Track Chairs
- Andreas Antonopoulos, SVP and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
- Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst, BitCurrent
- Howard Goldstein, Founder, SAS Institute
- Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst, Focus Consulting
- Anil Gupta, Principal, The Applications Marketing Group
- Eric Krapf, Program Co-Chair, VoiceCon; Editor, Exeter Group
- Keven Marier, Founder and Editor in Chief, IP Video Security Magazine
- Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group
- Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
- John Pironti, Chief Information Risk Strategist, Getronics
- Anne Skamarock, Research Director, Focus Consulting
- Joel Snyder, Senior Partner, Opus One
- Rick Sturm, President, Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director, CMP Technology
Data Center/SOA/Green IT Track Chair
Andreas Antonopoulos
SVP and Founding Partner
Nemertes Research
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Senior Vice President and Founding Partner with Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars and advises key clients. Andreas is a computer scientist, a master of data communications and distributed systems, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a self-professed geek, with an engineering, programming and consulting background.
Andreas honed his speaking skills in front of audiences ranging in size from five executives in a boardroom to hundreds of people in large conferences. With more than three hundred speaking engagements under his belt he is considered a world-class and charismatic public speaker and teacher.
Before joining Nemertes, Andreas was the Security Practice Director at ThruPoint Inc, where he was responsible for a global team of security consultants who deliver solutions to multinational clients. Prior to ThruPoint he was a Security Practice Lead at Greenwich Technology Partners, where he designed the security architecture of a global wire-transfer network interconnecting the world’s banks.
In the Cloud Track Chair
Alistair Croll
Principal Analyst
BitCurrent
Alistair is a senior analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, covering emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.
Alistair contributes to industry events such as Interop and Web2Expo, and writes for a variety of online publications including GigaOm. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall.
Storage Track Chair
Howard Goldstein
Founder
Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc.
Howard Goldstein has over 30 years' experience in storage, data and telecommunications networking. His background includes positions in technology, management and education with practical technical experience in architecture, design, planning, implementation and operations. His technical focus ranges across various storage network architectures and products including IP storage, iSCSI, SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express and others.
Howard holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Telecommunications from Pace University. He is a frequent speaker at Interop and Storage Networking World. He founded Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (www.hgai.com) an Education & Technology Company offering instructor led training.
Howard is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association and serves on the SNIA Education Committee. He has helped develop the SNIA Certification Program as well as other SNIA Education initiatives. He has been active in the publications world as technical editor of Building Storage Networks and Resilient Storage Networks.
Virtualization Track Chair
Barb Goldworm
President and Chief Analyst
Focus Consulting
Barb Goldworm has spent 30 years in systems and storage in various senior management, marketing, sales, technical and industry analyst positions with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates and several successful startup ventures. A frequent speaker at industry events, she also created and chaired Interop’s Network Storage Track. More recently, she was one of the top 3 ranked analyst/ knowledge expert speakers at SNW and has been a regular expert speaker for TechTarget Webcasts and Ziff-Davis Summits and E-seminars. She also chaired the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization.
Barb has published extensively since the 1990s, writing regular columns for Network World and ComputerWorld, as well as numerous business and technical white papers and articles on systems, software, storage, storage networking and enterprise management. She currently writes a regular column for TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization. In 2007, she published a book entitled "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" commissioned by Wiley, available on Amazon.com.
Barb brings a unique blend of marketing and technical depth, both strategic and tactical, with experience in product management, product marketing, sales, market research, software development, project management and education.
SOA/SaaS and Cloud Computing/Enterprise 2.0/Offshoring/Open Source Track Chair
Anil Gupta
Principal
The Applications Marketing Group
Anil Gupta is a Principal at The Applications Marketing Group. Anil brings extensive experience in enterprise software having served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at companies such as Baan, Niku and Broadbase. At these companies Anil led product marketing, product management and corporate marketing functions. His strengths are in helping clients with positioning, competitive analysis, market sizing, strategic sales tools, lead generation portfolios and ROI models. Anil also brings deep expertise in supply chain, analytics, CRM and GRC space to his clients. He also acts as interim VP of Marketing for small software companies. Anil has contributed articles to leading technology publications and has lectured at Santa Clara University Business School and Stanford University School of Engineering.
VOIP/Unified Communications Track Chair
Eric Krapf
Program Co-Chair, VoiceCon
Editor, Business Communications Review
Eric Krapf was named editor of Business Communications Review at the beginning of 2004, after serving as the magazine's managing editor since 1996. As editor, he is responsible for all magazine content and production, as well as content for BCR's electronic publishing endeavors. Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor at America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.
