Bob Quinn. Cloud Computing and On Demand IT: Enabling New Levels of Agility, Flexibility and Scalability.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Bio:
Bob Quinn has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience. Before 3Leaf, Mr. Quinn was founder and CEO of Network Virtual Systems (NVS), which developed scalable architectures and chips for x86 and Itanium SMP servers. Prior to NVS, he was founder and chairman of iMODL, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company. Mr. Quinn has served as chairman of TransEDA, an EDA software company traded on the London Exchange; and has held senior management positions at Unisys, Trilogy, Arix and Exxon. Mr. Quinn received an honors BSEE degree from University College, Cork, Ireland. Mr. Quinn has spoken at the Virtualization Conference West & East 2008; Datacenter Dynamics San Francisco 2008; Datacenter Dynamics Dallas; Interop 2007; HT Consortium Developers Conference October 2007; and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC “Networking & Virtualization” panel 2007.

Abstract:
Cloud computing and virtualization go hand-in-hand. Virtualization separates the OS/application from the underlying commodity hardware. Yet today’s “clouds” still represent collections of small compute islands; users can choose their “cloud” as some fraction of a size of a standard server, but nothing larger. An enterprise using cloud computing as an IT infrastructure strategy needs true On Demand agility and scalability, where the size of the server provided by the cloud can be easily changed on-the-fly, and should have no limits. This session addresses how networking infrastructure, virtualization and commodity servers are evolving to enable On Demand IT for the cloud, finally enabling the dynamic data center.

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