Cloud Computing Conference Track
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 5 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM  Location: Room 1E08 Google has always been cloud-based, but Microsoft is also promoting cloud-based versions of its office-productivity software, via the Office 365 cloud-based service. This market development has resulted in Google winning some enterprise accounts for its Gmail service, but is Gmail ready for prime time? And the larger question is: Now that Google and Microsoft have added communications “hooks” into their office suites, are we on the verge of another round of convergence? Will enterprises move toward (or away from) Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, etc., based on the effectiveness of these systems’ integrated communications functionality? In this session, industry experts will help you understand how cloud-based office applications use communications integration to enable and promote collaboration. Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, No Jitter Panelist - Kevin Kieller, Principal, enableUC  Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada. Panelist - Dave Michels, President, Verge1 Consulting  Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: Room 1E16 Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure. Moderator - Michael Dortch, Research Director, FOCUS  Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies. One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. Panelist - Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy, Veeam  Doug Hazelman is Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist. Doug consults with customers, partners and industry analysts on key considerations for implementing virtual server infrastructures. He works with Veeam’s R&D team to enhance and develop new Veeam products to address market needs, and advises customers on best practices for managing virtual environments. Doug shares his expertise via theVeeam blog and other social media outlets. Panelist - Eric Burgener, Vice President, Product Management, Virsto Software  Eric has worked on emerging technologies for almost his entire career, with early stints at pioneering companies such as Tandem, Pyramid, Sun, Veritas, ConvergeNet, Mendocino, and Topio, among others, on fault tolerance and high availability, replication, backup, continuous data protection, and server virtualization technologies. Over the last 25 years he has worked across a variety of functional areas, including sales, product management, marketing, business development, and technical support, and also spent time as an Executive in Residence with Mayfield and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group. Before joining Virsto, he was VP of Marketing at InMage. Panelist - Ed Walsh, vSpecialist--VMware Protection Leader, EMC Ed Walsh is a Senior vSpecialist, VMware Affinity team at EMC. In this role, Ed is responsible for working with joint EMC-VMware customers to maximize the benefits of their virtualized infrastructure including cost reduction, and improved service levels. Current Ed is also the leader for the VMware Protection Focus Group at EMC. | |
10:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: Room 1E12 Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings. Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed and arm you with the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent  Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E08 Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Panelist - Brian Butte, Founder, BePublic Loud Brian Butte has focused on cloud, grid, and utility computing for the past nine years as an Enterprise Architect. Brian has architected multiple virtualization solutions for Fortune 500 clients including internal infrastructure as a service, workload overflow, internal storage clouds, and grid enabled ETL. Brian's varied background including plant floor automation, embedded systems, enterprise applications and call centers across multiple verticals gives him a unique perspective on the application of cloud technology. Brian is Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, member of the PwC Cloud Action Committee, PwC Cloud Solutions Team and subject matter expert within the Technology Advisory practice. Panelist - Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, salesforce.com  Peter Coffee, former technology editor of eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. With 25 years experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies, Peter has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S., England, Canada and Australia. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA from Pepperdine University, with faculty appointments at Pepperdine, UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. Panelist - Peter Magnusson, Engineering Director, Google, Inc. Panelist - Ian Rae, CEO, CloudOps | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E09 Your enterprise probably has users, customers and partners on Skype, and many may use GoogleVoice as well. If your enterprise IP communications platform could talk to these public services, you could greatly expand your reach, using voice, video or other collaboration modes, without ever touching the legacy PSTN. Skype and Google both have the global scale and branding to position themselves at the center of a new public network—but the matter is complicated by Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft, and Google’s potential to compete with the vendors in this space. This session will help you understand the mechanisms available today to use cloud-based providers like Skype and Google to reach your stakeholders with all-IP communications; it will also show you the obstacles to this goal. You’ll come away with a grasp of the state of the art today, and what you can expect tomorrow. Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, No Jitter Panelist - Kevin Kieller, Principal, enableUC Kevin Kieller is a partner with enableUC, a company that helps measure, monitor and improve Unified Communications and collaboration usage and adoption. He also currently holds the role as the Lead Unified Communications Strategist at Bell Canada. Panelist - Dave Michels, President, Verge1 Consulting Dave is an independent industry analyst and consultant focusing on IP PBX UC strategies and solutions; particularly around emerging trends such as cloud telephony, endpoints, mobility, and channel strategies. Dave has a background in enterprise IT and networks, and a passion for IP Telephony. He is an active blogger on telecom and related topics at www.pindropsoup.com. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: Room 1E09 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 and the management of the network to enable them to support cloud computing. For example, the deployment of vSwitches will potentially result in IT organizations having to manage hundreds of new switches from multiple vendors. In addition, today’s WAN can’t effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting and most management tools and processes are focused on static not dynamic 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. | |
| Thursday, October 6 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: Room 1E12 Clouds and virtualization are the hottest buzzwords in the industry today as data centers undergo a massive transformation of their servers, storage and network systems. The focus most recently has been on the hypervisor and application, but this is a red herring: it's the network and storage architecture that makes clouds reliable and secure. In this session, we'll go beyond "on-demand metal" and understand the challenges of orchestrating and automating all of a data center's infrastructure to deliver the elasticity and agility clouds promise. Speaker - Michael Crandell, CEO, RightScale Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University. Speaker - Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix Systems  Peder Ulander is vice president of product marketing for the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, overseeing the company’s marketing strategy for its cloud infrastructure and server virtualization products. Ulander joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he was chief marketing officer. Ulander has more than 15 years of marketing and sales strategy experience and has been named “The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud” by Cloudcast.net. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: Room 1E07 Security is an important concern of cloud implementations- and with good reason. Hackers and other online criminals invented cloud computing years ago by harvesting our machines, creating huge networks to steal private information. The speaker will explain how to stay a step ahead of the bad guys by learning best practices in cloud security. Solutions to the security problem include deploying a line of defense at the virtual machine itself, using bi-directional firewalls on individual virtual machines, and leveraging virtualization-aware malware protection. Speaker - Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security, Trend Micro  Dave Asprey brings more than 15 years experience to his position of Vice President of Cloud Security at Trend Micro. In this role, Mr. Asprey helps to shape the company’s cloud strategy, focusing specifically on expanding a Cloud Security Alliance partner ecosystem; participating in cloud security organizations; and cultivating Trend Micro partnerships with cloud security vendors. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: Room 1E12 Cloud computing offers tremendous opportunities and return-on-investment; however, you need to approach this carefully, leveraging industry models in conjunction with good governance practices.The presentation describes the key part of the NIST (National Institute of Standards for Technology) cloud computing frameworks in conjunction with other enterprise architecture and modeling approaches for cloud computing.Industry standards for cloud computing will be discussed and what many international governance, standards and frameworks organizations are exploring in cloud computing.This includes: models, taxonomies, standards, business cases, governance, estimation, security, privacy and policies. Speaker - Steven Woodward, President and CEO, Cloud Perspectives Steven Woodward is a member of the National Institute of Standards for Technology (NIST) working groups for cloud computing. He is an active contributing member to the TM (Telecommunication Management) Forum cloud community. Woodward Systems is a founding company of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) Cloud Computing Community. Steven is a board of director for the ISO/ IEC 20926:2009 International Function Point Users Group standard. Steven is a world-wide instructor and consultant for over 18 years, with a focus around governance, estimation, requirements clarification and risk management. Speaker - Fred Bartkiewicz, Partner, CyberRiskPartners, LLC | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E15 It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point. Moderator - Philippe Winthrop, Managing Director, The Enterprise Mobility Foundation  Philippe Winthrop is the Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, the organization behind The Enterprise Mobility Forum, the fastest growing content portal and social network exclusively dedicated to enterprise mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA as well as the impact of the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs). After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies. Philippe also launched the Wireless and Mobility research practice at market research firm Aberdeen Group. There, he conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe recently ended his analyst career after a successful tenure at Strategy Analytics where he spearheaded thought leadership on enterprise mobility management and the growing issues around individual and corporate liable devices. Panelist - Cimarron Buser, VP Product Marketing, Apperian, Inc.  Cimarron leads Apperian's product marketing organization for mobile enterprise solutions, including EASE (Enterprise App Services Environment). He has worked in technology for over 25 years, providing creative and visionary leadership for products and services in the technology, web and mobile areas. Cimarron made an indelible imprint on the mobile industry in creating the first iPhone magazine. Panelist - Michael Dortch, Research Director, FOCUS Michael Dortch is a Research Director at FOCUS LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), covering the dynamics linking virtualization to data center modernization and public, private and hybrid cloud computing for business. He is also Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com and a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research (www.constellationrg.com). DortchOnIT.com is "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consults with providers of disruptive business technologies. Constellation Research is a leading research analyst and advisory firm guiding organizations and their leaders through the hype and buzz of the latest disruptive technologies. One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He blogs regularly and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). As Director of Research at Focus.com, Michael helped to grow that site into a community of more than 850,000 people including some 5,000 Focus Experts, and a Top 10 Media Web Site according to Crain's "B2B Magazine." He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. Panelist - Jay Mellman, Chief Marketing Officer, Rhomobile Jay Mellman is Chief Marketing Officer of Rhomobile, the leader in tools for building and deploying smartphone applications. In his more than 20 years of experience across the technology industry, his has focused on software and how it can enable organizations to harness new capabilities for business advantage. Previous to Rhomobile, Mellman spent time at both HP and Cisco driving solutions in the networking space. Specifically, he led efforts to link network and IT infrastructures more closely with applications and the business. Prior to these larger companies, Mellman was a marketing leader in several emerging companies, including those focused on application delivery, network management, and next-generation database and development tools. With his broad background, Mellman believes that mobility and the changing role of the IT infrastructure is the next great area of innovation. Panelist - Scott Olson, Mobile Architect, ITR Mobility Scott Olson has spent the past 18 years building software and advising clients on the potential of software and mobility. He is a contributing writer for iPhone Life magazine, technical editor of iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications, and his forthcoming book is tentatively titled Cross-Platform Mobile Development for the Enterprise. He leads the development team at ITR Mobility, and throughout his career has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy, Target Corporation, Medtronic, and Prudential Financial. He believes that what is happening in the mobile software industry today will change the way people write and use software. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E12 If you think your VMware environment is a private cloud, you will be sorely disappointed with the results. While virtualization is a foundation for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), there is much more to the design and operation of a private cloud. To develop your path to the private cloud, you will learn: • The difference between a virtual server environment and a private cloud. • What your developers expect from a cloud and why this matters. Speaker - Lauren Nelson, Researcher, Forrester Research Lauren is a researcher at Forrester Research. She serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, providing insights and best-practice use of cloud computing (IaaS: public and private clouds).Prior to her current role as a researcher, Lauren was a senior research associate on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. She interviewed hundreds of I&O Professionals and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research reports and consulting engagements.Lauren graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in economics. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: Room 1E12 Cloudbursting allows you to deploy a base level of capacity that meets average loads while retaining the ability to scale rapidly on public cloud infrastructure to address spikes. That's great, but how do you actually achieve this ideal if you're deploying to VMware in your data center today and want to securely leverage Amazon EC2 on-the-fly? Come to this session to learn how to use asynchronous processing, message queues, and virtual private clouds to save money and keep users happy when they all hit your web site at the same time. Speaker - Rod Cope, CTO and Founder, OpenLogic Rod Cope is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic, a provider of Open Source support and governance solutions for the enterprise. He has over 25 years of software development experience in a wide range of industries and technologies. Prior to founding OpenLogic, Rod worked for General Electric, IBM, IBM Global Services, and Anthem. He also architected solutions as a consultant for Ericsson, Ford, Manugistics, Integral, Goodyear, and others. He is currently writing the book "Cloud Computing in Action". He holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville. | |
| Friday, October 7 | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: Room 1E09 While VMware virtualization is already widely adopted, and private clouds are constantly talked about, many IT organizations are unclear how to implement the steps to build a VMware private cloud. Many CIOs, IT managers and IT administrators are in the process of evolving their data centers and adopting this technology that is re-inventing the model for IT infrastructure. This session will discuss how several IT organizations are building on their VMware infrastructure and adopting private cloud computing, and will show how private clouds can address a wide range of technology and business challenges that span industries. Speaker - Nicolas (Neela) Jacques, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware, VMware  Nicolas (Neela) Jacques is a Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, the industry's leading virtualization platform provider. At VMware, he is focused VMware’s Private Cloud initiative. In 2009, Mr. Jacques launched VMware’s Application Performance Management product vCenter AppSpeed, and founded and launched VMware's first cloud computing initiative - the VMware Service Provider Program in 2007. Prior to VMware Mr. Jacques was a consultant with Bain & Company. Mr. Jacques has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and BS in economics from Georgetown University. | |
Enterprise Cloud Summit
In the last two years of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we've tracked the evolution of utility computing from technical novelty to core IT strategy. On the public side, cloud providers now offer robust, proven solutions and boast hundreds of enterprise customers. On the private side, cloud technologies—from big data models to turnkey cloud stacks—are transforming how we build and run private infrastructure.
This year, we'll move from discussing the what and why of clouds to the how: emerging design patterns and best practices, keeping data private in public places, economics justification, and real-world lessons learned. Also, in a new addition to the ECS curriculum, major public cloud providers will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings. It's two foundational days on utility computing no IT professional should be without.
