2010 Archive: Enterprise Cloud Summit – Public Clouds
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Room 1E07
On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are leveling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.
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9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Location: TBA In this session, we'll look at where public clouds are today. In just a few short years, they've gone from unreliable and unpredictable to global and highly available. But are they ready for production code? Is it a one-horse game? What new features and capabilities might swing the balance from private to public? Speaker - Dan Elron, Managing Partner, Technology Strategy, Accenture Mr. Elron is responsible for defining the Firm’s strategy and offerings in a variety of domains, primarily in the technology space. Most recently he has focused on the impact of cloud technologies on the Firm’s businesses. Previously Mr. Elron was the Managing Partner, Growth and Strategy for Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform and the Managing Partner of Accenture’s Communications Industry. He has advised many of the largest companies in the telecommunications and technology industries in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Elron is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He also serves as the advisor for the information technology industries for the World Economic Forum. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Tel-Aviv and the University of Minnesota. He and his family live in Charlottesville, Virginia. | |
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Location: TBA PCs, smartphones, and Web-based services create a fractured personal computing experience, with data and content scattered across diverse devices and online services. To solve this, service providers are building the next form of personal computing: the personal cloud ecosystem. Personal cloud services will include a combination of a data center cloud software platform, browser-based code to enable rich Web experiences, and device-level player or presentation code for richer experiences than the browser can provide. And they will create an ecosystem of complementary software and service providers on top of their own offerings. Speaker - Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Frank advises tech industry Vendor Strategy professionals, predicting and quantifying growth and disruption in the technology industry. He analyzes paradigm shifts in the economics of the IT industry caused by the emergence of new infrastructure technologies like cloud computing services and virtualization and new as-a-service business models for pricing and provisioning computing solutions. | |
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Location: TBA Cloud computing is supposed to save us money as well as time. But early studies show that dedicated machines can deliver better costs for certain applications. In other words, your mileage may vary. Joeseph Weinman, who coined the term "Cloudonomics" and conducts research into the economics of cloud computing, will give us a look at the math behind public clouds and where cloud economics are headed. Speaker - Joe Weinman, Communications, Media, and Entertainment Industry Strategic Programs, HP 
Joe Weinman leads a global team focused on strategy and industry solutions for the communications, media, and entertainment verticals in HP’s Worldwide Industry Solutions organization. He is a long-time veteran of the industry, having held positions of increasing responsibility at the world’s largest telecommunications company, and is a frequent keynoter, a prolific inventor, and an author/blogger. He is a well-known cloud computing evangelist, creating “Cloudonomics,” at the intersection of cloud computing, ROI / business value, and economics. | |
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | |
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Location: TBA Once, IT was limited by the time it took to provision and deploy new infrastructure. With clouds, however, we can launch -- and decommission -- entire virtual data centers instantly. This accelerates the cycle time of IT. It's analogous to two other shifts in technology: agile software development methodologies, and the "devops" movement of self-scaling, self-healing architectures. We'll see how the fates of clouds, agile coding, and devops are intertwined, and what this means for IT professionals. Speaker - John Willis, Vice President of Training & Services, Opscode  John has over three decades working in the IT trenches managing complex infrastructures. Prior to joining Opscode, he founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. John has trained more than 10,000 people on IBM Tivoli products around the world and is recognized as an industry expert in enterprise systems management and monitoring. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems. | |
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Location: TBA Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms. Moderator - David Bernstein, Managing Director, Cloud Strategy Partners David Bernstein is the Managing director of Cloud Strategy Partners. Most recently, has was VP/GM in Cisco’s Office of the CTO. His team ran Cisco’s Cloud Lab, was responsible for Cisco’s University, Research, and Industry activities in Cloud Computing. He headed development for Cisco’s Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, InterTrust, and Santa Cruz Operation. His extensive consulting experience along with his recent leadership and expertise in Cloud Computing has led to the formation of Cloud Strategy Partners, LLC. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Advanced Technology Executive Forum. He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research. Panelist - Israel Derdik, CTO, Aviary  Israel Derdik has a BS in Computer Science from Brooklyn College and has co-founded several companies prior to Aviary.com. He serves as the architectural lead on all technology development for the company. His expertise has provided the company’s application framework and enabled Aviary to build a suite of robust applications that maintain file storage across the Internet. Panelist - Alex Polvi, CEO, CloudKick Alex Polvi is the CEO of Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. 1,000s of companies use Cloudkick to manage their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc. Additionally, Alex is a lead contributor to libcloud, an open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. In the past, he has worked on many free/open infrastructure projects for the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and the Open Source Lab. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University. Panelist - Colin Hostert, CIO and CISO, Escape Media Group An entrepreneur and systems engineer at heart, Colin joined Escape Media Group to help build the robust and scalable architecture that powers Grooveshark. Panelist - Greg Arnette, CTO, Sonian Greg is responsible for product vision, technical innovation, and engineering leadership. He has been a messaging, collaboration, Internet, and networking expert for over 15 years, and has been consulted by leading corporations on the management and administration of email systems. Mr. Arnette has created messaging products and services for over ten years, starting with AlertWare which was acquired by Netpro, and most recently IntelliReach, which was acquired by Infocrossing in May 2006. Greg has designed leading messaging system solutions for all communication platforms. Greg was founder and CTO for IntelliReach Corporation from 1998 to 2006. Intellireach Corporation was a pioneer in integrated messaging management products and services. Since 2006 Greg has been developing web-based information management solutions leveraging open source technology with virtualization infrastructure. Mr. Arnette has a BA/BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Panelist - Nick Katsivelos, Managing Director, Technology & Strategy, R/GA Over his 20-year career as a technology thought leader, Nick has designed and implemented countless interactive technology solutions for Start Ups and Global 100 corporations. At R/GA he manages a portfolio of top clients, leading technology strategy and delivery for engagements that deliver optimized user experiences and achieve positive marketing results. Nick also leads the hosting and managed services relationships for the agency. Nick earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from Columbia Business School. | |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | |
1:30 PM – 2:10 PM Location: TBA Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models. Moderator - Brian Butte, Director, Cloud Computing, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP My passion is the application of technology to improve customer service and support. Nothing gives one better insight than hands-on experience. I spent a year working at Disney World on the phone as a reservationist. That experience gave me great, unique insight into the customer experience and how to improve it through the judicious use of technology. I combine a customer centric view with a model driven approach to help clients drive value creation through IT. I have a deep tool bag of technology experience from chip design and operating systems development to embedded systems, enterprise applications and the web and I've worked in every industry vertical. I pride myself on identifying and applying emerging technologies and methodologies well in advance of the hype including: open standards (1992), Ethernet for sensor networking (1993), PC based control systems (1995), Linux (1993), use case analysis (1995), Booch (1995), open source (1996), customer relationship management (1996), LAMP (1996), XML (1997), enterprise architecture (1997), virtualization (2000), and cloud computing (2003). Panelist - Herve Collin, Vice President of Operations, Sefas Innovation, Inc. As Vice President of Operations at Sefas Innovation, Inc., Hervé Collin is responsible for the delivery of advanced Document Supply Chain solutions for the North American Market. Hervé possesses more than 15 years of experience and is an expert in the areas of document composition, document output management (DOM) and document production management. He holds an advanced engineering degree in Computer Science with an emphasis on industrial processes automation from the Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France. Panelist - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Panelist - Jonathan Snyder, CTO, Dreambuilder Investments, LLC Mr. Snyder has more than 20 years of experience in information technology. His background combines deep technical knowledge, broad application development experience as well as solid project and team management skills. Together with Dreambuilder Investments’ CEO, Peter Andrews, Mr. Snyder has been responsible for the design and development of the Company’s systems and execution of the firm’s technology strategy which often favors cloud-based technologies. Operationally, he is responsible for management of the Company’s data systems and networks, vendors and service providers, technical support functions and all software and hardware acquisitions. Mr. Snyder has held a variety of information systems and technology management positions in the financial services and hospitality industries. Prior to joining DBI, Mr. Snyder served as lead manager for two technology consulting firms where he directed the delivery of a wide range of technical services to the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. His experience includes a number of notable firms such as Grand Hyatt Hotels, Princess Hotels International, Merrill Lynch, Akibia and Key Systems. Mr. Snyder holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from Stockton State College. He has also pursued advanced training in a range of technology solutions. Most recently, he traveled to New Delhi, India where he became Red Hat Certified. Panelist - Paddy Srinivasan, Co-Founder and CEO, Cumulux | |
2:10 PM – 2:30 PM Location: TBA One of the biggest concerns companies face with public clouds is the storage of their secrets in third-party locations. Moving confidential data into on-demand environments may violate laws, weaken copyright claims, and put the organization at risk. In this session, we'll separate legitimate concerns from the unjustified fears of server-huggers. Speaker - Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO, CyberRiskPartners  Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API’s, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. Www.cyberriskpartners.com Speaker - Nolan Goldberg, Attorney, Proskauer LLP Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/ | |
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Location: TBA Are public cloud providers ready to offer meaningful service level agreements? How can we monitor their performance and availability? In the last year, there's been considerable research into the reliability of on-demand platforms, and in this session, we'll look at the tools and techniques you can use to measure cloud SLAs and keep providers honest. Speaker - Hooman Beheshti, VP of Products, Strangeloop Networks With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. | |
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | |
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Location: TBA Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments. Moderator - John Barnes, CTO, Model Metrics John has earned a national reputation as an application development expert and a leading developer using cloud computing technologies from Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, Google and Adobe. He has over 17 years of technology experience and runs the Mobile Platform Development and R& D teams for Model Metrics, a leading Cloud Computing Consulting firm. John helped grow Model Metrics from a small regional firm into a nationally recognized company and expand into new technologies. John is frequently interviewed by leading publications such as InfoWorld and eWeek and also by leading analysts from Gartner, Forrester and PARC as well as Wall Street around trends in Cloud Computing. John frequently speaks at global conferences such as Dreamforce (Salesforce.com) and Adobe Max as well as other conferences and runs user groups focused on Amazon Web Services. Prior to joining Model Metrics he played key roles at Agentis Software and BroadVision Software and he has a Bachelors of Information Systems from the University of Nebraska. Panelist - Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure, Microsoft  Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team. Windows Azure is a platform for developing, deploying, managing, and hosting cloud-based Web services. Khalidi is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group. Before joining Microsoft, Khalidi was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years tenure at Sun, he held several development, architecture, and management positions in Sun’s software division as well as in Sun Labs. Khalidi was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect and Director of the Sun Cluster product line, Chief Architect of Sun's N1 utility computing initiative, as well as a principal architect of Solaris MC and Spring operating systems. He shipped several releases of Sun Cluster and the Solaris operating system, and hasworked on system management software, high speed networking, and memory management hardware designs. Khalidi has published works in several areas, including operating systems, high availability, distributed systems, object-oriented software, high speed networking, memory management, and computer architecture. He holds 30 patents in these areas. Khalidi has a Ph.D. and a Master ofScience in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. Panelist - Sean Lynch, Product Manager, App Engine, Google Sean Lynch started out at Google working on internal infrastructure before he joined the App Engine team to help open up Google's data centers to the world. Today, Sean spends most of his time working with developers and partners in order to bring the power and simplicity of App Engine into IT departments and development shops the world over. Panelist - Jeff Hoffman, Senior Cloud Architect and Product Manager, EnStratus Panelist - Ron Wastal, VP - Alliances, BD and Channel, Cast Iron Systems, An IBM Company Ron brings to this role over 20 years of direct sales, business development, and product management experience in areas of Cloud, CRM, ERP, HCM, Analytics and Integration. This is Ron's second time being acquired by IBM. Ron defined the strategy and built Cast Iron's partner ecosystem from the ground up which includes today the leading SaaS and Cloud providers such as salesforce.com, Amazon, Google, Cisco-Webex, Netsuite, Taleo, and Successfactors, but also includes the leaders in OnPremise and BPO Hosting application space such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and ADP. Prior to joining Cast Iron, Ron led the IBM Information Integration Solutions business partner organization (formerly Ascential Software), growing partner business by 30% as well as started two successful CRM Integration and Analytic companies that we're later acquired by Informatica and Kana. Ron early in his career spent over 10 years at Sybase and NCR/Teradata, where he held various senior positions in sales, product marketing and management. Ron holds a an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Total Quality Management from Pepperdine University. Panelist - Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services  Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. | |
3:45 PM – 4:20 PM Location: TBA Description to come. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent 
Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Speaker - Steve Riley, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to address security, privacy, and compliance concerns so that they can integrate the cloud with their existing environments to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, privacy, compliance frameworks, and policy. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, IANS, TechEd, and Connections. He co-authored a book about Microsoft security and has published numerous articles. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. Speaker - Keith Pijanowski, Platform Strategy Advisor, Microsoft Keith Pijanowski is a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism team. As a Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft he spends a lot of his time researching the ever changing software industry. Some of the new ideas he has investigated over the years are: • SOA as an Enterprise Architecture • Web 2.0 • Cloud Computing Keith enjoys investigating both the architectural underpinnings of these new ideas as well as the impact each will have on the business models of companies that adopt these ideas. Keith has 23 years of experience in the Software Industry. He has been with Microsoft for 9 of those years. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked for various organizations solving problems in the Health Care, Financial Services, and Professional Services industries. He graduated from Boston University's college of Engineering in 1987 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Keith writes for MSDN Magazine and various developer and architect centers within Microsoft's MSDN site. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and community events in the New York/New Jersey area. You can reach Keith at www.KeithPij.com. | |
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM Location: TBA As we conclude the New York Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll look at the mainstreaming of cloud computing. Within a few short years, IT won't be asking what it can move to on-demand platforms -- it'll be asking what it has to keep operating on its own. As this happens, the role of enterprise IT professionals will change dramatically. We'll speculate on how this change will happen, and look at what the IT industry can do to prepare for the shift. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent
Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded startup accelerator Rednod; web performance management firm Coradiant; and Networkshop, a research firm. He has also worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is the content chair for Cloud Connect, the industry’s largest cloud computing event; the track chair for cloud computing and the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop; and the co-chair of O’Reilly Strata. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications. He has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, IGT, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, Mesh, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Web Operations (2010, O’Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O’Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | |
