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Brian E. Boruff - CSC

		CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always?
Brian Boruff is CSC's Vice President of Cloud Computing and Software Services. Previously, he spent 15 years at Microsoft where he held various executive roles including Vice President of Enterprise Services. Back to Top

CEO . - Stealth-mode Cloud Computing Startup

		Day Three Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem: the Gathering Storm
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Mohamad Afshar - Oracle

		General Session: PaaS is the Remedy for the VM Hangover
Mohamad Afshar, PhD, is VP of Product Management at Oracle. He has product management responsibilities for Oracle's middleware portfolio and is part of the team driving Oracle's investments in SOA on Application Grid - which brings together SOA and data grid technologies to ensure predictable low latency for SOA applications. Prior to joining Oracle, he founded Apama, a complex event processing vendor acquired by Progress Software. He has a PhD in Parallel Systems from Cambridge University, where he built a system for processing massive data sets using a MapReduce framework. Back to Top

Ajay Anand - Datameer Inc.

		Next-Generation Business Analytics in the Cloud Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Ajay Anand is CEO of Datameer Inc. Previously he has held Director of Product Management roles at Yahoo! for Grid Computing and Hadoop, at SGI for storage products and at Aspect for customer relationship management products. He was also product manager for Sun's first high availability NFS and database se servers. Anand has an MS in Computer Engineering, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology. Back to Top

Maria Azua - IBM

		Cloud Computing and the Enterprise Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Maria Azua is VP of Cloud Computing Enablement, Enterprise Initiatives at IBM, She is Distinguished Engineer, a Member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and author of The Social Factor. Back to Top

Douglas Barbin - SAS 70 Solutions, Inc

		Cloud Computing? There’s an Audit for That! Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Doug Barbin is a Director at SAS 70 Solutions, a company that provides assurance and technology compliances services with an emphasis on SAS 70 audits, PCI validation, and ISO 27001/2 compliance. After starting his career with a "Big 4" global accounting firm, Doug has spent the last ten years working in the trenches of a wide variety of information security topics, and thus, understands the perspective of both the security consultant and the managed services / SaaS provider. Prior to joining SAS 70 Solutions, Barbin was Director of Product Management for VeriSign's Managed Security Services business, where he was responsible for the MSS "SaaS" platform architecture and compliance (including overseeing the conduct of the SAS 70 audit, PCI validation, and other types of compliance assessments). Prior to that, Doug was in charge of VeriSign's western US security consulting practice, where among other projects, he led some of the prototype PCI assessments. He has BS degrees in Accounting and Criminal Justice from Penn State University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. Back to Top

Charlton Barreto - Intel

		A More Secure, Trustworthy Cloud Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Charlton Barreto is a Principal Architect at Intel. He is an entrepreneur, technology strategist, platform architect and expert in Cloud, Web 2.0, SOA and BPM, including standards for Web, XML and Java. He is a key contributor to the strategy, design and management of products using these technologies across a number of software vendors as a platform architect. Co-author of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications, he writes and presents regularly on Cloud, Web and RIA strategies and technologies. Back to Top

Larry Beck - Avanade

		Partly Cloudy Infrastructure Ahead Track: Moving to the Cloud
Larry Beck is Sr. Director, Cloud Strategy at Avanade. He is a senior technologist, responsible for setting global technology direction and strategy in the area of cloud computing. He has been with Avanade since 2002, and in earlier roles also helped shape the direction of the company's approach to enterprise integration and connected systems. In addition, he also serves as the technology director for the Accenture and Avanade Solutions Showcase at Microsoft, a unique venue that demonstrates the alliance's Microsoft-based business solutions. Beck has more than 25 years of IT consulting and leadership experience and has authored several papers outlining Avanade's viewpoint on Enterprise Integration, Service-Oriented Architectures and Cloud Computing. Back to Top

Claudine Bianchi - NaviSite

		Defining Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing: Managed Cloud Services
Claudine Bianchi is Chief Marketing Officer of NaviSite, leading its global marketing, positioning and messaging and providing strategic direction for accelerating the growth of NaviSite’s brand. She brings to NaviSite more than 20 years experience in technology marketing. Most recently, she was VP of Marketing at MetaCarta, a pioneer in the burgeoning geo-web space, whose technology allows content to be geographically referenced and searched using a map as a filter. Back to Top

Tony Bishop - Adaptivity

		Day Two Keynote: The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for the company's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure. Back to Top

Tony Bishop - Adaptivity

		General Session: Building the Blueprint for IT
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for the company's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure. Back to Top

Timothy Brown - CA

		Ten Security Questions to Ask Before Moving to the Cloud Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Tim Brown is a vice president and the chief architect for Security Management at CA, Inc. With more than 20 years of information security expertise, Brown has 14 filed patents in the security field and has participated on standards boards. Prior to joining CA, Brown was at Symantec. Back to Top

Glenn Brunette - Sun Microsystems

		Essential IaaS Security Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Glenn Brunette is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems. For over 15 years, he has architected and delivered security solutions for a wide range of customers and industries. Currently, as a member of Sun's Chief Architect's Office, he leads Sun's security initiatives for Cloud Computing and other highly-scalable and dynamic environments. Brunette develops architectures, patterns, best practices, and tools enabling improved security for Cloud Computing and other highly-scalable, dynamic environments. Back to Top

Scott Burgess - EMC Corporation

		Desktop as a Cloud Service: Dynamic End User Computing Environments Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Scott Burgess, Director of EMC Consulting, is responsible for solution development, services delivery, customer satisfaction, and overall profit/loss. He joined EMC in 2005 and brings over 20 years of experience in the design and delivery of information technology systems for public and private-sector customers, with a focus on distributed and mission-critical computing. Back to Top

Dipto Chakravarty - Novell

		CEO Power Panel - What's the Main Business Value of the Cloud?
Dipto Chakravarty is the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering for Novell's Identity and Security business unit. In addition to being a 20-year software industry veteran, Chakravarty is the author of two best-selling computer books from McGraw-Hill that have been translated in five languages, has published over 45 technical papers in refereed journals, and holds several patents. Back to Top

Dipto Chakravarty - Novell

		What Organizations Need to Know about Cloud Security Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Dipto Chakravarty is the Vice President of Worldwide Engineering for Novell's Identity and Security business unit. In addition to being a 20-year software industry veteran, Chakravarty is the author of two best-selling computer books from McGraw-Hill that have been translated in five languages, has published over 45 technical papers in refereed journals, and holds several patents. Back to Top

Max Coburn - HubSpan

		Cloud Computing Platforms - Which “aaS” is Right for You? Track: Moving to the Cloud
Max Coburn is Chief Architect and a product strategist for Hubspan Inc, a leading provider of cloud-based business integration solutions. He has over 20 years of software development and system architecting experience, with particular expertise in communications, security and Internet services. Prior to joining Hubspan, Coburn led strategy and development for sophisticated merchandising management and warehouse automation systems for leading game company, Nintendo. \While at Sierra Online (Cendant), hr implemented early Internet game-to-game communications with user chat and inter-gaming capabilities, while also architecting a complex rules engine to drive e-commerce initiatives. At Hubspan, he has architected much of the company’s proprietary integration application, including cutting-edge capabilities around security, PCI compliance, data sharding, caching and smart queuing, as well as a sophisticated business process language that enables complex choreographies and business rules. He also designs systems and features that enable intelligent interoperability across standards, formats and protocols in a cloud computing environment. Back to Top

