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Join John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, as he leads you through the exciting evolution of the Cloud. He'll look at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes.
John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering management. To date, IBM has launched more than 50 cloud data centers that span the globe. He has been building advanced technology, delivering “as a service” solutions, and managing infrastructure services for the past 20 years.
As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance.
How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
In this session, a panel of industry experts and real-world practitioners will share their insight into an emerging set of best practices that lie at the heart of today’s digital transformation.
Aruna Ravichandran is Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy at CA Technologies. She has over 20 years of experience in building and marketing products in various DevOps markets spanning all walks of the software development life cycle. She started her career as an engineer at Hewlett Packard 22 years ago and is very involved in promoting DevOps best practices while at the same time helping organizations address the key challenges around DevOps - Cultural changes, identify the metrics needed for success.
Nicole Forsgren is Co-founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA). She is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. She has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and she is an Academic Partner at Clemson University and Florida International University.
Silvia Prickel is a veteran Information Technology executive with a proven track record in leading, managing and delivering transformational solutions to achieve revenue and efficiency targets. As Managing Director, she is currently responsible for Enterprise Quality and Release Management (eQRM) with accountability for Test Automation, Continuous Delivery, and Release Governance on behalf of the United Enterprise. Silvia is an IT Service Management certified professional, a Six Sigma Black Belt and co-authored three books for IT Professionals. She currently serves on the Board of Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP), WebServes, and Chairs the Metropolitan Club.
Tracy L. Bannon is a Senior Architect with Deloitte Consulting with over 24 years of experience in multiple commercial/public sector markets. She helps her client organizations understand the importance of #InevitableArchitecture as well as the techniques and critical success factors for implementing software systems including advantages of cloud platforms. DevOps and Cloud-Native/Cloud-Ready Application Architecture are her specialties with experience crossing multiple technologies and platforms. Leveraging smart architectural patterns like API Gateway and Microservices and knowing the impact on DevOps is a core part of Tracy's guidance to clients.
Coca Cola’s Google powered digital signage system lays the groundwork for a more valuable connection between Coke and its customers. Digital signs pair software with high-resolution displays so that a message can be changed instantly based on what the operator wants to communicate or sell. From store operations and optimization to employee training and insights, all ultimately creating the best customer experience both online and in-store.
Vidya Nagarajan is a Senior Product Manager at Google. She leads Chrome and Android efforts that are purpose built solutions, including Chromebox for meetings, Digital Signage, General Kiosks and solutions for the Internet of Things. Vidya started as a Product Manager on Chromebooks for Education and brought Chromebooks mainstream by building features for schools, including support for online assessments. Vidya holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration.
Greg Chambers is Global Group Director, Digital Innovation, at Coca Cola. He has been creating “mic drop” innovation solutions for more than 15 years. He started his career helping brands like Gap, Home Depot, Crate & Barrel and JCPenney design and implement their sustainability and energy programs. He would go on to invent and author eight technology patents relating to behavior modification, asset optimization and real-time systems. Chambers also worked in the cybersecurity industry designing innovative real time intrusion systems for critical cybersecurity assets worldwide. In 2013, he brought his wealth of knowledge about real-time systems and innovation to Coca-Cola and started designing real-time marketing and IoT platforms. Today he serves as the global thought leader for Coca-Cola in the areas of IoT, proximity, cloud, mobile, social, e-commerce and big data. Greg is also a highly sought after keynote speaker on subjects of shopper marketing, digital transformation, innovation and digital marketing.
In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.
It’s clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. That means serverless is also changing the way we leverage public clouds. Truth-be-told, many enterprise IT shops were so happy to get out of the management of physical servers within a data center that many limitations of the existing public IaaS clouds were forgiven. However, now that we’ve lived a few years with public IaaS clouds, developers and CloudOps pros are giving a huge thumbs down to the constant monitoring of servers, provisioned or not, that’s required to support the workloads.
In this keynote presentation we’ll understand how serverless changes everything when it comes to using public clouds.
David Linthicum is an SVP at Cloud Technology Partners, and was just named the #1 cloud influencer via a recent major report by Apollo Research. He is a cloud computing thought leader, executive, consultant, author, and speaker. He has been a CTO five times for both public and private companies, and a CEO three times in the last 25 years.
We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps — failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual business failure. The real and more difficult question, in developing microservices-based applications, is this: what's the best combination of cloud services and tools to use to get the right results in the specific business situation in which you need to deliver what your end users’ want - the power of cloud services are the key to versatility and innovation that’s meaningful to the market.
Andrew Hately is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and leads IBM Watson and Cloud Architecture. He’s currently defining the one architecture for the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. He also leads a team of architects, encouraging them to design cloud native solutions for all of IBMs customers from bankers to manufacturers to game makers. Andrew joined IBM in 1999 and has led Cloud, WebSphere and Tivoli projects in every major geography. He led the Cloud innovation team that defined IBM’s Cloud architecture strategy using Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, and CloudFoundry. He holds several patents related to software design and has authored, edited and led industry standards efforts. His primary interest is enabling rapid innovation through adoption of Cloud.
Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. This session will explore how storage and software-defined solutions from IBM have evolved for the road ahead. Walk-away knowing how you can bring new levels of speed, agility and efficiency to the applications and workloads you choose to deploy across a hybrid cloud model.
Greg Tevis is an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architect. He has 35 years of experience in storage hardware and software development and is responsible for technical strategy for IBM storage software, driving portfolio technologies, roadmaps, and integrations. He works extensively as a consultant with partners and clients, designing strategic storage infrastructure, data management, and cloud strategies. As an IBM Master Inventor for over 15 years, Greg has 31 patents issued or pending on storage and data management.
You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies.
What do you do?
Private cloud infrastructure based on composable technologies result in environments that are suitable for all your workloads while also providing you with many of the benefits of the public cloud, and without the pitfalls. Composable infrastructure is an emerging data center architecture that provides you with the resource flexibility inherent in traditional infrastructure, but with the economics, ease-of-use, and scalability of cloud. With composable infrastructure, you’re able to maintain peak levels of application performance without having to mess around with LUNs and other archaic constructs.
Steve Conner brings more than 20 years of experience in building and leading highly motivated sales teams to Cloudistics, where he serves as the VP of Sales. Previously, he held multiple director level positions at Nutanix where he successfully built three multi-million dollar service units in three different market spaces – managed hosting, government services, and value-added product services. He has also held positions as Principal at Sequoia Worldwide; Vice President of Technology Innovation at Arrow Electronics; Vice President & CTO of InScope International (later acquired by Arrow Electronics); CTO for Absulon Technology Partners, (later acquired by InScope International); and Director of Professional Services at Exodus Communications.
Calligo’s Vice President and G.M. of US operations will go over the new Global Data Protection Regulation and how Calligo can help business stay compliant in digitally globalized world.
Greg Dumas is Calligo's Vice President and G.M. of US operations. Calligo is an established service provider that provides an innovative platform for trusted cloud solutions. Calligo’s customers are typically most concerned about GDPR compliance, application performance guarantees & data privacy.
Greg Dumas is Calligo's Vice President and G.M. of US operations. Calligo is an established service provider that provides an innovative platform for trusted cloud solutions. Calligo’s customers are typically most concerned about GDPR compliance, application performance guarantees & data privacy.
DevOps promotes continuous improvement through a culture of collaboration. But in real terms, how do you:
Integrate activities across diverse teams and services?
Make objective decisions with system-wide visibility?
Use feedback loops to enable learning and improvement?
With technology insights and real-world examples, this session will explore how leading organizations use data-driven DevOps to close their feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate at Splunk, is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, and communicator. For over 30 years across five continents, Andi has built success with Fortune 500 corporations, vendors, governments, and as a leading research analyst and consultant.
Digital Transformation (DX) is not a "one-size-fits all" strategy. Each organization needs to develop its own unique, long-term DX plan. It must do so by realizing that we now live in a data-driven age, and that technologies such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, the IoT, Cognitive Computing, and Blockchain are only tools. The strategy must focus on DX and include a commitment from top management to create great IT jobs, monitor progress, and never forget that their enterprise is in a day-to-day battle for survival.
Rebecca Wanta sits on the Board of Directors of Calgary Scientific. She has served as CIO and CTO for PepsiCo (where she won the Chairman's Award), Wells Fargo, Best Buy, and MGM Resorts. She was named #4 among Top 50 Female CIOs and #12 among Top 200 CIOs overall by ExecRanks in 2012. In addition, her consulting work has included transformative initiatives for Target, Coca-Cola, 3M, Caterpillar, Dupont, and Ralph Lauren. A holder of two US patents, she also serves as an advisor to Board of the MIT "Wealth of Nations" project, and was recently named as an advisor to the International Data Center Authority.
In this talk we motivate why realizing the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is the best cloud operating system for enterprises today, providing rapid development and deployment of applications that can take advantage of the rich catalog of Watson services to help drive insights from the vast trove of private and public data available to enterprises.
