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. 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. 
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. 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! 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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.
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? 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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.’ | |
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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. | |
 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. Speaker - Aaron Holzer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Speaker - Mona Chadha, Sr. Alliance Product Marketing Manager, Novell  Description to come. 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 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.’ | |
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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. 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. 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. Speaker - Dave Schneider, Marketing Evangelist, Ixia | |
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. 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. 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. 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.’ | |
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Data security via Web application and database controls is difficult and rapidly evolving. With the introduction of cloud computing new questions around sensitive data protection arise. Learn how data security can be achieved within cloud computing environments. See several use cases demonstrating effective, risk mitigating strategies. Speaker - Brian Contos, Chief Security Strategist, Imperva Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world. As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations and Global 2,000s on security strategy related to data-centric security while being an evangelist for the security space. He has written several security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler – Real Life Stories of Insider Threats as well as Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA – Bill Crowell. He has delivered countless speeches, webcasts, podcasts, and magazine articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SC Magazine and many others. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at ArcSight, Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Speaker - Chris Richter, VP Security Services, Savvis Chris is VP of security services at SAVVIS, a leading network, hosting and security services provider, where he is responsible for the managed-security line of business. He leads the effort behind implementing standardized control frameworks and risk management processes across SAVVIS’ dedicated and cloud-based services. Chris has assisted many enterprises in adapting their premise-based infrastructure risk management programs and security controls to outsourced virtualized and shared-infrastructure services. Chris is a member of ISSA and ISACA, and for more than 20 years has held various security and IT services management and consulting positions.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, VMware While wireless broadband gets all the attention, many other types of wireless links are humming away in all kinds of enterprise applications, from manufacturing and logistics to energy management and security. Sensor-based wireless networks, RFID, machine-to-machine communications, and many other wireless telemetry and control systems are becoming essential to businesses everywhere. This session will have the latest details on this exciting aspect of mobility. Moderator - Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M Connectivity, ABI Research As head of ABI Research’s M2M Connectivity group, Sam Lucero manages the firm’s strategic and quantitative assessment of the global markets for Cellular M2M Connectivity and Wireless Sensor Networking technologies. His extensive research experience across multiple networking and semiconductor markets gives him a broad perspective on how wireless connectivity markets are evolving. Prior to joining ABI Research, Sam was a networking equipment analyst at In-Stat, where he managed that firm’s Ethernet switch market tracking service. He has been widely quoted in news and trade journals, including the New York Times, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek.com, CNNMoney.com, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, SmartMoney.com, Network World, CNET, Wireless Week, CommsDesign, Light Reading, and more. After graduating from the University of California at San Diego, Sam spent three years working in Japan before returning to the US to earn an MBA with honors from Thunderbird School of Global Management. | |
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Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers. There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place. Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN. Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there? In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions. The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense. The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months 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 - Doug Gourlay, VP, Marketing, Arista Networks, Inc. As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer. Speaker - Manish Muthal, Director - Enterprise Solutions, LSI Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Speaker - Thomas Scheibe, Director, Datacenter Switching and Services Group, Cisco Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Speaker - Ken Ferderer, Chief Technology Officer, LineSider Technologies, Inc. Speaker - Rick Kagan, VP of Marketing, Infoblox Speaker - Ken Oestreich, VP, Marketing, Egenera Inc. Currently, Ken is VP of Marketing for Egenera Corp., a leading provider of Converged Infrastructure software. There he has helped remake the company’s image and visibility as a visionary multi-platform software vendor. Prior to Egenera, Ken led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., who defined the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, he held a number of positions at Sun Microsystems, including business management for an incubator services unit, coordinating Java marketing strategy, driving Developer Marketing, and growing the SI/ISV partner marketing organization. Speaker - Larry Hart, Sr. Global Manager, Product Planning/Management/Marketing, Dell Inc. Speaker - Paul Congdon, HP Networking Chief Technologist and HP Fellow, HP ProCurve Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products. In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process. Speaker - Dhritiman Dasgupta, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. | |
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Interoperability: Eclipse, Java, Tomcat and Cloud Computing - Sponsored by Microsoft (Location: Mandalay Bay K) “Cloud” promises tantalizing benefits (e.g. business agility and on-prem/cloud combinations). But interoperability with your on-prem investments (tooling, languages, servers & services) is critical, and avoids costs in training and new tooling. We’ll discuss key tenets, and how one of the world’s largest eCommerce platforms is extending its heterogeneous platform into the cloud. Speaker - Hanu Kommalapati, Principal Platform Strategy Advisor, Microsoft Hanu Kommalapati is a Principal Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft and is part of the Platform Evangelism group. Hanu frequently speaks at customer and industry events and publishes articles and papers for external audience as well as Microsoft internal consumption on various industry trends including Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. In his current role, he works with Microsoft’s top enterprise customers in North America in evangelizing software + services and Cloud Computing. Hanu spent 18 years in the IT Industry architecting and evangelizing solutions in business domains including Oil & Gas, Financial Services, high tech manufacturing and Retail. Prior to joining Microsoft, Hanu worked at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and PriceWaterHouseCoopers in solving customer problems in high-tech manufacturing industry. Hanu received his M.S. from IIT Madras. Speaker - Jim Vitek, eCommerce Director, Domino's Pizza Twenty years ago video conferences started 30 minutes early to accommodate temperamental ISDN networks and video hardware, and these islands of technology ultimately offered a very poor user experience at a very high price. Video was used in special circumstances or reserved for executive access. Now with lower prices, better hardware and performance and most importantly deployment ease, video is accessible to enterprise users. Unified communications-based video conferencing today offers a user-friendly and productive way of getting work done, while today’s new video appliances offer a panoramic experience for the price of a good laptop PC. Attend this session for an insider’s view of video communications applications and trends. Speaker - Peter Anderholm, Product Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent
Revolutionizing VDI Economics: The $100 Multimedia Thin Client - Sponsored by NComputing (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Description to come. | |
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Data storage is just one element in the application delivery ecosystem, but it turns out that it is often the critical performance bottleneck. A number of new technologies have come out in the recent years to optimize storage performance. This session reviews several of these innovations and explains how some performance-optimization technologies can be easily integrated into the existing storage infrastructure. Topics include spindle aggregation, various storage acceleration devices, application-level QoS techniques, and caching or hot-spotting with solid state disk. Specific attention will be given to accelerating network file systems, MS Exchange, and SQL databases. 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. When companies conduct risk analyses, they often have to take into consideration the costs associated with protecting their organizations against malware (malicious software) and the potential likelihood that the end user is going to take an action that will increase their risk. To combat the complexity and sheer volume of malware creation and distribution, analyzing malware traffic, behavior and code continue to be the known methods for identifying and reducing the malware risk. Taking behavior analysis to the next level: the end user - provides a means of determining whether or not end users have been exploited and now pose a threat to themselves and, potentially, their organizations. The end user has, traditionally, been regarded as the “weakest link”. Learning and leveraging end user behavior has the potential to not only add to the security layering, but also increase the strength of the weakest link. Speaker - Jeff Debrosse, Senior Research Director, North America, ESET LLC Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention. Moderator - David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, Editor-in-Chief, TechWeb.com, TechWeb David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. Speaker - John Stetic, Director of Product Management, Systems and Resource Management (SRM), Novell In his role of Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management (SRM) unit of Novell, John works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including Novell ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin’s product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell’s acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: - VMworld - VMworld Europe - Gartner Data Center Conference - BrainShare, Novell’s annual user conference The over-provisioning model used by data centers for years is unsustainable – and a new dynamic model is emerging driven by virtualization and automation. While these technologies aren’t necessarily new, IT departments must become competent and refine their skills in the use of virtualization and automation to contain costs as businesses continue to demand IT services. This session will help data center managers learn how to leverage these virtualization and automation technologies to create a business-driven data center that delivers new levels of service quality, efficiency, agility and risk reduction. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Wi-Fi is now a fixture in a huge range of applications within enterprises around the globe. With the 802.11n standard now finished, many have assumed that Wi-Fi is now “done”. Not so fast – new developments continue within both the IEEE 802.11 Working Groups and the Wi-Fi Alliance, all of which will influence what you’ll be doing with Wi-Fi over the next five years. In this session, we’ll present the views of experts and practitioners, helping you set a wireless LAN strategy delivering maximum benefits at the lowest possible cost. Moderator - Edgar Figueroa, CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance Edgar is responsible for the health and evolution of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Under his leadership the Wi-Fi Alliance has expanded its vision, led an unprecedented period of market growth, and maintained an aggressive development roadmap. Edgar defined the Wi-Fi Alliance program development framework, and forged a number of strategic partnerships and programs to facilitate the penetration of Wi-Fi into mass markets. Edgar joined the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2004. Prior to the Wi-Fi Alliance, Edgar was at Ridgeway Systems & Software (now Tandberg). He was instrumental in delivering the industry’s first session border controller, and the H.460.18 and H.460.19 International Telecommunications Union standards for secure network traversal. Before Ridgeway, Edgar held product management and engineering roles at 3M Company. Edgar is a veteran of the United States Navy, where he served in a fighter pilot training squadron and received numerous awards including Sailor of the Year. