Conference: Networking Track
For a couple of years, there did not seem to be much innovation in networking. Those days are over, as the current networking environment is characterized by new demands and new technologies. This track will discuss the affect that virtualization and cloud computing are having on both the data center LAN, the branch office network and the enterprise WAN. Learn how firewalls and routers, products that were once considered to be outdated, are now experiencing new levels of innovation. An analysis of emerging technologies that have the potential to rock the world of networking will also be explored.
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 The Next Generation Data Center Network (Location: 1E07)Most IT organizations are consolidating their data centers at the same time that they are virtualizing their servers and implementing applications that require exceptionally low levels of latency. As a minimum, this creates an "all of your eggs in one basket" phenomenon that drives the need for higher levels of availability and throughput. It also creates an environment in which IT resources are dynamically provisioned and de-provisioned and applications signal the network to request resources. This panel will discuss how you need to redesign your data center network to cope with the existing and emerging requirements. 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 - Eileen Haggerty, Director of Technical Marketing, Netscout
Speaker - Greg Smith, Dir., Product Marketing ANG Group, Citrix Systems
Greg Smith is the director of product marketing for Citrix System's Application Networking solutions. Greg joined Citrix through the company's acquisition of NetScaler in 2005, bringing more than 14 years of experience in engineering, product management and product marketing. He is responsible for the product marketing strategy for Citrix's Application Networking products, including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler and the Citrix Application Firewall product lines. Speaker - John Sabasteanski, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
Speaker - Manish Muthal, Director - LSI Enterprise Solutions, LSI
Manish Muthal is director of marketing for Enterprise Networking Solutions, LSI Corporation. Muthal brings deep knowledge of the enterprise networking business with focus on switching and services architecture for the enterprise and data center. Most recently he was Founder, Vice President of Hardware at Nevis Networks, where he led the architecture development and technology marketing for service aware enterprise switches. Prior to Nevis, he led networking silicon development at Juniper Networks and Amber Networks (Nokia), and high end server platform architecture at Intel. Muthal has a master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. | |||||
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Breakthrough Network Technologies (Location: 1E07) Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be significant networking breakthroughs. 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 - Alex Henthorn-Iwane, Vice President, Product Marketing, Packet Design
Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. Speaker - Amir Khan, Senior Director, Product Line Management, Juniper
Speaker - Andy Gottlieb, CEO, Talari Networks
Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Speaker - Dave Roberts, Vice President Strategy and Marketing, Vyatta
Dave has almost two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role as Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta, Dave was the co-founder, CTO, and Vice President of Strategy at Inkra networks where he provided the product and strategy direction that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T, and NEC. Prior to Inkra, Dave was Vice President of Product Management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Additionally, Dave forged key strategic alliances and OEM relationships. Dave has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, and ZeitNet, Inc., where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet and ATM product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. Dave began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in numerous networking and software technologies, Dave holds five patents, with more pending, and is the author of three books. Dave holds a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Speaker - Doug Gourlay, Vice President of Marketing, Arista Networks
As Vice President of Marketing Douglas Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista, Doug was the VP of Data Center Marketing at Cisco Systems where he held key roles in sales, product development, and marketing. Doug has filed or holds more than twenty patents in networking technologies. Prior to his work in the technology sector Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer. Thursday, November 19 | | ||||
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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management (Location: 1E07) Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage cloud computing. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Steven Shalita, Vice President, Marketing, NetScout
Steven is Vice President, Marketing, and leads our global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company's $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company's entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco's $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco's global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Speaker - Tanvir Hussain, Senior Vice President, Product Management, CA
Tanvir has responsibility for product management for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, covering network, systems, database, data center automation and virtualization management solutions. Tanvir previously was Chief Technology Officer at TRG, where he helped raise $90 million in equity, acquired 15 companies in the span of 22 months and built TRG into one of the largest offshore-controlled business process outsourcers. He was responsible for the global technology infrastructure, software development, and IT service delivery to Fortune 500 companies. He also served on the boards of TRG portfolio companies in the US and UK. Previously, he was director of product management for CSG Systems and Lucent Technologies, managing OSS/BSS customer care and billing software solutions for the wireline/IP, mobile, cable and utilities industries. At Kenan Systems Corporation, subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies, Tanvir served as general manager for the Energy & Utilities business unit, which he grew into a $10 million revenue stream within two years. Previously, Tanvir was a strategy consultant with Booz?Allen & Hamilton in their Communications, Media and Technology practice. He served in a variety of technical and managerial roles at AT&T including the creation of the first desktop, multipoint voice, video and data collaboration service. Earlier in his career, Tanvir served as Mission Director for the launch of the Telstar IV communications satellites at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Tanvir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College. He also earned an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. | |||||