Rich Corley - Akorri

		Optimize While You Virtualize to Get to the Cloud Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Rich Corley is Founder, CTO & VP Engineering at Akorri. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology-based companies. He is responsible for leading Akorri's engineering and R&D teams. Before founding Akorri, he was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company's overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Corley was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, he held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004. Rich is a frequent industry speaker most recently speaking at Spring Interop 2009 and VMworld 2009. Back to Top

Michael Crandell - RightScale

		Beyond Theory: Applications in the Cloud Today Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. A frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, Crandell has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet software-as-a-service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University. Back to Top

Mark de Simone - Cordys

		General Session: Continuous business transformation: the Cloud value chain
Mark De Simone has over 28 years of business leadership experience in the ICT sector. He has led market transitions across industry boundaries from client-servers to the web, from traditional telcom to IP based services and from application to collaborative processes. He has extensive executive and management team experience from Global Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, General Electric, Lucent and McKinsey. Back to Top

Chris Drumgoole - Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

		General Session: Evaluating Enterprise Clouds-A Practical Guide
Chris Drumgoole is Senior Vice President of Client Services at Terremark where he has responsibility for customer service, sales enablement and support. Previously, Chris served as SVP Product Development and Engineering. Chris brings over 15 years of technology and financial services IT industry experience to Terremark. He has completed design and architecture work for large retail trading platforms, high traffic consumer web properties, computing / storage grids and other complex systems. Chris has also completed significant work in the area of commercial data center design and operations. His prior experience includes both leadership and technologist positions with the Toronto Dominion Bank, IBM, MasterCard International, Cable & Wireless and Exodus/Savvis. Chris studied Information Systems at Pace University in New York. Back to Top

Kent Erickson - Zenoss

		Managing Complex IT in a Cloudy, Virtual World Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Kent Erickson is Vice President product management at Zenoss, Inc. where he leads product innovation in virtualization and cloud management applications of Zenoss technology. Kent previously ran product management for Operations Manager at Mission Critical Software and AppManager at NetIQ. He received Masters and Bachelors degrees in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University. Back to Top

Joel Fishbein - Lazard Capital Markets

		Investing in Cloud Computing Track: Hot Topics
Joel P. Fishbein, Jr., a Managing Director and senior analyst covering technology, joined Lazard Capital Markets in September 2006. His investment thesis and methodology is fundamentally driven and research-intensive, including consistent contact with management, competition, and suppliers, and is based on, among other things, market position, valuation, financial strength, management experience, growth rate, and historical record. Joel has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as "Best on the Street", StarMine as a five-star-rated analyst, and Thomson FirstCall as a top-rated software analyst. Prior to joining Lazard Capital Markets, he worked on the sell-side at Janney Montgomery Scott and on the buy-side at Gardner Lewis Asset Management and at the State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury pension fund. Back to Top

Tom Fisher - Success Factors

		Scale without Sacrifice - Application Delivery with Multi-Tenant Architecture Track: Moving to the Cloud
Tom Fisher is VP of Cloud Computing at SuccessFactors, responsible for Cloud initiatives, alliances and integration. Previously, he was CIO and Senior VP of Engineering at DriveCam; VP of IT for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Group; and served as president for architecture and technology strategy and acting CTO at eBay. Back to Top

Shai Fultheim - ScaleMP

		Server Virtualization: Aggregation vs. Consolidation Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
As founder and CEO of ScaleMP, Shai Fultheim designed and architected the core technology behind the company, and is now responsible for its strategy and direction. He has more than 15 years of experience in technology and business roles, including a few years on the IT end-user side. Before founding ScaleMP, Fultheim was CTO of BRM Capital, a first-tier Israeli venture capital firm. Prior to BRM, he was co-founder, CTO, and VP R&D at several technology startups. He has also served in the Israeli Defense Force's Central intelligence unit, where he led a large IT organization. He holds a bachelor of technology and applied science from the Jerusalem College of Technology. He has been an active member of several open source initiatives such as Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, Amanda and the Linux kernel. Back to Top

Marty Gauvin - Virtual Ark

		General Session: Third-Generation Outsourcing Is Here!
Marty Gauvin is the Founder, President & CEO of Virtual Ark. He is also Founder and Chairman of Tier 5, a company that designs, builds and operates data center parks and a Director of Playford Capital. Prior to Virtual Ark, Gauvin founded and led the publicly listed company, Hostworks, as CEO for over 10 years to its successful sale in 2008 for $68.9M to the Macquarie Group. He is also a member of the Microsoft Service Provider Partner Advisory Council, the Dell Asia-Pacific Platinum Advisory Council, and various government innovation committees established to invest Government capital into selected venture capital funds. Back to Top

Brian Gentile - Jaspersoft

		BI's Cloudy Future Track: Hot Topics
Brian Gentile is President & CEO of Jaspersoft, to which he has brought a successful 24-year track record, helping it to become the open source business intelligence market leader, measured by product downloads, production deployments of its software, number of registered community members, and of course commercial customers. Prior to Jaspersoft, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company, where he helped the company grow consistently and substantially. Back to Top

Misha Govshteyn - Alert Logic

		Predicting the Future: Security and Compliance in the Cloud Age Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Misha Govshteyn is co-founder and responsible for product development and strategy at Alert Logic, a Software-as-a-Service based security solutions provider. In this capacity, Govshteyn regularly consults with service providers and enterprises on securing cloud-based applications. Prior to co-founding Alert Logic, Govshteyn served as a Director of Managed Services for Reliant Energy Communications. In this role, he developed and successfully launched five major product lines including Managed Intrusion Detection services and managed enterprise firewall/VPN products. Under Govshteyn's direction, Managed Services became the fastest growing group at Reliant Energy Communications, increasing revenue by 300% and Back to Top

Robert Grapes - Cloakware

		Let's Get Unphysical! Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Robert Grapes is Chief Technologist for Cloakware's Enterprise Solutions business. His expertise on enterprise security and Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) has enabled many large government and financial service organizations to meet their audit while reducing risk and improving operational efficiency. Prior to joining Cloakware in 2004, Grapes spent many years with Entrust Technologies as a software toolkit product manager, with Cognos in vertical analyst relations, and with Allen-Bradley as a control systems automation developer. Back to Top

Robert Graybill - University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

		Case Study: ROI Results from Cloud Computing for Supply Chain Companies Track: Hot Topics
Robert Graybill is Director of Innovation at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI). ISI is working to advance the development of advanced national high performance computing (HPC) collaborative environments that will help companies, universities and national laboratories share high performance computing systems and computational science expertise. In this role, Graybill has taken a leadership role in working with the Council on Competitiveness, leading academic HPC centers, universities, industry leaders, supply chain companies and government agencies. As a direct result of this experience, the need to lower the entry level barriers, he co-founded Nimbis Services Inc, a University of Southern California affiliated start-up based in McLean, VA. Back to Top

Sam Gross - Unisys

		General Session: Storm Clouds - Disruptive Technologies Creating the "New Normal"
Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader in business and IT alignment, application management, service level management and enterprise systems management. His experience spans financial services, telecommunications, federal contracting, retail and manufacturing. With more than 20 years of experience leading transformational IT change in the United States and abroad, Gross has driven innovation across strategic planning, IT process reengineering and implementation, and technology and product management. Before joining Unisys, he was responsible for global architecture and engineering at CSC. Follow him on Twitter. Back to Top

