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 Business Resiliency: Are You Really Prepared? (Location: 1E08)Business Resiliency is the maturation and amalgamation of the individual processes of Crisis Management, Incident Response, Business Continuance, and Disaster Recovery into one succinct set of processes and capabilities that work collectively instead of independently. This combination allows organizations to have minimal disruption in the event of a business-impacting incident that affects the entire organization instead of one that involves specific information infrastructure areas. When evaluating these capabilities, it is important to understand that they only are as effective as the proactive planning and considerations that go into their development. Too often, planning accounts for only the most obvious considerations and does not incorporate crucial and essential considerations that have the most impact. This session will discuss the key elements of business resiliency and the considerations that should be made when developing or maturing this capability. Speaker - John Pironti, Chief Information Risk Strategist, Archer Technologies
John P. Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist for Archer Technologies. In this role, John consults with Fortune 1000 executives on IT-GRC and information security issues and initiatives, evangelizes product concepts in the marketplace to gather feedback, and collaborates with Archer's product experts to translate industry needs into technology solutions. John has been designing and implementing highly secure, mission-critical, globally oriented enterprise information infrastructure solutions for more than 18 years. He has worked extensively on a global basis in the aerospace, financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, publishing, media and entertainment and telecommunications industries. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, both domestic and international, on electronic business and information security topics, and is also a published author and writer. A "Crash" Course in Data Replication (Location: 1E13)Replicating data over a WAN sounds pretty straight-forward, but it turns out that there are literally dozens of different approaches, each with its own pros and cons. Which approach is the best? Well, that depends on a wide variety of factors! This class is a fast-paced crash course in the various ways in which data can be replicated, and the pros and cons of each major approach. We trace the data path from applications to disk drives and examine all of the points along the way wherein replication logic can be inserted. We look at host based replication (application, database, file system, volume level, and hybrids), SAN replication (disk arrays, virtualization appliances, caching appliances, and storage switches), and backup system replication (block level incremental backup, CDP, and de-duplication). This class is not only the fastest way to understand replication technology it also serves as a foundation for understanding the latest storage virtualization techniques. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Service
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. Wireless and Mobile 2010: Positioning the Enterprise for Growth (Location: 1E10)The Mobile Business Conference will commence with a lively debate among the thought leaders working in mobility today. This session will cover all the bases - wireless communication, mobile computing, management, security, and strategies for success, with an eye towards renewed economic growth in the coming year. Ample time will be reserved for questions from the audience. This is your opportunity to speak with the key thought leaders who spend their day (and usually much moreoften weekends) working on the most important issues and opportunities in mobile IT. Moderator - Philippe Winthrop, Director - Global Wireless Practice, Strategy Analytics
Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe . Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen, he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Speaker - Bob Tinker, President and CEO, MobileIron
Before MobileIron, Bob led the Business Development team for Cisco's wireless business units, a combined $1B business. As a member of the executive staff, he was responsible for driving long term revenue growth and expanding Cisco's wireless initiatives to laptops and smartphones. Before Cisco, Bob was the first business executive at enterprise wireless pioneer Airespace, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005. Bob's previous roles include Director of Marketing at Vertical Networks and Vice President at NationsBank, with oversight of IT, sales, product management, and operations. Bob is an Executive Board Member of the Foundation for the recently opened University of California at Merced, the first major university built in the U.S. in the last 30 years. He is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in partnership with nonprofits to advance the causes of public education, affordable housing, digital inclusion, and sustainable energy in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bob has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford. Speaker - Josh Holbrook, Director, Anywhere Enterprise Research Group, Yankee Group
Joshua Holbrook is a director in Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise research group with expertise in enterprise mobility. Holbrook analyzes the emergence of consumer and enterprise technology in the workplace and how it is used to enhance productivity of mobile and remote workers. Holbrook leads the enterprise research group; the team of analysts focuses on topics such as virtualization, cloud computing, mobile applications and machine-to-machine communications. Before joining Yankee Group, Holbrook was the director of marketing for Unity Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). He was a core member of the management team charged with restructuring the distressed telecommunications provider. Holbrook was instrumental in transforming the company into an emerging VoIP service provider. Holbrook also served as a management consultant at Adventis, a management and strategy consultancy to leading communications and computing companies around the world. At Adventis, he established strategic road maps for companies seeking to expand their market reach. In addition, he led projects that enabled carriers to better understand their profitability levers. Holbrook holds a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina and an M.B.A. degree from Boston University. Speaker - Susan Nunziata, Editor in Chief, Mobile Enterprise Magazine
In her 20 years as a business-to-business editor and reporter, Susan Nunziata has covered a wide range of topics, including traditional and digital media, entertainment, marketing, and consumer electronics. She joined Mobile Enterprise in October 2007 after six years as Executive Editor of EPM Communications' Entertainment Marketing Letter. While there, Nunziata spearheaded coverage of the U.S. mobile entertainment and media markets, including writing a special report on wireless entertainment and promotions, and organizing two audioconferences on the topic. She also organized the editorial agenda and moderated the annual EPM Entertainment Marketing Conference, as well as authoring several other books and special reports for EPM. Prior to EPM, Nunziata was Editor of Music Business International, a magazine that covered the music business outside the U.S. Before joining MBI, Nunziata was Managing Editor of Billboard magazine, where she oversaw all editorial operations of the weekly music industry publication. She began her career as a reporter and editor for Pro Sound News. Nunziata is a frequent public speaker who has appeared at numerous industry events and conferences worldwide. She is also an Adjunct Instructor at the NYU School of Continuing & Professional Studies, and volunteers as Chairperson of the Northvale Cultural Arts Committee. Nunziata holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from St. John's University . She lives in Northvale , N.J. , with her husband, David Llewellyn, a photographer. Speaker - Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Director, Industry Solutions Practice, AT&T Mobility
Vishy Gopalakrishnan is a Director with the Industry Solutions Practice at AT&T Mobility. In his role, Vishy works with enterprises to define and deliver mobile applications; providing guidance on mobile strategy, solution architecture, and implications for IT operations and security. Vishy was formerly Nokia's global head of the Strategy and Application Mobilization practice areas for Mobility Professional Services worldwide and co-authored "Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons from the Leading Edge." Vishy held prior leadership roles for Mobility Partners, LLC, Capgemini, and Motorola. He maintains a personal blog at www.mobilemusingsmostly.com Ubiquitous Computing and Consumer Adoption: The Real Drivers of Cloud Computing (Location: 1E19)Clouds promise computing platforms that are as simple and flexible as other utilities. IT managers are re-examining projects that weren't feasible a few short years ago. They're behind a huge number of startups freed from the tyranny of up-front costs, and they're giving enterprises new ways to experiment. But that's not why clouds are interesting. The real promise of on-demand computing is what it makes possible: an interconnected web of services that powers the latest mobile applications, delivering information when and where we need it, connecting people and business to one another. It's a network effect on a global scale, offering pervasive computing on an unprecedented scale. This presentation looks at the long-term drivers of cloud computing, and offers some tantalizing thoughts on what it can become. Speaker - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Architectures for Unified Communications (Location: 1E09)How do you migrate from a mostly-decentralized, PBX-based TDM infrastructure to a converged IP network that can support Unified Communications? What elements of the UC systems should reside in the enterprise datacenter; in regional nodes; individual sites; or even individual endpoints? This session will offer different perspectives on the architecture of the future. Speaker - Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group
Allan Sulkin, President, TEQConsult Group (www.teqconsult.com), is a universally recognized consultant and analyst who focuses on enterprise communications. His client base include virtually all of the leading system suppliers of enterprise voice systems and many large corporate and instituional end users. For almost a quarter century he has been a contributing editor to Business Communications Review magazine and its current online version No Jitter. He authored the textbook PBX Systems for IP Telephony and has been an instrumental factor in the success of VoiceCon since its inception. He can be contact at amsuilkin@aol.com 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. Virtualization Technology Primer (Location: 1E21)Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization? Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you. Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. | |||||
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Cover Your Assets: Real Time Application Security Assessment and Protection (Location: 1E08) A new threat vector has emerged that easily bypasses network security constructs and can destroy a brand. Armed with a Web browser, the new class of attackers can circumvent authentication mechanisms, steal identities and otherwise take advantage of vulnerable Web applications. And yet, companies depend on these websites for revenue, branding and business-to-business commerce. Addressing risk requires a two-pronged approach that enables business as usual while protecting against the new class of threats. This session includes: * Live demonstration of Web application hacking * Making a business case for application security * The key steps/technologies for risk management * Real-world examples Speaker - Brian Contos, Chief Security Strategist, Imperva
Brian Contos, Chief Security Strategist, Imperva Mr. Contos has over fourteen-years of real-world security engineering and management expertise developed in some of the most sensitive and mission-critical environments in the world. As the chief security strategist for Imperva he advises government organizations, F1000s and G2000s on security strategy related to application and data security while being an evangelist for the security space. He has written two security books including Enemy at the Water Cooler - Real Life Stories of Insider Threats and Physical and Logical Security Convergence which was co-authored with the former Deputy Director of the NSA - Bill Crowell. He is an active security blogger, host of the Imperva Security Podcast, and has delivered countless speeches around the globe at shows like RSA, Interop, OWASP, CSI, and others. He is regarded as a security expert, often quoted by the media, and has written articles for Forbes, the London Times, Computerworld, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal and many others. Mr. Contos was formerly at ArcSight where he served as their Chief Security Officer for almost seven years, and has held management and engineering positions at Riptech (now Symantec), Bell Labs, Tandem Computers (now HP), and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Speaker - Jeremiah Grossman, Founder and CTO, White Hat Security
Jeremiah Grossman founded WhiteHat Security in August 2001. A world-renowned expert in Web security, Mr. Grossman is a founder of the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and was named to InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs for 2007. Mr. Grossman is a frequent speaker at industry events including the Black Hat Briefings, RSA Conference, ISACA, CSI, InfoSec World, OWASP, ISSA, and Defcon as well as a number of large universities. He has authored dozens of articles and white papers, is credited with the discovery of many cutting-edge attack and defensive techniques and is a co-author of XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense. Mr. Grossman is frequently quoted in major media outlets such as USA Today, the Washington Post, The Financial Times, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, USA Today, PC World, Dark Reading, SC Magazine, CNET, CSO and NBC news. He frequently alerts the media community to the latest attacks and is not only able to offer in-depth commentary, but also provide his perspective of what's to come. Mr. Grossman was named a "friend of Google" and is also an influential blogger (www.jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com) who offers insight and encourages open dialogue regarding current research and vulnerability trend information. Prior to WhiteHat, Mr. Grossman was an information security officer at Yahoo! responsible for performing security reviews on the company's hundreds of websites. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Grossman worked for Amgen, Inc. Deduplication and Single Instance Storage: Practical Applications for Backups, Archiving, and Primary Storage (Location: 1E13)Deduplication (dedupe) and single instance storage (SIS) are perhaps the hottest topics in the storage industry. EMC just acquired a dedupe startup for over two billion dollars! Meanwhile, all of the leading backup vendors are scrambling to integrate dedupe into their products. But this is just the beginning of a major new technology trend! Dedupe offers benefits not just for backups, but also for cloud storage, archiving, virtual desktops, and even primary storage for high performance production servers and VMs. This session is broken into three parts: 1) The first section discusses the fundamental technology of dedupe, revealing both the shortcomings of current approaches and the opportunities for new solutions. 2) The second section focuses on dedupe for backups. We illustrate different ways to integrate dedupe into backup systems as well as revealing non-dedupe approaches that might deliver similar results at lower costs. 3) Lastly, we describe applications for dedupe and SIS in rich media archives, virtual desktops, and primary storage. Speaker - Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer Service
Jacob Farmer is an industry-recognized expert on storage networking and data protection technologies. He has authored numerous papers and is a regular speaker at major industry events such as Storage Networking World, VMWorld, Interop, and the Usenix conferences. Jacob's no-nonsense, fast paced presentation style has won him many accolades. Most recently Jacob was honored as the top-rated speaker at Storage Networking World, the preeminent conference for the data storage industry. Jacob is a regular lecturer at many of the nation's leading colleges and universities. Of recent he has given invited talks at institutions such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Harvard, and Yale. Inside the data storage industry, Jacob is best known for having authored best practices for designing and optimizing enterprise backup systems and for his expertise in the marketplace for emerging storage networking technologies. He has served on the advisory boards of many of the most successful storage technology startups, and is well respected in the analyst community. Jacob is a graduate of Yale University. Making Sense of Mobile Broadband (Location: 1E10)This mini-tutorial is designed to give you a quick but comprehensive overview of mobile broadband technologies. We'll explore the latest Wi-Fi developments and standards, and also dig into cellular and wide-area technologies including EV-DO, HSPA, LTE, and WiMAX. We'll also present a roadmap for the availability of very-high-throughput products, systems, and services, and discuss the key issues that, even with the amazing technological advances of the past decade, remain as challenges for the enterprise. Speaker - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, octoScope
Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE 802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences. Should SaaS Be Your Next Development Environment? (Location: 1E19)Initially, hosted software was heavily standardized. But as they targeted enterprise customers, those customers demanded ways of customizing their applications. The answer? Give customers the ability to extend the applications themselves. Today, many SaaS providers offer rich software ecosystems that include third-party marketplaces, development languages, and cloud computing platforms. When companies develop software, they usually pick a language and an operating system. But maybe it's time to pick a SaaS platform instead. This panel of SaaS providers talks about the platform-as-a-service model and how enterprises can tailor SaaS subscriptions to their particular needs while moving development efforts into the cloud. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Alex Barnett, Group Manager, Developer Relations, Intuit
