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Niki Acosta
- Rackspace Hosting
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Solving the Cloud Talent Gap
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Hot Topics
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Niki Acosta is a Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace. A Racker since 2008, she has held numerous roles throughout the organization covering cloud-based products and services in the Rackspace portfolio. As an active OpenStack participant, tweeter, and blogger, she has become a recognized name in the cloud industry. Follow her on Twitter at @nikiacosta.
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Niki Acosta
- Rackspace Hosting
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Enterprise Cloud: Five Dirty Little Secrets
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Niki Acosta is a Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace. A Racker since 2008, she has held numerous roles throughout the organization covering cloud-based products and services in the Rackspace portfolio. As an active OpenStack participant, tweeter, and blogger, she has become a recognized name in the cloud industry. Follow her on Twitter at @nikiacosta.
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Anand Akela
- Oracle
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Fast-Track Your Transformation to Enterprise Private Cloud
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Deploying the Cloud
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Anand Akela is Sr. Principal Product Director at Oracle, focusing on cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure management offerings within the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio. Prior to his current role at Oracle, he worked at HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas. Akela serves as the chairman of Data Collection and Analysis workgroup at the Green Grid, an industry consortium developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and enterprise systems.
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Charles Anyimi
- Intel Corp.
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Basics of SSD Technology and its use in Cloud
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Charles Anyimi manages a global team of application engineers focused on data center product design-in at top tier OEMs and IPDCs worldwide. Charles and his team support qualification of Intel® Solid-State Drives (SSDs) in enterprise solutions.
Prior to joining the NSG product group, Mr. Anyimi worked for Micron as networking and server sales director, orchestrating a strategic shift from product-focused, transactional sales to segment‑focused, relational sales. As America’s Sales Director for Numonyx, a privately-held memory-focused company, Charles led a team of sales and engineering resources that analyzed market trends to develop go-to-market strategies and execute tactics to win share at marquee accounts. Mr. Anyimi spent more than 15-years at Intel in various technical, marketing and management roles that broadened his business and technical acuity and refined his memory and storage insights. Charles received a BSEE from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of California, Davis.
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Rob Aragao
- EiQ Networks
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Filling the Cloud Information Security Gap with Hosted SIEM
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Rob Aragao is Vice President, Services, at EiQ Networks. He has over 10 years’ experience in the IT industry. He led Pedestal Software’s worldwide security management division, helping to establish the company as a leader in the Security Configuration Management area and ultimately to a $75 million acquisition by Altiris in 2005. He has a proven track record working with the Fortune 1000 and agencies of the federal government and building strategic relationships with business partners. He held leadership roles with Genuity, a leading Managed Services Provider, and Stream International. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
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Greg Arnette
- Sonian
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Five Secrets to Cloud Cost Control
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Hot Topics
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Greg Arnette is Founder & CTO of the cloud archiving company, Sonian. He has been a messaging, collaboration, Internet, and networking expert for over 15 years and blogs at: www.gregarnette.com. He also founded two previous technology companies.
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Dr. David Bader
- Georgia Institute of Technology
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The Answer to Data Scientist Scarcity Lies in Automation
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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David A. Bader is a Professor and Executive Director of High Performance Computing, in Computational Science and Engineering, within the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from The University of Maryland, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Associateship in Experimental Computer Science. He is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF CAREER Award recipient, an investigator on several NSF awards, a distinguished speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program, and is a member of the IBM PERCS team for the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program.
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William Bain
- ScaleOut Software, Inc
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Enabling Real-Time Analytics Using an In-Memory Data Grid
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Big Data
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Dr. William L. Bain is founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, Inc. Bill has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Bill founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company (Valence Research), he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balanc¬ing within the Windows Server operating system. Dr. Bain holds several patents in computer architecture and distributed computing. As a member of the Seattle-based Alliance of Angels, Dr. Bain is actively involved in entrepreneurship and the angel community.
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Gary Ballabio
- Akamai Technologies
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General Session | Cloudy With a Chance of...Success
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Gary Ballabio is a Product Line Director responsible for Akamai's Enterprise Cloud Solutions portfolio. In his role, he runs Akamai's Terra Alta, Web Application Accelerator and Cloud Monitor services, which target major Enterprise based initiatives centered around Cloud adoption, Big Data and Mobile/BYOD. A 13 year veteran at Akamai, Ballabio has also held leadership roles in Engineering, Sales Engineering, Account Management and Professional Services covering teams in the US, Europe and Asia.
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Ruediger Baumann
- Zimory
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Developing the World’s First IaaS Marketplace
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Deploying the Cloud
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Ruediger Baumann is the CEO of Zimory. He is responsible for the company’s vision, finance and global market execution. With more than 30 years of experience within IT and communication industries it was Baumann’s vision that laid the groundwork for a global cloud computing marketplace based on standardization. Prior to joining Zimory, he served in well-known enterprises such as Philips and ADC, and start-ups including British Telecom spin off companies. Previous management roles included CEO, Managing Director and VP Sales & Marketing.
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Fausto Bernardini
- IBM SmartCloud
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Rishi Bhargava
- McAfee, Inc.
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General Session | Is Cloud Safer Than Your Traditional Datacenter?
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Rishi Bhargava is Vice President of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, Inc. He is responsible for Product management and strategy for datacenter solution. A visionary and technology enthusiast, he is also driving all Embedded Security Products Initiatives at McAfee. With over 12 years of diverse experience in product development and product management, he has a reputation for turning small ideas into successful market leading products.
Prior to McAfee, he was responsible for Product Management and Strategy at Solidcore Systems (Enterprise Security Startup). Solidcore Systems was later acquired by McAfee and its technology is now the leading Application Whitelisting product in the Industry. Before moving to security industry, Bhargava was involved in design and development of Optical Network Switches at Ciena Inc. His interests revolve around exploring new technologies and industry trends.
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Sam Bisbee
- Cloudant
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NoSQL & Big Data, The No "BS" Edition
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Big Data
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Sam Bisbee is the Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, but prefers the title Senior Doing Stuff Person. He spends his time context switching between writing code and helping customers and partners leverage Cloudant. Before Cloudant he was a CTO at a few startups and a consultant at several agencies where he aided companies in figuring out how to leverage new Web and NoSQL technologies.
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Christian Black
- Intel Corp
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Getting the Most From Hadoop Development and Real-Time Dedicated Clusters
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Big Data
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Christian is currently a Data Center Solutions Architect within the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG) at Intel Corp. He leads the Big Data and HPC domains and is responsible for delivering and communicating business-relevant and TCO reducing data center use cases for Intel® Solid-State Drives (SSDs). These include data center solutions blueprints, reference architectures, proofs of concept, customer deep-dives, and granular technical details.
Recently joining the NSG product group, Chris’s hands-on experience in the IT space over the last 23 years ranging from 1st level support and PC repair to enterprise architecture and IT research and path finding give him a unique perspective on solid state storage and its incredible potential. Chris is a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, tracks developments at the LHC in earnest, and enjoys creating mixed-metals jewelry in his spare time.
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Giovanni Boschi
- AppZero
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Move to the Cloud and Modernize in One Step
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As Chief Technology Officer, Giovanni Boschi is responsible for AppZero’s product direction as well as for working with customers and partners to implement effective solutions. Giovanni is a veteran in the software industry with years of experience developing innovative products for application development and deployment. Previous to AppZero, Giovanni was Chief Architect for BladeLogic at BMC Software, where he drove the technical vision for the BladeLogic products into middleware automation, cloud lifecycle and virtualization management. He has actively served on boards and expert groups of standards organizations such as W3C, OSGi Alliance, OASIS, and OMG.
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Jamon Bowen
- LSI Corporation
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Flash Storage and Networking Innovations for Cloud Computing
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Jamon Bowen is a Technical Marketing Manager in the Accelerated Solutions Division of LSI Corporation, focusing on real-world use cases for SSDs and support for end user proof-of-concepts. Previously, he was Director of Sales Engineering and Customer Support at Texas Memory Systems, Inc. Bowen was a member of the board of directors of SNIA’s Solid State Storage Initiative and has been deploying and supporting enterprise SSD deployments since 2004. Prior to moving into technical sales and marketing, he worked as a developer.
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Ronald Bradford
- Effective MySQL
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Lessons Learned Managing Large AWS Environments
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Ronald Bradford is Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL. He has 23 years of professional RDBMS experience. He works with AWS deployments and technologies and provides independent MySQL, LAMP and cloud-based consulting in architecture, performance, scalability and business continuity. He is a former employee of the MySQL Inc consulting team (06-08) and Oracle Corporation (96-99).
Bradford has currently published 3 books on MySQL: "Effective MySQL:Backup and Recovery", "Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL STatements" (Oracle Press: McGraw-Hill), "Expert PHP and MySQL" (Wrox:Wiley). He is also the all-time top MySQL Blogger.
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Ross Brouse
- Solar VPS
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The Cloud Under Your Nose: Adopting Cloud Solutions from the Couch to the Corporation
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Ross Brouse is a true creative thinker. He believes the solution to most challenges involves discipline, positive reinforcement and innovative problem solving. As an industry leader, he draws from decades of experience in film and television production, graphic design and development, and managed IT. A graduate of New York University, Ross founded FortressITX's subsidiary company, Solar VPS, in 2005.
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Kevin Brown
- Coraid
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General Session | Software-Defined Storage for Cloud Architectures
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Kevin Brown is CEO of Coraid, Inc. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive, with experience in the networking, storage, security, and virtualization sectors. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Kidaro, a desktop virtualization software vendor, where he led the team to a leadership position in this emerging segment. Kidaro was acquired by Microsoft in May 2008 and incorporated as a key element of Windows virtualization.
Prior to joining Kidaro, Brown served as a vice president on the original executive team of storage security vendor Decru, where he led worldwide marketing, business development, and product management. As one of the leading experts on storage security, he served as an advisor to the U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S. Department of Defense.
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Kevin Brown
- Coraid
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CEO Power Panel: Where's the Cloud Taking IT Next?
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Kevin Brown is CEO of Coraid, Inc. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive, with experience in the networking, storage, security, and virtualization sectors. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Kidaro, a desktop virtualization software vendor, where he led the team to a leadership position in this emerging segment. Kidaro was acquired by Microsoft in May 2008 and incorporated as a key element of Windows virtualization.
Prior to joining Kidaro, Brown served as a vice president on the original executive team of storage security vendor Decru, where he led worldwide marketing, business development, and product management. As one of the leading experts on storage security, he served as an advisor to the U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S. Department of Defense.
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Chuck Brown
- Intel Corp
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Accelerating Cloud Computing with Intel Solid-State Drive Technology
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Deploying the Cloud
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Chuck Brown serves as the Data Center SSD Product Line Manager within Intel. His product and technical marketing team support product development and technical marketing of Intel’s SSD products. Dr. Brown and his team perform system integration and usages analysis for SSD application in server and cloud infrastructure. He advises leading IT decision makers about best practices around storage and virtualization technologies.
