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10:15 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 7
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).
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11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 7
In spite of the strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises are still reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Resistance to cloud adoption is just as much an issue of misaligned incentives and fear of the unknown as it is about legitimate technology concerns. Breaking the impasse on mission-critical apps often can't be done directly and requires proof to be accumulated over a sustained period of time. This session will describe a proven, systematic and repeatable way to make the enterprise comfortable with the cloud for mission critical applications.
Speaker - Ben Frenkel, Cloud Evangelist & Cloud CTO, Pegasystems
Ben Frenkel, Cloud Evangelist and Cloud CTO at Pegasystems, is in charge of commercializing Pega's Platform-as-a-Service technology. Prior to his current role, Ben headed Pegasystems' technology alliances group. Ben also lead the launch of the PegaExchange, Pega's marketplace for customers and partners to exchange applications and plug-ins. Ben has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He recently spoke at Cloud Slam as well as at a cloud computing panel at Mass High Tech's New England CIO Innovation Summit.
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3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Room 3
While VMware virtualization is already widely adopted, and private clouds are constantly talked about, many IT organizations are unclear how to implement the steps to build a VMware private cloud. Many CIOs, IT managers and IT administrators are in the process of evolving their data centers and adopting this technology that is re-inventing the model for IT infrastructure. This session will discuss how several IT organizations are building on their VMware infrastructure and adopting private cloud computing, and will show how private clouds can address a wide range of technology and business challenges that span industries.
Speaker - Nicolas (Neela) Jacques, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware, VMware |
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Location: Room 7
Moderator - 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).
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| Wednesday, May 9 |
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11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Room 7
The rapid adoption of cloud-based services complementing established IT infrastructure & business services poses a set of new integration challenges in the resulting Hybrid Cloud constellations. Cloud adopters need Integration Services to connect existing information and application assets to cloud based counterparts, establish integration between cloud based services in public or private clouds and want to consume the underlying integration services in a cloud form factor. The presentation will describe key dimensions of Hybrid Cloud Integration, discuss use cases and explain how to build out a coherent cloud integration fabric across traditionally deployed services, private clouds and into public clouds.
Speaker - Rishi Vaish, Vice President Engineering and CTO, Cast Iron Systems, an IBM Company 
Rishi is the CTO for cloud integration at IBM. He is responsible for vision, strategy and architecture of the IBM suite of products that solve application, platform and infrastructure integration in a hybrid cloud world. Prior to this role, Rishi was the Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Cast Iron Systems, acquired by IBM, responsible for all activities related to development, operations and product management for the Cast Iron Suite of products. He has also held senior engineering roles at Teamscape Inc, an Enterprise Learning Management Platform acquired by PeopleSoft/Oracle, at WebSwap Inc., a Sequoia funded e-commerce site, and at Tata Share Registry Limited, a financial services company for India’s premier business house, the Tata Group of companies. Rishi holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India.
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2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Location: Room 7
Uncertainty. Risk. Organizational change. For many enterprises, those are just a few of the realities they encounter while implementing their agile IT and cloud computing strategies. You need to know the security, operational, and governance hurdles you may face once you have convinced your organization to pursue the agility and economic benefits of cloud. Don’t fret, many of these threats can be avoided.
Speaker - Anthony Skipper, Vice-President, Infrastructure and Security, Service Mesh
Mr. Skipper has more than a decade of experience in both software development and infrastructure management. Mr. Skipper's early career was focused on consulting with Fortune 500 companies to help them develop their early web architectures. He played an instrumental part in developing one of the first digital rights management (DRM) implementations with Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble. Mr. Skipper moved to the financial services industry in 2000 when he joined Merrill Lynch, initially as an architect and later as the head of Merrill's Application Infrastructure Services organization. In 2007, Anthony joined Goldman Sachs and lead its Secure Computing group.
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| Thursday, May 10 |
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9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Location: Room 3
Now that you've implemented server virtualization, the next step to realizing its full potential is to add the management and automation layers to deliver cloud-like services. By optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, and adding self-service capabilities, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. This session is a primer on how to implement advanced management and automation capabilities such as automated policy-based management, performance and capacity management, automated disaster recovery, automated and self service provisioning and service catalogs. It will discuss the value and process of implementing these advanced management and automation 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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10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Location: Room 3
Moving beyond server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud is a top priority for most organizations, but not an easy road. Getting there successfully means addressing a variety of management issues -- automating virtual operations and provisioning; managing performance and capacity; troubleshooting across the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.
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.
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