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- Stealth-mode Cloud Computing Startup
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Mohamad Afshar
- Oracle
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Unlocking the Cloud with Enterprise Private PaaS
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is VP of Product Management at Oracle. He has product management responsibilities for Oracle's middleware portfolio and is part of the team driving Oracle's investments in SOA on Application Grid - which brings together SOA and data grid technologies to ensure predictable low latency for SOA applications. Prior to joining Oracle, he founded Apama, a complex event processing vendor acquired by Progress Software. He has a PhD in Parallel Systems from Cambridge University, where he built a system for processing massive data sets using a MapReduce framework.
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Ajay Anand
- Datameer Inc.
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Next-Generation Business Analytics in the Cloud
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Ajay Anand is CEO of Datameer Inc. Previously he has held Director of Product Management roles at Yahoo! for Grid Computing and Hadoop, at SGI for storage products and at Aspect for customer relationship management products. He was also product manager for Sun's first high availability NFS and database se servers. Anand has an MS in Computer Engineering, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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Maria Azua
- IBM
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Charlton Barreto
- Intel
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A More Secure, Trustworthy Cloud
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Charlton Barreto is a Principal Architect at Intel. He is an entrepreneur, technology strategist, platform architect and expert in Cloud, Web 2.0, SOA and BPM, including standards for Web, XML and Java. He is a key contributor to the strategy, design and management of products using these technologies across a number of software vendors as a platform architect. Co-author of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications, he writes and presents regularly on Cloud, Web and RIA strategies and technologies.
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Larry Beck
- Avanade
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Partly Cloudy Infrastructure Ahead
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Larry Beck is Sr. Director, Cloud Strategy at Avanade. He is a senior technologist, responsible for setting global technology direction and strategy in the area of cloud computing. He has been with Avanade since 2002, and in earlier roles also helped shape the direction of the company's approach to enterprise integration and connected systems. In addition, he also serves as the technology director for the Accenture and Avanade Solutions Showcase at Microsoft, a unique venue that demonstrates the alliance's Microsoft-based business solutions. Beck has more than 25 years of IT consulting and leadership experience and has authored several papers outlining Avanade's viewpoint on Enterprise Integration, Service-Oriented Architectures and Cloud Computing.
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Tony Bishop
- Adaptivity
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Day Two Keynote: The Science for Doing Business in the Cloud
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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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Timothy Brown
- CA
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Ten Security Questions to Ask Before Moving to the Cloud
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Tim Brown is a vice president and the chief architect for Security Management at CA, Inc. With more than 20 years of information security expertise, Brown has 14 filed patents in the security field and has participated on standards boards. Prior to joining CA, Brown was at Symantec.
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Glenn Brunette
- Sun Microsystems
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Essential IaaS Security
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Glenn Brunette is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems. For over 15 years, he has architected and delivered security solutions for a wide range of customers and industries. Currently, as a member of Sun's Chief Architect's Office, he leads Sun's security initiatives for Cloud Computing and other highly-scalable and dynamic environments. Brunette develops architectures, patterns, best practices, and tools enabling improved security for Cloud Computing and other highly-scalable, dynamic environments.
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Scott Burgess
- EMC Corporation
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Desktop as a Cloud Service: Dynamic End User Computing Environments
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Hot Topics
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Scott Burgess is the Director of the America's East Region for EMC Global Services, Microsoft Practice. In this capacity, Scott is responsible for all solution development, services delivery, customer satisfaction, and overall profit/loss for our business within this geographical region. He joined EMC in 2005 via the acquisition of Internosis, a globally-recognized leader in the strategy, execution, and management of Microsoft-related technology solutions. During his tenure with Internosis, Scott acted as its Chief Technology Officer, where he was responsible for strategic technical and architectural guidance to customers, partners and employees. Scott brings over eighteen (18) years of experience in the design and delivery of information technology systems for public and private-sector customers, with a focus on distributed and mission-critical computing. Scott maintains his involvement in the technology community as an industry leader. He actively participates in industry conferences, leads and participates in industry forums, and participates in multiple Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils.
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Dipto Chakravarty
- Novell
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What Organizations Need to Know about Cloud Security
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Dipto Chakravarty is the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering for Novell's Identity and Security business unit. In addition to being a 20-year software industry veteran, Chakravarty is the author of two best-selling computer books from McGraw-Hill that have been translated in five languages, has published over 45 technical papers in refereed journals, and holds several patents.
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Rich Corley
- Akorri
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Optimize While You Virtualize to Get to the Cloud
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Rich Corley is Founder, CTO & VP Engineering at Akorri. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, he was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Corley was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, he held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004. Rich is a frequent industry speaker most recently speaking at Spring Interop 2009 and VMworld 2009.
