6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - cloud

Lessons Learned - The Journey from Virtualization to Cloud

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:56:04 +0000

Most IT organizations are now heavily invested in virtualization, with the majority now on a journey to their “Cloud” – whether private, public or a hybrid combination.

While the journey can be complex, it is now a well-traveled path littered with both successes and failures that we can all learn from.

This session will leverage case studies and real world lessons gathered over the past eight years from working with 100’s of IT organizations (enterprises and service providers). The focus will be on representative journeys that others have taken including recommendations, common pitfalls and repeatable patterns for success.

Specific topics will include enabling IT-as-a-Service, self-service provisioning, multi-cloud management, showback vs. chargeback, controlling virtual sprawl and overcoming the inevitable friction points related to organizational change.

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Jay

Speaker Last Name:

Litkey

Speaker Job Title:

Founder & President

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Embotics Corporation

Speaker Bio:

A serial entrepreneur with extensive experience launching, financing and growing software companies, Jay Litkey has been a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include cloud computing, virtualization, systems management automation, and Internet video. For more than a decade, Jay has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise data centers. He is ITIL-certified and frequently spends his time serving as a trusted advisor for IT executives and speaking at industry events. Jay is the founder and President of Embotics Corporation, who recently won the Best of VMworld 2013 Gold Award for Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies.

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Nevada Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 15:05

Panel: Cloud Security and Compliance for the Enterprise

Wed, 21 May 2014 23:18:29 +0000

There is still much speculation around the security and privacy implications of applications in the cloud. With speculation comes fear, and with fear come misinformation and myths. This panel session will address many of these myths and uncertainties about apps in the cloud. It will provide guidance for how businesses can evaluate cloud vendors from a security and privacy perspective, and will offer a glimpse into best practices to protects the data and the privacy of your users.
Core topics to be addressed:
- Centralized cloud governance model;
- Achieving service availability with higher security at a lower cost level;
- How security is built-in in cloud services;
- Enabling data integrity, privacy and security for integrations;
- Adopting cloud standards
- Security and protection of IP and sensitive data in the cloud;
- Enforcing data constraints on residency and privacy;
- Making data available in reliable and secure way;
- Getting high performance, while preserving security
- Using big data to mitigate advanced persistent threats;
- Solutions for cross firewall collaboration.

Speakers:

Jacob West is chief technology officer for Enterprise Security Products (ESP) at HP. In this role, West helps to architect the security roadmap for the ESP portfolio and leads HP Security Research (HPSR), which drives innovation with research publications, threat briefings, and actionable security intelligence.
Prior to this role, West served as chief technology officer for Fortify products and leader of Software Security Research within HP ESP. West has spent more than a decade developing, delivering, and monetizing innovative security solutions, beginning with static analysis research at the University of California, Berkeley and as an early security researcher at Fortify prior to its acquisition by HP.
A world-recognized expert on software security, West co-authored the book, “Secure Programming with Static Analysis” with colleague and Fortify founder, Brian Chess, in 2007. Today, the book remains the only comprehensive guide to how developers can use static analysis to avoid the most prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities in code.
West is co-author of the Building Security in Maturity Model and is a frequent speaker at industry events, including RSA Conference, Black Hat, Defcon and OWASP. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, West holds dual-degrees in Computer Science and French and resides in San Francisco, California.

Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Apps
As Director of Security for Google Enterprise, Eran defines and implements security strategy for Google Apps. Prior to joining Google in 2007,

Eran was the U.S. Chief Information Security Officer for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Earlier, Eran spent several years designing and implementing high-performance cryptosystems for electronic commerce solutions for Fortune 1000 clients and government agencies.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Irvine, and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Eric Tan, PwC Director, Assurance Technology Center of Excellence, Silicon Valley Eric is an assurance director based out of PwC's Silicon Valley Technology Center of Excellence. He has significant experience successfully helping technology compliance organizations manage risk and compliance over their technology projects and information governance, risk and compliance solutions. Eric is a lead director within PwC's Cloud Assurance practice. His responsibilities includes assisting companies with compliance, security and privacy issues related to cloud services and performing attestation services to cloud service providers. He is a key contributor to the firm's strategy, point of view and thought leadership on cloud computing. Eric's experience includes developing IT strategic plans, leading large-scale system implementation assessments, performing risk and security diagnostics; and implementation of compliance and control solutions. His experience specific to cloud computing includes developing internal controls for a cloud ERP company, leading a Salesforce.com CRM assessment, conducting cloud vendor assessments and helping a financial services firm determine their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS ) strategy. Google, eBay, LinkedIn, Tibco, Akamai, Novell, Genzyme, Biogen, Thermo Fisher Scientific are among the many clients he has served. He is a regular speaker at ISACA events and served as a keynote speaker and panelist on various conferences including the recent He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at topical events and conferences, including the recent 2013 Global Institute of Internal Audit Conference, 2012 Edison Electric Institute Conference, Cloud Connect 2011 and UP 2011 Cloud Computing Conference in Silicon Valley.

