Financial services tend to be the early adopters of most technology and have forward-thinking developers on staff. However, only 30% of financial services data centers have been virtualized. Meanwhile, those prolific developers are either already using public cloud resources or are trying to. What will be the business impact of avoiding the cloud conversation?
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 enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing? Learn why building a private PaaS based on shared infrastructure and shared services is a natural strategy for enterprise IT departments. Learn how to get started with consolidation and standardization onto shared and elastically scalable platforms. This session discusses how enterprises can move toward a cloud computing model, building on a foundation of virtualization, engineered systems and management automation.
Rex Wang is Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle where he leads go-to-market plan! ning, sales enablement, marketing and demand generation for cloud computing, grid computing, virtualization, operating systems, management systems, MySQL and enterprise architecture. He joined Oracle through the acquisition of Sleepycat Software, where he was the Vice President of Marketing and led marketing, product management and partner development. Prior to Sleepycat, Rex headed Product Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Alliance Marketing for Openwave Systems. Before that, he was VP Product Marketing at Confer Software and a management consultant for CSC Index. He holds a BSEE degree from Caltech and MSEE and MBA degrees from Stanford University.
With substantial growth in cloud services, over 2.5 billion connected users, more than 1000 exabytes of internet traffic and 15 billion devices accessing cloud services by 2015, transforming datacenters to support this growth can be complex. To address the challenges facing IT and realize significant benefits of cloud computing, it's essential that cloud solutions are open, interoperable and built on standards. Jason Waxman, Intel Data Center Group GM, High Density Computing, will describe a multi-year vision for clouds that are federated, automated, and client aware and provide insights into relevant standards, next generation technologies that enable more secure, efficient, and simplified datacenters and best practices for deployment of interoperable cloud solutions that provide flexibility and choice.
Jason Waxman is the General Manager in Intel's Data Center Group responsible for High Density Servers. His role includes a focus on blade servers, Internet datacenters and technology for future dense data center architecture. He is also responsible for Intel's initiatives in Cloud Computing. Waxman holds executive positions in industry design efforts including the board of Blade.org and the Server System Infrastructure Forum. He has previously served as the director for Intel's Xeon(TM) processor and chipset product lines and the related platform enabling and customer relationships, and has spent the last 11 years of his Intel career in Enterprise computing focused on server products and technologies involved in the introduction of over 12 new platforms.
The Inevitability of an Open Cloud The advantages of using the cloud are apparent, but the approaches to the cloud are still in a heated industry debate. Renting cloud space from a vendor, private clouds, open clouds – just what is the best choice and where is the industry heading? While renting cloud space from a vendor seems easy, it is difficult to move off these clouds, especially problematic when you'd like to test another provider's cloud. Private clouds tie you into a verticalized stack, limiting flexibility and choice, not too mention are cost prohibitive. We are driving towards an open cloud, providing control and flexibility to users. An open cloud is the next reiteration of the web and what will power the web moving forward. John Engates, Chief Technology Officer at Rackspace, will talk about why the open cloud is inevitable and how OpenStack is leading the way.
John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August of 2000 and has worked in several areas of Rackspace including Operations, Professional Services and Customer Care. Most recently, Engates has been responsible for managing the ongoing development of Rackspace's Intensive segment. He was one of the leading forces behind Rackspace's Microsoft Gold Certification. Prior to joining Rackspace, Engates was a founder of Internet Direct, one of the oldest and largest Internet service providers in Texas.
While the Cloud is a common future for a majority of IT shops, we believe there are two principle cloud development concepts to examine before you develop or proceed too far with your cloud strategies. Should you take an evolutionary path and transform your existing IT environment to a cloud of service computing… or do you jump to the "head of the cloud", and revolutionize your approach with a comprehensive cloud solution… or both! CA Technologies is ready with solutions to advise, deliver and support choice and success… your choice and success as you follow your thoughtful and appropriate path to Cloud Computing.
In this session with Andi Mann (virtualization and cloud expert, author of 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud') we will examine your options and opportunities and inform you in clarifying goals and developing strategies that deliver.
