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If you have three days to plan a better approach to IT this year, spend it at the Interop Las Vegas Conference. The Conference blends thought leadership across the range of IT areas with a focus on interoperability—more important than ever as a new wave of technologies promises unprecedented access to information and increased productivity. Sessions include:
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 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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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. | ||
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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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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
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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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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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Next Generation Data Centers: The Vision, the Value and Getting There (Location: Lagoon D)How do you get to the Next Generation Data Center? This session will examine the critical steps including how to focus on people, process, technology and facilities, how to sell the value to the business, and how to manage the transition to the next-generation data. Taking a phased approach, the next-generation data center is an evolution, not a revolution. This session will show you how to manage expectations, measure value achievements and how to identify the critical success factors. Moderator - Rick Clark, Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Rick is a Client Service Partner and leader of Deloitte?s Platform Architecture & Infrastructure Services (PA&I) Group in the West and National leader for Deloitte?s Documentum ECM Service offering. He has more than 23 years experience in large-scale information technology related disciplines, including Data Center services, ECM deployments/Collaboration, IT consolidation, systems architecture, design, development, test and deployment, high volume / high availability on-line Transaction Processing, Database Management Systems, Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Storage Solutions, e-Business Architectures and program management. His enterprise-wide I.T. skills include IT assessment, strategy, architecture design, implementation and project management of heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Speaker - Ahmed Abdelhalim, Director - Product Management & Marketing, High-End & Service Provider Systems BU, Foundry Networks
Ahmed Abdelhalim is the director of product management and marketing for high-end & service provider systems at Foundry Networks. His main responsibilities include the analysis of cutting-edge technology trends, and assessing their impact on the networking infrastructure as well as the larger information systems world. As part of his role, he is also responsible for driving Foundry?s flagship networking equipment including the NetIron XMR multi-service backbone routers, NetIron MLX Metro routers, and the BigIron RX high performance switches. He brings over 15 years of experience in high-end networking and high performance computing. His main interests include large-scale networking, service convergence, QoS, Carrier Ethernet, WAN, next generation networks (NGNs), IPv6, and MPLS. Speaker - Brad Mitchell, Senior Lead, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Senior Lead for Deloitte Consulting with extensive experience which includes 25 years of business and IT operations in the Energy / Oil & Gas, Communications, and Aerospace & Defense industries. He has extensive Management Consulting experience in data centers, storage, servers, and high availability / disaster recovery for large back office, web and e-commerce projects. His projects have included strategic and operational assessments, architecture design, enterprise implementations, large-scale systems integration and operations management for numerous global and domestic Fortune 100 clients. Speaker - Darin Briskman, Systems Architect, IBM
Dr. Darin Briskman is a Certified Systems Architect and works as an Executive Information Technology Solutions Architect for IBM. He has been involved in the analysis, design, architecture, articulation, implementation, and management of IT systems since 1989, working with NASA, Boeing, Washington Mutual, Zurich Financial / Farmers Insurance, Diamond Shamrock, Kohl's Stores, Cisco Systems, Intel Corp., Nordstrom, Costco, T-Mobile, Western Digital, Visa International, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Nike, Spirit AeroSystems, Warner Bros., Amazon.com, and many others. Darin is one of IBM's leaders on virtualization, data center optimization, and complex systems. Speaker - Dick Sullivan, Director, Enterprise Solutions Marketing, EMC
Dick has more than twenty years of IT experience including Enterprise Systems, Consulting, Technology Education, Services and Marketing. He is an eight year veteran of EMC, responsible for Marketing Enterprise Storage Solutions, and Data Center Energy Efficiency. He has devoted considerable time with customers in North America, Asia and EMEA. He has presented on Data Center Energy Efficiency at a number of industry events, including the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, The National Conference on Data Center Infrastructure, the Technology CEO Council and the United Nations IT Infrastructure Conference. Speaker - Stelio D'Alo, Marketing, HP
