Track Chair:Doug Washburn
Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations
Forrester Research
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Data Center Conference and Expo
Data centers and the IT professionals that operate them are increasingly challenged to deliver on the business's insatiable demand for reliable, flexible and resilient IT services at an affordable cost. These pressures are only exacerbated by data center out-of-space and power concerns, rising energy prices, new ownership models and heightened expectations for the IT professional of the future. This track is designed to help data center professionals plan for the data center of the future, while optimizing the data center of today.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning.
Topics include:
• I/O virtualization for management and security
• The state of FCoE
• End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations
• External I/O virtualization solutions
• 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center
Speaker - Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Networks Are Our Lives Inc! Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 1 Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+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. 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. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 1 Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+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. 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. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 Building a private cloud does not require building a whole new data center. The quickest path to the cloud is to reclaim and repurpose your current IT infrastructure into a new private cloud likely within your current data center facility. Making the move from the static data center requires more than just infrastructure; it also requires new processes and automation. This session will help data center managers: 1) Learn how automation aides in the migration to and management of private clouds; 2) Understand the benefits of deploying a private cloud; and 3) Review best practices for enabling self-service to a private cloud. Speaker - Ryan Shopp, Senior Director, Product Marketing, CA Technologies Ryan Shopp is a senior director of product marketing in CA Technologies’ Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on thought leadership, strategy, positioning, sales enablement and evangelism of CA’s Workload and Automation portfolio. Ryan’s 15+ years of domain expertise in IT infrastructure and management span leadership roles in marketing, product management and sales engineer for Dell, INS (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), AT&T, EDS and start-ups such as Securityworks (acquired by Lumension), NetVMG (acquired by Internap), Centrata (acquired by Lontra), AlterPoint (acquired by Versata). Ryan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 5 Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Panelist - John Sabasteanski, Distinguished Engineer, Systems Architecture and Strategy Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc. In his current role at cisco, John is responsible for identifying system requirements for enterprise and service provider data centers and driving consistent development of features across the portfolio of products that are produced by Cisco for these markets. John’s areas of expertise include , cloud computing, data center design, low latency architectures, high availability, diagnostics and testing methodologies. Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, was general manager of business units at VBand Systems and various consultancies whose practices focused on the financial services community. Panelist - Bowman Hall, Director, Cloud Computing Client Engagements, Business Manager, IBM Bowman Hall joined IBM in 1996 after IBM's acquisition of Tivoli Systems, Inc. Bowman has had multiple technical and management roles within the IBM Software Group in technical support, education, consulting services and technical sales, based at various times in the US, UK and Spain. Since 2009, Bowman has been responsible for Cloud Computing Client Engagements with the IBM Software Group, where he leads early adopter customer projects and cloud software implementations. Prior to joining IBM, Bowman was responsible for managing distributed systems at Carnival Cruise Lines. Bowman attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Panelist - Taufik Ma, Vice President of Product Management, Emulex Taufik Ma joined Emulex in May 2006 as part of the company’s acquisition of Aarohi Communications and serves as vice president of product management. At Aarohi, Ma was the vice president of marketing and business development and helped drive the expansion of the company's business into existing and adjacent markets. Taufik brings over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and systems business. Prior to Aarohi, Ma was General Manager of the Enterprise Platforms and Services Division at Intel Corporation, where he lead the BladeCenter collaboration with IBM, pioneered Intel's white box SAN platform and built their telecom server business. While at Intel, he also managed the planning, development, product integration and OEM engagement for key technologies including PCI-Express, Intel Virtualization Technology, Fully-Buffered-DIMMs and demand-based switching. Panelist - Ken Oestreich, VP of Marketing, Egenera Inc. Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 5 The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings. Moderator - Sunil Dhaliwal, General Partner, Battery Ventures Sunil joined Battery in 1998 and focuses on investments in IT infrastructure and financial services. Sunil is currently an investor in GreenBytes, Neocleus, Next Investments, Opscode, and Viridity Software. He has previously served as a director or board observer at CipherTrust, Inc. (acquired by Secure Computing), Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), Storigen Systems (acquired by EMC), @stake (acquired by Symantec) and Storability Software (acquired by StorageTek). Sunil has also been involved with other Battery investments including Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY), and Akara (acquired by Ciena). Prior to joining Battery, Sunil worked in the High Technology Group at Alex Brown & Sons, Inc., where he worked closely with growth companies in the communications and software industries. Sunil graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in Finance and International Business. Panelist - Michael Rowan, Co-Founder and CTO, Viridity Software Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation. Panelist - Bob Petrocelli, Chief Executive Officer, GreenBytes Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005. Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times. Panelist - Richard Goode, Senior Director of Sustainability, Alcatel Lucent Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company’s efforts in setting CO2 reduction targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent. Rich also integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business and decision-making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value. Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Boston University. Rich is the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management. Panelist - Sandy Hwang, Assistant Project Manager, New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 5 It is estimated that by next year, most data centers will have doubled their power consumption over a five year period. This session examines how companies can reverse the power consumption trend and extend the life of the data center through best practices, holistic planning and new technologies. By using a combination of consolidation, systems management, and green technologies, companies can get more capacity out of their current data center while allowing them to be more efficient in their business. Speaker - Doug Oathout, Vice President, Converged Infrastructure, Hewlett Packard In his role, Oathout is responsible for articulating the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy and portfolio. Previously, Oathout was vice president of Green IT and business development for HP Enterprise Business , where he led strategy, solution development and marketing for HP’s Green IT solutions. Green IT is one of the cornerstones of converged infrastructure.With more than 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Oathout brings extensive experience in solution development, marketing and strategic alliances to his current role. He has broad experience running business units and marketing. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 5 It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Panelist - Julian Kudritzki, Vice President, Uptime Institute Julian Kudritzki, is Vice President of Uptime Institute. He has managed the expansion of Tier Program into South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He continues to ensure the integrity of Tier Certifications worldwide and work with clients to broadcast their Tier awards. Julian has assisted in the development of numerous Uptime Institute publications and educational programs, including the Accredited Tier Designer curriculum. Panelist - Kevin Dalton, Director of Engineering, Digital Realty Trust Kevin Dalton is Director of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider with more than 90 properties in 27 markets across North America and Europe containing nearly 15 million square feet of rentable datacenter space. Dalton has been with Digital Realty Trust for four years and leads the team of engineers that is responsible for working with customers to assess their technical needs and guide them in selecting appropriate datacenter solutions. In his role as Director of Engineering, Dalton also plays an important role in the design and delivery of Digital Realty Trust’s datacenter products, including Turn-Key Datacenters®, Build-to-Suit Datacenters and POD Architecture Services®. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Dalton spent ten years at MGE as a large systems manager focusing on enterprise datacenter applications. In the ten years preceding his joining MGE, Dalton worked with McClier Corp consulting in Chicago as a Senior Electrical Engineer and Project Manager. Dalton earned a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology. | |
Workshops
Get in-depth Data Center education in full day workshops on Monday and Tuesday before the conference.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business. For more information click here. Instructor - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Moderator - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Speaker - Lew Tucker, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco and is responsible for helping to shape the future of Cloud and Enterprise software strategies. He is a recognized leader in the industry with a passion for emerging technologies—having played a part in several major high-tech waves including high-performance computing, Java technology and, now, Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. He has over twenty years experience in the high-tech industry—ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence, to software development and systems architecture. Accomplishments include the development of Sun Cloud, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Lew's interest in distributed systems stem from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Lew holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.
Speaker - Willem van Biljon, Co-Founder, Nimbula Inc. Willem is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur who started his career building a unix-based operating system for mini-computers and the first retail debit card payment system for one of the largest retailers in South Africa. Building on that expertise, he co-founded Mosaic Software to build the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems. Mosaic became one of the world's leading EFT companies with operations in more than 30 countries and was successfully sold to S1 Corp. in 2004. Willem then joined Amazon to develop the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service business plan and to drive product management and marketing for the service. Willem is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. Speaker - Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine. Panelist - Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support, Surgient, Inc. Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Surgient client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Surgient Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud. Panelist - Steve Shah, Director or Products, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Jamie Erbes, VP and CTO, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for Software & Solutions as the chief technology officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO)--our IT management software--and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industry. She works closely with other HP senior chief technology officers, HP Labs and HP Business Management to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Jamie joined the Office of Strategy and Technology (OST) from EDS, where she most recently was chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Panelist - Matthew O'Keefe, Senior Technology Architect, Morning Star Inc. | |
Data Center Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Data Center vendors.
