Cloud Connect
Santa Clara , 2010
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara Convention Center
ORACLE: Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise Datacenters and Public Clouds
Cloud Risks, Challenges, and Governance Track Chair
Drew Bartkiewicz
Vice President of E&O,
Cyber and New Media Liability, The Hartford
Drew Bartkiewicz is Vice President of E&O, Cyber and New Media Liability. He is the founder of The Hartford’s business to insure the systemic risks and liabilities associated with The Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, and Social Media. He is currently a Board Member of ORMA and was an advisor in 2009 to the World Economic Forum’s council on the Future of the Internet. He is also a council board member of The Ponemon Institute and has been published in over 40 publications on the topics of privacy, cyber law, Internet risk and uncertainties.
Drew is the author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability, Blind Spots of the Information Age.
Prior to joining The Hartford, Drew founded another line of Technology risk insurance for a company that went public as Darwin Professional Underwriters (DR on the Nasdaq).
He previously held senior and executive positions at salesforce.com and BroadVision Software, where he was a also task force author for the 2001 Brookings Institution book, Unseen Wealth. Drew started his career in various management positions at United Technologies US and Europe, and he was a U.S. Army Officer in the 82nd Airborne who served in the Gulf War in 1991.
Drew is a graduate of West Point, he holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and he speaks Spanish, French, and Italian. Unseen Liability is due for publication in the Spring of 2010
Migration Strategies Track Chair
Randy Bias
Founder,
Cloudscaling
Randy is the expert cloud providers like VMware, EngineYard, Internap, and GoGrid consult when they need help. His cloud strategy consulting firm, Cloudscaling, advises Fortune 500 companies like Kaiser Permanente with their internal cloud initiatives. He has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He was the technical visionary on the executive team of GoGrid & ServePath, a major cloud computing provider. Prior to GoGrid, he built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks, Inc.
Randy is recognized as one of the top cloud bloggers and twitterers. The Cloudscaling blog has tens of thousands of page views every month. In addition to his contributions as a top cloud blogger, Randy’s open licensing of the GoGrid API inspired many others to open license their cloud APIs including Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, and VMware's vCloud.
Cloud Futures and Roadmaps and Case Studies and Lessons Learned Track Chair
Alistair Croll
Co-Founder,
Bitcurrent
Alistair is a co-founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm that produces content and events on subjects such as cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and emerging technologies as well as the Bitnorth conference. He is also a principal at startup accelerator Rednod, an advisor to several technology venture firms, and a board member of Visible Government. Alistair co-founded web performance management firm Coradiant, as well as Networkshop, the analyst firm from which Coradiant was created. Prior to Networkshop, Alistair worked as a product manager for 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.
Alistair is a frequent contributor to a range of technology publications, and has taught at industry conferences such as Web2Expo, Interop, Structure, Enterprise 2.0, Velocity, and eMetrics. He is also the co-author of Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly) and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall).
Dealing with (and profiting from) Big Data Track Chair
Bradford Cross
Co-Founder and Head of Research,
FlightCaster
Bradford Cross is co-founder and head of research for FlightCaster. He builds Flightcaster's predictive algorithms using statistical learning, as well as the supporting architecture for learning at scale.
He has been doing applied research since 2001. His interests are in Maths, Computer Science, Learning Theory, Network Theory, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and engineering at scale.
His research background began with automated trading systems for hedge funds. He rounded out his engineering background working on large scale systems at Google and learning agile and lean development approaches at ThoughtWorks.
Standards, Governments and Industry Track Chair
Bob Marcus
CTO,
ET-Strategies
Dr. Robert Marcus has worked extensively with the Object Management Group (OMG) and the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) on Cloud Standards. In 2009, he organized the Cloud Standards Summit, bringing together leaders from government, industry, and technology that will be driving standards coordination across the public and private sector.
Dr. Marcus has a long history of technology leadership. He has served as Director of Technology Transformation and Deployment at General Motors; as CTO of Rogue Wave Software; as VP of Technical Strategy at the MCC Research Consortium; as Director of Object Technology at American Management Systems; as Coordinator of Object Technology at Boeing; as a Senior Research Engineer at SRI; and as a Knowledge Systems Engineer at HP. In 2003, he published Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies which looked at the impact global, ubiquitous computing will have on the world.
New Infrastructure Track Chair
Greg Ness
Vice President,
Infoblox and Member of the Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group
Greg Ness is Vice President of Infoblox (http://www.infoblox.com/). He was previously the vice president of marketing at Blue Lane Technologies and a marketing executive at Juniper Networks, Redline Networks, IntruVert Networks, ShoreTel, Visa International and Verizon. At Redline he helped to establish the company as a leader in Web application delivery until acquisition in May 2005 by Juniper Networks. At IntruVert he helped the company establish and lead the IDPS category, resulting in its acquisition by McAfee. At ShoreTel he helped the company establish itself in the emerging enterprise VoIP space.
Greg has been a blog columnist on application delivery, networking and security since 2004. His personal blog is: www.archimedius.net (http://www.archimedius.net).
Greg has a Bachelor's Degree from Reed College and a Master's Degree from The University of Texas at Austin.
Developing for the Cloud Track Chair
Shlomo Swidler
Founder,
Orchestratus
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.
ROI, Cost and Economics Track Chair
Joe Weinman
Strategy and Business Development VP,
AT&T
Joe Weinman leads global portfolio strategy and business development for AT&T Business Solutions, which serves business customers ranging from small offices to large global enterprises, wholesale customers, systems integrators, and local, state, and federal government. AT&T (www.att.com) is the world's largest telecommunications and information technology firm as of YE08, with US$124.0 billion in revenue.
A 29-year veteran of the company, a prolific inventor and author, and frequent global keynote speaker, he has held a variety of executive positions of increasing responsibility spanning R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories, marketing, sales, product management, engineering and operations, and corporate strategy and business development. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin - Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mr. Weinman has been awarded 11 U.S. and international patents in a broad variety of technologies. He is also a recipient of the AT&T Architecture Award, the AT&T Patent Achievement Award, and multiple AT&T Distinguished Speaker Awards. He has keynoted, MC'd, presented, and been a panelist at numerous analyst, vendor, publisher, industry, university, and trade association events on five continents. He has had a variety of articles and talks published in the print and/or on-line editions of The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, CNN, Money, Business Communications Review, Information Week, GigaOM, Salon, the ACM, the IEEE, CIO Magazine, and the AT&T Technical Journal. He has also appeared on U.S., European, and pan-Asian broadcast television, been quoted in the U.S. and international print and on-line media, and appears in a number of on-line videos. Links to articles, videos, and simulation tools may be found at http://www.joeweinman.com/
