Networking Track

The way networks are designed and operated is changing in response to demands placed on IT from the organization. Nearly every facet of Networking design and management are being affected. The networking Track at Interop is designed to teach you about new technologies that are impacting Networking designs such as lossless Ethernet and the impact in network design, improving networking reliability, and the state of the art in unified compute, server, and storage.

Track Chair

Jim Metzler

Vice President,
Ashton, Metzler & Associates

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Wednesday, October 3
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Network Location: Room 1E16 The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of wha… More ▶ Speaker - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Performance Issues and Optimization over Cellular and Wireless Location: Room 1E16 Mobile users on cellular networks and wireless LANs (WLANs) often have severe performance issues. In this session, Eric Siegel of Gartner will first look at the actual performance of cellular networks… More ▶ Speaker - Eric Siegel, Research Director, Gartner, Inc. Eric Siegel, Research Director at Gartner, is an authority on network and application performance measurement, optimization, and management. Interviewed hundreds of times by the media, he is the author of two acclaimed books, "Designing Quality of Service Solutions for the Enterprise" (John Wiley & Sons) and "Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services" (John McConnell with Eric Siegel; Cisco Press). A member of the Internet community since 1978, he was the Principal Internet Consultant at Keynote Systems, where he specialized in Web performance measurement, and was a Senior Network Architect with Tandem Computers, where he was the technical leader and coordinator for all data communications specialists worldwide. Mr. Siegel also worked for Network Strategies and the MITRE Corporation, specializing in computer network design and performance evaluation. He received his B.S. and M.Engr. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and was elected to the Electrical Engineering honor society.
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM What are the Next Steps for WAN Optimization? Location: Room 1E16 Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a goi… More ▶ 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. Panelist - Robert Raffaele, Enterprise Architect, Data Networking and Infrastructure Security, American Water Rob Raffaele is a key technical resource at American Water. With an enterprise focus, he is responsible for data networking and infrastructure security in both the business network and industrial control(SCADA) environments. Through architecture and design, Rob has driven standardization and delivered several advanced technologies to American Water. American Water is the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company. The company employs approximately 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and other related services to an estimated 15 million people in more than 30 states and parts of Canada. Rob has been with American Water for 5 years and has over 18 years experience in Information Technology. He is a member of multiple organizations, including ASIS and AWWA, and is engaged with several vendors on their strategic roadmaps and initiatives. Prior to American Water, Rob spent nearly 9 years at CIGNA. Panelist - Manish Arya, CTO, Tavant Technologies Manish is the Chief Technology Officer of Tavant Technologies and one of its co-founders. Tavant is a software services firm that provides solutions to companies in the media, gaming, ecommerce, consumer lending, capital markets, and manufacturing industries. Before joining Tavant, Manish played a technical leadership role at Amazon.com in scaling the growing product catalog system. Earlier, Amazon.com acquired Junglee, where Manish served as the Chief Architect and built one of the first white-labeled comparison shopping solutions. Prior to that, he worked at IBM's Almaden Research Center on extensions to relational database systems for handling spatial information and accessing external data as virtual tables. Manish holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a master's degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Panelist - Michael Hart, Sr. Systems Administrator, Rolex Watch USA, Inc. Michael H. Hart is a Senior Systems Administrator for Rolex Watch USA Inc., where his major responsibilities lie within the virtualization infrastructure (compute, storage, and network). He also plays a major role in all aspects of the architecting and delivery of IT department services. Michael previously served as the IT Platform Systems Supervisor for Marubeni America Corp, where he was responsible for network, server, and storage infrastructure for more than 40 branch offices across North, South, and Central America, and maintained a global network reaching Europe, and Japan/Asia. Michael has 12+ years of professional IT experience, with a focus on Virtualization, WAN optimization, Networking, and Managed Services in medium to large international enterprise business environments.
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM What’s Next in Data Centers? Location: Room 1E07 Initiatives like cloud computing, agile processes, and devops still run on servers, storage, and networking. Many cloud, agile, and devops proponents try to commoditize and minimize the value of under… More ▶ Moderator - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Panelist - Jeff Monroe, CEO, Verne Global Jeff Monroe has been in the data center industry for more than 15 years. He has been involved in all aspects of data center development and operations, and has put in place some of the largest and most sophisticated data centers in the industry, with a total value exceeding $1.8 billion USD. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Monroe was a co-founder of the DuPont Fabros Technology wholesale data center business. He was responsible for developing and implementing the wholesale operational model and was instrumental in all aspects of the business. This included data center strategy, acquisitions, design, construction, operations, leasing, and business development. Mr. Monroe has been a keynote speaker and panelist at events such as the Data Center Dynamics and IDC Next-Generation Data Center conferences and the Electrical Power Research Institute’s Annual Forum. Panelist - Peter Feldman, CEO and Principal, DataGryd Peter Feldman, CEO and Principal of DataGryd, has 20 years of experience in data center development, management, and design; he has been at the forefront of developing collocation business models and implementing energy-efficient technologies in the industry. Feldman has held CTO, President, and founding roles at several successful startups, including the TelX group, a national leader in datacenter collocation services. Prior to founding DataGryd, Mr. Feldman was the primary technical and business development interface with companies such as United Technologies Power for their hydrogen and natural gas fuel cell technology and CCHP micro-turbines for data centers, and AMSC (formerly American Superconductor) for developing superconducting cable technology for direct and alternating current in data centers. Additional professional experience includes optical and wireless network engineering for rural broadband, IT infrastructure management, and wireless network infrastructure. Feldman is a member of a number of professional trade organizations, and has industry related patents. Panelist - Steve Collen, Vice President of Product Marketing, IP Product Line, Huawei Enterprise Steve is responsible for the Global Go to Market of the Huawei Enterprise IP Product Line. This multi billion portfolio includes branch and high end routing, campus and data center switching, wireless LAN, network management, and optical and microwave transmission products. Steve is committed to helping Huawei achieve its enterprise goal of $15b by 2015! Prior to his current role at Huawei, Steve was Senior Director at Cisco Systems. During a 16 year period he was responsible for product management of physical security products and was a founder of Cisco’s Physical Security Business Unit in the Emerging Technology Group, network security .. where he was a founder of the VPN and Security Business Unit, and high end routing where he was responsible for the launch of Cisco’s 7500 and 7200 lines which became a $4b product line for the company. Previous roles included product management and marketing responsibilities for data communications, mobile and networking products at AT&T and British Telecom. Steve has an MBA from the University of Aston, UK and a BSc in Management Science from UMIST, UK. He is a father of two, a naturalized US citizen, lives in the California Bay Area, and enjoys soccer, motorcycling and shooting.
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Breakthroughs in Wide Area Networking Location: Room 1E16 The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being chall… More ▶ Speaker - Andre Kindness, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research Andre serves IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He is a leading expert on network operations and architecture. His research focuses on networking technology and strategy, mobile network infrastructure, application delivery networking, data center convergence, and network infrastructure security. He helps Forrester clients develop and improve their strategy around infrastructure investment and optimization. His analysis balances technology with business strategy to ensure IT maximizes operational and financial efficiency.