Alex Barnett leads the developer relations team at Intuit, responsible for Intuit Developer Network (IDN) and developer engagement and evangelism for Intuit Partner Platform (IPP). Previously, Alex was VP, Developer Community at Bungee Labs after spending five years at Microsoft Corp. in various community program management and marketing positions. Before joining Microsoft, Alex was at a director at a leading digital marketing and Web development agency (Bluewave) for seven years. Alex played professional cricket for eight years (Middlesex and Lancashire). He blogs at http://alexbarnett.net/blog and Twitters at http://twitter.com/alexbarnett. Speaker - Dave Mitchell, CTO and Founder, Bungee Labs
Speaker - K.V. Rao, Founder and President, Zuora
K. V. founded Zuora after five years at WebEx Communications where he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the growth of this successful start-up. Prior to WebEx, K. V. worked in sales and customer support at SGI. He started his career as the proverbial rocket scientist (Associate Scientist) at NASA and then spent several years developing products at General Motors. K. V. obtained his Ph. D. in Engineering from Iowa State University, an M. S. from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B. Tech from IIT, Bombay. K.V is a US patent-holder in computing technology. Building the Business Case for UC (Location: 1E09)Does Unified Communications offer a return on investment, and if so, how do you determine this? What principles should guide your investments in new UC functionality? This session will offer concrete advice about the most cost-efficient ways to implement UC to bring near-term returns for your enterprise. Speaker - Don Van Doren, Principal, UniComm Consulting, LLC
Don Van Doren is a principal of UniComm Consulting, an independent consulting firm he founded with Marty Parker. The firm focuses exclusively on unified communications. It helps clients to understand the potential for UC in their business, to develop strategies appropriate for their goals and opportunities, to identify specific applications and associated ROI, to help identify appropriate supplier partners, and to assist with implementation, including project management, change leadership, and metrics. In addition to his work on client projects and helping manage the firm, Don writes articles and columns and speaks frequently at industry conferences. Don is also president of Vanguard Communications, another consulting firm which helps clients plan, design, and implement innovative contact center technology and processes. He is a co-founder of UCStrategies.com. Before founding Vanguard, Don held management positions in several systems integration firms. He has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Contact Don at 973-229-7185 or at dvandoren@unicommconsulting.com. Visit his companies' websites at www.unicommconsulting.com and www.vanguard.net. Best Practices in Designing and Managing Application Delivery (Location: 1E07)IT organizations have typically focused on designing and managing individual technology domains and hoped that if each domain was performing well, that the application was performing well. Realizing that hope is not a strategy, many leading edge IT organizations have begun to take an approach to design and management that cuts across domains. The panelists in this session, all of whom work in IT organizations, will discuss what their organization has done from a design and management perspective to ensure acceptable application delivery. 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 - Jerome Oglesby, Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology Services, Deloitte Services LP
Jerome Oglesby is Chief Technology Officer for Deloitte LLP, the U.S. member firm of Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services organizations, providing audit, risk management, tax, consulting and financial advisory services to selected clients. As Chief Technology Officer of the 1,100 person Information Technology Service organization, he is responsible for the technology strategy and transformation of the technology platforms for Deloitte's operations in the U.S. He is also responsible for the Service-Line Technology Centers of Innovation and Incubation that deliver technology solutions which support client-services engagements Speaker - Josh Hinkle, Manager, Data Center, Network & Security Mgt., American Heart Association
Josh Hinkle is the Mgr, Datacenter, Network & Security Management at the American Heart Association, a non-profit whose mission is "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke." Josh has worked in the academic, manufacturing and non-profit sectors during his 13 years in the industry, specializing in network management and security operations. Josh has been successful in building internal consensus throughout the organizations he has worked for enabling the design and implementation of world class solutions. Josh can be followed @ www.twitter.com/josh.hinkle or his blog www.technipology.com Speaker - Terry Dymek, Director Access Services Information Systems, Boston Scientific
Terry Dymek is an industry veteran with over 25 years in the information technology field. His main area of expertise is in IT infrastructure with a speciality in voie/dta networking. Over the years, Terry has held key postions in companies such as Sybase, John Hancock, and EMC where he led numerous projects that provided a effcient and effective iT infrastructure that supported the strategy and operations of the enterprise. Virtualization - Enabling Disaster Recovery for Any Sized Business (Location: 1E21)Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans. Moderator - Jerry Murphy, Research Director, FOCUS
A frequent keynote speaker and columnist, Jerry has spent over twenty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with META Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), Experture, MCI, RPM Consulting, as well as successful startups. Jerry is one of the industry's leading authorities on enterprise IT infrastructure design, management, and security. He has spent more than 20 years doing research and helping to develop infrastructure and security strategies for many of the largest global companies and service providers. Before FOCUS, Jerry spent four years at RFG running IT research, with an emphasis on emerging security and data center technology. Prior to that, Jerry was SVP and Service Director for Meta Group's infrastructure, networking and security strategies worldwide. Speaker - Augie Gonzalez, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, DataCore Software
Augie Gonzalez manages worldwide product marketing activities for storage virtualization software at DataCore in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, specializing in business continuity. Gonzalez has more than 25 years of experience developing, marketing and managing advanced IT products. Before joining DataCore, Gonzalez led the team at Citrix that introduced simple, secure, remote access solutions for small and midsize organizations Earlier, Gonzalez headed Sun Microsystems Storage Division's Disaster Recovery Group and held several marketing, product planning and business management roles at Encore Computers, and Gould Computer Systems, specializing in real-time platforms for vehicle simulation and high-end multiprocessor systems. Gonzalez also contributed to the Space Launch and Cruise Missile programs as Lead Engineer for General Dynamics mechanical test facilities and had a hand in the introduction of Computer Aided Manufacturing to the company. Gonzalez holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Florida. Speaker - George Pradel, Director of Strategic Alliances, VizionCore
George Pradel has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years now, the last 11 being in Virtualization. 6 1/2 years with Citrix, 2 years with VMware and 2 1/2 years with Vizioncore, a fully owned subsidiary of Quest software specializing in Virtualization solutions including Backup, Replication, Monitoring, P2V and VM optimization Speaker - John Stetic, Director, Product Management, Novell
John Stetic is a senior director of Product Management for Novell. As one of the founders of PlateSpin, he recently joined Novell as part of the company's acquisition of PlateSpin. Stetic is responsible for overseeing the PlateSpin workload management products from Novell team and setting the strategic vision and future roadmap for the product line. Stetic has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions. Prior to joining Novell and PlateSpin, John held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University. Speaker - Jon Bock, Group Product Marketing Manager, Server Business Unit, VMware
Jon is responsible for product marketing for business continuity solutions built using VMware virtualization technology. In this role, he helps customers understand and leverage VMware virtualization products to address their availability and disaster recovery challenges. Prior to VMware, Jon worked at HP managing key technical alliances between HP and enterprise software solution partners and was also part of the design team for HP enterprise-class server platforms. Jon holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. | |||||
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Five Common Mistakes in Securing Web Applications (Location: 1E08) Many organizations lack an overall sense of the best practices for deploying and securing web applications. Despite security practices addressing vulnerability types present within the OWASP and WASC threat classifications, a number of common mistakes are still being made. We will look at five common mistakes that are made when securing web applications and the impact of design flaws on the overall security of an application. Issues such as client-side trust relationships, failure to properly secure application redirection mechanisms, and other elements that can quickly undermine the security of an application, even when diligent security practices are in place will be addressed. Speaker - Lars Ewe, CTO, Cenzic
Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies. Throughout his career Lars has held key positions in engineering, product management/marketing, and sales in a variety of different markets. Background Prior to Cenzic, Lars was software development director at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., responsible for AMD's overall systems manageability and related security strategy and all related engineering efforts. Lars was also AMD's representative to the board of directors of the Distributed Management Task Force (www.dmtf.org). Before AMD, Lars was senior director at Borland Software Corp., where he managed worldwide server software pre-sales, technical services, and key partner relationships. Prior to Borland he held key positions at Oracle Corporation's Server Technologies Division and Webgain. Education Lars has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Information Compliance: Classification, Archiving and eDiscovery (Location: 1E13)Compliance and eDiscovery are two of the biggest challenges facing IT today. Information continues to grow exponentially - and with it - the need to comply with industry and government regulations and prepare for eDiscovery while keeping costs down. This session will discuss the situation in which many companies today find themselves—trying to reconcile records management, compliance and governance requirements and manage these requirements with tools that are available today. In particular, it will look at classification, archiving and retention policy management to proactively address compliance, and as tools to treat eDiscovery requests as a repeatable business processes. Speaker - Gregory Kosinski, Director, Product Marketing, EMC
Gregory Kosinski, Director of Product Marketing, is responsible for product marketing strategy and programs for EMC information governance and compliance software solutions. Grego works closely with customers and product operations staff to ensure that EMC products meet the demanding business requirements of customers, and with distribution channels and partners to deliver EMC solutions to market. Grego has more than 33 years experience in the technology sector, holding marketing management positions at Lucent Technologies and the Amdahl Corporation, and as senior industry analyst with the market research firm, Dataquest. Grego has helped customers and partners to develop business plans, marketing strategies, strategic alliances, and investment opportunities. Grego has conducted sessions and presentations at numerous industry trade shows and conferences. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and a BA in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. Next-Generation Wireless and Mobile Technologies (Location: 1E10)Wireless is a notoriously difficult space for engineers, caught between the unforgiving laws of physics and the economic requirements inherent in designing, building, and manufacturing products. And yet, talented researchers and developers continue to push throughput, range, and reliability, all the while lowering costs and power requirements. This session will provide an update on the latest developments in wireless, including gigabit wireless LANs, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA, the basis of most 4G technologies), and advanced antennas. If you want to know what's next in wireless, and what it will mean to you, this is the place. Moderator - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, octoScope
Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE 802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences. Speaker - Dave Kelf, President and CEO, Sigmatix
Speaker - Mathilde Benveniste, Ph.D, Principal Engineer, InterDigital Communications, LLC
Mathilde Benveniste, Principal Eingineer, InterDigital, has worked on wireless systems, including cellular systems and wireless LANs, for the past twenty years. She holds forty-two patents in this field with fifty-nine more pending. She has held research positions at Avaya Labs, AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs. She has been active in the QoS and Mesh Networking 802.11 standards task groups, and has made numerous contributions to the 802.11 standard. She pioneerd the concept of self-configuring cellular networks. She has published technical papers on network planning, radio resources management, traffic engineering, WLAN medium access technology, and wireless mesh performance. Her graduate training was in operations research, and her undergraduate major was physics. She received Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, MD, and a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. Speaker - Neil Diener, Technical Leader, Office of the CTO and Strategic Initiatives, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco
Neil Diener is a Technical Leader in the CTO and Strategic Initiatives Office of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit. At Cisco, Neil works on shaping Cisco's wireless technology and product strategies, with a focus on the areas of Spectrum Intelligence, new RF technologies, and video over Wi-Fi. Neil came to Cisco through the acquisition of Cognio, Inc. in 2007, where he was co-founder and CTO. Before founding Cognio, he held a series of management level positions at companies including Ask.com, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox. Neil holds a BS Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MS Computer Engineering from USC. He has been issued 15 patents in the area of Wi-Fi and spectrum management. Speaker - Paul Tornatta, Chief Technical Officer, SkyCross
Mr. Tornatta has more than 24 years of experience in the aerospace, wireless, telecommunications, and automotive industries. Prior to joining SkyCross, he served as vice president of the automotive business unit at Radiall Corp., a leading supplier of RF interconnect products. He also served in a variety of leadership positions at Larsen Antenna Technologies, Metricom, and Lockheed Martin. Mr. Tornatta earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University . He has written articles on RF design and electromagnetics for a variety of RF trade publications and holds a number of patents in antenna technology. Is Cloud Computing a Technology or a Business Model? (Location: 1E19)Cloud computing is seldom clearly defined. On the one hand, clouds are a business model that's as old as outsourcing itself: let someone else do things you don't want to, reaping economies of scale and economies of skill. On the other hand, clouds are a set of technologies that improve reliability, distribute workload, and handle vast data sets quickly. This presentation looks at both perspectives, as we try to define what's just managed hosting, what's just virtualization, and what's truly a cloud. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, TechWeb
David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager. Speaker - Jesse Robbins, CEO, Opscode
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar . Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both. Speaker - Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, AT&T Business Solutions
As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences. Speaker - Oren Michels, CEO and Co-Founder, Mashery
Mashery CEO and co-founder Oren Michels has a record of success spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He served as president of two companies: Colt HR, a provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, an online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company's activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui. Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School. 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. Virtualization-Life in the Trenches (Location: 1E21)Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what is it really like to implement virtualization? Does it really offer the benefits that the vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Does desktop virtualization really work? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn what to consider for your next steps in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure. Moderator - Jerry Murphy, Research Director, FOCUS
A frequent keynote speaker and columnist, Jerry has spent over twenty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with META Group, Robert Frances Group (RFG), Experture, MCI, RPM Consulting, as well as successful startups. Jerry is one of the industry's leading authorities on enterprise IT infrastructure design, management, and security. He has spent more than 20 years doing research and helping to develop infrastructure and security strategies for many of the largest global companies and service providers. Before FOCUS, Jerry spent four years at RFG running IT research, with an emphasis on emerging security and data center technology. Prior to that, Jerry was SVP and Service Director for Meta Group's infrastructure, networking and security strategies worldwide. Speaker - Jake Mogray, AVP - IT Division, Israel Discount Bank of New York
Speaker - Matt Lavallee, Director of Technology, MLS Property Information Network, Inc.
