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Roger Baskerville
- Vizioncore
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Take Control of Your Virtual Infrastructure
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Roger Baskerville is VP for EMEA at Vizioncore. His history in the industry has seen him occupy high-ranking EMEA positions at Citrix Systems and XenSource before their acquisition. A seasoned industry speaker, both technically astute and market aware, Baskerville brings with him a wealth of experience in virtualization for the EMEA region.
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Jérôme Bernard
- Elastic Grid
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Dynamic Deployment & Scalability for the Cloud
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Jérôme Bernard has over eight years experience developing distributed applications applied to a wide range of applications from banking to insurances as well as distributed applications using Jini. He is a committer on many OSS projects like Elastic Grid, Rio, Typica and JiBX. He is currently working on Elastic Grid, an OSS project which focuses on the productivity of developers and organizations that use Java enterprise applications, enabling them to easily deploy, manage and scale applications running on virtualized compute assets, whether that be across public or private clouds, like Amazon EC2.
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Uri Budnik
- RightScale
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Application Portability in a Multi-Cloud World
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Uri Budnik is the Director of Business Development at RightScale. He is responsible for the ISV partner program. Prior to RightScale, he co-founded and managed the datacenter infrastructure for a technology company that provides automated podcasting tools to newspapers and magazines. Before that, he held a variety of roles at Qwest Communications in the internet services and data center division including subject matter expert for complex hosting. Uri Budnik won the entrepreneur of the year award from the Marshall Business School of the University of Southern California and started a company based on that award-winning business plans.
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Guy Bunker
- Symantec
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Power Panel: The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
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Dr. Guy Bunker is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec Corporation. He works in the office of the CTO, responsible for various pieces of technical strategy across the company. Currently an active member of the Enterprise Privacy Group and the Jericho Forum, he holds a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from King’s College London, several patents, and is a Chartered Engineer with the IET.
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Guy Bunker
- Symantec
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The Darker Sides Of Cloud Computing: Security and Availability
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Dr. Guy Bunker is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec Corporation. He works in the office of the CTO, responsible for various pieces of technical strategy across the company. Currently an active member of the Enterprise Privacy Group and the Jericho Forum, he holds a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from King’s College London, several patents, and is a Chartered Engineer with the IET.
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Richard Cassidy
- Virtual Computer
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Richard Croucher
- Citihub
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Creating an Agile Infrastructure with Virtualized I/O
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Richard Croucher is an Associate Partner at Citihub where he is focused on helping Financial Services clients create and deploy agile infrastructures. He was previously Principal Architect at Microsoft, working within their online services group where he was responsible for the architecture of their management platform. Online Services are now running probably the largest Grids on the planet. Prior to this Croucher was Chief Architect at Sun Microsystems where he created the Data Centre Reference Architecture program, their Commercial Grid Utility offering and led the SAN adoption program. He has been working with virtualization technologies for over 12 years. |
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Nuno Duro
- Evolvespace Solutions
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VIRTU: A Virtualization Tool to Manage Application Stacks
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Nuno Duro graduated in Computer Science by University of Coimbra. He is currently the CTO of EVOLVE and product manager of the VIRTU product. He has been working as engineering manager in Space and Defense business for the last 8 years, for developing and testing Command & Control distributed systems based on open source solutions and virtualized environments.
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Lluis Font
- NTRglobal
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Green SaaS - Reducing the Carbon Footprint with Green Support Desks
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Lluis Font is responsible for all aspects of the NTRglobal business. Under his leadership and because of his focus on meeting customer needs, he has doubled revenue year-over-year since 2002. More than 17,000 businesses in 60 countries subscribe to NTRglobal on-demand solutions for remote support with NTRsupport and remote administration and IT task automation with NTRadmin. Before taking the reigns at NTRglobal, Font held numerous executive positions with top consulting companies, including Price Waterhouse, He wasl also CEO of AGM, The Global Company, one of Spain's biggest Internet consulting firms, where he grew revenues from 3 million Euros to 15 million Euros in one year.
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Stephen Foskett
- Nirvanix
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Power Panel: The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
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Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist, has authored numerous articles for industry publications and is a popular presenter at industry events. He recently received Microsoft’s MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage.
