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Application Delivery 2.0 In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges that is driving the transition to Application Delivery 2.0. This includes virtualization of every component of IT, public and private cloud computing, the need to support mobile workers and the need to support applications such as Unified Communications. Jim will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges and will focus on the technologies that will be featured at Interop.
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.
The Emergence of Virtualized Application Delivery Appliances
The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage. We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery. The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances. What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance? How will these devices be managed? Do they work with all hypervisors? Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality? Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors? How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance?
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.
Greg Smith is the director of product marketing for Citrix System's Application Networking solutions. Greg joined Citrix through the company's acquisition of NetScaler in 2005, bringing more than 14 years of experience in engineering, product management and product marketing. He is responsible for the product marketing strategy for Citrix's Application Networking products, including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and the Citrix Application Firewall product lines.
DEEP DIVE - Why Networking Must Fundamentally Change Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers. There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place. Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN. Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there? In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions. The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense. The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months
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.
As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer.
Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Thomas Scheibe joined Cisco in 1998 and is currently Director for datacenter systems in Cisco’s System Architecture and Strategy Unit. During his time at Cisco he managed Cisco’s transceiver portfolio and worked with customers in the cable and Metro Ethernet service provider space. Thomas represents Cisco on the Board of Directors of the Ethernet Alliance. Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.
Paul Congdon is Chief Technology Officer for HP ProCurve and an HP Fellow, one of the elite HP employees recognized as pioneers in their fields. He is responsible for specifying, architecting and designing ProCurve network infrastructure and software products. In his 25 years in the networking industry, he has become widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards. Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and Technical Advisor for the IETF RADIUS Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. He is co-inventor of the commonly used TCP checksum offloading, a program for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He also architected the method of distributing ProCurve software onto multiple processors, enabling ProCurve switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems. After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols within HP-UX. He expanded his focus to infrastructure architecture issues and has been involved in the design of a wide range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, SNA, X.25, FDDI, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X. Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University, Chico. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. He currently holds ten patents related to the networking industry and has several more in process.
Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business.
Virtualization And Automation: How Dynamic Is Your Data Center? The over-provisioning model used by data centers for years is unsustainable – and a new dynamic model is emerging driven by virtualization and automation. While these technologies aren’t necessarily new, IT departments must become competent and refine their skills in the use of virtualization and automation to contain costs as businesses continue to demand IT services. This session will help data center managers learn how to leverage these virtualization and automation technologies to create a business-driven data center that delivers new levels of service quality, efficiency, agility and risk reduction.
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA’s Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on business unit technology, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, partner development, and customer deals. Prior to CA, Stephen was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Stephen earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation.
IPv6: No Longer Optional Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated.
John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking.
Breakthrough Network Technologies Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.
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.
Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based.
He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC).
Dave has over 20 years experience with WAN solutions globally. His focus is on mission-critical energy, government and transportation communications. Dave is the Broadband Forum ambassador program vice chair focusing on the development of tutorials for industry education, and was previously the IP/MPLS Forum education working group chair. In this capacity he was involved in the development of 9 half day tutorials and their presentation at industry conferences. Dave recently presented at the Utilities Telecom Council annual conference on the lessons learned by several European and Asian Utilities that deployed a converged IP/MPLS WAN. His most recent technology whitepaper addresses the next steps with Ethernet WAN communications at power utility substations.
Charlie Kawwas is the vice president of sales and marketing for the Network Components Division within the Semiconductor Solutions Group of LSI Corporation. Prior to his current role, Dr. Kawwas was the Senior Director for Enterprise and Service Provider Marketing at LSI. Before coming to LSI, he was the Leader of Product Line Management for Optical Multi-service Edge portfolio at Nortel Networks. Dr. Kawwas received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
A Comparison of Application Delivery Controllers The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands. What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC). In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm. However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide. In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products.
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.
Opher Dubrovsky serves as AVP Product Marketing at Crescendo Networks where he drives the roadmap and global go-to-market strategies for the AppBeat ADC product line. For the last 15 years, Opher has been driving product activities in a variety of companies ranging from startups to large multinationals. Having spent years at Microsoft, Opher has enhanced his expertise in networking, security, virtualization and interactive television. Opher is the co-author of 4 security and acceleration patents and 3 scientific articles. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel.
Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
DEEP DIVE - Network Requirements for Enterprise Video Conferencing
Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support. It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool. This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues.
John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.
William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center. Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company. This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform. Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform. Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995. At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Optimizing the Performance of Cloud Computing
One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN. Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links. The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges.
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.
Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.