Dr. Brown has held various engineering management positions. Prior to his current role, he severed as director Intel’s Emerging Compute Laboratory researching virtualization and cloud technology. He drove strategic planning within Intel’s Mobile Platform Group and managed world-wide business development for Intel’s Handheld and Flash memory product lines. Prior to Intel, Dr. Brown worked for IBM in development, sales and IT system engineering management roles.
He serves as an industry affiliate board member and lecturer in Electrical Engineering at University California Davis and is credited with the development of numerous products, authored trade and conference papers, and holds nine U.S. patents.
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Jean-Sebastien Bruneau
- OVH.com
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Agile IaaS with the OVH Dedicated Cloud
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Jean-Sebastien Bruneau is Cloud Architect at OVH.com. Based in Canada, he joined the team not long after OVH.com opened its first North American Datacenter and has been working his “Cloud-Fu” since. He divides his time evangelising, facilitating customers’ onboarding and leading the internal cloud training program.
Before this, he spent 10 years working in the telecommunication industry supporting the deployment of highly available mission critical enterprises applications for the private and public sector.
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Cédric Carbone
- Talend
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The Big Challenge of Big Data & Hadoop Integration
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Big Data
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Cédric Carbone is CTO of Talend, where he manages the data integration, data quality, Big Data, MDM and ESB products lines with an international team of more than 140 R&D engineers. He's also a Board Member at the Eclipse Foundation and OW2 consortium.
Carbone has lectured at several universities on technical topics such as XML or Web Services. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and an Advanced Degree in Document Engineering.
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Dan Carr
- IBM
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Optimize your Virtual Environment to Obtain Maximum Business Value
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Dan Carr is an Executive IT Architect in IBM Software Group’s Cloud Computing Client Engagement team. In this role, he works across the globe with a number of large enterprise and government organizations to implement first-of-a kind Cloud Computing solutions. Using his customer experiences, Dan works closely with IBM’s product groups providing direction for IBM Cloud software and services portfolio.
He has over twenty years of experience working across a number of industries including: Internet, Financial Services, Utilities, Automotive, Telecommunications, and Consumer Products. His technology delivery experience spans both infrastructure and application architecture areas with a focus over the last three years on emerging Cloud Computing technologies.
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Mark Casey
- CFN Services
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Network Transformation = High-Performance Cloud Enablement
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Mark Casey is the President and CEO of CFN Services. He has delivered results for clients in the global communications markets with companies including AT&T, Verizon, and CSX for more than 20 years. Since 2001, he has led CFN Services in developing high-performance, network and application-delivery solutions for real-time, mission-critical applications. He pioneered the design and
optimization of cloud solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for the most
sophisticated financial market participants worldwide.
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Daniel Chalef
- KnowledgeTree
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Five Roots of the Sales and Marketing Divide: And How the Cloud Will Solve Them
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Daniel Chalef is Co-Founder and CEO of KnowledgeTree. He is an entrepreneur and technologist whose career has included senior management, business analysis and engineering positions at software, Internet and telecommunications companies. Previously as CTO at Jam Warehouse, he led enterprise content management and workflow software implementation projects for global retailers and consumer goods companies, including Tesco PLC, Britvic PLC, and Foschini Group.
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Bala Chandran
- MicroStrategy
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Your Secret Weapon in the Big Data War: 20x More Agility with MicroStrategy Cloud
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Bala Chandran is responsible for the product roadmap and market messaging of the MicroStrategy Cloud Platform. He has deep insight into the business value of the Cloud for BI, having solved big data and analytical challenges for dozens of customers. His industry expertise and hands-on experience with many infrastructure, BI, database and ETL technologies gives him the ability to architect a Cloud Platform that is transforming the deployment and economics of BI. Prior to joining MicroStrategy, Bala held various positions at Netezza,IBM, and SAP. He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
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Kevin Clarke
- Verizon Terremark
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General Session - Verizon Terremark
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Kevin Clarke is the Director of Cloud Platform Engineering for Verizon Terremark. He is responsible for building the Verizon cloud platform that brings “Cloud without Compromise” computing to the Enterprise. Prior to joining Verizon, Kevin was the Director of System Engineering in the midrange storage division of EMC, where he ran System Architecture, Performance and Security. Kevin spent 21 years working in Silicon Valley for Sun Microsystems in Cloud Computing, Solaris Operating Systems and Storage. He holds a BSCS and MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.
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Neil Cohen
- Akamai Technologies
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Lunchtime Focus Keynote | Strategies for Application Delivery in the Cloud Era
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Neil Cohen is Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing where he develops the go-to-market strategy for application performance, site optimization, web security and digital media services. Over the past five years at Akamai, he has brought to market new services and partnerships applied towards strategic enterprise initiatives such as cloud computing, application acceleration, data-center optimization, virtual desktops, mobile web and Internet security. He has over 15 years of engineering, product management and marketing experience in the high-tech industry and a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing technology forums and publications.
Prior to joining Akamai, Cohen worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software used in routers, VoIP gateways, wireless base stations and broadband access equipment. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing and engineering positions at Conexant Systems, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of programmable network processors, circuit design and
semiconductor processes.
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Ed Conzel
- Dell
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Robert B. Crooke
- Intel Corp
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Day 3 Keynote | Driving Cloud Innovation: SSDs Change Cloud Storage Paradigm
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Robert (Rob) Crooke is a corporate vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group at Intel Corp. In this role, he leads a worldwide organization responsible for NVM technology design and development, complete Solid State Drive (SSD) system hardware and firmware development, wafer and SSD manufacturing, as well as marketing for Intel's component, module, and SSD NVM businesses.
Previously, Crooke led the Atom and System on a Chip Development Group (ASDG), responsible for delivering world class low power processors for the Intel Atom processor product line as well as developing enabling technology for system on a chip (SOC) products across the company. Before that, Crooke served as Vice-President and General Manager of the Business Client Group where he was responsible for Intel's desktop products and directing Intel's vision for business client computing. He has also served as Vice-President and Director of Marketing and Planning in the Desktop Product Group, Vice-President and General Manager of the Platform Architecture and Solutions Division, and Director of Marketing for the Basic Microprocessor Division and Performance Microprocessor Division.
He joined Intel in 1989 in the sales force as a field applications engineer. Before joining Intel, he held design engineering positions at Alliant Computer Systems and Custom Silicon.
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Rado Danilak
- Skyera
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Flash Memory Can Be Primary Storage for the Cloud...Now
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Rado Danilak is the CEO at Skyera, where he is creating new all solid-state-storage systems with price/performance and power/performance ratios far below anything currently available. He has over 20 years of experience and has filed more than 80 patents while architecting and designing state-of-the-art processing engines. He was previously founder and CTO of SandForce (acquired by LSI), a leading producer of flash controllers. Danilak also has prior engineering experience at NVIDIA, Nishan Systems, and Toshiba. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science and his MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic.
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Angel Luis Diaz
- IBM
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General Session | Rethink IT and Reinvent Business with IBM SmartCloud
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is Vice President of Software Standards, Cloud Labs & HiPODS for IBM Software Group. In this role, he has global responsibility for driving strategy and management of IBM's industry-leading standards initiative. He manages a global standards community working across international organizations and consortia to foster development of the next generation of interoperability standards, policies and practices critical to IBM Middleware and foster a new model of standards development supporting IBM growth initiatives including IBM SmarterCloud, Social Business and Business Analytics. Angel is also responsible for the SWG High Performance Lab team, working with leading customers on enterprise infrastructure, application architecture/platform and workload optimization.
Dr. Diaz has served in a number of leadership positions at IBM Application & Integration Middleware Division (WebSphere) for IBM Software Group, responsible for driving the strategy and marketing for some of IBM's leading middleware technologies. As Vice President of WebSphere Business Process Management & Connectivity, he led the expansion of IBM’s middleware footprint in the BPM & C business segment. As Director for the WebSphere Business Process Management development, architecture and technology strategy, he was responsible for WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Publishing Server, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Space Framework Component and WebSphere Integration Developer product development teams.
Prior to joining IBM Software in 2003, Dr. Diaz was a member of IBM's Research staff and Senior Manager, where he led advanced technology projects related to XML & Web Services and initiated the world’s first two standards that make use of web services, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Web Services For Remote Portals (WSRP) and OASIS Web Services For Interactive Applications (WSIA).
He received his Ph.D. in computer science (distributed computing, programming languages & computer algebra) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Brian Patrick Donaghy
- Appcore
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CEO Power Panel: Where's the Cloud Taking IT Next?
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Brian Patrick Donaghy is CEO of Appcore®. Prior to Appcore, Brian was the founder and CTO of Computility, Inc., a pioneer in the precursor of cloud computing – utility computing. After successfully developing several revolutionary products and services, Computility was sold and is now owned by CDC Software.
Brian also served for ten years as Senior Partner and CTO of venture capital firm Growth Ventures Group, Inc. architecting and delivering business process technology products and companies. Notable market-driven Software-as-a-Service products created by Mr. Donaghy include the Smart Online Sales Force Automation and CRM applications, Computility Business Management System, Utility Management System, Online Backup and Subscription Computing.
Philanthropy, missions and social enterprise are near to the hearts of the Donaghys. Projects through their family’s Broadhorn Foundation include social enterprise Patronae, United Way’s Tocqueville Society Members, Social Venture Partners Central Iowa Founding Partners and Broadhorn Church.
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Brian Patrick Donaghy
- Appcore
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CTO Power Panel: Has Cloud Computing Changed IT for the Better?
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Brian Patrick Donaghy is CEO of Appcore®. Prior to Appcore, Brian was the founder and CTO of Computility, Inc., a pioneer in the precursor of cloud computing – utility computing. After successfully developing several revolutionary products and services, Computility was sold and is now owned by CDC Software.
Brian also served for ten years as Senior Partner and CTO of venture capital firm Growth Ventures Group, Inc. architecting and delivering business process technology products and companies. Notable market-driven Software-as-a-Service products created by Mr. Donaghy include the Smart Online Sales Force Automation and CRM applications, Computility Business Management System, Utility Management System, Online Backup and Subscription Computing.
Philanthropy, missions and social enterprise are near to the hearts of the Donaghys. Projects through their family’s Broadhorn Foundation include social enterprise Patronae, United Way’s Tocqueville Society Members, Social Venture Partners Central Iowa Founding Partners and Broadhorn Church.
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Brian Patrick Donaghy
- Appcore
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How Private Cloud Works in Real Life: Deployment Examples
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Deploying the Cloud
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Brian Patrick Donaghy is CEO of Appcore®. Prior to Appcore, Brian was the founder and CTO of Computility, Inc., a pioneer in the precursor of cloud computing – utility computing. After successfully developing several revolutionary products and services, Computility was sold and is now owned by CDC Software.
