Enterprise Cloud Summit
Cloud Conference Chair:
Alistair Croll
Principal Analyst
Bitcurrent
Tuesday, November 17, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Cloud computing has moved from an early-adopter concept to an important tool in the CIO's toolbox. Clouds promise better economics, improved business agility, and access to powerful hosted technologies. But with these promises come concerns about outages, cost overruns, data security, compliance and lock-in. You can't afford to ignore cloud computing, but you also need to know where the pitfalls are—and Enterprise Cloud Summit has the answers. Join industry leaders, early adopters, and your peers for a day-long series of debates, panels, and presentations on the cloud.
Morning Conference Sessions:
State of the Cloud
9:00am - 10:30am
Where's the cloud today? While on-demand computing is an outgrowth of data centers, timesharing, and virtualization, cloud computing is now an IT essential. The last year has yielded a more mature cloud marketplace, offering SLAs, a rich range of services and some amount of standardization. Traditional enterprise vendors like Sun, IBM and Microsoft have launched their cloud strategies, forcing companies of all shapes and sizes to take notice. This opening session looks at where we are today and how corporate IT and cloud computing are quickly closing the adoption gap.
Speaker: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Different Clouds for Different Folks
10:45am - 11:20am
Cloud computing's a big term. It's both a business model (on-demand IT resources) and a set of technologies (massively scalable, highly resilient architectures.) Beneath this umbrella term is a wide variety of cloud models, from SaaS and PaaS to virtual machines and hybrid clouds. This open-format panel, involving a variety of cloud computing professionals, looks at the many kinds of clouds, where they work best and where they fail.
Moderator: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Speaker: 
Ian Knox, Sr. Director of Product Management, Skytap
As Senior Director of Product Management, Ian Knox is responsible for all aspects of Skytap's product management and go-to-market strategy. Ian joined Skytap from Microsoft Corporation where he was group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio. Prior to Microsoft, Ian was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where for seven years he worked on global software delivery projects for Fortune 500 clients.
Speaker:
Lew Moorman, CSO, Rackspace
Lew Moorman is instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served a variety of strategy and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues.
Moorman received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Speaker:
Sesh Murthy, VP Infrastructure Services Architecture, IBM
Sesh Murthy is the Vice President, Infrastructure Services Architecture, at the Global Technology Services division of IBM. He has extensive experience in helping IBM customers solve their business problems using IBM and other technologies. He specializes in helping customers to adopt leading edge technologies to achieve business value while minimizing risk. He has built and deployed RFID solutions for improving supply chain efficiency, at Retailers, Consumer products companies, and other manufacturing customers, led the creation and deployment of the store integration framework, and has built and deployed supply chain solutions for the paper, steel, chemical, and electronics industries.
Prior to this, Sesh was the VP and CTO, Industrial sector. He has worked at IBM research, and in the IBM software group.
Sesh has a Ph.D from CMU, an MS from Ohio State University, and a B. Tech from IIT Kanpur. He has published extensively and has several patents to his name.
Speaker:
Scott Ryan, President and CEO, Asankya
Scott has over 18 years of experience in the networking and Internet industries, during which he has led organizations in networking and communications companies including Nortel Networks and DSC Communications, as well as startup ventures Incanta and Elastic Networks. His specific expertise is in startup business formation, business and marketing strategy, new product introduction, and product management.
Prior to Asankya, Scott was at The North Highland Company, a management and technology consulting company, where he led the Infrastructure and Security practice and was the national Communications Industry Lead. Scott was co-founder and CEO of Incanta, a pioneer in personalized streaming radio, and broadband application provider to telecommunications and cable companies. While at Incanta, he raised $20 million, $17 after the bubble burst, and established the company's first revenues.
Scott was hired into the Leadership Program at Nortel Networks, where he worked in increasing levels of responsibility, eventually starting and spinning out a DSL systems company, Elastic Networks (ELAS), leading to an IPO in 2000. Scott has spoken at many industry events, including Digital Hollywood, Broadband Home, Streaming Media West, and SCTE Broadband.
Scott holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Theatre from Vanderbilt University, and a M.B.A in Marketing and Information Systems from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt. Scott lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children. In addition to his work at Asankya, he serves on the Board of Trust at Georgia Shakespeare, and occasionally can be found coaching his children in soccer and basketball.
The Risks of On-Demand Computing
11:20am - 12:00pm
Clouds have downsides, from cost overruns and IT sprawl to serious security and compliance issues. Many enterprises reject on-demand IT outright, fearing a shared infrastructure. And yet the internet—which business has clearly embraced—is a shared model that was once shunned by big businesses. What are the risks? Can they be addressed? How real are they, and what are cloud providers doing to minimize them? This panel, featuring risk and liability experts, will separate legitimate concerns from unfounded fears and put cloud risks in context.
