2010 Archive: Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private Clouds

Issac Amarillas Roth is CEO and co-Founder of Makara. Before founding Makara to solve application management problems for customers moving to cloud and virtualization infrastructures, Issac spent 5 years at Wily Technology, helping to grow the APM leader from a few handfuls of customers through the $375M acquisition by CA, Inc.

His contributions at Wily ranged from fire-fighting critical application problems for the largest companies in the world to leading partnerships with critical development frameworks to creating and scaling technical sales tools and processes to the “intrapreneur” role of growing a nascent business unit at CA from 100k in revenue to over $25M in two years. Prior to Wily, Issac was a founder or early employee of three venture backed enterprise infrastructure startups that in aggregate raised $70M in funding. With a degree from Stanford University in Multimedia Design & Technology, he worked as a software engineer in the earlier days of Cisco Systems, and was the fourth employee of the company that became RedHat.

Dr. Rich Wolski is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems Inc., and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Having received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Davis (while a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) he has also held positions at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Tennessee. He is currently also a strategic advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an adjunct faculty member at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Rich has led several national scale research efforts in the area of high-performance distributed computing and grid computing, is the author of numerous research articles concerning the empirical study of distributed systems, and is the progenitor of the Eucalyptus project.

Bill Shelton is Senior Director of Cloud Computing for VMware and has over 20 years experience in software design, development and product management. He is responsible for product strategy for VMware’s Cloud Computing, service provider and virtual appliance businesses. He leads a team that is responsible for delivering products and solutions that enable cloud services to be delivered to end customers.

In previous roles at Microsoft he was responsible for in-bound and outbound marketing in the System Center group. Prior to Microsoft, he was a software engineer and architect at The Gallup Organization in London, UK and Seattle, WA.

Peder is CMO of Cloud.com and sets the direction and strategy around corporate identity, product marketing and demand generation. Peder has a strong track record of bringing new, market defining open source technologies to market. Prior to joining Cloud.com, Peder was senior vice president of marketing at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for open sourcing the Java platform, building a business with OpenSolaris and establishing Sun as a leader in the open source enterprise software market. Additionally, Peder has served at a number of open source technology startups and also held product leadership positions at Cisco and Symantec.

Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine.

Brian Wilson is the Director of Cloud Services at Quest. He is responsible for driving Quest client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Quest Cloud Automation Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud.

Mr. Devraj brings diverse background of experience in expanding new and existing businesses. With more than 16 years of experience, his primary focus area at Stratavia is driving the vision and strategies for next-generation IT automation solutions. Additionally, Mr. Devraj is responsible for architecting product functionality and solutions that ensure an outstanding value proposition for customers. Previously, Mr. Devraj founded and managed two companies, in addition to building an e-solutions consulting practice composed of database and infrastructure-focused offerings for a major e-business services company, more than doubling revenue and gross profit within 18 months. He is the author of "Oracle 24x7 Tips & Techniques," previously listed in the Top 5 Oracle bestsellers on Amazon.com, as well as co-author of "Oracle8i Web Development,” both published by Oracle Press/Osborne McGraw-Hill. Mr. Devraj has written numerous articles and white papers and given presentations at several prestigious database conferences including OpenWorld/OracleWorld, Collaborate, International Oracle Users Group (IOUG), ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) and IEEE.

With over 15 years of experience in the web hosting industry, Michael has a wealth of knowledge and practical expertise in the areas of shared web hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated web hosting product spaces. He currently oversees daily operations of hosting provider DreamHost, of which he is a co-founder. Under his guidance, DreamHost has grown to host more than one million domains across a wealth of varied industries, supporting the disparate needs of hundreds of thousands of customers with specific virtualization needs. Michael also serves as Chief Technology Officer of Alchemy Communications. Michael attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.

In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference

Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

Mr. Wetzel has been with OpTier for almost 3 years. As the leader of their pre-sales engineering organization, he is responsible for ensuring the satisfaction of their customers as they scope and deploy OpTier solutions. Prior to his role at OpTier, Mr. Wetzel spent 10 years in similar roles at Mercury Interactive, which was purchased by HP. He holds a technical degree from Boston University.

Rick Parker is IT Director at Fetch Technologies, a solutions provider that enables organizations to extract, aggregate and use real-time information from websites. Prior to Fetch, he founded and served as CTO of Bedouin Networks, a provider of cloud-based IT services for small businesses. He has also previously held IT Director positions at Gimundo LLC, an Internet content provider,

and Vendare Media.

Mr. Skipper has more than a decade of engineering experience in both software development and infrastructure management. Mr. Skipper’s early career was focused on consulting with Fortune 500 companies to develop their early web architectures, and he played an instrumental part in developing one of the first DRM implementations with Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble. Mr. Skipper moved to financial services in 2000 when he joined Merrill Lynch, initially as an architect and later as the head of Merrill's Application Infrastructure Services organization. Anthony joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 to lead their Secure Computing group.