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Thursday, October 4
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Network Virtualization: What Is It and Is It Ready for Production Networks? Location: Room 1E16 The last few years has seen a significant adoption of server and storage virtualization. The network, however, has remained static. The good news is that we are now seeing the first steps towards virt… More ▶ 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. Panelist - Dante Malagrino, CEO and Co-founder, Embrane Born and raised in Italy, Dante is the co-founder and CEO of Embrane, where he leads and inspires the team to turn the company’s vision into execution, drives the values and the culture that define the company, and sometimes stocks the break-room. His professional life before that is pretty simple: a little over 10 years at Cisco. He was part of one of the most successful teams at Cisco, building the Catalyst 6500 family of switches. He later became part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to enter and disrupt the storage networking market. More recently, he led the worldwide marketing campaign for Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 strategy. While at Cisco he wore several hats: engineer, product manager, marketing manager and sales manager. He even spent three years in Europe, evangelizing Cisco’s Data Center story to the market. When he is not thinking about how to power the agile network, Dante enjoys traveling, scuba diving, and cooking homemade pizza from scratch. Panelist - Steve Riley, Technical Director, CTO Office, Riverbed Steve Riley is Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology. He specializes in enterprise cloud computing architecture and information security. Steve has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, concentrating on performance and security, both on-premise and in cloud. He is co-author of Protect Your Windows Network, contributed a chapter to Auditing Cloud Computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Before Steve joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security strategist at Amazon Web Services and a security consultant and advisor at Microsoft. Steve is a global moderator of Kubuntu Forums, a support community for Ubuntu’s KDE-based distribution. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com; check out his occasional writings at http://blog.riverbed.com Panelist - Faraz Aladin, Director, Enterprise Backbone Technical Marketing, Cisco Faraz Aladin is Director of Enterprise Backbone Marketing.. He has more than 20 years of industry experience with the last 15 at Cisco. He has worked in multiple business units at Cisco that deal with switching as an integral part of the overall solution offering. He is a CCIE and holds an engineering degree in digital electronics from Bombay University. Panelist - Pepe Garcia, Group Product Manager, VMware Pepe (Joseph) Garcia is currently a Group Product Manager at VMware. He has more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry. Pepe has held various positions in hardware and software development, network architecture and deployment, and product line management at various companies in Silicon Valley. His experience includes companies like NASA, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and more recently Nicira. He hold an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University.
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Network Management: Which Direction to Take? Location: Room 1E16 There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Some of the options include Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlo… More ▶ Moderator - Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates Jim has been leading the Network Management analysis practice at EMA for the past four years, and has over twenty years of collective experience in the network management tools sector. His prior experience includes network management product development, product management, product marketing, and executive roles at NetScout Systems, Micromuse, OSI/Agilent, and Cabletron Systems. Panelist - Vess Bakalov, CTO, SVP Products, SevOne As one of the co-founders of SevOne, Vess Bakalov serves as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for leading the company’s product development and design, and overall vision of the technology architecture. Prior to SevOne, Mr. Bakalov served in a number of senior technical positions at BankOne, including Assistant Vice President and Network Architect. He also led the network management team for the Credit Card Services division of the company, which was the largest issuer of VISA credit cards in the U.S. During his time at BankOne, Mr. Bakalov also taught undergraduate and graduate courses as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware. Mr. Bakalov began his career as a technical advisor for a fast-growing CLEC. There, he led the design and engineering effort behind that company's first DSL deployment. He was also in charge of architecting and developing the network management and instrumentation strategy for the firm. Panelist - Adam Powers, Chief Security Officer, Plixer Adam Powers is a leading innovator and evangelist in the field of network flow analysis and anomaly detection. During his ten year tenure at Lancope Inc as Chief Technology Officer, Powers' contributions helped lead Lancope's flow-based StealthWatch System to wide-spread success in over 600 large enterprises around the globe. In addition to his role as CTO, Powers has over 8 years experience in enterprise network security operations and design, much of which was spent managing high uptime, large-scale data centers for Inflow Inc, now Sungard. His early years were spent overseeing Banyan Vines systems in the United States Marine Corps where he was twice meritoriously promoted achieving the rank of Sergeant in just three years. Adam currently resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is Chief Security Officer for Plixer International, makers of the Scrutinizer NetFlow Analysis Technology. Panelist - Matt Stevens, CTO, AppNeta As AppNeta CTO, Matt is responsible for guiding technology and product vision and managing the advanced research, development, QA, customer support and information technology teams. Prior to joining AppNeta, Matt was the CTO of the Information and Event Management business unit of RSA, The Security Division of EMC. He joined EMC after the acquisition of Network Intelligence Corp. where Matt was a founder. In that role, he was also part of EMC's Office of the CTO, where he and his peer group had responsibility for EMC's overall strategic technology direction. Prior to NIC and RSA, Matt held senior technology and sales management positions with NetApp, Solbourne Computer and Harris Corporation. Panelist - Paul Barrett, Chief Product Officer, Voice and Video Communications, NetScout Systems, Inc. Paul Barrett is responsible for the NetScout’s voice and video technology strategy. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE". He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York. Panelist - Roi Keren, CEO, Centerity Systems, Inc. Roi Keren brings more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry to Centerity. Before joining Centerity, Roi functioned as regional sales manager of SuperDerivatives in UK and Ireland (based in London). In this role, Roi managed sales and pre-sales team - responsible for the business development with banks, hedge-funds and financial divisions of global enterprises. Prior to SuperDerivatives, Roi functioned as the EMEA and Middle East regional sales manager of Shunra Software- WW leading WAN emulation solutions Company. Previous to Shunra, Roi functioned as sales manager of Hewlett Packard service division (HPS) for the Telecom & Industrial districts in Israel. Roi holds a BA in Business Management from Tel Aviv College and MBA from Manchester University.
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Alternatives to the Spanning Tree Protocol Location: Room 1E16 The spanning tree protocol (STP) has been a mainstay of LAN design for well over a decade. One of the advantages of STP is that it ensures a loop-free topology for any bridged Ethernet local area netw… More ▶ 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. Panelist - Paul Unbehagen, Director, PLM Strategy and Standards, Avaya Paul Unbehagen is an active member of the IEEE and IETF. He has worked on the design, standardization, implementation, deployment, and support of many modern routing protocols (e.g., MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and SPB)and currently has approximately 24 networking related patents. He has also participated in several IETF WGs to include IS-IS, BGP, L2VPN, and IPVPNs and is currently the author of the IP/SPB IETF draft. Paul is now participating in the design, standardization, implementation and productization of IEEE 802.1aq/Shortest Path Bridging. Previously Paul has worked in numerous diverse networking environments to include the US Military, Bloomberg, MCI, and Nortel as well as a few startups. Paul thus has 16 years of deployment, operational, network design and architectural experience in live networks ranging from Government, Enterprise and Carrier. Panelist - Francois Tallet, Product Manager, Nexus 7000, Cisco Francois Tallet is a Product Manager in the Data Center Switching Technology Group, responsible for Layer 2 features on the Nexus 7000. He joined Cisco in 1997 as a customer support engineer in the LAN Switching team in Brussels. As a subject matter expert in Layer 2, he later moved to the Catalyst 6000 engineering team in the United States. He later was part of the IEEE 802.1 working group, introducing the Layer 2 Gateway Port concept in 802.1ah. He also led the development of the standard implementation of Multiple Spanning Trees protocol (MST, IEEE 802.1s) and designed a new version of the Vlan Trunk Protocol (VTP3) and the Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP). Tallet holds CCIE certification 3539 and holds two master's degrees in parallel computing and computer networking. Panelist - Kishore Inampudi, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks Panelist - Steve Blake, Sr. Principal Engineer, Extreme Networks Dr. Steven Blake is a Senior Principal Engineer at Extreme Networks, where he is responsible for architecting solutions for data center network challenges, such as Virtual Machine mobility and service scalability. Blake joined Extreme Networks in 2008, bringing over 13 years of experience in networking technology, previously having held positions as a principal engineer and architect for IBM and Ericsson. He is a long-term participant in the IETF, having co-authored some of the core Diffserv RFCs, and currently serving as co-chair of the PCN working group. He is currently participating in the Open Networking Foundation, defining the evolution of the OpenFlow protocol.
