2010 Archive: Free Programs
All Interop attendees can access free programs and special events throughout the week. Meet peers, connect with experts and have fun while exploring the latest business technology innovations.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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9:00 AM – 10:20 AM Location: TBA Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT. For more info click here. Keynote Speaker - James Whitehurst, President & CEO, Red Hat  Jim Whitehurst was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in December 2007. Whitehurst joined Delta Air Lines in 2002, serving in various roles, most recently as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for Operations, Sales and Customer Service, Network and Revenue Management, Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Prior to joining Delta, Whitehurst served as Vice President and Director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held various leadership roles in their Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices. A native of Columbus, Ga., Whitehurst graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics. He also attended Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, holds a general course degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Keynote Speaker - Ben Gibson, Vice President Data Center/Virtualization, Cisco Ben Gibson brings 18+ years of IT industry experience to Cisco Systems, where he currently leads the Cisco Data Center/Virtualization Marketing effort globally. Gibson has been instrumental in key areas of solutions marketing prior to his current role for Cisco inclusive of leading Cisco’s Enterprise Global Marketing Solutions and Program Development and leading Cisco’s Wireless and Mobility Solutions Marketing. Prior to Cisco, Gibson served as Vice President of Marketing at both Meru Networks and Proxim Corporation, where he led global marketing, communications, investor relations, and channel marketing programs. During his tenures both at Meru and Proxim, Gibson successfully positioned the companies in the emerging voice-over-WLAN and WiMAX markets, launched several new broadband wireless solutions targeting outdoor applications, and developed successful global channel and demand generation programs. Prior to Proxim, Gibson was Director of Marketing at Atrica, Inc., where he helped establish the company as a leader in the Optical Ethernet market. Gibson has also held product marketing positions at Cisco for the Catalyst 2900/3500 Switching families, and at 3Com Corporation. Gibson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Business from California State University Long Beach. Gibson also serves on the board of AeroScout. Keynote Speaker - Dirk Gates, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Xirrus Dirk Gates brings more than 15 years of executive management experience to Xirrus as well as a track record of success evolving a high-tech startup into a world class, publicly traded company. Having founded Xircom, Inc. in 1988 on the premise of delivering Ethernet connectivity to mobile computers, he attracted venture funding from Greylock, grew the company to 2,000 employees, and achieved revenues of $500M and a market cap in excess of $2B. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, Mr. Gates led Xircom into the wireless arena through partnerships and acquisitions that positioned the company to deliver mobility solutions based on IEEE 802.11, GPRS and BlueTooth technologies. He subsequently negotiated the sale of Xircom to Intel Corp. in March of 2001. Mr. Gates holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State University at Northridge and an MBA from Pepperdine University. | |
10:30 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Expo Floor See all the latest IT solutions from 150+ leading vendors. | |
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Location: Cloud Zone Theater As you consider the most secure and cost-effective ways to take advantage of cloud computing in your enterprise, there are several factors you should assess for your strategy. Attend this session to learn about the technical, operations and business decisions that are the keys to a successful cloud implementation. Speaker - Bob Lamendola, Vice President, Client Services, mindSHIFT As Vice President, Client Services at mindSHIFT Technologies, Bob Lamendola is responsible for delivering network infrastructure solutions for clients. Bob’s role includes directing the teams responsible for designing the client solution to meet specifications, architecting its implementation and delivering the final product on time and on budget. | |
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Free Ed Room 2  The Associated Press is the world’s largest syndicator of news content. Period. For them, the cloud offers the opportunity to further operationalize this asset, focus on the business challenges on hand and less on the infrastructure challenges. Join us for a case study in how they have used the Dallas data marketplace and other key building blocks of the Windows Azure Platform to create a new business opportunity. They will discuss their challenges, the approach, and lessons to date. Speaker - Joseph Hofstader, Senior Platform Strategy Advisor, Microsoft Joseph Hofstader is a Senior Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft and focuses upon addressing customer business challenges with new approaches. He works with communications sector providers. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Free Ed Room 1 Learn how centralizing your desktops can lower the cost of end point management. How can it give the most optimal user experience for a virtualized environment? This session will go into detail on end-to-end solutions. Sophisticated simplicity with an uncompromising user experience. Speaker - Parmeet Chaddha, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Pano Logic As executive vice president of products and technology, Parmeet brings more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership experience to Pano Logic and is responsible for leadership of the company's product development. Prior to joining Pano Logic, Parmeet was CEO and co-founder of MobileVerbs, Inc., a next generation mobile marketing platform, acquired by iLoop Mobile Inc. Before MobileVerbs, Parmeet was CTO of the Applications-on-Demand business unit at IBM, which had acquired Corio, an enterprise application service provider. At Corio, Parmeet held a number of executive positions, including CTO, Senior Vice President and President of Corio India. Parmeet started his career at Oracle, where he served as Director of Tools Development. Parmeet has also served as a consulting advisor to a number of technology companies. Parmeet holds a number of patents and has been widely published in industry and technical trade publications. He holds an M.S. and B.S. from MIT. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom
Speaker - Brandon Ross, Routing and Externals, InteropNet Team Lead | |
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM  Location: Cloud Zone Theater The State of The Service Desk Market is Ready for a New SaaS Gameplan The Enterprise service desk market is poised for a rapid growth in SaaS because it offers rapid deployment. Traditional premise-based solutions are difficult to deploy, take too long to integrate or beg a RIP approach. SaaS IT service desk tools designed with an ITIL modular approach offer a cost effective gameplan. Integration between the SaaS IT service desk tool and other IT service management (ITSM) tools in the enterprise environmentsis a key selection criteria. Learn more in this session. Speaker - Domenick Lionetti, Vice President of Sales, NTRglobal | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2  Enterprises are universally considering and installing features of Unified Communications. The forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are driving change into every aspect of enterprise communication. Learn how Unified Communications will become ubiquitously deployed as these technologies sweep through the workplace. ShoreTel’s Founder and CTO, Ed Basart describes the future of enterprise communications. Speaker - Ed Basart, Co-Founder and CTO, ShoreTel Ed Basart co-founded ShoreTel in 1996. He is responsible for the long-range direction of ShoreTel's product research and development. In addition to ShoreTel, Ed also co-founded two other prominent companies: Network Computing Devices, where he was vice president of engineering, and Ridge Computers, where he served as vice president of software. He began his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard. Basart, an Iowa native, holds a Bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1  Businesses are always looking for ways to maximize the latest applications on the market. This session will introduce the world’s first matchmaking engine connecting specific businesses with relevant applications, an innovative approach to helping customers find the SaaS apps that fit their needs. Speaker - Andy Schroepfer, VP Enterprise Strategy, Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace As VP of Strategy at Rackspace, Andy Schroepfer’s goal is to quicken the pace that businesses see, and act on, the reality that the future of computing is not about servers, but about service. He calls this the Road to ACE (All Cloud Enterprise), where ACE is a business that operates powerfully without servers, by leveraging the most efficient hosting platform (dedicated or cloud) for their custom apps and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications for the rest. Schroepfer has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol) industry’s primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry whose insights and data remain best-of-breed. Schroepfer has been a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for social media applications like Facebook and Twitter. | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom The InteropNet functions like service provider, corporation, and academic institution, all at the same time. Each of these environments has it’s own native security challenges, all of which get more complex when combined. Josh will discuss how various McAfee security products, in careful coordination with many of the other InteropNet providers, address and mitigate these security threats in one of the most dynamic and challenging networks in the world. Speaker - Josh Archambault, Seniort Network Engineer, McAfee Josh has over 15 years of network engineering experience, including more than a decade solving some of the most difficult network and network security problems for McAfee customers. | |
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  Description to come. Speaker - Mark Darvill, VP of Marketing and Product Management, AEP Networks | |
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Server memory is a critical resource constraint in datacenters and as demand for virtualization and cloud applications continues to increase; this limitation will have economic and operational impact. This presentation explores the new HyperCloud memory technology from Netlist and how it can maximize server utilization, improve productivity and reduce TCO. Speaker - Paul Duran, Director of Marketing, Netlist Paul Duran has over 17 years industry experience in the Communications industry and is currently the Director of Business Development for Netlist. His experience includes working for Fortune 500 Companies such as Motorola, and Rockwell. Paul also has experience working for leading edge high-tech start-ups such as Luxtera and Astute Networks. Paul obtained his BSEE and MSEE from MIT and MBA from ASU. | |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2  Description to come. Speaker - Larry Hart, Head of Worldwide Marketing, Dell Networking  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. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1 