Brian also served for ten years as Senior Partner and CTO of venture capital firm Growth Ventures Group, Inc. architecting and delivering business process technology products and companies. Notable market-driven Software-as-a-Service products created by Mr. Donaghy include the Smart Online Sales Force Automation and CRM applications, Computility Business Management System, Utility Management System, Online Backup and Subscription Computing.
Philanthropy, missions and social enterprise are near to the hearts of the Donaghys. Projects through their family’s Broadhorn Foundation include social enterprise Patronae, United Way’s Tocqueville Society Members, Social Venture Partners Central Iowa Founding Partners and Broadhorn Church.
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Cary Dym
- Alcatel-Lucent
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Dave Eichorn
- Zensar-Akibia
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Thomas Erl
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Bob Evans
- Oracle Corp
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Ty Fabling
- Esri
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Cloud Computing & Location-aware Big Data is Changing Our World
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Ty Fabling is a Sr. Enterprise GIS Systems Architect at Esri working with customers to design and plan for scalable GIS systems in the Cloud. He is also one of the primary contacts at Esri for implementing Esri’s ArcGIS for Desktop applications in a virtual desktop environment (VDI) from leading software vendors such as VMware and Citrix. Fabling has worked for Esri for 10 years and is located in their Washington DC regional office located in Vienna, VA.
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Alistair Farquharson
- SOA Software
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General Session | Using APIs for Better Business Partnerships
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Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.
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Alistair Farquharson
- SOA Software
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CTO Power Panel: Has Cloud Computing Changed IT for the Better?
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Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.
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Alistair Farquharson
- SOA Software
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APIs and Services – One Platform or Two?
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.
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Alistair Farquharson
- SOA Software
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API Security, Does My Business Need an OAuth Server?
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Deploying the Cloud
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Alistair Farquharson is a visionary industry veteran focused on using disruptive technologies to drive business growth and improve efficiency and agility within organizations. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alistair has been at the forefront of many technology waves from enterprise web architecture, through web services and SOA, and now into APIs. His expertise spans a wide range of technologies and businesses, and he brings a unique global focus to everything he does.
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Gerry Fassig
- CoreSite
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Introducing the Open Cloud Exchange
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Gerry Fassig is CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales for the cloud/hosting service provider industry. He possesses more than 20 years of enterprise and start-up sales leadership experience and leads a national team responsible for acquiring, retaining and managing service providers of all sizes. Prior to joining CoreSite, he held senior sales and management positions with Savvis, helping drive strategic growth throughout the organization during the Exodus/Cable and Wireless acquisitions. Before Savvis, he held various leadership roles at Wheelhouse, a CRM strategy consultancy and at Gartner.
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Matt Ferrari
- HOSTING
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DR to the Cloud: How HOSTING Cloud Replication Can Turn Disaster Recovery into DRaaS
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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As Chief Technology Officer at HOSTING, Matt is responsible for the Architecture, Engineering, and Release Management organizations. He oversees all new product development, back office, and product line enhancements for the organization. Matt architected and built the company’s fast-growing line of managed cloud products and services.
Matt has been with HOSTING since 2002, moving through multiple leadership roles in engineering and representing HOSTING at industry events. A sought-after keynote speaker, Matt has presented at Executive Summits, Adobe Max, EMCWorld, CFUnited, VMworld, and Microsoft Hosting Summit. He joined HOSTING’s top partners in panel discussions about cloud computing, and nurtures many strategic technology relationships for the organization. Prior to HOSTING, Matt designed and implemented new technologies and managed strategic projects for the Exelon Corporation.
Matt lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and three kids and is praying for the Mets to turn it around.
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Douglas Greise
- Veris Group
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Critical Success Factors for FedRAMP Assessments
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Douglas Greise is Principal & Co-Founder of Veris Group. He brings more than fifteen years of information technology consulting and management experience to the company. As Principal, he oversees strategic planning, partnerships and client delivery areas for Veris Group. He's an experienced executive responsible for the management and operation of the company’s client services and technology innovation program. He leads the business development efforts for multiple delivery areas and is responsible for establishing strategic partnerships and outreach initiatives to the private and public sector.
Prior to co-founding Veris Group, Greise was a Booz Allen Hamilton Information Assurance (IA) manager and was part of the IA team. At Booz Allen, he served as program manager for various civilian and defense projects and managed a team of IA consultants. He led successful proposal efforts and helped the team win various multi-year and sole-source contract awards. He also played an integral role in the project management of various tasks for the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Distribution Center and the Office of Secretary Defense, Military Health Systems.
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Chris Haddad
- WSO2
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Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the Service-Oriented Data Center
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Chris Haddad is VP of Technology Evangelism at WSO2. He joined in 2011. In this role, he raises visibility, awareness, and knowledge of the unique advantages provided by WSO2's lean, fully componentized, open source middleware for on-premise and the cloud.
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Marc Halcrow
- ITpreneurs
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The Importance of Investing in a Sound Cloud Education Strategy for Organizational Success
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Marc Halcrow is the North America Regional Manager at ITpreneurs, where he has overall responsibility for the ITpreneurs business in the region. His responsibilities include the strategic and operational direction for ITpreneurs in North America as well as providing guidance to organizations and partners to leverage the myriad of IT Best Practice Frameworks. In this capacity Marc works with organizations to develop solutions that will maximize an organizations IT investments and enable employees to best understand not only the latest trends in IT but also to leverage many of the IT Best Practice frameworks that are available.
Halcrow joined ITpreneurs in 2006 from CA, where he was responsible for engaging with clients to leverage the IT Service Management and Service Provider technologies in better enabling the IT organization to become a cost effective and efficient service provider to the business and other key stakeholders. He earned an MBA from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands, and B.S in International Business and Finance from American University, Washington, DC.
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Tim Halpin
- AT&T
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Richard Hand
- INetU Managed Hosting
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Private Cloud, Public Cloud - Is There a Third Option?
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Rich Hand, Cloud Architect at INetU Managed Hosting, helps INetU clients stay successful by engineering highly-available, enterprise architecture for critical web and application platforms. His passion for efficient solutions drives his creativity and consultative approach when developing right-sized cloud and hybrid solutions.
Hand joined INetU over 5 years ago. His extensive knowledge of hardware, networking, integration, platforms, and enterprise infrastructure heavily contributes to his expertise in solution development. He also contributes to product development at INetU with the refinement of existing products, and definition of new products to stay current with customer needs and requests.
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Marcel Heilijgers
- Cloud Credential Council
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Business Transformation with Cloud – Is Your Organization 'Cloud-Ready'?
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Marcel Heilijgers is the Executive Director of the Cloud Credential Council, a global organization focused on accelerating successful cloud adoption by advancing cloud competences through training and certification. In this role he has overall responsibility for setting the strategic direction and ensuring execution in line with strategy. His focus areas include building out the Cloud Credential Council Cloud training and certification portfolio to become the most complete cloud portfolio in depth and breadth, build an ecosystem of courseware providers and high quality training partners across the globe, and to involve major cloud players in the process to help close the cloud skills gap.
Heilijgers joined the Cloud Credential Council in 2012 from Microsoft, where he was responsible for defining competitive strategy at the Central and Eastern Europe headquarters, and driving execution across the region consisting of 26 countries. He was instrumental in establishing Microsoft's open cloud positioning which became a key pillar in the overall competitive strategy approach. Prior roles include leading various business units at Microsoft and Novell to high growth.
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Andrew Hillier
- CiRBA
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Beyond Self Service: Building Capacity Control into Internal Clouds
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Andrew Hillier is Co-Founder & CTO of CiRBA. He has twenty years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.
Prior to CiRBA, Hillier pioneered a state of the art systems management solution which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now serves as the foundation of their flagship systems management product, Sun Management Center. Hillier has also led the development of solutions for major financial institutions, including fixed income, equity, futures & options and interest rate derivatives trading systems, as well as in the fields of covert military surveillance, advanced traffic and train control, and the robotic inspection and repair of nuclear reactors.
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Andrew Hillier
- CiRBA
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Beyond Self Service: Building Capacity Control into Internal Clouds
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Andrew Hillier is Co-Founder & CTO of CiRBA. He has twenty years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.
Prior to CiRBA, Hillier pioneered a state of the art systems management solution which was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now serves as the foundation of their flagship systems management product, Sun Management Center. Hillier has also led the development of solutions for major financial institutions, including fixed income, equity, futures & options and interest rate derivatives trading systems, as well as in the fields of covert military surveillance, advanced traffic and train control, and the robotic inspection and repair of nuclear reactors.
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Mark R. Hinkle
- Citrix Systems
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Essential Open Source Software for Building the Open Cloud
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Mark Hinkle is the Senior Director, Open Source Solutions at Citrix Systems Inc. He joined Citrix as a result of their July 2011 acquisition of Cloud.com where he was their Vice President of Community. He is currently responsible for Citrix open source efforts around the open source cloud computing platform, Apache CloudStack and the Xen Hypervisor. Previously he was the VP of Community at Zenoss Inc., a producer of the open source application, server, and network management software, where he grew the Zenoss Core project to over 100,000 users and 20,000 organizations on all seven continents. He also is a longtime open source expert and author having served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. His blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at http://www.socializedsoftware.com.
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Jason Hoffman
- Joyent
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Don’t Believe the Hype: Getting to the Promise of Big Data
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Big Data
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Jason Hoffman is the CTO & Founder of Joyent. An expert on scalable systems, he earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine, and MS and BS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.
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Hart Hoover
- Rackspace Hosting
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Isolated Networks in the Cloud
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Hart Hoover is a Cloud Strategist at Rackspace Hosting. Hoover started his career as a Racker in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, providing technical support for dedicated servers. He moved to the cloud in 2009 to help design the Managed Cloud Servers support model. He has presented at various technical conferences, maintains and contributes to the Rackspace DevOps Blog, and advises Rackspace customers on best practices for cloud computing.
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Judith Hurwitz
- Hurwitz & Associates
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Why Big Data is Really About Small Data
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Big Data
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Judith S. Hurwitz is President and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates, Inc., a strategy consulting and research firm focused on distributed computing technologies. A pioneer in anticipating technology innovation and adoption, she advocates for a pragmatic adoption of an architectural and business approach to the emerging market for cloud computing, service orientation, and service management. She has served as a trusted advisor to many industry leaders over the years and has helped these companies make the transition to a new business model focused on the business value of emerging platforms.
Prior to founding Hurwitz & Associates in 2002, Judith was a co-founder of CycleBridge, a consulting firm focused on life sciences software. In 1992, she was the founder of Hurwitz Group. She also served as a senior information technology consultant at John Hancock and Apollo Computer.