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM How BYOD is Driving Change in the Campus Network Location: Room 1E16 While it doesn’t receive as much attention in the trade press as does the data center LAN, the campus LAN is also undergoing fundamental change. The drivers of change in the campus network incl… More ▶ 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. Panelist - Leah Ward, Director of IT, Briar Cliff University Panelist - Dale Henninger, Manager of Global Network Services, General Mills Dale Henninger is the manager of Global Network Services at General Mills in Minneapolis, MN. His organization is responsible for the standards, architecture, management, and support of the global Wide Area and Local Area networks for over 220 locations around the world. Dale has over 20 years of networking experience at Fortune 500 companies such as Thomson Reuters and ING as well as experience with his own Internet startup in the late 1990s. Dale has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
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Friday, October 5
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM IPv6 Transition Location: Room 1E16 With the skyrocketing global demand for IP addresses to accommodate an explosion in the number of Web-enabled devices, IPv4 addresses are about to run out. The Internet Address Number Association (IAN… More ▶ Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Doug Fry, Network Engineer, Air Force Network Integration Center Doug Fry has been involved in the networking industry since 1995, designing, installing and troubleshooting U.S. Air Force base networks. Since 2005 he has been a Network Engineer with the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC), working on Air Force base network consolidation efforts and the IPv6 transition. Since 2008 Mr. Fry has been lead engineer and chief of the Air Force IPv6 Transition Management Office, working to prepare for and implement IPv6 across the Air Force. He represents the Air Force at the Department of Defense IPv6 Working Group, along with the Defense Information Systems Agency IPv6 and IT Technical Working Groups (ITWGs). Mr. Fry was an initial member of what later became the Air Force’s Scope Enterprise Design Guidance and Evaluation project (“Scope EDGE”), which helps ensure the continued security and operation of Air Force network resources around the world. He was also an active member of the ISDN User and ATM forums, expanding his experience with both TDM and packet-switched networks.
10:15 AM – 12:30 PM OpenFlow and Software Defined Networks: What Are They and Why Do You Care? Location: Room 1E16 Software-defined networking (SDN) is one of the most written about topics in IT because it holds the promise to fundamentally change how networking is done. There is some question, however, about whet… More ▶ 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. Panelist - Isabelle Guis, VP of Marketing, Big Switch Networks Isabelle Guis is responsible for outbound marketing at Big Switch Networks and is the Chair of the Market Education committee at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). She has extensive global experience spanning several networking companies where she held a variety of positions from R&D to product management and marketing for both enterprise and service provider market segments. Prior to joining Big Switch Networks, she was the General Manager of Avaya’s Small and Medium Enterprise Communications Business Unit with worldwide responsibilities for product design, development, marketing and indirect sales. At Cisco, she was instrumental in the post-acquisition integration of the WLAN start-up Airespace with Cisco Go-To-Market and also led several Mobile Vertical Solutions from design and testing to launch. Isabelle holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Panelist - Matthew Davy, Chief Network Architect and Executive Director, InCNTRE Matthew Davy is exective director of the Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) and Indiana University’s chief network architect. Before coming to Indiana University in 1999, he served as a lead network engineer for Tier 1 Internet Service Providers focused primarily on backbone traffic engineering. He has spent the last thirteen years providing leadership in the design of large-scale, advanced research and education networks including Indiana's statwide I-Light network and Internet2's nationwide network. He is responsible for the strategic design and planning of the university’s enterprise network, which includes over 120,000 users and 100,000 data connections across eight campuses. He founded InCNTRE in 2011 to focus on supporting network research related to software-defined networking by building collaborations among university network researchers and engineers and the networking industry. Panelist - Dan Octavian Savu, Software Engineer, European Organization for Nuclear Research Dan Savu is a software engineer and networking expert with more than 10 years of experience. He holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering and a M.Sc. in project management, having a mixed experience as a network instructor, software developer and project manager. Between 2002 and 2008 he was a CCAI (Cisco Certified Academy Instructor) and project manager/developer for various projects including the Romanian Arthroplasty Register. Dan joined CERN as a Marie Curie fellow in 2008 and worked as a researcher for the ATLAS networking team, the largest particle physics detector. Starting 2012 he is part of CERN's Communication Engineering team being involved in the ViSION project, a collaboration with HP Networking to investigate the potential benefit of software defined networking for CERN.
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Wednesday, October 3
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM How are Enterprises Using the Amazon Web Services Cloud Today? - Presented by Amazon Web Services Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Large enterprises are using the AWS Cloud to run their existing applications, launch new applications, and as extension of their data center. In this session Paul Duffy, Sr. Manager, Solutions Archite… More ▶ Speaker - Paul Duffy, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM The Revolutionary's Guide to Next-Gen Mobility Management - Presented Visage Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Over the past five years, the mobility management landscape has changed almost as much as the devices themselves. No longer are there one-size-fits-all mobility programs–rather, a wireless progr… More ▶ Speaker - Bzur Haun, President & CEO, Visage Mobile As president and CEO of Visage Mobile, Bzur brings more than 15 years of executive experience in sales, managed services, and Internet business with companies such as Asurion Managed Wireless, Accenture, Cambridge Technology Partners and DigitalThink. With nearly a decade of experience specifically in the enterprise mobility space, Bzur has worked with a large number of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies as they have navigated through large scale deployments of mobile assets and services. Bzur also owns an incredible number of bowties.
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Create an Excellent User Experience Without Compromising Policy, Control, and Management Across Your Network - Presented by Cisco Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Journey to the Cloud: Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategies - Presented by SAP Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Many SAP customers have already started on their journey to the cloud, and there are still others who are considering the use of cloud technology as an option to run their SAP NetWeaver and SAP Busine… More ▶ Speaker - Tony Pino, VP, Strategic Alliances (Global) Tony Pino is Vice President of Strategic Alliances (Global) for Virtustream. Tony’s primary responsibility is to establish, develop, and maintain strong professional sales relationships with current and future Channel Partners. He also provides support for other channel efforts such as recruitment and training, strategic campaigns, and coordinates co-selling activities. Tony has a proven record of success providing high tech products, services and solutions to Commercial and Government clients in a global environment. He possesses a very strong focus on satisfying customers while obtaining paramount results. His core strength is in building teams, organizations, partnerships, and customer relationships. Tony started his career as a software developer designing systems for various Federal Agencies. Subsequently, he became a senior consultant delivering network and complete system architectures for both Federal and Enterprise clients. Tony also served as a Director of pre-Sales Engineers at Inktomi. In 2002, he joined Matt Theurer and Sean Jennings at Brigh Technologies, Inc. specializing in Disaster Recovery and highly available systems architectures. He served as Vice President of Business Development and Sales with Brigh Technologies. Tony earned an M.S. degree in Information Systems from the University of Maryland. Speaker - Jeff Anders, Director Solution Management, SAP Jeff re-joined SAP in May 2010 as Director of Solution Management in the Virtualization and Cloud product group. Currently Jeff is a member of the team responsible for establishing and driving the direction for new products to help SAP customers more effectively and efficiently run their SAP systems in virtual and cloud environments. This includes gathering customer requirements based on business and technical needs, then communicating these in a prioritized manner to the development organization. Prior to his second tenure at SAP, Jeff held positions as a Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Embarcadero, responsible for the product marketing and product management efforts of Embarcadero’s Java products, as a Director in the Platform Solution Marketing at SAP where he was responsible for all outbound marketing activities related to SAP’s Java and ABAP developer tools, and in various roles over 16 years with Sun Microsystems. Jeff holds a BA in Mathematics from West Chester University, and an MS in Computer Science from Villanova University.
