Focus on IT Management at the Leading Business Technology Conference
Interop helps senior IT executives identify key trends, align IT with business goals and learn techniques to effectively manage technology professionals. This year, business technology management programs will focus on technical insight and proven management strategies that will produce results in today's challenging economic environment.
IT Management Conference Sessions
Key Skill Sets for the Data Center Manager of the FutureTuesday, May 19 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
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.
Is Your Next Notebook a Smartphone?Tuesday, May 19 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
Managing Virtualization with IT Process AutomationTuesday, May 19 — 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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.
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.
The Rise of the Green Enterprise: What is IT's Role?Tuesday, May 19 — 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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.
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.
Unlock the Potential of Virtualization - Management is the KeyTuesday, May 19 — 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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.
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.
Five Steps to Reduce IT Operations Expenses with Process AutomationTuesday, May 19 — 2:45–3:45 PM
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
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.
CTO Roundtable Tuesday, May 19 — 2:45–3:45 PM
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.
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
Controlling Virtual Server SprawlTuesday, May 19 — 4:00–5:00 PM
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.
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.
Technologies that Data Center Managers Can't Live WithoutWednesday, May 20 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
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.
Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the CloudWednesday, May 20 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
Tuning, Tweaking and Troubleshooting Your Virtual InfrastructureWednesday, May 20 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
The Green Data Center: Your Playbook of Eco-Strategies for Today and TomorrowWednesday, May 20 — 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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.
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.
Are Virtual Infrastructures Secure? More or Less????Wednesday, May 20 — 2:00–3:00 PM
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.
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.
Virtualization Management Futures: The Final Frontier?Wednesday, May 20 — 3:15–4:15 PM
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.
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.
The iPhone and the Enterprise: Is this the Future of IT? Wednesday, May 20 — 3:15–4:15 PM
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.
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
Is There a Compelling Business Case for Desktop Virtualization?Thursday, May 21 — 10:15–11:15 AM
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.
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.
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CIO Bootcamp - Day OneSunday, May 17 — 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.
Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.
As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.
Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.
Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy
Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT.
Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President & CEO, Bold Vision, LLC
Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-seven years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is also a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product and service providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University.
Speaker - Karlin Sue Bohnert, Vice President, Cricket Communications
Karlin has over 25 years IT experience that includes CIO, CTO, and CDO (Chief Development Officer) roles. She has deep retail experience having worked at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, The Limited, and Abercrombie and Fitch. She also has worked in other industries including Energy, Wireless, Telecommunications and Financial Services (Insurance and Mortgage). She is currently VP of Applications at Cricket Communications. Karlin's broad IT experience includes international expansions, IT lead on multiple merger and acquisition activities/integrations, SAP implementation, Oracle ERP, POS expertise, extensive applications development, data warehousing/business intelligence, establishment and management of off-shore IT support with multiple companies in India, and much more. Karlin is a tireless advocate serving on non-profit Board of Directors and offering her time and efforts to support various charities. Often can be found swinging a hammer on habitat for Humanity builds. She has also served on IT Advisory Boards for Ohio State, University of Arkansas, and Oregon State. Her philosophy was voiced best by author George Matthew Adams, "There is no such thing as a ?self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
Speaker - Louis Gutierrez, CIO Emeritus, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Exeter Group, Inc.
Louis Gutierrez has twice served as Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has also served as: SVP/CIO of Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare during a significant corporate turnaround initiative from 1999-2002; Chief Technology Strategist at the Commonwealth Medicine Division of UMass Medical School; and Chief Information Officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS), Massachusetts' largest secretariat with 23,000 staff and more than $12 billion in annual spending. While at HHS, Gutierrez led the development and implementation of the state's Virtual Gateway, an online portal that integrated the web presence of 16 agencies into a user-friendly format that improved service delivery and reduced costs.
Speaker - Rusty May, Account Manager, Green Hills Software
Owner & President - PAMCO
Speaker - Terry Conner, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, retired, Liberty Mutual Group
CIO Bootcamp - Day TwoMonday, May 18 — 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.
Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.
As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.
Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.
Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy
Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT.
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 - Bruce Barnes, President & CEO, Bold Vision, LLC
Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-seven years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is also a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product and service providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University.
