In this Cloud Expo Keynote, Henry Fastert, SHI's Chief Technologist and Managing Partner, will share insight on how the latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of the enterprise mission critical applications. These mission-critical applications require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance, and is highly resilient. The purpose of the keynote is to highlight how the latest cloud computing designs have evolved in terms of security, availability, and overall service quality to meet the needs of mission critical applications.
Henry Fastert is Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, where he has overall responsibility for the SHI Enterprise Solution Services (ESS) Group. Leveraging over 25 years of IT experience, his responsibilities include both strategic and operational direction for ESS, as well as providing expertise on infrastructure design, data center consolidation, and technology consolidation to SHI's largest customers.
Last year, cloud computing pundits predicted that 2012 would be the year when the clouds would open. They were right as cloud computing enthusiasts all over are embracing the open ecosystem; however, denying one vendor the right to serve as the de facto API is only the tip of the iceberg of this computing climate change. Join Rackspace Chief Technology Officer John Engates as he discusses the open ecosystem and how ultimately, winning cloud technologies will be based on the ecosystem they represent.
John Engates is CTO of Rackspace. He joined the company in August 2000, just a year after it was founded, as VP of Operations, managing the datacenter operations and customer-service teams. Two years later, when Rackspace decided to add new services for larger enterprise customers, he created and helped develop the Intensive Hosting business unit
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and roadmap for moving to the cloud. Faced with different options including building a private cloud, subscribing to public clouds, or leveraging a hybrid cloud, organizations need a rational and pragmatic approach. This session explores the emerging trends in cloud computing and offers best practices for how organizations can successfully navigate a journey to the cloud.
Amir Halfon is Chief Technologist for Financial Services at Oracle, where he oversees the development of industry-specific solutions and strategy, addressing challenges such as Bid Data analytics, on-demand risk management and deep customer insight.
Halfon possesses a wealth of technical and industry experience, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and contributed to several publications. He joined Oracle from Sun Microsystems, where he was the CTO for Global Financial Services.
Cloud is a transformational shift in computing that can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT when designed correctly and used to its full potential. Join Citrix in a discussion that centers on building, connecting and empowering users with cloud services and hear examples of how enterprises are solving real-world business challenges with an architecture and solution purpose-built for the cloud.
Sameer Dholakia is Group VP & GM, Cloud Platforms Group, at Citrix. He drives the company's product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. He joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO. Dholakia brings extensive enterprise software experience to Citrix, having held key leadership roles in sales, business development and product management at companies such as Trilogy, Inc. He received his bachelor's and master's from Stanford University and a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School.
Cloud computing has gained momentum and is increasingly being embraced by enterprises of all sizes. But the cloud itself is often its own worst enemy as performance, reliability, and the lack of enterprise level capabilities have led to obstacles in growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology. This is only exacerbated by an increasingly mobile and global world, one that is plagued with security concerns. Learn more about the challenges you face in the cloud, and how you can leverage both public and hybrid cloud infrastructures without sacrificing security or control.
Neil Cohen is Akamai's VP of Enterprise Application Products 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 is a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing technology forums and publications.
The opportunity for today's IT leaders is to transform IT by leveraging the new ecosystem of services that liberate IT from a technology focus to an information and innovation focus. This presentation offers a step by step approach to revitalizing IT as an innovation leadership organization. The speaker is a Lead Partner at SHI and former SVP and Corporate CIO of the Walt Disney Company.
For enterprise class cloud services, companies need a broad, comprehensive and flexible platform for their applications. The Oracle Cloud, which offers a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that are secure, elastic, and 100% open standards-based, offering organizations choice in development and deployment of business critical applications. Attend this General Session to learn about how these subscription-based services can speed your application development and deployment time, offer the flexibility of application portability, and the ease with which you can access, use, and manage them.
Sandeep Banerjie is Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Public Cloud and has worldwide responsibilities for developing and executing Oracle's cloud services, and go-to-market strategies. Prior to his current role, he was Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware with worldwide responsibilities for developing and executing Oracle's middleware and Private Platform-as-a-Service go-to-market strategies.
Understanding the impact of factors such as security/compliance, application architecture, integration, the pattern of demand and operational maturity is crucial when performing a cloud feasibility assessment. Additionally, many organizations perceive cost-reduction as one of the primary benefits of adopting a cloud hosting model. In practice however, this is not always an accurate assumption. There are nuances to the financial analysis: public cloud computing is not necessarily cheaper than traditional dedicated hosting. Furthermore, there are considerations around the impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), transformation/migration costs and the position of an organization with the IT lifecycle.