Michael Maximilien, better known as max or dr.max, is a computer scientist with IBM. At IBM Research Triangle Park, he was a principal engineer for the worldwide industry point-of-sale standard: JavaPOS. At IBM Research, some highlights include pioneering research on semantic Web services, mashups, and cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service. He joined the IBM Cloud Labs in 2014 and works closely with Pivotal Inc., to help make the Cloud Found the best PaaS.
Five years ago development was seen as a dead-end career, now it’s anything but – with an explosion in mobile and IoT initiatives increasing the demand for skilled engineers. But apart from having a ready supply of great coders, what constitutes true ‘DevOps Royalty’? It’ll be the ability to craft resilient architectures, supportability, security everywhere across the software life cycle.
In this session, Jeffrey Scheaffer, GM and SVP, Continuous Delivery Business Unit at CA Technologies, will share his vision about the true ‘DevOps Royalty’ and how it will take a new breed of digital cloud craftsman, architecting new platforms with a new set of tools to achieve it. Jeffrey will also present a number of important insights and findings from a recent cloud and DevOps study – outlining the synergies high performance teams are exploiting to gain significant business advantage.
Jeff Scheaffer is Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Application Delivery Business Unit at CA Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for leading the company’s DevOps initiatives for continuous testing and deployment of applications, including Automated Application Testing, Test Data Management (newly acquired Grid Tools products), Service Virtualization, and Release Automation offerings.
DevOps is often described as a process of removing friction between development and customer value. Technology is not DevOps, however, applying cloud native process to outdated technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections between teams are delayed by technology the culture will die. A Nutanix Enterprise Cloud provides the core foundation needed, no matter where you are on your DevOps journey. In this presentation we will explore the ways that Nutanix technologies empower teams to react faster then ever before and connect teams in ways that were either too complex or simply impossible with traditional infrastructures.
Chris Brown has 6 years of IT experience, with the majority of that time being spent in technical support. Currently he's focused on DevOps, Containers, Big Data, and Service Providers. His goal is to help customers and partners better understand how the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform actually works, and how this can benefit companies, no matter where they are on their cloud journey. Prior to Nutanix Chris worked at Cisco supporting the UCS and Nexus 1000v. He has many certifications, including CCIE, NSS, Hyper-V Specialist, and the VCIX-NV.
Mark Lavi came from the acquisition of Calm.io and serves as a Nutanix DevOps Solution Architect. His 24 years of experience began as an engineer at the first national Internet Service Provider in 1993 and grew to become a founding webmaster, developer, and architect at News Corporation, CNN, Netscape, and Silicon Graphics. He was also Netscape’s JavaScript and LDAP technology evangelist. A pioneering operations and engineering manager at websocket and cloud VPN startups, he has led small teams to automate and scale service offerings across polyglot clouds for build and release, monitoring and metrics, and the DevOps tooling ecosystem. One compliment: “Mark is an engineer who can speak” captures his ability to relate technical subjects to anyone.
We all know that end users experience the internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps—failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual business failure. The real and more difficult question, in developing microservices-based applications, is this: What's the best combination of cloud services and tools to use to get the right results in the specific business situation in which you need to deliver what your end users’ want. Considering that new streams of IoT data are already raising the stakes on what end users expect in their mobile experiences, the versatility and power of cloud services is going to become the key to innovation that’s meaningful in the market. Join Jason McGee for his talk on developing the right microservices given the pressures of your market and the options provided by cloud technologies.
Jason McGee is an IBM Fellow, VP and CTO, Cloud Platform, and Containers/Blueprints Tribe Leader at IBM.
As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance.
How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
In this session, a panel of industry experts and real-world practitioners will share their insight into an emerging set of best practices that lie at the heart of today’s digital transformation. Specific topics to be addressed include:
Standing up self-service infrastructure to enable DevOps
Leveraging DevOps to drive complex apps to the cloud
Integrating DevOps toolchains to automate cloud delivery
Join us for this influential panel that will offer hands-on expertise from those individuals who have presided over the complicated marriage of cloud and DevOps strategies to advance and win in the Application Economy.
Aruna Ravichandran is Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy at CA Technologies. She has over 20 years of experience in building and marketing products in various DevOps markets spanning all walks of the software development life cycle. She started her career as an engineer at Hewlett Packard 22 years ago and is very involved in promoting DevOps best practices while at the same time helping organizations address the key challenges around DevOps - Cultural changes, identify the metrics needed for success.
Anne Hungate discovered her passion for quality engineering working in multiple IT roles such as developer, analyst, and program manager. Most recently, she led the global quality team for a financial services organization. She has presented at local and national conferences, sharing the lessons through DevOps implementations. Anne holds DevOps Foundation certification.
Courtney Kissler is the Vice President of Retail Technology at Starbucks. She’s accountable for the global POS and retail store technology experiences. Prior to Starbucks, she spent 14 years at Nordstrom with her last role being the Vice President of E-Commerce and Store technologies where she drove a technological transformation essential for outpacing the demands of today’s Omnichannel consumers. She was accountable for program management, delivery, and support for all customer facing technologies including in-store, Web, and mobile touch points. She joined Nordstrom as a security engineer in 2002 and held a variety of leadership roles across the technology organization. Courtney is a graduate of Eastern Washington University with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems and worked at two startups, CyberSafe and WorldStream Communications, prior to joining Nordstrom.
Tracy L. Bannon is a Senior Architect with Deloitte Consulting with over 24 years of experience in multiple commercial/public sector markets. She helps her client organizations understand the importance of #InevitableArchitecture as well as the techniques and critical success factors for implementing software systems including advantages of cloud platforms. DevOps and Cloud-Native/Cloud-Ready Application Architecture are her specialties with experience crossing multiple technologies and platforms. Leveraging smart architectural patterns like API Gateway and Microservices and knowing the impact on DevOps is a core part of Tracy's guidance to clients.
What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous delivery and Infrastructure as Code? This general session showed how to create the continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change.
Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud native applications.
One of the biggest challenges with adopting a DevOps mentality is: new applications are easily adapted to cloud-native, microservice based, or containerized architectures - they can be built for them - but old applications need complex refactoring. On the other hand, these new technologies can require relearning or adapting new, oftentimes more complex, methodologies and tools to be ready for production. In this general session we will explore how Nutanix is bringing these sides together - agility for pets, governance for cattle - in a single unified platform. With this combined approach, Nutanix removes silos - both technological and human - propelling your applications to a new level.
Chris Brown has 6 years of IT experience, with the majority of that time being spent in technical support. Currently he's focused on DevOps, Containers, Big Data, and Service Providers. His goal is to help customers and partners better understand how the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform actually works, and how this can benefit companies, no matter where they are on their cloud journey. Prior to Nutanix Chris worked at Cisco supporting the UCS and Nexus 1000v. He has many certifications, including CCIE, NSS, Hyper-V Specialist, and the VCIX-NV.
The “Digital Era” is forcing us to engage with new methods to build, operate & maintain applications. This transformation also implies an evolution to more and more intelligent applications to better engage with the customers, while creating significant market differentiators.
In both cases, the Cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution. So, moving to the cloud is no longer the question; the new questions are HOW & WHEN. To make this equation even more complex, most of the time we are dealing with complex portfolios, many including hundreds of legacy applications.
This presentation will aim at describing how Application Portfolio Analysis assist to baseline, quality & engage with cloud migration
JP Ascenci is a solution specialist at CAST Highlight.
The current age of digital transformation means that IT organizations must adapt their toolset to cover all digital experiences, beyond just the end users’. Today’s businesses can no longer focus solely on the digital interactions they manage with employees or customers; they must now contend with non-traditional factors. Whether it's the power of brand to make or break a company, the need to monitor across all locations 24/7, or the ability to proactively resolve issues, companies must adapt to the new world. We will explore some of the ways in which you can mitigate the risk of a digital transformation and how to protect your brand and grow revenue.
Leo Vasiliou is the Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint Systems where he uses charts and graphs to answer questions, settle debates and help people make sense of them. Leo contributes to Catchpoint's Blog at http://blog.catchpoint.com/, but also writes at http://www.webtortoise.com, which is dedicated exclusively to the charts and graphs of web performance. Before he joined Catchpoint, Leo ran large, complex performance programs and IAC's Search and Media Business.
Cloud applications are seeing a deluge of requests to support the exploding advanced analytics market. “Open analytics” is the emerging strategy to deliver that data through an open data access layer, in the cloud, to be directly consumed by external analytics tools and popular programming languages. An increasing number of data engineers and data scientists use a variety of platforms and advanced analytics languages such as SAS, R, Python and Java, as well as frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark. Cloud APIs are commonly designed to support application integration representing a disconnect with the analytics ecosystem. These combined trends create significant demand for a “bring-your-own-analytics” (BYOA) capability for cloud applications. Your cloud may already be smart, but giving users frictionless access to your data will make everyone smarter.
