Keynote Speakers
Wednesday, May 8th
8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Mandalay Bay H
Robert Soderbery | Senior Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Networking Group | Cisco
Your Enterprise Network: Getting You Where You Want to Go
We are entering an era of the Internet of Everything (IoE), where networks will gain unprecedented context awareness--with more processing power to connect people, process, data and things like never before. This will create dramatically new opportunities for businesses – by connecting the unconnected and better connecting the connected.
Is your enterprise network ready to take you where you want to go? Will it support the business applications that you are being asked to support?
This will be an Interop keynote you will never forget. Rob Soderbery, SVP/GM of Cisco Enterprise Networking, will be joined onstage by a NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving to show how the next-generation network architecture can optimize the performance of both the network and the things connected to it. Learn how a programmable, open, and application-aware network can unleash the power of IoE and get you where you want to go.
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As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group, Rob Soderbery oversees the strategy, engineering, and marketing direction of Cisco's networking technology for the enterprise. His organization is responsible for the core technologies critical to business customers. These include the Cisco Catalyst families of switches; enterprise routing; wireless networking; and solutions for all industry segments of the enterprise, industrial automation, small business, and emerging markets.
Rob's global team develops technologies that address customers' needs for solutions that are secure, scalable, mobile, sustainable, and provide a competitive advantage. He is responsible for more than $18 billion of product revenue.
SDN Keynote Panel
Deep Network Impact – Riding the Shockwave of Change in Networking
Networking has undergone a set of transformations whose effects are only just becoming visible and whose impacts will be profound. The rise of merchant silicon-based networking gear and the virtualization of ever greater swaths of network connectivity have changed how networks are built and where value is delivered and by whom. With many of networking's historical problems being solved in silicon, software is the space for differentiation and the ability to rapidly innovate is changing capabilities and expectations. This panel brings together thought leaders that span the different regions of networking to discuss what's happening with networking and where it's headed. Is your organization ready to deal with the agility that greater abstraction brings? Be ready for the changes that these shifts are imposing on everything from equipment purchasing to IT processes and job roles.
PANELIST
Martin Casado, Chief Architect, Networking, VMware
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Martin Casado is Chief Architect, Networking, at VMware. He joined VMware in 2012, when the company acquired Nicira. He was Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nicira.
He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira was based. He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.
Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC).
PANELIST
Rajiv Ramaswami, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking Group, Broadcom
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Rajiv Ramaswami serves as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure and Networking Group (ING). In this role he is responsible for all Broadcom Ethernet-based solutions including controller, switch, physical layer solutions, storage products, processors, security and automotive.
Prior to Broadcom, Ramaswami served as Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services and Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco, he served in various technical and leadership positions at Xros, Tellabs and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.
Ramaswami holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
Ramaswami holds 33 U.S. patents primarily in optical networking, and has coauthored a textbook, "Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective." He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
MODERATOR
Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research
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Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. Eric helps 451 Research’s clients understand how market and technology trends may impact them, and how they can best capitalize on them.
For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered networking security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.
Eric is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and he is a frequent speaker at leading industry events.
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Rajeev Nagar, Group Program Manager, Windows Core Networking, Microsoft
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Rajeev Nagar oversees the Core Networking team in Windows responsible for infrastructural networking/connectivity technologies for Microsoft operating system platforms, devices, and services (datacenter/Cloud). Past responsibilities have included strategic, business, & technological leadership for storage, clustering, and high-availability offerings within Microsoft Windows. Prior to Microsoft, Rajeev was founding-CEO and CTO of Kuokoa Networks, Inc. (focused on storage networking solutions for large enterprises), and founder/CEO of NTCS, Inc. (delivering file-systems, storage, and security solutions for Windows NT based deployments). Rajeev has also held technical leadership positions with Hewlett-Packard, and Transarc Co. (IBM). Rajeev's credits include multiple patents and publications, including a book. Rajeev holds a BE in Computer Engineering, MS (Computer Sc. – UCF), and MBA (Haas School – UC, Berkeley).
Bob Muglia | EVP, Software Solutions Division | Juniper Networks
Decoding SDN
If 2012 was the year of SDN hype and excitement, 2013 is shaping up to be the time of SDN pragmatism and execution. The truth is that SDN has tremendous promise to reduce costs, accelerate service introduction and fuel innovation—but to reap these benefits we must first clearly understand the key principles of SDN, and plan a clearly mapped and non-disruptive transition path. Additionally SDN will demand business models transform to meet the increased importance of software and the coming evolution of networking.
In this keynote presentation, Bob Muglia will outline a clear and cohesive SDN vision, the 6 key principles that underscore SDN, 4 steps for a pragmatic evolution towards SDN, and 1 new business model to enable it all. This presentation will decode the SDN hype and give attendees a clear understanding of what SDN means to the Data Center and beyond.
