| Dustin Amrhein – IBM |
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| Steven Armentrout – Parabon Computation |
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Transforming the Enterprise into a Cloud
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Steve Armentrout is Founder & CEO, Parabon Computation. He has architected large-scale grid and cloud solutions for over a decade. In 1999, desiring a scalable, on-demand computing platform, he founded Parabon and launched the first commercial Internet-based grid computing service - one of the earliest examples of IaaS – which remains the world’s only brokered computation service. He is an award-winning speaker with international experience. His speaking credits include keynotes, lectures and panels for a variety of conferences sponsored by O’Reilly Media, the World Economic Forum, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), International Supercomputing Conference, and several private technical and business organizations.
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| Udayan Banerjee – NIIT Technologies |
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| Brian Berger – Wave Systems Corp. |
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Trust and the Cloud: Making Trust Real via TPM
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
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Brian Berger is an executive vice president for Wave Systems Corp. He is an elected representative to the Trusted Computing Group’s board of directors and chairs the Trusted Computing Group’s Marketing Work Group, where he leads strategy and implementation of the organization’s marketing and communications programs.
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| Tony Bishop – Adaptivity |
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Day 2 Keynote: The Enterprise Cloud Revolution |
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Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for the company’s key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.
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| Jonathan Bryce – The Rackspace Cloud |
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OpenStack – Unleashing the Cloud
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Jonathan Bryce is CTO & Founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for the managed hosting giant, Rackspace. During his tenure at Rackspace, Bryce and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision, along with help from Rackspace, was turned into The Rackspace Cloud. The Rackspace Cloud is the home of Cloud Sites, Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, providing enterprise-grade hosting and storage services. The Rackspace Cloud provides an easily managed interface allowing developers, designers and IT managers to deploy reliable web applications quickly and easily as well as high performance cloud-based storage services. Founded by two Rackspace employees, The Rackspace is built upon a cross platform, clustered-computing architecture.
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| David Chou – Microsoft |
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Building Highly Scalable & Available Applications on Windows Azure with Java
Track: Java | Ruby | Research & Development |
David Chou is a technical architect at Microsoft. His focus is on collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and security. His involvement supports decision makers in helping them to define the appropriate evolutionary strategies in their architecture development. Drawing from his extensive experience at previously held positions with Sun Microsystems and Accenture, Chou enjoys helping his clients and customers create value by using objective and pragmatic approaches to create definitive IT strategies, roadmaps, and solution architectures. You can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou.
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| Max Coburn – HubSpan |
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Which “aaS” is Right for You?
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
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Max Coburn is Chief Architect and a product strategist for Hubspan Inc, a leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions. He has over 20 years of software development and system architecting experience, with particular expertise in communications, security and Internet services. Prior to joining Hubspan, Coburn led strategy and development for sophisticated merchandising management and warehouse automation systems for leading game company, Nintendo. \While at Sierra Online (Cendant), hr implemented early Internet game-to-game communications with user chat and inter-gaming capabilities, while also architecting a complex rules engine to drive e-commerce initiatives. At Hubspan, he has architected much of the company’s proprietary integration application, including cutting-edge capabilities around security, PCI compliance, data sharding, caching and smart queuing, as well as a sophisticated business process language that enables complex choreographies and business rules. He also designs systems and features that enable intelligent interoperability across standards, formats and protocols in a cloud computing environment.
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| Jnan Dash – EZShield | ScaleDB | Compassites |
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Analytics for the Enterprise Using Private Cloud
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Jnan Dash is Senior Advisor at EZShield Inc., Advisor at ScaleDB and Board Member at Compassites Software Solutions. He has lived in Silicon Valley since 1979. Formerly he was the Chief Strategy Officer (Consulting) at Curl Inc., before which he spent ten years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology till 2002. He was responsible for setting Oracle’s core database and application server product directions and interacted with customers worldwide in translating future needs to product plans. Before that he spent 16 years at IBM. He blogs at http://jnandash.ulitzer.com.