Sumit Sarkar runs product marketing for Progress' DataDirect business line. As a geek-turned-marketer, he has experience in standard connectivity and integration with cloud data for analytics, and has presented related sessions at industry conferences such as Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, and Hadoop+Strata World.
You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies.
What do you do?
Private cloud infrastructure based on composable technologies result in environments that are suitable for all your workloads while also providing you with many of the benefits of the public cloud, and without the pitfalls. Composable infrastructure is an emerging data center architecture that provides you with the resource flexibility inherent in traditional infrastructure, but with the economics, ease-of-use, and scalability of cloud. With composable infrastructure, you’re able to maintain peak levels of application performance without having to mess around with LUNs and other archaic constructs.
Steve Conner brings more than 20 years of experience in building and leading highly motivated sales teams to Cloudistics where he serves as the VP of Sales. Prior to Cloudistics, he held multiple director level positions at Nutanix where he successfully built three multi-million dollar service units in three different market spaces – managed hosting, government services, and value added product services.
Thomas Hooker, Silicon Valley technologist and vice president of marketing for CollabNet, will present his popular talk titled “DevOps – The Journey to Value Stream.” This educational session will give you a deep look into the market drivers behind DevOps and enterprise Agile management today.
Software is changing every industry. Think about Tesla disrupting the automotive industry, Airbnb, and Uber, the list goes on. Each leads with software to create an entirely new experience for the customer. This radical shift is causing traditional companies in all sectors to innovate and compete—they know that better customer experiences fuel business, and software lets them deliver those experiences to win, delight, and keep customers.
So organizations quest to deliver better experiences through faster, better software by using DevOps tools and practices. As they strive for continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous monitoring and continuous feedback, they discover an ingredient is missing. What is it?
What would allow development practices to stay continuously aligned to business objectives? Measurement. Good measurement comprises the ability to integrate the many tools within DevOps, analyze and associate the myriad of events, and report on the findings and measure the value an organization is receiving from these tools and processes. Organizations recognize this and are exploring the discipline of value stream mapping (VSM), a lean measurement technique, to ensure that the software they are producing is poised to offer continuous improvements to customers’ experience of products and services.
Learn exactly how your organization can benefit by applying value stream mapping to DevOps initiatives, tools, teams, and processes to tap the full business potential of DevOps.
Thomas Hooker is vice president of marketing at CollabNet. As the head of CollabNet's marketing team, he oversees demand generation, brand, customer marketing, public relations, analyst relations, product marketing, and corporate communications. A 20+ year veteran of high-tech Thomas has held Marketing, Product Management and Engineering positions at a variety of leading companies including BMC, Boole & Babbage, Tidal Software and Cisco.
The explosion of new web/cloud/IoT based applications and the data they generate are transforming our world right before our eyes. In this rush to adopt these new technologies, organizations are often ignoring fundamental questions concerning who owns the data and failing to ask for permission to conduct invasive surveillance of their customers. Organizations that are not transparent about how their systems gather data telemetry without offering shared data ownership risk product rejection, regulatory scrutiny and increasing consumer lack of trust in technology in general.
This keynote will explore the need for organizations to be explicit concerning data ownership and transparent about the surveillance these systems conduct in order to obtain customer's willing participation in the use and adoption of these technologies.
Peter Vanderminden is a widely recognized thought leader on IoT and digital supply chain. Retired from Microsoft, where he was the Industry Manager, Manufacturing, he now serves as the Principal Industry Analyst for IoT & Digital Supply Chain to Flatiron Strategies where he advises investment bankers on the IoT industry.
In an era of historic innovation fueled by unprecedented access to data and technology, the low cost and risk of entering new markets has leveled the playing field for business. Today, any ambitious innovator can easily introduce a new application or product that can reinvent business models and transform the client experience.
Join Mercer Rowe, IBM Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Raejeanne Skillern, Intel Vice President of Data Center Group and GM, as they discuss how clients in this new era of innovation, can apply data, technology, plus human ingenuity to springboard to advance new business value and opportunities.
Mercer Rowe is Vice President, Strategic Partners for IBM's Cloud Business Unit. In this capacity, he plays a pivotal role in IBM's growth and transformation by teaming with IBM's global strategic business partners to mutually enhance IBM's industry leading cloud portfolio of technology and services.
Raejeanne B. Skillern is vice president in the Data Center Group and general manager of the Cloud Service Provider Platform Group at Intel Corporation. She manages Intel's business, roadmap and customer engagements for public cloud infrastructure deployments and leads the team responsible for working closely with the world's largest cloud service providers to optimize Intel's data center solutions for their unique needs. Skillern earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Pepperdine University and her MBA from Marylhurst University.
Join Sheng Liang, creator of CloudStack and founder of Rancher Labs, as he discusses the technological advances and new business opportunities created by the rapid adoption of containers. With the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and various open source technologies used to build private clouds, cloud computing has become an essential component of IT strategy. However, users continue to face challenges in implementing clouds, as older technologies evolve and newer ones like Docker containers gain prominence. We'll explore these challenges and how to address them, while considering how containers will influence the direction of cloud computing.
Sheng Liang is a co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs. Prior to starting Rancher, he was CTO of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix Systems after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he was co-founder and CEO. He has more than 15 years of experience building innovative technology. He was a co-founder at Teros, which was acquired by Citrix in 2005 and led large engineering teams at SEVEN Networks, and Openwave Systems.
Bert Loomis was a visionary. This talk will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions. We will discuss the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "everyday," on-demand. We will review two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and innovators.
Harold Hannon has worked in the field of software development as both an architect and developer for more than 15 years, with a focus on workflow, integration, and distributed systems. He is currently a senior software architect on the product innovation team at SoftLayer. He has a passion for leveraging open source solutions to bring real value to the Enterprise space, and has implemented open source solutions with many companies across the globe. Hannon is also active in mobile application development, with multiple published applications.
Michael O'Neill is an established leader for NVIDIA. He provides specialized technical guidance and strategic thought leadership to customers on NVIDIA GRID and Tesla GPUs in virtualized environments. He works closely with business leaders to develop innovative solutions for graphical and compute heavy workloads. With over twenty years of experience in planning, developing, and implementing state of the art information systems, he has built a significant body of work empowering people and business to live, work and collaborate from anywhere. His guidance has provided Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups with cloud computing solutions to help IT and service providers build private, hybrid and public clouds to deliver high-performance, elastic and cost-effective services.
Extracting business value from Internet of Things (IoT) data doesn't happen overnight. There are several requirements that must be satisfied, including IoT device enablement, data analysis, real-time detection of complex events and automated orchestration of actions. Unfortunately, too many companies fall short in achieving their business goals by implementing incomplete solutions or not focusing on tangible use cases. This session will step through an integrated approach to the IoT journey, highlighting common pitfalls and successful strategies using real-world examples from the field.
Dave McCarthy is a 20 year veteran of the software industry, currently serving as Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, where he leads both product management and product marketing. Throughout his career, Dave has demonstrated a passion for solving complex business challenges through the use of technology. Dave recognizes that the emergence of IoT highlights the increasing need for businesses to extract value from data, regardless of the source. Dave brings a unique perspective to inform how companies can better integrate device and sensor data with enterprise systems to improve business outcomes. Dave earned a MBA with honors from Northeastern University.
More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables—activity trackers, smartwatches, smart glasses and sneakers, and more that track seemingly endless datapoints. However, most consumers have no idea what "IoT" means. Creating more wearables that track data shouldn't be the aim of brands; delivering meaningful, tangible relevance to their users should be.
We're in a period in which the IoT pendulum is still swinging. Initially, it swung toward "smart for smart's sake," and many brands remain in that corner. But many brands are also gradually opting for more strategic approaches. They're taking a breath and stepping back to examine both existing and potential IoT experiences, asking themselves whether their products lend real value. Once we reach this goal, the implications for personalization are staggering. Consumers will expect devices they use and items they wear to be connected and add value to their lives. We'll expect scales to weigh us, assess our body fat, and sync with our mobile device for personalized recommendations. Connected devices will be just another touchpoint in our increasingly digital lives. As a result, we'll have the data, personalized touchpoints, and context to achieve great success with spot-on relevance that continues to evolve.
Kevin Lindsay heads up product marketing for Adobe Target. He is an expert on conversion optimization and personalization, and speaks frequently at industry events around the globe. He was with Omniture prior to its acquisition by Adobe, and previously held product and strategic marketing positions at search software companies Mercado and Verity. Lindsay is a Canadian expat who enjoys life with his family in the hills above Silicon Valley.
Everyone knows that truly innovative companies learn as they go along, pushing boundaries in response to market changes and demands. What's more of a mystery is how to balance innovation on a fresh platform built from scratch with the legacy tech stack, product suite and customers that continue to serve as the business' foundation.
Hear why and how ReadyTalk diverted from healthy revenue and more than a decade of web conferencing product development to start a project that reflects shifts in customer needs, cloud, dev tools, web standards, enterprise mobility and video. We'll cover upsides, downsides and learnings in terms of investment, resource allocation, talent retention and technical considerations.