Dan Gross - Navajo Systems

		Customer-side encryption of sensitive SaaS application data Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Dan Gross co-founded Navajo Systems after a nine-year tenure at ActionBase, where he served in various roles, including international business development manager and CEO. Prior to ActionBase, Dan served as VP of Sales and Marketing at CWC Technologies. Dan holds a B.Sc. in business administration from Champlain College, New York. Back to Top

Simon Guest - Microsoft

		Patterns for Cloud Computing Track: Moving to the Cloud
Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy at Microsoft, responsible for helping developers worldwide deliver solutions using Microsoft technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, he has led the Microsoft Platform Architecture Team, acted as Editor-in-Chief of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, pioneered the area of .NET and Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) interoperability, worked with customers on mission critical .NET solutions, and has been a regular speaker at many conferences worldwide, including PDC, TechEd, and JavaOne. Back to Top

Jay Hallberg - Spiceworks

		SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Trends: What's Hot and What's Not? Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Jay Hallberg is Co-Founder of Spiceworks, launched in January 2006 to simplify the management, marketing & sales of information technology for small and medium-businesses. Over 800,000 IT professionals and 100+ technology companies from around the world have joined the Spiceworks IT Network. Hallberg has spoken on social apps for business and SMB tech industry trends at top events, including the Sand Hill Group Next Big Thing, the Cloud Summit, Web 2.0 Summit, Interop, AlwaysOn OnMedia, SIIA NetGain, the Red Herring conference, and the InformationWeek 500 conference. He is frequently quoted in top publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, InformationWeek, Investor's Business Daily, eWeek, and Network World. Back to Top

Patrick Harding - Ping Identity

		Identity Integration for SaaS Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Patrick Harding is CTO at Ping Identity. A regular speaker at RSA, Digital ID World, SaaS Summit, Burton Catalyst and other conferences, he is responsible for Ping Identity's technology strategy. Previously, he was a VP and Security Architect at Fidelity Investments, responsible for aligning identity management and security technologies with the strategic goals of the business. Harding is a Founding Board Member for the Information Card Foundation, a member of the Cloud Security Alliance Board of Advisors, on the steering committee for OASIS and actively involved in the Liberty Alliance, Kantara and Project Concordia. Back to Top

James Houghton - Adaptivity

		Blueprinting an Enterprise Cloud Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
James Houghton is Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity. In his CTO capacity Jim interacts with key technology providers to evolve capabilities and partnerships that enable Adaptivity to offer its complete SOIT, RTI, and Utility Computing solutions. In addition, he engages with key clients to ensure successful leverage of the ADIOS methodology. Most recently, Houghton was the SVP Architecture & Strategy Executive for the infrastructure organization at Bank of America, where he drove legacy infrastructure transformation initiatives across 40+ data centers. Prior to that he was the Head of Wachovia’s Utility Product Management, where he drove the design, services, and offering for SOA and Utility Computing for the technology division of Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank. He has also led leading-edge consulting practices at IBM Global Technology Services and Deloitte Consulting. Back to Top

James Houghton - Adaptivity

		Science of IT Design Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
James Houghton is Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Adaptivity. In his CTO capacity Jim interacts with key technology providers to evolve capabilities and partnerships that enable Adaptivity to offer its complete SOIT, RTI, and Utility Computing solutions. In addition, he engages with key clients to ensure successful leverage of the ADIOS methodology. Most recently, Houghton was the SVP Architecture & Strategy Executive for the infrastructure organization at Bank of America, where he drove legacy infrastructure transformation initiatives across 40+ data centers. Prior to that he was the Head of Wachovia’s Utility Product Management, where he drove the design, services, and offering for SOA and Utility Computing for the technology division of Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank. He has also led leading-edge consulting practices at IBM Global Technology Services and Deloitte Consulting. Back to Top

Kevin L. Jackson - NJVC

		DoD Cloud Computing Advances Cloud Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Kevin Jackson is currently an Engineering Fellow with NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Dataline LLC, Director Federal for Sirius Computer Solutions and Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM. His formal education includes MSEE (Computer Engineering), MA National Security & Strategic Studies and a BS Aerospace Engineering. Jackson graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1979 and retired from the US Navy earning specialties in Space Systems Engineering, Airborne Logistics and Airborne Command and Control. He also served with the National Reconnaissance Office, Operational Support Office, providing tactical support to Navy and Marine Corps forces worldwide. KJackson is the founder and author of “Cloud Musings”, a widely followed blog that focuses on the use of cloud computing by the Federal government. He is also the editor and founder of “Government Cloud Computing” electronic magazine, published at Ulitzer.com. Back to Top

Ron Knode - CSC

		Into the Cloud with Digital Trust Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Ron Knode is a director in the Global Security Solutions (GSS) business unit of CSC. In 2006, he was also named a Research Associate in CSC's internal “innovation think tank”, known as the Leading Edge Forum (LEF). Today he serves in both roles for CSC, bringing the innovation ideas and approaches uncovered in research to practical application in security services and technologies. Back to Top

Charlie Kraus - Certeon

		Case Study: Accelerating Backup and Replication Through Storage Virtualization Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Charlie Kraus is Senior Director of Business Development at Certeon. He has spoken at a number of technical venues including VMworld and IBM Rational Developer conferences. Back to Top

Sushil Kumar - Oracle

		The Heavy Lifting in Cloud Management Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Sushil Kumar is Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle. He is the lead strategist behind Oracle's Cloud Computing initiatives and is responsible for the day-to-day execution of Oracle's Cloud strategy and the alignment of vision with market and product requirements. An industry veteran with 20 years of experience, he has been with Oracle since 1998 and has handled wide range of technical and business responsibilities, including product development, product management & marketing, and consulting. Back to Top

Sheng Liang - VMOps

		How to Roll Your Own Cloud in 30 Days or Less Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Sheng Liang is CEO at VMops. He's a technology visionary who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, and a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded web application firewall vendor Teros Networks (acquired by Citrix), and was a member of the senior management team at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, which developed software products for over 100 wireless and wire-line service providers around the world. Back to Top

Jason Lochhead - Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

		CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always?
Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child. Back to Top

Jason Lochhead - Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

		Ruby-on-Rails & Enterprise Clouds Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Jason Lochhead is responsible for the technological development of Terremark’s hosting services. Mr. Lochhead oversees the overall technology direction of the Company’s hosting business. Mr. Lochhead is the architect of Terremark’s acclaimed utility computing platform, Infinistructure™. He is also the architect of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, the Company’s innovative cloud computing product. Prior to joining Terremark, Mr. Lochhead was a co-founder of Data Return, a hosting company often rated among the best in the industry. During his 11 years at Data Return, he worked in various positions, including research and development, architecture and technology executive positions. Mr. Lochhead was born in Irving, Texas and currently resides in Frisco, Texas with his wife and child. Back to Top

Tom Lounibos - SOASTA

		Lunchtime Power Panel - Who's Doing What (and Where) with Cloud Computing?
Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees the company's operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPOs. Most recently, Lounibos was CEO of Dorado Corporation. Previous to Dorado, he was EVP for Sagent Technology through its 1999 IPO, entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosspoint Venture Partners, and held executive positions at Digitalk Corporation, Knowledgeware (KWI), and Encore Financial Services. He has also served on several Boards in the Silicon Valley. Back to Top

