Interop Las Vegas 2010 Event Schedule
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As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT. Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision LLC Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Tom Mantz, Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC Tom Mantz served as the first Chief Information Officer for Praxair, a global provider of industrial gases. In this role, he led the development of a virtual, global IT resource from previously independent country-based IT organizations. His efforts led to the adoption of global IT standards and the implementation of a common, global communications infrastructure. Working with business partners, Mr. Mantz provided IT direction for global ERP initiatives. Prior to joining Praxair, Mr. Mantz served as Vice President and co-founder of the Renaissance Strategy Group, a global consultancy focusing on the application of the Balanced Scorecard methodology to issues associated with the development and implementation of business strategy. While at Renaissance, he applied Balanced Scorecard techniques to the development of IT Strategy. Mr. Mantz began his career at Nolan, Norton & Co., a leading IT strategy firm. Over 14 years, he served in a number of roles, eventually becoming Partner with responsibility for the firm's IT executive education programs. Mr. Mantz now serves as Managing Director of MNL Associated, where he consults with major organizations on improving the return from information technology. His practice specializes in the design of benefits-focused IT implementation programs. During his more than 25 years of IT leadership and management, Tom has concentrated on the development of business aligned IT strategies, the implementation of IT human resource processes and the delivery of executive education programs. Speaker - Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville Dr. Rob Rennie has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President, Technology for Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida since 1997. Prior to taking his current position, he was the CIO for Mt. San Antonio College in Los Angeles, is a former principal of the technology strategy practice of Xentrek Systems, Inc. and held a visiting scholar faculty appointment in Information Systems at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Rob has been a CIO for over twenty years and is known for building the reputations of organizations on a foundation of innovation, value creation, excellence and technology leadership. Dr. Rennie serves on Software AG's International Executive Committee, is a member of Apple's University Executive Forum and is a board member of Curriki. Florida State College has won numerous awards for its highly innovative and successful technology environment having been ranked first in the Nation three of four years by the Center for Digital Education, rated 'Most Wired' by Yahoo, and having been featured by several major technology firms for best practices and successful innovations. In 2004, Dr. Rennie was honored as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT leaders. Rob received his Bachelors degree from Rollins College, Masters from The University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Speaker - Bette Walker, CIO Emeritus, Delphi Bette Walker most recently served as vice president and chief information officer for Delphi Corporation, a leading global automotive supplier. In this position, Walker was responsible for global strategic and operational information technology. Walker served as a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company’s top policy-making group, and as a key member of the Global Transformation and the Transition Services restructuring boards. Walker joined Delphi in 1997 as chief information officer for the company’s then largest division, Delphi Engine Management Systems before becoming chief information officer for Delphi’s global entity. Walker previously served as the vice president of Information Technology with AlliedSignal, Inc. in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Prior to AlliedSignal, she held several positions with Digital Equipment Corporation including director of Information Technology for Latin America. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA Program at Boston University. In 2000, she completed the Global Leadership Executive Development Program at Harvard University. Walker served on the Research Board and Oakland University Board of Visitors for the School of Business Administration from 2004 through 2009. She has been recognized by ComputerWorld as one of the Premiere 100 Information Technology leaders and by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry. Walker’s leadership received five consecutive CIO 100 designations and the InformationWeek 500 ranking of innovative information technology organizations for five consecutive years. Walker is recognized as an expert in the areas of restructuring and vendor management and is a frequent speaker in Information Technology and leadership forums. Speaker - Mark Greenlaw, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Cognizant As Chief Information Officer, Mark Greenlaw is responsible for setting and executing an Information Technology strategy for Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services having more than 68,000 employees globally and $3B in revenues. He oversees a team of over 950 IT professionals who manage Cognizant’s global enterprise applications and infrastructure. In addition to his IT responsibilities, he is extremely passionate about the issues of global warming and sustainability and is on the advisory board of Cognizant’s “Go Green” sustainability program. Prior to Joining Cognizant in 2004, Mark held technology executive and consulting positions with Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Adams), Oracle Consulting, Keane, Nervewire (acquired by Wipro), and Computer Sciences Corporation. Mark graduated from Pennsylvania State University, with a B.S. in Operations Management from the College of Business Administration. Speaker - John Dohm, CIO, True Religion Apparel John Dohm is a distinguished executive with extensive experience in most aspects of information technology, strategy development, and business management. Dohm is currently the VP of IT at True Religion Apparel and is focused on the key company objectives of retail expansion, product line expansion, and international expansion. In support of the business strategy, John has initiated a three element model for IT at True Religion - implementing foundational systems, focusing on business processes, and driving Lite IT. John was previously CIO and VP of E-commerce at American Standard. In this role, he managed a worldwide IT organization and was a member of the corporate Strategy & Planning team. Dohm has numerous accomplishments at American Standard, including supporting global supply chain initiatives, driving a global SAP deployment, negotiating vendor agreements, improving productivity within the IT function across 13 countries, and instituting structured portfolio and program management techniques. Before American Standard, Mr. Dohm was a Partner and founder of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure practice for Deloitte & Touche. During his tenure, the practice grew at a 300% annual growth rate and was one of the fastest growing practice areas within the Firm. Dohm remains the fastest tenured partner in the history of the firm, being promoted from Senior Consultant to Partner in under four years. Another notable experience was the foundation a software and services company that concentrated on enabling organizational accountability. The concept was to link business strategies to projects, then track the return on the projects and tie rewards to accomplishments. John's interest in computing started early when he did assembler programming for Timex Sinclair machines in the late 1970s. Afterward, he developed software for a variety of platforms, including the original IBM PC. Dohm also started one of the early Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in 1982. His interest in business began during the mid 1980's when he founded a software development firm focused on call centers. Mr. Dohm received his MBA from the Northwestern Graduate School of Management (Kellogg) and a combined MS/BS in Computer Science from Loyola University. He has published articles on topics ranging from computer science to organizational design and has been a key speaker at industry conferences and events. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
VT1 - Virtualization Management Day - Optimization, Automation, Storage and Security (Location: Mandalay Bay L)Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and then how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with/utilize what they already have. In addition to operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure – creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. 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. Speaker - Hemant Gaidhani, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware Hemant Gaidhani is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at VMware, Inc focused on virtualization management. At VMware, he is responsible for evangelizing the VMware vCenter management products, and educating field partners and customers on deployment and best practices of these products. Hemant has regularly spoken at various VMware and other industry trade conferences. Hemant has over 15 years of experience working at high-technology companies such as Informix, Commerce One and EMC in the areas of in software development and performance engineering. Windows 7 is set to inherit the XP kingdom: attend this session and lean the security tricks needed to keep your kingdom safe. You'll understand Microsoft's new security model and how to make it work for you. Be dazzled by over 300 diagnostic tools built in Win 7, which can make you a Diagnostic Demon! Understand where the hidden folder system is that your files and programs are installed and where the registry hides your setting. (Hint: they don't exist in XP!) You'll learn unique optional security setting to really secure Win 7 so you comply with the Federal security regulations. None of these setting are on by default, all are deep screened and all increase your security for Free. Finish by constructing a self booting USB copy of Win 7 that can be used for enterprise rollout, diagnostic or just a great OS on a stick. Using information gathered from multiple sources - including private discussions with developers, inside MS sources and personal investigation — this workshop will help you understand the next generation of Microsoft clients NOW! Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Brad Smith, Director, Computer Institute of the Rockies