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 1E
Located in New York & London with 14m licenses deployed across 1,100 organizations, our clients have trusted 1E to help them work effectively, productively and sustainably. To date, we have saved over $530m in energy costs, cutting CO2 emissions by 4.3 million tons with customers including AT&T, Dell and HSBC. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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APCON, Inc.
  ProviderAPCON's aggregation, filtering and switching technology enables any IT group to share an inventory of monitoring and security devices. With over 3,000 chassis installed in networks spanning 30 countries, APCON has become the new standard by which organizations are planning their network monitoring deployments. To learn more, visit www.apcon.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| BlackHawk Labs
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Cisco
 Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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CXtec
 CXtec helps keep your network up and your costs down. Our equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware reduces the cost of your technology infrastructure while our RapidCare® advance hardware replacement offering gives you maximum uptime. One call to us and you’ll see why there’s only one CXtec. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Dell
 Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. For more information visit www.dell.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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EMC Corporation
 EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Emulex Corporation
 Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
 ProviderAbout PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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756 |
| Facility Gateway Corporation
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| Geist Manufacturing
Geist specializes in 15-120 Amp PDUs, with 1000+ standard units including monitored, switched, environmental and IP based products. Geist also offers rapid response production of custom PDUs. From in-house chassis production to an on-site UL testing lab, Geist's cohesive abilities result in the lowest lead times in the PDU industry. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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242 |
Gigamon
 Gigamon provides secure access and complete visibility to all your data anywhere, anytime, while lowering the total cost of network management. Gigamon’s product suite seamlessly aggregates, filters and replicates traffic of interest from 1Gbps and 10Gbps tapped links and mirror ports to multiple monitoring and security tools. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Help/Systems, LLC
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| HotLava Systems
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters that meet the bandwidth, space, and power consumption requirements of the most demanding networks. Our products are natively-supported by virtually all operating systems and deliver more productivity by reducing or eliminating network interface congestion. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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HP
 ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Intelligent Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS)
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| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Microsoft
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| MovinCool/Denso Sales California, Inc.
MovinCool, the world’s largest manufacturer of spot air conditioners, offers a wide range of portable and ceiling mount air conditioning systems for many different applications, such as emergency, backup and supplemental cooling, as well as moisture removal. For more information, visit www.movincool.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Net Optics, Inc.
 ProviderNet Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| Network Hardware Resale
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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
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| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Quest Software
 Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. www.quest.com/vWorkspace Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Rack Solutions, Inc.
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
 Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Server Technology
 ProviderServer Technology designs and manufactures products to reduce downtime and improve data center power management. Products include intelligent Cabinet Power Distribution Units (PDU's), that provide power management via IP, branch circuit protection, input current power monitoring, environmental monitoring, serial console port access, and per outlet power monitoring on an outlet/device. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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ServerLift Corporation
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Splunk
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| Stayonline.com
Stay Online has been in business since 1987. We have created a niche in the IT market with an extensive product line. We manufacture and stock millions of cords and cables in our 50,000 sq.ft. warehouse in NC, which facilitates same day shipments to customers around the world. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Terremark Worldwide
 Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation, security and data storage services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Track Chair:Doug Washburn
Analyst, Infrastructure and Operations
Forrester Research
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Data Center Conference
Data centers and the IT professionals that operate them are increasingly challenged to deliver on the business's insatiable demand for reliable, flexible and resilient IT services at an affordable cost. These pressures are only exacerbated by data center out-of-space and power concerns, rising energy prices, new ownership models and heightened expectations for the IT professional of the future. This track is designed to help data center professionals plan for the data center of the future, while optimizing the data center of today.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning.