Tom Lounibos - SOASTA

		Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence Track: Hot Topics
Tom Lounibos, CEO for SOASTA, oversees the company's operations, sales and marketing arms and is responsible for the company's go-to-market strategy. He brings more than 30 years of experience in building early stage software companies, leading two companies to successful IPOs. Most recently, Lounibos was CEO of Dorado Corporation. Previous to Dorado, he was EVP for Sagent Technology through its 1999 IPO, entrepreneur-in-residence at Crosspoint Venture Partners, and held executive positions at Digitalk Corporation, Knowledgeware (KWI), and Encore Financial Services. He has also served on several Boards in the Silicon Valley. Back to Top

Ignacio M. Llorente - DSA Research Group at UCM

		Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures with OpenNebula Track: Hot Topics
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute). He has 17 years of experience in research and development of advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies, architecture of large-scale distributed infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms, and management of international projects and initiatives on Grid and Cloud computing; having led the research group in 15 sponsored projects; and having published more than 130 scientific papers in the leading journals and proceedings books. He is currently co-leading the R&D of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine, the Globus GridWay Metascheduler, and the Grid4Utility initiative for federation of Grids. He participates in the EGEE and BEinGRID European projects, as UCM partner responsible, and in the Globus Alliance, as chair of one of its projects; and coordinates the Activity on Management of Virtual Execution Environments in the RESERVOIR Project, main EU-funded research initiative in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. He is the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for the Service Oriented Infrastructure Working Group of NESSI; and co-chairs the OGF Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. He coordinates the Middleware Activity in the Spanish Initiative in e-Science and the Working Group on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Grids of INES. Back to Top

Ignacio M. Llorente - DSA Research Group at UCM

		Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures with OpenNebula Track: Hot Topics
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science and Executive MBA, is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid. He has held several appointments as an independent expert for the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General); visiting positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA); consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems; and a Senior Researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute). He has 17 years of experience in research and development of advanced distributed computing and virtualization technologies, architecture of large-scale distributed infrastructures and resource provisioning platforms, and management of international projects and initiatives on Grid and Cloud computing; having led the research group in 15 sponsored projects; and having published more than 130 scientific papers in the leading journals and proceedings books. He is currently co-leading the research and development of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine, the Globus GridWay Metascheduler, and the Grid4Utility initiative for federation of Grids. He participates in the EGEE and BEinGRID European projects, as UCM partner responsible, and in the Globus Alliance, as chair of one of its projects; and coordinates the Activity on Management of Virtual Execution Environments in the RESERVOIR Project, main EU-funded research initiative in virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. He is the Grid Community Liaison Coordinator for the Service Oriented Infrastructure Working Group of NESSI; and co-chairs the OGF Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. He coordinates the Middleware Activity in the Spanish Initiative in e-Science and the Working Group on Service Oriented Infrastructures and Grids of INES. Back to Top

Eric Maass - Lighthouse Security Group, LLC

		Closing Power Panel: So, What's Working, What Isn't...And What's Next?
Eric Maass is Enterprise Security Solutions Director at Lighthouse Security Group, LLC Back to Top

Dave Malcolm - Surgient

		A Practical Framework for Successful Private Cloud Design Track: Moving to the Cloud
Dave Malcolm is CTO of Surgient. With over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry, he is responsible for product management, software development, and datacenter operations for Surgient's products and hosted solutions. Malcolm graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Back to Top

Dwayne McCoy - Boots & Coots

		Case Study: Accelerating Backup and Replication Through Storage Virtualization Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Dwayne McCoy is IT Manager at Boots and Coots. Back to Top

Dave McCrory - Hyper9

		The Dynamic Datacenter - Where Static Virtualization Tools Don't Work Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Dave McCrory is CTO of Hyper9. He has been working with virtualization technology for nearly a decade, including the VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server since Alpha states. An entrepreneur and renowned virtualization expert, he drives the technical vision for Hyper9. Previously he served as chief scientist at Surgient, where he helped create and develop many of the core technologies that fueled the company's success. He holds five patents in server virtualization and management, with three others pending. He is also co-author of “Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft in the Virtual Data Center.” Back to Top

Adam Messinger - Oracle

		Using Software Appliances to Enable Customized PaaS Track: Moving to the Cloud
Adam Messinger is Vice President of Development in the Fusion Middleware group at Oracle. He is responsible for managing the Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, Oracle WebLogic Operations Control, and other web tier products. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a venture capitalist at Smartforest Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Adam is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow and of Willamette University where he was a G. Herbert Smith Scholar. Back to Top

Catherine Minter - Cordys Americas

		Transforming Financial Service Firms with the Cloud Track: Moving to the Cloud
Catherine Minter is President of Cordys Americas. She is responsible for Americas P&L, and delivering solutions for companies dealing with the complex task of addressing business transformation challenges in organizations through systems innovation, reducing costs while increasing agility. Catherine brings 18 years of technology and software industry experience to this rapidly growing organization. Prior to joining Cordys, Cathy was VP of SAP’s Enterprise Accounts and built a fast-paced team, where she successfully moved SAP into the mid-market Communications and Manufacturing sectors. Prior to SAP, Cathy held various Strategic Sales Positions within Oracle’s Communications Industry. Back to Top

Lew Moorman - Rackspace

		Beyond Theory: Applications in the Cloud Today Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Lew Moorman is President, Cloud & Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace. He has been instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace. He joined the company in April of 2000 and has served a variety of strategy and marketing roles throughout the company's growth. Before joining Rackspace, Moorman held several positions at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, advising a variety of high technology clients on critical strategic issues. Back to Top

Anita Moorthy - Novell

		What You Should Ask Your Provider About Cloud Security Track: Hot Topics
Anita Moorthy is Senior Solutions Manager, Cloud Computing at Novell. Back to Top

David Movshovitz - Navajo Systems

		CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always?
Dr. David Movshovitz, co-founder and CTO of Navajo Systems, is an expert in information security, infrastructure security and Web application security. David has served in a number senior R&D and technology positions in companies, most recently as VP Security Technologies at F5 Networks. Previously, David served as CTO and VP R&D of MagniFire, a company acquired by F5 Networks. He was co-founder and VP R&D of Algotec Systems, a company acquired by Kodak. David holds a Ph.D. in physics from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Back to Top

Greg O'Connor - AppZero

		Making Apps Mobile – Destination Private, Public or Hybrid Clouds Track: Hot Topics
Greg O'Connor is President & CEO of AppZero. Pioneering the Virtual Application Appliance approach to simplifying application-lifecycle management, he is responsible for translating Appzero's vision into strategic business objectives and financial results. O'Connor has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry. He was founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). There he grew the company from concept to over $40 million in revenue. At Sonic, he evangelized and created the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product category, which is generally accepted today as the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Follow him on Twitter @gregoryjoconnor. Back to Top

Eric Olden - Symplified

		Cloud Control: What You need to Know about Security and Integration Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Eric Olden is Founder & CEO of Symplified. He is an expert in identity and access management and holds US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for Web identity. In 2000 he co-authored the AuthXML specification, which served as the foundation of SAML identity federation standard. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of federation. Before Symplified, Olden was co-founder and CTO of pioneering web access management vendor Securant Technologies. He was the architect behind the ClearTrust product, until its acquisition by RSA Security. Back to Top