David Linthicum, Research Analyst, Gigaom Research
David (Dave) S. Linthicum is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling “Enterprise Application Integration” (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave’s latest book is “Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.”Dave is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling “Enterprise Application Integration” (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave’s latest book is “Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.”

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(Moderator) Eric

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Tan

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Director

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PwC LLP

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Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 13:50

Panel : Innovation and Outlook of the Cloud

Wed, 21 May 2014 23:16:09 +0000

This panel session will discuss core themes relating to advances and innovations in Cloud technology, and where the Cloud is headed in 2015 and beyond.

Topics to be covered include:
- Market segmentation and key trends/directional qualities of each of these segments;
- New emerging areas of cloud that are nascent;
- cloud services and the key areas/segments to watch;
- Status quo and future directions of PaaS and Cloud Services Brokerage Enablers. Are there any “big” players getting into this market?;
Future trends to engage in now to gain competitive advantage;
- When can the industry guarantee zero down time

Speakers:

Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is vice president and chief technology officer for Dell’s Software Group. Dell named Don a Senior Fellow in January 2013, and Don is currently one of only two Dell Senior Fellows. Don also chairs the Pan-Dell CTO Forum. Don is the only person to have been an IBM Fellow, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Dell Senior Fellow.
Don leads the architecture, implementation design, technical strategy and innovation for Dell Software Group products and solutions. Don also works with colleagues across Dell to help ensure integration and innovation for software solutions spanning all of Dell’s businesses. Some of Don’s recent solution focus at Dell has been on hybrid cloud management, BYOD/mobility management and security, end-to-end next generation connected security.
Prior to joining Dell, Don was executive vice president and chief technology officer for CA Technologies. Don definedthe technical strategy and product architecture. This included strategic technology acquisitions (e.g. 3Tera, iTKO, Hyperformix), technical guidance for innovative organic development (e.g. CA Service Operations Insight, Server Automation for Cloud) and product integration and solutions (e.g. Catalyst/Unified Service Model, Integrated Demand Management, CA Open Space).
Prior to joining CA in 2008, Don was a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Office of the CTO and in Server and Tools Business. He worked on various projects exploring the future of enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Web services and Internet application platforms.
Don began his career at IBM, where he worked for twenty years. In 2001 Don became an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. IBM has approximately 80 IBM Fellows in the 150,000 person engineering team. Don served as chief architect for the IBM Software Group, where he focused on design issues and initiatives spanning the DB2, WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational product families. During this time, Ferguson also worked on a number of SOA, web service and web application initiatives, specifications and standards. Don also held the title of chief architect for the WebSphere product family from its inception until becoming IBM Software Group chief architect. Don is often credited as “The Father of WebSphere.”
Don earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has contributed to approximately 30 technical journal and conference publications, and has more than a dozen patents.
The Columbia Engineering Alumni Association of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University named Don a 2013 recipient of The Egleston Medal. The award is an annual recognition of one or two alumni for “distinguished achievement in engineering or applied science.”

Shailesh Rao is Global Director of the cloud business unit at Google. He joined Google after 17 years of experience in the enterprise software and cloud computing business, including roles in product management, sales, strategy and product marketing. In his most recent role before joining Google, he was an SVP at SAP where he was held several senior roles within SAP's cloud business. He also held leadership roles at Siebel Systems and other Silicon Valley startups.

Shailesh is a graduate of the National Institute of Technology in Kurukshetra, India, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He also has a master’s degree in computer science from the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and an MBA in general management from Harvard Business School.

Omid Razavi, Ph.D.
Global VP, Customer Success and Growth, SAP. Omid Razavi leads customer success and growth at SAP with over $1.5B cloud revenue and 35 million users across 30+ cloud applications. Omid is passionate about designing, developing and delivering customer success services and leading global teams to bring new capabilities to the market, as well as, increase technology consumption, user adoption and business outcome for customers, and ultimately impact business growth.

