2010 Archive: Track Chairs
- John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
- Alistair Croll, Founder, BitCurrent
- Howard Goldstein, Founder, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
- Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
- Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com, Co-Chair, Enterprise Connnect
- Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
- Jim Metzler,Vice President Ashton, Metzler & Associates
- John Pironti, President, IP Architects, LLC
- Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester Research
- Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director, TechWeb Networks
Video Conferencing Track Chair
John Bartlett
Voice, Video and Data Application Performance
NetForecast, Inc.
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. John has engaged with over 50 enterprises and over 20 network vendors to analyze network performance problems, design network solutions, and support network deployments.
John has 30 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. John 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.
Enterprise Cloud Summit Chair
Cloud Computing Track Chair
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).
Storage Track Chair
Howard Goldstein
Founder
Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others.
Goldstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training. Visit www.hgai.com. He provides in-depth skills with his technology-specific classes. His job task approach in his Storage Networking Planning, Design, Performance and Troubleshooting classes provides the skill level required to perform specific job roles in the Storage Networking industry today.
Howard Goldstein has expertise in many aspects of the human side of technology offering innovative consulting and education services on Professional Vitality and Career Development, Adult Learning, and Presentation Development & Delivery Techniques. Howard believes that content and context delivery is as important as content development and is a master of both. Goldstein is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks.
Virtualization Track Chair
Barb Goldworm
President and Chief Analyst
FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is founder, president, and chief analyst of FOCUS, a research, analyst, and consulting firm focused on transformational technologies in virtualization, cloud computing, systems and storage. In addition to serving as Virtualization Track Chair for Interop, she also leads the Enterprise Cloud Summit Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation Workshops, as well as the Private Cloud Track and Workshop for CloudConnect. Barb has spent 30 years in various senior management, engineering, marketing, sales, and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and multiple successful startups. A keynote speaker at hundreds of virtualization, cloud, datacenter and storage events, she has also been one of the top three rated speakers at Data Center Decisions and Storage Networking World. She also chaired the original Interop Storage Networking Track, and the Blade Systems Insight and Server Blade Summit events.
Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular expert columns for Network World, ComputerWorld, Tech Target and others, authoring hundreds of business and technical white papers, market research reports, user surveys, and articles, as well as the Wiley book "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" available on Amazon.
Barb started with virtualization on mainframes in the 1970s, delivered the industry’s first PC Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Solution in the late 1980s, was a SAN thought leader in the 1990s, a blades and virtualization thought leader and book author in the 2000s, and now focuses on cloud, datacenter and desktop transformation.
VOIP/Unified Communications Track Chair
Eric Krapf
Editor, NoJitter.com,
Co-Chair, Enterprise Connnect
Eric Krapf is co-chair of the Enterprise Connnect events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb's online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.
Wireless and Mobility Track Chair
Craig Mathias
Principal
Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a wide 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 conferences(Las Vegas and New York) and is also the Program Chair for the Mobile Business (MB) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and InformationWeek.com, and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.
Networking/Application Delivery 2.0 Track Chair
Jim Metzler
Vice President
Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
John P. Pironti
CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, ISSAP, ISSMP
President
IP Architects, LLC
John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information technology on a global scale. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information System Control (CRISC), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). Mr. Pironti frequently provides briefings and acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders of numerous organizations on information security and risk management and compliance topics and is also a member of a number of technical advisory boards for technology and services firms. He is also a published author and writer, highly quoted and often interviewed by global media, and an award winning frequent speaker on electronic business and information security and risk management topics at domestic and international industry conferences.
Data Center/Green IT Track Chair
Doug Washburn
Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations
Forrester Research
www.forrester.com/interoplv2010
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action.
Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council.
Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial
Excellence.
Enterprise 2.0 Track Chair
Steve Wylie
General Manager and Conference Director
UBM TechWeb
Conference industry veteran Steve Wylie has been involved with some of the World's leading business technology conferences for the past 15 years. As the General Manager and Conference Director for UBM TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, Steve is the driving force behind the largest and most important event for companies transforming their business through social computing and the adoption of collaborative tools and Web 2.0 technologies. Steve formerly co-chaired the annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed Interop's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is a self-professed "car guy" with a passion for British sports cars and is based in San Francisco with his wife and four young kids. Steve can be found on twitter @swylie650.