W11 - Uncovering the Application Vulnerabilities in Your Internet Facing Solutions (Location: Lagoon L)The proliferation of web-based applications has increased the enterprise's exposure to a variety of threats. There are overarching steps that can and should be taken at various steps in the application's lifecycle to prevent or mitigate these threats, such as implementing secure design and coding practices, performing source code audits, and maintaining proper audit trails to detect unauthorized use. This workshop will enable students to test the security of web-based applications from the perspective of the end user. Security testing helps to fulfill industry best practices and validate implementation. Security testing is especially useful since it can be done at various phases within the application's lifecycle (e.g. during development), or when source code is not available for review. The most popular threats and their potential impact will be covered via the OWASP "Top Ten". Demonstrations will be used to teach the tools and techniques needed to remotely detect and validate the presence of these threats. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - David Rhoades, Senior Consultant, Maven Security Consulting, Inc. David Rhoades is a senior consultant with Maven Security Consulting Inc. (www.mavensecurity.com). Maven Security Consulting Inc. is a Delaware corporation that provides information security assessments and training services to a global clientele.David’s expertise includes web application security, network security architectures, and vulnerability assessments. Past customers have included domestic and international companies in various industries, as well as various US government agencies. David has been active in information security consulting since 1996, when he began his career with the computer security and telephony fraud group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). David has taught at various security conferences around the globe, including for USENIX (www.usenix.org), MIS Training Institute (www.misti.com), and ISACA (www.isaca.org). David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (psu.edu). This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. Morning Focus Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates Inc
Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
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As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT. Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision LLC Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Tom Mantz, Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC Tom Mantz served as the first Chief Information Officer for Praxair, a global provider of industrial gases. In this role, he led the development of a virtual, global IT resource from previously independent country-based IT organizations. His efforts led to the adoption of global IT standards and the implementation of a common, global communications infrastructure. Working with business partners, Mr. Mantz provided IT direction for global ERP initiatives. Prior to joining Praxair, Mr. Mantz served as Vice President and co-founder of the Renaissance Strategy Group, a global consultancy focusing on the application of the Balanced Scorecard methodology to issues associated with the development and implementation of business strategy. While at Renaissance, he applied Balanced Scorecard techniques to the development of IT Strategy. Mr. Mantz began his career at Nolan, Norton & Co., a leading IT strategy firm. Over 14 years, he served in a number of roles, eventually becoming Partner with responsibility for the firm's IT executive education programs. Mr. Mantz now serves as Managing Director of MNL Associated, where he consults with major organizations on improving the return from information technology. His practice specializes in the design of benefits-focused IT implementation programs. During his more than 25 years of IT leadership and management, Tom has concentrated on the development of business aligned IT strategies, the implementation of IT human resource processes and the delivery of executive education programs. Speaker - Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, Florida State College at Jacksonville Dr. Rob Rennie has been the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Vice President, Technology for Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida since 1997. Prior to taking his current position, he was the CIO for Mt. San Antonio College in Los Angeles, is a former principal of the technology strategy practice of Xentrek Systems, Inc. and held a visiting scholar faculty appointment in Information Systems at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Rob has been a CIO for over twenty years and is known for building the reputations of organizations on a foundation of innovation, value creation, excellence and technology leadership. Dr. Rennie serves on Software AG's International Executive Committee, is a member of Apple's University Executive Forum and is a board member of Curriki. Florida State College has won numerous awards for its highly innovative and successful technology environment having been ranked first in the Nation three of four years by the Center for Digital Education, rated 'Most Wired' by Yahoo, and having been featured by several major technology firms for best practices and successful innovations. In 2004, Dr. Rennie was honored as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT leaders. Rob received his Bachelors degree from Rollins College, Masters from The University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Speaker - Bette Walker, CIO Emeritus, Delphi Bette Walker most recently served as vice president and chief information officer for Delphi Corporation, a leading global automotive supplier. In this position, Walker was responsible for global strategic and operational information technology. Walker served as a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company’s top policy-making group, and as a key member of the Global Transformation and the Transition Services restructuring boards. Walker joined Delphi in 1997 as chief information officer for the company’s then largest division, Delphi Engine Management Systems before becoming chief information officer for Delphi’s global entity. Walker previously served as the vice president of Information Technology with AlliedSignal, Inc. in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Prior to AlliedSignal, she held several positions with Digital Equipment Corporation including director of Information Technology for Latin America. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Executive MBA Program at Boston University. In 2000, she completed the Global Leadership Executive Development Program at Harvard University. Walker served on the Research Board and Oakland University Board of Visitors for the School of Business Administration from 2004 through 2009. She has been recognized by ComputerWorld as one of the Premiere 100 Information Technology leaders and by Automotive News as one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry. Walker’s leadership received five consecutive CIO 100 designations and the InformationWeek 500 ranking of innovative information technology organizations for five consecutive years. Walker is recognized as an expert in the areas of restructuring and vendor management and is a frequent speaker in Information Technology and leadership forums. Speaker - Mark Greenlaw, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Cognizant As Chief Information Officer, Mark Greenlaw is responsible for setting and executing an Information Technology strategy for Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services having more than 68,000 employees globally and $3B in revenues. He oversees a team of over 950 IT professionals who manage Cognizant’s global enterprise applications and infrastructure. In addition to his IT responsibilities, he is extremely passionate about the issues of global warming and sustainability and is on the advisory board of Cognizant’s “Go Green” sustainability program. Prior to Joining Cognizant in 2004, Mark held technology executive and consulting positions with Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Adams), Oracle Consulting, Keane, Nervewire (acquired by Wipro), and Computer Sciences Corporation. Mark graduated from Pennsylvania State University, with a B.S. in Operations Management from the College of Business Administration. Speaker - John Dohm, CIO, True Religion Apparel John Dohm is a distinguished executive with extensive experience in most aspects of information technology, strategy development, and business management. Dohm is currently the VP of IT at True Religion Apparel and is focused on the key company objectives of retail expansion, product line expansion, and international expansion. In support of the business strategy, John has initiated a three element model for IT at True Religion - implementing foundational systems, focusing on business processes, and driving Lite IT. John was previously CIO and VP of E-commerce at American Standard. In this role, he managed a worldwide IT organization and was a member of the corporate Strategy & Planning team. Dohm has numerous accomplishments at American Standard, including supporting global supply chain initiatives, driving a global SAP deployment, negotiating vendor agreements, improving productivity within the IT function across 13 countries, and instituting structured portfolio and program management techniques. Before American Standard, Mr. Dohm was a Partner and founder of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure practice for Deloitte & Touche. During his tenure, the practice grew at a 300% annual growth rate and was one of the fastest growing practice areas within the Firm. Dohm remains the fastest tenured partner in the history of the firm, being promoted from Senior Consultant to Partner in under four years. Another notable experience was the foundation a software and services company that concentrated on enabling organizational accountability. The concept was to link business strategies to projects, then track the return on the projects and tie rewards to accomplishments. John's interest in computing started early when he did assembler programming for Timex Sinclair machines in the late 1970s. Afterward, he developed software for a variety of platforms, including the original IBM PC. Dohm also started one of the early Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in 1982. His interest in business began during the mid 1980's when he founded a software development firm focused on call centers. Mr. Dohm received his MBA from the Northwestern Graduate School of Management (Kellogg) and a combined MS/BS in Computer Science from Loyola University. He has published articles on topics ranging from computer science to organizational design and has been a key speaker at industry conferences and events. Speaker - Mitch Walters, Vice President of Information Technology, Rayonier Speaker - Nik Rouda, Director of Product Marketing for Steelhead WAN Optimization, Riverbed Nik Rouda is the director of product marketing for Steelhead WAN optimization at Riverbed, helping customers accelerate applications, optimize bandwidth, improve disaster recovery, and succesfully adopt cloud computing. He has over 14 years marketing and technical sales industry experience with leading enterprise network, storage and security vendors including NetApp, AlertMe.com, VERITAS, and Symantec. Nik has a BS in Geophysics from Brown and an MBA from Cambridge. 