Enterprise Cloud Summit – Private Clouds
Monday, October 18th, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
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.
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Track: Cloud ComputingIn this opening session, we'll look at the cultural changes that cloud computing brings to enterprise IT. Clouds are more than just a set of technologies--they're a shift away from IT as a monopoly towards IT's new role as a steward of applications and services. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
Track: Cloud ComputingPrivate clouds are built atop several fundamental components: virtualization, automation, self-service, redundant storage, and predefined components. We'll chart IT's progress from bare metal computing towards cloud technologies. You'll understand where your organization sits on this journey and what comes next. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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. | |
Track: Cloud ComputingThere are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Lew Tucker, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco and is responsible for helping to shape the future of Cloud and Enterprise software strategies. He is a recognized leader in the industry with a passion for emerging technologies—having played a part in several major high-tech waves including high-performance computing, Java technology and, now, Cloud Computing. Prior to joining Cisco, Lew was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. He has over twenty years experience in the high-tech industry—ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence, to software development and systems architecture. Accomplishments include the development of Sun Cloud, Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Lew's interest in distributed systems stem from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Lew holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University.
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Track: Cloud ComputingThe first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Panelist - Pat O'Day, CTO, Bluelock Co-founder and CTO Pat O’Day is the visionary behind the IaaS business model. With almost 20 years of IT infrastructure experience, he holds countless certifications and serves as a technical advisor and conference speaker for industry-leading technology companies including IBM, VMware, F5, Shavlik and LeftHand Networks. He is the co-founder and former president of the local Association of Internet Professionals and a former board member of the technology peer group for TechPoint, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association. His most recent speaking engagements were at the Gartner Summit, IBM Pulse conference and as guest author for Virtual Strategy Magazine. Panelist - Brian Wilson, Vice President, Services and Support, Surgient, Inc. Brian Wilson is responsible for driving Surgient client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Surgient Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud. Panelist - Steve Shah, Director or Products, Citrix Steve Shah is part of the marketing team in the NetScaler and Cloud Product group where he drives product direction and go-to-market strategy. Before returning to Citrix, Steve Shah was the principal of RisingEdge Consutling, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in strategic marketing for datacenter infrastructure products and cloud computing. Some of Steve's customers include Citrix Systems, Coradiant, Silver Peak, and Amadeus Capital. Prior to his return to consulting, Steve Shah was the VP of Product Strategy and Co-founder of Asyncast which built a NLP engine for use in new media and telephony applications. Steve uses his experience of being the customer, engineer, and marketeer to identify new market opportunities and drive technology in new directions as a result. He gained his expertise by holding various product management, engineering, and system administrator roles at Citrix Systems, NetScaler, Array Networks, and Alteon Web Systems. Panelist - Jamie Erbes, VP and CTO, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for Software & Solutions as the chief technology officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for Business Technology Optimization (BTO)--our IT management software--and Communications & Media Solutions, with offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industry. She works closely with other HP senior chief technology officers, HP Labs and HP Business Management to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Jamie joined the Office of Strategy and Technology (OST) from EDS, where she most recently was chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. | |
Track: Cloud ComputingA cloud data center has different power, network, and storage requirements from a traditional one. In this session, we'll cover the changes that private cloud environments will bring to the underlying infrastructure. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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Track: Cloud ComputingClouds aren't just on-demand machines. A successful cloud--whether private or public--requires both compute infrastructure and a set of services for storage, message queueing, parallel computation, and more. In this session, we'll look at what IT executives need to deploy to create a true cloud environment. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
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. | |
Track: Cloud ComputingTo run private clouds efficiently, you have to instrument and manage them. But cloud management is a different beast, requiring a multi-user approach with a greater focus on billing and utilization. It also demands new tools to protect your users from one another -- and from themselves. This session will look at how private clouds are changing IT management. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Ian Rae, CEO, Syntenic | |
Track: Cloud ComputingArmed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). Panelist - John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell In his role of Vice President of Product Management, John Stetic works to help set the strategic vision and future roadmaps for multiple product lines with particular focus on the emerging management of enterprise cloud environments. John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for Novell's management products including ZENworks, PlateSpin and Novell BSM product lines. John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin's product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell's acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including PlateSpin, Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and Executive Education from Harvard Business School. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including: • VMworld • VMworld Europe • Gartner Data Center Conference • BrainShare, Novell's annual user conference Panelist - Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Altor Amir is CEO and co-founder of Altor Networks. Amir has over 18 years of experience in high-tech management, including marketing, business development and software engineering. Most recently, Amir was head of business development at Check Point Software where he led the company’s global BD efforts, including partnerships, OEMs, corporate strategy and M&A considerations. Previously, Amir was co-founder and senior vice president of marketing at Blue Wireless, a vendor of personalization software for telecommunication carriers. Prior to Blue Wireless, Amir led marketing initiatives at Netro Corporation, and simulation projects as lead software engineer at Amdahl Computers. Amir holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. | |
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Track: Cloud ComputingIn the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Moderator - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA – a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider – where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Panelist - Matthew O'Keefe, Senior Technology Architect, Morning Star Inc. Panelist - Rick Parker, Director of IT, Fetch Technologies Rick Parker is IT Director at Fetch Technologies, a solutions provider that enables organizations to extract, aggregate and use real-time information from websites. Prior to Fetch, he founded and served as CTO of Bedouin Networks, a provider of cloud-based IT services for small businesses. He has also previously held IT Director positions at Gimundo LLC, an Internet content provider, and Vendare Media.
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Track: Cloud ComputingIn this concluding session, we'll look at what private cloud adoption means for enterprises. Once IT is democratized, how does the IT team's role change? What's on the horizon? What skill sets are needed to survive and thrive in an on-demand, self-service world? Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar
Speaker - Alistair Croll, Founder, Bitcurrent Alistair is the Founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). | |
