Enterprise Cloud Summit – Public Clouds

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).

Ian Rae is a partner at Bitcurrent and the founder of Syntenic, an high-end managed service provider focused on hybrid IT architectures and cloud computing. He is also a founding partner at Year One Labs, and the creator of the largest technology co-working space in Montreal.

Ian ran the engineering team at Coradiant, and was the CIO of Canderel Investments. He also consults to both investors and startups involved in the application delivery space. He holds a B.Sc., with honors, from McGill University in his hometown of Montreal, Canada, where he plays ultimate frisbee to unwind, and blogs casually at Infreemation.

Dave McCrory is a Senior Architect for Cloud Foundry at VMware. He is focused on educating businesses, developers, and IT operations on how to best leverage scale out architectures and cloud computing approaches.

McCrory founded and served CTO/Chief Scientist at four startup companies, ProTier, Surgient, Inovawave, and Hyper9. While at these companies, he was granted 7 Patents around Virtualization Management and Cloud Computing. He most recently worked as a Cloud Architect in Dell's Data Center Solutions Group, where he worked on several high-profile hyper-scale computing projects.

Dave is a published author having co-authored the book "Advanced Server Virtualization". He is very active on social media personally blogging and tweeting. He also operates the social media efforts for Cloud Foundry.

Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and conducts virtual events.

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS companies can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as business needs dictate.

Barr has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, and Akopia and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from American University and performed graduate work in computer science at George Washington University. Jeff is currently a part-time graduate student in the Digital Media program at the University of Washington.

Jeff has written over 1000 posts for the AWS blog and another 1100 for his personal blog. He’s been a technical reviewer for 4 books on web services wrote a chapter on advanced scripting for a book on Second Life, and is the author of Host Your Website in the Cloud, published by SitePoint in September of 2010.

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.

James Duncan is VP of Product Development and has responsibility for the technical product strategy. Most recently, James was a founder of Reasonably Smart, a Platform-as-a-Service company based in Montreal acquired by Joyent in January 2009. James spent 7 years at Fotango, finishing his time there as the CIO. Fotango, acquired by Canon in 2001, developed one of the world’s first Platform-as-a-Service offerings.

Joe Weinman leads a global team focused on strategy and industry solutions for the communications, media, and entertainment verticals in HP’s Worldwide Industry Solutions organization. He is a long-time veteran of the industry, having held positions of increasing responsibility at the world’s largest telecommunications company, and is a frequent keynoter, a prolific inventor, and an author/blogger. He is a well-known cloud computing evangelist, creating “Cloudonomics,” at the intersection of cloud computing, ROI / business value, and economics.

Brian Butte has focused on cloud, grid, and utility computing for the past nine years as an Enterprise Architect. Brian has architected multiple virtualization solutions for Fortune 500 clients including internal infrastructure as a service, workload overflow, internal storage clouds, and grid enabled ETL. Brian's varied background including plant floor automation, embedded systems, enterprise applications and call centers across multiple verticals gives him a unique perspective on the application of cloud technology. Brian is Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, member of the PwC Cloud Action Committee, PwC Cloud Solutions Team and subject matter expert within the Technology Advisory practice.

Abe Pachikara is U.S. Cloud Computing Developer Evangelism & Adoption Lead at Microsoft, where he reaches millions of developers and decision makers, gets them up to speed and esctatic about the enterprise-grade cloud computing solution offered by Microsoft ("Windows Azure Platform"), and helps them try it out!

Marty Kagan has been leading the development of products and services in the web caching, content delivery, and application acceleration space since 1996. Prior to co-founding Cedexis, Marty was Vice President of Engineering at Jive Software and Akamai Technologies, Director of Technology for Akamai International, and part of the original Cache Engine skunk-works team at Cisco Systems. He has co-authored 9 patents.

Steve Orrin is the Director of Security Solutions at the Intel Corporation and a regular speaker at nationally recognized conferences on Security, Privacy, and Web Services topics. Previously Orrin served as Chief Security Officer of Sarvega, Inc., (acquired by Intel, inc.) a computer and network security startup which deployed the world's first XML appliance in production in 2001. Prior to his work at Sarvega, Orrin was vice president of security and technology at Watchfire, Inc. responsible for the product development of Watchfire's web application security and privacy software product lines. He has also acted as CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software. Steve was also CTO and co-founder of LockStar Inc., a provider of end-to-end security and web services solutions designed to help organizations deploy web-enabled legacy applications for ebusiness. Steve co-founded LockStar after he left SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO and chief architect of its desktop email and file security product. A recognized expert and frequent speaker on enterprise security, he has developed several patent-pending technologies covering user authentication, secure data access and steganography and has one issued patent in steganography. Steve is a member of several leading industry organizations and is published in several scientific and medical journals. Steve holds an honors degree in research biology from Kean University.

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.

David Nelson is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company and is currently the Chief Strategist for Cloud Computing. In this role David is responsible for the long term direction and short term implementation of the internal and external cloud strategy. A 27 year veteran of Boeing, David’s primary work has been around emerging technologies. He has co-authored several books and speaks at industry forums and regional groups.

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.

John Considine brings two decades of technology vision and proven experience in complex enterprise system development, integration and product delivery to CloudSwitch. Before founding CloudSwitch, John was Director of the Platform Products Group at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the 69xx virtualized block storage system, 53xx NAS products, the 5800 Object Archive system, as well as the next generation NAS portfolio.

John came to Sun through the acquisition of Pirus Networks, where he was part of the early engineering team responsible for the development and release of the Pirus NAS product, including advanced development of parallel NAS functions and the Segmented File System. John has started and boot-strapped a number of start-ups with breakthrough technology in high-performance distributed systems and image processing. He has been granted patents for RAID and distributed file system technology. John began his career as an engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Watch John Considine discuss how CloudSwitch's Cloud Isolation Technology helps customers overcome the four primary barriers to enterprise cloud computing by allowing them to securely move their existing applications and data into the cloud.

Denis Martin's role as Executive Vice President reflects his continued contributions to NaviSite's strategic direction, including acquisition activity, and product, service, and channel development. Martin brings 20 years of business experience and has served in several positions in the company, most recently as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. He has extensive experience in network-based computing and outsourced delivery of business solutions and managed services.

Before joining NaviSite, Mr. Martin managed the national hosting and application services organization for AppliedTheory, Inc. As a co-founder of AppliedTheory, Inc., he was instrumental in the development of the company's managed service offering by combining traditional hosting services with application development, integration and support services. He had served as Senior Director of Software Engineering at AppliedTheory's predecessor, NYSERNet, the world's first regional Internet service provider. He has also acted as a consultant to several state and federal agencies in developing network and application programs at local, state and national levels.

Borenstein is the co-creator of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard and developer of the Andrew Mail System, metamail software, and Safe-Tcl programming language. Previously an IBM Distinguished Engineer and faculty member at University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University, he founded two cloud start-ups; First Virtual Holdings, and NetPOS. Borenstein has spoken at a number of influential industry events including multiple Email World, Interop, USENIX and CPSR conferences.

Simon West, Chief Marketing Officer for Terremark Worldwide, is responsible for global marketing and brand management for the company, including brand development, product marketing, lead generation and advertising programs. West has more than 15 years of experience in the Internet infrastructure space, including 11 years with Data Return, where he was responsible for marketing and corporate communications. Previous responsibilities included leadership positions in technology development, corporate strategy and Communications for Divine Inc. and Data Return, where he was part of the initial four-person start-up team and played an instrumental role in taking the company Through initial business planning and product definition, through the execution of an Initial Public Offering to a successful sale of the business.
West holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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.

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).