Chairperson: 
Ari BanerjeeSenior Analyst
Heavy Reading
Ari Banerjee focuses on Service Provider IT, including all aspects of telecom software research. Banerjee examines the breadth of software used by communications service providers in customer, business, service, and infrastructure management. His area of focus includes all aspects of BSS, OSS, SDP, digital commerce, revenue assurance, service assurance, and elements that span both the infrastructure and network software markets, such as data warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence. Prior to joining Heavy Reading, Banerjee was the VP of Next Generation Software Systems at Yankee Group, leading and overseeing all aspects of their telecom software research. He also worked for the billing and customer care division at Lucent Technologies, and subsequently the global software and services group at CSG Systems. He has worked for utility companies in Asia and Europe in a number of business development and technology functions. Banerjee speaks regularly at leading communications industry events.
Carrier Cloud Forum
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
9:00 AM–4:30 PM
Room 1E11
Cloud services have moved quickly into the mainstream, promising enterprises cost-effective access to IT services and applications, with little capex required. Communications service providers are under pressure to deliver cloud services with the level of security, reliability and availability for which their existing data services are known. But they must also be able to compete in a crowded market led by Web-based cloud service pioneers. The Carrier Cloud Forum will provide high-quality education and peer-to-peer interaction on the core issues around building a cloud infrastructure and developing a cloud services business model that works, including ways to capitalize on existing network and data center resources while building in new flexibility for delivery of on-demand services and management of user experience.
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9:00 AM – 9:20 AM Location: Room 1E11
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9:20 AM – 9:40 AM Location: Room 1E11
Keynote Speaker - Matt Laslie, Technical Director - Network Technologie, Savvis As technical director, networking technologies at Savvis, Matthew Laslie works across all Savvis business unit lines to drive innovation and development activities surrounding a unified technology strategy. Matthew’s role includes the evaluation of new and existing technology and the development of solutions that provide opportunity for market differentiation and product development prioritization. With Savvis, Matthew has played an integral role in the network architecture and design of the company’s Hosting Area Network, as well as the network architecture, design and automation of Savvis’ Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) cloud computing product. Matthew joined Savvis in 1999 and spent 10 years as a network engineer before moving into his current position. Prior to joining Savvis, he worked as a network engineer and technician for 3Com and WorldCom. Matthew has served as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army. | |
9:40 AM – 10:40 AM Location: Room 1E11 Service providers have the optical transport networks and data centers that are the muscle of any cloud infrastructure. But delivering on-demand services requires greater flexibility in use of those resources, such as more agile operations and billing systems to facilitate self-service ordering, service assembly & management, process automation and usage-based billing. This panel will explore the challenges in building a more nimble cloud infrastructure. CCF Speaker - David Frattura, Senior Director of Strategy, Cloud Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent David Frattura is Senior Director of Strategy for Alcatel-Lucent’s Cloud Solutions. In this role, David is responsible for the development of solution strategies targeted at enabling service providers to create differentiated services for the Cloud Computing market place. David has over 18 years of experience in networking technologies, ICT, in the service provider and enterprise market place. CCF Speaker - Kip Turco, SVP of Data Center Operations, Windstream Hosted Solutions Christopher “Kip” Turco serves as senior vice president of data center operations for Windstream Hosted Solutions. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing operations, engineering, sales and marketing. A seasoned executive with a successful track record leading operations in high growth environments, Turco previously served as chief operating officer at Hosted Solutions where, during his tenure, the company more than doubled in revenue and sold for $310 million after only two and a half years. Prior to that, Turco was the senior vice president of operations and engineering at Motricity, a leading provider of mobile data solutions. While at Motricity, Turco restructured all engineering and operations elements to successfully scale the business from $35 million to over $100 million over a two-year period. Prior to Motricity, he was a general manager for SunGard Availability Services, a provider of information availability solutions. As general manager with SunGard, Turco was responsible for P&L, regional sales and marketing, providing data center and managed services. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Turco was commissioned as an Infantry Officer and later became a platoon leader and rifle company commander with the United States Army for the 10th Mountain Division and 25th Infantry Division respectively. CCF Speaker - Simon Aspinall, Senior Director, SP Data Center and Mobililty Solutions, Cisco Systems  As Senior Director, Cisco SP Marketing organization, Simon Aspinall leads teams that are responsible for marketing of Cisco’s mobility and data center solutions to Telecoms, Cable, Media and Broadcast customers worldwide. The team is responsible for developing, launching and driving successful marketing campaigns across the entire product range for Mobility and SP data-centers (including the evolution towards SP cloud computing). Aspinall is a frequent speaker at industry events and a commentator on the IT, telecoms, and networking sectors. Before Cisco, Aspinall spent eight years at Mercer Management Consulting, a firm providing management and financial consultancy to the worldwide telecoms sector. Aspinall was also the founder and non-executive director of an Internet incubator with operations in five countries. He holds an MBA (Insead) and a master’s degree in Engineering & Computer Science (Oxford University). CCF Speaker - Geoff Hollingworth, Head of IP Services Strategy, Region North America, Ericsson Geoff Hollingworth, Head of IP Services Strategy for Region North America, is responsible for driving Ericsson’s next generation end user IP services in the United States and Canada. Ericsson is helping architect a networked society where anything benefiting from a connection will have one. Previously, Hollingworth was responsible for overseeing the Ericsson brand in North America. Before that led Ericsson’s next generation multimedia initiative to drive the three screen experience for the Volvo Ocean Race. He joined Ericsson more than 20 years ago and has held roles in software R&D, mobile network deployment and was director of Marketing for Ericsson in North America. Hollingworth has been based in London, Stockholm and Dallas. He holds a First Class Honors Bachelors degree in Computing Science and has won the Computing Science Prize of Excellence from Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom | |
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM Location: Room 1E11
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10:55 AM – 11:55 AM Location: Room 1E11 Large businesses are interested and even eager to embrace cloud services as a means of offloading IT costs and complexities but they have many requirements, including the need for service providers to understand their business. On this panel, enterprise executives will spell out their requirements for a efficient cloud service delivery model which can support public cloud as well as hybrid cloud environment without losing focus on security, flexibility, QoS and ease-of-use. CCF Speaker - Scott Bils, Partner, Everest Group CCF Speaker - Troy Angrignon, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Cloudscaling  Troy Angrignon is a sales and marketing executive with sixteen years experience in the IT arena, spanning network consulting services, enterprise software, software as a service, web 2.0 software, and cloud computing. As VP Sales & Marketing, Troy is responsible for working with the team to ensure that Cloudscaling is building market focused solutions that serve our client's business needs. CCF Speaker - Charles C. Burns, Vice President, Saugatuck Technology | |
11:55 AM – 12:15 PM Location: Room 1E11
Keynote Speaker - Arun Bhikshesvaran, Chief Marketing Officer, Ericsson Arun Bhikshesvaran is the Chief Marketing Officer for Ericsson. In this capacity, he directs the global marketing activities covering market insights, brand positioning and portfolio marketing. He has worked in a variety of engineering and leadership roles in the industry including field engineering, R&D, project management, product marketing, strategy and technology. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and has completed Post Graduate Executive Programs at Columbia Business School and Kellogg. | |
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM Location: Room 1E11
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1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Location: Room 1E11 Service providers see cloud computing as a new opportunity for adding value to their IP transport offerings. For this new opportunity to generate profits, however, service providers must be able to differentiate their services, target them to appropriate audiences, and find their competitive niche in a crowded field. Many will also want to develop a portfolio of XaaS offerings including security, storage, software, and applications, all of which can be packaged with IP transport services or with other managed services. This panel will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical offerings, as well as ways to make better service translate into market success. Speaker - Paul Hughes, Director of Product Marketing, Oracle | |
2:45 PM – 3:05 PM Location: Room 1E11
Keynote Speaker - Ellen Rubin, Vice President, Cloud Products, Terremark, a Verizon Company  Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in founding innovative technology companies and leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications. | |
3:05 PM – 3:20 PM Location: Room 1E11
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3:20 PM – 4:20 PM Location: Room 1E11 The ability to deliver Service Level Agreements to guarantee reliability, security, visibility and availability of cloud services is critical to their success. Given the many varied and often shared elements that will comprise cloud services, success of service providers will be based on their ability to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Experience to their cloud customers. This panel will address what QoE will look like in the cloud realm, and how to deliver and monitor it. CCF Speaker - Guy Shemesh, Senior Director Cloud Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent Guy Shemesh is the Senior Director responsible for Alcatel-Lucent Cloud solutions. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent in 2011, Guy was responsible for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) integrated and standalone product lines at Cisco Systems and worked for P-Cube, in both software and marketing roles. Guy holds a Bs.C in Economics and Computer Science and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University. CCF Speaker - Troy Garrison, Vice President Client Services, Terremark  Troy Garrison is Vice President, Cloud Engagement Services at Terremark, where he leads cloud enablement for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Mr. Garrison has more than 20 years of experience architecting infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises to meet strategic business goals. He received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. CCF Speaker - Chris Drumgoole, Vice President - Client Services, Terremark, As Senior Vice President of Client Services for Terremark, Mr. Drumgoole is responsible for managing relationships with the company�s customer base and facilitating growth through expanded relationships and customer renewals. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Product Development and was responsible for driving infrastructure and product development, technology direction and development of next-generation solutions for commercial and public-sector organizations. Mr. Drumgoole is responsible for the engineering and product roadmap which he steers with a firm commitment towards the reducing the complexity of traditional IT operations while increasing business agility. | |
4:20 PM – 5:00 PM Location: Room 1E11 A group of industry analysts who have participated in the day's events will offer opinions and reactions on what has been discussed during the Carrier Cloud Forum and on the cloud market in general. CCF Speaker - Agatha Poon, Research Manager, Global Cloud Computing, Tier1 Research | |
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Room 1E11
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Registration packages with access to this workshop:
- Carrier Cloud Forum + Interop Conference
- Carrier Cloud Forum Workshop