Matt Lavallee is Director of Technology for MLS Property Information Network, Inc., one of the top ten Multiple Listing Service companies in the US based in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. In that role, he is responsible for the planning, budget, design, and reliability of their technology infrastructure, and has become a prominent early adopter of Microsoft Hyper-V. As a recognized veteran in Internet software development and following a career that has included work for Fortune 100 companies, Matt is now an active participant in the Real Estate industry's technology circles and has served as a Workgroup Chair for the Real Estate Standards Organization. Speaker - Ryan Makamson, Systems Engineer, Washington State University
Ryan G. Makamson is a systems engineer in the Information Support Group (ISG) for the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Washington State University, which has over 24,000 students at campuses across the state. ISG staff support approximately 2100 students, 50 faculty, and 20 staff members, and provides system administration for three other units within the College of Engineering and Architecture. Over the last 6 years of his 8 years with the ISG, Ryan has worked to incorporate the cutting-edge technology of virtualization into the School's data center, which is now approximate 80 percent virtualized. Virtualization has allowed ISG to reduce their overall data center footprint and afforded the opportunity to offer this resource to other units within the College. Currently Ryan is working on deploying the university's first VMware View labs, which will greatly improve customer service allowing most of the desktop support to be done from support center. Social Software Tools: A Critical Evaluation (Location: 1E09)To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of social software. And yet, social software tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading social software technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan. | |||||
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Privacy in the Clouds: A Governance Storm is Brewing (Location: 1E08) Cloud computing is predicted as a natural extension of Web 2.0 with emphasis on openness, interoperability, and better IT economics. There is also an increasingly dark lining to this silver cloud in the form of personal data privacy risk and new business liabilities as a result of cloud dependence. This session not only helps draw the cloud as a business movement but illustrates the inherent data risks of even being there. The session will also highlight the growing global compliance risks and costs as they consider Web 2.0 and cloud computing for their enterprise. Speaker - Drew Bartkiewicz, Vice President of Cyber Risk and New Media Markets, The Hartford
Drew Bartkiewicz, serves as Vice President of Technology and New Media Markets, of The Hartford. Drew has 18 years in the Software, Social Media, and Business Risk fields with companies such as BroadVision, salesforce.com, The Hartford, and United Technologies. Drew has written and lectured extensively on Internet and technology business trends over the past decade. He was a participating author in the Brookings Institution book on technology and economics, Unseen Wealth (published in 2001). He is currently a board member of the Online Reputation Management Association and is an active writer / speaker in the area of IT risk, laws, and governance. During the Web 1.0 and Personalization decade of the Internet, Drew worked extensively with the following organizations' e-commerce initiatives: GE Capital, Home Depot, UBS, Barclays, Walmart, Bank of America, Blue Cross, Nike, Maidenform, Time Warner, Fox, MTV, Telecom Italia, Primedia, GE Supply, Citigroup, e-Trade, Bear Stearns, and Credit Suisse. During the Web 2.0 evolution Drew has already underwritten the risks of emerging areas such as social networks, video advertising, internet and data privacy liability. Drew is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is currently working on the book, Unseen Liability, The Economics of Technology Risk and Information Malpractice, due in 2010. Mobile Broadband: Finding the Right Mix (Location: 1E10)Is it possible for all mobile broadband needs to be addressed by a single technology? Or will success demand a converged, multi-radio approach? This is one of the most important questions facing enterprise mobility over the next few years, and the answer will likely dictate enterprise purchases well into the future. This session will debate the alternatives - femtocells, mobile unified messaging, public-access Wi-Fi, and the future of enterprise computing and communications. Moderator - Fanny Mlinarsky, President, octoScope
Fanny Mlinarsky is President of octoScope, a wireless communications consulting firm focusing on WiMAX and LTE technologies. She has 26 years of experience developing data communication and test products. At the start of her career she designed Ethernet and RF modems, technologies that resulted in the Cable modem used today for broadband access. As VP of Engineering at Scope Communications (now Agilent), Fanny and her team developed network test equipment. For the past 8 years Fanny has been focusing on the wireless communications product development and deployments. In 2001 she founded Azimuth Systems, the leading wireless test equipment vendor focusing on Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE. Through her work on wireless test equipment Fanny has become an expert at wireless performance requirements for a variety of applications, including data, voice and video. She founded the IEEE 802.11 test committee that worked on the standard for performance test. Her expertise spans RF, PHY, MAC, transport and application layers. Fanny frequently publishes articles on wireless communications and participates in industry standards development and conferences. Speaker - Dan Lowden, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, AT&T Wi-Fi Services
Dan Lowden serves as vice president of marketing and business development for AT&T Wi-Fi Services, an operating unit of AT&T dedicated to providing end to end connectivity resources for a variety of customers, including those in hospitality, retail, healthcare, sport arenas/stadiums and university segments. Dan oversees marketing communications, venue marketing and Wi-Fi product marketing. In 2008, AT&T purchased Wayport, Inc., a privately held company in the business of Wi-Fi network services. Dan had been a part of Wayport's leadership team since 2001, managing marketing and business development, including the development of long term strategic ISP and carrier partners and device manufacturers. Prior to joining Wayport, Dan held key marketing positions at IBM, including ThinkPad world-wide segment manager and North American ThinkPad brand manager responsible for developing products that incorporated Wi-Fi technology targeted at the enterprise market. He also filled mobile device product management roles at NEC Technologies and Sharp Electronics. Dan holds a BS from Rider University and an MBA in International Business from Rutgers University. Speaker - Mike Seymour, VP Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent
Mike Seymour is responsible for business development and technical consulting for all wireless technologies in the Americas Region. In this role he is responsible for evangelizing Alcatel-Lucent's value proposition across the wireless portfolio to customers in the Region and developing / supporting complex solutions in the segment. He most recently held the position of Vice President of Partnerships for the Mobile Access Division, completing a year-long assignment in Paris. He previously held the position of Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX North American Program since 2004. In this capacity, he was responsible for all pre-sales and post-sales activities including business development, technical support and project management for WiMAX across all market segments in North America. Mike joined Alcatel-Lucent as a result of the company's acquisition of PacketVideo Network Solutions in 2003 where he held various positions during his tenure, most recently as the Vice President of Engineering and Program Management. Mike began his career at Motorola as a Systems Engineer supporting the CDMA Radio Access Network products where he was part of the team that deployed the first commercial CDMA systems in the world. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wireless Communications Association International, where he also serves on its Executive Committee. Mike received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa. Speaker - Prakash Sangam, Sr. Manager Technical Marketing, Qualcomm
Prakash Sangam is a Senior Manager in Qualcomm's Technical Marketing group. He develops and communicates key messages for a variety of wireless technologies supported by Qualcomm. Sangam joined Qualcomm in 1998 and has served in numerous engineering and marketing roles with a focus on developing markets such as India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to Qualcomm, Sangam was at Ericsson, where he was involved in both the business and technical aspects of the company - from product marketing and project management to overseeing deployment and optimization of CDMA and WCDMA networks. Prior to that Sangam worked at AT&T's Indian JV, helping that company deploy some of India's early GSM networks. Sangam holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Karnatak University in India and a MBA from San Diego State University. The Best of Both Worlds: Can Hybrid Clouds Convince the Enterprise? (Location: 1E19)Many enterprise applications have to run in-house for legislation and privacy. Others run best in hosted environments, closer to shared data and customers. There's a third class of applications that can run in-house or on-demand, depending on pricing and performance constraints. As companies define their IT strategies, these "hybrid clouds" will become increasingly important. If such systems can dynamically move workload between on-demand and on-premise environments, customers can optimize their use of computing resources while respecting data privacy concerns. This panel of innovators in hybrid clouds looks at the promise - and obstacles - of a technology that may finally unlock enterprise cloud adoption. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Anders Lofgren, Chief Research Officer, TheInfoPro
As the CRO of TheInfoPro, Lofgren leverages more than 16 years of experience in product management, marketing and strategy to ensure that TheInfoPro continues as a leading advisory and research firm for the IT industry. Before joining TheInfoPro, Lofgren served as SVP, Strategy at CA - a $4 billion a year enterprise IT management provider - where he directed strategy for the $150 million Mid-Market and Storage Business Unit. Prior to this position, he was the SVP of Product Management and Product Strategy for CA, where he managed a product management team responsible for a $400 million business. Prior to joining CA, Lofgren was a Senior Industry Analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group, where he was the primary analyst responsible for storage management software. In addition, Lofgren has served as the Director of Marketing for Zetari, a startup organization focused on hosting infrastructure, and was Strategic Marketing Manager at Compaq Computer Corporation. Speaker - Jesse Robbins, CEO, Opscode
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is CEO of Opscode (makers of Chef) and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar . Prior to co-founding Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. Robbins is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina. His experiences in the fire service profoundly influence his efforts in technology, and he strives to distill his knowledge from these two worlds and apply it in service of both. Speaker - Ping Li, Partner, Accel Partners
Ping is a partner at Accel focusing on IT infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, and internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/Board Member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Imperva, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe. Ping was responsible for Accel's investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco). Prior to Accel, Ping was a director at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper's flagship router product portfolio and worked on Juniper's acquisition of Netscreen Technologies. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies. Speaker - Stuart Charlton, CTO, Elastra
Stuart Charlton is a Software Architect with Elastra, provider of Cloud Computing software infrastructure. Stuart specializes in the areas of architecture, SOA, data warehousing, and is an avid student of lean & agile approaches to business processes and product development. Prior to joining Elastra, he was an Enterprise Architect with BEA Systems Worldwide Consulting, was the lead integration architect for a major Canadian telecommunications company, and has been a consultant and trainer for over a dozen organizations in the United States, Canada, and Japan. He is the co-author of CodeNotes for J2EE, published by Random House in 2002, and has written for leading online publications. Stuart resides in San Francisco, California. Speaker - Tyson Hartman, Chief Technology Officer & VP Enterprise Technology Solutions, Avanade
Tyson is responsible for Avanade's technology vision and R&D investments. He also leads the worldwide strategy and team driving business in Application Development, Enterprise Infrastructure and Managed Services, providing solutions across the complete enterprise IT lifecycle. Tyson joined Avanade in June 2000. As part of Avanade's first engineering group, he was instrumental in developing solutions and assets for some of the company's first key customers. Prior to Avanade, Tyson was with Accenture, where he focused on e-commerce and high-volume online transaction processing systems. Tyson holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. Communications as a Service and Cloud-Based Communications (Location: 1E09)Should your communications functions (or some subset of them) be outsourced and run out of the cloud? What models for cloud-based communications are being devised by service providers? By equipment vendors? By new players such as Amazon and Google? Are we heading toward hybrid systems that draw features and functions from a mix of premises-based and cloud-based systems? This session will identify the state of the art. Speaker - George Humphrey, Director - Global Strategy & Operations and Architecture, Avaya Operations Services, Avaya
George Humphrey is a Director and Line of Business owner at Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems. He currently has responsibility for Avaya's Operations Services Offer Management, Tools, Architecture and Business Operations teams. George has played a leadership role in many of Avaya's strategic and next generation product and services portfolios including introducing Avaya Communication Manager and the transition of the enterprise portfolio from TDM to IP, Avaya's On Demand hosted managed services portfolio and the introduction of Avaya's recently announced Partner Enabled Managed services portfolio. George has also held positions in the initial SIP solutions product management, he introduced Avaya's first truly converged product offering and led the strategies behind Avaya's early communications SOA architectures. Raised in northern New Jersey, George now lives in the Denver, Colorado area. He holds several global patents in communications, and has numerous industry certifications and accreditations as well as a degree in finance. 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). Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer? (Location: 1E07)The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly seventy five percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo and that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don't make some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new value added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of loosing control over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit functionality IT organizations can safely automate. 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 - Mark Leake, Director, HP Software & Solutions, Hewlett Packard
Mark is Director of Portfolio and Executive Content in HP Software Products. He works with executive management and the global marketing, product marketing, and enablement teams to develop portfolio-level messaging and content for the Business Technology Optimization and Information Management businesses. His responsibilities include defining the solutions framework and messaging for the HP Software Products Go To Market strategy, as well as developing presentations, videos and other customer facing and enablement assets for use by the sales force and at key HP Software and industry events. Mark joined HP Software through the acquisition of Mercury Interactive in 2006. Prior to joining Mercury in November 2003, Mark worked as a communications and media consultant in London and as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Other experience includes working as an actor and as an independent film producer in London. Mark received an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and his B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Amherst College. Speaker - Mark Piening, VP, Product Management and Marketing, Uplogix, Inc.