Michael Chambliss is Head of Engineering at ReadyTalk. He has been in the software development industry for more than 15 years, focusing on platform architectures and organizational growth. Outside of software, Michael is a gadget geek at heart and spends much of his free time building and experimenting with audio equipment.
Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain, stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who, what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive business outcomes. Attend this informative general session to learn how customers are able to achieve a level of transparency that enables everyone from Planning-to-Ops to make informed decisions based on business priority and leverage automation to accelerate identifying issues and fast fix to drive continuous feedback and KPI insight.
Phil Hombledal is Solution Architect at CollabNet.
DevOps has quickly become the buzz word du jour of our industry. Most organizations working on DevOps find out that infrastructure virtualization and automation may potentially create more problems than they solve - if the company does not standardize on tools and processes across development and operations.
Thomas Hooker is vice president of marketing at Collabnet. As the head of CollabNet's marketing team, he oversees demand generation, brand, customer marketing, public relations, analyst relations, product marketing, and corporate communications..
As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enterprise.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Randy De Meno, Chief Technologist - Windows Products and Microsoft Partnership at Commvault, will discuss how to cut costs, scale easily, and unleash insight with CommVault software, the only singular data and information management solution for cloud data protection and beyond. As always, Randy's session will include a lot of live demonstrations.
Speaker Bio:
Randy De Meno joined Commvault in 1994 and initiated Commvault's direction into the heterogeneous Data Management segment of the industry. Randy holds dozens patents on a number of CommVault's technologies including the Granular Application Integration and E-Discovery capabilities. Randy led Commvault's direction towards what is today's Commvault's Windows Centric Simpana solution and spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999. Randy continues to manage the overall strategic relationship with Microsoft. Randy leads Commvault's application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, SQL, Azure as well as other Windows based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the Commvault Ice Hockey team which has enabled Commvault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children's charities over the years
Learn how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and managing high performance teams was built throughout his experience at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and SocialEkwity.
Infrastructure is widely available, but who's managing inbound/outbound traffic? Data is created, stored, and managed online – who is protecting it and how? Learn how to keep any and all infrastructure clean, safe, and efficient by monitoring and filtering all malicious HTTP/HTTPS traffic at the OSI Layer 7. Stop attacks and web intruders before they can enter your network.
Jaeson Yoo is Senior Vice President of Business Development at Penta Security Systems Inc.
A blockchain is a time-stamped, non-repudiable database that contains the entire logged history of transactions on the system. Each transaction processor on the system maintains their own local copy of this database and the consensus formation algorithms enable every copy to stay in sync.
In his Opening Keynote at 18th Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo, Andrew Keys provided an overview of the evolution of the Internet and the Database and the future of their combination, the Blockchain.
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum.
Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a multi-faceted approach of strategy and enterprise business development.
Andrew graduated from Loyola University in Maryland and University of Auckland with degrees in economics and international finance.
It is one thing to build single industrial IoT applications, but what will it take to build the Smart Cities and truly society changing applications of the future? The technology won't be the problem, it will be the number of parties that need to work together and be aligned in their motivation to succeed.
In his Day 2 Keynote at @ThingsExpo, Henrik Kenani Dahlgren, Portfolio Marketing Manager at Ericsson, discussed how to plan to cooperate, partner, and form lasting all-star teams to change the world and how it starts with business models and monetization strategies.
Henrik Kenani Dahlgren joined Ericsson in 2010 in Sweden as Portfolio Marketing Manager. He has since worked and lived in Istanbul and San Diego helping customers get more out of their investments in technology. Before joining Ericsson he worked at a smaller software vendor working in the telecom sector as Senior Advisor. While he joined as a Systems Engineer, through high performance and development of relevant skills he advanced to take on Key Account Management, Product Management and Solutions Architect roles, traveling the world to help operators get more out of their business. Henrik also co-founded an IT consulting company delivering IT Support and Advises to customers who's core business was outside IT.
A strange thing is happening along the way to the Internet of Things, namely far too many devices to work with and manage. It has become clear that we'll need much higher efficiency user experiences that can allow us to more easily and scalably work with the thousands of devices that will soon be in each of our lives. Enter the conversational interface revolution, combining bots we can literally talk with, gesture to, and even direct with our thoughts, with embedded artificial intelligence, which can process our conversational commands and orchestrate the outcomes we request across our personal and professional realm of connected devices. Far from being part of the near future, "conversational things" is arriving now and will be explored with real-world examples.
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits. Dion is also a widely read ZDNet columnist and co-author of Social Business by Design (John Wiley & Sons) and Web 2.0 Architectures (O'Reilly). He also judges the prestigious CIO 100 Awards for CIO Magazine every year. Recently, Robert Half Inc. identified Dion as one of the top 20 people globally that technology leaders mention most. He can be found on Twitter at @dhinchcliffe.
What does it look like when you have access to cloud infrastructure and platform under the same roof. Lets talk about the different layers of Technology as a Service: who cares, what runs where, and how does it all fit together. In this session SoftLayer's Phil Jackson will speak about the picture being painted by IBM Cloud and how the tools being crafted can help fill the gaps in your IT infrastructure.
As Lead Technology Evangelist, Phil Jackson helps SoftLayer customers and partners integrate with the company's platform. For the past 10 years, he has worked in various roles within the IaaS industry, from sales to development. Jackson started his career in Web hosting at Ev1Servers, where he led the training department. With a passion for technology that started at a young age, Jackson has developed skills in a variety of scripting and programming languages and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the technology community.
The cloud market growth today is largely in public clouds. While there is a lot of spend in IT departments in virtualization, these aren't yet translating into a true "cloud" experience within the enterprise. What is stopping the growth of the "private cloud" market? In this talk, we explore the challenges in deploying, managing, and getting adoption for a private cloud within an enterprise. What are the key differences between what is available in the public cloud and the early private clouds? We also introduce our approach to solving the problem – how do we get an enterprise to deploy a private cloud in minutes that can compete with any public cloud in terms of functionality, cost and ease-of-use
Nara Rajagopalan is CEO of Accelerite. He is a technology thought leader and innovator with over 20 years of experience honed in high-tech. In his career, he has built successful startups and also led technology giants.
Before the formation of Accelerite by Persistent Systems, Nara joined Persistent Systems from Altosian, a network management infrastructure firm where he was a co-founder and also served as CEO. Prior to this, he was the Senior Vice President of Products at Openwave, where he led the $300M a year product portfolio focused on mobile data and communication infrastructure.
In previous roles, Nara served as a Software CTO at Lucent Technologies and as Vice President of Engineering at CoSine Communications. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India.
Why do your mobile transformations need to happen today? Mobile is the strategy that enterprise transformation centers on to drive customer engagement. This session will cover key IoT and mobile trends that are forcing mobile transformation, key components of a solid mobile strategy and explore how brands are effectively driving mobile change throughout the enterprise.
Roger Woods is Director, Mobile Product & Strategy – Adobe Marketing Cloud. He owns the Adobe Marketing Cloud mobile product strategy. Since joining Adobe six years ago, Roger launched Adobe Mobile services, an Adobe Marketing Cloud core service, which transformed mobile app analytics, testing, targeting, location, and, messaging solutions, enabling Adobe customers to strengthen their mobile business. He works with many clients across all verticals to help create their mobile strategy and execute on their mobile initiatives. Roger is passionate about mobile marketing and has served on Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) workgroups to define mobile marketing standards and best practices.
Your business relies on your applications and your employees to stay in business. Whether you develop apps or manage business-critical apps that help fuel your business, what happens when users experience sluggish performance? You and all technical teams across the organization - application, network, operations, among others, as well as, those outside the organization, like ISPs and third-party providers, are called in to solve the problem.
Join AppNeta to learn about the root cause of performance issues and how innovative solutions are bridging the gap between siloed technical teams, as well as, outside providers. Explore what arsenal of tools is needed to help ensure a successful user experience and keep your business, in business.
As Vice President of Products, Sean Armstrong is responsible for defining the product vision and ensuring that vision is executed through all stages of the product lifecycle. Prior to joining AppNeta, Sean was in senior product management positions at Apparent Networks, EMC, RSA, and Network Intelligence. Sean earned his BS in management science and computer information systems from Virginia Tech.
The cloud is a 'Dynamic Tool for Dynamic Apps' and resource allocation is an integral part of your application architecture, so use only the resources you need and allocate /de-allocate resources on the fly. In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Lee Atchison, Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic, discussed cloud as a 'better data center' and how it adds new capacity (faster) and improves application availability (redundancy).
Lee Atchison has 28 years of experience and committed his career to architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service-oriented, SaaS applications.
Lee is the Principal Cloud Architect and Advocate at New Relic. During the last four years at New Relic, he designed and led the building of the New Relic platform and infrastructure products, and helped New Relic architect a solid service-based architecture that scales as they have grown from a simple SaaS startup to a high traffic public enterprise.