Ken Owens - Savvis

		CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always?
Ken Owens is Vice President of Security and Virtualization Technologies at Savvis, where he has made significant contributions in security and virtualization architecture and strategies. Prior to joining Savvis, Owens spent two years as a Network Security Architect at AG Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Edward Jones Investments, respectively. Previously, he spent 10 years in Architecture and Design of Communications Systems and Components. Back to Top

Ken Owens - Savvis

		Introducing the Virtual Private Data Center - Enterprise Cloud Delivered Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Ken Owens is Vice President of Security and Virtualization Technologies at Savvis, where he has made significant contributions in security and virtualization architecture and strategies. Prior to joining Savvis, Owens spent two years as a Network Security Architect at AG Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Edward Jones Investments, respectively. Previously, he spent 10 years in Architecture and Design of Communications Systems and Components. Back to Top

Anand Babu Periasamy - Gluster

		Virtual Storage for Virtual Machine Environments Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
AB sets the vision and strategy for the Gluster Storage Platform. Prior to Gluster, AB was CTO of California Digital Corporation, where his work led to scaling of commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. He drove the adoption of cluster computing and GNU/Linux at enterprise data centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. In 2004, AB led the development of world's second fastest supercomputer code named "Thunder" for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. AB also serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation - India. He is the author / contributor of various other Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP Daemon), bios-config (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC interpose for GNU Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk (Scheme extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo (Scheme extensible messenger for YahooIM). AB holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. Back to Top

Cameron Purdy - Oracle

		DaaS Cloud: Lining your Cloud with Data Track: Moving to the Cloud
Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. He has over 16 years of experience growing software companies and leading product development efforts. Formerly he was Co-Founder & President of Tangosol, a startup company that specialized in enterprise Java component development software. A software visionary and an active member of the software community, he is a contributor to the Java and XML specifications, is co-author of a component-based development patent with Dr. Gleyzer. Back to Top

Jim Reavis - Cloud Security Alliance

		Special Session by the Cloud Security Alliance Track: Hot Topics
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. Back to Top

Steve Riley - Amazon Web Services

		How To "Think Cloud" Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Steve Riley is an evangelist and strategist for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services, working to help organizations understand how to integrate their environments with the cloud to extend reach, increase utilization, and respond to rapid business changes. His specialties include information security, compliance, reliability, privacy, and policy. Steve is a popular speaker at conferences worldwide, meets regularly with user groups of all sizes, and seeks opportunities to engage with customers as often as possible. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. He writes at http://stvrly.wordpress.com, tweets as @steveriley, and emails from steriley@amazon.com. Back to Top

Mark Rivington - Nimsoft

		CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always?
Mark Rivington has deep knowledge of the systems and network management vendor space having served in numerous technical and marketing roles at key software organizations over the last twenty years. At Candle, Boole & Babbage, BMC and RiverSoft, he gathered significant understanding of how management software can be developed and deployed to maximize customer returns in terms of business benefit. In his current role this understanding helps drive the direction of the Nimsoft technology towards maximum customer benefit. Back to Top

Mark Rivington - Nimsoft

		Making Sense of Cloud Service Management Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Mark Rivington has deep knowledge of the systems and network management vendor space having served in numerous technical and marketing roles at key software organizations over the last twenty years. At Candle, Boole & Babbage, BMC and RiverSoft, he gathered significant understanding of how management software can be developed and deployed to maximize customer returns in terms of business benefit. In his current role this understanding helps drive the direction of the Nimsoft technology towards maximum customer benefit. Back to Top

Hasan Rizvi - Oracle

		OPENING KEYNOTE: Enterprise IT and the Cloud - All New, All the Same
Hasan Rizvi is Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products. He is responsible for Oracle's SOA, Application Server, Communications and Identity Management and Security product development, product management and architecture. Previously he was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager responsible for the company's Data Center Automation products. Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, izvi was VP of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, he served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products. Rizvi holds eight patents in the database management area. Back to Top

Fran Rosch - VeriSign

		Cloud Computing and Identity Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Fran Rosch is Sr. VP, Authentication Product Management at VeriSign. He has been part of the VeriSign's Security organization for the past eight years where he has focused on working with the company's largest customers to design and deploy effective security solutions to solve business challenges. Rosch is currently responsible for Product Management and Strategy for business and user authentication solutions, including VeriSign's flagship SSL Server Certificates as well as Managed PKI focused on unique offerings to the Public Sector and Health Care verticals. Additionally, Rosch leads VeriSign's newer offerings related to consumer authentication technologies. Current consumer protection initiatives are focused on two-factor authentication, a shared authentication network called the VeriSign Identity Protection Network, and on-line fraud detection and prevention. Back to Top

Treb Ryan - OpSource

		The Enterprise Cloud: More Than a Myth? Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Treb Ryan is CEO of OpSource. Since 1996, he has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. He is currently considered one of the leading thinkers in SaaS and sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA. Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. He joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. He attended UCLA and is an advisor to the UCLA CLAS fund. Back to Top

Michael A. Salsburg - Unisys

		Hosting your Applications in a Cloud Track: Storage & Hosting
Dr. Michael Salsburg is a Distinguished Engineer for Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, and is the Lead Architect for Unisys Cloud Engineering. He was previously president of his own company, Performance & Modeling, Inc., and has been awarded two international patents in the area of infrastructure performance modeling algorithms and software. In addition, he has published over 60 papers and has lectured world-wide on the topics of Real-Time Infrastructure, Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Optimizaztion. Dr. Salsburg received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Mathematics in August 1972. He received his Masters of Science from the University of Delaware in Computer Science (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence) in 1982. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from Drexel University (Probability and Statistics) in 1992. Back to Top

Michael A. Salsburg - Unisys

		Hosting your Applications in a Cloud Track: Storage & Hosting
Dr. Michael Salsburg is a Distinguished Engineer for Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, and is the Lead Architect for Unisys Cloud Engineering. He was previously president of his own company, Performance & Modeling, Inc., and has been awarded two international patents in the area of infrastructure performance modeling algorithms and software. In addition, he has published over 60 papers and has lectured world-wide on the topics of Real-Time Infrastructure, Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Optimizaztion. Dr. Salsburg received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Mathematics in August 1972. He received his Masters of Science from the University of Delaware in Computer Science (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence) in 1982. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from Drexel University (Probability and Statistics) in 1992. Back to Top

Mike Samuel - Google

		DOM Virtualization Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Mike Samuel is currently a member of Google's applied security team and the secure EcmaScript working group trying to make widely used programming languages better for robust/secure computing. Prior to that he worked on application development including writing large parts of Google Calendar. Back to Top

Scott Sanchez - Unisys

		How Cloud Computing Improves Security Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Scott C. Sanchez, CISSP, is Director of the S&T Security Portfolio at Unisys Corporation and a recognized thought leader in cyber security and cloud computing. He brings with him nearly 20 years of IT leadership experience managing global security programs at Goldman Sachs and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and has also had success as an entrepreneur, having founded and profitably sold both a security consulting firm and a medical software company. Sanchez earned his Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation in 2000 and serves as a member of both the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the FBI InfraGard team. In his spare time, Scott serves as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and disaster worker with the American Red Cross. Back to Top