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Cory Isaacson
- CodeFutures Corporation
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Scaling Big Data in the Cloud
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Cory Isaacson is CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, maker of dbShards, a leading database scalability suite providing a true “shared nothing” architecture for relational databases. Cory has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications including SOA Magazine, Database Trends and Applications, and recently authored the book Software Pipelines and SOA (Addison Wesley). Cory has more than twenty years experience with advanced software architectures, and has worked with many of the world’s brightest innovators in the field of high-performance computing. Cory has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, and assisting numerous organizations address the real-world challenges of application performance and scalability -- effectively applying emerging technologies to a variety of fields including social networking, mobile applications, gaming and high volume transaction systems. In his prior position as president of Rogue Wave Software, he actively led the company back to a position of profitable growth, culminating in a successful acquisition by a leading private equity firm. Cory can be reached at: cory.isaacson@codefutures.com
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Alon Israely
- Business Intelligence Associates
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Big Data: What It Means for Legal and Risk Management
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Big Data
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Alon Israely is Co-Founder of Business Intelligence Associates and Manager, Strategic Partnerships. He has worked closely with IT departments, Corporate Security, Legal, Risk and HR for more than 10 years to address the legal aspects of Big Data, including management, identification, gathering and handling issues. He has helped create commercial methods for data handling as well as tools and software for ESI identification and data gathering. Israely has a background in IT and a license to practice law.
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Erik Iversen
- SHI International
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License Management: Now What?
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Hot Topics
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Erik Iversen leads the Software Asset Management team at SHI International. He started the SAM Services team in 2008 with just one customer; now the team supports a variety of software governance and compliance programs for hundreds of customers of all shapes and sizes. His team’s goals are to leverage SHI’s premier license knowledge and optimize customers’ license value, to provide the most effective software governance services and help customers manage license compliance risk, and to provide integrated asset life-cycle support and make IT and business processes more efficient.
Thirty years of management across virtually every IT discipline provides Iversen with a unique understanding of the complex interplay between hardware, software, networks, infrastructure, operations, applications, licensing, and end users. He has a pragmatic perspective on how effective ITAM service solutions can save money, reduce risk, and make for a more efficient IT organization.
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Phil Jackson
- SoftLayer
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Anatomy of an Internet Scale Application
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Phil Jackson is Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer. He helps customers and partners integrate with the SoftLayer’s API. He also architects the company’s Drupal websites, writes API documentation, and maintains the developer blog. Formerly, he was a Sales Engineer building internal tools and providing technical consultation for potential and existing customers. Jackson started his career in webhosting at Ev1Servers where he led the training department. With a passion for technology that started at a young age, he has developed skills in a variety of scripting and programming languages and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the tech community.
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Mark Jackson
- Intel Corp
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Basics of SSD Technology and its use in Cloud
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Mark Jackson currently is the Product Marketing Manager for Intel’s Data Center Solid-State Drives in Folsom, CA. He is an eighteen year veteran of the storage industry, previously working for companies such as Exabyte and Maxtor. He started his career as a firmware engineer and then moved into product marketing while at Maxtor. He has managed customer relationships for global OEM accounts; managed product definition for both client and data center HDDs, and is a previous SATA-IO Board of Directors representative.
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Brian Jawalka
- Rackspace
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General Session | The Next-Generation IT Department – Must Have Cloud
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Brian Jawalka is Enterprise Solutions Architect at Rackspace Hosting. He has 10+ years in developing world-class product and transformational architectures for Fortune 1000 companies. He has developed secure IT architectures, solutions and best practices for a wide range of global customers and industries. Presently, Jawalka is a Sr. IT Strategist within Rackspace’s Enterprise Cloud Solutions Organization, where he is focused on building long-term IT strategies for enterprise clientele. He also works closely with key Rackspace technology partners, including: Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, NetApp, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, CA, Magento, Akamai, and Accenture
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Marc Jones
- SoftLayer
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High Performance, Scalable Big Data Solutions in a Bare Metal Cloud
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Big Data
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Marc Jones serves as Vice President of Product Innovation for SoftLayer. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, facilitating and evangelizing new product and service development – including R&D, software development and system development. As an accomplished technology executive, he previously served as director of software product development with Rackspace Cloud (formerly Mosso), the cloud division of Rackspace. He was a key member of the senior leadership team responsible for developing and managing the company’s cloud computing product strategy and roadmap, architecture and engineering, business analysis and requirements, along with software product development. Prior to his tenure with Rackspace, Jones was senior director for system architecture with Broadwing Communications.
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Raj Kammend
- Oracle
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Best Practices for Providing Oracle DBaaS with a Private Cloud
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Raj K. Kammend is the Director of Product Strategy for Private Database Cloud within Oracle database development organization. He has been engaged with many Oracle customers in the successful implementation and delivery of Oracle Database as a Service (DBaaS) in private and public clouds.
Kammend has authored and contributed to Oracle best practices collateral on database consolidation and is a regular speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG/Collaborate and the Cloud Expo series of conferences. Prior to his current role at Oracle, he worked in Oracle product development for fifteen years, starting with Oracle7 Parallel Server, and has been involved in the design, architecture and development of every version of Oracle RAC and Clusterware products. He holds five patents in scalability and high availability areas of database and clustering technologies.
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Eli Karpilovski
- Mellanox Technologies
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The Promise of an End-To-End SDN Solution: Can It Be Done?
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Eli Karpilovski manages the Cloud Market Development at Mellanox Technologies. In addition, he serves as the Cloud Advisory Council Chairman. Karpilovski served as Product Marketing Manager for the HCA Software division at Mellanox from 2010 to 2011. Prior to joining the company, he worked at Azimuth Systems.
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Jeff Katzen
- Savvis
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Stairway to the Cloud
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Deploying the Cloud
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Jeff Katzen is a Practice Lead for the Savvis Cloud Business. In that role he leads a North American team focused on business development activities around the Savvis cloud platform. He has over 15 years of business and technology experience in the global IT marketplace.
Responsible for Savvis's diversified cloud business, he works with customers on the where, how and why cloud fits within their enterprise. He also works with the strategic partners who power the Savvis Cloud, and the Ecosystem partners who add additional capabilities into the cloud. Prior to joining Savvis, Katzen spent 12 years in a business development role at a global telecommunications company focusing on sales and product creation for amongst other things their “As a Service” or cloud portfolio.
Originally from South Africa, he started his career working as an Electronic Engineer at a telecommunications infrastructure company that supplied products to the South African Defense Force and South African Department of Transportation. His role there encompassed hardware design as well as leading a team in the development of QA and manufacturing processes.
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Mike Kavis
- Kavis Technology Consulting
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Cloud is Changing the Economics of Business
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Hot Topics
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Mike Kavis is Chief Technologist at Kavis Technology Consulting. He has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. A pioneer in cloud computing, Kavis led a team that built the world's first high speed transaction network in Amazon's public cloud and won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge. He is currently writing a book for Wiley Publishing called Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) which is expected to be released in 2013.
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Patrick Kerpan
- CohesiveFT
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OpenFlow is SDN Yet SDN is Not Only OpenFlow
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Patrick Kerpan is the CEO and co-founder of CohesiveFT, the provider of Secure Cloud Container Solutions that enable enterprises to securely migrate, transform, and run business operations in the cloud. Kerpan was the CTO of Borland Software and founded Bedouin. Earlier Kerpan was a managing director responsible for derivatives technology at multiple global investment banks.
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Renat Khasanshyn
- Altoros Systems
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Measuring the Performance of Your Hadoop Deployment
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Big Data
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Renat Khasanshyn is CEO of Altoros Systems and Venture Partner at Runa Capital. Altoros is laser-focused on enabling Hadoop and NoSQL-based big data solutions for enterprises and service providers. He is also the founder of Apatar and the Silicon Valley NewSQL User Group, and co-founder of the Belarusian Java User Group. He studied Engineering at the Belarusian National Technical University. You can read his blog at http://nakedopensource.com.
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Omar Khawaja
- Verizon Terremark
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Michael Kopp
- Compuware
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When APM Meets Big Data – Making Your Hadoop Jobs Faster
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Big Data
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Michael Kopp is a technology strategist in the Compuware APM center of excellence and has more than 10 years of experience as an architect and developer in the Java/JEE space. Additionally, Kopp specializes in architecture and performance of large-scale production deployments with a special focus on virtualization and cloud.
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Shaun Krueger
- AppFirst
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Utilizing a Pod Architecture to Scale
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Big Data
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Shaun Krueger is Lead Software Developer at AppFirst. He has a strong background with application development and systems architecture. At AppFirst, he leads the development of the company's backend technologies and was instrumental in the development of AppFirest's pipeline data model, giving us the ability to give real time data analysis. He is the architect of the innovative alternative for RabbitMQ used by AppFirst and designed the adaptive control software that allows the company to manage its backend infrastructure.
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Ed Laczynski
- Datapipe
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Deploying Hybrid Cloud for Performance and Uptime
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Ed Laczynski is VP of Cloud Strategy & Architecture at Datapipe. He is responsible for driving Datapipe's cloud computing strategy and for the architecture of new cloud platforms and integrations and came to Datapipe with more than 10 years of digital technology leadership experience. Laczynski regularly comments on the cloud computing industry and is highly regarded as a thought leader in the space.
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Edwin Lam
- Innodisk
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Maximizing the Small Things: Efficiencies for Cloud Hardware
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Edwin Lam is Senior FA Engineer at Innodisk Corp. He hails from the Bay Area and holds his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of California, San Diego, where his studies focused on Networking and Computer Architecture. His role at Innodisk has him working closely with clients to integrate flash storage products into various systems, developing training content for clients on flash memory technology, and ensuring qualification of Innodisk products by some of the leading technology providers in the world.
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Rob LaMear IV
- Fpweb.net
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CEO Insider: Overcoming Cloud Barriers
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Rob LaMear IV is CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net. He started Fpweb.net from scratch and believes that the key to success has been its people and the energy they bring, hands down. He has been with SharePoint since its inception and his passion for customer care and delivering a premium product has set a new standard in SharePoint Hosting. As much as he likes work and technology, LaMear loves spending time with his family completely unplugged and has never missed an opportunity to join a pickup game of soccer in the park.
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Lisa Larson
- Rackspace
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Day 2 Keynote | Ignite Innovation: Turn Developers Loose on Hybrid Cloud
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Lisa Larson is the Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Rackspace. She has spent 20-plus years in IT, Professional Services and technical sales working with customers of all sizes with an emphasis in Consulting, Solution Sales, Infrastructure Services, Project Management, IT Operations, Technical Support, Application Development and IT Management. Lisa became a Racker in September 2010 and is responsible for end-to-end technical sales for the U.S. market. In 2011, she launched Rackspace Advisory Services; an elite, dedicated team of cloud experts and consultants who help enterprises build cloud strategies, transform the business of IT and leverage cloud computing. She's a published author and a graduate of the University of Houston. In her spare time, she is an avid runner and has completed nine marathons. She is currently contemplating her next big marathon. She also enjoys a bit of karaoke from time to time.