As organizations shift towards IT-as-a-service models, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and now cloud environments grows with it. Commvault can ensure protection, access and E-Discovery of your data - whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud, or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enterprise. Learn how to cut costs, scale easily, and unleash insight with CommVault software, the only singular data and information management solution for cloud data protection and beyond.
Randy De Meno joined Commvault in 1994 and initiated Commvault's direction into the heterogeneous Data Management segment of the industry. Randy holds dozens patents on a number of CommVault's technologies including the Granular Application Integration and E-Discovery capabilities. Randy led Commvault's direction towards what is today's Commvault's Windows Centric Simpana solution and spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999. Randy continues to manage the overall strategic relationship with Microsoft. Randy leads Commvault's application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, SQL, Azure as well as other Windows based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the Commvault Ice Hockey team which has enabled Commvault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children's charities over the years.
Digital Initiatives create new ways of conducting business which drive the need for increasingly advanced security and regulatory compliance challenges with exponentially more damaging consequences. In the BMC and Forbes Insights Survey in 2016, 97% of executives said they expect a rise in data breach attempts in the next 12 months. Sixty percent said operations and security teams have only a general understanding of each other's requirements, resulting in a "SecOps gap" leaving organizations unable to mobilize to protect themselves. The result: many enterprises face unnecessary risks to data loss and production downtime.
This session will cover BMC's innovative solution to deliver vigilant compliance, precise threat analytics and relentless remediation in pursuit of security for the digital era.
Atwell Williams is a Senior Director of Customer Experience at BMC. In this role, he focuses on working directly with customers to help them transform their Information Technology (IT) operations to meet the rapidly evolving demands of the digital economy.
Atwell brings to the table a unique combination of IT process, technology, and organization knowledge and experience having served in BMC's internal IT organization as Director of Service Management, as an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) instructor, and most recently, as a member of BMC's Office of the CTO.
Creating replica copies to tolerate a certain number of failures is easy, but, very expensive at cloud-scale. Conventional RAID has lower overhead, but it is limited in the number of failures it can tolerate. And the management is like herding cats (overseeing capacity, rebuilds, migrations, and degraded performance). A new approach is necessary, one that supports the attributes of the cloud with the millions of applications and users depending on it for their business and personal lives. Object storage is the millennial approach to cloud-based data storage, archival, retrieval and cost. Why? Because it delivers significantly higher data reliability and allows virtually unlimited expansion for storage. Perfect for a hash-tagging, selfie-taking, always communicating and collaborating in an on-demand world.
With over 30 years of engineering and marketing experience in systems, flash, disk, and tape storage, Cleland enjoys a rich history in storage and solutions.Cleland currently leads marketing efforts as Senior Director of Product Marketing for the HGST Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit. Previously, he was a key contributor when 3ware achieved its Number One Serial Storage Channel Vendor status for two consecutive years.Before joining 3ware, he was Director of Product Marketing and Technical Marketing for IBM's Mylex storage division, and he previously held marketing and engineering positions at Archive, Exabyte, BusLogic and Conner Peripherals.Cleland holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and attended San Jose State University.Outside of work, Scott is always looking for a band to showcase his tasty guitar licks.
In today's enterprise, digital transformation represents organizational change even more so than technology change, as customer preferences and behavior drive end-to-end transformation across lines of business as well as IT. To capitalize on the ubiquitous disruption driving this transformation, companies must be able to innovate at an increasingly rapid pace.
Jason Bloomberg is the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise. As president of Intellyx, Mr. Bloomberg brings his expertise in Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture to a global clientele. During his twelve years at ZapThink, he created and delivered the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential. He now runs the Bloomberg Agile Architecture Course around the world. His latest book is The Agile Architecture Revolution (Wiley, 2013).
Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world.
A recognized leader in social business, best-selling author, and one of the most influential people in Web 2.0 technology, Sandy Carter is IBM General Manager Cloud Ecosystem and Developers, and a Social Business Evangelist. She is responsible for IBM's worldwide focus on building and expanding the Cloud ecosystem for ISVs, Entrepreneurs, Developers, and Academics, which influences one third of the revenue for IBM. Previously, Sandy was Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, where she led the team to five years of #1 market share per IDC.
Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flows, processes and sensor data, and analyze/react to real-time events and messages as well as big data trends and anomalies. Prior to co-founding Octoblu, Chris was the founder of Nodester, an open-source Node.JS PaaS which was acquired by AppFog and the founder of Teleku, a communications-as-a-service cloud platform which was acquired by Voxeo. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisMatthieu
Countless business models have spawned from the IaaS industry. Resell Web hosting, blogs, public cloud, and on and on. With the overwhelming amount of tools available to us, it's sometimes easy to overlook that many of them are just new skins of resources we've had for a long time. Let's break down what we've got to work with and discuss benefits and pitfalls to discover how we can best used them to design hosted applications.
Harold Hannon has worked in the field of software development as both an architect and developer for more than 15 years, with a focus on workflow, integration, and distributed systems. He is currently a senior software architect on the product innovation team at SoftLayer. He has a passion for leveraging open source solutions to bring real value to the Enterprise space, and has implemented open source solutions with many companies across the globe. Hannon is also active in mobile application development, with multiple published applications.
The buzz continues for cloud, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their collective impact across all industries. But a new conversation is emerging - how do companies use industry disruption and technology enablers to lead in markets undergoing change, uncertainty and ambiguity? Organizations of all sizes need to evolve and transform, often under massive pressure, as industry lines blur and merge and traditional business models are assaulted and turned upside down. In this new data-driven world, marketplaces reign supreme while interoperability, APIs and applications deliver unique customer value for new go-to-market models based on a cloud and IoT way of working. Analytics, IoT service mashups, fail fast business models and contextual data streams enable data to become the new currency for digital citizens and businesses and will determine business success or failure. In this session we will share industry use cases for enterprises who are successfully transforming and evolving their business models through a new way of working and interacting with customers, partners and suppliers across the data marketplace.
Esmeralda Swartz is VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud, BUSS. She has spent 15 years as a marketing, product management, and business development technology executive bringing disruptive technologies and companies to market. Esmeralda was CMO of MetraTech, now part of Ericsson. At MetraTech, Esmeralda was responsible for go-to-market strategy and execution for enterprise and SaaS products, product management, business development and partner programs. Prior to MetraTech, Esmeralda was co-founder, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Lightwolf Technologies, a big data management startup. She was previously co-founder and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Soapstone Networks, a developer of resource and service control software, now part of Extreme Networks.
In recent years, at least 40% of companies using cloud applications have experienced data loss. One of the best prevention against cloud data loss is backing up your cloud data. Join Bryan Forrester, SVP of Sales at eFolder, as he presents how organizations can use eFolder Cloudfinder to automate backups of cloud application data. In this presentation, Bryan will also demonstrate how easy it is to search and restore cloud application data using Cloudfinder.
Bryan is Senior Vice President of Sales and is responsible for worldwide revenue growth and sales strategy. Bryan has over 12 years of experience building and leading high performing direct and channel sales teams. Bryan led and helped develop new successful distribution channels, negotiated mergers/acquisitions as well as numerous strategic partnerships. Bryan has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona.
With all the incredible momentum behind the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, it is easy to forget that not a single CEO wakes up and wonders if "my IoT is broken". What they wonder is if they are making the right decisions to do all they can to increase revenue, decrease costs, and improve customer experience – effectively the same challenges they have always had in growing their business. The exciting thing about the IoT industry is now these decisions can be better, faster, and smarter. Now all corporate assets – people, objects, and spaces – can share information about themselves and their surroundings. And this data can help make better decisions through improved insights. This talk will share a viewpoint on how IoT technologies need to be applied not just for the sake of IoT – but for the sake of insights. And to challenge the industry to move from talking about "things" to talking about "decisions".
Mr. Brown is Managing Director, Internet of Things Group at Luxoft (NYSE: LXFT), a global technology consulting company. Mr. Brown joined Luxoft in October 2013 after the company acquired Radius Inc., a Seattle-based IoT technology company that Mr. Brown co-founded. Mr. Brown has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, studying Systems Dynamics.
Bryan is Senior Vice President of Sales and is responsible for worldwide revenue growth and sales strategy. Bryan has over 12 years of experience building and leading high performing direct and channel sales teams. Bryan led and helped develop new successful distribution channels, negotiated mergers/acquisitions as well as numerous strategic partnerships. Bryan has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona.
Too often with compelling new technologies market participants become overly enamored with that attractiveness of the technology and neglect underlying business drivers. This tendency, what some call the "newest shiny object syndrome" is understandable given that virtually all of us are heavily engaged in technology. But it is also mistaken. Without concrete business cases driving its deployment, IoT, like many other technologies before it, will fade into obscurity.
