Conference: Application Delivery Track (Interop NY 2009 archive)
Application delivery has allowed most IT organizations to deploy the first generation of both WAN optimization and application performance management products. While IT organizations are trying to maximize their current investment, technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing are greatly complicating the task of ensuring acceptable application performance. This track will help you learn how to improve the current management of application delivery by focusing on key technologies and services, best practices, and automation. Look forward in time and explore emerging technologies that complicate and/or facilitate the task of ensuring successful application delivery.
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 Best Practices in Designing and Managing Application Delivery (Location: 1E07)IT organizations have typically focused on designing and managing individual technology domains and hoped that if each domain was performing well, that the application was performing well. Realizing that hope is not a strategy, many leading edge IT organizations have begun to take an approach to design and management that cuts across domains. The panelists in this session, all of whom work in IT organizations, will discuss what their organization has done from a design and management perspective to ensure acceptable application delivery. 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. Speaker - Jerome Oglesby, Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology Services, Deloitte Services LP
Jerome Oglesby is Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte LLP, the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services organizations, providing audit, risk management, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to selected clients. As Chief Technology Officer of the 1,100 person Information Technology Service organization, he is responsible for the technology strategy and transformation of the technology platforms for Deloitte's operations in the U.S. He is also responsible for the Service-Line Technology Centers of Innovation and Incubation that deliver technology solutions which support client-services engagements Speaker - Josh Hinkle, Manager, Data Center, Network & Security Mgt., American Heart Association
Josh Hinkle is the Mgr, Datacenter, Network & Security Management at the American Heart Association, a non-profit whose mission is "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke." Josh has worked in the academic, manufacturing and non-profit sectors during his 13 years in the industry, specializing in network management and security operations. Josh has been successful in building internal consensus throughout the organizations he has worked for enabling the design and implementation of world class solutions. Josh can be followed @ www.twitter.com/josh.hinkle or his blog www.technipology.com Speaker - Terry Dymek, Director Access Services Information Systems, Boston Scientific
Terry Dymek is an industry veteran with over 25 years in the information technology field. His main area of expertise is in IT infrastructure with a speciality in voie/dta networking. Over the years, Terry has held key postions in companies such as Sybase, John Hancock, and EMC where he led numerous projects that provided a effcient and effective iT infrastructure that supported the strategy and operations of the enterprise. | |||||
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Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer? (Location: 1E07) The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly seventy five percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo and that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don't make some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new value added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of loosing control over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit functionality IT organizations can safely automate. 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. Speaker - Mark Leake, Director, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett Packard
Mark is Director of Portfolio and Executive Content in HP Software Products. He works with executive management and the global marketing, product marketing, and enablement teams to develop portfolio-level messaging and content for the Business Technology Optimization and Information Management businesses. His responsibilities include defining the solutions framework and messaging for the HP Software Products Go To Market strategy, as well as developing presentations, videos and other customer facing and enablement assets for use by the sales force and at key HP Software and industry events. Mark joined HP Software through the acquisition of Mercury Interactive in 2006. Prior to joining Mercury in November 2003, Mark worked as a communications and media consultant in London and as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Other experience includes working as an actor and as an independent film producer in London. Mark received an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and his B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Amherst College. Speaker - Mark Piening, VP, Product Management and Marketing, Uplogix, Inc.
Mr. Piening brings a broad range of product management, marketing and business development experience from leading technology companies. Most recently, Mr. Piening served as Senior Director for Symantec where he led the Global Partner and SMB Marketing teams. Prior to Symantec, Mr. Piening directed the Dell Global Alliance for VERITAS Software. His other marketing, sales, product management and business development leadership roles include Series A, pre-IPO, small cap and large public companies like Dell, DIGEX (now Verizon), and Ernst and Young. Mr. Piening is a former CPA with an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from UNC Kenan-Flagler and a BA in Economics/Business from UCLA. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA, Inc.