Moderator: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Speaker: Anthony Arrott, Special Assistant to the CTO, Trend Micro
Anthony Arrott brings more than 25 years experience to his position of Special Assistant to Trend Micro's Chief Technology Officer, Raimund Genes. In this role, Dr. Arrott is responsible for managing the company's threat analytics operations and threat data sharing agreements with outside organizations.
Dr. Arrott joined Trend Micro through its acquisition of InterMute, where he served as Director of Threat Research. Previously he worked as a business planning consultant to new ventures at New City Studies; and also as a management and technology consultant at Arthur D. Little. Earlier in his career, Dr. Arrott founded a scientific instrumentation company, Payload Systems, where he also served as President.
Anthony Arrott holds a bachelor of science in physics and physiology from McGill University; as well as a master of science in aeronautics and astronautics, and a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has contributed articles to such publications as BusinessWeek, Wired, SDA Asia, SearchSecurity, AME Info, and Tech Republic.
Speaker: Drew Bartkiewicz, VP of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford
Drew has 18 years in the Software, Social Marketing, 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 has also worked extensively with Europe's OECD on the
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 models such as social networks, video advertising, 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 New Economics of Technology Risk, due in 2009.
Speaker: Marc Lindsey, Partner, Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP
Marc Lindsey is a partner in the firm of Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP. He negotiates and documents information technology, e-Business, managed services, software licensing, and applications development and maintenance agreements.
Since joining Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby, LLP in 1998, Mr. Lindsey has negotiated outsourcing agreements, software licensing, development and maintenance contracts on behalf of major corporations; assisted large telecommunications users in the negotiation of network service agreements; structured Voice over IP ("VoIP"), MPLS, and other managed services transactions; and negotiated application hosting, disaster recovery, and managed security services deals. Mr. Lindsey has assisted Fortune 500 corporations and other major companies structure information technology outsourcing relationships with top tier service providers. The outsourcing relationships have involved applications development, implementation, and maintenance, hosted enterprise applications, data center, network management, and infrastructure services, co-sourcing and multi-vendor arrangements, and international service delivery. From 1996 through 1998, Mr. Lindsey was an associate in the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Hunton & Williams where he represented clients in commercial litigation concerning antitrust, consumer fraud, and class actions. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Lindsey was a systems engineer for GE Aerospace where he specialized in software engineering and systems integration.
Mr. Lindsey received his B.S.E.E. (1989) from Howard University, his M.S.E. (Systems Engineering - 1992) from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., with honors (1996), from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in New York, the District of Columbia and North Carolina.
On September 15, 2009, Marc Lindsey gave two presentations at the Eighth Annual Digital ID World Conference in Las Vegas, NV: "Identity Governance Frameworks" and "Enabling Secure (and Legal) SSO."
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Afternoon Conference Sessions:
What's Working, What's Not: A Report from Cloud Adopters
1:30pm - 2:30pm
By now, companies have built their businesses on clouds. Some have moved, some have brought things in-house, and some have dealt with cloud failures. Learn their lessons without the headaches and mistakes from this panel of enterprises and startups who've built atop cloud platforms.
Moderator: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Speaker: Colin Hostert, CIO, Grooveshark.com
Speaker: Geir Magnusson, Consulting Architect, Platform, Gilt
With a diverse background as both a technical executive and an
internationally known leader in open source software, Geir comes to us
from cloud technology provider 10gen, where he was the VP of
Engineering. Prior to 10gen, Geir ran software development for Joost,
where he had responsibility for platform architecture, implementation
and delivery. Prior to Joost, he held positions as Director of
Middleware Architecture and Open Source Technology at Intel, and Vice
President of Products and Strategy at Gluecode, an open source
application server startup that was acquired by IBM. He was VP,
Engineering and Chief Architect of Adeptra, an innovating
communications service provider, and as CTO, guided technology
FitLinxx during its rapid growth years. Geir began his commercial
career as an architectural and product lead at Bloomberg Financial
Markets where he developed the company's real-time, multi-platform
financial data delivery and presentation system. He is also a member
of the board of advisors for WSO2, an open source SOA middleware vendor.
In addition to his commercial software experience, Geir is a Director
of the Apache Software Foundation, currently represents the ASF on the
Executive Committee of the Java Community Process, the organization
that governs the evolution of the Java platform, and helped found
major open source projects, including Apache Geronimo and Apache
Harmony, and has been recognized for his work in the Java ecosystem
through a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award.
Speaker: Dominic Preuss, VP, FiLife
Speaker: Vince Stephens, VP of Network Operations, TASER International
Cloud Interoperability: Do We Need It? What Would it Look Like?