Speaker - Karlin Sue Bohnert, Vice President, Cricket Communications
Karlin has over 25 years IT experience that includes CIO, CTO, and CDO (Chief Development Officer) roles. She has deep retail experience having worked at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, The Limited, and Abercrombie and Fitch. She also has worked in other industries including Energy, Wireless, Telecommunications and Financial Services (Insurance and Mortgage). She is currently VP of Applications at Cricket Communications. Karlin's broad IT experience includes international expansions, IT lead on multiple merger and acquisition activities/integrations, SAP implementation, Oracle ERP, POS expertise, extensive applications development, data warehousing/business intelligence, establishment and management of off-shore IT support with multiple companies in India, and much more. Karlin is a tireless advocate serving on non-profit Board of Directors and offering her time and efforts to support various charities. Often can be found swinging a hammer on habitat for Humanity builds. She has also served on IT Advisory Boards for Ohio State, University of Arkansas, and Oregon State. Her philosophy was voiced best by author George Matthew Adams, "There is no such thing as a ?self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
Speaker - Louis Gutierrez, CIO Emeritus, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Exeter Group, Inc.
Louis Gutierrez has twice served as Chief Information Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has also served as: SVP/CIO of Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare during a significant corporate turnaround initiative from 1999-2002; Chief Technology Strategist at the Commonwealth Medicine Division of UMass Medical School; and Chief Information Officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS), Massachusetts' largest secretariat with 23,000 staff and more than $12 billion in annual spending. While at HHS, Gutierrez led the development and implementation of the state's Virtual Gateway, an online portal that integrated the web presence of 16 agencies into a user-friendly format that improved service delivery and reduced costs.
Speaker - Russ Mcguire, VP Corporate Strategy, Sprint
Russ McGuire is a leading strategist and visionary in the telecom industry. As vice president of corporate strategy for Sprint, he is responsible for developing the strategic vision and strategic framework for the $40B+ telecommunications giant. Mr. McGuire is also the author of The Power of Mobility, a book about how businesses can prosper in the next technology revolution, published by John Wiley & Sons. His daily weblog on these topics can be read at www.law-of-mobility.com. His experience includes over 20 years in the telecom industry. Prior to joining Sprint, Russ was Chief Strategy Officer for TeleChoice, a leading business strategy consultancy solely focused on innovative telecom market opportunities. In this role he guided top executives from established and start-up telecom companies in developing core business strategies and market strategies to leverage their unique capabilities into sustainable market positions. Prior to TeleChoice, Mr. McGuire was vice president of strategic development for Williams Communications, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, new business analysis, and competitive intelligence. Mr. McGuire has also founded or co-founded two technology start-ups. Russ began his telecom career as a software developer for Northern Telecom. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has completed the Advanced Management Program for Telecommunications Executives at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.
Speaker - Rusty May, Account Manager, Green Hills Software
Owner & President - PAMCO
Speaker - Terry Conner, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, retired, Liberty Mutual Group
Speaker - Thomas Fenady, Senior Director of Information Technology, Activision Publishing, Inc.
Thomas U. Fenady is the Senior Director of Information Technology for Activision|Blizzard, a $5 billion international creator, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment software products. Thomas joined Activision in 2004. His current responsibilities at Activision include Global Network Systems, Studio Infrastructure and Architecture, Security, and Compliance. Fenady's career in the information technology industry spans over 15 years with postition that include leading the Information Technology team at Rubin Postaer and Associates, working in IT for BBDO Advertising, and consulting for Apple Computer.
Assessing Portal, Search and SharePoint Technologies for the EnterpriseWednesday, May 20 — 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
Morning Session
8:30 AM -11:45 AM
Accessing Enterprise Information via Portals and Search Technology
With immense document volumes coursing through organizations, traditional data access approaches cannot cope. This leaves critical business knowledge untapped, unmanaged, and idle. Hence the rise of Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Search technologies. However, most customers of these tools fail to realize the full potential of the technologies.
This workshop offers a fast-paced primer on Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Search technologies. We will look at how to manage and exploit maximum value from better access to "unstructured content," including how to marry this information with your current "structured data" activities. The workshop will remain strictly vendor neutral and will aim to give real-world examples and methods, suitable for both technical and more business-oriented attendees alike.
Course Outline * Introduction to Enterprise Portals * Portal Architectures and Features * Portal Marketplace and Implementation Pitfalls * Introduction to Enterprise Search * Technology, Features, and Tuning * Search & Information Access Marketplace and Implementation Pitfalls
Afternoon Session
1:15 PM -4:30 PM
Evaluating SharePoint in the Enterprise
This intensive workshop offers a critical evaluation, detailing SharePoint's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives.
Course Outline * What is SharePoint 2007 -- what is it not * Introduction to SharePoint Architectures * Evaluating SharePoint's core "Six Pillars" * Assessing SharePoint as an application development platform
Morning Session
8:30 AM -11:45 AM
Accessing Enterprise Information via Portals and Search Technology
With immense document volumes coursing through organizations, traditional data access approaches cannot cope. This leaves critical business knowledge untapped, unmanaged, and idle. Hence the rise of Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Search technologies. However, most customers of these tools fail to realize the full potential of the technologies.
This workshop offers a fast-paced primer on Enterprise Portal and Enterprise Search technologies. We will look at how to manage and exploit maximum value from better access to "unstructured content," including how to marry this information with your current "structured data" activities. The workshop will remain strictly vendor neutral and will aim to give real-world examples and methods, suitable for both technical and more business-oriented attendees alike.
Course Outline * Introduction to Enterprise Portals * Portal Architectures and Features * Portal Marketplace and Implementation Pitfalls * Introduction to Enterprise Search * Technology, Features, and Tuning * Search & Information Access Marketplace and Implementation Pitfalls
Afternoon Session
1:15 PM -4:30 PM
Evaluating SharePoint in the Enterprise
This intensive workshop offers a critical evaluation, detailing SharePoint's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives.
Course Outline * What is SharePoint 2007 -- what is it not * Introduction to SharePoint Architectures * Evaluating SharePoint's core "Six Pillars" * Assessing SharePoint as an application development platform
Instructor - 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.
Principles of Effective IT ManagementWednesday, May 20 — 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
This tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you.
Course Outline
How to develop a new framework for the business of IT How to formalize policies and processes How to map the organization to new business models and processes How to identify, hire, train, and retain the right employees How to select support systems and tools How to manage customer expectations and set customer service levels How to develop end-user and IT buy-in How to build executive management commitment Know the critical success factors How to make it all happen
Who Should Attend
Directors and managers of IT organizations or units< IT and IS professionals Anyone who needs to realign IT with the business
You Will Learn
Principles that can develop or enhance your own IT policies, processes, organization, and practices, thus creating a more effective IT business unit.
This tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you.
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
You Will Learn
Principles that can develop or enhance your own IT policies, processes, organization, and practices, thus creating a more effective IT business unit.
Instructor - Thomas Randall, Director, BT Americas
Tom Randall is a Director for BT Americas. Having been both a CIO as well as running a data center on Wall Street, he understands what it takes to make IT successful in supporting enterprise business objectives.
Building Magnificent Technical PresentationsThursday, May 21 — 8:30 AM–4:30 PM
Soft Skills Development for the technical professional is often overlooked and underestimated. Like a computer system requiring both hardware and software to provide system benefits, technical professionals need hard skills and soft skills in their Professional Development. This Workshop provides an entertaining and informative set of practical tips and tricks that technical presenters can incorporate and addresses traps that they can fall prey to. This is a practical approach to integrating commonly used tools and improving both the presentation creation and delivery of technical topics. The ability to build clear technical messages and to communicate those messages is as important as the message itself. You will build magnificent technical presentations from now on!
Course Outline
Technical people do it backwards! Gathering acorns! What makes an "atrocious" presentation? Key tips and tricks for building successful presentations Avoiding presentation delivery traps Answers vs. Questions Presentations Power Statements Presentation Creation and Delivery The role of the brain Useful Presenter Tool bag items And much more
Who Should Attend
IS/IT technical staff and managers, integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel. Anyone who wants to understand more about how one can create and present technical topics effectively from someone who has learned making every mistake in the book yet maintains a successful storage networking education business.