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin Community College, and various community programs in Austin, Texas. In 2009 he was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Alumni Hall of Fame. Edgar is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Masters in Technology Commercialization, and undergraduate degrees with honors in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. Speaker - Rolf De Vegt, Director Technical Standards, Qualcomm, Inc. Mr. de Vegt is a Director of Technology Standards in Qualcomms Connectivity Technology group. His focus is on the business, marketing strategy and standards aspects of future generation connectivity technologies. Mr. de Vegt has participated in, and led various activites inside the WFA since 2001. He serves as the Chairman of the TGn Marketing Taskgroup at the Wi-Fi Alliance. After earning a Masters Degree from Twente University in the Netherlands, Mr. de Vegt entered a career in Management Consulting in the High Tech and Telecommunications Industry. In 2001, he Co-Founded Airgo Networks Inc. a start-up company based in Palo Alto CA; the first company to successfully commercialize MIMO technology for the WLAN market. Airgo was acquired by Qualcomm, in December 2006. Speaker - Dorothy Stanley, Senior Standards Architect, Aruba Networks Senior Standards Architect, Aruba Wireless Networks, responsible for WLAN standards strategy. Chair IEEE 802.11v Wireless Networks Management Task Group, Vice- Chair Wi-Fi Alliance Security Technical Task Group, Active participant and contributor to several WFA and IEEE 802.11 task groups, including IEEE 802.11i, IEEE 802.11r and IEEE 802.11v. Liaison from IEEE 802.11 to IETF. Previous to joining Aruba Networks in 2005, was Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Agere Systems for Wavelan products and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Responsibilities included system architecture, software development, and capacity planning and performance analysis for Digital Switching Systems and fixed wireless systems. Awards include 5 patents, WFA 2005 Members Achievement Award, WFA Special Recognition Award for contributions to WPA, and IEEE Standards Association certificate for contributions to IEEE 802.11i, 802.11m. Member IEEE. Speaker - Ben Guderian, Vice President Wireless Solutions, Polycom Inc. Ben Guderian is vice president of wireless solutions for Polycom’s Wireless Business Unit (formerly SpectraLink). He currently guides the company’s wireless product solution and marketing strategies for vertical markets. Before taking on his current role, Guderian held key positions at the company in the areas of market strategy, industry relations, marketing and sales. He has been instrumental in developing vertical markets and driving product development to meet the voice communication requirements of mobile workers in a wide variety of enterprise applications. Guderian directed SpectraLink’s marketing and product management efforts from 1999 through 2004, during which time the company more than doubled its annual revenues and established strategic partnerships with top-tier telecom vendors such as Avaya, Nortel and SBC (now AT&T). As an early evangelist for workplace wireless telephony, he has written numerous articles and presented at many industry events. In 2006, Guderian was recognized as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications” of all time by Internet Telephony magazine. Guderian’s experience includes more than 20 years in telecommunications and networking. Prior to joining SpectraLink in 1992, he held engineering and marketing positions with several telecommunication and data communication equipment manufacturers including GTE and NEC. Guderian received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara. Speaker - Liam Quinn, , CTO, Business Client Product Group, Dell Inc. Liam Quinn has been at Dell over 13 years, and is the Business Client CTO working for Steve Lalla. His team develops and drives technology strategies and Architecture across both Business Client and CSMB client products. He was inventor of the year at Dell in 2005 and 2007, and has 10 issued US patents and 30 Pending US patents. His background and focus is in Network silicon and systems Design – specializing in Ethernet, Token Ring and Wireless. He sits on the Board of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and also holds the Regulatory Chair on the Wi-Fi Alliance. 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New technologies continue to increase the demand for better more efficient ways to mange IP Address as well as DNS and DHCP services. Companies today are continually looking for ways to consolidate, save money and integrate Green initiatives within their existing operating environments. In order to do this, companies must evaluate their existing IPAM infrastructure and identify ways in which they can implement cost savings initiatives during growth and leverage flexible effective solutions while keeping the existing mission critical infrastructure growing smoothly for tomorrow. Speaker - Maria Fire, Product Management Director, Alcatel-Lucent | |
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The enterprise network has become the very foundation of most businesses today. Whether it is a conduit to revenue-generating opportunities, vital to the global supply chain, or internal service that links the increasingly global and mobile workforce, the enterprise network will remain a core area of IT investment in the coming years. As a result network managers are on the front line of key industry trends. Speaker - Cindy Borovick, Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks, IDC Lucinda (Cindy) Borovick is the Research Vice President for IDC’s Datacenter Networks service. In this position, she provides market analysis, research, and consulting on the datacenter. Ms. Borovick has been covering the information technology industry since joining IDC in 1987. Throughout this time, she has maintained a focus on researching and analyzing datacenter networking trends, technologies, products, suppliers, and end-user adoption strategies. She has particular expertise on key technical and business issues concerning networking adoption by place in the network. She analyzes server, storage and application deployments and how the interconnection of these technologies translates into requirements on the datacenter and remote branch. Specific research responsibilities include analyzing the impact of application networking, WAN application delivery, blade server networking, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and storage networking on the datacenter of the future within the enterprise and service provider marketplace. Ms. Borovick is a frequent speaker on datacenter network topics and has presented for many computer and networking vendors as well as at major trade shows. Additionally, she has written articles for Computerworld and is frequently quoted in numerous business and trade publications, including Business Week, Forbes, eWeek, Light Reading, The Washington Post and Network World. Ms. Borovick graduated from The University of New Hampshire in Durham with a dual bachelor of arts degree in history and economics. | |
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Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Kristof Kloeckner, CTO, Enterprise Initiatives & VP, Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM Kristof Kloeckner, VP Strategy & Enterprise Initiatives, Systems & Software, and CTO Cloud Computing, is based in Armonk, New York. He was appointed to his present position in January 2009 and was previously CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology, IBM Software Group. He oversees the technology strategy for cloud computing across IBM and at the beginning of 2010 took on additional responsibility for cross-IBM strategic initiatives in the systems and software area. He has held executive leadership positions in strategy, architecture and development in Germany, the UK and the USA, including VP of Development, Tivoli Software, CTO and VP of Strategy and Architecture, Application and Integration Middleware, VP of Business Integration Development and Director of the Hursley Laboratory in the United Kingdom as well Director, German Software Development Lab. He joined IBM in 1984 as a development engineer in the Boeblingen Development Laboratory in Germany. He received a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the BCS and of the IEE and since 1997 an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart. Speaker - Randy Rowland, SVP Product / General Manager, Terremark Worldwide Inc. Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings. Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom. Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children. Speaker - Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix Systems, Inc. Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs. 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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Dynamic Resource Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment - Sponsored by Enterasys (Location: Mandalay Bay K) Virtualization demands a new kind of network automation to effectively meet today's IT and business requirements. The nature of a virtualized data center often results in network provisioning complexity that can adversely affect critical network attributes such as Quality of Service. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of Virtual Network Automation, where the network can dynamically adapt to new servers and applications and maintain a high-quality end-user experience.
Extending the Lifecycle of Your Storage Area Network - Sponsored by D-Link (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Storage Area Networks (SANs) are expensive and complex – to implement, manage and grow. Organizations need to understand how they can reduce their capital investment and extend technology lifecycles while supporting critical applications. This session will help you to understand how to easily expand and repurpose your storage resources over an extended lifecycle. Speaker - Chris Gruber, Director, Product Line Management - Storage Solutions, D-Link Systems
Gain Without Pain: Ensuring Security and Reliability in Converged and Virtualized Data Centers - Sponsored by Ixia (Location: Mandalay Bay L)Consolidation, convergence and virtualization taking place within the enterprise network and data center promise to deliver the gains of greater operational efficiency, flexibility and manageability. However, these new technologies and architectures also bring increased complexity and introduce new vulnerabilities to the individual devices that can lead to compromised security, reliability and performance. Pre-emptive testing is necessary to validate the viability of new technologies and architecture, assesses different equipment options, and expose and resolve major issues prior to implementation. This session will discuss best practices for pre-emptive testing across multiple devices, in and surrounding the data center. We will review test requirements and methodologies that help ensure security and reliability is maintained as you evolve your enterprise network or data center, so you can move forward with confidence – and not pain. Speaker - Tara Van Unen, Senior Management Market Development, Ixia | |
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Vulnerability identification and management has quickly become an essential capability within information security organizations. This capability has moved beyond basic identification of unpatched systems and open ports to include elements such as log management, security event monitoring, and other advances that help organizations understand where they have technological challenges. This session will focus on the concepts and technologies that are used in next generation technical vulnerability identification and management capabilities and how to more effectively use the information that is generated from them. Speaker - Todd Graham, Director, Risk and Compliance Technology, RSA, The Security Division of EMC Mr. Graham is a Senior Technologist in the Office of the CTO at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. In this role, Mr. Graham is responsible for driving RSA's corporate information security technology strategy with a focus on enterprise policy, governance, risk and compliance. Mr. Graham brings a unique blend of technical knowledge and an understanding of market requirements to RSA and previously was Chief Scientist at Tablus (acquired by RSA in 2007) where he played an integral role in the development of its data loss prevention suite. Mr. Graham joined Tablus through its acquisition of Indigo Security in 2005 where he was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to founding Indigo, Mr. Graham was Founder and CEO of Digital-3, a digital audio device platform company. Mr. Graham was honored as the Michigan Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 and named one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Technology Entrepreneurs in 2007. Traditional video conferencing vendors and a set of recent market entries are pushing a wide variety of video conferencing solutions all the way from high end Telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop. Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for the needs of your enterprise? This session will propose a decision tree for sorting through the vendor offerings and hype and focusing on the right size, right bandwidth and right features to meet your visual communications needs. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. This panel of enterprise IT executives looks at their experience with cloud computing platforms, with a particular focus on compliance, performance, and the support for legacy applications. What could they move? What broke? Join this revealing discussion if you're tasked with enterprise cloud migration. Moderator - Killian Murphy, Director of Product Management, VMware Killian has 16 years technology industry experience within startups and Fortune 100 IT organizations in roles encompassing engineering, management and strategy. As a Director in IT at Credit Suisse in New York for over 5 years, he was responsible for developing, integrating and deploying their internal cloud with over 20,000 virtual servers. The technology his team developed became the foundation of a successful Boston-based startup, DynamicOps. Following the success of this large scale deployment Killian managed cloud strategy in the CTO office until his departure in June 2009. During his work delivering an internal cloud at Credit Suisse, Killian pioneered important areas of internal cloud computing environments, including: * Extensive end-to-end automation * Business requirements for security, billing and organizational or regulatory infrastructure silos * A self-service portal with fine-grained entitlements Speaker - Colin Hostert, CIO and CISO, Escape Media Group Speaker - Donald Army, Senior, Director, Network Services, PRN Speaker - Jim Vitek, eCommerce Director, Domino's Pizza Speaker - Jeremy Edberg, Operations Manager, reddit.com Jeremy Edberg is currently the Operations Manager for reddit.com, an Alexa top 300 web site, whose entire operations are run on EC2. For the 10 years before reddit, he had worked as a Systems Administrator, Programmer, and Security Engineer for such companies as eBay, PayPal, and Sendmail and UC Berkeley. He graduated with a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley. Speaker - Kowsik Guruswamy, Co-Founder and CTO, Mu Dynamics, Inc. Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. Speaker - John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking.
Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Paul Congdon, HP Networking Chief Technologist and HP Fellow, HP ProCurve Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products. In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process. Speaker - Jon Flower, Vice President of Technology, Adaptec Jon Flower is the vice president of technology at Adaptec, responsible for developing and implementing technologies to expand the company's leadership beyond the data storage I/O market. He leads the Adaptec engineering team at several levels, ranging from product concept development and architectural design, to the development of engineering and test specifications. At Adaptec, Mr. Flower has also served as the chief technology officer (CTO), specializing in new business initiatives, as well as the CTO of the Storage Systems Division at Adaptec. Before joining Adaptec, he was the vice president of architecture at Tricord. Speaker - Thomas Scheibe, Director, Datacenter Switching and Services Group, Cisco Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.