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. In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in. On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Moderator - Shlomo Swidler, Founder, Orchestratus Shlomo Swidler is a prominent cloud computing developer, trainer, and consultant. He is among the top experts contributing to the Amazon EC2 Developer Forums. His blog is a highly-regarded source of practical techniques for developers, and has served as the inspiration for a number of features in commercial products. Shlomo is also an active participant in the Oped Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Interface working group, providing an open, community-developed interface to cloud computing resources. Shlomo was an early adopter of cloud computing, when, in 2007 as CTO of MyDrifts, he architected and implemented a large-scale deployment completely hosted in the cloud, designed to scale itself automatically according to load. Prior to founding MyDrifts, Shlomo led a team of developers at Sun Microsystems in the Java ME Developer Tools division, where he managed development efforts both for internal and for customer-facing projects. Shlomo also led development teams at a number of startups during the dot-com era. He has an Engineering degree from The Cooper Union in New York. 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 - Bradford Stephens, Founder, Drawn to Scale Bradford Stephens likes to do big things and kick ass.He is co-founder of Drawn to Scale, who built the first easy, scalable data platform. Their platform is much more than a database: you can process, store, serve, search, and query *all* your data. To *all* your users.He has a love for public speaking, Hadoop, cloud computing, HBase, Lucene, graph theory, Iron Maiden, and using the right tools for problems. Bradford was formerly the Lead Engineer of Data Platforms at Visible Technologies, a social media analytics company. When not writing software or talking to customers, he’s usually playing guitar and drinking wine. He also hosts the popular software blog, Road to Failure (roadtofailure.com).Bradford has spoken at events such as OSCON, Hadoop World, LinkedIn TechTalks, ApacheCon, and many more. You can catch him speaking at CloudConnect, Interop, and GlueCon later this year.He can be contacted at bradfordstephens@gmail.com, and is always happy to give advice or consulting (if you’re really interesting). Speaker - Mark Day, Chief Scientist, Riverbed Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. Speaker - Lori Mac Vittie, Technical Marketing Manager, F5 Networks Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. MacVittie has extensive programming experience as an application architect, as well as network and systems development and administration expertise. Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine, where she conducted product research and evaluation focused on integration with application and network architectures, and authored articles on a variety of topics aimed at IT professionals. Her most recent area of focus included SOA-related products and architectures. She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University. Speaker - Christian Schalk, Developer Advocate, Google Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and is currently working on the Google App Engine team but also works to promote other technologies such as Enterprise OpenSocial as well as other technologies such as Google Friend Connect, Maps, AJAX APIs and Google Data APIs. Before Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne. Speaker - Tom Bishop, CTO, Conformity, Inc. Tom is the CTO at Conformity, where he is responsible for overall technology vision and strategy. Tom is a recognized and award-winning CTO, and brings over 30 years of experience in senior technology and strategy roles at a variety of pioneering systems management solution vendors. Prior to Conformity, Tom was VP of Engineering at Storspeed, a leading storage solutions vendor. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer at BMC Software, where he was responsible for product vision and direction. Tom served as Chief Technology Officer at VIEO, Inc, where he was named “Chief Technology Officer of the Year” by InfoWorld magazine in 2004. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer at Tivoli and later IBM-Tivoli. Tom began his career at Bell Labs. He holds nine patents in fault-tolerant and distributed computing and led the development of such industry standards as the DMTF’s CIM, the CMDB federation specification, and POSIX. Tom holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. Speaker - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Tom Wesselman, Principal Engineer, Enterprise, Commercial & Small Business Group, Cisco Tom Wesselman is a senior manager in the office of the CTO responsible for the long-term strategy for Cisco's Communication and Collaboration products - building on the foundation of Unified, IP-based communication to add social networking, collaboration, and web 2.0 interfaces and applications. Before that he ran engineering for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, partnerships for the initial release of Cisco Network Admission Control, and engineering for Cisco Unity Unified Messaging. 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 - Mark Silber, IT Architect, Qualcomm Mark Silber had over 10 years of experience as a consultant working with customer service applications at large companies before joining Qualcomm in 2004. Prior to his current role as IT Architect, Mark was an IT Manager at Qualcomm responsible for the sustainment of numerous on-premise deployments of CRM. He has since led the successful replacement of the original on-premise CRM applications with Salesforce.com and now drives the ongoing success and expansion of Salesforce at Qualcomm across various business units. Mark has a very deep understanding of the Salesforce application and platform and has spoken at various events, including Dreamforce, Salesforce City Tours, ACCE / ICMI Conference and an SSPA sponsored webinar. 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 Speaker - K. Scott Morrison, CTO, Layer 7 Technologies K. Scott Morrison is the CTO at Layer 7 Technologies, where he works to scale, simplify and secure Web applications. He has extensive technical and scientific experience in a number of industries and universities, including senior architect positions at IBM. Experience: Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker with extensive speaking experience at over 70 shows around the world, including Cloud and SOA conferences such as GigaOM Structure, SOA World, InfoWorld SOA Forum, JavaOne, ZapThink podcasts, the OMG SOA Consortium, the IDC IT Forum, Web Services on Wall Street, several Gartner events and Networld+Interop. Publications: Scott has published over 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals, including ComputerWorld, ZDNet, Web Services Unleashed, Professional JMS, Ajax World Magazine, SOA World Magazine, Communications News, DM Review, and the Business Integration Journal. Scott co-authored and edited the Cloud Security Alliance’s 2010 report, “Top Threats to the Cloud,” and is a co-author of the upcoming university textbook “Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications” to be published by Springer-Verlag. Follow Scott at: Blog: http://kscottmorrison.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/KScottMorrison Speaker - Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure, Microsoft Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team. Windows Azure is a platform for developing, deploying, managing, and hosting cloud-based Web services. Khalidi is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group. Before joining Microsoft, Khalidi was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years tenure at Sun, he held several development, architecture, and management positions in Sun’s software division as well as in Sun Labs. Khalidi was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect and Director of the Sun Cluster product line, Chief Architect of Sun's N1 utility computing initiative, as well as a principal architect of Solaris MC and Spring operating systems. He shipped several releases of Sun Cluster and the Solaris operating system, and hasworked on system management software, high speed networking, and memory management hardware designs. Khalidi has published works in several areas, including operating systems, high availability, distributed systems, object-oriented software, high speed networking, memory management, and computer architecture. He holds 30 patents in these areas. Khalidi has a Ph.D. and a Master ofScience in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Speaker - Jonathan Bryce, Co-Founder, The Rackspace Cloud Jonathan Bryce started his career working as a web developer for the managed hosting giant, Rackspace. During his tenure at Rackspace, Bryce and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site - all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision, along with help from Rackspace, was turned into Mosso. Currently, Bryce oversees all operations and customer service for over 85,000 managed websites served by Mosso. Mosso is the home of Cloud Sites, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™, providing enterprise-grade hosting and storage services. Mosso provides an easily managed interface allowing developers, designers and IT managers to deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily as well as high performance cloud-based storage services. Founded by two Rackspace employees, Mosso is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture. Speaker - Rich Day, Vice President, Product Strategy, CDNetworks Rich Day, Vice President of Product Strategy for CDNetworks, is responsible for future product and technology direction for the company. Rich was previously Vice President of Strategy at Panther Express, which merged with CDNetworks in early 2009, where he worked on product positioning and direction. Rich leverages a rich technical and business background in the CDN industry including the role of Chief Architect and Vice President of Operations at Speedera, where he was instrumental in conceptualizing, establishing, and sustaining its technology leadership. Rich continued in a technical consultant role at with Akamai Technologies after its merger with Speedera in 2005. Rich obtained nine U.S. patents for new systems, processes, and methodologies while with Speedera. Prior to Speedera, Rich was a Professional Services Consultant at Resonate, Inc. a provider of enterprise load balancing solutions. Rich holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design, Digital Design focus from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Speaker - Sundar Raghavan, CMO, Skytap Sundar Raghavan is the chief product and marketing officer for Skytap and he is responsible for overall product direction, marketing strategy and execution. He is an industry veteran with a successful 18 year career in product and marketing roles at Google, Ariba, Arbor Software (now part of Oracle), and Microstrategy. Prior to joining Skytap, Sundar was a senior member of the Google Enterprise team responsible for marketing the Postini product line. As vice president of solutions marketing at Postini, he enabled the company’s rapid growth and eventual acquisition by Google. Prior to Postini, Sundar served as the vice president of solutions marketing at Ariba. In that role, he launched Ariba's SaaS roadmap and enabled Ariba's transformation to become the spend management market leader. Sundar joined Ariba through their first acquisition, TradingDynamics, where he lead the product team that created the most successful business-to-business auction platform. Prior to that, he held progressively responsible product roles at Arbor and MicroStrategy. Sundar holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and a MS degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Northeastern University. Speaker - Colin Hostert, CIO and CISO, Escape Media Group Speaker - Jim