Conference: Cloud Computing Track
Interop's Cloud Computing track brings together cloud providers, end users, and IT strategists. It covers the strategy of cloud implementation, from governance and interoperability to security and hybrid public/private cloud models. Sessions include candid one-on-one discussions with some of the cloud's leading thinkers, as well as case studies and vigorous discussions with those building and investing in the cloud. We take a pragmatic look at clouds today, and offer a tantalizing look at how on-demand computing will change not only enterprise IT, but also technology and society in general.
| Tuesday, April 27 | |
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When you buy a car, it comes with a speedometer. It doesn't come with a roofrack. The automobile industry decided long ago what was built into a car, and what was purchased from third-party vendors. While many companies are using cloud computing today, the cloud ecosystem is still in flux. It's unclear what functions are part of a cloud, and what pieces will come from third party providers. In this opening session, Bitcurrent's Alistair Croll looks at how the industry is deciding what's an essential part of a cloud offering and what's an optional, third-party component. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent | |
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Anything that disrupts a market reveals new opportunities -- and few changes have been more disruptive to IT than cloud computing. This panel of investors talks about how utility computing is changing their investment philosophies. From reduced upfront capital that changes founder dillution to the ecosystem of tools and infrastructure that's emerged to support cloud computing, you'll get a long view of on-demand IT in this session. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Allan Leinwand, Venture Partner, Panorama Capital Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner in the firm and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks, Cedar Point Communications and Sylantro Systems. Speaker - Mark Fernandes, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures  Mark Fernandes is a Managing Director at Sierra Ventures and focuses on infrastructure software investments in the consumer internet and enterprise software areas. His investments include Frontbridge Technologies (acquired by Microsoft), Sourcefire (NASD: FIRE) and Opalis Software (acquired by Microsoft). He was also a board observer at Net6 (acquired by Citrix Systems) and Permeo (acquired by Blue Coat Systems). He serves on the boards of Ooyala and Spotzer Media. Mark started his career in engineering at Seagate Technology and was then a product manager at Cisco Systems. After business school, Mark was an equity research analyst covering software companies, first at Robertson Stephens and then as a Director at Merrill Lynch. He joined Sierra Ventures in 2002. Mark has a MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a MBA from Harvard. Speaker - Guy Horowitz, Principal, Gemini Israel Funds Guy Horowitz is a Principal in Gemini Israel Funds, focusing on Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service and Green IT. Guy brings to Gemini a decade of Product Management and Product Marketing experience in the enterprise software and mobile communication spaces, in companies such as Commtouch, a SaaS pioneer in the hosted messaging space, Followap (acquired by Neustar in2006), Microsoft, where he headed marketing for Telecom products in Microsoft’s Israeli Development Center, and most recently ModuMobile, where he lead the company’s Product and Marketing Strategy. 1. Guy holds a BA in Economics and an MBA, both Cum Laude, from the University of Haifa, and a Merage Fellowship from the Merage Foundation, University of California in Irvine, CA. 2. Guy blogs in Gemini’s corporate blog at http://blog.gemini.co.il. Speaker - Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners Ping is a partner at Accel focusing on IT infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, and internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Imperva, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe. Ping was responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco) and Mochi Media (acquired by Shanda). Prior to Accel, Ping was a director at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper's flagship router product portfolio and worked on Juniper's acquisition of Netscreen Technologies. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies. | |
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Data security via Web application and database controls is difficult and rapidly evolving. With the introduction of cloud computing new questions around sensitive data protection arise. Learn how data security can be achieved within cloud computing environments. See several use cases demonstrating effective, risk mitigating strategies. Speaker - Brian Contos, Chief Security Strategist, Imperva Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world. As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations and Global 2,000s on security strategy related to data-centric security while being an evangelist for the security space. He has written several security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler – Real Life Stories of Insider Threats as well as Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA – Bill Crowell. He has delivered countless speeches, webcasts, podcasts, and magazine articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SC Magazine and many others. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at ArcSight, Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Speaker - Chris Richter, VP Security Services, Savvis Chris is VP of security services at SAVVIS, a leading network, hosting and security services provider, where he is responsible for the managed-security line of business. He leads the effort behind implementing standardized control frameworks and risk management processes across SAVVIS’ dedicated and cloud-based services. Chris has assisted many enterprises in adapting their premise-based infrastructure risk management programs and security controls to outsourced virtualized and shared-infrastructure services. Chris is a member of ISSA and ISACA, and for more than 20 years has held various security and IT services management and consulting positions. With the move to virtualization and cloud-like IT architectures, we create and destroy computers instantly. The rate of architectural change is so fast, it must be automated to be workable. A new discipline -- dubbed DevOps -- is rising to the challenge. It's a cultural and technological shift in how IT systems are managed from creation to decommissioning. Because it gives development teams far greater control and involvement in operational functions, DevOps is tearing down the walls between development and operations, leading to a more collaborative, automated, agile approach to IT. Speaker - Jesse Robbins, CEO and Co-Founder, Opscode Jesse Robbins is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. | |
