Keynote Speakers
Tuesday, April 27, 8:30am — 10:00am
Marius Haas
Senior Vice President and General Manager,
HP ProCurve Networking
Hewlett-Packard Company
Changing the Rules of Networking: The Converged Infrastructure and Beyond
Today, customers cannot keep up with the rapid pace of business change. They are working with a fragile networking infrastructure that requires different tools, operating systems and management environment. All of this means that networks are hard to manage, vulnerable to attacks, and expensive to maintain. Networking is a fundamental part of an integrated compute fabric, The Converged Infrastructure, that seamlessly connects servers and storage to applications and end users. Networks should not be a choke point. They need to be open, flexible, robust, secure and easy to manage. Marius Haas, Senior Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of HP Networking, will discuss how HP is changing the rules of networking with high performance, scalable and open solutions that deliver a simpler, more agile networking infrastructure with lower total cost of ownership. Randy Mott, HP Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, will describe how HP is designing the company’s own next generation data centers that leverage HP Networking solutions.
Speaker Biography
Marius Haas is Senior Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of the HP Networking business. He oversees the group’s worldwide operations, with a focus on expanding its position as a leading networking supplier in the market.
Previously, Haas served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development for HP. In that role, he led initiatives that focused on improving efficiency and driving growth, including the execution and integration of all acquisitions since 2004. He also oversaw the company’s strategic planning process, new business incubation and strategic alliances.
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Randy Mott
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Randy Mott is executive vice president and chief information officer of HP, responsible for the global information technology (IT) strategy and all of the company's IT assets. This includes company-wide application development, data management, technology infrastructure, data center operations and telecommunication networks worldwide.
Kevin Kennedy
President and CEO
Avaya
Accelerating a New Era of Business Communications
During periods of economic turmoil, business technology decision-makers sometimes make investment choices that seem pragmatic but actually put them behind the innovation curve and ultimately behind their competitors. The fact is that economic recessions and depressions have historically ended with compelling technology innovation, and the smartest bets have been on technologies that not only deliver tangible cost and ROI benefits in the short term but rich platform transformation and compelling growth over time. Today, when Unified Communications (real-time video, presence, messaging, multimodal collaboration and conferencing) are making unprecedented demands on enterprise networks, simply overlaying these new capabilities onto legacy data infrastructures may turn out in retrospect to be one of those regrettable "seemed like a good idea at the time" decisions.
Kevin Kennedy, president & CEO of Avaya, has launched and led networking innovations from the lab to the board room. At Interop, he will discuss how open platforms, ‘Fit for Purpose’ networking and SIP-based communications technologies are setting the stage to reduce TCO, boost productivity and redefine the user experience. In that context, he will demonstrate how always-on, efficient and scalable data architectures can enable enterprises to tackle today’s communications challenges while laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s growth opportunities.
Speaker Biography
Kevin Kennedy is the president and chief executive officer of Avaya. Avaya is a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.
Prior to joining the company in January 2009, Kennedy served as president and CEO of JDS Uniphase Corporation, a position he held since September 2003. He had also served as a member of the JDSU board of directors since November 2001.
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Brett D. Galloway
Senior Vice President, Wireless, Security, and Routing Technology Group
Cisco
Borderless Networks For the Hyper-Connected Human Network
There is a generational phenomenon underway – humans as mobile mavericks. Technology has enabled a dramatic change in behaviors. Millennial applications are changing life as we know it. We expect the ability to work, live, play, and learn from anywhere, anytime we want. And any way we want. We expect the next- generation workplace to have no borders and for businesses to comply with an individual’s choice of location, device, and application. At the foundation of this movement is the ability of the IP network to keep it all seamlessly connected and secure. The success of this depends on the ability to change the way we manage, secure, scale and govern networks – the very network that can make or break the experience of a mobile generation. Brett Galloway, Cisco’s Sr. Vice President of the Wireless, Security & Routing Technology Group will discuss how a Borderless Network Architecture provides a way for businesses to be more agile with a services-based platform that can help business and IT transform and accelerate mobility with media-rich video applications and energy management in secure, game-changing ways. Brett will demonstrate key Cisco innovations that help IT professionals ensure a mission critical mobile network in a borderless world of hyper-connected humans.
