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Cloud Expo 2010 East

Cloud Computing is making modern, world-class IT infrastructure available to companies of all sizes regardless of economic cycles.

The Cloud has captured the imagination of IT because it promises compute capacity as a liquid currency that can be shared and made available on demand.

Throughout business history those companies that best adapted and leveraged changes in the technology landscape have survived and thrived.

Delegates who travel to New York this coming April 19-21 to 5th Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at The Jacob Javits Center with the 8th Virtualization Conference & Expo, want to be among the survivors and the thrivers. Here is a round-up of some of the Cloud & Virtualization themes and topics due to be discussed in the Keynotes, General Sessions,Breakout Technical Sessions, and Power Panels...

INDEX TO TOPICS:

Cloud Management

Making Sense of Cloud Service Management Mark Rivington - Vice President of Technology, Nimsoft	Cloud Computing Everywhere: How Are We Going to Manage All of This? Barry X Lynn, Chairman & CEO, 3Tera
Defining Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing: Managed Cloud Services Claudine Bianchi - Chief Marketing Officer, NaviSite	The Heavy Lifting in Cloud Management Sushil Kumar - VP of Product Strategy & Business, Oracle

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Cloud Security

Essential IaaS Security Glenn Brunette - Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect, Oracle	A More Secure, Trustworthy Cloud Charlton Barreto - Principal Architect, Intel
Addressing Data Privacy, Residency, and Security in the Cloud Terry Woloszyn - Founder/CTO, PerspecSys	Ten Security Questions to Ask Before Moving to the Cloud Timothy Brown - VP & Chief Architect for Security Management, CA, Inc.
How Cloud Computing *Improves* Security Scott Sanchez - Chief Architect, Unisys	Into the Cloud with Digital Trust Ron Knode - Director of Global Security Solutions, CSC
What You Should Ask Your Provider About Cloud Security Tom Cecere - Product Strategy, Novell	What Organizations Need to Know About Cloud Security Dipto Chakravarty - Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Novell
Securing the Cloud Infrastructure at Microsoft Mark Estberg - Sr. Director, Information Security Risk & Compliance Management, Microsoft	The Tip of the Iceberg: Access Control Security for the Cloud Eric Olden - Founder & CEO, Symplified
Customer-side Encryption of Sensitive SaaS Application Data Dan Gross - Co-Founder, Navajo Systems	Advanced Digital Forensics: Finding Malevolence in the Cloud Before it Bursts Aaron Walters - Vice President of Advanced Security R&D, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Predicting the Future: Security and Compliance in the Cloud Age Misha Govshteyn - Co-Founder, Alert Logic

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Cloud Services

General Session: Microsoft's Cloud Services Approach Yousef A. Khalidi - Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft

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Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage Use Cases – What is Working, What Isn’t? Chris Schin - Vice President, Products, Zetta

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Cloud Value

General Session: Continuous Business Transformation: The Cloud Value Chain Mark de Simone - Chief Business Development Officer, Cordys

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Compliance

Cloud Computing? There’s an Audit for That! Douglas Barbin - Director, SAS 70 Solutions, Inc	Compliance and Customer Ownership in the Cloud Brett Thomas, CTO, Vindicia
Predicting the Future: Security and Compliance in the Cloud Age Misha Govshteyn - Co-Founder, Alert Logic

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Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)

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Enterprise Cloud Computing

OPENING KEYNOTE: The Coming of Age of Enterprise IT and Cloud Computing Richard Sarwal - VP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle & Hasan Rizvi - Sr. Vice President, Orcale Fusion Middleware, Oracle	Parting the Clouds - Evaluating Clouds and Cloud Providers for the Enterprise Chris Drumgoole, Senior Vice President of Client Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Enterprise Application Security on the Cloud – Watertight Emma Pudney - EVP, Product Strategy & Development, Virtual Ark	The Enterprise Cloud: More Than a Myth? Treb Ryan - Co-Founder & CEO, OpSource
Day Two Keynote: The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO, Adaptivity	Transforming Financial Service Firms with the Cloud Catherine Minter - President, Cordys Americas
Platform as a Service for the Enterprise Jason Lochhead - CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. & Tom Mornini - Co-Founder, Engine Yard	General Session: Deploy an Enterprise Private Cloud in Less Than 30 Days with Surgient Brian Wilson - Vice President, Services & Support, Surgient
CTO Power Panel - Has Enterprise IT Changed Forever and for Always? Mark Rivington & David Movshovitz & Jason Lochhead & Ken Owens	Defining Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing: Managed Cloud Services Claudine Bianchi - Chief Marketing Officer, NaviSite
General Session: Continuous Business Transformation: The Cloud Value Chain Mark de Simone - Chief Business Developement Office, Cordys	Introducing the Virtual Private Data Center - Enterprise Cloud Delivered Ken Owens - VP of Security & Virtualization Technologies, Savvis
Integrating Cloud Technologies into the Enterprise Data Center Charles T. Watt - Founder & CTO, Racemi	SaaS Enablement of an Enterprise Application on the Cloud - Case Study Emma Pudney - EVP, Product Strategy & Development, Virtual Ark