2:45pm - 3:45pm
Cloud lock-in is frequently cited as a major obstacle to enterprise adoption. The inability to switch cloud providers can lead to rising costs and put companies at the mercy of their suppliers. But there are few standards and fewer reasons for the big players to cooperate. On the other hand, clouds are commodities—so maybe all we need is rough consensus and working code. In what promises to be a heated debate, this open-format panel will tackle portability and interoperability, looking at the state of various standards initiatives—and whether cloud portability will just work itself out.
Moderator: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
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:
Jason Hoffman, Founder and CTO, Joyent
Jason A. Hoffman PhD is Founder and CTO of Joyent, Inc., an Infrastructure as a Service (Cloud Computing) company. Jason is dedicated to developing and delivering the platforms and technologies that enable developers to start at a small and grow to a global scale with minimal friction and ongoing maintenance. Jason is a systems scientist with BS and MS degrees from UCLA, and a PhD from UCSD, and is an expert in scalable architectures. He has applied his knowledge and experience from the Web to Games to Computational Chemistry, Proteomics and Cancer biology.
Speaker:
John Willis, Owner, Zabovo
John Willis has been working in the IT management industry for 30 years. He actually started as a tape operator on an IBM mainframe while working for his high school computer club. He started his professional career at Exxon as an IT infrastructure analyst. He is the founder of four successful startups over the last 20 years and is currently working as the CEO of his latest self-funded Zabovo corporation. John is know internationally for his "IT Management and Cloud" blog. He also has two well know podcast series on clouds called "Cloud Cafe" and "Cloud Droplets". John is also the co-host on the Redmonk "IT Management Guys" podcast series.
Cloud Computing Roadmaps
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Clouds aren't standing still. As enterprises catch up to on-demand computing, vendors are pushing the envelope. They're moving up the stack towards platforms, and adding features for scalability and load balancing. They're integrating other functions, from content delivery to queueing. And they're adjusting their terms to respond to enterprise demands for reliability, security, and performance. This panel of cloud innovators looks at some of the advances in cloud computing, and how the technology ecosystem that clouds create makes previously unheard-of IT tricks possible.
Moderator: Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Speaker: Ken Comee, President & CEO, Cast Iron Systems
Since joining Cast Iron Systems in April 2005, Ken has driven a ten-fold increase in revenue and new customers, making Cast Iron the leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration. Integration is critical to the rapid evolution from legacy applications to fully cloud-enabled business solutions. With over 20 years of success as an executive in high-technology companies, Ken continues to drive innovation at Cast Iron with the transformation from a provider of integration appliances to an innovator in cloud computing. Ken's tenure with other pioneering collaborative and on-demand software companies has contributed directly to Cast Iron's success. At CollabNet, the leading provider of solutions for distributed software development, Ken was instrumental in transforming the company's strategy from an Open Source service model to a SaaS application sales model. During his four years at CollabNet, revenue increased over 400 percent and the customer base doubled annually. Prior to CollabNet, Ken served as senior vice president of North American sales for Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), the leader in enterprise Product Data Management (ePDM). Ken led the successful transformation of field sales from a predominately CAD/CAM tool focus to enterprise software selling. Under his leadership, North American sales grew to over $170 million per year. He also served for over 10 years in various executive sales and operations positions in both Europe and the United States with Amdahl Corporation. Ken is an active board member of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as well as of Child Advocates of Silicon Valley, a non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of abused and neglected children. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the London Business School.
Speaker: Morris Panner, CEO, OpenAir
Since 2001, Morris Panner has been CEO of OpenAir.
Under his leadership, OpenAir has been named one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in New England in both 2006 and 2007, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company, a Finalist in the 2005 Software and Information Industry Association CODiE award competition and a Top 25 Global Service Provider by ASP News.
Morris was previously an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and spent a year fighting narco-terrorism at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Columbia. Before that, he was a Federal Prosecutor in New York City, an attorney at Wachtell Lipton and a banker at Lazard.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale, Morris is co-Chairman of the Board of the Software Division of the Software and Information Industry Association and on the Board of the Washington Office on Latin America, a leading advocacy organization for human rights and social justice in Latin America. He is a frequent speaker and has been featured in the Boss column of the The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company.
Speaker: Randy Bias, Cloud Strategist & Founder, Cloudscaling
Randy Bias is Cloud Strategist and Founder of Cloudscaling, a boutique cloud strategy consulting services firm with clients such as VMware, EngineYard, GoGrid and Kaiser Permanente. He has been involved with infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24x7 service delivery since 1990. Previously, he acted as CTO of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider where he acted as the technology visionary on the executive team. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.
Randy has been blogging about 'the cloud' since the beginning and is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month.
In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy's open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware.
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