Converged and Virtual I/O – Networking the 21st Century Data Center
By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable.
This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning.
Topics include:
· I/O virtualization for management and security
· The state of FCoE
· End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations
· External I/O virtualization solutions
· 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center
Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com
What Virtualization Means to the Branch Office
Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers. This raises some critical questions: How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops? Should the next generation branch office be serverless? What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed? What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues? The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.
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.
Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University.
As part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks Initiative, Shashi Kiran heads the Enterprise Routing and WAN Optimization Marketing team for the Network Systems and Security group at Cisco. In this position he is responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN. In his 15-year career, Shashi has held various roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and Network Engineering focusing on areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he has worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Dept.of Electronics, India). He also was an honorary consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine, Indian edition from 1997-2001. To propagate Network awareness in the 1990s, he devised India’s first e-mail based course on Internetworking that was subsequently syndicated in leading IT magazines. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and routing areas and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration in addition to a few industry certifications.
Mark McReynolds, MCSE, CISSP is a Principal Technology Specialist with Microsoft. Mark has 15 years of industry experience and ten years of experience working with Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft’s Enterprise Product Group delivery Windows Server based solutions. For the past five years Mark has focused on virtualization technologies and has worked extensively with Microsoft’s enterprise customers delivering server and client based virtualization solutions. In addition to his technical work, Mark speaks at dozens of customer, partner and industry events each year, including the recent Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 product launch.
How to Manage in a Public Cloud Computing Environment Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains. Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains. The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment.
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.
Randy Rowland is responsible for the managed hosting business unit for Terremark. As part of his role, Mr. Rowland oversees the operation of Terremark’s Infinistructure™ and The Enterprise Cloud utility computing product offerings. Mr. Rowland has more than 14 years of experience in the IT services industry, including eight years with Data Return, where he was most recently responsible for product development. Prior to that, Mr. Rowland previously held senior positions in sales engineering and IT consulting for Data Return and CompuCom. Born in Brawley, California, Mr. Rowland received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He lives in the Dallas area with his wife and children.
Advances in Network Management The role of network management has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about the availability of networks. In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications. In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging. Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies.
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.
Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
Richard Whitehead is Director of Product Management at EMC Ionix. Richard is in charge of Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence, EMC's solution that automates service and infrastructure root-cause analysis, monitoring, and reporting across both physical and virtual environments. Richard brings to EMC Ionix more than 20 years' experience in the systems and network management marketplace. He also has a broad background in communications and security. Prior to EMC, Richard has worked for and advised a range of Silicon Valley startups - in addition to having been an advisor to Splunk and the CTO at Clarus. In addition, Richard was the Vice President of Strategic Technologies, which was later acquired by IBM. Richard served at Micromuse for nearly eight years.
Bridging the Wired/Wireless Gap: Unified Networking Arrives
It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise.
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.
Bryan Wargo is the general manager of Aruba’s AirWave division focused on multi-vendor wireless management systems. Bryan comes to Aruba via the AirWave Wireless acquisition where he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development since 2002. Prior to AirWave, Bryan successfully founded 2Roam to address the proliferation of mobile Internet devices and the profound effect they have on enterprise computing. Bryan also served as senior business development manager for VeriFone's e-commerce software products and was a territory manager for Hewlett-Packard's Unix division. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions at Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco’s portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions.
His primary focus is on articulating the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility improves business profitability, increases productivity and leads to sustainable competitive advantage.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.
Scott Lindsay serves as the Sr. Director of Global Product Line Management for 3Com’s mobility and voice products. He is responsible for global product strategy, direction and implementation as well as go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for 3Com’s mobility and voice businesses. Prior to 3Com, Mr. Lindsay has held several sales, marketing and business development roles for companies focused on networking, and has led two start-up networking communications companies to successful acquisitions by Hewlett Packard and by 3Com. Previous leadership roles include VP of Marketing for Engim, a developer of wide-band Wi-Fi chip sets, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Scope Communications, which developed hand-held networking test and measurement equipment, as well several other companies focused on networking communications, wireless and sensor solutions. Mr. Lindsay has also spent time working in the VC community with Granum Partners. He received a BSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Rad Sethuraman brings more than 20 years of experience in product development and marketing to his current role of Senior Director of Product Management, Wireless Network Solutions, Motorola. In this role he leads product management and technical marketing for the company’s Enterprise WLAN solutions. Prior to Motorola, he was responsible for bringing to market a wide range of wireless LAN, networking and security products from companies including Nortel, Alteon Websystems, and Intel. Sethuraman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.