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| Margaret Dawson – Hubspan |
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Which “aaS” is Right for You?
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
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Margaret Dawson is Vice President of Product Management for Hubspan, Inc, responsible for the overall product vision and roadmap. She has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, working with leading companies in the network security, semiconductor, personal computer, software, and e-commerce markets, including Microsoft and Amazon.com. Dawson has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America, including ten years working in the Greater China region, consulting with many of Taiwan’s leading IT companies and serving as a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek Magazine.
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| Vincent DiMemmo – Equinix |
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Creating an Enabling Architecture for Cloud Services
Track: Performance, Compliance & Testing |
Vincent DiMemmo is General Manager, Global Cloud & IT Services Segment at Equinix. A technology services and marketing veteran, he has a broad range of expertise in managed services, applications infrastructure, telecommunications, disaster recovery & business continuity, and data center infrastructure. He is responsible for the strategy, planning, commercial development, and program implementation of the developing Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, and IT Services markets at Equinix. Prior to joining Equinix, DiMemmo served as chief marketing and strategy officer at Ascent Corp. where he was responsible for the marketing and commercial development of technologically advanced data centers; including the Northlake Data Center – one of the largest and most powerful data centers in the industry.
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| Jamie Erbes – Hewlett Packard |
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How to Provide Business Services in a Disruptive Cloud Environment
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Jamie Erbes is CTO for the Software & Solutions organization at HP. As CTO, she is responsible for driving the company-wide software strategy for the company’s IT management software, Business Technology Optimization (BTO), as well as Communications and Media Solutions, HP’s offerings for the communications, media and entertainment industries. Erbes works closely with other HP senior CTOs, HP Labs and the HP Business Management organization to bring innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services.
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| Ulf Fildebrandt – SAP |
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Integrated SOA in the Cloud
Track: SOA in the Cloud |
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Ulf Fildebrandt is Chief Development Architect SOA Infrastructure at SAP AG. He has worked for SAP since 1998 in various areas as a development architect. Over the last years he has been responsible as product architect for the SAP Netweaver Composition Environment, a Java EE based product to enable customers to build applications following SOA principles.
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| Jay Fry – CA Technologies |
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How the Cloud is Changing the Role of IT and What to do About It
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
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Jay Fry is Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for CA Technologies’ Cloud Customer Solutions Unit and part of the team responsible for the company’s cloud computing strategy. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, strategy, and management for innovative enterprise software companies. Prior to CA, Fry was vice president of marketing at cloud computing start-up Cassatt and founded the marketing department at BEA Systems, Inc. (now part of Oracle). He spent three of his 10 years at BEA running the company’s European marketing program(me)s from London. He has also held marketing roles at systems management start-up EcoSystems Software (now part of Compuware), in Oracle’s Applications Division, and in Sun’s Federal Division.
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| Bernard Golden – HyperStratus |
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How Can Cloud Computing Improve Your Security?
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
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Bernard Golden is CEO of HyperStratus. a Silicon Valley cloud consulting firm that helps its clients plan, design, and implement cloud initiatives. HyperStratus clients include the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, HelloWallet and Hewlett-Packard. His widely-read CIO.com blog on cloud computing has been called “brilliant and incisive.” He is the author or co-author of three books on virtualization and cloud computing, including Virtualization for Dummies, the most popular book on the subject ever published.
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| Nadir Gulzar – LogLogic Inc. |
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Cloud Essentials – Security and Compliance Management as a Service
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
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Nadir Gulzar is VP of Business Development at LogLogic, Inc. He started his information technology career in 1987 in Mumbai as consultant and technical instructor for mainframe technologies. Since then he has worked for large companies like Philips, Sears Roebuck, and Visa in the creation of large scale business applications. In 2000, Gulzar joined Groundswell – a Bay Area startup – as Technology Director where he led the creation of J2EE and middleware practice. He joined BEA in early 2004, where he served as Global Alliance Manager responsible for global business and joint GTM with leading Indian SIs. He has led successful endeavors in conceptualizing, building, and marketing solutions for ensuring uniquely thriving joint business models with Global SIs. Presently, He leads the business development effort at LogLogic, and is responsible for its Cloud and MSSP offerings. He is the author of Practical J2EE Application Architecture published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media.