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Stephen Foskett
- Nirvanix
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How Does Virtualization Change Storage?
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist, has authored numerous articles for industry publications and is a popular presenter at industry events. He recently received Microsoft’s MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage.
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Stephen Foskett
- Nirvanix
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The Benefits of Cloud Storage
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Stephen Foskett has provided vendor-independent end user consulting on storage topics for over 10 years. He has been a storage columnist, has authored numerous articles for industry publications and is a popular presenter at industry events. He recently received Microsoft’s MVP award for contributions to the enterprise storage community. As the director of consulting for Nirvanix, Foskett provides strategic consulting to assist Fortune 500 companies in developing strategies for service-based tiered and cloud storage.
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Juergen Frick
- Adaptec
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Pau Garcia-Mila
- eyeOS
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Open Source & Cloud Computing: Is There a Free Software Alternative?
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Pau Garcia-Mila is the co-founder of eyeos (start-up founded in spain to create the Open Source Cloud's Desktop in 2005 which is now established locally in Spain, France and Germany and operating all over the world). He was the youngest member of the '08 Center for Entreprenurial Learning student from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University in the UK.
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Owen Garrett
- Zeus Technology
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Load Balancing and Application Architecture in the Cloud
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Owen Garrett is a product manager and technologist with Zeus Technology and, previous to this, was a member of Zeus' product development team. He studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, followed by Cambridge's Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, the oldest computer science course in the world.
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Jeremy Geelan
- SYS-CON Media
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Raimund Genes
- Trend Micro
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IT Security Delivered from the Cloud
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Raimund Genes brings more than 30 years of computer and network security experience to his position of Chief Technology Officer of Anti-Malware at Trend Micro. In this role, Mr. Genes is responsible for introducing new methods for businesses to detect and eradicate malware. He’s also the GM for Trend Micro’s Incubation Business.
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Pavel Georgiev
- 3Tera, Inc
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David Hanacek
- VMware
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General Session: VMware - Building Cloud Infrastructures with VMware vSphere
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David Hanacek is a VCP who joined VMware in May 2005 as Sr. Systems Engineer covering Eastern Europe and recently took on a new role as Product Marketing Manager, EMEA. He presents, advises, and demonstrates VMware solutions daily. He visits major customers in the region and runs proof of concepts and performance benchmarks. Before VMware, Hanacek was a Pre-sales Consultant at Computacenter in Vienna and Munich, where he consulted on Unix Enterprise Solutions for 6 years. He was recognized as VMware's worldwide best Systems Engineer 2006 during VMware's Kick-Off in San Francisco 2007.
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David Hanacek
- VMware
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Virtualization Keynote: Cloud Computing – The Next Generation of Virtualization
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David Hanacek is a VCP who joined VMware in May 2005 as Sr. Systems Engineer covering Eastern Europe and recently took on a new role as Product Marketing Manager, EMEA. He presents, advises, and demonstrates VMware solutions daily. He visits major customers in the region and runs proof of concepts and performance benchmarks. Before VMware, Hanacek was a Pre-sales Consultant at Computacenter in Vienna and Munich, where he consulted on Unix Enterprise Solutions for 6 years. He was recognized as VMware's worldwide best Systems Engineer 2006 during VMware's Kick-Off in San Francisco 2007.
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Sam Johnston
- Australian Online Solutions
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Power Panel: The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
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Sam Johnston is an independent strategic consultant who founded Sydney based Australian Online Solutions over a decade ago. A computer scientist at heart, he is one of the pioneers of the cloud computing space having advised and architected pilots for some of the largest enterprises in Europe. He spent two years with Citrix (a key Cloud Computing vendor) and has served as CTO for a number of high-tech companies. He maintains a blog at http://samj.net/.
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Sam Johnston
- Australian Online Solutions
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Introduction to the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI)
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Sam Johnston is an independent strategic consultant who founded Sydney based Australian Online Solutions over a decade ago. A computer scientist at heart, he is one of the pioneers of the cloud computing space having advised and architected pilots for some of the largest enterprises in Europe. He spent two years with Citrix (a key Cloud Computing vendor) and has served as CTO for a number of high-tech companies. He maintains a blog at http://samj.net/.
