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Conference Sessions
 Application Performance Management (Location: Breakers E)Management used to be focused primarily on the availability of network devices, such as switches and routers. During the last few years, the focus of management has evolved to where it typically now includes the performance of both networks and applications. In this session, the panelists will describe the technologies and processes that IT organizations should implement to become more efficient at managing the infrastructure, while simultaneously becoming better at managing the performance of key applications. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Doug Roberts, Business Development Director, Fluke Networks
Doug Roberts is the Director of Business Development for Fluke Networks Performance Management Business. Doug has been a part of Fluke Networks since the company's founding, where he has shown a unique ability to communicate the complexities of IT infrastructure to all levels of an organization. Doug has worked as an IT professional for over 12 years. Most recently Doug has been instrumental in helping to build Fluke Networks Performance Management Business specific to next generation application performance. Doug holds a B.S. degree from Georgia College, and is presently pursuing an EMBA from Mercer University. In addition to his formal education Doug also holds a myriad of both technical and industry certifications, including: Cisco CCNP, PMG NetAnalyst, CNE, SCE, and Six Sigma. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Vice President, Product Management, NetQoS Inc
Matt Sherrod is the Vice President of Product Management for NetQoS where he defines product direction and strategy for the company's innovative networking solutions. With more than 20 years of IT and networking experience, Matt has in-depth knowledge of his customers' experiences and needs. Over the last six years he has held a number of field and management positions at NetQoS. Prior to joining NetQoS, Matt worked as a Director of Communications for a Fortune 100 global enterprise, applying leading edge technologies to improve application delivery. Matt holds a B.S. degree in Applied Math, Computer Science and Statistics, and a M.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Paul Ellis, Senior Product Marketing Manger, Wily Technology Division, CA
Paul Ellis, CA Wily Senior Marketing Manager for CA Wily Application Performance Management (APM) and SOA initiatives, has over 30 years of IT experience spanning a wide range of disciplines including world-wide marketing, product management, strategy and sales-related responsibility at companies like IBM, Amdahl / Fujitsu Software Group and Memorex. His background includes significant experience in infrastructure management software and on-demand applications, in addition to storage and communications hardware platforms. He has written articles and delivered presentations at industry conferences in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific linking business needs with technology solutions. Key Considerations in Business Resiliency (Location: Lagoon L)Business Resiliency is the maturation and amalgamation of the individual processes of crisis management, incident response, business continuance and disaster recovery into one succinct set of processes and capabilities that work collectively instead of independently. This combination allows organizations to have minimal disruption in the event of a business-impacting incident that affects the entire organization instead of one that involves specific information infrastructure areas. When evaluating these capabilities, it is important to understand that they only are as effective as the proactive planning and considerations that go into their development. Too often, planning accounts for only the most obvious considerations and does not incorporate crucial and essential considerations that have the most impact. This session will discuss the key elements of business resiliency and the considerations which should be made when developing or maturing this capability. Speaker - John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC.
John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, business resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences. Next-Generation Architectures for Communications (Location: Breakers C)The traditional enterprise communications architecture is evolving as IP networks and software functionality take center stage. Communications may become a data center-based application, or may have elements that are distributed throughout private and public networks and implemented via mashups. Also, the core function of communications is likely to change from voice call control to presence management. This session will help you understand the transition that is under way, and how you should plan for it. Moderator - Eric Krapf, Program Co-Chairman, TechWeb
Eric Krapf was named editor of Business Communications Review at the beginning of 2004, after serving as the magazine's managing editor since 1996. As editor, he is responsible for all magazine content and production, as well as content for BCR's electronic publishing endeavors. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor at America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas. Speaker - Frank Fender, Global Technical PM - North America, OpenScape UC Applications, Siemens
Frank Fender is a Unified Communications Product Manager and Architect at Siemens Enterprise Communications Corporation in their Global OpenScape Unified Communications Server practice. Frank has been specifically focused on UC deliverables since 2003. In those days the technology was known as Real-Time Collaboration (RTC). He was instrumental in helping Siemens be first-to-market in delivering a SOA-based rich telephony presence aggregation system with their award-winning OpenScape UC system. Frank has an MBA, a BS in Computer Science, and 20 years of voice, data, and development experience as a Unified Communications Architect, Integrated Communications Consultant, Client/Server Software Developer, and Technical Project Leader. He has performed a variety of technical roles including Consultant, Lead Architect, Sales Engineer, Developer, and Systems Integrator. Frank has also worked in various capacities as Manager, Director, Board Member, CFO, and Chairman of a number of companies that he has founded, co-founded, managed or developed. He has design, analysis, development and project management experience in telecommunications, convergence and data processing systems in the private and public sectors including detailed software design, and structured development methodologies. His UC knowledge has been applied to the design and development of call routing servers, voicemail systems, and complex call centers utilizing CTI, UC, IVRs, and telephony systems in the US, England and New Zealand, at Fortune 500 companies including Siemens, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Sears, Shimano, SBC, Office Depot, Dow Corning, LightBridge and DoubleClick. Speaker - Pat Galvin, Senior UC Architect, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Pat Galvin joined IBM in 1998, and was part of the development team that produced the first release of Sametime later that same year. Since then he has played a significant role in every Sametime release. Pat has been a driving force for the use of SIP within IBM, and was a leader on the team that extended the WebSphere Application Server to support SIP. More recently, Pat is the Senior Architect responsible for Sametime Unified Telephony, which seamlessly integrates Sametime with the enterprise telephone system. This product represents the next major step to position Sametime as the focal point of IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration vision. Speaker - Tom Wesselman, Sr. Manager, Software Development, Cisco
Tom Wesselman is a senior manager in the office of the CTO responsible for the long-term strategy for Cisco's Communication and Collaboration products - building on the foundation of Unified, IP-based communication to add social networking, collaboration, and web 2.0 interfaces and applications. Before that he ran engineering for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, partnerships for the initial release of Cisco Network Admission Control, and engineering for Cisco Unity Unified Messaging. Virtualization Technology Primer (Location: Lagoon F)Feeling bewildered by the slew of acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what virtualization means to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, virtualization cloud services, bursting to the cloud—and more? If so, this is the session for you. Speaker - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Key Skill Sets for the Data Center Manager of the Future (Location: Breakers B)Data center managers be warned—the business's insatiable demand for IT services, coupled with out-of-space and power concerns, rising energy prices and increased outsourcing, will require skills beyond technical versatility. Forecasting, project management and vendor management will all become necessary skills for future data center managers. To better manage their own career and develop up-and-coming staff, this session will discuss the evolving role of the data center manager, drivers for change, as well identify key skill sets necessary for success into the future. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Paul Clark, Data Center Manager, The Ohio State University Medical Center
Speaker - Tim McLaine, Global Functional Manager - Data Center Services, Perot Systems
Tim McLaine is group director of Data Center Services for Perot Systems. He is responsible for data center facilities, operations, support services, storage, data compliance, capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity worldwide. He provides operational support, strategic direction, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic technology guidance to customers. Experience Tim is a 30-year veteran leader in the technology services industry, and a 20 year veteran of Perot Systems. He has spent his career in technical and leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Solutions supporting individual clients within the Transportation, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries. He also served as the director of North American Operations. Qualifications Prior to joining Perot Systems, Tim worked at EDS for over 10 years. He has earned a BS in Accounting. The "Reality" of Storage Virtualization: How Customers are Deploying Virtualized Storage (Location: Breakers I)This session builds on Storage Virtualization I from Interop Las Vegas 08. Attendees should already have a basic understanding of this subject. Storage Virtualization Part II covers practical issues of block virtualization in order to make most effective use of it. This session describes the implementation step-by-step and aspects of availability, performance and capacity improvements. Other topics this session covers includes: the role of storage virtualization within policy-based management, and its integration in the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). Learning Objectives: 1. Understand a detailed example of the implementation of storage virtualization 2. Understand the management techniques necessary to effectively control virtualized storage 3. Increase awareness of the impact of virtualized storage on other aspects of computation (especially virtual servers) and networking Speaker - Robert Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. Herding Cats: Managing SaaS Sprawl (Location: Breakers L)SaaS makes it easy to turn up a new application, often for little or no money up front. That ease of deployment is also a curse: It's not uncommon for companies to have dozens of SaaS relationships. The management overhead can quickly undermine any cost savings or operational advantages that SaaS offers. This panel will look at how to rein in out-of-control SaaS deployments. Moderator - Chris Hoffmann, Senior Principal and Research Director, Triple Tree, LLC
Chris Hoffmann is a Senior Principal and Research Director for TripleTree, LLC. TripleTree is a leading research-based investment bank focused on technology enabled business services and key verticals sectors like Healthcare. TripleTree has developed a worldwide following for its expertise in Software as a Service. Chris has over 19 years of experience in the technology industry as a successful operating executive, entrepreneur and analyst. Chris has held executive positions at Tier1 Research, Gartner, GE Capital Consulting and IBM Global Services and his research and perspective have been quoted in numerous national business and trade publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Investors Business Daily. Speaker - Bob Moul, President & CEO, Boomi
Bob first joined Boomi in late 2005 as a board director and was appointed president and CEO in August 2006. His 27-year career has included senior management and executive roles at EDS, SCT, and MAXIMUS and involved expatriate assignments in England, Hong Kong and Australia. Bob graduated from the University of Maryland, University College, with a MS in technology management. He has also completed executive programs at the University of Michigan and MIT and serves on a number of advisory boards for start-up tech companies. Speaker - Narinder Singh, Founder, Appirio
Narinder Singh brings nearly 15 years of experience in software and business innovation. Narinder leads Appirio's marketing and technology strategy, including all product development. He works closely with many of Appirio's large enterprise customers such as Dolby Labs, Qualcomm and Starbucks to accelerate their adoption of cloud computing. Prior to Appirio, Narinder worked at SAP in the Office of the CEO as a part of the Corporate Strategy Group. Working with the management board and other executives, Narinder led initiatives on sales, maintenance and competitive strategies, as well as potential business and technology disruptions, including software on demand. Prior to SAP, Narinder managed development and sales and marketing activity as vice president and general manager of webMethods (WEBM) workflow business unit. Narinder led the internal development of the company's business process management (BPM) capabilities, and the integration of a workflow acquisition to launch the business unit. Narinder joined webMethods in 1998 as one of its first forty employees, and subsequently founded webMethods' Trading Networks product, the basis for the company's B2B, EDI and industry products. Narinder began at webMethods by leading engagements at pioneering customers such as Eastman Chemical, Grainger, Oracle, Ariba and SAP. Narinder began his career with Accenture at its Center for Strategic Technology working on leading edge initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. He pioneered early efforts to internet-enable business applications (SAP and Peoplesoft) at companies such as Motorola, Bell Atlantic and Autodesk. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Wharton School. Speaker - Tim Dilley, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Services and Chief Customer Officer, NetSuite
Mr. Dilley has over 25 years experience providing service to technology customers and has held executive management positions in professional services and customer support. At NetSuite, he is responsible for driving customer success in the use and adoption of the NetSuite application. In his role, Mr Dilley manages the global teams in consulting, training, customer support, and client management. Prior to NetSuite, Dilley served as senior vice president of Global Customer Services at Informatica Corporation, responsible for the global practices of Professional Services, Education Services, Customer Support and Maintenance Renewal Sales. Previously, he was an associate partner for Worldwide Utilities at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and a co-founder of Axiom Management Consulting, a management and information technology consulting firm. Mr. Dilley began his career as a consultant at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Dilley holds a B.S. in business administration from California State University at Fresno. Speaker - Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource
Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. He is currently considered one of the leading thinkers in SaaS and sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution.Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the hosting and Internet services marketplace. Mr. Ryan has been a guest speaker at numerous industry events, including CIO, venture capital, Internet, hosting, and software conferences. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund. Automating Installations for Speed and Consistency (Location: Breakers H)Automation of software installation is not only important when deploying new or updated software, but also during the creation of your baseline image. Windows Installer (MSI) offers many options for a custom and silent installation. When software is not provided with an MSI setup, you can repackage or leverage vendor-provided methods of installation, however there are pros and cons to repackaging. This session covers the many ways in which software may be deployed. The presentation will include real-world examples of custom installations, even when not provided as an MSI setup, without repackaging. Speaker - Bob Kelly, Senior Product Manager, KACE
Bob Kelly is Sr. Product Manager at KACE and was the founder of AppDeploy.com. He is a 19-year IT veteran with a career focus on Windows deployment and administration. Bob has authored several books and papers including "Windows Vista Deployment and Administration Bible" (Wiley) and "Start to Finish Guide to Scripting with KiXtart" (Agility Press). He has writes and speaks on the topic of desktop administration and scripting regularly and has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for his efforts. For more on Bob, visit www.bkelly.com MBX Plenary
Is Your Next Notebook a Smartphone? (Location: Lagoon J)Once considered fantasy, there is now serious discussion of replacing of notebook computers with handheld devices, at least for some users. Considering that contemporary smartphones have remarkable processing power, sophisticated operating environments, libraries of applications, advanced wireless communications capabilities and many other features essential to mobile computing, it may very well be that your next notebook is indeed a handheld. But this possibility is by no means certain—and the participants in this session will debate the various alternatives competing for center stage in your mobile computing strategy. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York) and Mobile Internet World conferences. He is also the program chair for the Mobile Business Expo (MBX) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and Computerworld.com, and ardent blogger ("Nearpoints") for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Jeff Pierce, Manager, Mobile Computing Research, IBM Research
Jeff Pierce manages the mobile computing research group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Prior to joining IBM Research in 2006, he served time as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There he led the Personal Information Environments research group and co-directed the Adaptive Personalized Information Environments lab with Charles Isbell. Jeff received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. While his initial research explored 3D interaction and virtual environments, his recent research concentrates on understanding and supporting interaction that spans multiple personal computing devices (including smartphones, but also desktops, laptops, and other devices). His research has appear in numerous conference proceedings, journals, and books. He also shared the honor of being Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2006. Speaker - Keith Shaw, Program Director, Network World
The first gadget Keith Shaw ever wanted was the Merlin, a red plastic toy that beeped and played Tic-Tac-Toe and other various games. Since then, his obsession with technology, both small and large, has grown into the multimedia empire that is Cool Tools. A child of the '70s and teen-ager of the '80s, Shaw has been a fan of computers, technology and video games right from the start. He won an award in 8th grade for programming a game on the school's only computer, and saved his allowance to buy an Atari 2600. He took a side trip in the '90s to the world of newspaper journalism, and has worked at a variety of newspapers in New York, Florida and Massachusetts. In 1997, he combined his love of technology with his journalism skills, working at Computerworld for a few years before joining Network World in 1999 as the company's product reviews editor. In 2000, Shaw took over the Cool Tools column, which continues to appear in the print version of Network World weekly. Shaw started the Cool Tools video show in 2005, and in 2006 teamed up with Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve to create the company's weekly Twisted Pair podcast, which occasionally covers gadgets and other technology news. As Network World's Programming Director, he oversees the production and content creation of the site's videos and podcasts, and has created or spearheaded several popular programs, including Network World Panorama, the DEMOcast, and JavaWorld's Technology Insider. Shaw has a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University and he's extremely disappointed with the football team as of late. As product reviews editor, Shaw won an award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for a 2003 article on anti-spam testing. Shaw is also the co-creator of http://www.taquitos.net, the crunchiest site on the InterWeb, which has taste tested and reviewed more than 4,100 varieties of snack foods. Speaker - Raj Singh, Vice President of Business Development, Skyfire
Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked in all aspects of mobile over the past 10 years. Currently, Raj is Vice President of Business Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports the full web including Flash 8,9, Javascript and Quicktime. Most recently, Raj was the consulting Director of Mobile for Dell assisting them with their global SMS and WAP strategy. Prior to Dell, Raj co-founded Veeker, NBC's mobile video citizen journalism service and ToneThis, CNET's top ringtone creation product. Raj has also worked in product management and strategy roles for Kodak Mobile, Cellmania, MobiTV, PlayPhone, Tellme, Hungama Mobile and Antenna Software. Raj's personal projects include Moblexa, a mobile toolbar, PocketTella, a mobile file-sharing service and Pubwalk, an LBS bar-hopping service. Raj is also a mobile advisor to a number of companies including Guba, ChuckD Mobile, Scalado, Movoxx, DeviantArt, Oomble, Klicksports, Muse, BuzzD and several VCs within the valley. Raj is a regular mobile writer and speaker including blogging for GotoMobile and previously blogging for O'reilly Emerging Telephony. Raj has also made contributions to a number of mobile user and expert groups including the JCP, MMA and the Bluetooth SIG. For more information, please see www.rajansingh.com. Speaker - Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President, Yankee Group
Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group's Mobilizing and Capitalizing on the Anywhere Network research group. Kerravala's team analyzes the impact of connectivity transformation on the Anywhere Consumer and the Anywhere Enterprise, and probes the changes to behaviors, motivations and technologies that result. Kerravala manages the research and consulting agenda that enables clients to meet the demands of the global connectivity revolution. Kerravala's expertise involves working with customers to solve their business issues through the deployment of infrastructure technology. Before Yankee Group, Kerravala was a senior engineer and technical project manager for Greenwich Technology Partners, a leading infrastructure consulting firm. Earlier, he was the vice president of IT for Ferris, Baker Watts, a mid-Atlantic brokerage firm, deploying corporate-wide technical solutions to support the firm's business units. Kerravala was also an engineer and technical project manager for Alex. Brown & Sons, where he was responsible for the technology related to the equity trading desks. Kerravala holds a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. | |||||
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Conference Sessions
A Comparison of WAN Optimization Controllers (Location: Breakers E)The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over relatively low-speed and high-latency WAN. This use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. To mitigate the impact of the WAN on application performance, many vendors have developed a solution referred to as a WAN Optimization Controller (WOC). In this PowerPoint-free session, leading WOC vendors will be asked questions to identify the similarities and differences between their products. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Riverbed
Apurva Davé is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. As part of the pioneering team in the WAN optimization, Apurva works closely with direct response marketing and creative services to deliver more effective, targeted lead generation through compelling content and efficient, scalable Marketing IT automation. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Areas of technology expertise include Wide-area Data Services, WAN optimization, application acceleration, content delivery, caching and streaming media. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Kenneth Salchow, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5
Ken Salchow has been employed by F5 for the past nine years where he has served in several capacities, from field engineering, to security architect overlay, to technical marketing and evangelist. Ken has helped design and implement some of the most cutting-edge uses of F5 technology, written numerous articles and whitepapers and traveled the world in an effort to help F5 customers achieve their business goals through the use of F5 technology. Prior to F5, Ken was a principal member of the Best Buy, Inc. Internet Services Group which was responsible for the development of the retailing giant's eCommerce presence taking what was a single machine to one of the largest and most successful "clicks and mortar" implementations in the industry. In addition, he has owned and operated several small businesses including a consultancy, a boutique computer forensics shop and, with his wife, a burger and malt shop. Ken is, or has been a CNE, MSCE, CCNP, C|EH, CISSP, Network+, CCNP, holds a BS in Information Technology from the MN School of Business and is currently completing his MBA with a focus on IT management. He lives with his wife and children in Twin Cities Metro area of Minnesota. Speaker - Mark Urban, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Blue Coat
Mark Urban is the senior director of product marketing for Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network Infrastructure business. He has more than ten years of experience working with Fortune Global 500 enterprises and carriers to successfully navigate and implement advanced networking solutions for secure, high performance application delivery. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Urban was director of product marketing at Packeteer. Earlier, he worked in the enterprise networking group at FORE Systems/Marconi. Urban began his career at M&I Capital as an investment analyst. Later, he transitioned to the role of IT manager and moved the company to a networked infrastructure. Urban holds a B.S. in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin. Speaker - Mark Weiner, Director, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Peter Schmidt, CTO for North America, Ipanema
Speaker - Satya Vardharajan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Access and Acceleration Group, Citrix Systems, Inc
Social Software Tools: A Critical Evaluation (Location: Breakers C)To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. And yet, Enterprise 2.0 tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs. Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan. Unlock the Potential of Virtualization - Management is the Key (Location: Lagoon F)As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management 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 is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. The Rise of the Green Enterprise: What is IT's Role? (Location: Breakers B)Leading organizations are reevaluating their value chain through a green lens to mitigate risk, reduce costs and increase revenues to ultimately deliver shareholder value. To determine IT's role in the "Green Enterprise," IT leadership needs to get up to speed on what the Green Enterprise is and its motivations. This session will introduce the "Green Enterprise" concept, discuss the heightened expectations of IT and offer practical steps for IT leadership to enable more green business behaviors; not just greener IT. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Anthony Rydell, Deloitte, Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Enterprise Risk
Anthony Rydell is currently part of Deloitte Consulting LLP's Enterprise Sustainability leadership group. As the national program manager for Green IT initiatives, a primary focus is on providing services that leverage the IT organization to minimize carbon footprints, drive cost reduction, and lower energy utilization. As co-author of "Green IT: The Fast-track to Enterprise Sustainability," he wrote one of the first papers championing the use of IT to jump-start companies on the path to environmental sustainability. A creative IT executive with broad experience in technology management and enterprise architecture, Anthony has experience across industries, specializing in Technology/Media and Financial Services. Innovations in Storage Networking (Location: Breakers I)This is an exciting time in the field of Storage and Storage Networking. The advances in disk technologies with the move to integrate Solid State Disks with Hard Disk Drives are being brought to RAID controllers. The blending of storage, server and network Virtualization brings greater flexibility and asset utilization for customers and their IT infrastructure. The increasing performance potential in the storage network with advances in PCI Express, InfiniBand, IP SANS and the Fibre Channel over Ethernet initiatives continue to push the envelope of innovation. The concept of a Unified Data Center fabric promise reductions in cost and increases in performance for the future. A panel of storage and storage networking vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings, how they are approaching innovation and what the future holds. Moderator - Howard Goldstein, President, HGAI
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others. Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com. He provides in-depth skills with his technology-specific classes. His job task approach in his Storage Networking Planning, Design, Performance and Troubleshooting classes provides the skill level required to perform specific job roles in the Storage Networking industry today. Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both. Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks. Speaker - David Flynn, CTO, Fusion-io
As CTO of Fusion-io, and one of the company's founders, David Flynn is the visionary behind Fusion-io's innovative technology. Mr. Flynn is responsible for providing business-focused oversight of the company's research and development efforts, as well as driving the company's short- and long-term technological direction. Mr. Flynn has a history of successfully architecting complex computer-related solutions, including some of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers and the world's smallest personal Linux servers; embedded Web 2.0 interactive TV; image processing; relational databases; file systems; and thin-client computing products. Prior to joining Fusion-io, Mr. Flynn served as Project BlackDog's chief scientist and vice president, engineering. He has also held positions at Linux Networx and Network Computer Incorporated (NCI), a spin-off of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Flynn holds a B.S. in Computer Science and serves on the Technology Advisory Boards for the College of Information Technology at Brigham Young University and Techniscan Medical Systems. Mr. Flynn embraced technology at an early age. While attending Brigham Young University, Flynn created 3D-GIS (graphics information systems) for noise control at Boston Logan International and Salt Lake International airports as technical lead at Larson Davis Laboratories. At 16, he designed and authored 3D flight simulation and image processing software for the Department of Defense, while working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Prior to that, he created and marketed flight-planning software for general aviation pilots. Speaker - Larry Hart, Worldwide Sr. Manager, Dell Storage & Networking Product Group, Dell Inc.