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Bob Muglia is the Executive Vice President of the Software Solutions Division, where he oversees the company's end-to-end software strategy. As head of Juniper's Software Solutions Division, Bob brings a centralized vision to Juniper's software efforts enabling the company to sharpen its focus on software as a core engine of growth for the company.
Before joining Juniper in 2011, Bob served in leadership positions across all of Microsoft's business groups, including Developer, Office, Mobile Devices, Windows NT and Online Services. Most recently, he served as president of Microsoft's $15 billion Server and Tools Business (STB), where he was responsible for infrastructure software, developer tools and cloud platforms, including products such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center and the Windows Azure Platform. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bob was a development manager at ROLM Co. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.
Frank Frankovsky | Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain | Facebook
Next Steps for the Open Compute Project
Billions of people and their many devices will be coming online in the next decade, and those who are already online are living ever-more connected lives. The industry is building out a huge physical infrastructure to support this growth, but we are doing so in a largely closed fashion, inhibiting the pace of innovation and preventing us from achieving the kinds of efficiencies that might otherwise be possible.
In this keynote, Frank Frankovsky will provide an overview of the Open Compute Project, a thriving consumer-led community dedicated to addressing this issue, promoting more openness and a greater focus on scale, efficiency, and sustainability in the development of infrastructure technologies. Frank will delve into the brief history of the project and describe its vision for the future.
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Frank Frankovsky is vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook. In that role, he is responsible for the company's hardware engineering and validation; technical program management; capacity engineering and analysis; and supply chain operations teams. He also serves as the company's representative on the board of directors for the Open Compute Project, and is one of the key drivers of that initiative. Prior to joining Facebook, Frank spent 14 years with Dell, where he was an integral part of building Dell's PowerEdge server business and co-founded Dell's Data Center Solutions business. Prior to Dell, he launched the industry's first rack-mounted x86 servers for Compaq. Frank holds a BA in Marketing from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Thursday, May 9th
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Mandalay Bay H
Michael Barrett | Chief Information Security Officer | PayPal
The Death of Passwords!
Passwords are failing us; what are we going to do to replace them? As CISO for PayPal, Michael Barrett is highly aware of the need for strong authentication, but his experience is that end users will always opt for the easiest possible solution. For many years it has been known that we need to evolve beyond the password as our primary source of authentication. Unfortunately, the alternatives so far have not provided an answer that both enhances authentication and works for end users. This session will introduce an approach that proposes a path forward that incorporates the lessons learned from the past along with the desired future of being able provide strong and easy to use authentication in the digital world.
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Michael Barrett is the chief information security officer for PayPal. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring the security of PayPal's 113 million users worldwide. He oversees the information systems and services that protect the integrity and confidentiality of PayPal customer and employee information.
Before joining PayPal, Michael was vice president of security and utility strategy at American Express, where he helped define the company's information-security program and directed its Internet technology strategy.
Previously, Michael was president of the Liberty Alliance, an open-standards consortium focused on identity management standards and guidelines. He was the driving force behind the introduction and standardization of the Alliance's federated identity concepts, and he also co-chaired its Identity Theft Prevention Working Group.
Michael was twice named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World magazine, has been listed as one of ITSecurity.com's top influencers in the security industry, and was recognized as the Information Security Executive of the year in 2010. He is a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and a certified information security manager (CISM). He graduated from Brighton University (U.K.), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science.
Enterprise Cloud Summit Keynote Panel
Can Clouds Make a Business Better?
Cloud Computing has been touted as a magical cure-all for enterprise agility. Deploy clouds, the story goes, and you'll make the company faster, more responsive, and more efficient. But clouds are only part of a bigger change that includes continuous deployment, lean product management, customer development, analytics, and more.
Join John Considine, Steven Shalita, Eli Almog, and Alistair Croll for a no-holds-barred panel that looks at what else companies need to capitalize on on-demand infrastructure, and what the obstacles—and opportunities—for re-engineering the business look like.
PANELIST
John Considine, Chief Technology Officer, Terremark, a Verizon Company
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As Terremark's chief technology officer, John Considine is responsible for the alignment of technology vision with the organizational strategies and the integration of the processes with their appropriate technologies. John also leads the research and development efforts that ensure the execution of the company's long-term vision. Formerly the cofounder of CloudSwitch, a leading enablement software company acquired by Verizon in August 2011, John has spent the last three years developing and delivering technologies that enable enterprises to seamlessly and securely integrate public cloud resources into their existing IT infrastructure without re-architecting the applications or changing their management tools and policies.
John has more than two decades of technology vision and proven experience in complex enterprise system development, integration and product delivery. Before founding CloudSwitch, he 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. He has started and boot-strapped a number of start-ups with breakthrough technology in high-performance distributed systems and image processing. John 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.
PANELIST
Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing, NetScout Systems, Inc.
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Steven Shalita has more than 20 years of industry and technology experience across service provider and enterprise markets with a strong background in enterprise networking, MPLS, and IP transformation projects. His wide range of experience includes service management and assurance to service delivery architecture including data center, LAN/WAN, core, edge and metro technologies as well as leading initiatives targeting convergence, mobility, triple-play and business services carrier environments. Steven has held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, HP and Cisco. He returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing from 1997 through 1999.