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Deploying Cloud Into Your Enterprise -- Evaluating & Selecting the Best Delivery Approach - Presented by IBM Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 The way in which a firm engages its customers and partners is changing. New delivery channels are emerging, creating pressure on IT to deliver applications faster and in more ways than before. This … More ▶ Speaker - Matt Waldbusser, Product Manager, Cloud Centric Platforms, Global Technology Services, IBM Matt Waldbusser has spent 14 years in the IT industry with a focus on product management, sales and consulting. Matt has been designing and selling cloud solutions for over 3 years and is a product manager in the IBM WebSphere organization focusing on developing and running Cloud Centric applications. Residing in Austin, Matt has Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Programming the Open Cloud - Presented by Rackspace Hosting Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 OpenStack provides a fully open-source implementation of a cloud fabric controller, including identity, object storage, and compute capabilities. With large-scale deployments at Rackspace, HP, Dell, a… More ▶ Speaker - Glen Campbell, Developer Advocate, Rackspace
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Big Data, Big Visibility, Big Control - Presented by Ixia Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Big Data is complex, moves fast and doesn’t fit typical database architectures. With the advent of Big Data, monitoring for network performance, security and compliance isn’t getting easi… More ▶ Speaker - Chip Webb, VP of Technology, Ixia Network Visibility Solutions Speaker - Larry Hart, VP of Strategy, Ixia Network Visibility Solutions
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Video as the New Voice for B2B Collaboration and Communication - Presented by OVCC Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Relying on video communication as a tool for business-to-business communication has historically been extremely challenging, especially if you need more security and quality of service than the Intern… More ▶ Moderator - Eric Krapf, Editor, NoJitter.com Eric Krapf is the Program Co-Chair of the Enterprise Connect events, helping to set program content and direction for the leading conference events in the enterprise IP-telephony/convergence/Unified Communications marketplace. In addition, Krapf serves as editor & lead blogger for the website No Jitter, TechWeb's online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry. He is also responsible for electronic content including webcasts and e-newsletters. From 1996 to 2004, Krapf was managing editor of Business Communications Review magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas. Panelist - Christopher Kemmerer, Director, Unified Communications and Mobility Solutions, Verizon; OVCC Marketing Chair Chris Kemmerer is responsible for leading a team which focuses on Verizon’s strategy and product management of Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions for Verizon’s enterprise, small/medium business, and government customers. During his tenure with Verizon, Kemmerer has focused on business communication services and has held leadership positions in operations, sales, engineering, and marketing. Most recently, Kemmerer led Verizon Wireless’s Unified Communications and Collaboration Product Marketing team, where his organization focused on business transformation by extending communication and collaboration services to the mobile workforce. Prior to joining Verizon, Kemmerer led an organization focused on designing and delivering Advanced Communication Services, such as next-generation optical, wireless, video, and other real-time communications solutions. Kemmerer represents Verizon as a subject matter expert at various industry conferences and in industry trade publications on topics ranging from mobility, security, and unified communications and collaboration. Verizon Enterprise Solutions creates global connections that generate growth, drive business innovation and move society forward. With a platform-based portfolio of industry-leading mobility, cloud and IT, strategic networking and advanced communications offerings, along with specialized solutions for key industries and a full range of global wholesale offerings, Verizon Enterprise Solutions combines unparalleled expertise, innovation and technology to bring together applications, people and environments. Visit www.verizonbusiness.com to learn more. Panelist - Andrew McFadzen, Head of Global Marketing – Network Solutions, Orange Business Services; OVCC President Andrew McFadzen is Head of Global Marketing - Network Solutions at Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services. In this role, he is responsible for the international IP product portfolio, network coverage as well as competitive and inter-carrier services for Telepresence. With more than 30 years' experience in the international telecommunications sector, McFadzen previously held business leadership roles with Orange Business Services in the United Kingdom and Germany. Before joining France Telecom-Orange, McFadzen worked in a variety of international roles at Deutsche Telekom and Cable & Wireless. Born in England and educated at Haberdashers Askes School, he is married with three teenage children. Panelist - Clive Sawkins, CEO, BCS Global Networks; OVCC Secretary & Treasurer Clive brings a wealth of experience to BCS Global as CEO and has been implemental in helping the company grow its revenue as well as transition from direct sales to a channel sales business model. Clive's mission is to bring visual communications to every boardroom and desktop through BCS Global and to make visual collaboration an easy-to-use business productivity tool within the enterprise. Clive's previous position was at Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for the Unified Communications and Telepresence Video Collaboration business across Europe. Clive has also held senior positions at Avaya, where he was Vice President, and at Nortel Networks.
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM 3 Ways to Make Your Enterprise Network Cloud Intelligent - Presented by Cisco Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Speaker - Inbar Lasser-Raab, Sr. Director, Cisco Systems
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM The Changing Landscape of the Intelligent Branch - Presented by Huawei Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 As Enterprises become more distributed, it becomes critical that the branch networks be ready for ubiquitous connectivity catering to new trends like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Services like bandwi… More ▶ Speaker - Steve Collen, Vice President of Product Marketing, IP Product Line, Huawei Enterprise Steve is responsible for the Global Go to Market of the Huawei Enterprise IP Product Line. This multi billion portfolio includes branch and high end routing, campus and data center switching, wireless LAN, network management, and optical and microwave transmission products. Steve is committed to helping Huawei achieve its enterprise goal of $15b by 2015! Prior to his current role at Huawei, Steve was Senior Director at Cisco Systems. During a 16 year period he was responsible for product management of physical security products and was a founder of Cisco’s Physical Security Business Unit in the Emerging Technology Group, network security .. where he was a founder of the VPN and Security Business Unit, and high end routing where he was responsible for the launch of Cisco’s 7500 and 7200 lines which became a $4b product line for the company. Previous roles included product management and marketing responsibilities for data communications, mobile and networking products at AT&T and British Telecom. Steve has an MBA from the University of Aston, UK and a BSc in Management Science from UMIST, UK. He is a father of two, a naturalized US citizen, lives in the California Bay Area, and enjoys soccer, motorcycling and shooting. Speaker - Ajay Gupta, Huawei
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Shadow IT: Customers Are Going Around You & Your Private Cloud Sucks. Now What? - Presented by Tier3 Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 With quickly-deployed public cloud services only a credit card swipe away -- and your internal IT viewed as difficult and out of touch -- the specter of “Shadow IT” is very real for most … More ▶ Speaker - Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3 Jared Wray is the architect of the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization, automation, abstraction, Wray designed the enterprise cloud architecture with unique intellectual property at every layer of the stack. The result today is an agile, self-optimizing, enterprise grade cloud platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing and scaling large Web infrastructures and consulting for a number of financial, consulting, and technology companies such as companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.
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Thursday, October 4
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Taking Cloud to the Final Frontier – SDN and Network Virtualization - Presented by Rackspace Hosting Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Remember the movie "Tron"? In it, the main character's actions are limited to what the computer which he is trapped inside allowed. Until recently, this was also true about networking in… More ▶ Speaker - Toby Owen, Product Leader, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Rackspace Toby Owen is a Senior Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions at Rackspace Hosting. Toby has been working in the IT industry for over 14 years. He has held technical and manager roles in operations and support, as well as technical consulting for small and large businesses. Prior to joining Rackspace he led the Web Services team for Wells Fargo, with responsibility for internet banking infrastructure and support. He holds a bachelors of science in Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and an MBA from the University of Texas. Currently, Toby is responsible for RackConnect and the Hybrid Hosting product portfolio. It’s an exciting area, where Rackspace is merging their Dedicated and Cloud based hosting products to create new scalable infrastructure solutions for customers. He’s excited to help drive innovative solutions to help customers get the most from their applications and hosting partnerships with Rackspace. Speaker - Jamey Meredith, Product Manager, Rackspace James "Jamey" Meredith is a product manager for the Rackspace Open Cloud, responsible for the company's Cloud Networks offering. Meredith has over 20 years of experience in the networking industry, with the last one and a half at Rackspace. Prior to joining Rackspace, Meredith served a variety of networking-related roles, including a 13-year stint with BMC Software, where he last served as a product manager for network and e-commerce management products.
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM The Uncompromised Experience with the Unified Workspace - Presented by Cisco Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Speaker - Mike Rau, VP of Global Enterprise Smart Solutions, Cisco
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Building an Open Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat - Presented by Red Hat Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Cloud computing is one of the most strategic initiatives that enterprises will adopt over the next several years. Only an open hybrid cloud can help you unlock the full benefits of cloud economics and… More ▶ Speaker - Erich Morisse, BU Manager, Cloud and Virtualization, Red Hat Erich Morisse is the Business Unit Manager for Red Hat Cloud and Virtualization in North America. He first earned his RHCE in 2003 while working as a Red Hat Solutions Architect for Wall Street accounts on the cutting edge of Open Source technology adoption. He has gone on to run the Solutions Architect teams for Financial Services, Systems Management, and the Eastern US territory. He's currently responsible for the Cloud and Virtualization business units in North America. He holds an MBA from Columbia University, and a BA in Computer Science from Drew University.
