Cloud Computing and Big Data

Over the last few years, Cloud Computing has gained publicity and attention across enterprise IT as a means to solve problems and glean efficiencies previously challenging or unattainable through traditional means. Much has changed since clouds were first discussed and both the technology and deployment models have evolved. Whether a cloud is private, public, or a hybrid of both enterprises are deploying solutions at a rapid pace. Clouds offer access to resource models that were difficult or impossible to obtain in the past such as immense computational scale (e.g. big data), elastic flexibility to address traffic spikes (e.g. retail's Black Friday), and cost-effective disaster solutions. This fundamentally altered the consumption and economic models of IT forever.

Interop's Cloud Computing & Big Data track brings together experts, analysts, end users and innovators for three days of sessions on cloud implementation, Big Data technology, security and governance issues, and on-demand architectures. You'll hear from some of the cloud's leading thinkers and get first-hand insight into companies that are building cloud and Big Data solutions today. We'll also chart a course for enterprise IT in coming years, discussing its move up the stack to platforms and services, and out into public infrastructures.

Track Chair

Steve Wylie
General Manager
Cloud Connect

Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Cloud Connect Conference produced by UBM Tech. Steve was formerly the General Manager of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, Mobile Business Expo, and co-chaired CMP's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed CMP's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.

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Wednesday, May 8
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM	Getting Cloud Architecture and Design Right the First Time…Step-by-Step, Part 1 - Location: Breakers D So, what are the proper ways to design, build, and leverage cloud computing systems? What are the steps to success? What are the emerging best practices? How does SOA fit in? In this session we’… More ▶ Speaker - David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners David (Dave) S. Linthicum is a Cloud Computing Expert and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling "Enterprise Application Integration" (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave's latest book is "Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM	Getting Cloud Architecture and Design Right the First Time…Step-by-Step, Part 2 - Location: Breakers D So, what are the proper ways to design, build, and leverage cloud computing systems? What are the steps to success? What are the emerging best practices? How does SOA fit in? In this session we’… More ▶ Speaker - David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners David (Dave) S. Linthicum is a Cloud Computing Expert and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling "Enterprise Application Integration" (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave's latest book is "Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM	Transforming IT with an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Platform - Location: Breakers D Enterprise hybrid cloud platforms have the potential to transform and enable IT professionals to have more impact on their organizations than ever before. At the same time, not all clouds are created … More ▶ Speaker - Allan Leinwand, VP and CTO, Platform Development, ServiceNow Mr. Leinwand is currently VP and CTO, Cloud Platform and Infrastructure at ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE: NOW), the Enterprise IT Cloud Company. In this role, he is responsible for leading the teams developing and operating the company’s Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings. Before joining ServiceNow, Mr. Leinwand was Chief Technology Officer – Infrastructure at Zynga, Inc. In this role Mr. Leinwand was 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 (acquired by Brocade), 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.
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	How to Select a Public Cloud Provider - Location: Breakers D Looking for a public cloud computing provider? You have many questions to consider. First, does the provider offer the services you need to support the solution? Second, what’s the cost of using… More ▶ Moderator - David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners David (Dave) S. Linthicum is a Cloud Computing Expert and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling "Enterprise Application Integration" (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave's latest book is "Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach. Panelist - Mathew Lodge, VP, Cloud Services, VMware Mathew Lodge is a Vice President in VMware’s Cloud Services group. Mathew has 20 years’ diverse experience in cloud computing and product leadership. He has built compilers and distributed systems for projects like the International Space Station, helped connect six countries to the Internet for the first time, and managed a $630m router product line at Cisco. Prior to VMware, Mathew was Senior Director at Symantec in its $1Bn+ information management group. Panelist - Jeremy Edberg, Reliability Architect, Netflix Jeremy is currently the Lead Site Reliability Engineer for Netflix, the largest subscription video streaming site in the world. Previously he was the Information