Larry Hart is responsible for worldwide product management and marketing of Dell Storage & Networking products. Mr. Hart sets the strategic direction for Dell's PowerVault disk array business and enterprise networking products. He also oversees product planning and product management for these product lines. During the past nine years at Dell, he has helped position Dell as the worldwide leader in Windows/Linux storage and helped launch the PowerConnect networking business. Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Hart served as a general manager for Baylor University's Information Technology Center where he managed and established corporate IT standards for the campus. In this role, he managed strategic IT supplier relationships to provide best-in-class solutions to the University. Mr. Hart holds an engineering degree and an MBA from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Martin Skagen, Sr. Director and Chief Architect, Brocade
Martin Skagen joined the Brocade Competitive Analysis team in 2002, helping to ensure the competitiveness of a wide range of Brocade products and strategies. Since 2004, he runs the technology, standards and strategy team and is responsible for Brocade's Data Center product lines. Skagen has more than 19 years of IT experience, including more than a decade spent at Hewlett Packard, where he held various positions such as managing support/services teams for mission-critical customers. He has a BS in Computer Science from Niels Brock University in Copenhagen Denmark. Speaker - Robert Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech Corporation. A 32-year industry veteran and published author, he leads the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies, defining future offering portfolios including business and technology requirements, product planning and industry/customer liaison. He is the Treasurer of the SNIA, serves as Chair of the SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage Initiative and the Solid State Storage Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs, replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars and conferences worldwide. He was one of 30 senior executives worldwide selected for the Network Products 2008 MVP Award. Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and engineering management positions over a ten-year period at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering development and product management positions at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University's Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols, clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization. Clients Still Matter: The Case for Software Plus Service (Location: Breakers L)There's a new term in the SaaS dictionary: Software plus Service. Companies like Microsoft want to leverage their desktop dominance to marry the convenience of desktops with the ubiquity of on-demand services. Run-anywhere applications like Adobe AIR, as well as remote desktop technology, may mean your next SaaS application is a software/service hybrid. This panel of vendors discusses why Software plus Service is getting a closer look. Moderator - Scott Donahue, Principal, TripleTree, LLC
For the past 14 years, Scott has delivered a wide variety of strategic analysis and business development expertise to top technology firms. Having served both in operational, investment, and advisory roles during his career, Scott has built deep knowledge in IT operations and services delivery approaches including: utility computing; heterogeneous data center operations; storage infrastructures; telecommunications and wireless operations management/OSS; and service-oriented architectures. Most recently, Scott was vice president and lead analyst at Tier1 Research, a Wall Street independent research provider focusing on IT infrastructure where he demonstrated thought leadership and provided technical and financial analysis on a wide range of companies including buy/sell recommendations on over 25 top public software firms. Prior experience includes both work in venture capital focused on driving investments in technology and telecommunications services and in operational and management roles at start-up and leading technology firms including a subsidiary of ADC Telecommunications. Scott earned his B.A. in Economics from UC Santa Barbara and his M.B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan. Speaker - Allan MacKinnon, President, CTO and Founder, Everypoint, Inc
Allan's vision for Everypoint draws on his extensive experience working with complex systems, real-time data processing, and communications technology. He has filled pioneering roles in companies such as Palm, D.E. Shaw, and American Airlines. Allan holds an S.B. in Computer Science & Engineering from M.I.T and an M.S. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. Allan holds an S.B. in Computer Science & Engineering from M.I.T and an M.S. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. Speaker - David Chou, Architect, Microsoft
David Chou is an Architect in the Developer & Platform Evangelism organization at Microsoft, focused on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in many areas such as SOA, Web, RIA, cloud computing, distributed systems, security, etc., and supporting decision makers on defining evolutionary strategies in architecture. As an expert on Azure, Silverlight, .NET, and the broad Microsoft platform, plus Java and many open-source platforms, David is often tasked to provide guidance on how "Software plus Services" fit in heterogeneous environments according to specific enterprise needs and organizational requirements, while mapping to emerging trends and best practices. Drawing on experiences from his previous jobs at Sun Microsystems and Accenture, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, David enjoys helping customers create value from using objective and pragmatic approaches to define IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. David maintains a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou Speaker - Jeff Haynie, CEO and Co-Founder, Appcelerator
Appcelerator is an open source platform for building rich web applications. Appcelerator, Inc. is a silicon valley venture funded company located in Mountain View, California. Appcelerator was started in 2006 by software veterans Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright. Haynie and Wright set out to make building rich web applications faster and cheaper by using a better set of technologies, a new architecture called Service Oriented UIs (or SOUI), and an agile methodology for rapid prototyping called Interactive Use Cases. The Appcelerator Platform consists of an SDK for building rich web applications and is completely open source. Speaker - Mani Gill, Vice President, OnDemand, SAP BusinessObjects Division
Mani Gill is the Vice President of OnDemand for SAP BusinessObjects Division; he manages the software as a service strategy, direction, and sales for crystalreports.com, Business Intelligence OnDemand and Information OnDemand products. Prior to coming to SAP BusinessObjects Division 12 years ago, he was integrating business intelligence technologies into Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Studio, BackOffice, Dynamics and CRM. Mani is originally from Canada and now lives in Seattle with his wife and two young daughters, and enjoys golfing and travelling in his spare time. Managing Virtualization with IT Process Automation (Location: Breakers H)While many turn to virtualization as a cost-saving solution, the increase in the number of processes to manage virtualization may result in additional and higher costs. This session will explain how automating processes around virtualization helps reduce management costs and increase productivity, while enforcing compliant best practices aimed at improving performance and availability of all critical business applications. Finally, the session will describe how automation of virtual management tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance can ensure that consistency and standardization are extended to virtual servers alongside physical machines. Speaker - Todd DeLaughter, President and CEO, Opalis Software
Todd DeLaughter is currently the President and CEO of Opalis. Prior to Opalis, Todd was vice president and general manager of the $1 billion OpenView Business Unit at HP where his responsibility for strategy and business planning, acquisitions, strategic partner relationships, operations, solutions marketing, research and development all contributed to this business doubling in size during his tenure and achieving growth at two times the market rate. Before joining HP, he spent 18 years with Compaq, leading and working in software teams. DeLaughter is a former advisory board member of the TeleManagement Forum and of NetMan, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based wholly-owned HP company specializing in provisioning products and services for the network service provider market. Dude - Where's My Data? Making a Case for Data-Centric Security Solutions (Location: Lagoon L)Organizations today would never consider conducting business without the protection of network firewalls. The problem is that the "threatscape" has changed and it's the Wild West for nefarious individuals armed with as little as a Web browser. Application-layer attacks such as circumventing authentication mechanisms, identity impersonation, code injection, and logic flaws, as well as various database vulnerabilities are pervasive. Simply put, network security solutions aren't designed to address these data-centric issues.During this presentation three areas will be covered: 1. Making a business case for data-centric security solutions 2. Exploring key technologies: * Data Discovery Solutions * Application and Database Vulnerability Scanners * Web Application Firewalls (WAF) * Database Firewalls * Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) Solutions 3. Demonstrating through multiple use cases how these technologies, especially when working in concert, can improve an organization's overall security posture beyond that of traditional network security solutions. Speaker - Brian Contos, Chief Security Strategist, Imperva
Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world. As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations and Global 2,000s on security strategy related to data-centric security while being an evangelist for the security space. He has written several security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler - Real Life Stories of Insider Threats as well as Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA - Bill Crowell. He has delivered countless speeches, webcasts, podcasts, and magazine articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SC Magazine and many others. Mr. Contos has held management and engineering positions at ArcSight, Riptech, Lucent Bell Labs, Compaq Computers and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). MBX Conference Sessions
Advanced Wireless and Mobile Technologies (Location: Lagoon J)Wireless is a notoriously difficult space for engineers - caught between the unforgiving laws of physics and the economic requirements inherent in designing, building and manufacturing products. And yet, talented researchers and developers continue to push throughput, range and reliability, all the while lowering costs and power requirements. This session will provide an update on the latest development in wireless, including gigabit wireless LANs, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA—the basis of most 4G technologies) and advanced antennas. If you want to know what's next in wireless, and what it will mean to you, this is the place. Moderator - Michael Miller, SVP, Technology Strategy, Ziff Brothers Investments
From 1991 to 2005, Miller was editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, responsible for the editorial direction, quality and presentation of the world's largest computer publication. Until late 2006, Miller was the Chief Content Officer for Ziff Davis Media, responsible for overseeing the editorial positions of Ziff Davis's magazines, websites, and events. As Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Publishing since 1997, Miller took an active role in helping to identify new editorial needs in the marketplace and in shaping the editorial positioning of every Ziff Davis title. Under Miller's supervision, PC Magazine grew to have the largest readership of any technology publication in the world. PC Magazine has grown and evolved its pioneering online work as well, evolving from its successful PC MagNet service on CompuServe to become one of the earliest and most successful Web sites. PC Magazine Online on the Web, at http://www.pcmag.com, provides updated news and analysis, innovative interactive elements, discussions, and archival data to complement the print version. As an accomplished journalist, well versed in product testing and evaluating and writing about software issues, and as an experienced public speaker, Miller has become a leading commentator on the computer industry. He has participated as a speaker and panelist in industry conferences, has appeared on numerous business television and radio programs discussing technology issues, and is frequently quoted in major newspapers. His areas of special expertise include the Internet and its applications, desktop productivity tools, and the use of PCs in business applications. Speaker - Martin Manniche, Chief Technology Officer, Consumer Business Group, Cisco
Martin Manniche is Chief Technology Officer for the Consumer Business Organization of Cisco. He has the responsibility of developing new network entertainment products for the Linksys Consumer Business Organization. He is head networking architect for the Linksys line of connected home products worldwide in terms of innovation, product development, and engineering. Manniche was a cofounder of KiSS Technology A/S in Denmark, where he served as Director of Sales. KiSS Technology shifted from a distributor company to inventing its own products, such as the world's first DivX-capable DVD player and the first Ethernet-connected HDD recorder. Manniche headed this effort as Chief Operations Officer for the company. Prior to KiSS Technology, Manniche was cofounder of ETC Nordic, and Strada A/S. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Zensys, a maker of Z-Wave Technology that enables home automation. In 2005, Manniche was recognized with an "IT-Prisen," the most prestigious IT-award in Denmark given to people that set a landmark in the Danish IT-industry. He was also named as one of the top IT Profiles in Denmark 2005 by the technology magazine ComOn. Manniche has a business school degree from Lyngby Handelskole in Denmark. Speaker - Michael Rayfield, General Manager, Mobile Business Unit, NVIDIA Corporation
Michael Rayfield has a long history in the semiconductor business. He spent 16 years at Texas Instruments (TI) where he eventually became Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, responsible for all the sales, applications and marketing strategies for the communications market. Michael drove this business unit to multi-billion dollar revenues that included all the components of TI?s networking, telecoms and wireless businesses. After leaving TI, Michael joined a start up called Growth Networks as VP of Sales and Business Development, and after a rapid period of growth, negotiated the acquisition of the company by Cisco Systems. After the acquisition, Michael remained on board as Director of Market and Business development for the Multiservice Switching Business Unit (Telecom ATM switches), where his responsibilities included managing the system engineering team that handled all MPLS network installations for wireless infrastructures. From 2001, Michael joined a number of different start ups including Reshape Inc. an EDA company, and then Stretch, an innovator in software configurable processors for compute intensive applications. In 2005, Michael joined NVIDIA as General Manager of the Mobile business unit. In this role, Michael is responsible for the business unit P&L, all product direction, from defining the technology roadmaps to delivering products and technologies that will facilitate the financial growth of the business in what is considered to be NVIDIA?s largest potential growth market. Speaker - Russ Garcia, CEO, WiSpry
Russ Garcia is an industry veteran with over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry. Before joining WiSpry, he was vice president of Marketing for Silicon Systems/Texas Instruments Storage Products, where he led Silicon Systems' overall market strategy, product planning, business development and partnership strategy, culminating in the acquisition of Silicon Systems by Texas Instruments. He remained as vice president of Marketing and led the growth of Texas Instruments Storage Products Group to over $1B. Most recently he served as president and CEO of u-Nav Microelectronics, a venture-backed fabless GPS semiconductor company leading the development of the first "single-chip" GPS device. Additionally, he has held technical and management positions at Plessey Semiconductors and Hughes Aircraft Company. Speaker - Stephen Palm, Technical Director, Broadcom
Dr. Stephen Palm is currently technical director for Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group (BCG). He is responsible for driving Broadcom's home networking strategy to enable voice, video, data and multimedia services for distribution via residential wired and wireless networks with products that run over coaxial cable, wireless or Ethernet infrastructures. Dr. Palm joined Broadcom in 1999 to evaluate and spearhead the technical development of specific home networking standards for possible development within future Broadcom solutions. In 2005, Dr. Palm was promoted to technical director with a focus on home networking technologies including Wi-Fi and MoCA. He is an active participant in several standards leadership positions, patents, and has published numerous journals, whitepapers, articles and conference presentations. Dr. Palm chairs and participates in committees that include Wi-Fi Alliance, DLNA®, MoCA, IEEE 802.11, UPnP, ITU-T SG9, ITU-T SG15 and CableLabs®, with particular emphasis in home networking applications and quality of service technologies. Previously in his career, Dr. Palm was a senior staff engineer at Panasonic, and held several engineering and technical planning roles at Rockwell International Semiconductor Systems. Dr. Palm earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine, a M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include quality of service and multi-media processing. Enterprise Mobility: The Choices Now (Location: Lagoon D)Just as wireless is a broad set of technologies, each with its own mission and capabilities—any complete enterprise mobility strategy will include a potentially broad combination of wireless networks, mobile devices, software and applications, and management strategies and tools. Determining the optimal mix in any given case, however, can be daunting. This session will present the options, and explore potential solutions by way of examples and case studies of what works—and what doesn't. Moderator - Philippe Winthrop, Research Director, Strategy Analytics
Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe . Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen , he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Speaker - David Goldschlag, Chief Technology Officer, Trust Digital
Dr. David Goldschlag is EVP & CTO at Trust Digital, responsible for strategy, IP, and Corp Dev. David has over 20 years of experience creating and selling innovative technology in start-up, commercial, government, and academic environments. David has held senior management roles at Trusted Edge (information retention at the desktop), USinternetworking (the first application service provider) and Divx (the first limited license digital media), as well as positions at the National Security Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory (anonymous communications through Onion Routing). David is a co-inventor on seven granted patents, and has published over 30 academic papers on topics including database technologies, cryptography, conditional access, and computer security. Speaker - Doug Brackbill, Executive Vice President, Good Technology
Doug Brackbill rejoins Good Technology as Executive Vice President and Co-Founder. He served as CEO in the early years of Visto, leading the founding team through rapid innovation in mobile access to information. He brings over 20 years of experience in building companies in messaging, collaboration and mobile communications. Most recently, Doug was CEO of Traverse Networks, recently acquired by Avaya and provider of mobile access to corporate voice and messaging systems. In addition, he served as SVP of Advanced Mobile Applications at SkyTel, VP and General Manager of Workgroup Software at Borland, and Director of Marketing at MCI Mail, the pioneering email service. While at MCI, he was Chairman and founding member of the Electronic Mail Association. Doug holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MS in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania , and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University Speaker - Julie Palen, Senior Vice President, Mobile Device Management Solutions, Tangoe Networks
Prior to its merger with Tangoe in December 2008, Julie was president and CEO of InterNoded, Inc. With more than eighteen years experience in the technology industry and a decade of experience in wireless consulting, development, and management, Julie lead an executive team that drove strategic partnerships with RIM, Nokia, Good, Microsoft, IBM, Cingular, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. In addition, she drove many new business development opportunities with potential strategic partnerships with Fortune 500. Prior to founding InterNoded in 1993, Julie was a business systems analyst at Lotus Development Corporation, where she served on the team that deployed the first seats of Lotus Notes to the sales organization. A frequent speaker at women entrepreneur events, Julie has been honored as one of the leading women entrepreneurs in the world and was recognized as having one of the top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts . Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem State College and currently sits on the board of advisors at the Bertolon School of Business at Salem State College. Speaker - Rick Cahoon, Enterprise Support Manager, Wilbur-Ellis
19 year IT veteran with a wide range of experience in designing and managing IT Service Operations. Working with IT infrastructure and moving to managing desktop support technicians at a large software developer. He eventually moved to a wireless network provider startup providing technical support. As a Service Delivery Manager for Sprint he worked with many Fortune 1000 companies implementing a host of IT services. Currently at Wilbur-Ellis he is the Director of Enterprise Support for 225 branches worldwide providing end user support, including IT Procurement, Wireless and Telecom Management. | |||||
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CTO Roundtable (Location: Breakers E)Today's environment is characterized by an explosive growth in the development of new technologies. Some of these technologies will gain broad marketplace acceptance, while many others will not. Companies that invest in emerging technologies early in their development cycle typically gain a competitive advantage if these technologies become mainstream technologies. In this session, the chief technical officers (CTOs) of industry-leading companies will present their insight into which technologies will cross the chasm, and which ones will not. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Evan Jafa, SVP and CTO, The First American Corporation
Evan Jafa is Senior Vice President and Corporate Chief Technology Officer for The First American Corporation. In this role, Jafa oversees the Corporate Information Technology Group, which was formed to support the ongoing development of First American's technology infrastructure and world-class technology centers. Prior to assuming this position in 2005, Jafa served as Chief Technology Officer of First American's Property Information Group. For the past six years, Jafa oversaw technology strategies for multiple business units within the division. In this capacity, he aligned IT strategies with rapidly changing needs of the fast-growing businesses due to acquisitions and organic growth. The First American Corporation is the nation's leading provider of business information. Tracing its history to 1889, First American continues its commitment to service by providing the information resources businesses need to make timely and accurate decisions. Backed by industry-leading technology systems, First American delivers efficiency to support its customers' business information needs. Under Jafa's leadership, the Corporate Information Technology and Group has executed consolidation of First American's technology infrastructures, provide the most cost-effective solutions for the specific needs of the Corporation and lead the Corporation's vision of technology. Jafa holds a master's degree in engineering with an emphasis in advanced systems from the University of California, Irvine. Speaker - Jerome Oglesby, Chief Technology Officer, Deloitte Services LP
Jerome Oglesby is Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte LLP, the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services organizations, providing audit, risk management, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to selected clients. As Chief Technology Officer of the 1,100 person Information Technology Service organization, he is responsible for the technology strategy and transformation of the technology platforms for Deloitte's operations in the U.S. He is also responsible for the Service-Line Technology Centers of Innovation and Incubation that deliver technology solutions which support client-services engagements Jerome's background spans 27 years in information technology across several different industries, including; airlines, travel reservations, retail software distribution, telecommunications, and professional services. He holds an MBA and BS in Information Systems. He is a member of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) and the Nashville Technology Council - T3 Initiative, "Turning the Tide of Technology" to promote student & academic interest in technology. Speaker - Nathan Look, CTO, LA World Airports
Security By Compliance: Information Risk Management's Greatest Challenge (Location: Lagoon L)When most organizations think about information protection, compliance is the top issue today. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals, as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "security by compliance"—which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure. Moderator - John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC.
John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, business resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences. Speaker - Khalid Kark, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Khalid is a leading expert in the areas of information security services, strategy and IT GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance). Khalid's research focuses on building and maintaining effective security programs and making (CISOs) Chief Security Officers more successful in their role. . His research focuses on the strategies, operational processes, and organizational structures for developing and maintaining effective security programs. Khalid covers information risk management, information security strategy, best practices and metrics. He also covers security governance topics such as roles and responsibilities, policies, awareness, training and reporting for the security organization. Khalid has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. Khalid is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international executive conferences. During his career, Khalid has worked in both the consulting and enterprise sectors. Prior to joining Forrester, he worked for a global insurance company where he provided leadership and direction for the information security program. Previously, Khalid consulted organizations in healthcare, finance, entertainment and communication industries on information security strategy and architecture. Khalid holds a master's degree in telecommunications management from University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in business and economics from University of Texas at Austin. Khalid is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and a Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA). Speaker - Paul Stamp, Senior Product Manager, RSA
Paul Stamp is the Senior Manager of Product Marketing for the Information and Event Management Group at RSA. In this role, Paul is responsible for reinforcing RSA's position as a market leader in the Security Information and Event Management space. Paul has been active in the information security industry for the past 11 years, and is regularly featured in the media, including NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and a host of industry publications. Prior to joining RSA, Paul was Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, covering security information and event management and data security, and a security architect with Unisys Corporation. Paul holds an MA (Oxon) in Mathematics from Oxford University. Speaker - Tom Murphy, Chief Strategist, Bit9, Inc.
Tom Murphy is the chief strategist at Bit9, Inc, the pioneer and leader in application whitelisting. In this role, Murphy is responsible for evangelizing the use of enterprise application whitelisting worldwide and determining strategic direction for Bit9. Prior to his work at Bit9, he led efforts to create broad industry awareness for Relicore, a security company recently acquired by Symantec. Murphy has also held posts at Verita, BMC Software and GTE Government Systems Corporation. In 2007 he was named CxO of the year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Speaker - Troy Leach, CISSP, CISA, Technical Director, PCI Security Standards Council
Troy Leach is the Technical Director for the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC). In his role with the Council, Leach is developing and implementing a comprehensive Quality Assurance Program to promote consistency within the Council's QSA, ASV, PA-DSS, and PED programs. Prior to joining the Council, he led the incident response program at American Express. In this position, he reviewed more than 300 cases where account data has been compromised. Over the past 15 years, he has held positions in systems administration, network engineering, IT management, security assessment and forensic analytics. Leach holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications & Network Management as well as a graduate degree in Information Security Management from Syracuse University. The New Competitive Landscape for Unified Communications: Microsoft vs. Cisco vs. IBM vs. ??? (Location: Breakers C)The traditional private branch exchange (PBX) players are struggling to keep up with the large software and networking companies that have encroached on the enterprise market. Meanwhile, these new entrants are battling among themselves for dominance. This session will review the status of the legacy and new competitors, and will handicap their chances for success—with the goal of helping you understand where your investments should go. Moderator - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting
Don Van Doren is a principal of UniComm Consulting, an independent consulting firm he founded with Marty Parker. The firm focuses exclusively on unified communications. It helps clients to understand the potential for UC in their business, to develop strategies appropriate for their goals and opportunities, to identify specific applications and associated ROI, to help identify appropriate supplier partners, and to assist with implementation, including project management, change leadership, and metrics. In addition to his work on client projects and helping manage the firm, Don writes articles and columns and speaks frequently at industry conferences. Don is also president of Vanguard Communications, another consulting firm which helps clients plan, design, and implement innovative contact center technology and processes. He is a co-founder of UCStrategies.com. Before founding Vanguard, Don held management positions in several systems integration firms. He has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Contact Don at 973-229-7185 or at dvandoren@unicommconsulting.com. Visit his companies' websites at www.unicommconsulting.com and www.vanguard.net. Speaker - Pat Galvin, Senior UC Architect, Unified Communications & Collaboration Software, IBM
Pat Galvin joined IBM in 1998, and was part of the development team that produced the first release of Sametime later that same year. Since then he has played a significant role in every Sametime release. Pat has been a driving force for the use of SIP within IBM, and was a leader on the team that extended the WebSphere Application Server to support SIP. More recently, Pat is the Senior Architect responsible for Sametime Unified Telephony, which seamlessly integrates Sametime with the enterprise telephone system. This product represents the next major step to position Sametime as the focal point of IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration vision. Speaker - Phil Edholm, CTO/VP NETWORK ARCHITECTURE, NORTEL NETWORKS
Phil Edholm is the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer for Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group. Leveraging his experience as a technology leader across Nortel enterprise line of data and voice networking products, Phil focuses on the Nortel Enterprise Portfolio. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and strategic directions in the enterprise business. He also is responsible for technology strategy, standards, and advanced research. In this role he and his team drive the technologies and architectures across the Nortel Enterprise portfolio delivering systems value and capability. At Nortel, Phil has led the development of VoIP solutions and multimedia communications as well as IP transport technology. Phil's background includes extensive LAN and data communications experience, including 9 years with Sytek/Hughes LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. He has been a featured speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as an industry visionary and leader of the convergence transformation. In 2007, he has been recognized by Frost and Sullivan with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Growth and Innovation Leadership. Phil is a widely sought speaker at global conferences and has been in the VoiceCon Great Debate three times. Phil has been recognized by the IEEE as the originator of "Edholm's Law of Bandwidth" as published in July 2004 IEEE Spectrum magazine and as one of the "Top 100 Voices of IP Communications: by Internet Telephony magazine. Phil has 9 patents with 12 patent applications pending. He holds a BSME/EE from GMI/Kettering University. Speaker - Sonu Aggarwal, CEO, Unify Square, Inc.