Whether you are a mid-size business, a large enterprise, or a service provider the insights Andi shares to evolve your existing investment or revolutionize your IT deployment make this a must-see session for all attendees.
Andi Mann, vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, has over 20 years global experience within IT departments, with software vendors, and as a leading industry analyst. He has been widely published in the New York Times, USA Today, CIO, Computerworld, and more. He has presented worldwide on virtualization, cloud, automation, and IT management. Andi is a co-author of the popular handbook, 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud'; he blogs at http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann and tweets as @AndiMann.
Interxion will share their customer insights on cloud usage and adoption in European markets.
Jelle Frank van der Zwet manages the go-to-market of Interxion's Cloud Hubs - the pan-European marketing and product development program for Interxion's sizeable and fast-growing cloud community. He has over 10 years of experience working in the frontline of ICT product and business development. Prior to joining Interxion, Jelle Frank was responsible for product management and marketing of virtualization services at international technical services provider Imtech ICT. He was Sr. Marketing Manager KPN in the Netherlands, and he began his career working on the product development and marketing of internet, wireless networks and security services at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
You are interested in cloud computing, but where do you start? How are vendors and companies defining Cloud Computing? Do you know the differences between Public, Private, Community and Hybrid Clouds? What do you need to know to figure out which applications make sense in the cloud? And is any of this real today? Based on real-world customer engagements, this session explores a set of five patterns that you can use for moving to the cloud. Avoiding the general product pitches, this session provides the tools and knowledge to help you more clearly understand moving your organization to the cloud.
Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Unit of Microsoft Consulting Services. His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing .NET/SOA based frameworks used to jump-start development projects for financial services companies. Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers.
He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, co-founder of the Windows Azure User Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups.
He has been working with the Azure Services Platform, part of the Microsoft Cloud, since before the first public Community Technical Preview in 2008.
As cloud application adoption becomes pervasive throughout the enterprise, concerns around cloud data privacy, residency, and security continue to grow. A number of Enterprises are slowing, and even reversing, their cloud application adoption until they can address the concerns stemming from regulatory compliance requirements, industry standards, or internal policies surrounding sensitive data management. In this session, Terry will explore the "war on your cloud data", and what the enterprise can do to defend against the attacks on sensitive data in the clouds. With these defenses in place, the enterprise can move forward with cloud application adoption more securely.
Terry Woloszyn is Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., which is the leading solution addressing cloud application adoption challenges of data privacy, residency, and security. Prior to founding PerspecSys, he has 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). His extensive experience and knowledge is reflected in the PerspecSys PRS Solution today and is the primary reason he has emerged as one of the global thought leaders with respect to Cloud Data Governance Solutions.
In this General Session, Mark Hindsbo, VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, will provide an overview of the Windows Azure Platform. Cloud Expo delegates will learn about the key building blocks such as the only enterprise-grade RDBMS in the cloud, common application scenarios, interop capabilities such as Java & PHP, and remarkable examples of how the Azure platform has been used to date by small and large enterprises.
Mark Hindsbo is the Vice President of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (D&PE;) in the US and is a member Microsoft's North American Leadership team. D&PE; is responsible for driving adoption of Microsoft technologies with developers and other technical audiences - and works with customers and partners to build the next generation software solutions.
Many enterprises are struggling to develop a cloud computing strategy. Cloud computing seems like it ought to be a game-changing technology, but so often when the initial proof of concept is finished, it appears to have simply rearranged the deckchairs within a titanic IT department. The problem is, we have been trained through decades of IT implementation to focus on certain metrics. Unfortunately, those are the wrong ones. Consequently, when it comes to cloud computing, most of us are playing "small-ball."
To graduate to the big leagues, we need to step back and re-evaluate both the goals and the technologies themselves to find the big win. In this session, you'll get some perspective on how leading enterprise cloud adopters are swinging for the fences and running up the score.
Dave Roberts is Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing at ServiceMesh, Inc. He has two decades of experience in networking, computer engineering and strategic product development. Prior to his current role at ServiceMesh, he held a similar role at Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned the company as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and Vice-President of Strategy at Inkra Networks where he provided the data center networking strategy that captured a tier-one customer base including IBM, EDS, AT&T;, and NEC.
