Cloud Computing Conference and Expo
Interop's Cloud Computing track brings together cloud providers, end users, and IT strategists. It covers the strategy of cloud implementation, from governance and interoperability to security and hybrid public/private cloud models. Sessions include candid one-on-one discussions with some of the cloud's leading thinkers, as well as case studies and vigorous discussions with those building and investing in the cloud. We take a pragmatic look at clouds today, and offer a tantalizing look at how on-demand computing will change not only enterprise IT, but also technology and society in general.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 6 Cloud Computing is part of a more fundamental shift in IT: from a monopoly to a democracy. Once, computers were expensive, and the people who built applications for them were specialists. Today, however, computing is nearly free and everyone's a technologist. IT is shifting from a monopoly to a free market, much as other legal monopolies -- the phone company, the railroads -- were eventually forced to give up control. This presentation will take a step back to look at the big picture of ubiquitous, cheap computing and what it means for IT. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network to enable it to support cloud computing. For example, a new LAN access layer has emerged that is comprised of the vSwitches embedded within the hypervisor software. However, these vSwitches typically have poor management scalability and limited traffic visibility. Today’s typical WAN can not effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting. It also is not experiencing the same type of price reductions as are computing and storage resources. In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges created by cloud computing and will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges. Speaker - 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 6 As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance. Moderator - Hooman Beheshti, VP Products, Strangeloop Networks With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Panelist - David Link, President and Chief Executive Officer, ScienceLogic David is the president and CEO of ScienceLogic, LLC and an IT visionary. He founded and built ScienceLogic by identifying large emerging markets, gaining intimate knowledge of customer IT problems, challenging conventional wisdom and bringing targeted, innovative products to market. At ScienceLogic, his market knowledge and customer focus has led the EM7 IT Management System to dramatically exceed the needs and expectations of clients. Prior to founding ScienceLogic in 2003, Link was senior vice president and a corporate officer at Interliant, Inc., where he lead the establishment of Interliant's strong presence in the ASP/MSP market. He previously held senior management positions within IBM's Software Division leading the development of Internet commerce products. Link also spent nine years in IT solutions with CompuServe, building innovative global online communication solutions while establishing the market for business and consumer online services. Panelist - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Panelist - Jason Read, Founder, CloudHarmony.com Jason Read is the founder of CloudHarmony.com, a service dedicated to providing independent and unbiased public analysis on cloud computing performance, trends, pricing and features. To date, CloudHarmony has collected and published large amounts of data and analysis on their blog and website including CPU, storage, and network performance benchmarks for dozens of different IaaS, SaaS and PaaS cloud providers. Prior to founding CloudHarmony, Jason worked as a consultant or employee for IBM, Solera Networks, eBay and others. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Panelist - Russell Rothstein, Vice President of Product Marketing, OpTier Rothstein has more than 20 years of experience managing and bringing to market innovative software solutions. Before OpTier, Russell was AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies (Nasdaq: OPNT), a leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions. He was co-founder and CEO of Zettapoint, a venture-backed enterprise software startup and ran marketing for Open Sesame, a Web 1.0 startup that was acquired by Bowne (NYSE: BNE). Russell began his career at Oracle, deploying Oracle Applications for Fortune 1000 companies. Panelist - Alex Polvi, CEO, CloudKick Alex Polvi is the CEO of Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. 1,000s of companies use Cloudkick to manage their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc. Additionally, Alex is a lead contributor to libcloud, an open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. In the past, he has worked on many free/open infrastructure projects for the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and the Open Source Lab. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 6 IT professionals are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see it as a terrifying loss of control that may violate privacy and compliance regulations. Either way, clouds call many security assumptions into question. This debate-format session will give proponents and detractors their chance to convince the audience. Moderator - Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO, CyberRiskPartners Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API’s, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. Www.cyberriskpartners.com Panelist - 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. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 6 Amazon Web Services are the de facto model for public cloud platforms: a core offering of virtual machines, surrounded by a range of storage, messaging, and mamnagement service. For many companies, this will be their first taste of a public cloud. In this session, we'll walk through deploying your first application atop AWS -- from evaluating your workload profile, to selecting the right services, to migrating and configuring the application itself. Speaker - Daniel Koffler, CTO, Syntenic | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 Building a private cloud does not require building a whole new data center. The quickest path to the cloud is to reclaim and repurpose your current IT infrastructure into a new private cloud likely within your current data center facility. Making the move from the static data center requires more than just infrastructure; it also requires new processes and automation. This session will help data center managers: 1) Learn how automation aides in the migration to and management of private clouds; 2) Understand the benefits of deploying a private cloud; and 3) Review best practices for enabling self-service to a private cloud. Speaker - Ryan Shopp, Senior Director, Product Marketing, CA Technologies Ryan Shopp is a senior director of product marketing in CA Technologies’ Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on thought leadership, strategy, positioning, sales enablement and evangelism of CA’s Workload and Automation portfolio. Ryan’s 15+ years of domain expertise in IT infrastructure and management span leadership roles in marketing, product management and sales engineer for Dell, INS (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), AT&T, EDS and start-ups such as Securityworks (acquired by Lumension), NetVMG (acquired by Internap), Centrata (acquired by Lontra), AlterPoint (acquired by Versata). Ryan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 6 Infrastructure-as-a-Service computing uses the virtual machine as its fundamental unit: a single computer, rented by the hour. It's the ultimate in flexibility, but it burdens you with all of that machine's maintenance and scaling. On the other hand, Platform-as-a-Service promises virtually limitless scalability and freedom from low-level operations, at a price: custom APIs, limited choice, and even rewriting your code. This session will compare the two fundamental models of cloud computing, arming you to choose the right one for different situations. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 6 GCE, a leader in cloud-computing technology for enterprises, implemented a government agency-wide financial system overhaul within the Department of Labor in early 2010. Through this implementation, GCE has built a best-practice case for adoption, transition and implementation of cloud-based systems that can be applied to other enterprise-class systems. The mission-critical implementations include sensitive financial information management tools such as automated workflows, world-class reporting tools to provide immediate visibility to data, elimination of hardware, software and hosting management, flexibility and scalability as the user's mission changes, security and a quick ramp-up to launch, while staying on budget. Ultimately, the solution will enable an organization to focus on its core mission. Speaker - David Lucas, Chief Strategy Officer, Global Computer Enterprise For nearly a decade David Lucas has been working with federal government agencies to create greater financial management efficiencies allowing them to remain compliant with federal guidelines and to serve as examples of practicing good government. His extensive background includes managing multimillion direct sales projects and a full range of messaging campaigns including public relations, direct mail, national print, online, television and radio. Prior to joining GCE, Lucas was vice president of marketing and advertising for a software development firm. Lucas also served as the creative leader on capture programs for some of the largest federal contractors | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 6 Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures. Moderator - 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 | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 6 As cloud computing becomes more prevalent and moves from an option to an edict, it is important to understand the framework that makes it reliable and scalable. This session will discuss the building blocks of the cloud architecture and the functional innovation it brings: * The "Assumed Failure" model of deployment * Mechanics of self-healing and autoscaling for clouds and applications * Application high availability vs VM high availability; * Interoperability (and what it means for your deployment) * Why standards are necessary 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). | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 2 Cloud computing is a cost effective and efficient way for enterprises to automate their processes. However organizations need to be aware of the pitfalls of the many cloud-computing solutions out there - one of the main ones being security. Most of these solutions were built for ease of use and without necessarily security in mind. Companies should ask the solution provider the security measures used in developing the application and get an independent verification to make sure there are no gaping holes. With over 75% of attacks occurring through the Web, any attack through these applications can lead to leakage of confidential information and embarrassment. This session will highlight the security considerations an organization needs to take into account when adopting cloud computing capabilities. Speaker - Lars Ewe, CTO and VP of Engineering, Cenzic Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies. Throughout his career Lars has held key positions in engineering, product management/marketing, and sales in a variety of different markets. Prior to Cenzic, Lars was software development director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., responsible for AMD's overall systems manageability and related security strategy and all related engineering efforts. | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 1 One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN. Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links. The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges. 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. Panelist - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Panelist - Mark Urban, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Panelist - Andy Gottlieb, Founder and CEO, Talari Networks Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Panelist - 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. | |
Enterprise Cloud Summit
In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation.
Learn about practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT.
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private CloudsOn-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business. | |
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–9:20 AM Location: TBA In this opening session, we'll look at the cultural changes that cloud computing brings to enterprise IT. Clouds are more than just a set of technologies--they're a shift away from IT as a monopoly towards IT's new role as a steward of applications and services. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
9:20 AM–9:40 AM Location: TBA Private clouds are built atop several fundamental components: virtualization, automation, self-service, redundant storage, and predefined components. We'll chart IT's progress from bare metal computing towards cloud technologies. You'll understand where your organization sits on this journey and what comes next. Speaker - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. | |
9:40 AM–10:30 AM Location: TBA There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources. Moderator - Lew Tucker, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco and is responsible for helping to shape the future of Cloud and Enterprise software strategies. He is a recognized leader in the industry with a passion for emerging technologies—having played a part in several major high-tech waves including high-performance computing, Java technology and, now, Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. He has over twenty years experience in the high-tech industry—ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence, to software development and systems architecture. Accomplishments include the development of Sun Cloud, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Lew's interest in distributed systems stem from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Lew holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.