Omid has worked in the Silicon Valley for over 20 years, and he is currently advisor to several early-stage cloud and venture firms. Prior to SAP (formerly SuccessFactors), he was at Saba, Clever Sense (acquired by Google), Kxen (acquired by SAP), Cordys (acquired by OpenText), Savvion (acquired by Progress Software) and Vitria Technology. He holds B.S.E and M.S.E from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

David Linthicum, Research Analyst, Gigaom Research

David (Dave) S. Linthicum is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling “Enterprise Application Integration” (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave’s latest book is “Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.”Dave is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling “Enterprise Application Integration” (Addison Wesley). Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Enterprise Application Integration, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. Dave’s latest book is “Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach.”

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Innovation

cloud

outlook

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(Moderator) David

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Linthicum

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Analyst

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GigaOm

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Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 09:30

Panel - How to implement and manage cloud to become more agile

Wed, 21 May 2014 23:14:17 +0000

This panel discussion will deep dive into enterprise end-user needs and expectations, focusing on how to become more agile by leverage the power of the cloud.

Core areas to be discussed include:
- Complexities of managing multiple clouds,
- Leverage the power of mobility to increase workforce productivity
- Converging private and public clouds to facilitate interaction of both internal or external businesses,
- Migration, deployment & integration;
- Orchestration of workload and data among multi-vendor clouds to optimize performance, capacity and cost,
- Network brokerage for cloud,
- Rapid provisioning of resources without delay in response to changing business needs
- Integrating business apps in the cloud, meeting all performance and capacity needs
- Simplified migration application pools, used as hosted virtual desktop infrastructure,
- How to incorporate cloud services into internal processes and operations (service desk, monitoring, change management, asset management);

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Allan Leinwand is vice president and and chief technology officer of Cloud Platform and Infrastructure at ServiceNow, the enterprise IT cloud company. In this role, he is responsible for leading the teams that are architecting, developing and operating the company’s cloud platform and infrastructure services.
Before joining ServiceNow, Leinwand was chief technology officer – Infrastructure at Zynga, Inc. where he was responsible for all aspects of technology infrastructure used in the delivery of Zynga’s social games including data centers, networking, compute, storage, content distribution and cloud computing.
Previously, Leinwand was a venture partner for Panorama Capital, LLC where he focused on technology investments in data networking, open source software and cloud computing. Prior to this role, he served as an operating partner at JPMorgan Partners.
In 2005, Leinwand founded Vyatta (acquired by Brocade), the open-source networking company. From 2001 to 2004, he was president and co-founder of Proficient Networks, Inc. From 2000 to 2001, Leinwand was chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Telegis Networks, Inc. In 1997, he joined Digital Island, Inc. at inception and served as its vice president of engineering and chief technology officer through the company’s IPO and secondary offering.
From 1990 to 1997, Leinwand served as manager of consulting engineering and senior software engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. helping to build and engineer service provider and enterprise networks worldwide. He co-authored "Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" and has been granted a patent in the field of data routing.
Leinwand currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches on the subjects of computer networks, network management and network design. He holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Steve Crawford is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Jamcracker. He is responsible for corporate and product marketing, as well as developing Jamcracker’s partner ecosystem. Steve was formerly CMO and VP of Corporate Development for PKWARE, where he repositioned the company as a cross-platform data security provider, resulting in 10X revenue growth over 3 years. He was previously with VeriSign during its growth from pre-IPO to over $2B in revenues, where he led strategic alliances, launched its enterprise solutions product-line, and grew its service provider business to over $200M. Steve previously led marketing and business development at Octel (acquired by Lucent) and R&D programs at Lockheed Martin.

Kouros Esfahany, SVP, Software Engineering & Distinguished Engineer. With 12 patents awarded and few more in process, Kouros has inventions delivered in virtual/cloud management, highly distributed computing, dynamic resource brokering and resource optimization.
As a senior development manager and distinguished engineer with over 21 years of software development experience, Kouros currently leads the worldwide engineering teams of over 400 for development of Dev-Ops & IT-Ops solutions in Application Delivery BU. The related products covers application testing and service virtualization( CA LISA Test / Service Virtualization) as well as Data Mining, and application release automation. The IP-Ops products covers wide range of data center automation, process & configuration automation, private & public Cloud automation and virtualization Mgmt.
In addition, as a distinguished engineer Kouros is working closely with the CTO and his fellow distinguished engineers to contribute to CA's technical and strategic direction.
Prior to CA, Kouros served in Research and Engineering roles at NYU, HP and MMC Corp.