This session will provide a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. 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. Also, hear examples of how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture.
Bill Lowry is Vice President, Cloud Services at Terremark, where he leads strategic sales engagement and evangelism for the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions, working with large enterprises to help apply the power of the cloud to their IT strategies. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lowry was Vice President of Sales for Revere Security. Mr. Lowry has more than 20 years of experience integrating security, storage, network and data center technologies into solutions for utilities, telecommunications providers and Fortune 500 enterprises, with strategic roles at companies including EMC, 3Com, Brocade and Data Return. He earned a B.A. In Advertising from Texas Tech University and resides in Dallas with his wife and children.
Large-scale cloud computing has the unique properties of massive amounts of data twinned with huge aggregate performance requirements. Putting all the data on low-cost storage results in unacceptable performance, but putting all the data on high-performance storage results in unacceptable costs. This session explores the requirements for cloud storage and how it can best be implemented with a combination of hardware, software and process.
Stephen J. Sicola was the VP of the Advanced Storage Architecture group within Seagate Technology. Stephen has over 29 years in the storage industry, was a Compaq Fellow, former CTO of StorageWorks at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation. Stephen has led developments on several generations of storage arrays, storage architectures, and software & hardware teams. Stephen has 39 patents pending or granted in the areas of Storage Architecture, RAID, Fault Tolerance, Caching, Disaster Tolerance, and Virtualization.
Office 365 is the future of productivity and is the latest cloud service from Microsoft for organizations. Just as Office defines desktop productivity for millions around the world, Office 365 will define cloud productivity for the next generation of workers. After attending this session, you will have a clear understanding of what is coming in this great new service, partner opportunities, and the overall roadmap.
Eron Kelly is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Online Services. He is responsible for product planning, business management, partner strategy and marketing for Microsoft's software + services initiatives for businesses under the Microsoft Online umbrella. These services include Office Live Meeting, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Exchange Hosted Services. Prior to this role, Mr. Kelly worked on the BizTalk Server and E-Business team as the lead for business strategy, business management and product planning.
In this keynote discussing how leading enterprises are revolutionizing the delivery of IT today, the CEO of Adaptivity, Tony Bishop, is going to be showcasing multiple case studies and lessons learned of Global 2000 organizations that have radically changing the delivery of IT in their organizations by employing Cloud Utility IT models.
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.
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, driven by compelling advantages of higher efficiency and lower costs, rapid deployment and elastic scalability, organizations need a plan for moving from the current state toward cloud models based on shared services, self-service and metered use. How can organizations get started on the evolution to cloud computing? This session explores how enterprise IT can move toward a cloud computing model, building on a foundation of virtualization, engineered systems and management automation.
Rex Wang is Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle for cloud computing, grid computing, enterprise architecture, modernization and embedded/OEM products. Previously he was VP Marketing at Sleepycat Software, head of Global Product Marketing at Openwave Systems, and VP Product Marketing at Confer Software. He holds a BSEE from Caltech and MSEE and MBA from Stanford University.
Much is talked about the benefits of Cloud Computing in terms of the provision of IT resources; including cost reduction, increased efficiency, flexibility, resilience and so on. But implemented the right way, Cloud Computing also brings significant operational benefits to the application groups that consume those IT resources, particularly in the areas of agility, flexibility and autonomy. In this session, Pete Malcolm, CEO, Abiquo, will introduce the Virtual Enterprise, a next generation concept for consumers of Cloud resources which brings them unparalleled levels of functionality and control – at no risk to the IT infrastructure. Whether you are an enterprise looking to empower your application teams, or a hosting provider looking to provide next generation services to your customers, the Virtual Enterprise is the answer .
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.
"Through effective infrastructure engineering lifecycle management comes an enterprise cloud" In this general session, Adaptivity's Founder & CEO Tony Bishop is going to outline how enterprise IT organizations need to institute discipline and automated intelligence on an end to end basis across the design, build, run engineering lifecycle that is Cloud Codified™ .