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private CloudsThe first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies, from big data and turnkey cloud stacks, are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear from end users, tackle the "false cloud" debate, and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise. | |
| Monday, October 3 | |
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9:01 AM–9:15 AM Location: Room 1E11 We'll kick off the first day with a quick look at private clouds and the emergence of elastic on-premise computing. Speaker - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing  Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. | |
9:15 AM–9:40 AM Location: Room 1E11 One of the most hyped and least talked about aspect of private clouds is reliability. Building a private cloud doesn’t not magically make your applications more reliable. There are a number of options available at all tiers of the stack to build reliability into a private cloud architectures. In this session, we will outline why you need to focus on application reliability. Speaker - George Reese, Chief Technology Officer, enStratus  George Reese is the author of several books on cloud computing and enterprise technologies. His most recent book is O’Reilly’s Cloud Application Architectures. Professionally, he is the founder and CTO of enStratus, the only infrastructure management solution supporting enterprise security and governance for the hybrid cloud. George has also led a number of Open Source projects, including several MUD libraries and the mSQL-JDBC JDBC driver. He is the primary maintainer of Dasein Cloud, a cloud abstraction API for Java. George holds a BA from Bates College in Maine and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. | |
9:40 AM–9:55 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this case study session the CTO of Tendril Inc. will walk us through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Kent Dickson, CTO, Tendril Inc. Kent has more than 19 years of engineering experience. As Senior Vice President of Engineering, Kent leads the product architecture, development, quality and on-demand infrastructure efforts for Tendril. Most recently Kent was Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems Inc., where he held a number of roles managing Engineering and Product Management functions for some of BEA’s key product platforms. Kent holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA in Organizational Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder. | |
9:55 AM–10:05 AM Location: Room 1E11 In the first of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Openstack. Speaker - Bret Piatt, Director, Corporate Development, Rackspace  Bret Piatt is Director of Corporate Development where he is responsible for identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities for Rackspace’s core business through M&A, strategic partnerships, or incubation efforts. He played a crucial role in the formation of OpenStack, the open source cloud software community, as well as building the Cloud Tools ecosystem for the Rackspace Cloud. Previously, Bret was on the Product Management teams for both Rackspace and AT&T, where he was responsible for security and compliance product lines. His technical experience comes from his time at AT&T/SBC, where he designed carrier scale monitoring and management systems, optimized networks for enterprise customers, and performed lab testing on new products from potential suppliers and partners. Bret has more than 12 years experience working for service providers on leading edge projects and technologies from the beginning of VPN services to the currently emerging public cloud computing market. He is a also frequent speaker on cloud computing and big data technology at major industry events. | |
10:05 AM–10:30 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this talk, Basho Technologies' CTO will discuss the exciting but maddeningly vague "Big Data" term. The audience will learn what this is really all about, what exactly the technology trends around Big Data are enabling, and how best to use them to their own advantage. We will discard mystique and replace it with practical understanding. Speaker - Justin Sheehy, CTO, Basho Technologies  As Chief Technology Officer, Justin Sheehy directs Basho's technical strategy, roadmap, and new research into storage and distributed systems. Justin came to Basho from the MITRE Corporation, where as a principal scientist he managed large research projects for the U.S. Intelligence Community including such efforts as high assurance platforms, automated defensive cyber response, and cryptographic protocol analysis. He was central to MITRE’s development of research for mission assurance against sophisticated threats, the flagship program of which successfully proposed and created methods for building resilient networks of web services. | |
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10:45 AM–11:10 AM Location: Room 1E11 Most enterprise cloud adoption has relied on virtual machines and infrastructure as a service. However, there is a lot to love about the other approach to clouds—platform as a service. In a PaaS model, you worry about your code, and the systems take care of the rest. True Platform-as-a-Service not only reduces the cost of hardware infrastructure, but also reduces the complexity of the software stack that runs on it. PaaS promises to trim development and deployment time from months and years to days and weeks, but what are the signs of a true PaaS powerhouse? Is it simply free of servers or software to manage? Does it provide automatic upgrades and elasticity? Can you develop in multiple languages and across multiple device platforms? Many informed analysts think PaaS is the inevitable consequence of true utility computing. In this session, Patrick Chanezon of VMWare explains why PaaS may be the future of the enterprise. Speaker - Patrick Chanezon, Senior Director, Developer Relations, VMware  Patrick Chanezon joined VMware in 2011 in San Francisco, to create the developer relations team, and make VMware and Cloud Foundry the first choice of developers moving their apps to the cloud. Previously, he worked at Google from 2005 to 2011, where he managed the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com. Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal, and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project, and the OSSGTP group in France. Apart from programming and reading books, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids. Patrick received a M.S. in computer science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon where he graduated in 1993. | |
11:10 AM–11:20 AM Location: Room 1E11 In the second of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll consider the Citrix CloudStack model. Speaker - Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix Systems Peder Ulander is vice president of product marketing for the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, overseeing the company’s marketing strategy for its cloud infrastructure and server virtualization products. Ulander joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he was chief marketing officer. Ulander has more than 15 years of marketing and sales strategy experience and has been named “The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud” by Cloudcast.net. | |
11:20 AM–11:35 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this case study session, Cushman & Wakefield walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Leif Maiorini, IT Strategy, Cushman & Wakefield  Mr. Leif Maiorini is the Senior Managing Director of IT Strategy & Planning of Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate services provider with operations in 61 countries. As SMD of IT Strategy & Planning, Mr. Maiorini is responsible for global IT strategy development & planning, enterprise applications and enterprise architecture. Mr. Maiorini is based in Cushman & Wakefield’s world headquarters in New York, New York. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Maiorini has served in various IT executive leadership capacities for more than 20 years; the previous 10 years as the CIO for CDG Management. Leif holds and MSE in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Graduate School of Engineering and a BA from LaSalle University in Computer and Information Sciences. Leif frequently serves as a speaker and panelist for a number of professional conferences and currently is a member of the executive leadership board of the Society for Information Management’s New Jersey Chapter. Leif resides in Marlton, NJ with his wife and three children. Speaker - Craig Cuyar, Global CIO, Cushman & Wakefield  Dr. Craig A. Cuyar is the Global Chief Information Officer of Cushman& Wakefield, a global commercial real estate services provider with operations in 58 countries. He is based in New York, New York. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Dr. Cuyar has served as a CIO for sixteen years in a variety of professional services industries, including healthcare, advertising, and residential and commercial real estate. He was most recently the CIO for the Realogy Franchise Group, a global franchisor of some of the most recognized brands in the real estate industry including Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate®, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, ERA®, and Sotheby’s International Realty®. Dr. Cuyar has served as an adjunct faculty member and designed curricular materials for various academic institutions and is currently an adjunct faculty member teaching Supply Chain Management at Columbia University. He also mentors IT professionals for the CIO Executive Council and students enrolled in the Masters of Technology Management program at Columbia University Dr. Cuyar holds Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA in Finance from the Rutgers Business School. He speaks regularly at professional conferences and serves on Executive Advisory Boards for Avaya, Savvis and Zillow. Dr. Cuyar is also the Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society for Information Management and a current Board member for OSCRE. Dr. Cuyar lives in Randolph, NJ with his wife and three daughters. In his spare time he enjoys travel, wine and fly-fishing. | |
11:35 AM–12:00 PM Location: Room 1E11 While clouds are still relatively new to the enterprise, academics have been using shared computing fabric for nearly a decade to process large amounts of research data in parallel. What can the history of grid computing teach us? In this session, we'll hear about the lessons learned -- and mistakes made -- from years of grid computing, straight from one of the people behind the dominant academic grid fabric. Speaker - Mason Katz, Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member, StackIQ  Mason Katz is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Clustercorp. Prior to joining Clustercorp, he co-founded the open-source Rocks Clusters Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) located on the campus of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He has 20 years of experience in distributed and networked systems. His first job was as an 8-bit embedded software engineer, where he integrated first generation GPS units into a national grid of weather sensors. It was here that he discovered his passion for creating highly automated, maintainable, and supportable systems. He then took his embedded experience into the OS kernel arena and spent several years developing research-oriented network protocol stacks (x-kernel and IPSec) for Linux. For the last half of his career his primary focus has been on the design of software to manage commodity Linux clusters. As a co-founder of the Rocks Cluster Group, he helped position Rocks as the de facto standard in Linux cluster management. | |