Randy Rowland, Terremark Senior Vice President of Product Development, will present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance, and learn how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture. Speaker - Simon West, Chief Marketing Officer, Terremark | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom This session will provide a brief summary of the build, documentation, and management of the Interop Show Network. We will take you through the processes and tools used to build, test and monitor the Interop Network from the Hot staging area in Brisbane, CA. to the show floor in NYC. We will cover backbone installation and testing, cable plant installation testing and documentation, network certification and delivery, and management and monitoring of the production network with the software and hardware tools used. Speaker - Barry Cummings, Monitoring and Management, InteropNet Team Lead | |
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  E-mail performance is increasingly significant as corporate workforces become more mobile. But with interfering factors like Internet congestion and cell network issues, mobile e-mail performance can become seriously impaired. This session will examine how one managed service provider successfully reduces latency and connectivity issues for its global hosted Exchange customers. Speaker - Scott Cutler, Chief Operating Officer, AppRiver | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2 Description to come. | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1  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. Speaker - Jamie Winterset, VP of Sales, TriGeo Network Security | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom This presentation will educate attendees on the importance of a UC strategy based on SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) open standards and interfaces, allowing for flexible deployment and integration into diverse IT and Telephony environments, including Microsoft and IBM. The session will discuss the transformational process efficiencies of CEBP (Communications enabled business processes) as well as explore the integration of social media applications within the enterprise. Speaker - Chuck Brooks, Siemens | |
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  Get a perspective on how how to leverage the benefits of enterprise cloud technology in ways that are financially and operationally responsible. Let the cloud model work for you rather than trying to make your needs fit in to the cloud and get the most out of your investments. Speaker - Adam Greenfield, Senior Platform Product Manager, Hosting.com In his current role, Adam is responsible for strategy, planning and oversight of new products and enhancements in all of our core platform products. This includes our Cloud, Dedicated Server and Co-Location product lines. | |
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Join Terremark for an interactive demonstration of Terremark's Cloud products and receive a gift card good for free computing on Terremark vCloud Express. Speaker - Scott Thomas, Regional Vice President Inside Sales, Terramark | |
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2  Desktop virtualization is more than VDI and IT must understand the different technologies, how to choose which users to start with, and how to take that success and expand it. Learn how desktop virtualization can transform desktop computing to address your management challenges while offering flexibility for users. Speaker - Harry Labana, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Desktop Division, Citrix Systems, Inc. Harry Labana joined Citrix in July 2009 as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Citrix Desktop Division. He is a member of the leadership team that charts the technological direction and product roadmap including Citrix’s $1 billion flagship product line. As CTO, he is also responsible for helping to communicate the strategic direction of the company’s desktop virtualization solutions to internal and external audiences. As part of the Citrix Office of the CTO, Harry collaborates with other Citrix CTOs to drive the company’s overall technology direction and product strategy and advises the executive management team. Prior to joining Citrix, Harry was at Goldman Sachs for nine years and was most recently a Vice President in the technology division, leading the global engineering and architecture efforts for desktop and application virtualization. Harry worked closely with the Office of the CIO to advise clients, internal bankers and research analysts on trends and investment opportunities as well as with leading software entrepreneurs and established leaders on strategy to influence their respective roadmaps. Harry Labana has 15 years experience in numerous infrastructure, architecture, project management and software development roles in financial services firms such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, and he was a Citrix customer for many years. Harry holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic systems engineering with honors from the University of Manchester (UK). | |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1  DCIM encapsulates new approaches to integrating IT and facility management by centralizing monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of critical infrastructure. This session shares lessons learned in implementing Emerson’s 35,000-square-foot global data center, including actionable insight into infrastructure utilization in a virtualized environment, true measurement of capacity and power consumption, and accurate capacity planning. Speaker - Keith Gislason, Director of Product Marketing, Avocent | |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom This session outlines the current power demands and industry trends within today’s Data Center, including regulatory direction along with the different types of power being used today and their advantages. Specific tools for device management and power monitoring will be explored including those implemented within the InteropNet. Speaker - Calvin Nicholson, ServerTech | |