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.
In this General Session, Mark Hindsbo, VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, will provide an overview of the Windows Azure Platform. Cloud Expo delegates will learn about the key building blocks such as the only enterprise-grade RDBMS in the cloud, common application scenarios, interop capabilities such as Java & PHP, and remarkable examples of how the Azure platform has been used to date by small and large enterprises.
Mark Hindsbo is the Vice President of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (D&PE;) in the US and is a member Microsoft's North American Leadership team. D&PE; is responsible for driving adoption of Microsoft technologies with developers and other technical audiences - and works with customers and partners to build the next generation software solutions.
The difference between cloud and dedicated solutions might not be as big as you think. In many ways, hosting providers delivered the cloud before it was even called that. And even as the cloud has taken on more specific definition, its greatest future is not in further differentiation but in greater integration. A cloud service's value increases exponentially when, instead of a standalone solution, it seamlessly integrates with dedicated servers and systems. That way, its high flexibility and cost-effectiveness can significantly increase total scalability and decrease total cost of operations for the entire environment, for organizations of all sizes and in any category.
Duke Skarda, Softlayer's CTO, will present a vision of on-demand data center services where it's impossible to say where the cloud starts and ends. He'll provide unique examples of current hybrid environment applications, as well as an insightful forecast of what features and advantages may soon be innovated, as service providers tether the cloud and all it has to offer.
Duke Skarda serves as SoftLayer's CTO. 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.
In this General Session, Cathy Minter will talk about how the Cloud can be leveraged today to enable innovation and creative business models for companies. The session will discuss how traditional Cloud infrastructures can be expanded to leverage business process management and workflow in the cloud to reduce costs and accelerate time to market. Minter will highlight success stories of leading edge businesses who use the Cloud as a new business channel to become more agile and competitive
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.
Despite the compelling business benefits of cloud computing, companies are becoming increasingly concerned about application performance in the cloud, and the dramatic impact that this can have in terms of lost revenue and lack of user adoption. In this session, Mark Hillman will outline the key issues that need to be addressed in managing the performance of these "borderless" applications, and present a new APM approach that mitigates the performance risks without jeopardizing the business benefits.
Mark leads strategy and implementation teams for Compuware products and services. He collaborates with customers, analysts and industry thought leaders to identify the most pressing IT issues businesses face today, while ensuring the strategic vision of Compuware's portfolio continue to solve these challenges. Before joining Compuware, Mark previously held several senior IT executive positions at General Motors.
Find out in this Lunchtime Keynote from SAP about what small, high-growth companies are experiencing as they make their move to on demand applications how they are dealing with concerns around security, integration, business disruption. Find out what benefits they are actually seeing, versus what they expected and what advice they are giving software companies to help them achieve long-term growth and profitability.
Shawn Reynolds is Global Director at SAP and responsible for go-to-market strategy and business development for the most significant product investment in company history, SAP Business ByDesign™. Before joining SAP, he held global leadership positions in the software industry developing markets in the United States, EMEA, and BRIC. Reynolds has nearly twenty years of experience leading entrepreneurial companies and has advised clients such as Procter & Gamble, TNT, Bank of America, Ogeda, TIM, Avaya, and Barclays on customer experience and on-demand business strategy. Shawn is active in the investment community in the United States and is a member of multiple venture and business associations. .
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.
David Milot is the managing partner for Unisys Technology Consulting and Integration Solutions (TCIS) in EMEA. His team is comprised of more than 800 consultants, architects, experts, and pre-sales resources. His organization has deep expertise and experience implementing mission-critical and data center transformation solutions for multiple clients across EMEA, as well as the associated application modernization and security solutions. Under David's leadership, the organization has shown strong growth over several years, and has become a recognized go-to partner.
No longer is the private cloud mere fodder for academic debate, it is an actionable, impactful strategy for reducing operating and capital expenses in the data center while increasing overall business agility. Attend this session to hear real-world case studies of how Quest (with recently acquired Surgient) is helping enterprise organizations realize the dramatic benefits of private cloud automation, including 75%+ capacity utilization and deployment in less than 30 days. Additionally, you'll learn about ideal use cases for initial private cloud implementations and top, enterprise-test strategies for successful deployments.
