The “root cause” of IT delivery limitations is directly linked to how systems are designed, built and implemented. Designing and implementing Cloud in an Enterprise requires a multi-dimensional design approach. In this session an Industry pioneer will walk through how to create a tailored Cloud blueprint for their Enterprise IT.
You wouldn’t build a building without a blueprint, right? So why would you build a Cloud for IT without a blueprint?
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for the company's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.
Virtualization is one of the key foundations of the Cloud, but many enterprises are finding the rapid growth in the number of virtual machines extremely difficult to manage. Far from reducing provisioning times and improving utilization, many organizations have found that “virtualization sprawl” has reduced the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure teams, and failed to make anticipated cost savings. Furthermore, vendor lock-in has resulted in the artificially high expense of maintaining virtualized environments.
Join Pete Malcolm, CEO Abiquo, to learn how next generation virtualization management can completely eliminate vendor lock-in, substantially reduce provisioning times, realize utilization goals and ultimately achieve the cost savings promised by the virtualization ideal.
Pete Malcolm is CEO of Abiquo, a leading vendor of Cloud infrastructure management solutions. Described by SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan as “a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing”, Malcolm is the inventor of the term “Resource Cloud”, a concept which provides complete separation between physical infrastructure providers and virtual enterprise consumers, with substantial benefits to both. Malcolm was previously founder and CTO of Orchestria, Benchmark Capital’s first European Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and a Senior Vice President with CA, Inc.
As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, Automation, Service Management, and Security.
Cloud technology and virtualization of virtually everything means rethinking the economic models around physical infrastructure, the emergence of a new class of providers as well as a greater degree of standardization around virtualized OS & Middleware configurations. There are increasing expectations from consumers of data center services - instant provisioning & de-provisioning, just for openers. And with a new generation of workers that expect anytime, anywhere access to corporate data, securing your data outside of your data center walls has become a greater business imperative albeit far more difficult. In this session, Cloud Expo delegates will learn what you need to consider to ensure your enterprise’s foray into cloud computing successfully and securely meets the needs of your enterprise, today and tomorrow.
Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader in business and IT alignment, application management, service level management and enterprise systems management. His experience spans financial services, telecommunications, federal contracting, retail and manufacturing. With more than 20 years of experience leading transformational IT change in the United States and abroad, Gross has driven innovation across strategic planning, IT process reengineering and implementation, and technology and product management. Before joining Unisys, he was responsible for global architecture and engineering at CSC. Follow him on Twitter.
Rising from the ashes of this unprecedented economic upheaval, leading enterprises are fundamentally rethinking the way they do business. By transforming their business processes in the cloud, they expect to improve all of their Key Performance Indicators by an order of magnitude all at once. They are also fortifying their value chains through collaboration in these business clouds, to create extreme ecosystem gravitational pull for clients, suppliers and partners. This session focuses on enterprise case studies which point to the real value of leveraging the business cloud as a change agent for creating and launching new products quickly, catalyzing process innovation and agility, competing on a global scale; and collaborating with multi-tier customers/suppliers -- galvanizing ecosystem-wide continuous business transformation. Moreover, it will arm participants with a set of immediate questions to assess their enterprises' readiness for the extreme competition that the Cloud will create.
Catherine Minter is President of Cordys Americas. She is responsible for Americas P&L;, and delivering solutions for companies dealing with the complex task of addressing business transformation challenges in organizations through systems innovation, reducing costs while increasing agility. Catherine brings 18 years of technology and software industry experience to this rapidly growing organization. Prior to joining Cordys, Cathy was VP of SAP’s Enterprise Accounts and built a fast-paced team, where she successfully moved SAP into the mid-market Communications and Manufacturing sectors. Prior to SAP, Cathy held various Strategic Sales Positions within Oracle’s Communications Industry.