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Erik Levitt
- Open Data Centers
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Where the Cloud Lives and How to Get There
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Erik Levitt is the CEO and Founder of Open Data Centers, a carrier-neutral colocation and hosting provider, as well as CEO and CFO of Endstream Communications. He was also the founder of Core Technology Services and held numerous executive and consulting roles with AccessIT Managed Services, Merryll Lynch, Volvo and Citigroup
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Sheng Liang
- Citrix Systems
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Day 4 Keynote | Go Beyond IaaS to Deliver "Anything As a Service"
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Sheng Liang is CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems. Formerly CEO of Cloud.com, he's a technology visionary who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, and a serial entrepreneur. Before Cloud.com he co-founded web application firewall vendor Teros Networks (also acquired by Citrix), and was a member of the senior management team at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, which developed software products for over 100 wireless and wire-line service providers around the world.
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David Linthicum
- Cloud Technology Partners
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Calculating the True Value of Industry-Specific Clouds
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Hot Topics
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Leading technology publications frequently name David S. Linthicum among the top 10 enterprise technologists in the world. He is a true thought leader in the industry, and an expert in complex distributed systems, including cloud computing, data integration, service oriented architecture (SOA), and big data systems. As the author of over 13 books on computing with over 3,000 published articles, as well as radio and TV appearances as a computing expert, he is often quoted in major business and technology publications. In addition, he is a frequent keynote presenter at industry conferences, with over 500 presentations given in the last 20 years.
Linthicum's industry experience includes tenures as CTO and CEO of several successful public and private software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. He has delivered over $2 billion in value by transforming companies from traditional to innovative technologies, moving them to lucrative exits that benefitted investors, employees and customers.
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Mathew Lodge
- VMware
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Why is Hybrid Cloud Necessary for Next-Generation Enterprise Clouds?
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Mathew Lodge is VP of VMware’s Cloud Services group. He has more 20+ years' experience in the technology industry. Previously, he was Senior Director at Symantec, where he led the go to market for its $1BN+ information management group. Prior to Symantec, Lodge held a series of senior product management and marketing roles at Proficient Networks, CPlane, Cisco Systems and Schlumberger. He has a masters’ in Software Engineering from the University of York, and is an alumni of London Business School.
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Jeff Lundberg
- Hitachi Data Systems
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Environmental Pressures Driving an Evolution in File Storage
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Jeff Lundberg is senior product marketing manager for file, content and cloud at HDS with 12+ years of experience in archiving, data protection, information lifecycle management object storage and file services. He's a veteran of both VERITAS Software and HP.
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Tim Mackey
- Citrix
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Roberto Masiero
- ADP
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Driving Customer Advantage via the Cloud
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Deploying the Cloud
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Roberto Masiero is VP of ADP Innovation Labs. Throughout his 12 year tenure at ADP, he has led significant information technology initiatives, including the automation of ADP’s Tax Credit Service business, Reporting, Pre-Employment Services, among others. Today, Masiero is responsible for ADP’s Innovation Lab, where new technologies are researched, developed and incubated. Recent projects cover big data, mobile applications, semantic search and behavioral intelligence.
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Nathan McBride
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals
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AMAG’s Secret Sauce for a Scalable Enterprise Cloud Model
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Deploying the Cloud
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Nathan McBride currently serves as the Vice President, IT & Chief Cloud Architect at AMAG Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes therapeutic and diagnostic iron oxide nanoparticles. He has lead the company’s cloud efforts to increase collaboration and reduce costs and has decreased his budget by almost 60% in three years by embracing an enterprise wide SaaS/Cloud based architecture. Nathan has been profiled in numerous leading industry magazines such as ComputerWorld and NetworkWorld and has been a featured speaker at numerous Cloud related conferences.
Nathan has been a leader in Biopharmaceutical IT since 1998 having worked at both TKT (now Shire Pharmaceuticals) and Cubist Pharmaceuticals. In his spare time he is an ultramarathoner.
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Pankaj Mittal
- Impetus
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CTO Power Panel: Has Cloud Computing Changed IT for the Better?
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Pankaj is responsible for defining and executing technology strategy for Impetus. Focusing on innovation and growth, he has directed their research and development efforts and helped to define its IP blueprint. Over the past two decades, Pankaj has overseen multiple engineering initiatives and guided many projects through their entire life cycle.
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Jason Mondanaro
- MetraTech, Corp
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I Know What You Did Last Second
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Big Data
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Jason Mondanaro is Director of Product Management - Metanga - at MetraTech Corp. He is a global thought leader for cloud billing and micropayment technologies. He drives product leadership and third-party cloud vendor integrations for Metanga, MetraTech’s cloud-based billing solution. Over the past 15 years he has co-authored patents on micropayments and high volume transactional aggregation. He jointly designed and acted as lead developer for the eO transit payment system. The eO System was awarded the 2009 Best Transportation Application Sesame award by CARTES & IDenditifaction and was instrumental to the American Public Transportation Association's 2009 Innovation Award to the Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT
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Todd M. Moore
- IBM
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Security for Cloud Computing: Understanding Security Challenges
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Todd M. Moore, IBM Director - Interoperability and Partnerships, Director -OpenStack Foundation has a diverse background in hardware and software development, architecture, design and product management. He is currently responsible for IBM's standards and partnerships surrounding Cloud Computing, Social Business, and Analytics. He has served in executive roles in both IBM's Software Group (SWG) and System & Technology Group (STG). Prior to his role current role, Todd worked with IBM Acquisitions to integrate new members of the IBM community. Prior to this position, he drove IBM's WebServices, Security and Restful Services development for WebSphere. He has extensive experience in mobile and distributed computing systems, with a background spanning embedded devices to large parallel systems. Before joining WebSphere, he served as the CTO for IBM's Pervasive Computing unit. In IBM's hardware unit, he was responsible for IBM's Power based offerings and System z platforms as the Director of System Design. He was responsible for architecture, performance, user experience, and standards. Over his career, Todd and his team have worked with numerous open source and standards bodies such as the Apache Software Foundation, Oasis, OMG, JCP, OMA, Linux Foundation, OSGi, DLNA, ISO, ITU-T, etc to deliver standards and reference implementations. He holds a Masters Degree in the Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and a BS EE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Alexandre Morel
- OVH.com
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How to Build a Pragmatic Strategy to Enter the Cloud
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Alexandre Morel is Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com. He works for OVH.com across all its subsidiaries, in 16 countries. Together with the company's C-level team, he builds visions of future and next generations of world-class Cloud Solutions.
Before this Morel spent 13 years as a Program Manager and worked on the design, development and management of critical applications (software & infrastructures) for industry, retail, pharma, and the public sector.
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Alexandre Morel
- OVH.com
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Storage & Archive: Are Existing Offerings Relevant for Real Life?
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Alexandre Morel is Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com. He works for OVH.com across all its subsidiaries, in 16 countries. Together with the company's C-level team, he builds visions of future and next generations of world-class Cloud Solutions.
Before this Morel spent 13 years as a Program Manager and worked on the design, development and management of critical applications (software & infrastructures) for industry, retail, pharma, and the public sector.
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Alexandre Morel
- OVH.com
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Building Best of Breed Dedicated Solutions for Critical Business Needs
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Alexandre Morel is Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com. He works for OVH.com across all its subsidiaries, in 16 countries. Together with the company's C-level team, he builds visions of future and next generations of world-class Cloud Solutions.
Before this Morel spent 13 years as a Program Manager and worked on the design, development and management of critical applications (software & infrastructures) for industry, retail, pharma, and the public sector.
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Barry Morris
- NuoDB
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Requirements of a Cloud Database
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Deploying the Cloud
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Barry Morris is CEO & Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc. An accomplished software CEO with over 25 years of industry experience in the USA and Europe, running private and public companies ranging in scale from early startup phase to 1,000+ employees, he loves to build companies around industry-changing paradigm-shifts in technology. Morris was previously CEO of StreamBase and Iona Technologies.
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K. Scott Morrison
- Layer 7 Technologies
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Patterns to Bring Enterprise and Social Identity to the Cloud
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Scott Morrison is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, providing the visionary innovation and technical direction for the company. He has extensive technical and scientific experience in a number of industries and universities, including senior architect positions at IBM. He is one of the four co-editors for the WS-I Basic Security Profile and is a much sought-after author and speaker.
He has published over 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals and is co-author of the university textbook "Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications" published by Springer-Verlag. In addition to being a Cloud Expo regular, Morrison has recently spoken at more than 70 shows around the world, including InfoWorld, JavaOne, GigaOm STRUCTURE, SOA World, Gartner and IDC conferences.
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Matt Mullins
- Citrix
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Best Practices for Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure
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Deploying the Cloud
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Matt Mullins is currently a Principal Consultant – Cloud Platform Implementation Engineer with Citrix Systems, Inc. His responsibilities include working with customers and designs to implement the Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack) system. This includes integration with multiple hypervisor, storage and network solutions. He is part of the Worldwide Cloud Solutions team and supports customers both in the US and internationally.
Matt was previously Infrastructure Architect at FedEx Services with responsibility for the 5 major OpCo infrastructure environments with compute, storage, and network systems within FedEx. He was responsible for overseeing a team that managed the performance and capacity of over 800 physical systems and the 10,000+ VMs. He also worked as an Enterprise Architect designing large $20M projects and implementing those projects successfully.
He has a large base of knowledge in his sixteen year IT career. His experience has given him exposure to business in South America and Europe, including living in the UK for 6 months. Everything from point of sales systems, large enterprise and consulting services.
Matt received his Masters of Information Technology in March of 2006 at the age of 29. He lives with his son in Orlando, FL., while still always considering Denver, CO. his home. He is also a professional photographer, doing nature and portrait photography.
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Ilya Musayev
- The Apache Software Foundation
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Arun Nagarajan
- Google
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How To Use Google Apps Script
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Hot Topics
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Arun Nagarajan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Google. As part of the Developer Relations team, he works closely with Google Apps customers, partners and independent developers to help build compelling applications and workflows using Google Apps Script. Prior to Google, Nagarajan spent over nine years at a Boston area mobile software company building a cross-platform mobile application development framework for large enterprises. He has a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and resides in New York City - but still loves the outdoors.
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Alan Nugent
- Boston CTO Group
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Why Big Data is Really About Small Data
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Big Data
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Alan Nugent is Co-Founder of the Boston CTO Group. A senior executive with three decades experience in leading, transforming and engineering the strategic direction for product and technology companies, he has proven delivery performance of innovative products and services with high levels of quality and user satisfaction. Nugent is a technology and cultural transformation and turn-around expert.
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Frank Nydam
- VMware
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VMware & Logicworks: Virtualization, Compliance, and Healthcare in the Cloud
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Frank Nydam is the Director for Healthcare Solutions, responsible for VMware’s Healthcare strategy, market development and solutions. He joined VMware in 2002 and has been primarily focused on the application of virtualization technologies in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Provider industry segments. In his current role he collaborates with a broad range of Healthcare ecosystem partners including hospitals, clinical application providers and industry groups to help deliver safer more efficient Healthcare solutions.
As a member of VMware’s Office of the CTO, Nydam is responsible for helping align product and technology strategy as well as incubating new solutions. He is a member of HIMSS and represents VMware’s as their executive liaison to CHIME. VMware is a Premier Foundation Member of CHIME and Diamond Member of HIMSS.