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Michael Crandell
- RightScale
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Beyond Theory: Applications in the Cloud Today
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. A frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, Crandell has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet software-as-a-service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.
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Brian Gentile
- Jaspersoft
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BI's Cloudy Future
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Hot Topics
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Brian Gentile is President & CEO of Jaspersoft, to which he has brought a successful 24-year track record, helping it to become the open source business intelligence market leader, measured by product downloads, production deployments of its software, number of registered community members, and of course commercial customers. Prior to Jaspersoft, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company, where he helped the company grow consistently and substantially.
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Misha Govshteyn
- Alert Logic
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Predicting the Future: Security and Compliance in the Cloud Age
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Misha Govshteyn is co-founder and responsible for product development and strategy at Alert Logic, a Software-as-a-Service based security solutions provider. In this capacity, Govshteyn regularly consults with service providers and enterprises on securing cloud-based applications. Prior to co-founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines including Managed Intrusion Detection services and managed enterprise firewall/VPN products. Under Govshteyn's direction, Managed Services became the fastest growing group at Reliant Energy Communications, increasing revenue by 300% and
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Robert Grapes
- Cloakware
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Let's Get Unphysical!
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Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
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Robert Grapes is Chief Technologist for Cloakware's Enterprise Solutions business. His expertise on enterprise security and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) has enabled many large government and financial service organizations to meet their audit while reducing risk and improving operational efficiency. Prior to joining Cloakware in 2004, Grapes spent many years with Entrust Technologies as a software toolkit product manager, with Cognos in vertical analyst relations, and with Allen-Bradley as a control systems automation developer.
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Simon Guest
- Microsoft
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Patterns for Cloud Computing
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy at Microsoft, responsible for helping developers worldwide deliver solutions using Microsoft technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, he has led the Microsoft Platform Architecture Team, acted as Editor-in-Chief of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, pioneered the area of .NET and Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) interoperability, worked with customers on mission critical .NET solutions, and has been a regular speaker at many conferences worldwide, including PDC, TechEd, and JavaOne.
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Jay Hallberg
- Spiceworks
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SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Trends: What's Hot and What's Not?
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Jay Hallberg is Co-Founder of Spiceworks, launched in January 2006 to simplify the management, marketing & sales of information technology for small and medium-businesses. Over 800,000 IT professionals and 100+ technology companies from around the world have joined the Spiceworks IT Network. Hallberg has spoken on social apps for business and SMB tech industry trends at top events, including the Sand Hill Group Next Big Thing, the Cloud Summit, Web 2.0 Summit, Interop, AlwaysOn OnMedia, SIIA NetGain, the Red Herring conference, and the InformationWeek 500 conference. He is frequently quoted in top publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, InformationWeek, Investor's Business Daily, eWeek, and Network World.
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Kevin L. Jackson
- Dataline
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DoD Cloud Computing Advances Cloud
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Startups in the Cloud | Social Media in the Cloud
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Kevin Jackson is the Director Business Development for Dataline, LLC and the author of “Cloud Musings”, a blog dedicated to government cloud computing. His previous positions include Strategic Computer Solutions VP, IBM Worldwide Sales Executive and JP Morgan Chase VP. Mr. Jackson has a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MA in National Security & Strategic Studies and a MS in Computer Engineering. He is Tech Chair of SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. |
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Tom Lounibos
- SOASTA
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Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence
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Hot Topics
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Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees the company's operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPOs. Most recently, Lounibos was CEO of Dorado Corporation. Previous to Dorado, he was EVP for Sagent Technology through its 1999 IPO, entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosspoint Venture Partners, and held executive positions at Digitalk Corporation, Knowledgeware (KWI), and Encore Financial Services. He has also served on several Boards in the Silicon Valley.
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Ignacio M. Llorente
- DSA Research Group at UCM
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Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures with OpenNebula
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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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Ignacio M. Llorente
- DSA Research Group at UCM
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Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures with OpenNebula
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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 research and development 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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Dave Malcolm
- Surgient
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A Practical Framework for Successful Private Cloud Design
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Dave Malcolm is CTO of Surgient. With over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry, he is responsible for product management, software development, and datacenter operations for Surgient's products and hosted solutions. Malcolm graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in computer science.
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Lew Moorman
- Rackspace
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Beyond Theory: Applications in the Cloud Today
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Lew Moorman is President, Cloud & Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace. He has been instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served a variety of strategy and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues.