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Expo Floor Explore the expo while enjoying beverages courtesy of participating exhibitors | |
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  Moving to the cloud raises lots of questions, mostly about security. Providers worthy of your business should answer them clearly and honestly. Amazon Web Services has built an infrastructure and established processes to mitigate common vulnerabilities and offer a safe compute and storage environment. Steve Riley will discuss common cloud security concerns, show how AWS protects its infrastructure from internal and external attack, and explain how you can take advantage of the security features of AWS in your own applications as you extend your enterprise into the cloud. 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. | |
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  Vembu Technologies, a leading provider of on-premise and cloud backup software and services, will be demonstrating StoreGrid Professional Edition, a Network-based disk-to-disk-to-cloud data backup software. With StoreGrid, businesses can backup to an on-premise backup server with optional replication to the Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure. StoreGrid supports backing up Windows desktops, MAC OS X, Windows servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, MySQL, Linux Server, FreeBSD and Solaris Servers. Speaker - Lenin Srinivasan, Manager - Product Marketing, Vembu Technologies Inc. Lenin Srinivasan’ s role in Vembu Technologies involves day to day Product Marketing activities and planning product’s go-to-market strategy. Vembu Technologies helps businesses in setting up effective Data Backup and Disaster Recovery solution with their flagship Network Backup Software product StoreGrid. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
9:00 AM – 10:20 AM Location: TBA
Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT. For more info click here. 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). Keynote Speaker - Dario Zamarian, Networking Platform Vice President and General Manager, Dell Inc. Dario Zamarian serves as vice president and general manager, Networking Platform, for Dell. In this role, he is responsible for engineering, design, development and marketing of all networking products and solutions. Prior to joining Dell in 2010, Dario was vice president of Systems and Network Management for the Access Routing Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. He also served as vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security and Network Management business unit. Prior to joining Cisco in 2004, Dario held senior leadership roles with several Silicon Valley startup companies, including Servgate Technologies and Securify. Dario earned a master's degree in business administration from INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration), France and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Keynote Speaker - Dave Crespi, Chief Technology Officer, Emulex Dave Crespi joined Emulex in June 1996 and serves as chief technology officer. In this role, Mr. Crespi interfaces directly with customers, end users and systems integrators in order to help lead the company’s research and development. Dave Crespi and has been instrumental in identifying and creating technology roadmaps that have yielded strategic opportunities and provided the company a competitive advantage. Mr. Crespi came to Emulex as a result of the company’s acquisition of Vixel Corporation where he served as senior director of engineering. Prior to Vixel, Dave Crespi co-founded Arcxel Technology, which developed Fibre Channel switching technology. Mr. Crespi has extensive experience in computer communications and symmetric multi-processing. Dave Crespi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. Keynote Panelist - Randy Rowland, Senior Vice President of Product Developmentr, Terremark Worldwide Inc.  Randy Rowland, Terremark Senior Vice President of Product Development, will present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance, and learn how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture. Keynote Panelist - Andy Schroepfer, VP Enterprise Strategy, Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace As VP of Strategy at Rackspace, Andy Schroepfer’s goal is to quicken the pace that businesses see, and act on, the reality that the future of computing is not about servers, but about service. He calls this the Road to ACE (All Cloud Enterprise), where ACE is a business that operates powerfully without servers, by leveraging the most efficient hosting platform (dedicated or cloud) for their custom apps and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications for the rest. Schroepfer has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol) industry’s primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry whose insights and data remain best-of-breed. Schroepfer has been a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for social media applications like Facebook and Twitter. Keynote Panelist - Harry Labana, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Desktop Division, Citrix Systems, Inc. Harry Labana