Conference: Cloud Computing Track
If clouds aren't part of your computing strategy, you may be missing the most significant shift in IT since the advent of client-server computing. Clouds combine virtualization, commodity-based computing, automation, and always-on computing. The result is fast, flexible computing platforms that can tackle previously intractable business challenges. On the other hand, clouds pose new risks. CIOs have to contend with IT sprawl, rogue applications, compliance issues, and unpredictable cost models. The Cloud Computing track tackles these issues head-on, bringing together vendors, analysts, and end users for a series of workshops, presentations, and engaging panel discussions.
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 Ubiquitous Computing and Consumer Adoption: The Real Drivers of Cloud Computing (Location: 1E19)Clouds promise computing platforms that are as simple and flexible as other utilities. IT managers are re-examining projects that weren't feasible a few short years ago. They're behind a huge number of startups freed from the tyranny of up-front costs, and they're giving enterprises new ways to experiment. But that's not why clouds are interesting. The real promise of on-demand computing is what it makes possible: an interconnected web of services that powers the latest mobile applications, delivering information when and where we need it, connecting people and business to one another. It's a network effect on a global scale, offering pervasive computing on an unprecedented scale. This presentation looks at the long-term drivers of cloud computing, and offers some tantalizing thoughts on what it can become. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. | |||||
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Should SaaS Be Your Next Development Environment? (Location: 1E19) Initially, hosted software was heavily standardized. But as they targeted enterprise customers, those customers demanded ways of customizing their applications. The answer? Give customers the ability to extend the applications themselves. Today, many SaaS providers offer rich software ecosystems that include third-party marketplaces, development languages, and cloud computing platforms. When companies develop software, they usually pick a language and an operating system. But maybe it's time to pick a SaaS platform instead. This panel of SaaS providers talks about the platform-as-a-service model and how enterprises can tailor SaaS subscriptions to their particular needs while moving development efforts into the cloud. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Alex Barnett, Group Manager, Developer Relations, Intuit
Alex Barnett leads the developer relations team at Intuit, responsible for Intuit Developer Network (IDN) and developer engagement and evangelism for Intuit Partner Platform (IPP). Previously, Alex was VP, Developer Community at Bungee Labs after spending five years at Microsoft Corp. in various community program management and marketing positions. Before joining Microsoft, Alex was at a director at a leading digital marketing and Web development agency (Bluewave) for seven years. Alex played professional cricket for eight years (Middlesex and Lancashire). He blogs at http://alexbarnett.net/blog and Twitters at http://twitter.com/alexbarnett. Speaker - Dave Mitchell, CTO and Founder, Bungee Labs
Speaker - K.V. Rao, Founder and President, Zuora
K. V. founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the growth of this successful start-up. Prior to WebEx, K. V. worked in sales and customer support at SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several years developing products at General Motors. K. V. obtained his Ph. D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M. S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B. Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in computing technology. | |||||
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Is Cloud Computing a Technology or a Business Model? (Location: 1E19) Cloud computing is seldom clearly defined. On the one hand, clouds are a business model that's as old as outsourcing itself: let someone else do things you don't want to, reaping economies of scale and economies of skill. On the other hand, clouds are a set of technologies that improve reliability, distribute workload, and handle vast data sets quickly. This presentation looks at both perspectives, as we try to define what's just managed hosting, what's just virtualization, and what's truly a cloud. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, TechWeb
David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager. Speaker - Jesse Robbins, CEO, Opscode
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar . Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both. Speaker - Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, AT&T Business Solutions
As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences. Speaker - Oren Michels, CEO and Co-Founder, Mashery
Mashery CEO and co-founder Oren Michels has a record of success spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He served as president of two companies: Colt HR, a provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, an online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui. Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School. | |||||
