Trusted. Results. Today. The Business Case for the Cloud

Fri, 23 May 2014 23:28:54 +0000

In today's context of mobile workers and connected customers, the cloud has morphed from future option to present mainstream without the permission of IT's traditional "deciders." Fortunately, those who make the most of this change are finding themselves delivering on-time, on-spec, on-budget results with superior security, comprehensive mobile capability and transforming collaborative power. Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at salesforce.com, shares a global perspective on cloud-driven measures of dramatic changes well under way -- and resulting trends of massive competitive disruption.

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Peter

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Coffee

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VP for Strategic Research

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Salesforce.com

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Peter Coffee is VP for Strategic Research at salesforce.com inc. He has been with the company for seven years, following nineteen years as a columnist and technology analyst with the industry publications PC Tech Journal, PC Week and eWEEK. He works with IT managers and application developers to build a global community on the Salesforce1 cloud computing platform, combining the Force.com, Heroku1 and ExactTarget Fuel platform-as-a-service (PaaS) portfolios. Peter holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, with subsequent faculty appointments in IT management at Pepperdine; expert-systems programming at UCLA; and business analytics at Chapman College. He is the author of two books, How To Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs. He is a winner of the Neal Award for excellence in business journalism and the McGan “Silver Antenna” Award for service to amateur radio. In recent years, Peter has worked with customers and partners throughout the Americas and in Australia, India and EU countries as well as lecturing at MIT, Harvard, Stanford and UCLA. Previously, Peter was the first manager of PC integration at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in national security space-asset applications of AI techniques; before that, he worked with Exxon’s production, chemical, and research divisions in arctic development, polymer manufacturing and alternative-fuels projects ranging from the north slope of Alaska to the Gulf Coast. His other work has included computer game development and migration of defense-sector management tools from minicomputer to PC platforms. Follow him on Twitter @petercoffee.

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Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 13:20

Video Collaboration in the Cloud – How it will Move from Rarity to Reality in 2012

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:09:24 +0000

Several business trends are converging and new technologies are emerging that are evolving the human collaboration experience – radically improving the way we work together. New technologies and platforms such as social business, mobility and cloud-delivered services, are the driving forces behind a whole new paradigm for communications that is centered around the power of video collaboration.

Today, video collaboration has become mission critical in many organizations, as it increases productivity and efficiency. And with the “video cloud” and mobile video emerging, along with an industry drive toward interoperability, video collaboration ubiquity is not too far away.

Gary Testa, will provide a perspective of the trends and drivers that will make cloud-delivered, Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings a reality (versus a rarity) in 2012 and beyond. He will discuss various models to deliver VaaS offerings, and the role service providers, video equipment and software companies, and UC organizations will play in this major industry shift.

The session will include several examples/case studies of VaaS deployments today, including China Unicom and Vietnam Post & Telecommunication (VNPT). China Unicom has created one of the largest video clouds in the world, enabling the delivery of VaaS to over 10,000 business and government organizations throughout China (interconnecting approximately 100,000 endpoints from 10 different vendors). VNPT, the largest telecommunications carrier in Vietnam, recently announced the launch of MegaConference, a VaaS solution for SMBs and enterprises.

Gary will also speak to the inter-connection between cloud and mobility, as well as major advancements in interoperability, as the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) is set to launch interoperable VaaS offerings later this year. The OVCC was co-founded by Polycom in mid-2011, with some of the world’s largest service providers, including AT&T, BT, Verizon, Orange and Telstra. The OVCC is working on open, standards-based architecture and common carrier agreements, which is expected to accelerate the video cloud market, and make videoconferencing as easy as making a phone call.

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Gary

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Testa

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VP Global Cloud and Service Provider Solutions Group

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Polycom

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Gary Testa joined Polycom in May 2011 as vice president of Global Cloud and Service Provider Solution Sales, responsible for leading global sales, strategy, and execution, and accelerating the company's growth with mobile, fixed, and managed service providers. Gary brings to Polycom a proven track record in sales, marketing, product management, and services leadership bringing complex network hardware and software solutions to market within the mobility, carrier and cloud segments. Most recently, Gary was vice president of Global Sales, IBM Tivoli Network Portfolio where he joined IBM as part of the acquisition of Intelliden, Inc. At IBM, Gary was responsible for the sale of the Tivoli network software portfolio into the large Enterprise, Service Provider, Cable, Mobility and the Power/Energy/Utility markets. Gary holds a BA degree in Russian Language and Literature from the University of California, Irvine; and has worked abroad for more than 12 years, living in Russia, Germany, Finland, Indonesia, and other countries around the globe.

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We welcome the opportunity for Sudhakar Ramakrishna to do a stand-alone session or keynote; participate in a fireside chat; or possibly join a senior panel to talk about the video cloud

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4750 Willow Road Pleasanton, CA 94588-2708 USA

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Trusted. Results. Today. The Business Case for the Cloud

Video Collaboration in the Cloud – How it will Move from Rarity to Reality in 2012