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10:30 AM–10:45 AM Location: TBA | |
10:45 AM–11:30 AM Location: TBA The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine. Panelist - Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support, Surgient, Inc. Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Surgient client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Surgient Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud. Panelist - Steve Shah, Director or Products, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Jamie Erbes, VP and CTO, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for Software & Solutions as the chief technology officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO)--our IT management software--and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industry. She works closely with other HP senior chief technology officers, HP Labs and HP Business Management to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Jamie joined the Office of Strategy and Technology (OST) from EDS, where she most recently was chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. | |
11:30 AM–12:00 PM Location: TBA A cloud data center has different power, network, and storage requirements from a traditional one. In this session, we'll cover the changes that private cloud environments will bring to the underlying infrastructure. | |
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1:30 PM–2:00 PM Location: TBA Clouds aren't just on-demand machines. A successful cloud--whether private or public--requires both compute infrastructure and a set of services for storage, message queueing, parallel computation, and more. In this session, we'll look at what IT executives need to deploy to create a true cloud environment. Speaker - Willem van Biljon, Co-Founder, Nimbula Inc. Willem is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur who started his career building a unix-based operating system for mini-computers and the first retail debit card payment system for one of the largest retailers in South Africa. Building on that expertise, he co-founded Mosaic Software to build the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems. Mosaic became one of the world's leading EFT companies with operations in more than 30 countries and was successfully sold to S1 Corp. in 2004. Willem then joined Amazon to develop the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service business plan and to drive product management and marketing for the service. Willem is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. | |
2:00 PM–2:30 PM Location: TBA To run private clouds efficiently, you have to instrument and manage them. But cloud management is a different beast, requiring a multi-user approach with a greater focus on billing and utilization. It also demands new tools to protect your users from one another -- and from themselves. This session will look at how private clouds are changing IT management. Speaker - Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic | |
2:30 PM–3:00 PM Location: TBA Armed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. | |
3:00 PM–3:15 PM Location: TBA | |
3:15 PM–4:00 PM Location: TBA In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future. Moderator - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Panelist - Matthew O'Keefe, Senior Technology Architect, Morning Star Inc. Panelist - Rick Parker, Director of IT, Fetch Technologies Rick Parker is IT Director at Fetch Technologies, a solutions provider that enables organizations to extract, aggregate and use real-time information from websites. Prior to Fetch, he founded and served as CTO of Bedouin Networks, a provider of cloud-based IT services for small businesses. He has also previously held IT Director positions at Gimundo LLC, an Internet content provider, and Vendare Media.
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4:00 PM–4:30 PM Location: TBA In this concluding session, we'll look at what private cloud adoption means for enterprises. Once IT is democratized, how does the IT team's role change? What's on the horizon? What skill sets are needed to survive and thrive in an on-demand, self-service world? Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Public CloudsOn Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are leveling 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. | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | |
9:00 AM–9:30 AM Location: TBA In this session, we'll look at where public clouds are today. In just a few short years, they've gone from unreliable and unpredictable to global and highly available. But are they ready for production code? Is it a one-horse game? What new features and capabilities might swing the balance from private to public? Speaker - Dan Elron, Managing Partner, Technology Strategy, Accenture Mr. Elron is responsible for defining the Firm’s strategy and offerings in a variety of domains, primarily in the technology space. Most recently he has focused on the impact of cloud technologies on the Firm’s businesses. Previously Mr. Elron was the Managing Partner, Growth and Strategy for Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform and the Managing Partner of Accenture’s Communications Industry. He has advised many of the largest companies in the telecommunications and technology industries in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Elron is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He also serves as the advisor for the information technology industries for the World Economic Forum. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Tel-Aviv and the University of Minnesota. He and his family live in Charlottesville, Virginia. | |
9:30 AM–10:00 AM Location: TBA PCs, smartphones, and Web-based services create a fractured personal computing experience, with data and content scattered across diverse devices and online services. To solve this, service providers are building the next form of personal computing: the personal cloud ecosystem. Personal cloud services will include a combination of a data center cloud software platform, browser-based code to enable rich Web experiences, and device-level player or presentation code for richer experiences than the browser can provide. And they will create an ecosystem of complementary software and service providers on top of their own offerings. Speaker - Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Frank advises tech industry Vendor Strategy professionals, predicting and quantifying growth and disruption in the technology industry. He analyzes paradigm shifts in the economics of the IT industry caused by the emergence of new infrastructure technologies like cloud computing services and virtualization and new as-a-service business models for pricing and provisioning computing solutions. | |