Richard Sarwal - Oracle

		OPENING KEYNOTE: Enterprise IT and the Cloud - All New, All the Same
Richard Sarwal is SVP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager. He brings more than 18 years of industry experience with a proven track record of database and systems management skills covering the critical areas of scalability, availability and performance, to his role as Senior Vice President of Product Development for Oracle Corporation. Sarwal is responsible for the development of all aspects of Enterprise Systems Management covering all products—OS, Database, Middleware, Applications - including Provisioning, Patching, Configuration Management, Performance and Application Service Level Management. Prior to joining Oracle in 1989, he began his career as a programmer, DBA and systems engineer. Back to Top

Chris Schalk - Google

		Building Applications with Google App Engine Track: Moving to the Cloud
Chris Schalk is a Tech Lead in the Developer API Evangelism group at Google. He is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance. Prior to Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. While at Oracle, he worked to define the overall web development experience for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Faces (Trinidad). He is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (ISBN: 0072262400) and maintains a popular Blog on J2EE Web development at www.jroller.com/page/cschalk. Back to Top

Chris Schin - Zetta

		Cloud Storage Use Cases – What is Working, What Isn’t? Track: Storage & Hosting
Chris Schin is Vice President, Products at Zetta. He is responsible for coordinating all product-related initiatives, including product strategy, direction, and marketing, as well as business model and go-to-market process definition. Prior to joining Zetta, he was acting GM and Senior Director for Symantec Protection Network, Symantec's Software as a Service platform. Prior to joining Symantec, Schin launched and ran a highly successful consulting practice helping technology startups with market research, strategy creation, TCO and competitive analyses. He has also served as director of product management at both Blue Titan Software and Intersperse Software. Back to Top

Brian Sledge - Adaptivity

		Anatomy of the Blueprint for IT Track: The Cloud From All Angles
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Dave Stark - EMC Consulting

		Designing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Performance & Reliability Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Dave Stark is the Virtualization Competency Lead for EMC Consulting. He has developed application and desktop virtualization architectures and implementations for some of the world's largest government agencies. He has responsibility for the development of practice strategy, offerings, and standards and provides leadership and mentorship to EMC's local practices within this area. He holds multiple industry certifications and is a frequent speaker at numerous industry and analyst events. Back to Top

Hal Stern -

		Directions in Physical Infrastructure for the Cloud Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
Dr Hal Stern is Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems. In his more than 13 years with Sun, Hal has been CTO, Sun Services; chief architect of Sun Professional Services; CTO for the Sun ONE (iPlanet) infrastructure products division; and the chief technologist of Sun's Northeast U.S. Sales Area. He has done architecture, performance, and reliability work for Major League Baseball, mlb.com, several financial information and transaction clearing networks, and defined next-generation interactive services as part of Sun's technology partnership with the National Hockey League. He is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents and has co-authored technical books on networking and high availability techniques. Before joining Sun, Hal developed molecular modeling software for a Boston area start-up company and was on the research staff at Princeton University. Back to Top

Kurtis Tatum - Adaptivity

		Applying IT Blueprinting Science and Tools Track: Hot Topics
Kurt Tatum is Chief Infrastructure Architect at Adaptivity. He has over thirty years' experience in the IT field, primarily as an enterprise architect and business-level consultant working with clients to solve business and IT alignment and optimization issues, He has developed many different architecture solutions for clients in most market segments covering electronic tax filing, consolidation and migration of infrastructure assets. Back to Top

Peter Thawley - Sybase

		Virtualizing Production Database Systems Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Peter Thawley is a Senior Director and Architect in Sybase’s CTO Group where he brings over 22 years of experience in software architecture & engineering, product management, and worldwide product & technology sales & services spanning both systems software products and business applications to Sybase. Over the years, Thawley's kernel-level understanding of the data management & integration technologies as well as an innate understanding of their impact on application architecture and operations, combined with his willingness to openly steer customers around the pitfalls of product limitations, made him a household name with Sybase customers and earned him a reputation for standing-room-only presentations at conferences around the world. Back to Top

Brett Thomas - Vindicia

		Compliance and Customer Ownership in the Cloud Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Brett Thomas, CTO of Vindicia, was previously the VP of Technology at eMusic and a software developer since 1989. He draws on his experiences in actually managing the technical operations of a cloud-based service at Vindicia that handles hundreds of thousands of transactions a day, and can describe lessons learned from implementing a fully PCI-compliant infrastructure. Back to Top

Vineet Tyagi - Impetus

		Riding with Large Data on Hadoop in Cloud Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Vineet Tyagi is Sr. Director of Engineering and R&D at Impetus Technologies, an award-winning software product engineering company, serving customers ranging from aggressive startups to large technology companies, to develop innovative software products. Back to Top

Tien Tzuo - Zuora

		Getting from SaaS to $aa$ -- Show Me the Money! Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Tien Tzuo joined Zuora after 9 years at salesforce.com. Tien was one of the “original forces” at salesforce.com, which he joined in 1999 as the 11th employee, when the company was still operating out of a house on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. In his 9 years at salesforce.com, Tzuo built salesforce.com’s original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in salesforce.com’s technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for two years, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Back to Top

Naveen Viswanatha -

		Collaboration in the Cloud with GoogleApps and Cordys Track: The Cloud From All Angles
Naveen Viswanatha is Lead Architect at Google Enterprise. Back to Top

Aaron Walters - Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

		Advanced Digital Forensics: Finding Malevolence in the Cloud Before it Bursts Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Aaron Walters, Vice President of Advanced Security R&D at Terremark, is an internationally recognized leader in volatile memory forensic analysis with more than 10 years of development and security research experience supporting government and commercial clients. Aaron is the founder of Volatile Systems, LLC and the lead developer for Volatility, an open source memory forensics framework. Previously he was Director of Digital Forensics for Komoku where he was responsible for R&D projects in kernel integrity and rootkit detection. Mr. Walters has held engineering positions in the telecommunications industry and the federal government specializing in low-level operating system and firmware development. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications about digital forensics, secure distributed systems and systems integrity. He serves on the Technical Program Committee for the Digital Forensic Research Workshop, as workshop chair for the Open Memory Forensics Workshop, and as a lecturer at the University of Maryland. Mr. Walters is a frequent speaker at security conferences around the world. Back to Top

Ron Warshawsky - Enteros

		Hardware vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud - Performance in the Cloud Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Ron Warshawsky is CTO at Enteros. Prior to Enteros, he served as a principal technology specialist at eBay as well as for Fortune 500 companies including Principal Financial group, Allied Group Insurance and Nationwide Insurance, where he was instrumental in contributing to the business' global success. Warshawsky is responsible for the company's technical vision, management and development of the Enteros solution platform. Back to Top

Charles T. Watt - Racemi

		Integrating Cloud Technologies into the Enterprise Data Center Track: Moving to the Cloud
Charles T. Watt is Founder & CTO of Racemi, Inc. As a pioneer in the dynamic computing space, he holds the patent for the first system to automate the allocation of server, network, and storage resources within the data center. He has also patented the first secure Internet server and one of the original blade server technologies. Back to Top