You Will Learn
Improved presentation creation and delivery skills using real world, personal examples of "what to do" and "what not to do".
Soft Skills Development for the technical professional is often overlooked and underestimated. Like a computer system requiring both hardware and software to provide system benefits, technical professionals need hard skills and soft skills in their Professional Development. This Workshop provides an entertaining and informative set of practical tips and tricks that technical presenters can incorporate and addresses traps that they can fall prey to. This is a practical approach to integrating commonly used tools and improving both the presentation creation and delivery of technical topics. The ability to build clear technical messages and to communicate those messages is as important as the message itself. You will build magnificent technical presentations from now on!
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
IS/IT technical staff and managers, integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel. Anyone who wants to understand more about how one can create and present technical topics effectively from someone who has learned making every mistake in the book yet maintains a successful storage networking education business.
You Will Learn
Improved presentation creation and delivery skills using real world, personal examples of "what to do" and "what not to do".
Instructor - 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.
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IT Management Free Sessions
Tuesday Morning KeynotesTuesday, May 19 — 8:30–10:00 AM
Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.
Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.
Speaker - Marius Haas, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HP ProCurve Networking, Hewlett-Packard Company
Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of the ProCurve Networking business. He oversees the group's worldwide operations, with a focus on expanding its position as a leading networking supplier in the market. Previously, Haas served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development for HP. In that role, he led initiatives that focused on improving efficiency and driving growth, including the execution and integration of all acquisitions since 2004. He also oversaw the company's strategic planning process, new business incubation and strategic alliances. Haas joined Compaq in 1995 from Intel Corporation and has held a wide range of senior operations roles. His teams have developed and deployed enterprise software solutions, Internet and e-commerce capabilities, content management applications, IT services offerings, marketing programs and complex cross-company strategic programs. Haas is a member of the McKinsey & Co. Chief Strategy Officer Council, the Ernst and Young Corporate Development Leadership Network, and a Board Member of the ASAP organization. He has been active on several advisory boards including the Texas eCommerce Group, the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State University and Suffield Academy in Connecticut. Haas received a BSBA from Georgetown University and an MBA in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Glendale, Ariz.
Speaker - Stephen Herrod, CTO, VMware
Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. He has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases. Prior to joining VMware, Stephen was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.
Maintaining and Improving Your Infrastructure and Business Continuity In a Slow Economy - Sponsored by Zenith InfotechTuesday, May 19 — 1:15–2:00 PM
During this session, small and medium sized attendees will learn about effectively choosing and utilizing business solutions to cost effectively managed their IT infrastructures and enhance/upgrade their Business Continuity planning.
During this session, small and medium sized attendees will learn about effectively choosing and utilizing business solutions to cost effectively managed their IT infrastructures and enhance/upgrade their Business Continuity planning.
Is Business Mobility Still Your Priority? Demonstrating Business Benefits in Mobile Solutions in Tough Economic TimesWednesday, May 20 — 7:30–8:45 AM
Sean Ryan will discuss key market drivers for business mobility solutions and analyze how solution providers are enabling organizations to drive business benefits for its organization during a recession. He will provide IDC's response to the economic crisis and analyze key trends in mobile enterprise deployments and offer up case studies demonstrating how mobile business solutions deliver ROI and improve productivity while reducing costs.
Sean Ryan will discuss key market drivers for business mobility solutions and analyze how solution providers are enabling organizations to drive business benefits for its organization during a recession. He will provide IDC's response to the economic crisis and analyze key trends in mobile enterprise deployments and offer up case studies demonstrating how mobile business solutions deliver ROI and improve productivity while reducing costs.
Speaker - Sean Ryan, Research Analyst, Mobile Enterprise Software
Sean Ryan is a worldwide research analyst within IDC's Mobile Enterprise group. In this position, he provides coverage of mobile enterprise software and device technologies for the enterprise and mobile ecosystem providers. His primary focus is on mobile software markets including mobile infrastructure software, mobile middleware, mobile enterprise applications, and mobile device management. As part of the Mobile Software service, he contributes to research in the mobile security software market, mobile operating environments, and mobile application development markets. Mr. Ryan also researches regional mobile user trends and profiles the enterprise support and management of mobile users. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Ryan engaged in business development for an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Information and Communications of South Korea where he researched & analyzed the market for opportunities, provided competitive analysis, developed go-to-market plans, offered strategic direction, brokered partnerships, and provided ongoing consulting services for Korean technology start-ups seeking to enter the U.S. market. Prior to this he held positions at Percussion Software and Nortel Networks. Mr. Ryan earned his MBA in Information Technology from Bentley College. He received a bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Wednesday Morning KeynotesWednesday, May 20 — 8:30–10:00 AM
Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.
Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.
Moderator - Art Wittman, Director of InformationWeek Analytics, InformationWeek Analytics
Art Wittmann is the Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he is responsible for the business operations and content strategy of InformationWeek's analyst group. He is also an editor of InformationWeek, and the content director for the Techweb Digital Library, where is responsible for driving content and product strategy. Prior to joining the InformationWeek team, Art was Editor-in-Chief of Network Computing, and IT Architect. Art holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Speaker - Dave Stevens, CTO, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Dave Stevens brings more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise networking, security, compute, and data storage industries to his current role as Chief Technology Officer for Brocade Communications Systems. In this position, Mr. Stevens is instrumental in driving Brocade's company-wide technology strategy as the company expands its role in the evolving enterprise network market. Before joining Brocade in 2008, Mr. Stevens was founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a developer of next-generation firewall products. Previously he was a partner at Foundation Capital, and held senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Nortel and Microdyne. Mr. Stevens had also worked with Brocade previously, serving as Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems from 2003 to 2004. He joined Brocade through its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Dave Stevens holds bachelor of science and a master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
Speaker - David Yen, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Business Group, Juniper
David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President of the Data Center Business Group (DCBG), for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.
Speaker - John McAdam, President and Chief Executive Officer, F5
John McAdam has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of F5 Networks, as well as on the board of directors, since July 2000. Just after his arrival at F5, McAdam successfully navigated the company through the turbulent post-dot-com era, bringing F5 to profitability and positioning it for further growth. During his tenure at F5, McAdam has grown the company's annual revenue from $108.6 million to over $650 million. He has overseen numerous successful acquisitions, guiding F5 into new and adjacent markets that build on the company's Application Delivery Networking solution offerings. Under his leadership, F5 has been named the ?Best Company to Work for in Seattle' and identified by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 hottest tech stocks. Prior to joining F5, McAdam served as General Manager of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Speaker - Mark Day, Chief Scientist, Riverbed Technology
Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously Senior Scientist at Sight Path, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Earlier, he was a Research Scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing). Dr. Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) and Content Internetworking (CDI). He has three issued patents and multiple pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony. His other notable work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta, and to the distributed object database Thor. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.
Speaker - Paul McNab, Vice President Enterprise & Mid Market Solutions Marketing , Cisco
Paul McNab is responsible for developing and executing Cisco System's global Enterprise and Mid-Market Solutions and Technology Marketing strategy. This strategy focuses on providing global marketing programs, messages and content that support Cisco's broad portfolio of Foundation, Advanced and Emerging products and technologies in the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments. Such products and technologies include Routing, Switching, Unified Communications, Security, Mobility, Video and Storage across Campus, Branch, Wide Area and Data Center architectures. Paul is also responsible for delivering both horizontal reference architectures as well as scalable industry based solutions in support of Cisco's customer's business strategies. Previously, Paul was Vice President of Cisco's Integrated Network Systems Engineering group, providing verified reference network designs for Enterprise, Service Provider, and Commercial markets. He devloped Cisco's Service Provider Solutions Engineering and Enterprise Solutions Engineering and Commercial Solutions Engineering teams to design, test, and market total customer solutions. Paul joined Cisco in 1996 through the acquisition of StrataCom. Previously, he held management and engineering positions with Cray Communications and Dowty Communications in Watford, England. A hardware and software engineer for the first half of his 25 years in the industry, Paul brings to his role a balanced mix of both Marketing and Engineering skills. Paul has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from North West University in Manchester, England, and holds an international patent for distribution switch matrices.