joined Citrix in July 2009 as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Citrix Desktop Division. He is a member of the leadership team that charts the technological direction and product roadmap including Citrix’s $1 billion flagship product line. As CTO, he is also responsible for helping to communicate the strategic direction of the company’s desktop virtualization solutions to internal and external audiences. As part of the Citrix Office of the CTO, Harry collaborates with other Citrix CTOs to drive the company’s overall technology direction and product strategy and advises the executive management team. Prior to joining Citrix, Harry was at Goldman Sachs for nine years and was most recently a Vice President in the technology division, leading the global engineering and architecture efforts for desktop and application virtualization. Harry worked closely with the Office of the CIO to advise clients, internal bankers and research analysts on trends and investment opportunities as well as with leading software entrepreneurs and established leaders on strategy to influence their respective roadmaps. Harry Labana has 15 years experience in numerous infrastructure, architecture, project management and software development roles in financial services firms such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, and he was a Citrix customer for many years. Harry holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic systems engineering with honors from the University of Manchester (UK). | |
10:30 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Expo Floor See all the latest IT solutions from 150+ leading vendors. | |
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Few companies appreciate archived data like the Associated Press. Normally archived data refers to info we never plan to use other than on an exception basis. Yet we will still incur costs like computer hardware and software, electric power, and human resources. Why not monetize that information via a data marketplace? This how-to session will do just that. We will walk through how you can use the “Dallas” data marketplace as AP did. You’ll learn how to create a cloud-based information marketplace that allows monetization of content via a unified provisioning and billing framework. Additionally, we will show how “Dallas” enables developers and information workers to easily discover, purchase, and manage premium data subscriptions for current or new business needs, via the Windows Azure platform. Join us and see it in action! Speaker - Joseph Hofstader, Senior Platform Strategy Advisor, Microsoft Joseph Hofstader is a Senior Platform Strategy Advisor at Microsoft and focuses upon addressing customer business challenges with new approaches. He works with communications sector providers. | |
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Free Ed Room 1  Today companies need solutions that accelerate deployment of automated private cloud environments that match the speed, flexibility and economics of public clouds – without risk or loss of control. Learn how to build a foundation to the cloud and identify a plan to converge public and private cloud solutions with common control, governances and security. Speaker - Lee Kedrie, Managing Partner Advanced Technologies, HP
Lee Kedrie is chief brand officer and evangelist for Global Technology Consulting at HP. A recognized thought leader in next-generation computing, he has directly contributed to the design of cutting-edge HP solutions that incorporate shared utility computing models. He is an industry advocate, communicating HP’s cloud computing vision (click here to see Lee’s presentation at the Ingram Micro Partner Summit). Since 2001, Kedrie has led several worldwide teams tasked with augmenting organizational, cultural, governance and operational processes of HP enterprise customers so that shared services and cloud computing become a workable reality in their organizations. Kedrie has consulted for major HP customers in the areas of transformation, operational improvement and next-generation computing. Kedrie has 30 years of experience in the technology industry, including 17 years of business ownership. He has consulted with major global telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, financial and pharmaceutical organizations in the areas of next-generation computing models, IT shared services, consolidation, computer telephony and convergence. He has served as a director on the board of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants speaking in the United States and internationally. Speaker - Archie Reed, Chief Technologist, Cloud Security, Enterprise Business, HP Archie Reed, the chief technologist for Cloud Security at HP, has worked with enterprise customers for more than 20 years to define and deliver security strategies and solutions. Archie is a pivotal leader in the security component of HP’s cloud computing strategy, offering guidance across a wide range of areas including architecture, products, and research and development, as well as cloud implementation in high-profile environments. He is a noted author, having published such forward-thinking pieces on security and cloud as "The Definitive Guide to Identity Management" and the 2010 "Concise Guide to Cloud Services." He maintains his own blog on HP.com on this topic – Archie Reed’s Secure Observations Blog – which allows him to comment on the breaking security issues of the day. In addition, he is regularly heard on analyst Dana Gardner’s podcasts, where he provides listeners with advice on the best methods for adopting and securing cloud computing. He also is frequently quoted in trade outlets including SearchCloudComputing, eCommerce Times and IT Business Edge. Archie has served as an industry adviser to multiple organizations, including Digital ID World, Identity Engines and OASIS, and has been a noted speaker at various trade shows through the years. He has a background that spans numerous vertical industries, having worked with telecoms and financial services, integrators, start ups and large enterprises. Archie has a master’s in Enterprise Network Management from Sheffield Hallam University. | |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom Interop represents a microcosm of the typical enterprise network. Learn about three unusual deployment problems encountered at recent New York Interop shows, all similar to what your network may experience. • Network-wide intermittent Internet access. • Almost operational 802.11 Access Point • 802.11b/g performance challenges Speaker - Neal Allen, Visual Networks, Author and InteropNet Veteran | |