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| Arun Gupta – Oracle |
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Taking Your Java EE 6 Applications from the Desktop to the Cloud
Track: Java | Ruby | Research & Development |
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Arun Gupta is a Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle. He has over 14 years of experience in the software industry working in the Java platform and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE 6 and GlassFish. He has participated in several standards bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all Java EE releases in different capacities. You can catch him on Twitter at @arungupta.
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| Steve Hassell – Avocent Corporation at Emerson Network Power |
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Best Practices from Emerson’s Private Cloud
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
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Steve Hassell is President, Avocent Corporation at Emerson Network Power. He joined Emerson in February 2004 as vice president and chief information officer. In this role, he oversaw the design and construction of Emerson’s state-of-the-art LEED Gold Certified data center. In January 2010 he was promoted to President of Avocent.
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| Shankar S. Hegde – Symphony Services |
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Cloud Computing: Innovation Management is Key
Track: Java | Ruby | Research & Development |
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Shankar Hegde is a Senior Client Partner and Chief Architect with Symphony Services. His role is to provide strategic consulting services to Symphony clients. He has advised CEOs and CFOs in leveraging information technology to solve business problems and enhance business value. He has a strong background in solution architecture, R&D effectiveness and product portfolio assessments. He has demonstrated thought leadership in the software industry by publishing 14 papers, receiving a patent, and representing corporations in international conferences and panel discussions. Hegde received a doctorate from Purdue University. In addition, he received Executive Management Training from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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| Cory Isaacson – CodeFutures Corporation |
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Scaling Your Database in the Cloud
Track: Performance, Compliance & Testing |
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Cory Isaacson is CEO of CodeFutures Corporation. He has been actively involved in leading information technologies since 1985, starting as the founder and chief executive of Compuflex International. He has been providing guidance to IT professionals in the development and implementation of powerful business applications throughout his career and authored Software Pipelines – a book on leading edge application scalability. He has spoken at dozens of public events, and has been a top advisor to technology architects on performance and scalability.
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| Michael Jackson – Adaptive Computing |
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Building SaaS and PaaS infrastructures in the Cloud
Track: Java | Ruby | Research & Development |
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Michael Jackson is President & COO of Adaptive Computing. He drives Adaptive’s strategic direction and focus on business/partner relationships. Prior to joining Adaptive, he was product manager of Internet and security products at Novell. He also served as Novell’s channel business development manager. Prior to that, he worked with Dorian International, the second largest import/export management company in the U.S.
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| Neela Jacques – VMware, Inc. |
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General Session: An Evolutionary Path to Cloud Computing – VMware’s Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud Solutions |
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Nicolas (Neela) Jacques is a Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, the industry’s leading virtualization platform provider. At VMware, he is focused VMware’s Private Cloud initiative. In 2009, Mr. Jacques launched VMware’s Application Performance Management product vCenter AppSpeed, and founded and launched VMware’s first cloud computing initiative – the VMware Service Provider Program in 2007. Prior to VMware Mr. Jacques was a consultant with Bain & Company. Mr. Jacques has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and BS in economics from Georgetown University.
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| Stefan Karapetkov – Polycom |
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Cloudy Forecast for Voice and Video Collaboration
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
Stefan Karapetkov is Emerging Technologies Director at Polycom, focusing on visual communications technology. He has over 13 years experience in product management and new technology development. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University and an MS in Engineering from the University of Chemnitz (Germany). He is fluent in four languages and has spoken at many conferences around the world – one dozen over the past year alone. His blog is at http://videonetworker.blogspot.com/.