To be sure, there’s still a good deal of debate around the very definition of 4G, and 4G services to date has been spotty. Fear not, 4G is in fact well on the way to reality now, offering improved throughput and a broad range of additional capabilities to mobile devices and their users. This session will examine the key options for 4G, including their features, benefits, and status, and discuss the evolution of 4G as plows ahead towards ubiquity, and, we might add, 5G. Moderator - Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, FierceMarkets Sue has been editor-in-chief of FierceMarkets wireless group since joining the company in January 2007. In her current position, she oversees the editorial content of several FierceMarkets’ newsletters including FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, FierceDeveloper, FierceWireless:Europe and FierceBroadbandWireless and provides editorial guidance for the publications’ websites, webinars and live events. Sue has more than 18 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the executive editor of Wireless Week. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, specializing in wireless and broadband technologies. She also was the managing editor of Convergence magazine, a monthly magazine for cable television, phone and wireless network operators. Speaker - Chris Pearson, President, 3G Americas Chris Pearson is the President of 3G Americas, LLC. In his role as the spokesperson and senior operating officer of the corporation, he is responsible for the strategic planning of the organization and providing executive management for the integration of strategy and operations in the areas of technology, marketing, public relations, finance as well as public and regulatory affairs. As President of 3G Americas, Mr. Pearson represents 3G Americas’ Market Representation interests within the 3GPP organization. Mr. Pearson came to 3G Americas from the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) where he served as Executive Vice President in charge of the strategic management of the technology consortium. Prior to joining the UWCC, Mr. Pearson held the position of Strategic Alliance Manager for the Advanced Network Services Provider Program (ANSPP) at AT&T Wireless Services in Kirkland, Washington. Additionally, prior to AT&T Wireless, Mr. Pearson held several senior account management and technical marketing positions at GTE Telephone Operations. Throughout his 23-year career in telecommunications, Mr. Pearson has provided lectures, technical marketing training and speeches for technology audiences throughout the world. Mr. Pearson holds a Masters of Business Administration from The Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University and a Bachelor of Arts with emphasis in Marketing and Finance from The Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Speaker - Mohan Trikur, Director, Core Network Solutions, Ericsson Mohan Trikur, Director of Core Network Solutions for Ericsson North America, is responsible for core network strategy and solutions, focusing on Evolved Packet Core (EPC) systems. He works closely with Ericsson’s business units for solution and roadmap alignment for customers in North America .Trikur has more than 15 years of technical experience with Ericsson, holding various roles in Research and Development, Product Management and Customer Solutions Management. Prior to his current role, Trikur was responsible for E2E customer solutions and Product Manager for North American regulatory solutions.Trikur holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston . Speaker - Teresa Kellett, Director, 4G, Sprint Nextel Teresa Kellett currently serves as Director, 4G for Sprint where she is responsible for the company’s WiMAX partnerships and business development activities, including managing Clearwire activities. Prior to this role, she was Director, Global Development & Technology Advocacy for Sprint’s XOHM business unit, where she oversaw Sprint’s international carrier strategy and agreements. Kellett has been with Sprint for nearly thirteen years, focused on wireless technology, in the areas of international business development, MVNO and affiliate management, and fraud risk mitigation. She holds a Masters in Foreign Service with Honors in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Global Studies and French from Rockhurst College. Speaker - Atul Bhatnagar, President and CEO, Ixia Atul Bhatnagar is responsible for Ixia's day-to-day operations and is intimately involved with strategy and long-term business planning. Atul brings more than 20 years of experience in the computing and communications industry. Most recently, Atul led product development at a leading mobile to mobile convergence startup, DiVitas Networks, focusing on WiFi and Cellular seamless convergence. Prior to that, Atul served as vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Data Networks Division of Nortel. At Nortel, Atul's business unit was responsible for the design and marketing of a full range of Ethernet switches, security solutions, WLAN mobility solutions, Metro Ethernet technologies and enterprise routers. Atul came to Nortel through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems in October 2000, where he was vice president of Advanced WebSwitching Products, creating next generation WebSwitches and security acceleration products. Prior to joining Alteon Web Systems, Atul worked at Hewlett-Packard for almost 15 years where he held several general management assignments in North America and Asia. He led the creation of OSS and BSS solutions for Wireless Service Providers based on HP's OpenView Architecture. His team was also responsible for HP-UX networking services for all HP-UX based workstations and minicomputers. Mr. Bhatnagar holds a MSEE from the University of New Mexico and a BSEE from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
The concept of thin provisioning is not new, but the state of the art has advanced, adding awareness between the operating system and storage device for enhanced efficiency. This session introduces the value proposition and concept of thin provisioning, covers the technology of the major thin storage vendors (3PAR, BlueArc, Compellent, Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pillar) and operating system integration layers (Symantec, VMware, and T10), and presents novel approaches from Data Robotics, Apple, and cloud storage systems. We will present the pros and cons of these various approaches in the context of enterprise storage management. Speaker - Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting, Nirvanix
Virtualization Management Primer: What it Takes to Achieve the Full Potential of Virtualization (Location: Lagoon H)
As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders. 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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This two-part session is designed to help enterprises chart their course through UC adoption and deployment. The first hour will provide a comprehensive overview of the options available for Unified Communications, along with an assessment of suppliers for each option. It is intended for enterprise CXOs, decision-makers, IT managers, communications managers, and business managers who are planning to install UC -- either via a new system or by adding UC to existing PBXs, email systems and business applications. The session will highlight the five most popular Unified Communications enterprise deployment options. Top-ranking vendors for each option will be compared and evaluated, and estimated pricing of each approach will be included in the analysis. The second hour will provide you with the details you need to make your UC decisions, to select the best vendors, and to plan your implementation. This section will show the specific UC configurations and investments that are required for the most common cases for UC investments. In each case, we will review the system configurations, the added software and hardware elements, and the systems integration scope of work likely to be required to achieve the desired outcome. Speaker - Marty Parker, Principal Consultant, UniComm Consulting Marty Parker is committed to advancement of Unified Communications (UC) to produce new benefits and efficiencies in enterprise communications and to stimulate and justify innovation in the business communications industry. Marty sees Unified Communications as transforming the highly manual, unmeasured, and relatively unpredictable world of telephony-based and e-mail-based communications into a software-assisted, coordinated, simplified, predictable process that will deliver high-value benefits to customers, to employees, and to the relevant enterprises. With even moderate attention to implementation and change management, UC can deliver the cost-saving and process-accelerating changes that deliver real, compelling, hard-dollar ROI. Marty is co-founder of UniComm Consulting, the industry's premier independent consulting firm providing strategy, planning and implementation support for enterprises in all industry segments. Marty is also co-founder of UCStrategies.com, the industry's leading forum for UC information and dialog. Marty created the workshop, Planning and Implementing Unified Communications, offered though BCR Training since 2006 and now available through Telecom + UC Training. Involved providing UC sessions at VoiceCon since 2006, Marty will be delivering the industry review, "UC Options: Who's Offering What?" as well as leading the deep-dive session, "Unified Communications Implementation." As a student of UC successes and case studies, Marty will moderate the important session, "Communications Enabled Apps in Action: Case Studies" at which customer executives will highlight their actual UC experiences. Marty bases is UC activities on his experience in sales, strategic planning, product line management, financial management and general management positions in both computing (IBM) and communications (ATT/Lucent/Avaya) firms, as well as with two venture funded firms and with a very large west-coast telecom interconnect firm in the 1980s. Speaker - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting Don Van Doren brings 25 years of experience as the founder and president of Vanguard Communications, a leading independent consulting firm in call center, contact center, and interactive voice response technologies and solutions. Don and Vanguard are known throughout the communications industry for consistently high quality engagements and for ongoing contributions to industry development through speaking engagements, news articles and publication of books, white papers and other reference materials. Don is one of four co-founders of UCStrategies.com. Don sees Unified Communications as an area that will build on the learning and experience of the contact center industry. Though UC solutions will touch many other business processes than those served by contact centers, the principles of integrating communications into the business processes are consistent between contact centers and UC. Just as contact centers enriched customer service and lowered cost by managing and informing the communications events with business process information though both customer self-service and personalized agent interactions, UC will accelerate and enhance the many other business processes by linking information and software assistance into the communications for those processes and the related employee jobs. | |
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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.’ | |
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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. | |
Clouds, Open Automation and How the Network Can Help - Sponsored by Force10 Networks (Location: Mandalay Bay K) Data center (DC) consolidation harkens back to the centralized glass room, enabling better control over fixed costs. Virtualization drives up utilization of server compute and storage assets, reduces sprawl and helps reduce power and cooling. Speaker - Stephen Garrison, Vice President of Marketing, Force10 Networks Stephen Garrison has more than 19 years of experience designing strategic marketing programs for the telecommunications and networking industries. Prior to becoming vice president of marketing, Garrison directed the company’s corporate marketing and customer activities. Prior to joining Force10, Garrison was the senior director of marketing at Riverstone Networks, where he was responsible for building customer programs. Earlier, he served as the director of marketing at Cabletron Systems. Garrison received a B.S. in Ceramic Science from Alfred University and an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. He also holds four patents and sits on the board of directors for the Ethernet Alliance.
Optimizing Your Infrastructure: Using Failover and Global Server Load Balancing to Speed Web Performance - Sponsored by Dyn Inc. (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Ever wonder how a company prepares for a huge spike in traffic after advertising during sports' biggest event, or how Twitter was able to handle its highest traffic in history the day Michael Jackson died? Hear from the DNS experts who power the infrastructure of the Internet's most popular web sites, on what it takes to optimize web performance and user experience through the use of advanced DNS solutions such as traffic management, failover and global server load balancing. Real world case studies will higlight how to maximize web performance with your current infrastructure without making costly investments will be explored. Speaker - Cory von Wallenstein, VP Product Management, Dyn Inc. Speaker - Kyle York, VP, Sales & Marketing, Dyn Inc.
Virtualization in the SMB: Is Server Consolidation My Real Benefit? - Sponsored by VMware (Location: Mandalay Bay L)SMBs don’t have thousands or even hundreds of servers that they are trying to consolidate in order to achieve massive savings on power, cooling, and floor space. But this doesn’t mean virtualization isn’t a fit. Virtualization for the SMB is all about availability and the ability to drive down management costs, particularly for shops with few IT personnel. Even for companies with as few as two physical servers, virtualization can provide benefits that break the limitations of the physical computer world, simplifying IT and unlocking cost and time savings for SMBs. This session will take a close look at all the availability characteristics (reliability, data protection, etc.) that a virtualization platform can provide and show real-world examples of how smaller IT organizations can drive more utilization out of existing hardware through virtualization. Speaker - Mike Adams, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware | |
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According to a recent FOCUS survey, “Managing the Virtual Environment”, backing up the virtual environment is IT’s biggest virtualization pain point. The application data contained within each virtual machine is only part of what needs to be backed up. This session will cover best practices for backup in the virtual environment and will discuss capabilities available to assist and simplify your backup process. 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 - Scott Herold, Lead Architect – Virtualization Business, Quest Software Scott Herold leads product design and architecture for Quest's Virtualization Management Division. With more than a decade of industry experience in operating system, network, security and storage design, Scott is a pioneer in architecting advanced virtualization solutions. Scott also is the co-author of two best-selling books, "VMWare ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide," and "VMWare Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide." Focused on helping organizations achieve the benefits of virtualization while minimizing the challenges, Scott is a frequent presenter at industry events, and contributes to white papers and articles focused on virtualization best practices. Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs. 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 - Martin Casado, Co-Founder and CTO, Nicira Networks
Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based. He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC). Speaker - David Christophe, Director, Marketing, Alcatel Lucent Dave has over 20 years experience with WAN solutions globally. His focus is on mission-critical energy, government and transportation communications. Dave is the Broadband Forum ambassador program vice chair focusing on the development of tutorials for industry education, and was previously the IP/MPLS Forum education working group chair. In this capacity he was involved in the development of 9 half day tutorials and their presentation at industry conferences. Dave recently presented at the Utilities Telecom Council annual conference on the lessons learned by several European and Asian Utilities that deployed a converged IP/MPLS WAN. His most recent technology whitepaper addresses the next steps with Ethernet WAN communications at power utility substations. Speaker - Charlie Kawwas, VP Marketing & Sales, Semiconductor Solutions Group, LSI Charlie Kawwas is the vice president of sales and marketing for the Network Components Division within the Semiconductor Solutions Group of LSI Corporation. Prior to his current role, Dr. Kawwas was the Senior Director for Enterprise and Service Provider Marketing at LSI. Before coming to LSI, he was the Leader of Product Line Management for Optical Multi-service Edge portfolio at Nortel Networks. Dr. Kawwas received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Speaker - Andy Gottlieb, Founder and CEO, Talari Networks Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Speaker - Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP Product Marketing, Packet Design Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Case Study: How Greening IT Infrastructure Saved The State Of California $44M (Location: Breakers F)
Rising energy costs, an economic slowdown and environmental awareness are forcing enterprises and government to consider greener IT. To address these challenges, the State of California initiated one of the largest government-green IT projects across its 50,000 hardware devices and 2 million software titles. In all, the initiative expects to save $44 million in energy expenses and avoid over 200,000 tons of carbon emissions. This case study will provide attendees with the State of California’s approach to green IT, projects initiated and valuable lessons learned along the way. 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 - Ido Sarig, Chief Evangelist and CMO, BDNA As chief evangelist and CMO for BDNA, Ido Sarig leads customer and community outreach, communications and strategic planning. Specializing in product strategy and corporate development, Ido has a long career as a senior technology executive and a venture partner with a leading VC firm in Silicon Valley. Formerly senior VP of technology strategy for Mercury Interactive, he was responsible for the technology roadmap, strategic industry acquisitions and business opportunities. Ido has participated as an industry speaker for more than 12 years, domestically and internationally, at various technology and user-group conferences and venture capital events including Oracle Open World and STAREAST. Speaker - Gregg Descheemaeker, Enterprise Account Manager, Intel Gregg Descheemaeker manages Intel Corporation’s business development activities with the State of California’s public sector. In addition to his roles and responsibilities for market creation in Education and Healthcare, a primary responsibility for Gregg is to accelerate the adoption of Intel’s next generation technology in the State’s core IT infrastructure. A ten year veteran of Intel, Descheemaeker previously was the Director of Client Management for the Americas for Intel Solution Services’ consulting business, a Corporate Account Executive for Intel Online Services’ data center hosting business, the West Coast sales manager for Intel’s Ketris blade server reference platform, and the Northern California Territory Manager for Intel’s NetStructure data communication products. Gregg has been in the technology industry since graduating from New Mexico State University in 1990, with almost the entirety of his professional life being focused on F500 corporate enterprise data communications and data center infrastructure. Key to the success of any mobile strategy is putting the right devices into the hands of users in the field. But this can be a difficult task – with so many choices, including a broad range of handsets, operating environments, and applications, how can IT management make the best choice? This session will feature a look at some of the key alternatives and help you make the decision as to the optimal mobile arsenal for your enterprise. Speaker - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the INTEROP conferences(Las Vegas and New York) and is also the Program Chair for the Mobile Business (MB) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and InformationWeek.com, and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has become the central driver of the Information Technology Security. The Data Security Standard’s oppressive costs and low efficacy have distracted organizations from performing true information risk management. Paved with good intentions, where does this road lead? Did raising the bar lower it? Is the cure worse than the disease? We will compare PCI to “No Child Left Behind Act”, explore PCI’s origins, motives, and impact, and outline actionable areas for improvement. Speaker - Josh Corman, Research Director, Enterprise Security Practice, The 451 Group Joshua Corman is the Research Director of Security for The 451 Group - a leading analyst firm focussed on the business of IT innovation. Corman is a candid, strategic thinker and a highly coveted speaker who has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, ISACA, and SANS. His efforts to educate and challenge the industry recently led NetworkWorld magazine to recognize Corman as a top 10 Influencer of IT for 2009. (Link to article: http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/outlook/010509-tech-people-to-know.html) Desktop video conferencing has traditionally consumed the PC, used up the screen real-estate and provided poor images. Has this technology evolved into a useful tool? What are the enterprise applications where desktop video can provide productivity enhancements or better customer interactions that justify its deployment? In this session we will quiz the desktop video vendors to see if we can rationalize deploying yet another complex application on the desktop. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - Scott Wharton, CEO, Vidtel Inc. Speaker - Bruce Zieper, Senior Manager, UC Alliances, Cisco Speaker - Philippe Schwartz, CEO, ooVoo Speaker - John Dye, Senior Product Manager, Avistar The dream of portable, fluid workloads is far from today's reality. While companies might like to move their IT from provider to provider, or from on-premise to on-demand environment, quickly and easily, the reality is that competing standards and formats stand in the way. There's no common language for managing cloud computing, and proprietary formats, custom scripts, and relying on third-party middleware to insulate applications from the underlying platform are the norm. In this session, we'll look at cloud standards that are trying to overcome this chaos, and see whether truly portable, interoperable cloud platforms will become a reality. Moderator - Omer Trajman, VP Customer Solutions, Cloudera Omer Trajman is responsible for all customer-facing technical work at Cloudera, helping enterprise customers deploy and manage complex data and processing using Apache Hadoop. Prior to joining Cloudera, Omer was responsible for cloud computing and virtualization initiatives at Vertica Systems. Among his projects was the integration of Vertica's products with Apache Hadoop. He also served as Director of Field Engineering and built and managed Vertica's customer-facing team. Omer was responsible for ensuring success, from pre-sales to production deployment, for Vertica's largest customers tackling growing data challenges. Omer received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and was a visiting scholar at Oxford University reading Computation and Electrical Engineering. Speaker - Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, RightScale Inc. Thorsten co-founded RightScale, Inc, the leading cloud management platform. Previously, Thorsten was Chief Architect at Expertcity.com and Citrix Online, makers of GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToAssist. He was responsible for the overall architecture of these online services and also managed the 24/7 datacenter operations which allowed him to acquire deep knowledge in deploying and running secure scalable online services. Thorsten received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Speaker - Jason Lochhead, CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child. Speaker - Ellen Rubin, VP of Products, CloudSwitch Founder and & VP of Products at CloudSwitch, Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market for fast-growing companies. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications.Prior to Netezza, Ellen founded Manna, an Israeli and Boston-based developer of real-time personalization software. Ellen played a key role in raising over $18 million in venture financing from leading US and Israeli venture capital firms, recruiting the US-based management team and defining product and market strategy. Ellen began her career as a marketing strategy consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.