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater The current legacy approach to security is expensive, resource intensive and ineffective. Babak Pasdar explains CloudSec, a comprehensive, robust and complete perimeter security solution that replaces equipment, support and subscriptions. Cloud/Sec is security in-the-cloud that delivers consistent security to all organizational sites while eliminating expense, and burdens of legacy tools and approaches. Speaker - Babak Pasdar, President, CEO and Chief Technologist, Bat Blue Corporation Babak Pasdar, is a 24 year veteran of the technology industry and is recognized industry-wide as an emerging technology evangelist. He has a proven track record in both identifying early stage technologies that address emerging client requirements and building successful technology organizations, Cybernex and IGX Global. Bat Blue is his third successful startup. | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1 Cost reduction and improved IT responsiveness are at the forefront of discussions related to private clouds, but there’s another issue central to this approach’s value proposition: better infrastructure control. This session will explore seven key ways private clouds can be leveraged to break traditional cost structures, promote greater business agility and reduce the constraints of vendor lock-in through new models of application support. We will discuss the evolution from clusters to grids to clouds, and share how leading Wall Street, technology, biotech and telecom companies are approaching private clouds, and outline best practices for successful planning and deployment. Speaker - Dr. Songnian Zhou, CEO, Platform Computing Speaker - David Warm, Chief Technology Officer, Financial Services, Platform Computing  David has over 20 years experience in financial services, working at major investment banks like JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Platform Computing, he was responsible for infrastructure architecture solutions design and service delivery at Merrill Lynch, supporting the company’s Fixed Income, Prime Brokerage and Global Markets Transactional Clearing and Settlement businesses. He has also held management positions at Goldman Sachs, and with several technology vendors serving the financial services industry, including Fortent, an Anti-Money Laundering software vendor and Egenera, a virtualization hardware vendor. He holds a Masters Degree in Technology Management from NYU-Poly | |
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom The number of Wi-Fi enabled devices has exploded. Additionally, application requirements are pushing bandwidth demand to a whole new level. Xirrus, the official Wi-Fi provider for Interop, will guide you through their planning and configuration for wireless services in a high-density environment. The presentation will cover both technical and non-technical methods, and attendees will leave with practical recommendations for building a reliable wireless network. Speaker - Douglas Haider, Xirrus | |
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Both software vendors and internal IT groups are struggling with how to migrate existing business applications to Software as a Service (SaaS) models in the cloud. Find out how leading companies are streamlining ongoing application delivery operations while also achieving first mover advantage by maximizing speed to market. Speaker - Sinclair Schuller, CEO, Apprenda, Inc. Before co-founding Apprenda, Sinclair held positions at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and the State University of New York (SUNY). Sinclair holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics with a Minor in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Sinclair excels in understanding the economics of SaaS platforms and ecosystems, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. | |
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  The need for a definitive cloud architecture for the enterprise is addressed by Morphlabs' session on Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA). Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA) describes the building blocks and binding components of a fault tolerant, elastic and highly automated platform to run highly reliable applications and services. ECA implements the complete platform combination for cloud computing (also known as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). In this 20-minute session, the elements of ECA, functional definition and the layers that comprise ECA will be introduced. Speaker - Winston Damarillo, Founder and CEO, Morphlabs, Inc. Winston Damarillo is the founder and CEO of Morphlabs, a comprehensive cloud computing platform provider. He is a proven serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful technology start-ups; his past entrepreneurial endeavors have included Gluecode Software, Logicblaze and DevZuz (formerly Simula Labs). | |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1  We have all heard that 10GbE is moving into the mainstream, but is it really? In this session we will look at the most pragmatic ways to consider deploying 10GbE today, prepare for network convergence tomorrow, and how to build a pragmatic plan for moving 10GbE into your main stream operations. Speaker - Shaun Walsh, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Emulex Shaun Walsh joined Emulex in 2008 and serves as vice president of corporate marketing. Walsh directs the company’s branding, outbound product and solution marketing, OEM and channel marketing and marketing communications. Walsh has held various executive and senior management positions at Quantum, Overland Storage, JNI, STEC, Dot Hill and QLogic. Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Pepperdine University. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2  With most network management and analysis solutions you slice and dice data to deal with network traffic from 10 Gigabit (10G) network segments. You’re forced to chose between real-time network performance statistics and network forensics. Learn best practices for achieving real-time visibility and storage of historical network data. Speaker - Joe Habib, Director of Global Services, WildPackets Mr. Joe Habib is a seasoned executive with proven expertise in Information Technology, eCommerce, and Systems Management. Joe possesses over 15 years experience in designing, developing, and delivering technology and information management solutions. He has managed large information and network services for several Silicon Valley and international companies. Joe holds a BA in Business and Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications from San Jose State University. Joe holds certifications with Cisco and Microsoft. | |
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom This session will show you how to gain operational efficiencies via automated access rules at the network edge. Review the benefits of providing policy-based control at the access level, impeding malicious activity before it reaches the core of the network, and greatly improving network uptime and application performance. Speaker - Kurt Skowronek, Enterasys | |
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Businesses today have more choice in cloud-based applications than ever before. Understanding how this technology can work to your business’ advantage is more critical than ever. This session will help you understand the specific benefits of using SaaS cloud-based solutions instead of traditional solutions. Speaker - Andy Schroepfer, VP Enterprise Strategy, Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace As VP of Strategy at Rackspace, Andy Schroepfer’s goal is to quicken the pace that businesses see, and act on, the reality that the future of computing is not about servers, but about service. He calls this the Road to ACE (All Cloud Enterprise), where ACE is a business that operates powerfully without servers, by leveraging the most efficient hosting platform (dedicated or cloud) for their custom apps and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications for the rest. Schroepfer has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol) industry’s primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry whose insights and data remain best-of-breed. Schroepfer has been a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for social media applications like Facebook and Twitter. | |
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 1  Contrary to popular belief, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is not the only game in town. There are several virtualization techniques for desktops and applications and a blended approach is often the most cost-effective way to deliver the right services to varying user types. Learn how choice and flexibility can deliver the best desktop virtualization results. Speaker - Mike Bowe, Systems Consultant, Quest Software | |
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2:20 PM – 2:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater  Cloud computing is becoming a more significant part of the IT resource chest and organizations are leveraging this to deliver their applications to customers. In a world where physical computing resources are by definition shared and virtual, delivering a good user experience becomes paramount. Speaker - Ken Godskind, Chief Strategy Officer, AlertSite Ken Godskind, Chief Strategy Officer for AlertSite, is responsible for leading AlertSite's mission to globalize, meet evolving industry and customer demands and accelerate growth and business opportunities. With over 20 years of experience in the Web technology sphere, Godskind is charged with raising awareness of the vital role that Web Performance Monitoring plays in successful Web site and IT infrastructure design and architecture. | |
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Today’s businesses are facing the growing pains of an overwhelming amount of information that is scattered across various disparate systems and sources. Millions have been spent on developing various silo-ed information systems, either in the cloud or in house, yet knowledge workers and decision makers are unable to see the information they need quickly - be it live business information or important business documents.? ? With the change of end user’s mindset and expectations, and the impact of the current tough economic conditions, the enterprise users now demand DYI type of quick access of critical information - the kind of capabilities that typically required 6 month or 1-year project to do by a company’s engineering team or consulting firms are now expected to be done in a much faster time frame. Learn how the latest technology innovations incorporate the latest advances in User Interface Virtualization that offers improved productivity, faster decision making and extraordinary business value Speaker - Kevin Yin, CEO, SitScape, Inc. As the CEO and co-founder of SitScape, Kevin brings over 15 years of experience in management, strategy, consulting, enterprise architecture, and program management of both large-scale business technology initiatives and fast-paced hi-tech start-ups. | |