Daniel Weiss - Unisys

		You have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? Track: Management, Performance, Security, & Compliance
Daniel Weiss is a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support team at Unisys - a group of former IT executives from global companies with extensive experience in managing and transforming large scale IT operations. He joined Unisys in February 2008 from Dow Jones and Company, Inc. where he was Director of Shared Storage Services. In 1999, he was part of the original team of Factiva - a highly successful business information startup that was eventually solely acquired by Dow Jones and Company, Inc. in 2007. His role at Factiva was to direct the infrastructure strategy and operational implementation supporting both the product (revenue generating) business, as well as the corporate infrastructure. This included server, storage, and network infrastructures supporting the development, integration, production, and business continuity environments. Back to Top

Daniel Weiss - Unisys

		You have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? Track: Server, Desktop & Storage Virtualization
Daniel Weiss is a Director in the IT Management Advisory Support team at Unisys - a group of former IT executives from global companies with extensive experience in managing and transforming large scale IT operations. He joined Unisys in February 2008 from Dow Jones and Company, Inc. where he was Director of Shared Storage Services. In 1999, he was part of the original team of Factiva - a highly successful business information startup that was eventually solely acquired by Dow Jones and Company, Inc. in 2007. His role at Factiva was to direct the infrastructure strategy and operational implementation supporting both the product (revenue generating) business, as well as the corporate infrastructure. This included server, storage, and network infrastructures supporting the development, integration, production, and business continuity environments. Back to Top

Doug Willoughby - Compuware

		Performance Management for Composite Applications Track: Security, Management & Compliance
Doug Willoughby is currently the Director of Cloud Computing for Compuware, a leading provider of APM tools for Web applications. Prior to Compuware he was at Sun, which he joined in 1988 and where he participated in the development and marketing of some of Sun's most pioneering and disruptive technologies, including Project Spring, Distribute Objects Everywhere (DOE), NextStep/OpenStep, and Java. Willoughby was also part of the team of 14 engineers and architects who developed "network.com" - Sun's first utility computing offering. Back to Top

Brian Wilson - Surgient

		General Session: Deploy an Enterprise Private Cloud in Less Than 30 Days with Surgient
With 16-plus years of experience, Brian Wilson is responsible for Surgient customer success, from initial cloud design and deployment to ongoing customer support. He has a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama. Back to Top

Brian Wilson - Surgient

		Top Ten Private Cloud Best Practices and Pitfalls Track: Hot Topics
With 16-plus years of experience, Brian Wilson is responsible for Surgient customer success, from initial cloud design and deployment to ongoing customer support. He has a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama. Back to Top

Terry Woloszyn - PerspecSys

		Closing Power Panel: So, What's Working, What Isn't...And What's Next?
Terry Woloszyn is Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., which is the leading solution addressing cloud application adoption challenges of data privacy, residency, and security. Prior to founding PerspecSys, he has held executive and leadership positions with the IBM Software Group, and CrossWorlds Software which pioneered Enterprise Application Integration. Woloszyn has been at the forefront of many emerging technologies and has helped establish a worldwide presence for a variety of software organizations including Siebel, Scopus (CRM/SFA), Gupta (DB), Information Builders (BI), and Netwise (RPC). His extensive experience and knowledge is reflected in the PerspecSys PRS Solution today and is the primary reason he has emerged as one of the global thought leaders with respect to Cloud Data Governance Solutions. Back to Top

David Yen - Juniper Networks

		Future of the Data Center Track: Enterprise Cloud Computing
David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the 90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Back to Top

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Articles & Feature Stories

Unisys to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Elizabeth White

What are the attributes that attract applications to public clouds? Why implement private clouds? When is it appropriate to use both in a Hybrid Cloud approach? Can legacy applications be moved unchanged to the cloud or do they have to be rewritten as Web 2.0 apps? What are the implications regarding the application data migration? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Dr. Michael Salsburg, a Distinguished Engineer for Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions, and the Lead Architect for Unisys Cloud Engineering, will answer those critical questions that arise when considering hosting applications in the cloud. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Mar. 10, 2010 01:59 PM EST

Impetus Technologies to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Salvatore Genovese

Data accumulation rates are growing astronomically and managing data in traditional ways is getting difficult in the same proportion. Hadoop is emerging as a champion in large-scale data management needs; however, it requires a lot of IT infrastructure investment and expertise. In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Vineet Tyagi, Sr. Director of Engineering and R&D at Impetus Technologies, will discuss how cloud-based Hadoop deployments offer multi-fold efficiencies and benefits, and how Hadoop in the cloud provides on-demand computing, operational scalability, efficiency, cost, etc., and local access to large data.

Mar. 10, 2010 01:16 PM EST Reads: 127

Cast Iron Promises Integration with Cloud Computing

By Maureen O'Gara

Cast Iron Systems, good as its name, wants to do the heavy lifting and synch applications running on-premise with those in the cloud, any kind of cloud. It says it can connect any combination of cloud and on-premise applications. And nobody has to leave its multi-tenant cloud environment although they could use a web-based on-premise or hosted virtual appliance or a physical appliance. They may not even know they’re using Cast Iron’s mojo since it’s letting ISVs rebrand it. Dell’s Integration Services folks, for instance, are selling it. Cast Iron is also providing the widgetry to Amazon’s EC2 customers. Cast Iron’s next-generation cloud integration platform fittingly dubbed OmniConnect promises data migration, process integration and UI mashups, effectively making it three integration products in one.

Mar. 10, 2010 01:15 PM EST Reads: 255

Cordys MashApps Now Available Through the Google Apps Marketplace

By Elizabeth White

Cordys, a supplier of software for business process innovation, on Wednesday announced it has added Cordys Process Factory and MashApps to the Google Apps Marketplace, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps products and services. Cordys Process Factory offers a simple and effective mechanism for anyone in the world to create and deploy situational applications and MashApps, delivering Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities to the Google Apps suite of communication and collaboration tools. Cordys MashApps are mashups of different services or web-based, process-centric applications for small and medium enterprises and departmental deployments. The availability of Cordys Process Factory and MashApps through the Google Apps Marketplace now allows Google Apps customers to create and use applications and business processes on the fly, at low cost and without IT...

Mar. 10, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 335

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Cloud Expo - Cloud Looms Large on SYS-CON.TV

Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square
View this panel, recorded live at the world-famous Times Square studio, featuring Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com; John Engates, CTO of Rackspace; Rod Fontecilla of Booz Allen Hamilton; and Hal Stern, SVP & CTO of Sun's Global Sales Group.

John Engates, CTO of Rackspace Live From New York City
View John Engates interviewed by Jeremy Geelan at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Expo

The Future of Technology and the Cloud in the Next 20 Years
In this SYS-CON.TV interview with Bill Coleman - the "B" in BEA Systems - discusses the shape of i-Technology to Come, anticipating with uncanny prescience the developments we know today as "Cloud Computing."

Keynote: Virtualization Beyond the Datacenter
Greschler provides examples and best practices of how organizations are leveraging virtualization beyond the datacenter.

Virtualization: State of the Union
This session includes a Q&A about the industry, its players, and is highly recommended for both virtualization newcomers and experienced adopters.

The New Economics of Virtualization
This session explores the latest industry standards and open source technologies that are helping to open up the benefits of virtualization to a new segment of the market.

