Focus.com Launches Cloud Week with Expert Roundtables and Webcasts for June 28-30, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus.com, the leading community for business expertise, with more than 1 million members and over 5,000 business and technology experts, today launched Cloud Week with a full schedule of expert online roundtables and webcasts for June 28-30, 2011, sponsored by Thawte.

This week's Focus Expert online events, an ongoing series of free webcasts and roundtable panels, explore the business drivers prompting the migration to the cloud, the challenges, and the experiences of pioneering adopters. The webcasts will also have a presentation component with live Q&A.

The schedule for Focus.com's Cloud Week online events is as follows:

Notable Focus Experts participating in Cloud Week include:

• Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect at Netflix
• John Taschek, VP, Strategy at Salesforce
• Ben Kepes, Director at Diversity Analysis and Focus Cloud Computing Adviser
• Jeffrey Kaplan, Managing Director at THINKstrategies
• Dave Roberts, VP, Strategy at ServiceMesh
• Andrew Baker, Director, Service Operations at SWN Communications

"We're pleased to offer online events this week dedicated to cloud computing, with topics ranging from enterprise adoption to trends and common misconceptions," said Scott Albro, CEO of Focus. "We look forward to engaging members in a variety of discussions that offer solutions across the cloud computing space."

The Focus Expert Roundtables are 45-minute online and teleconference events, and for each, there is one Lead Expert and two to four Expert Panelists. The Lead Expert moderates four to seven questions and drives the discussion as the Expert Panelists weigh in with thoughts, answers and feedback of their own. Questions asked during the event are also posted on Focus.com, and Expert Panelists will continue to answer questions on the site following the event.

It is entirely free to join Focus.com, and members can listen live to the online events and teleconferences, download the audio file and read the transcript. Additionally, all roundtable transcripts are made available to members for free following each event via stylized PDF documents.

For more information about the Focus Expert Roundtable events, and to access instructions on how to register as a Focus business expert, as well as gain access to the latest business research and expertise on the Focus network as a member, please visit www.focus.com.

About Focus.com

Focus.com is the leading online business professional network that consists of two interconnected groups – a membership base of more than 1 million business professionals and the highly-acclaimed Focus Expert Network, which features more than 5,000 of the most-recognized business and technology experts across every business category. Focus.com is ad-supported and entirely free to join. Within its engaged business community, members interact with each other and Focus experts to make more-informed business decisions.

To become a Focus expert, the Focus.com staff conducts an evaluation of the background and credentials of each candidate in their respective industry. In addition to free access to world-class business advice, Focus.com also offers real-time Q&A, industry research, relevant product and service information and personalized support. For more information, and to register to become a member or Focus expert, please visit http://www.focus.com/.

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SOURCE Focus.com