An Open Cloud Won't Rain on your Picnic!

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Business and IT leaders are turning to Cloud technology to address business challenges at an increasing rate, but the flexibility that they seek is only delivered with an Open Cloud Architecture. An Open Cloud Architecture and nimble open source technology will not only respond to these challenges but will also translate into savings for companies. In this session, Dr. Angel Diaz, IBM VP Software Standards and Cloud Labs, shares IBM's commitment and vision for delivering offerings based on an Open Cloud Architecture by addressing open standards such as TOSCA for portability, OSLC for DevOps and OpenStack to support an open cloud platform from private to public to hybrid clouds. From simple to implement, to massively scalable and feature rich, client interest is accelerating at an impressive rate. Come hear about compelling client use cases made possible with the "open cloud.

Keywords:

cloud standards

Speaker First Name:

Angel

Speaker Last Name:

Diaz

Speaker Job Title:

Vice President of Software Standards, Cloud Labs & HiPODS

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

IBM Software Group

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is Vice President of Software Standards, Cloud Labs & HiPODS for IBM Software Group. In this role, he has global responsibility for driving strategy and management of IBM's industry-leading standards initiative. He manages a global standards community working across international organizations and consortia to foster development of the next generation of interoperability standards, policies and practices critical to IBM Middleware and foster a new model of standards development supporting IBM growth initiatives including IBM SmarterCloud, Social Business and Business Analytics. Angel is also responsible for the SWG High Performance Lab team, working with leading customers on enterprise infrastructure, application architecture/platform and workload optimization. Dr. Diaz has served in a number of leadership positions at IBM Application & Integration Middleware Division (WebSphere) for IBM Software Group, responsible for driving the strategy and marketing for some of IBM's leading middleware technologies. As Vice President of WebSphere Business Process Management & Connectivity, he led the expansion of IBM’s middleware footprint in the BPM & C business segment. As Director for the WebSphere Business Process Management development, architecture and technology strategy, he was responsible for WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Publishing Server, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Business Space Framework Component and WebSphere Integration Developer product development teams. Prior to joining IBM Software in 2003, Dr. Diaz was a member of IBM's Research staff and Senior Manager, where he led advanced technology projects related to XML & Web Services and initiated the world’s first two standards that make use of web services, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Web Services For Remote Portals (WSRP) and OASIS Web Services For Interactive Applications (WSIA). He received his Ph.D. in computer science (distributed computing, programming languages & computer algebra) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Speaker's Postal Address:

Redwood Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 14:30

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

An Open Cloud Won't Rain on your Picnic!