As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. What should you put into public clouds? Should you create a private cloud? Should you use cloud applications, platform or infrastructure? How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing? This session explores best practices for how organizations can move to ! cloud computing.
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.
What are the shifts in today's cloud plans, teams, processes, and technologies to effectively drive ROI in enterprise clouds? Be a part of the discussion, this general session will start "virtually" on Nov 1. Read the blog, the article, the Facebook post or join us as we kick off this topic at the Keynote session on Tuesday at 9:05AM.
Participants who comment on social media will be selected to ask their questions or come on stage and join other industry experts as they discuss the changing roles, behaviors, and trends that can drive enterprise cloud success. Get started November 1st - visit www.petemalcolm.com to read the opening article and post your comments.
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.
With IT facing pressures on cost, a need to focus more on strategic innovation, and significant growth in the range of devices IT must support, cloud computing holds the promise of enabling IT to be more agile and responsive. The future of cloud computing will require secure federation among clouds, breakthroughs in efficiency, and delivery of great user experiences to the myriad of devices people use. Key to unlock cloud's potential will be the development of open, industry standards that enable interoperability while also providing for industry innovation. Intel is delivering capabilities to strengthen cloud security, driving innovation to enhance datacenter efficiency and enabling systems and solutions providers to deliver client-aware clouds. Jason Waxman, Intel's GM of the Cloud Infrastructure Group, will discuss how the industry is advancing technology, solutions and standards development for cloud computing and how IT can get started today on the path to the cloud of the future.
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.
How do organizations maximize the investment in their existing IT infrastructure while simultaneously evolving to the cloud? To get maximum benefits of agility and re-use of all resources, organizations must pool their resources, and allow automated provisioning and decommissioning of template-based service profiles that cover computing, networking, and storage resources, both physical and virtual.
This session describes the dramatic CAPEX and OPEX savings from taking a comprehensive HW/SW/VM provisioning view to create powerful private and hybrid clouds, and the evolution to a next generation cloud scheduler that intelligently and seamlessly allocates workloads across any type of cloud – private or public. mine your options and opportunities and inform you in clarifying goals and developing strategies that deliver.
Garima Thockchom is VP Marketing at Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automation and cloud solutions. Prior to Gale, she was General Manager, Virtualization and Infrastructure Segments, at Zeenova, and before that Group Manager of Partner Solutions Marketing at VMware, responsible for overseeing VMware's partner solutions in the networking, management, high availability and security technology areas. Prior to joining VMware, Thockchom headed Product Management for Sun Cluster and N1 product lines at Sun Microsystems where she oversaw the growth of the business from 25M to 70M by expanding the feature set of the 9+ products and by tapping into additional markets. She was named a "2011 Women of Influence" by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in recognition of her achievements in her field as well as her contributions to the community.
The world is getting smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. At the same time, IT leaders are faced with the challenge to do more and support aggressive business growth, while reducing costs. Business leaders feel pressure to initiate new revenue streams, drive faster time to market for new services and meet changing customer expectations. With cloud computing, business and IT can create and deliver value in fundamentally new ways by removing IT boundaries, improving speed to market, and empowering users to drive innovation like never before. Next generation cloud platforms and new "as-a-service" industry solutions are emerging to help shape this innovation. Come join IBM, to hear about the latest in these cloud technologies and how they enable companies to truly re-think IT and re-invent business.
Rich Lechner is Vice President Energy & Environment at IBM. He has broad experience across the software, systems and services business including key leadership roles in virtualization, Internet technology, Green innovation, and enterprise systems.
He is responsible for defining IBM's cloud strategies and portfolio of services leveraging IBM's deep process expertise, global delivery, industry leading software capabilities, and research innovations in areas like security and analytics-based optimization. In this role, his organization works closely with clients to apply the transformative power of cloud to reinvent the way they do business.
Security is moving to Trust Management and the Cloud is going to make it happen. In a connected world security is morphing quickly and we are no longer focused on disconnected servers, objects and things. Instead, It's a relationship driven world where security is now largely about the identity of everything and how we manage security is going to come down to identifying trusted relationships.
