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Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private Clouds

Monday, May 9, 2011, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Room: South Seas B

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye inward to look at how cloud technologies, from big data and turnkey cloud stacks, are transforming private infrastructure. We'll discuss the fundamentals of cloud architectures, and take a deep dive into the leading private cloud stacks. We'll hear from more end users, tackle the "false cloud" debate, and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

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Monday, May 9
8:32 AM – 8:45 AM Opening Remarks Location: South Seas B We'll kick off Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit with a quick look at private clouds and the emergence of elastic on-premise computing. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM The Good Enough Cloud: Enterprise IT on the Edge Location: South Seas B Organizations are increasingly building or deploying cloud services in a way that are just good enough, just durable enough, just big enough, just in time. The "good enough cloud" is the kind of deployment being seen industry-wide now, and users can begin taking advantage of this model for cloud deployment, which involves measured investment, patience and trial runs. Characterized by rapid deployment of functionality and enabled by the growing cloud capabilities offered by cloud vendors, non-IT users are able to deliver solutions via tools that might have historically been considered less-than-enterprise caliber. These solutions represent a means for rapid deployment of robust capabilities at a cost saving vs. traditional IT. As these solutions are easily deployed and inherently scalable, the potential gains are significant,but the potential exposure must be managed to mitigate business disruption, security and privacy risks, and intellectual property risks. Speaker - Mark White, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP Mark White is the Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology practice and the lead IT Principal on the Department of Homeland Security account team. Mark's focus areas include IT service management, IT service architectures, operations engineering, data center design and consolidation, and business intelligence systems. Prior to Deloitte, Mark was a founder and CTO of Realeum, a real-estate software managed services provider. He started his career in consulting with 14 years at Arthur Andersen, culminating his time there as the Managing Principal for the North American Advanced Technology practice.
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM Ten Cloud Fundamentals Location: South Seas B Think you know clouds? Think again. Many of the assumptions we make about IT—from the value of machines to the reliability of the underlying platforms to the requirement that data is always accurate—are dead wrong. In this session we'll look at ten fundamentals of cloud computing that every IT professional needs to take to heart. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Beyond Virtual Machines: Scaling PaaS Location: South Seas B Most enterprise cloud adoption has relied on virtual machines and infrastructure as a service. But there's a lot to love about the other approach to clouds—platform as a service. In a PaaS model, you worry about your code, and the systems take care of the rest. Lots of smart analysts think PaaS is the inevitable consequence of true utility computing. In this session, Tom Mornini explains why PaaS might be the future for enterprises. Speaker - Tom Mornini, CTO and Co-Founder, Engine Yard Tom Mornini co-founded Engine Yard to provide the infrastructure and support necessary to fuel development of Ruby on Rails applications. He has spent nearly 30 years as a software programmer and software architect with experience encompassing nearly every major development platform in that time and 20 years leading companies as a serial entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding Engine Yard in 2006, he created FaceBridge Research, Inc. and InfoMania Printing and Prepress, Inc., an innovator in Internet print procurement. Tom is also the author of Capistrano and the Rails Applications Lifecyle published by O'Reilly.
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Real World Case Study - Canadian Pacific Railway Location: South Seas B In this case study session, a cloud user from the Canadian Pacific Railway will walk you through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Stuart Charlton, Head of Infrastructure Operations, Canadian Pacific Railway
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Break Location: South Seas B
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM Under the Covers: Openstack Location: South Seas B In the first of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Openstack. Speaker - Jonathan Bryce, Founder, Rackspace Jonathan Bryce is Founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he 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 became The Rackspace Cloud. He currently spends his time on OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM Devops and Automation: The Fabric of the Private Cloud Location: South Seas B In today's IT, infrastructure and code are interwoven. Machines can clone copies of themselves when traffic is high, and sacrifice themselves when idle. New servers know how to find one another. How? The Devops movement aims to once and for all unite developers and operators, getting the engineering mindset—change is good—to work with the operations mindset—change is the root of all disaster. Speaker - John Willis, VP of Service, DTO Solutions John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining Opscode, he founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM The False Cloud Debate Location: South Seas B Are private clouds clouds? Or is the third-party business model inherent in what makes a cloud a cloud? As the FUD flies on both sides, everyone's got a different opinion of what defines cloud computing. We're going to see if we can get to the bottom of it, sitting public cloud providers across from private cloud toolmakers. Moderator - David Linthicum, CTO, Blue Mountain Labs As CTO of BML, David Linthicum focuses on emerging technology spaces and the industry's move toward cloud computing. Linthicum is a widely recognized technology thought leader who has appeared in InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics. He is a regular columnist in Government Computer News, Cloud Computing Journal, SOA Journal and Align Journal, and is the editor of Virtualization Journal. In addition to daily communications, Linthicum is the author of 13 books on computing. Panelist - James Watters, Sr. Manager, vCloud Solutions, VMware James Watters is currently the Sr. Manager of Cloud Solutions Development at VMware where he is responsible for developing partner run public cloud computing solutions. He is active in the SF Bay Area technology community and organizes the SF Cloud Club. Prior to VMware James held positions in sales, corporate strategy, product management and engineering at Sun Microsystems and Level 3 Communications. Over his career James has focused on strategic issues around scaled data-center infrastructure, open source and virtualization software. Panelist - James Urquhart, Market Strategist, Cloud Computing Service Provider Systems Unit, Cisco James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College. Panelist - Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, salesforce.com Peter Coffee, former technology editor of eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. With 25 years experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies, Peter has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S., England, Canada and Australia. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA from Pepperdine University, with faculty appointments at Pepperdine, UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. Panelist - John Keagy, CEO, GoGrid John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid, a Global Leader in Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure hosting. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. At ServePath, now known as GoGrid, , Keagy drove the early growth of the dedicated server hosting market by introducing multiple firsts, including multiprocessor servers and hosted load balanced server networks. John Keagy's entrepreneurial skills and strategic vision have led ServePath and now GoGrid's rapid growth. The company was named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 in recognition of its growth (#11 in Silicon Valley and #77 in North America) in previous years. With over 15 years of hosting experience under his belt, John broke new ground with his vision of Cloud Computing, long before the term was even coined. As a result, GoGrid was revealed in 2008 winning many accolades including Best of Show at LinuxWorld 2008. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath's second growth opportunity. Keagy's vision became a two year development effort resulting in GoGrid, the hosting service launched in March of 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced virtual and physical servers and appliances in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel or REST-like API. In 1994, John founded the West Coast's largest, profitable, dial-up Internet Service Provider which was the first to deliver local internet access in over 30 cities. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley where he earned the Kennedy Award in Business Administration. He is also an alumnus of the Stanford Business School Executive Program. John lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM How to Think About Cloud Migration Location: South Seas B What should go where? With all the new options available to IT professionals, this quick presentation offers a framework for evaluating which parts of your business should migrate to where, from bare metal, to private clouds, to public PaaS and IaaS. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Location: South Seas B
1:00 PM – 1:40 PM Building Private Clouds Location: South Seas B If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization. Moderator - Dave Roberts, VP, Strategy & Marketing, ServiceMesh, Inc. Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned Vyatta as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he pioneered virtualized security and networking technology for utility and cloud computing. Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in a variety of technologies, Mr. Roberts is the author of eleven patents, three technical books, and numerous industry articles. Mr. Roberts regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic 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 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 and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. 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 Panelist - Rich Lechner, Vice President, Cloud & Services Marketing, IBM Rich Lechner is vice president, IBM cloud and services marketing. He has broad experience across the software, systems and services business including key leadership roles in virtualization, Internet technology, Green innovation, and enterprise systems. He is responsible for defining IBM's cloud strategies and portfolio of services leveraging IBM’s deep process expertise, global delivery, industry leading software capabilities, and research innovations in areas like security and analytics-based optimization. In this role, his organization works closely with clients to apply the transformative power of cloud to reinvent the way they do business. Panelist - Samrat Ganguly, Senior Network Architect, IT Platform Division, NEC Samrat Ganguly is a Senior Network Architect in the IT Platform division of NEC Corporation of America. He technically leads the NEC’s Openflow based Network Virtualization product commercialization for Cloud, Enterprise and Campus Networks. In the past, he was focused on IPTV and Mobile Video related technology and solution creation in collaboration with Tier-1 service providers. Samrat comes from a research background in the diverse area of Networks and Distributed systems where he led the research group at NEC Labs, Princeton. While in research, he pioneered the concept of Grid Networking and conceived several high impact technologies in the space of CDN, Grid computing , VoIP and Network-centric apps. He has published over 75 papers in premier IEEE/ACM conferences and journals, has over a dozen patents, co-authored the recent Wiley book on VoIP and co-founded multiple conferences in the space of Networking. His current interest is in area of next generation Cloud Networking. Samrat received his PhD from Rutgers University, an MS from the Indian Institute of Science, and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology. Panelist - Iddo Kadim, Director of Data Center Virtualization Technologies, Intel Iddo Kadim is Director of Data Center Virtualization Technologies within Intel’s Data Center Group. He has been with Intel since 1990. Iddo spent many of these years in the networking area, where he was responsible for the development of products and technologies from Classic Ethernet to 10GbE. Today he is responsible for marketing and ecosystem engagement of Intel’s data center virtualization and security technologies. Iddo has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and now lives in the Portland area.