Topics include:
• I/O virtualization for management and security
• The state of FCoE
• End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations
• External I/O virtualization solutions
• 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center
Speaker - Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Networks Are Our Lives Inc! Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 1 Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+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. 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. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 1 Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+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. 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. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 Building a private cloud does not require building a whole new data center. The quickest path to the cloud is to reclaim and repurpose your current IT infrastructure into a new private cloud likely within your current data center facility. Making the move from the static data center requires more than just infrastructure; it also requires new processes and automation. This session will help data center managers: 1) Learn how automation aides in the migration to and management of private clouds; 2) Understand the benefits of deploying a private cloud; and 3) Review best practices for enabling self-service to a private cloud. Speaker - Ryan Shopp, Senior Director, Product Marketing, CA Technologies Ryan Shopp is a senior director of product marketing in CA Technologies’ Virtualization and Service Automation business unit. In this role, he focuses on thought leadership, strategy, positioning, sales enablement and evangelism of CA’s Workload and Automation portfolio. Ryan’s 15+ years of domain expertise in IT infrastructure and management span leadership roles in marketing, product management and sales engineer for Dell, INS (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), AT&T, EDS and start-ups such as Securityworks (acquired by Lumension), NetVMG (acquired by Internap), Centrata (acquired by Lontra), AlterPoint (acquired by Versata). Ryan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 5 Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Panelist - John Sabasteanski, Distinguished Engineer, Systems Architecture and Strategy Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc. In his current role at cisco, John is responsible for identifying system requirements for enterprise and service provider data centers and driving consistent development of features across the portfolio of products that are produced by Cisco for these markets. John’s areas of expertise include , cloud computing, data center design, low latency architectures, high availability, diagnostics and testing methodologies. Prior to joining Cisco in 1997, was general manager of business units at VBand Systems and various consultancies whose practices focused on the financial services community. Panelist - Bowman Hall, Director, Cloud Computing Client Engagements, Business Manager, IBM Bowman Hall joined IBM in 1996 after IBM's acquisition of Tivoli Systems, Inc. Bowman has had multiple technical and management roles within the IBM Software Group in technical support, education, consulting services and technical sales, based at various times in the US, UK and Spain. Since 2009, Bowman has been responsible for Cloud Computing Client Engagements with the IBM Software Group, where he leads early adopter customer projects and cloud software implementations. Prior to joining IBM, Bowman was responsible for managing distributed systems at Carnival Cruise Lines. Bowman attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Panelist - Taufik Ma, Vice President of Product Management, Emulex Taufik Ma joined Emulex in May 2006 as part of the company’s acquisition of Aarohi Communications and serves as vice president of product management. At Aarohi, Ma was the vice president of marketing and business development and helped drive the expansion of the company's business into existing and adjacent markets. Taufik brings over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and systems business. Prior to Aarohi, Ma was General Manager of the Enterprise Platforms and Services Division at Intel Corporation, where he lead the BladeCenter collaboration with IBM, pioneered Intel's white box SAN platform and built their telecom server business. While at Intel, he also managed the planning, development, product integration and OEM engagement for key technologies including PCI-Express, Intel Virtualization Technology, Fully-Buffered-DIMMs and demand-based switching. Panelist - Ken Oestreich, VP of Marketing, Egenera Inc. Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 5 The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings. Moderator - Sunil Dhaliwal, General Partner, Battery Ventures Sunil joined Battery in 1998 and focuses on investments in IT infrastructure and financial services. Sunil is currently an investor in GreenBytes, Neocleus, Next Investments, Opscode, and Viridity Software. He has previously served as a director or board observer at CipherTrust, Inc. (acquired by Secure Computing), Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), Storigen Systems (acquired by EMC), @stake (acquired by Symantec) and Storability Software (acquired by StorageTek). Sunil has also been involved with other Battery investments including Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY), and Akara (acquired by Ciena). Prior to joining Battery, Sunil worked in the High Technology Group at Alex Brown & Sons, Inc., where he worked closely with growth companies in the communications and software industries. Sunil graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in Finance and International Business. Panelist - Michael Rowan, Co-Founder and CTO, Viridity Software Michael Rowan is a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a strong vision for customer-centric product innovations. Prior to co-founding Viridity Software, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP as well as being the author of over a dozen CDP-related patents. Michael was the founder and CTO of Revivio (acquired by Symantec), the developer of the first enterprise class CDP solution for the market. Prior to Revivio, Michael was the founder and CTO of StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software), also a CDP product company. Michael was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, including HACMP (clustering), HAGEO (geographic clustering), HA-DR (storage replication), and the Concurrent Logical Volume Manager (CLVM). At CLAM, Michael was the technical visionary and product architect for all new product development. CLAM was eventually acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation. Panelist - Bob Petrocelli, Chief Executive Officer, GreenBytes Robert Petrocelli founded GreenBytes® in 2007 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to establishing GreenBytes, Petrocelli founded Heartlab, Inc. in 1994, a medical information technology company that was sold to Agfa in 2005. Petrocelli was awarded a patent on archival technology utilized for the long-term storage of patient data, including cardiology images, demographics and reports. Petrocelli received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list four times. Panelist - Richard Goode, Senior Director of Sustainability, Alcatel Lucent Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company’s efforts in setting CO2 reduction targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent. Rich also integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business and decision-making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value. Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at Harvard University, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Boston University. Rich is the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management. Panelist - Sandy Hwang, Assistant Project Manager, New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Location: 5 It is estimated that by next year, most data centers will have doubled their power consumption over a five year period. This session examines how companies can reverse the power consumption trend and extend the life of the data center through best practices, holistic planning and new technologies. By using a combination of consolidation, systems management, and green technologies, companies can get more capacity out of their current data center while allowing them to be more efficient in their business. Speaker - Doug Oathout, Vice President, Converged Infrastructure, Hewlett Packard In his role, Oathout is responsible for articulating the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy and portfolio. Previously, Oathout was vice president of Green IT and business development for HP Enterprise Business , where he led strategy, solution development and marketing for HP’s Green IT solutions. Green IT is one of the cornerstones of converged infrastructure.With more than 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Oathout brings extensive experience in solution development, marketing and strategic alliances to his current role. He has broad experience running business units and marketing. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 5 It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Panelist - Julian Kudritzki, Vice President, Uptime Institute Julian Kudritzki, is Vice President of Uptime Institute. He has managed the expansion of Tier Program into South America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He continues to ensure the integrity of Tier Certifications worldwide and work with clients to broadcast their Tier awards. Julian has assisted in the development of numerous Uptime Institute publications and educational programs, including the Accredited Tier Designer curriculum. Panelist - Kevin Dalton, Director of Engineering, Digital Realty Trust Kevin Dalton is Director of Engineering at Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest wholesale datacenter provider with more than 90 properties in 27 markets across North America and Europe containing nearly 15 million square feet of rentable datacenter space. Dalton has been with Digital Realty Trust for four years and leads the team of engineers that is responsible for working with customers to assess their technical needs and guide them in selecting appropriate datacenter solutions. In his role as Director of Engineering, Dalton also plays an important role in the design and delivery of Digital Realty Trust’s datacenter products, including Turn-Key Datacenters®, Build-to-Suit Datacenters and POD Architecture Services®. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust, Dalton spent ten years at MGE as a large systems manager focusing on enterprise datacenter applications. In the ten years preceding his joining MGE, Dalton worked with McClier Corp consulting in Chicago as a Senior Electrical Engineer and Project Manager. Dalton earned a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology. | |
Workshops
Get in-depth Data Center education in full day workshops on Monday and Tuesday before the conference.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business. For more information click here. Instructor - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Moderator - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc. Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud. Speaker - Lew Tucker, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco and is responsible for helping to shape the future of Cloud and Enterprise software strategies. He is a recognized leader in the industry with a passion for emerging technologies—having played a part in several major high-tech waves including high-performance computing, Java technology and, now, Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. He has over twenty years experience in the high-tech industry—ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence, to software development and systems architecture. Accomplishments include the development of Sun Cloud, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Lew's interest in distributed systems stem from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Lew holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.
Speaker - Willem van Biljon, Co-Founder, Nimbula Inc. Willem is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur who started his career building a unix-based operating system for mini-computers and the first retail debit card payment system for one of the largest retailers in South Africa. Building on that expertise, he co-founded Mosaic Software to build the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems. Mosaic became one of the world's leading EFT companies with operations in more than 30 countries and was successfully sold to S1 Corp. in 2004. Willem then joined Amazon to develop the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service business plan and to drive product management and marketing for the service. Willem is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. Speaker - Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine. Panelist - Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support, Surgient, Inc. Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Surgient client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Surgient Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud. Panelist - Steve Shah, Director or Products, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Jamie Erbes, VP and CTO, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for Software & Solutions as the chief technology officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO)--our IT management software--and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industry. She works closely with other HP senior chief technology officers, HP Labs and HP Business Management to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Jamie joined the Office of Strategy and Technology (OST) from EDS, where she most recently was chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Panelist - Matthew O'Keefe, Senior Technology Architect, Morning Star Inc. | |
Data Center Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Data Center vendors.
