Kent Cunningham has been in the field of IT Communications for over fifteen years, and has worked directly with vendors and the standards bodies through nearly every phase of the evolving IT market. After spending years focusing on the global commercial markets, Kent is currently an Emerging Technologies Business Development Manager for Microsoft Corporation, who is responsible for defining go-to-market strategies and product development roadmaps as influenced by, and tailored to meet, the unique requirements of customers in the Public Sector. His current focus is on creating highly available solutions which capitalize on the impacts of Social Networking, Cloud Computing, and Open Standards in the newly consumerized IT model.