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Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention. Moderator - David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, Editor-in-Chief, TechWeb.com, TechWeb David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. Speaker - John Stetic, Director of Product Management, Systems and Resource Management (SRM), Novell In his role of Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management (SRM) unit of Novell, John works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including Novell ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin’s product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell’s acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: - VMworld - VMworld Europe - Gartner Data Center Conference - BrainShare, Novell’s annual user conference | |
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This panel of enterprise IT executives looks at their experience with cloud computing platforms, with a particular focus on compliance, performance, and the support for legacy applications. What could they move? What broke? Join this revealing discussion if you're tasked with enterprise cloud migration. Moderator - Killian Murphy, Director of Product Management, VMware Killian has 16 years technology industry experience within startups and Fortune 100 IT organizations in roles encompassing engineering, management and strategy. As a Director in IT at Credit Suisse in New York for over 5 years, he was responsible for developing, integrating and deploying their internal cloud with over 20,000 virtual servers. The technology his team developed became the foundation of a successful Boston-based startup, DynamicOps. Following the success of this large scale deployment Killian managed cloud strategy in the CTO office until his departure in June 2009. During his work delivering an internal cloud at Credit Suisse, Killian pioneered important areas of internal cloud computing environments, including: * Extensive end-to-end automation * Business requirements for security, billing and organizational or regulatory infrastructure silos * A self-service portal with fine-grained entitlements Speaker - Colin Hostert, CIO and CISO, Escape Media Group Speaker - Donald Army, Senior, Director, Network Services, PRN Speaker - Jim Vitek, eCommerce Director, Domino's Pizza Speaker - Jeremy Edberg, Operations Manager, reddit.com Jeremy Edberg is currently the Operations Manager for reddit.com, an Alexa top 300 web site, whose entire operations are run on EC2. For the 10 years before reddit, he had worked as a Systems Administrator, Programmer, and Security Engineer for such companies as eBay, PayPal, and Sendmail and UC Berkeley. He graduated with a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley. Speaker - Kowsik Guruswamy, Co-Founder and CTO, Mu Dynamics, Inc. | |
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The dream of portable, fluid workloads is far from today's reality. While companies might like to move their IT from provider to provider, or from on-premise to on-demand environment, quickly and easily, the reality is that competing standards and formats stand in the way. There's no common language for managing cloud computing, and proprietary formats, custom scripts, and relying on third-party middleware to insulate applications from the underlying platform are the norm. In this session, we'll look at cloud standards that are trying to overcome this chaos, and see whether truly portable, interoperable cloud platforms will become a reality. Moderator - Omer Trajman, VP Customer Solutions, Cloudera Omer Trajman is responsible for all customer-facing technical work at Cloudera, helping enterprise customers deploy and manage complex data and processing using Apache Hadoop. Prior to joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for cloud computing and virtualization initiatives at Vertica Systems. Among his projects was the integration of Vertica's products with Apache Hadoop. He also served as Director of Field Engineering and built and managed Vertica's customer-facing team. Omer was responsible for ensuring success, from pre-sales to production deployment, for Vertica's largest customers tackling growing data challenges. Omer received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading Computation and Electrical Engineering. Speaker - Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, RightScale Inc. Thorsten co-founded RightScale, Inc, the leading cloud management platform. Previously, Thorsten was Chief Architect at Expertcity.com and Citrix Online, makers of GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToAssist. He was responsible for the overall architecture of these online services and also managed the 24/7 datacenter operations which allowed him to acquire deep knowledge in deploying and running secure scalable online services. Thorsten received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Speaker - Jason Lochhead, CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child. Speaker - Ellen Rubin, VP of Products, CloudSwitch Founder and & VP of Products at CloudSwitch, Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market for fast-growing companies. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications.Prior to Netezza, Ellen founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Ellen played a key role in raising over $18 million in venture financing from leading US and Israeli venture capital firms, recruiting the US-based management team and defining product and market strategy. Ellen began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.
