We’ve all heard again and again that the cloud enables agility and velocity, and creates independence for business lines within the enterprise. Without coordination and oversight, however, the easy and widespread access to a mix of public, private and hybrid cloud solutions across IaaS, SaaS and PaaS has resulted in unchecked cloud sprawl within organizations. Cloud sprawl is splintering applications, systems and solutions across the enterprise. It has left IT without any visibility or authority, while accountability continues to be firmly placed on their shoulders. This is creating levels of complexities and liabilities that defy business sense. It has also resulted in enterprises missing opportunities, including better cost management. John will discuss the value of IT not only in ensuring business-critical coordination, compliance and security, as well as cost-savings, but also the role IT can play in championing innovation. He will present systems and solutions that will allow IT to deliver all the benefits of cloud adoption, all the speed and velocity, while maintaining the crucial ability to govern. This keynote is based on AppFog's own experience in meeting the challenges of running a public cloud strategy at scale, without reverting to the traditional and unsustainable option of vendor lock-in. It also draws from AppFog’s deep experience in developing, deploying and managing private and hybrid cloud solutions.