Conference: Cloud Computing - Standards, Government and Industry Track

Archie Reed is HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security in the HP Security Office. He has 20 years of experience in leadership, architecture, product development and R&D roles in high profile environments. He is currently working on a new 2010 book “The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing.”

Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware, has had over 40 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMware he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for over 16 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded and chaired its Application Management Working Group.

Krishna Sankar is currently a Distinguished Engineer with Cisco Systems Inc, part of the CTO's Office, and working on various aspects of Cloud Computing. He been developing systems for the last 20+ years - from C/CPM to Cobol to Ada to Java to .. lately working on the cloud domain internally and externally. He has been participating in cloud interface efforts incl SNIA and DMTF. He is the co-chair of the DMTF Cloud Incubator group as well as the chair for the Cloud Service Provider Security sub-group. He also has contributed as elected member of OASIS TAB, JCP and ETSI STF on electronic signature. His interests include NOSQL, BigData Clouds, highly scalable Web architectures, social graphs and intelligent inferences. Occasionally he writes about them at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com. He also writes books - works include Cisco Wireless LAN Security and the latest one Enterprise Web 2.0 <http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Web-2-0-Fundamentals/dp/B0026Q803A/>. His other passion is Lego Robotics and is fortunate enough to participate as technical judge in local and Lego world competitions.

Shlomo Swidler is a prominent cloud computing developer, trainer, and consultant. He is among the top experts contributing to the Amazon EC2 Developer Forums. His blog is a highly-regarded source of practical techniques for developers, and has served as the inspiration for a number of features in commercial products. Shlomo is also an active participant in the Oped Grid Forum's Open Cloud Computing Interface working group, providing an open, community-developed interface to cloud computing resources. Shlomo was an early adopter of cloud computing, when, in 2007 as CTO of MyDrifts, he architected and implemented a large-scale deployment completely hosted in the cloud, designed to scale itself automatically according to load. Prior to founding MyDrifts, Shlomo led a team of developers at Sun Microsystems in the Java ME Developer Tools division, where he managed development efforts both for internal and for customer-facing projects. Shlomo also led development teams at a number of startups during the dot-com era. He has an Engineering degree from The Cooper Union in New York.

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council.

David Nelson is an Associate Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company and is currently the Chief Strategist for Cloud Computing. In this role David is responsible for the long term direction and short term implementation of the internal and external cloud strategy. A 25 year veteran of Boeing, David’s primary work has been around emerging technologies. He has co-authored several books and speaks at industry forums and regional groups. 

David is working with the Cloud Industry Forum to help develop its Code of Practice and associated scheme for giving certifiable assurance to purchasers about the transparency, capability, and accountability of suppliers.  David has extensive experience in standards, IT industry commercial and operational best practice, and audit.  He is the Convener of the ISO working group responsible for Software Asset Management ('SAM') standards (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 WG21 or ‘WG21’).  He project-managed and contributed extensively to the ITIL SAM Guide; was responsible for writing much of ISO/IEC 19770-1:2006 Software Asset Management Processes; and has developed a guide for license management in outsourcing.  He has also worked extensively for more than a decade in audits of IT resellers and partners for major software vendors. David is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information System Auditor, and a Chartered Banker (ACIB).  He has worked in the IT industry for over 40 years. He has lived and worked extensively throughout the US, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.  He currently lives in Buxton, Derbyshire, UK, pretending to be retired.  

Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as an analyst and columnist at the enterprise technology journal eWEEK (including time under its former title PC Week). Based in the Los Angeles area, he works with enterprise IT leaders and independent developers to build a community based on Force.com: salesforce.com's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).                                                   Peter has 27 years' experience in guiding the adoption and management of innovative information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author. He has appeared on CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS, Fox, India's Network 18 and Mexico's Grupo Fórmula newscasts addressing a broad range of eBusiness issues. He chaired the four-day Web Security Summit conference in Boston during the summer of 2000; he has been a keynote speaker, moderator or workshop leader at technical conferences, business and academic events throughout the U.S. and in India, Singapore, Australia, China, Korea, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands.                     Peter was previously the first manager of PC planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space systems project management and in space-asset applications of artificial intelligence techniques. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer working in arctic project planning, chemical facility construction management, and alternative-fuels engineering for several divisions of Exxon Corporation. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, where he also served as a faculty member for the core curriculum in IT management; he has held other faculty appointments in computer science (artificial intelligence) at UCLA and in business analytics at Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How To Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.  