10:00 AM–10:30 AM Location: TBA Cloud computing is supposed to save us money as well as time. But early studies show that dedicated machines can deliver better costs for certain applications. In other words, your mileage may vary. Joeseph Weinman, who coined the term "Cloudonomics" and conducts research into the economics of cloud computing, will give us a look at the math behind public clouds and where cloud economics are headed. Speaker - Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development, AT&T Business Solutions Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions, which serves business customers ranging from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government. AT&T (www.att.com) is the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm as of YE08, with US$124.0 billion in revenue. A 29-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Weinman has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in a broad variety of technologies. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards. He has keynoted, MC'd, presented, and been a panelist at numerous analyst, vendor, publisher, industry, university, and trade association events on five continents. He has had a variety of articles and talks published in the print and/or on-line editions of The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, Money, Business Communications Review, Information Week, GigaOM, Salon, the ACM, the IEEE, CIO Magazine, and the AT&T Technical Journal. He has also appeared on U.S., European, and pan-Asian broadcast television, been quoted in the U.S. and international print and on-line media, and appears in a number of on-line videos. Links to articles, videos, and simulation tools may be found at http://www.joeweinman.com/ | |
10:30 AM–10:45 AM Location: TBA | |
10:45 AM–11:15 AM Location: TBA 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. | |
11:15 AM–12:00 PM Location: TBA Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms. Moderator - David Bernstein, Managing Director, Cloud Strategy Partners David Bernstein is the Managing director of Cloud Strategy Partners. Most recently, has was VP/GM in Cisco’s Office of the CTO. His team ran Cisco’s Cloud Lab, was responsible for Cisco’s University, Research, and Industry activities in Cloud Computing. He headed development for Cisco’s Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, InterTrust, and Santa Cruz Operation. His extensive consulting experience along with his recent leadership and expertise in Cloud Computing has led to the formation of Cloud Strategy Partners, LLC. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Advanced Technology Executive Forum. He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research. Panelist - Israel Derdik, CTO, Aviary Israel Derdik has a BS in Computer Science from Brooklyn College and has co-founded several companies prior to Aviary.com. He serves as the architectural lead on all technology development for the company. His expertise has provided the company’s application framework and enabled Aviary to build a suite of robust applications that maintain file storage across the Internet. | |
12:00 PM–1:30 PM Location: TBA | |
1:30 PM–2:10 PM Location: TBA Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models. Moderator - Brian Butte, Director, Cloud Computing, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP My passion is the application of technology to improve customer service and support. Nothing gives one better insight than hands-on experience. I spent a year working at Disney World on the phone as a reservationist. That experience gave me great, unique insight into the customer experience and how to improve it through the judicious use of technology. I combine a customer centric view with a model driven approach to help clients drive value creation through IT. I have a deep tool bag of technology experience from chip design and operating systems development to embedded systems, enterprise applications and the web and I've worked in every industry vertical. I pride myself on identifying and applying emerging technologies and methodologies well in advance of the hype including: open standards (1992), Ethernet for sensor networking (1993), PC based control systems (1995), Linux (1993), use case analysis (1995), Booch (1995), open source (1996), customer relationship management (1996), LAMP (1996), XML (1997), enterprise architecture (1997), virtualization (2000), and cloud computing (2003). | |
2:10 PM–2:30 PM Location: TBA One of the biggest concerns companies face with public clouds is the storage of their secrets in third-party locations. Moving confidential data into on-demand environments may violate laws, weaken copyright claims, and put the organization at risk. In this session, we'll separate legitimate concerns from the unjustified fears of server-huggers. Speaker - Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO, CyberRiskPartners Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API’s, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. Www.cyberriskpartners.com Speaker - Nolan Goldberg, Attorney, Proskauer LLP Nolan M. Goldberg is an IP & Technology Counsel in Proskauer's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and a member of the Patent Law Group, resident in the New York office. As an intellectual property litigator, his practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation and counseling. As a founding member of the Litigation Department's Electronic Discovery Task Force, Mr. Goldberg is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. Mr. Goldberg's complete professional bio can be found at http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/nolan-goldberg/ | |
2:30 PM–3:00 PM Location: TBA Are public cloud providers ready to offer meaningful service level agreements? How can we monitor their performance and availability? In the last year, there's been considerable research into the reliability of on-demand platforms, and in this session, we'll look at the tools and techniques you can use to measure cloud SLAs and keep providers honest. Speaker - Hooman Beheshti, VP Products, Strangeloop Networks With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. | |