Cowboy (aka. Head of Technology) for reddit.com, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that did more than a billion pageviews a month. reddit was an Alexa Top 100 website whose entire operations are run on Amazon’s EC2. Jeremy has spent 15 years in technology: 4 in operations, 3 in security, 4 in consulting, and 4 in academic computing. When working for Sendmail, he helped administer the most bleeding edge Sendmail server on the internet; at eBay he helped protect people from phishing and scams, created patent-pending fraud detection software, and evaluated hardware for the eBay platform; and at UC Berkeley, he wired up large portions of the dorms for internet, back before every college student in America had a net drop in their room. Jeremy has keynoted at conferences such as PyCon and Cloud Connect. He holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, May 9
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM	Real Cloud Stories: Cloud Deployment at Paychex - Location: Breakers D Paychex, Inc. ranks among the nation's largest companies providing payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, with annual revenues exceeding … More ▶ Speaker - Robert Holcomb, Founder, VP of Performance Engineering, SOASTA Robert Holcomb, VP of Performance Engineering at SOASTA, has more than 13 years of experience in enterprise software, with expertise in performance engineering, software business intelligence and technical consulting/professional services. Prior to SOASTA, Rob held positions in Sales Engineering and Consulting, Product Strategy, and Product Management at Oracle (PeopleSoft), Istante Software, and Sagent Technology. Rob graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. in Finance, with honors, and an MBA from Santa Clara University, with honors. Speaker - Bryon Colaizzi, Senior Manager, Enterprise Performance Assurance, Paychex Bryon Colaizzi has more than 23 years of Testing, Quality Assurance, and Application Development expertise on variety of technical platforms. Bryon holds certifications from the International Institute for Software Testing as a Certified Test Manager, and from the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. He has a demonstrated record of leadership and project management, with extensive experience with life-cycle methodologies. Focusing on process improvement and procedure development within the software testing and quality assurance areas, Bryon has successfully lead reengineering efforts for organizations, transforming their software development, testing processing, and tool implementation initiatives. Bryon is currently responsible for managing Paychex's Enterprise Performance Assurance Organization, and has presented technical papers at SAS's Executive Technical Briefing Center on Testing Techniques & Methodologies.
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM	How To Avoid Private Cloud Failure - Location: Breakers D Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mit… More ▶ Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, CloudOps Research Alistair Croll is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent, a research firm focused on emerging technologies; a founding partner of startup accelerator Year One Labs; an executive at CloudOps; and an advisor to various technology venture firms. 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 coordinates content for a variety of prominent technology events such as Cloud Connect, Interop, and Strata. He is also the creator of the Bitnorth conference and helped found the International Startup Festival in Montreal, Canada, and has written several books on technology, including Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). A sought-after speaker with 15 years' on-stage experience, he regularly addresses business audiences and IT executives on a wide range of topics, including cloud computing, product management, data-driven marketing, Big Data, startup acceleration, web analytics, and more. He blogs at Solve For Interesting. Panelist - Greg Tan, Director of Marketing, Stoneware Inc Panelist - Lee Kedrie, Managing Partner Advanced Technologies, HP Lee Kedrie is Managing Partner of Advanced Technologies supporting the adoption of solutions leveraging the entirety of HP’s portfolio including cloud computing, digital hospital and unified communications and collaboration. As a chief technologist for HP Cloud Computing and IT Shared Services he is a recognized thought leader in next-generation computing. He has directly contributed to the design of cutting-edge HP solutions that incorporate shared utility computing models. He is an industry advocate, communicating HP’s cloud computing vision (click here to see Lee’s presentation at the Ingram Micro Partner Summit). Since 2001, Lee has led several worldwide teams tasked with augmenting organizational, cultural, governance and operational processes of HP enterprise customers so that shared services and cloud computing become a workable reality in their organizations. Lee has consulted for major HP customers including State Farm, St Paul Travelers, Verizon, Sprint, Wells Fargo, Avaya, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, McKesson and First Data Corporation in the areas of transformation, operational improvement and next-generation computing. Lee has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry, including 17 years of business ownership. He has consulted with major global telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, financial, pharmaceutical and government