Manager for UBM TechWeb's Cloud Connect brand, Steve is the driving force behind the defining cloud event for IT professionals, developers, and leading cloud providers. Steve is a regular columnist on InformationWeek.com and serves on the Social Networking advisory board at HR.com. Steve formerly chaired the Enterprise 2.0 Conferences and co-chaired the annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed Interop's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve can be found on twitter @swylie650 Media Contact: Jason Quesada, UBM TechWeb, 415-947-6685, jquesada@techweb.com