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM How to Transform Your Network to Enable BYOD, Cloud, & Internet of Things - Presented by Cisco Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Speaker - Raakhee Mistry, Sr. Marketing Manager, Cisco
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM A Comparison of Strategies to Reduce IT Cost and the Artificially Intelligent Management Engine - Presented by DeSeMa Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Reducing the cost of technology consistently stands in the top 3 things business owners want to accomplish. What are the benefits and drawbacks to cost reducing strategies, and is a new technology rea… More ▶ Speaker - Timothy Mitchell, CEO, DeSeMa
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Decisions Today for a Cloud-Ready Future - Presented by HP Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shi… More ▶
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Germany - Your Gateway to the European Market - Presented by Germany Trade & Invest Location: Expo Hall, Room 1, Booth 1009 Expanding your operations overseas can seem like a daunting task. Nevertheless, ignoring the opportunities represented by the sheer volume of the IT market in Europe can be a mistake. This session w… More ▶
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with HP Virtual Application Networks - Presented by HP Location: Expo Hall, Room 2, Booth 1017 Today's networks are application indifferent and it is impossible to identify applications and user behaviors to meet diverse service levels. These rigid physical networks are architected for one … More ▶
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Wednesday, October 3
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM Meeting the Demand for User Experience Reliability in Cloud Application Environments - Presented by Exinda Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 In 2012 IT organizations are five times more likely to cite user experience as a network priority over throughput. This trend is a direct result of the expanding distribution of network assets across … More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Brendan Reid, Vice President, Product Marketing, Exinda
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Predicting Deliverability - Presented by Dyn Inc. Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 In this talk Mike Veilleux challenges the conventional wisdom that engagement rates across industries are the best indicators for sending. Instead, Veilleux believes that each company has a unique b… More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Mike Veilleux, Engineering, Dyn Inc. As the Director of Email, Mike Veilleux is responsible for the stability, scalability, growth, and development of Dyn’s email delivery platform. Veilleux is also the founder of GearFreedom and is a regular contributor to Deliverability.com. He earned a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire – Whittemore School of Business.
12:35 PM – 12:55 PM Ensure Your Storage Can Keep Up With Your Virtualized Servers - Presented by Storageflex Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Shoair Shaikh, Storage Specialist, Storageflex Inc. Shoair Shaikh is head of Storageflex’s design and development team with great insight into projects designed to develop the next generation of storage solutions to meet customer’s evolving storage issues while maintaining affordability. Shoair is jointly responsible for guiding Storageflex to capture new revenue streams for the company with new products, government contracts and by entering new strategic overseas markets to deliver Archive, Acceleration, Backup, Compliance, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery and Encryption Technologies.”
1:10 PM – 1:30 PM Moving Your Desktops to the Cloud - Presented by mindSHIFT Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 To move your desktop operations to virtual desktops in the cloud, you need to consider key technical specifications as well as application and end-user requirements. Attend this session for a discussi… More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Tom McCormack, Sales Director, Managed Hosting and Cloud Services, mindSHIFT Technologies
1:45 PM – 2:05 PM Taking IT Out of the SMB - Presented by AppRiver Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Perhaps the biggest benefit of the cloud is that it takes away the IT burden from small and mid-sized businesses. AppRiver's VP Tom Buoniello will discuss why customer service and choice are the k… More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Tom Buoniello, Senior Vice President of Product Management, AppRiver Tom Buoniello serves as AppRiver's Senior Vice President of Product Management, a position that puts him on the leading edge of the company's efforts to bring new products to market and to find new customers for its current suite of security services. He brings to the position more than two decades of experience in information technology with a strong focus on security. Prior to joining AppRiver, Buoniello was a Senior Solution Architect for the Global Strategic Alliances Team at Internet security giant AVG. There, he built and nurtured partner relationships worldwide, introducing them to the company's products and services. Before moving to AVG, Buoniello led the email services product management team for MessageLabs, which was later acquired by Symantec. He also has served as Director of Strategic Alliances for Microsoft and was part of the executive team at Sybari Software, joining the company early on to create the Product Management and Marketing functions. Sybari was later acquired by Microsoft and its technology was incorporated into what is now Microsoft Forefront. Buoniello brings to AppRiver a solid track record in uncovering partnership opportunities that complement internally developed technology, increase revenue, market share, and establish a competitive advantage in the email and messaging security marketplace Buoniello completed Marketing MBA work at Hofstra University and a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM Cloud Computing Made Easy - Presented by Rackspace Hosting Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Wayne Walls, Developer Advocate, Rackspace Hosting Wayne Walls is an OpenStack Developer Advocate and Scrabble junkie working for the Rackspace Cloud. He works with cloud developers to lower the barriers of entry to OpenStack, evangelizes the OpenStack API and helps developers maximize their return on investment on cloud targeting applications. Having spent time in support, sales and product engineering roles at Rackspace, Wayne is always up for solving the business and technical challenges of customers and continues to work closely with product groups to build world class technologies that Rackspace customers have come to know and love. You can find Wayne talking cloud on his personal blog (www.dubsquared.com), at Geekdom or on Twitter (waynewalls). When not talking cloud, Wayne spends much of his time golfing, playing Words With Friends and reading.
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM Drivers and Dynamics in the New Data Center - Presented by Huawei Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Cloud computing adoption has created new challenges for enterprises, and Huawei’s elastic, easy-to-use, and open cloud fabric provides businesses a jumpstart to the cloud era with investment pro… More ▶ Speaker - Chloe Jian Ma, Sr. Manager, Product and Solution Marketing, Huawei Enterprise
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Getting to DevOps in Small Batches - Presented by Puppet Labs Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Teyo Tyree, VP of Business Development, Puppet Labs Formerly the Director of IT for 20/20 Research and a professional system administrator, over the past 12 years Teyo has been using and promoting the use of open source tools to enable scaling and efficiency in IT operations. Teyo joined Puppet Labs in July of 2008 and has been traveling the world providing Puppet Labs’ customers and partners with training, integration and consulting.
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM Cloud Based Routing - Presented by Vinci Consulting Corp. Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 CVZT Speaker - Paul Vinciguerra, President, Vinci Consulting Corp
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Thursday, October 4
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM Stop! 10 Questions to Ask Before Selecting a Cloud Provider - Presented by CETROM Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Planning to move to the Cloud? Before you do, it’s imperative that you truly know the Cloud provider you intend to trust with all your business’ vital data and applications. This session w… More ▶
11:25 AM – 11:45 AM Why Emerging Software-Defined Networks Will Require Strong Layer 3 Segmentation - Presented by Vyatta Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Leverage Cloud Technology to Power Your Office - Presented by FortressITX Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the Cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, AND red… More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Jason Silverglate, CEO, FortressITX Jason Silverglate is CEO of Fortress ITX. A self-starter, he is known throughout the industry for his technical savvy. Following the successful entrepreneurial model established by his father before him, he launched his first business venture at age 16. Silverglate is a visionary pioneer of managed IT and Cloud computing who has thrived on burgeoning knowledge, creating more than 50 jobs and managing thousands of servers along the way.
12:35 PM – 12:55 PM Beyond Virtualization: How to Tell if You're Ready for Cloud - Presented by NetIQ Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001
1:45 PM – 2:05 PM Mitigating Security Risks When Moving Workloads to the Public Cloud - Presented by Gigamon Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Information Security remains the number-one concern of CIO’s when they consider moving workloads to the cloud. This session will focus on solving the problem customers face with securing their … More ▶ CVZT Speaker - David Reoch, Sr. Director, Cloud Solutions, Gigamon David Reoch is a multi-tenant Data Center Design veteran specializing in the architecture of global, highly-available fault-tolerant data center infrastructures. Previous to his role as Sr. Director of Cloud Services at Gigamon, David served as Sr. Enterprise Technologist of Cloud, Hyperscale and Virtualization at Dell and principal architect of HP's Enterprise Cloud Services. He has been an information security practitioner for 20 years and became a CISSP in 2004.