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Privacy in the Clouds: A Governance Storm is Brewing (Location: 1E08) Cloud computing is predicted as a natural extension of Web 2.0 with emphasis on openness, interoperability, and better IT economics. There is also an increasingly dark lining to this silver cloud in the form of personal data privacy risk and new business liabilities as a result of cloud dependence. This session not only helps draw the cloud as a business movement but illustrates the inherent data risks of even being there. The session will also highlight the growing global compliance risks and costs as they consider Web 2.0 and cloud computing for their enterprise. Speaker - Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford
Drew Bartkiewicz, serves as Vice President of Technology and New Media Markets, of The Hartford. Drew has 18 years in the Software, Social Media, and Business Risk fields with companies such as BroadVision, salesforce.com, The Hartford, and United Technologies. Drew has written and lectured extensively on Internet and technology business trends over the past decade. He was a participating author in the Brookings Institution book on technology and economics, Unseen Wealth (published in 2001). He is currently a board member of the Online Reputation Management Association and is an active writer / speaker in the area of IT risk, laws, and governance. During the Web 1.0 and Personalization decade of the Internet, Drew worked extensively with the following organizations' e-commerce initiatives: GE Capital, Home Depot, UBS, Barclays, Walmart, Bank of America, Blue Cross, Nike, Maidenform, Time Warner, Fox, MTV, Telecom Italia, Primedia, GE Supply, Citigroup, e-Trade, Bear Stearns, and Credit Suisse. During the Web 2.0 evolution Drew has already underwritten the risks of emerging areas such as social networks, video advertising, internet and data privacy liability. Drew is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is currently working on the book, Unseen Liability, The Economics of Technology Risk and Information Malpractice, due in 2010. The Best of Both Worlds: Can Hybrid Clouds Convince the Enterprise? (Location: 1E19)Many enterprise applications have to run in-house for legislation and privacy. Others run best in hosted environments, closer to shared data and customers. There's a third class of applications that can run in-house or on-demand, depending on pricing and performance constraints. As companies define their IT strategies, these "hybrid clouds" will become increasingly important. If such systems can dynamically move workload between on-demand and on-premise environments, customers can optimize their use of computing resources while respecting data privacy concerns. This panel of innovators in hybrid clouds looks at the promise - and obstacles - of a technology that may finally unlock enterprise cloud adoption. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro
As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA - a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider - where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Jesse Robbins, CEO, Opscode
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar . Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both. Speaker - Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
Ping is a partner at Accel focusing on IT infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, and internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Imperva, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe. Ping was responsible for Accel's investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco). Prior to Accel, Ping was a director at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper's flagship router product portfolio and worked on Juniper's acquisition of Netscreen Technologies. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies. Speaker - Stuart Charlton, CTO, Elastra
Stuart Charlton is a Software Architect with Elastra, provider of Cloud Computing software infrastructure. Stuart specializes in the areas of architecture, SOA, data warehousing, and is an avid student of lean & agile approaches to business processes and product development. Prior to joining Elastra, he was an Enterprise Architect with BEA Systems Worldwide Consulting, was the lead integration architect for a major Canadian telecommunications company, and has been a consultant and trainer for over a dozen organizations in the United States, Canada, and Japan. He is the co-author of CodeNotes for J2EE, published by Random House in 2002, and has written for leading online publications. Stuart resides in San Francisco, California. Speaker - Tyson Hartman, Chief Technology Officer & VP Enterprise Technology Solutions, Avanade
Tyson is responsible for Avanade's technology vision and R&D investments. He also leads the worldwide strategy and team driving business in Application Development, Enterprise Infrastructure and Managed Services, providing solutions across the complete enterprise IT lifecycle. Tyson joined Avanade in June 2000. As part of Avanade's first engineering group, he was instrumental in developing solutions and assets for some of the company's first key customers. Prior to Avanade, Tyson was with Accenture, where he focused on e-commerce and high-volume online transaction processing systems. Tyson holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. Thursday, November 19 | | ||||