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The Impact of IT Virtualization on Applications & Networks (Location: 1E07) Virtualization is not new. What is new is the great interest in deploying server, storage and desktop virtualization. While each of these forms of virtualization can provide significant business value, each has the potential to significantly complicate the task of ensuring acceptable application performance. In this session, vendors from different areas of IT will identify network technologies, designs and best practices that enable IT organizations to enjoy the benefits of virtualization without enduring the potential pitfalls. 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 - Apurva Dave, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology
Apurva Davé is Senior Director, Product Marketing for Riverbed Technology. Previously, he served as Director of Product Marketing for Fast Forward Networks and Inktomi. Apurva holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Brian Robertson, Product Marketing Manager, NetScout
Brian Robertson, Product Marketing Manager Brian Robertson has over 10 years of experience in the network monitoring and application delivery space. He has held a variety of positions within Product Marketing and Product Management for vendors of probe-based network monitoring systems. With NetScout since 2007, Brian recently headed the product launch of the nGenius Virtual Agent, a new intelligent data source leveraged by the nGenius Service Assurance solution that extends visibility into the virtual computing environment. He is a frequent speaker on webinars and at venues including Interop and Network World's IT Roadmap. Speaker - Chris Webber, Product Manager for WAN Operations, Blue Coat
Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Vice President, Product Management, NetQoS
Matt Sherrod is the Vice President of Product Management for NetQoS where he defines product direction and strategy for the company's innovative networking solutions. With more than 20 years of IT and networking experience, Matt has in-depth knowledge of his customers' experiences and needs. Over the last six years he has held a number of field and management positions at NetQoS. Prior to joining NetQoS, Matt worked as a Director of Communications for a Fortune 100 global enterprise, applying leading edge technologies to improve application delivery. Matt holds a B.S. degree in Applied Math, Computer Science and Statistics, and a M.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University. | |||||
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How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery (Location: 1E07) Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, recently vendors have started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to the switchs' and routers' operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists in this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so. 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 - Nasir Hasan, Senior Field Systems Engineer, F5 Networks
Nasir Hasan is a Senior Field Sales Engineer at F5 Networks, focusing on the major financial and pharmaceutical companies in the tri-state area. He specializes in helping large enterprise organizations develop an optimal application delivery networking paradigm. Prior to joining F5 Networks in 2006, he served in lead technical engineering roles at IDT, Teleglobe, and Cisco Systems. He holds a B.S. in Management Science & Information Systems from Rutgers University and a M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. Speaker - Neil Cohen, Director of Product Marketing, Akamai
Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application delivery services. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning this line of managed services towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as web-enabled business processes, software-as-a-service, cloud computing, virtualization and service oriented architectures. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. Speaker - Peter Chahal, Director, Business Services Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Peter Chahal is Director of Business Solutions Marketing in the IP Division at Alcatel-Lucent, where he is responsible for Business Services targeting the service provider marketplace, with a primary focus on next generation IP/MPLS carrier Ethernet and VPN solutions. Peter has more than 17 years of international experience in product marketing, product management, business development and technical sales in the area of carrier IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet solutions and services. Peter is also Co-chair of the Market Research Subcommittee for the Metro Ethernet Friday, November 20 | | ||||
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IPv6: No Longer Optional (Location: 1E07) Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. Speaker - John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN
John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John's experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking. | |||||
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Integrating Mobility into Your Network Operations Center (Location: 1E08) IT and operations managers who have gone mobile know that the benefits are great, but so are the challenges involved. This session will examine the tactical options for integrating mobility into existing network and system operations processes. From unified wired/wireless management to mobile device management, collaborative systems, and security across the entire network and user value chain, this panel will address key opportunities, examine best practices, and offer actionable advice on how to leverage integrated management to get the most from mobility today and tomorrow. Moderator - Lisa Phifer, President, Core Competence Inc.