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W15 - Network Troubleshooting Using Open Source Tools Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems.
The instructor will take attendees through each one of these tools, showing how they can be easily installed and configured.
Course Outline
• Open Source Troubleshooting Tools, Best of the Best
• Iperf for throughput monitoring
• Cacti for monitoring network utilization
• nTop for monitoring conversations
• SmokePing for monitoring response time and packet loss
• OpenNMS for monitoring device availability
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers and analysts that are responsible for determining why network and applications are not running as fast as they should.
You Will Learn
Attendees will learn how to measure network throughput and monitor network utilization all using Open Source tools.
Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks.
W25 - Using the Wireshark Protocol Analyzer to Troubleshoot Problems Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly.
As part of this course the attendees will be taken step by step through the process of building a capture to disk appliance using freely available software.
Course Outline
• Packet capture techniques
• Creating capture filters
• Creating display filters
• TCP traffic analysis
• Using the Expert Information to quickly isolate problems
• Reassembly of Voice over IP traffic
• Use of graphs to visually analyze traffic flows
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers, and analysts that are responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting network traffic.
You Will Learn
Students will be prepared to reliably capture and analyze network traffic.
Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks.
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SharePoint, System Center R2 and Visio 2010- Magic at its Best for IT Professionals - Sponsored by Microsoft Come see how the System Center R2 add-in for Visio 2010 works along with Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. We will show you how the add-in works and discuss in detail what is needed to get to this magic show on its way to totally amaze your management team and colleagues. We will launch the Visio 2010 add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, which includes the data module for Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. The new cool in network and infrastructure management using Visio 2010 and Visio Services in SharePoint 2010.
Upgrade to 10G While Saving Money with Green IT - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent Description to come.
What’s New in IP Address Management - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent Description to come.
Dynamic Resource Provisioning in a Virtualized Environment - Sponsored by Enterasys Virtualization demands a new kind of network automation to effectively meet today's IT and business requirements. The nature of a virtualized data center often results in network provisioning complexity that can adversely affect critical network attributes such as Quality of Service. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of Virtual Network Automation, where the network can dynamically adapt to new servers and applications and maintain a high-quality end-user experience.
Extending the Lifecycle of Your Storage Area Network - Sponsored by D-Link Storage Area Networks (SANs) are expensive and complex – to implement, manage and grow. Organizations need to understand how they can reduce their capital investment and extend technology lifecycles while supporting critical applications. This session will help you to understand how to easily expand and repurpose your storage resources over an extended lifecycle.
Clouds, Open Automation and How the Network Can Help - Spoonsored by Force10 Networks Data center (DC) consolidation harkens back to the centralized glass room, enabling better control over fixed costs. Virtualization drives up utilization of server compute and storage assets, reduces sprawl and helps reduce power and cooling.
The next phase of DC evolution will help applications adjust to load. Referred to as Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) a few years ago, it is now being mixed in with cloud computing and networking. The tools are there to usher in a new way of making traditionally static networks ‘dynamic.’ The network responds automatically to requests for more or less bandwidth, provisioning network access, security and QoS, all without human intervention. This session will illustrate how existing data center assets have been repurposed to increase utilization, and improve application agility.
Optimizing Your Infrastructure: Using Failover and Global Server Load Balancing to Speed Web Performance - Sponsored by Dyn Inc. Ever wonder how a company prepares for a huge spike in traffic after advertising during sports' biggest event, or how Twitter was able to handle its highest traffic in history the day Michael Jackson died? Hear from the DNS experts who power the infrastructure of the Internet's most popular web sites, on what it takes to optimize web performance and user experience through the use of advanced DNS solutions such as traffic management, failover and global server load balancing. Real world case studies will higlight how to maximize web performance with your current infrastructure without making costly investments will be explored.
Forensics are Not Enough! Case Studies in Proactive Network Defense using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Technology - Sponsored by TriGeo Network Security Learn how SIEM and real-time, in memory, analytics combine to capture, correlate and respond to network attacks and insider abuse. See automated responses to network attacks, policy violations, inappropriate web browsing and USB device usage. Hear how mid-sized enterprises use SIEM to meet regulatory compliance initiatives and gain network control.
Everything Over 10G Ethernet: Convergence in the Data Center - Sponsored by Aquantia This panel brings together leaders in data center server and switch technologies, storage and virtualization applications to review the rise of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and LAN on Motherboard in the data center. They will debate the impact of ‘everything over 10GE’, unified networks and interconnect advances on virtualization, storage networks, cost control and performance optimization. Is this a convergence whose time has come?
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