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3:15 PM–3:45 PM Location: TBA Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments. Moderator - John Barnes, CTO, Model Metrics John has earned a national reputation as an application development expert and a leading developer using cloud computing technologies from Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, Google and Adobe. He has over 17 years of technology experience and runs the Mobile Platform Development and R& D teams for Model Metrics, a leading Cloud Computing Consulting firm. John helped grow Model Metrics from a small regional firm into a nationally recognized company and expand into new technologies. John is frequently interviewed by leading publications such as InfoWorld and eWeek and also by leading analysts from Gartner, Forrester and PARC as well as Wall Street around trends in Cloud Computing. John frequently speaks at global conferences such as Dreamforce (Salesforce.com) and Adobe Max as well as other conferences and runs user groups focused on Amazon Web Services. Prior to joining Model Metrics he played key roles at Agentis Software and BroadVision Software and he has a Bachelors of Information Systems from the University of Nebraska. Panelist - Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Windows Azure, Microsoft Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer in the Windows Azure team. Windows Azure is a platform for developing, deploying, managing, and hosting cloud-based Web services. Khalidi is responsible for several aspects of the platform, centered on the goal of building a low-cost, automated, large-scale computing system, using commodity hardware, with efficiently managed shared resources. Before Windows Azure, Khalidi led an advanced development team in Windows that tackled a number of related operating system areas, including application model, resource management, and isolation. He also served as a member of the Windows Core Architecture group. Before joining Microsoft, Khalidi was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years tenure at Sun, he held several development, architecture, and management positions in Sun’s software division as well as in Sun Labs. Khalidi was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Solaris, Chief Architect and Director of the Sun Cluster product line, Chief Architect of Sun's N1 utility computing initiative, as well as a principal architect of Solaris MC and Spring operating systems. He shipped several releases of Sun Cluster and the Solaris operating system, and hasworked on system management software, high speed networking, and memory management hardware designs. Khalidi has published works in several areas, including operating systems, high availability, distributed systems, object-oriented software, high speed networking, memory management, and computer architecture. He holds 30 patents in these areas. Khalidi has a Ph.D. and a Master ofScience in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
3:45 PM–4:20 PM Location: TBA The pace of innovation in cloud computing is breathtaking. In the last year, providers announced dozens of new features and services, and it's only getting faster. Keeping up with provider offerings is a full-time job; on this panel, we'll sit down with some of the leading cloud platforms to discuss their roadmaps and the features customers can expect from them in the year ahead. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
4:20 PM–4:30 PM Location: TBA As we conclude the New York Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll look at the mainstreaming of cloud computing. Within a few short years, IT won't be asking what it can move to on-demand platforms -- it'll be asking what it has to keep operating on its own. As this happens, the role of enterprise IT professionals will change dramatically. We'll speculate on how this change will happen, and look at what the IT industry can do to prepare for the shift. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
Free Cloud Computing Sessions
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free sessions Wednesday and Thursday including the following covering cloud computing:
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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. | |
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. He and his son, Eric, are avid bike riders who have taken their shared passion throughout many parts of the world. | |
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.
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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 - Christopher Lopes, CoFounder and VP Sales, Netlist
Mr. Lopes has 28 years of sales management, applications and design experience with Toshiba America, Philips Semiconductor, LSI Logic and Xicor and began his career as a systems design engineer at Lockheed Missiles & Space. Mr. Lopes has a BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento, and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University. | |
1:40 PM–2:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Today, innovative, multi-vector techniques are attempted on virtually everyone connected to the Internet - leaving computers wide open for exploitation. This session will take a look at the emerging Web threats plaguing businesses today. Attendees will learn what they can do to better shore up their defenses and lessen threat exposure. Speaker - Joel Smith, Chief Technology Officer, AppRiver Joel Smith co-founded AppRiver with CEO Michael Murdoch in 2002, bringing with him more than a decade of experience in the technology sector where he focused primarily on network security and e-mail efficiency. Since AppRiver’s inception, Smith has made it a priority to create and deliver mission-critical applications via a SaaS model. Working alongside a creative 25-person R&D staff, Smith has led the charge to bring secure messaging and Web solutions to more than 45,000 customers worldwide. | |
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11:40 AM–12:00 PM Location: Cloud Zone Theater Description to come. 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. | |
12:20 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). | |
1:40 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.
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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. 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. | |
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Cloud Computing Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Cloud Computing vendors.