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Eric Olden
- Symplified
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Cloud Control: What You need to Know about Security and Integration
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Eric Olden is Founder & CEO of Symplified. He is an expert in identity and access management and holds US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for Web identity. In 2000 he co-authored the AuthXML specification, which served as the foundation of SAML identity federation standard. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of federation. Before Symplified, Olden was co-founder and CTO of pioneering web access management vendor Securant Technologies. He was the architect behind the ClearTrust product, until its acquisition by RSA Security.
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Fran Rosch
- VeriSign
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Cloud Computing and Identity
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Startups in the Cloud | Social Media in the Cloud
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Fran Rosch is Sr. VP, Authentication Product Management at VeriSign. He has been part of the VeriSign's Security organization for the past eight years where he has focused on working with the company's largest customers to design and deploy effective security solutions to solve business challenges. Rosch is currently responsible for Product Management and Strategy for business and user authentication solutions, including VeriSign's flagship SSL Server Certificates as well as Managed PKI focused on unique offerings to the Public Sector and Health Care verticals. Additionally, Rosch leads VeriSign's newer offerings related to consumer authentication technologies. Current consumer protection initiatives are focused on two-factor authentication, a shared authentication network called the VeriSign Identity Protection Network, and on-line fraud detection and prevention.
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Treb Ryan
- OpSource
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The Enterprise Cloud: More Than a Myth?
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Treb Ryan is CEO of OpSource. Since 1996, he has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. He is currently considered one of the leading thinkers in SaaS and sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. He joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund.
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Chris Schalk
- Google
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Building Applications with Google App Engine
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Chris Schalk is a Tech Lead in the Developer API Evangelism group at Google. He is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance. Prior to Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. While at Oracle, he worked to define the overall web development experience for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Faces (Trinidad). He is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (ISBN: 0072262400) and maintains a popular Blog on J2EE Web development at www.jroller.com/page/cschalk.
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Brett Thomas
- Vindicia
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Compliance and Customer Ownership in the Cloud
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Brett Thomas, CTO of Vindicia, was previously the VP of Technology at eMusic and a software developer since 1989. He draws on his experiences in actually managing the technical operations of a cloud-based service at Vindicia that handles hundreds of thousands of transactions a day, and can describe lessons learned from implementing a fully PCI-compliant infrastructure.
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Tien Tzuo
- Zuora
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Getting from SaaS to $aa$ -- Show Me the Money!
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Startups in the Cloud | Social Media in the Cloud
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Tien Tzuo joined Zuora after 9 years at salesforce.com. Tien was one of the “original forces” at salesforce.com, which he joined in 1999 as the 11th employee, when the company was still operating out of a house on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. In his 9 years at salesforce.com, Tzuo built salesforce.com’s original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in salesforce.com’s technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for two years, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer.
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Charles T. Watt
- Racemi
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Must-Have Cloud Platform Strategies: What Every Roadmap Should Have
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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Charles T. Watt is Founder & CTO of Racemi, Inc. As a pioneer in the dynamic computing space, he holds the patent for the first system to automate the allocation of server, network, and storage resources within the data center. He has also patented the first secure Internet server and one of the original blade server technologies.
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Doug Willoughby
- Compuware
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Performance Management for Composite Applications
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Security, Management & Compliance
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Doug Willoughby is currently the Director of Cloud Computing for Compuware, a leading provider of APM tools for Web applications. Prior to Compuware he was at Sun, which he joined in 1988 and where he participated in the development and marketing of some of Sun's most pioneering and disruptive technologies, including Project Spring, Distribute Objects Everywhere (DOE), NextStep/OpenStep, and Java. Willoughby was also part of the team of 14 engineers and architects who developed "network.com" - Sun's first utility computing offering.
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Brian Wilson
- Surgient
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What We Learned the Hard Way: Top 10 Private Cloud Best Practices and Pitfalls
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Moving to the Cloud | Cloud Computing & the Bottom Line
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With 16-plus years of experience, Brian Wilson is responsible for Surgient customer success, from initial cloud design and deployment to ongoing customer support. He has a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama.
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Brian Wilson
- Surgient
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Top Ten Private Cloud Best Practices and Pitfalls
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With 16-plus years of experience, Brian Wilson is responsible for Surgient customer success, from initial cloud design and deployment to ongoing customer support. He has a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama.
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David Yen
- Juniper Networks
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Future of the Data Center
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the 90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year.
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Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square
View this panel, recorded live at the world-famous Times Square studio, featuring Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com; John Engates, CTO of Rackspace; Rod Fontecilla of Booz Allen Hamilton; and Hal Stern, SVP & CTO of Sun's Global Sales Group.
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Virtualization: State of the Union
This session includes a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters.