Speaker Biography
Brett Galloway serves multiple executive roles within Cisco. In his primary role as Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Wireless, Security, and Routing Technology Group, Galloway leads a high-growth set of businesses for wireless LAN, broadband wireless WAN, access routing, network access control, policy management, and security products.
Galloway also serves as the Senior Vice President responsible for the Borderless Networks business solutions from the Cisco Development Organization. One of the company’s top priorities, Borderless Networks combine core routing and switching infrastructure with advanced technologies for improved mobility, security, and application performance. They enable organizations to be more agile with a services-based network that securely supports new business models for customers. Galloway also serves as chairman of Cisco’s Mobility Board, promoting an open mobile IP network platform for the merging of mobile data and applications that deliver a new workspace experience seamlessly connecting anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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Wednesday, April 28, 8:30am — 10:00am
Dr. Kristof Kloeckner
Vice President, Strategy & Enterprise Initiatives, Systems & Software, and CTO, Cloud Computing
IBM
Cloud Computing and Smarter IT Delivery
Businesses are turning to cloud computing to drive innovation around IT service delivery, while reducing costs and complexities. As more companies explore cloud based workloads, what will continue to drive this adoption? What are the dominant architectures emerging? Are deployment models addressing security and control needs? Join Kristof Kloeckner as he provides insight to these questions and the transformation of IT services delivery.
Speaker Biography
Kristof Kloeckner, VP Strategy & Enterprise Initiatives, Systems & Software, and CTO Cloud Computing, is based in Armonk, New York. He was appointed to his present position in January 2009 and was previously CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology, IBM Software Group. He oversees the technology strategy for cloud computing across IBM and at the beginning of 2010 took on additional responsibility for cross-IBM strategic initiatives in the systems and software area.
He has held executive leadership positions in strategy, architecture and development in Germany, the UK and the USA, including VP of Development, Tivoli Software, CTO and VP of Strategy and Architecture, Application and Integration Middleware, VP of Business Integration Development and Director of the Hursley Laboratory in the United Kingdom as well Director, German Software Development Lab. He joined IBM in 1984 as a development engineer in the Boeblingen Development Laboratory in Germany.
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Keynote Panel
Cloud Computing: The New Platform
Every decade or so, the platforms on which we build change dramatically. We saw this as mainframes gave way to client-server, or as enterprise computing moved to the web. This decade's shift is happening in clouds — from on-premise to on-demand platforms — but also in the mobile applications, rich client interfaces, and virtualized infrastructure on which applications are built. This panel brings together the industry's biggest builders of new platforms for a look at how the very fabric of IT is changing beneath us.
Speakers:
Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.
Randy Rowland, General Manager Managed Hosting & Cloud Computing Services, Terremark Worlwide 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 InfinistructureTM 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.
Vittorio Viarengo, Vice President of Program Management, VMware
Vittorio is currently Vice President of Program Management at VMware reporting to Rick Jackson, the company CMO. Vittorio is responsible for aligning VMware’s go-to-market strategies and product initiatives with customer priorities. Prior to Joining VMware, Vittorio was VP of Product Development at Oracle Fusion Middleware and ran the Mobility, Voice and Communications Platform team. Before joining Oracle, Vittorio was Vice President of Platform Product Management and Strategy for BEA Systems. He was responsible for driving the product strategy, roadmap and priorities for BEA’s Application Platform Suite which includes application and data integration, portal, application server and WebLogic WorkShop, BEA’s integrated development environment.
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Moderator:
Alistair Croll, Founder, BitCurrent
Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.
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