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1 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | M | N | P | Q | R | S | T| Company | Booth |
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| 1E
Located in New York & London with 14m licenses deployed across 1,100 organizations, our clients have trusted 1E to help them work effectively, productively and sustainably. To date, we have saved over $530m in energy costs, cutting CO2 emissions by 4.3 million tons with customers including AT&T, Dell and HSBC. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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610 |
| APCON, Inc.
Provider APCON's aggregation, filtering and switching technology enables any IT group to share an inventory of monitoring and security devices. With over 3,000 chassis installed in networks spanning 30 countries, APCON has become the new standard by which organizations are planning their network monitoring deployments. To learn more, visit www.apcon.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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554 |
| BlackHawk Labs
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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355 |
| Cisco
Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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121 |
| CXtec
CXtec helps keep your network up and your costs down. Our equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware reduces the cost of your technology infrastructure while our RapidCare® advance hardware replacement offering gives you maximum uptime. One call to us and you’ll see why there’s only one CXtec. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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617 |
| Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. For more information visit www.dell.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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337 |
| EMC Corporation
EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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345 |
| Emulex Corporation
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Emulex's portfolio of controller chips, adapters, blades and connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest IT environments. www.emulex.com Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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443 |
| Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
Provider About PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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756 |
| Facility Gateway Corporation
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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451 |
| Geist Manufacturing
Geist specializes in 15-120 Amp PDUs, with 1000+ standard units including monitored, switched, environmental and IP based products. Geist also offers rapid response production of custom PDUs. From in-house chassis production to an on-site UL testing lab, Geist's cohesive abilities result in the lowest lead times in the PDU industry. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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242 |
| Gigamon
Gigamon provides secure access and complete visibility to all your data anywhere, anytime, while lowering the total cost of network management. Gigamon’s product suite seamlessly aggregates, filters and replicates traffic of interest from 1Gbps and 10Gbps tapped links and mirror ports to multiple monitoring and security tools. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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630 |
| Help/Systems, LLC
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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744 |
| HotLava Systems
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters that meet the bandwidth, space, and power consumption requirements of the most demanding networks. Our products are natively-supported by virtually all operating systems and deliver more productivity by reducing or eliminating network interface congestion. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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823 |
| HP
Provider HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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716 |
| Intelligent Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS)
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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645 |
| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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349 |
| Microsoft
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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411 |
| MovinCool/Denso Sales California, Inc.
MovinCool, the world’s largest manufacturer of spot air conditioners, offers a wide range of portable and ceiling mount air conditioning systems for many different applications, such as emergency, backup and supplemental cooling, as well as moisture removal. For more information, visit www.movincool.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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446 |
| Net Optics, Inc.
Provider Net Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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542 |
| Network Hardware Resale
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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120 |
| New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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248 |
| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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829 |
| Quest Software
Quest Software creates simple-to-use IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our innovative solutions help simplify the toughest IT challenges for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. www.quest.com/vWorkspace Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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237 |
| Rack Solutions, Inc.
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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342 |
| Rackspace
Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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401 |
| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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722 |
| Server Technology
Provider Server Technology designs and manufactures products to reduce downtime and improve data center power management. Products include intelligent Cabinet Power Distribution Units (PDU's), that provide power management via IP, branch circuit protection, input current power monitoring, environmental monitoring, serial console port access, and per outlet power monitoring on an outlet/device. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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550 |
| ServerLift Corporation
Provider Address Website Products/Services Offered
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124 |
| Splunk
Provider Address Website Products/Services Offered
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449 |
| Stayonline.com
Stay Online has been in business since 1987. We have created a niche in the IT market with an extensive product line. We manufacture and stock millions of cords and cables in our 50,000 sq.ft. warehouse in NC, which facilitates same day shipments to customers around the world. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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448 |
| Terremark Worldwide
Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry's most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers worldwide with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation, security and data storage services. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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511 |