Vitek, eCommerce Director, Domino's Pizza Speaker - Jian Zhen, Director of Cloud Computing Solutions, VMware Jian Zhen is the Director of Cloud Solutions at VMware. He is responsible for working with the world’s largest service providers to design cloud infrastructures and platforms, and creating partner ecosystems for the clouds. Previously, he was the VP of Emerging Technologies at LogLogic, the log management and intelligence leader in San Jose, Calif. At LogLogic, he was responsible for the overall vision and strategy of LogLogic’s product lines. Prior to joining LogLogic, he was responsible for developing the Managed Security Services infrastructure for Exodus/Savvis. During his career in the information security field, he has performed audits for many Fortune 1000 companies as an IT auditor with Ernst & Young and Charles Schwab. In his spare time, Jian also writes a variety of topics covering cloud computing, IT security, intellectual property protection, and managed services. You can also find him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Speaker - Dave Carroll, Director, Developer Evangelism, salesforce.com Dave Carroll is the Director of Developer Evangelism at salesforce.com. Dave’s focus is on growing the developer community and inspiring developers to think creatively about using various Web 2.0 technologies with the company’s Force.com platform as a service and AppExchange marketplace. Dave was instrumental in launching and validating the company’s first Web services API, which now handles more than 50% of all salesforce.com service transactions. Dave has also led and participated in the creation of many developer tools, including the Force.com Toolkit for AJAX, Force.com Toolkit for Adobe Flex and the Force.com IDE Eclipse plugin. In his 7-plus years at salesforce.com, Dave has helped evangelize the power and innovation possible with on-demand computing growing Developer.Force.Com from its inception to more than 230,000 members. Previously, Dave demonstrated his early understanding of the value of on-demand software as a service serving as Chief Technology Officer at Advanced HR, Inc., a Saratoga-based on-demand software company providing Compensation Benchmarking for Pre-IPO companies. Before that, Dave was a senior technical analyst and technologist for PSW-3, a financial services company. Dave has spent over 15 years developing software on a variety of platforms. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
VT2 - Desktop Virtualization Day – Successfully Deploying Desktop and Application Virtualization (Location: Mandalay Bay L)Most companies have already implemented server consolidation projects utilizing virtualization technologies, and have brought significant cost reductions to both capital and operational expenditures. Recent FOCUS research shows that the next priority for virtualization amongst advanced organizations is desktop virtualization. Companies are looking to leverage server, desktop and application virtualization technologies to bring order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what are the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, and where/how do they apply in your environment? More importantly, how can your IT organization assess desktop requirements across the entire organization and leverage the appropriate technologies to deal with the unrelenting daily demands of provisioning, administering, securing and supporting hundreds or tousands of corporate desktops and applications for a wide variety of user types? Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. This workshop provides a technology overview of Voice and Video over IP (VoIP), including the protocols, technologies and architectures at the core of VoIP products and systems. These include media transport like the real time transport protocol, quality of service technologies such as differentiated services and the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), signaling through the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), security, as well as firewall and NAT traversal using techniques like the Simple Traversal of UDP Through NAT (STUN) and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). The course does not provide a review of products on the markets or network design guidelines. You Will Learn Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Jonathan Rosenberg, Chief Technology Strategist, Skype : Jonathan Rosenberg is Chief Technology Strategist for Skype, where he is responsible for Skype's technology directions and overall architecture. Prior to that, he was a Cisco Fellow at Cisco, where he set technology strategy for their enterprise PBX product. Jonathan is the principle author of SIP, the lingua-franca of Voice over IP, and has written many of the standards around it, particularly in the areas of NAT traversal, presence and IM. For his work, Jonathan was named one of the top 100 most innovative young technologists in the world by Technology Review magazine. He received a PhD from Columbia University and his masters and bachelors from MIT. This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Thomas Randall, Operations Vice President, BT Americas Tom Randall is a Vice President with BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives. improved security technologies constantly emerge, but some technologies become increasingly prevalent, whereas others fall by the wayside. Furthermore, many information security experts believe that we have been using the same basic security measures over the last 20 years and that this is one of the major reasons for the growing gap between actual risk and managed risk. The technology arena is not excepted from this view. Because technology is so critical in mitigating information security-related risk, keeping in touch with security technologies (especially new and emerging ones), understanding their real functionality, capabilities, limitations, and potential for improvement despite all the hype that surrounds them, understanding environments and contexts in which they are most likely to be successful, and learning how to develop an effective strategy for deploying and phasing in these technologies is essential. This one-day course will cover four extremely critical security technologies: network security in the 21st century, cloud computing, virtualization, and SIEM technology. The course will present a realistic view of each technology and will then will delve into security issues related to each one. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, Chief Technology Officer, Emagined Security Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, one on Unix security, another on Internet security, a third on Windows NT/2000 security, a fourth on incident response, and the latest on intrusion detection and prevention. He has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites editorial board, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. A Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Gene has also been named to the ISSA Hall of Fame and has received ISSA's Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases. This intensive workshop offers a critical, independent evaluation of SharePoint, detailing the platform's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint -- and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Tony Byrne, President, Real Story Group Tony Byrne is the President of the Real Story Group and oversees all of the technology streams and properties, which include CMS Watch, Enterprise Information Watch, and SharePoint Watch. In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS Watch evolved into a multi-channel research and advisory organization, spinning off similar product evaluation research in various areas of Enterprise Content Management. As a result of this natural evolution, in 2010, The Real Story Group became the parent company of CMS Watch and its sister entities, EI Watch and SharePoint Watch. Tony is the original author of The Real Story Group's Web Content Management research, a former journalist, and a 20-year technology industry veteran. Prior to 2001, he managed an engineering team at a systems integration firm. He now focuses his own research on Enterprise Community and Collaboration software, SharePoint, and Web Content Management. During the last decade, Tony has advised clients such as the US Dept. of the Treasury, the American Association of Retired Persons, MBC Television of Dubai, The Canadian Cancer Society, and The Seattle Children's Hospital. Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
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Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future IT. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Kevin Kennedy, President & Chief Executive Officer, Avaya 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. Before joining JDSU, Kennedy served as chief operating officer of Openwave Systems, Inc., a position he held from August 2001 to September 2003. Prior to joining Openwave Systems, Kennedy spent close to eight years at Cisco Systems, Inc., most recently as senior vice president of the Service Provider Line of Business and Software Technologies Division. Earlier in his career, Kennedy spent 17 years with AT&T Bell Laboratories, serving in a number of assignments in the Lincroft, Holmdel, and Middletown, New Jersey locations. During his Bell Labs tenure, he also lived and worked in Columbus, Ohio as part of the Conversant voice information system team, in the AUDIX Voice Messaging organization. In 1987, Kennedy was a congressional fellow to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He was a member of the board of directors of Polycom, Inc. until January 2009. He currently serves on the board of directors of KLA-Tencor Corporation and is a member of the board of regents of Loyola Marymount University. Kennedy holds a B.S. in engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Rutgers University. He was an adjunct professor at Rutgers from 1982-1984 and has published more than 30 papers on computational methods, data networking and issues of technology management. In 2006, Kennedy was honored by the School of Engineering at Rutgers as their Alumnus of the Year and awarded an Alumni Medal of Excellence. He is a co-author of "Going the Distance: Why Some Companies Dominate and Others Fail," published in 2003. Speaker - Marius Haas, Senior VP and GM, HP ProCurve Networking Speaker - Brett Galloway, Senior Vice President, Wireless, Security, and Routing Technology Group, Cisco 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. Speaker - 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. | |
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See what's new, learn what's cutting edge and identify technology must-haves for your business. With over 350 exhibitors, you'll see all the latest IT solutions in one place—including virtualization, cloud computing, security, mobility and data center advances—to position your organization for growth. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges that is driving the transition to Application Delivery 2.0. This includes virtualization of every component of IT, public and private cloud computing, the need to support mobile workers and the need to support applications such as Unified Communications. Jim will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges and will focus on the technologies that will be featured at Interop. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - 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.