PANELIST
Eli Almog, Chief Technology Officer, CSC Cloud Services
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Mr. Eli Almog joined CSCTrusted Cloud & Hosting Services in October 2011 and in his new role focuses on architecture, engendering and future direction the CSC Trusted Cloud. Mr. Almog's career spans 25 years of sustained delivery of robust high scale infrastructure systems to create the most scalable solutions to meet a company's computing needs. Most recently Mr. Almog served as Vice President R&D and Corporate Architect in the Office of the CTO for BMC Software, a leading enterprise software vendor. Over a 3 year tenure with BMC, Mr. Almog orchestrated a turnaround of the company's second largest line of business (Service Assurance) and provided the technical vision for BMC's entry into the cloud market.
Prior to joining BMC Software, Mr. Almog held multiple executive roles at Morgan Stanley. His experience ranges from design, engineering, integration and development of technical solutions for Unix/Windows and enterprise distributed management including monitoring and automated management of vendor products and custom in house developed solutions operating in large scale environments.
Following service as Captain in the Israeli Army, Mr. Almog earned his technical degree as a Practical Engineer with emphases in Computer Science and Data Processing from Haddash College Jerusalem.
MODERATOR
Alistair Croll, Founder, CloudOps Research
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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.
Embrace the Future of Data Center Networking
HP is transforming the networking industry with the most complete
software-defined network fabric. Sears is changing the way the people shop.
According to industry analysts, 30 years of network design principles
have kept virtual network infrastructure at bay. This is constraining
data centers as more than 80 percent of all traffic is between servers,
and up to 80 percent of end-user traffic will move to the WAN by 2014. Preventing agility is the manual box-by-box administration of networks known as human middleware.
Join Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, HP
Networking to learn about data center networking innovations that
simplify, scale and automate the network to enable virtualization, big
data and cloud.
Joining Bethany will be Conrad Menezes, vice president, Network and
Information Security, Sears Holdings Corp. Sears deployed HP data
center network solutions in creating a large-scale private cloud that
is increasing agility to modernize the way people shop at the store,
online and in the home.
Conrad from Sears will talk about their journey to a modern network so that its Members and customers can Shop Your Way.
Bethany Mayer | Senior Vice President and General Manager, Networking | HP
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Bethany Mayer is the senior vice president and general manager of the HP Networking business unit, which has grown13 consecutive quarters and delivers $2.5B in annual revenue for HP. In this role, she oversees the group’s worldwide business operations, with a focus on expanding its market share position as a leading networking supplier in the market. Prior to her general manager role, Bethany was responsible for worldwide marketing and alliances for Enterprise Business Group.
Bethany brings more than 25 years of experience in leading product management, marketing communications, operations and engineering from start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.
Bethany joined HP from Blue Coat, where she was senior vice president, worldwide marketing and corporate development. While at Blue Coat, Bethany’s marketing leadership moved the company to market share leader in Secure Web Gateway and WAN Optimization markets, which drove Blue Coat’s revenue growth of more than 300% during her three-year tenure. She was also responsible for the acquisition of Packeteer Inc. Prior to Blue Coat, Bethany served as chief marketing officer with Mirapoint Incorporated in the email and email security market. She has held executive positions at JDSU, Vernier Networks and Skystream Networks (now Ericsson). Bethany also held management positions in product management, engineering development and operations at Cisco Systems and was responsible for Cisco’s initial channel products and supply chain design. Earlier in her career Bethany held positions at Apple and Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Bethany holds a bachelor of science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from California State University, Monterey Bay. Bethany won the Stevie Gold Award for Female Executive of the Year for 2012. She was also recognized as one of the Top Women of Influence in Silicon Valley in 2008.
Conrad Menezes | Vice President, Network & Information Security | Sears Holdings Corporation
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Conrad Menezes is Vice President, Network & Information Security with the Information & Technology Group at Sears Holdings Corporation where he is responsible for Strategic Planning, Engineering, and Operations. Prior to this role he founded Exospheric IT Solutions LLC, providing data center, network infrastructure and information security consulting to private firms and the Fortune 1000. Previously, Conrad held a number of IT leadership positions over the years and in his last position at American Express he was Vice President, Technologies Integrator with the Technology Strategy & Operations Group, responsible for leading the global network strategy, architecture, standards and engineering for voice, data, and security.
Conrad brings more than 20 years of proven experience in reducing and eliminating complexities of traditional/converged networks while significantly reducing operating expenses through re-engineering, innovation and redesign commensurate with high levels of efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and IS/regulatory compliance. Conrad is the author and co-author of engineering & research publications relating to chip design, and serves on the Technology Advisory Board for a number of technology firms.
Conrad holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College in Aurangabad, India, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toledo, Ohio.
