Antonio Piraino currently holds the position of the Vice President of Research at Tier1 Research, a company recognized as the leading analyst firm specializing in the Internet Infrastructure market. By blending the best of industry and financial research, Tier1 provides its subscribers a single source for advisory services covering the multi-tenant datacenter, hosting, managed services and cloud computing sectors. With 15 years in the Telecom, CDN and software development sectors, Mr. Piraino has emerged as a noted authority and thought-leader in cloud computing. He is a regular speaker at Datacenter, hosting, virtualization Telecom and cloud computing conferences on a global basis, and the author of Tier1 Research’s Managed Hosting and Cloud Infrastructure series of reports. Mr. Piraino has a BSc from the University of Natal, Satellite technology training, and an MBA from Georgetown University.