Sonu Aggarwal is the CEO of Unify2, a leader in addressing enterprise roadmap, architecture, and deployment needs for Microsoft Office Communications Server. Previously, Sonu was the Director of Program Management/Group Program Manager for the Office Communications Server team at Microsoft, where he drove the roadmap, technical feature set, and execution for the OCS Server product line including Live Communications Server 2005, Office Communications Server 2007, and the roadmap for the next two releases of Office Communications Server. Sonu led the OCS Program Management team responsible for the feature set, feature design and technical specifications for all Server aspects of OCS. He drove extensive customer feedback from dozens of global enterprises into the technical design of OCS. Most recently, Sonu was the Director of Technical Strategy and Partnerships for OCS, where he led technical roadmap and delivery for the Open Interoperability Program and Microsoft's partnerships with Nortel, Cisco, and other IP-PBX vendors. Speaker - Tom Wesselman, Sr. Manager, Software Development, Cisco
Tom Wesselman is a senior manager in the office of the CTO responsible for the long-term strategy for Cisco's Communication and Collaboration products - building on the foundation of Unified, IP-based communication to add social networking, collaboration, and web 2.0 interfaces and applications. Before that he ran engineering for Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, partnerships for the initial release of Cisco Network Admission Control, and engineering for Cisco Unity Unified Messaging. Virtualization - Life in the Trenches (Location: Lagoon F)Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what is it really like to implement server virtualization? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Does desktop virtualization really work? Does it really offer the benefits that the vendors are touting? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn what to consider for your next steps in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Christopher Steffen, Principal Technical Architect, Kroll Factual Data
Speaker - David Straede, President and COO, SBWH.com
David Straede, President and COO, SBWH.com David has a more than 25 years of experience designing and implement Microsoft technologies that started in 1983 in law enforcement. He provides consulting to business and government on implementing secure and cost effective technologies. As a prolific speaker, David has done many case studies, and has been panelist on Mark Russinovich Springboard series. David founded SBWH.com in 1998, a hosting and managed server provider that includes a large Hyper-V implementation, specializing in providing enterprise solutions to small and medium business. Speaker - John Yung, Vice President, Savvis
Speaker - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock
Forecasting: How to Determine What Your Next-Generation Data Center Requires (Location: Breakers B)There is a lot of buzz—and uncertainty—around the next-generation data center. What will it look like? When will it arrive? Will it even exist? Data center managers should take matters into their own hands by forecasting their future requirements for growth, reliability, flexibility and resiliency. Empowered with this information, data center managers can then make the next generation data center conform to their needs, as opposed to the other way around. This session will identify best practices to accurately forecast future data center requirements that data center managers should employ to effectively plan for the next-generation data center. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Jim Smith, CTO, Digital Realty Trust
Jim Smith is CTO at Digital Realty Trust where he oversees data center development, the company's efficiency & green strategy, and power procurement & energy management. In the past four years, Jim and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 300MW of UPS capacity on over 60 datacenter projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified data center and the UK's first BREEAM certified Excellent datacenter. Jim has a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from London Business School. He was named an InfoWorld top 25 CTO of 2008. Speaker - John Bennett, Worldwide Director, Data Center Transformation Solutions, Hewlett Packard
John Bennett is worldwide director for Data Center Transformation solutions for the Technology Solutions Group at HP. Bennett is focused on helping customers transform their data centers into strategic assets that support business growth and innovation. His team helps customers adapt new infrastructure, modernize applications and implement service management practices. Bennett has been with HP for nearly 30 years, with a career ranging from engineering through product management, product marketing and program management. He has a bachelor of science in mathematics and a master of science in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., as well as an MBA from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Speaker - Lennart Jonsson, Vice-President Technology, Eaton
Lennart Jonsson is Vice President Technology for Eaton Corporation, Power Quality Division. He has served in his current position since 2004 and is responsible for the global development of all Power Quality Division products. Early in his career he held several positions as a power electronics design engineer and project manager in Denmark and Sweden before joining Fiskars Power Systems in Helsinki, Finland, in 1987 as Director of Product Development. This position included responsibility for engineering sites in both Finland and Sweden. In 1996, Jonsson moved to the United States to take a position as Vice President Engineering at Deltec Electronics Corporation, San Diego, CA. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology. Green Storage: The "Envy" of the Data Center (Location: Breakers I)The next few years will bring widespread awareness of the environment's impact—especially energy costs—associated with data storage. Already several regulations and initiatives—for example, restriction of hazardous substances (ROHS), waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and Energy Star—affect manufacturers of storage components or computers. There are also some innovative storage technologies especially targeted towards energy conservation including a massive array of idle disks (MAID), along with the well-known alternatives of removable storage like tape and optical. Several vendors have also begun to offer data on power use, energy consumption and cooling loads in response to competitive pressures from other vendors and customers. Some vendors and consultants are offering energy modeling as part of their total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, either for competitive reasons or as part of their professional services portfolio. This presentation will quickly review basic engineering topics relevant to understanding "Green," including stuff you may have successfully avoided, such as environmental chemistry; thermodynamics; energy vs. power; and computational and storage density, as well as the resulting energy and cooling issues. Conceptual models sufficient to understand or even develop energy budgets will be taught. All of this will converge on a basic model for TCO that includes energy modeling. This session has been brought to you by the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Speaker - SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft
PaaS, SaaS, and More: A Taxonomy of On-Demand Applications (Location: Breakers L)Hosted applications vary from the specific to the adaptable. At one end of the spectrum are websites with one purpose; at the other, open platforms that let you build your own applications. Navigating the landscape of on-demand applications can be a challenge -- should you choose one comprehensive application suite, or best-of-breed portals? Do you need off-the-shelf functionality, or limitless flexibility? This session presents a taxonomy of on-demand applications so you can choose what works for your business. Moderator - Jeffrey Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director, THINKstrategies, Inc.
Jeff Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies (www.thinkstrategies.com), a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies. Kaplan is also the founder of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace® (www.saas-showplace.com or www.thinksaas.com) and Managed Service Showplace® (www.msp-showplace.com or www.thinkmsp.com), free, online directories. THINKstrategies' online directories provide an easy-to-use listing of SaaS solutions by application and MSPs by service category, and extensive information and insight about industry best practices to help organizations fully leverage the growing array of SaaS solutions and managed services. Prior to forming THINKstrategies, Jeff served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at InterOPS Management Solutions, an Internet Operations Management Services Provider. Before joining InterOPS, Jeff was Director of Strategic Marketing at International Network Services (INS) and subsequently Lucent Technologies, which acquired INS. Jeff also spent thirteen (13) years as a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest and META Group. Jeff is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Managing Automation, the Web Hosting Industry Review and Services News on topics ranging from utility computing, managed services, outsourcing strategies, IT operations and service level management (SLM). Speaker - Glenn Johnson, Executive VP, Magic Software
Glenn Johnson is senior vice president of Magic Software Americas. With more than 20 years experience in the software industry, he is responsible for driving marketing and sales for Magic Software, an application platform and integration solutions company. Glenn is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and writes for numerous publications and blogs. Prior to Magic Software, he was a director at Graphix Zone, a major independent entertainment and interactive music publisher, where he was responsible for marketing and directing the Graphix Resource Center, a seminar marketing agency for high-tech clients. Glenn also has served as a national sales manager at Versacad Corporation, where he led a team of channel and direct sales executives in consistent year-over-year revenue growth, until it was acquired by Prime Computer, a Fortune 500 company. Speaker - Jan Sysmans, Senior Collaboration Marketing Manager, Cisco, Collaboration Software Group
Jan Sysmans brings 14 years of marketing and product management experience, including particular focus in the software-as-a-service segment, to his role as Senior Collaboration Marketing Manager for Cisco's Collaboration Software Group. In this position, Mr. Sysmans is responsible for all technical marketing programs for Cisco WebEx meetings, Cisco WebEx Connect and other Collaboration Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Prior to assuming his current role at Cisco, Mr. Sysmans served as Director of Marketing at WebEx Communications, where he was responsible for managing the strategic direction of WebEx's marketing programs around Business Continuity; ease of use and viral adoption. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sysmans held product management positions at PlaceWare, Ensim, Narus and XO Communications. He also served as the chairperson of the Marketing Communications committee on the SaaS Executive Council of the Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA) from 2006-2007. Jan Sysmans holds a Bachelor of Science in commercial and diplomatic relations from the HUBrussels Business School (Belgium), and a Master of Business Administration in intercultural management from ICHEC Brussels Management School (Belgium). Previous speaking engagements include: WebEx and Cisco User Conferences (2005, 2006 and 2007), SIIA On-Demand Conference (2006), DRJ Spring and Fall Conferences (2007 and 2008), Homeland Defense Journal (2007), Business Continuity and Corporate Security Conference (2008), World Conference on Disaster Management (2008) Speaker - Pankaj Malviya, Founder & CEO, Longjump
Pankaj Malviya Founder & CEO, LongJump Serial entrepreneur Pankaj Malviya has 15 years experience in enterprise software design, development, and implementation of business-critical solutions for Fortune 500 companies. In 2003, he founded LongJump's parent company Relationals Inc., a provider of a flexible, scalable, on-demand CRM platform to more than 150 enterprise companies such as Gannett, Nielsen, HGTV, and The Food Network; Rapidly-growing Relationals is doubling revenues year-over-year. In 2006, Pankaj conceived of the idea and founded LongJump, an early Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that combines a catalog of highly customizable, interconnected, on-demand business applications. One of the first cloud computing vendors, LongJump's PaaS solution is helping companies reduce the time and cost of developing and delivering custom database-driven applications. LongJump was formally launched in September 2007 at DEMOfall, where Pankaj was one of a handful of standout presenters to earn a coveted DEMO God award. Pankaj's entrepreneurial endeavors earned him a "40 Under 40" recognition award by the San Jose Business Journal. He is a frequent author and recognized expert on the subject of PaaS and SaaS-based technologies. Previously Pankaj served as the key software architect at Jareva Technologies, which was subsequently acquired by Veritas. Prior to this, he led the engineering team at Internet Devices, which was also acquired by Alcatel. Pankaj also served as the key architect at HP, where he led a large team in designing and implementing CRM for HP's Home Products Division. The solution was successfully implemented across US, EMEA, Australia and Pacific continents, and the experience gathered during this time laid the foundation for Relationals which was then adapted to build LongJump. Pankaj holds 5 pending patents in network security and earned a degree in Computer Science from the G.S. Institute of Technology and Science in India. Speaker - Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, salesforce.com
Peter Coffee, former Technology Editor of enterprise IT journals PC Week and eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com cloud computing platform. He has 26 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author; he has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S. as well as in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Singapore. Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, and before that was a Senior Engineer in arctic project management and chemical facility construction for several divisions of Exxon Corporation; he holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, and has been a faculty member at Pepperdine and also at UCLA (computer science) and Chapman College (business analytics). He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. Five Steps to Reduce IT Operations Expenses with Process Automation (Location: Breakers H)IT Process Automation (ITPA) holds great promise for reducing IT operational expenses. By freeing and reassigning personnel from repetitive administration, projects that offer competitive business advantages can be implemented faster. As an emerging technology, there is healthy skepticism over ITPA's benefits. However, it can make IT an efficient business enabler. Take steps today to ready your environment for ITPA: * Identify automation candidates * Evaluate process maturity * Rank candidates by value * Identify needed tools * Prepare staff Speaker - Travis Greene, Chief Service Management Strategist, NetIQ
Travis Greene is NetIQ's Chief Service Management strategist, focusing on industry trends related to ITIL, service management, IT Process Automation and systems management. He brings a wealth of experience—having worked for both service providers and financial institutions, and served as an ITIL consultant prior to joining NetIQ. Travis is manager certified in IT Service Management, and holds a bachelor of science in Computer Science from the U.S. Naval Academy. MBX Conference Sessions
Mobile Platforms and Application Delivery (Location: Lagoon D)Thick client? Thin client? Custom or off-the-shelf applications? Backup? Managing integrity, connectivity and security? These are only a few of the key questions we'll explore in this session. Given the variable connectivity inherent in wireless an ever-present challenge, the debate over how best to provision application services to a broad variety of mobile platforms is certain to be intense—and informative. Moderator - Eric Chan, Mobile Evangelist, Mobileslate
Eric Chan is a Consultant in Mobile and Wireless Technology at Mobileslate. He regularly speaks at Industry events including Mobile Business Expo last year in New York and at CeBit Europe in 2008. He also hosts a blog: http://www.mobileslate.com, where he writes about mobile and wireless content and services. Prior to Mobileslate, in 2003, he founded Caboodle Networks, a mobile search recommendation engine using semantic technology. While at Caboodle, he filed two patents in the area of search and information retrieval. The company was recently acquired by MCN in 2007. Chan is also an Adjunct Faculty in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Chan holds a Masters in Software Engineering and eBusiness Technology and a Bachelors in Business Administration, both from Carnegie Mellon University. Speaker - Ajay Chopra, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Ajay Chopra is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1986 and focused on building leading-edge information technology companies. Ajay joined Trinity Ventures in 2006, and currently focuses on digital media, Internet Services and mobility solutions. His active investments are Mobile Messenger, 21 ViaNet, Skyfire and White Sky. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures, Ajay co-founded Pinnacle Systems, a seminal media technology company that pioneered consumer generated media creation. During his tenure at Pinnacle, the company grew from start up stage to a global $350M public company, won several Emmy awards and completed over a dozen M&A transactions before being acquired by Avid Technology. Previously, Ajay was with Mindset Corporation, a computer graphics start up. Before Mindset, he held various technical and management positions at Atari Corporation, a video games company, and Unisys Corporation, an IT services company. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, an active group providing support for entrepreneurs. Ajay received his M.S.E.E. from Stony Brook University and his B.S.E.E. from Birla Institute of Technology & Science in India. Speaker - Benjamin Wesson, VP Products, Dexterra
Benjamin Wesson is responsible for the development and management of Dexterra's flagship offering, Dexterra Concert™ mobility platform which enables customers to deploy mobile business solutions with complete flexibility, security and control. Wesson specializes in business and technology needs of enterprise customers and brings 15 years of enterprise product management, marketing, and engineering experience to the Dexterra team. Prior to joining Dexterra, Wesson was a director of product management at salesforce.com and a senior strategist at PeopleSoft where he drove the vision, development and go-to-market strategy for mobile products company wide. Wesson has also held senior product management and engineering positions at Siebel Systems. Speaker - Michael Clewley, Product Manager, RIM
MICHAEL CLEWLEY PLATFORM PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, RESEARCH IN MOTION Michael Clewley is a Product Manager at Research In Motion (RIM), responsible for the BlackBerry Platform focused on APIs, the BlackBerry Browser and Developer Tools. Michael and the product management team work on enabling ISV's, SI's and Developers to build the best in mobile applications for the BlackBerry smartphone. Michael joined RIM in 2001 supporting and training developers and working with the community before moving into product management. Speaker - Stephen Haney, VP Americas, Mobile Distillery
Steve Haney is a veteran of the high tech and mobile industries, spanning desktop computers, the Internet and mobile content. Before joining Mobile Distillery, Steve was VP of Marketing at Tira Wireless, a mobile content deployment technology company. Before that, he was EVP of Sales and Marketing & Co-founder of FingerTwitch, Inc., a mobile content porting and technology firm, which he sold to Mforma in August 2004. Prior to FingerTwitch, Steve was CEO and Founder of HandsOn Network, Inc., a venture-backed mobile middleware technology start-up. Before pursuing his start-up career, Steve held marketing and business development positions at many high profile Silicon Valley media technology companies, including Apple, Interval Research, Viacom Interactive and MicroProse. He has a BA in English Literature from Oklahoma State University and an MBA in High Technology Marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Going Mobile, Going Green (Location: Lagoon J)With both increasing energy costs and greater demand for mobile computing and communications power, it's never been more important to examine the environmental impacts of mobile IT. Fortunately, advances in basic chip technologies, system architecture, engineering design, wireless protocols and power management are helping to limit demand for power (with the added bonus of longer run times between charges), while advances in battery technologies and innovations like supercapacitors and energy harvesting are yielding greater supply. This session will examine these capabilities in detail, and help you create a checklist to make sure your mobile technologies deliver the most performance with the least energy possible. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York) and Mobile Internet World conferences. He is also the program chair for the Mobile Business Expo (MBX) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and Computerworld.com, and ardent blogger ("Nearpoints") for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Bill McFarland, CTO, Atheros Communications
Bill.McFarland joined Atheros Communications in 1999. He was promoted to Director of Algorithms and Architecture in 2000. In this role he led a team developing digital signal processing algorithms, defined radio and digital architectures, and represented Atheros in regulatory and standardization efforts. In October 2004, Bill became Chief Technical Officer of Atheros. In this role, he manages a team investigating new technologies and product opportunities. Prior to joining Atheros, Bill spent 14 years at the Hewlett Packard Research Lab designing analog ICs for high speed digital test equipment, fiber optic communications links, and wireless communications. In 1993 Bill became manager of the integrated radio research group, where he led the creation of one of the worlds first integrated CMOS radios. Bill has published over 35 papers, and holds over 40 patents. Bill received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 Speaker - Dave Kelf, President and CEO, Sigmatix
Kelf possesses 25 years of successful technology business and engineering experience, and has held multiple, senior roles in large and small corporations. Commencing his career in communications and DSP engineering roles at Plessey and Nortel, Kelf moved into business oriented positions at companies including Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Novas Software (now Springsoft) and startup Co-Design Automation. He has driven significant product line introductions and major industry initiatives. Kelf holds an MSc in microelectronic engineering, and an MBA. Speaker - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, Octoscope
Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences. Speaker - J. Pierre Mars, VP of Applications Engineering, CAP-XX Pty Ltd.