Enterprises are now leveraging cloud storage services at a rapid pace and are looking for qualified answers on how using a cloud platform can increase efficiency and ROI simultaneously. The old model of purchasing expensive storage systems or using large amounts of tape are prehistoric, adapting a new approach to storage is necessary in today’s tough economic climate as budgets continue to be slashed and performance upkeep is critical . This session will enable users to learn about the benefits and economies of scale as it relates to developing/implementing a cloud storage solution, a focus will be placed on performance, cost-effectiveness, user experience, and customer service/satisfaction. Speaker - Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting, Nirvanix | |
Forensics are Not Enough! Case Studies in Proactive Network Defense using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Technology - Sponsored by TriGeo Network Security (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Learn how SIEM and real-time, in memory, analytics combine to capture, correlate and respond to network attacks and insider abuse. See automated responses to network attacks, policy violations, inappropriate web browsing and USB device usage. Hear how mid-sized enterprises use SIEM to meet regulatory compliance initiatives and gain network control. Speaker - Michelle Dickman, President and CEO, TriGeo Network Security Description to come. Speaker - Travis Vijil, Senior Manager, EqualLogic Product Marketing, Dell | |
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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.’ | |
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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. | |
Branch Office in a Box: Virtualization Strategies for Consolidation - Sponsored by BlueCoat (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Widely used to consolidate data centers, virtualization also provides an opportunity for branch office infrastructure consolidation. Before organizations can utilize virtualization in the branch, they need to understand how and what to virtualize. This session will identify strategies for virtualizing branch applications, services and technologies and the efficiencies that result. Speaker - George Sadler, Storage Marketing Strategist, Dell Speaker - Mike Adams, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMware Speaker - Mark Urban, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Everything Over 10G Ethernet: Convergence in the Data Center - Sponsored by Aquantia (Location: Mandalay Bay K) This panel brings together leaders in data center server and switch technologies, storage and virtualization applications to review the rise of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and LAN on Motherboard in the data center. They will debate the impact of ‘everything over 10GE’, unified networks and interconnect advances on virtualization, storage networks, cost control and performance optimization. Is this a convergence whose time has come? Speaker - David Chalupsky, Network Product Architect, Intel Corporation Speaker - Gary Gumanow, Senior Product Line Manager, Dell, Inc. Speaker - Anshul Sadana, VP, Customer & Systems Engineer, Arista Networks, Inc. Speaker - Seamus Crehan, VP of Network Adapters and SAN Market Research, Dell'Oro Group Speaker - Phil Delansay, VP, Business Development, Aquantia  A new technology standard called InterFace to Metadata Access Points – or “IF-MAP” - from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), standardizes the way devices and applications share information with one another. It does for coordination and collaboration what IP has done for connectivity. IF-MAP has been adopted and is supported by several leading vendors and supports many applications, including multi-vendor network security, asset tracking and supply chain management, and smart grid. IF-MAP also shows promise for solving some key challenges in cloud computing, including the ability to automate the movement of workloads between private and public clouds and between cloud providers. This workshop will review the background of IF-MAP technology, current status and product offerings, and present the results of work on an Inter-Cloud Registry service using IF-MAP. | |
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The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands. What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC). In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm. However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide. In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 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 - Opher Dubrovsky, AVP, Product Marketing, Crescendo Networks Opher Dubrovsky serves as AVP Product Marketing at Crescendo Networks where he drives the roadmap and global go-to-market strategies for the AppBeat ADC product line. For the last 15 years, Opher has been driving product activities in a variety of companies ranging from startups to large multinationals. Having spent years at Microsoft, Opher has enhanced his expertise in networking, security, virtualization and interactive television. Opher is the co-author of 4 security and acceleration patents and 3 scientific articles. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel. Speaker - Mark Weiner, Director Data Center Solutions, Cisco Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Kenneth Salchow, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5 Speaker - Keith Stewart, Director, Product Management, Brocade Speaker - Steve Shah, Director of Products, Citrix Speaker - Paul Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, A10 Networks The biggest obstacle to cloud computing adoption is trust. Whether you think of it as vulnerabilities, leakage of private data, or fear of lock-in, it all amounts to one thing: whether you trust your cloud platform. Now that on-demand computing is an IT certainty, it's time to establish best practices and governance, and mitigate the inherent risks of outsourced infrastructure. This presentation looks at the thorniest legal issues surrounding cloud computing. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Speaker - Nolan Goldberg, IP & Technology Counsel, Proskauer LLP Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/
How Data Center Managers Should Evaluate The Cloud And Cloud-Like Efficiencies (Location: Breakers F)
As IT is challenged to deliver services – not manage assets – could computing presents itself as an affordable, scalable strategy. And the pressure is mounting for data center managers to move their on-premise infrastructure and applications into the cloud. But security concerns, poor service-level commitments, and lack of organizational readiness – and willingness – are all valid roadblocks that stand in the way. This session will help data center managers determine if could computing is right for them – and if not, how to achieve cloud-like efficiencies in their current environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Phil Fritz, Manager, Tivoli Strategy and Product Management, IBM Software Group, Tivoli Phil Fritz a manager in IBM Tivoli's Strategy and Product Management group. In this role, Phil leads a multi-disciplinary team that works with clients to define solutions, drive product strategy and bring key technologies, including Green, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SOA and Software-as-a-Service to the marketplace. Phil's team has been driving the strategy and product management behind key initiatives for IBM Tivoli , starting with IBM's Green Data Center launch in 2007 and, more recently, IBM Tivoli's new foray into Cloud Computing with Service Management Center for Cloud. Previously, Phil was a senior program director in the area of SOA management since 2002, helping define and drive the management capabilities in IBM’s SOA Foundation, focusing on security and management. Phil is a frequent speaker at trade, analyst and customer events. Phil has an MBA in Information Technology from the University of Texas – Austin and a BA from the University of Virginia. Speaker - Dhritiman Dasgupta, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, Juniper Networks Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. Speaker - Kirsten Wolberg, CIO, salesforce.com Kirsten Wolberg is Chief Information Officer at Salesforce.com, leading the Information Technology organization responsible for building and maintaining the global technology infrastructure and business applications for all Salesforce.com employees and business units. Wolberg joined Salesforce.com in May, 2008 from Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. where she led the organization responsible for corporate technology, offshore development and technology education & leadership development. She was a key member of the executive team that led Schwab’s turnaround and return to profitability. For the past seven years Wolberg has served in leadership roles with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the San Francisco Light the Night Walk. Along with its many benefits, the move to a virtual infrastructure brings new challenges to managing the data center. These challenges include virtual server sprawl (largely due to the ease of provisioning virtual servers), capacity and performance management of the virtualized infrastructure, and troubleshooting problems across the virtual and physical environment. While network and systems management toolsets have been around for decades, are they able to handle a virtual world? Hundreds of new tools have emerged to specifically address virtualization management, while existing tools are evolving with new virtual capabilities. Learn about how both of these types of tools can be implemented to help you with the long-running challenge of successful end-to-end management. 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 - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Speaker - Rich Boudeau, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management, DynamicOps Rich Bourdeau is currently vice president of product marketing and management at DynamicOps. DynamicOps provides delivery automation and governance of private cloud based IT services. Rich has more than 20 years experience developing, managing, and marketing IT infrastructure management solutions. He was vice president of product management at Incipient, and held product marketing and management positions at in EMC’s storage management division. Speaker - Jonathan Reeve, Director of Product Management, Hyper9 Jonathan Reeve has built a career integrating hands-on technical development with senior-level strategic management. As director of product management for Hyper9, Jonathan is responsible for the company’s flagship product, Virtual Environment Optimization suite. Jonathan’s experience spans computer networking, systems management and virtualization technologies, helping numerous start-ups and established companies generate market traction. Prior to joining Hyper9, Jonathan drove product management for the network management product line at Smarts, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. Jonathan has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Networking from the University of Durham (UK). Speaker - Alex Bakman, Founder and CTO, VKernel Alex is the founder and CTO of VKernel, providing the leadership and direction for the company. He is a serial entrepreneur with interests in Information Security and Audit, Compliance, Virtualization, and Online Marketing. Prior to VKernel, Alex founded Ecora Software (over 3,500 customers) and CleverSoft ($12 million in revenue), a software company acquired by Candle Corporation. Alex is a recognized expert in computer security, virtualization, and systems management. He holds many US and international patents and is a frequent speaker at VMWorld, ISACA, TechEd, ITSMF, and ITExpo. Alex graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a minor in business administration from the American University in Washington D.C. It’s more than a question of Web/cloud services vs. traditional applications vs. device-specific apps. It’s a question of how best to get enterprise information into the hands of those who need it no matter when or where. Building mobile apps has definitely become easier with device-independent tools, but challenges remain. We’ll look in detail at the key options for building mobile apps, and suggest alternatives that provide the greatest flexibility at the lowest cost. Speaker - Nathan Clevenger, Mobility Practice Leader, Enterprise Editor, Smartphone Magazine, ITR Group
Mr. Clevenger is the Enterprise Editor for Smartphone magazine and runs the Enterprise Mobility Solutions practice at ITR Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified consulting firm. He was previously the Chief Software Architect for Mobiliam, a provider of enterprise-class mobile/wireless software products, and has been developing mobile software for more than 12 years. An avid evangelist of mobile computing, he is dedicated to raising awareness of the potential for this technology in business. He writes for a variety of technical and business publications, and speaks at many industry events. This session provides introductory material and discussion of solid state storage. A comprehensive overview of the technology, from components to devices to systems is provided, along with an overview of several current topics surrounding the integration, deployment, use and application of solid state storage. The material is intended for those who are not familiar with solid state storage in the enterprise and wish to develop a working understanding of the technology and its usage. Learning Objectives Understand solid state storage technology in its various forms Understand common characteristics and behaviors of solid state storage Understand the benefits of using solid state storage in enterprise applications Speaker - Robert Peglar, Vice President Technology, Xiotech Corporation Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University’s Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. Major vendors are racing to build out viable, enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-mail solutions. For IT, e-mail is only conspicuous in when it is absent, so treating e-mail as an utility and managing it for maximum uptime is IT’s mantra. Therefore, the opportunity to offload e-mail to reliable service is very attractive because of the management and economic benefits. Speaker - Bill Pray, Analyst, Collaboration and Content Strategies, Burton Group To mitigate website security risks, organizations need to know what vulnerabilities bad guys are exploiting as well as issues that could possibly be taken advantage of. This session will combine comprehensive data with leading industry insight to address the “possible” and “probable” to help attendees make better website security decisions. Speaker - Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer, WhiteHat Security, Inc. Jeremiah Grossman founded WhiteHat Security in August 2001. A world-renowned expert in Web security, Mr. Grossman is a founder of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and was named to InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs for 2007. Mr. Grossman is a frequent speaker at industry events including the Black Hat Briefings, RSA Conference, ISACA, CSI, InfoSec World, OWASP, ISSA, and Defcon as well as a number of large universities. He has authored dozens of articles and white papers, is credited with the discovery of many cutting-edge attack and defensive techniques and is a co-author of XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense. Mr. Grossman is frequently quoted in major media outlets such as USA Today, the Washington Post, The Financial Times, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, USA Today, PC World, Dark Reading, SC Magazine, CNET, CSO and NBC news. He frequently alerts the media community to the latest attacks and is not only able to offer in-depth commentary, but also provide his perspective of what’s to come. Mr. Grossman was named a “friend of Google” and is also an influential blogger (www.jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com) who offers insight and encourages open dialogue regarding current research and vulnerability trend information. Prior to WhiteHat, Mr. Grossman was an information security officer at Yahoo! responsible for performing security reviews on the company's hundreds of websites. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Grossman worked for Amgen, Inc. Speaker - Alex Hutton, Research and Intelligence Principal, Verizon Business Hutton, research and intelligence principal with Verizon Business, has served as a consultant and auditor on topics related information risk and security for more than 15 years, working for Fortune 10 to SMB companies. He is a contributor to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and writes regularly for the Verizon Security Blog. | |
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Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support. It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool. This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - William Choe, Director, Product Management, Ethernet Switching Technology Group, Cisco William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center. Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company. This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform. Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform. Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995. At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Senior Director, Product Management, CA As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Mauricio Sanchez, Chief Security Architect, HP Speaker - Seamus Hourihan, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Acme Packet | |
2010 Business Trends: Securing Your Organization for the Future - Sponsored by SonicWALL (Location: Mandalay Bay L) 2009 was a year of major shifts in network and computer security. Social networking, Web 2.0, virtualization, consolidation, downsizing, and more drove the agenda for nearly every organization. So what's next? Should you expect more of the same or something new? Will virtualization and cloud computing finally meet IT operational realities? Are networks risk-ready for bandwidth hogging applications, social media streams, voice, video and more. Will this be the year that the predicted efficiencies of a borderless business finally take hold. We'll take a look at these trends and more for 2010. Speaker - Douglas Brockett, Vice President and General Manager, SonicWALL Throughout the early stages of the data center design/build process, complex decisions are made that greatly impact the eventual efficiency and performance of the data center. There are free tools available that can simplify this decision making process by experimenting with numerous “what if” scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, capital cost, and other key design issues. This presentation will review two of these tools, PUE and Capital Cost Calculator, and demonstrate each of them. Speaker - Steven Carlini, Sr Director, Data Center Global Solution Offer Management, APC by Schneider Electric
Get Your Environment Ready for Long Distance VMotion - Sponsored by Trace3 (Location: Mandalay Bay J) Description to come. Speaker - David Hekimian, Sr. Practice Manager – Virtualization, Trace|3 | |
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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.’ | |
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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. | |
Personal Telepresence – Why You Can’t Work Remotely Without It - Sponsored by Vidyo (Location: Mandalay Bay K) Technology has advanced in all the aspects necessary to enable HD quality video conferencing over the Internet. So why are we still breaking natural workflow to utilize fixed room Telepresence? Participants will be able identify both challenges and actionable solutions for implementing Personal Telepresence solutions for a more effective tele-workforce. Speaker - Marty Hollander, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Vidyo | |
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By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning. Topics include: · I/O virtualization for management and security · The state of FCoE · End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations · External I/O virtualization solutions · 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center Speaker - Howard Marks, Contributing Editor, Network Computing Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com
Creating Effective Security Controls: A Ten Year Study of High Performing Security (Location: Lagoon J)This presentation will discuss 10 years of research and benchmarking of 1,000 organizations by the IT Process Institute, that uncovered the 20% of IT controls that deliver 80% of the performance improvement, as well as creating a sustainable and secure controls environment. Case studies of effective organizations will be discussed as well as observations and conclusions that where developed as a result of the research. Speaker - Gene Kim, Founder and CTO, Tripwire In 1992, Gene co-authored Tripwire while at Purdue University with Dr. Gene Spafford. Since 1999, he has been studying high performing IT operations and security organizations, which led Gene to co-found the IT Process Institute (ITPI) in 2004. In conjunction with the ITPI, Gene co-authored the "Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in Four Practical And Auditable Steps" which has since sold over 75,000 copies. He was a principal investigator on the IT Controls Performance Study project, and in 2008, he co-authored the "Security Visible Ops", a handbook describing how to link IT security and operational objectives in four practical steps by integrating security controls into IT operational, software development and project management processes. Gene currently serves on the Advanced Technology Committee for the Institute of Internal Auditors where he is part of the GAIT task force, which has created guidance on how to scope IT general controls for SOX-404. In 2007, he was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.