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| Andy Kicklighter – Nimsoft, a CA Technologies Company |
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Forecast Cloudy – Monitoring Required
Track: Performance, Compliance & Testing |
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Andy Kicklighter is Sr. Technical Marketing Manager for Cloud at Nimsoft (a CA Technologies company). He is leading the creation and delivery of Nimsoft’s Cloud offerings with emphasis on the needs of Enterprises, and Service Providers.
Kicklighter brings over 15 years experience with enterprise infrastructure and services to bear on solving today’s cloud and data center monitoring and service delivery problems, and was previously responsible for bringing to market cloud based services and tools for Unisys, and cloud based monitoring, patch and update services for Sun Microsystems.
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| David Linthicum – Bick Group |
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How to Get Hybrid Clouds Right the First Time
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Dave Linthicum is the CTO of Bick Group, and an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal. For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. His industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software and cloud computing companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including University of Virginia and Arizona State University. He keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well-read columns and blogs. Linthicum has authored 10 books, including the ground-breaking “Enterprise Application Integration” and “B2B Application Integration.” You can reach him at david@bluemountainlabs.com. Or follow him on Twitter. Or view his profile on LinkedIn.
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| Ignacio M. Llorente – DSA Research Group at UCM |
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Enterprise Usage of OpenNebula
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute).
He has 17 years of experience in research and development of advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies, architecture of large-scale distributed infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms, and management of international projects and initiatives on Grid and Cloud computing; having led the research group in 15 sponsored projects; and having published more than 130 scientific papers in the leading journals and proceedings books.
He is currently co-leading the R&D of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine, the Globus GridWay Metascheduler, and the Grid4Utility initiative for federation of Grids. He participates in the EGEE and BEinGRID European projects, as UCM partner responsible, and in the Globus Alliance, as chair of one of its projects; and coordinates the Activity on Management of Virtual Execution Environments in the RESERVOIR Project, main EU-funded research initiative in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. He is the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for the Service Oriented Infrastructure Working Group of NESSI; and co-chairs the OGF Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. He coordinates the Middleware Activity in the Spanish Initiative in e-Science and the Working Group on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Grids of INES.
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| Pete Malcolm – Abiquo |
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Pete Malcolm is CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions. Described by SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan as “a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing”, Malcolm is the inventor of the term “Resource Cloud”, a concept which provides complete separation between physical infrastructure providers and virtual enterprise consumers, with substantial benefits to both. Malcolm was previously founder and CTO of Orchestria, Benchmark Capital’s first European Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and a Senior Vice President with CA, Inc.
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| Denis Martin – NaviSite |
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Tales From Cloud 2.0 – a.k.a. The Transactional Cloud
Track: Performance, Compliance & Testing |
Denis Martin is EVP & Chief Technology Officer, NaviSite Inc. His role reflects his continued contributions to NaviSite’s strategic direction, including acquisition activity, and product, service, and channel development. He brings 20 years of business experience and has served in several positions in the company, most recently as Sr. Vice President of Corporate Development. He has extensive experience in network-based computing and outsourced delivery of business solutions and managed services. Before joining NaviSite, Martin managed the national hosting and application services organization for AppliedTheory, Inc. He has also acted as a consultant to several state and federal agencies in developing network and application programs at local, state and national levels.
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| Mårten Mickos – Eucalyptus Systems |
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Hybrid Clouds – Vision and Reality
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Mårten Mickos is CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. From 2001-8 he was CEO of MySQL AB, which was then bought by Sun. In September 2009 he become Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He joined Eucalyptus as CEO in March 2010.
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| Vladimir Mitrasinovic – MetraTech |
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Monetizing the Cloud: A Fresh Look at Billing
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Vladimir Mitrasinovic is Executive Vice President at MetraTech Corp, bringing more than 20 years of global sales, business development and operations experience in the communications, utilities and government sectors to the company. He is responsible for all sales, marketing and business development activities at MetraTech. As leader of business operations he is focused on implementing channel and vertical solution strategies. Prior to joining MetraTech he was managing director at MaxBill Ltd., where he developed, led, and implemented comprehensive business strategies to establish high-growth sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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| Dan Murphy – |
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Internal Cloud Implementation Strategies
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
Dan Murphy has over 20 years experience in the ICT field in various marketing and management positions with IBM and Cisco. A thought leader in the development of Cloud strategies for the Canadian Federal Government, recently he has worked as an independent contractor providing guidance and direction to the Canadian Federal Government regarding their implementation of Cloud Computing.
