OpenStack is powering production clouds. In this General Session, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will outline the open source cloud platform's path to maturity, leading to production use in some of today's most popular companies. Kemp will moderate a panel discussion among featured OpenStack users PayPal, Cisco WebEx and eBay, asking the questions that are top of mind as your organization considers implementing OpenStack. The group will discuss how they're using OpenStack today, ways the cloud platform is delivering real business value, and best practices for effective planning and implementation.
How can we regain control of our data and get a complete view of critical information, while still reaping the many benefits that SaaS has to offer? The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once within the four walls of the organization is now locked in a variety of SaaS applications deployed on the public Internet. This presents a serious challenge to business decision makers who are driven to make the right choices for their organizations based on a now incomplete picture of the world.
This session will look at how you overcome these challenges and regain full visibility to your business data wherever it may live.
Jesse Davis is Director, DataDirect Research and Development at Progress Software.
One of the cloud's biggest draws is the capability to virtualize computing resources, allowing it to be consumed with the click of a mouse. But behind that simple click is an enormous infrastructure challenge that has recently been cited as a major cause for slower enterprise adoption. Enterprises can better prepare for this shift and take full advantage of future computing benefits. Between architecture design and migration planning, the road can be long, so what do you do with your talent? Come learn how you can best prepare your IT talent for this seismic shift in computing.
Lisa Larson is the Vice President of Enterprise Technical Sales for Rackspace.
She has spent 20+ years in IT, Professional Services and technical sales working with customers of all sizes with an emphasis in Consulting, Infrastructure Services, Project Management, IT Operations, Technical Support, Application Development and IT Management.
Lisa became a Racker in September of 2010 and is responsible for end to end technical sales for the US 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.
Massive data growth. An aging and inefficient data center infrastructure. A proliferation of new software and a host of costly legacy applications. These are the challenges that business and IT organizations face every day – and cloud computing is often touted as the "magic bullet" that can help businesses cuts costs, generate revenue and create new value. But if cloud is the path to business utopia, what's stopping more organizations from making the move?
At Dell, we see the tremendous potential of the cloud – but we also know that it doesn't mean anything if you can't get there easily and with the least disruption to your organization. We start from one simple question: What is the business problem you're trying to solve? From there, we help you create simple path to cloud that's based on your strategy and goals – and that leverages your existing technology investments. In this General Session, learn how Dell's open, scalable design focus and end-to-end portfolio of secure cloud solutions can get you on the path to real results.
Michael Coté works on cloud strategy for Dell. Previously he worked in corporate strategy at Dell, focused on software and cloud. Previous to Dell, he was an industry analyst with RedMonk, and before that he was a programmer from startups to large ISVs for 10 years. Coté is known for his podcasts, videos, and blogs, typically on technology related topics. And, there's the Twitters: @cote.
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.
Both small startups and large organizations have the same choice to make, focus on what is important or spend time toiling with the ancillary details. No matter the size of your team, you still have to solve the same problems: code, testing, infrastructure, monitoring, availability and performance. But the time has never been better than now to let someone else solve those problems while you focus on what's most important to your business, your customers. More and more companies are embracing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions for their toolchains; they are cloudifying their business. The quality and availability of these solutions has come to a point where you can rely on them within your production systems, allowing you to keep your internal resources focused on your business. We'll look at today's landscape of cloud-based solutions and where the future may be headed.
Chris Kelly is a Developer/Evangelist at New Relic, makers of SaaS-based application performance monitoring tools. Previously, he was the CTO at a successful e-commerce platform. He is a regular speaker, blogger, avid Rubyist and Open Source advocate.
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.
Are you already behind the curve? Cloud is already in the enterprise – and the federal government. What was important for yesterday's cloud is table stakes for the future, so what's next? Come learn from one of the world's leading cloud providers as they share their vision of the market and the future of cloud. Terremark's Jim Anthony, Vice President of Sales Engineering, will take you inside the state of the enterprise cloud today and why the future of the cloud is so bright.
Jim Anthony is Vice-President of the Tier II Solution Architecture Team at Terremark, where he leads a global team of highly technical System Architects, Security Specialists and Custom Engineers. His team is responsible for all complex configurations, solutions and proposals generated by our direct sales team and channel partners.
