Enterprise Cloud Summit Speakers
Conference Chair:
Alistair Croll
Principal Analyst,
Bitcurrent
Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.
Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
Keynote Speakers:
Russ Daniels
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Services Strategy,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Russ Daniels is vice president and chief technology officer of Cloud Services Strategy at HP. In this role, he sets the overarching business and technology strategies for HP's approach to the cloud.
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Daniels has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in software architecture, enterprise management, and software development methodologies. He has filled a wide range of staff and line management roles and run his own Internet Services business. In 2006, InfoWorld declared Daniels one of the industry's top 25 chief technology officers.
From 2002 to 2007 Daniels was the chief technology officer of HP Software. During his tenure, the business tripled in revenue and emerged as a significant player in the software industry. He joined HP in 1999. Prior, Daniels spent 15 years at Apple, where he held a variety of technical and management positions, culminating in his role as a senior software architect.
Daniels holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University.
Vishal Sikka
Chief Technology Officer,
SAP
Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAP, leads the company’s technology and innovation strategy across its product portfolio. Vishal is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized road map for SAP products to deliver ongoing innovation and long-term value to customers worldwide. Furthermore, Vishal leads the company’s forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies using design thinking to build SAP next generation products. He is responsible for SAP’s global research efforts and is chartered with SAP’s architecture governance and standards.
Prior to his role as CTO, Vishal was the senior vice president of architecture and chief software architect at SAP, responsible for the road map and the direction for the architecture of SAP's products and infrastructure. Before that, he was head of the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects.
Before joining SAP, Vishal was area vice president for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems (Remedy), responsible for application development and integration technologies and architecture. He joined Peregrine following the acquisition of Bodha, Inc., where he was founder and chairman/CEO. Bodha developed technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and for semantic information integration.
Vishal holds a doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Labs in Palo Alto, and at two startup companies.
Vishal reports to SAP Co-CEO Léo Apotheker and is based in SAP Labs Palo Alto, United States.
Ric Telford
Vice President, IBM Cloud Services
Ric Telford's professional business career highlights 25 years of product and service development experience and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services.
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Ric tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. Ric was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." Ric went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM. In this capacity, Ric worked across IBM, as well as the industry and academia, to promote the adoption of open-standards based self-managing technologies. In his prior role as VP of IT Optimization, Ric was responsible for defining complete IBM solutions for customers looking to transform their IT infrastructure. Leveraging IBM's vast software, hardware and services assets, the IT Optimization business unit provides offerings focused on such transformation topics such as Cloud Computing, Consolidation/Virtualization, Energy Efficient Data Center and Service Management.
In his current position, Ric is responsible for defining and coordinating delivery of IBM's broad portfolio of Cloud services. IBM has a clear vision for what is required to make Cloud Computing accessible and valuable to the enterprise, and provides Cloud consulting, Cloud implementation and Cloud-delivered services to deliver on this vision.
Ric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Ric resides in Morrisville, NC and has two sons. Ric enjoys mountain biking, swimming and golf.
Featured Speakers:
Lew Moorman
President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer,
Rackspace
Lew lead Rackspace's move into cloud hosting and cloud applications in 2006 by spearheading the launch of Mosso, now The Rackspace Cloud, and driving the acquisition of webmail.us, now the backbone of Rackspace's Cloud Applications offer. As the hosting and cloud computing market evolves, Lew is responsible for leading Rackspace's efforts into new models to meet customer needs and maintain market leadership. Along with talented teams, Lew has built the cloud offers into the fastest growing piece of the business and home to more than 40,000 customers. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served a variety of strategy, product and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Lew held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues.
Lew received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Mike Repass
Product Manager,
Google
Mike Repass is a product manager on the developer team at Google, where he focuses on App Engine. He has also worked on Google Checkout, supporting the developer APIs used for e-commerce. Prior to joining Google, Mike worked in the server and developer divisions at Microsoft. Mike has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Kentucky.
Amitabh Srivastava
Senior Vice President, Windows Azure,
Microsoft
Amitabh Srivastava is a Senior Vice President at Microsoft with responsibility for Windows Azure, the company's new operating system for the cloud. He began working on the company's services platform in November 2006, after playing a pivotal role in shipping Windows Vista.
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Srivastava joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Senior Researcher and led the Advanced Development Tools group in Microsoft Research that investigated new techniques to build innovative tools and technologies to improve performance and quality of Microsoft software. His vision and energy led to the creation of the Programmer Productivity Research Center (PPRC) in March 1999, which he has led since its inception. Srivastava's PPRC group, now known as Center for Software Excellence (CSE), has produced several tools and technologies that are critical to Microsoft product groups.
In January 2001, Srivastava became one of a select few to be named a Distinguished Engineer, now known as Technical Fellow.
Srivastava joined the Windows group in December 2003 as Corporate Vice President to redefine the engineering process for Windows Vista. He was responsible for the development of core operating system components such as the kernel, operating system architecture, definition of development processes, and development of advanced tools to automate the development processes.
In late 2006, with Dave Cutler he started 'project Red Dog' to build the operating system for the cloud. Project Red Dog was announced as 'Windows Azure' at PDC 2008.
Before working for Microsoft, Srivastava was the chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at TracePoint Technology Inc., a spin-off company from Digital Equipment Corp. He joined Digital's Western Research Labs (DEC WRL) in Palo Alto, Calif. in 1991. Srivastava's research on binary code modification at DEC WRL resulted in the creation of TracePoint. Srivastava started his career as a researcher at Texas Instruments Inc.'s Research Labs in Dallas, Texas in 1984 after graduating from Pennsylvania State University.
Srivastava holds 13 patents and has published a variety of papers. His paper on ATOM with Alan Eustace in PLDI 1994 received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in June 2005. He is the author of OM, ATOM and SCOOPS software systems, which have resulted in products for Digital Equipment and Texas Instruments on the Alpha and PC platforms. He led the design and development of Vulcan, a second-generation binary transformation system, at Microsoft. Vulcan is the foundation of a wide variety of tools developed at PPRC.
Srivastava delivered the commencement address titled "Fourth and Goal" at the College of Engineering graduation ceremonies at Pennsylvania State University, University Park on May 16, 2008.
Srivastava earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a master's degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. He received the 2003-2004 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and was selected as the 2004 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus at Pennsylvania State University.
Werner Vogels
CTO and Vice President,
Amazon
Dr. Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of driving technology innovation within the company, Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities. He is the only executive apart from Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos to speak publicly on behalf of Amazon.com. He joined Amazon in September 2004 as the Director of Systems Research. He was named Chief Technology Officer in January 2005 and Vice President, World-wide Architecture in March of that year.
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Prior to joining Amazon.com, from 1994 until 2004, Dr. Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. He mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. From 1999 through 2002 he also held a Vice President and Chief Technology position at Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. From 1991 through 1994 he was a senior researcher at INESC in Lisbon, Portugal. Vogels received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with Prof. Henri Bal and Prof. Andy Tanenbaum as his advisors. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems. Vogels maintains a technology oriented weblog named "All Things Distributed" which he started in 2001 while he was still a scientist at Cornell. It was mainly used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon.com the nature of the weblog changed to more product oriented with some general technology and industry writings.
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