1:40 PM – 2:05 PM Linking Public and Private Clouds Location: South Seas B Cloud computing has been portrayed as a panacea for companies looking for the flexibility and scalability they need to grow their businesses, while keeping costs down. Many companies have moved their applications and processes to the cloud, because of these benefits. Great! But once in the cloud, a lot of folks are having a "what did I do" kind of moment? Now that all my stuff is in the cloud, how do I get information out? How do I move information around and get it to interact with each other? Unfortunately for many, data, application or B2B integration is an afterthought when evaluating the cloud, and it becomes the stumbling block that prevents companies from realizing the cloud's true benefits. This session helps attendees understand how to proactively think about integration as part of their overall cloud strategy, and develop a clear roadmap for maximizing results from the cloud. Speaker - Margaret Dawson, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Hubspan Margaret Dawson is Vice President of Product Management for Hubspan and a frequent speaker on cloud computing, integration and security. With more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, Dawson has held leadership positions with companies in the network security, personal computer, software, and e-commerce markets, including Microsoft and Amazon.com. Dawson has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America, including ten years working in the Greater China region, consulting with many of the area’s leading IT companies.
2:05 PM – 2:15 PM Under the Covers: Cloud.com Location: South Seas B In the second of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll consider the cloud.com model. Speaker - Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloud.com Peder is CMO of Cloud.com and sets the direction and strategy around corporate identity, product marketing and demand generation. Peder has a strong track record of bringing new, market defining open source technologies to market. Prior to joining Cloud.com, Peder was senior vice president of marketing at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for open sourcing the Java platform, building a business with OpenSolaris and establishing Sun as a leader in the open source enterprise software market. Additionally, Peder has served at a number of open source technology startups and also held product leadership positions at Cisco and Symantec.
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Real World Case Study - Zynga Location: South Seas B this case study session, Zynga's Chief Technology Officer - Infrastructure Engineering, will walk you through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Allan Leinwand, CTO Net Ops, Zynga Inc. Mr. Leinwand is currently Chief Technology Officer – Infrastructure at Zynga, Inc. In this role Mr. Leinwand is responsible for all aspects of technology infrastructure used in the delivery of Zynga’s social games including data centers, networking, compute, storage, content distribution and cloud computing. Previously, Mr. Leinwand was a venture partner for Panorama Capital, LLC where he focused on technology investments in data networking, open source software and cloud computing. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. In 2005, Mr. Leinwand founded Vyatta, the open source networking company. 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.
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break Location: South Seas B
2:45 PM – 2:55 PM Under the Covers: Red Hat Location: South Seas B In the third of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll hear about Red Hat and private PaaS stacks. Speaker - Issac Roth, PaaS Master, Red Hat Issac Amarillas Roth is CEO and co-Founder of Makara. Before founding Makara to solve application management problems for customers moving to cloud and virtualization infrastructures, Issac spent 5 years at Wily Technology, helping to grow the APM leader from a few handfuls of customers through the $375M acquisition by CA, Inc. His contributions at Wily ranged from fire-fighting critical application problems for the largest companies in the world to leading partnerships with critical development frameworks to creating and scaling technical sales tools and processes to the “intrapreneur” role of growing a nascent business unit at CA from 100k in revenue to over $25M in two years. Prior to Wily, Issac was a founder or early employee of three venture backed enterprise infrastructure startups that in aggregate raised $70M in funding. With a degree from Stanford University in Multimedia Design & Technology, he worked as a software engineer in the earlier days of Cisco Systems, and was the fourth employee of the company that became RedHat.