In addition to his responsibilities above, Anthony also spends considerable time evangelizing the company's enterprise-class cloud computing solutions at trade shows, and customer/channel events. Prior to joining Terremark in 2009, he spent 20 years serving in various management and consulting roles for technology companies – such as AT&T; and Sybase. He has a diverse background managing large complex IT organizations and a deep technical knowledge of complex systems and applications.
With business application traffic over the Web expected to double in less than five years, the need for a solution that can meet and exceed this demand grows increasingly urgent. Join Gary Ballabio, Product line Director for Akamai's Enterprise Cloud Solutions to learn how to meet this challenge head on and extend application delivery out of the origin and across the public Internet without sacrificing security, performance or control.
Gary Ballabio is a Product Line Director for Akamai's Application Performance Solutions portfolio. In his role, he runs Akamai's Terra Alta, Web Application Accelerator, Session Accelerator and IP Application Acceleration services. A 12 year veteran at Akamai, Ballabio has also held management positions in Engineering, Sales Engineering, Account Management and Professional Services covering teams in both Europe and Asia.
Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, has been the platform of choice for more than 100 public and private productionclouds. In this Lunchtime Focus Keynote, get the insider view from one of the co-founders of Cloud.com who will talk about insights from his deployment experiences and provide tips for designing an open, scalable and highly efficient cloud that can support both traditional and purpose-built cloud workloads from a single solution.
Shannon Williams is VP Cloud Market Development 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.
Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shift is fueling the need for new cloud platforms that provide open services in a secure environment, powered by business grade capacity, and supported with quality service. Companies are looking to a hybrid delivery model to ensure the flexibility and scale that is required to capitalize on these trends.
Dan Baigent is the Sr. Director of Business Development for HP Cloud Services. He is responsible for HP Cloud Services solution partners, strategic partners and business strategies. Baigent joined HP in 2010 as the Sr. Director of Strategic Alliances in HP's Corporate Development group, managing the HP-Intel relationship. Prior to HP, he worked for Sun Microsystems (Oracle) where he was the Sr. Director of Strategic Alliances for a variety of Strategic Partners including IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle. While at Sun, he worked as the Director of Engineering for Sun's Desktop Software organization, as a Technical Portfolio Manager for Sun's Corporate Development team, and as the Western Regional Systems Engineering manager for JavaSoft. He started his career as a software developer for McDonnell- Douglas and has a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and a minor in Cybernetic Systems. He is co-inventor on several 3-D desktop patents.
We are in the midst of an API revolution. Countless major enterprises are opening up access to their core information systems, allowing innovative third party developers to build new business opportunities through collaboration and community. However, this remarkable movement puts pressure on IT to manage APIs. The goal is to ensure optimal business outcomes through APIs without inadvertently creating security and system management problems or running up unsustainable costs. This presentation addresses this challenge by exploring some proven best practices for API management.
Alistair Farquharson is CTO at SOA Software. His skills span many industries and include designing and implementing system architectures, as well as spearheading initiatives as development/team lead. He's an expert in custom application development, distributed environments, architecting scalable hardware and software applications and systems, and Web services application development.
At SOA Software, Farquharson spearheads product development and provides thought leadership to enterprise customers implementing Web Services. Prior to joining SOA Software, he worked at US Interactive, where he was a key advisor to CTOs of many companies regarding Internet architecture issues. He was also a member of the architectural guiding committee, which helped to design the next generation of Internet architecture.
Private clouds are a great way to provide real-time service delivery of IT resources with a single-tenant, customized, secure environment. However, the challenge of scaling and managing physical resources still exists. The solution may be to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to build an off-premise Private Cloud to add scalability to your current private cloud.
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.
In the last several years, as virtualization and cloud computing adoption has expanded, we have seen endless proof points in support of the value these technologies and solutions bring to Opex and Capex savings. However, Cloud is yet to bring to life the agility and efficiency promised to application teams. We believe that Cloud is an application-centric approach and in this session, we will provide concepts and solutions that can enable customers to leverage their investment in the cloud technologies while surfacing-up capabilities to the application teams to enable them to take advantage of the constructs of the cloud and empowering them to deliver more business value on top of IaaS. We will examine types of cloud applications, new approaches to deploy applications, embed policies, monitor the applications and leverage the cloud elasticity.
