| Tuesday, April 29 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
 Managing and Controlling Application Performance (Location: Breakers F) In many situations the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does and this damages the creditability of IT. In addition, there has been a recent explosion with regards to how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic such as Internet Radio transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better manage and control application usage. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Hear a brief description of this session from this moderator: Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - David Messina, VP Marketing and Product Management, Xangati David is a seasoned executive with fifteen years of experience in the marketing and selling of enterprise, consumer and service provider networking equipment on a global level. Prior to Xangati, David held product marketing and marketing communications executive positions for CoSine Communications and Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel Networks). David holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, UPENN.
Speaker - Jim Frey, Marketing, NetScout Systems Jim brings 20 years of product development and marketing experience - focused on network and service management products for enterprise, telecom and government organizations to his role as vice president of marketing at NetScout. Previously, Jim was VP of strategic marketing at Micromuse. Prior to that, his roles included director of worldwide product marketing at Agilent Technologies, and manager of Cabletron?s SPECTRUM service provider products group. Jim has spoken at numerous events worldwide on network performance, service level management, OSS, VoIP, and IP QoS. He holds an MSc. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from RPI.
Speaker - Jim McQuaid, Director of Product Management, NetQoS Jim McQuaid is Director, Product Management at NetQoS. A graduate of the University of Michigan, McQuaid has worked in network performance analysis, digital signal processing and measurement and control for a variety of established and startup companies including Analog Devices, Bay Networks, Ganymede and NetQoS. McQuaid is the co-author of RFC 1944 and 2544 and was the Chair of the IETF Benchmarking Methodologies Working Group from 1995 to 1998. In recent years McQuaid has focussed primarily on application and network performance. Outside of work, he is an active filmmaker.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Optimizing the Performance of Enterprise Applications (Location: Breakers F) The buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance and which ones do not.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Gene Litt, Product Manager, Shunra Virtual Enterprise
Speaker - Gerry Coady, CIO, Frontier Airlines
Speaker - Sunil Potti, Vice President, Acceleration and Virtualization Group, F5 Networks Sunil Potti is Vice President of Product Development for the Acceleration and Virtualization Group at F5 Networks. Sunil brings many years of experience in delivering enterprise applications and next generation application infrastructure technologies to the market. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering F5?s application acceleration products including WAN optimization and web acceleration solutions. Prior to F5, Sunil was Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems where he led the Application Oriented Networking product group. He has also held positions at Synchrony and Sybase.
Speaker - Tim Richards, Senior Product Manager for WAN Acceleration, Juniper Networks Tim Richards is Senior Product Manager for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company?s application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
| | Wednesday, April 30 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
What SOA and Web 2.0 Means to the Network (Location: Breakers F) Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Web 2.0 is beginning to be over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant yet that would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed, and applications using either are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. This session will detail management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and provide insights into what you can do to avoid them.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Imad Mouline, CTO, Gomez Imad Mouline brings years of software architecture, research and development experience to Gomez. At Gomez, Mouline works with customers, analysts, industry groups and internal resources to help drive the Gomez technology and business strategy to meet customers? needs in the face of new business and technology trends. Prior to Gomez, Mouline held the position of chief technology officer at S1 Corporation for five years. There he played a variety of roles across departments, including engineering, product management, sales and marketing. Previously, Mouline served as director of engineering in the office of the CTO at BroadVision, after its acquisition of Interleaf. During his seven years at Interleaf, Mouline held various professional services and engineering roles, where he ultimately served as the director of engineering for product architecture, while contributing code to one of the products. Mouline has spoken at various user conferences and technology events. Mouline is a valued source to media, analysts and bloggers on a range of topics, including how to engineer customer experience into online applications and services. Mouline is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Speaker - Nagesh Anupindi, Chief Architect & Director of Architecture, Xcel Energy
Speaker - Shankar Ramaswamy, VP of Product Management, Sonoa Systems Shankar Ramaswamy is VP of Product Management for Sonoa Systems. He previously served as a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Application Integration Middleware (AIM) and Lotus divisions of IBM?s Software Group. Shankar also served as a core member of IBM?s Software Group Architecture Board. Previously, he co-founded and served as CTO of Torry Harris Business Solutions ? a services company that specialized in the design and development of mission-critical business applications. Shankar began his career at Transarc Corp. (a wholly owned IBM subsidiary). He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| 2:00 pm–3:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
Branch Office Optimization (Location: Breakers F) The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform poorly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve application performance. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, this is not the case as there are numerous differences between solutions. This will be a Q & A session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Alan Saldich, VP of Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed Technology, Inc. Alan Saldich joined Riverbed Technology in September 2002 and serves as its VP of Product Marketing and Alliances. Prior to joining Riverbed, he was director of enterprise solutions for Inktomi Corporation, where he began working following its acquisition of FastForward Networks in the fall of 2000. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Saldich served as FastForward Networks? director of business development. In addition, since 1988 Mr. Saldich has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and corporate finance at several high technology companies, including RasterOps (IPO, 1990) and Metricom. Mr. Saldich holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Speaker - Eric Wolff, Sr Product Marketing Mgr, Citrix Systems, Inc
Speaker - Mark Burton, Product Management Director, Ipanema Mark Burton more than has 20 years pre and post sales IT experience, primarily in systems and network management at a variety of companies including IBM/Tivoli and Riversoft. He joined Ipanema four years ago as their first UK technical consultant and has been a key team member helping in the establishment and growth of Ipanema in the UK. Mark has recently become Director of Product Management within Ipanema.
