Hear from top minds at leading companies discuss the future of cloud computing.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
9:00-11:00 AMPrior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making Cloud Computing a reality. For his unique style in engaging customers, media and the general public, Dr Vogels received the 2009 Media Momentum Personality of Award.
Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering and the development of Sun Cloud. Other accomplishments in his career include Salesforce.com's AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.
Tucker's interest in distributed systems stems from his tenure at Thinking Machines, an early leader in supercomputing technology, where large-scale problems could only be addressed by using thousands of individual processors. Today, as the Internet evolves, companies are following a similar trajectory and building out large-scale cloud computing platforms. Transformation of systems into scalable platforms remains a long-term interest.
Tucker holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Cornell University, a master's degree in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and a doctorate in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers and recently won a 2009 'Cloudie' award for Most Influential Cloud Blogger. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month.
Randy's innovative open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including SunMicrosystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware. Randy is a cloud computing thought leader who is frequently asked to present and participate on panels at technology conferences.
Session: Enterprise Cloud Myth(s)
What makes an enterprise cloud? Why do we need them and what promise do they hold? Will the Amazon model win or is an alternative cloud model truly required for a different buyer? We will explore the myths and realities of commodity vs enterprise clouds, describing what is at stake if we fail to incorporate the obvious truths in front of us.Panel: No Private Cloud Should Be An Island
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James has more than 20 years' experience in the industry, having served as a reseller, vendor strategist, CMO, journalist, and analyst for companies including Autodesk, Azul Systems, Gartner, Rockwell International, and Sun Microsystems.
He is a frequent speaker at industry, corporate, educational, and Wall Street events and has guest lectured at leading business schools.
Working out of Forrester's Foster City, Calif. office, James holds a master's degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas.
Session: Are You Activating Cloud Economics?
We all know clouds can save you money through their pay-per-use pricing model and deliver productivity benefits by being highly automated but do you really understand the new economic model they present? Are you coding, configuring, capacity planning and monitoring and orchestrating your applications to turn these economics in your favor? In my session I’ll discuss how others are doing this and how you can too.Speaker
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DeveloperFishDr. Chiu has also led the IBM worldwide Performance Lab team on working with leading customers on platform and workload optimization, as well as performance and scalability improvement. Previously, Dr. Chiu held numerous executive positions within IBM Software Group, from leading a team of experts in high volume web performance technologies and scalability, to creating IBM's first "digital library" content management project in the emerging area, digitizing the world's most treasured collections, including those at the Vatican Library. Dr. Chiu joined IBM as a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
Session: Accelerating business transformation through Smarter Computing
As organizations expand and businesses must become increasingly agile to compete, demand for computing capacity has become more dynamic, at the same time IT budgets are under tremendous pressures to control costs. Businesses must shift from traditional IT models to more efficient and innovative IT delivery models, such as cloud computing, that can be adapted rapidly to solve global business challenges, continue to accelerate innovative business models, and to drive new opportunities for monetization. In this keynote, Dr. Chiu will discuss how enterprise cloud adoption has evolved and what foreseeable outcomes it may create for businesses in the future.Session: Elasticity: the What and the Why
Elasticity is one the most important benefits of Cloud computing. But what exactly do we mean by Elasticity? And how can you best explain it to the nay sayers? Find out from Todd Papaioannou, VP Cloud Architecture at Yahoo!With additional experience in Software Development, Derek has served in various management roles on multiple animated films, including the Shrek franchise, "How to Train Your Dragon" and DreamWorks Animation's upcoming release, "Kung Fu Panda 2."
Derek holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. In 2008, Derek was named one of Computer World's Premiere 100 IT Leaders and is an advisor on various industry boards, including Red Hat and HP Technical Advisory Councils.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
9:00-11:00 AM
James has more than 20 years' experience in the industry, having served as a reseller, vendor strategist, CMO, journalist, and analyst for companies including Autodesk, Azul Systems, Gartner, Rockwell International, and Sun Microsystems.
He is a frequent speaker at industry, corporate, educational, and Wall Street events and has guest lectured at leading business schools.
Working out of Forrester's Foster City, Calif. office, James holds a master's degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas.
Session: Are You Activating Cloud Economics?
We all know clouds can save you money through their pay-per-use pricing model and deliver productivity benefits by being highly automated but do you really understand the new economic model they present? Are you coding, configuring, capacity planning and monitoring and orchestrating your applications to turn these economics in your favor? In my session I’ll discuss how others are doing this and how you can too.Session: Building the Overmind: AI and Autonomic Clouds
Researchers in artificial intelligence are starting to look for new challenges after having worked on problems such as chess, checkers or backgammon. One recent example is the question/answer system from IBM, Watson, that played in Jeopardy!. Starcraft is one of the most successful real time strategy (RTS) games ever made, and RTS games present many of the challenges and open problems that one finds in artificial intelligence. In my talk, I will link the concepts that the Berkeley Overmind used to win the first Starcraft AI competition with some of the cloud computing challenges.
Chairman and Secretary, Open Data Center AllianceMarvin Wheeler's duties focus on directing corporate initiatives and developing strategic alliances with key corporate partners in order to help Terremark maintain its position as a leading provider of cutting-edge IT solutions for enterprises and Federal government agencies. Working closely with Terremark's Product Development, Operations and Sales teams, he directly aligns overall corporate strategies with the continued development of innovative products and services that effectively meet the evolving needs in the complex IT infrastructure market. Prior to being named CSO, Wheeler served as Chief Operations Officer and President of Terremark's U.S. Commercial Business Unit. In that role, he was responsible for planning, deploying and maintaining the industry-leading multi-vendor technology used within Terremark's global facilities around the world.Before joining Terremark, Mr. Wheeler spent 24 years at BellSouth managing data center and WAN/LAN Operations, in addition to directing some of the largest and most critical 24/7 operations centers in the Southeastern United States. He has vast experience with key operational processes such as provisioning, maintenance, change management and network reliability.
Mr. Wheeler graduated from the University of Florida, where he earned a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing.
Session: Using the Voice of IT to Develop Data Center Requirements
With a collective buying power of over $50 billion the members of the Open Data Center Alliance have come together to provide a unified vision for long-term data center requirements. This session will give an overview of the Alliance including an outline of the Technical Workgroups, targeted usage models, and progress toward the Usage Model Roadmap.Schroepfer has been the go-to analyst in the hosting industry since its inception in the late 1990s. From his beginnings at Piper Jaffray where he developed and managed the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol) industry's primary market statistics, Schroepfer published a 270-page report on the dis-aggregation of communications which sparked his coverage of the Web hosting industry. He then joined Goldman Sachs as VP and Senior Equity Analyst on the Internet Infrastructure Services industry during the time when Equinix, Loudcloud (now HP), and Webex (now Cisco) were executing their IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). In late 2000, Schroepfer founded, led, and later sold Tier 1 Research, the leading specialist research firm on the hosting and data center industry whose insights and data remain best-of-breed. Schroepfer has been a technology investor and founded CagedTweets.com, an archiving firm for social media applications like Facebook and Twitter.
Session: The Cloud Ecosystem
As enterprises start to adopt the cloud paradigm and build out cloud based data centers, it is becoming apparent that a mature, well-managed and scalable cloud requires the alignment of a broad ecosystem of components and partners. We will unpack the constituents of this ecosystem, and discuss what to consider in each so as to get closer to a Perfect Cloud deployment."
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Cloud Connect : Keynote and General Session Speakers