Bridging The C-Suite Gap: How To Build The Business Case For Data Center Transformation (Location: Breakers F)While evaluating and managing technology comes naturally to IT professionals, communicating business value may not. With data center transformation at the heart of delivering on businesses demand for reliable, flexible and resilient IT services at an affordable cost, data center managers must learn to develop and articulate business cases. This session will help attendees create a successful transformation strategy by: demonstrating ROI to secure CEO support for migrating to a next-generation data center; highlighting attributes to build the business case; and identifying infrastructure features that increase efficiency and lower costs, while delivering business value. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Brooks Esser, Worldwide Lead, CIO Agenda, HP Brooks Esser is the Worldwide Lead for HP’s CIO Agenda program. He has over ten years of experience in services, industry and solutions marketing. Prior to joining his current position, he served as a finance manager at several HP divisions, and also managed HP’s syndicated market research activities for several years. Esser holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. Information security is quickly evolving into information risk management. The enterprise of today can no longer rely on technology alone to protect information and information infrastructure, and requires a business-aligned approach to information risk management, governance, and compliance to be successful. The growth in global regulatory and compliance requirements, lack of available resources and funding, and constant need to balance protection with the business needs of the organization is a great challenge for professionals in this area. The Governance, Risk, and Compliance track will focus on providing insights and guidance from experienced practitioners on key issues which enterprises are facing today as they mature their capabilities and transform a reactive and technologically focused approach to information security into a proactive approach to information risk management. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management programs, business resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences. Open Source PBXs have become a force in the enterprise communication market, with some estimates showing as much as 18% of stations shipped (for all size segments) may be open source. Clearly, this is an option that many enterprises are taking much more seriously than they might have expected to a few years ago. But does that mean open source should be a part of your next procurement, or at least included in RFIs and RFPs? This session will look at the technical aspects of Open Source PBX/communications systems. You’ll come away with an understanding of what open source can do for your enterprise’s communications infrastructure, and the true nature of the investment you’ll have to make to procure, customize, install and support Open Source PBXs. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, Enterprise Connect Eric Krapf is co-chair of the VoiceCon events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb’s online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas. Speaker - Steve Sokol, Marketing Director for Asterisk, Digium Steve Sokol is the Marketing Director for Asterisk at Digium. Steve's primary function is spreading the word about the limitless capabilities and incredible value of the Asterisk communications engine. Steve's experience with the revolutionary open source platform dates to 2003. In 2004 he co-founded AstriCon, the official Asterisk community conference and exhibition. Shortly thereafter he launched a highly successful Asterisk training venture. In 2007 both the training program and the conference were acquired by Digium. Steve has worked in the telecommunications software industry since the early 1990s. Prior to his discovery of Asterisk, he worked as a communications consultant and solutions architect. His client list included Sprint, Sprint PCS, Computer Instruments, TWA and Stream International (now Stream Global Services). He was the chief architect of the award winning eIVR platform and of Stream International's innovative Q-View management information system. Originally from the Kansas City, Missouri area, Steve now lives in Tulsa, OK. He is married to Amy, a brilliant health care attorney and the father of Katie, a brilliant 4th grader. 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. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Given the rapid rate of change in wireless and mobile technologies, services, products, and applications, it’s no surprise that the experts will disagree as to what the single most important item on your mobility to-do list should be. This session, nonetheless, will provide just that – a list of single best ideas (and subsequent debate) to enable you to pick what will be at the top of your list. Join us for a fast-paced kickoff session that will bring the entire range of wireless and mobile opportunities into focus. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Paul DeBeasi, VP and Research Director, Wired and Wireless Networking Reserch, Gartner Paul DeBeasi is the VP and Research Director for wired and wireless networking research at Gartner. Prior to Gartner, Paul was the wireless and mobility analyst at Burton Group. He also founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless consulting firm, and was the VP Product Marketing at Legra Systems, a wireless-switch innovator. Prior to Legra, Paul was the VP Product Marketing at venture funded firms IPHighway and ONEX Communications and was the Frame Relay product line manager for Cascade Communications. Paul began his career developing networking systems as an engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom Corporation. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - Lisa Phifer, President, Core Competence Lisa Phifer is President of Core Competence, a consulting firm focused on business use of emerging network and security technologies. At Core Competence, Lisa draws upon nearly 30 years of network design, implementation, and testing experience to provide services ranging from vulnerability assessment and product evaluation to user education and white paper development. She has advised companies large and small regarding use of network technologies and security best practices to manage risk and meet business needs. Lisa teaches and writes extensively about many technologies, including wireless/mobile security, IPS, VPN, and NAC. Her work appears regularly in industry publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, SearchMobileComputing, and Information Security Magazine. Speaker - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, OctoScope Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE 802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences Speaker - Philippe Winthrop, Managing Director, The Enterprise Mobility Foundation: Unbiased Enterprise Mobility Philippe Winthrop has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC’s European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe then moved on to a Boston based marketing services firm where he launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices. Speaker - Michael Miller, Senior VP, Technology Strategy, PCMag.com Michael J. Miller is senior vice president for technology strategy at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. He also writes the popular Forward Thinking blog at PC Magazine -- blogs.pcmag.com/miller From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing since 1997, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title. Under Miller's supervision, PC Magazine grew to have the largest readership of any technology publication in the world. PC Magazine has grown and evolved its pioneering online work as well, evolving from its successful PC MagNet service on CompuServe to become one of the earliest and most successful Web sites. PC Magazine Online on the Web, at http://www.pcmag.com, provides updated news and analysis, innovative interactive elements, discussions, and archival data to complement the print version. As an accomplished journalist, well versed in product testing and evaluating and writing about software issues, and as an experienced public speaker, Miller has become a leading commentator on the computer industry. He has participated as a speaker and panelist in industry conferences, has appeared on numerous business television and radio programs discussing technology issues, and is frequently quoted in major newspapers. His areas of special expertise include the Internet and its applications, desktop productivity tools, and the use of PCs in business applications. Prior to joining PC Magazine, Miller was editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, which he joined as executive editor in 1985. At InfoWorld, he was responsible for development of the magazine's comparative reviews and oversaw the establishment of the InfoWorld Test Center. Previously, he was the west coast bureau chief for Popular Computing, and senior editor for Building Design & Construction. Miller earned a BS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and an MS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He has received several awards for his writing and editing, including being named to Medill's Alumni Hall of Achievement. Follow Michael on Twitter at www.twitter.com/m_j_miller Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. | |
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When one looks at the main benefits of storage networking people often cite performance. Performance means many things to many people in the IT world. This two hour session identifies just what aspects of performance are and are not critical to the successful deployment of these storage and storage networking technologies. We will look at the different kinds of information flow requirements and how best to map those to storage infrastructures today. We will examine the best place to invest for performance as well as talk about some of the performance "myths" as well. Session topics will include: Performance Elements - What's Important Storage Device & Controller Technology - Performance Enablers Storage Networking: Bit Rate, Bandwidth, Latency & Throuput The Role of iSCSI and Fibre Channel in today's data center Unified Fabric and FCoE Developments Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Howard Goldstein, President, HGAI Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others. Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com. He provides in-depth skills with his technology-specific classes. His job task approach in his Storage Networking Planning, Design, Performance and Troubleshooting classes provides the skill level required to perform specific job roles in the Storage Networking industry today. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both. Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks. | |
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The InteropNet provides a reliable, high-speed network for exhibitors, conference rooms and attendees, built in collaboration with hand selected vendors and volunteers who come together to take on the ultimate networking challenge. This year, the team is virtualizing many devices and moving a fair amount of services and equipment to ‘the cloud.’ Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet with a free engineer-led tour. This year see virtualization in action and learn how you can bring its performance, reliability and cost benefits to your organization. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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There are two major subsystems in a data center: physical infrastructure and IT equipment. PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) indicates the proportion of power consumed by both. Companies around the globe are publishing PUE values that are close to perfection, but are these numbers achievable in a real-world production data center? This session will help attendees filter out the hype, understand the science behind PUE, and set realistic expectations for their own data centers. Beyond the basic calculations, you will examine what factors could increase or decrease your PUE and set you on track for improving your data center efficiency. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Steven Carlini, Sr Director, Data Center Global Solution Offer Management, APC by Schneider Electric
SharePoint, System Center R2 and Visio 2010- Magic at its Best for IT Professionals - Sponsored by Microsoft (Location: Mandalay Bay J)Come see how the System Center R2 add-in for Visio 2010 works along with Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. We will show you how the add-in works and discuss in detail what is needed to get to this magic show on its way to totally amaze your management team and colleagues. We will launch the Visio 2010 add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, which includes the data module for Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. The new cool in network and infrastructure management using Visio 2010 and Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Kapil Tandon, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Speaker - Christopher Hopkins, Premier Services Consultant, Microsoft Private cloud and cloud computing promise a more agile, user-centric way of delivering IT services in the future, but customers are faced with the reality of today's mundane IT challenges. The Customer virtualization journey is based on the real-world experience and best practices from dozens of VMWare customers and provides the prescriptive, pragmatic recipe on how to get to deliver IT as a Service through a cloud architecture. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Vittorio Viarengo, VP of Product 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. Prior to joining BEA in 2001, Vittorio was the Vice President of Product Management at eXcelon Corporation. While at eXcelon he pioneered the area of XML technology, XML tools and XML databases. Vittorio was one of the key drivers behind the engineering the most comprehensive XML tools suite and the first XML-based Business Process Engine. Vittorio started his own software company in Italy in 1994. The company ViVi Software specialized in the area of visual tools for object databases. ViVi Software was acquired by eXcelon Corporation in 1997. | |
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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. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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.