Stelio D?Alo is a senior marketing manager for the Business Service Automation solution from HP Software. His background encompasses more than 20 years of industry experience in the fields of data center automation, enterprise software and telecommunications systems in Canada, Europe and the United States. Prior to joining HP, Stelio has held sales, marketing and product management leadership roles companies including IBM, Rational Software and several successful start-up software companies. Stelio has presented at numerous events worldwide, and is currently focused on working with leading organizations that are automating their data center operations with solutions including HP Network Automation, HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration software. | ||
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Virtualization Beyond Consolidation: Driving Down OPEX, Not Just CAPEX (Location: Lagoon D)Although virtualization has existed for a few years now, users tend to fall into two camps: Those who have already implemented virtualization projects and those who hesitate because the value is unclear. The fact is that the benefits of virtualization represent a lot more than the simple consolidation of servers. Companies are seeing extraordinary operational expense benefits, such as simpler management, power and thermal control, high availability and disaster recovery. This session will look at virtualization best practices and the shortest path to deriving the greatest benefits from virtualization technologies, new operational practices and greater agility. Speaker - Paul Prince, Director, CTO Enterprise Products, Dell
Paul Prince brings more than 20 years of computer industry experience to his current role as Director of Enterprise Technologies, within Dell?s Office of the CTO. In this position, Mr. Prince is responsible for leading Dell?s initiatives on virtualization, as well as directing the company?s Client and Server Architecture teams, and overseeing development of the core technologies associated with those platforms. Paul Prince holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Abilene Christian University, and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah. | ||
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A Guide to Data Center Conservation (Location: Lagoon D)What can I do, put solar panels on the roof? Many data-center managers would like to "go green," but they don't know where to start. This session looks at the data center, identifying areas of waste and inefficiency. Often, the simplest and cheapest solutions are the most effective. An inefficient data center can waste 250kW to 300kW of energy from the generator room, lighting, environmentals, security system or fire-suppression system. These losses are not core to your operations, they don't support the servers or keep them running, don't keep them cool, don't process data and don't process storage. They just waste energy. Green starts with conservation. This session will provide practical and low cost advice to help you save energy and money. Speaker - Jack Pouchet, Director, Energy Initiatives, Green Grid/Emerson Network Power
Jack Pouchet - Bio Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patent submittals in place for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets. | ||
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Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative (Location: Lagoon D)In this presentation we will discuss the findings of a recent study from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories about the billions of dollars spent annually in energy costs to power servers, cooling and auxiliary infrastructure equipment. This session also will outline issues relating to energy efficient technology and environmental stewardship in the data center. Speaker - Larry Vertal, Senior Strategist, AMD
Lawrence Vertal brings more than 20 years of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance, and marketing experience to his role as Senior Strategist for AMD. In this role, Mr. Vertal is responsible for both the strategy and execution of selected corporate and commercial initiatives. Mr. Vertal has more than two decades of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance and marketing experience with technology companies. His range of success spans from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has served on the board of directors of The Green Grid consortium since its founding. Mr. Vertal was named by InformationWeek as one of the 15 Innovators & Influencers for 2008. Prior to joining AMD, Mr. Vertal was vice president of marketing for Conita Technologies. While at AST Research he was responsible for the multiprocessor systems business and served as worldwide representative of the executive office. At MAI Systems, Mr. Vertal oversaw development and marketing of four generations of parallel processing systems. Vertal was also the founder of Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC Mr. Vertal holds a bachelors degree in Bacteriology with a minor in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles followed by graduate research in Chemistry focused on paramagnetic resonance. | ||
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Is Your Data Center Most Effective or Most Efficient? Shouldn't It Be Both? (Location: Lagoon D)The data center is the center of the IT universe. It is the primary source for computing cycles, storage capacity, business applications, and information of all forms. This central positioning also causes the data center to be a target - for budget overruns, user blame, power shortages, security breaches, and worst of all, business shortfalls. This session will offer a prescriptive approach to help ensure your data center delivers on its business promise, and makes the most cost-effective and efficient use of data center resources - from networks to servers to storage to power. Speaker - Doug Gourlay, Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Group, Cisco