Dave McCarthy is a 20 year veteran of the software industry, currently serving as Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, where he leads both product management and product marketing. Throughout his career, Dave has demonstrated a passion for solving complex business challenges through the use of technology. Dave recognizes that the emergence of IoT highlights the increasing need for businesses to extract value from data, regardless of the source. Dave brings a unique perspective to inform how companies can better integrate device and sensor data with enterprise systems to improve business outcomes. Dave earned a MBA with honors from Northeastern University.
The buzz continues for cloud, data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their collective impact In this workshop, we will explore the value of Kibana 4 for log analysis and will give a real live, hands-on tutorial on how to set up Kibana 4 and get the most out of Apache log files. We will examine three use cases: IT operations, business intelligence, and security and compliance. This is a hands-on session which will require participants to bring their own laptops, and we will provide the rest.
Asaf Yigal is co-founder and VP of Product at log analytics software company Logz.io. In the past, he was co-founder of social-trading platform Currensee, which was later acquired by OANDA. Yigal was also an early employee of server performance-monitoring company Akorri and storage resource-management startup Onaro, both of which were acquired by NetApp (NTAP). Yigal graduated from the Techion -- the Israeli version of MIT -- and he later created an AI algorithm on naval warfare for the Israeli military.
Randy De Meno joined Commvault in 1994 and initiated Commvault's direction into the heterogeneous Data Management segment of the industry. Randy holds dozens patents on a number of CommVault's technologies including the Granular Application Integration and E-Discovery capabilities. Randy led Commvault's direction towards what is today's Commvault's Windows Centric Simpana solution and spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999. Randy continues to manage the overall strategic relationship with Microsoft. Randy leads Commvault's application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, SQL, Azure as well as other Windows based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the Commvault Ice Hockey team which has enabled Commvault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children's charities over the years.
We all know that data growth is exploding and storage budgets are shrinking. Instead of showing you charts on about how much data there is, in this session we'll show you how to capture all of your data in one place. After you have your data under control, you can then analyze it in one place, saving time and resources. See how HGST has used these solutions to gain more value out of the information we have--and capitalize on that value by delivering better products.
With over 30 years of engineering and marketing experience in Systems, flash, disk and tape storage, Scott enjoys a rich environment of storage and solutions focus. Cleland has lead WW marketing efforts as Senior Director at Violin Memory most recently and previously was the director of enterprise storage for Fusion-io, ran worldwide marketing for LSI and Adaptec. He was a key contributor in the 3ware achievement of the number one serial storage channel vendor status for two consecutive years. Before joining 3ware, he was director of product marketing and technical marketing for IBM's Mylex storage division, and previously held marketing and engineering positions at Archive, Exabyte, BusLogic and Conner Peripherals.
Growth hacking is common for startups to make unheard-of progress in building their business. Career Hacks can help Geek Girls and those who support them (yes, that's you too, Dad!) to excel in this typically male-dominated world.
A recognized leader in social business, best-selling author, and one of the most influential people in Web 2.0 technology, Sandy Carter is IBM General Manager Cloud Ecosystem and Developers, and a Social Business Evangelist. She is responsible for IBM's worldwide focus on building and expanding the Cloud ecosystem for ISVs, Entrepreneurs, Developers, and Academics, which influences one third of the revenue for IBM. Previously, Sandy was Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, responsible for setting the direction for IBM's Social Business initiative, where she led the team to five years of #1 market share per IDC.
Converging digital disruptions is creating a major sea change - Cisco calls this the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE is the network connection of People, Process, Data and Things, fueled by Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics and Security, and it represents a $19Trillion value-at-stake over the next 10 years.
Manjula Talreja is currently a Vice President in Cisco's Consulting Services group - the company's business and IT technology consulting arm - where she manages the Global Service Provider business worldwide and drive the Cloud practice. In these roles, she engages with Service Provider executives and enterprise CIOs to help them transform their business as a result of the digital disruption fueled by the Internet of Everything (IoE), Analytics, Cloud and Network virtualization.
Rodney Rogers, CEO of Virtustream, discusses the evolution of the company from inception to its recent acquisition by EMC – including personal insights, lessons learned (and some WTF moments) along the way. Learn how Virtustream's unique approach of combining the economics and elasticity of the consumer cloud model with proper performance, application automation and security into a platform became a breakout success with enterprise customers and a natural fit for the EMC Federation.
Currently, Rodney is a co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Virtustream, a leading cloud software and services provider. Virtustream introduced the first consumption-based hybrid cloud software and IaaS platform capable of providing commercial application latency performance guarantees for running mission-critical enterprise class applications on modern multi-tenant cloud architectures. In May of 2015, Virtustream signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by EMC for $1.2 billion.
The web app is Agile. The REST API is Agile. The testing and planning are Agile. But alas, Data infrastructures certainly are not. Once an application matures, changing the shape or indexing scheme of data often forces at best a top down planning exercise and at worst includes schema changes which force downtime. The time has come for a new approach that fundamentally advances the agility of distributed data infrastructures.
Dan Lynn, CEO of CodeFutures Corporation, is an entrepreneur, technologist, teacher and technical leader with 14 years of experience in the software industry. He joins CodeFutures to advance the agile Big Data strategies in development around AgilData, CodeFutures' new agile Big Data platform designed to remove the complexity and limitations of current data management approaches.
There will be 150 billion connected devices by 2020. New digital businesses have already disrupted value chains across every industries. APIs are at the center of the digital Business. You need to understand what assets you have that can be exposed digitally, what their digital value chain is, and how to create an effective business model around that value chain to compete in this economy. No enterprise can be complacent and not engage in the digital economy. Learn how to be the disruptor and not the disruptee.
Laura is a Director of API Strategy at SOA Software. In this role, she works with customer to establish API Business strategies and implement API and SOA Platforms. Previously Ms. Heritage served as a Product Line Manager at IBM and was responsible for establishing IBM¹s API
Management business.
Review of Next Generation Cloud services, including Windstream-EMC Tier Storage solutions, to increase efficiencies, improve service delivery and enhance corporate cloud solution development.
Engaged in the Technology industry for more than 15 years in business development and management roles, Michael supports several of EMC's most strategic Cloud Service Provider relationships, including Windstream. His organization focuses on identification, solution development and joint go-to-market execution.
Mike Dietze is the Regional Director for Windstream Hosted Solutions where he manages a that team focuses on building cloud based solutions for Windstream's customers. He has over 15 years of experience in data center based solutions as a sales professional and leader.
Connected things, systems and people can provide information to other things, systems and people and initiate actions for each other that result in new service possibilities. By taking a look at the impact of Internet of Things when it transitions to a highly connected services marketplace we can understand how connecting the right "things" and leveraging the right partners can provide enormous impact to your business' growth and success. This exciting emergence of layers of service offerings across a growing partner ecosystem can be monetized for the benefit of smart digital citizens, enterprises and society.
Esmeralda Swartz is VP, Marketing Enterprise and Cloud, BUSS. She has spent 15 years as a marketing, product management, and business development technology executive bringing disruptive technologies and companies to market. Esmeralda was CMO of MetraTech, now part of Ericsson. At MetraTech, Esmeralda was responsible for go-to-market strategy and execution for enterprise and SaaS products, product management, business development and partner programs. Prior to MetraTech, Esmeralda was co-founder, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Lightwolf Technologies, a big data management startup. She was previously co-founder and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Soapstone Networks, a developer of resource and service control software, now part of Extreme Networks.
David Shacochis, host of The Hybrid IT Files podcast and Vice President at CenturyLink, investigates three key trends of the "gigabit economy" though the story of a Fortune 500 communications company in transformation. Narrating how multi-modal hybrid IT, service automation, and agile delivery all intersect, this discussion covers the role of story-telling and empathy in achieving strategic alignment between the enterprise and its information technology.
Mr. Shacochis currently leads the Cloud Ecosystem team at CenturyLink, responsible for partner integration, technology evangelism, and platform metrics for one of the major cloud computing platforms in the world. As a senior leader within the CenturyLink Cloud Development Center, he is commercially responsible for cloud ecosystem growth as well as technology partner success.
Countless business models have spawned from the IaaS industry. Resell Web hosting, blogs, public cloud, and on and on. With the overwhelming amount of tools available to us, it's sometimes easy to overlook that many of them are just new skins of resources we've had for a long time. Let's break down what we've got to work with and discuss benefits and pitfalls to discover how we can best used them to design hosted applications.
As Lead Technology Evangelist, Phil Jackson helps SoftLayer customers and partners integrate with the company's platform. For the past 10 years, he has worked in various roles within the IaaS industry, from sales to development. Jackson started his career in Web hosting at Ev1Servers, where he led the training department. With a passion for technology that started at a young age, Jackson has developed skills in a variety of scripting and programming languages and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the technology community.
Business as usual for IT is evolving into a "Make or Buy" decision on a service-by-service conversation with input from the LOBs. How does your organization move forward with cloud? Cisco and our partners offer a market leading portfolio and ecosystem of cloud infrastructure and application services that allow you to uniquely and securely combine cloud business applications and services across multiple cloud delivery models.