Shahed Latif, Partner, Advisory, KPMG LLP
Shahed is the lead Information Security and Business Continuity principal for Western region and has extensive IT and business skills. He has a track record of creating innovative solutions in the risk and compliance space and is KPMG’s national lead for Cloud & Security. He has extensive knowledge of the security operations of some of the largest for FORTUNE 100 companies and works closely with the leading Cloud service providers. He has over 24 years of experience working with the global FORTUNE 500 companies focusing on providing business and technology solutions across a variety of areas. Shahed has spent 10 years in the London office working in the financial sector consulting group, Information Risk Management group, and the assurance practice. He has provided services to large global companies in Africa, Asia, and Europe

Thomas Hatch, founder and CTO of SaltStack, is the benevolent dictator of Salt, one of the largest open source projects in the world and fast becoming the largest Python code base ever. SaltStack does a lot of stuff, mostly focusing on infrastructure automation, configuration management and cloud orchestration. Quite simply, our software helps automate DevOps tasks for speed and scale on the Internet assembly line. But there’s much more, so Tom will provide a quick overview of the SaltStack platform and share a few things you probably don’t know about how SaltStack is used in DevOps organizations today. Tom’s talk will highlight the need for speed and scale in DevOps, put an end to an age-old holy war in configuration management, talk about why we need more lightweight cloud control, outline the benefits of automation glue for all the infrastructure things, and show how test automation can be easier and faster combining Salt, Jenkins, Docker and Git.

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(moderator) Shahed

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Latif

Speaker Job Title:

Partner

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KPMG

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Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 11:50

Realizing Multi-Cloud Management and Cloud Marketplace

Wed, 21 May 2014 20:15:00 +0000

Many enterprises from small business to the largest companies are incrementally moving to a model in which: 1) The business exploits multiple public and private clouds. 2) Use a mix of cloud services that include IaaS, SaaS, web callable APIs and PaaS. 3) View acquiring cloud services to be similar to a commerce experience for physical HW and SW.
The keynote presentation:
1. Enumerates and explains technical challenges for realizing the multi-cloud and cloud marketplace.
2. The role of technologies for solving the challenges, including: a) Application Performance Management. b) Federated Identity and Access Management. c) Workload Blueprints. d) Multi-Cloud Management functions and console. e) Application Integration.
3. Provides a reference architecture for an integrated solution.
4. Explains the role of Dell products in the RA.

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Speaker First Name:

Dr Don

Speaker Last Name:

Ferguson

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Senior Fellow and CTO at Dell Software.

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Dell Software

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Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is vice president and chief technology officer for Dell’s Software Group. Dell named Don a Senior Fellow in January 2013, and Don is currently one of only two Dell Senior Fellows. Don also chairs the Pan-Dell CTO Forum. Don is the only person to have been an IBM Fellow, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Dell Senior Fellow. Don leads the architecture, implementation design, technical strategy and innovation for Dell Software Group products and solutions. Don also works with colleagues across Dell to help ensure integration and innovation for software solutions spanning all of Dell’s businesses. Some of Don’s recent solution focus at Dell has been on hybrid cloud management, BYOD/mobility management and security, end-to-end next generation connected security. Prior to joining Dell, Don was executive vice president and chief technology officer for CA Technologies. Don defined the technical strategy and product architecture. This included strategic technology acquisitions (e.g. 3Tera, iTKO, Hyperformix), technical guidance for innovative organic development (e.g. CA Service Operations Insight, Server Automation for Cloud) and product integration and solutions (e.g. Catalyst/Unified Service Model, Integrated Demand Management, CA Open Space). Prior to joining CA in 2008, Don was a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Office of the CTO and in Server and Tools Business. He worked on various projects exploring the future of enterprise software, with a special emphasis on Web services and Internet application platforms. Don began his career at IBM, where he worked for twenty years. In 2001 Don became an IBM Fellow, IBM's highest technical honor. IBM has approximately 80 IBM Fellows in the 150,000 person engineering team. Don served as chief architect for the IBM Software Group, where he focused on design issues and initiatives spanning the DB2, WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational product families. During this time, Ferguson also worked on a number of SOA, web service and web application initiatives, specifications and standards. Don also held the title of chief architect for the WebSphere product family from its inception until becoming IBM Software Group chief architect. Don is often credited as “The Father of WebSphere.” Don earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has contributed to approximately 30 technical journal and conference publications, and has more than a dozen patents. The Columbia Engineering Alumni Association of Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University named Don a 2013 recipient of The Egleston Medal. The award is an annual recognition of one or two alumni for “distinguished achievement in engineering or applied science.”