Cutting Costs With PC Power Management: Approaches, Pitfalls And Best Practices (Location: Breakers F)
PC and monitor power management – or the practice of powering down PCs and monitors when not in use but still on consuming energy – is a high impact but low-cost, low-effort way to energy-related costs and CO2 emissions. While many organizations have some sort of PC power management in place, policies are oftentimes too relaxed – such as requesting users to turn off their PCs at night – and lack automation technology to baseline energy consumption, activate policies and report savings. This session will help organizations identify PC power management benefits, barriers and solutions through tested case studies. Speaker - Pat Tiernan, Executive Director, Climate Savers Computing Initiative Climate Savers Computing executive director Pat Tiernan has more than 15 years experience in technology, most recently driving sustainability strategy and execution as Hewlett Packard’s vice president of Social and Environmental Responsibility. Tiernan is a recognized expert in green technology, sustainability issues and the future of IT energy efficiency and its impact on climate change. At Climate Savers Computing, Tiernan promotes the adoption of energy-efficient computers and power management tools worldwide. Under his leadership, the organization has topped 500 members, has launched a chapter in India, and expanded its partnership with the U.S. EPA and its ENERGY STAR program.
When discussing virtual desktops, most people think of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. However, there are a number of methods for delivering, provisioning and managing virtual desktops. This session will examine a range of technologies that can be used to deploy and manage virtual desktops, and how to match these technologies with user requirements. 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. The recession economy has taken its toll on market demand for enterprise communications systems and solutions. It may be bad time for suppliers, but a good time for buyers who can enjoy lower prices, increased system performance, and no/low interest financing as buying incentives. The crowded competitive field is preparing for the next OCS release from Microsoft that is likely to affect major market equilibrium changes while more than a few long time system suppliers, such as Nortel, struggle to survive. In addition, the trends towards cloud-based computing and greater reliance on mobile communications each threaten to bring a new paradigm shift in the way enterprises communicate internally and externally. This session will include updated telephony system market forecasts and supplier share estimates; a discussion of which enterprise communications system features and applications are hot (selling) or cold (stagnating); a review of major market trends, such as cloud computing, hosted solutions, and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC); and a critical analysis of the leading system suppliers and their flagship offerings. Speaker - 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 - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting Don Van Doren brings 25 years of experience as the founder and president of Vanguard Communications, a leading independent consulting firm in call center, contact center, and interactive voice response technologies and solutions. Don and Vanguard are known throughout the communications industry for consistently high quality engagements and for ongoing contributions to industry development through speaking engagements, news articles and publication of books, white papers and other reference materials. Don is one of four co-founders of UCStrategies.com. Don sees Unified Communications as an area that will build on the learning and experience of the contact center industry. Though UC solutions will touch many other business processes than those served by contact centers, the principles of integrating communications into the business processes are consistent between contact centers and UC. Just as contact centers enriched customer service and lowered cost by managing and informing the communications events with business process information though both customer self-service and personalized agent interactions, UC will accelerate and enhance the many other business processes by linking information and software assistance into the communications for those processes and the related employee jobs.
While major wireless security concerns have long since left the front page, security is the one area in IT (and especially in mobile IT) where “done” is never achieved. New challenges and outright threats appear on essentially a weekly basis, and it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. Our goal for this session is to look at the latest in mobile security threats, and how new solutions are enabling mobile users to go about their business without compromise to corporate assets. Moderator - Alex Wolfe, Editor In Chief, InformationWeek.com Alexander Wolfe is editor-in-chief of InformationWeek.com and author of its Wolfe's Den blog. In his two decades as a technology editor, he has written for Electronics, Byte.com, and IEEE Spectrum. He spent nine years at Electronic Engineering Times, where he broke the infamous 1994 story of Intel's Pentium bug. Alex was trained as an electrical engineer at Cooper Union. Speaker - Ryan Naraine, Senior Security Evangelist, Kasperksy Lab Ryan Naraine is a senior security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, a global provider of anti-malware technologies. He is responsible for monitoring the regional malware landscape and conducting preliminary analysis of threats. He also assists with user education about malware threats and risk management. Ryan also writes extensively about security issues for Threatpost and ZDNet. Speaker - David Perry, Global Director of Education, Trend Micro, Inc. David Perry, Global Director of Education at Trend Micro, is one of the best respected and best known authorities in the world of computer viruses and malicious code. With over 36 years of experience in the technical education and support field, (the last twenty years entirely in Computer Security and Antivirus) David Perry brings to Trend Micro his own unique blend of technical understanding, communication style, and humor. While at Trend Micro, David Perry has been a featured speaker, panelist and published researcher at CES, COMDEX, Virus Bulletin, EICAR, RSA, Infosec London, FOSE, Infosec Moscow, AVAR, Dubtech in Dubai, and many other technical and trade conferences. He served in the national Y2K center and co chaired three meetings in the White House, concerning the protection of America’s critical digital infrastructure. David has appeared on numerous national and regional television news broadcasts, including the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, CBS's Good Morning America, and NPR All Things Considered. In addition, David is a monthly guest on Craig Crossman's nationally syndicated Computer America show, and has been quoted on the front page of major news publications such as the New York Times and USA Today. He is often looked to as a resource by news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. David appears on television radio and publications in every corner of the world.Prior to joining Trend Micro, David Perry began his career in the antivirus world as a technical support analyst with Peter Norton Computing (now SYMANTEC), where he helped tens of thousands of individuals and corporations to recover from virus and hostile code attacks. Later, he worked at McAfee Corporation, managing all online and Web based support, and became a well known community leader through his involvement with CompuServe and AOL. He went on to Cybermedia corporation, where he quickly moved up to a company spokesperson role where he appeared in more than 300 television and radio broadcasts in addition to a full schedule of user groups, industry conferences and other personal appearances. This is David’s thirteenth year with Trend Micro, Inc., and he continues to lead efforts to educate computer users in every walk of life. “Great system security begins in admitting that there is a problem”, says Perry, “but that is only the first step towards working in a safer, more secure world.” Speaker - Jay Barbour, Security Advisor, BlackBerry Security Group, Research In Motion Jay brings more than 10 years of security experience to Research In Motion where he serves as an advisor for the BlackBerry Security Group. He works closely with government agencies, strategic and carrier sales teams and key customers to champion security policy for BlackBerry smartphones. Prior to joining RIM, Jay was vice president of marketing at Intrusion Inc., a pioneering company in data leak prevention appliances. His previous roles include vice president of product management at ScanSafe (now Cisco), the world’s first managed web security start-up; consultant in the wireless industry; as well as various security product management and marketing roles at 3Com and Hewlett–Packard. He started his career in the energy sector, working for Schlumberger in the Middle East and South America as senior field engineer, as well as ARCO (now BP) as senior planning analyst. Jay holds a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, Canada, an MBA from INSEAD, France, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Jay is based out of Dallas. Speaker - Khoi Nguyen, Group Product Manager, Mobile Security and Management Group, Symantec Corporation As the Group Product Manager for the Mobile Security and Management Group at Symantec , Khoi Nguyen is responsible for setting the strategic direction of major new product releases, helping to define the business strategy, setting the product roadmap, and managing the product management team. Nguyen earned his master’s in business administration from the UCLA Anderson School and MS in computer science from UCLA. During that time, Nguyen researched and designed new Internet protocols for “self-configuring and adaptive” Web Cache servers that were designed to reduce both network bandwidth and user response time on the Web. Nguyen is the co-author of “Adaptive Web Caching” in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems. Prior to Symantec , Nguyen co-founded Silvan Networks, which was funded by Sequoia Capital and developed peer-to-peer networking appliances for Internet Service Providers and Enterprises. Nguyen has also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Management Consultant in the Internet Strategy Practice. Nguyen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN. Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links. The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Peter Schmidt, CTO for North America, Ipanema Speaker - Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Michael Feiertag, Director of Technology, Blue Coat Systems Inc. What's a cloud worth? With so many definitions of cloud computing, and such a diverse range of implementations, it's hard to get a grip on cloud costs. This session will look at the fundamentals of cloud economics, as well as many of the factors enterprises need to consider when making financial decisions about on-demand options. Speaker - Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus Bernard Golden is called a “cloud guru.” He is CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet, Sun Microsytems, and Hewlett- Packard. Bernard is the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine. His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called “brilliant and incisive.” His blog's influence was recognized when it was named a “Top 25 Cloud Computing Blog” by CloudTP. He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published. Bernard is a popular and engaging presenter, speaking throughout the world at conferences like CloudWorld, Cloud Connect, Structure, and EDUCAUSE. | |
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Business leaders know about it, your board of directors will ask about it, so it’s time to figure what it’ll take your IT operation to be cloud-ready. We’ll outline a step by step process to take cloud computing from an interesting concept to a strategically important element to your IT strategy. Speaker - Michael Biddick, CTO, Fusion PPT Michael Biddick is president and CTO of Fusion PPT and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has worked with hundreds of government and telecommunications service providers in the development of operational management solutions. Most recently he has supported the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Defense in the deployment of ITIL-based processes that are utilized to make their organizations more transparent and cost effective. Certified in several ITIL lifecycle service areas, Michael is also able to leverage over a decade of operational tool design and implementation experience with service desks, network management systems and consolidated management portals in making enterprise architecture decisions. Prior to joining Fusion PPT, Michael spent 10 years with Windward IT Solutions and also worked with Booz Allen Hamilton in its Enterprise Network Services group, developing network management solutions for a wide variety of both government and commercial clients. He also served on the academic staff of the University of Wisconsin Law School as the Director of Technology, heading up all aspects of IT management for the organization. Michael earned a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a contributing technology editor to InformationWeek and Network Computing, he has authored over 50 articles including reports on cloud computing, government IT strategies, SaaS, and IT process improvement. Speaker - Art Wittmann, Vice President/Director, InformationWeek Analytics Art currently serves at the director of InformationWeek Analytics where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's analyst business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Networking Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was also the editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek. Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was the associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Speaker - Jonathan Feldman, CIO, City of Asheville, NC Jonathan Feldman works with IT governance, strategy and leadership in North Carolina and is an award-winning contributor to InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing, writing on open source, business analysis and IT governance. He has provided service assurance and network infrastructure services to the military, healthcare, financial services and law enforcement markets. Jonathan has written, consulted and taught extensively on high-performance IT security and reliability topics, notably as co-author of Maximum Security and author of Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting. His popular books have been translated into many languages for international audiences. A speaker at many regional and national venues, including financial and healthcare IT seminars, PC Expo, CNet Radio, NetSeminar, The Institute of Internal Auditors and the United States Army, Jonathan also has served the community on governing boards, most recently on the IT Infrastructure Management Association strategic advisory board and the GMIS International advisory council. Write to him at jf@feldman.org. The value of Unified Communications has been more promise than reality, but now with the IP telephony as the enabling technology, there’s renewed interest in UC. We’ll describe the business-changing capabilities that UC now has to offer, as well as what it takes to actually get the business to use those capabilities. Speaker - Jeremy Littlejohn, President, RISC Networks As president of RISC Networks, a consulting firm specializing in business technology analytics, Jeremy Littlejohn oversees approximately 300 engagements per year and works closely with CIOs and IT managers to optimize the reliability, scalability and performance of their entire IT infrastructures. Jeremy is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) with more than 13 years of experience in IT, focusing heavily on unified communications, LAN/WAN and data center technologies. RISC Networks services virtually every type of industry, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, banking, finance and technology. You can learn more about RISC Networks at www.riscnetworks.com. Speaker - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike Fratto is editor of Network Computing. He covers network infrastructure and network access control and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security and network infrastructure products. Mike has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and previously was managing editor/labs for InformationWeek and NWC.com, a senior technology editor with Network Computing, and executive editor for Secure Enterprise. Mike speaks regularly at industry conferences, including Interop, MISTI and the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Speaker - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing | |
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Even as the blistering pace of innovation in wireless and mobile continues, there are signs that the industry in converging (so to speak) on a set of technologies that will provide a degree of stability that’s not been seen in the past two decades. Which technologies will survive and prosper, and what direction should your planning take to maximize benefits while minimizing costs? This session will explore key wireless technologies and the impacts they will have. Moderator - Tim Scannell, Editorial Director, TechnologyGuide.com, TechTarget Tim Scannell is a highly experienced editor, writer and communications/branding specialist. He has a wide range of experience in newspaper, magazine and online publishing, and has held leadership positions at some of the top publications in the industry. For the past ten years, he has also provided strategic and marketing research and branding services to a range of companies through his own business, Shoreline Research, and affiliations with partner companies, like Q, Inc. Marketing. He continues to work with innovative companies on new and exciting technology ventures. Tim is an accomplished communicator, who excels at creating effective messaging and marketing materials for businesses in a range of industry segments, from high technology to healthcare. Speaker - Ronny Haraldsvik, Vice President of Marketing, SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. Mr. Haraldsvik joined SpiderCloud as vice president of marketing in July, 2008. Mr. Haraldsvik has over 20 years of global strategic marketing and industry experience across a range of technology segments including wireless broadband, wireline networking and IP services, RFID, personal computing, wafer fabrication, software, and consumer devices. Mr. Haraldsvik held positions at Qualcomm, Inc., where he was vice president of strategy and market development and vice president of marketing for mobile broadband. Mr. Haraldsvik was previously the vice president of marketing at Flarion Technologies, a company acquired by Qualcomm. At Flarion, Mr. Haraldsvik led all marketing efforts in support of industry awareness for Flarion and the introduction of its FLASH-OFDM technology. Before joining Flarion, he was the vice president of marketing with Nortel Networks’ Shasta IP Services business unit. Former positions include director of field marketing while with Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks) and marketing positions with Silicon Graphics as well as several leading advertising agencies in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Mr. Haraldsvik holds a BA from the University of San Francisco. http://www.spidercloud.com/company/executive-team#haraldsvik Speaker - Tom Medrek, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Multiservice Access, Mindspeed Technologies Tom Medrek is senior vice president and general manager, multiservice access at Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of communications semiconductor and software solutions for network infrastructure equipment. He is a subject matter expert in the business and technical domains of IP networking, 4G network evolution, VoIP and enabling technology for the communications sector. The company’s overall product portfolio includes high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions, multiservice access products designed to support voice and data services across wire line and wireless networks, and Wide Area Network (WAN) communications solutions. Speaker - Andrew Hsu, Technology Strategist, Synaptics Dr. Andrew Hsu is Technology Strategist at Synaptics. He joined Synaptics in 1996 and led the company's efforts into establishing a presence in the mobile handset market. Hsu developed Synaptics’ ClearPad technology, a transparent sensor that can be mounted under curved plastic and glass. He led the marketing for ClearPad, resulting in the first production phone with a capacitive touchscreen, the LG Prada.
Social networking represents special challenges to security, to safety, and to privacy for individuals, companies, and government agencies. Attendees will come away with a historical perspective and better understanding of the scope, attractions and dangers of Social Networking in every form, plus special points of protection, of needed protection, and of user education that can secure a system in these treacherous waters. Speaker - David Perry, Global Director of Education, Trend Micro David Perry brings more than 25 years of technical education and support experience to his role as Global Director of Education at Trend Micro. He represents the company’s Internet content security awareness endeavors through speaking engagements working to educate network administrators, computer users, and the public at large about computer virus protection. Previously, Mr. Perry served as Product Marketing Manager at Trend Micro as well as Cybermedia Corporation, where he appeared in more than 170 television and radio broadcasts as a company spokesperson; and at McAfee Corporation, where he managed all online and Web-based support. Mr. Perry began his career as Technical Support Analyst at Peter Norton Computing (now Symantec).
Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers. This raises some critical questions: How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops? Should the next generation branch office be serverless? What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed? What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues? The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office. 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 - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Abhinav Bisarya, Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks Speaker - Shashi Kiran, Senior Manager, Cisco As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN. In his 15-year career, Shashi has held various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications. Speaker - Mark McReynolds, Principal Technology Specialist, Microsoft Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft. Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions. For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions. In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch. | |
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First voice traffic hopped on the LAN, now new technologies like desktop video conferencing and virtual desktops and application streaming put even more stress on enterprise networks. In this session we’ll look at designing a LAN infrastructure that meets the complex needs of today’s application mix. Speaker - Jeremy Littlejohn, President, RISC Networks As president of RISC Networks, a consulting firm specializing in business technology analytics, Jeremy Littlejohn oversees approximately 300 engagements per year and works closely with CIOs and IT managers to optimize the reliability, scalability and performance of their entire IT infrastructures. Jeremy is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) with more than 13 years of experience in IT, focusing heavily on unified communications, LAN/WAN and data center technologies. RISC Networks services virtually every type of industry, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, banking, finance and technology. You can learn more about RISC Networks at www.riscnetworks.com. Speaker - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike Fratto is editor of Network Computing. He covers network infrastructure and network access control and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security and network infrastructure products. Mike has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and previously was managing editor/labs for InformationWeek and NWC.com, a senior technology editor with Network Computing, and executive editor for Secure Enterprise. Mike speaks regularly at industry conferences, including Interop, MISTI and the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to joining Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Speaker - Michael Healey, President, Yeoman Technologies Mike Healey is the president of Yeoman Technology Group, an engineering and research firm focusing on maximizing technology investments for organizations, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has more than 23 years experience in technology and software integration. Prior to founding Yeoman, Mike served as the CTO of national network integrator GreenPages. He joined GreenPages as part of the acquisition of TENCorp, where he served as president for 14 years. Prior to founding TENCorp, Mike was an international project manager for Nixdorf Computer and a Notes consultant for Sandpoint Corp. Mike has taught courses at MIT Lowell Institute and Northeastern University and has served on the Educational Board of Advisers for several schools and universities throughout New England. He has a BA in operations management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Babson College. He is a regular contributor for InformationWeek, focusing on the business challenges related to implementing technology. His work includes analysis of the SaaS market, green IT and operational readiness related to virtualized environments. One of the toughest conversations in IT involves justifying new spending on security. It doesn’t have to be that way, in this panel Michael Davis will discuss how to position security spending as a business enabler. It’s not only what you say, it’s how you say it. Speaker - Michael Davis, CEO, Savid Technologies Inc. Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits. He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups. Speaker - Grant Moerschel, Co-founder, WaveGard Technologies Grant Moerschel is co-founder of WaveGard, a vendor-neutral technology consulting firm. His 20 years of IT experience encompass a wide range of strategic and tactical business technology functions, including significant experience with security engineering, IT risk and vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance assessment, wireless and wired network engineering, and wireless technology training. He has consulted for many clients in both the public and private sectors. Grant is the co-author of the McGraw-Hill title, Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) v2 study guide and the Cisco Press title, CCSP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack. He has written numerous technical articles for InformationWeek and courseware for (ISC)2, in addition to holding several well-regarded IT industry certifications, such as the CISSP, CCSP and CWNA. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware. Speaker - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing | |
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Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains. Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains. The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Randy Rowland, SVP Product / General Manager, Terremark Worldwide Inc. Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings. Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom. Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children. Speaker - Chuck Tsocanos, Managing Director, Orange Chuck Tsocanos is responsible for global innovation in the Consulting & Solutions Integration business unit at Orange Business Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of France Telecom. Chuck is leading the real-time business strategy with focus on cloud computing and machine to machine (M2M) integration. His skills range across technology architecture, marketing, and business strategy. He is currently developing the cloud computing portfolio and go to market in cooperation with Orange & FT leadership. Speaker - Steven Guthrie, Senior Principal, Product Marketing, CA Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing, NetScout Systems Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy. 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 - Martin Ingram, VP of Strategy, Appsense As vice president of strategy, Martin provides the strategic direction for AppSense's products, ensuring that they meet with current and future customer requirements. Martin has over 15 years of experience and is a well-recognized commentator on technology within the application delivery and user virtualization space. He has held senior-level strategic product management and engineering positions at leading technology companies in the UK and US including: Kalypton, Clearswift, Baltimore Technologies, Content Technologies, Avid Technologies and Tektronix. Martin holds a BSc in electrical engineering from Sheffield University. Speaker - Parmeet Chaddha, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Pano Logic As executive vice president of engineering, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT. 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 - David Stafford, Director, Business Development - Desktop Business Unit, VMware David Stafford, based in Research Triangle Park, NC joined VMware in April, 2010 to apply and share his endless energy, passion and enthusiasm towards desktop virtualization. He joined VMware after nearly 10 years at Cisco Systems. Most recently David was part of the voice technology group where he managed business development and new product ideation efforts in the areas of desktop virtualization and unified communications. Previous to this role, David was an architect on Cisco's internal IT enterprise architecture team where he was responsible for IT client platforms (PC & Mobile) globally since 2000.