Cloud Expo Breaking News

Unisys to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Elizabeth White

Mar. 10, 2010 01:59 PM EST

Impetus Technologies to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Salvatore Genovese

Mar. 10, 2010 01:16 PM EST Reads: 127

Google to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Pat Romanski

From internal collaboration to supplier and customer interactions, enterprises are discovering new ways of increasing productivity, process accountability, and connecting those challenging "white spaces" that exist betwe...

Mar. 10, 2010 12:45 PM EST Reads: 317

Novell to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Liz McMillan

Moving to the cloud should not mean you have to do things differently. Find out how you can leverage your internal identity and access infrastructure to enforce your internal roles, policies and workflows in the cloud. ...

Mar. 10, 2010 08:30 AM EST Reads: 522

Enteros CTO to Present at Cloud Expo East

By Salvatore Genovese

Cloud infrastructures can support similar (and in certain cases even higher) rates of throughput for business transactions and information retrieval requests compared to the infrastructure based on physical hardware for ...

Mar. 10, 2010 06:00 AM EST Reads: 483

Conference News & Updates

Cloud Expo New York, April 19-21, 2010, To Have More Than 5,000 Delegates and Over 100 Exhibitors at Javits Convention Center

By Carmen Gonzalez

5th International Cloud Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. The three-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 80 sponsors and exhibitors on the 70,000 sq. ft. show floor and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries.

Cloud Expo Is the New PC Expo, Comdex and InternetWorld Of Our Decade and Will Attract 50,000 Delegates Per Year By 2012

By Fuat Kircaali

This year's West Coast conference attracted 2,250 delegate, more than double a year ago. As far as the expo floor goes, out of 50 sponsors and exhibitors, 46 companies confirmed during the conference that they will participate in the 2010 Cloud Computing Expo at the same or higher level.

Cloud Expo New York Show Prospectus Mailed to Over 100 Exhibitors

By Carmen Gonzalez

Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley, Europe, Japan, and Brazil. Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in the Cloud Expo.

Cloud Expo Santa Clara Photo Album

By Cloud News Desk

SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Expo, held on November 2 - 4, 2009, in Santa Clara, attracted more than 50 sponsors with over 2,200 delegates, a record attendance. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing. Enjoy here our photo album of the show.

The Cloud Computing Kettle Comes to a Boil in 2010

By Cloud News Desk

The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for yourself, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal brings you a timeline of the trajectory of the Cloud so far.

The World's 30 Most Influential Cloud Computing Bloggers Live on Cloud Expo Website!

By Carmen Gonzalez

Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend.

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open

By Jeremy Geelan

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength. Call for Papers is now open!

Reality Check at the Cloud Expo Santa Clara

By Ellen Rubin

The talk at the Cloud Computing Expo this week in Santa Clara was all about enterprise cloud adoption. Is it real? Is it already happening? If so, who’s doing it, which applications are they running and which clouds are being tested? To a large extent, cloud computing is a victim of its own somewhat out-of-control hype cycle. Since so much has been written and discussed about the cloud in 2009, there is now a growing impatience for actual results.

CIA Falls for Cloud Computing in a Big Way

By Bill Roth

The most anticipated talk of the day yesterday, at the 4th International Cloud Expo, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, "Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge." She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, and then went on to give her paragraph-length definition of “the cloud”. Her talk focused on the part of the Cloud behind the firewall. “Today’s CIO must increase the flexibility of the infrastructure,” said Singer.

Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar Discusses Innovation During His Keynote at Cloud Expo Santa Clara

By Roger Strukhoff

Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. As Shugar noted in the days before his presentation, the company "is developing and utilizing Internet-scale cloud computing services to improve the consumer experience, speed innovation, simplify operating environments, and reduce costs.

4th International Cloud Expo Kicks Off in Santa Clara to Huge Crowds!

By John Savageau

Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now officially past the engineering phase, well into the sales phase – and the business community is scrambling to understand the implications of a virtualized world.

Ulitzer Live! New Media Power Panel Takes Place at the Santa Clara Convention Center

By Carmen Gonzalez

The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford. The first "Ulitzer Live! - New Media Conference & Expo " will take place on June 14, 2010 in New York City and will present a world class faculty who will analyze new media, content marketing strategies, social CRM, enterprise social media, personal branding tools, and many other subjects.

SYS-CON Enters 2010 with All Time High Revenue Projections

By Fuat Kircaali

As of January 2010, we booked more revenue for 2010 than the entire fiscal year 2009 actuals, including unearned income with record sponsorship sales for Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West and Cloud Expo Europe events. Our revised revenue projections for 2010 is on track for an all time record revenues since our company's inception in 1994, including media sales up in January from a year ago. As I made a reference to sponsorship and expo sales, I encourage all our sponsors to take contract option 2 which includes Cloud Expo 2010 East (New York City), Cloud Expo 2010 Europe (Prague, Czech Republic), and Cloud Expo 2010 West (Silicon Valley, California) events.

Cloud Expo New York, Prague, and San Francisco Sponsorship Options

By Carmen Gonzalez

Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form. Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates.

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The World's 30 Most influential Cloud Bloggers

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer

1	Dustin Amrhein	11	Kevin Hoffman	21	Greg O'Connor
2	Ezhil Babaraj	12	Alin Irimie	22	Maureen O'Gara
3	Tony Bishop	13	Kevin Jackson	23	Mark O'Neill
4	Reuven Cohen	14	Fuat Kircaali	24	Bill Roth
5	Ernest de Leon	15	David Linthicum	25	Ellen Rubin
6	David Dean	16	Lori MacVittie	26	John Savageau
7	Ray DePena	17	Bill McColl	27	Michael Sheehan
8	Dana Gardner	18	Paul Miller	28	Roman Stanek
9	John Gauntt	19	Louis Naugès	29	John Treadway
10	Jeremy Geelan	20	Greg Ness	30	Alan Williamson

The World's Most Influential Blogs

David Skok Authors Startup and VC Blog on Ulitzer

By Fuat Kircaali

When I saw David Skok's name on recent Ulitzer authors page I was pleasantly surprised. David is one of the key figures in the technology space for the past two decades, including his venture capital activities. Throughout his long career, he successfully launched a number of companies. He is a gene...

Mar. 10, 2010 01:15 PM EST Reads: 135

Lessons Learned – Viral Marketing

By David Skok

A short study of this web site reveals that a hugely important factor for success in startup companies is finding ways to acquire customers at a low cost. In the Business Models section, we looked at the perfect business model: Viral customer acquisition with good monetization. However viral growth ...

Mar. 10, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 233

Startup Killer: The Cost of Customer Acquisition

By David Skok

In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit. Failure to get product/market fit right is very...

Mar. 10, 2010 10:30 AM EST Reads: 277

Six Things VCs Look For in An Investment

By David Skok

As a serial entrepreneur, I learned a lot of lessons from things that didn’t work. These lessons later on shaped my ideas on what would be needed to build a successful startup company. When I became a VC, I realized that these same lessons could be applied to helping evaluate the many businesses tha...

Mar. 10, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 287

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Cloud Expo 2009 Allstar Conference Faculty

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KHAN Sybase	BISCIGLI Cloudera	BRUNETTE Sun	FEINBERG EMC
NAUGES Revevol	BORUFF CSC	NEERDAELS Yahoo!	SNEAD Attorney
EWE Cenzic	SOLTERO SpringSource	BAHAR ParaScale	BISHOP Adaptivity