Paul leads Sales and Services strategy for Cisco's Hybrid Cloud and Managed Services business for US East Coast. Paul has over fifteen (15) years of Sales management and leadership experience. In his most recent role, Paul led the product marketing efforts for Cloud and SDN solutions. Prior to this, he held multiple sales leadership roles at Cisco European operation. Paul has managed the sales of hundreds of millions of Cisco hardware, software and services, and has managed top European service provider customer relationships including subsidiaries of Vodafone, Orange and Deutsche Telekom.
Shipping daily, injecting faults, and keeping an extremely high availability "without Ops"? Understand why NoOps does not mean no operations. Agile development methodologies require evolved operations to be successful.
David's mission is to "put more Ops into DevOps". He currently shares "the good news" of software and has helped customers since 2007 as a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. David creates technical content including hundreds of videos, speaks at various Microsoft and industry-sponsored events, leads the weekly Edge Show with monthly episodes on DevOps, and works directly with customers and internal development teams. DevOps is currently David's focus which includes expertise in relevant products such as Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Online, Application Insights, Team Foundation Server, Release Management, and System Center.
Software is eating the world. Companies that were not previously in the technology space now find themselves competing with Google and Amazon on speed of innovation. As the innovation cycle accelerates, companies must embrace rapid and constant change to both applications and their infrastructure, and find a way to deliver speed and agility of development without sacrificing reliability or efficiency of operations.
Victoria is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and trailblazer. In 2013 she founded Qubell to transform how enterprises develop, deliver and operate web-scale applications. Prior to Qubell, she founded Grid Dynamics, a leading provider of web-scale technology platforms for tier-1 digital retailers. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Victoria has spent ten years at Sun as principal scientist and chief architect working on next-generation technologies ranging from programming languages and distributed in-memory processing to computational grids and super-computers. Victoria was a part of the team that launched SunGrid, the industry's first public cloud in 2005. Victoria started her career at Ford as HPC engineer. She holds several patents in distributed systems and has received numerous technology achievement awards.
Fabio Gori, Director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing at Cisco provides answers to big questions: As cloud gives an opportunity to businesses to buy services externally – how is cloud impacting your customers? Do you see hybrid cloud as where the world is going? What benefits does it bring? And how does Cisco connect all of these clouds? Fabio also tells us everything about Intercloud and Cisco investment on it.
Fabio Gori is currently Director of Cloud Solutions Marketing at Cisco, based in San Jose (CA).
He is responsible for Cisco Cloud Marketing strategy across all Cisco Business Groups as well as leading the Intercloud Market campaign.
SAP is delivering break-through innovation combined with fantastic user experience powered by the market-leading in-memory technology, SAP HANA. Discover how SAP and partners provide cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as well as real time big data offerings that helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP launched an application challenge to award the most innovative SAP HANA and SAP HANA Cloud platforms applications. Out of many contenders, the best applications have been selected by members of the SAP Community Network via crowd-voting. Join this exciting session as SAP recognizes the winners and finalists for their great accomplishment and see the winning applications live on stage!
As Global Vice President ISVs & Digital Commerce, Thorsten leads the development of a large, vibrant, open ecosystem around SAP's core platforms. With SAP PartnerEdge for Application Development, the newest and fastest growing partner program from SAP, Thorsten has established an industry-leading partner apps business which enables partners effectively to build innovative customer solutions leveraging SAP's platform technologies as well as to market those solutions via SAP Store and other routes to market.
Performance is the intersection of power, agility, control, and choice. If you value performance, and more specifically consistent performance, you need to look beyond simple virtualized compute. Many factors need to be considered to create a truly performant environment. Learn how to take advantage of a multitude of compute options and platform features to make cloud the cornerstone of your online presence.
Mr. Hannon has worked in the field of software development as both an architect and developer for more than 15 years, with a focus on workflow, integration and distributed systems. He is currently a senior software architect at SoftLayer on the product innovation team. He has a passion for leveraging open source solutions to bring real value to the Enterprise space, and has implemented open source solutions with many companies across the globe. Mr. Hannon is also active in mobile application development, with multiple published applications.
This session will focus on finding the right mix of renting vs. buying Oracle capacity to scale to meet business demands, and offer validated Oracle database TCO models for Oracle development and testing environments.
Anne Plese is a marketing and technology enthusiast/realist with over 19+ years in high tech. At Verizon Enterprise, Anne focuses on driving growth for the Verizon Cloud platform globally. Previous to Verizon, Anne spent over 10 years with Cisco. There she was focused on growing Cisco's global data center and cloud revenue, and boosting market awareness and affinity for Cisco data center solutions within the Enterprise and Commercial market segments.
Websites are evolving faster than ever, and with them, the demand for instant site performance on any and every device is rising. With security threats in the spotlight, websites must provide their visitors with lightning fast results and industry-leading protection. Working in the cloud should make meeting these demands easier, not more complicated. Learn how to increase site reliability, revenue, scale and reach, without adding additional costs.
James is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold three successful startups. Most recently, James was the co-founder of EdgeCast Networks, one of the world's leading content delivery networks. EdgeCast was acquired by Verizon Digital Media Services in Dec. 2013.
Microsoft Azure is open and flexible, enables rapid development and is enterprise proven. Come find out why more than 57% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Azure to accelerate their time-to-market, open up new business opportunities and save them money.
In his Opening Keynote at 14th Cloud Expo, Steven Martin, General Manager of Window Azure, discusses how to extend your on-premises storage, move virtual machines to the cloud, build mobile/web applications, or and harness the power of Big Data.
Steven Martin is the General Manager of Window Azure.
Enterprises build applications with the latest tools, people and processes yet failures riddle the headlines. If state of the art fails us, it means we need a "New State of the Art."
In his Opening Keynote at 2nd DevOps Summit, John Michelsen, CTO of CA Technologies, discusses how DevOps hopes to instill a new culture that defines the new way of managing application delivery. It's time Enterprise IT learns from every other industry and begins to use simulation, supply chain governance, continuous delivery and feedback loops to build better products.
John Michelsen is CTO of CA Technologies. As the Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies, he is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company's technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value.
In a world of ever-accelerating business cycles and fast-changing client expectations, the cloud increasingly serves as a growth engine and a path to new business models. Dynamic clouds enable businesses to continuously reinvent themselves, adapting their business processes, their service and software delivery and their operations to achieve speed-to-market and quick response to customer feedback. The cloud opens up new possibilities for businesses to continuously deliver software-driven innovation and enables new ways of collaboration between an extended group of stakeholders, including business leaders, developers, operations as well customers and partners.
In his Lunch Keynote at 14th Cloud Expo, Dr Kristof Kloeckner discusses the capabilities of BlueMix, IBM's cloud platform, with integrated DevOps services. With BlueMix, developers can compose applications in a tight feedback loop, using a wealth of IBM, third-party and open source services and APIs, deploy and scale with infrastructure services from SoftLayer and code with the confidence based on a foundation of open standards.
Dr. Kloeckner is responsible for application lifecycle management and system engineering tools within IBM's software business. These tools enable clients to accelerate the delivery of software and systems through DevOps and Smarter Product Development.
He has held executive leadership positions in strategy, architecture and development in Germany, the UK and the USA, and has delivered many industry leading software products. He was CTO of the first Cloud Computing initiative in IBM's Corporate Strategy team and created the Beta for IBM's first public cloud. As CTO of IBM Software Group he directed its technical and software engineering strategy, including the transformation to lean and agile development throughout the company. As CTO for WebSphere he developed the technical strategy for the evolution of IBM's application integration middleware platform. As Director of the Hursley Lab in the UK and VP of Business Integration Development, he grew IBM's message oriented middleware to a full integration portfolio including IBM's first Enterprise Service Bus. As Director of the German Software Lab, he developed IBM's first workflow management system. He joined IBM in 1984 as a development engineer in the Boeblingen Development Laboratory in Germany, working on porting UNIX to the mainframe.
Dr. Kloeckner received a Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the BCS and since 1997 an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Microsoft Azure now provides the right services for enterprises. But what scenarios are most interesting to enterprise leaders, and why? Which of these do most enterprises want to start with, why do they want them, and what are the common objections? In this session, David Chappell walks through these basics, giving you a big-picture introduction to how enterprises are adopting Microsoft Azure and how you can help them do this.
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps people around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about new technology.
David has been the keynote speaker for more than a hundred conferences and events on five continents, and his seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of IT leaders, architects, and developers in forty-five countries. His books have been published in a dozen languages and used regularly in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and many other universities. David has also been a Series Editor for Addison-Wesley and a columnist for several publications. In his consulting practice, he has helped clients such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Stanford University, and Target Corporation adopt new technologies, market new products, and educate their customers and staff.