Enterprises are now leveraging cloud storage services at a rapid pace and are looking for qualified answers on how using a cloud platform can increase efficiency and ROI simultaneously. The old model of purchasing expensive storage systems or using large amounts of tape are prehistoric, adapting a new approach to storage is necessary in today’s tough economic climate as budgets continue to be slashed and performance upkeep is critical . This session will enable users to learn about the benefits and economies of scale as it relates to developing/implementing a cloud storage solution, a focus will be placed on performance, cost-effectiveness, user experience, and customer service/satisfaction. Speaker - Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting, Nirvanix | |
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The biggest obstacle to cloud computing adoption is trust. Whether you think of it as vulnerabilities, leakage of private data, or fear of lock-in, it all amounts to one thing: whether you trust your cloud platform. Now that on-demand computing is an IT certainty, it's time to establish best practices and governance, and mitigate the inherent risks of outsourced infrastructure. This presentation looks at the thorniest legal issues surrounding cloud computing. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Nolan Goldberg, IP & Technology Counsel, Proskauer LLP Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/ 
How Data Center Managers Should Evaluate The Cloud And Cloud-Like Efficiencies (Location: Breakers F)
As IT is challenged to deliver services – not manage assets – could computing presents itself as an affordable, scalable strategy. And the pressure is mounting for data center managers to move their on-premise infrastructure and applications into the cloud. But security concerns, poor service-level commitments, and lack of organizational readiness – and willingness – are all valid roadblocks that stand in the way. This session will help data center managers determine if could computing is right for them – and if not, how to achieve cloud-like efficiencies in their current environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Phil Fritz, Manager, Tivoli Strategy and Product Management, IBM Software Group, Tivoli Phil Fritz a manager in IBM Tivoli's Strategy and Product Management group. In this role, Phil leads a multi-disciplinary team that works with clients to define solutions, drive product strategy and bring key technologies, including Green, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SOA and Software-as-a-Service to the marketplace. Phil's team has been driving the strategy and product management behind key initiatives for IBM Tivoli , starting with IBM's Green Data Center launch in 2007 and, more recently, IBM Tivoli's new foray into Cloud Computing with Service Management Center for Cloud. Previously, Phil was a senior program director in the area of SOA management since 2002, helping define and drive the management capabilities in IBM’s SOA Foundation, focusing on security and management. Phil is a frequent speaker at trade, analyst and customer events. Phil has an MBA in Information Technology from the University of Texas – Austin and a BA from the University of Virginia. Speaker - Dhritiman Dasgupta, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. Speaker - Kirsten Wolberg, CIO, salesforce.com Kirsten Wolberg is Chief Information Officer at Salesforce.com, leading the Information Technology organization responsible for building and maintaining the global technology infrastructure and business applications for all Salesforce.com employees and business units. Wolberg joined Salesforce.com in May, 2008 from Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. where she led the organization responsible for corporate technology, offshore development and technology education & leadership development. She was a key member of the executive team that led Schwab’s turnaround and return to profitability. For the past seven years Wolberg has served in leadership roles with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the San Francisco Light the Night Walk. | |
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One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN. Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links. The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Peter Schmidt, CTO for North America, Ipanema Speaker - Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Michael Feiertag, Director of Technology, Blue Coat Systems Inc. What's a cloud worth? With so many definitions of cloud computing, and such a diverse range of implementations, it's hard to get a grip on cloud costs. This session will look at the fundamentals of cloud economics, as well as many of the factors enterprises need to consider when making financial decisions about on-demand options. Speaker - Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus Bernard Golden is called a “cloud guru.” He is CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet, Sun Microsytems, and Hewlett- Packard. Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called “brilliant and incisive.” His blog's influence was recognized when it was named a “Top 25 Cloud Computing Blog” by CloudTP. He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, speaking throughout the world at conferences like CloudWorld, Cloud Connect, Structure, and EDUCAUSE. | |
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Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains. Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains. The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Randy Rowland, SVP Product / General Manager, Terremark Worldwide Inc. Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings. Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom. Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children. Speaker - Chuck Tsocanos, Managing Director, Orange Chuck Tsocanos is responsible for global innovation in the Consulting & Solutions Integration business unit at Orange Business Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of France Telecom. Chuck is leading the real-time business strategy with focus on cloud computing and machine to machine (M2M) integration. His skills range across technology architecture, marketing, and business strategy. He is currently developing the cloud computing portfolio and go to market in cooperation with Orange & FT leadership. Speaker - Steven Guthrie, Senior Principal, Product Marketing, CA Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing, NetScout Systems Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. | |