Pierre has over 25 years of hardware and embedded software design experience. He is a published authority on power management architectures for mobile, space-constrained electronics devices, and he jointly holds three patents on supercapacitor applications. At CAP-XX, he is responsible for developing supercapacitor applications, circuit designs, and models for circuit designers. Prior to CAP-XX, he held senior technical positions with Racal Defence Electronics, Chubb Electronic Security, CAE Pty Ltd which designs flight simulators, and Honeywell Industrial Control. Mr. Mars has a B.E. Electrical (1st class hons), M. Eng. Sc. from the University of NSW, Australia, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is a member of the IEEE. | |||||
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Conference Sessions
The Impact of IT Virtualization on Applications and Networks (Location: Breakers E)Virtualization is not new. However, what is new and evolving is the great interest in deploying server, storage and desktop virtualization. While each of these forms of virtualization can provide significant business value, each have the potential to significantly complicate the task of ensuring acceptable application performance. In this session, vendors from different areas of IT will identify network technologies, designs and best practices that enable IT organizations to enjoy the benefits of virtualization without enduring the potential pitfalls. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Kenneth Salchow, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5
Ken Salchow has been employed by F5 for the past nine years where he has served in several capacities, from field engineering, to security architect overlay, to technical marketing and evangelist. Ken has helped design and implement some of the most cutting-edge uses of F5 technology, written numerous articles and whitepapers and traveled the world in an effort to help F5 customers achieve their business goals through the use of F5 technology. Prior to F5, Ken was a principal member of the Best Buy, Inc. Internet Services Group which was responsible for the development of the retailing giant's eCommerce presence taking what was a single machine to one of the largest and most successful "clicks and mortar" implementations in the industry. In addition, he has owned and operated several small businesses including a consultancy, a boutique computer forensics shop and, with his wife, a burger and malt shop. Ken is, or has been a CNE, MSCE, CCNP, C|EH, CISSP, Network+, CCNP, holds a BS in Information Technology from the MN School of Business and is currently completing his MBA with a focus on IT management. He lives with his wife and children in Twin Cities Metro area of Minnesota. Speaker - Liad Ofek, Manager, Technical Marketing, Application Delivery Business Unit, Cisco
Liad Ofek holds the technical marketing responsibilities for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product line. Mr. Ofek leads a team of product Marketing experts and responsible for system level solution definition and outbound technical marketing efforts. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ofek was the VP of Technical Services for Expand Networks where he established the Pre/Post sale support team; Liad was personally involved with the creation and evolution of the WAN Optimization market. Prior to Expand Networks, Liad worked for Netcom, a leading networking and IT service provider in Israel. At Netcom, Liad managed the technical support team and was responsible for deploying and supporting leading edge networking technology from Cisco and other vendors. Mr. Ofek has over 12 years of experience with customer support and training and has real-world understanding of WAN optimization and deep networking knowledge (CCIE). Liad earned a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA
Stephen Elliot is Vice President of Business Unit (BU) Strategy for CA in the Infrastructure Management BU, focused currently on virtualization and data center automation. Previously, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. Mr. Elliot also was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, a venture-backed start-up. Additionally, Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Navigating Unchartered Waters: Best Practices for Managing a Governance, Risk and Compliance Architecture Across the Enterprise (Location: Lagoon L)Organizations are challenged with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) hurdles that require a new strategy. Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley, organizations are weary of increased regulatory actions, corporate litigation, demands of corporate social responsibility, as well as stakeholder pressure. Ensuring compliance is a daunting task. In today's fiercely competitive and risky business climate, Fortune 1000 companies can no longer tackle GRC challenges as single entities. A sustainable GRC architecture facilitates the mega-processes of enterprise governance, risk and compliance. Attendees will be empowered to manage the lifecycle of corporate and IT policies; consolidate business intelligence across divisions; and achieve effective governance throughout the organization. Speaker - Jon Darbyshire, Founder, President and CEO, Archer Technologies
Jon Darbyshire founded Archer Technologies in 2000 with a vision to create enterprise-wide IT risk and compliance management solutions that would replace traditional manual processes and disparate point solutions. Jon's vision has evolved into Archer's award-winning enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions built on the Archer SmartSuite Framework, which allows business users to create and tailor applications to meet their unique needs. Prior to founding Archer, Jon held senior executive positions within the Security and Risk Management practices of Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse. Jon has more than 20 years of experience in the security, risk and compliance management space. Unified Communications Meets Enterprise 2.0 - Social Computing Love Fest or Battle Royale? (Twitter #UCE2) (Location: Breakers C)Adoption of Unified Communications is on the rise, with the promise of more integration between users, business applications and the communication systems that support them. But IT and business managers have also had their eye on Enterprise 2.0 applications that some would argue are trying to achieve the same objectives. Are the UC and E2 agendas coming together or are they destined to duke it out for their share of the social enterprise? Moderator - Eric Krapf, Program Co-Chairman, TechWeb
Eric Krapf was named editor of Business Communications Review at the beginning of 2004, after serving as the magazine's managing editor since 1996. As editor, he is responsible for all magazine content and production, as well as content for BCR's electronic publishing endeavors. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor at America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas. Moderator - Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director, TechWeb
Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Conference, both of which are produced by TechWeb. Steve formerly co-chaired TechWeb's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed the 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. Speaker - Mike Bergelson, Director, Strategy, Cisco
Mike Bergelson is responsible for developing new product and business model strategies for Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio. Prior to this role, he managed Cisco's suite of customer care applications. Bergelson joined Cisco in June 2006 with the acquisition of Audium, where he was a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer. He was also co-founder and CEO of Conducive, an online advertising firm. Prior to founding Audium and Conducive, Bergelson was with First Manhattan Consulting Group where he advised clients on customer contact strategies, customer profitability and product development. Bergelson earned an engineering degree with honors from Cornell University. Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan. Speaker - Yoshi Maisami, Cofounder & Senior Partner, Intridea
Controlling Virtual Server Sprawl (Location: Lagoon F)It used to take months to provision a server; now it takes minutes. This provides IT with greater agility to respond to new requests, but has also created a new problem called virtual server sprawl. "Need another server? Sure, here you go!" - as quick as that. However, virtual server sprawl eats up resources - such as the Central Processing Unit (CPU), Memory and especially storage resources. Tools and techniques for avoiding and managing server sprawl will be discussed in this session. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Speaker - Dave Malcolm, Sr. VP and Chief Technology Officer, Surgient
Dave is Surgient's CTO and he has been at the company since its founding in 2003. He has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry and is responsible for Surgient's product vision & direction, software development, and datacenter operations for the company's virtualization and cloud technologies. Prior to Surgient, Dave was the Vice President of Product Group at Motive where he built the software development organization from its early beginnings and was responsible for product marketing and development of the entire Motive product line that grew from $2 million to over $65 million in annual revenue during his tenure. Prior to Motive, Dave was the Vice President and General Manager of the Internet Business Unit at Tivoli Systems. Dave founded Tivoli's internet management business and launched its first generation of products. Dave held a number of management positions in the product group at Tivoli during his seven-year tenure in which Tivoli had a successful initial public offering, was acquired by IBM and grew from under $1 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Tivoli, Dave held management and software development positions at Locus Computing Corporation and Texas Instruments. Dave graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Dave has been featured and quoted in industry publications including Network World, eWeek, RedMonk, Virtual Strategy Magazine and many others. Speaker - George Pradel, Director of Strategic Alliances, Vizioncore
George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and now with Vizioncore, a fully owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and VM Optimization. Speaker - Jay Litkey, Founder, President & CEO, Embotics
A serial entrepreneur, Jay has been a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization, enterprise systems management automation, and internet video content distribution. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise data centers. Jay is ITIL-certified and frequently spends his time serving as a trusted advisor for IT executives and speaking at industry events. Jay is a golf hack, won a Forty under 40 award, and holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Queen's University. Speaker - John Suit, CTO and Principal Founder, Fortisphere
John founded Fortisphere(www.fortisphere.com) in 2006 and is responsible for developing the core technology behind the Fortisphere product suite. Prior to founding Fortisphere, John was the founder and CTO of SilentRunner, a successful company that was ultimately sold to Computer Associates. John has held several leadership positions at both vice president and CTO levels, and he has invented and launched countless new products in the security space. John continues to advise the Department of Defense and Directorate of Central Intelligence in the areas of virtualization security and management as well as information operations. Green IT Outside Of the Data Center: PCs, Office Peripherals and Beyond (Location: Breakers B)While the data center often receives much of the Green IT spotlight, tremendous value is being left on the table by overlooking PCs and office peripherals. In fact, The Climate Group estimates that PCs and related peripherals consume close to three times the amount of energy and related CO2 emissions as the data center. This does include the green value from collaboration tools such as video conferencing, virtual meeting and work-from-home technologies. To help IT professionals expand their scope of Green IT, this session will introduce greening strategies beyond the data center. Speaker - Greg Kovich, Director of Education Practice, Alcatel Lucent
Greg Kovich brings 20 years of experience in information technology to his position as Senior Account Director at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role, Mr. Kovich serves as a business development specialist for the higher education and K-12 market in North America, working closely with education customers to more closely align Alcatel-Lucent's product portfolio to their needs. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Mr. Kovich was the Product Marketing Manager in Alcatel's Enterprise Solutions division. Greg Kovich holds a bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Indiana University. Information Compliance: Classification, Archiving and eDiscovery (Location: Breakers I)Compliance and eDiscovery are two of the biggest challenges facing IT today. Information continues to grow exponentially - and with it - the need to comply with industry and government regulations and prepare for eDiscovery while keeping costs down. This session will discuss the situation in which many companies today find themselves—trying to reconcile records management, compliance and governance requirements and manage to these requirements with tools that are available today. In particular, it will look at classification, archiving and retention policy management to proactively address compliance, and as tools to treat eDiscovery requests as a repeatable business processes. Speaker - Gregory Kosinski, Director, Product Marketing, EMC
Grego Kosinski, Director of Product Marketing, is responsible for product management and marketing programs for EMC enterprise software products, with a particular emphasis on content archiving and compliance solutions. Grego works closely with customers and product operations staff to ensure that EMC products meet the demanding business requirements of customers, and with distribution channels and partners to deliver EMC solutions to market. Grego has more than 22 years experience in the technology sector, holding marketing management positions at Lucent Technologies and the Amdahl Corporation, and as senior industry analyst with the market research firm, Dataquest. Grego has helped customers and partners to develop business plans, marketing strategies, strategic alliances, and investment opportunities. Grego has conducted sessions and presentations at numerous industry trade shows and conferences. He holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business and a BA in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. Honeymoon and Divorce: Changing SaaS Providers (Location: Breakers L)Switching software is hard enough to do when you run it in-house. But when you're moving from one SaaS provider to another, you face new challenges. You may not own your data; you may miss features you didn't know you were using; and custom code build for one SaaS platform may need rewriting on another. This panel of end-users who've made the jump shares lessons learned from SaaS migration. Moderator - Jerry Smith, CTO, Symphony Services
Jerry draws from more than 25 years of experience as a technology innovator and IT strategist to help Symphony Services and its clients derive business benefit from the successful adoption and use of critical technologies. Jerry joins Symphony from his role as CTO, Vice President of engineering and acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) for IPR International, a technology services company specializing in the protection and preservation of electronic information. Under his guidance, the company won the Ben Franklin Technology Partners Best Management Team 2004 peer award and the Gartner Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award, recognizing the success of the technology. Prior to IPR, Jerry was the Senior Vice President and CTO at Systems and Computers Technology (SCT) and the CTO of professional services firm Semaphore. He also worked in management roles at Xerox, Sales Technologies and KPMG and was the principal investigator/owner of Market Place Technologies. Jerry has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Masters and Post-Doctoral degrees in Computer Science from NOVA Southeastern University and a Naval Nuclear Power degree from the United States Navy, in which he served as a pilot, nuclear engineer and project engineer. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Drexel University and an Adjunct Professor at NOVA Southeastern University. Speaker - Michael Topalovich, CTO, Delivered Innovation
Michael is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architect and cloud computing strategist, currently CTO of Delivered Innovation, a company that specializes in the design and development of SaaS applications on the Force.com platform from salesforce.com. An early adopter of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology, Delivered Innovation was a charter Coghead partner, and has been assisting customers with the migration of SaaS applications to Force.com following the announced termination of the Coghead service. Prior to founding Delivered Innovation, Michael was President of The Mikan Group, working with midsize and Fortune 1000 organizations to adopt next generation IT service delivery models and optimize business processes using service-oriented design principles and cloud computing technologies such as SaaS. Michael began working with SaaS in 2003, when as a senior IT manager for Siebel Systems he was responsible for leading the design and delivery of the systems management and monitoring architecture for the Siebel CRM OnDemand service launch. Speaker - R "Ray" Wang, Vice President, Forrester Research
Research Focus Ray serves Business Process & Applications professionals. He analyzes trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) for the enterprise and midmarket. He also delivers strategic guidance in software licensing and pricing, researches business processes such as the order management cycle and continuous customer management, and assesses functional areas such as customer data integration and the impact of service-oriented architecture (SOA) on packaged applications. With this understanding of the overall ecosystem of solutions, technology, and system integrators, Ray provides strategy and guidance for many clients navigating through the vendor selection process. In 2008 Ray was recognized by the Institute Of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as Analyst of the Year. Previous Work Experience Ray brings enterprise software experience honed from more than a decade of product management, management consulting, and marketing roles. Prior to joining Forrester, he headed up the customer relationship management (CRM) analyst relations program for PeopleSoft. At Oracle, Ray served senior product management roles for both the ERP and CRM product lines. And while at Personify, he was the marketing chief for a Web analytics startup valued at $500 million. Before working for packaged application vendors, Ray developed his management consulting and strategy experience at Capgemini, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting, Detroit Medical Center, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He specialized in SAP implementations, general strategy, program management, change management, mergers and acquisitions, and healthcare operations. Education Ray graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in natural sciences and public health. His graduate training includes a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University in health policy and management and health finance and management. He is also certified in SAP FI/CO modules, facilitation, and program management office. Speaker - Rick Nucci, CTO, Boomi
Rick is the Co-founder and CTO of Boomi. His responsibilities include establishing the strategic direction of Boomi's technology, as well as managing the operations of the product development group. He also sits on the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Nucci works directly with customers and partners to help understand and solve their business integration challenges. Boomi has a patent pending for Rick's latest invention around the technology that powers Boomi AtomSphere, the company's most recent product offering. Prior to forming Boomi Inc., Rick worked for EXE Technologies, a market leading Supply Chain Execution solution provider, in the areas of product development and implementation. It was in this role that Nucci learned first hand of the cost and complexity of integrating disparate applications and business partners. With over 10 years of experience in application and data integration, Rick applies this experience to deliver the company's integration solutions. Rick speaks at universities and business events on topics of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Business Logistics. Automation for Identifying and Troubleshooting Performance Problems (Location: Breakers H)One of the most continually challenging aspects of network operations is the timely recognition and troubleshooting of application performance issues. While automated recognition and recovery sounds feasible in theory, it is difficult to deliver due to the constantly changing nature of the managed environment. This session will focus on the state-of-the art technologies and practices for automating the identification and analysis of application performance issues using data from multiple viewpoints - from the remote site to the data center, and from the network layer to the application layer. Moderator - Jim Frey, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates
Jim Frey is a Research Director with Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). He is responsible for the Network Management practice area. Prior to joining EMA, Jim spent six years with NetScout Systems as vice president of Marketing. Before that, Jim worked as vice president of strategic marketing at Micromuse, where he was responsible for product and solutions marketing; technology and product alliances; competitive analysis; and analyst relations. He also served in various roles with Objective Systems Integrators, Agilent Technologies and Cabletron Systems. Speaker - Andrew Brill, Network Planning Manager, Kaiser Permanente
Andrew Brill is a Network Planning Manager for Kaiser Permanente, an integrated healthcare delivery network. He has over 13 years of experience in both international and national data and telecommunications. Mr. Brill has expertise in the areas related to the internet architecture, service providers, network equipment manufacturing, voice/data convergence and network security. He has held senior engineering positions with General Electric, SITA/Equant and SRI International. Mr. Brill recieved his degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and sits on the Technical Advisory Boards of several network equipment manufacturers. Speaker - Jeff Scheaffer, Director, Products, HP Software
Speaker - Yama Habibzai, Vice President of Product Marketing, Netcordia
Yama Habibzai is responsible for driving Netcordia's overall marketing strategy, product positioning, product marketing, analyst relations and media communications activities. He has over 15 years of IT industry experience, specializing in networks, systems and applications management. Prior to joining Netcordia, Yama was a strategic manager at Concord Communications, later acquired by CA, Inc., where he analyzed markets and competing products, and helped define Concord's product roadmap. Later at Concord, Yama ran the marketing operations for the netViz business unit and then helped market CA's Network & Systems Management products. Yama has also held positions at Analog Devices, Inc, and The Mathworks. Yama has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Master's in Business Administration from Babson College. MBX Conference Sessions
Mobile Browsers - Taking the Desktop Everywhere (Location: Lagoon D)We used to call them "microbrowsers"—but no more. The Web functionality built into (or available on) today's handhelds is nothing short of astonishing, with many equaling the desktop experience. In fact, today's microbrowsers can serve as the basis for enterprise applications just as they do in the office. Join us as we compare the capabilities of key players in this increasingly-critical element of mobile computing. Moderator - Philippe Winthrop, Research Director, Strategy Analytics
Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe . Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen , he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Speaker - Larry Berkin, Vice President, Ecosystem and Corporate Business Development, ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc.
Speaker - Raj Singh, Vice President of Business Development, Skyfire
Raj Singh is a mobile industry veteran having worked in all aspects of mobile over the past 10 years. Currently, Raj is Vice President of Business Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports the full web including Flash 8,9, Javascript and Quicktime. Most recently, Raj was the consulting Director of Mobile for Dell assisting them with their global SMS and WAP strategy. Prior to Dell, Raj co-founded Veeker, NBC's mobile video citizen journalism service and ToneThis, CNET's top ringtone creation product. Raj has also worked in product management and strategy roles for Kodak Mobile, Cellmania, MobiTV, PlayPhone, Tellme, Hungama Mobile and Antenna Software. Raj's personal projects include Moblexa, a mobile toolbar, PocketTella, a mobile file-sharing service and Pubwalk, an LBS bar-hopping service. Raj is also a mobile advisor to a number of companies including Guba, ChuckD Mobile, Scalado, Movoxx, DeviantArt, Oomble, Klicksports, Muse, BuzzD and several VCs within the valley. Raj is a regular mobile writer and speaker including blogging for GotoMobile and previously blogging for O'reilly Emerging Telephony. Raj has also made contributions to a number of mobile user and expert groups including the JCP, MMA and the Bluetooth SIG. For more information, please see www.rajansingh.com. Speaker - Ulf Poelke, VP, Pre-Sales, Americas, Opera
Ulf Poelke joined Opera in 2005 as Vice President of Pre-Sales and Products, Americas. In this capacity, he works with wireless carriers and OEMs focusing on Opera's deliveries to CDMA and BREW customers. He started his career with KPMG Consulting's eBusiness practice and held other consulting positions working in the European mobile and web industry since 1995. Ulf holds Master of Science degrees in physics from the University of Kiel, Germany and in business administration from the Pennsylvania State University. Unified Network Management - Mobility Takes the Lead (Location: Lagoon J)Network management is reaching new levels of visibility within the enterprise—evolving from simple configuration and monitoring to a strategic tool essential to cost-effective business operations. Adding mobility to the management mix, however, introduces new challenges, such as mobile device management, for network planners and operations staff alike. Despite the potential complexity, getting the right mix of management capability is the key to minimizing operational expense and maximizing user productivity. This session will examine the latest directions in this essential component of IT—wired and wireless. Moderator - Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst, Enderle Group
Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. Recognized as one of the best general Inquiry Analysts in the world, Rob specializes in providing rapid perspectives and suggested tactics and strategies to a large number of clients dealing with rapidly changing global events. Rob lives emerging technology and has a passion for personal technology and market strategy. In addition Rob writes for TechNewsWorld, DarkReading, Digital Trends, TG Daily, ITBusiness Edge and Datamation. Rob appears regularly on WSJ Radio, CNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg Radio/TV. Before founding the Enderle Group Rob was the Senior Research Fellow for Forrester Research and the Giga Information Group. While there he ran the eCommerce, Security, and Mobile research practices. Before Giga, Rob was with Dataquest covering client/server software where he became one of the most widely publicized technology analysts in the world. Before Dataquest Rob worked for IBM as was in IBM's executive resource program. As part of that program he managed projects and people in Finance, Internal Audit, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Security, and Planning. Prior to IBM he was a Marketing Director and sat on the board of the Southern California Marketing Director's Association. Rob holds an AA in Merchandising, a BS in Business, and an MBA. Rob sits on the advisory councils for Lenovo, Toshiba, AMD, HP, Dell, Philips, Trusted Computing Group, and the Lifeboat Foundation. Rob's hobbies include Sporting Clays, PC Modding, Science Fiction, Home Automation, and Computer Gaming. Speaker - Bryan Wargo, General Manager, AirWave Wireless
Bryan Wargo is the general manager of Aruba's AirWave division focused on multi-vendor wireless management systems. Bryan comes to Aruba via the AirWave Wireless acquisition where he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development since 2002. Prior to AirWave, Bryan successfully founded 2Roam to address the proliferation of mobile Internet devices and the profound effect they have on enterprise computing. Bryan also served as senior business development manager for VeriFone's e-commerce software products and was a territory manager for Hewlett-Packard's Unix division. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Speaker - Chris Kozup, Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions, Cisco
Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco's portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions. His primary focus is on articulating the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility improves business profitability, increases productivity and leads to sustainable competitive advantage. Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. Speaker - Raffi Tchakmakjian, Director, Product Management, Trellia
Raffi Tchakmakjian is responsible for product strategy at Trellia. In his role, he oversees all go-to-market & development aspects of Trellia's mobile policy management and enforcement solutions through in-depth technology analysis, market research and most importantly customer feedback. Mr. Tchakmakjian has over 15 years of product management experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, mobility solutions and data/IP communications. He holds an MBA degree from McGill University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Montreal. Speaker - Roger Sands, HP ProCurve Worldwide Director of Mobility Solutions, HP ProCurve Networking
Roger Sands is the HP ProCurve Worldwide Director of Mobility Solutions. He is responsible for product requirements, profit and loss, go-to-market roadmap and strategic partnerships for HP ProCurve's mobility business. Sands brings more than 20 years of engineering and executive management experience to HP ProCurve. He was formerly Executive Vice President of Technical Operations for Colubris Networks, responsible for the company's research and development, pre- and post-sales support and technical training. Prior to his time at Colubris, Sands served as General Manager of the enterprise WLAN business unit of Accton Technologies. At Accton, he built and led the unit from formation through product release and high-volume delivery. Previously, Sands spent time as General Manager of 3Com's Business Access Solutions division. He has also held senior engineering positions at US Robotics (acquired by 3Com), Bytex and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq/HP). Sands holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. Wednesday, May 20 | | ||||
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How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery (Location: Breakers E)Historically, the way networks once assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. Recently, vendors have started to integrate functionality such as secure sockets layer (SSL) processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) directly to the switches' and routers' operating systems, and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists at this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices, as well as the pros and cons of doing so. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Gary Hemminger, Director of Product Management, Brocade
Gary Hemminger is Director of Product Management for the Application Delivery Controller products at Brocade. Gary has over 20 years of network experience, with development, systems engineering, product management, and marketing roles in the switching and routing, network management, application delivery, supercomputing & clustering space. Gary attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with distinction in general scholarship, with a BA in Computer Science. Gary also attended Stanford University, where he received an MS in Computer Science. Speaker - Greg Smith, Senior Director Product Marketing, NetScaler Product Group, Citrix Systems, Inc
Speaker - Mark Leary, Senior Strategist, Cisco
At Cisco Systems, Mark Leary formulates and executes market and business development activities as they relate to Cisco's Network Systems and Security solutions, including Cisco routers, switches, IOS software, security products, and network management systems. He also serves on Cisco's internal Green Team, where he works to solidify Cisco network systems solutions aimed at driving sustainable technology deployments and business practices. His responsibilities include driving the adoption and advancement of Cisco Network Systems technologies and products; providing business and technology guidance to Cisco customers and partners; and ensuring that Cisco Network Systems strategies, technologies, and products map to both existing and developing industry requirements. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Leary worked at ArrowPoint Communications where he established technology and marketing partnerships; provided guidance for company/product directions and marketing activities; and advised customers on the proper application of content-aware Web Switching. Before ArrowPoint, Mr. Leary spent 13 years with International Data Corporation (IDC) and held numerous positions, lastly, Vice President, Networking Industry Research & Consulting Practice. At IDC, he consulted with Fortune 500 companies; networking, computing system, and software suppliers; service providers, and the investment community. Mr. Leary received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, as well as an MBA in business strategy & planning from Boston College. Speaker - Tim Richards, Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration, Juniper Networks
Tim Richards is the Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company's application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Virtual Reality: Understanding the Security and Compliance Implications of Server Virtualization (Location: Lagoon L)Server virtualization is hot! Whether your executives think green or simply want to save some green, everyone is deploying virtualizationm - the benefits are undeniable. As we embrace virtualization, we must strategically approach security and compliance from the start. Virtualization introduces new attack surfaces and a swath of new availability risks. This brave new world also impacts how we approach compliance, governance and risk management. Corman will explore best practices and real world successes in assuring virtualization benefits. Speaker - Joshua Corman, Principal Security Strategist, IBM/ISS
Joshua Corman serves as Principal Security Strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems. With over a decade in security and IT, Corman drives security strategy for emerging issues and is responsible for IBM's Threat Mitigation Strategy. Corman is a highly coveted and engaging speaker and has spoken at leading industry events such as RSA, Interop, ISACA, InfoSec, Computerworld, and IT Security World. His thought leadership encourages strategic approaches for the Evolving Threat, Virtualization, Data Security, Security Cost & Complexity, and 7 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry. He brings a rare balance of deep technical acumen, business context, and the ability to communicate in accessible ways. Networkworld magazine recently chose to recognize Corman as a top influencer of IT for 2009. VoIP Security (Location: Breakers C)We're getting more reports of vulnerabilities being found in IP telephony products, but are any of these being exploited yet? What parts of an IP telephony system are most likely to be targeted, and how likely is it that attackers will succeed in damaging your system? This session will focus on the state of the art in voice over internet protocol (VoIP)/IP telephony/Unified Communications security. Speaker - Mark Collier, CTO & Vice President of Engineering, Securelogix
Tuning, Tweaking and Troubleshooting Your Virtual Infrastructure (Location: Lagoon F)Virtualization is great, but the business application is king! Getting your virtual infrastructure to perform optimally is essential to meeting application service levels. This requires performance monitoring and management; capacity management and chargeback; and troubleshooting tools that successfully navigate the complexities of the entire virtual infrastructure including servers, storage and networking. This session introduces some of the ways IT can address application performance and capacity management across the virtual infrastructure. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Alex Bakman, Founder and CEO, VKernel
Alex Bakman is the founder and CEO of VKernel, a provider of quick-to-deploy and easy-to-use virtual server management solutions. He is a recognized expert in systems management, server virtualization, and configuration management. Prior to VKernel, Bakman was the founder and CEO of Ecora Software, a provider of configuration audit and analytical solutions. His experience as director of IT for a Fortune 500 insurance company adds "real world" perspective to his understanding of the challenges facing today's IT staffs. Speaker - Deepesh Arora, Director, Application Testing, Ixia
Arora leads development of Ixia's industry leading Layer 4-7 products for network assessment and security. His areas of expertise include application layer delivery and testing technologies with a strong background in computer networking including routing, and network security. Arora has been in product management at Ixia since 2002. Prior to Ixia, he held positions with Wind River Systems. Arora has Masters Degree from the University of Southern California and a BS from the University of Bombay. Speaker - Rich Corley, Founder, CTO and VP Engineering, Akorri
Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004. Speaker - Vic Nyman, Co-Founder and COO, BlueStripe Software
With over 20 years of systems management experience, Nyman is a successful veteran of multiple ventures in the systems and application management field. Prior to founding BlueStripe Software, he served as Chairman and CEO of Relicore, Inc., in the ITSM Discovery and Configuration Management market. Previously, he was the first business executive hired by Wily Technology. Prior to Wily, Nyman served in several executive positions with IBM in the Tivoli and Networking Software organizations. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Technologies that Data Center Managers Can't Live Without (Location: Breakers B)The business demands reliable, flexible and resilient IT services. Data center managers rely on a combination of technologies - from blade servers, thermal modeling and intelligent protocol data units (PDU), to data center monitoring, automation and capacity planning tools - to meet these expectations. So what technologies are essential to managing your data center? This interactive session will reveal hardware, software and facilities technologies that data center managers can't live without. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Jim Simmonelli, CTO, APC by Schneider Electric