Andrew Schroepfer has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP industry's primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications, which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs. In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry.
Schroepfer currently serves as Vice President, Strategy & Enterprise and has been with Rackspace since July 2009. Before joining Rackspace, he was a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for business use of social media applications like Facebook (/Schroepfer) and Twitter (@shrepfur). He graduated with a B.A. in Accounting & Economics from St. John's University.
CloudStack has been the platform of choice for more than a hundred public and private production clouds. Get the insider view from one of the co-founders of Cloud.com who will talk about experiences in designing the right architecture for your cloud.
Shannon Williams is VP of Market Development, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix, where he oversees the team responsible for working with enterprise and service provider customers to understand the capabilities of Citrix cloud infrastructure solutions, as well as architect and deploy them. Williams joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he served as vice president of worldwide sales. He has more than 10 years of experience in sales and marketing and has held management positions at technology companies such as Solidcore Systems, SeeCommerce and Teros. Williams has a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science.
We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architectures and processes that increase business agility, scalability and governance/compliance and decrease risk. While cloud is complex, the consideration and adoption process can be simplified.
This session talks about a pragmatic approach to realizing the potential of cloud today while building a strong foundation for the future.
Kevin Hanes is Executive Director, Dell Service & Solutions. He is responsible for successfully driving and leading a product management and marketing organization for Dell's Infrastructure and Cloud Services business globally which includes Infrastructure Consulting, Systems Integration, Managed Services, IT Outsourcing, and Cloud Computing.
He is a frequent speaker and panelist at leading technology industry events and is currently serving as a Commissioner on the CLOUD² commission which is researching and reporting on key recommendations and guidelines that address the issues facing State and Local Governments when planning and implementing Cloud based models. He currently has 2 patents issued and 12 pending and volunteers his free time on various causes in the Austin/Georgetown area. Hanes is a Charter member and active participant of TiE Austin, the world's largest not-for-profit organization for entrepreneurs.
IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files. IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping businesses and users realize the benefits of cloud computing technology by working to develop open standards that operate across disparate IT infrastructures and by delivering cloud-based architectures that enable federated, automated and client-aware cloud services. The foundation for this vision will be defined by an open approach that delivers best of breed technologies + flexibility + choice from data center infrastructure to client devices. Intel is bringing together a broad network of leading hardware and solution providers to build and enhance cloud solutions that are interoperable, multi-vendor and embrace open standards.
In this session, Cloud Expo delegates will learn about Galaxy the end to end platform that Pacific Controls have delivered to the global market, where smart grid and the building infrastructure are managed in real time delivering integrated ERP.
Dilip Rahulan is Executive Chairman of Pacific Controls, one of the leading information and communication technology (ICT) enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) automation and control solutions providers globally.
Enterprises and business are leveraging the public cloud and Internet now more than ever. The explosion of Software as a Service and cloud computing have presented today's enterprises with a new challenge, controlling and optimizing the Internet. In this General Session, Michael Cucchi, Director of Products at Akamai, will discuss their globally distributed and massively scalable Intelligent Platform and how Akamai's Terra Enterprise Solutions enables businesses to leverage the cloud and control the public Internet as an extension of their infrastructure.
Michael Cucchi is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Enterprise Cloud division. In his role, he sets the go-to-market strategy for positioning Akamai's solutions towards strategic IT initiatives within the enterprise such as cloud computing, web application performance, and cloud security. He has over 18-years of engineering, management and marketing experience in the high-tech industry.
The cloud has many benefits, but when it comes to application development, how does the cloud help enterprises and development teams create custom software and applications that end users actually care about? Using real world examples from Adobe, Herff Jones and Navy Federal Credit Union, we will highlight the advantages cloud computing provides for quickly developing custom software and applications with compelling user experiences.
A self-described, "usability fanatic," Anthony Franco, president of Denver-based EffectiveUI, co-founded his company in 2005 under the core belief that people deserve better software.
In his role as president, Anthony is responsible for building and strengthening business relationships, identifying new business opportunities and market solutions for clients and communicating the value and importance of user experience-driven business strategies.