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1:30 PM–1:45 PM Location: Room 1E11 Though the concept isn’t new, technologies such as OpenStack’s NetStack and OpenFlow have popularized the concept of software defined networking. As public and private cloud computing architectures require flexible and responsive network management frameworks on increasingly standardized physical architectures, how does an organization realize a cloud service with deployment agility, rapid provisioning, failure tolerance and quality of service in a “lights-out” infrastructure? This session helps attendees understand the key components of software defined networking, what is driving the need for SDN in cloud, and key characteristics of the hardware and software required to achieve its potential. Speaker - James Urquhart, Market Strategist, Cloud Computing Service Provider Systems Unit, Cisco  James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College. | |
1:45 PM–2:25 PM Location: Room 1E11 If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization. Moderator - Daniel Koffler, Owner, RSM Experts Panelist - Dan Rogers, Director Server and Cloud Platform, Microsoft  Dan Rogers leads Microsoft’s US enterprise infrastructure marketing team, he is responsible for the Windows Azure Cloud Platform, Identity and Security, Server and Client Management, Virtualization and Windows Server Solutions. In his current role he is focused on helping both large and small customers to begin their journey to the cloud, he works with Microsoft’s sales teams, partner organizations and services organizations and directly with customers considering the Private and Public cloud. Previously he has held positions in Microsoft shaping the enterprise competitive strategy, and was part of the core product management team for the successful development of Windows 7. Prior to Microsoft he held positions with Dell in data storage, and Accenture focused on online services. Dan graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard business School. Panelist - Troy Garrison, Vice President Client Services, Terremark  Troy Garrison is Vice President, Cloud Engagement Services at Terremark, where he leads cloud enablement for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Mr. Garrison has more than 20 years of experience architecting infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises to meet strategic business goals. He received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Panelist - Troy Angrignon, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Cloudscaling  Troy Angrignon is a sales and marketing executive with sixteen years experience in the IT arena, spanning network consulting services, enterprise software, software as a service, web 2.0 software, and cloud computing. As VP Sales & Marketing, Troy is responsible for working with the team to ensure that Cloudscaling is building market focused solutions that serve our client's business needs. Panelist - Mark Clifton, Solutions Marketing Director, Cloud Strategy, Dell  Mark has been driving virtualization and cloud for the past 8 years. Having worked with thousands of IT leaders on virtualization, he is working to shape Dell’s Cloud offering in the Public and Large Enterprise space. Mark has previously held roles as a Senior Manager in IT and a Business IT consultant. Mark is a graduate in Management Information Systems from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Panelist - Pano Xinos, Organizer, Cloud Security Alliance, Canada Chapter Pano is involved in a variety of organizations, including the Canadian chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. He is currently Associate Director, Cloud Solutions at Bell Canada, and has held a variety of positions with carriers and technology providers such as CA Technologies, Bell Canada, Merck, and UUNet/Worldcom/MCI. Pano teaches e-Business at McGill's Desautels faculty of Management. | |
2:25 PM–2:50 PM Location: Room 1E11 In this case study session, the New York Stock Exchange's Chief Counsel of Technology, Legal & Government Affairs will walk us through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Manavinder Bains, Chief Counsel - Technology, Legal & Government Affairs, New York Stock Exchange  Manavinder Bains serves as Chief Counsel for Technology for NYSE Euronext, which is comprised of leading equities and derivatives exchanges across the United States and Europe. Manavinder manages a wide array of intellectual property and technology driven matters pertaining to the clearing and settlement of cash equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products as well as regulatory and commercial matters pertaining to global exchange driven solutions, market data, and clearance and settlement models. Manavinder also supports strategic initiatives respecting the cultivation, acquisition and leveraging of intellectual property assets as well as transactional, operational and regulatory matters pertaining to mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Manavinder served as a Vice President with Merrill Lynch handling a wide range of technology driven legal and business matters, including investments in technology companies. Manavinder has also served as in-house Corporate Counsel to a technology and telecommunications company and worked in private practice as an associate at a prominent New York City law firm. Manavinder speaks frequently on issues pertaining to intellectual property. He has appeared on CNBC to discuss copyright litigation between Viacom and Google, and often presents at Continuing Legal Education conferences. Manavinder has authored widely cited articles on the convergence of intellectual property law and technology published in the COLUMBIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW (4 COLUM SCI & TECH L. REV. 4) as well as the STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW (2006 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 6). In addition to citations in legal scholarship, other citations include mention in a written judicial opinion issued by a court in the 9th Circuit and an amici curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court of the United Sates. B.A. University of California Berkeley, 1991 J.D. Emory University School of Law, 2001 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/ | |
2:50 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E11 In the third of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll hear about Makara and private PaaS stacks. Speaker - Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat  Gordon Haff is Red Hat's Cloud Evangelist. Prior to Red Hat, Gordon wrote hundreds of research notes, was frequently quoted in publications like The New York Times on a wide range of IT topics, and advised clients on product and marketing strategies. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for bringing a wide range of computer systems, from minicomputers to large UNIX servers, to market while at Data General. Gordon has engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School. | |
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3:15 PM–3:25 PM Location: Room 1E11 In the fourth under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Eucalyptus. Speaker - Paul Weiss, Senior Cloud Engineer, Eucalyptus  Paul Weiss is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Eucalyptus Systems working with Enterprise customers across the globe. He worked at VMware for over 3 years and has worked with virtualization products for many years. He has also worked as a VMware Specialist at a Premier VMware Partner, a Senior Systems Architect with a primary focus on large Sun environments, and as a Sun Certified Instructor. Paul has over 16 years of Enterprise IT experience and is certified in many solutions like Solaris, Red Hat and VMware. | |
3:25 PM–3:55 PM Location: Room 1E11 It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Panelist - Ellen Rubin, Vice President, Cloud Products, Terremark, a Verizon Company  Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in founding innovative technology companies and leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications. Panelist - Marc Pare, Field Sales Manager, Networking Sales, Citrix Systems Marc Pare is a Networking Field Sales Manager for Citrix in Eastern Canada. Marc has spent the past 12 years increasing the performance, availability, scalability and security of Web applications.
Panelist - James Urquhart, Market Strategist, Cloud Computing Service Provider Systems Unit, Cisco James Urquhart manages cloud computing infrastructure strategy for the Server Provider Systems Unit of Cisco Systems. Named one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing by the MIT Technology Review, and author of the popular cloud computing blog, The Wisdom of Clouds (http://news.cnet.com/the-wisdom-of-clouds), Mr. Urquhart brings a deep understanding of these disruptive technologies and the business opportunities they afford. James has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics from Macalester College. Panelist - Mark Day, Chief Scientist, Riverbed  Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he served as technical lead for content networking product management. A senior member of the Office of the CTO, Dr. Day is part of the team responsible for Riverbed’s technology direction and strategy. He works closely with Riverbed customers, solving some of the most technically complex and challenging issues associated with application acceleration and Wide Area Network optimization. Dr. Day also invented the SSL optimization technique that is a core feature of Riverbed’s flagship Steelhead products. This development has that made it practical for enterprises to accelerate secure SSL traffic. He holds 19 patents in distributed systems, presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony, and has chaired several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995. | |
3:55 PM–4:10 PM Location: Room 1E11 In this case study session, Biogen Idec's Director of Decision Support will walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - William Hayes, Director of Decision Support, Biogen Idec  William Hayes, PhD Molecular Biology and Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech, is Director of Decision Support R&D IT at Biogen Idec. His group focuses on extracting, integrating and delivering information for more efficient analysis and decision making. He has extensive experience with text mining, data mining, bioinformatics, and grid computing in meeting the challenges of informatics-driven drug discovery. | |
4:10 PM–4:20 PM Location: Room 1E11 In the fourth of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Chef, an open source provisioning and automation platform. Speaker - Sean O'Meara, Technical Evangelist, Opscode | |
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Speaker - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. | |
Enterprise Cloud Summit – Public CloudsThe second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. The economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end users' actual experience with clouds will also be explored. And major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings. | |
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9:01 AM–9:05 AM Location: Room 1E11 ECS chair Alistair Croll will set the stage for the public cloud day of ECS, focusing on the arrival of Just-in-time business models to IT and computing. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. | |