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Bruce Otte
- IBM
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Gain the Competitive Edge with Next Generation Cloud Platforms
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Bruce Otte is Director of the IBM SmartCloud Platform and Workload Services I head up a team responsible for the end to end offerings management for IBM's PaaS offerings. This job entails responsibility for the design, development, and on going delivery of the service, understanding the market and the regional variants in a globally delivered offering, aligning the go to market plans with the proper routes to market, coordinating channel management, and overseeing the delivery of the service around the world.
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Steve O’Donnell
- GreenBytes
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Emerging Technologies that Enable Cloud-Scale Desktop Virtualization
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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Steve O'Donnell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GreenBytes. He has over three decades of global high technology experience and currently also serves as Chairman of the Board at Preventia Limited and Lanix, and Chairman of the Advisory Board at Rackwise, Inc. Previously, O’Donnell was CEO at MEEZA in Qatar, a large data center and managed services business, Managing Director at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) EMEA, a leading analyst firm, Global Head of Data Centre Operations at British Telecom, and member of the Advisory Board at Fusion-io.
Recognized as an expert in green IT and sustainability, O’Donnell has been the recipient of six industry awards including the British Computer Society Best Use of Green Technology. He acts as a spokesperson for the IEEE on Cloud and IT Security. He is the author of “What Every CIO Wants – a Guide for High Technology Salespeople” and is credited as the initiator of the Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model.
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Pavan Pant
- Verizon Terremark
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The True Cost of Moving to the Cloud
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Pavan Pant is Director of Product Management for Verizon Terremark. Prior to Verizon Terremark, Pavan was Director of Product Management at CloudSwitch where was responsible for the technology roadmap, requirements and product strategy for their innovative software which enables enterprises to run their applications in the right cloud computing environment securely, simply and without requiring any changes to their servers.
Before joining CloudSwitch, Pavan was Director of Product Management for Aveksa where he was responsible for product strategy for their solutions which help enterprises manage their access governance needs. Pavan began his career with RSA, the security division of EMC where he was responsible for the strategic direction of their web access management and federated identity management solutions. He had a brief stint as a consultant for Ernst & Young in their Information Systems Consulting division, engaging directly with senior executives to discuss strategies to mitigate network risks.
He holds a Bachelors (magna cum laude) and a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University. A firm believer in giving back to the community, Pavan has volunteered for the Big Brothers Association of Greater Boston and has participated in the Citizen Schools program.
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Dan Pepper
- Pepper Law Group, LLC
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Managing Legal Risks in Cloud Computing
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Hot Topics
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Daniel A. Pepper, Esq. is the managing member of Pepper Law Group, LLC, and has been practicing law since 1994. IT and business process outsourcing, cloud computing arrangements, developing strategic alliances, and deploying Internet strategies are all services he consistently provides to his clients, including Prudential Insurance Company of America, Vonage, Inc., and VMware, Inc. Prior to forming Pepper Law Group, he was Regional Counsel for BEA Systems (later acquired by Oracle Corporation), where he was responsible for BEA’s United States eastern region and Canada governmental divisions. Prior to joining BEA, he was corporate counsel for Oracle Corporation in its commercial law division, responsible for Oracle’s software licensing, consulting, technical support, and education organizations for the New York and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Pepper is a frequent presenter at international conferences on diverse subjects, including cloud computing and services, software licensing and distribution, IT outsourcing, the use of application service providers, executive compensation, and digital rights management in multimedia transactions.
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Jennifer Phillips
- CoreMatrix
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Social Marketing in the Cloud
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Hot Topics
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Jennifer Phillips is Discipline Lead, Marketing Cloud Consulting Services, at CoreMatrix, a leading provider of cloud computing consulting, systems integration, custom application development, and social strategy services for mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies.
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Richard Place
- SHI
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General Session | Backup, Recovery, Archiving, and the Cloud
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Rich Place has overall responsibility for SHI’s Cloud Services. For over 25 years, he has been working in strategic consultative selling to multiple Fortune 100 corporations. He uses complex problem-solving to drive signi cant revenue growth in undiscovered markets and leverages current relationships to acquire new business. Rich strives to develop key partnerships and deliver effective solutions for emerging technologies across multiple sectors.
Rich came to SHI from Hewlett Packard, where he was responsible for sales, services, alliances and partnerships for AOL, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable and Next Issue Media worldwide. During his career, Rich established an alliance with Time Inc. to kick off the next generation of online magazines. He also worked to create the rst digital end-toend television studio in the world for TMZ, which substantially reduced costs for broadcasting and allowed a breaking story to be broadcast in less than 30 minutes.
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Richard Place
- SHI
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Backup, Recovery, Archiving, and the Cloud
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Rich Place has overall responsibility for SHI’s Cloud Services. For over 25 years, he has been working in strategic consultative selling to multiple Fortune 100 corporations. He uses complex problem-solving to drive signi cant revenue growth in undiscovered markets and leverages current relationships to acquire new business. Rich strives to develop key partnerships and deliver effective solutions for emerging technologies across multiple sectors.
Rich came to SHI from Hewlett Packard, where he was responsible for sales, services, alliances and partnerships for AOL, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable and Next Issue Media worldwide. During his career, Rich established an alliance with Time Inc. to kick off the next generation of online magazines. He also worked to create the rst digital end-toend television studio in the world for TMZ, which substantially reduced costs for broadcasting and allowed a breaking story to be broadcast in less than 30 minutes.
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Kedar Poduri
- Citrix Systems
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Kedar Poduri
- Citrix Systems
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Ricardo Puttini
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Dennis Quan
- IBM
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CTO Power Panel: Has Cloud Computing Changed IT for the Better?
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Dennis Quan is Vice President of SmartCloud Enterprise, responsible end-to-end for IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deployed worldwide. Dennis's involvement in Cloud Computing started in 2007, when his team built IBM's first cloud in collaboration with Google and the National Science Foundation. He has held numerous technical leadership positions in IBM over the past 14 years, including most recently as lab director of the IBM Tivoli China Development Laboratory in Beijing/Shanghai/Taipei, where he worked extensively with clients in the Greater China region across various industries on Cloud Computing and Integrated Service Management projects. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry, also from MIT.
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Dennis Quan
- IBM
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Value of Continuous Delivery in Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Dennis Quan is Vice President of SmartCloud Enterprise, responsible end-to-end for IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deployed worldwide. Dennis's involvement in Cloud Computing started in 2007, when his team built IBM's first cloud in collaboration with Google and the National Science Foundation. He has held numerous technical leadership positions in IBM over the past 14 years, including most recently as lab director of the IBM Tivoli China Development Laboratory in Beijing/Shanghai/Taipei, where he worked extensively with clients in the Greater China region across various industries on Cloud Computing and Integrated Service Management projects. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry, also from MIT.
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Tahmid Rahman
- Intel Corp
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Optimizing SSD Performance for the Cloud OSV Environment
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Tahmid Rahman works as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group for Intel Corporation. His primary responsibilities include creation of product collateral/solutions for current data center SSDs, benchmarking and competitive market and customer requirement analysis for future product planning.
Prior Tahmid was involved in mixed signal design for Flash Memory and Chipset products. Tahmid has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Texas A&M respectively. He also holds an MBA from University of California, Davis. Tahmid enjoys outdoor activities including sightseeing and hiking.
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Tahmid Rahman
- Intel Corp
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Accelerating Cloud Computing with Intel Solid-State Drive Technology
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Deploying the Cloud
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Tahmid Rahman works as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group for Intel Corporation. His primary responsibilities include creation of product collateral/solutions for current data center SSDs, benchmarking and competitive market and customer requirement analysis for future product planning.
Prior Tahmid was involved in mixed signal design for Flash Memory and Chipset products. Tahmid has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Texas A&M respectively. He also holds an MBA from University of California, Davis. Tahmid enjoys outdoor activities including sightseeing and hiking.
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Frank Rego
- SUSE
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Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the Service-Oriented Data Center
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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Frank Rego is Business Development Manager at SUSE, the original provider of the enterprise Linux distribution and the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing. He has been with SUSE since 1999 and works with technology partners to define and bring to market best of breed solutions for enterprise and cloud computing.
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Andrew Renz
- Code 42
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Danger Ahead: Why File Sync is NOT Endpoint Backup
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Andrew Renz is Principal Enterprise Engineer at Code 42. Before that he spent six years at Apple IS&T where he architected global NetBoot/NetInstall deployments, software distribution solutions and desktop backup solutions. As Principal Enterprise Engineer, Renz is instrumental in architecting and deploying global backup and DR solutions for the Fortune 500.
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David Reoch
- Gigamon
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See Inside Your Cloud
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Infrastructure Management -------------- Virtualization
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David Reoch is a cloud computing design veteran specializing in the architecture of global, highly-available fault-tolerant data center infrastructures. Previous to his role as Sr. Director of Cloud Solutions at Gigamon, he served as Sr. Enterprise Technologist of Cloud, Hyperscale and Virtualization at Dell and principal architect of HP's Enterprise Cloud Services. He has been an information security practitioner for 20 years and became a CISSP in 2004.
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Paul Roberts
- Coraid
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When Cloud Meets Enterprise – Building Clouds for Complex IT Environments
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Enterprise Cloud Computing
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An extremely technical and seasoned technologist who has spent the last decade engineering and implementing large scale infrastructure and security architectures for organizations of all sizes - ranging from startup to Fortune 500. Today, Paul is a principal architect at Coraid responsible for engineering custom solutions for customers and helping build reliable and scalable storage infrastructures by way of the enterprise-class Ethernet SAN technology developed in house. Prior to Coraid, Paul was the the lead architect for Carpathia's cloud solution, deploying numerous multi–petabyte cloud storage solutions that deliver hundreds of gigabytes of Internet traffic. Paul was also instrumental in architecting Carpathia's federal and commercial cloud platforms, while playing a key role in the on–boarding of customer's applications into the Carpathia cloud platform.
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Paul Roberts
- Coraid
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When Cloud Meets Enterprise – Building Clouds for Complex IT Environments
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Deploying the Cloud
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An extremely technical and seasoned technologist who has spent the last decade engineering and implementing large scale infrastructure and security architectures for organizations of all sizes - ranging from startup to Fortune 500. Today, Paul is a principal architect at Coraid responsible for engineering custom solutions for customers and helping build reliable and scalable storage infrastructures by way of the enterprise-class Ethernet SAN technology developed in house. Prior to Coraid, Paul was the the lead architect for Carpathia's cloud solution, deploying numerous multi–petabyte cloud storage solutions that deliver hundreds of gigabytes of Internet traffic. Paul was also instrumental in architecting Carpathia's federal and commercial cloud platforms, while playing a key role in the on–boarding of customer's applications into the Carpathia cloud platform.