How Virtualization Can Enable and Improve Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business (Location: Lagoon H)Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. Speaker - Joel McKelvey, Technical Alliance Manager, NetApp Joel T. McKelvey currently serves as technical alliance manager at NetApp, Inc. where he coordinates technical collaboration and co-development efforts between NetApp and key virtualization partners such as VMware and Cisco. Prior to working at NetApp, Mr. McKelvey worked at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he served as alliance manager for several technology alliances. An experienced technology strategist, Mr. McKelvey is co-author of two books and has published numerous papers on topics related to networking, virtualization, and technology strategy. Mr. McKelvey holds masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. He is a successful marketing and engineering manager, the founder of two startups, and has earned numerous certifications and accreditations from academic and industry groups including the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), VMware, and Cisco Systems. Speaker - George Pradel, Senior Director of Strategic Alliances, Vizioncore George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and 3 1/2 years with Vizioncore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and vm optimization. Speaker - Azmir Mohamed, Sr. Product Manager, Business Continuity Solutions, VMware Azmir Mohamed is responsible for driving the roadmap for VMware’s Business Continuity Solutions, in particular for companies with less than 1000 employees. Azmir has more than 18 years of IT experience in the various server, networking and virtualization areas, with the last three years at VMware. Previously, Azmir was the Manager, Product Management at Cisco Systems where he led the development and go to market effort of the Cisco Business Communications Solution (BCS) for small businesses. Azmir has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. Speaker - Lynn Shourds, Senior Manager, Virtualization Solutions, Double-Take Software
How to Accelerate Your Business Performance with Enterprise 2.0 Approaches and Technology (Location: Breakers C)There's no question that web 2.0 technologies are powerful, flexible and can provide enormous benefits, but sometimes ad hoc uptake and usage can actually result in an enterprise being less organized, productive and successfully governed. This session aims to demystify and focuses on pragmatically strategy, providing real world experience on viable tactics for budgeting, value propositions and measuring your desired results. We aim to to help you unlock the value of these rapidly maturing and increasingly important social constructs to meet your business needs, and address how they can significantly augment the value you get from your current technology investments with greater employee, customer and partner performance. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Sameer Patel, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, PretzelLogic.org Speaker - Oliver Marks, Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, ZDNet Collaboration 2.0
There is continued pressure in today’s corporate environment to do more with less, to reduce costs and to become more agile in order to meet rapidly changing business demands in a difficult global economy. Outsourcing IT Security services is often senior management’s response to these challenging times, so the question is not if it will happen, but rather when and how it will happen, if it hasn’t already. However, has anything really changed, though? What is the true impact of the decision to outsource IT Security services? When IT Security is outsourced, what are the hidden challenges? This session will be presented from the perspective an enterprise security manager who has first-hand knowledge of how outsourcing certain IT Security services can help meet the resource and costs pressures of an organization without compromising its IT Security posture. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Jay Leek, Global Manager, Corporate IT Security, Nokia Jay Leek, CISM, CISA, CISSP is currently a global manager of Corporate IT Security Services at Nokia where he has been directly involved in the negotiations and management of multi-million dollar IT security outsourcing relationships. Over the past 15 years, Jay has also worked as a product manager for information security vendors as well as a consultant to numerous telecommunications companies, government agencies and financial institutions assisting them with business development, strategic planning and architectural design required to meet their ICT and security objectives. He is also a frequent speaker on information security related topics at domestic and international conferences.
The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage. We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery. The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances. What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance? How will these devices be managed? Do they work with all hypervisors? Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality? Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors? How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance? Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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 - Kenneth Salchow, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5 Speaker - Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder, Certeon Speaker - Greg Smith, Senior Director Product Marketing NetScaler Product Group, Citrix Systems Inc Greg Smith is the director of product marketing for Citrix System's Application Networking solutions. Greg joined Citrix through the company's acquisition of NetScaler in 2005, bringing more than 14 years of experience in engineering, product management and product marketing. He is responsible for the product marketing strategy for Citrix's Application Networking products, including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and the Citrix Application Firewall product lines. Speaker - Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, A10 Networks Speaker - Mark Urban, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
The Evolution Of Green IT: Projects That Cut Cost, Avoid Risk And Grow Revenues (Location: Breakers F)
Despite a challenging economic year in 2009, green IT initiatives persisted. Why? The primary motivation to pursue greener IT is to reduce costs, and what better time to purse cost saving initiatives than in a recession. Without budget available, most organizations have focused their efforts on the low-to-no cost process improvements, from duplex printing to turning up the temperature in the data center. But as capital becomes more easily accessible into 2010, IT infrastructure and operations professionals must get up to speed on larger scale green IT hardware, software and service investments. This session will help attendees define green IT and its evolution, review and prioritize the spectrum of green IT investments, and highlight examples of green IT in action that cut costs, avoid risk and even grow revenues. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - 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. It used to be a given that, like the notebook PC, the enterprise would provide wireless handsets for business use. But, of course, everyone has a personal cell phone, so another handset to carry may not be a plus. Isn’t there, then, a way to allow mobile workers to use their personal phone without compromising enterprise security or the company budget? The answer will surprise you – and it will also save you money, increase user satisfaction, and boost productivity. Welcome to the era of personal liability, a hot topic at this year's conference. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Philippe Winthrop, Managing Director, The Enterprise Mobility Foundation: Unbiased Enterprise Mobility Philippe Winthrop has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC’s European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe then moved on to a Boston based marketing services firm where he launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices. Speaker - Robert Tinker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mobileiron MobileIron is one of the newest players in enterprise mobility and was picked by Network World as one of “Ten Start-ups to Watch in 2010.”. Bob has led the company since its inception. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform gives IT and users real-time intelligence and control over smartphone content, activity and apps in order to secure data, reduce wireless cost, and improve user experience.Before MobileIron, Bob led the Business Development team for Cisco’s wireless business units, a combined $1B business. As a member of the executive staff, he was responsible for driving long term revenue growth and expanding Cisco’s wireless initiatives to laptops and smartphones. Before Cisco, Bob was the first business executive at enterprise wireless pioneer Airespace, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005. Bob’s previous roles include Director of Marketing at Vertical Networks and Vice President at NationsBank, with oversight of IT, sales, product management, and operations. Bob is an Executive Board Member of the Foundation for the University of California at Merced, the first major university built in the U.S. in the last 30 years. He is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in partnership with nonprofits to advance the causes of public education, affordable housing, digital inclusion, and sustainable energy in the San Francisco Bay Area.Bob has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford Speaker - Michael Saitow, CIO, MS Walker Michael Saitow is an energetic leader with over 12 years of executive level experience operations, logistics, marketing & IT. He is responsible for the business process engineering surrounding both sales and operations and for M. S. Walker, Inc., a $250 million Wine & Spirits distributor with facilities throughout the northeast United States. He has held multiple senior-level positions in the service, sales, on-line, and financial vertical markets. Mr. Saitow was the Project Manager for the Company's distribution facility migration in 2005, including the implementation of HighJump Software, which has significantly reduced the Company's expenses related to operations and improved customer satisfaction. Mr. Saitow is an avid surfer, skier and rock, ice and mountain climber. Speaker - Steven Wastie, Senior Vice President of Marketing, iPass As Senior Vice President of Marketing, Steven Wastie is responsible for evolving iPass’ corporate strategy, ensuring the development of new capabilities, services, pricing, and messaging consistent with this strategy, and effectively promoting the company and its services to prospects, customers, partners and other stakeholders. With over 15 years of global marketing and general management experience, Steven has a consistent track record of building and managing teams that deliver results. He has demonstrated strategic and operational success in outbound marketing, product management and sales roles in highly competitive markets worldwide. Before joining iPass, Steven was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Rohati Systems, Inc. a network and cloud security company. Previously he held senior marketing positions at several technology leaders. At Juniper Networks he served as Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise and Managed Services Marketing. Prior to that he was Vice President of Marketing at enterprise content management vendor Hummingbird and Vice President and General Manager at Inktomi. He also held marketing and product management positions with Netscape and AT&T Online services. Steven holds a B.A. (Hons) in Business Studies and Marketing from London Guildhall University. Speaker - Mark Shull, CEO, Trust Digital Mark Shull joined the Trust Digital team in early 2010 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining the company, Mark held a number of increasingly responsible executive positions, and was most recently the Group President, Enterprise Security Services at VeriSign in Mountain View, California, where he was responsible for the overall management of VeriSign's security unit. Prior to that role, Mark was the Senior Vice President of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services business where he managed VeriSign’s .com, .net and global DNS services, with a P/L responsibility of over $500 million. Prior to VeriSign, Mark was President and CEO of MarkMonitor, Inc., a San Francisco-based global corporate domain registration and online fraud protection services organization. Under Mark’s leadership, MarkMonitor grew a customer base of almost 200 Fortune 500 companies (46 in the Fortune 100), raised two rounds of equity capital, and grew revenues from $1.5 to $30 million in just over 3 years. Before MarkMonitor, Mark was President and CEO of Digex, Inc. where, during his tenure, revenues grew from $22M to $214M in just over 3 years, Digex completed a successful $200M IPO in August 1999, a $100M investment by Microsoft and Compaq in November 1999 and a $1.2 billion secondary offering (for majority owner) in January 2000. Mark also navigated an extremely complex $6 billion sale of majority ownership in Digex to WorldCom late in 2000 and completed the transition to WorldCom in mid-2002. Early in his career, Mark held senior positions/consultancies with Cable & Wireless in the U.K., BBN Corporation and EDS. | |