9:05 AM–9:20 AM Location: Room 1E11 Think you know clouds? Think again. Many of the assumptions we make about IT—from the value of machines to the reliability of the underlying platforms to the requirement that data is always accurate—are dead wrong. In this session we'll look at ten fundamentals of cloud computing that every IT professional needs to take to heart. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. | |
9:20 AM–9:30 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this session Amazon has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services  As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 100 conferences and User Groups and conducted workshops around the world. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 11 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. | |
9:30 AM–9:55 AM Location: Room 1E11 The best SLA is the one you design for yourself. Clouds have all of the things you need to make reliable, highly resilient applications: redundant, geographically distributed processing and sharded, shared storage systems. But, getting an application to run reliably requires a different kind of architecture. In this session, cloud architect, Daniel Koffler, will show you what it takes to build high availability into a cloud application. Speaker - Daniel Koffler, Owner, RSM Experts | |
9:55 AM–10:05 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this session, Microsoft Azure has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - Abe Pachikara, U.S. Cloud Computing Adoption Lead, Microsoft  Abe Pachikara is U.S. Cloud Computing Developer and ISV Adoption Lead at Microsoft. He helps developers and decision makers understand how cloud can make a material impact on scenarios important to them, such as: apps running in iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices; social apps and games; Web, HPC and line of business apps. Abe orchestrates field programs and engages with folks in technical and business roles at start-ups, enterprises, public sector and academic, to get them up to speed, “kicking the tires” and ecstatic about how the enterprise-grade cloud computing solution offered by Microsoft ("Windows Azure Platform") can address their business problems. | |
10:05 AM–10:30 AM Location: Room 1E11 Cloud Service Providers everywhere want to "move up the stack", but there is more to Platform as a Service than simply that. In this talk Joyent’s James Duncan spells out what is at stake, where the challenges lay, and why the virtual machine is merely the bluntest instrument in our toolbox. Speaker - James Duncan, VP of Product Development, Joyent  James Duncan is VP of Product Development and has responsibility for the technical product strategy. Most recently, James was a founder of Reasonably Smart, a Platform-as-a-Service company based in Montreal acquired by Joyent in January 2009. James spent 7 years at Fotango, finishing his time there as the CIO. Fotango, acquired by Canon in 2001, developed one of the world’s first Platform-as-a-Service offerings. | |
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10:45 AM–11:00 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this quick update, Marty Kagan of Cedexis will review his organization's research, collected from millions of samples across cloud and CDN providers, about the performance and uptime of public clouds. Speaker - Ed Sarausad, Director of Business Development, Cedexis | |
11:00 AM–11:15 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this case study session, Phototronics' Director of IT will walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't. Speaker - Dan Cahalane, Director of IT, Phototronics Dan develops, executes and supports all global IS operations for this $500 million high tech manufacturing company with 14 manufacturing facilities worldwide (large concentration in Asia). Full accountability for the overall strategy of technology and system acquisitions and integration required to support over 1,500 employees and global customers. Manage vendor relationships, perform risk assessments against planned milestones, manage capital expenditures and coordinate external dependencies. | |
11:15 AM–11:45 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this panel discussion, we look at which cloud frameworks are best for which applications. When does it make sense to use the control -- and overhead -- of infrastructure as a service, wrestling rented metal? When is a turnkey platform the right choice, and when is it a liability that locks you into an expensive platform? Moderator - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Panelist - Michael DeSilver, Windows Azure Technical Specialist, Microsoft  Michael is the Windows Azure Technical Specialist for the NYC Metro Area. In that role, his goal is to provide customers with the information, tools, and resources to help them make the right decisions with regard to the Windows Azure Platform. Prior to Microsoft, Michael worked for almost an Amazon Web Services Systems Integrator building out Infrastructure as a Service deployments for some of their enterprise customers. Prior to that Michael has been a .NET developer and Infrastructure Systems Engineer focused on Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and lives in NJ with his wife and 3 children. Panelist - Jared Wray, CTO, Tier 3  Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo. Panelist - Peter Magnusson, Engineering Director, Google, Inc. | |
11:45 AM–11:55 AM Location: Room 1E11 In this session, Joyent has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - James Duncan, VP of Product Development, Joyent James Duncan is VP of Product Development and has responsibility for the technical product strategy. Most recently, James was a founder of Reasonably Smart, a Platform-as-a-Service company based in Montreal acquired by Joyent in January 2009. James spent 7 years at Fotango, finishing his time there as the CIO. Fotango, acquired by Canon in 2001, developed one of the world’s first Platform-as-a-Service offerings. | |
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1:30 PM–1:40 PM Location: Room 1E11 In this session, Salesforce.com has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research, salesforce.com Peter Coffee, former technology editor of eWEEK, works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform. With 25 years experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies, Peter has been a keynote speaker, moderator or presenter at IT events throughout the U.S., England, Canada and Australia. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA from Pepperdine University, with faculty appointments at Pepperdine, UCLA and Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. | |
1:40 PM–2:15 PM Location: Room 1E11 With IT spread across on-premise and on-demand components, and virtual machine sprawl creating a deluge of new systems to manage, CIOs face a huge challenge: measuring and managing their virtual infrastructure to ensure adequate performance, good management of risk, and a controlled approach to billing. In this panel, we'll look at how companies are tackling management and monitoring in utility computing deployments. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Panelist - John Engates, CTO, Rackspace  John Engates is the Chief Technology Officer at Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing. Panelist - Siena Fath-Azam, CTO, Storm on Demand  Siena Fath-Azam serves as CTO at Storm on Demand, a Liquid Web company. In his role as CTO, Siena has has driven forward the company's vision of truly high performance cloud computing resources that are scalable and elastic. He has a strong background in managed hosting, with prior experience at Liquid Web Inc., where he led several product development projects as well as served as Support Manager in charge of more than 200 technicians. As an original member of the Storm On Demand research and development team, Siena was in charge of engaging with customers to identify product opportunities. Panelist - Donald Foss, Director of Global Testing Services, Keynote Systems  Donald leads Keynote's Global Testing Services team. Donald and his global team of consultants deliver load testing and performance tuning services to retail, publishing, financial services and hospitality companies worldwide, including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Sephora and Best Buy. When Donald isn't pulling all-nighters in testing parties with his customers, you might find him cycling in the mountains of Virginia. | |
2:15 PM–2:30 PM Location: Room 1E11 Moving enterprise applications to the cloud – how hard can it be? In this session, we’ll review some of the key challenges enterprise face, and what options exist to ease migration. We’ll focus on complex, multi-tier apps that require connectivity with the enterprise data center for security, networking and other services. Speaker - Ellen Rubin, Vice President, Cloud Products, Terremark, a Verizon Company Ellen Rubin is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in founding innovative technology companies and leading strategy, market positioning and go-to-market. Prior to founding CloudSwitch, Ellen was Vice President of Marketing at Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. As a member of the early management team at Netezza, Ellen helped grow the company to over $125 million in revenues and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen defined and created broad market acceptance of a new category, "data warehouse appliances," and led market strategy, product marketing, complementary technology relationships and marketing communications. | |
2:30 PM–2:45 PM Location: Room 1E11 In this session, Skytap has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - Brett Goodwin, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Skytap As vice president of marketing and business development, Brett is responsible for overall marketing strategy and execution, and forging key partnerships. Brett has 20 years of experience helping emerging technology companies become market leaders, including Isilon Systems, RealNetworks, and McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless. As employee 15 and vice president of marketing and business development for Isilon, Brett helped lead the networked storage company from pre-revenue to $100M+ annual revenue and through a successful IPO in December 2006. . EMC acquired Isilon for $2.5B in October 2011. Prior to Isilon, Brett led product management, enterprise products, and corporate development at RealNetworks over 6+ years and through their IPO in November 1997. At McCaw cellular, Brett held product management and marketing roles as the first digital and nationwide cellular network was becoming operational in North America. Brett has also worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton. | |
2:45 PM–3:00 PM Location: Room 1E11 What's next for cloud computing? Will IT in our pocket change business forever? Speaker - Lauren Nelson, Researcher, Forrester Research Lauren is a researcher at Forrester Research. She serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, providing insights and best-practice use of cloud computing (IaaS: public and private clouds).Prior to her current role as a researcher, Lauren was a senior research associate on Forrester's infrastructure and operations team. She interviewed hundreds of I&O Professionals and technology vendors while conducting primary and secondary research reports and consulting engagements.Lauren graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in economics. | |
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3:15 PM–3:30 PM Location: Room 1E11 Are clouds secure? Can you trust your data to on-demand platforms, or will complying with the law break the promise of the private cloud? In this session, Proksauer's Nolan Goldberg tells you what you need to know about clouds, data, and the law, drawing from his extensive background as an attorney and practicing lawyer. 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/ | |