Jim Simonelli is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of APC. Jim is responsible for technology direction, product platform roadmaps and system architectures devoted to Power, Cooling, Rack and infrastructure management software. Prior to his role as CTO, Jim held multiple executive engineering positions with APC including Vice President, System and Platform Architecture and Vice President Solutions Delivery Group. Jim is a frequent speaker at power electronics and information technology conferences. Jim received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and holds 8 US patents. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA
Stephen Elliot is Vice President of Business Unit (BU) Strategy for CA in the Infrastructure Management BU, focused currently on virtualization and data center automation. Previously, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. Mr. Elliot also was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, a venture-backed start-up. Additionally, Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Speaker - Tim McLaine, Global Functional Manager - Data Center Services, Perot Systems
Tim McLaine is group director of Data Center Services for Perot Systems. He is responsible for data center facilities, operations, support services, storage, data compliance, capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity worldwide. He provides operational support, strategic direction, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic technology guidance to customers. Experience Tim is a 30-year veteran leader in the technology services industry, and a 20 year veteran of Perot Systems. He has spent his career in technical and leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Solutions supporting individual clients within the Transportation, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries. He also served as the director of North American Operations. Qualifications Prior to joining Perot Systems, Tim worked at EDS for over 10 years. He has earned a BS in Accounting. A "Crash" Course in Data Replication (Location: Breakers I)Replicating data over a WAN sounds pretty straight-forward, but it turns out that there are literally dozens of different approaches, each with it's own pros and cons. Which approach is the best? Well, that depends on a wide variety of factors! This class is a fast-paced crash course in the various ways in which data can be replicated, and the pros and cons of each major approach. We trace the data path from applications to disk drives and examine all of the points along the way wherein replication logic can be inserted. We look at host based replication (application, database, file system, volume level, and hybrids), SAN replication (disk arrays, virtualization appliances, caching appliances, and storage switches), and backup system replication (block level incremental backup, CDP, and de-duplication). This class is not only the fastest way to understand replication technology it also serves as a foundation for understanding the latest storage virtualization techniques. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud (Location: Breakers L)While on-demand promises pay-as-you-go economics, built-in reliability, and a reduction in operational costs, the reality is that while there's lots to love about clouds, using them means rewriting many legacy applications. And many companies are unlikely to take that step. So how can enterprises embrace cloud platforms for the mission-critical apps they rely on? This panel of cloud software companies look at how to embrace the cloud without rewriting the business. Moderator - John Willis, Owner, Zabovo
John Willis has been working in the IT management industry for 30 years. He actually started as a tape operator on an IBM mainframe while working for his high school computer club. He started his professional career at Exxon as an IT infrastructure analyst. He is the founder of four successful startups over the last 20 years and is currently working as the CEO of his latest self-funded Zabovo corporation. John is know internationally for his "IT Management and Cloud" blog. He also has two well know podcast series on clouds called "Cloud Cafe" and "Cloud Droplets". John is also the co-host on the Redmonk "IT Management Guys" podcast series. Speaker - Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford
Drew has 18 years in the Software, Social Marketing, and Business Risk fields with companies such as BroadVision, salesforce.com, The Hartford, and United Technologies. Drew has written and lectured extensively on Internet and technology business trends over the past decade. He was a participating author in the Brookings Institution book on technology and economics, Unseen Wealth (published in 2001). He is currently a board member of the Online Reputation Management Association and has also worked extensively with Europe's OECD on the During the Web 1.0 and Personalization decade of the Internet, Drew worked extensively with the following organizations' e-commerce initiatives: GE Capital, Home Depot, UBS, Barclays, Walmart, Bank of America, Blue Cross, Nike, Maidenform, Time Warner, Fox, MTV, Telecom Italia, Primedia, GE Supply, Citigroup, e-Trade, Bear Stearns, and Credit Suisse. During the Web 2.0 evolution Drew has already underwritten the risks of emerging models such as social networks, video advertising, and data privacy liability. Drew is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is currently working on the book, Unseen Liability, The New Economics of Technology Risk, due in 2009. Speaker - Joe Weinman, Strategic Solution Sales, AT&T Signature Client Group
As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences. Speaker - John Janakiraman, CTO & VPE, Skytap
As Vice President of Engineering and CTO of Skytap, Dr. G. (John) Janakiraman leads the architecture, development, and operation of Seattle-based Skytap's award-winning Skytap Virtual Lab service. Skytap Virtual Lab provides cloud-based highly flexible IT infrastructure coupled with a powerful self-service virtual lab management software as a pay-per-use service. John joined Skytap from HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA where he was the research manager for the Data Center Architecture team. At HP Labs, he and his team developed innovative virtualization, server architecture, and data center technologies many of which were implemented in commercial products including XenOprofile, HP Dynamic Smart Cooling, and the HP 9000 Superdome server. John holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India where he was conferred the BITS Gold Medal. MBX Conference Sessions
Beyond Convergence: Unified Mobile Communications (Location: Lagoon J)First there was fixed/mobile convergence, getting the cellular handset on the PBX. Then came mobile/mobile convergence, with handoffs between cellular and Wi-Fi. The next step in the evolution of mobility is unified mobile communications, provisioning all of the voice and data services available in the office to mobile users. With systems implementing this capability now becoming available, mobile Unified Communications (UC) is a key direction that will become a key tool for enterprise IT and telecom professionals. Moderator - Michael Finneran, Principal, dBrn Associates, Inc
Michael is an independent consultant, industry analyst, and writer who focuses on wireless technologies, mobile UC, and fixed-mobile convergence. He wrote the book Voice Over Wireless LANs- The Complete Guide (Elsevier, 2008), though his expertise spans the full range of wireless technologies including Wi-Fi, Cellular, WiMAX, and RFID. A lively and informative speaker, Michael has made frequent appearances at trade shows and conferences including VoiceCon and InterOp, and he now serves as the program chair for Wireless and Mobility at VoiceCon. In the consulting area, Mr. Finneran has provided assistance to a carriers, equipment vendors, end users, investment firms, and a number of government agencies. A prolific writer, for twenty-three years he wrote the Networking Intelligence column for "Business Communications Review". He now contributes on wireless and mobility to NoJitter as well as UC Strategies.com. He has published numerous white papers and has contributed to Computerworld, Data Communications, The Ticker, and The ACUTA Journal. Well respected as an educator, he has conducted over 2000 seminars on networking topics in the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He taught in the Graduate Telecommunications program at Pace University, and conducted programs at the Center for the Study of Data Processing at Washington University in St. Louis. His courses are now offered through Telecom + UC Training. A long-time member of the IEEE, Mr. Finneran holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Manhattan College and a Masters Degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Speaker - Dan Jacobson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Converged Voice Services, Sprint
Dan Jacobson is Senior Portfolio Manager for Converged Voice Services at Sprint. He leads a dynamic team of individuals responsible for the product strategy, development and life cycle management of integrated wireline and wireless services. His team launched Sprint Wireless Integration, a product which extends the PBX functionality to a mobile handset. Dan has over 20 years of industry experience across a diverse set of disciplines including VoIP, FMC and TDM product development, network, information technology, business development, operations, marketing, regulatory and customer service. Dan received his Masters in Business Administration from Baker University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Speaker - Luc Roy, VP Wireless Strategy, Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications
Luc Roy is VP Wireless Strategy at Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications. Luc has more than 10 years experience in WLAN and mobility solutions, including Fixed Mobile Convergence. Luc has more than 20 years of data networking experience in product planning, product management, product marketing, network design and go to market strategies. Past work experiences include Extreme Networks, Greenfield Networks, Alidian Networks, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Wellfleet Communications. Roy earned a degree in Computer Science from the Department of Science at Ottawa University. He has served on the ITU's SC-6 (sub-committee for OSI's CLNP routing protocol) and currently participates in the IETF, IEEE 802.11 and WiFi Alliance. Speaker - Prasad Govindarajan, CTO, Varaha Systems
Mr. Govindarajan is leading the technology development at Varaha Systems to realize his vision of converged wireless services. He brings a wide range of experience from across various industries with most recent foray into delivering wireless and IP telecommunications solutions to leading wireless operators in the world. Mr. Govindarajan is also the co-author of Varaha's patented WiFi to Cellular hand-off technology, a core component to Varaha's FMC products. Speaker - Shannon Lucas, FMC Solutions Architect, T-Mobile
As T-Mobile's FMC Solutions Architect, Shannon is responsible for the development, implementation, and management of services that T-Mobile is productizing to support FMC in the enterprise. These solutions are aimed at enhancing coverage, extending PBX functionality and driving down expenditures for business customers. Shannon has worked extensively with industry partners to perfect the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) experience, and she is focused on driving UMA adoption and increasing industry awareness of the FMC space. Prior to this role, Shannon spent over five years as a Senior Sales Engineer with T-Mobile working with mid-market and Fortune 1000 companies, and she served as the liaison between the Business Channel and the Product Development teams. She started with T-Mobile not long after the introduction of the first voice enabled BlackBerry. Building Mobile Applications - Platforms and Strategies (Location: Lagoon D)This is a session for software developers who need a quick but informative overview of the key application-development alternatives for mobile devices. We'll examine the operating systems and development tools, and help you develop strategies for implementing today's - and tomorrow's - information-intensive enterprise applications. We'll also include a few practical examples and reserve time for your questions on development alternatives. Moderator - Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Industry Solutions Mobility Practice, AT&T Mobility
Speaker - Anthony Fabbricino, Senior Manager, Developer Marketing, Nokia
Anthony Fabbricino works for Nokia as a Senior Marketing Manager for Developer Platforms. Mr. Fabbricino has been with Nokia for 10 years and has been a member of Forum Nokia, which is the world's largest mobile developer program, since 2004. In addition, Mr. Fabbricino has been responsible for Forum Nokia's Enterprise Zone, which is a program dedicated to the growth of enterprise applications on Nokia platforms. Mr. Fabbricino has worked over 20 years in telecommunications software, and focused extensively on the introduction of new technologies and market development. His previous employers include companies such as Vienna Systems (Voice over IP) and Mitel Corporation (PBX solutions). He has a Bachelors degree in System Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Speaker - Gregg Plekan, SVP of Product Development, Antenna Software
Gregg Plekan, an industry veteran with more than 23 years experience in the technology, communications and utilities markets, oversees Antenna Software's product management and strategy initiatives. Plekan joins Antenna after serving as partner of MTT Technologies', where he was responsible for business development and acquisition in management, strategic, and operations consulting engagements. He managed the company's software engineering and project management programs, and provided consulting services for Qwest, ICG Communications and AT&T Broadband. Prior to that, Plekan held executive management positions at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, where managed the operations through an acquisition and a merger bringing his business unit's value to $30 million. Previously, Plekan was responsible for business development and alliance management for the Work Force Management suite of products at MDSI, Inc. where he focused on the communications and utility marketplaces. Plekan also held senior management positions during a productive tenure at Computer Sciences Corporation. He served as senior director of product management and technical director of system architecture for work process and network services systems. Plekan was a principal founder and vice president of software engineering for Phoenix Telecom prior to the company's acquisition by CSC. Plekan has a degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York, at Brockport. Speaker - Jagdish Bansiya, CTO for Enterprise Mobiltiy, Sybase
Dr. Jagdish Bansiya is a Senior Director in Sybase's Product and Technology division. He has been with Sybase, Inc. for over 7 years, where he has been responsible for the technology and engineering of Sybase's Unwired Enterprise strategy and product offerings. In his current role, he is responsible for the vision, strategy, and evangelization of mobile and wireless application solutions delivered by Sybase. Speaker - Philippe Winthrop, Research Director, Strategy Analytics
Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe . Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen , he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine. | |||||
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Conference Sessions
What's Wrong with the WAN Firewall? (Location: Breakers E)The traditional wide-area network (WAN) firewall makes two flawed assumptions. One assumption is that the information contained in the first packet in a connection is sufficient to identify the application. The second assumption is that the transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) well-known port numbers are always used as intended. These are just two of the issues that suggest that the traditional WAN firewall cannot effectively support the current environment. In this session, the panelists will describe the limitations of the traditional WAN firewall, and identify what functionality firewalls need to implement to overcome these limitations. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Anthony James, VP Products, FORTINET
Anthony James has 16+ years of networking and high-tech product experience. As Fortinet's vice president of products, he is responsible for product direction, definition and marketing. His objective is to help ensure Fortinet's continued market leadership and technology innovation, and to proliferate the value of ASIC-accelerated, consolidated security as the core function in protecting the world's enterprises. Anthony's previous experience includes leadership roles in engineering support organizations, technical instruction and network/security consulting. Anthony has an intimate understanding of networking technologies, and throughout his career has driven many products introductions with companies including Network Associates, Foundry Networks and NetScaler. Speaker - Brain Lazear, ---, Chandler Paris, Inc.
Brian Lazear is the Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, where he leads the High-End Security Systems product team. Brian has over 14 years of experience, including product management at VeriSign, 3Com and start-up companies. He now manages Juniper Network's market-leading integrated firewall solutions for the data center, enterprise central site and service provider networks. Prior to Juniper, he worked on PKI and security authentication services as well as home/SMB gateway products with integrated networking and security services. Brian holds an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College. Speaker - Lee Klarich, VP Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks
The Hows and Whys of Intrusion Detection Event Correlation (Location: Lagoon L)Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have improved over time, but they nevertheless miss attacks and also produce false alarms. Correlating the output of multiple IDSs and devices can compensate for this. This presentation explains how and why this should be done. The manner in which data are correlated is a critical consideration, however. This presentation will explain and critique the major approaches to event correlation, such as statistical correlation, Baysian correlation, alert fusion and rule-based event correlation. The advantages and limitations associated with each type of event correlation method will be explained. Finally, this presentation takes a look at intrusion detection analysis is likely to take in the future. Speaker - Gene Schultz, CTO, Emagined Security
Dr. Eugene Schultz, CISM, CISSP, is the Chief Technology Officer at Emagined Security, an information security consultancy based in San Carlos, California. He is the author/co-author of five books, and has also written over 120 published papers. Gene was the Editor-in-Chief of _Computers and Security_ from 2002 - 2007, is currently on the editorial board for this journal, and is an associate editor of _Network Security_. He is also a SANS instructor, member of the SANS NewsBites, co-author of the 2005 and 2006 Certified Information Security Manager preparation materials, and is on the technical advisory board of three companies. Gene has previously managed an information security practice as well as a national incident response team. He has also been professor of computer science at several universities and is retired from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received the NASA Technical Excellence Award, the Department of Energy Excellence Award, the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) Professional Achievement and Honor Roll Awards, the ISACA John Kuyers Best Speaker/Best Conference Contributor Award, the Vanguard Conference Top Gun Award (for best presenter) twice, the Vanguard Chairman's Award, and the National Information Systems Security Conference Best Paper Award. Additionally, Gene has been elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame. While at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he founded and managed of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC). He is also a co-founder of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. He is currently a member of the accreditation board of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). Dr. Schultz has provided expert testimony before committees within the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on various security-related issues, and has served as an expert witness in legal cases. Next Generation Search: Social Bookmarking and Tagging (Location: Breakers C)Social bookmarking installations often go from good to great to overwhelming. Although social bookmarking offers a rich potential for discovery and connecting it requires analysis and understanding of what is hidden in the mass of shared contributions. This session will show how to manage and make sense out of this flood of information. Speaker - Thomas Vander Wal, Principal & Senior Consultant, InfoCloud Solutions, Inc.
Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy". He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His work has primarily been to do with the Web and with information design and structure. He has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for The Information Architecture Institute, and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project (WaSP). He is also the Alumni Tech Lead for Boxes and Arrows magazine. He spoke at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Web convention in January 2008. Conflict Avoidance with Application Virtualization (Location: Lagoon F)What is the first thing that happens when you roll out a new application to a group of desktops? The phone rings off the hook with users complaining that a previous application is no longer working. Are help desk calls about application conflicts getting you down? With recent reductions in support staff and budget, do you need a better way to handle user problems and avoid costly "deskside visits?" Come hear how application virtualization and streaming technologies address inter-application conflicts, greatly reducing help desk calls and onsite support visits and improving operational efficiencies. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Speaker - Aaron Cockerill, Senior Director, Product Management, Citrix
As Senior Director of Product Management for Citrix XenDesktop Product Group, Aaron manages a team responsible for the company's desktop virtualization products. Aaron has almost 20 years of product development and product management experience in desktop and application management, Internet security, secure content delivery, ecommerce and industrial automation. Prior to joining Citrix Aaron worked for Akamai leading product management on their enterprise content delivery solution as well as working on the development and deployment of many of Akamai's advanced content delivery networking technologies. Aaron also served as Director of Product Management for OneSoft Corp., where he oversaw development of the company's ecommerce system, and held multiple positions within BHP. He holds a BE Materials (Hon.) from Wollongong University, Australia. Speaker - Anders Vinberg, Technical Fellow, Management & Services Division, Microsoft
Anders Vinberg is a Technical Fellow and the division architect of the Management and Services Division, responsible for technical direction across Microsoft's management initiatives. This includes the management infrastructure that goes into Windows, management services like Windows Update, and the management products in the System Center family. Anders is originally from Sweden. Previously, Anders worked as architect at CA. Speaker - Brian Duckering, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Endpoint Virtualization, Symantec
Brian Duckering was responsible for product management and marketing of the award-winning AppStream application delivery and management platform until the acquisition of AppStream by Symantec. With AppStream, plus virtualization software from Altiris and virtual desktop technology from nSuite on board, Symantec has created a new Endpoint Virtualization product group, and Duckering is its primary evangelist, advocating the use of the various virtualization technologies available today to promote higher productivity for end-users and better system manageability and cost reduction for IT. Duckering brings over twenty years of industry experience in developing and bringing to market innovative technologies to enterprises and small businesses. He is highly skilled at leveraging the latest technologies to enhance products and services for the benefit of their users. Duckering has held senior level positions at both corporate and consumer-facing companies and has multiple degrees in engineering and technology management. Speaker - Jeanne Morain, Vice President Business Development & Strategy, InstallFree
Jeanne Morain drives the overall business development and strategy for InstallFree. She brings over a decade plus of experience as an innovator in Business Service Management, Virtualization and Compliance. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing for Thinstall (acquired by VMware) and led the go to market, launch and integration of the VMware branded version, ThinApp. Jeanne held prior contributing senior roles at BMC, Marimba, Remedy and Selectica with responsibility for product integration, focused on Configuration Automation, Business Service Management and compliance. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including Cambridge Who's Who Honor edition (2007/2008), Lifetime Member (2008/2009), and the BMC Innovation! Award in 2007/Marimba Employee of Year award in 2003 as one of the early pioneers of Business Service Management. Jeanne is a contributing author of "Step by Step Guide to Building a CMDB" with Malcolm Fry and holds a Masters in Human Performance Technology from Southern Illinois University and Certification in ITIL. The Green Data Center: Your Playbook of Eco-Strategies for Today and Tomorrow (Location: Breakers B)The green data center strategy is to maximize current facility, infrastructure and IT investments, coupled with energy conservation tactics. Unfortunately, data centers are not static and the business's insatiable demand for IT services will eventually force you to buy new - whether it be it a new server or storage array, or a new chiller or entire facility. To maximize the green data center's value, this session will present data center managers with strategies to generate both eco and economic benefits today and into the future. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - Brad Minnis, CPP, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety & Security, Juniper Networks, Inc.
Brad Minnis is responsible for the development, implementation, operation and management of Juniper's worldwide EHS programs. His leadership emphasizes prevention and early intervention and programs under his guidance have received recognition and awards from organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Minnis has been with Juniper since 2001; his 25 years of international security and EHS experience includes similar senior positions at 3Com and National Semiconductor. Before becoming an EHS professional, Minnis served 10 years in the U.S. Navy. He holds certificates in Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health from University of Connecticut, and continues studies in these areas. Speaker - John Engates, CTO, Rackspace
John Engates joined Rackspace in August of 2000 and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer . As Chief Technology Officer, John Engates brings deep technology expertise to the company working closely with customers to develop customized hosting solutions to optimize their applications. Engates also collaborates with the R&D teams to evaluate new technologies and develop industry leading service level agreements to better serve Rackspace's customers. Engates has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Engates has been responsible for managing the ongoing development of Rackspace's Intensive segment. Engates was one of the leading forces behind Rackspace's Microsoft Gold Certification. Engates joined Rackspace in 2000. In 2002, Engates led the launch of Rackspace's highest service level division, serving customers such as Hershey's, Miller Brewing and Hawaiian Airlines. In 1995, Engates co-founded Internet Direct, one of the oldest and largest Internet service providers in Texas and one of the first companies to bring the Internet to the public. Engates is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting. Speaker - Tom Raftery, Lead Analyst, Green Monk
Tom Raftery is lead analyst of GreenMonk, the Energy and Sustainability practice of industry analyst firm RedMonk. As such, Tom leads the research into all aspects of energy, Green IT and Sustainability. Tom is also director and co-founder of Cork Internet eXchange, a hyper energy-efficient data center based in Cork, Ireland. Having co-founded and risen to CTO in a number of IT companies, Tom has a very strong tech background. Having helped design and build out Cork Internet eXchange - a hyper energy-efficient data center, Tom has demonstrated his commitment to and expertise in energy efficiency. Tom speaks regularly at international conferences on Energy and Sustainability, blogs at GreenMonk.net and is on Twitter at twitter.com/tomraftery. Speaker - William Kosik, Principal, Green Business Technology Director, HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP
Bill is a Principal and the Green Business Technology (BT) Director for HP's Critical Facilities Services. Kosik is a licensed professional engineer, LEED Accredited Professional, and a Certified Energy Manager. As the Green BT Director, he is responsible for research, development, and implementation of sustainable, energy-efficient, and environmentally responsible design strategies for data centers, specifically focusing on the integration of power/cooling, ICT systems, and operations and control software. Also an expert on high-performance computing, Kosik is also collaborating with multiple Super Computing 500 clients, developing innovative design strategies for scalable, energy efficient cooling in ultra- high density environments. Among Kosik's 50+ articles and speaking engagements are presentations to AFCOM, the American Institute of Architects, ASHRAE, Data Center Dynamics, Hollywood Goes Green, IFMA, Labs21, NeoCon, ULI and 7x24, as well as articles in the ASHRAE Journal, Energy & Power Management magazine, Building Operations Management, Engineered Systems, Consulting Specifying Engineer, Pure Power, R&D Magazine, and Zero Downtime magazine. Kosik has presented at multiple USGBC conferences, as well as at the World Forum for Building Innovation in the UK and the Sustainable Buildings Conference in Finland. He also worked with the city of Chicago in developing city-specific environmental criteria. Kosik is on the editorial advisory board for Consulting Specifying Engineer magazine and is currently consulting on a new program sponsored by the California Energy Commission defining environmental performance criteria for data centers. He is also the co-developer of the upcoming ASHRAE publication, Green Tips for Data Centers. His most current initiative is with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new program for certifying data center energy specialists, where he sits on the steering committee. The Data De-Duplication Story: Eliminating Redundant Data & Cost (Location: Breakers I)Deduplication technology has changed the economics of storage. With the massive amount of backup data increasing, deduplication allows for an efficient way of storing data. In this session, we'll differentiate de-duplication from other storage techniques. We'll also examine the different approaches to deduplication, including in-line vs. post-process de-duplication systems and central processing unit (CPU) vs. disk-spindle centric systems. Further, we'll discuss the state of the industry and its importance to the overall storage networking puzzle specifically, and what problems de-duplication can and cannot solve. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Services
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. Clouds Aren't Just Computers: Why Network Effects Matter More than Economies of Scale (Location: Breakers L)Contrary to popular belief -- and the advice of many analysts -- clouds aren't important because of cost. In fact, for many companies they may be more expensive than in-house operations. But their value is tremendous: Clouds offer the ability to connect into global services, social networks, and value-added software quickly and easily. This session looks at why, ultimately, it will be network effects rather than cost savings that make us adopt on-demand services and ubiquitous computing. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. MBX Conference Sessions
The Road to 4G Wireless (Location: Lagoon J)While debate over the exact definition of 4G wireless continues to rage, it's safe to say that all-IP, broadband, mobile, wide-area wireless systems with multi-megabit throughput are now on the way. In this session, we'll debate the technologies and capabilities of the two key 4G technologies (Mobile WiMAX and LTE), and also discuss how advanced 3G technologies (EV-DO Rev A and HSPA/HSPA+) will lead the transition to a future where wireless can literally do everything we expect of wire. Moderator - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, Octoscope
Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences. Speaker - Mike Seymour, VVice President Wireless Competency Center, Alcatel-Lucent - Americas Region
Mike Seymour is responsible for business development and technical consulting for all wireless technologies in the Americas Region. In this role he is responsible for evangelizing Alcatel-Lucent's value proposition across the wireless portfolio to customers in the Region and developing / supporting complex solutions in the segment. He most recently held the position of Vice President of Partnerships for the Mobile Access Division, completing a year-long assignment in Paris. He previously held the position of Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX North American Program since 2004. In this capacity, he was responsible for all pre-sales and post-sales activities including business development, technical support and project management for WiMAX across all market segments in North America. Mike joined Alcatel-Lucent as a result of the company's acquisition of PacketVideo Network Solutions in 2003 where he held various positions during his tenure, most recently as the Vice President of Engineering and Program Management. Mike began his career at Motorola as a Systems Engineer supporting the CDMA Radio Access Network products where he was part of the team that deployed the first commercial CDMA systems in the world. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wireless Communications Association International, where he also serves on its Executive Committee. Mike received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa. Speaker - Prakash Sangam, Sr. Manager Technical Marketing, Qualcomm
Prakash Sangam is a Senior Manager of Technical Marketing at QUALCOMM. He develops messaging to educate operators, market analysts, and media on QUALCOMM's wireless technology. Prakash joined Qualcomm in 1998 and has served in various engineering and technology marketing roles, with a special focus on India, SEA and MEA regions. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Prakash was with Ericsson where he was responsible for Product Marketing, Network Design, Optimization and performance improvement initiatives. Prakash has also worked for AT&T's Indian JV helping them in deploying India's some of the early GSM networks. Prakash holds BE (Bachelor of Engineering), and MBA degrees from Karnatak (India), and San Diego State Universities, respectively. Understanding and Implementing the Windows Mobile Platform (Location: Lagoon D)With a familial resemblance to the Windows OS, Windows Mobile has evolved to a position of prominence in the mobile platform space. Its device management and security capabilities and implementation on a broad range of devices has put Windows Mobile on virtually every short list of mobility choices for the enterprise. This session provides an overview of Windows Mobile infrastructure including its security and device management strengths required by an enterprise. Speaker - Chris De Herrera, Mobility Consultant, Enterprise Mobile
Chris is a Mobility Architect in Enterprise Mobile's Services division and has more than 20 years experience in information technology in the financial services industry. His expertise in Mobility has been recognized by Microsoft through their prestigious Most Valuable Professional award since 1998 As one of EM's technical experts, he is called upon to participate in complex and challenging projects encompassing the full range of his extensive skill-set while mentoring colleagues and customers alike. During EM engagements, he has worked with clients to create a mobility strategy and total cost of ownership (TCO) which included smartphones, notebooks and tablet PCs, applications, and connectivity strategy. With other clients he has implemented device management and security solutions including SCMDM and EMprovise. At EM, he has also created a feature and device management comparison of BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile. To simplify the transition of customers migrating from BlackBerry to Windows Mobile, he has created quick reference guides. Chris is internationally recognized as an expert in Windows Mobile, co-hosting the Computer Outlook Mobile Lifestyles show and Founder of Pocket PC FAQ,, author for Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, in addition to being widely published and a regular contributor to public technical forums assisting over 15,000 users with issues. Prior to joining EM, he was a Vice President in Countrywide Bank's Information Technology Risk and Compliance focusing on compliance including Sarbanes Oxley, internal and external audit liaison. Before joining Countrywide, he worked for 20 years at Pacific Crest Bank as Chief Information Officer, focusing on all aspects of information technology including system architecture, implementation, risk assessment, audit, staffing and budgets. | |||||
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How to Integrate Wired and Wireless LANs (Location: Breakers E)The first wireless LANs were deployed as an overlay to the existing wired LAN infrastructure. That approach is fine, as long as the wireless LAN deployment is limited. However, as the use of wireless LANs grows, IT organizations need to move away from an overlay model and toward a model that integrates both wired and wireless LANs from both a physical, as well as from a management perspective. In this session, the approach that leading vendors take to integrating wired and wireless LAN will be identified so that you can choose which approach makes the most sense for you. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Bob Zemke, Solutions Architect, Managed Services, Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.