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| Gregor Petri – CA Technologies |
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How Cloud and Virtualization Are Changing the Way Business and IT Will Interact
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Gregor Petri is Advisor Lean IT, CA TEchnologies – responsible for CA’s European go-to market strategy around Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Service Automation. Prior to CA, he helped implement Just in Time Manufacturing at Philips and worked as a management trainee in the office of the CIO at Akzo. In the following years he was instrumental in the introduction of innovations like the first Object Oriented ERP application, the first mobile business applications and the first XML server into the European market. Petri studied Business Economics and Information Technology in Rotterdam and Tilburg and is currently launching The Cloud Academy.
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| Eric Pulier – ServiceMesh |
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Distinguished Organizations: Moving from Tactical to Strategic IT
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
Eric Pulier is CEO of ServiceMesh. One of the most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology, he is a popular speaker worldwide. He is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council.
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| Hasan Rizvi – Oracle |
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Opening Keynote: Extreme Performance for Your Cloud Platform |
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Hasan Rizvi is Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products. He is responsible for Oracle’s SOA, Application Server, Communications and Identity Management and Security product development, product management and architecture. Previously he was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager responsible for the company’s Data Center Automation products. Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, izvi was VP of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, he served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products. Rizvi holds eight patents in the database management area.
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| Bart Robertson – Microsoft |
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Windows Azure Operations Experiences
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
Bart Robertson is an architect with Microsoft Corporation, where he is responsible for architecting and implementing highly scalable, on-premise and cloud-based software plus services solutions. During his 18-year career at Microsoft, he has held leadership and management roles in IT, product development, sales, marketing, and services. Robertson has extensive experience in software, high-tech, and retail, with a heavy focus on high-volume, low-latency systems. He blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/bartr.
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| Keyun Ruan – University College Dublin |
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Cloud Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
Keyun Ruan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. She is supervised by Head of School and Director of UCD Centre for Cybercrime Investigation Prof. Joe Carthy, and co-supervised by Prof. Tahar Kechadi. She is funded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V.(EADS). Her personal web page is here.
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| Ido Safruti – Cotendo |
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Splitting the Cloud for Performance
Track: Performance, Compliance & Testing |
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Ido Safruti is VP of Product Strategy at Cotendo, where ee leads the company’s overall product and cloud computing strategy. He has extensive cross-functional experience in networking, security and high performance systems. Prior to joining Cotendo, he held several IT and R&D management positions including General Manager at Metacafe, one of the largest short video sites in the world. In this role he was responsible for R&D and IT operations, and was in charge of building the company’s infrastructure to scale from a few million users to 50 million unique monthly users. Prior to that he served as Head of Software, Chief Scientist, and R&D Manager at various companies focused on high capacity network software, hardware, and security systems.
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| Scott C. Sanchez – ScaleUp |
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The Five Stages of Cloud Security Grief
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
Scott C. Sanchez, CISSP is Security and Privacy Officer at ScaleUp Cloud and a recognized thought leader in security and cloud computing. He brings with him nearly 20 years of IT leadership experience managing global security programs at Goldman Sachs and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and has also had success as an entrepreneur, having founded and profitably sold both a security consulting firm and a medical software company. Sanchez earned his Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation in 2000 and serves as a member of both the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the FBI InfraGard team. In his spare time, he serves as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and disaster worker with the American Red Cross.