David's comments have appeared in The New York Times, CNN.com, and many other publications. Earlier in his career, he wrote networking software, chaired a U.S. national standardization working group, and played keyboards with the Peabody-award-winning Children's Radio Theater. David holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Understanding the future of big data is crucial in the early stages of decision making around big data architectures. In the enterprise, what stands out is the need to integrate Hadoop smoothly into your existing data warehouse architecture, while taking advantage of existing skills and investments.In this session we'll present a strategy for enabling integrated data management using both Hadoop and relational technologies. In particular, we'll look at how SQL, long the standard for the data warehouse, is increasingly being used on Hadoop. The real prize, though, is Smart SQL processing, seamlessly integrating the data warehouse and Hadoop into a single, Big Data Management System.
Marty Gubar is part of the product management team at Oracle, focusing on Oracle's Big Data Platform and related products. He has been responsible for delivering enabling tools to help people become successful with Oracle's big data technology. Marty has a long history at Oracle; he was the lead PM for the business intelligence PM team, was a member of the OLAP PM group and was director of marketing for OLAP technology. Marty holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a minor in Decision Sciences from the Wharton School.
You use an agile process, your goal is to make your organization more agile. What about your data infrastructure?
The truth is, today's databases are anything but agile — they are effectively static repositories that are cumbersome to work with, difficult to change, and cannot keep pace with application demands. Performance suffers as a result, and it takes far longer than it should to deliver on new features and capabilities needed to make your organization competitive. As your application and business needs change, data repositories and structures get outmoded rapidly, resulting in increased work for application developers and slow performance for end users. Further, as data sizes grow into the Big Data realm this problem is exacerbated and becomes even more difficult to address. A seemingly simple schema change can take hours (or more) to perform, and as requirements evolve the disconnect between existing data structures and actual needs diverge.
Not only do organizations suffer routinely from static, inflexible data repositories, there is now a huge need for real-time Big Data processing. To maintain a competitive stance, companies need to know what is happening now, in real-time, and be able to act accordingly. This need leaves traditional data warehouse, batch processing, and other historical reporting approaches in the dust.
How can you address these challenges, building a truly agile infrastructure that allows your organization to store, scale and access the data it needs?
The ideal solution is an agile data infrastructure, able to handle everything from OLTP to real-time analytics to historical reporting. An agile approach allows data to be accessed as an exact match to application requirements. As application needs change, an agile platform must be able to respond rapidly, continuing to dynamically evolve schema, data distribution and access patterns to support Big Data scalability and high performance — while easing the burden of the application developer and database administrators.
During this session you will hear from the experts on what it really takes to achieve an agile data infrastructure — one that meets your needs today and for many years to come. You will hear a case study showing agile data concepts at work. In addition, you will learn about CodeFutures' latest breakthrough technology for real-time Big Data infrastructures, ready for private beta following the show.
Cory Isaacson is CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, maker of dbShards, a leading database scalability suite providing a true "shared nothing" architecture for relational databases. Cory has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications including SOA Magazine, Database Trends and Applications, and recently authored the book Software Pipelines and SOA (Addison Wesley). Cory has more than twenty years experience with advanced software architectures, and has worked with many of the world's brightest innovators in the field of high-performance computing. Cory has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, and assisting numerous organizations address the real-world challenges of application performance and scalability -- effectively applying emerging technologies to a variety of fields including social networking, mobile applications, gaming and high volume transaction systems. In his prior position as president of Rogue Wave Software, he actively led the company back to a position of profitable growth, culminating in a successful acquisition by a leading private equity firm. Cory can be reached at: [email protected]
David Reoch is a cloud computing design veteran specializing in the architecture of global, highly-available fault-tolerant data center infrastructures. Previous to his role as Sr. Director of Cloud Solutions at Gigamon, he served as Sr. Enterprise Technologist of Cloud, Hyperscale and Virtualization at Dell and principal architect of HP's Enterprise Cloud Services. He has been an information security practitioner for 20 years and became a CISSP in 2004.
Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new systems of engagement, out maneuver their peers and achieve desired outcomes. This keynote will detail the critical architectural considerations and success factors organizations must internalize to successfully implement, optimize and innovate using next generation architectures.
Dr. Daniel Sabbah has recently been named as CTO and General Manager, Next Generation Platform, at IBM Corp. He has responsibility for aligning direction IBM is pursuing around cloud and mobility to a more coherent, next generation architecture. Involved will be Software (middleware and application services), servers/storage/networking in software defined infrastructure leading to more dynamic and scalable IBM Cloud Services. Balancing innovation with preservation and optimization of existing investments for our clients and customers in that next generation architecture is the goal.
In the old world of IT, if you didn't have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It's a true dilemma for developers and innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly. A hybrid cloud ignites innovation and empowers developers to focus on what they need. A hybrid cloud blends the best of all worlds, public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers to fit the needs of developers and offer the ideal environment for each app and workload without the constraints of a one-size-fits-all cloud. Join Lisa Larson, Rackspace vice president of enterprise cloud solutions, for this informative session examining the concrete steps you must take to spark innovation and creativity among developers. You'll hear real-world customer examples of how a hybrid cloud arms your developers with the tools to be true innovators in this new IT world.
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.
Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combined with a perceived lack of security. As a result this has led to slower predicted growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology.
Learn more about overcoming these challenges, and the role application delivery solutions play in optimizing public and hybrid cloud architectures without sacrificing performance, security or control.
Neil Cohen is Akamai's Vice President of Global Product Marketing 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 a regular speaker and contributor for a variety of cloud computing technology forums and publications.
Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms—software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value. Join us to learn about the new ITaaS model and how to begin the transformation.
Sheng Liang is CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems. Formerly CEO of Cloud.com, he's a technology visionary who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, and a serial entrepreneur. Before Cloud.com he co-founded web application firewall vendor Teros Networks (also acquired by Citrix), and was a member of the senior management team at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, which developed software products for over 100 wireless and wire-line service providers around the world.
Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year. This session will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix Cloud Solutions. Learn best practices and architecture from companies who have embraced the cloud in their datacenter environment.
Compelling consumer applications are created everyday. Are you ready for the IT implications both internally and externally? As your datacenter needs more capacity, the cloud will be critical to success. What are the key considerations to help plan for the needed capacity over time? And how can the cloud best work with your existing applications?
In this General Session join Brian Jawalka, architect and cloud strategist for an informative session which will potentially open conversation to talk about the SaaS consumer apps that are forcing IT to evolve. Learn how a hybrid approach can add agility, flexibility and speed-to-market for your organization.
Brian Jawalka is Enterprise Solutions Architect at Rackspace Hosting. He has 10+ years in developing world-class product and transformational architectures for Fortune 1000 companies. He has developed secure IT architectures, solutions and best practices for a wide range of global customers and industries. Presently, Jawalka is a Sr. IT Strategist within Rackspace's Enterprise Cloud Solutions Organization, where he is focused on building long-term IT strategies for enterprise clientele. He also works closely with key Rackspace technology partners, including: Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, NetApp, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, CA, Magento, Akamai, and Accenture
It is common to see providers deploy cloud instances using automation, but what happens when these same principles are applied to the provisioning of the infrastructure? In this General Session attendees will gain insider information on how OVH, winner of the VMware Global Partner Network Award 2013, can make automation work to provide IaaS that scales within minutes.
How to Improve Security, Scale, Response Time and Availability For Your Cloud and Big Data Initiatives
It's a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world - "I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?" Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap only a small percentage of the potential benefits that can be gained through cloud adoption.
This session will examine a variety of strategies you can employ to make your cloud architecture better performing, more secure and available. Learn best practices for achieving the optimal reliability for applications running in the cloud as well as maintaining or increasing the velocity of real-time data transfers happening in support of Big Data initiatives.
Gary Ballabio is a Product Line Director responsible for Akamai's Enterprise Cloud Solutions portfolio. In his role, he runs Akamai's Terra Alta, Web Application Accelerator and Cloud Monitor services, which target major Enterprise based initiatives centered around Cloud adoption, Big Data and Mobile/BYOD. A 13 year veteran at Akamai, Ballabio has also held leadership roles in Engineering, Sales Engineering, Account Management and Professional Services covering teams in the US, 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.
Kevin Brown is CEO of Coraid, Inc. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive, with experience in the networking, storage, security, and virtualization sectors. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Kidaro, a desktop virtualization software vendor, where he led the team to a leadership position in this emerging segment. Kidaro was acquired by Microsoft in May 2008 and incorporated as a key element of Windows virtualization.
These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though? In this highly informative General Session, McAfee experts will help you explore and address the security challenges and considerations for public cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
Rishi Bhargava is Vice President of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, Inc. He is responsible for Product management and strategy for datacenter solution. A visionary and technology enthusiast, he is also driving all Embedded Security Products Initiatives at McAfee. With over 12 years of diverse experience in product development and product management, he has a reputation for turning small ideas into successful market leading products.
There's no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a completely new set of requirements that go far beyond the capabilities of most API Management platforms. This presentation will discuss how a B2B API program can help drive your business, what the challenges are, and how to make sure you succeed.
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.
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