Bob Zemke is a Solutions Architect in the Managed Services organization at Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. An IT professional with a broad span of experience, Bob has expertise in next generation wireless solutions as well as unified communications (UC) network design, deployment and management. Experienced in working with healthcare, education and private sector customers, Bob designed the WLAN solution for Siemens' largest HiPath Wireless deployment globally which was featured in Mobile Wireless Magazine and earned the 2008 Mobilizer Award from Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Bob also managed the design and implementation of a HIPAA compliant mobile messaging solutions for Blackberry, Palm and Microsoft mobile devices. He is regarded as a subject matter expert of advanced wireless technologies, solutions and deployments. Bob has been featured in HealthCare Design Magazine, Most Wired Magazine, Mobile Wireless Magazine, and Xchange Magazine. He has also participated in several industry-specific webinars and presentations. Bob received a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Management from Western Michigan University and a Master's degree in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University. Speaker - Roger Sands, HP ProCurve Worldwide Director of Mobility Solutions, HP ProCurve Networking
Roger Sands is the HP ProCurve Worldwide Director of Mobility Solutions. He is responsible for product requirements, profit and loss, go-to-market roadmap and strategic partnerships for HP ProCurve's mobility business. Sands brings more than 20 years of engineering and executive management experience to HP ProCurve. He was formerly Executive Vice President of Technical Operations for Colubris Networks, responsible for the company's research and development, pre- and post-sales support and technical training. Prior to his time at Colubris, Sands served as General Manager of the enterprise WLAN business unit of Accton Technologies. At Accton, he built and led the unit from formation through product release and high-volume delivery. Previously, Sands spent time as General Manager of 3Com's Business Access Solutions division. He has also held senior engineering positions at US Robotics (acquired by 3Com), Bytex and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq/HP). Sands holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. Speaker - Scott Lindsay, Senior Director, Mobility Products, 3Com
Network Access Control - Is It Ready For Prime Time? (Location: Lagoon L)Network access control (NAC) has been offered as the "Swiss Army knife" of IT security solutions. It promises to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any NAC-enabled network, in addition to many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer, then what are the right questions to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards; case studies of successful and not-so-successful implementations; an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide; discussion of both network and application requirements; and what the future holds for NAC. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor, Labs, Information Week
Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Speaker - Alok Agrawal, MANAGER, Product Marketing, Cisco
Alok Agrawal is Manager of Product Marketing for the Cisco NAC Appliance product line. Alok has deep NAC product knowledge with years of hands-on experience working with customer NAC deployments. In his current position, Alok leads the team to deliver the Cisco NAC solution to customers and to develop future technology and products. Alok previously led the Cisco NAC Technical Marketing team developing technical solutions and driving product architecture and features. He has a strong background in routing, switching, host security design and implementation. Alok holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Speaker - Jennifer Jabbusch, CISO, Network Security Specialist, CAD, Inc.
Jennifer Jabbusch is a network security engineer and consultant with Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. Jennifer has over 15 years experience working in various areas of the technology industry. Most recently, Ms. Jabbusch has focused in specialized areas of infrastructure security, including Network Access Control, 802.1X and Wireless Security technologies. In addition to being a CISSP, Jennifer holds several vendor-specific certifications such as HP Master ASE in Networking, Security & Mobility and Juniper JNCIA for Access Control. Her technical expertise with multiple vendor technologies gives her unique insight into the industry. Jennifer has consulted for a variety of government agencies, educational institutions and Fortune 100 and 500 corporations. In addition to her regular duties, she participates in a variety of courseware and exam writings and reviews, including acting as subject matter expert on Access Control, Business Continuity and Telecommunications, and lead subject matter expert in the Cryptography domains of the official (ISC)2 CISSP courseware (v9). You can find more security topics and musings on her security blog at http://SecurityUncorked.com. Speaker - Khaja Ahmed, Windows Networking Security, Microsoft
Speaker - Mauricio Sanchez, Chief Security Architect, HP ProCurve Networking
Mauricio Sanchez is Chief Security Architect for HP ProCurve Networking. He is responsible for specifying ProCurve's security technology strategy across all product lines and leading ProCurve's security products and solutions business. Sanchez is currently representing ProCurve in IETF and TCG/TNC (Trusted Computing Group/Trusted Network Connect) standards bodies. In the IETF, he has edited a number of standards track RFCs in the realm of access control attributes for RADIUS that enable granular control of traffic. In the TNC, he led the definition of the IF-PEP interface, which standardizes control of policy enforcement devices by the network access server. He also was pivotal in the engagement and design of Virus Throttle in ProCurve products in conjunction with researchers from HP Labs. Sanchez joined ProCurve in 2000 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for design and development of switch fabric ASIC verification tools. He quickly expanded his focus from the low-level domain into the security domain by leading the design and implementation of several management security protocols offered in ProCurve products. The ensuing years have allowed him to obtain broad experience in the ongoing effort to meld network and security technologies that together are establishing the next generation in enterprise networking. Sanchez holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a minor in German and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering all from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He is registered as a CISSP and has one security patent and ten additional pending. Speaker - Stephen Hanna, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Steve Hanna is a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is co-chair of the Trusted Network Connect Work Group in the Trusted Computing Group and co-chair of the Network Endpoint Assessment Working Group in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Hanna is the author of several IETF RFCs and published papers, an inventor or co-inventor on 33 issued U.S. patents, and a regular speaker at industry events such as Interop and the RSA Conference. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. UC Applications with a Payoff Today (Location: Breakers C)There are only two reasons to adopt Unified Communications: to save your enterprise money, or to enable new revenue growth. In this session, you'll hear from technologists with experience in accomplishing both of these objectives via Unified Communications technology. Speaker - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting
Don Van Doren is a principal of UniComm Consulting, an independent consulting firm he founded with Marty Parker. The firm focuses exclusively on unified communications. It helps clients to understand the potential for UC in their business, to develop strategies appropriate for their goals and opportunities, to identify specific applications and associated ROI, to help identify appropriate supplier partners, and to assist with implementation, including project management, change leadership, and metrics. In addition to his work on client projects and helping manage the firm, Don writes articles and columns and speaks frequently at industry conferences. Don is also president of Vanguard Communications, another consulting firm which helps clients plan, design, and implement innovative contact center technology and processes. He is a co-founder of UCStrategies.com. Before founding Vanguard, Don held management positions in several systems integration firms. He has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Contact Don at 973-229-7185 or at dvandoren@unicommconsulting.com. Visit his companies' websites at www.unicommconsulting.com and www.vanguard.net. Speaker - Karen Bailey, Voice and Communications Services Delivery Executive, Wells Fargo
Are Virtual Infrastructures Secure? More or Less???? (Location: Lagoon F)Before x86 virtualization, network switches provided a secure perimeter to the data center. When IT organizations implement virtualization, some switches move from physical perimeter devices to virtual switches inside a physical server. This shift is an example of the new paradigm of security within a virtual infrastructure. In addition, virtualization introduces new attack surfaces and a swath of new risks. As we embrace virtualization, we must strategically approach security from the start. It is prudent to secure all infrastructures, virtual ones included. But how does the addition of a virtualization software layer affect securing the entire infrastructure from the application through the hardware? This session will explore the issues around securing a virtual infrastructure and highlight some of the tools available to assist with securing the entire environment. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Speaker - Charu Chaubal, Senior Architect, Technical Marketing, VMWare
Charu Chaubal is a Senior Architect in Technical Marketing at VMware, where he is chartered with enabling customer adoption and driving key partnerships for datacenter virtualization. His areas of expertise include virtualization security, compliance and infrastructure management, and he has been responsible for defining and delivering VMware's prescriptive guidance on security hardening and operations. Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems, where he had over 7 years experience with designing and developing distributed resource management and grid infrastructure software solutions. He holds several patents in the fields of datacenter automation and numerical price optimization. Charu received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied theoretical models of complex fluids Speaker - Chris Orr, Sr. Systems Engineer/Business Development, Tripwire
Chris Orr joined Tripwire in October 2000 and serves as a Senior Inside Systems Engineer where he provides pre-sales technical assistance and solution designs for the sales force. As a holder of the ITIL Foundations certification and a CISA since 2005, Chris understands the need for Change Auditing in the post-Enron world. Prior to joining Tripwire, Chris worked as a Senior Systems Engineer for a Hawaii based Systems Integrator and has been in the industry since 1995. Prior Speaking Experience Virtualization West Interop IIA All Stars Conference Defense in Depth Taming the Windows Registry Layered Security Seminar 2007 Corporate Audit, Security & Compliance Conference Speaker - Hezi Moore, CTO, Reflex Systems
Hezi Moore, the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Reflex Systems, brings more than 15 years experience in security, networking and entrepreneurial expertise to Reflex Systems. In his role of CTO, he is responsible for shaping the company's technology strategy and defining the roadmap for future design and development of innovative, virtualization infrastructure management and security solutions and delivering them to market. In 2006, Moore led the effort to develop the industry's first Virtual Security Appliance (VSA) that has since evolved into Reflex Systems' flagship product, Virtualization Management Center. Reflex VMC provides comprehensive visibility, management, and security for the virtual infrastructure. Moore has participated as a virtualization industry expert in various sessions, roundtables and panels including 451 ICE Summit, Sys-Con Virtualization Conference, and CSI and been published in multiple industry publications. Prior to founding Reflex Systems, Moore was president and co-founder of MicroTech Systems - a firm specializing in network design and configuration of point-of-sale systems - which was subsequently acquired by Retail Technologies International of Sacramento, California. He has also held such diverse occupations as a technical support and research analyst for GE Technology. Moore was a pioneer of the automated network intrusion response system, the concept out of which Reflex Systems grew. Hezi graduated with Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. Speaker - Michael Berman, CTO, Catbird
Michael Berman is the CTO of Catbird, with over 20 years experience in system engineering, architecture, design and implementation of secure computing. Michael's experience includes implementation of C2 UNIX; Fortune 100 enterprise security; and expert support in the prosecution of computer crimes. He is a member of the Electronic Crimes Task Force and High-Tech Crime Investigation Association and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP). Michael is a frequent speaker on the topic of virtualization and security and is currently coauthoring a book on virtualization security. Michael is also a member of the editing team for the Center for Internet Security's vmsecurity benchmark. Should You Own Your Next Data Center? (Location: Breakers B)When your current data center facility has reached its capacity, will you maintain ownership—or turn the reigns over to someone else? How will you make this decision? From collocation to cloud computing, it is no longer necessary for IT shops to own and operate data center facilities to offer critical data center services. This session will evaluate the various forms of data center ownership to help data center managers determine their ownership strategy into the future. Speaker - Ric Telford, VP, Cloud Services, IBM
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. 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. SAN Technology Convergence: Impacts & Benefits (Location: Breakers I)IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet highly demanding business priorities, while dealing with day-to-day operational limitations. Technologies, such as virtualization and Unified Fabric, offer a great opportunity for IT leader to improve the responsiveness and agility of their organizations. Nonetheless, the evolutionary path to full adoption of these converged technologies in the data center involves changes to IT processes, network architecture, as well as the skill set required to support the new IT. As unified fabric architectures evolve, the network will be the storage area network (SAN) for block or file access. This creates new opportunities for further storage consolidation and network architecture optimization. This session will explore the business benefits of unified fabric with fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on the SAN and the network architecture implications. This session will also discuss the business benefits of converged technologies in IT, with a particular focus to the data center, and highlight some of the implications that these technologies will have on processes and people within IT. Speaker - Errol Roberts, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco
With more than 16 years of networking, and telecommunications experience, Errol Roberts brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Network Requirements for Supporting Enterprise Video Conferencing (Location: Breakers L)Video conferencing places significant demands on the enterprise network—both in terms of how the traffic needs to be treated (priority and quality of service) and in the bandwidth needed to support good video. Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its uptake as a business tool. This session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high-quality video conferencing and telepresence communications. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, where he received the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Annual Prize for the quality of his thesis presentation. John is co-owner of a patent in shared memory multiprocessor design. Speaker - Chris Carr, Director, Video Markets, Masergy
Chris Carr serves as Director Video Markets at Masergy Communications, Inc. He is responsible for MASERGY's strategic direction and partnerships in the Videoconferencing, Telepresence, and Broadcast Media Markets. Prior to his employment at MASERGY, he was on the global sales teams at Zephion Networks and UUNET Technologies where he was heavily involved in video over IP initiatives. His career in private enterprise was preceded by 11 years of service as an Infantry Officer with the United States Marine Corps in a variety of command and staff assignments. He is an industry recognized thought leader on IP video transport and speaks frequently at numerous industry events. Speaker - Kumar Srikantan, VP, Product Management, Cisco
Kumar Srikantan is Vice President of Product Management for the Cisco Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500 Series of Ethernet Switching Platforms at Cisco. In this role, Kumar is responsible for setting the strategic vision, long term product strategy and day-to-day operations for Cisco's premier Catalyst switching product lines. The Catalyst 6500 and 4500 platforms are at the core of Cisco's "Network As a Platform" vision through integration of key network based services that span Security, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization technologies. These capabilities are enabled across the wide spectrum of Catalyst 6500 and 4500 deployments that span Datacenters, Campus, Branch/WAN and Service Provider Carrier Ethernet deployments. Kumar's work experience is wide reaching that spans both the computing and communications industries - including parallel computing architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems. Prior to Cisco, Kumar worked at StratumOne Communications, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and engineering positions. Kumar holds a master's in Computer Science from Rice University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Speaker - Lou Chiorazzi, Vice President, Engineering, Glowpoint
Lou Chiorazzi is a seasoned business executive with more than 17 years of experience in Engineering, Operations, Sales, and Consulting services. In 2001, Lou joined Glowpoint, a leading provider of advanced video communications managed services, during its initial founding and was instrumental in building the world's first video-centric IP network. Lou currently serves as Glowpoint's VP of Engineering focused on Research & Development, Software Development, Pre-Sales Solutions, Post-Sale Complex Engineering, Sustaining Engineering and Corporate IT efforts. Lou leads a team of more than 20 technology professionals, who have played key roles in achieving strategic high profile sales, significant cost reductions, and build and maintaining an award winning, scalable technology platforms and solutions in the video communications marketplace. Prior to his term with Glowpoint, Lou developed a strong reputation in the IT industry of bringing forth a broad perspective of IT solutions for financial market data operations, IT consulting, pre-sales engineering and engineering management. Prior to joining Glowpoint, Lou was most recently with Cisco, proving expertise for Content Delivery Network Solutions. Before Cisco, Lou provided consulting services for high level clients for Lucent/INS and the Johns Brook Company. Mr. Chiorazzi began his career with Knight Ridder Financial/Bridge as a Senior Engineer in their core NOC in New York City. Lou completed his undergraduate studies in Electronics Engineering from DeVry University and currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. MBX Conference Sessions
Wireless Security - Strategies and Tools (Location: Lagoon J)While it can be argued that wireless security has come a long way since the early days of anything but secure systems, new threats demand constant vigilance in defining and implementing enterprise wireless security strategies, policies and solutions. This session will define and explore best practices for mobile security, for both wireless LANs and wide-area, carrier-based wireless networks. We'll review key security requirements and discuss the alternatives available to build enterprise-class secure wireless implementations. Moderator - Lisa Phifer, President, Core Competence
Lisa Phifer is President of Core Competence, a consulting firm focused on business use of emerging network and security technologies. At Core Competence, Lisa draws upon her 27 years of network design, implementation, and testing experience to provide a range of services, from vulnerability assessment and product evaluation to user education and white paper development. She has advised companies large and small regarding use of network technologies and security best practices to manage risk and meet business needs. Lisa teaches and writes extensively about a wide range of technologies, from wireless/mobile security and intrusion prevention to virtual private networking and network access control. She was one of the original members of the Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits project. Speaker - Amit Sinha, Fellow & Chief Technologist, Motorola Enterprise Wireless LAN,
Amit Sinha serves as Fellow & Chief Technologist of Motorola's Enterprise Wireless LAN division. He was the CTO of AirDefense, prior to its acquisition by Motorola. Dr. Sinha specializes in wireless communications and security and has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed chapters to 3 books, and is the inventor of 15 US patents. Prior to AirDefense, he served as Chief Technologist at Engim, a multi-channel 802.11 chipset company he co-founded. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude. Speaker - Andy Willett, SVP-Sales & Marketing, NetMotion Wireless
Andy Willett joined NetMotion Wireless in June 2002. As Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, he is responsible for North American strategic partnerships, sales and worldwide marketing. Prior to his roles at NetMotion, Willett was a Vice President within the data division of AT&T Wireless with responsibility for defining and marketing consumer data offerings, initial web-enabled phones, mobile data applications and advanced wireless technologies. Prior to AT&T Wireless, Willett held senior positions at Sprint. Speaker - Tim Olson, Chief Technical Officer and Founder, Agito Networks
Mr. Tim Olson is the CTO and a founder of Agito Networks. Utilizing his diverse background in cellular and 802.11/VoWLAN wireless technologies, he currently leads the technical direction and architectural planning of the company's products. Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Olson was Technical Leader in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit. He was recognized as a "Cisco Innovator" for his leadership in defining the Cisco Structured Wireless Aware Networking, a next-generation architecture providing advanced WLAN security, QoS, mobility, network management, intrusion detection, and RF management. Mr. Olson joined Cisco Systems in 2000 following the acquisition of JetCell, a wireless startup that developed a GSM Base Station capable of providing GSM cellular service with a VOIP backend. At JetCell, he was an early employee and senior member of the technical staff responsible for system-level product specification, development and deployment. Prior to JetCell, Mr. Olson was Software Architect at Blue Wireless, a start-up that developed a platform using text-to-speech and speech recognition to deliver Internet content over cellular networks. Previously, at Silicon Wireless, a start-up that developed an advanced GSM Base Station and Base Station Controller, he was a key architects for the company's defining macro-diversity combining feature. Mr. Olson is a co-author of the initial proposal that is the basis for the forthcoming IEEE 802.11k standard for radio measurement resources. He holds more than 15 patents and pending patents in networking. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from California State University, Chico. Understanding and Implementing the BlackBerry Ecosystem (Location: Lagoon D)RIM's BlackBerry product family has grown to become the corporate standard in many organizations. Offering a comprehensive line of business and consumer handhelds coupled with the capabilities of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), the BlackBerry strategy has all that many enterprises need. This session will review the products, architecture, services and developer tools and development strategies of the pervasive platform. Speaker - Mark Amszej, Director, Software Product Marketing, Channel Product Management, RIM
As Director, Software Product Marketing with Channel Product Management at Research In Motion (RIM), Mark is responsible for driving the commercial success of BlackBerry software across global markets. Mark leads a team that incorporates real-world customer needs into software development plans, then drives go to market strategies for new BlackBerry solutions with carriers and indirect channels globally. Mark is a seasoned software manager and spokesperson with over 13 years experience in the high tech industry. Prior to joining RIM, Mark held various product management and marketing roles at NCR and Symbility Solutions. Mark holds a Masters of Business Administration with distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario. | |||||
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What SOA and Web 2.0 Means to the Network (Location: Breakers E)In the past couple of years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services have been overhyped. Currently, Web 2.0 is beginning to suffer the same fate. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. Both of these architectures are only in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists at this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0, and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Hooman Beheshti, Vice President of Products, Strangeloop
With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman leads the product efforts at Strangeloop and is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. Before joining Strangeloop, he served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Speaker - Jean Critcher, Solution Director, Orange Business Services
Jean Critcher has been working in the telecommunications and IT consulting industries for 13 years developing and delivering services and solutions for multi-national customers in all global markets and sectors. In the 1990s, she exercised her entrepreneurial skills having either led or co-partnered in several IT startups that specialized in cutting-edge technologies and standards for network services including IPv6 and Voice over IP. She has been with the France Telecom Group since 2000 in several roles ranging from network engineering to product management to consulting. She spent 5 years in France for Orange Business Services leading major application performance management service development projects based on the latest vendor technologies and developing the most effective consulting methodologies that provide deliverables which correspond to the IT and business alignment needs of the customer. She is the Solution Director of Business Acceleration, one of Orange Business Services' key strategic propositions. Business Acceleration is comprised of a suite of services that improves visibility, management and performance of applications through an optimized communications infrastructure. She currently resides in the United States where outside of work enjoys music, film, sports, speaking french and food and wine from all cultures. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Vocal Music Performance and a masters certificate in IT Technology Management. Speaker - Paul Leinsenberg, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager, Cisco
Paul Liesenberg is an Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager for Cisco. In this role, Paul is responsible for developing methodologies that optimally align next-generation infrastructures and overarching business processes. Prior to Cisco, Paul spent five years as VP of Strategic Marketing for ZettaCom and Bivio Networks, orchestrating product and partnership strategies. Previously, through the acquisition of StrataCom, Paul was with Cisco Systems for eight years in product marketing, business development, and sales and technical marketing positions. Prior to Cisco and StrataCom, Paul worked in Nortel's Data Networks Division as manager for network consulting, and earlier worked for Siemens' Public Networks' R&D division. Paul holds two patents in the area of VoIP, and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Paul holds a M.Sc. from TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen). Ready, Set, Attack! (Location: Lagoon L)The hackers of the world are constantly refining and enhancing their techniques and capabilities, and are typically ahead of the curve of controls which are in place in organizations today. It is important to understand their capabilities and trends in their activities in order to effectively mitigate the risks they create and repel their attacks. This session will discuss the current attacks being utilized by the hacker community and the tools and countermeasures which can be used to repel them. Speaker - Roel Schouwenberg, Senior Antivirus Researcher, Kaspersky
Virtualization Management Futures: The Final Frontier? (Location: Lagoon F)There is a great deal of activity in the market around virtual infrastructure management, from both virtualization vendors and point-product vendors. When building a long-term virtualization management strategy, it is helpful to have a sense of the long-term directions of these key virtualization and management players. This session discusses what to expect on the virtual management front going forward. Come hear where the market leaders are going with virtualization management—from the desktop to the cloud. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Anders Vinberg, Technical Fellow, Management & Services Division, Microsoft
Anders Vinberg is a Technical Fellow and the division architect of the Management and Services Division, responsible for technical direction across Microsoft's management initiatives. This includes the management infrastructure that goes into Windows, management services like Windows Update, and the management products in the System Center family. Anders is originally from Sweden. Previously, Anders worked as architect at CA. Speaker - Ben Verghese, CTO for Virtualization Management, VMware
