2010 Speaker List
Hear from IT leaders and industry experts in more than 100 sessions at the leading business technology event.
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.
Sessions
The Agile Enterprise: Clouds and DevOps
Location: TBA
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 10:45 AM-11:15 AM
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.
Enterprise Cloud Summit - Public Clouds
Location: Room 1E07
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling 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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