Mr. Piening brings a broad range of product management, marketing and business development experience from leading technology companies. Most recently, Mr. Piening served as Senior Director for Symantec where he led the Global Partner and SMB Marketing teams. Prior to Symantec, Mr. Piening directed the Dell Global Alliance for VERITAS Software. His other marketing, sales, product management and business development leadership roles include Series A, pre-IPO, small cap and large public companies like Dell, DIGEX (now Verizon), and Ernst and Young. Mr. Piening is a former CPA with an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from UNC Kenan-Flagler and a BA in Economics/Business from UCLA. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA, Inc.
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology for automation, virtualization ,and cloud, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, customer engagement, and partner development. Prior to CA, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Mr. Elliot earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Thursday, November 19 | | ||||
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Your Employees Are Roaming - Is Your Confidential Information? (Location: 1E08) Corporate networks extend beyond office walls. Users access the Web from laptops or mobile devices in airports, hotels and more, and continue to leverage their personal devices for business. This sparks heightened security concerns in the enterprise. This panel explores the expanding corporate perimeter and how to ensure that even while employees roam, sensitive corporate data is not compromised. Speaker - Paul Judge, CTO, Purewire
Speaker - Paul Roberts, Senior Security Analyst, The 451 Group
Mobile Devices: Options and Alternatives (Location: 1E10)It's only been in the past couple of years that terms like "netbook", "smartphone", "smartbook", and "mobile internet device", to name just a few, have been part of the IT lexicon. No longer, however, are a notebook and a cell phone alone sufficient; these are really just a starting point for key decisions that will affect both productivity and the bottom line. This mini-tutorial will examine the key alternatives and issues in mobile computing and communications today, and help you define the right toolset for your organization. Speaker - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York) and Mobile Internet World conferences. He is also the program chair for the Mobile Business Expo (MBX) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and Computerworld.com, and ardent blogger ("Nearpoints") for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation (Location: 1E19)In a cloud environment, you don't rack and stack servers any more; instead, you click and drag them. This relieves IT operators of many physical chores, but it creates a new one: server sprawl. To deal with this, most cloud operations teams rely heavily on scripts that automate common functions such as setting up servers or migrating configurations. Those scripts, however, are often tailored to a particular cloud platform—so the same tools that were supposed to liberate IT have inadvertently locked it into a particular cloud environment. If scripting and automation are keys to the success of cloud models, they're not getting the attention they deserve. This panel looks at scripting best practices, automation, and standardization. Moderator - Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, Bitcurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. Speaker - Chris Brown, Vice President of Engineering, Opscode
Christopher Brown, Vice President of Engineering, was most recently Director of Engineering for Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Chris was the Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2") Speaker - Delano Mandelbaum, Founder, Solutious, The Performance Company
Delano is an IT consultant and the founder of Solutious Inc. He is an experienced developer and consults on development and deployment process, performance testing, and virtualized infrastructure. He helped ApproxiMatch, the Boston-based search engine startup, win several key contracts leading up to their acquisition in 2007. Other customers include Amdocs, Telus, and Yellow Pages Group. He is also the creator of several innovative opensource software projects including Rudy and Stella. Prior to Solutious, Delano lead development for the relaunch of YellowPages.ca in 2006 and was the senior developer at Verizon Information Services Canada (SuperPages.ca). Speaker - Derick Wong, Senior Director of Product Marketing, CA
Derick joined CA in October 2008 as Senior Director of Product Marketing. In this role, he leads product marketing for Business-Driven Automation, CA's innovative approach to delivering extensible value by aggregating and streamlining IT processes/workflow, provisioning and change control, workloads, and service assurance. Prior to CA, Derick was a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Canada where he was responsible for developing strategic marketing initiatives for the security and system management product lines that are part of the Windows Server System including Microsoft Forefront, Microsoft System Center, and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Derick also served as CEO for InfoPeople Security Solutions Inc. (IPSS) and had various leadership roles within Intellitactics Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP. Derick graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Masters of Accounting specializing in Managerial Control Systems. He also holds various industry designations including Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Chartered Accountant (CA). Speaker - Greg Brail, CTO, Sonoa Systems
A Comparison of WAN Optimization Controllers (Location: 1E07)The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. This use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. To mitigate the impact of the WAN on application performance, many vendors have developed a solution referred to as a WAN Optimization Controller (WOC). In this PowerPoint-free session, leading WOC vendors will be asked questions to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 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 - Chris Webber, Product Manager for WAN Operations, Blue Coat
Speaker - Mark Weiner, Director, Data Center Solutions, Cisco
Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies. Previously, Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Weiner spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass. Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Peter Schmidt, CTO for North America, Ipanema
Speaker - Satya Vardharajan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Access and Acceleration Group, Citrix
Speaker - Tim Richards, Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration, Juniper
Tim Richards is the Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company's application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Unlock the Potential of Virtualization-Management is the Key (Location: 1E21)As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders. Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. The Future of Messaging in the Enterprise (Location: 1E09)Consumer use of social messaging services such as Twitter is on the rise. The tools are likely already in use today, unbeknownst to IT. Do these new messaging technologies pose a threat to business or are they an opportunity to create value through increased communication and collaboration? What is the role of social messaging in unified communications and collaboration and does the rise of public social messaging services render investments in unified communications moot? Join us for a look at the future of social messaging in the Enterprise. Moderator - Steve Wylie, General Manager, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, TechWeb
Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Expo, both of which are produced by TechWeb. Steve formerly co-chaired TechWeb's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed TechWeb's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California. Speaker - Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions, IDC
Speaker - Ethan Yarbrough, President and Co-Founder, Allyis
As President and Co-Founder of Allyis, Inc., a consultancy focused on the development and adoption of 2.0 technologies and practices within the Enterprise, Ethan is a social computing thought leader and active participant in the Enterprise 2.0 conversation. Via his Emerging Web Memo blog (www.emergingwebmemo.com), Tweets (@ethany), white papers (www.allyis.com/ourthinking.aspx) and speaking engagements, Ethan actively drives conversations around how organizations can leverage and prosper from the use of social tools, platforms and cultures inside the firewall to foster knowledge management, collaboration, innovation and contribute to employee morale and retention. He is an active participant in the Social Media Club Seattle, the largest regional organization of its kind, leading the conversation around the application of social media within the Enterprise. Yarbrough has been asked to contribute his expertise to books on the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and was recently profiled by Seattle Social Media Profiles. Ethan drives Enterprise 2.0 adoption within his own organization with the support of the highly engaged team he leads. In 2007, Ethan was recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the region's top "40 Under 40", a prestigious award celebrating young entrepreneurs and rising stars in the local business community. Ethan is passionate about programs that support Allyis employees and the community. He spearheads the internal Greener Allyis campaign which emphasizes reduced waste, recycling, reduced consumption, and general environmental stewardship with a goal of making it easier for employees to make "greener" choices while at work. Ethan holds an M.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University and still enjoys spending his free time in creative pursuits such as writing and photography. Speaker - Jonathan Yarmis, Research Fellow, Ovum
Jonathan Yarmis has been a leading voice in the technology industry for over 30 years, with a variety of experience in industry analysis, end-user computing, and public and analyst relations. Yarmis is currently Research Fellow at Ovum. Most recently, he was VP of Disruptive Technologies at AMR Research and spent 10 years at Gartner, heading up all end-user computing research. He has also worked at senior levels at PR firms Hill & Knowlton and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. He produced and served as content chairperson for a variety of conferences and tradeshows at eMarketWorld, including ad:tech. Yarmis is a regular speaker at industry events and appears regularly on a variety of print and broadcast media. Jonathan received his BA from Hamilton College. Speaker - Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Tony Byrne is Founder of CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that publishes comparative evaluations of content technologies. At CMS Watch, Tony leads of team of analysts covering various technology marketplaces on behalf of solutions buyers. Prior to founding CMS Watch in 2001, Tony led the developer team a systems integrator, following previous stints as a programmer, journalist, and international educator. He is also the author of the CMS Report and publisher of the Enterprise Portals Report, the Enterprise Search Report and the ECM Suites Report, and an avid Green BayPackers fan. The People, Process And Technology Of Next Generation Data Centers (Location: 1E13)Technologies like virtualization and automation tools are cornerstone to the next generation data center - but without the proper processes and staff skills to manage them, tomorrow's data center will be no better off than today's. Likewise, even the right people and process fall short without sufficient technology investment that can minimize labor intensive tasks. With that in mind, the next generation data center is a collection of people, process and technology that support one another. This panel discussion will identify the key people, process and technology considerations to help data center managers plan for the next generation data center today. 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 - Paul Parker-Johnson, Director of Marketing, Data Center Solution, Juniper Networks
Mr. Parker-Johnson is director of marketing worldwide for data center network solutions at Juniper Networks. He has been instrumental in developing and bringing to market Juniper's data center solutions over the past three years, enabling delivery of switching, routing, and security solutions for many of the world's most demanding data center operators in enterprise, government and service provider markets. Previously, he was a member of Juniper's service provider market strategy & planning team, focused on new markets analysis and entry. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Parker-Johnson held product management and marketing positions for Ellacoya Networks, Cisco Systems, and BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman). He holds a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. from Columbia University. Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy, CA, Inc.