Are you aware of the new reality that cloud computing is bringing to bear? Cloud is not as global as you might think. Even heaven needs a place on earth and for the cloud to touch base it needs to find the right data center. CoreSite and Interxion will introduce some of their customers, case studies and share insights on key trends in cloud usage and adoption in the US and Europe.
Jelle Frank van der Zwet is Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion. He 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, van der Swet 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.
Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud: it's simply too complex and it does not provide a pay-per-use charge model. In this session we will discuss a new middleware paradigm for developing and integrating applications: metered, virtualized middleware. The virtualized attribute allows you to easily build and run new applications in the cloud reusing existing on-premise application functionality.
The metered attribute has two aspects: it provides a usage-based charge model for the middleware itself and it provides a built-in, metered charge model, much like electricity, for your new applications.
Ash Massoudi is CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology. He is a proven entrepreneur and a software inventor with the vision to incrementally unify all IT assets unleashing a new wave of business automation. Massoudi founded NextAxiom in May 2000 and led the creation of a patented software platform that significantly eases new software development on top of existing application functionality. He played the pivotal role in successfully propelling NextAxiom through the concept, R&D; production, and customer acquisition stages into its current expansion phase. Before co-founding NextAxiom, as Director of Integration Technologies at PeopleSoft, he was responsible for delivering PeopleSoft's complete suite of integration technologies, including PeopleSoft's business components and near real-time application messaging solutions, which was deployed at over 4000 customers worldwide. He also managed the assimilation of Advance Supply Chain Planning products within the PeopleSoft technology platform as a result of PeopleSoft's $275 Million dollar acquisition of Red Pepper Software.
Navigating the complex web of regulatory and compliance requirements related to the processing and storage of sensitive enterprise data in the cloud is a huge challenge for business. The cloud is borderless – so how do you cover your business risk and security requirements when your SaaS application requires your data to move out of your control and into the cloud?
This session will highlight some of the data residency and privacy requirements that make cloud adoption a challenge for many businesses and will explore, through the use of case studies, how some innovative organizations are tackling the problem and embracing the cloud.
David Canellos is President and CEO of PerspecSys, a leading provider of cloud data protection solutions. Previously, he was SVP of Sales and Marketing at Irdeto Worldwide. Prior to that, David was the President and COO of Cloakware, which was acquired by Irdeto. Before joining Cloakware, David was the General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Cramer Systems (now Amdocs), a UK-based company, where he was responsible for the company's revenue and operations in the Americas. Prior to his work with Cramer, Canellos held a variety of executive, sales management and business development positions with the Oracle Corporation, Versatility and SAIC.
The sky is full of clouds. Some are perfect for companies needing outsourced IT, but others are built specifically for scalable Internet-enabled apps and solutions. We'll explore the difference between enterprise-class and Internet-scale, explore hybrid clouds and networks of networks, examine specific use cases and case studies, and focus on the requirements of those visionaries building the next wave of massively scalable Internet-facing applications.
Duke Skarda is CTO of SoftLayer. He joined in November 2010 and holds responsibilities for implementing, designing andenhancing the proprietary SoftLayer Infrastructure Management System (IMS). Prior to joining SoftLayer, he served as the VP of IT and 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. Additionally, he has four years of experience with Sprint.
For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. To achieve these benefits, IT departments will have to integrate new ways of thinking about how IT resources are delivered.
Scott Thomas will discuss the major factors driving cloud adoption for the enterprise, relate how the adoption of cloud technologies is changing the way IT departments will operate, and review case studies showing how businesses have used cloud services to achieve these benefits.
Scott Thomas is responsible for leading cloud sales for small and medium enterprises, sales operations and global complex bids and response teams. His duties include the sales force capacity forecast, the optimization and alignment of sales territories and the management of sales training, enabling the sales teams be more engaged with customers.
The data explosion is not new. It started hundreds of years ago with the invention of the printing press, followed by real-time communication via radio, television and mobile phones and culminating with the World Wide Web. The challenge now is to provide information fast. There are billions of people with billions of devices generating exabytes of data around the world. No one wants to wait for the data they need, particularly businesses. Storage technology now focuses on performance more than it does on capacity. Virtualization, the Cloud and Big Data have combined to make speed all-important. The ability to access exploding data faster is crucial to businesses. Reports and analysis must be available to decision makers instantly. This session presents how WHIPTAIL moves data at the speed of life.
Mike Schmitt is the Director of Product Management and Marketing for WHIPTAIL.
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