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AEP Networks
 AEP Networks is a leading provider of specialist end-to-end communications solutions which enhanced voice and data communications at critical points of operation where security is paramont and the consequence of loss would be severe. AEP's solutions have been chosen by blue-chip customers in over 60 countries. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Amazon Web Services
 Built upon same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides developers with a reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build websites, store data, manage business processes and more. http://aws.amazon.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid - the next generation application server purpose-built to solve the application architecture, business instrumentation and operational control challenges of delivering software as a service in the cloud. SaaSGrid is truly a new category of platform technology for superior software delivery. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| AppRiver
AppRiver is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider offering secure messaging and Web solutions to businesses of any size. In addition to spam and virus protection, the company provides e-mail encryption, Web security solutions and a complete managed service for Microsoft® Exchange Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Bat Blue Corporation
Bat Blue Corporation provides network consultancy, IP services and security solutions. Bat Blue's “In-the-Cloud” offering, CloudSec, eliminates capital and hardware costs, reduces risk and benefits from a centralized interface. BlueNET IP network provides a true 10Gig network that leverages terabit carrier-grade fully redundant infrastructure. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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BT Diamond IP
  ProviderBT Diamond IP is a leading provider of software and appliance products and services that help customers effectively manage complex IP networks. Our next-generation IP management solutions help businesses more efficiently manage IP address space across mid-to-very large sized enterprise and service provider networks. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Cisco
 Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Dell
 Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. For more information visit www.dell.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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EMC Corporation
 EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Emulex Corporation
 Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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ESRI
 ESRI’s geographic Information system (GIS) technology has given clients the power to think and plan geographically for over 40 years. ESRI supports the implementation of GIS technology on the desktop, servers, online services, and mobile devices. www.esri.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Hosting.com
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HP
 ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Microsoft
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| mindSHIFT Technologies
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| Morph Labs
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Net Optics, Inc.
 ProviderNet Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Netlist, Inc.
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| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Quest Software
 Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. www.quest.com/vWorkspace Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Rackspace
 Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| SitScape, Inc.
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Terremark Worldwide
 Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation, security and data storage services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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WatchGuard
 WatchGuard provides an extensive family of network security products to help you secure your network from zero day threats, prevent unauthorized data from leaving your network, filter spam, block social networking sites, prevent malicious intrusions, integrate in-the-cloud security services, and much more. Contact us at www.watchguard.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Zeus Technology
Zeus software enables customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure and providing the competitive advantage online businesses need. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Cloud Computing Conference
Interop's Cloud Computing track brings together cloud providers, end users, and IT strategists. It covers the strategy of cloud implementation, from governance and interoperability to security and hybrid public/private cloud models. Sessions include candid one-on-one discussions with some of the cloud's leading thinkers, as well as case studies and vigorous discussions with those building and investing in the cloud. We take a pragmatic look at clouds today, and offer a tantalizing look at how on-demand computing will change not only enterprise IT, but also technology and society in general.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 6 Cloud Computing is part of a more fundamental shift in IT: from a monopoly to a democracy. Once, computers were expensive, and the people who built applications for them were specialists. Today, however, computing is nearly free and everyone's a technologist. IT is shifting from a monopoly to a free market, much as other legal monopolies -- the phone company, the railroads -- were eventually forced to give up control. This presentation will take a step back to look at the big picture of ubiquitous, cheap computing and what it means for IT. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network to enable it to support cloud computing. For example, a new LAN access layer has emerged that is comprised of the vSwitches embedded within the hypervisor software. However, these vSwitches typically have poor management scalability and limited traffic visibility. Today’s typical WAN can not effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting. It also is not experiencing the same type of price reductions as are computing and storage resources. In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges created by cloud computing and will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges. Speaker - 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. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 6 As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance. Moderator - Hooman Beheshti, VP Products, Strangeloop Networks With over 15 years of experience working in the networking technology realm, Hooman’s experience ranges from defining and driving the development for load balancing, web acceleration, and application delivery products, to leading the technical evangelism initiatives behind them. He previously served as the VP of Technology for Crescendo Networks and the CTO for Radware Inc., where his insights and technical expertise helped bring innovative, award-winning networking products to market. A pioneer in the application acceleration space, he helped design one of the original load balancers while at Radware. Hooman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Irvine. Panelist - David Link, President and Chief Executive Officer, ScienceLogic David is the president and CEO of ScienceLogic, LLC and an IT visionary. He founded and built ScienceLogic by identifying large emerging markets, gaining intimate knowledge of customer IT problems, challenging conventional wisdom and bringing targeted, innovative products to market. At ScienceLogic, his market knowledge and customer focus