organizations in the areas of next-generation computing models, IT shared services, consolidation, computer telephony and convergence. He has served as a director on the board of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants speaking in the U.S. and internationally. Panelist - Eric Dahlen, Microserver System & Workload Architect, Intel Eric Dahlen is a Microserver System & Workload Architect and lead technologist for CPG. He is responsible for mapping customer usages and workloads to microserver system level architecture, internal product and technology pathfinding, and technical innovation process. He spent 20 years in server component development, most spent on chipset projects and their associated technologies. Skills: Component architecture & micro-architecture ASIC design & validation processes, pre- and post-Si Server technologies: RAS, error-handling, memory, caching, SMP architecture, manageability, storage, networking, PCIe and high-speed IO System and rack level architecture, increasing scale-out workload expertise Hobbies: Recreational Interest and Community Activities: Avid world-traveled golfer, charity golf tournament mercenary Ex life-guard with a lot of snorkeling and a few scuba hours Lots of reading, some of it with actual substance Motorcycling, bowling, softball (but mostly golf) Volunteer alumni labor to YMCA Camp Orkila Panelist - Tim Mackey, Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing, Citrix Tim Mackey is a corporate evangelist for XenServer and CloudPlatform within the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group and focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competencies. He joined Citrix through the Reflectent acquisition in 2006, and served as architect and developer for Citrix EdgeSight; an end user experience performance monitoring solution. In 2007, Mr. Mackey became technical product manager for the EdgeSight product line and then in 2009 product manager for the Citrix Essentials self-service virtualization components. Prior to Citrix, Mr. Mackey was an architect and developer at EventZero, and helped to design the first self check-out systems for retailers at Optimal Robotics.
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Friday, May 10
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM	Big Data 2013 - Location: Breakers D Big Data was the hot topic of 2012, and there is no sign of cooling in the near future. Come hear Jeremy Edberg, Reliability Architect for Netflix and former Information Cowboy for reddit, give an ove… More ▶ Speaker - Jeremy Edberg, Reliability Architect, Netflix Jeremy is currently the Lead Site Reliability Engineer for Netflix, the largest subscription video streaming site in the world. Previously he was the Information Cowboy (aka. Head of Technology) for reddit.com, an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet that did more than a billion pageviews a month. reddit was an Alexa Top 100 website whose entire operations are run on Amazon’s EC2. Jeremy has spent 15 years in technology: 4 in operations, 3 in security, 4 in consulting, and 4 in academic computing. When working for Sendmail, he helped administer the most bleeding edge Sendmail server on the internet; at eBay he helped protect people from phishing and scams, created patent-pending fraud detection software, and evaluated hardware for the eBay platform; and at UC Berkeley, he wired up large portions of the dorms for internet, back before every college student in America had a net drop in their room. Jeremy has keynoted at conferences such as PyCon and Cloud Connect. He holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM	Current Thinking in Addressing Persistent Cloud Challenges - Location: Breakers D Seems that we’re constantly talking about the same major roadblocks to adopting cloud computing in the enterprise. Security, compliance, performance and lock-in are risks that are perennially ci… More ▶ Speaker - Paul Burns, Analyst, Neovise Paul Burns is the President and Founder of Neovise, an IT industry analyst firm focused on cloud computing. He has over 25 years experience in the technology industry with leadership positions in software development, product management, product marketing, competitive analysis and business planning. Speaker - Azmir Mohamed, Senior Director, Product Management, Cloudscaling Azmir Mohamed has more than 20 years experience delivering datacenter and enterprise campus infrastructure products. Prior to joining Cloudscaling, he was Sr. Director, Product Management at Abiquo, a hypervisor agnostic enterprise software solution that enables organizations to leverage their existing virtualized infrastructure to enable IaaS. While at Abiquo, he was responsible for driving their product roadmap plus collaborated with their strategic technology partners in building automation, billing, compute and storage infrastructure integration. Previously, he was held various senior product management roles at VMware, where he was responsible for defining market and product requirements for VMware’s proliferation, backup and storage replication product portfolio. During his time there, he was responsible for bringing the vSphere Replication, VMware Data Recovery and VMware Server products to market. Azmir was also spent 9 years at Cisco System where he had a variety of product management and technical roles in the multi-billion dollar Cisco Catalyst stackable switches business unit. Azmir has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
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