Shahar Erez is responsible for setting the product and go-to-market strategies for VMware's Application Management products. Shahar has more than 12 years of product development, management and strategy experience. Before joining VMware, he served as the Director of products for BTO Analytics at HP. He also led and incubated the design and release of HP Service Health Analyzer, a new solution to automate complex IT performance analysis. Prior to joining HP Erez spent four years managing several engineering teams at Mercury Interactive before the company was acquired by HP in 2006. He earned his MBA from the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology) and his bachelor of science degree in computer science from the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzeliya, Israel
Cloud has made its mark, reaching into every corner of enterprise and service provider data centers, and now the conversation has shifted to the "open cloud." OpenStack shook the market in 2010 when it became the first Apache-licensed cloud platform with broad commercial support, and soon existing cloud technologies were pushed to follow a similar path. It's now clear the cloud will be driven by open source technologies, but businesses are still trying to understand which technologies are the best fit for their needs.
How do you separate hype from reality and openness from open-washing in the cloud market? What unique factors should you consider when evaluating open source technologies versus proprietary software? In this 11th Cloud Expo Opening Keynote hear Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud and is now Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, make sense of the open cloud landscape so you can feel confident making the best decision for long-term success.
Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative.
There is a vast new movement developing at a breathtaking pace that is changing the way the world utilizes cloud computing. Specifically, open source cloud computing. Rackspace is helping lead the global discussion about the benefits of building a business on an open cloud.
Join John Engates, CTO at Rackspace, as he provides insight on the difference between an open cloud and a closed, proprietary cloud. He will also explain the hidden dangers of vendor lock in and where the open cloud is headed into the future.
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
In this Cloud Expo Day 3 Keynote we illustrate what has to go into a platform and model to deliver the 10 imperatives of next generation applications. As part of this, we present how existing applications and services can be wrapped and exposed as cloud APIs. These APIs can be assembled like Lego blocks to rapidly create new mobile, social and big data aware cloud applications. Examples of cloud APIs that we will discuss include: smart data connectors that integrate with and analyze the data of existing cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Workday, NetSuite, etc.; services that track social media sentiment on Twitter, Facebook etc.; back end services for mobile applications; services that analyze massive clusters of Hadoop nodes; and services that track and respond to mobile user locations to enable location-aware applications. We conclude by talking about our own development plans to make this vision a reality.
Dr. John Bates is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Progress Software. In this role, he is responsible for creating, evolving and evangelizing Progress' market strategy and technology vision. Previously, he was General Manager of Progress Software's Apama Division - the market leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) solutions. In this role, he was responsible for Divisional P&L; including sales, marketing, products and consulting services and in 3 years grew revenue by over 300%.
The cloud is changing the way enterprises consume IT infrastructure and applications. Networks and application deployment strategies are being re-architected to manage an increasingly hybrid network where storage, utility compute and applications are being designed to move seamlessly across private and public cloud infrastructures.
Join Akamai's Todd Paoletti, Vice President of Product Management, to learn the trends, new products and roadmap to help increase cloud adoption and business agility.
Todd Paoletti is Vice President, Product Management for Akamai's Enterprise Cloud Division; an evolving line of Enterprise and Cloud application performance, optimization and security services for delivery over the Internet. he is responsible for product strategy and business execution, as well as technology alliances and partnerships in Cloud Computing and Enterprise application and optimization services. Prior to joining Akamai, Paoletti was Sr. Director of Online Channel Solutions at Actuate Corporation, specializing in information presentation and interface application development for consumer facing and business to business online channels. Additionally, he has held a variety of senior marketing, product management and business development roles at leading enterprise software and consumer technologies companies.
Another perfect storm is brewing in cloud computing fueled by the explosive growth of internet-based mobile apps, network virtualization, and API's for programmatic control of infrastructure. In addition, community-driven open source projects such as OpenStack make it possible for anyone to deploy and directly contribute to what promises to be a widely deployed, open cloud platform. Many companies and individual developers are contributing ideas and code for new cloud services, which bring capabilities of the underlying infrastructure into the world of cloud applications.
To better understand how this will change cloud computing, this Day 4 keynote by Cisco's Cloud CTO Lew Tucker will talk about the way to think about platforms, abstractions, and infrastructure as we enter this next phase of cloud computing.
Lew Tucker is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco, where he is responsible for shaping the future cloud strategy and products.
Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to Cisco, he was VP and CTO for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems and led the development of the Sun Cloud. Other achievements in his career include Salesforce.com's AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine. He's currently leading a team working on the Quantum networking service in the OpenStack community.
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