Ben Verghese has been at VMware for 9 years and worked on and managed numerous products including ESX Server 1.0 and vCenter 1.0. These days he is responsible for the technology and strategy for the management aspects of vSphere. He has previously worked at HP, Apollo Computers, Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Speaker - Kia Behnia, Chief Corporate Architect, BMC
As chief corporate architect, Mr. Behnia is responsible for leading the design of BMC's industry-leading Business Service Management architecture and the critical enabling Atrium technologies. Mr. Behnia was previously chief technology officer for change and configuration products at BMC Software. Mr. Behnia is currently responsible for the direction of product development and product strategy for change and configuration products at BMC including the BMC Atrium CMDB. Mr. Behnia was previously chief technology officer for Marimba Inc. In that role, he led Marimba's product strategy and technology partnerships. During his tenure at Marimba, Mr. Behnia was instrumental in the design and delivery of Marimba's innovative configuration and patch management solutions across servers, client systems and mobile devices. Prior to joining Marimba, Mr. Behnia served as a senior member of the technical team for Tivoli Systems Inc., which was acquired by IBM. Mr. Behnia has over fourteen years' experience in the management of distributed systems and databases. Mr. Behnia holds a B.A. degree in computer science from the University of California at Davis. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA
Stephen Elliot is Vice President of Business Unit (BU) Strategy for CA in the Infrastructure Management BU, focused currently on virtualization and data center automation. Previously, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. Mr. Elliot also was a Product Marketing Manager at Inteq, a venture-backed start-up. Additionally, Mr. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California with graduate work at American University. He has also completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Retrofitting Today's Data Center for Better Capacity and Efficiency (Location: Breakers B)While data centers are expected to last approximately 25 to 30 years, you need to periodically refresh your environmental gear for better capacity. Why? Modern hardware, such as blade servers, is continually demanding more power and cooling capacity—likely beyond your current capabilities. But before you start making capital improvements, have you squeezed all the efficiency out of your existing equipment? This session will identify efficiency tactics that data center managers can employ today to defer major data center facility investments. Speaker - Jack Pouchet, Director, Energy Initiatives, Emerson Power Network
Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patents pending for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets. Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (Location: Breakers I)Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC and DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based on a variety of data protection approaches. Today, because 24/7/365 access is expected, a range of data recovery capabilities are needed to map to all of your organization's recovery objectives. During this presentation we discuss best practices of a tiered BC/DR platform that integrates modular products such as CDP, replication and automated failover capabilities with traditional backup and recovery for multi-layered protection. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of top five best practices to consider and key items/actions to include in the development of their BC/DR plans. Speaker - Frank Jablonski, Sr. Director, Recovery Management & Data Modeling Business Unit, CA
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Can You Find Me Now? Wireless Location and Tracking (Location: Lagoon J)One of the key advantages in wireless is mobility, so it's often critical to locate key people and resources as they move. It's also often equally valuable for mobile users to be able to locate the facilities and services they need while mobile. This session will examine both outdoor (GPS) and indoor (WLAN-based) location and tracking technologies, products, and services, while exploring location-based services and the potential of location and tracking as ubiquitous capabilities. Moderator - Fran Rabuck, President, Rabuck Associates
Fran Rabuck is a consultant, thought leader and internationally recognized expert in emerging technologies in the wireless, media and collaboration space. He is a frequent speaker/writer, advisor and judge at major technology industry events. Currently, Fran is responsible for emerging technology research in the Intelligent Infrastructure Lab for Bentley Systems (www.bentley.com) working with technology for adding the "Smarts" to Buildings, Bridges, Roads, Energy Grids and other related Infrastructure Assets. He is the co-chair of the Wireless and Sensors Committee for the RFID Business Association (www.rfidba.org ) - an international, vendor neutral, non-profit trade association dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the Wireless, RFID and Sensor space. He also works with FIATECH (www.fiatech.org ) - a consortium whose vision is to create an automated and integrated environment for the life cycle of capital projects in construction - and is the Team co-champion for the Smartchips research projects. He was the winner of the FIATECH STAR award for 2006 for his Superior Technical Achievement in the Engineering, Architecture and Construction Industry. He is a member of the eWeek Corporate Partner Advisory Program, a previous member of the Academic Advisory Council at Drexel University, and is a frequent guest lecturer at local Universities. He holds a B.S. Degree in Mathematics from Drexel Univeristy. Speaker - Leslie Presutti, Director of Product Management, QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies
Leslie Presutti holds responsibility for managing the Company's multimedia support with an emphasis on audio and position location. Her role includes identifying new opportunities, growing business, and formulating product strategy for many of QCT's multimedia capabilities, including the CMX™ and gpsOne® products. She has been at QUALCOMM for nearly ten years. Presutti brings to QUALCOMM nearly twenty years in the wireless industry, where she has held a variety of positions from sales, business development and product management to operations. Presutti holds a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Pennsylvania State University. Speaker - Marcus Ruark, Director, Business Development, Intelligent InSites, Inc
Marcus Ruark runs partnership and business development activities for Intelligent InSites, Inc., the technology leader in enterprise visibility platform and real-time location solutions for the healthcare industry. Marcus is a seasoned technology executive with over 15 years of experience starting up and leading companies, including launching new products, raising capital, forging partnerships, heading up sales and marketing, and other roles. He worked previously at PanGo Networks, an enterprise platform provider for RTLS. Prior to PanGo, Marcus was co-founder and CEO of Optiant, a leading supply chain optimization company. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors for both Locomatix, a provider of location-based services for mobile devices, and DOTGO, a provider of mobile text messaging services. Marcus earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management, both from Stanford University. Speaker - Myles Sutherland, Mobile Product Manager, ESRI
Myles Sutherland is responsible for guiding ESRI's Mobile GIS product strategy and vision. He works directly with ESRI's mobile development team through the design, build, test and documentation process. Previously, Myles was a Product Manager with the Mapping and GIS division of Trimble Navigation. While at Trimble, he was responsible for the product vision and the management of Trimble's GPS products. Myles actively promotes cutting-edge mobile developments within the geospatial industry. He has extensive knowledge and experience with GIS, GPS, mobile device technology, navigation, and location-based services. Myles is a graduate of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Understanding and Implementing the Symbian Platform (Location: Lagoon D)The Symbian platform is the most popular in the world, implemented on more than half of the world's smartphones. And with support from leading vendors, Symbian is poised for new growth even in the face of significant competition. This session will examine the details of the Symbian OS and its development tools, and provide attendees with a complete by concise look at services and capabilities of this important platform. Speaker - Maurice Sharp, Developer Community Manager, Symbian Foundation
Maurice Sharp is currently Developer Community Manager at Symbian Foundation, Ltd. where he is collaborating to produce the most valuable ecosystem of developers, customers, operators, device manufacturers, and open source OS developers. He joined Symbian Foundation because of the promise of a truly Open Source OS in the mobile space. An OS based on 10 years of experience that operators and device manufacturers already trust, and one that holds the most market share of any smartphone OS. Maurice has been an active participant in the platform developer business for over 17 years. During that time he has worked for such leaders as Apple, eBay, and Palm/PalmSource, performing or managing almost every role including developer technical support, programs, evangelism, and conferences. He has talked to and supported thousands of developers creating everything from commercial software to back office solutions and everything in between. He has seen the handheld computing world grow from few units and OS's to the current landscape. He holds a BSc. and MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. His passions include singing in the church choir, and his family, especially being with his 6-year-old daughter as she grows and learns. The iPhone and the Enterprise: Is this the Future of IT? (Location: Breakers L)The iPhone is arguably the most exciting and ultimately influential wireless handset ever developed, and is already spawning a broad range of imitators. Originally targeted at consumers, the iPhone itself is now being directly marketed to the enterprise, and has already found a home with many business users. This session will explore the enterprise-specific features of the iPhone, as well as what's involved in both using the device and integrating it to enterprise IT solutions. Moderator - Nathan Clevenger, Enterprise Editor, Smartphone Magazine
Mr. Clevenger is currently the Enterprise Editor for Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine and runs the Enterprise Mobility Solutions practice at ITR Group. He was previously the Chief Software Architect for Mobiliam, a leading provider of enterprise-class mobile/wireless software products, and has been developing mobile software for more than 9 years. He is regarded as one of the industry's foremost experts in enterprise mobility, and tirelessly educates the marketplace about the true potential for mobile technology within business. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Mobile Development Association, he was the founder of Clevrware, a mobile software development and consulting firm acquired by Mobiliam in 2003 . An avid evangelist of mobile computing, he is dedicated to raising awareness of the potential for this technology in business. He writes for a variety of technical and business publications, and speaks at industry events. Speaker - Adam Blum, CEO, Rhomobile
Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile, the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and advisor to several other software companies. Speaker - Irv Shapiro, CEO/CTO, Ifbyphone
Irv Shapiro, CEO/CTO of Ifbyphone has spent over 30 years driving technology innovation with a focus on data communications and networking. Irv began his career writing custom VAX/VMS device drivers for Digital Equipment Corporation, then founded Metamor Technologies, a two-time INC 500 award recipient, followed by Edventions, an elementary school infrastructure company. Following the sale of Edventions he founded Ifbyphone and developed its proprietary VoiceXML generation technology. Ifbyphone provides hosted automated telephone applications. The Ifbyphone applications provide automated routing of inbound calls, automation, scheduling and initiation of outbound calls, complete IVR applications and API driven telephony. All Ifbyphone applications are configured from an easy to use customer portal and work with any telephone. These applications are sold directly to small and medium sized businesses, and via resellers, OEMs and agency partners. The Ifbyphone for Carriers solution supports the delivery of all Ifbyphone applications to a carriers customers via reverse SIP peering. Irv is a member of the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, has a BS/CS from Washington University in St. Louis and is a regular speaker and writer on the application of technology. Speaker - J.T. Starzecki, CEO, iPhone Zen Masters
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Is There a Need for a Next-Generation LAN Switch? (Location: Breakers E)As recently as a decade ago, the majority of local area networks (LANs) were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing services, such as security in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in LAN switches that either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support enterprise applications, as well as key initiatives such as mobility and unified communications. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Barry Cioe, Vice President of Product Management, Enterasys
As vice president of product management for Enterasys, Barry Cioe is responsible for the definition and delivery of service-oriented, convergence-optimized switching, routing and security products and solutions. Mr. Cioe works closely with customers to understand their networking and security needs in order to develop cost-effective products and solutions that helps ensure their success. Prior to joining Enterasys, Mr. Cioe led several product development and network and security services teams for Symantec, AXENT Technologies and GTE. Together they designed, developed and deployed large-scale networks and multi-million dollar software systems with both commercial and government application. In total, Mr. Cioe has over 20 years of experience working in the Internet security and network infrastructure markets. He has also managed the deployment or integration of various technologies, including enterprise switching and routing, Unified Threat Management systems, security gateways, firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Network Access Control solutions and more. Mr. Cioe earned his BS in Computer Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and his MBA from Northeastern University. Speaker - Jeff Prince, Chairman and CTO, Consentry
Jeff has more than 20 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming Chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he led Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995 and became a billion dollar product line for Bay. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP. Speaker - Kumar Srikantan, VP, Product Management, Cisco
Kumar Srikantan is Vice President of Product Management for the Cisco Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500 Series of Ethernet Switching Platforms at Cisco. In this role, Kumar is responsible for setting the strategic vision, long term product strategy and day-to-day operations for Cisco's premier Catalyst switching product lines. The Catalyst 6500 and 4500 platforms are at the core of Cisco's "Network As a Platform" vision through integration of key network based services that span Security, Unified Communications, Video and Virtualization technologies. These capabilities are enabled across the wide spectrum of Catalyst 6500 and 4500 deployments that span Datacenters, Campus, Branch/WAN and Service Provider Carrier Ethernet deployments. Kumar's work experience is wide reaching that spans both the computing and communications industries - including parallel computing architectures, high performance computing, routing and Ethernet Switching systems. Prior to Cisco, Kumar worked at StratumOne Communications, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems and Sun Microsystems in senior marketing and engineering positions. Kumar holds a master's in Computer Science from Rice University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Speaker - Manfred Arndt, Convergence Solutions Architect, Distinguished Technologist, HP ProCurve
Manfred Arndt is the Convergence Solutions Architect and Distinguished Technologist for HP ProCurve. He is responsible for specifying and architecting IP telephony and multimedia capabilities in ProCurve's network equipment and network management applications. He also participates within the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), helping defining networking and telecommunications standards and is a co-author of the ANSI/TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) standard. Arndt has 20 years of experience as System Architect, Technologist, Software Engineer and R&D Software Development Manager in several networking startups and the technology industry. Before joining ProCurve, he led the development of a broadband wireless access system, which included advanced QoS and scheduling algorithms to support business grade VoIP and video conferencing. Five Common Mistakes in Securing Web Applications (Location: Lagoon J)Many organizations lack an overall sense of the best practices for deploying and securing web applications. Despite security practices addressing vulnerability types present within the open web application security project (OWASP) and web application security consortium (WASC) threat classifications, a number of common mistakes are still being made. We will look at five common mistakes that occur when securing web applications and the impact of design flaws on the overall security of an application. Issues such as client-side trust relationships, failure to properly secure application redirection mechanisms, and other elements that can quickly undermine the security of an application, even when diligent security practices are in place. Speaker - Lars Ewe, CTO, Cenzic
Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies. Throughout his career Lars has held key positions in engineering, product management/marketing, and sales in a variety of different markets. Prior to Cenzic, Lars was software development director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., responsible for AMD's overall systems manageability and related security strategy and all related engineering efforts. Lars has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Virtual Desktop Delivery - One Size Does Not Fit All (Location: Lagoon F)When discussing virtual desktops, most people think of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. However, there are a number of methods for delivering, provisioning and managing virtual desktops. This session will examine a range of technologies that can be used to deploy and manage virtual desktops, and how to match these technologies with user requirements. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Aaron Cockerill, Senior Director, Product Management, Citrix
As Senior Director of Product Management for Citrix XenDesktop Product Group, Aaron manages a team responsible for the company's desktop virtualization products. Aaron has almost 20 years of product development and product management experience in desktop and application management, Internet security, secure content delivery, ecommerce and industrial automation. Prior to joining Citrix Aaron worked for Akamai leading product management on their enterprise content delivery solution as well as working on the development and deployment of many of Akamai's advanced content delivery networking technologies. Aaron also served as Director of Product Management for OneSoft Corp., where he oversaw development of the company's ecommerce system, and held multiple positions within BHP. He holds a BE Materials (Hon.) from Wollongong University, Australia. Speaker - Jerry Chen, Sr. Director, Enterprise Desktop Solutions, VMware
Jerry Chen is responsible for the product marketing of VMware's enterprise desktop virtualization products. Jerry joined VMware in 2004 and has led several of VMware's desktop virtualization efforts in product management and product marketing. Prior to joining VMware, Jerry worked with a variety of technology companies in marketing roles as well as advising companies as a consultant with Bain & Company and as an investor with Accel Partners and AEA Investors, Inc. Jerry received his engineering degree from Stanford University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Speaker - Michael Ferris, Director, Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat
Michael Ferris is the Director of Desktop Virtualization at Red Hat. Michael has 14 years of experience in enterprise software development, having led Product Marketing and Management teams at Red Hat during the definition and introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux flagship product line, Red Hat's Security offerings, and most recently spearheading the creation of Red Hat's Cloud Computing initiatives. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2000, Michael held positions at several startup enterprise software firms leading design, product management and development. Michael holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. Speaker - Stuart Robinson, Director, Business Development, Teradici Corporation
What Elastic Capacity Means for IT Operations (Location: Breakers B)For nearly half a century, IT has been in charge of capacity -- adding machines when apps get slow, and planning IT resources according to demand. But in many clouds, capacity is elastic. That means no more capacity planning, and a radical change in the way IT thinks about operations. This session looks at the capacity equation and what clouds change about the way we run applications. Moderator - Hooman Beheshti, Vice President of Products, Strangeloop
With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman leads the product efforts at Strangeloop and is well versed in load balancing, application acceleration, and content delivery networks. Before joining Strangeloop, he served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman's experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Speaker - Javier Soltero, Co-Founder and CEO, Hyperic
Javier Soltero is co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, he was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager — now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ. Prior to Covalent, Soltero was a senior software engineer at Backflip, where he met Hyperic co-founders Charles Lee and Doug MacEachern. At Backflip, he was actively involved in the design, implementation, and operational aspects of the site. Soltero also held senior engineering positions at Netscape, where he participated in the design development of e-commerce and Internet infrastructure suites. Over the last 10 years, Soltero has been actively involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor to projects like JBoss and Tomcat. Soltero is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his BS in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Speaker - John Keagy, CEO, GoGrid
John Keagy CEO & Co-Founder GoGrid / ServePath LLC John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid, a cloud computing platform that is the world's first service to deliver standard datacenter concepts and complete infrastructure in the cloud. GoGrid is a service of ServePath, a Managed Hosting and Colocation provider based in San Francisco. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. ServePath, founded in 2001, serves the critical Internet infrastructure needs of thousands of businesses worldwide from its headquarters and data center facility in San Francisco. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath's second growth opportunity. Keagy's vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the cloud server hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel. Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California, with over 35,000 customers. In 1991, John used the Internet to manage the overseas development of software and electro-optical imaging devices for computer and Internet security for biometric security start-up Identicator Technology. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley. He lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot. Speaker - Michael Baum, Co-Founder, Splunk
As founding CEO, Michael led the team that quickly scaled Splunk from a geeky idea to one of the fastest growing private software companies in the Silicon Valley. The company Splunk has delivered immediate benefit to more than 750 enterprises, service providers and government organizations, worldwide. Michael is also co-founder of several acquired companies, including Collation, Arthas, 280, and Reality Online. Michael began his career as a software engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory and as a member of the original IBM PC development team. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University and his M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School. Choosing a Video Conferencing Solution (Location: Breakers C)Traditional video conferencing vendors, as well as a set of recent market entries are pushing a wide variety of video conferencing solutions—all the way from high-end Telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop. Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for your enterprise's needs? This session will propose a decision tree for sorting through the vendor offerings and hype, while focusing on the right size, right bandwidth and right features to meet your visual communications needs. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, where he received the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Annual Prize for the quality of his thesis presentation. John is co-owner of a patent in shared memory multiprocessor design. MBX Conference Sessions
Governance, Risk, Compliance - and Mobility (Location: Lagoon D)Never before has IT been so close to the center—and success—of organizations. Never before have corporate governance policies and procedures, risk management and regulatory compliance seen the emphasis—or had the impact—that they do today. Mobility can compound the challenges of address this requirements; therefore, solid strategies and tools are essential. Find out what the experts recommend—and what successful companies are doing—in this vital session. Moderator - Paul DeBeasi, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
Paul DeBeasi is a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group and has over 25 years experience in the networking industry. Before joining the Burton Group, Paul founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless consulting firm, and was the VP Product Marketing at Legra Systems, a wireless-switch innovator. Prior to Legra, Paul was the VP Product Marketing at startups IPHighway and ONEX Communications and was also the Frame Relay product line manager for Cascade Communications. Paul began his career developing networking systems as a senior engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom Corporation. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - David Goldschlag, Chief Technology Officer, Trust Digital
Dr. David Goldschlag is EVP & CTO at Trust Digital, responsible for strategy, IP, and Corp Dev. David has over 20 years of experience creating and selling innovative technology in start-up, commercial, government, and academic environments. David has held senior management roles at Trusted Edge (information retention at the desktop), USinternetworking (the first application service provider) and Divx (the first limited license digital media), as well as positions at the National Security Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory (anonymous communications through Onion Routing). David is a co-inventor on seven granted patents, and has published over 30 academic papers on topics including database technologies, cryptography, conditional access, and computer security. Speaker - Dean Alms, VP of Strategy, Visage Mobile
Dean is responsible for the overall strategy and product management for Visage's mobility management solutions, including its flagship offering, MobilityCentral. Dean was the former vice president of corporate strategy for PeopleSoft and has a strong history of leading entrepreneurial initiatives, including creating the Electronic Commerce/EDI practice at KPMG (now BearingPoint), launching PeopleSoft's web-based self-service applications and introducing its Enterprise Portal. As a founder and executive officer of Groundswell, Dean rapidly created an industry leadership position in the strategy and implementation of a variety of internet-based commerce solutions for consumer and business markets. Speaker - Matt Carrier, Mobility Evangelist, Sybase iAnwhere
Matt Carrier offers more than a decade of experience in mobile communications and technology. He acts as a mobility evangelist on the importance of mobile collaboration, management, security, and application enablement within the enterprise. Matt's vast experience as a technical consultant in the U.S. and Europe has provided him with an in-depth understanding of the worldwide mobile and wireless market. Matt has advised many Fortune 500 companies on best practices and security strategies for mobile implementations. Matt is an experienced speaker and has delivered technical sessions at a variety of industry events including IBM Lotusphere and Sybase TechWave. Speaker - Wade Williamson, Director of Product Management, AirMagnet
Wade Williamson, director of product management at AirMagnet has extensive experience in driving and delivering critical wireless and voice-over-wireless solutions to enterprise, retail, healthcare, financial, education, and government markets. During his 5+ years at AirMagnet, Mr. Williamson has brought the company's flagship product lines to fruition and continues to drive product development to support emerging technologies such as 802.11n. Prior to AirMagnet, Mr. Williamson held various product management, engineering, and technical marketing positions with emerging solution providers, as well as with established networking leaders such as Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications. Mr. Williamson holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Texas-Austin. | |||||
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Is Routing Undergoing a Mid-Life Crisis? (Location: Breakers E)According to industry pundits, there is a need for a next generation of routing. The pundits state that business initiatives are driving the need for much higher levels of performance, security and availability. They also claim that routers must become more energy efficient and provide functionality, such as multicast and deep packet inspection. In this session, leading routing vendors will be asked to identify which business initiatives are driving the need for enhanced routing functionality and to explain exactly how routers provide that functionality. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Amir Khan, Senior Director Product Line Management, Juniper