3:30 PM–3:40 PM Location: Room 1E11 In this session, Terremark has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture. Speaker - Bill Lowry, Vice President, Cloud Services, Terremark, a Verizon Company  Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade, and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children. | |
3:40 PM–4:05 PM Location: Room 1E11 When web upstarts started offering cloud services, they stirred the sleeping enterprise giants and hosting companies into action as well. The buyer is now spoiled, for from the bedroom to the boardroom there is a vendor that can offer it the right cloud. Speaker - Todd Papaioannou, Entrepreneur in Residence, Battery Ventures  Todd Papaioannou is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Battery Ventures, where he works alongside the Enterprise IT investment team to evaluate investments in Big Data, Analytics, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. Todd has more than 15 years of Internet and Enterprise software experience covering a variety of senior leadership roles in R&D, product and corporate strategy, marketing and professional services. Prior to joining Battery, Todd was most recently VP, Distinguished Fellow and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo!. There, he was responsible for driving the technical and strategic direction of the Yahoo! Cloud and Hadoop teams, and was identified as one of the Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders of 2011 by TechTarget. Additionally, Todd was responsible for leading and defining the overall Yahoo! corporate technology strategy. Prior to Yahoo!, Todd held a series of increasingly senior leadership roles at Teradata including CTO, Client Software and VP, Architecture and Emerging Technologies. Over the course of five years he was responsible for transforming the Teradata client software portfolio, launching the Teradata Developer Exchange, conceiving and launching the overall Teradata Enterprise Analytics Cloud computing program, and played an instrumental role in evolving Teradata's corporate product and M&A strategy. Previously in his career, Todd was an early employee at Greenplum Inc. (formerly Metapa Inc.) serving as Chief Architect and Director of Engineering, where he initially built and led the early Engineering team before running the Professional Services group. Before that, Todd was Co-Founder and CEO of DALi, Inc, an early stage distributed social gaming company. Todd holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and distributed systems. | |
4:05 PM–4:25 PM Location: Room 1E11
Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. Panelist - Kent Dickson, CTO, Tendril Inc. Kent has more than 19 years of engineering experience. As Senior Vice President of Engineering, Kent leads the product architecture, development, quality and on-demand infrastructure efforts for Tendril. Most recently Kent was Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems Inc., where he held a number of roles managing Engineering and Product Management functions for some of BEA’s key product platforms. Kent holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA in Organizational Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Panelist - Ian Rae, CEO, CloudOps | |
4:25 PM–4:30 PM Location: Room 1E11
Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the principal analyst at Bitcurrent; an executive at CloudOps; an advisor to various technology venture firms; the founder of the Bitnorth conference; and the founder of the Human 2.0 blog on emerging technologies. | |
4:30 PM–5:30 PM Location: Room 1E11
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Carrier Cloud Forum
Cloud services have moved quickly into the mainstream, promising enterprises cost-effective access to IT services and applications, with little capex required. Communications service providers are under pressure to deliver cloud services with the level of security, reliability and availability for which their existing data services are known. But they must also be able to compete in a crowded market led by Web-based cloud service pioneers. The Carrier Cloud Forum will provide high-quality education and peer-to-peer interaction on the core issues around building a cloud infrastructure and developing a cloud services business model that works, including ways to capitalize on existing network and data center resources while building in new flexibility for delivery of on-demand services and management of user experience.
Cloud Computing Free Programs
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free programs, Wednesday through Thursday, including the following covering Cloud Computing:
| Wednesday, October 5 | |
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11:00 AM–11:45 AM Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461  Planning your journey to the cloud? Attend this session to learn how to simplify IT operations by automating application to infrastructure provisioning, compliance and system level performance monitoring in the cloud. During this session, the HP’s Cloud Advisors will be available to answer your real world cloud deployment questions. Speaker - Steve Dietch, VP, Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure, HP | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261  Today’s business relies on its network like never before and its applications are virtual. While this puts a strain on the network, organizations must now support secure anywhere access of a heterogeneous user base, on a variety of different devices in a variety of different locations. And all of these elements can change at a moment’s notice. This session will discuss the requirements and challenges organizations face by not only supporting cloud based applications but also cloud based employees. Speaker - Michael Rothschild, Networking Solutions, Dell  Dr. Michael Rothschild has more than 19 years of experience in marketing and product management for technology based organizations with specific focus in networking, and security compliance. At Dell, he is responsible for setting strategy for networking solutions which deliver business critical, high-value converged applications for enterprises. Prior to Dell, Rothschild held senior management positions and has an established track record in networking and security. Rothschild is a Professor of Marketing in New York City and has published several works on marketing strategies. He holds advanced degrees in marketing and information systems and is the Captain of his town’s EMS. | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461  Learn the differences between and the benefits of both the public and private cloud. Find out how to analyze which type of cloud solution is right for your company. We will be discussing cloud technology options as they relate to virtualization, business continuity and storage, integration and infrastructure replacement. Speaker - Richard Reiffer, VP Cloud Practice, Zenith Infotech  Richard Reiffer is VP Cloud Practice for Zenith Infotech, Ltd. Rich started early working with mainframe systems for Burroughs Corporation and continued his career into the early days of the PC. Rich found himself involved with Steve Jobs on the roll out of the NeXT Computer and later worked on the roll out of the NetFRAME computer system which was later acquired by Micron. Rich was fundamental in the formation of LANDA (Local Area Network Dealers Association) with the Ray Noorda (Novell) and as an organization they grew from nine original members to over 1400 at its peak. Prior to joining Zenith, Rich was the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Trivalent. Under Rich’s leadership the Trivalent Group placed among the top 100 in the MSP Mentor’s listing of Managed Services Providers in addition to obtaining the MSP Alliance Seal of MSP Ethical Conduct. Rich himself has gained status as a Certified Managed Service Professional (CMSP), a universally recognized accreditation from the MSPAlliance. | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461  How can the cloud address real business needs in the areas of mobility, web, and social? Learn how American Airlines delivers flight updates to business travelers without spiking traffic on premise. Hear about how Travelocity runs a Java site performance application without impacting the booking path. And finally, find out how Outback Steakhouse deploys Facebook promotions landing 80K prospects in one day. Speaker - Taylor Cowan, Senior Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Speaker - Suresh Sathyamurthy, Group Manager, Microsoft Suresh Sathyamurthy is the Group Product Manager for Windows Azure Platform in the US Marketing & Operations Group at Microsoft. Suresh and his team are responsible for the business management and marketing of Windows Azure Platform in United States. Suresh led Microsoft’s Identity & Security Business in US for over three years before taking over the Windows Azure Platform Business last year. His team is accountable for managing the business in US, developing the partner ecosystem, enabling direct and indirect sales teams and marketing to end-customers & partners. Prior to Microsoft he worked in three technology Start-ups and was the co-founder for two of them. Suresh has an Bachelors in Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering from Bharathiar University (India) and an MBA from the University of Washington (USA). Speaker - Abe Pachikara, U.S. Cloud Computing Adoption Lead, Microsoft Abe Pachikara is U.S. Cloud Computing Developer and ISV Adoption Lead at Microsoft. He helps developers and decision makers understand how cloud can make a material impact on scenarios important to them, such as: apps running in iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices; social apps and games; Web, HPC and line of business apps. Abe orchestrates field programs and engages with folks in technical and business roles at start-ups, enterprises, public sector and academic, to get them up to speed, “kicking the tires” and ecstatic about how the enterprise-grade cloud computing solution offered by Microsoft ("Windows Azure Platform") can address their business problems. | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261  As more and more businesses begin scaling IT needs to the cloud, there has been an increasing need to find ways to connect dedicated hosting offerings to cloud computing solutions. How can you effectively use IaaS services while also considering your current hosting needs? Attendees of this session will learn how they can bridge the gap between hosting and cloud in a scalable, cost-effective and secure way. Speaker - Toby Owen, Senior Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Rackspace  Toby Owen is a Senior Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Rackspace Hosting. Toby has been working in the IT industry for over 14 years. He has held technical and manager roles in operations and support, as well as technical consulting for small and large businesses. Prior to joining Rackspace he led the Web Services team for Wells Fargo, with responsibility for internet banking infrastructure and support. He holds a bachelors of science in Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and an MBA from the University of Texas. | |
4:00 PM–4:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461  While the cloud represents a revolution in IT strategy, it's not a cloud-only world, and IT leaders today are faced with the challenge of integrating cloud infrastructure with existing applications, technologies, networks and processes. This session presents a practical and pragmatic guide on integrating clouds for the enterprise, focusing on how to take advantage of the power and potential of the cloud while minimizing disruption, waste and compromise. Speaker - Bill Lowry, Vice President, Cloud Services, Terremark, a Verizon Company Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade, and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children. | |