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Federal Government IT

DoD Cloud Computing Advances Cloud Kevin L. Jackson - Engineering Fellow, NJVC

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Future Trends

General Session: Building the Blueprint for IT Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO, Adaptivity	Cloud Computing Everywhere: How Are We Going to Manage All of This? David Yen - EVP & GM, Fabric & Switching Technologies Group, Juniper Networks
BI's Cloudy Future Brian Gentile - President & CEO, Jaspersoft	General Session: Third-Generation Outsourcing Is Here! Marty Gauvin - Founder, President & CEO, Virtual Ark

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Hosting

Hosting your Applications in a Cloud Michael A. Salsburg - Lead Architect for Unisys Cloud Engineering, Unisys

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Hot Topics

Making Apps Mobile – Destination Private, Public or Hybrid Clouds Greg O'Connor - President & CEO, AppZero	Investing in Cloud Computing Joel Fishbein - Managing Director, Lazard Capital Markets
Cloud Computing Rules of Thumb and Best Practices Al Perez - Chief Software Architect, Total Computer	Cloud Computing? There’s an Audit for That! Douglas Barbin - Director, SAS 70 Solutions, Inc
A Transparent Extension To Your IT Organization Denis Martin - EVP & Chief Technology Officer, NaviSite	Applying IT Blueprinting Science and Tools Kurtis Tatum - Chief Infrastructure Architect, Adaptivity
Science of IT Design James Houghton - Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Adaptivity	MiniClouds: How ISVs Can Deploy in Any Environment Diego Parrilla - VP of Product Management, Abiquo
SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Trends: What's Hot and What's Not? Jay Hallberg - Co-Founder, Spiceworks	Cloud Mashups: Creating Integrated Cross-Cloud and On-Premise Systems Michael Heydt - Sr. Manager, Advanced Technologies, SunGard Consulting Services
Scale Without Sacrifice - Application Delivery with Multi-Tenant Architecture Tom Fisher - Vice President of Cloud Computing, Success Factors

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How-To

The Top Seven Pitfalls To Avoid During a Cloud Migration Vishal Sharma - Sr. Director of Business Development, NaviSite	You have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? Daniel Weiss - Director, IT Management Advisory Support, Unisys
How to Roll Your Own Cloud in 30 Days or Less Sheng Liang - CEO, VMOps	Five Steps to Sanity: Methodologies for Finding Your Best Cloud Source Carl Meadows - Senior Product Manager, Cloud Services, The Planet

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Hybrid Computing

Partly Cloudy Infrastructure Ahead Larry Beck - Sr. Director, Cloud Strategy, Avanade

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Identity Management

Identity and Access Management: Abandoning the Burden by Embracing the Cloud Eric Z. Maass - Enterprise Security Solutions Director, Lighthouse Security Group	Identity in the Cloud - Finding Calm in the Storm Patrick Harding - CTO, Ping Identity
Cloud Computing and Identity 2.0 Fran Rosch - Sr. VP, Authentication Product Management, VeriSign

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Directions in Physical Infrastructure for the Cloud Hal Stern - Distinguished Engineer & VP, Global Systems Engineering, Sun Microsystems

Cloud Computing Platforms - Which “aaS” is Right for You? Max Coburn - Chief Architect, HubSpan

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Interoperability

Cloud Standards: Enabling Interoperability and Package Delivery Diego Parrilla - VP of Product Management, Abiquo

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Keynotes

OPENING KEYNOTE: The Coming of Age of Enterprise IT and Cloud Computing Richard Sarwal - VP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle & Hasan Rizvi - Sr. Vice President Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle	Day Two Keynote: The Science of Doing Business in the Clouds Tony Bishop, Founder & CEO, Adaptivity
Day Three Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem: the Gathering Storm Pete Malcolm - CEO, Abiquo

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Monetizing the Cloud

Monetizing the Cloud - A Case Study Arturo Pereyra - Business Development Director, Oracle	Getting from SaaS to $aa$ -- Show Me the Money! Tien Tzuo - CEO, Zuora
Cloud Computing as a Service Darryl S. Brown - Director of Product Marketing, Switch and Data	Cloud Computing and Identity 2.0 Fran Rosch - Sr. VP, Authentication Product Management, VeriSign

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New Media

Impact of Social Media on Performance in the Cloud Dan Bartow - Vice President and Cloud Evangelist, SOASTA, Inc.

