Deep Dives Conference Track
The Interop New York 2011 conference agenda features “deep dives” or extended conference sessions on IT’s most pressing and relevant topics. Hear from the industry’s thought leaders on cloud, mobile device management and virtualization.
| Wednesday, October 5 | |
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10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Location: Room 1E12 Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings. Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed and arm you with the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure. 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. | |
2:00 PM – 4:15 PM Location: Room 1E12 Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends. Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you, your business and the industry overall? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools? Plus, everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does that really mean? There are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. Learn about a broad view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements. If you are looking for a solid foundation for understanding server and desktop virtualization, this double session is the one for you. Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS  Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization. Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com. Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education. | |
| Thursday, October 6 | |
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Location: Room 1E10 This detailed two-hour session will examine the key management and operational issues involved in successful mobile operations. Each presenter will discuss key best practices, learned over many years of experience, and help put any organization on the path to mobile success. We’ll cover, in depth, vital issues related to managing a mobile workforce and ensuring security and integrity, and also explore the very important emerging field of mobile device management – all in an interactive, cross-disciplinary setting. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group  Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Founded in 1991, 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 and often-quoted industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, as well as Webcasts, Webinars, and podcasts. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the INTEROP conferences (Las Vegas and New York) and is the Chair of the Wireless and Mobility track. He serves as a monthly columnist for InformationWeek.com and the Enterprise Mobility Foundation (theemf.org), and ardent blogger (“Nearpoints”) for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Panelist - Lisa Phifer, President, Core Competence  Lisa has been involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of networking, security, and management products for over 25 years. Since joining Core Competence in 1995, she has advised companies large and small regarding security needs, product assessment, and the use of emerging technologies and best practices. Lisa teaches about wireless LANs, mobile security, and virtual private networking, and has written extensively for numerous publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, Information Security, and SearchMobileComputing. Lisa's columns are published monthly by eSecurityPlanet, searchNetworking, and the AirWISE Community Security Center. Lisa holds an MS, Computer Science from Villanova University, and a BS in Computer Science from West Chester University. Panelist - Philippe Winthrop, Managing Director, The Enterprise Mobility Foundation  Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices. | |
2:00 PM – 4:15 PM Location: Room 1E10 For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:
In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:
Moderator - 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. Moderator - John Repucci, Infrastructure Architect, Global Network Services, Boston Scientific Panelist - Shashi Kiran, Director, Data Center/Virtualization Marketing, Cisco  Shashi Kiran is the Director for Cisco’s Data Center/Virtualization marketing strategy worldwide. In this position, he heads the architectural and Innovations team with a responsibility to drive Cisco’s architectural advantage as well as switching, storage, application delivery and WAN optimization areas. Previously, Shashi headed the the Enterprise Routing team at Cisco as part of Cisco’s Borderless Networks initiative. In this position he was responsible for defining the vision and strategic execution for the network as a platform focusing on various technologies that have a play in the branch and WAN. In his 15-year career, Shashi has held leadership roles in the areas of Product Line Management, Marketing and Sales engineering in areas of Security, Routing, Metro Ethernet and hi-touch services for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Prior to Cisco he worked with Nortel, Euclid Networks and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Dept. of IT, Govt. of India). He was also an editorial consultant and columnist for the Network Magazine (Indian edn.) from 1997-2001 in a honorary capacity. Kiran has been involved in contributing to standards bodies primarily in security and frequently speaks at Industry events. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters in Business Adminstration in addition to a few industry certifications. Follow Shashi Kiran on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/netkiran Panelist - Doug Gourlay, VP, Marketing, Arista Networks, Inc.  As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer. Panelist - Mike Nielsen, Director, HPN Solutions Marketing, HP Panelist - Paul Unbehagen, Director, PLM Strategy and Standards, Avaya Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB)and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft. Paul is now participating in the design, standardization, implementation and productization of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging. Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 16 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier. Panelist - Dhritiman Dasgupta, Director of Product Marketing, Juniper Networks  Dhritiman Dasgupta (aka DD) is Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies at Juniper Networks. DD has more than 12 years of experience in the networking industry with roles in product management, corporate marketing, software engineering and customer support. Prior to joining Juniper, he was at Cisco as a Senior Product Line Manager for campus and data center switching. He started his career at Nortel Networks, Canada in the network management team. DD has a bachelor degree in Computer Architecture and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. Panelist - Scott Martin, Principal Systems Engineer, Brocade As a Principle Systems Engineer with Brocade, Scott is responsible for designing data center solutions for storage and compute architectures which align customer’s business goals and challenges with technology solutions. He brings a wealth of real world experience in designing solutions for complex business issues with proven experience in key areas such as Data Center Design, Cloud Computing, Converged Storage, High Performance Computing, and Video Production over IP networks. Panelist - Steve Blake, Senior Principal Engineer, Extreme Networks, Inc.  Dr. Steven Blake is a Senior Principal Engineer at Extreme Networks, where he is responsible for architecting solutions for data center network challenges, such as Virtual Machine mobility and service scalability. Blake joined Extreme Networks in 2008, bringing over 13 years of experience in networking technology, previously having held positions as a principal engineer and architect for IBM and Ericsson. He is a long-term participant in the IETF, having co-authored some of the core Diffserv RFCs, and currently serving as co-chair of the PCN working group. He is currently participating in the Open Networking Foundation, defining the evolution of the OpenFlow protocol. | |
Deep Dives Free Programs
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free programs, Wednesday through Thursday, including the following covering Deep Dives:
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