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The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation (Location: 1E19) In a cloud environment, you don't rack and stack servers any more; instead, you click and drag them. This relieves IT operators of many physical chores, but it creates a new one: server sprawl. To deal with this, most cloud operations teams rely heavily on scripts that automate common functions such as setting up servers or migrating configurations. Those scripts, however, are often tailored to a particular cloud platform—so the same tools that were supposed to liberate IT have inadvertently locked it into a particular cloud environment. If scripting and automation are keys to the success of cloud models, they're not getting the attention they deserve. This panel looks at scripting best practices, automation, and standardization. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Chris Brown, Vice President of Engineering, Opscode
Christopher Brown, Vice President of Engineering, was most recently Director of Engineering for Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Chris was the Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2") Speaker - Delano Mandelbaum, Founder, Solutious, The Performance Company
Delano is an IT consultant and the founder of Solutious Inc. He is an experienced developer and consults on development and deployment process, performance testing, and virtualized infrastructure. He helped ApproxiMatch, the Boston-based search engine startup, win several key contracts leading up to their acquisition in 2007. Other customers include Amdocs, Telus, and Yellow Pages Group. He is also the creator of several innovative opensource software projects including Rudy and Stella. Prior to Solutious, Delano lead development for the relaunch of YellowPages.ca in 2006 and was the senior developer at Verizon Information Services Canada (SuperPages.ca). Speaker - Derick Wong, Senior Director of Product Marketing, CA
Derick joined CA in October 2008 as Senior Director of Product Marketing. In this role, he leads product marketing for Business-Driven Automation, CA's innovative approach to delivering extensible value by aggregating and streamlining IT processes/workflow, provisioning and change control, workloads, and service assurance. Prior to CA, Derick was a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Canada where he was responsible for developing strategic marketing initiatives for the security and system management product lines that are part of the Windows Server System including Microsoft Forefront, Microsoft System Center, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Derick also served as CEO for InfoPeople Security Solutions Inc. (IPSS) and had various leadership roles within Intellitactics Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP. Derick graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Masters of Accounting specializing in Managerial Control Systems. He also holds various industry designations including Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Chartered Accountant (CA). Speaker - Greg Brail, CTO, Sonoa Systems
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Never Buy a Server Again: Should You Move Everything to On-Demand? (Location: 1E19) Some companies have embraced cloud computing whole-heartedly, putting all their IT resources in the cloud. The tradeoffs are clear: less control and customization, in return for a turnkey solution that benefits from the operator's economies of scale. This panel looks at what can be run on demand, and whether this is a marketing pipe-dream or an inevitable reality. We'll consider what kinds of organizations can rely solely on cloud-based software and servers, and what a company needs to change in order to never buy another server. Moderator - Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, AT&T Business Solutions
As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences. Speaker - Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations, Amazon Web Services
Adam Selipsky, Vice President, Amazon Web Services Adam Selipsky joined Amazon Web Services in May 2005 as Vice President for Product Management and Developer Relations. He oversees product strategy, sales and business development, marketing, and the AWS technical platform. Before joining Amazon Web Services, Selipsky served as a Vice President in several areas for RealNetworks. Selipsky was also a partner at Mercer Management Consulting, specializing in business strategy for telecommunications and technology companies. Selipsky earned his bachelor's degree in government from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Speaker - Allan Leinwand, Panorama Capital, Venture Partner
Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner in the firm and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks and Cedar Point Communications. Speaker - Andy Rhodes, Head of Global Marketing, Data Center Solutions Division, Dell
Speaker - Harris Tilevitz, CIO, Skadden Arps
Speaker - Jay Rambhaskar, Goldman Sachs
Speaker - William Forrest, Author of "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing", McKinsey and Co.