CMO’s Toolkit: Harnessing Facebook using Cloud Computing Jeff Barnes - Architect Evangelist, Microsoft & Jim Zimmerman - Developer, ASP.NET MVP, Thuzi

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Open Source

Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures with OpenNebula Ignacio M. Llorente - Professor DSA Research Group, UCM	Day Three Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem: the Gathering Storm Pete Malcolm - CEO, Abiquo
Riding with Large Data on Hadoop in Cloud Vineet Tyagi - Sr. Director of Engineering and R&D, Impetus

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Outsourcing

General Session: Third-Generation Outsourcing Is Here! Marty Gauvin - Founder, President & CEO, Virtual Ark

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Performance

Impact of Social Media on Performance in the Cloud Dan Bartow - Vice President and Cloud Evangelist, SOASTA, Inc.	Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence Tom Lounibos, President & CEO, SOASTA
Hardware vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud - Performance in the Cloud Ron Warshawsky - CTO, Enteros	Designing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Performance & Reliability Dave Stark - Virtualization Competency Lead, EMC
Case Study: Accelerating Backup and Replication Through Storage Virtualization Charlie Kraus - Senior Director of Business Development, Certeon & Dwayne McCoy - IT Manager, Boots & Coots	Performance Management for Composite Applications Doug Willoughby, Director of Cloud Computing, Compuware

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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

General Session: PaaS is the Remedy for the VM Hangover Mohamad Afshar - VP of Product Management, Oracle	Platform as a Service for the Enterprise Jason Lochhead - CTO of Hosting Services, Terremark Worldwide, Inc. & Tom Mornini - Co-Founder, Engine Yard
Using Software Appliances to Enable Customized PaaS Adam Messinger - Vice President of Development, Oracle

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Power Panels

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Private Clouds vs Public Clouds

Top Ten Private Cloud Best Practices and Pitfalls Brian Wilson - Vice President, Services & Support, Surgient	Unlock the Cloud: Building a Vendor-Independent Private Cloud Diego Parrilla, VP of Product Management, Abiquo
General Session: Deploy an Enterprise Private Cloud in Less Than 30 Days with Surgient Brian Wilson - Vice President, Services & Support, Surgient	Private Clouds for Developers: Make Your infrastructure Agile Diego Parrilla, VP of Product Management, Abiquo

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Real-World Cloud Computing

Transforming Financial Service Firms with the Cloud Catherine Minter - President, Cordys American	Cloud Storage Use Cases – What is Working, What Isn’t? Chris Schin - Vice President, Products, Zetta
Beyond Theory: Applications in the Cloud Today Lew Moorman - President,Cloud & Chief Strategy Officer, Rackspace & Michael Crandell - CEO & Co-Founder, RightScale	SaaS Enablement of an Enterprise Application on the Cloud - Case Study Emma Pudney - EVP, Product Strategy & Development, Virtual Ark

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The Resource Cloud

Day Three Keynote: An Open Cloud Ecosystem: the Gathering Storm Pete Malcolm - CEO, Abiquo

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Virtualization

Virtualized Infrastructure: The Server Is Not Enough Chris Barclay - Director of Product Management, Oracle	The Dynamic Datacenter ­- Where Static Virtualization Tools Don't Work Dave McCrory - CTO, Hyper9
DOM Virtualization Mike Samuel - Software Engineer, Google	You have a Virtualized Environment, Now What Do you Do? Daniel Weiss - Director, IT Management Advisory Support, Unisys
Case Study: Accelerating Backup and Replication Through Storage Virtualization Charlie Kraus - Senior Director of Business Development, Certeon & Dwayne McCoy - IT Manager, Boots & Coots	Let's Get Unphysical! Robert Grapes - Chief Technologist, Cloakware
Virtualizing Production Database Systems Kutay Kilic - Sr. Director/Architect, CTO Group, Sybase	Server Virtualization: Aggregation vs. Consolidation Shai Fultheim - Founder & CTO, ScaleMP
Optimize While You Virtualize to Get to the Cloud Rich Corley - Founder, CTO & VP Engineering, Akorri

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Virtual Machines

General Session: PaaS is the Remedy for the VM Hangover Mohamad Afshar - VP of Product Management, Oracle

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