Stephen Elliot is vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. In this role, he is focused on key areas such as business unit technology for automation, virtualization ,and cloud, strategy creation, analyst relations, market positioning, customer engagement, and partner development. Prior to CA, Mr. Elliot was a noted software industry analyst at IDC, Hurwitz Group, Gartner, Instat, and Forrester. He also served Inteq, a venture-backed start-up, as product marketing manager. Mr. Elliot earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California. He also completed graduate work at American University and Harvard Business School's Executive Education course on Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Valuation. Speaker - Tate Cantrell, CTO, Verne Global
Tate Cantrell's primary responsibilities include product design and development and data center operations. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Cantrell acted as Vice President, Data Center Technologies, at Dupont Fabros Technology. He was responsible for development and execution of operational strategies critical to the start-up of the Dupont Fabros Development Wholesale Data Center business model, the first of its kind in the industry. Mr Cantrell also provided technical support for marketing and key business strategy expansion opportunities, and directed and managed strategy for all IT systems. Mr. Cantrell has been involved in data centers and other high tech facilities for more than 15 years, starting as a research programmer for computational modeling on biomedical applications. | |||||
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Operating Systems for Handsets: Where Do We Go from Here? (Location: 1E10) "Smartphone" really doesn't cover it anymore - essentially every handset today, after all, is pretty smart. We're really looking, however, at an explosion of alternatives in mobile operating environments that define platforms, with vendors now competing even on the number of apps they support. IT, of course, doesn't care about volume here - it's more about having the right apps and a platform that's cost-effective and easy to manage. This session will explore the key directions in both mobile operating systems and strategies for mobilizing IT using these powerful new handsets. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York) and Mobile Internet World conferences. He is also the program chair for the Mobile Business Expo (MBX) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and Computerworld.com, and ardent blogger ("Nearpoints") for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Adam Blum, CEO, Rhomobile
Rhomobile CEO, Adam Blum, came from Good Technology where he was the Senior Director of Engineering. While spending millions of dollars at Good on enterprise mobile application development Adam realized there was a need for a framework where companies could build mobile applications easily and empower their workforce without spending millions upon millions of dollars on application development, training their programmers to learn different programming languages and then building apps from scratch. Rhomobile's Rhodes enables companies to build their apps and execute them across all the major devices. Adam is a longtime CTO/VP of Engineering for startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). Speaker - Elizabeth Altman, Vice President, Business Development, Motorola Mobile Devices
Elizabeth J. Altman is Vice President of Business Development in Motorola's Mobile Devices business. In this role she leads a team that works with external partners to drive growth for Motorola's Mobile Devices business. Responsibilities of the team include identifying partners, developing relationship strategies, and executing and managing deals in support of Motorola's product and service strategies. Prior to this role, Altman was responsible for Strategy and Business Development in the Consumer Products group of Motorola's Mobile Devices business where she led a team developing and executing business strategy and managing relationships with key partner companies for a multi-billion dollar division. Over her 17 years at Motorola, Altman has held roles in industrial design, product development engineering, manufacturing, and marketing. Her main areas of expertise relate to innovation strategy, business development, M&A, equity investing, developing and managing strategic alliances and technology licensing. Altman began her career at Motorola in 1992 as a staff mechanical engineer after earning dual graduate degrees in mechanical engineering and management as a fellow in MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program. In 1994, she was awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce and Japanese government manufacturing technology fellowship and spent a year working at a Sony factory in Japan. Altman earned her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University and serves on the Cornell University Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the Cornell College of Engineering Advisory Council, and the President's Council of Cornell Women. She guest lectures regularly at both Cornell and M.I.T. Altman is co-author of the book The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business Press, June 2008). Speaker - Gavin Kim, Vice President, Content & Data Services and Enterprise Enablement, Samsung Telecommunications America
Gavin Kim is Vice President of Content & Data Services and Enterprise Enablement for Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile). Gavin has responsibility for incubating Samsung's content/developer partnerships, and leading strategy and development of Samsung Mobile's software products and services for wireless devices. He also has responsibility for building Samsung's Enterprise (B2B) business in the United States. Prior to joining Samsung, Gavin held the role of Vice President at Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), an early-stage venture fund, where he focused on investments in mobile and media software companies. Gavin came to ATV from Motorola where he was responsible for product planning and operations for mobile devices with Sprint Nextel. Gavin has also held business development and management positions at other mobile and telecommunications companies including PacketVideo and Ascend Communications. Gavin holds an M.B.A from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor's Degree in engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - Hakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software ASA
Håkon Wium Lie joined Opera in 1999 as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his position at Opera, Wium Lie worked for W3C, where he proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He is a knowledgeable speaker on languages for the Web, as well as the past, present and future of the Web. Prior speaking engagements include XTech, International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), Atypi and Seybold. Wium Lie has also written for The Register, CNET and A List Apart. After receiving his Master's degree from MIT Media Lab, Wium Lie worked as a research scientist at Norwegian Telecom Research and later at CERN, the birthplace of the Web. From 1995 to 1999, Wium Lie worked for W3C, after which he joined Opera. He has also received a PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2006. In 1999, Technology Review included him on the TR100 list, "a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world". Wium Lie was also honored by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the "Technology Pioneers" in 2000 and 2001. Never Buy a Server Again: Should You Move Everything to On-Demand? (Location: 1E19)Some companies have embraced cloud computing whole-heartedly, putting all their IT resources in the cloud. The tradeoffs are clear: less control and customization, in return for a turnkey solution that benefits from the operator's economies of scale. This panel looks at what can be run on demand, and whether this is a marketing pipe-dream or an inevitable reality. We'll consider what kinds of organizations can rely solely on cloud-based software and servers, and what a company needs to change in order to never buy another server. Moderator - Joe Weinman, Strategy and Business Development VP, AT&T Business Solutions
As Strategy and Business Development Vice President, AT&T Business Solutions, Joe Weinman helps assess, create, and solution strategic emerging technologies and next generation business models into AT&T's offer portfolio; develop alliances; and evaluate firms for possible investment. A 28-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.. He has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in areas such as line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and the AT&T Distinguished Speaker Award. He is currently or has been a member of a well known Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technology Advisory Board, the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, and the Technology Advisory Board of a Silicon Valley start-up. He is a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves on the program planning committees of a number of cloud computing conferences. Speaker - Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations, Amazon Web Services
Adam Selipsky, Vice President, Amazon Web Services Adam Selipsky joined Amazon Web Services in May 2005 as Vice President for Product Management and Developer Relations. He oversees product strategy, sales and business development, marketing, and the AWS technical platform. Before joining Amazon Web Services, Selipsky served as a Vice President in several areas for RealNetworks. Selipsky was also a partner at Mercer Management Consulting, specializing in business strategy for telecommunications and technology companies. Selipsky earned his bachelor's degree in government from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Speaker - Allan Leinwand, Panorama Capital, Venture Partner
Mr. Leinwand is a venture partner in the firm and focuses on technology investments. Prior to this role, he joined JPMorgan Partners as an operating partner in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was President and Co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997 Mr. Leinwand joined Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD) at inception and served as their Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer through the company's IPO and secondary offering. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Leinwand served as Manager of Consulting Engineering and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the subjects of computer networks, network management, and network design. Mr. Leinwand holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He presently serves on the board of directors of Vyatta, Inc. He is also a board observer to Belair Networks and Cedar Point Communications. Speaker - Andy Rhodes, Head of Global Marketing, Data Center Solutions Division, Dell
Speaker - Harris Tilevitz, CIO, Skadden Arps
Speaker - Jay Rambhaskar, Goldman Sachs
Speaker - William Forrest, Author of "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing", McKinsey and Co.
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. Backing up Your Virtual Environment - Best Practices (Location: 1E21)According to a recent FOCUS survey, "Managing the Virtual Environment", backing up the virtual environment is IT's biggest virtualization pain point. The application data contained within each virtual machine is only part of what needs to be backed up. This session will cover best practices for backup in the virtual environment and will discuss capabilities available to assist and simplify your backup process. Speaker - Don Krueger, Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc.
Don Krueger is a twelve- year veteran of consulting and has more than seventeen years of experience in IT. Since becoming a consultant, Don has written a variety of different architectural designs for companies ranging from in size from small shops to dozens of Fortune 100 enterprises. Throughout his career, Don has focused on server-based technologies and is an expert in technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, HP, and Dell. For the last four years, Don's primary focus has been helping companies plan and deploy server virtualization initiatives. Empire 2.0 - Increasing Citizen Involvement and Government Transparency (Location: 1E09)CIO/OFT believes the interactivity and personalization associated with next generation technology like social media networking and Web 2.0 tools will enable state agencies to bring communications to a new level engaging millions of people who spend their time on social media sites with personalized, interactive tools they have come to expect to get instantaneous information and to engage in our democracy. CIO/OFT continues to employ multiple strategies to expand and market the use of Web 2.0 technologies. This session will describe the tools used by CIO/OFT to do this, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube channel, Wiki and our Brainstorming Portal. Speaker - Rico Singleton, Deputy State Chief Information Officer, New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer
Rico J. Singleton serves as the New York State Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Strategy & Governance Services. In this capacity he is primarily responsible for the overall I.T. strategy and overseeing IT investments for the State of New York, a $120 billion enterprise with over 190,000 employees serving a statewide population of 19 million. The State has approximately 5,000 IT professionals, and spends approximately $2 billion in information technology annually. His position requires him to work with state, local and federal government agencies to deliver innovative state government services to citizens, businesses and state visitors by leveraging technology. Additionally, to ensure technology purchases are aligned to the enterprise strategy and standards, Rico has responsibility for approving statewide IT investments while also negotiating and executing enterprise contracts with major IT vendors. Rico served as Chair of the New York State CIO Council, which is comprised of 89 State and Local Government CIO's and currently serves as Chair of the IT Executive CIO Leadership Committee. He serves on the Executive Committee for the New York State Forum of the Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Advisory Committee for the Center for Technology and Government at the State University of New York. Additionally, Rico is an active member and of the National Association of State CIO's all of which he utilizes to help advance the technology strategy within New York State. Recently, Rico was the recipient of the Commissioners Commendation Award for successfully launching Empire 2.0 - a New York State social media strategy designed to promote government participation, increase collaboration and expand the state's ability to share information with social media users.? The State Of Green IT: Saving Money And The Environment (Location: 1E13)In today's business world, green IT is no longer an abstract or fringe topic. Recent research indicates that green IT adoption is high and is driven by a number of motivations, primarily financial. By using more energy-efficient IT and business processes, organizations can reduce both the operating and capital costs of owning and operating IT - not to mention harmful environmental impacts. To help IT professionals save money with green IT, this session will review the state of green IT, where organizations are focusing their time within and outside of the data center, and offer real life examples of green IT in action. Speaker - Jose Iglesias, Vice President of Global Solutions, Symantec
As Vice President of Global Solutions at Symantec Corporation, Jose Iglesias leads the effort of integrating availability and security into solutions which provide value to customers worldwide. Prior to joining Symantec through the merger with Veritas, Iglesias was responsible for product management and expanding the company's product portfolio into new markets. Mining for Value in the Data Log Fire Hose: Top Five Governance, Risk and Compliance Metrics in Logs (Location: 1E08)Logging has quickly become an important requirement for governance risk and compliance and information security management. Unfortunately most organizations are overwhelmed by both the volume of logs they are examining and data included in them. In order to be an effective tool, an organization has to try to make sense of and derive business and technical value from their logs. If you could only choose five log-based metrics to assess the health of your information security, risk, and compliance posture, what would they be? This session will describe which logs and what log metrics will tell you the most and how to derive knowledge and value from them - even if you look for nothing else. Speaker - Paul Stamp, Senior Product Manager, RSA
Paul Stamp is the Senior Manager of Product Marketing for the Information and Event Management Group at RSA. In this role, Paul is responsible for reinforcing RSA's position as a market leader in the Security Information and Event Management space. Paul has been active in the information security industry for the past 11 years, and is regularly featured in the media, including NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and a host of industry publications. Prior to joining RSA, Paul was Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, covering security information and event management and data security, and a security architect with Unisys Corporation. Paul holds an MA (Oxon) in Mathematics from Oxford University. | |||||
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Using an Emerging Industry Standard (SCAP) to Automate and Accelerate Vulnerability Management (Location: 1E08) Managing, prioritizing, and remediating all the vulnerabilities in an information technology environment traditionally has been a time consuming, manual, laborious and costly ongoing activity. With the emergence of a suite of standards known as SCAP, it is now possible to identify, evaluate, assess, and report on vulnerabilities automatically. Hear a case study from one company that has saved multiple man-years of effort, annually, automating this process using simple tools using with these new standards. Speaker - Elliot Glazer, Director, KPMG
Mr. Glazer has over 25 years of Information Technology experience, including over 20 years of software development and 10 years in information security. He is currently Director of Security Architecture at KPMG. He is responsible for creating and leading new solutions for Vulnerability Management, Threat and Vulnerability Assessment, Software Security, and other solutions. Previously, Elliott was Director of Security Architecture at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, a company which clears and settles over $1.8 quadrillion of value in brokerage, bond and other securities. Elliott was responsible for Threat and Vulnerability Assessment, Security Monitoring, and Software Security programs among other initiatives. Prior, Elliott was responsible for Security Solutions at American Express Corporation including single sign on and SOX compliance, Private Payments, and online customer servicing. He held many roles while their including leading enterprise technical architecture, and distributed operations. Prior to this, Elliott was responsible for the future technology labs at Citigroup. Mr. Glazer is named on or has pending over 15 patents in the areas of internet technology, security and privacy as well. Disaster Recovery Planning for the SME (Location: 1E09)Over the past few years newsworthy disasters from Tsunamis and floods to simple blackouts have struck around the world with seemingly greater frequency. While the Wall Street crowd has dedicated disaster recovery sites and dark fiber links, those of us with somewhat more limited budgets have to be a bit more creative. This session will explore cost effective disaster recovery planning, from assessing your organization's needs to selecting products and vendors to help implement your plan. Topics Covered * The Elements every DR plan must have * Data Protection * Application Availability * A place for users to work * Distance: The key to data protection * Determining recovery point and time objectives for your applications * Matching technologies to needs and budgets * How Virtualization supports Disaster Recovery * How Disaster Recovery support Business Continuity Planning * How to keep from fighting the last war Speaker - Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Networks Are Our Lives, Inc!
Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft's TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com Beyond the Handset: Mobile IT User Roundtable (Location: 1E10)While wireless communications and mobile computing continue to evolve rapidly, we're now at the point where leading IT departments have sufficient experience to establish and implement best practices. This session will feature advice from IT managers that are making cost-effective and productive use of mobile IT devices, technologies, and systems today. Come learn what works - and what doesn't - and gain valuable insight into what needs to be in your mobility arsenal today and going forward. Moderator - Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York) and Mobile Internet World conferences. He is also the program chair for the Mobile Business Expo (MBX) conferences. He serves as a monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com and Computerworld.com, and ardent blogger ("Nearpoints") for networkworld.com. Craig holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University. Speaker - Michael Saitow, CIO, MS Walker, Inc.