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Building the Heterogeneous Private Cloud with Microsoft and Novell - Sponsored by Microsoft (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Description to come. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Aaron Holzer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Speaker - Mona Chadha, Sr. Alliance Product Marketing Manager, Novell Description to come. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Robert Winter, Technology Strategist, Dell CTO Office Speaker - Larry Hart, Sr. Global Manager, Product Planning/Management/Marketing, Dell Inc. Many of the most significant corporate success stories have been because of IT innovations. Leading executives understand that IT innovation is a major factor for their companies' bottom lines and future growth. Unfortunately, not all organizational decision-makers understand or do a good job evaluating ( or implementing) the strategic importance of IT. It is not enough to just sell or buy a well designed equipment or software package. To realize the strategic, mutual advantages of technology solutions, it is also necessary for organizations to have a competent technical (and business savvy IT workforce), which can implement, integrate, manage, maintain and support users of the solution. This session presents industry and education perspectives on these issues Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Bill Cullifer, Executive Director, World Organization of Webmasters Speaker - Robert Haas, Partner and Vice President, A.T. Kearney Bob Haas is an A.T. Kearney Partner and Vice President as well as Leader of the firm's Strategic IT Practice. With more than 20 years of industry and consulting experience, he has global clients in the Consumer Goods, High Technology, Financial Services and Healthcare industries. Key issues on which Mr. Haas has focused include customer strategy and relationship management, IT strategy and IT transformation, enterprise restructuring and shared services, IT innovation, and merger and acquisition integration.Prior to A.T. Kearney, Mr. Haas held senior positions at Information Resources Inc. and Metaphor Systems, an IBM subsidiary. Mr. Haas has an MBA from Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering. Speaker - David Leip, Chief Technology Officer and Agile Methods Advocate, ibm.com David Leip is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM where he has been a web technology leader for over 15 years. He is currently the Chief Innovation Officer for ibm.com, focused on driving new innovation in IBM's own web presence. Over time David has focused on many areas including: agile development and delivery, web standards and governance, high availability web delivery infrastructure, web speed enhancements through application architecture, compression and caching, personalization, syndication and social media. He is on the board of directors for the Internet Strategy Forum, and on the advisory board for the World Organization of Webmasters.David has a Master's degree in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph. Online he can be found at www.Leip.ca Speaker - Christian Hagen, Principal, A.T. Kearney Christian P. Hagen is a Principal with A.T. Kearney's Strategic Information Technology Practice and is based in Chicago. He specializes in helping clients leverage information technology to increase efficiencies, improve customer relationships, and gain competitive advantage. He advises clients in the retail, financial services, high-tech, and automotive industries. Speaker - James Jones, Executive Director, Mid-Pacific ICT (MPICT) Cente | |
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The InteropNet provides a reliable, high-speed network for exhibitors, conference rooms and attendees, built in collaboration with hand selected vendors and volunteers who come together to take on the ultimate networking challenge. This year, the team is virtualizing many devices and moving a fair amount of services and equipment to ‘the cloud.’ Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet with a free engineer-led tour. This year see virtualization in action and learn how you can bring its performance, reliability and cost benefits to your organization. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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Desktop virtualization can simplify IT, secure corporate data and reduce costs like never before. That said, upcoming Windows 7 migrations will be one of the most daunting and expensive projects facing CIOs today. In this presentation, you’ll hear how real-life customers are successfully implementing desktop virtualization with a staged approach and benefitting from a desktop upgrade process that’s simpler and more cost-effective. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Sumit Dhawan, Director of Product Marketing Desktop Delivery, Citrix
Collaboration in the Cloud: Grow Your Business and Reduce Costs - Sponsored by IBM (Location: Mandalay Bay K)Cloud Computing is transforming the way applications are delivered. Collaboration workloads are perfectly suited for the cloud - providing solutions that enable companies to work more closely and effectively with their customers, suppliers and partners. Learn how your business can quickly realize the value of integrated email, file store and share, activity management, instant messaging and social networking services in the cloud. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Satwiksai Seshasai, Senior Manager, Online Collaboration Services, IBM Corporation Satwik Seshasai is Senior Manager for Online Collaboration Services at IBM. In this role, he leads the development team producing many of the advanced collaboration components of LotusLive, including Files, Activities, Contacts, Profiles, Instant Messaging, Forms and Charts, as well as integrations with ISV partners. He has been involved with the LotusLive project since its inception as IBM's first software as a service offering for collaboration. In prior roles, Satwik has managed development teams across other parts of the Lotus brand and worked with many enterprise customers in deploying and leveraging Lotus software. He has several undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT, in computer science and management, and is currently affiliated with a research team at the MIT Sloan School of Management studying new ways of using the blogosphere to predict emerging technology. Streaming media is an evolving set of technologies that deliver video and audio content over the Internet and private networks. Many businesses are dedicated to this type of delivery, including YouTube, CNN, Vimeo, Metacafe, Hulu, and Veoh. Streaming video delivery is growing dramatically: the average online viewer consumed 187 videos in December of 2009, up 95 percent over the previous year and the average video duration grew from 3.2 to 4.1 minutes. Attend this session and learn about the testing needs of content delivery networks and what pitfalls can occur when deploying media distribution networks. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Dave Schneider, Marketing Evangelist, Ixia | |
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IT in a Hybrid World: Managing IT On-Premise AND In the Cloud - Sponsored by Spiceworks (Location: Mandalay Bay J) “The Cloud” is just another marketing label applied to the latest trend. While some vendors proclaim that it will simplify everything and eliminate the need for IT professionals, those in the trenches know better. Learn how SMB IT pros are really adopting cloud services and managing IT in a hybrid onsite/cloud world. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Jay Hallberg, Co-Founder & VP Marketing, Spiceworks
Top Five Network Attributes That Enable Virtualization and Migration to the Cloud - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent (Location: Mandalay Bay L)Cloud computing and virtualization are the hottest buzz words in the industry today as data centers undergo a massive transformation of their servers, storage and network systems. The focus most recently has been on applications but it is the network infrastructure that plays a critical role to deliver these applications in the cloud. In this session, learn about some of the key enterprise trends and how they are driving changes in networking. Get an overview of what the network must deliver to enable ultimate performance of applications in a virtualized environment. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Hema Ganapathy, Director, Strategic Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
UC and VoIP: The Rise of Persistent, Contextual Sessions - Sponsored by Avaya (Location: Mandalay Bay K)Unified Communications (UC) is evolving at a rapid pace. End user expectations, based on their consumer experience, are blurring the lines between consumer and business technologies. Users want a common identity across domains and devices, such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, netbooks, etc. The next phase of UC, poised to meet these needs, is persistent and contextual sessions which provide the right set of information and device access based on past data, current status and user preferences. However, pervasive connectivity will demand a network infrastructure purpose built for real-time connectivity. This session will help you evaluate new and upcoming UC technologies and highlights the three network imperatives that must be met for data networks to adequately serve this network explosion. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Alon Waks, Solution/Product Marketing, UC, Avaya | |
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The InteropNet provides a reliable, high-speed network for exhibitors, conference rooms and attendees, built in collaboration with hand selected vendors and volunteers who come together to take on the ultimate networking challenge. This year, the team is virtualizing many devices and moving a fair amount of services and equipment to ‘the cloud.’ Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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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. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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.