Doug Gourlay has been a leader in the creation of Cisco® development, investment, and architectural strategies combining emerging technologies with core infrastructure. As Senior Director for Data Center Solutions, Doug defines and executes Cisco?s global marketing strategy for data center solutions, products and technologies, including storage and application networking, data center switching, high-performance computing, and WAN optimization. Under his leadership the data center solutions segment has grown from a nascent business to a multi-billion-dollar global concern. | ||
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Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center (Location: Lagoon D)With average CPU utilization hovering in the single digits, most data centers are spending thousands of dollars to power systems that are idle. This session outlines how organizations can use virtualization to significantly increase utilization and reduce power consumption through consolidation and dynamic resource and power management. You may not control a power plant or national policy, but you control your data center. This session shows you how you can make a positive impact on the environment, while cutting costs for your company. Speaker - Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architecture Group, The First American Corporation
Speaker - John Gilmartin, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
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Best Practices in Data Center Standardization (Location: Lagoon D)Standardizing your data center can yield significant cost savings and enable new levels of reliability and scalability. But undertaking such a substantial process can be overwhelming. This session reflects the experience in standardizing a network of five data centers through a "best of breed" initiative of selecting the best tools and systems for each data center process. The end result is a "lights dim" standard that allows data centers to operate with fewer people, even while overall operations are improved. In the new, virtualized operating model, any administrator can operate any system in any data center. Speaker - Carl Cottuli, VP Customer Projects, APC
As Vice President of the Datacenter Science group, he has the responsibility for setting and communicating the corporate position for new trends in datacenter technology. Carl comes to the Science Center from APC's Global Service Organization where he was the architect for the management and organization of sales and service completion from installation through the life of the product at a global level. This team of engineers assists the company in ensuring availability in the area of network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI). He has over twenty years experience in the electrical design and installation industry and holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and has a background in integrated circuit manufacturing industry. Speaker - David Leonard, CTO, Infocrossing, Inc., a Wipro Company
As Chief Technology Officer of Infocrossing, (IFOX on the NASDAQ), Dave Leonard oversees operations for a network of five world-class data centers located in New Jersey, Georgia, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Infocrossing specializes in Information Technology Outsourcing for Mainframe, Open Systems (Unix, Linux, Windows) and AS400 systems as well as Network Management. Infocrossing also has business units that specialize in BPO Services to the Healthcare Industry and Enterprise Application Services for JD Edwards and Peoplesoft technologies. Leonard?s group is responsible for technology direction, incorporation of new technology into Infocrossing?s operations, and Corporate Strategy with regard to new products and partnerships. | ||
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Power Trends on Their Way to Your Data Center (Location: Lagoon D)The forces shaping data-center change are clear: 96 percent of data centers will run out of capacity by 2011, data-center energy use is at an all-time high and so are availability demands. This presentation will share the top power protection, distribution and management trends surrounding those issues and share benchmarks from some of the most critical data centers in the world. You'll learn the latest thinking on power-system energy efficiency, an emerging approach to high-density power distribution, and new ways to grow your power-protection capacity without sacrificing availability. Speaker - James Hall, IT Market Develpment Manager, Emerson Network Power
Jim Hall leads strategic outreach to IT professionals regarding Liebert AC power, precision cooling and monitoring. Jim has more than two decades of leadership experience in marketing, engineering, and operations management in the power industry. He is a member of the Boards of Directors for the Blade Systems Alliance and AFCOM Central Ohio Chapter. Before Liebert, Jim held technical marketing and product management positions with Marconi; a large power protection solutions provider; and Antec, a leading brand of high performance computer components. Jim is a graduate of General Electric?s Manufacturing Management Program and Raytheon?s Advanced Management Program. He holds a bachelor?s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from the University of Illinois. | ||
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Free Cooling: Economizers in Data Centers (Location: Lagoon D)Wouldn't it be great if you could cool your data center for free? Economizer systems are a recognized best practice within data-center environments, with the ultimate goal of providing "free cooling" by leveraging the ambient air temperature outside of the facility. Economizers balance both temperature and humidity, thus reducing energy costs and the use of cooling equipment. This session will look at both air-side and water-side economizers, comparing and contrasting both techniques and providing perspective on the best options based on weather and air quality conditions in different locations. Speaker - David R. Pickut, P.E., Vice President IBX Operations Engineering, Equinix, Inc.