Michael Saitow is an energetic leader with over 12 years of executive level experience operations, logistics, marketing & IT. He is responsible for the business process engineering surrounding both sales and operations and for M. S. Walker, Inc., a $250 million Wine & Spirits distributor with facilities throughout the northeast United States. He has held multiple senior-level positions in the service, sales, on-line, and financial vertical markets, and has deployed six wireless applications, including Sales Force Automation (SFA), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). Mr. Saitow was the Project Manager for the Company's distribution facility migration in 2005, including the implementation of HighJump Software, which has significantly reduced the Company's expenses related to operations and improved customer satisfaction. A graduate of Syracuse University, SI Newhouse College, Mr. Saitow is an avid surfer, skier and rock, ice and mountain climber. Speaker - Paul DeBeasi, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
Paul DeBeasi is a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group and has over 25 years experience in the networking industry. Before joining the Burton Group, Paul founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless consulting firm, and was the VP Product Marketing at Legra Systems, a wireless-switch innovator. Prior to Legra, Paul was the VP Product Marketing at startups IPHighway and ONEX Communications and was also the Frame Relay product line manager for Cascade Communications. Paul began his career developing networking systems as a senior engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom Corporation. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - Philippe Winthrop, Director - Global Wireless Practice, Strategy Analytics
Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics with a focus on Enterprise Mobility spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility. Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless' adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA. After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe . Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a Boston based research firm. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen, he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more. Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory board of Mobile Enterprise Magazine. Speaker - Tim Scannell, Editorial Director, TechnologyGuide.com
Tim Scannell is the Editorial Director at TechTarget's consumer and business subsidiary, TechnologyGuide.com, a leading review authority on notebook and desktop PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics. He was previously an editor of TechTarget's SearchEnterpriseWAN.com Web portal, which provides technology information and service-based news to network administrators, engineers and others involved in enterprise wide area networks (WANs). Tim is also the founder and a consulting advisor at Shoreline Research, a Quincy, MA based consulting, research, and information services company specializing in technology and marketing initiatives, and a Managing Director at 2in10, Ltd., a Scotland-based strategic business services and venture management company specializing in product positioning and channel expertise. He is also a content advisor to Q-Marketing, Inc., a high-tech awareness and advertising company located just outside Boston. Scannell has nearly 30 years experience as a writer, editor, and analyst in the computer industry, working on such publications as Computerworld, PC Products, Mini-Micro Systems, Systems Integration and most recently Computer Reseller News. Scannell has freelanced for a number of U.S. publications, including: U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and Crain's Net Marketing. He presently directs content projects for a number of companies worldwide and maintains a mobile media blog called Inside Mobile Media.< Big Tables, No Joins, Many Copies: Understanding Cloud Data (Location: 1E19)When it comes to cloud challenges, data is the elephant in the room. The laws of physics, and the state of bandwidth today, mean that processing needs to happen near data—and this limits enterprises' ability to migrate their applications. Anyone who wants to understand clouds needs to know how they handle data. This panel looks at how some of the industry's biggest on-demand computing platforms handle huge amounts of data quickly and reliably, as well as which innovations wrought in the cloud can be applied to the enterprise data center. Moderator - Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Omer Trajman is responsible for Vertica's customer-facing technical team, helping customers with large-scale, grid-based data warehouse database deployments at companies such as Verizon, Comcast, JP Morgan, Biogen, Vonage and Mozilla. Trajman is also a leading authority on cloud-based databases through his pioneering work launching Vertica's cloud database on Amazon EC2. Prior to Vertica, he held senior technical positions at Wellogic and the Escher Group engineering various highly distributed database systems, including the 39,000-node counter system that powers the UK Post Office. Speaker - Dwight Merriman, CEO and Co-Founder, 10Gen
Dwight is responsible for driving the strategic vision of 10gen, a cloud computing database company. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express, a content distribution network (CDN) which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. He is also a board member of the web photo/video sharing company Phanfare. Dwight received a B.S. with honors in Systems Analysis from Miami University of Ohio. Speaker - Jim Mlodgenski, Chief Architect, EnterpriseDB
Jim Mlodgenski was one of EnterpriseDB's first employees and joined the company in May, 2005. He is currently EnterpriseDB's chief architect and previously held the title of vice president, services. Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Jim was a partner and architect at Fusion Technologies, a technology services company founded by EnterpriseDB co-founder Denis Lussier. For nearly a decade, Jim developed early designs and concepts for Fusion's consulting projects and specialized in Oracle application development, Web development, and open source. Jim received a bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Speaker - John Trembley, Vice President of Product Management & Marketing, Xeround
John brings over 14 years of marketing and strategy experience to lead Xeround's product management and go-to-market plan. His background extends from telecommunications, networking, and high tech industries to embedded systems. Prior to Xeround, John worked as director of business development and industry strategy at Oracle. He was also marketing director of telecom and networking at TimesTen, which was acquired by Oracle. In addition, he has worked for communications service providers including: Electric Lightwave (now Integra Telecom) and GST Telecommunications (now Time Warner Telecom). John is frequently quoted by industry press and has spoken at many industry conferences. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Willamette University. 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. How Data Center Managers Should Approach Containerized Data Centers (Location: 1E13)Containerized data centers are receiving as much hype as cloud computing and green IT. While the benefits compared to "brick and mortar" facilities seems straight forward - reduced capital spend, operating expenses and time-to-build - data center managers need to understand the realities of these emerging data center architectures. This panel discussion will help data center managers evaluate and approach containers by understanding their economics, key considerations and real-life customer examples. 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 - Frank Piatkowski, Principal and Co Founder, DockIT
Frank Piatkowski, principal and co-founder of DockIT is an architect, real estate developer and an expert in design, construction and ownerâ?™s representation. Prior to DockIT, Piatkowski was director of Development for Charles E. Smith Company, Penrose Group, Higgins Development Partners, The Mat West Company and Kramer, Chin and Mayo. While at these firms, he designed, built and managed complex technology-driven real estate projects in 35 states and 17 foreign countries. Piatkowski holds bachelorâ?™s and masterâ?™s degrees in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a masterâ?™s degree of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. He is a licensed architect in three states and a member of Lead Virginia 2008. Speaker - Greg Palmer, Business Development Manager, HP POD, Hewlett Packard Company
Greg Palmer has responsibility for HP's Performance Optimized Data Center (HP POD) business in the Americas. Palmer started his career in Information Technology at DEC, worked in the Enterprise Server Group at Compaq and served as business development manager for HP's Blade Server business. In 2003, Palmer joined APC and while there he owned APC's modular three phase UPS and power distribution product lines. In 2008, Palmer rejoined HP in his current capacity. Palmer earned a bachelor's of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer and a master's in Business Administration from Babson. Speaker - Martin Olsen, Vice President, Business Development, Active Power, Inc.
Martin Olsen serves as the company's vice president of Business Development. In this role, Olsen leads all global business development activities to help grow Active Power's product and sales distribution channels, bringing more than 11 years of global marketing, product marketing and development to the position. Prior to Active Power, Olsen served as divisional director, Data Center Group, for Wright Line LLC, a Worcester, Mass.-based data center infrastructure firm. From 2004-2007, he managed the firm's global product lines and developed and maintained product roadmaps for Wright, establishing the company's first product life cycle management process. This ?first' put a formal process in place that helped bring products to market in a timely and cost effective manner. Amongst his many successes at Wright, he oversaw the design, production and market launch of several new, innovative data center solutions. From 1998 to 2004, Olsen spent time in the States and several years overseas working in Munich and Singapore, where he led the product marketing and development charter for APC-MGE, a $3 billion global provider of critical power and cooling services. He wore a myriad of hats while at APC from product marketing manager to director of Communications to director of Product Marketing. While in Singapore, Olsen successfully launched APC's Silcon product and other ancillary solutions to the APAC market, working closely with more than 200 sales people in 35 sales offices. In Munich, Olsen managed product roadmaps for APC's InfraStruXure product and four other core product lines. He helped establish relationships with IBM Global Services and EDS to facilitate the introduction of InfraStruXure to market in 15 European states. One of Olsen's key accomplishments at APC included the development of a pre-shipment package program, which resulted in a $2.3 millions savings to the company. Speaker - Mike Manos, Senior Vice President of Technical Services, Digital Realty Trust
Michael Manos joined Digital Realty Trust as the Senior Vice President of Technical Services in May 2009. In this role he is response for all data center construction and technical operations along with oversight of data center professional services. Prior to joining Digital Realty Trust Manos was responsible for the global, design, construction, and operations of all Microsoft data center facilities in support of both online, cloud services, and internal IT growth. Other positions over the last 15 years include global network and data center operations responsibilities for Walt Disney Internet group, being the chief technology officer for Nuclio Corporation (now part of Sun) a managed services provider and executive positions at Rhythms NetConnections (now part of Verizon), and O/E Systems, a regional integration and consulting firm in Chicago specializing in carrier-grade broadband network design. Manos attended the Illinois Institute of Technology, maintains multiple industry technical certifications, and is an active industry blogger. | |||||
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The Risks and Opportunities of Open Source Security Tools (Location: 1E08) The landscape for open source security tools is constantly changing and covers a myriad of aspects of the security world. We will discuss the current "state of the union" in the world of open source security tools, including the latest-and-greatest advancements, what is coming on the horizon, where there is room for improvement, and proposing some new ideas and concepts to address the greatest weaknesses in the realm of open source security tools. Speaker - Jay Jacobson, CEO, Edgeos
Jay is an innovator, serial-entrepreneur, and seasoned technology business executive with extensive experience in the information security, Internet, software, networking, and telecommunications industries. During Jay's career, he has founded and led more than six technology companies and has held key positions at several Fortune 500 enterprises, including American Express, AT&T, Cox Communications, and Sprint. Presently, Jay is the CEO of Edgeos, Inc., the company that created and leads the private-labeled network security and vulnerability assessment industry. Additionally, Jay is a board member or strategic advisor to several corporations, industry groups, and universities. Some career highlights include: ? Founded and led an information and network security company which has helped customers identify vulnerabilities on thousands of networks spanning across six continents around the world. ? Invented network security industry's first technologies for zero-overhead internal vulnerability assessments. ? Invented technologies to create a new market and industry for private-labeled network security assessments. ? Invented Internet routing intelligence technologies to optimize global telecom backbone networks. Results are 30% decreased costs and 400% performance improvement. ? Invented technologies and business systems to transparently integrate thousands of autonomous ISP backend networks across the country into a unified operations structure. ? Invented MirrorDot, a proof-of-concept system for massive global content distribution. MirrorDot successfully served over 10 million visitors from around the world, in a single day, using only two old 700 MHz servers. ? Instrumental to telecom carrier's growth from startup to the sixth largest national Internet backbone carrier. Annual revenues grew from $0 to over $120 million. The Right Approach to Cloud Storage (Location: 1E09)Enterprises are now leveraging cloud storage services at a rapid pace and are looking for qualified answers on how using a cloud platform can increase efficiency and ROI simultaneously. The old models of purchasing expensive storage systems or using large amounts of tape are prehistoric. Adapting a new approach to storage is necessary in today's tough economic climate as budgets continue to be slashed and performance upkeep is critical . This session will enable users to learn about the benefits and economies of scale as they relate to developing/implementing a cloud storage solution. A focus will be placed on performance, cost-effectiveness, user experience, and customer service/satisfaction. Speaker - Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting, Nirvanix
Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist and has authored numerous articles for industry publications. Stephen is a popular presenter at industry events and recently received Microsoft's MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage. He holds a bachelor of science in Society/Technology Studies, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Mobile Computing and Communications: Does the iPhone Really Set the Pace? (Location: 1E10)Many users have decided that Apple's iPhone is the right device for them - but is it the right device for mobile IT? While its roots are undeniably in the consumer space, many iPhones are in fact today being used in business. But how does the iPhone really stack up against the competition and enterprise IT requirements? With so many alternatives, is an iPhone-centric strategy really the right direction? This lively debate will explore the opportunities - and issues - inherent in the iPhone and its competitors, and help you prepare a checklist of key requirements for future handset deployments. Moderator - Paul DeBeasi, Senior Analyst, Burton Group
Paul DeBeasi is a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group and has over 25 years experience in the networking industry. Before joining the Burton Group, Paul founded ClearChoice Advisors, a wireless consulting firm, and was the VP Product Marketing at Legra Systems, a wireless-switch innovator. Prior to Legra, Paul was the VP Product Marketing at startups IPHighway and ONEX Communications and was also the Frame Relay product line manager for Cascade Communications. Paul began his career developing networking systems as a senior engineer at Bell Laboratories, Prime Computer, and Chipcom Corporation. Paul holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Speaker - Dan Dearing, VP Marketing and Product Management, Trust Digital
Dan Dearing is Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Trust Digital, with responsibility for product marketing, product management, and marketing communications. With 20+ years of industry experience, Dan has held a number of technical and business positions for leading technology companies such as Ciena, Hughes Network Systems, and NexTone. While at NexTone, his most recent position prior to Trust Digital, he created marketing, product, and partnership strategies that differentiated the company as a leading supplier of VoIP session controller technologies for carriers, service providers, and enterprises. Dan helped create the session controller product category which positioned NexTone in a $1.2B market by 2008 and established the vendor as a thought-leader using innovative initiatives, such as NexTone University and the NexTone Blog, to separate the company from its rivals. Speaker - John Herrema, III, Chief Marketing Officer, Good Technology
John joined Visto Corporation, the parent company of Good Technology, in June 2003 as VP Business Development when Visto acquired ViAir Inc. In that role, John helped drive Visto's growth based on marketing and distribution partnerships with partners such as IBM, Microsoft, Palm, and Ericsson. Prior to joining Visto, John co-founded ViAir in February 2000 where he also served as VP Business Development and helped drive ViAir's product and business strategy, including the formation of it initial distribution partnerships with carriers such as AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications and infrastructure providers such as Comverse Technology. Before founding ViAir, John was Business Development in Microsoft's Wireless Sales and Strategy Group. In that role, John was part of the team that created the first MSN Mobile offerings and distribution agreements with carriers such as Nextel Communications and AirTouch Communications. John joined Microsoft after helping launch Sprint PCS, where he served as Senior Product Manager and was responsible for the launch of Sprint's nationwide Voice Mail service and the industry's first Wireless Web offering, which included a partnership with Yahoo! to create the world's first "mobile portal" offering from a major Web brand. Speaker - Julie Palen, Senior Vice President, Tangoe
Prior to its merger with Tangoe in December 2008, Julie was president and CEO of InterNoded, Inc. With more than eighteen years experience in the technology industry and a decade of experience in wireless consulting, development, and management, Julie lead an executive team that drove strategic partnerships with RIM, Nokia, Good, Microsoft, IBM, Cingular, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless. In addition, she drove many new business development opportunities with potential strategic partnerships with Fortune 500. Prior to founding InterNoded in 1993, Julie was a business systems analyst at Lotus Development Corporation, where she served on the team that deployed the first seats of Lotus Notes to the sales organization.A frequent speaker at women entrepreneur events, Julie has been honored as one of the leading women entrepreneurs in the world and was recognized as having one of the top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts. Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Salem State College and currently sits on the board of advisors at the Bertolon School of Business at Salem State College. Speaker - Keith Shaw, Programming Director / Cool Tools Columnist, Network World
The first gadget Keith Shaw ever wanted was the Merlin, a red plastic toy that beeped and played Tic-Tac-Toe and other various games. Since then, his obsession with technology, both small and large, has grown into the multimedia empire that is Cool Tools. A child of the '70s and teen-ager of the '80s, Shaw has been a fan of computers, technology and video games right from the start. He won an award in 8th grade for programming a game on the school's only computer, and saved his allowance to buy an Atari 2600. He took a side trip in the '90s to the world of newspaper journalism, and has worked at a variety of newspapers in New York, Florida and Massachusetts. In 1997, he combined his love of technology with his journalism skills, working at Computerworld for a few years before joining Network World in 1999 as the company's product reviews editor. In 2000, Shaw took over the Cool Tools column, which continues to appear in the print version of Network World weekly. Shaw started the Cool Tools video show in 2005, and in 2006 teamed up with Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve to create the company's weekly Twisted Pair podcast, which occasionally covers gadgets and other technology news. As Network World's Programming Director, he oversees the production and content creation of the site's videos and podcasts, and has created or spearheaded several popular programs, including Network World Panorama, the DEMOcast, and JavaWorld's Technology Insider. Shaw has a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University and he's extremely disappointed with the football team as of late. As product reviews editor, Shaw won an award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for a 2003 article on anti-spam testing. Shaw is also the co-creator of http://www.taquitos.net, the crunchiest site on the InterWeb, which has taste tested and reviewed more than 4,100 varieties of snack foods. Speaker - Nathan Clevenger, Enterprise Mobility Solutions Practice Leader, ITR Group
Mr. Clevenger is currently the Enterprise Editor for iPhone Life magazine and runs the Enterprise Mobility Solutions practice at ITR Group. He was previously the Chief Software Architect for Mobiliam, a leading provider of enterprise-class mobile/wireless software products, and has been developing mobile software for more than a decade. He is regarded as one of the industry's foremost experts in enterprise mobility, and tirelessly educates the marketplace about the true potential for mobile technology within business. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Mobile Development Association, he was the founder of Clevrware, a mobile software development and consulting firm acquired by Mobiliam in 2003. An avid evangelist of mobile computing, he is dedicated to raising awareness of the potential for this technology in business. He writes for a variety of technical and business publications, and speaks at industry events. 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 Managing Your Virtual Environment (Location: 1E21)Along with its many benefits, the move to a virtual infrastructure brings new challenges to managing the data center. These challenges include virtual server sprawl (largely due to the ease of provisioning virtual servers), capacity and performance management of the virtualized infrastructure, and troubleshooting problems across the virtual and physical environment. While network and systems management toolsets have been around for decades, are they able to handle a virtual world? Hundreds of new tools have emerged to specifically address virtualization management, while existing tools are evolving with new virtual capabilities. Learn about how both of these types of tools can be implemented to help you with the long-running challenge of successful end-to-end management. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Allen Stewart, Principal Program Manager Lead, Windows Server Group, Microsoft
Allen Stewart is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Windows Server Group. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book "Inside Hyper-V" from Sybex Press. Speaker - Ben Verghese, Chief Management Architect, Server Business Unit, VMware
Ben has been at VMware for over 9 years. During this time, he has worked on and managed numerous products including ESX Server 1.0 and VirtualCenter 1.0. These days he is responsible for the technology and strategy for the management aspects of vSphere. He has previously worked at HP, Apollo Computers, Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Speaker - Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software
As CTO, Mr. Behnia is responsible for leading BMC's technology and solution strategy for all products including emerging areas such as virtualization management and cloud computing. Previously, as BMC's Chief Corporate Architect, Mr. Behnia was responsible for leading the design of BMC's industry-leading Business Service Management architecture and the critical enabling Atrium technologies. Mr. Behnia was previously Chief Technology Officer for the Change and Configuration products at BMC Software; Mr. Behnia is responsible for the direction of product development and product strategy for the Change and Configuration products at BMC including the BMC Atrium CMDB. Mr. Behnia was previously Chief Technology Officer for Marimba Inc. In that role, he led Marimba's product strategy and technology partnerships. During his tenure at Marimba, Mr. Behnia was instrumental in the design and delivery of Marimba's innovative configuration automation solutions across servers, client systems and mobile devices. Prior to joining Marimba, Mr. Behnia served as a senior member of the technical team for Tivoli Systems Inc., which was acquired by IBM. Mr. Behnia has over sixteen years' experience in Enterprise Service, Infrastructure and Application Management. Mr. Behnia holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science from University of California at Davis. Speaker - Lou Shipley, Group Vice President and General Manager, Xen Products Group, Citrix
As general manager and group vice president of the Xen Products Group, Lou Shipley is responsible for the group's revenue attainment and product marketing, product management, development and strategic direction for XenServer, Provisioning Server and EdgeSight. Prior to joining Citrix, Shipley served as president and CEO of Reflectent Software, Inc., a privately held leader in end user application performance monitoring solutions. Citrix acquired Reflectent in 2006. Lou joined Reflectent in December 2002 after working as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners. Prior to Highland Lou served as President, International and Vice President Sales and Marketing at FairMarket, Inc., (now Ebay). Before FairMarket, Lou was Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for WebLine Communications, which was acquired by Cisco in 1999 for $325 million. Prior to WebLine, Lou worked in a variety of Vice Presidential positions at Avid Technology (AVID), serving three years as an Expatriate in Japan while he was President of Avid Japan KK. Lou is a Trustee at Westminster School in Simsbury, CT and serves on the Advisory board for UniDesk Software. He has served on the Board of Directors of Makana Solutions, Inc. (now Salary.com) and IntervalZero, Inc. Lou is a graduate of Trinity College and Harvard Business School. Measuring Your Green IT Baseline - Your First Step To Greener IT (Location: 1E13)The old adage that "you can't manage what you can't measure" is relevant to any IT project, green or not. So before re-architecting your data center or purchasing new energy-saving IT equipment, measure your green IT baseline - an annual estimate of the energy consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and financial costs of operating IT. Not only will this data offer a practical green IT starting point by exposing your most eco-taxing assets, but without it you cannot accurately quantify and report the benefits of your greening efforts to senior management. This panel discussion will offer IT professionals practical steps to measuring the energy consumption of IT assets within and outside of the data center - the first step to greener IT. 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 - Berna Devrim, Cisco CMO Network Systems, Cisco
With 15 years of technology experience, Berna Devrim currently leads Ciscoâ?™s fixed switching marketing team. In this role, she defines and executes the direction and marketing strategy of the fixed Catalyst switching portfolio.Berna brings rich technical understanding as well as customer and market knowledge of LAN Switching. Throughout her career, Berna has held engineering, product line management, marketing, and sales positions with companies such as Juniper Networks, Nortel, Extreme Networks and IBM. Speaker - Calvin Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, Server Technology Inc.
