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What's Under the Hood of Cloud Computing?

EMC/Intel/Unisys Live Webinar coming up on SYS-CON.TV, 8 December 2009

Live From Times Square

This coming Tuesday, December 8, at 2:00PM EST, SYS-CON.TV will be broadcasting live from its 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests will be looking “under the hood” of the fastest-growing new trend in all of Enterprise IT – Cloud Computing.

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Titled "What Lies Beneath – Technologies Critical to Successful Cloud Computing," the discussion will focus on the infrastructure that supports the cloud, such as servers, storage, virtualization, automation, chargeability, self service, and security.



The three panelists are from EMC, Intel and Unisys, as follows:

Daniel Weiss is a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support team at Unisys - a group of former IT executives from global companies with extensive experience in managing and transforming large scale IT operations. He joined Unisys in February 2008 from Dow Jones and Company, Inc. where he was Director of Shared Storage Services. In 1999, he was part of the original team of Factiva - a highly successful business information startup that was eventually solely acquired by Dow Jones and Company, Inc. in 2007. His role at Factiva was to direct the infrastructure strategy and operational implementation supporting both the product (revenue generating) business, as well as the corporate infrastructure. This included server, storage, and network infrastructures supporting the development, integration, production, and business continuity environments.

Dave Cohen, Chief Architect, is responsible for the overall architectural design direction for EMC. With 2008 revenues of $14.9 billion and approximately 40,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. With a career spanning over 25 years, he joined EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Group earlier this year. Prior to joining EMC, Cohen worked in the Financial Services industry designing/building on large scale distributed systems. He was most recently a Senior Storage Strategist with Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch, where his focus was in the areas of low-latency and utility computing issues.

Jeff Casazza is Director of Data Center Security Technologies for the Xeon processor at Intel. He joined Intel in 1988 and has contributed to various projects including MCS 96, programmable logic devices, and the i860 and Itanium processor families. The current focus is using hardware features to improve encryption performance and make platforms more resistant to low level software attacks. He holds a BSEE degree from Arizona State University and is based in Santa Clara, California.

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