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Harald Kornmayer
- NEC Laboratories Europe
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Equinox Above the Cloud
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Harald Kornmayer is senior researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe. He works in the domain of distributed systems including Grid and Cloud computing. He has experience in many national and international research projects from his former positions in different research institutions. His interests beyond Grid and Cloud computing are SOA and SaaS systems. He is project lead of the Eclipse Project g-Eclipse since its beginning.
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Todd Kuczaj
- Accenture
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Virtualization and the Streamlining of Traditional Software Testing
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Todd Kuczaj is a Manager within Accenture's Global Testing Practice and has been with the company for 8 years. He manages global testing projects for Fortune 100 clients. He holds a Master of Science (Information Management) from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame. |
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Subra Kumaraswamy
- Sun Microsystems
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Getting Ready for Cloud Computing - IT Strategy, Architecture and Security Perspective
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Subra Kumaraswamy has more than 18 years of engineering and management experience encompassing Information Security, Internet and E-commerce Technologies. He is currently leading a Security Access Management program in the IT Security office at Sun. His past roles include IT Architect, Software Engineer, Security Consultant at Accenture, Netscape, Lycos and Sun. In his spare time he tries to get his hands dirty with emerging technologies to understand the security and privacy implications for users and enterprises.
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Arseniy Kuznetsov
- Sun Microsystems
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Tom Leyden
- Sun Microsytems
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Petri Lillberg
- SSH Communications Security
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Taking the Secure Migration Path to IT Virtualization
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Petri Lillberg is Executive Vice President of Research & Development at SSH Communications Security. He is responsible for managing the research and development of SSH’s security solutions, and the company's product strategy, roadmaps and management activities. Prior to joining SSH in 1998, Lillberg worked as the director of engineering and technical support at SafeNet Ltd. He has a Master of Science from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.
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Diego Mariño
- Abiquo
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A Marketplace for Cloud Computing Services
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Diego Mariño is Co-Founder & CEO of Abiquo, which he co-founded after gaining leadership experience creating profitable projects as a serial entrepreneur.
He has extensive experience in programming and in teaching programming languages at the University and lectures widely about entrepreneurship and Cloud Computing in European events and Universities. He was an external economical advisor in the GridCAT-I2cat university research team. He has Computer Sciences and Business Management studies and is finishing a MBA.
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Derek McAuley
- Netronome Systems
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Device Virtualization: Alternatives to SR-IOV
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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Derek McAuley is Chief Scientist of Netronome Systems. He spent ten years as an academic at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities where he designed and taught courses in virtualization, hardware design, computer architecture, communications, distributed systems, networking, operating systems, and information theory. McAuley was one of the founding members of the Microsoft Research Laboratory in Cambridge, and is a founding Director of the Intel Lab in Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the BCS and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
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Sam Morcos
- Third Brigade
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Your Cloud Computing Profile: Are You Strategic or Opportunistic?
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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With more than 20 years experience fostering customer and partner relationships—and the last 10 focused on enterprise security—Sam Morcos has a keen understanding of the unique challenges faced by enterprise and governments addressing increasing regulatory pressures, more aggressive and organized cyber attackers, and tightening fiscal requirements. As Third Brigade’s Vice President, Global Field Operations, Sam is responsible for driving revenue and field effectiveness to achieve Third Brigade’s vision to be the primary security software on mission critical systems around the globe.
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Louis Naugès
- Revevol
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Practical Strategies for Moving to a Cloud Infrastructure
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Louis Naugès is Founder & President of Revevol, the first European Consulting organization 100% dedicated to SaaS and Cloud Computing. He has 30 years of IT experience. Very few people in Europe have his knowledge and expertise in Cloud & SaaS technologies and applications. He works directly with CIOs of very large organizations. Revevol is the first EMEA distributor of Google Apps and the largest worldwide organization deploying Google Apps is one of Revevol's clients. |
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Jakub Nesetril
- Good Data Corporation
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General Session: Good Data - Collaborative Analytics On Demand
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Jakub is the user experience guru of Good Data. He has a long track record of creating large interactive and enjoyable Internet showcase sites. He and his team work to create an innovative and intuitive web-based client for the Good Data service. Before joining Good Data, Jakub led large web projects for APN publishing house in New Zealand, and was co-founder and lead developer of a boutique web development studio, Webworx.