Recent data breaches have taught us that we cannot solely rely on Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) alone to identify security challenges. Enterprises need to take a proactive approach to securing their network and applications by implementing a log management system that allows for real time access to data and reports so problems can be stopped before they start. This session will discuss the current industry leading methods and practices for log management. Speaker - Ben Goodman, Principal Strategist, Identity, Compliance and Security, Novell As Novell's Principal Strategist for Identity, Compliance and Security, Ben works closely with the executives of Novell's largest customers to understand their business and to share Novell Strategy. He works closely with Novell Research and development to ensure Novell's technical roadmaps align with customer business needs. With nearly 15 years of successful experience in the design and implementation of advanced Information Technology, Ben Goodman has developed a sharp eye for how businesses get the most out of their IT Investments, making their businesses more efficient, agile, and secure. The 802.11n standard is official, and enterprises are now rolling out .11n both in replacement/upgrade and greenfield deployments. This session will explore the best ways to implement 802.11n in your enterprise. We’ll look at channel planning, device issues, system architecture, wireless network management, and how to perform the big upgrade with a minimum of disruption, cost, and confusion. Moderator - 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 - Bob O'Hara, Independent Consultant Bob, formerly co-founder of Airespace, is currently a technical advisor to two startups, Aerohive Networks and Agito Networks. Bob is also co-author of "IEEE 802.11 Handbook, A Designer's Companion", the leading technical resource for designers and developers of 802.11 equipment. Speaker - Joe Epstein, Sr. Dir of Technology, Meru Networks Joe Epstein is Chief Architect at Meru Networks, where he is responsible for Meru's product conception, architecture, and core algorithms. Additionally, he serves as company representative to the various standards bodies. Prior to joining Meru, he held engineering positions at Bytemobile, Inc., where he was responsible for next generation products including seamless cellular WAN-LAN mobility. His background covers wireless MAC, networking, and applications for Fortune 500 enterprises. Epstein has a BS in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Keith Parsons, Managing Director, Institute for Network Professionals Mr. Parsons has developed and delivered Hands-On Technology training to thousands of individuals worldwide for Fortune 100 companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Verisign, Novell, and many others. Though qualified to teach a wide variety of network certifications, for the past eight years Mr. Parsons has focused on Wireless LANs, both in providing high-quality customized training as well as WLAN consulting with a variety of global corporations. | |
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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.’ | |
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The extended range and performance of 802.11n WiFi opens up a whole new set of uses for wireless LAN technology. It could also expose your network to new avenues of attack. We’ll offer best practices in implementing 802.11n wireless, securing it, and managing it along with existing networks. We’ll also look at the most common mistakes made in implementing 802.11n, and how to avoid them. Speaker - Grant Moerschel, Co-founder, WaveGard Technologies Grant Moerschel is co-founder of WaveGard, a vendor-neutral technology consulting firm. His 20 years of IT experience encompass a wide range of strategic and tactical business technology functions, including significant experience with security engineering, IT risk and vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance assessment, wireless and wired network engineering, and wireless technology training. He has consulted for many clients in both the public and private sectors. Grant is the co-author of the McGraw-Hill title, Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) v2 study guide and the Cisco Press title, CCSP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack. He has written numerous technical articles for InformationWeek and courseware for (ISC)2, in addition to holding several well-regarded IT industry certifications, such as the CISSP, CCSP and CWNA. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware. Speaker - Michael Davis, CEO, Savid Technologies Inc. Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits. He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups. Speaker - Art Wittmann, Vice President/Director, InformationWeek Analytics Art currently serves at the director of InformationWeek Analytics where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's analyst business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Networking Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was also the editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek. Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was the associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Whether you’re planning a mass migration or transitioning as you replace end user systems, Windows 7 is in your future. In this session we’ll look at issues ranging from maintaining legacy applications to migration strategies to the use virtualization to hardware compatibility and minimum capability requirements. We’ll also look at the relationship between Windows 7 and Windows server to effectively use certain features. Speaker - Michael Healey, President, Yeoman Technologies Mike Healey is the president of Yeoman Technology Group, an engineering and research firm focusing on maximizing technology investments for organizations, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has more than 23 years experience in technology and software integration. Prior to founding Yeoman, Mike served as the CTO of national network integrator GreenPages. He joined GreenPages as part of the acquisition of TENCorp, where he served as president for 14 years. Prior to founding TENCorp, Mike was an international project manager for Nixdorf Computer and a Notes consultant for Sandpoint Corp. Mike has taught courses at MIT Lowell Institute and Northeastern University and has served on the Educational Board of Advisers for several schools and universities throughout New England. He has a BA in operations management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Babson College. He is a regular contributor for InformationWeek, focusing on the business challenges related to implementing technology. His work includes analysis of the SaaS market, green IT and operational readiness related to virtualized environments. Speaker - Jonathan Feldman, CIO, City of Asheville, NC Jonathan Feldman works with IT governance, strategy and leadership in North Carolina and is an award-winning contributor to InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing, writing on open source, business analysis and IT governance. He has provided service assurance and network infrastructure services to the military, healthcare, financial services and law enforcement markets. Jonathan has written, consulted and taught extensively on high-performance IT security and reliability topics, notably as co-author of Maximum Security and author of Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting. His popular books have been translated into many languages for international audiences. A speaker at many regional and national venues, including financial and healthcare IT seminars, PC Expo, CNet Radio, NetSeminar, The Institute of Internal Auditors and the United States Army, Jonathan also has served the community on governing boards, most recently on the IT Infrastructure Management Association strategic advisory board and the GMIS International advisory council. Write to him at jf@feldman.org. Speaker - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing | |
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The role of network management has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about the availability of networks. In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications. In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging. Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies. 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 - Jesse Rothstein, CEO, Extrahop Networks Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Senior Director, Product Management, CA As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Richard Whitehead, Director of Product Management, EMC Ionix Richard Whitehead is Director of Product Management at EMC Ionix. Richard is in charge of Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence, EMC's solution that automates service and infrastructure root-cause analysis, monitoring, and reporting across both physical and virtual environments. Richard brings to EMC Ionix more than 20 years' experience in the systems and network management marketplace. He also has a broad background in communications and security. Prior to EMC, Richard has worked for and advised a range of Silicon Valley startups - in addition to having been an advisor to Splunk and the CTO at Clarus. In addition, Richard was the Vice President of Strategic Technologies, which was later acquired by IBM. Richard served at Micromuse for nearly eight years. Speaker - Russ Currie, Director, Product Management, NetScout Systems
It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the INTEROP conferences(Las Vegas and New York) and is also the Program Chair for the Mobile Business (MB) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and InformationWeek.com, and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Chris Kozup, Senior Manager Mobility Solutions, Cisco Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions. Speaker - Scott Lindsay, Sr. Director Global Product Line Management, Mobility and Voice Products, HP Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director of Global Product Line Management for 3Com’s mobility and voice products. He is responsible for global product strategy, direction and implementation as well as go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for 3Com’s mobility and voice businesses. Prior to 3Com, Mr. Lindsay has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com. Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions. Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners. He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Speaker - Rad Sethuraman, Senior Director Product Management, Motorola Rad Sethuraman brings more than 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Senior Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions, Motorola. In this role he leads product management and technical marketing for the company’s Enterprise WLAN solutions. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a wide range of wireless LAN, networking and security products from companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Sethuraman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. Speaker - Manav Khurana, Head of Industry Solutions, Aruba Networks Manav is the head of solutions marketing at Aruba Networks, where he is responsible for technology and vertical solutions strategy and go-to-market efforts. No stranger to enterprise mobility and security applications, his involvement dates back to the pre-standard days of wireless LANs. Manav has firsthand experience with mobility implementations at large education, healthcare, government and Fortune 500 organizations. Prior to Aruba, he was the senior product manager at Symbol Technologies (Motorola) and Meru Networks. Manav holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester. You have heard good things about VDI, but is there really a business case for moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure? Whether you are just starting to evaluate desktop virtualization or have started implementing virtual desktops, building a business case for your next phase can help you get the investment dollars you need to move forward. This session will give you the information you need to begin to create that business case and help your management understand how desktop virtualization can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO), including your ongoing OpEx costs. 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 - Michael Mattal, Director of Virtualization, Avnet Technology Solutions Michael is the Director of Virtualization at Avnet Technology Solutions and leads Avnet’s efforts in developing virtualization solutions and enabling partners through Avnet’s SolutionsPath™ Partner Practice development methodology. He has over 25 years experience servicing technology markets through the Channel and prior to his current role has held a variety of leadership positions at Avnet over the last 16 years.
As data centers move become more virtualized, companies are still determining how to secure these environments. This session will examine the inner workings of the virtual data center, including where the security weak spots are and what can be done to ensure protection of critical data being stored there. Speaker - Paul Arceneaux, VP, Office of Business Management, HP Paul Arceneaux has more than 12 years of network and system management experience. Prior to TippingPoint, he was vice president of systems management for 3Com Corporation. He was responsible for the engineering and product management of the company’s management software. Previously, Arceneaux was vice president and general manager for Siemens network and service management software solutions. In addition, he has worked as a project engineer dealing with security, time management and network management. | |
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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.’ | |
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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. | |
To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of social software. And yet, social software tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading social software technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs.
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.