Managing the Merger of IT and Facilities - Sponsored by AvocentWednesday, May 20 — 11:15 AM–12:00 PM
Many factors contribute to the convergence of facilities and IT, including power, cooling and virtualization, all factors in data center design. IT managers need more than diagrams and spreadsheets to manage merging infrastructure. This session will address strategies and real-time tools required to assess, plan and manage complex data centers.
Many factors contribute to the convergence of facilities and IT, including power, cooling and virtualization, all factors in data center design. IT managers need more than diagrams and spreadsheets to manage merging infrastructure. This session will address strategies and real-time tools required to assess, plan and manage complex data centers.
Speaker - Ben Grimes, CTO, Avocent
As the Avocent Chief Technology Officer, Ben Grimes is responsible for helping to establish the technical direction for the company by proactively evaluating technical companies and technologies pertinent to the future of both the company and the industry. Prior to joining Avocent, Ben Grimes had a 17-year career with IBM, most recently in the appointed position of Distinguished Engineer, an executive position he held from 2002 to 2007. In that role, he served as the lead architect for software development for IBM xSeries and blades. That position overlapped with a two year special assignment in which he worked directly with large financial institutions to develop industry-specific customizations for software products. Grimes' earlier years with IBM included five years as the lead designer and engineer for embedded systems management for xSeries after serving as a programmer in embedded firmware. He was awarded 9 patents for his innovations in systems software. Grimes holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
Reducing Costs with Multivendor WLAN Management - Sponsored by Aruba NetworksWednesday, May 20 — 1:15–2:00 PM
What's new in Wireless LAN management? Learn about the latest capabilities and best practices for centralizing control, maximizing effectiveness, and minimizing cost in managing single or multi-vendor Wireless LANs. See a demonstration of the market-leading Airwave Management Platform.
What's new in Wireless LAN management? Learn about the latest capabilities and best practices for centralizing control, maximizing effectiveness, and minimizing cost in managing single or multi-vendor Wireless LANs. See a demonstration of the market-leading Airwave Management Platform.
Speaker - Ozer Dondurmacioglu, Head of Technology Assessment, Aruba Networks
The Cisco Integrated Network Platform: Helping Business Drive Cost Control and Innovation- Sponsored by CiscoWednesday, May 20 — 2:15–3:00 PM
Survive the economic downturn and ensure your business is positioned to accelerate during the upturn. Attend this session to learn how an integrated network can help you reduce operational expenses, drive innovation, and rapidly deploy collaborative services with your existing infrastructure, all in an energy efficient manner. You'll also learn how the Cisco Integrated Network Solution can help you deploy security, application performance, mobility, and unified communications services to adapt readily to new infrastructure and business demands in the future.
Survive the economic downturn and ensure your business is positioned to accelerate during the upturn. Attend this session to learn how an integrated network can help you reduce operational expenses, drive innovation, and rapidly deploy collaborative services with your existing infrastructure, all in an energy efficient manner. You'll also learn how the Cisco Integrated Network Solution can help you deploy security, application performance, mobility, and unified communications services to adapt readily to new infrastructure and business demands in the future.
Speaker - Prashanth Shenoy, Marketing Manager, Network Systems and Security Solutions, Cisco
Prashanth Shenoy is a Network Systems and Security Solutions marketing manager at Cisco, responsible for Cisco's high-end enterprise routing portfolio including the 7200, 7600, Catalyst 6500, and the ASR 1000 Series. Previously he was responsible for core Cisco IOS strategies and initiatives, including technologies such as MPLS, IPv6, QoS, and multicast. Prashanth joined Cisco in 2000 as part of the core engineering team that designed and developed the routing and forwarding engines for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series of switches. Prashanth Shenoy holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley.
Powering the Efficient Enterprise - Sponsored by DellWednesday, May 20 — 2:15–3:00 PM
Companies are struggling with reduced budgets and want help to do more with less. This session introduces a combination of innovative software and services with next-generation storage and server products to help increase business efficiency and maximize your most valuable resources - people, time and money.
Companies are struggling with reduced budgets and want help to do more with less. This session introduces a combination of innovative software and services with next-generation storage and server products to help increase business efficiency and maximize your most valuable resources - people, time and money.
Speaker - Terry Schroeder, Product Technology Strategist, Dell Inc.