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Paul Parsons
- The Server Labs
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Cloud Science: Astrometric Processing in Amazon EC2/S3
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Paul Parsons is Founder & CTO of The Server Labs. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and was senior software engineer in the European Space Agency (ESA). After ESA, he worked in the Deutsche Boerse, Commerzbank and DG Bank, designing and implementing real time distributed systems. Since then he has been an architect in different industries, designing high performance solutions.
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Shahar Raz
- Shahar Raz Consulting
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Cloud Computing - Reducing the Price of the Entrance Ticket
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Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise
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With many years of experience in almost every aspect of Information Technology, Shahar Raz is a true veteran and offers great added values to any organization. He has served in CxO level roles for some years, and has experience managing, directing and leading enterprises, business and technology. He is a true catalyst and system thinker, leading technology issues, clearly aware of business and finance issues.
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Jim Reavis
- Cloud Security Alliance
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How To Solve Key Security Weaknesses in Cloud Computing
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Jim Reavis is Executive Director of the Cloud Security Alliance, former Executive Director and member of ISSA, and an adviser to many of the world's leading security companies.
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Christoph Reich
- Hochschule Furtwangen University
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Cloud Infrastructure and Application - CloudIA
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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Christoph Reich is the head of the IT and e-learning departments in the Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU). In addition he is the director of the Cloud Research Lab at HFU. Finally, he is one of the board members of the RZ Leiter Baden-Wuerttemberg. |
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David Snead
- W. David Snead, PC
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The Nationless Cloud?
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Deploying Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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David Snead is an attorney who specializes in technology legal issues impacting companies who provide services to others. His views on legislation affecting small-to-medium internet businesses have been quoted in the Washington Post and San Jose Mercury News. He is a frequent speaker as well as a columnist and blogger for the WHIR. |
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Roman Stanek
- Good Data Corporation
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Opening Keynote: Building Great Companies on the Cloud
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Roman Stanek is a technology visionary who has spent the past fifteen years building world-class technology companies. Currently Founder & CEO of Good Data, which provides collaborative analytics on demand, he previously co-founded first NetBeans, now a part of Sun Microsystems and one of the leading Java IDEs, and then and Systinet, now owned by Hewlett-Packard and the leading SOA Governance platform on the market.
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Zdenek Svoboda
- Good Data Corporation
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General Session: Good Data - Collaborative Analytics On Demand
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Zdenek is the chief product manager of the Good Data service. As a founding member, he oversees development and design teams and keeps the product moving forward according to plan. He brings 14 years of engineering and product management experience to Good Data. Zdenek most recently worked at Hewlett Packard, via Mercury Interactive and Systinet, Inc., and NetBeans.
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Doug Tidwell
- IBM
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Assembling and Using Cloud Services with Service Component Architecture
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DAY ONE: Real-World Cloud Computing DAY TWO: Bootcamp
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Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM’s Software Strategy group, focusing on Cloud Computing and SOA. He is the author of O'Reilly's book on XSLT, a co-author of O'Reilly's book on SOAP, and has published dozens of articles and tutorials on IBM's developerWorks site and elsewhere.
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Alan Williamson
- Cloud Computing Bootcamp
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Power Panel: The Business Value of Cloud Computing & Virtualization
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Alan Williamson, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Bootcamp Instructor & Presenter, is a Sun Java Champion and creator of OpenBlueDragon - an open source Java CFML runtime engine. He is Co-Founder of aw2.0 'the cloud experts', he has helped many start-ups, as well as established players, move to the cloud. In the past, he worked with SpikeSource Inc. for nearly 3 years as Technical Evangelist and architect in SpikeLabs. He has assisted VCs in preparing technical overview and due diligence, was editor-in-chief of Java Developer's Journal, founding editor of LinuxWorld Magazine, and has more than 16 years experience in the world of software development.
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