Deduplication and Single Instance Storage: Practical Applications for Backups, Archiving, and Primary Storage (Location: Breakers L)Deduplication (dedupe) and single instance storage (SIS) are perhaps the hottest topics in the storage industry. EMC just acquired a dedupe startup for over two billion dollars! Meanwhile, all of the leading backup vendors are scrambling to integrate dedupe into their products. But this is just the beginning of a major new technology trend! Dedupe offers benefits not just for backups, but also for cloud storage, archiving, virtual desktops, and even primary storage for high performance production servers and VMs. This session is broken into three parts: 1) The first section discusses the fundamental technology of dedupe, revealing both the shortcomings of current approaches and the opportunities for new solutions. 2) The second section focuses on dedupe for backups. We illustrate different ways to integrate dedupe into backup systems as well as revealing non-dedupe approaches that might deliver similar results at lower costs. 3) Lastly, we describe applications for dedupe and SIS in rich media archives, virtual desktops, and primary storage. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob’s no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University.
With corporate environmental sustainability on the rise, IT departments are increasingly turning to green IT initiatives. While most organizations start on their path towards greener IT in the data center – organizations oftentimes lack a comprehensive strategy and struggle to prioritize projects. To spend time and capital wisely – ultimately delivering financial and environmental benefits – this session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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 - Shehzad Merchant, Senior Director, Strategy, Extreme Networks Shehzad Merchant serves as Senior Director for Strategy at Extreme Networks, where he drives the direction for data center networking. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Merchant is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications. Prior to Extreme Networks, Merchant held various technology and executive management roles including CTO at Nevis Networks, a company specializing in network security. Prior to that Merchant was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Polytime Systems. Merchant earned an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. Speaker - Tate Cantrell, Chief Technology Officer, Verne Global Tate Cantrell’s primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations. Mr. Cantrell has been in the mission-critical facilities business for more than 15 years and has overseen the build-out and operationalization of some the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry.Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell was Vice President, Data Center Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology, the second-largest pure-play data center REIT in the United States. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Speaker - Robert Petrocelli, Chief Executive Officer, GreenBytes Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005. Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times. Presence is the heart of unified communications and, some would argue, of all next-generation enterprise communications. But presence loses much of its value if it's implemented within discrete systems that can't exchange information with each other - between different systems within an enterprise, between partner companies, with customers, and between public and private networks. In addition to exchange issues, there are important trends in providing richer presence content, automating status, and in the development of rules and policy engines that govern who is accessible to whom and under what conditions. This session will explore these topics and examine progress on these important functionality issues. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, Enterprise Connect Eric Krapf is co-chair of the VoiceCon events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb’s online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas. Speaker - Christian Anschuetz, Senior VP and Chief Information Officer, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Speaker - Bruce Mazza, Director, UC Market Solutions, Unified Communications Group, Avaya Bruce Mazza is a Director in the Unified Communications Solutions Marketing group at Avaya. His current role focused on enabling new offers for customers and channel partners that enable their businesses to excel. During his 13 year career at Avaya he has played major roles in delivering market leading communications solutions to enterprises. His past roles at Avaya have included Senior Product Manager for Communication Manager, Industry Manager for Government Solutions, and Senior Solutions Manager for Branch Solutions. Bruce has a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University. Bruce is married and has two children and resides in Denver, Colorado. Speaker - Jack Jachner, Vice President, Cloud Communication Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent Speaker - Tom Wesselman, Principal Engineer, Enterprise, Commercial & Small Business Group, Cisco Tom Wesselman is a senior manager in the office of the CTO responsible for the long-term strategy for Cisco's Communication and Collaboration products - building on the foundation of Unified, IP-based communication to add social networking, collaboration, and web 2.0 interfaces and applications. Before that he ran engineering for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, partnerships for the initial release of Cisco Network Admission Control, and engineering for Cisco Unity Unified Messaging. 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. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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. Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what is it really like to implement virtualization? Does it really offer the benefits that the vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Does desktop virtualization really work? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn what to consider for your next steps in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. Speaker - Tory Long, Solutions Architect, U.S. Unified Computing Services, Cisco Tory Long is a Solutions Architect at Cisco Advanced Services Global Data Center Networking Practice supporting emerging Data Center technologies. Tory has a focus on virtualization, unified I/O, and data center management and orchestration in support of Cisco’s major customers. Tory also has a responsibility of development of architecture and design methodologies for the UCS platform, Nexus 1000V, and accompanying technologies. Cisco Systems Organization: North America DCN AS Customer Advocacy, Advanced Services, Virtualization Architecture Team Professional Experience: For the past 8 years, Tory has been a part of teams supporting Cisco Data Center product development, including pre and post-launch customer activities. Products which Tory has been instrumental in developing solutions for include the Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus 1000V (for VMware vSphere), Cisco MDS 9000 (SAN), Cisco VFrame DC, ACE (Application Control Engine), and Nexus product lines. Tory also is responsible for large scale Data Center design and implementation projects. Tory has experience designing and implementing Data Center virtualization solutions, both as a consultant for Cisco’s customers, and also while collaborating on virtualization, storage, and network solutions with Cisco’s strategic data center partners. Prior to joining the Cisco Advanced Services team, Tory supported Cisco Data Center technologies as a CSE in the Customer Advanced Engineering organization, working extensively with Cisco’s large global customers early in the product lifecycle, empowering them through enhancing product capabilities to meet design requirements. Tory was also a storage and systems administrator within Cisco IT. Tory holds a BS in Computer Engineering and MS in Computer Networking from NC State University. Technology Expertise: • Cisco SAN Expert, CCIE #14594 • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) • Cisco UCS • Cisco Nexus 1000V, 2000, 5000 • Cisco MDS 9000 • Cisco VFrame • Cisco ACE Speaker - Jeremy Pack, Windows Infrastructure Architect, Hewlett Packard Jeremy has 25 years experience leading client infrastructure projects from strategy and design through implementation, migration and transformation. Jeremy has expertise in virtualization—server and desktop—and in Microsoft Windows infrastructure, where has earned the title of Microsoft MVP. Over the last few years, Jeremy has been leading Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista migration projects that incorporate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenDesktop and VMWare. Jeremy has used Hyper-V and SCVMM since before public beta. Initially on a 16 blade configuration, providing a 660 server VM environment for the HP Windows Server 2008 academy student labs. Speaker - Sean Connelly, Senior Manager, System Integrators and Emerging Products Group, Citrix Sean Connelly joined Citrix 5 years ago in the Emerging Products Group managing a team of sales engineers focused on XenDesktop, XenServer, and Provisioning Services supporting the North American Geo. Specializes in the positioning and selling of enterprise technologies with a background in virtualization, service desk, monitoring, and systems management technologies. Speaker - Joshua Thomas, Consulting Architect, VM | |