has led the EM7 IT Management System to dramatically exceed the needs and expectations of clients. Prior to founding ScienceLogic in 2003, Link was senior vice president and a corporate officer at Interliant, Inc., where he lead the establishment of Interliant's strong presence in the ASP/MSP market. He previously held senior management positions within IBM's Software Division leading the development of Internet commerce products. Link also spent nine years in IT solutions with CompuServe, building innovative global online communication solutions while establishing the market for business and consumer online services. Panelist - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Panelist - Jason Read, Founder, CloudHarmony.com Jason Read is the founder of CloudHarmony.com, a service dedicated to providing independent and unbiased public analysis on cloud computing performance, trends, pricing and features. To date, CloudHarmony has collected and published large amounts of data and analysis on their blog and website including CPU, storage, and network performance benchmarks for dozens of different IaaS, SaaS and PaaS cloud providers. Prior to founding CloudHarmony, Jason worked as a consultant or employee for IBM, Solera Networks, eBay and others. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Panelist - Russell Rothstein, Vice President of Product Marketing, OpTier Rothstein has more than 20 years of experience managing and bringing to market innovative software solutions. Before OpTier, Russell was AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies (Nasdaq: OPNT), a leading provider of Application Performance Management solutions. He was co-founder and CEO of Zettapoint, a venture-backed enterprise software startup and ran marketing for Open Sesame, a Web 1.0 startup that was acquired by Bowne (NYSE: BNE). Russell began his career at Oracle, deploying Oracle Applications for Fortune 1000 companies. Panelist - Alex Polvi, CEO, CloudKick Alex Polvi is the CEO of Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. 1,000s of companies use Cloudkick to manage their infrastructure on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc. Additionally, Alex is a lead contributor to libcloud, an open source library for developers to build portable cloud applications. In the past, he has worked on many free/open infrastructure projects for the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and the Open Source Lab. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Oregon State University. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 6 IT professionals are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see it as a terrifying loss of control that may violate privacy and compliance regulations. Either way, clouds call many security assumptions into question. This debate-format session will give proponents and detractors their chance to convince the audience. Moderator - Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO, CyberRiskPartners Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. CRP offers Cloud Computing providers and data-intensive traditional businesses the visibility, quantification, and risk transfer solutions to manage cyber risk on an ongoing, targeted, and actionable basis. Through the CRP proprietary platform we deliver risk dispersion market options to enable Cloud clients to grow with emerging applications such as cloud computing, API’s, SAAS, and social media. CloudRisks is a specialty hedging platform networked with various Cyber Insurance companies that enables Cloud Computing companies to deal with the future of financial, technical, and legal aggregation. Www.cyberriskpartners.com Panelist - 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. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 6 Amazon Web Services are the de facto model for public cloud platforms: a core offering of virtual machines, surrounded by a range of storage, messaging, and mamnagement service. For many companies, this will be their first taste of a public cloud. In this session, we'll walk through deploying your first application atop AWS -- from evaluating your workload profile, to selecting the right services, to migrating and configuring the application itself. Speaker - Daniel Koffler, CTO, Syntenic | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 Building a private cloud does not require building a whole new data center. The quickest path to the cloud is to reclaim and repurpose your current IT infrastructure into a new private cloud likely within your current data center facility. Making the move from the static data center requires more than just infrastructure; it also requires new processes and automation. This session will help data center managers: 1) Learn how automation aides in the migration to and management of private clouds; 2) Understand the benefits of deploying a private cloud; and 3) Review best practices for enabling self-service to a private cloud. Speaker - Ryan Shopp, Senior Director, Product Marketing, CA Technologies Ryan Shopp is a senior director of product marketing in CA Technologies’ Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on thought leadership, strategy, positioning, sales enablement and evangelism of CA’s Workload and Automation portfolio. Ryan’s 15+ years of domain expertise in IT infrastructure and management span leadership roles in marketing, product management and sales engineer for Dell, INS (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), AT&T, EDS and start-ups such as Securityworks (acquired by Lumension), NetVMG (acquired by Internap), Centrata (acquired by Lontra), AlterPoint (acquired by Versata). Ryan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 6 Infrastructure-as-a-Service computing uses the virtual machine as its fundamental unit: a single computer, rented by the hour. It's the ultimate in flexibility, but it burdens you with all of that machine's maintenance and scaling. On the other hand, Platform-as-a-Service promises virtually limitless scalability and freedom from low-level operations, at a price: custom APIs, limited choice, and even rewriting your code. This session will compare the two fundamental models of cloud computing, arming you to choose the right one for different situations. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 6 GCE, a leader in cloud-computing technology for enterprises, implemented a government agency-wide financial system overhaul within the Department of Labor in early 2010. Through this implementation, GCE has built a best-practice case for adoption, transition and implementation of cloud-based systems that can be applied to other enterprise-class systems. The mission-critical implementations include sensitive financial information management tools such as automated workflows, world-class reporting tools to provide immediate visibility to data, elimination of hardware, software and hosting management, flexibility and scalability as the user's mission changes, security and a quick ramp-up to launch, while staying on budget. Ultimately, the solution will enable an organization to focus on its core mission. Speaker - David Lucas, Chief Strategy Officer, Global Computer Enterprise For nearly a decade David Lucas has been working with federal government agencies to create greater financial management efficiencies allowing them to remain compliant with federal guidelines and to serve as examples of practicing good government. His extensive background includes managing multimillion direct sales projects and a full range of messaging campaigns including public relations, direct mail, national print, online, television and radio. Prior to joining GCE, Lucas was vice president of marketing and advertising for a software development firm. Lucas also served as the creative leader on capture programs for some of the largest federal contractors | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 