Lisa Phifer is President of Core Competence, a consulting firm focused on business use of emerging network and security technologies. At Core Competence, Lisa draws upon nearly 30 years of network design, implementation, and testing experience to provide services ranging from vulnerability assessment and product evaluation to user education and white paper development. She has advised companies large and small regarding use of network technologies and security best practices to manage risk and meet business needs. Lisa teaches and writes extensively about many technologies, including wireless/mobile security, IPS, VPN, and NAC. Her work appears regularly in industry publications, including Wi-Fi Planet, SearchMobileComputing, and Information Security Magazine. Speaker - Bryan Wargo, General Manager, AirWave Wireless
Bryan Wargo is the general manager of Aruba's AirWave division focused on multi-vendor wireless management systems. Bryan comes to Aruba via the AirWave Wireless acquisition where he was Vice President of Sales & Business Development since 2002. Prior to AirWave, Bryan successfully founded 2Roam to address the proliferation of mobile Internet devices and the profound effect they have on enterprise computing. Bryan also served as senior business development manager for VeriFone's e-commerce software products and was a territory manager for Hewlett-Packard's Unix division. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Speaker - Clifford Cibelli, Manager -- Global Managed Solutions, Verizon
Cliff Cibelli is a manager of product management and development for Verizon, with responsibility for developing and deploying managed network solutions across all Verizon business channels. Cibelli's portfolio includes cross-product support for managed mobility, managed wide- and local-area networking, wireless local area networking and emergency communications services. A 27-year communications industry veteran, Cibelli holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University, as well as certifications from the Foundations of IT Service Management and ITIL. Speaker - Wade Williamson, Director, Product Management, AirMagnet Inc.
Wade Williamson, director of product management at AirMagnet has extensive experience in driving and delivering critical wireless and voice-over-wireless solutions to enterprise, retail, healthcare, financial, education, and government markets. During his 5+ years at AirMagnet, Mr. Williamson has brought the company's flagship product lines to fruition and continues to drive product development to support emerging technologies such as 802.11n. Prior to AirMagnet, Mr. Williamson held various product management, engineering, and technical marketing positions with emerging solution providers, as well as with established networking leaders such as Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications. Mr. Williamson holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Texas-Austin. What's Wrong with the WAN Firewall? (Location: 1E07)The traditional WAN firewall makes two flawed assumptions. One assumption is that the information contained in the first packet in a connection is sufficient to identify the application. The second assumption is that the TCP and UDP well-known port numbers are always used as intended. These are just two of the issues that suggest that the traditional WAN firewall cannot effectively support the current environment. In this session the panelists will describe the limitations of the traditional WAN firewall and identify what functionality firewalls need to implement to overcome these limitations. Speaker - Nir Zuk, CTO, Palo Alto Networks
Nir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology. | |||||
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Network Requirements for Supporting Enterprise Video Conferencing (Location: 1E10) Video conferencing places significant demands on the enterprise network both in terms of how the traffic needs to be treated (priority and QoS) and in the bandwidth needed to support good video. Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its uptake as a business tool. This session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice, Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast, Inc.
John Bartlett John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - Andy Gottlieb, CEO, Talari Networks
Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. Speaker - Paul Liesenberg, Enterprise Architecture / Technology Manager, Cisco
Paul Liesenberg is an Enterprise Architecture and Technology Manager for Cisco. In this role, Paul is responsible for developing methodologies that optimally align next-generation infrastructures and overarching business processes. Prior to Cisco, Paul spent 5 years as VP of Strategic Marketing for ZettaCom and Bivio Networks, orchestrating product and partnership strategies. Previously, through the acquisition of StrataCom, Paul was with Cisco Systems for 8 years in product marketing, business development, and sales and technical marketing positions. Prior to Cisco and StrataCom, Paul worked in Nortel's Data Networks Division as manager for network consulting, and earlier worked for Siemens' Public Networks' R&D division. Paul is the holder of 2 patents in the area of VoIP, and a frequent speaker at industry events. Paul holds a M.Sc. from TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen). Speaker - Robert Bach, VP Managed Services Design, BT Conferencing VBU
Planning For Server, Storage And Network Convergence (Location: 1E21)Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization's role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence. Speaker - John Sabasteanski, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
Speaker - Jon Flower, Vice President of Technology, Adaptec
Jon Flower is the vice president of technology at Adaptec, responsible for developing and implementing technologies to expand the company\'s leadership beyond the data storage I/O market. He leads the Adaptec engineering team at several levels, ranging from product concept development and architectural design, to the development of engineering and test specifications. At Adaptec, Mr. Flower has also served as the chief technology officer (CTO), specializing in new business initiatives, as well as the CTO of the Storage Systems Division at Adaptec. Before joining Adaptec, he was the vice president of architecture at Tricord. Speaker - Lin Nease, Director of Emerging Technologies, HP ProCurve, HP ProCurve Networking
As Director of Emerging Technologies for HP ProCurve, Lin Nease leads several strategy-setting activities, notably ProCurveâ?™s data center endeavors. Previously CTO in HPâ?™s server business, Nease was a principal architect of HPâ?™s next-generation data center program, yielding several new infrastructure hardware products and HPâ?™s data center management software aggregation. In 20 years with HP, Nease served as systems architect on numerous successful commercial products, including the industryâ?™s first blade solution. He received a BS in computer science from Arizona State University and an MBA from California State University, Sacramento. He was also a computer operator in the U.S. Air Force. | |||||