Dave Pickut is Vice President ? IBX Operations Engineering for Equinix, Inc., where he is responsible for engineering design and operation of 35 internet collocation data centers located in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Equinix, Dave held vice president positions with a Tier 1 ISP and an IT products/services company, with responsibilities for data center operations and business management. Dave?s engineering experience encompasses both consulting services and product design related to mission-critical data center power, cooling, and security. Dave received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, is a registered professional engineer, and is a member of the IEEE and NFPA. Green IT | | |
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A Guide to Data Center Conservation (Location: Lagoon D)What can I do, put solar panels on the roof? Many data-center managers would like to "go green," but they don't know where to start. This session looks at the data center, identifying areas of waste and inefficiency. Often, the simplest and cheapest solutions are the most effective. An inefficient data center can waste 250kW to 300kW of energy from the generator room, lighting, environmentals, security system or fire-suppression system. These losses are not core to your operations, they don't support the servers or keep them running, don't keep them cool, don't process data and don't process storage. They just waste energy. Green starts with conservation. This session will provide practical and low cost advice to help you save energy and money. Speaker - Jack Pouchet, Director, Energy Initiatives, Green Grid/Emerson Network Power
Jack Pouchet - Bio Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patent submittals in place for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets. | ||
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Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative (Location: Lagoon D)In this presentation we will discuss the findings of a recent study from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories about the billions of dollars spent annually in energy costs to power servers, cooling and auxiliary infrastructure equipment. This session also will outline issues relating to energy efficient technology and environmental stewardship in the data center. Speaker - Larry Vertal, Senior Strategist, AMD
Lawrence Vertal brings more than 20 years of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance, and marketing experience to his role as Senior Strategist for AMD. In this role, Mr. Vertal is responsible for both the strategy and execution of selected corporate and commercial initiatives. Mr. Vertal has more than two decades of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance and marketing experience with technology companies. His range of success spans from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has served on the board of directors of The Green Grid consortium since its founding. Mr. Vertal was named by InformationWeek as one of the 15 Innovators & Influencers for 2008. Prior to joining AMD, Mr. Vertal was vice president of marketing for Conita Technologies. While at AST Research he was responsible for the multiprocessor systems business and served as worldwide representative of the executive office. At MAI Systems, Mr. Vertal oversaw development and marketing of four generations of parallel processing systems. Vertal was also the founder of Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC Mr. Vertal holds a bachelors degree in Bacteriology with a minor in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles followed by graduate research in Chemistry focused on paramagnetic resonance. | ||
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"Green" Storage (Location: Breakers B)The next few years will bring widespread awareness of the environments impacts (especially energy costs) associated with data storage. Already several regulations and initiatives (e.g. ROHS, WEEE, and Energy Star) affect manufacturers of storage components or computers. There are also some innovative storage technologies especially targeted towards energy conservation including MAID, along with the well-known alternatives of removable storage (tape and optical). Several vendors have also begun to offer data on power use, energy consumption and cooling loads in response to competitive pressures from other vendors and customers. Some vendors and consultants are offering energy modeling as part of their TCO analysis, either for competitive reasons or as part of their professional services portfolio. This presentation will quickly review basic engineering topics relevant to understanding "Green", including stuff you may have successfully avoided, such as environmental chemistry, thermodynamics, energy vs. power, and computational and storage density and the resulting energy and cooling issues. Conceptual models sufficient to understand or even develop energy budgets will be taught. All of this will converge on a basic model for TCO that includes energy modeling. This session has been brought to you by the SNIA Green Storage Initiative. Speaker - SW Worth, Senior Standards Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center (Location: Lagoon D)With average CPU utilization hovering in the single digits, most data centers are spending thousands of dollars to power systems that are idle. This session outlines how organizations can use virtualization to significantly increase utilization and reduce power consumption through consolidation and dynamic resource and power management. You may not control a power plant or national policy, but you control your data center. This session shows you how you can make a positive impact on the environment, while cutting costs for your company. Speaker - Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architecture Group, The First American Corporation
Speaker - John Gilmartin, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
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Deploying a Green IP Telephony Network (Location: Lagoon F)"Green" networks are a hot topic, and saving on power costs is a corporate mandate at many enterprises. And many aspects of an IP Telephony deployment offer unique challenges in this area. For example, many enterprises are already unaware of the powering costs for their wiring closets, and these costs are likely to increase as an enterprise is required to deploy power over Ethernet into each of its wiring closets. This session will help you locate the new power pain points that you will encounter as you roll out voice over IP ubiquitously. Moderator - David Yedwab, Partner, Market Strategy and Analytics Partners