Brian Wilson is Director of Cloud Services at Quest. He is responsible for driving Quest client success as they plan, deploy, and manage private clouds across a wide range of use cases. With the Quest Cloud Automation Platform, Wilson and his team enable IT, government, and business leadership to create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) private clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise. Spanning both onsite cloud deployments and hosted engagements, his team has architected and delivered more than 160 successful private cloud deployments to some of the largest companies in the world, and they provide ongoing, in-depth analysis to help enterprise organizations scale with the cloud.
Whether you're a service provider looking to roll out new cloud-based services or an enterprise that wants to jump-start a private cloud initiative, you should know about a new approach to cloud computing that can help you realize results in less than 30 days. Attend this session to hear Adam Famularo, Cloud GM at CA Technologies explain how CA 3Tera AppLogic can help you quickly realize some of the cost efficiency and agility benefits that cloud computing promises.
Adam Famularo is general manager for CA Technologies' Cloud Computing, Customer Solutions unit, leading the team that brings to market the company's cloud computing solutions. In this role, he is responsible for key aspects of the cloud computing businesses, including setting the vision, business strategy, product management, product marketing and driving the overall P&L; for the business. Adam is keenly focused on understanding competitors and customers' needs while determining product and go-to-market requirements.
Companies today are looking to do more with less, while finding new ways to meet growing business demand. Cloud Computing is being touted as the cure-all but means many things to many people. In this Cloud Expo general session by VMware Neela Jacques will be exploring how companies are evolving their virtualized infrastructures to deliver many of the benefits of proprietary public clouds, without many of the downsides — by building focused Private Clouds and leveraging Public Cloud providers.
Nicolas (Neela) Jacques is a Group Manager, Product Marketing at VMware, the industry's leading virtualization platform provider. At VMware, he is focused VMware's Private Cloud initiative. In 2009, Mr. Jacques launched VMware's Application Performance Management product vCenter AppSpeed, and founded and launched VMware's first cloud computing initiative - the VMware Service Provider Program in 2007. Prior to VMware Mr. Jacques was a consultant with Bain & Company. Mr. Jacques has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and BS in economics from Georgetown University.
As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. As cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, and ask "what if?" when it comes to transforming their enterprise IT systems. In this General Session, Unisys's Sam Gross will help you to address the right questions and envision how you can move from where you are today, to where you need to be tomorrow, leveraging cloud's capabilities. What's driving you? What do you want to accomplish? What are the inhibitors?
Trends show clear benefits to moving to the cloud, but you also need to manage risk, ensure security, and manage your investment at your own pace. In this session, hear what steps you can take to build the cloud that's right for you - whether it's public, private or a hybrid solution - and move your mission-critical apps to a new generation of enterprise information systems.
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.
Chris Drumgoole, Terremark Senior Vice President of Client Services, will present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. 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, and learn how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture.
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.
A full description of this General Session will be posted shortly.
Jim Curry is General Manager and Chief Stacker of OpenStack, the recently launched open source cloud computing project. OpenStack was launched based on code contributions from Rackspace and NASA, and currently has nearly 30 companies supporting the project. He is responsible for driving all aspects of the OpenStack initiative, including major partnerships, community-driven development and adoption.
Cloud computing has moved beyond the early adoption phase, as enterprises are now using – or plan to use – cloud for their production environments. Enterprise adoption, however, brings a stricter set of requirements and expectations. Though enterprise customers see the clear business benefits of cloud – lower costs and increased business agility – they are wary of cloud services that don't adequately address their requirements. In this session, NaviSite will share its experiences as an enterprise-class cloud provider, and discuss the feature sets and requirements of a production-ready cloud, including role-based access; memory management; disaster recovery and business continuity; security; and support for hybrid clouds.