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM’s Emerging Technology group. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and he has been working with markup languages, Web services and SOA (the technologies beneath the cloud) for many years. His presentations have been featured at dozens of conferences around the world, and his JavaOne presentation on cloud computing earned him a Rock Star award in 2009.

His job as a technology evangelist is to explain the standards and technologies behind Cloud Computing and to help customers integrate them into their overall business architectures and strategies. He is the author of many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site (ibm.com/developerWorks), and is the author of O’Reilly’s book on XSLT, a copy of which makes a perfect gift for any occasion.

He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, daughter and dog.
 

Mark Ryland is 20 year industry veteran with a wide range of experience in distributed computing and standardization. He worked for many years in the 1990s as a senior program manager in the Windows product team, first on the Cairo research operating system, and then as lead program manager of COM/DCOM/OLE system object technology.  Ryland subsequently started Microsoft’s first central standards organization in 1998.  After leaving Microsoft in 2000 and trying his hand at several start-ups, a policy think tank, and some other interesting projects, he returned to Microsoft in 2008 as its National Standards Officer (NSO) for the U.S.  He has subsequently put considerable focus on cloud computing interoperability and standards issues.  As of March 2010, Ryland is transitioning from the NSO role to a job as a principal program manager in Microsoft’s Identity and Security Division, and cloud identity interoperability and standards will be an important aspect of his new job. 

David Bernstein is VP and Special CTO for the Software Division of Huawei R&D, North America. In this role he is Huwei’s top Cloud Computing Executive in North America and is responsible for overall corporate R&D in Cloud Computing. Previous to Huawei, David served as VP/GM in Cisco’s Office of the CTO where his team ran Cisco’s first Cloud Lab, and was responsible for Cisco’s University, Research, and Industry activities in Cloud Computing. He headed development for Cisco’s Cloud Security, Interoperability and Standards initiatives. David’s previous experience includes executive positions in AT&T, Siebel Systems, Pluris, InterTrust, and Santa Cruz Operation. David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Cloud Computing SSG (Standards Study Group). He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees in Physics and Mathematics from University of California where he was awarded the UC Regents Scholar designation for his work for the Office of Naval Research.

Archie Reed is HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security in the HP Security Office. He has 20 years of experience in leadership, architecture, product development and R&D roles in high profile environments. He is currently working on a new 2010 book “The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing.”

William Vambenepe is an Architect in the Enterprise Manager division of Oracle. His focus is on middleware and application management. Before joining Oracle, William was a Distinguished Technologist in HP Software (OpenView/BTO) where he worked on SOA, CMDB, management protocols and standards. William blogs at http://stage.vambenepe.com/ and tweets as @vambenepe.

Krishna Sankar is currently a Distinguished Engineer with Cisco Systems Inc, part of the CTO's Office, and working on various aspects of Cloud Computing. He been developing systems for the last 20+ years - from C/CPM to Cobol to Ada to Java to .. lately working on the cloud domain internally and externally. He has been participating in cloud interface efforts incl SNIA and DMTF. He is the co-chair of the DMTF Cloud Incubator group as well as the chair for the Cloud Service Provider Security sub-group. He also has contributed as elected member of OASIS TAB, JCP and ETSI STF on electronic signature. His interests include NOSQL, BigData Clouds, highly scalable Web architectures, social graphs and intelligent inferences. Occasionally he writes about them at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com. He also writes books - works include Cisco Wireless LAN Security and the latest one Enterprise Web 2.0 <http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Web-2-0-Fundamentals/dp/B0026Q803A/>. His other passion is Lego Robotics and is fortunate enough to participate as technical judge in local and Lego world competitions.