Speaker - Domenic Alcaro, Director of Schneider Electric Critical Power and Cooling Services, APC, A Schneider Electric Company
Speaker - Harpreet Chadha, Senior Director of Product Management, Extreme Networks
Harpreet Chadha is a senior director of product management at Extreme Networks, where he oversees product development of scalable Ethernet switching solutions that help enterprises and carriers build intelligent, cost-effective networks. Prior to Extreme Networks, Chadha was senior principal engineer and product manager at CoSine Communications, where he built and marketed an IP Switch that featured unprecedented scale of virtual routers, firewalls and encryption services. Prior to CoSine, he was a senior developer and architect for network planning tools at Make Systems (later acquired by OPNET), and storage systems at Alphatronix Inc (later acquired by Auspex). Chadha graduated from IIT Roorkee, India, and holds a Masters Degree and Doctorate from North Carolina State University. Speaker - Simon Gwatkin, VP, Strategic Marketing, Mitel
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How to Get (and Keep) Your ITSM Initiative on Track (Location: Breakers C)Many IT Service Management (ITSM) projects fail, some spectacularly so. The Service Catalog and service portfolio management are hidden gems that can help you focus on the services that are crucial to your business. Many consider the Service Catalog as simply an interface for requesting services from IT. However, the Service Catalog ? when done right ? offers IT managers a roadmap for success. Learn how the Service Catalog just might be the savior of your ITSM initiative. Session attendees will receive a free decision tool to help get their ITSM efforts on track ? and keep them there. Speaker - Hank Marquis, Director of IT Service Management Consulting, Enterprise Management Associates
Hank has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in information technology and truly understands all sides of the IT equation. His background spans managing, organizing, and optimizing IT infrastructures and organizations and he has extensive experience helping IT executives and organizations implement IT governance and operational frameworks. Hank has helped dozens of companies implement IT service management best practices. Prior to joining EMA, Hank was the Chief Technology Officer for itSM Solutions, an IT service management training and coaching organization where he oversaw development and delivery of IT management training programs. Previously, as CIO at e-commerce financial services provider Celexis, he aligned with business, guided restructuring projects, led teams to improve customer satisfaction, and designed processes and programs to measurably improve efficiency and control costs. During his time as CTO at management software company Opticom, he directed product architectures and led marketing and software development groups to align with service management best practices to improve sales and market positioning. Hank leverages his unique perspective to help transform clients from good to great by applying business-aligned IT service management principles. Hank?s down-to-earth approach stresses break-through improvements in quality, cost control, and alignment between IT and the business. Hank?s industry credentials include membership in ISACA, itSMF, ASQ, and PMI. He holds ITIL Service Manager with distinction in Service Delivery, Six Sigma Green Belt, and COBIT certifications. His formal studies include Computer Science, Communications Technology, and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology. | ||
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How to Define IT Services: The Cornerstone of ITSM (Location: Breakers C)Managing IT by service and not technology is the message of ITIL v3. Unfortunately, most IT professionals really struggle with defining IT services. In fact, some 30% of ITSM projects are unable to move forward because of this roadblock. IT service definition is the first (and most important step) in all ITIL and ITSM initiatives ? from CMDB to Service Desk. If you don't get this fundamental step right, the odds are that your entire ITSM initiative will go down in flames. Come to this session to learn an elegant and useful method for defining IT services. Walk away with a free IT service definition tool and the knowledge you need to start defining your own IT services. Speaker - Hank Marquis, Director of IT Service Management Consulting, Enterprise Management Associates
Hank has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in information technology and truly understands all sides of the IT equation. His background spans managing, organizing, and optimizing IT infrastructures and organizations and he has extensive experience helping IT executives and organizations implement IT governance and operational frameworks. Hank has helped dozens of companies implement IT service management best practices. Prior to joining EMA, Hank was the Chief Technology Officer for itSM Solutions, an IT service management training and coaching organization where he oversaw development and delivery of IT management training programs. Previously, as CIO at e-commerce financial services provider Celexis, he aligned with business, guided restructuring projects, led teams to improve customer satisfaction, and designed processes and programs to measurably improve efficiency and control costs. During his time as CTO at management software company Opticom, he directed product architectures and led marketing and software development groups to align with service management best practices to improve sales and market positioning. Hank leverages his unique perspective to help transform clients from good to great by applying business-aligned IT service management principles. Hank?s down-to-earth approach stresses break-through improvements in quality, cost control, and alignment between IT and the business. Hank?s industry credentials include membership in ISACA, itSMF, ASQ, and PMI. He holds ITIL Service Manager with distinction in Service Delivery, Six Sigma Green Belt, and COBIT certifications. His formal studies include Computer Science, Communications Technology, and he is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology. | ||
