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Rohit Mehra is IDC's Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, and the lead analyst for enterprise switching, routing, wireless and network management. He provides expert insight and analysis into industry and technology trends as they relate to enterprise networking and related areas of data, voice, wireless and security. In this capacity, he is responsible for market share and forecast reports as well as global go-to-market strategies. Mr. Mehra also assists clients with custom consulting and research, including user surveys and buyer case studies. He has a deep understanding of networking solutions in key verticals/industry segments, and collaborates closely with IDC Insights and other research groups to assist clients with their specific requirements. Before joining IDC in 2010, Mr. Mehra spent more than 15 years at several enterprise and telecom infrastructure providers. Most recently, he was Director of Product Marketing at Verisign's Wireless Messaging and Mobile Media division (now divested to Syniverse Technologies), before which he was Director of Product Management at 3Com Corporation, responsible for their enterprise wireless portfolio. Prior to 3Com, Mr. Mehra was Director of Product Marketing at a wireless start-up, Bluesocket, and also spent several years at Nortel where he held positions in product marketing, product management and market development. He has extensive product lifecycle and global market development experience, and is a well known industry expert, often speaking/participating at networking, wireless and security events and conferences throughout the world. Mr. Mehra has a Master’s in engineering management from BITS, Pilani, India, and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona, USA.

Rich Costello is a senior research analyst within IDC's Enterprise Communications Infrastructure service, and is a leading member of the Unified Communications (UC) research team. He assesses the development of UC products and solutions among vendors in the market and evaluates the adoption of UC technology by enterprise customers contemplating the migration of their existing solutions. Mr. Costello develops IDC's viewpoints on the evolution of VoIP networking infrastructure and next-generation voice and video technologies, and advises enterprise clients on the impact of IP telephony, unified messaging, collaboration, telepresence and other conferencing solutions on their networks, end users, and service and support personnel.

Mr. Costello has been covering enterprise voice and video communications since 1992, providing insight into general best business practices for selecting and deploying VoIP and UC solutions. His research and quotes have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The London Financial Times, and other publications in the U.S., Europe and Australia. Prior to joining IDC in 2010, Mr. Costello held various analyst positions at Gartner, Inc.

Mr. Costello has a B.S. in Business Management from Rutgers University, a diploma in Electronics from Lincoln Technical Institute, and holds a CE to teach Business Education in the State of New Jersey at the secondary school level.

Lucinda (Cindy) Borovick is the Research Vice President for IDC’s Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks services. The Enterprise Communications programs covers areas such as switching, routing, WLAN, IP telephony, application delivery and unified communications. Ms. Borovick is responsible for the program's consulting and advisory services, research offerings and client relationships, and oversees IDC's team of enterprise communications analysts. Currently, Ms. Borovick is researching the impact of cloud computing and converged infrastructures on the network.

Ms. Borovick has been covering the information technology industry since joining IDC in 1987. Throughout this time, she has maintained a focus on researching and analyzing datacenter networking trends, technologies, products, suppliers, and end-user adoption strategies. She has particular expertise on key technical and business issues concerning networking adoption by place in the network. She analyzes server, storage and application deployments and how the interconnection of these technologies translates into requirements on the datacenter and remote branch.

Specific research responsibilities include analyzing the impact of application networking, WAN application delivery, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and storage networking on the datacenter of the future within the enterprise and service provider marketplace. Ms. Borovick's expertise is often called upon to present at industry forums and conferences, and she is frequently quoted in trade and press publications.

Ms. Borovick graduated from The University of New Hampshire in Durham with a dual bachelor of arts degree in history and economics.

Tara Van Unen is the Director of Market Development for Ixia, specializing in developing Ixia's strategic marketing plans for routing, switching and broadband technologies. Previously, Tara was the Marketing Manager for Agilent's Data Networks Operation, where she focused on the development of multiservice test solutions. She is an expert on network technologies and has been a key driver behind many published independent technical test reports. Her work has been featured in industry publications worldwide and presented at key industry events, including Next Generation Networks, Broadband World Forum, Data Center World, Interop and the Ethernet Alliance Technology Exploration Forum.

Iddo Kadim is Director of Data Center Virtualization Technologies within Intel’s Data Center Group. He has been with Intel since 1990. Iddo spent many of these years in the networking area, where he was responsible for the development of products and technologies from Classic Ethernet to 10GbE. Today he is responsible for marketing and ecosystem engagement of Intel’s data center virtualization and security technologies. Iddo has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and now lives in the Portland area.

James has 11 years of network product management experience with Force10 Networks. Also, he has more than 25 years of operating system and embedded real-time high-performance systems design experience.

Prior to joining Force10, James served in several contributor and management positions in the scientific, semiconductor and networking industries. He has played key roles for projects ranging from robotics control, semiconductor wafer inspection image processing equipment, high speed data acquisition systems for large-scale NASA wind tunnel systems and high-performance switching and routing at Force10.

Mr. Wynia holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Biola University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Prashanth Shenoy is a Senior Marketing Manager at the Borderless Solutions Marketing team at Cisco, leading Cisco's Enterprise Routing, Branch Security, and WAN optimization solutions marketing. Previously he was responsible for marketing strategies and initiatives for key IOS technologies for enterprises and Service Provides, 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 has represented Cisco in various industry, press, analyst, and customer events.

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.

During her 25 years career at IBM, Laurence held various leadership roles in sales, services and business management, based in Paris, covering France, Europe and Middle East/Africa, and in the USA for North America and for Global roles.