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Toronto

Emerald Ballroom

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 11:20

The cloud’s hierarchy of data center needs

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:03:56 +0000

The cloud is not some imaginary place in the sky where all our data goes. It requires physical space, power, network connectivity, cooling and physical security. This critical sustenance is provided by data centers. But there is much more to it than that: the data center will play an increasingly significant role in cloud providers’ and enterprises’ cloud strategies. In this talk, Digital Realty will detail all the levels of data center needs for the cloud.

First, he will outline the basic needs of a data center such as power, cooling, connectivity, security, fire protection, and computing and storage equipment (i.e. servers). Bryan will discuss capacity issues that organizations need to consider for their cloud and data center strategy. A common challenge for data center providers is how to balance multiple applications with varying density requirements in a single data center suite in order to ensure that no power is left stranded.

Then, Bryan will discuss an organization’s higher-level cloud needs such as proximity to customers, elasticity and the ability to scale anytime and anywhere, being part of the broader cloud ecosystem. For instance, global networked data centers should be able to connect to any cloud provider. As businesses’ data center needs grows from a single rack to a pod to an entire data center, they need consider how their various cloud providers will connect through the network. In addition, latency and location becomes an important factor for enterprise cloud strategies as their business expands.

Finally, he will discuss how the data center is only part of the broader cloud ecosystem. The cloud opens up opportunity by broadening what’s possible for businesses. Once businesses have the cloud, they get into some exciting conversations around topics such as networking infrastructure, connectivity, and virtualization capabilities, among others. Is your business prepared?

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Bryan

Speaker Last Name:

Chong

Speaker Job Title:

vice president, mid-market sales

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Digital Realty

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Bryan Chong is vice president, mid-market sales at Digital Realty, where he is responsible for leading the company’s mid-market sales effort for the Western region. With almost two decades of sales leadership experience, Bryan joined the Digital Realty team in 2013 following five years with Internap Network Services where he held the position of vice president of global strategic channels, U.S. and Asia Pacific. Prior to Internap, he held sales roles with Computer Sciences Corporation, Cable & Wireless, Hughes Network Systems and AT&T. Bryan graduated from The Citadel with a BS in business administration.

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4 Embarcadero Center #3200 San Francisco, CA, 94111

Nevada Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 14:30

New Service Offerings Emerging for Industrial OEMs: Cloud-based Remote Monitoring and Mobility

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:58:43 +0000

The cloud is creating new revenue opportunities for equipment OEMs in the industrial market, as they are being pressed to deliver new and higher levels of services to their customers without increasing their costs. An opportunity to create these new service offerings has materialized through the realization of the promise of the Industrial Internet – or Internet of Things – which helps manufacturers connect their intelligent machines to gather data and insights that can empower operators and business managers to make smarter, more informed decisions that can save time and money. Taking advantage of secure cloud services, which reduce initial investment costs for OEMs, has provided a jump start for many of them to realize this opportunity.

In the case of TempuTech, for example, an OEM of grain processing equipment for manufacturing, incorporating a cloud-based remote monitoring and mobility solution from GE Intelligent Platforms in its grain processors has given them a new revenue stream as they are now able to provide customers with asset monitoring capabilities through a subscription-based cloud service. The cloud-based solution quickly and cost-effectively transforms raw data into actionable information, maximizing operational efficiency, productivity and profitability. Being able to view alarms and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data on a single screen on a mobile device and having a customized risk index for advanced analytics and predictive detection allows OEMs to contact customers before their process goes down. And further, being able to use fewer experts to monitor and troubleshoot an entire fleet of assets contributes to cost reduction.

This on-premise or private cloud is combined with a rugged Machine Data Gateway to collect equipment data from nearly any brand of intelligent control device, which is then buffered to protect against network outages, encrypted and transmitted to and verified by the remote monitoring and mobility server.