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Don't Lose Your Mind or Your Job: What Every IT Professional Should Know About CMDB (Location: Breakers C)EMA research has shown that more than 75% of IT projects fail, either by providing too little functionality or overrunning cost and time estimates. Major IT initiatives ?including CMDB projects ? are risky and oftentimes put IT leaders' reputations (and jobs) on the line. While moving forward is scary, you can't sit still and miss out on the benefits to the business. Join us to learn what every busy IT leader should know about CMDB. Discover the 10 questions every IT leader should ask when deciding if CMDB is right for their company, and listen to real-life examples of what to do (and what to avoid) when undertaking a CMDB initiative. Speaker - Chris Matney, Managing Director, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
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How to Scope Your CMDB Project Successfully: Big Vision, Baby Steps (Location: Breakers C)Setting realistic expectations, managing project scope, and delivering timely value are challenges that cause over 50% of CMDB projects to fail. Understanding the detailed requirements for your CMDB project ? which set scope and drive the project timeline ? is the cornerstone of successful implementation. Learn about techniques used by some of the largest companies in the world to overcome "analysis paralysis" and move forward with their CMDB initiatives. Find out first-hand how to create a requirements document that will correctly scope, set priorities, and make your CMDB project actionable. Take home a free "Scoping CMDB" worksheet to help you create meaningful detailed requirements for your own project. Speaker - Chris Matney, Managing Director, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
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Network Services: Which Ones and Where? (Location: Breakers F)There has been so much written in the last few years about the need to focus less on network technologies and more on network provided services. However, very little has been written about what services should be offered and where those services should reside. For example, should QoS be implemented in the router or in a stand-alone device? Should policy and control be exerted as part of the LAN infrastructure or by the firewall? In this session, leading vendors will describe their vision of which services belong where and why. 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 - Andre Kindness, Americas Director of Security Solutions, ProCurve Networking by HP
Speaker - Michael Frendo, Senior VP, High End Security Systems, Juniper Networks
Michael Frendo, senior vice president, High-End Security Systems (HSS) Business Unit at Juniper Networks, has more than 20 years of technology, engineering, and product partnership experience. In his current role, Frendo is responsible for the leadership of the current and next generation security and network traffic visibility technologies and products . Prior to joining Juniper, Michael was responsible for leading system architecture, worldwide product development and customer engagements for the entire product line at McDATA Corporation. Previously, Frendo was the vice president for Systems and Software Engineering at Cisco Systems. Frendo holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering form McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Speaker - Morgan Gerhart, Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Citrix
Speaker - Sangeeta Anand, VP, Product Management, Cisco
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Gotchas When Choosing and Implementing MPLS Services (Location: Breakers F)MPLS promises benefits including lower cost, any-to-any connectivity, and inherent quality of service capabilities. However, IT organizations looking to implement MPLS have numerous issues to evaluate. This session will detail the issues including: the use of a Layer 2 vs. a Layer 3 solution, the number of service classes offered by the service provider, whether or not to use a managed service offering, which advanced services (i.e., Internet access) make sense, the various ways that service providers charge for a class of service profile and exactly how helpful is the provider's web portal functionality. Moderator - Johna Till Johnson, President and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Johna Till Johnson is president and chief research officer of Nemertes Research, where she sets research direction and works with strategic clients. She has decades of experience in IT structure, processes, and organizations and has worked closely with senior IT executives at leading organizations across a broad range of industries. A widely regarded expert, Ms. Johnson regularly speaks at numerous trade shows, conferences, and seminars, and writes an insightful weekly column in Network World. Ms. Johnson relates to the challenges senior executives face, as she?s managed large technology operations. Before founding Nemertes, she served as senior vice president and chief technology officer at Greenwich Technology Partners, a $60 million infrastructure consulting and engineering firm. At GTP, she secured $5 million in funding, managed strategic technology investments, partnerships, and acquisitions, and ran the technology practices to which GTP?s consultants and engineers belonged. She also managed the laboratory services, oversaw training, and performed consulting for strategic clients. Prior to joining GTP, she headed the $12 million Global Networking Strategies Service business unit of META Group, where she advised Global 2000 IT organizations, vendors, and service providers. As senior technology editor of Data Communications magazine, Ms. Johnson managed the lab-testing program, and in the early ?90s was one of the first experts to accurately predict and justify the rise of the commercial Internet. Ms. Johnson also has designed and developed security, speech-synthesis, and free-space laser products at companies including Mosler Security Systems and Digitus Corp. She holds a BSEE (CS) from The Johns Hopkins University, has completed graduate work in nuclear and particle physics at the University of Rochester, speaks three languages, and published a science fiction novel in 1995. Speaker - Danellie Young, Executive Director, Global Data Product Marketing, Verizon Business