Calvin Nicholson BSEE 1988, MBA 1996, University of Nevada, Reno Currently the Director of Product Marketing for Sever Technology Inc., Server Technology designs and manufacturers intelligent power distribution products for enterprise data centers. Previously the Director of Product Marketing, with GameTech International creating strategies and specifications for new product development of Gaming Management systems, games and portable card minding devices for 5 years. Calvin also held various positions in the Process Control Instrumentation field for over 11 years, including Sales Engineer, Product Manager, Account Manager and Marketing Manager for ABB with both domestic and international responsibility. Speaker - Charles Rattray, Global director of Professional Services, Tideaway
Speaker - George Zimmerman, CTO, Solarflare Communications
George Zimmerman is the CTO for the physical layer (PHY) line of business and founder of Solarflare Communications. He is an acknowledged expert in wireline communications and has been a defining force in the development of 10GBASE-T as well as various DSL technologies. Dr. Zimmerman's technical interests focus on communications and signal processing near the fundamental limits and energy efficiency. As CTO, he is responsible for Solarflare's core physical layer technology development and technical direction of its PHY products. His tutorial initiated the formation of the IEEE 10GBASE-T Study Group, and, drove the technical content of the 802.3an-2006 10GBASE-T standard. Prior to founding SolarFlare, Dr. Zimmerman was Chief Scientist & VP of Strategic Planning at PairGain Technologies. He drove basic technology development and standardization for DSL, as well as new market and business development strategy, including mergers and acquisitions. Before PairGain, Dr. Zimmerman was with Caltech and NASA/JPL where he was responsible for signal processing R&D for NASA's Deep Space Network. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He is currently the co-author of the blog "Up and Down the Network Stack" at http://www.10gigabitethernet.typepad.com. Friday, November 20 | | ||||
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Choosing a Video Conferencing Solution (Location: 1E10) Traditional video conferencing vendors and a set of recent market entries are pushing a wide variety of video conferencing solutions all the way from high end Telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop. Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for the needs of your enterprise? This session will help the enterprise decision makers sort through the vendor offerings and hype and focus on the right size, right bandwidth and right features to meet their visual communications needs. Speaker - 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. Mobility and Management: The Key Issues Today (Location: 1E08)Mobility has introduced an entirely new - and very challenging - set of issues into network, operational, and line-of-business management. Sure, it's great to be out where the action is without leaving your IT arsenal behind, but how should mobile workers, access, devices, and applications be managed so as to maximize benefits while minimizing costs? This mini-tutorial will explore these issues in depth, and will also present a perspective guiding the remainder of the track. Speaker - 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. Virtual Desktop Delivery- One Size Does Not Fit All (Location: 1E19)When discussing virtual desktops, most people think of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. However, there are a number of methods for delivering, provisioning and managing virtual desktops. This session will examine a range of technologies that can be used to deploy and manage virtual desktops, and how to match these technologies with user requirements. Speaker - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. 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. Demystifying Data Center Ownership Models: Build, Lease, Host or Cloud? (Location: 1E21)When your current data center facility has reached its capacity, will you maintain ownership - or turn the reigns over to someone else? And how will you make this decision? While you can choose to build your next data center, data center managers should get up to speed on alternative ownership models like leasing, hosting and cloud computing. This session will evaluate the flexibility, cost and control options of these various ownership models to help IT leaders determine their data center ownership strategy into the future. 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 - Don O'Toole, Director, Tivoli Strategy, IBM Software Group
Don O'Toole is a strategy and business development professional with more than 20 years experience in the information technology industry. Over the course of his career with IBM, he has held a variety of leadership positions in IBM's hardware, software and services businesses. Currently, Don is Director of Strategy for IBM's Tivoli software brand. He is responsible for leading the strategic direction of IBM's Tivoli Service Management software portfolio, which is used to automate service management in thousands of enterprise data centers around the world including IBM's data centers worldwide. Don holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as MS and BS degrees from Syracuse University. | |||||
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Deploying Personal Video Conferencing Solutions (Location: 1E10) In this session we will explore personal video conferencing, showing how this rapidly growing segment can provide a great meeting experience. Multiple models for how personal video conferencing can be deployed will be discussed and demonstrated by vendors. Session attendees will be able to understand the different deployment models, see the user interface and the video quality provided by each solution, and quiz both the consultant and the vendor panel on how these tools can be best used in their specific business applications. 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 - Adi Regev, Vice President, Products, Vidyo
Adi Regev, Vice President, Products, brings over 14 years of engineering product management and business development experience to his current position. Previously, Adi worked at RADVISION for more than 12 years, most recently as AVP, Sales Development, a role in which he provided assistance with strategic and highly-visible opportunities and was involved in solution architectures, as well as communicating customer needs and coordinating efforts across departments and business units. Other positions held by Adi at RADVISION included Senior Director of Sales Engineering for the Americas, OEM product manager, Software Infrastructures Team Manager, IT manager, and real-time software engineer. Adi holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Speaker - John Antanaitis, VP of Product Marketing, Video Solutions, Polycom
Speaker - Michael Helmbrecht, Senior Director of Product Management, LifeSize Communications
Michael Helmbrecht is Director of Product Management for LifeSize Communications. His responsibilities include product lifecycle management as well as sales and partner enablement. Prior to LifeSize he spent nine years with Dell, Inc. where he was Director of Marketing. Michael held a number of key marketing roles at Dell, most recently leading product line management for data storage and networking in the Americas. Michael holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from Colgate University. Speaker - Wilhelm Lundborg, Product Manager, Skype for Business, Skype
As a Product Manager for the Skype Business Team, Wilhelm works with Skype's business users to unlock the incredible potential and possibilities that unified communications (UC) brings to the workplace: free, richer conversations that change the way people communicate. Wilhelm originally joined Skype in the fall of 2005 as the online marketing manager for Skype Nordic. Previously, Wilhelm worked for the Bertelsmann Media subsidiary Lycos Europe, a leading internet portal as the Sales and Business Development Manager for its online communities. Wilhelm has a Master's Degree in Industrial Economics and engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He has also studied abroad at leading institutions in both Germany and Finland. 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. Best Practices for Desktop and Application Virtualization (Location: 1E19)Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy. Moderator - Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, FOCUS
Barb Goldworm is president and chief analyst of FOCUS (www.focusonsystems.com), a research, analyst and consulting firm focused on systems, software and storage, with an emphasis on virtualization and improving IT agility, TCO and ROI. A frequent keynote speaker, columnist, and author, Barb has spent thirty years in the computer industry, in various technical, marketing, sales, senior management, and industry analyst positions with IBM, Novell, StorageTek, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and multiple successful startups. In addition to the current virtualization tracks at Interop, Barb also created and chaired Interop's Network Storage Track. She has been one of the top ranked expert speakers at SNW and Data Center Decisions and has been a regular speaker for TechTarget, Ziff-Davis and hundreds of other virtualization events and webcasts. She is also virtualization chair for Blade Systems Insight, and chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit. Barb also has been a regular expert columnist since the 1990s for publications including Network World, ComputerWorld, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization and others. She serves on multiple advisory boards and is a frequent judge for awards such as Best of VMworld, and Product of the Year. She has published hundreds of articles, business and technical white papers and market research reports on virtualization, systems, software, storage networking and systems management. She recently published the book, "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" (Wiley & Sons), available on Amazon.com. Barb started her career with virtualization in the 1970s with IBM's VM/370, and spent a decade in technical roles as a software developer, systems architect, systems engineer, and software development manager. After another decade in product management, marketing and sales, up through VP of marketing and sales, Barb has spent the last ten years as an analyst, consultant, author and speaker. Speaker - Aaron Black, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, VMware
Aaron Black is a Senior Technical Marketing Manager in the desktop virtualization business unit at VMware. In this role, his primary focus is to interact with customers and partners around topics of desktop and application virtualization and develop technical content to aid in evaluation and implementation of the VMware View product line. Aaron's background includes roles as a systems engineer and solutions consultant in the Technical Services organization. His previous positions include systems engineer with Citrix Systems, leading an IT team at Sprint, and solutions design for customers of Choice Solutions - a platinum reseller of VMware products. Speaker - Allen Stewart, Principal Program Manager Lead, Windows Server Group, Microsoft
Allen Stewart is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Windows Server Group. Allen focuses on Microsoft virtualization technologies, and Low Latency scenarios. Allen works directly with the various Microsoft virtualization product groups on customer scenarios, technology adoption validation programs, white papers, and feature/scenario planning. Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is a Microsoft Certified Architect, and on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. Allen is also co-author of the book "Inside Hyper-V" from Sybex Press. Speaker - Harry Labana, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, XenApp Product Group, Citrix Systems
Harry Labana joined Citrix in July 2009 as vice president and chief technology officer of Desktop and Application virtualization. He is a member of the leadership team that charts the technological direction and product roadmap of Citrix's $1 billion flagship product line. As CTO, he is also responsible for helping to communicate the strategic direction of the company's desktop virtualization solutions to internal and external audiences. As part of the Citrix Office of the CTO, Harry collaborates with other Citrix CTOs to drive the company's overall technology direction and product strategy and advises the executive management team. Prior to joining Citrix, Labana was at Goldman Sachs for nine years and was most recently a vice president in the Technology division, leading the global engineering and architecture efforts for desktop virtualization. Labana also worked closely with the Office of the CIO to advise clients, internal bankers and research analysts on trends and investment opportunities as well as leading software entrepreneurs and established leaders on strategy and to influence their respective roadmaps. Harry Labana has 14 years experience in numerous infrastructure, architecture, project management and software development roles in financial services firms, such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, and he was a Citrix customer for many years. Harry holds a bachelor's degree in electronic systems engineering with honors from the University of Manchester (UK). Speaker - Jeanne Morain, VP Business Development & Strategy, InstallFree
Jeanne Morain drives the overall business development and strategy for InstallFree. She brings over a decade plus of experience as an innovator in Business Service Management, Virtualization and Compliance. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing for Thinstall (acquired by VMware) and led the go to market, launch and integration of the VMware branded version, ThinApp. Jeanne held prior contributing senior roles at BMC, Marimba, Remedy and Selectica with responsibility for product integration, focused on Configuration Automation, Business Service Management and compliance. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including Cambridge Who's Who Honor edition (2007/2008), Lifetime Member (2008/2009), and the BMC Innovation! Award in 2007/Marimba Employee of Year award in 2003 as one of the early pioneers of Business Service Management. Jeanne is a contributing author of "Step by Step Guide to Building a CMDB" with Malcolm Fry and holds a Masters in Human Performance Technology from Southern Illinois University and Certification in ITIL. Emerging Green IT Technologies: Moving Beyond The Low-Hanging Fruit (Location: 1E21)What next after virtualizing servers, optimizing data center power and cooling, implementing PC power management policies, and enforcing duplex printing? As organizations mature in the greening of their IT, understanding the future of green IT technologies is essential to continue to drive down costs and environmental impacts. To move beyond the low-hanging fruit, this panel discussion will evaluate emerging green IT technologies from desktop virtualization and 10 Gigabyte Ethernet (GbE), to Software-as-a-Service, data center colocation and clean energy. 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 - Anthony Wanger, President and Founder, i/o Data Centers
Anthony Wanger serves as President and Founder of i/o Data Centers, LLC. In this capacity, Wanger directs the company's strategic affairs, handles acquisition activities and manages the company's utilities, marketing, HR and legal functions. Prior to his involvement with i/o, Wanger formed and ran Sterling Network Services, LLC (SNS), a leading enterprise colocation services provider (sold in July 2006). Prior to SNS, Wanger was Senior Vice President at Sterling Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm where he oversaw a variety of investments and transactions for the firm. Wanger graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University, and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law. Speaker - Stephen Dukker, Chairman & CEO, NComputing, Inc.
Stephen Dukker is a technology visionary whose 30-year career is punctuated by a dedication to use sustainable businesses to create positive change for the world. Before becoming CEO of NComputing, Stephen founded low-cost computing pioneer eMachines. He also held management roles at Computer City, OPTi and CompUSA. Speaker - Tim Dilley, Executive Vice President, Netsuite
Tim Dilley has over 25 years experience providing service to technology customers and has held executive management positions in professional services and customer support. At NetSuite he manages global teams in consulting, training, customer support, and client management.Prior to NetSuite, Dilley served as SVP of Global Customer Services at Informatica Corporation. Prior to that, he was an associate partner for Worldwide Utilities at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and a co-founder of Axiom Management Consulting. Mr. Dilley began his career as a consultant at Price Waterhouse. Mr. Dilley holds a B.S. in business administration from California State University at Fresno. | |||||
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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
Mobile Device Management: Who Takes the Lead? (Location: 1E08)Mobile device management - extending management control all the way to the end-user's handheld - is one of the most exciting and yet challenging opportunities in mobile IT today. And it begs some key questions. Who should own the handheld device? What security and acceptable-use policies make sense? Should mobile device management be a user or carrier service? How can unified and converged services be managed? This session will debate these issues and offer alternatives for enterprises across all industries. 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 - David Ginsburg, VP Product Marketing, InnoPath Software
David Ginsburg brings to InnoPath more than 20 years of marketing and technical networking experience. Most recently, Mr. Ginsburg was Vice President of Marketing at Lucent Technologies and was responsible for all aspects of Lucent's Carrier Ethernet Solutions (former Riverstone) marketing, product strategy, and business operations. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Product Management at Riverstone Networks, Vice President of Marketing at Allegro Networks and Vice President of Product Marketing at Nortel Networks. David has also held a variety of management and engineering positions with Cisco Systems, Alcatel and the U.S. Army. Mr. Ginsburg has authored several internetworking books including Implementing IP Services and the Network Edge, Implementing ADSL and ATM: Solutions for Enterprise Internetworking. He is also a former chair of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF) and holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Speaker - Gerald McNerney, Vice President, MSSI Mobile Computing Product Management, Motorola Inc
Jerry McNerney is responsible for Motorola's Mobile Computing portfolio for the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division. He takes this role after successfully leading Strategy & Business Development for the Enterprise business and managing the transportation, distribution and logistics industry markets globally for Motorola and the former Symbol Technologies. Before joining Motorola, Jerry was with AMR Research where he was the Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Service. Prior experience included sales, marketing, and operations managerial positions with international transportation carriers specializing in perishable food, bulk and automobile carriage. Jerry speaks frequently at industry trade conferences, user group meetings, and executive conferences. He has appeared on CNBC and CNN and is widely quoted in leading business and industry trade publications on the benefits of mobility in the enterprise. Jerry received his B.S. degree from the State University of New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler and M.B.A. degree from St. John's University. Speaker - Mark Gentile, President and Chief Executive Officer, Odyssey Software Inc.,
Mark Gentile, President and CEO of Odyssey Software, is a pioneer in the mobile enterprise software market. He has led the design, development, and implementation of mobile enterprise solutions for many Fortune 500 companies across North America. Mark founded Odyssey Software in 1996. His ingenuity and perseverance produced a suite of mobility solutions that have helped thousands of enterprise companies, their CIOs, help desks, mobile workers, and customers. Mark's vision, real-world experience and ability to bring best-in-class products to market have established Odyssey Software as a technology leader in the mobile device management market. Speaker - Sean Fleming, Executive Director, Mformation Technologies Inc.
Sean Fleming, Executive Director for Global Solutions Sales at Mformation, has more than fifteen years of management, business and technical experience in domestic and international markets. Before Mformation, Sean was a Managing Consultant for IBM where he managed key projects for Global Telecommunications Companies. Before IBM, Sean was Principal Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. Sean holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, the School of Engineering, USA. Is There a Compelling Business Case for Desktop Virtualization? (Location: 1E19)You have heard good things about VDI, but is there really a business case for moving to a virtual desktop infrastructure? Whether you are just starting to evaluate desktop virtualization or have started implementing virtual desktops, building a business case for your next phase can help you get the investment dollars you need to move forward. This session will give you the information you need to begin to create that business case and help your management understand how desktop virtualization can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO), including your ongoing OpEx costs. Speaker - Frank Welder, Information Technology Consultant, Avnet Technology Solutions
Frank Welder is an in-demand speaker and consultant in the area of virtualization and consolidation with special emphasis on financial analysis and justification. Frank has over 20 years of experience in the computer industry and holds numerous IT sales and technical certifications. As a director of consulting, he has led his team to two coveted IBM Beacon Awards. Frank has extensive experience in the financial analysis and project delivery of large IT initiatives. He holds a BS in Telecommunications and a MS in Information Technology. 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. | |||||