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Yaniv Rodenski
- Sala Group
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Big Time – Introducing Hadoop on Azure
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Big Data
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Yaniv Sala a Senior Architect at Sela Group. He specializes in developing large scale applications focusing on HTTP-based APIs. He's also a cloud expert specializing in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data solutions, and has been leading projects based on Windows Azure in recent years. Sala is a co-author of “Building Windows Azure and Web Services” Microsoft Official Course. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, and is the founder and co-manager of the Windows Azure community in Israel.
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Jesus Rodriguez
- KidoZen
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Emerging Cloud Computing Models: Introducing the Mobile-First Cloud
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Jesus Rodriguez is a co-founder and CEO of KidoZen, an enterprise mobile-first platform as a service redefining the future of enterprise mobile solutions. He is also the co-founder to Tellago, an award winning professional services firm focused on big enterprise software trends. Under his leadership, KidoZen and Tellago have been recognized as innovators in the areas of enterprise software and solutions achieving important awards like the Inc 500, Stevie Awards’ American and International Business Awards.
A software scientist by background, Rodriguez is an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include hundreds of articles and sessions at industry conferences. He serves as an advisor to several software companies such as Microsoft and Oracle, sits on the board of different technology companies and is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to software technology and entrepreneurship. You can gain valuable insight on business and software technology through his blogs at www.jrodthoughts.com and www.weblogs.asp.net/gsusx.
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Paul Rogers
- GE Software
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Interconnected Machines and the Future of Energy
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Hot Topics
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Paul Rogers is chief development officer for GE’s Global Software Headquarters. He is responsible for creating software and service applications across GE's business units. At GE, he has received the Energy Engineering "Product Quality" and GE Quality Leadership awards. He holds an MS in Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University.
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Henrik Rosendahl
- Quantum Corporation
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Predicting the Future of Cloud Based Data Protection
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Henrik Rosendahl is Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions, at Quantum Corporation. Prior to its acquisition by Quantum, he was CEO of Pancetera prior. Before that he was VMware's Director of Application Virtualization, following VMware's acquisition of Thinstall where he was CEO. He founded In2itive Technologies in 1992. Rosendahl was also formerly the CEO of Interse A/S, EVP at PremiTech and VP at IT Factory.
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Majed Saadi
- SRA International
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Building the Case for a Cloud-Based Government
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Deploying the Cloud
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Majed Saadi is the Director of the Cloud Computing Practice at SRA International. His practice encompasses service areas from Cloud Strategy Development to Cloud Management and all areas in between Cloud Readiness, Cloud Engineering, and Cloud Modernization. He has served as a thought leader at many Federal Systems Integrators and he has over 16 years of experience in the areas of IT Strategy Development, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Systems Management. Majed holds a master’s degree in IT Management from UVA and several industry certifications including TOGAF 9, ITIL Expert, ISO 20000 Certified Consultant, and Management of Risk (MoR) Certified.
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Dr. Daniel Sabbah
- IBM
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Opening Keynote | Convergence & Interoperability Will Define Next-Generation Cloud Architectures
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Dr. Daniel Sabbah has recently been named as CTO and General Manager, Next Generation Platform, at IBM Corp. He has responsibility for aligning direction IBM is pursuing around cloud and mobility to a more coherent, next generation architecture. Involved will be Software (middleware and application services), servers/storage/networking in software defined infrastructure leading to more dynamic and scalable IBM Cloud Services. Balancing innovation with preservation and optimization of existing investments for our clients and customers in that next generation architecture is the goal.
Prior to his current role, Sabbah served as general manager of Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. He was responsible for the strategic direction and ongoing operations for the Tivoli brand, which at the forefront of IBM’s Smarter Planet strategy, manages today’s dynamic infrastructures, giving customers the ability to manage resources and risks, optimize human capital and manage service levels and business processes. Tivoli offers solutions in seven key service areas: Integrated Service Management, Asset Management, Storage Management, Security Management, Application Management, Network Management and Energy Management.
Prior that, Danny Sabbah served as general manager, IBM Rational Software, leading IBM’s efforts to advance the discipline of software development. He has also previously served as chief technology officer for IBM Software Group, overseeing strategic direction and leading the evolution of IBM's middleware technology and architecture. He began his IBM career in 1974, focusing on telecommunications software, then moved to IBM Research where he was responsible for artificial intelligence research, programming languages, and finally, software technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1981, where he specialized in artificial intelligence and computer vision.
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Ajit Sagar
- Infosys
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Delivering Digital Marketing on the Cloud
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Ajit Sagar is Associate VP, Digital Transformation Practice at Infosys Limited. A seasoned IT executive with 20+ years experience across various facts of the industry including consulting, business development, architecture and design he is architecture consulting and delivery lead for Infosys's Digital Transformation practice. He was also the Founding Editor of XML Journal and Chief Editor of Java Developer's Journal.
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Emil Sayegh
- Codero Hosting
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Cloud Computing Needs a Hybrid to Thrive
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Emil Sayegh is President & CEO of Codero Hosting. He is a pioneer in cloud computing and is credited with launching and leading the very successful cloud computing and hosting businesses for Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace. In January 2012 he joined Codero Hosting. Before that, he was the Vice President of Cloud Service at HP where he led HP's entry into public cloud services. Prior to HP, he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Computing Division at San Antonio-based Rackspace, the leading global provider of hosted IT services.
During his tenure with Rackspace, Sayegh led the company into the public cloud market and positioned it to effectively compete with the likes of Amazon AWS. He also served as Vice President of the Product Group for Rackspace, a position in which he oversaw the global product roadmap and led the successful launch of the Private Cloud service and the Hosted Exchange service.
Prior to joining Rackspace, he spent more than 15 years in the IT industry in various roles. With Dell he served as Services Marketing Director and oversaw the global services roadmap development and marketing organization. Additionally, he served in leadership positions at several notable companies including RLX Technologies (acquired by HP), Compaq Computers (acquired by HP) and W.L. Gore and Associates. He holds nine patents.
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Swaroop Sayeram
- McAfee, Inc.
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IaaS & Shadow-IT: Make Sure Security Isn't An Afterthought
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Cloud Storage, Security & Performance
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Swaroop Sayeram is a Group Product Manager at McAfee responsible for Datacenter & Server Security. His area of focus is the design and marketing of security solutions for IaaS Public Clouds. He holds patents on server security techniques, and has helped design McAfee's server security products over the past 8 years. Swaroop is a part-time MBA student at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and has a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
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Marc Sewtz
- Oracle
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Build Modern Business Applications with Oracle Cloud's Platform Services
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Marc Sewtz is a Senior Software Development Manager at Oracle Corporation in New York. With over sixteen years of industry experience, Marc held roles in Consulting, Sales and Product Development and now manages a global team of Software Developers and Product Managers in the Oracle Application Express (APEX) development group, part of Oracle Database Tools. Marc and his team are responsible for features such as the development of Mobile Web Applications with APEX, Reporting and Charting, Tabular Forms, Oracle Forms to APEX conversion and integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. Marc has a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany.
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Nati Shalom
- GigaSpaces Technologies
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Big Data on OpenStack
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Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO at GigaSpaces, is a thought leader in Cloud-Computing and Big-Data Technologies. Shalom was recently recognized as a Top Cloud Computing Blogger for CIO’s by The CIO Magazine and his blog listed as an excellent blog by *technical founders* by YCombinator. Shalom is also the founder of the IGTCloud, and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
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Sanjay Sharma
- Impetus Technologies
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Building a Real Time Analytics Platform on Big Data in the Cloud
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Big Data
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Sanjay holds the prestigious position of Principal Architect at Impetus, and has been working as a Solution/Technical architect in Big Data and Cloud technologies for the last four years. Before joining Impetus, Sanjay acquired 15 years of experience in the software industry, and has also played pivotal roles in other industries, including healthcare, finance, CRM, manufacturing, and banking/insurance. He has extensive experience with cardinal technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, MongoDB, MPP DW, and Java/J2EE/SOA, which allowed him to pioneer the Hadoop India Linked-in group. Sanjay is highly venerated for his technological insight, and is invited to speak regularly at HPC/Big data, Cloud, and Agile events. He is an also an active contributor to open source.
Sanjay earned a maters degree in automation engineering from Russian People's Friendship University.
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John Shaw
- Nimbo
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Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
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Deploying the Cloud
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John Shaw is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nimbo, a cloud services provider headquartered in New York City. A serial entrepreneur and technology professional with over 15 years of enterprise level experience, his passion for cloud computing began with spearheading migrations for some of the largest global organizations. He has a deep technical and business knowledge of the Cloud and is a published author in this space. He offers a global perspective as a US citizen, permanent resident of Australia and New Zealand, India business visa holder, and EU Citizen.
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Jill Tummler Singer
- Tummler Singer Associates
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Jill Tummler Singer recently completed 27 years of direct Federal Service and is the CEO for Tummler Singer Associates, LLC., a woman-owned consulting firm. Her last federal assignment was as the Chief Information Officer for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) where she was responsible for Information Technology, Information Assurance, and Information Management. The NRO, as part of the 16-member Intelligence Community, plays a primary role in achieving information superiority for the U.S. Government and Armed Forces. Prior to joining the NRO, she served as the Deputy CIO for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Jill Singer has served in several senior leadership positions within the Federal Government including Director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service, U.S. Department of State and Chief of Systems Engineering, Architecture, and Planning for CIA’s global infrastructure organization. She has held industry positions with Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC), GE Aerospace, and IBM. She received her MS in Systems Analysis and BS in Computer Science from the University of West Florida. She is a graduate of several leadership programs including the Federal Executive Leadership Program and the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Executive Leaders Program.
Currently she serves as an Executive-on-Ground for the UVA McIntire School of Commerce and as a member of the AFCEA Cyber Committee. She has received numerous awards including CloudNow Legacy Award (2013); Top Ten Global Breakaway CIO (2012); Top Ten Women in Cloud (2012); Ten Most Powerful Women in Federal Technology (2011); CIA Mentor of the Year (2010); CIO Executive Council “Ones to Watch” (2010); and CIO Magazine Stand-Out Award for Collaboration and Influence (2010). She is also an accomplished speaker and published author http://jillsinger.ulitzer.com.
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Duke Skarda
- SoftLayer
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General Session | Evolving Cloud Computing Models: Comparing Public Virtual, Bare Metal and Private Clouds
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Duke Skarda is CTO of SoftLayer. He joined SoftLayer in November 2010. As the CTO, he holds responsibilities for implementing, designing and enhancing the proprietary SoftLayer Infrastructure Management System (IMS). Prior to joining SoftLayer, he served as the VP of Information Technology & Software Development at The Planet. He served in this role from June 2009 to October 2010.
Previously, Skarda spent 10 years with Level 3 Communications in a series of increasingly responsible positions. As Senior Vice President for its Content Markets Group, he led Engineering and IT development for its Content Distribution Network platform and IT support systems. As SVP for IT Architecture & Application Development, he led a broad range of programs, including business process management, order-entry and service assurance development. He also served as Vice President of IT Architecture, where he led the development of a long-range systems roadmaps, systems merger and acquisition planning, and the development of the company's Enterprise Architecture team. Additionally, he has four years of experience with Sprint.
