What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? In this CTO Power Panel at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan discussed these and a host of other questions with Alistair Farquharson, CTO at SOA Software; Dan Graves, Cloud CTO at Symantec; Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat; Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft; Alok Rishi, Chief Technologist at Coraid; and Dr. John Bates, EVP and CTO at Progress Software