With substantial growth in cloud services, over 2.5 billion connected users, more than 1000 exabytes of internet traffic and 15 billion devices accessing cloud services by 2015, transforming datacenters to support this growth can be complex. To address the challenges facing IT and realize significant benefits of cloud computing, it’s essential that cloud solutions are open, interoperable and built on standards. Raejeanne Skillern, Director of Cloud Marketing for Intel will describe a multi-year vision for cloud and provide insights into relevant standards, next generation technologies that enable more secure, efficient, and simplified datacenters and best practices for deployment of interoperable cloud solutions.