Danellie Young leads the global product marketing team for Verizon Business, responsible for go-to-market efforts, cross-product solutions, and product strategy for the entire global data and IP product lines. She provides oversight and vision to a team of experts around the world responsible for managing and marketing the most comprehensive data product portfolio on the market. As the visionary for these product lines, Young provides oversight and direction to a team of global experts responsible for managing and marketing Verizon Business?s products to ensure a lead position in the marketplace. Young continues to guide her extensive portfolio of services for Verizon Business by driving its market strategy, global network expansion, feature enhancements, and customer surround. Young?s group has been instrumental in bringing new innovative services and strategic enhancements to market by driving more intelligence into Verizon Business?s network and delivering more flexibility to our customers. Young has a unique blend of technical knowledge, marketing savvy, and focus on customer needs required for the leader of a product line so visible and strategic. She has consistently delivered market-leading services with innovative features, including application-aware networking capabilities, converged voice/video/data packages, and flexible QoS and disaster recovery options for Verizon Business. Speaker - Matt Gowarty, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Fluke Networks
Matt Gowarty is a Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager with Fluke Networks. With over 12 years of experience in telecommunications and networking, Matt has supported the creation and messaging of managed service offerings for MPLS-based networks and VoIP solutions for service providers including AT&T, Global Crossing, Sprint and Verizon Business. Prior to joining Fluke Networks, Matt worked as an offer manager of data products for GTE/Verizon with responsibility including managed services, frame relay and ATM. Matt has been a guest speaker for events including Network World, FutureNet/MPLSCon and Interop and has written several white papers on WAN, MPLS and application performance. Speaker - Scott Cassell, Director Mktg Product, Qwest
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Implementing Policy and Control (Location: Breakers F)There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to both improve application performance and to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. There is, however, wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to create their company's policy and control strategy. 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 - Haggai Polak, Product Line Manager, Packeteer
Mr. Polak currently holds a Product Line Manager position at Packeteer, managing various WAN optimization, traffic management and network management product lines. His experience in network management spans 15 years, 11 of which are with WAN optimization and Traffic Management vendors selling to both the enterprise and service provider spaces. Before Packeteer, Mr. Polak held positions with leading vendors of policy-based network management solutions, starting with NetReality in 1997, moving to Allot Communications following its acquisition of NetReality in 2002. Speaker - Jeff Prince, Chairman and CTO, ConSentry Networks
Jeff has more than 20 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming Chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he led Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995 and became a billion dollar product line for Bay. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP. Speaker - Steve Mullaney, VP Marketing, Palo Alto Networks
Steve Mullaney is vice president of marketing for Palo Alto Networks, and has more than 22 years of marketing, product management and engineering experience in networking and information security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Steve was vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems where he helped grow the company from $40m to $250m annual run rate. Steve was also the vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco), and ShoreTel. Prior to that, Steve spent ten years at SynOptics and Bay Networks in various marketing, product management, and engineering roles, and was most recently vice president of enterprise marketing responsible for products contributing over $2B annual revenue. Before SynOptics, he held various design engineering positions at GTE Government Systems. | ||
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Evaluating New WAN Services (Location: Breakers F)In order to take advantage of lowering costs and new functionality, enterprise IT organizations need to migrate away from Frame Relay and ATM and to adopt new WAN services. Many enterprises have already begun to use MPLS services running at Layer 3. They now have the option of adopting MPLS services running at Layer 2 or of using Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). They also have the ability to use a new generation of managed services, some of which claim to make the Internet perform as well as a private WAN. The speakers on this panel will identify the pros and cons of the emerging WAN services so that you can choose the services that make the most sense in your environment. 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 - Arnaud Messager, Network Solutions Business Developement, Orange
Speaker - Keao Caindec, Chief Marketing Officer, Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. Keao Caindec is responsible for Reliance Globalcom Services' marketing strategy and operations, including product marketing and management, business development, and marketing communications and programs. Caindec is a seasoned executive with deep marketing and business development experience in data communications, network optimization and acceleration, content distribution, IP route-control, VoIP, ATM, MPLS internetworking and network security. Prior to joining the Company in 2005, Caindec was a Principal and Founder of Farallon Technology Resources, a solutions provide |
