Conference: Private Clouds Track

Track Chair:
Dave Roberts
Vice-President, Strategy and Marketing,
ServiceMesh

Enterprise cloud adoption isn't all-or-nothing. It's a gradual merger of on-premise and on-demand IT, both fueled and constrained by cost efficiencies, legal constraints, cycle time reduction, and more. In this track, we'll look at hybrid and private cloud architectures, focusing on how cloud models alter infrastructure, network, and storage decisions.

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Wednesday, February 15
11:15 AM–12:15 PM	OpenStack: Ready for Business? (Location: Grand Ballroom D) As cloud computing continues to grow, the industry needs standard components from which to build interoperable clouds. Previously, cloud-builders were faced with rolling their own based on either open source or closed source components. OpenStack promises to create a massively scalable, open source and, most importantly, standard option for building private clouds. The project is well on its way. OpenStack boasts community support from 140 companies, has created three major releases and is being deployed across the world; but less than two years into the project, what should enterprises consider when evaluating or deploying the technology? This session will explore OpenStack’s goals, the state of development, as well as challenges and best practices deploying OpenStack directly from user MercadoLibre, the 8th largest e-commerce site in the world. Speaker - Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack, Rackspace Jonathan Bryce is Founder of The Rackspace Cloud. He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site—all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. He currently spends his time on OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative. Speaker - Alejandro Comisario, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, MercadoLibre.com Speaker - Maximiliano Venesio, IT Architect, Mercadolibre
1:15 PM–2:15 PM	Moving on Up: Enterprise Private PaaS (Location: Grand Ballroom D) Most every enterprise first approaches “the cloud” from the dual perspectives of IaaS and SaaS. PaaS is the neglected middle child in the canonical cloud reference model. But lately, PaaS has been getting more attention. The challenge for the enterprise is to determine how to move to PaaS. Many enterprises are finding that IaaS is too low-level and SaaS often isn’t customizable enough. PaaS provides a nice middle-ground with a full customizability and a high-level programming model with easy deployment. While public PaaS offerings like Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, or Force.com got much of the early attention, enterprises are increasingly turning to private PaaS systems to deliver more control that public alternatives. This session will explore the boundaries of private PaaS. We’ll examine commercial private PaaS offerings that can jump-start a private PaaS implementation and discover PaaS systems you might already have deployed in your company. Speaker - Guy Naor, CTO, EnterPaaS A veteran of the technology world, building and implementing software solutions since 1981, Guy is serving as the CTO of EnterPaaS, a startup creating a PaaS platform for the enterprise. Guy previously served as CTO of MorphLabs where he led the creation of a IaaS/PaaS/SaaS enabling product. He also served as the CTO of Famundo - a Web 2.0 start-up. Prior to that, he led the development of Goldmine software for four years and has served as an advisor and a consulting architect on a variety of Web 2.0 products. During all his professional life guy has been active in the development community, contributing to Open Source project and providing training and mentoring. Speaker - Sinclair Schuller, CEO, Apprenda, Inc. Before co-founding Apprenda, Sinclair held positions at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and the State University of New York (SUNY). Sinclair holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Sinclair excels in understanding the economics of SaaS platforms and ecosystems, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events.Before co-founding Apprenda, Sinclair held positions at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and the State University of New York (SUNY). Sinclair holds a dual Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Sinclair excels in understanding the economics of SaaS platforms and ecosystems, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. Speaker - Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist, ActiveState Diane Mueller is the Cloud Evangelist at ActiveState. She has been designing and implementing financial applications at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years. She is an active participant in the OASIS/TOSCA Cloud Standards working group (www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca) and has been involved in development efforts of XBRL Financial XML Standard (http://www.xbrl.org) since 1999.
2:30 PM–3:30 PM	Building Private Clouds: Scars and Arrows (Location: Grand Ballroom D) Let’s face it – theory is great, but real world experience is better. If you can learn something from the pioneer with the scars and arrows in his back, your own cloud journey will probably be a more pleasant experience. Years ago, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia made the strategic decision to migrate to an agile IT operating model, adopting “as-a-service” IT delivery wherever possible. Now, the bank is reaping the rewards of its early commitment. But the journey was not smooth and lots of lessons were learned along the way. Implementing cutting edge, low cost, high value cloud services is about far more than buying some technology and throwing it together the same way you used to. You’ll spend time educating, influencing, and even marketing internally. Find out what worked and what didn’t so you can apply the same lessons to your own private cloud projects. This session will explore the lessons learned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia during the rollout of multiple internal, private cloud services. It will specifically discuss the reaction of a large, bureaucratic organization to a new agile IT operating model. Speaker - Anthony Skipper, Vice-President, Infrastructure and Security, Service Mesh Mr. Skipper has more than a decade of experience in both software development and infrastructure management. Mr. Skipper's early career was focused on consulting with Fortune 500 companies to help them develop their early web architectures. He played an instrumental part in developing one of the first digital rights management (DRM) implementations with Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble. Mr. Skipper moved to the financial services industry in 2000 when he joined Merrill Lynch, initially as an architect and later as the head of Merrill's Application Infrastructure Services organization. In 2007, Anthony joined Goldman Sachs and lead its Secure Computing group.
3:45 PM–4:30 PM	I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help (Location: Grand Ballroom D) What’s your impression of government IT? Stodgy and backward, right? You’re thinking those government guys must be running all the major agencies on PC-XTs from 1983. WRONG! The US Government has actually been driving toward clouds in a big way over the last couple years, seeing it as a way to reduce costs and deliver greater (relative!) agility. And enterprises can learn a thing or two from the government’s experience. After all, your tax dollars are paying for this stuff, so why not swipe a few good ideas for free. This session will describe the government’s experience in building clouds. What worked? What didn’t? What benefits have been gained and what will be done better next time? Speaker - JP Morgenthal, Principal Solutions Architect, Rangers, EMC JP Morgenthal has twenty-five years of information technology experience spread across a wide array of technology and business requirements with a demonstrated ability to architect complete systems inclusive of business justifications and ROI. An ability to communicate effectively with C-level, non-technical and engineering-level individuals in both written and spoken form and is a respected authority on Enterprise Architecture, SOA/BPM and Cloud Computing. Mr. Morgenthal is also the author of three book, the most recent release is "EII: A Pragmatic Approach" Speaker - Dan Gahafer, Forge.mil Program Director, United States Government Dan Gahafer is the Forge.mil Program Director within the DISA office of the CTO. Forge.mil is free enterprise service offering available on both unclassified and classified networks to everyone in the Department of Defense, targeting IT capability providers. Prior to his work at DISA, Dan worked in IT for 22 years in the private sector primarily in software engineering, network engineering, and information security. In 2002, Dan began a government career at DISA. Initially the DoD DMZ program manager, he subsequently performed as the Computing Services Directorate’s (CSD) Customer Management Executive to a diverse group of CSD customers including the combatant commands, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many DoD agencies, and also managing the implementation of DISA’s Network Centric Enterprise Services (NCES). Following that he consolidated all CSD’s geographically diverse datacenter network communications functions in a single division including all engineering, provisioning, operations, accreditation, and sustainment functions. He then served as CSD’s Chief of Operations, responsible for all system and network operations at DISA’s 13 worldwide datacenters. Over 2500 personnel operate networks, systems, and applications in DISA datacenters in the continental United States, and in the Pacific, European, and Southwest Asian Theaters, supporting almost all DoD services, agencies, and combatant commands, as well as other federal agencies and coalition partners.
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