Physical Security Track Chair
Keven Marier
Founder and Editor in Chief
IP Video Security Magazine
Keven W. Marier is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IP Video Security Magazine (IPVS). In a year since its launch, IPVS has over 20,000 subscribers, offers award winning content, and is accelerating the adoption of IP video security. Keven has nine years of enterprise IT consulting, management and technology instructor experience, with an emphasis in technology infrastructure and convergence of voice, video, and data networks. Prior to establishing IPVS, his consulting practice led to the successful acquisition and deployment of 40 million dollars of technology over the past five years. He is an accomplished technical college instructor, has taught over 250 students and lead over 4,000 hours of lecture and hands-on-training classes.
Keven attended the University of St. Thomas and the Control Data Institute. He holds several technical certifications.
Wireless and Mobility Track Chair
Craig Mathias
Principal
Farpoint Group
Craig J. Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. The company works with manufacturers, network operators, enterprises, and the financial community in technology assessment and analysis, strategy development, product specification and design, product marketing, program management, education and training, and the integration of emerging technologies into new and existing business operations, across a broad range of markets and applications. Craig is an internationally-recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies, and has published numerous technical and overview articles on a variety of topics. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows, and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards for the Interop (Las Vegas and New York), Mobile Business Expo (MBX), and WiMAX World conferences. He also serves as a semi-monthly columnist for SearchMobileComputing.com, ardent blogger for Unstrung.com, and weekly columnist for Computerworld.com. He holds an Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Brown University.
Networking and Services/Application Delivery Track Chair
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.
Security Track Chair
John Pironti
Chief Information Risk Strategist
Getronics
John P. Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist at Getronics. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, government, hospitality, aerospace and information technology. John has a number of industry certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences.
Virtualization Track Chair
Anne Skamarock
Research Director
Focus Consulting
Anne Skamarock has over 25 years of technical, marketing, research, analysis and consulting experience, as an end-user/administrator, vendor and industry analyst. She has held various technical and marketing positions with SRI, International; Sun Microsystems; StorageTek; EMA; and several successful startups. For the past 10 years, she has focused on systems, storage, networked storage and storage management solutions, and on the intersection points between systems, software and storage. Anne’s expertise encompasses systems, storage and storage networking architectures; virtualization technologies; enterprise management software; data protection solutions; and tape and disk storage solutions. A frequent speaker at conferences, she chaired Interop's Network Storage Track for several years. She was a co-creator as well as Program Manager for the ROI Planning Lab at the 2007 Server Blade Summit on Blades and Virtualization, and also ran key tutorial sessions on blades and virtualization. In addition to a regular Network World column on storage, Anne also co-authored the book "Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs" as well as "Storage Solutions: a Buyer's Guide." Anne is currently writing regular tips/articles for TechTarget SearchStorageChannel.
NAC Day Chair
Joel Snyder
Senior Partner
Opus One
Joel Snyder, a senior partner at Opus One, has more than 20 years experience in network security, design and implementation. He has been building VPNs since 1997 and has put together secure networks for dozens of companies around the globe. He is a frequent product tester for Network World magazine and has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many commercial security products.
IT Service Management Track Chair
Rick Sturm
President
Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
For the past 25 years, Rick has been dedicated to the field of information technology. As a former Chief Architect for Network and Systems Management, he witnessed first-hand the challenges of enterprise management. At that time, management platforms were in their infancy. With the advent of the Internet, the landscape of managing enterprise computing and communications had forever changed. Prior to founding EMA, Rick worked in senior IT roles at US West and A.C. Nielsen.
It was at this time that Rick realized how critical it was to effectively manage this technology. Equally important, he saw that not one industry analyst firm was positioned to offer specialized technical information and business guidance about management software and services. As a result, EMA was born.
Throughout his distinguished career, Rick has remained an active figure in the industry. As a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he was co-chair of the Applications MIB Working Group that developed the standards for managing application software with SNMP. Rick was co-founder of the OpenView Forum and served as its first President and as a member of the Board of Directors. He was also co-founder of the Enterprise Management Institute.
Rick has authored over 100 articles about various aspects of enterprise management that have appeared in leading trade publications, including Network World, Information Week, Computerworld, Network Computing, Data Communications and Internet Week. He was the Technical Editor of The OpenView Advisor and has also co-authored four books, The Foundations of Application Management, Foundations of Service Level Management, SLM Solutions: A Buyer’s Guide and Working with Unicenter TNG. As a recognized and widely quoted authority on management software and services, Rick has regularly spoken at leading industry events in the North America, Australia, Asia and Europe.
B.A., Economics, Allegheny College.
M.B.A., Information Systems, Bowling Green State University.
Enterprise 2.0 Track Chair
Steve Wylie
General Manager and Conference Director
CMP Technology
Steve Wylie is the General Manager and Conference Director for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and Mobile Business Expo, both of which are produced by CMP Technology. Steve formerly co-chaired CMP's annual Interop conferences in Las Vegas and New York. Prior to running conferences, Steve managed CMP's renowned InteropNet, including a multi-vendor test lab geared to evaluate, improve and showcase early implementations of open-standard IT infrastructure technologies. Steve is based in San Francisco, California.