Scott Chasin is CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security. He is widely recognized as a pioneer and leading visionary in the cloud security industry, having pioneered the development and marketing of several SaaS-based messaging, collaboration and security-focused technologies. He is credited with the launch of the first Web-based email consumer service, and delivered the first IP-based commercially hosted messaging service supporting thousands of businesses and millions of end users worldwide. Chasin also created and moderated the first full-disclosure security discussion list, Bugtraq, and was a key contributor to the creation of the first open-source, one-time password system, S/Key. Prior to its acquisition by McAfee in 2009, Chasin served as CTO of MX Logic. He was also CTO and Chief Visionary for USA.NET, helping establish the company as one of the first global providers of Internet-based email and advanced messaging services.
Now that SSL has been compromised, fake certificates abound, and very sophisticated attacks are targeting private and public sector alike, enterprise adoption of cloud computing is coming under more scrutiny than ever. Nobody wants to be the next high-profile name in the news. In this session, Terry Woloszyn, Founder and CTO of PerspecSys, will introduce some of the key privacy, residency, and security areas to consider when adopting public cloud applications, and best practices for securing cloud to be enterprise-ready.
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.
Red Hat technology powers the world's largest and most successful clouds. We have seen first- hand how to make cloud work for businesses and government organizations, both large and small. Companies are looking to cloud computing as a way to fundamentally change the economics of information technology and the agility of their enterprise. Red Hat helps transform IT service delivery, build production infrastructure and applications in the cloud where new levels of openness, interoperability and flexibility can be realized.
Vijay Sarathy is Director of the Cloud BU at Red Hat.
The first generation of cloud computing focused primarily on low cost personal cloud services along with some capability for application developers and non-mission critical applications. The latest generation of cloud computing is now capable of addressing the needs of enterprise mission crucial applications. Mission critical applications of the enterprise require computing infrastructure that is secure, optimizes performance and is highly resilient. The purpose of the session 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. During the course of the session, many of the key adoption questions in the cloud marketplace will be addressed.
As a result of the session, attendees will be able to better understand why the newest cloud designs are ready for mission critical applications and how to leverage these designs for both private and multi-tenant cloud services.
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.
He comes to SHI from Unisys, where he was responsible for their North American professional services organization. His responsibilities included business development and service delivery, as well as providing deep expertise on ERP, Business Intelligence, infrastructure design, and data center consolidation. Prior to joining Unisys, he spent five years as VP and Chief Technologist for Melillo Consulting.
Exploring the differences between dedicated servers and cloud computing as well as flexibility in the cloud environment. Are dedicated servers a thing of the past? Or has dedicated hosting evolved alongside of Cloud hosting?
Duke Skarda joined SoftLayer in November 2010. As the CTO, he holds responsibilities for implementing, designing andenhancing the proprietary SoftLayer Infrastructure Management System (IMS).Prior to joining SoftLayer, Mr. Skarda served as the Vice President of Information Technology and Software Development at The Planet. He served in this role from June 2009 to October 2010. Previously, Mr. Skarda spent 10 years with Level 3 Communications in a series of increasingly responsible positions. As SeniorVice President for its Content Markets Group, he 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, order-entry and service assurance development. Mr. Skarda also served as Vice President of IT Architecture, where he led the development of a long-range systems roadmaps, systems merger and acquisition planning, and the development of the company's Enterprise Architecture team. Additionally, he has four years of experience with Sprint. Mr. Skarda earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso.
While the cloud represents a revolution in IT strategy, it's not a cloud-only world, and IT leaders today are faced with the challenge of integrating cloud infrastructure with existing applications, technologies, networks and processes. Terremark's Bill Lowry presents a practical and pragmatic guide on integrating clouds for the enterprise, focusing on how to take advantage of the power and potential of the cloud while minimizing disruption, waste and compromise.
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.
When you hear "public cloud" do you think of a cloud service that is limited with no uptime guarantees, variable application performance, poor I/O throughput and limited networking? Think again. vCloud service providers offer all the flexibility of self-service cloud computing but with high availability, high I/ O performance and virtual layer 2 networking. Attend this session to learn about common performance pitfalls in the cloud and hear concrete examples on how organizations have avoided them by upgrading to a vCloud service provider.
Mathew Lodge is Senior Director in VMware's Cloud Services group. He has more than 18 years' experience in the technology industry. Previously, he was Senior Director at Symantec, where he led the go to market for its $1BN+ information management group. Prior to Symantec, Lodge held a series of senior product management and marketing roles at Proficient Networks, CPlane, Cisco Systems and Schlumberger.He has a masters' in Software Engineering from the University of York, and is an alumni of London Business School.