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Esther Spanjer
- SMART Storage Systems
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Lowering Storage TCO: Understanding SSD Technology to Avoid the Rip-and-Replace Game
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Esther Spanjer is Director of SSD Technical Marketing at SMART Storage Systems. She has more than 15 years of industry experience in flash technology, making her highly knowledgeable on requirements for flash-based storage solutions in embedded, industrial and enterprise storage applications. Spanjer formerly worked for msystems and STEC.
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Paul Speciale
- Appcara
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Launching Hadoop into the Cloud in Three Clicks
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Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara where he leads the Marketing and Alliances for AppStack. He is fortunate to have been part of several early Cloud computing companies, including VP Product Management at Q-layer, one of the first cloud orchestration companies (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2009), Savvis – where he lead the launch of the Savvis VPDC service, and Amplidata, a leader in cloud storage solutions. He has over 20 years of experience with a number of startups and Fortune 500 companies in storage, data management, and cloud computing.
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Raghavan Srinivas
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Many Clouds and APIs But One OpenStack and jclouds
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Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is an Architect & Developer Advocate looking at new technology directions and trends. His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in cloud computing, mobility and security. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. He has evangelized and influenced the architecture of a number of technology areas including the early releases of JavaFX, Java, Java EE, Java and XML, Java ME, AJAX and Web 2.0, Java Security and so on. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.
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Krishna Subramanian
- Citrix
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Radhika Subramanian
- Emcien
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The Answer to Data Scientist Scarcity Lies in Automation
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Cloud Computing & Big Data
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Emcien CEO Radhika Subramanian is a seasoned entrepreneur with decades of experience helping large organizations utilize the insight buried within their data. A sought-after presenter and speaker, she is a regular contributor to trade and national publications, including Forbes, SmartData Collective and IndustryWeek.
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Chris Swenson
- WebMD Health Services
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Enterprise Bare Metal and Virtualization Move to CloudStack
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Chris Swenson is Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services. He works with technology teams in all areas to collaborate and move from clunky non-scalable bare metal to flexible auto scaling cloud solutions.
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Richard Taggart
- SHI
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Rich Taggart is CTO at SHI. He has over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles in IT and management. Prior to joining SHI, he was the Senior Vice President and Corporate CIO at the Walt Disney Company in Burbank, California. In this role, he was responsible for support of the Disney Corporate organization which included brand management, finance, human resources, legal, and other corporate functions and for support of departmental and global shared services applications.
Prior to joining Disney, Taggart spent 5 years working as the head of Enterprise Architecture and IT Standards at the General Motors Corporation as well as 15 years with Bristol-Myers Squibb where he served as the Director of Global Architecture.
His experience in IT ranges from assembler systems programming through executive management. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Internet Home Alliance as well as the Vice President of the Liberty Alliance, a global technology standards organization. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Deans Council at California Polytechnic University, in San Luis Obispo, CA.
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Manjula Talreja
- Cisco
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The Who, What and How of Selling Cloud to SMBs
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Manjula Talreja is Vice President Global Cloud Business Development for Cisco, where she is creating new business models and partnerships with technology vendors, SPs and SIs in cloud. In addition to her focus on key customers and partners, she is helping shape the next phase of Cisco’s enterprise cloud strategy. She is a highly sought-after industry thought-leader, and was recently named to CableFAX Magazine’s ‘Most Powerful Women in Cable 2012’.
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Everett Toews
- Rackspace Hosting
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Doc or Die: How Documentation Can Make or Break Your Cloud Platform
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Everett Toews is a Developer Advocate at Rackspace making OpenStack and the Rackspace Cloud easy to use for developers. Sometimes developer, sometimes advocate, and sometimes operator. He's a committer on jclouds and co-author of the OpenStack Operations Guide. In the past he has built web applications, taught workshops, given presentations around the world, and deployed OpenStack in production.
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Everett Toews
- Rackspace Hosting
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Many Clouds and APIs But One OpenStack and jclouds
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Deploying the Cloud
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Everett Toews is a Developer Advocate at Rackspace making OpenStack and the Rackspace Cloud easy to use for developers. Sometimes developer, sometimes advocate, and sometimes operator. He's a committer on jclouds and co-author of the OpenStack Operations Guide. In the past he has built web applications, taught workshops, given presentations around the world, and deployed OpenStack in production.
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Andrew Trossman
- IBM
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IBM and OpenStack Together: Accelerating Cloud Adoption and ROI
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Andrew Trossman is Distinguished Engineer, IBM Common Cloud Stack. He specializes in cloud computing and is an expert in deployment automation, datacenter virtualization, and cloud computing. In 2000 he co-founded ThinkDynamics, an early developer of utility computing software. The company was acquired by IBM in 2003 as part of its journey towards Cloud Computing. Since the acquisition, Trossman has continued to push the boundaries of cloud technologies inside IBM.
Recognized as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, he leads the IBM Common Cloud Stack - the technology behind IBM’s cloud portfolio such as SmartCloud Entry from STG, SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Orchestrator from Tivoli and IWD/PureApp from AIM. IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack.
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Sergei Tsarev
- Clustrix
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Fast and Scalable Real-Time Analytics with Clustrix Database
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Big Data
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Sergei Tsarev is CTO and Co-Founder of Clustrix. Before that he led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL, designing large-scale monitoring and configuration management systems. His accomplishments include developing the Simple Time-series Database (STDB), a high performance data storage engine for operational monitoring metrics. STDB uses commodity hardware to linearly scale to hundreds of thousands of writes per second.
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Joe Vaccaro
- Citrix Systems
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Jelle Frank van der Zwet
- Interxion
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Clouds Unchained - How Enterprises Will Seek a Better Network to the Cloud
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SDN & Networking Innovations
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Jelle Frank (JF) van der Zwet is the Global Marketing Manager for Interxion and responsible for its fast-growing cloud community. An experienced B2B marketeer with an interest for technology, he has published articles for TechCrunch and Wired and written white papers on latency, hybrid clouds and application migration. His industry experience includes tenures as senior manager in marketing and product management for Imtech, UPC, KPN and Schiphol Airport.
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Nicos Vekiarides
- TwinStrata
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Big Data into a Small Storage Package with Cloud Storage
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Nicos Vekiarides is the CEO & Co-Founder of TwinStrata. He has spent over 20 years in enterprise data storage, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur and founder in startup companies.Prior to TwinStrata, he served as VP of Product Strategy and Technology at Incipient, Inc., where he helped deliver the industry's first storage virtualization solution embedded in a switch.
Prior to Incipient, Vekiarides was General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard. Vekiarides came to HP with the acquisition of StorageApps where he was the founding VP of Engineering. At StorageApps, he built a team that brought to market the industry's first storage virtualization appliance. Prior to StorageApps, he spent a number of years in the data storage industry working at Sun Microsystems and Encore Computer. At Encore, he architected and delivered Encore Computer's SP data replication products that were a key factor in the acquisition of Encore's storage division by Sun Microsystems.
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Wayne Walls
- Rackspace Hosting
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Breaking Out: An Introduction to OpenStack Cells
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Wayne is an accomplished technical leader with over 10 years experience solving problems and developing solutions in startup, enterprise, and academic environments. Often faced with difficult challenges such as IT transformation, technology adoption and consultative selling, Wayne has consistently outperformed expectations by producing highly effective go-to-market plans, strategic implementation, and unique approaches to problems businesses face everyday.
With degrees in both Economics and Information Systems, Wayne has a valuable perspective when analyzing business initiatives. He’s a technology thought leader who can break down the complexities of migrations, mergers and acquisitions, technology assessments and brand evangelism among many other skills.
A technologist at heart with astute business insight, Wayne wants to help you take your business to the next level and keep driving profits no matter what challenges are ahead!
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Jennifer Walzer
- Backup My Info!, Inc. (BUMI)
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A Guide to Cloud-Based Data Recovery
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Cloud Architecture & Engineering
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Jennifer Walzer, CEO/Founder of BUMI, has extensive background in technology and business strategy consulting. She has been invited to speak on various topics such as disaster recovery and data security at major conferences and has been featured in national publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and more.
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Jason Warman
- Aspera, Inc.
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Enabling the Cloud for Big Data: ‘Infrastructure Agnostic’ Transport Technologies for Universal Big Data Storage and Workflows
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Jason Warman is Director of Sales Engineering at Aspera, Inc. He leads the architecture and deployment of Aspera installations, supporting complex use cases of high-speed file transport technologies across multiple industries. With over 15 years’ experience in information technology and services, Warman is an expert in cloud computing. He has held technical management positions at several organizations spanning education, healthcare and computer electronics. Before joining Aspera he spent seven years managing network and Linux systems at Harvard Law School.
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Jason Waxman
- Intel
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General Session | Building Open Interoperable Cloud Infrastructure
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Jason Waxman is a vice president in the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of the Cloud Platforms Group within Intel's Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. He manages Intel's business, products and technologies for cloud service providers, a rapidly growing data center business segment. Waxman oversees the company's technology development for cloud computing, including silicon components, optimized system design, data center management, security and facility optimization.
Waxman joined Intel in 1997 as a product marketing engineer and has spent his Intel career in enterprise and data center computing. Before leading the Cloud Platforms Group, he served as general manager of high-density computing and as marketing director of Intel Xeon platforms, leading the definition and introduction of several enterprise platforms. Before coming to Intel, Waxman worked in strategic planning and manufacturing for Emerson Electric, an industrial components company, and as a management consultant.
Waxman has held board roles in the Open Compute Foundation and the Server System Infrastructure Forum, and he managed Intel's role as technical advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance.
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Terry Woloszyn
- Leeward Security
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Securing Your Cloud
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Terry Woloszyn is Founder/CTO of Leeward Security Ltd. Prior to founding Leeward, he was the Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., the leading solution addressing cloud application adoption challenges of data privacy, residency, and security. He continues to serve on the board of directors of PerspecSys. Before that he held executive and leadership positions with the IBM Software Group, and CrossWorlds Software which pioneered Enterprise Application Integration. Woloszyn has been at the forefront of many emerging technologies and has helped establish a worldwide presence for a variety of software organizations including Siebel, Scopus (CRM/SFA), Gupta (DB), Information Builders (BI), and Netwise (RPC). |
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Ken Ziegler
- Logicworks
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VMware & Logicworks: Virtualization, Compliance, and Healthcare in the Cloud
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Ken Ziegler is CEO of Logicworks. He joined Logicworks in 2001 and his main goal is to create a growth-oriented culture where people and client satisfaction come first. He brings over a decade of managed IT services experience to Logicworks, most recently serving as the company’s CFO & COO. His previous experience includes working in Business Development at OVEN Digital and as a Systems Analyst at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
He is a member of the advisory board of the NYC Academy of Information Technology and serves on the Lincoln Center Business Council. He is also a Mentor in Columbia University’s Executive Master of Science in Technology Management program. He earned an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Binghamton University.
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