Laurence earned the Scientific Graduation, and her MBA from Lille Business University. She joined a Consulting organization in 1983, before joining IBM in Paris in 1984.

Steve Yi is Director of Product Management for SQL Azure and Middleware at Microsoft. Steve has broad experience in cloud computing, systems integration, software development, and business intelligence. Prior to his current role, he has had roles in field consulting, evangelism, partner recruitment, and M&A efforts. Before joining Microsoft he was published columnist and technical architect on systems integration and high-scale web application development on both Microsoft, Java, and open-source platforms.

Kyle leads the sales and marketing efforts for Dyn Inc. with a focus on the Dynect Platform and DynDNS.com. Kyle brings a background in direct sales, sales management, lead generation, opportunity and partnership acquisition, external marketing and public relations to Dyn Inc. He is responsible for the strategy and planning behind the Dynect Platform’s expansion into the enterprise marketplace and DynDNS.com user growth. Kyle obtained a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

Bret Piatt is responsible for helping cloud companies build solutions that integrate with OpenStack and supporting enterprises and service providers who are adopting the open source platform. Prior to his current role, Bret helped build the ecosystem around the Rackspace Cloud and was part of the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T, where he was responsible for security and compliance product lines. His technical experience comes from his time at SBC, where he designed monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners. A self-described “lifelong geek”, Bret is passionate about helping companies solve problems through technology and participates in several industry organizations and alliances to further cloud standards, including the DMTF, OGF, OASIS, CloudAudit, and the ACCA.

Patrick Sweeney has over 18 years experience in high tech product marketing, product management, corporate marketing and sales development. Currently, Mr. Sweeney is SonicWALL's Vice President of the Network Security Business Unit. Previous positions include Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Minerva Networks, Senior Manager of Product Marketing & Solutions Marketing for Silicon Graphics Inc, Director of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Articulate Systems, and Senior Product Line Manager for Apple Computer. Mr. Sweeney holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA.

Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade, and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children.

Bill is the HP Virtual Connect Strategy Manager and has over 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of computer server and networking products. Bill helped build the Virtual Connect product line to meet the needs of IT data center professionals today and for the cloud computing environments of tomorrow. Bill holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

In 2006, Jay Hallberg co-founded Spiceworks, which has grown into the largest and fastest-growing social business network for IT. With more than 1.3 IT professionals using Spiceworks, it’s transforming how $1 trillion worth of technology products and services is managed, marketed and sold each year in the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market.

Jay frequently speaks on social business applications and networks, B2B social marketing, and SMB IT trends at top industry events, including the Web 2.0 Expo & Summit, Interop, Cloud Summit, TechCrunch Roundtable, InformationWeek 500, and GigaOm Structure, among others. His commentary has also appeared in top publications, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily. Jay holds an MBA from Harvard and an engineering degree from the University of Illinois.

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.

Davi Ottenheimer has more than sixteen years experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is an expert in compliance and is a qualified PCI DSS and PA-DSS assessor and former Board Member for the Payment Card Industry Security Alliance and the Silicon Valley chapters of ISACA and OWASP. He is an award-winning public speaker and has been quoted or written articles on security, risk management and compliance for publications including Bank Info Security, Network World, Red Herring, Chain Store Age and SC Magazine. He was formerly responsible for security at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the world's largest investment fund manager (now BlackRock). Prior to BGI he was a "dedicated paranoid" at Yahoo! and responsible for managing security for hundreds of millions of mobile, broadband and digital home products. He has helped secure industry-leading organizations including Brady Corporation, Cisco, Cypress Semiconductor, Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center, IBM, Intel, M&I Data Services, Puget Sound Energy, State Farm, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, VMware and West Marine. Davi received his postgraduate academic Master of Science degree in International History from the London School of Economics.

Larry Hart leads worldwide product management and marketing teams in Dell’s Networking division. Mr. Hart drives the strategic direction for Dell’s PowerConnect business, focused on datacenter and enterprise networking solutions. He oversees product planning and product management for these product lines. During the past nine years at Dell, he has helped position Dell as the worldwide leader in Windows/Linux storage and helped launch the PowerVault disk array business.

Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Hart served as a general manager for Baylor University’s Information Technology Center where he managed and established corporate IT standards for the campus. In this role, he managed strategic IT supplier relationships to provide best-in-class solutions to the University.

Mr. Hart holds an engineering degree and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Gary Orenstein has served in leadership marketing roles at data center infrastructure companies for over a dozen years. Prior to Fusion-io, Mr. Orenstein he was the vice president of marketing at MaxiScale, a technical leader in web scale file systems acquired by Overland Storage. Prior to MaxiScale, he was the vice president of marketing and business development at Gear6, a caching and file acceleration pioneer acquired by Violin Memory. Mr. Orenstein has also served as vice president of marketing at Compellent which went public and 2007, and was a co-founder at Nishan Systems, acquired by McDATA/Brocade. Mr. Orenstein is host of The Cloud Computing Show, a contributor to GigaOM, and the author of IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.

Greg is the Vice President of Server and Storage Strategy for Broadcom Corporation and the former Chief Technology Officer for Emulex and Neterion. He is a technology industry veteran with nearly thirty years of experience in engineering and business development. His diverse career includes contributions as both a technical team member and a proven leader in bringing emerging products and technologies to market. Greg holds several patents and remains active in new product development.