Speaker - Sidney Rabsatt, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Packeteer Sidney Rabsatt is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Packeteer. Before moving to a corporate role, he spent three years in the field showcasing Packeteer technology as a Sr. Systems Engineer and SE Manager. Prior to joining Packeteer, Sidney spent five years working at HP; first as a Network Engineer and later as a Sr. Technology Consultant. Sidney holds a MBA from Baruch College and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from GA Tech.
Speaker - Urshit Parikh, Director, Product Marketing, Cisco
| | Thursday, May 1 |
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| 9:00 am–10:00 am |
Conference Sessions
Breaking Down the Technology and Organizational Silos (Location: Breakers F) It is widely acknowledged that the IT function is comprised of technology and process silos and that this environment needs to change. For example, focusing on application performance requires that network and security operations work closely together. The deployment of IP Telephony is causing voice and network operations to combine, and the deployment of metropolitan Ethernet is requiring LAN and WAN groups to merge. Also driving change are growing multi-function devices such as VPN/Remote Access concentrators and Internet gateways. This session will detail techniques that IT organizations have used to successfully break down the silos and will make suggestions for steps that you should take to be a silo-breaker in your organization.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Gerry Coady, CIO, Frontier Airlines
Speaker - Nagesh Anupindi, Chief Architect & Director of Architecture, Xcel Energy
Speaker - Peter Hughes, Manager, Architecture, KPMG
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
The Future of Application Delivery (Location: Breakers F) Over the last few years resources have been devoted to developing techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over the next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Chip Schooler, Director of Technology Advancement, Radware As Radware?s Director of Technology Advancement, Chip is responsible for communicating to clients and partners the capabilities and advantages offered by the Radware product suite. Chip is a 20-year veteran of the technology industry and remains an avid student of technologies that can be used to solve real problems. He has spent his career working with customers in the roles of software engineer, technologist, sales engineer, and marketer. During this time, Chip has been involved with projects as diverse as overhauling Canada?s national air traffic control system, accelerating the transaction speed of the foreign exchange trading system for a global bank, upgrading Fidelity Investment?s system management infrastructure, and launching Check Point?s Internet-defining security and firewall products. Most recently, Chip has assisted various companies to integrate a sales tax management service with their e-commerce and ERP applications, using web services. This made it possible for his customers to outsource the handling of their sales and use tax obligations.
Speaker - Eric Wolford, Senior VP of Marketing & Business Development, Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Speaker - Kent Alstad, CTO and Co-Founder, Strangeloop Networks Kent is principal or contributing author on all of Strangeloop's pending patents. Before helping create Strangeloop, he served as CTO at IronPoint Technology. Kent also founded, Eclipse Software, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, that he sold to Discovery Software in 2001. In more than 20 years of professional development experience, Kent has served as architect and lead developer for successful production solutions with The Active Network, ADP, Lucent, Microsoft, and NCS. "Port View", an application Kent architected for the Port of Vancouver, was honoured as "Best Administrative System" at the 1996 Windows World Open Competition. Kent holds a bachelor of science in psychology from the University of Calgary.
Speaker - Mark Weiner, Director, Data Center Solutions, Cisco Systems
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