2:55 PM – 3:25 PM Understanding Big Data Location: South Seas B Speaker - Bradford Stephens, Founder/ CEO, Drawn to Scale Bradford Stephens is the Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, a Big Data database platform with real-time queries and fulltext search. Bradford has a history ranging from politics (campaign manager at the U.S. House and Presidential levels), music (metal guitar), finance (CSX Railroad), and more. He has a passion for building big things that make an impact on fundamental aspects of business. Bradford is co-chair of OSCON Data, and has spoken at LinkedIn, Gluecon, Interop, ApacheCon, OSCON, and many more places. In his spare time, he enjoys Minecraft, guitar, cocktail creation, and his scalability blog, Road to Failure. Speaker - Jeremy Edberg, Chief Technology Officer, reddit.com Jeremy Edberg is currently the Senior Product Developer 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.
3:25 PM – 3:35 PM Under the Covers: Eucalyptus Location: South Seas B In the final under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Eucalyptus. Speaker - David Butler, VP Marketing, Eucalyptus Systems, Inc David leads Eucalyptus’s marketing strategy, product strategy and management, and corporate marketing functions. David brings more than 25 years experience driving product strategy and marketing execution for leading start-up and enterprise software companies such as Digital Reef, HP Software, Mercury Interactive and Systinet, Spotfire, Netscape, NeXT Software, and Cadre Technologies. His broad range of experience spans the development, introduction, and marketing of software products for information governance, private cloud computing, data center automation, SOA governance, business intelligence, SaaS applications, web application servers, and application development tools. David was most recently the Vice President of Marketing for Digital Reef responsible for establishing on-premise and cloud hosted eDiscovery and Information Governance solutions. Prior to that, David led HP Software’s market and product strategy initiative responsible for Private Cloud Computing, Storage Automation software and was a chief strategy and evangelist for the Business Service Automation suite. David also was the Worldwide SOA Director and Chief Evangelist and led HP’s Technology Solutions Group’s SOA marketing and thought leadership activities and solutions. Before HP, David was the VP of Marketing and Chief SOA Evangelist for Systinet, where he defined and established the product and marketing vision for Systinet’s SOA Governance products which led to an acquisition by Mercury Interactive. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and marketing from Boston College and attended the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Graduate School of Management for additional studies in product management.
3:35 PM – 4:05 PM Optimizing Hybrid Cloud Communication Location: South Seas B It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance. Moderator - Hooman Beheshti, VP of Products, Strangeloop Networks With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Panelist - Steve Riley, Technical Leader in the Office of the CTO, Riverbed Steve Riley is Technical Leader in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology, an innovator in wide-area networking and storage optimization. Steve actively works to raise awareness of the technical and business benefits Riverbed's solutions, particularly as they relate to accelerating the enterprise adoption of cloud computing. His specialties include information security, compliance, privacy, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, SIIA, IANS, TechEd, Connections, Cloud Expo, and Interop. He co-authored a book about Windows network security, contributed a chapter to a book on auditing cloud computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. 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. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com, on Skype as stvrly, and join the conversation at http://stvrly.tumblr.com. Panelist - Amir Khan, Senior Director Product Line Management, Juniper Panelist - Steve Shah, Sr. Director of Product Management, NetScaler and Cloud Product Group, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Todd Paoletti, Product Line Director, Akamai Todd Paoletti is the Product Line Director for Akamai's Application Performance Solutions product line, an evolving line of Enterprise and Cloud application performance, optimization and security services for delivery over the Internet. Todd is responsible for product strategy and business execution, as well as technology alliances and partnerships in Cloud Computing and Enterprise application and optimization services. Prior to joining Akamai, Todd was Sr. Director of Online Channel Solutions at Actuate Corporation, specializing in information presentation and interface application development for consumer facing and business to business online channels. Additionally, Todd has held a variety of senior marketing, product management and business development roles at leading enterprise software and consumer technologies companies.
4:05 PM – 4:20 PM Real World Case Study - EPAM Systems Location: South Seas B In this case study session, EPAM'S VP of Technology will walk you through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Eli Feldman, VP, Technology Solutions, EPAM Systems, Inc. Eli Feldman is Vice President, Technology Solutions and a Cloud practice leader at EPAM Systems. Mr. Feldman is responsible for driving the company’s Cloud vision, which is to enable EPAM’s clients to leverage Cloud Computing enveloped with application development, maintenance and support services, thus improving innovation, time to market and ability to support a global dynamic marketplace. Mr. Feldman has more than 17 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and semantic analysis to software development and systems architecture and support. Prior to joining EPAM, he was in charge of Engineering, Operations and Cloud Services at InfoNgen. Before that he was a Senior Technologist at Multex, provider of one of the first SaaS offerings for the financial markets.
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM Closing Remarks Location: South Seas B Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry's largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O'Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Sponsor Reception Location: South Seas B
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