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology for automation, virtualization ,and cloud, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, customer engagement, and partner development. Prior to CA, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Mr. Elliot earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Thursday, November 19 | | ||||
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A Comparison of WAN Optimization Controllers (Location: 1E07) The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. This use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. To mitigate the impact of the WAN on application performance, many vendors have developed a solution referred to as a WAN Optimization Controller (WOC). In this PowerPoint-free session, leading WOC vendors will be asked questions to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 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. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology
Apurva Davé is Senior Director, Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Chris Webber, Product Manager for WAN Operations, Blue Coat
Speaker - Mark Weiner, Director, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Peter Schmidt, CTO for North America, Ipanema
Speaker - Satya Vardharajan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Access and Acceleration Group, Citrix
Speaker - Tim Richards, Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration, Juniper
Tim Richards is the Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company's application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. | |||||
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management (Location: 1E07) Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage cloud computing. 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. Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing, NetScout
Steven is Vice President, Marketing, and leads our global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company's $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company's entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco's $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco's global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Speaker - Tanvir Hussain, Senior Vice President, Product Management, CA
Tanvir has responsibility for product management for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, covering network, systems, database, data center automation and virtualization management solutions. Tanvir previously was Chief Technology Officer at TRG, where he helped raise $90 million in equity, acquired 15 companies in the span of 22 months and built TRG into one of the largest offshore-controlled business process outsourcers. He was responsible for the global technology infrastructure, software development, and IT service delivery to Fortune 500 companies. He also served on the boards of TRG portfolio companies in the US and UK. Previously, he was director of product management for CSG Systems and Lucent Technologies, managing OSS/BSS customer care and billing software solutions for the wireline/IP, mobile, cable and utilities industries. At Kenan Systems Corporation, subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies, Tanvir served as general manager for the Energy & Utilities business unit, which he grew into a $10 million revenue stream within two years. Previously, Tanvir was a strategy consultant with Booz?Allen & Hamilton in their Communications, Media and Technology practice. He served in a variety of technical and managerial roles at AT&T including the creation of the first desktop, multipoint voice, video and data collaboration service. Earlier in his career, Tanvir served as Mission Director for the launch of the Telstar IV communications satellites at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Tanvir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College. He also earned an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. | |||||
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The Impact of IT Virtualization on Applications & Networks (Location: 1E07) Virtualization is not new. What is new is the great interest in deploying server, storage and desktop virtualization. While each of these forms of virtualization can provide significant business value, each has the potential to significantly complicate the task of ensuring acceptable application performance. In this session, vendors from different areas of IT will identify network technologies, designs and best practices that enable IT organizations to enjoy the benefits of virtualization without enduring the potential pitfalls. 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. Speaker - Apurva Dave, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology
Apurva Davé is Senior Director, Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Brian Robertson, Product Marketing Manager, NetScout
Brian Robertson, Product Marketing Manager Brian Robertson has over 10 years of experience in the network monitoring and application delivery space. He has held a variety of positions within Product Marketing and Product Management for vendors of probe-based network monitoring systems. With NetScout since 2007, Brian recently headed the product launch of the nGenius Virtual Agent, a new intelligent data source leveraged by the nGenius Service Assurance solution that extends visibility into the virtual computing environment. He is a frequent speaker on webinars and at venues including Interop and Network World's IT Roadmap. Speaker - Chris Webber, Product Manager for WAN Operations, Blue Coat
Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Vice President, Product Management, NetQoS
Matt Sherrod is the Vice President of Product Management for NetQoS where he defines product direction and strategy for the company's innovative networking solutions. With more than 20 years of IT and networking experience, Matt has in-depth knowledge of his customers' experiences and needs. Over the last six years he has held a number of field and management positions at NetQoS. Prior to joining NetQoS, Matt worked as a Director of Communications for a Fortune 100 global enterprise, applying leading edge technologies to improve application delivery. Matt holds a B.S. degree in Applied Math, Computer Science and Statistics, and a M.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. | |||||
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How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery (Location: 1E07) Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, recently vendors have started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to the switchs' and routers' operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists in this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so. 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. Speaker - Nasir Hasan, Senior Field Systems Engineer, F5 Networks
Nasir Hasan is a Senior Field Sales Engineer at F5 Networks, focusing on the major financial and pharmaceutical companies in the tri-state area. He specializes in helping large enterprise organizations develop an optimal application delivery networking paradigm. Prior to joining F5 Networks in 2006, he served in lead technical engineering roles at IDT, Teleglobe, and Cisco Systems. He holds a B.S. in Management Science & Information Systems from Rutgers University and a M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. Speaker - Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai
Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Speaker - Peter Chahal, Director, Business Services Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Peter Chahal is Director of Business Solutions Marketing in the IP Division at Alcatel-Lucent, where he is responsible for Business Services targeting the service provider marketplace, with a primary focus on next generation IP/MPLS carrier Ethernet and VPN solutions. Peter has more than 17 years of international experience in product marketing, product management, business development and technical sales in the area of carrier IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet solutions and services. Peter is also Co-chair of the Market Research Subcommittee for the Metro Ethernet | |||||