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM Fostering Business Innovation with a Hybrid Approach to Cloud Computing - Presented by SAP Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 4 out of 5 SAP customers say cloud computing is important to their company’s business strategy. Some companies look to the cloud to reduce IT costs. Others wield cloud computing to improve com… More ▶ CVZT Speaker - Greg Chase, Senior Director, Cloud Technology Marketing, SAP Greg Chase is Senior Director of Cloud Technology Marketing at SAP. Greg is an expert on IT cloud strategy and a frequent blogger on topics such as software tools and development related to cloud, software as a service (SaaS), hybrid cloud-on premise IT architectures, platform as a service (PaaS), and business process management methodology (BPM). Greg joined SAP in 2006 and has nearly 20 years experience in the software industry holding roles including product marketing, sales, product management, and engineering. During his 6 year tenure at SAP, Greg has been part of both the Cloud and the business process management (BPM) teams. He is passionate about showing how cloud technologies can help IT optimize and transform a company’s business practices. Prior to joining SAP, Greg has at Oracle, Borland, POET Software, and at various startup companies. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of California at Davis, and is co-author of the SAP Press book “Applying Real World BPM in an SAP Environment”. Greg’s spare time hobbies include: wine making, training his two bearded collies: Eva & Oban, and competing in computer hacking contests involving SAP products and LEGO robots. Greg’s blog: http://bit.ly/GregChaseSAPBlog Follow Greg on Twitter at @GregChase
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM Private to Public Cloud Bursting: The Best of Both Worlds - Presented by HP Location: Cloud and Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 1001 Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shi… More ▶
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6Connect 6connect is the global leader in cloud automation platforms as a service (PaaS) with native IPv6 support. 6connect allows service providers and enterprises to achieve dramatic time and cost efficiencies across the discovery, planning, provisioning, and management of IP networks, DDI, peering, and asset management requirements. Address 548 Market St #39313 San Fransico, California 94104 United States of America Website www.6connect.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Products IPAM DNS Manager DHCP Peering Manager Asset/Device Manager	942
ADVA Optical Networking ADVA Optical Networking is a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission technology, the Company builds the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. The Company’s FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. Address 2301 N Greenville Ave 300 Richardson, Texas 75238 United States of America Website www.advaoptical.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security Performance Optimization Networking Wireless and Mobility Products FSP 3000	140
APCON, Inc. APCON develops innovative, scalable hardware and software solutions to enhance network monitoring, support IT traffic analysis, and streamline IT network management and security. We are the industry leader for state-of-the-art IT data aggregation, filtering, load balancing, time stamping and network switching products. www.apcon.com Address 9255 SW Pioneer Ct Wilsonville, Oregon 97070 United States of America Website www.apcon.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization Wireless and Mobility Products INTELLAFLEX INTELLASTORE INTELLAPATCH APCONTAP & INTELLATAP TITAN EP	237
Barracuda Networks Barracuda Networks is the leading provider of award-winning IT solutions accompanied with fanatical support specifically designed to simplify and secure your network. Our content security, networking security, ADC, backup and data recovery solutions stop email and Web threats, improve application delivery and secure your data for complete business continuity. Address 3175 S Winchester Blvd Campbell, California 95008 United States of America Website www.barracudanetworks.ca Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Information Security Networking Storage	339
Bleum Founded in 2001, Bleum is a China-based IT outsourcer to U.S. and European MNCs in e-Commerce, financial services, retail & supply chain, hospitality, and life sciences. Bleum drives improved system performance for clients by developing, managing, testing and maintaining applications that are core to their businesses. Address 1118 West Yan'an Rd Cloud-9 Mansion 8F Shanghai200052 China Website www.bleum.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Wireless and Mobility	935
CA Technologies CA Technologies provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. www.ca.com Address One CA Plaza Islandia, New York 11749 United States of America Website www.ca.com Sponsor Level Platinum Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization Products CA Infrastructure Management	Carrier Cloud Forum Platinum
Candela Network CANDELA NETWORK is your new source for new, used, refurbished networking hardware including Cisco routers, switches and accessories. We have one of the largest inventory of used Cisco routers, switches and accessories in the market for purchase with immediate delivery. Address 14 Village Park Rd Suite C Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009 United States of America Website www.candelanetwork.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered IT Management Networking	230
Cervalis Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions including business continuity / rapid recovery, managed hosting, cloud computing, managed security, managed storage, networking & telecommunications and colocation. The company’s skilled professionals, world-class facilities and outstanding customer support provide our clients with a secure IT environment that ensures business resilience. Address 4 Armstrong Rd Shelton, Connecticut 06484 United States of America Website www.cervalis.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Products Managed Hosting Cloud Computing Colocation Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Managed Storage	735
Cisco Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. As an innovator in the communications and information technology industry, Cisco and our valued partners sell Cisco hardware, software, and services to businesses of all sizes, governments, service providers, and consumers. Learn more at www.cisco.com. Address 170 W Tasman Dr San Jose, California 95134 United States of America Website www.cisco.com Sponsor Level Platinum Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Video Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	221
Cloudpath Networks Cloudpath Networks enables Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) network environments to adopt WPA2-Enterprise wireless in a scalable and sustainable manner. Proven worldwide, XpressConnect simplifies WPA2-Enterprise and 802.1X through automated, self-service provisioning across a wide array of user-owned and IT-owned device types. Address 1120 W 122nd St Suite 302 Westminster, Colorado 80234 United States of America Website www.cloudpath.net Products/Services Offered Information Security IT Management Networking Wireless and Mobility Products XpressConnect Enrollment System XpressConnect Wizard XpressConnect Integration Module for Microsoft CA	939
CompTIA CompTIA® is the voice of the world's information technology (IT) industry. As a non-profit trade association advancing the global interests of IT professionals and companies, we focus our programs on four main areas: education, certification, advocacy and philanthropy. Association members are at the forefront of innovation. Learn more at www.comptia.org Address 3500 Lacey Road, Suite 100 Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 United States of America Website www.comptia.org Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Education/Training Information Security IT Management Networking Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	900
CXtec For more than three decades, CXtec has helped customers reduce the cost of their networking and technology infrastructures with equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware and CABLExpress® connectivity solutions. Address 5404 South Bay Rd PO Box 4799 Syracuse, New York 13221 United States of America Website www.cxtec.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center Information Security IT Management Networking Storage WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	336
DeSeMa DeSeMa Device and Service Management The only self-evolving IT solutions capable of anticipating and adapting to your needs in real time. Address 10 Oyehut Rd. Ocean Shores, Washington 98569 United States of America Website www.desema.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	437
Elfiq Networks Elfiq Networks is the leader in business continuity and bandwidth management, delivering the ability to use multiple different ISPs in a simple and secure fashion. Deploying strong inbound/outbound failover strategies, guaranteeting cloud access, balancing and shapin traffic, making multi-site projects resilient are part of Elfiq's value proposition. Address 1155 University #712 Montreal, Quebec H3B3A7 Canada Website www.elfiq.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Performance Optimization Networking WAN/Internet Services Products Elfiq Link Balancer Elfiq App Optimizer	643
Endace Endace, world leader in network visibility, response and root cause, helps organizations solve and fix network-related problems on high-speed mission critical networks. Our Intelligent Network Recorders guarantee to show exactly what’s going on inside their networks, providing continuous 100% capture, and can scale from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps. Address Level 2 Building A, 600 Great South Rd Greenlane Auckland11111 New Zealand Website endace.com Products/Services Offered Performance Optimization Networking Products EndaceProbe EndaceExtreme EndaceVision	321
Exinda Exinda enables organizations to assure the user experience for their strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization that intelligently applies acceleration and containment based on the priorities of the business. Address 8 Faneuil Hall Marketplace Boston, Massachusetts 02109 United States of America Website www.exinda.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center IT Management Performance Optimization Networking WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	703