The speed of deployment using the cloud service allows for quick ROI for the OEM, as new revenue-generating services offset monthly fees. In this case, grain manufacturer customers can benefit quickly as TempuTech’s new service is able to access and provide actionable information about the health of the customers’ grain processing system and deliver it to them in real-time so they can avoid downtime and quality issues. This ability to leverage the cloud to provide virtualized centralization of unlike applications, devices and sensors via a web-based remote monitoring and diagnostic system is improving customer service for the OEM, enhancing their value to the customers while reducing the overall cost of customer service.

Steve Pavlosky from GE Intelligent Platforms can describe how the cloud and the advances of the Industrial Internet are sparking these new revenue opportunities for OEMs in industrial and manufacturing operations.

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Steve

Speaker Last Name:

Pavlosky

Speaker Job Title:

Solutions Ecosystem Leader

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

GE Intelligent Platforms

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Steve Pavlosky has more than 25 years in the Automation industry, having worked in Consulting, Channel Management, Commercial Operations, Sales, and Marketing. He joined GE in 1986 and is currently a Solutions Ecosystem Leader for GE Intelligent Platforms. He is responsible for setting product direction and commercialization of GE’s portfolio of automation and industrial computing solutions and its cloud based infrastructure for automation equipment deployment and management. Steve began his career in GE’s industrial software business with roles in consulting, sales, and marketing. Since that time, he has provided commercial leadership across various aspects of GE’s automation business, including customer service operations, channel management, commercial operations, and pricing. He is located in GE Intelligent Platforms’ headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia and holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Clarkson University.

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Nevada Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:45

Emerging Cloud Models: Community Cloud

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:18:24 +0000

There is no disputing that both Enterprises and Service Providers are embracing cloud. But now, there are some ‘blurred lines’ as enterprises and public and private institutions that share common requirements are banding together through a “Community Cloud” model. Aimed at delivering on-demand, non-competitive services, infrastructure and application software, this new and emerging IP operating model is based on a community cloud platform. The results are better operational efficiencies, significantly reduced costs, and a greater ability to innovate and generate new revenues for all community members involved.

In this session, Manjula Talreja, VP of Cisco Consulting Services Global Cloud Practice, will further define and discuss the emergence of these new Community Cloud models, pointing to examples of several global university groups who are successfully adopting community cloud initiatives. Talreja will also highlight some of the key operational, delivery, governance, revenue-sharing, ROI — among other — challenges inherent in this new cloud model.

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Cisco Consulting Services

Software-as-a-Service

Saas

Speaker First Name:

Manjula

Speaker Last Name:

Talreja

Speaker Job Title:

Vice President, Global Cloud Practice

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Cisco Consulting Services

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Manjula Talreja is a 25-year information technology (IT) industry veteran who has spent the majority of her career at Cisco, where her extensive experience in general management, business strategy consulting, and operations has helped guide teams through many crucial inflection points. Talreja is currently vice president of the Global Cloud Practice for Cisco Consulting Services, the company’s business and IT technology consulting arm. In this expanded role, Talreja is helping to shape and drive Cisco’s enterprise and service provider (SP) cloud strategy. Taking advantage of Cisco’s Internet of Everything (IoE) “network of networks” platform, the Global Cloud Practice is helping CIOs transform enterprise IT delivery models to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) and supporting SPs in developing cloud market-entry and execution strategies. Most recently, Talreja was vice president of global cloud business development for Cisco, where she and her team created new, innovative cloud business models and partnerships with technology vendors, SPs, and systems integrators (SIs). In 2009, Talreja ran and launched the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a partnership between Cisco, EMC, and VMware created to accelerate customers’ abilities to increase business agility with data center virtualization and private cloud. From 2004–2007, she served as senior director of Customer Business Transformation with Cisco’s Voice Technology Group (VTG). Prior to Cisco, she spent five years with Hewlett Packard (HP) in its IT manufacturing organization, where she worked on global manufacturing systems in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Talreja is a highly sought-after industry thought leader and was recently named a CloudNOW “2013 Top Ten Women in Cloud.” She also made CableFAX Magazine’s list of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable 2012.” holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi, and a bachelor’s degree in business with a major in information systems from Santa Clara University.

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California Room

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:45

The Rise of the Network

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:27:18 +0000

When you work in the telecom industry in North America, you live in two different worlds. In the first world, the mobile industry is growing dramatically with operator capital spending and data consumption increasing at healthy levels. The second world is one with more challenges. In this world, the reality is that mobile connections are reaching saturation levels, forcing operators to shift their focus to subscriber retention and revenue growth in new areas.