The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management (Location: 1E07)Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage cloud computing. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing, NetScout
Steven is Vice President, Marketing, and leads our global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company's $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company's entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco's $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco's global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Speaker - Tanvir Hussain, Senior Vice President, Product Management, CA
Tanvir has responsibility for product management for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, covering network, systems, database, data center automation and virtualization management solutions. Tanvir previously was Chief Technology Officer at TRG, where he helped raise $90 million in equity, acquired 15 companies in the span of 22 months and built TRG into one of the largest offshore-controlled business process outsourcers. He was responsible for the global technology infrastructure, software development, and IT service delivery to Fortune 500 companies. He also served on the boards of TRG portfolio companies in the US and UK. Previously, he was director of product management for CSG Systems and Lucent Technologies, managing OSS/BSS customer care and billing software solutions for the wireline/IP, mobile, cable and utilities industries. At Kenan Systems Corporation, subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies, Tanvir served as general manager for the Energy & Utilities business unit, which he grew into a $10 million revenue stream within two years. Previously, Tanvir was a strategy consultant with Booz?Allen & Hamilton in their Communications, Media and Technology practice. He served in a variety of technical and managerial roles at AT&T including the creation of the first desktop, multipoint voice, video and data collaboration service. Earlier in his career, Tanvir served as Mission Director for the launch of the Telstar IV communications satellites at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Tanvir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College. He also earned an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. | |||||
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Big Tables, No Joins, Many Copies: Understanding Cloud Data (Location: 1E19) When it comes to cloud challenges, data is the elephant in the room. The laws of physics, and the state of bandwidth today, mean that processing needs to happen near data—and this limits enterprises' ability to migrate their applications. Anyone who wants to understand clouds needs to know how they handle data. This panel looks at how some of the industry's biggest on-demand computing platforms handle huge amounts of data quickly and reliably, as well as which innovations wrought in the cloud can be applied to the enterprise data center. Moderator - Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Omer Trajman is responsible for Vertica's customer-facing technical team, helping customers with large-scale, grid-based data warehouse database deployments at companies such as Verizon, Comcast, JP Morgan, Biogen, Vonage and Mozilla. Trajman is also a leading authority on cloud-based databases through his pioneering work launching Vertica's cloud database on Amazon EC2. Prior to Vertica, he held senior technical positions at Wellogic and the Escher Group engineering various highly distributed database systems, including the 39,000-node counter system that powers the UK Post Office. Speaker - Dwight Merriman, CEO and Co-Founder, 10Gen
Dwight is responsible for driving the strategic vision of 10gen, a cloud computing database company. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express, a content distribution network (CDN) which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. with honors in Systems Analysis from Miami University of Ohio. Speaker - Jim Mlodgenski, Chief Architect, EnterpriseDB
Jim Mlodgenski was one of EnterpriseDB's first employees and joined the company in May, 2005. He is currently EnterpriseDB's chief architect and previously held the title of vice president, services. Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Jim was a partner and architect at Fusion Technologies, a technology services company founded by EnterpriseDB co-founder Denis Lussier. For nearly a decade, Jim developed early designs and concepts for Fusion's consulting projects and specialized in Oracle application development, Web development, and open source. Jim received a bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Speaker - John Trembley, Vice President of Product Management & Marketing, Xeround
John brings over 14 years of marketing and strategy experience to lead Xeround's product management and go-to-market plan. His background extends from telecommunications, networking, and high tech industries to embedded systems. Prior to Xeround, John worked as director of business development and industry strategy at Oracle. He was also marketing director of telecom and networking at TimesTen, which was acquired by Oracle. In addition, he has worked for communications service providers including: Electric Lightwave (now Integra Telecom) and GST Telecommunications (now Time Warner Telecom). John is frequently quoted by industry press and has spoken at many industry conferences. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Willamette University. | |||||
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The Right Approach to Cloud Storage (Location: 1E09) Enterprises are now leveraging cloud storage services at a rapid pace and are looking for qualified answers on how using a cloud platform can increase efficiency and ROI simultaneously. The old models of purchasing expensive storage systems or using large amounts of tape are prehistoric. Adapting a new approach to storage is necessary in today's tough economic climate as budgets continue to be slashed and performance upkeep is critical . This session will enable users to learn about the benefits and economies of scale as they relate to developing/implementing a cloud storage solution. A focus will be placed on performance, cost-effectiveness, user experience, and customer service/satisfaction. Speaker - Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting, Nirvanix
Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist and has authored numerous articles for industry publications. Stephen is a popular presenter at industry events and recently received Microsoft's MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage. He holds a bachelor of science in Society/Technology Studies, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. | |||||