FileCatalyst FileCatalyst is the leading provider of file transfer solutions that accelerate, manage, and optimize large file transfers across global networks. Founded in 2000, the company has more than a thousand satisfied clients including Sega of America, Sony, Dell, and BET. Address 1725 St Laurent Blvd Suite 205 Ottawa, Ontario K1G3V4 Canada Website www.filecatalyst.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Wireless and Mobility Products FileCatalyst Direct FileCatalyst Webmail FileCatalyst Workflow FileCatalyst Central	726
FishNet Security FishNet Security is the leading provider of information security and network infrastructure hardware/software solutions that combine technology, services, support and training. Address 6130 Sprint Parkway Suite 400 Overland Park, Kansas 66211 United States of America Website www.fishnetsecurity.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Wireless and Mobility	833
FortressITX Smart NY businesses empowered with hosted voice, email, connectivity and IT integration solutions all have one thing in common: FortressITX. Welcome to IT peace of mind. Welcome to our Fortress. Address 100 Delwanna Ave Suite 200 Clifton, New Jersey 07014 United States of America Website www.fortressitx.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Products Hosted Exchange Telephony IT Integration Web Hosting Connectivity	803
FuzeBox FuzeBox, the global leader in real time visual collaboration applications, allows people to communicate, collaborate and share content from any device, across any network, anywhere. Address 150 Spear st suite 550 San Fransico, California 94105 United States of America Website www.fuzebox.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Collaboration Networking Storage Video Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products Fuze Meeting	131
Gigamon Gigamon provides an intelligent Traffic Visibility Fabric for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive visibility and control of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Address 598 Gibraltar Dr Milpitas, California 95053 United States of America Website www.gigamon.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security IT Management Networking Virtualization	511
HD Communications Corp HD Communications Corp has been in business for more than 21 years providing professional wireless solutions to its customers. Todays wireless mobile WiFi enabled devices require professional grade robust wireless networks. We offer the correct solutions to accomplish those goals. Call one our technical support people for a free consultation. Address 2180 Fifth Ave Ronkonkoma, New York 11779 United States of America Website www.wirelessnetworkproducts.com Products/Services Offered Education/Training Networking Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products Ruckus Wireless Professional grade wireless Peplink Bandwidth management and failover Pepwave Cloud based wifi products Xirrus Enterprise Wifi systems Fan less PoE switches Finally a noise free PoE switch	830
Hewlett Packard As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, from the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. Address 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, California 94304 United States of America Website www.hp.com Sponsor Level Gold Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	407
Huawei Enterprise Leveraging strong R&D capabilities and comprehensive technical expertise, Huawei Enterprise provides a wide-ranging and highly efficient ICT solutions and services portfolio. Together with our partners, Huawei Enterprise offers cost-effective, innovative solutions for vertical industries and enterprise customers around the world. For more information, visit http://enterprise.huawei.com/us Address 3965 Freedom Circle 11th floor Santa Clara, California 95054 United States of America Website www.huawei.com/enterprise Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Video Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products IP Product Line UC&C Product Line IT Product Line	711
IBM Rethink IT. Reinvent Business with IBM SmartCloud. IBM’s cloud computing solutions enable a lower total cost of ownership, help clients move beyond virtualization to build operational dexterity, reinvent customer relationships, and uncover new profit opportunities. IBM’s unique workload-aware clouds and built-in patterns of expertise enable business transformation. www.ibm.com/smartcloud Address One New Orchard Rd Armonk, New York 10504 United States of America Website www.ibm.com/cloud-computing Sponsor Level Diamond Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	811
Ixia Ixia’s Anue Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) provides complete visibility into physical and virtual networks, improves network security, and optimizes monitoring tool efficiency. The NTO’s patented filtering technology and easy-to-use control panel minimizes network downtime and maximizes monitoring tool investment. Customers include large data centers, service providers, and government agencies Address 8310 Capital of Texas Hwy Bldg 2, Suite 300 Austin, Texas 78731 United States of America Website www.ixiacom.com Products/Services Offered Data Center Performance Optimization Networking Products Anue Net Tool Optimizer	531
JDSU JDSU’s Communications Test and Measurement business segment offers a complete range of solutions for IT professionals who manage Enterprise local area networks (LANs). JDSU solutions enable Enterprise professionals to install, maintain, troubleshoot and optimize networks and applications with precision and speed while keeping an eye on the bottom line. Address One Milestone Center Court Germantown, Maryland 20876 United States of America Website www.jdsu.com/enterprise Products/Services Offered Education/Training Performance Optimization Networking Wireless and Mobility Products Certifier 40G T-BERD 2000 Fiber Inspection Kits New JDSU SmartClass™ Fiber family PacketInsight™	739
MAC Source Communications MAC Source Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of the Meridian Group International, is a provider of business collaboration solutions. MAC Source’s core business is the design, installation and on-going support of converged communications products and services. Address 701 Erie Blvd West Syracuse, New York 13204 United States of America Website www.macsourceinc.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Video Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility	138
ManageEngine ManageEngine is the leading provider of cost-effective enterprise IT management software trusted by more than 55,000 organizations in over 150 countries. The ManageEngine suite offers enterprise IT management solutions including Network Management, HelpDesk ITIL, Bandwidth Monitoring, Application Management, Desktop Management, Security Management, Password Management, and Active Directory Management. Address 4900 Hopyard Rd Suite 310 Pleasanton, California 94588 United States of America Website www.manageengine.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization	431
Microsemi PowerDsine® technology from Microsemi enables Ethernet switches to deliver up to 72 watts of power over standard cable infrastructures. PowerView Pro™ platform provides remote control, reboot and full power monitoring of PoE operations. A major source for 802.3af and 802.3at standards, our high power portfolio spans single to 24-port midspans. Address One Enterprise Aliso Viejo, California 92656 United States of America Website www.microsemi.com Products/Services Offered Networking WAN/Internet Services Wireless and Mobility	442
Monoprice MonoPrice, Inc. is an importer & distributor-wholesaler of computer cables, audio/video cables, networking cables, accessories and connectivity products. Established in 2002, Monoprice, Inc. (DBA. MonoPrice.com) specializes in the wholesale distribution of world class cable assemblies for home theater, PC, and high technology industries. Address 11701 6th st Rancho Cucamanga, California 91730 United States of America Website www.monoprice.com Products/Services Offered Networking WAN/Internet Services Products 24AWG Cat6A 500MHz STP Ethernet Bare Copper Network Cable 24AWG Cat6 550MHz UTP Ethernet Bare Copper Network Cable 16 Port Unmanaged 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet Switch - Rack Mountable 24 Port Unmanaged 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet Switch - Rack Mountable 10Gb Fiber Optic Cable, LC/LC, Multi Mode, Duplex - 10 Meter (50/125 Type)	636
NCP engineering, Inc. Headquartered in the Bay Area, NCP Engineering has delivered an award winning remote access vpn management and a hybrid IPSec / SSL VPN for organizations with complex remote user needs, who want to increase staff productivity, reduce network administration and adapt policy changes on-the-fly. Address 444 Castro Street Suite 711 Mountain View, California 94041 United States of America Website www.ncp-e.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Information Security IT Management Networking Wireless and Mobility Products NCP Secure VPN Enterprise Client NCP Secure VPN Client for Android NCP Secure VPN Client - Juniper Edition NCP Secure Enterprise Management NCP Secure Enterprise VPN Server	831
Net Optics, Inc. Net Optics, the leading provider of Intelligent Access and Monitoring Architecture solutions, delivers real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control for businesses to achieve peak performance in network analytics and security. 7,000 organizations—including 85 percent of the Fortune 100—trust Net Optics' comprehensive smart access hardware and software solutions Address 5303 Betsy Ross Dr Santa Clara, California 95054 United States of America Website www.netoptics.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Networking Virtualization	725
NetScout Systems, Inc. NetScout, the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management, enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. NetScout delivers breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time performance intelligence enabling assurance of network, applications and users; equips IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems. Address 310 Littleton Road Westford, Massachusetts 01886-4105 United States of America Website www.netscout.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Video Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products nGenius Service Delivery Manager nGenis Performance Manager nGenius Subscriber Intelligence nGenius Trading Intelligence nGenius Intelligence Data Sources	331
