Kyle will be a featured speaker and panelist at the upcoming Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA) on May 5, 2011. As a featured speaker, Kyle will be speaking on the topic of “Your Private Cloud in the Sky,” where he will speak on how to use virtualization software and techniques to deliver an organization’s infrastructure anywhere, anytime, on any device. The full description of the talk is as follows:

Everywhere you turn, you are hearing about cloud computing. However, there are applications that just aren’t available in a cloud-based environment. Or, perhaps, there is sensitive material that you’re leery of pushing into the cloud. In this session, learn about the software solutions that will allow you to build your own private cloud where you can make both desktops and applications available on a multitude of different devices including desktops, laptops, Google Android-based devices, iPads, and more. Moreover, you’ll learn how to integrate such solutions as part of a larger cloud initiative that includes applications that aren’t self-hosted.

Kyle will also be a featured panelist on a discussion of live@edu, Microsoft’s hosted email and application solution that seeks to compete with Google Apps.