Today it’s hard to read any technology news that doesn’t include an emerging technology or new products with the cloud moniker attached. We’ve gone from the vague to absurd, so it’s no wonder technology professionals and IT teams are concerned. Coupled with confusing facts about saving time and money, the marketplace has hit a frenetic scale in deciding how to adopt cloud at virtually any level.
The Planet’s Duke Skarda takes a contrarian point of view to help his audience discern the differences by previewing the ‘real’ adoption curve. He’ll look at ‘silver bullets’ from days past and underscore where cloud adoption makes sense, accompanied by use cases that support his theories.
The audience will learn to evaluate cloud decisions, decide what makes sense for their respective companies and set a path for evaluating opportunities.
Duke Skarda serves as The Planet’s vice president of information technology and software development. In this role, he holds responsibilities for the company’s entire span of IT activities, including core IT operations, and software development and implementation for customer-facing solutions. Skarda is the resident senior executive in the company’s Dallas offices.
Prior to joining The Planet, Skarda spent 10 years with Level 3 Communications in a series of increasingly responsible positions. As senior vice president for its Content Markets Group, Skarda led engineering and IT development for its content distribution network platform and IT support systems. As senior vice president for IT architecture and application development, he led a broad range of programs, including business process management, and order-entry and service assurance development. Skarda also served as vice president of IT architecture, where he led the development of a long-range systems roadmap, systems merger and acquisition planning, and the development of the company’s enterprise architecture team.
Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance. learn how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture. Chris Drumgoole, Terremark Senior Vice President of Client Services, will in this session present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers.
Chris Drumgoole is Senior Vice President of Client Services at Terremark where he has responsibility for customer service, sales enablement and support. Previously, Chris served as SVP Product Development and Engineering. Chris brings over 15 years of technology and financial services IT industry experience to Terremark. He has completed design and architecture work for large retail trading platforms, high traffic consumer web properties, computing / storage grids and other complex systems. Chris has also completed significant work in the area of commercial data center design and operations. His prior experience includes both leadership and technologist positions with the Toronto Dominion Bank, IBM, MasterCard International, Cable & Wireless and Exodus/Savvis. Chris studied Information Systems at Pace University in New York.
Third Generation outsourcing is here! First Generation was "your mess for less"; Second Generation is strategic or selective sourcing, including hosting. Third Generation Outsourcing, as a result of the emergence of Cloud Computing, stands to materially revolutionize and challenge traditional outsourcing models like no previous models have. The Cloud also delivers an opportunity for the wider adoption of existing enterprise applications in a SaaS model.
In this general session Marty Gauvin - Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark - will challenge your traditional views of outsourcing, cloud security, SaaS and adoption of public cloud services by Fortune 1000 companies globally.
Marty Gauvin is the Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark. He is also Founder and Chairman of Tier 5, a company that designs, builds and operates data center parks and a Director of Playford Capital. Prior to Virtual Ark, Gauvin founded and led the publicly listed company, Hostworks, as CEO for over 10 years to its successful sale in 2008 for $68.9M to the Macquarie Group. He is also a member of the Microsoft Service Provider Partner Advisory Council, the Dell Asia-Pacific Platinum Advisory Council, and various government innovation committees established to invest Government capital into selected venture capital funds.
Join Brian Wilson, Surgient VP of Services & Support, in this 30-minute session, as he shares his insights on how to leverage your existing infrastructure to create a private cloud in less than 30 days with Surgient. As the leader in enterprise cloud automation software, Surgient leverages leading virtualization and systems management technologies to automate the deployment and management of complex, user-centric IT services. Through a patented, just-in-time self-service approach, administrators and users access dynamic resource pools (clouds) on-demand and through guaranteed reservations. Using Surgient, world-class companies are reducing capital costs, increasing operational efficiency, improving compliance and driving overall business agility.
With 16-plus years of experience, Brian Wilson is responsible for Surgient customer success, from initial cloud design and deployment to ongoing customer support. He has a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama.