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Location: Expo Hall, Booth 661 Get a practical, behind the scenes view of the InteropNet by taking a free engineer-led tour. | |
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom IT today is making decisions on how, when and what to move to the cloud. A large part of this process is how to monitor your new cloud resources and your existing IT infrastructure in a holistic way. EM7’s monitoring of InteropNet provides some lessons and caveats for anyone moving to the cloud. Speaker - Doug Stevenson, ScienceLogic | |
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Increasingly companies are looking to improve service delivery while lowering costs. This session looks at how three different companies deployed automated and on-demand access to IT resources, allowing users to get secure multi-tenant access to what they need (virtual or physical), when they need it, without manual intervention.on-demand access to IT resources; allowing users get secure multi-tenant access to what they need (virtual or physical), when they need it, without manual intervention. Speaker - Sid Smith, Systems Engineer, DynamicOps Rich Bourdeau has more than 20 years experience developing, managing, and marketing IT infrastructure management solutions. He was vice president of product management at Incipient, and held product marketing and management positions at EMC. He is currently vice president of product management at DynamicOps. | |
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Come and meet the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. This elite group is helping to advance private cloud deployments and drive future innovations. Representing a range of expertise, the Cloud Advisors will discuss the areas needed to successfully and securely deploy your own private cloud. Speaker - Lee Kedrie, Managing Partner Advanced Technologies, HP
Lee Kedrie is chief brand officer and evangelist for Global Technology Consulting at HP. A recognized thought leader in next-generation computing, he has directly contributed to the design of cutting-edge HP solutions that incorporate shared utility computing models. He is an industry advocate, communicating HP’s cloud computing vision (click here to see Lee’s presentation at the Ingram Micro Partner Summit). Since 2001, Kedrie has led several worldwide teams tasked with augmenting organizational, cultural, governance and operational processes of HP enterprise customers so that shared services and cloud computing become a workable reality in their organizations. Kedrie has consulted for major HP customers in the areas of transformation, operational improvement and next-generation computing. Kedrie has 30 years of experience in the technology industry, including 17 years of business ownership. He has consulted with major global telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, financial and pharmaceutical organizations in the areas of next-generation computing models, IT shared services, consolidation, computer telephony and convergence. He has served as a director on the board of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants speaking in the United States and internationally. Speaker - Archie Reed, Chief Technologist, Cloud Security, Enterprise Business, HP Archie Reed, the chief technologist for Cloud Security at HP, has worked with enterprise customers for more than 20 years to define and deliver security strategies and solutions. Archie is a pivotal leader in the security component of HP’s cloud computing strategy, offering guidance across a wide range of areas including architecture, products, and research and development, as well as cloud implementation in high-profile environments. He is a noted author, having published such forward-thinking pieces on security and cloud as "The Definitive Guide to Identity Management" and the 2010 "Concise Guide to Cloud Services." He maintains his own blog on HP.com on this topic – Archie Reed’s Secure Observations Blog – which allows him to comment on the breaking security issues of the day. In addition, he is regularly heard on analyst Dana Gardner’s podcasts, where he provides listeners with advice on the best methods for adopting and securing cloud computing. He also is frequently quoted in trade outlets including SearchCloudComputing, eCommerce Times and IT Business Edge. Archie has served as an industry adviser to multiple organizations, including Digital ID World, Identity Engines and OASIS, and has been a noted speaker at various trade shows through the years. He has a background that spans numerous vertical industries, having worked with telecoms and financial services, integrators, start ups and large enterprises. Archie has a master’s in Enterprise Network Management from Sheffield Hallam University. Speaker - Mark Watkins, HP Fellow and Director Storage Technologies, HP Mark Robert Watkins is a well-recognized leader in the storage industry with a unique specialty for delivering high performance cloud computing in warehousing and storage environments. Mark’s insight on cloud and storage encompasses people, technologies and his own personal experiences. He has been actively involved in every major initiative in HP’s StorageWorks Division (SWD) as both a driver and an active team member. Speaker - Charles Bess, HP Fellow and Chief Technologies, Enterprise Services, HP Charles E. Bess is an HP Fellow. The title of HP Fellow is awarded to the corporation’s most innovative thought leaders in recognition of their exceptional achievements. | |