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| Allwyn Sequeira – VMware |
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Security and Compliance Architectures for Virtualized Environments
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
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Allwyn Sequeira is CTO, Security & Network Solutions, at VMware – responsible for strategy and delivery of security and networking solutions at VMware. He was CTO and Senior VP of Product Operations at Blue Lane Technologies, which was acquired by VMware in October 2008. At Blue Lane, Sequeira was responsible for creating the Virtual Shield product, which is the basis for VMware’s vShield product line. He’s a recognized expert in the areas of networking, security, virtualization and cloud architectures, with over twenty five years of experience in the industry. He’s a member of the DMTF and Cloud Security Alliance Architecture group.
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| Bhargav Shah – KPMG |
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How to Choose the Right Cloud Strategy for Your Organization
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Bhargav Shah is a Director at KPMG in its IT Advisory practice. He has been involved with IT strategy, DC operations, IT Services Management and Architecture since 1998. He also leads KPMG’s cloud solution development and has helped many clients leverage cloud computing in their overall IT strategy.
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| Ryan Sherstobitoff – ForwardK. |
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| Ian Southward – Symphony Services |
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Cloud Computing: Innovation Management is Key
Track: Java | Ruby | Research & Development |
Ian Southward is European Sales and Client Director at Symphony Services. Symphony Services is a global provider of product engineering outsourcing services dedicated to helping clients compress time to market, achieve higher innovation yields and improve productivity to increase the value from their R & D investments. Southward’s role is to grow the business in Europe.
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| Tayloe Stansbury – Intuit |
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Harnessing the Power of the Ecosystem
Track: Cloud Security, Storage & Management |
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Tayloe Stansbury is Sr. VP & CTO at Intuit, where he leads the company’s engineering teams to deliver innovative and successful offerings that drive commercial growth. He joined the company in May 2009. With more than 25 years of experience in the software industry, Stansbury previously served as chief information officer of VMware. Earlier he was executive vice president of Ariba, where he led product management, engineering, hosting and customer support. Before that he held executive engineering and general management roles at Calico Commerce and Xerox. In addition, he led developer tools engineering groups at Borland International and Sun Microsystems, and did research in computational linguistics at Xerox PARC. He graduated with honors in math and computer science from Harvard University
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| Scott Swartz – MetraTech |
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How to Monetize SaaS Beyond Subscriptions
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Scott Swartz is Founder, President & CEO of MetraTech. He has over 15 years of software and services industry experience and spearheaded the deployment of MetraTech’s billing and partner settlement solution for Microsoft’s Cloud Computing services offering. He has a degree from Harvard University and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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| Thorsten von Eicken – RightScale |
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How to Stand Up a Private Cloud
Track: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing & Virtualization |
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Thorsten von Eicken is the CTO and a founder of RightScale and is responsible for the overall technology direction of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Previously, he was founder and chief architect at Expertcity (acquired by Citrix Online), where he directed the architecture of the company’s online services, including the popular GoToMeeting service. von Eicken also managed the Expertcity/Citrix data center operations, where he acquired deep knowledge in deploying and running secure, scalable online services. He was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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| Roland Wartenberg – SAP |
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Achieving Fast and Secure Computing Using the Cloud |
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Roland Wartenberg is Chief Virtualization Evangelist at SAP. He has been with the company since 1997. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Development Manager with SAP Markets, Palo Alto. From 2003 to 2005 he lent his multiple skills to the position of Product Manager for Adaptive Computing with SAP AG, Walldorf. At the end of 2005 he took over a new responsibility as evangelist for SAP’s Platform Ecosystem at SAP Labs, Palo Alto and has focused on SAP’s virtualization strategy since October 2006.
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| Roland Wartenberg – SAP |
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Case Study – SAP as a Consumer of Virtualization & Cloud Computing
Track: Real-World Cloud Computing |
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Roland Wartenberg is Chief Virtualization Evangelist at SAP. He has been with the company since 1997. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Development Manager with SAP Markets, Palo Alto. From 2003 to 2005 he lent his multiple skills to the position of Product Manager for Adaptive Computing with SAP AG, Walldorf. At the end of 2005 he took over a new responsibility as evangelist for SAP’s Platform Ecosystem at SAP Labs, Palo Alto and has focused on SAP’s virtualization strategy since October 2006.
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