| Thursday, October 6 | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261  Increased worker mobility means more devices with sensitive data are being used outside the office and the explosion of cloud-based applications and cost-cutting consumerization are fueling this trend. This session will explore the five overlooked risks of increasing mobility: exposing information on social networks, displaying sensitive data in public, malware on unmanaged devices and more. Speaker - Dr. Hugh Thompson, Chief Security Strategist, People Security | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Speaker - Kevin Watt, Product Manager Windows Server, Microsoft Corporation | |
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461  Cloud computing promises to enable enterprise agility and flexibility that can translate into competitive advantage. How can large enterprises use the cloud as an extension of their data center without cutting corners on security, reliability and compliance of their data? This session will highlight how large enterprises like Autodesk, NY Times, SAP and Amazon.com are using the AWS cloud today and taking advantage of the flexibility, security, agility, reliability and cost savings benefits of cloud computing. It will also discuss some of latest trends in the enterprise cloud adoption and highlight some of the latest enterprise services that AWS has released in last few months. Speaker - Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than 100 conferences and User Groups and conducted workshops around the world. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities leverage Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 11 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. | |
Cloud Computing Exhibitors
All Interop attendees can meet exhibitors showcasing the full range of IT innovations including the latest in Cloud Computing:
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| ADVA Optical Networking, Inc. ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission technology, the Company builds the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. The Company’s FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Afore Solutions AFORE is a leading provider of cloud security and networking software solutions. Our unique blend of the CloudLink™ network, storage and application security solutions and InterPort™ networking software enable enterprises, service providers and ICT vendors to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced Cloud and networking applications. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Amazon Web Services Built upon the same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build applications, store data, manage business processes, and more. Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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AppRiver AppRiver is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider offering easy, effective and affordable email and Web security solutions to businesses of all sizes. All AppRiver services are backed by Phenomenal Care, US-based customer support available 24 hours a day, every day. For more information, please visit www.appriver.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| BIG LK SYSTEMS USA, LLC. BIG L.K. Systems is a well recognized Thin Client solution provider. Since 1998, BIG has deployed Thin Client solutions in the Finance, Governmental, Retail, Industrial, Healthcare and Call Center environments. BIG is focused on developing affordable, low maintenance and highly reliable solutions. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Brocade Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility. (www.brocade.com) Address Website Products/Services Offered
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CenturyLink Business CenturyLink™ is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. The company provides data, voice and managed services to business, government and wholesale customers in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers. Visit www.centurylink.com/business Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Cervalis Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity / rapid recovery, managed hosting, enterprise cloud computing, managed security, managed storage, networking & telecommunications and co-location. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Chide.it Inc. Chide.it provides survey and evaluation solutions, FluidSurveys and ReviewRoom, used by governments, universities/colleges, non-profits and enterprises from across the world. ReviewRoom is used to accept and review applications and submissions (awards/nominations, scholarships/grants). FluidSurveys is used for creating online surveys/forms/polls. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Cisco Cisco is the leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company’s responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Configuration Management, Inc. (CMI) Configuration Management, Inc. (CMI) is a leading provider of technology services and Enterprise Change Management, Software Configuration® Management, Release Management and Software Quality Assurance & Testing Services. Our standards-based framework helps organizations manage change across all digital assets including software code, software packages, web content, hardware, and documentation. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Dell Dell listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. We offer a broad range of product categories including desktop systems, servers and networking products, mobility products, software and peripherals and enhanced services. Please visit www.dell.com to learn more. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Desinnova Technologies, Inc. Desinnova Technologies, Inc. creates the ultimate user experience in video conferencing by offering intuitive and easy to use control systems. Founded in 2009 and located in Portland, OR, Desinnova is a high-tech company that provides cutting edge solutions to video conferencing control. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Diskeeper Corporation Diskeeper Corporation products make computer systems faster, more reliable, longer-lived and energy efficient, all with zero overhead. Diskeeper's products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, ISVs, OEMs and home offices worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Emulex 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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| Esprida Corporation Esprida is an industry leader in remote management software for self-service, providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) product line that automates and simplifies the management of end point connected devices. Our solution provides comprehensive device management through real-time monitoring, automated content distribution, detailed reports and multi-tiered security Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Esri Think and plan geographically. As the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), Esri technology is used in over 350,000 organizations worldwide. Use GIS to collect, manage, and analyze geographic information, helping you solve problems and make better decisions. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| EVault storage services. By i365, A Seagate Company SMB customers rely on EVault® on-premise, cloud, and integrated hybrid data protection solutions optimized for multi-platform, multi-site deployment. Seagate subsidiary i365 is the leader in cloud-connected storage services—our customers know us as extremely reliable and proactive partners, passionate about ensuring their critical data is always safe and always available. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Exinda Exinda is a proven global supplier of WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,000 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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F5 Networks F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Geopresent Geopresent is a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider in the area of M2M, GPS tracking and real time field intelligence. Our system provides information on jobs, times, events, asset movements and communication as they happen – in real time, allowing transparency and better management throughout the enterprise. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Gigamon Gigamon provide intelligent visibility into enterprise, data center and cloud-based networks, delivering the appropriate network traffic to the right network tools without impacting production traffic. GigaVUE® family of products eliminate SPAN port contentions, provide “any” to “any” connectivity, and enhance your network monitoring and security tools with unmatched visibility. www.gigamon.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Global Crossing Global Crossing is a leading global IP, Ethernet, data center and video solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network. It delivers converged IP services to more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| HD Communications Corp For more than twenty years HD Communications has been supplying enterprise wireless communication equipment to its customer base. From in building to outdoor installations we offer the right gear for your application. With free in house technical support and our free wireless design service nobody comes close to our service. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Horizon DataSys Corporation Horizon DataSys specializes in Instant PC recovery solutions for all market segments. We deliver products that provide a full 360-degree workstation recovery and PC protection utilities that save organizations money with massive productivity gains. From PC Virtualization to Public Access PC environments - we have a solution for everyone. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| HP As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services. More information can be found at www.hp.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Huawei Technologies (USA) Huawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. For information, visit www.huawei.com/enterprise. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| I Think Security Ltd. I Think Security is a Data Protection company that focuses on providing state-of-the-art, bulletproof IT security solutions. Our products are easy to deploy, technology agnostic and supported by sophisticated analytics and controls. Our activities include a unique way of providing Data Protection, Cloud Security, Mobile Security and Secure Communications. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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IOCOM IOCOM delivers innovative solutions that enable multiple groups or individuals to instantly collaborate anytime and anywhere over their chosen medium. IOCOM is the first collaboration software company to integrate high performance multiple data and video windows with high performance audio across multiple platforms and devices. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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IPC Technologies 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, Ruckus Wireless, LifeSize, Phybridge and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| IPeak Networks IPeak Networks is a privately held Canadian network technology development company. OEMs and ISVs can embed the company's IPQ™ products to add end-to-end carrier-independent QoS to any wired, mobile or WiFi network and optimize the performance of any realtime network application. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Ixia Ixia provides comprehensive converged IP services testing solution - from the wireless edge to the Internet core. Network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and government agencies use Ixia's industry-leading test and simulation platforms to design and validate a broad range of wired, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G networking equipment and networks. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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McAfee McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. We are relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep our customers safe. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Microsoft At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| mindSHIFT Technologies mindSHIFT delivers premier IT infrastructure and software services that utilize the most reliable and advanced systems and processes in the world. Take advantage of our expertise, facilities, and security with cloudSHIFT(sm) Server. www.mindSHIFT.com Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Momemtum Telecom, Inc. Momentum is a leading Cloud-based communications provider that offers smart, personalized telephony solutions to independent cable operators, municipalities, value added resellers, managed service providers and direct subscribers nationwide. Founded in 2001, Momentum is CLEC certified in 45 states and currently operates over 100,000 digital voice lines with its carrier-grade services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Net Optics, Inc. Net Optics, the leading provider of Intelligent Access and Monitoring Architecture solutions, delivers real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control for businesses to achieve peak performance in network analytics and security. 7,000 organizations—trust Net Optics' comprehensive smart access hardware and software solutions to plan, scale and future-proof their networks. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| NetIQ Corporation NetIQ Corporation is an enterprise software company with a relentless focus on delivering customer success. Our portfolio includes award-winning software solutions for identity, access, security, compliance, systems, application, and resource management. We help organizations securely deliver, measure, and manage computing services across physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout Systems, Inc. is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. IT staff at more than 20,000 of the largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers use NetScout nGenius® and Sniffer® solutions to predict, preempt, and resolve service delivery problems. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Opscode Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, saving resources, time and money. Our team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest cloud computing platforms. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Phoenix NAP Phoenix NAP, a premier IaaS provider and primary network access point (NAP) for the southwest region leads the path for technology systems and solutions. Whether it’s high-density colocation, flexible storage, physical servers or public cloud hosting, our enterprise-grade facility and certified NOC technicians supply IT solutions to fit every need. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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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 Products/Services Offered
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| R1Soft R1Soft is the developer of Continuous Data Protection® (CDP), scalable and high-performance backup software for Windows and Linux servers in the cloud. Recognized as the leading commercial backup software in hosted services, R1Soft CDP is used by over 1,000 cloud infrastructure providers and protects more than 200,000 servers worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Rack Solutions Our product line consists of infrastructure items including server cabinets, racks, conversion brackets, shelves, rails and accessories. Our products are designed to solve the majority of our customers' racking needs, while offering services for custom solutions. Our engineers can design and build products to meet most demands and specifications. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Rackspace Hosting Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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RightScale RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. The company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. RightScale is delivered as "software as a service" (SaaS). Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Safari Books Online Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on demand, subscription access to thousands of learning resources including books, videos, code snippets and practice exams. Our combination of vetted content and platform tools enables our users to quickly find, organize, manage, share and use information from the world’s best experts. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Smarsh, Inc. Smarsh® provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including email, instant messaging and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps organizations manage and enforce flexible, secure and cost-effective compliance and records retention strategies. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Smith Micro Software Smith Micro Software, Inc., develops and markets mobile software products and services and an extensive line of PC software products for business & home markets. Bringing together innovative solutions from mobile connectivity to managing media content mobility to advancing mobile software management. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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StackIQ StackIQ offers a highly scalable multi-server management system for clusters, clouds, and big data. Based on the popular Rocks open-source project, StackIQ’s Rocks+ dynamically provisions and manages collections of servers to create a robust, reliable, connected compute fabric for cluster computing, data centers, cloud computing, and ‘big data’ applications. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Storageflex Inc. Storageflex is an ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company providing Customers with Network Storage Solutions encompassing Acceleration, Archiving, Backup/Restore, Consolidation, Compliance, Connectivity, Disaster Recovery and Encryption Technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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StrataScale StrataScale’s innovative server and cloud hosting solutions allow users to build, control and scale entire IT infrastructure environments from anywhere, anytime via our advanced web portal. The secure UI provides agility, performance, and peace of mind so IT professionals can focus on improving productivity and impacting the bottom line. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Telcombrokers Telcombrokers is an agency of telecom professionals representing 35+ carriers across the USA. Our portfolio includes a full range of telecom products from T1, DS3, OC3, MPLS and VOIP connections and more. With our industry expertise, we offer a one-stop source for unbiased advice, plus the best prices on services Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Terremark, a Verizon Company Terremark, a Verizon Company, sets the standard for IT deployments with advanced infrastructure and cloud services offerings that deliver the scale, security, and reliability necessary to meet today’s demanding requirements. With a global network of datacenters and a portfolio of secure solutions, Terremark helps realize the power of the cloud. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Thycotic Software Thycotic Software, Ltd. is a Washington, DC-based company committed to providing secure password management solutions. From managing privileged accounts to Active Directory self-service resets, our software securely manages all credentials critical to your organization's operations. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Tier 3 Tier 3 goes beyond traditional cloud to provide an agile, self-optimizing enterprise cloud platform. Enterprises large and small depend on Tier 3 to run mission-critical, production applications and services, while realizing lower TCO and dynamic scaling delivered on an enterprise cloud platform with SLAs, security, and built-in disaster recovery. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Transcend United Technologies Transcend United Technologies LLC combines cost-effective technology, experienced people, and world-class service to help organizations optimize their IT and communications infrastructure. Transcend delivers products and expertise in key technologies including unified communications, data infrastructure, data center management, and backup/recovery/availability. For more information, visit www.transcendunited.com or our blog at blog.transcendunited.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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TrewPort Technologies TrewPort offers SSO and Provisioning solutions for SaaS applications. TrewIDM provides SingleSignOn and Onboarding/Offboarding for SaaS apps such as Salesforce.com, GoogleApps,Replicon,Concur,BigMachines,SuccessFactors etc. It has over 60+ connectors for various systems including enterprise applications and SaaS applications. Visitus at www.ssocloud.com, you can reach us +1-678.431.4905 Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Tripp Lite Tripp Lite offers more than 3,000 products, ranging from network-grade UPS systems to cables for every application. On the desktop, in the data center, or wherever power and information flow, products and services that solve customers' problems and meet their highest expectations are the hallmarks of a Tripp Lite solution. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Vyatta Vyatta delivers a software-based network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware, common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. From small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, Vyatta provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite that uniquely addresses the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Xand Corporation Xand is a facilities-based provider of data center infrastructure and business continuity solutions to financial and mid-sized corporations. Through its Colocation, Managed Hosting and Business Continuity, Xand specializes in complete, end-to-end solutions including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity workspace. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Zenith Infotech Zenith Infotech serves IT Service Providers. Zenith`s portfolio includes: Managed Services, Cloud Computing and Business Continuity. Zenith enables partners to spend less time on day-to-day operations and more time on business-building activities. Zenith proves its commitment to partners through educational programming, technical training, customizable marketing materials and aggressive pricing. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Zinstall Zinstall is proud to present its market-leading line of Enterprise Migration products and the new Zirtu Serverless VDI (based on unique Type 0 Hypervisor) desktop virtualization suite. With years of accumulated knowledge in IT and virtualization, Zinstall solves real – not virtual – problems for consumers, SMBs and Large Enterprises. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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