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The New Economics of Virtualization
This session explores the latest industry standards and open source technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization to a new segment of the market. |
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Virtualization Articles & Feature Stories By Cloud News Desk  CA and NetApp on Tuesday announced an extension of their multi-year solutions partnership to develop management solutions for public and private cloud environments. As a result, the companies are integrating CA'svirtualization, automation and service assurance offerings with NetApp's storage management solutions. The unified solutions will further help customers drive operational efficiencies through improved business agility, productivity and service quality, while also helping to lower costs a... Feb. 9, 2010 11:00 AM EST | By Gilad Shainer; Brian Sparks; Tong Liu; Scot Schultz; Eric Lantz  Computational science is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical techniques that represent scientific, social scientific or engineering problems and employing these models on computers, or clusters of computers, to analyze, explore or solve these models. Numerical simulation enables the study of complex phenomena that would be too expensive or dangerous to study by direct experimentation. Feb. 9, 2010 08:45 AM EST | By Maureen O'Gara  Dell confirmed that it’s trying to buy the gone-bust Israeli clustered NAS start-up Exanet after Israel’s Globes news site said Monday that the deal was in the bag.
There is also speculation that Dell might start selling EMC’s recently acquired Data Domain deduplication widgetry, the stuff it snatched away from NetApp last year. Dell has sold EMC’s Clariion arrays for years.
Feb. 9, 2010 04:15 AM EST |
Latest Virtualization Conference News By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Surgient, a leading provider of automation and management software for enterprise private clouds, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Jan. 20, 2010 07:45 PM EST | By Hovhannes Avoyan  IDC, the tech industry analysts, have come out with their predictions for 2010 – and it’s a model that heavily involves the development and growth of the Cloud.
First some general IT industry forecasts: growth is expected to return to the IT industry, and IDC is forecasting a more than 3% expansion for the year. Jan. 4, 2010 01:00 PM EST | By Mamoon Yunus  Service virtualization is the ability to create a virtual service from one or more predefined Service files, typically defined in a Web Service Description Language (WSDL, pronounced Wizdel) file. Typically, service virtualization takes place across multiple back-end systems that expose their operations through WSDL documents. The services may be off-premise cloud computing Software as a Service(SaaS) artifacts or on-premise services deployed in the corporate Data center. An intermediary Cloud ... Jan. 1, 2010 07:00 PM EST |
Conference News & Updates  By Carmen Gonzalez 5th International Cloud Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 80 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Reads: 7,613  By Fuat Kircaali This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level. Reads: 6,026  By Carmen Gonzalez Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley, Europe, Japan, and Brazil. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in the Cloud Expo. Reads: 5,273  By Cloud News Desk SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Expo, held on November 2 - 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing. Enjoy here our photo album of the show. Reads: 6,731  By Cloud News Desk The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for yourself, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal brings you a timeline of the trajectory of the Cloud so far. Reads: 6,073  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 6,628  By Jeremy Geelan Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. Call for Papers is now open! Reads: 9,704  By Ellen Rubin The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of its own somewhat out-of-control hype cycle. Since so much has been written and discussed about the cloud in 2009, there is now a growing impatience for actual results. Reads: 5,796  By Bill Roth The most anticipated talk of the day yesterday, at the 4th International Cloud Expo, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, "Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge." She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, and then went on to give her paragraph-length definition of “the cloud”. Her talk focused on the part of the Cloud behind the firewall. “Today’s CIO must increase the flexibility of the infrastructure,” said Singer. Reads: 5,939  By Roger Strukhoff Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. As Shugar noted in the days before his presentation, the company "is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve the consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs. Reads: 6,185  By John Savageau Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now officially past the engineering phase, well into the sales phase – and the business community is scrambling to understand the implications of a virtualized world. Reads: 4,047  By Carmen Gonzalez The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford. The first "Ulitzer Live! - New Media Conference & Expo " will take place on June 14, 2010 in New York City and will present a world class faculty who will analyze new media, content marketing strategies, social CRM, enterprise social media, personal branding tools, and many other subjects. Reads: 5,174  By Fuat Kircaali As of January 2010, we booked more revenue for 2010 than the entire fiscal year 2009 actuals, including unearned income with record sponsorship sales for Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West and Cloud Expo Europe events.
Our revised revenue projections for 2010 is on track for an all time record revenues since our company's inception in 1994, including media sales up in January from a year ago.
As I made a reference to sponsorship and expo sales, I encourage all our sponsors to take contract option 2 which includes Cloud Expo 2010 East (New York City), Cloud Expo 2010 Europe (Prague, Czech Republic), and Cloud Expo 2010 West (Silicon Valley, California) events. Reads: 1,427  By Carmen Gonzalez Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form.
Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates. Reads: 2,020 |
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