Network Hardware Resale Network Hardware Resale is the world's leading provider of pre-owned and new networking equipment. NHR is an independent reseller of pre-owned Cisco, Brocade/Foundry, and Juniper networking equipment and a Premier member of Dell's PartnerDirect program. Network Hardware Resale offers cost-effective network management, asset management, alternative maintenance and technical support services. Address 6500 Hollister Santa Barbara, California 93117 United States of America Website www.networkhardware.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center IT Management Networking Products Networking Hardware NetSure Asset recovery	120
OCZ Technology OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ) is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance solid-state storage solutions offering the widest range of solid-state drives (SSDs), form factors and interfaces to address HDD replacement, SAN acceleration, server and storage virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) opportunities. Address 6373 San Ignacio Ave San Jose, California 95119 United States of America Website www.oczenterprise.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Collaboration Data Center Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization Products Z-Drive R4 CloudServ™ PCIe SSD Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Z-Drive R5 PCIe SSD VXL software Intrepid 3 SSD	239
Opengear Opengear designs and manufactures next-generation console server and power management solutions for secure remote access and control of routers, switches, firewalls, servers and environmental monitoring devices. Opengear's open source platform gives network managers and system integrators the most flexible, extensible, console management solution on the market today. Address 630 West 9560 South Suite A Sandy, Utah 84070 United States of America Website www.opengear.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center IT Management Networking Products IM4200 IM4216-34 ACM5500 ACM5004-G(V) CM4100	834
OPNET Technologies, Inc. OPNET Technologies is extending the state of the art in application and network performance management. OPNET’s unique High Definition approach leverages fine-grained data and patented analytics to deliver end-to-end visibility and rapid troubleshooting. OPNET solutions have been operationally proven in thousands of customer environments worldwide. Address 7255 Woodmont Avenue Bethesda, Maryland 20814 United States of America Website www.opnet.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization Unified Communications	619
OptoWiz Co., Ltd Optowiz is a global supplier of various network test access points(TAPs), bypass switches and optical transceivers. We are specialized in developing and manufacturing a wide range of network taps and bypass switches which enable full-duplex monitoring traffic in network with highest performance and cost effectiveness. Address #D-902, Bundang Techno Park, 151, Yatop-Dong Bundang-Gu, Seongnam-Si Gyeonggi-Do463-760 Republic of Korea Website www.optowiz.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security Networking Products Fiber Tap Regeneration Tap Aggregation Tap 4X2, Up to 10G Aggregation Tap Bypass Switch Optical Transceiver Module	832
OSI Hardware OSI Hardware is the world most reliable source for Cisco & Juniper Hardware on the secondary market. Address 740 State St Bldg 3B Santa Barbara, California 93101 United States of America Website www.osihardware.com Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Networking WAN/Internet Services	537
Puppet Labs Puppet Enterprise IT automation software helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance. Using Puppet Enterprise, SAs can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from 10s of servers to 1000s. Address 411 NW Park #500 Portland, Oregon 97204 United States of America Website www.puppetlabs.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Consulting Services Education/Training Data Center Information Security IT Management Networking Virtualization Products Puppet Enterprise	910
Quest Software, Inc. Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier. Visit us at www.quest.com Address 5 Polaris Way Aliso Viejo, California 92656 United States of America Website www.quest.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization	425
Riverbed Technology Riverbed delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. Riverbed gives enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT. Address 199 Fremont San Francisco, California 94105 United States of America Website www.riverbed.com Social Networks Sponsor Level Platinum Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Collaboration Data Center IT Management Performance Optimization Networking	417
Rose Electronics Rose offers local and remote server management products; Digital KVM IP, KVM switches, KVM extenders, KVM Rack Drawers and Video Splitters. Rose products are known for quality, scalability, ease of use and innovative technology. We ensure that our customers receive the best products and service to fulfill their technology needs. Address 10707 Stancliff Road Houston, Texas 77099 United States of America Website www.rose.com Products/Services Offered Education/Training Data Center IT Management Networking Products Orion XtenSys QuadraVista2 UltraVista CrystalView	242
Server Technology Server Technology’s experts produce the highest quality rack-mount power distribution and monitoring solutions that manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. Our extensive selection of CDUs are engineered and manufactured to meet the highest quality standards and are 100% performance tested for reliability and accuracy. Address 1040 Sandhill Dr Reno, Nevada 89521 United States of America Website www.servertech.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center Networking Storage Products Switched Cabinet PDU Smart Cabinet PDU Metered Cabinet PDU Basic Cabinet PDU Per Outlet Power Sensing Cabinet PDU	731
SmartOptics SmartOptics is the leading provider of optical networking solutions based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. Our solutions allow telecom operators, SAN architects and ISPs to build simple cost effective solutions for all network capacity needs. M:series is a semi active Wwdm platform for all protocols up to 100Gbps Address Stalfjaera 9 Oslo975 Norway Website www.smartoptics.com Products/Services Offered Data Center Networking Products m:series SAN Connectivity 10Gbps Optical Transceivers Passive Mux/Demuxes	738
Synology Synology America Corp., in Bellevue, Washington is the American branch of Synology Inc.. Synology is a network attached storage company, with all R&D focused on delivering NAS devices with forward-thinking features at an affordable price. Synology has delivered award-winning NAS devices to small business and home users since 2000. Address 13343 NE Bel-Red Rd Bellevue, Washington 98005 United States of America Website www.synology.com/us Social Networks Products/Services Offered Data Center IT Management Networking Storage Virtualization	825
TNET Technology TNET TECHNOLOGY is an Information Technology hardware reseller founded in 2004 and based in New Jersey. TNET TECHNOLOGY Buys & Sells I.T. hardware, including Network, Server, Storage, Telecommunications, memory and more from top manufacturers. Address 14 Village Park Rd Suite A Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009 United States of America Website www.tnetus.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Networking	230
Vembu Technologies Vembu Technologies is the leader in offering cloud based data protection , file sharing and synchronization service to businesses worldwide. The company's flagship products are StoreGrid - Data Backup & Disaster Recovery and SyncBlaze - File Sharing and Synchronization. Address 830 Stewart Drive Suite 106 Sunnyvale, California 94085 United States of America Website www.vembu.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Information Security Networking Storage WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Products StoreGrid SyncBlaze	842
VeriFone VeriFone Systems, Inc. is the global leader in secure electronic payment solutions. VeriFone provides expertise, solutions and services that add value to the point of sale with merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems for the financial, retail, hospitality, petroleum, government and healthcare vertical markets. Address 2099 Gateway Place Suite 600 San Jose, California 95110 United States of America Website www.verifone.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Networking Wireless and Mobility Products IntelliNAC	243
Vinci Consulting/ VXNet Learn how the game changes when intelligent routing happens in the cloud, long before your data reaches your provider or your organization. Build a Resilient multi-homed Internet Edge without BGP. Deploy IPv6, even if your providers aren’t ready. Simplify Datacenter Mobility for Disaster Recovery or Cloud Bursting Address 120 W Park Ave #308 Long Beach, New York 11561 United States of America Website vinciconsulting.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Consulting Services Collaboration Data Center Information Security IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Storage Virtualization WAN/Internet Services Unified Communications Wireless and Mobility Products VXNet BGP Free Multihoming VXNet IPv6 Enablement VXNet Data Center Mobility VXNet Disaster Recovery	918
VirtuaCon VirtuaCon specializes in custom .Net web and 4 shelf applications. Sysmosis ensures Windows device configuration and health are maintained. Synapps collects data from major databases and exposes it via configurable web services Supportal enables web based support for your customers Call Wall collects and displays statistical data for call centers Address 28 Siphosethu Rd Durban4320 South Africa Website www.VirtuaCon.com Products/Services Offered Consulting Services IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Unified Communications Products Sysmosis Call Wall Synapps For Data Supportal.net	944-1
Vyatta Vyatta delivers software-based networking and security solutions that improve agility, reduce cost and enable scale for datacenters. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Address 1301 Shoreway Rd Suite 200 Belmont, California 94002 United States of America Website www.vyatta.com Social Networks Products/Services Offered Cloud Computing and Big Data Data Center Networking Virtualization Products Vyatta Network OS	912
ZConverter ZConverter is a global leader of migration and system image backup software solution. Our computing center management software is ideal for virtualization, cloud computing, and virtual server migration. Address 1004 10F R+D Center Nurlkum Sq Seoul00000 Republic of Korea Website www.zconverter.com Products/Services Offered IT Management Performance Optimization Networking Virtualization Products ZConverter Server Backup ZConverter Server Migration ZConverter Windows Backup	924

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