Denis Martin is EVP & Chief Technology Officer, NaviSite Inc. His role reflects his continued contributions to NaviSite's strategic direction, including acquisition activity, and product, service, and channel development. He brings 20 years of business experience and has served in several positions in the company, most recently as Sr. Vice President of Corporate Development. He has extensive experience in network-based computing and outsourced delivery of business solutions and managed services. Before joining NaviSite, Martin managed the national hosting and application services organization for AppliedTheory, Inc. He has also acted as a consultant to several state and federal agencies in developing network and application programs at local, state and national levels.
A full description of this General Session presentation by Cisco's Sr. Director of SP Data Center and Mobility Solutions will be posted shortly.
Simon Aspinall is Sr. Director of Cisco's SP Marketing organization. He leads teams responsible for marketing Cisco's mobility and data center solutions to Telecoms, Cable, Media and Broadcast customers worldwide. The team is responsible for developing, launching and driving successful marketing campaigns across the entire product range for Mobility and SP data-centers (including the evolution towards SP cloud computing). The strategic marketing activity includes a wide variety of virtual, viral and interactive marketing to complement traditional industry and direct marketing campaigns. Aspinall is a frequent speaker at industry events and a commentator on the IT, telecoms, and networking sectors.
Many companies are already experiencing the benefits of on-demand solutions. Learn about SAP's on-demand strategy and offerings, as well as how you can harness on-demand for competitive advantage. In this General Session by SAP's David Meyer and Nicholas Cumins you will hear SAP's on-demand strategy, obtain an overview of the portfolio offerings, and learn how on-demand can both extend investments.
Nicholas Cumins is Senior Vice President of Solution Management at SAP, responsible for bringing to market a new class of On-Demand solutions for Lines of Business. Through his more than 10 years in the company, in diverse functions like consulting, business development, corporate strategy and product management, and through tenures in multiple countries including France, Germany and USA, Nicholas has championed the need to consider business issues though different lenses to deliver the best possible solutions. He is passionate about delivering ground-breaking and simply useful business software and is a tireless proponent of highly creative and people-centric design thinking combined with strategic focus and pragmatic execution. A native of France, now firmly ensconced in the Silicon Valley, Nicholas holds two Master's degrees from the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas, in Law and Business.
Enterprise Cloud Management is what makes the Cloud technically feasible. Conceptually, it adds the control layer to allow organizations to move beyond the limitations of first generation virtualization technology to build a truly scalable Cloud infrastructure embracing private, public and hybrid models. But a Cloud implementation that works technically, without understanding and resolving business requirements like security, compliance, governance, optimization and cost control, is fundamentally flawed. In reality, the Cloud won't work for you, but against you. Fortunately, there is another way … Join Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm to learn how Business Policy is the missing link in Enterprise Cloud Management, and how it could truly make the Cloud work for your organization.
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.
Office 365 is the future of productivity and is the latest cloud service from Microsoft for organizations. Just as Office defines desktop productivity for millions around the world, Office 365 will define cloud productivity for the next generation of workers. After attending this session, you will have a clear understanding of what is coming in this great new service, partner opportunities, and the overall roadmap.
Eron Kelly is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Online Services. He is responsible for product planning, business management, partner strategy and marketing for Microsoft's software + services initiatives for businesses under the Microsoft Online umbrella. These services include Office Live Meeting, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Exchange Hosted Services. Prior to this role, Mr. Kelly worked on the BizTalk Server and E-Business team as the lead for business strategy, business management and product planning.
Much is talked about the benefits of Cloud Computing in terms of the provision of IT resources; including cost reduction, increased efficiency, flexibility, resilience and so on. But implemented the right way, Cloud Computing also brings significant operational benefits to the application groups that consume those IT resources, particularly in the areas of agility, flexibility and autonomy. In this session, Pete Malcolm, CEO, Abiquo, will introduce the Virtual Enterprise, a next generation concept for consumers of Cloud resources which brings them unparalleled levels of functionality and control – at no risk to the IT infrastructure. Whether you are an enterprise looking to empower your application teams, or a hosting provider looking to provide next generation services to your customers, the Virtual Enterprise is the answer .
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.
