Michel Drescher is director of Cloud Consult & CloudWATCH.  Michel graduated in Computer Science and Biology. He began his career in the  High Performance Computing sector, and since then, distributed infrastructure  and computing systems whether small or large‐scale, commercial or academic,  have been his constant companions. Having lived and worked in Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and having joined forces with international companies such as Nokia and Fujitsu, Michel now enjoys being an independent consultant in the UK.