6 Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures. Moderator - 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 | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 6 As cloud computing becomes more prevalent and moves from an option to an edict, it is important to understand the framework that makes it reliable and scalable. This session will discuss the building blocks of the cloud architecture and the functional innovation it brings: * The "Assumed Failure" model of deployment * Mechanics of self-healing and autoscaling for clouds and applications * Application high availability vs VM high availability; * Interoperability (and what it means for your deployment) * Why standards are necessary 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). | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 2 Cloud computing is a cost effective and efficient way for enterprises to automate their processes. However organizations need to be aware of the pitfalls of the many cloud-computing solutions out there - one of the main ones being security. Most of these solutions were built for ease of use and without necessarily security in mind. Companies should ask the solution provider the security measures used in developing the application and get an independent verification to make sure there are no gaping holes. With over 75% of attacks occurring through the Web, any attack through these applications can lead to leakage of confidential information and embarrassment. This session will highlight the security considerations an organization needs to take into account when adopting cloud computing capabilities. Speaker - Lars Ewe, CTO and VP of Engineering, Cenzic Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies. Throughout his career Lars has held key positions in engineering, product management/marketing, and sales in a variety of different markets. Prior to Cenzic, Lars was software development director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., responsible for AMD's overall systems manageability and related security strategy and all related engineering efforts. | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 1 One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN. Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links. The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges. 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. Panelist - Apurva Dave, Vice President of Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed Technology Apurva Davé, Vice President, Product Marketing and Alliances, for Riverbed Technology, is responsible for planning, directing and implementing all facets of Riverbed’s product marketing activities. He works closely with Riverbed customers and the company’s executive team, defining product rollouts and positioning, and is intimately involved with Riverbed’s cloud computing initiatives. Previously, Apurva served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Panelist - Mark Urban, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Panelist - Andy Gottlieb, Founder and CEO, Talari Networks Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Panelist - 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. | |
Enterprise Cloud Summit
In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation.
Learn about practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT.
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private CloudsOn-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business. | |
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9:00 AM–9:20 AM Location: TBA In this opening session, we'll look at the cultural changes that cloud computing brings to enterprise IT. Clouds are more than just a set of technologies--they're a shift away from IT as a monopoly towards IT's new role as a steward of applications and services. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
9:20 AM–9:40 AM Location: TBA Private clouds are built atop several fundamental components: virtualization, automation, self-service, redundant storage, and predefined components. We'll chart IT's progress from bare metal computing towards cloud technologies. You'll understand where your organization sits on this journey and what comes next. Speaker - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. | |
9:40 AM–10:30 AM Location: TBA There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources. Moderator - Lew Tucker, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco and is responsible for helping to shape the future of Cloud and Enterprise software strategies. He is a recognized leader in the industry with a passion for emerging technologies—having played a part in several major high-tech waves including high-performance computing, Java technology and, now, Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. He has over twenty years experience in the high-tech industry—ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence, to software development and systems architecture. Accomplishments include the development of Sun Cloud, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Lew's interest in distributed systems stem from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Lew holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.
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10:30 AM–10:45 AM Location: TBA | |
10:45 AM–11:30 AM Location: TBA The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine. Panelist - Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support, Surgient, Inc. Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Surgient client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Surgient Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud. Panelist - Steve Shah, Director or Products, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Jamie Erbes, VP and CTO, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for Software & Solutions as the chief technology officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO)--our IT management software--and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industry. She works closely with other HP senior chief technology officers, HP Labs and HP Business Management to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Jamie joined the Office of Strategy and Technology (OST) from EDS, where she most recently was chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. | |
11:30 AM–12:00 PM Location: TBA A cloud data center has different power, network, and storage requirements from a traditional one. In this session, we'll cover the changes that private cloud environments will bring to the underlying infrastructure. | |
12:00 PM–1:30 PM Location: TBA | |
1:30 PM–2:00 PM Location: TBA Clouds aren't just on-demand machines. A successful cloud--whether private or public--requires both compute infrastructure and a set of services for storage, message queueing, parallel computation, and more. In this session, we'll look at what IT executives need to deploy to create a true cloud environment. Speaker - Willem van Biljon, Co-Founder, Nimbula Inc. Willem is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur who started his career building a unix-based operating system for mini-computers and the first retail debit card payment system for one of the largest retailers in South Africa. Building on that expertise, he co-founded Mosaic Software to build the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems. Mosaic became one of the world's leading EFT companies with operations in more than 30 countries and was successfully sold to S1 Corp. in 2004. Willem then joined Amazon to develop the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service business plan and to drive product management and marketing for the service. Willem is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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