Cloud Connect
Santa Clara , 2010
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara Convention Center
ORACLE: Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise Datacenters and Public Clouds
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Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer, CiscoPadmasree Warrior is Cisco Systems' Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company's technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco's corporate goals. Recently, the Economic Times ranked her as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian, and the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce recognized her with its prestigious Excellence Award. |
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Russ Daniels, Vice President and CTO of Cloud Services Strategy, HPRuss is vice president and chief technology officer of EDS. In this role, he sets the technology strategy and architecture for HP's outsourcing services portfolio. Daniels has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in software architecture, enterprise management, and software development methodologies. In 2006, InfoWorld declared Daniels one of the industry's top 25 chief technology officers. |
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Ric Telford, Vice President of Cloud Services, IBMRic Telford's professional business career highlights 25 years of product and service development experience and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services. In his current position, Ric is responsible for defining and coordinating delivery of IBM's broad portfolio of Cloud services. IBM has a clear vision for what is required to make Cloud Computing accessible and valuable to the enterprise, and provides Cloud consulting, Cloud implementation and Cloud-delivered services to deliver on this vision. |
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Marc Olesen, Sr. VP & General Manager, Software-as-a-Service, McAfeeMarc Olesen is the senior vice president and general manager of McAfee’s Software-as-a-Service business unit. In this role he is responsible for defining and executing the strategic direction for McAfee’s cloud-based security solutions. Olesen is leading the engineering, marketing and sales functions driving worldwide growth for McAfee’s SaaS business. |
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Amitabh Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Windows AzureAmitabh Srivastava is a Senior Vice President at Microsoft with responsibility for Windows Azure, the company's new operating system for the cloud. Srivastava holds 14 patents and has published a variety of papers. In January 2001, Srivastava became one of a select few to be named a Distinguished Engineer, now known as Technical Fellow. |
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Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR ResearchBruce Richardson brings more than 27 years of experience to his current role as chief research officer at AMR Research. Bruce has spent most of his career analyzing the software industry with a distinct emphasis on ERP and supply chain. Since joining AMR Research in 1988, he has been responsible for spearheading new market coverage and contributing to the company.s analysis of leading market trends in areas such as ERP, supply chain management, cloud computing, service-oriented architectures, software-as-a-service, software appliances, and virtualization and visualization. |
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James Staten, Principal Analyst, Forrester ResearchJames Staten advises IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals on the transformation of the server and data center into more efficient, business-focused ecosystems. He is an expert on cloud computing, IT infrastructure consolidation, data center futures, x86 servers, server infrastructures, and application-specific infrastructure solutions. |
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Hal Stern, Vice President, Global Systems Engineering, Global Sales and ServicesHal Stern is a Distinguished Engineer and the Vice President of Global Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership, skills development, and line management for Sun's pre-sales systems engineering teams in Global Sales and Services. The Global Systems Engineering headquarters team drives security architecture, cloud computing design patterns, and development of social networking tools for increasing the productivity of Sun's systems engineers. |
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Mark Trang, Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing and AppExchange, salesforce.comMark Trang is Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing and AppExchange at salesforce.com He oversees salesforce.com's partner programs and is responsible for helping developers, entrepreneurs and ISVs build successful businesses in the cloud using salesforce.com technologies and going-to-market as a salesforce.com partner. This work includes launching the Force.com cloud platform in 2007 and building the initial ecosystem of over 300 commercial partner applications developed on Force.com. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Mark co-founded CogentWare, a SaaS startup, serving as VP of Product Management. Previously, he was a founding employee and led product marketing at SupplyAccess, a venture-backed supply chain software company. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting where he implemented enterprise software technologies at Fortune 500 companies. Mark graduated as a Regents Scholar with a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mark is an accomplished speaker, having recently presented at some of the industry’s most popular business and technology conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, TieCon, SIIA On-Demand, Cloud Connect, SaaS Economics, and Dreamforce. |
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JP Rangaswami, Managing Director, BT DesignJP Rangaswami studied Economics and Statistics at St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specializing in developmental economics. Originally an economist and financial journalist, he has worked with technology in finance since 1980 with a number of large multinationals. He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, and CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004. In 2007 and 2008, JP was selected as one of technology's 50 most influential individuals in the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll. JP was chosen for "vision and innovation rarely seen in CIOs." Today JP is Chief Scientist for BT Group. Prior to joining BT in 2006, JP was Global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the British Computer Society. |
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David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, TechWeb / Editor in Chief of Techweb.comDavid understands the world of application development around emerging technology platforms and created the original Cloud Connect. David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer and IT manager. |
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Conference Chair:
As conference chair of Enterprise Cloud Summit in May, Alistair lives at the intersection of cloud computing and the Enterprise. Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology. Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall. |
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MR Rangaswami, Co-Founder, Sand Hill GroupAs the creator of the Software 200X Conferences and host of Cloud Summit Executive the Silicon Valley, MR is deeply immersed in the ecosystem that is forming around Cloud Computing. M.R. co-founded Sand Hill Group LLC, and has been a strategic advisor to several fast-growing companies. He has held global VP marketing positions at Baan Company, Avalon Software, and Oracle Corporation. M.R. was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and has been named in Forbes' "Midas 100 List" as one of the most influential investors in technology. He holds an MBA from Kent State University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Madras. |