Speaker - Dave Roberts, Vice President Strategy and Marketing, Vyatta
Dave Roberts has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta, Dave was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he provided the product and strategy direction that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T, and NEC. Prior to Inkra, Dave was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, Dave forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Dave has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. Dave began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Dave holds ten patents, and is the author of three books. Dave holds a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Speaker - Jonathan Davidson, Director of Marketing, Edge Routing Business Unit, Cisco
Jonathan Davidson, CCIE Number 2560, is the Director of Marketing for the Edge Routing Business Unit. He currently leads the Enterprise Routing organization and the Cross-Segment Layer 4 through Layer 7 Services organization. Previously Jonathan led the Service Provider Solutions Engineering organization which developed end to end solutions for Service Providers worldwide. He has co-authored the bestselling book Voice over IP Fundamentals and Deploying Cisco Voice over IP. He has been with Cisco for over 10 years in post sales support, marketing and engineering divisions. Anatomy of Attack - Detecting and Responding to Fraudulent Activity (Location: Lagoon J)Fraud-related trends will be covered, as well as ways to address those trends including: real-time and forensic analysis, pattern investigation and advanced correlation. Advanced use cases will be explored illustrating perspectives ranging from the nefarious fraudster to the security analyst. Each fraud concept will be juxtaposed against how security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can be leveraged to detect and mitigate the fraud. Speaker - Colby DeRodeff, Enterprise Strategist, ArcSight
Colby M. DeRodeff, Enterprise Strategist, ArcSight Colby has spent his career working with global organizations guiding best practices and empowering the use of ArcSight products across all business verticals including government, energy, healthcare and finance. In this capacity he has been exposed to countless security and organizational challenges giving him a unique perspective on today's information security challenges. Recognized as an expert in the field of IT security, Colby's primary areas of focus are fraud, insider threat, the convergence of physical and logical security, as well as enterprise security and information management. Colby is a well respected industry spokesperson and a published author of "The Convergence of Physical and Logical Security" an in-depth history of physical security and information management through real world case studies. Is There a Compelling Business Case for Desktop Virtualization? (Location: Lagoon F)You have heard good things about VDI, but is there really a business case for moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure? Whether you are just starting to evaluate desktop virtualization or have started implementing virtual desktops, building a business case for your next phase can help you get the investment dollars you need to move forward. This session will give you the information you need to begin to create that business case and help your management understand how desktop virtualization can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO), including your ongoing opex costs. Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Tim FitzGerald, Solutions Practices Leader, Avnet Technology Solutions
Tim FitzGerald has more than 23 years of experience in solution sales, marketing, alliances and strategic development. In his current role, Tim serves as Technology Solutions Practice Leader for Avnet Technology Solutions. He oversees the development and growth of the Technology Solution Practices including virtualization, security, networking, mobility, unified communication and storage optimization. Before taking this position, Tim was responsible for successfully developing and launching Avnet's VirtualPath™ practice that enables the development of trusted advisor reseller practices in delivering virtualization solutions. From this experience, Tim has gained an understanding of the unique nature how virtualization technologies solve customer business challenges. Tim hosts a virtualization blog at http://www.virtinfo.com and you can find him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/virtualpath. Rising through the ranks at Avnet, Tim has held positions with increasing responsibility in sales, marketing, and alliances since joining the company in 1989. He holds a BS in Business Management and Marketing from Cornell University. It's the Data, Stupid: Why Data Dictates Cloud Architectures (Location: Breakers B)Compared to the cost of moving data, nearly everything in computing is free. This has important consequences for cloud architectures, and limits the way companies can take advantage of features like "cloudbursting." This session explains the impact of the data rule and how it limits enterprise use of on-demand applications. Moderator - Peter Christy, Principal, Internet Research Group
Peter Christy is a principal at Internet Research Group. He has been involved with the computer and communications industries since the late ?60's. Educated as an undergraduate at Harvard, and graduate school at Berkeley, Peter started as a system programmer building operating systems at CSC. Next was an exploration of medical information systems at UCSF, and then a decade at DEC in the heyday period of 1975-1985, starting at Technical Staff to the VP of Software Engineering, and ending in the middle of VLSI systems, including work with DECNet from the very beginning. Peter was briefly at HP, serving as manager of network architecture, ran engineering for IBM/Rolm PhoneMail operations, and then was founder and VP of Software Engineering for MasPar Computers, building mid-range, highly parallel computers in the late 1980's. That was followed by business development for Sun's object oriented Spring operating system, and then running much of Apple's developer tools efforts, including program responsibilities for Apple's involvement with IBM and Novell on OpenDoc. Peter learned the analysis business from Michael Slater, running the small Ziff-Davis operation that Michael had started around microprocessors, publishing the Microprocessor Report and convening the Microprocessor Forum All this experience is, remarkably, actually brought to bear in the current Internet Research Group activities. Speaker - Ben Werther, Director of Product Management, Greenplum
Ben is Director of Product Management at Greenplum, and leads the company's product management and product marketing efforts. Ben has extensive experience in the design and marketing of infrastructure software - in areas including data warehousing, virtualization, scalable application platforms, cloud and utility computing. Prior to Greenplum, Ben was at Microsoft where he was responsible for planning of the 'post-Longhorn' Windows Server platform and strategic planning for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform. Prior to Microsoft he held product management roles at Siebel Systems where he led initial work on the company's 'next-generation' application framework. Ben researched server operating system scalability and performance as a PhD candidate in the Stanford Computer Science department, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford, and a B.Comp(Honours) from Monash University (Australia). Speaker - James Urquhart, Marketing Manager/Technology Evangelist for Data Center Virtualization, Cisco
Speaker - Michelle Munson, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Aspera
Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera, Inc., is co-inventor of Aspera's core technology and responsible for overseeing the company's direction. With breakthrough technology solving the fundamental problems of network data delivery, Aspera has quickly become the market leader for high-performance, global file transfer in media and entertainment, and is extensively deployed throughout a variety of industries, as well as government and defense markets, worldwide. Before founding Aspera in 2004, Michelle was a software engineer in several research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. She is a frequent speaker on how new data transfer technologies are revolutionizing content production, transformation and distribution workflows. A Fulbright Scholar, Ms. Munson holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from Kansas State University, as well as a master's in computer science from Cambridge University. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and has received national achievement awards from Glamour Magazine and USA Today. Speaker - Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering, Vertica
Omer Trajman is responsible for Vertica's customer-facing technical team, helping customers with large-scale, grid-based data warehouse database deployments at companies such as Verizon, Comcast, JP Morgan, Biogen, Vonage and Mozilla. Trajman is also a leading authority on cloud-based databases through his pioneering work launching Vertica's cloud database on Amazon EC2. Prior to Vertica, he held senior technical positions at Wellogic and the Escher Group engineering various highly distributed database systems, including the 39,000-node counter system that powers the UK Post Office. Telepresence or High Definition Video Conferencing? (Location: Breakers C)Vendor hype and product placement have given Telepresence unprecedented visibility in the boardroom, but the IT team and the blogosphere think HD Video Conferencing can provide the same experience at a dramatically lower cost. In this session, we will quiz a panel of vendors on the differences between HD Video Conferencing and Telepresence. Later, we will attempt to determine when each solution should be considered and why. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, where he received the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Annual Prize for the quality of his thesis presentation. John is co-owner of a patent in shared memory multiprocessor design. Speaker - Erica Schroeder, Director of Marketing, Cisco TelePresence, Cisco
Erica Schroeder is the Director of Marketing for Cisco TelePresence. In this specific role, she is responsible for marketing globally the award-winning Cisco TelePresence set of technologies across all business markets. Previously, she led the global introduction of another Emerging Technology, the Cisco Digital Media System, an enterprise desktop video and digital signage solution. Prior to working in Emerging Technologies marketing at Cisco, Ms. Schroeder ran Cisco's product and technology marketing operations to better support global marketing and product launches. In her first four years at Cisco, she oversaw strategic communications and public and analyst relations for Cisco's service provider group. Ms. Schroeder draws on years of experience as the West Coast Bureau Chief, and a columnist and editor for PC Week, covering networking, telecommunications, digital media and video, enterprise applications and data center technologies. Ms. Schroeder holds a B.A. from Duke University. Ms. Schroeder is a frequent speaker about business video technologies, business collaboration and Cisco TelePresence, the company's flagship emerging technology and fastest growing new product entrant. Speaker - Jason Macres, VP Product Management, Siemens Communications, Inc.
As VP of Video Product Management for Siemens Communications, Inc., Jason Macres brings over 20 years of success in VoIP/video technology product development and entrepreneurial executive management to the company. In this capacity, Jason has worldwide responsibility for product management, marketing and support of video solutions and applications for the enterprise market with primary focus on seamless integration of video with Unified Communications. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for product management of Siemens' carrier and enterprise media gateway products. In 2001, Jason co-founded sentitO Networks to deliver a SIP-based, carrier-class, VoIP media gateway and application server. During his tenure at sentitO, Jason served as GM and VP of Engineering during product development, transitioning to VP of Business Development at product launch. In 1989, he co-founded DSP Software Engineering (DSPSE), a company focused on delivering digital signal processing and system software for DSP applications. DSPSE was acquired in 1999 in a successful M&A transaction by Tellabs, where Jason led the post-acquisition integration of Tellabs voice on the Internet product lines. Jason started his career developing voice and image processing algorithms for advanced defense systems at Texas Instruments and MITRE Corporation. He holds a BSEE from the University of Rochester and an MSEE from Northeastern University, both with specialization in DSP and communications systems. Speaker - Joan Vandermate, Vice President of Marketing, Video Solutions Group, Polycom
Joan Vandermate is Vice President of Marketing for the Polycom Video Solutions Group, overseeing marketing for the industry-leading line of Polycom video conferencing solutions and network infrastructure solutions for voice, video and unified conferencing and collaboration. As part of the Polycom team, she is responsible for positioning and marketing the company's conferencing and collaboration platforms, management applications, recording and streaming solutions, and security products. Prior to joining Polycom, Vandermate was Vice President of Product Management at Siemens Communications, where she held management positions in product marketing and product line management, including rollout responsibilities for Siemens HiPath IP softswitches and telephones. Before joining Siemens, Vandermate worked for more than a decade in the personal computing and internetworking industries. Related speaking experience: Vandermate has presented and moderated at various technology forums including VoiceCon, Internet Telephony, Frost & Sullivan Executive summits, and Stanford University technology seminars. MBX Conference Sessions
The Future of the Wireless LAN (Location: Lagoon D)It's now safe to assume that WLANs and Wi-Fi will be with us for the foreseeable future—and some would contend, well beyond that. This session will explore advances in WLANs standards, enterprise-class system architectures, voice and related services, and where large-scale WLAN products will be going over the next few years. We'll also discuss key operational and management issues, and what new product features we can expect to enhance flexibility and scope of mission. Moderator - Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Networking, IDC
Abner Germanow is the Director of IDC's Enterprise Networks services. In this role, he oversees a team of industry experts and their comprehensive research and analysis on evolving enterprise network infrastructure markets, including wireless LAN, IP telephony, LAN switching, and enterprise routing. Mr. Germanow is a well respected industry analyst providing in-depth insight and intelligence on shifting enterprise network market trends and their affect on mobility, servers, and storage. In addition to managing the wide-ranging Enterprise Networks research schedule, Mr. Germanow also spearheads the development and delivery of four quarterly data products covering routers, switches, wireless LAN infrastructure, and IP PBX. Mr. Germanow originally joined IDC in 1997 covering data communications equipment. He pioneered IDC's research in the security products space, before leaving IDC to spend two years developing professional security services at a security consulting firm. Mr. Germanow rejoined IDC in 2002. He is a frequent speaker at industry forums and numerous media outlets regularly seek his expert opinion and analysis. Mr. Germanow has a B.A. in economics and Asian studies from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY and ICU in Tokyo, Japan, respectively. Speaker - Ben Gibson, Senior Director, Enterprise Marketing, Cisco
Ben Gibson brings 15 years of networking industry experience to Cisco Systems, where he leads all outbound marketing initiatives for Cisco's Wireless LAN Business Unit. Prior to Cisco, Gibson served as Vice President of Marketing at both Meru Networks and Proxim Corporation, where he led global marketing, communications, investor relations, and channel marketing programs. During his tenures both at at Meru and Proxim, Gibson successfully positioned the companies in the emerging voice-over-WLAN and WiMAX markets, launched several new broadband wireless solutions targeting outdoor applications, and developed successful global channel and demand generation programs. Prior to Proxim, Gibson served as Director of Marketing at Atrica, Inc., where he helped establish the company as a leader in the Optical Ethernet market. Gibson has also held product marketing positions at Cisco for the Catalyst 2900/3500 Switching families, and at 3Com Corporation. Speaker - Edgar Figueroa, Executive Director, Wi-Fi Alliance
Edgar Figueroa is the Executive Director of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Prior to becoming Executive Director, Edgar managed the Wi-Fi Alliance certification program for four years, where he led the organization in establishing a regimen of program development practices. He is a frequent speaker at member outreach events around the world. Prior to joining the Wi-Fi Alliance Edgar enjoyed technical and product marketing roles for Ridgeway Systems & Software and 3M Company. Edgar served a four year tour with fighter pilot training squadron in the United States Navy. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and at Austin Community College. Edgar is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Masters in Technology Commercialization, and undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. Speaker - Keerti Melkote, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aruba Networks
Keerti Melkote is Aruba's chief technology officer and responsible for product management. Mr. Melkote has 15 years of technology and marketing experience in both enterprise and service provider networking. Prior to founding Aruba Networks, Mr. Melkote held senior management positions at Tahoe Networks, a cellular/3G data networking systems company now part of Nokia, and Shasta Networks, a broadband IP subscriber management systems company now part of Nortel. Mr. Melkote was at Cisco Systems during the LAN switching era in the mid-90s, where he was responsible for the definition and launch of Cisco's high-end enterprise LAN switching systems. Before Cisco, Mr. Melkote was responsible for deploying high-performance LAN and ATM backbone infrastructure at Intel. He holds an MSEE from Purdue University with an emphasis on distributed systems and TCP/IP networking. Speaker - Steve Martin, VP, Engineering, Ruckus Wireless
With more than 18 years of engineering experience in the networking industry with Ruckus Wireless, Airespace (acquired by Cisco), 3Com, and US Robotics Corporation, Steve is an expert in networking hardware and software design and development, as well as lifecycle product management. He's a wily veteran at developing state-of-the-art wireless technologies, then successfully bringing them to market. Before joining Ruckus, Steve was an engineering executive with Cisco's wireless networking group, which acquired Airespace where he was VP of Hardware and Engineering. He also held several senior management positions with US Robotics and 3Com's Carrier Networks Division (CommWorks Corp), which was acquired by UTStarcom in 2003. And yes, people always ask him if he's somehow related to THAT Steve Martin. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a Master of Science in Telecommunications Systems from DePaul University in Chicago. | |||||
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Conference Sessions
The Future of Application Delivery (Location: Breakers E)A couple of years ago, it was common to equate application delivery to network and application optimization. However, ensuring successful application delivery requires that IT organizations do more than just implement optimization techniques. It also involves planning, management and control that extends to a wide range of IT disciplines, not just networks. As a result, most of the application delivery vendors have begun to develop expertise in other areas including security, storage and management. In this session, leading vendors will outline their divergent views on the future of application delivery. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Alan Saldich, VP of Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Alan Saldich joined Riverbed Technology in September 2002 and serves as its VP of Product Marketing and Alliances. Prior to joining Riverbed, he was director of enterprise solutions for Inktomi Corporation, where he began working following its acquisition of FastForward Networks in the fall of 2000. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Saldich served as FastForward Networks' director of business development. In addition, since 1988 Mr. Saldich has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate finance at several high technology companies, including RasterOps (IPO, 1990) and Metricom. Mr. Saldich holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Speaker - Jeff Barker, Vice President of Solutions and Technical Marketing, Blue Coat
Speaker - Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai
Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing, NetScout Systems
Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing at NetScout Systems, the market leader for network and application performance management and service assurance solutions. He has over 20 years of technology marketing, product development and strategy experience in the voice, video and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has strong market and technology experience in many aspects of the Enterprise and service provider networking segments covering LAN, WAN and metro networking technologies. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held senior marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. The GRC Easy Button - Best Practices to Achieve Results with Governance Risk and Compliance (Location: Lagoon J)In this session we will explore the evolution of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management and discuss how it is being shaped by key stakeholders including consultants, regulators and end-users. We will discuss various approaches to GRC and highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each approach to cut through the hype and identify areas where true value can be derived today. Attendees will also learn tips and tricks to help streamline risk, compliance and audit processes. Speaker - Chris Boswell, Director Risk and Compliance Services, CA
Chris Boswell, CIS [A,M,SP], specializes in the design and delivery of governance, security, risk management, and compliance solutions at CA. He has experience building GRC solutions across a wide variety of industries, and has worked with numerous regulations, standards and best practices over the past decade. Chris joined CA from Ernst & Young in 2004 to form a Global Security Assessment Practice within CA Technology Services. From there, he went on to design CA Governance Risk & Compliance Manager. Virtualization - Enabling Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business (Location: Lagoon F)Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans. Moderator - Anne Skamarock, Research Director, FOCUS
Anne Skamarock has spent nearly 30 years in software engineering, consulting and technical marketing, as an end-user/administrator, vendor, industry analyst, and author, with Sun, Solbourne, StorageTek, SRI, and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). For the past 10 years, she has focused on virtualization, systems, and storage management and the intersection points between them. Anne's expertise encompasses systems architecture; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection; and tape and disk storage. A frequent speaker at conferences, she co-chairs the Interop Virtualization Tracks, and previously chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. In addition to regular TechTarget and Network World columns, Anne also co-authored "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Speaker - Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering, Double-Take Software
Bob Roudebush, director of solutions engineering, joined Double-Take Software as a Product Manager in April 2005. Promoted to director of solutions engineering in January 2006, Mr. Roudebush is Double-Take's chief evangelist. He works with the Double-Take sales force, sales engineers, customers and prospects to position and promote Double-Take. Through Mr. Roudebush's efforts Double-Take has been widely acknowledged as the undisputed market leader in accessible data protection for the Windows platform. Mr. Roudebush possesses a deep understanding of technology and the data protection market as a whole. Mr. Roudebush has more than 13 years of IT industry experience and holds multiple industry certifications including Novell Master Certified Network Engineer (MCNE), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also been named a Microsoft MVP Award winner for 2006, 2007, and 2008. Speaker - Fadi Albatal, Director, Marketing, FalconStor
Fadi Albatal is the senior director of product marketing at FalconStor Software. With over 12 years of senior level management in the IT market, Albatal has substantial experience with large scale storage systems. Prior to FalconStor, he was part of the product marketing team at Dell/EqualLogic where he lead the company's strategic alliance and go-to-market strategy with Microsoft. Previously, Albatal served as CIO at Langu-EDGE Solutions Inc., a multi-discipline language service provider. He also served as a software engineer consultant with Transport Canada in the Aircraft Certification Program Services Project, participating in the architecture and development of various aircraft safety, information and registration systems. Albatal holds a master's degree in computer science from ESIG, Lyon, France. Speaker - George Pradel, Director of Strategic Alliances, Vizioncore
George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 12 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and now with Vizioncore, a fully owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and VM Optimization. Speaker - Jim Sangster, Senior Director of Marketing, Virtualization Solutions & Alliances, NetApp
Jim Sangster is responsible for virtualization solutions at NetApp as well as the alliances between NetApp and VMware, Citrix as well as other virtualization providers. With experience ranging from software development, sales engineering, product marketing and product management; Jim has spent over 20 years in the industry with a focus on data center management. As virtualization has emerged, Jim has managed teams responsible for products, technologies and marketing at Sun Microsystems and NetApp. Speaker - Joop Janssen, Solutions Services Director, Stratus
As Solutions Services Director, Joop Janssen's responsibility is promoting the solutions that address availability-related issues in mission-critical environments for Stratus Technologies' most strategic customers. Before joining Stratus in December 2005, he worked as corporate account executive at Peak Technologies, selling supply chain automation solutions to targeted corporate accounts. As account director at Cable & Wireless, Janssen was responsible for managing and expanding the Cable Operators business segment in the UK. His prior experience includes consulting positions at Motorola and Siemens in the area of application integration across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Why Would I Want Desktop Video Conferencing? (Location: Breakers C)Desktop video conferencing has traditionally consumed the PC—by using up screen real estate and providing poor images. Has this technology evolved into a useful tool? What are the enterprise applications when desktop video can provide productivity enhancements? Or do better customer interactions justify its deployment? In this session, we will quiz desktop video vendors to see if we can rationalize deploying yet another complex application on the desktop. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments. John has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, where he received the Dartmouth Society of Engineers Annual Prize for the quality of his thesis presentation. John is co-owner of a patent in shared memory multiprocessor design. Speaker - John Dye, Senior Product Manager, Avistar
John Dye Senior Product Manager Avistar Communications Corporation A senior product manager, John Dye brings 20+ years of product development and engineering expertise to Avistar. John is responsible for definition and delivery of Avistar's award-winning desktop video conferencing software. Unlike consumer desktop videoconferencing, which can pose business security risks and support difficulties, Avistar C3 desktop videoconferencing is "business-class" - easy to use and administer, standards-based, secure, dependable, reliable and scalable. Previously, John held senior product development roles at Migo Software Inc. and Grassroots Enterprise. Prior experience includes posts at Alta Vista, Avolent, Open Horizon, Tibco and Advanced Decision Systems. John earned a B.S. in engineering from Colorado State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Speaker - Marty Hollander, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Vidyo
Marty Hollander is Senior Vice President of Marketing at Vidyo. With more than 20 years of high-tech marketing experience, Marty specializes in developing lasting strategic assets through creative market development. Prior to Vidyo, Marty served as Vice President of Marketing at Cemaphore Systems, Latitude Communications (later acquired by Cisco) and ProactiveNet (later acquired by BMC). He also founded CollectiveSpace and IntelliCorp, where he played a variety of executive roles. Marty has also held senior level positions at Silicon Graphics and Storm Technology. He has an MBA from Stanford University and an MS degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. Speaker - Peter Nutley, Director, Global Marketing, Tandberg
Peter Nutley has more than 20 years of experience in videoconferencing, data communications and telecommunications. At TANDBERG Peter serves as Director of Product Marketing, where he is responsible for working closely with TANDBERG R&D and product management to deliver products to market worldwide, identify market opportunities and provide input for product roadmaps. In addition, Peter and his team develop and deliver sales tools, collateral, and product promotions and training. Prior to joining TANDBERG Peter held key marketing and technical positions at SeaChange International, IBM, and PictureTel Corporation. At both PictureTel and SeaChange Peter served as Vice President for Product Management, where he was responsible for product strategy, new product development, partner and business development and international market cultivation. During his tenure at PictureTel, Peter also held positions including senior product manager and senior sales engineer. | |||||