Despite these opposing worlds, we believe that telecom is booming. Even voice. The fundamental problem, however, is that our thinking about the industry in on the decline. Going forward, we need to change our view of the industry to focus on how we can capitalize on the opportunities that arise from these disruptions.

Today, there is an understanding that the basis of competition has shifted from an industry built around scale and robustness of networks to a model of choice and flexibility of services driven by the consumer. Software providers are even moving away from the services space to look into how services are being delivered to the end user. In order to compete, the telecom core and network will have to become service marketplaces.

For telecom operators to continue to flourish in this new environment we will need to rethink how networks are built and used. At Ericsson, we see many potential areas for disruption, the largest being at the heart of the network, 4th Generation IP, Cloud & Service Provider SDN. From a telecom perspective, we are seeing software eat the network. To leverage this new phenomenon, we must remove the complexity that exists in a traditional IP and service network and make it more accessible to software developers. As a result, the cost basis for delivering services will fundamentally change, allowing scale experimentation for new business models.

Companies like Google, for example, have excelled at using a micro-experimentation approach to determine what elements constitute a good service experience and to create new opportunities. Historically, the telco and service provider communities have not followed their lead. If these communities can successfully implement micro-experimentation, they will be able to rapidly discover new types of business models. This transformation is already occurring today, with experimentation happening within the service provider space. To those that are not experimenting, it only looks slow if you’re losing.

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telco

cloud

Speaker First Name:

Vish

Speaker Last Name:

Nandlall

Speaker Job Title:

CTO

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Ericsson North America

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Vish Nandlall is Head of Strategy, Marketing and Chief Technology Officer for Ericsson’s North American region. He is responsible for identifying Ericsson's long-term vision, defining the overall company strategy and driving business value creation for Ericsson’s customers in North America. Nandlall joined Ericsson in 2010, most recently serving as Chief Technical Officer for the company’s AT&T Customer Unit. He previously served as CTO of Extreme Networks and CTO and distinguished member of technical staff for Nortel Carrier Networks. Nandlall has led architecture and standards direction for product portfolios ranging from GSM, CDMA, WiMAX, LTE, metro DWDM, carrier routing and switching and carrier VoIP portfolios. His recent areas of research include M2M, augmented reality and mobile virtualization.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 17:10

Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities: Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation

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In 2012 Novartis did a strategic evaluation of their middleware strategy which consisted of two traditional, full-featured, on-premises solutions supporting over 140 active integrations. Both were proving slow and expensive to develop and maintain, and the team was spending time and resources on upgrades and maintenance rather than business value.

An integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering was used in an initial proof of concept (POC) to connect internal Novartis data with Salesforce.com. The technical approach was to select endpoint interfaces from the iPaaS library and modify them to fit Novartis-specific data mappings. This project took about 25 hours to complete, and saw a 10-fold cost savings over the tools and process they had in place. As a result of this POC, Novartis invested in the iPaaS solution and plans 600-700 integrations, 90% of which are on-premise to on-premise, or A2A, with 10% B2B integration.

Novartis subsequently decided to phase out their legacy integration middleware and starting in 2012, began migrating these integrations to the iPaaS. This year they plan to migrate off their second on-premises middleware system to address compliance risks and to match their cloud-enabled enterprise needs in the future. Novartis is also reducing the number of servers dedicated to integration from 28 to 8. They realized that ETL, EDI, application integration, and cloud integration are converging and an iPaaS solution can meet their requirements, now and into the future, quickly and at a low cost. This presentation will examine Novartis’ story.

Keywords:

cloud

pharmaceuticals

integration

enterprise architecture

Speaker First Name:

Thomas

Speaker Last Name:

Barton

Speaker Job Title:

Global Enterprise Architect and Head of Integration Services

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Novartis

Speaker Bio:

Thomas is a seasoned technology executive with broad-based management experience, leading international teams in Enterprise Architecture consulting, and the real world application of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Middleware Integration, iPaaS, and Business Process Management. As head of Integration Services for Novartis, Thomas is responsible for enterprise middleware at the global level. As a former entrepreneur and CTO, Thomas is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of experience in diverse industry verticals delivering complex technology solutions that meet business needs through partnership, communication and collaboration, with a focus on financial impact and results.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:10