Werner Vogels, CTO, AMAZON.COM.

Dr. Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making Cloud Computing a reality.

Keynote Abstract: Ahead in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch. There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system.

Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform.
Songnian received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, and subsequently took a faculty position at the University of Toronto as a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Songnian's Ph.D. thesis established the field of distributed resource management, which provides the foundation for grid computing, hailed by industry experts as the next evolution of IT.

This research was the catalyst for the creation of Platform Computing, which he co-founded with two partners in 1992. Under Songnian's leadership, Platform has grown from a company of three employees to 500-strong, with 15 offices around the globe.

Songnian has been recognized for his excellence in leadership and innovation with the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and received the Innovation Award for Leadership in Product Development from the Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) of Ontario for Platform LSF in 1995.

Keynote Abstract: Clouds Moving Into the Enterprise

The relevance of cloud computing to enterprise IT is not well understood. Like the Internet, cloud computing did not come out of blue. Dr. Zhou’s keynote will discuss the historical evolution of cloud computing including the adoption of grid computing to share IT resources in large enterprises. This presentation will focus on internal/private clouds suitable for most business applications utilized in an enterprise environment. Dr. Zhou will also describe the evolutionary steps required to adopt cloud computing and the potential hurdles to be overcome. Using production cases, he will discuss how cloud computing is not only saving costs but also driving competitive advantage.

Russ Daniels,VP and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Services Strategy, HP.
Russ Daniels is vice president and chief technology officer of Cloud Services Strategy at HP. In this role, he sets the overarching business and technology strategies for HP’s approach to the cloud.
Daniels has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in software architecture, enterprise management, and software development methodologies. He has filled a wide range of staff and line management roles and run his own Internet Services business. In 2006, InfoWorld declared Daniels one of the industry’s top 25 chief technology officers.
From 2002 to 2007 Daniels was the chief technology officer of HP Software. During his tenure, the business tripled in revenue and emerged as a significant player in the software industry. He joined HP in 1999. Prior, Daniels spent 15 years at Apple, where he held a variety of technical and management positions, culminating in his role as a senior software architect.
Daniels holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.

Keynote Abstract: Understanding the Cloud

The cloud will be the next big thing in IT. Yet much of the hype about the cloud, focused on potential cost savings, has obscured the true benefits it can offer. In this talk, Russ Daniels will describe how the characteristics of the cloud will shift the focus of design from internal business processes to ecosystems of experience. Daniels will go on to describe how the cloud will fundamentally change the way people and businesses connect to information and the profound impact this will have on every aspect of our lives.

Hal Stern, SVP Global Systems Engineering, Sun.
Hal Stern is a Distinguished Engineer and the Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering at Sun Microsystems.
His responsibilities include technical leadership, training, and management of Sun's customer engineering teams in Global Sales and Services. Hal's current projects include security architecture, cloud computing design patterns,
and large-scale analytics and data management.
Hal was involved in both the Sun ONE and Liberty Alliance Project architectures from their formative stages, and has been working with teams open sourcing Sun software projects. Hal's current technical interests include content
delivery networks, privacy and security of large-scale systems, digital rights management, network identity, structured data management, reliability and software quality measurement, large-scale data centers efficiency, and
virtualization technologies from the chip to the filesystem levels. Read Hal's full profile.
Keynote Abstract:
Popular models of server reliability are based on hardware and network visibliity that become opaque in a cloud environment. On the other hand, many of the large-scale data management tools driving interest in clouds handle replication and fault recovery transparently. What does cloud computing mean for cluster and failover architecture, what are the impacts on application developers, and how
will the multiple layers of abstraction in clouds change our thinking about transactions?

Maximilian Ahrens, CTO of Zimory.
Ahrens is an expert and frequent speaker on international conferences for service oriented architecture and virtualization. Before co-founding Zimory, he served as a project manager and research scientist at the innovation development entity of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. Responsible for infrastructure and enterprise IT projects spanning multiple divisions of the Deutsche Telekom group -- Ahrens is an expert on enterprise IT and business processes. Before Deutsche Telekom, he led several business process reengineering projects for major German companies. Ahrens received his degree in computer science and business administration from Technische Universität Berlin.

Keynote Abstract: Keeping an Open Cloud
If the Open Source revolution taught us anything -- it was that by using open standards, open development processes and a community, resources could be built quickly, securely and better. Ahrens will discuss the benefits of an open cloud -- including the benefits of security, lock-in and getting the most from the cloud.

Jayshree Ullal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arista Networks.

Jayshree Ullal is a networking executive veteran with 25 years of experience and was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People" in 2005 Network World. As President and CEO of Arista Networks, she is responsible for building the company's business in cloud networking . Formerly, Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco and responsible for $10B in annual revenue from Data Center, Switching and Services, including Cisco's flagship Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 4500 and 6500 product lines. During her tenure at Cisco. Jayshree forged key alliances with EMC, VMWare and Microsoft in virtualization and application acceleration. Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, which was Cisco's first acquisition in 1993.

Ullal holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and a M.S. degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.

Keynote Abstract: A Novel Approach to Cloud Networking

The advent of Cloud Computing changes the approach to datacenters networks in terms of throughput and resilience. The ability to scale, control, visualize and customize the cloud network is an important evolution to "data center in the box" approach. Cloud computing is a compelling way for many businesses, small (private) and large (public) to take advantage of web based applications. One can deploy applications more rapidly across shared server and storage resource pools than is possible with conventional enterprise solutions. Deploying modern web applications across a cloud infrastructure enables a new level of agility that is very difficult to accomplish with traditional silo computing model. New Computing models for virtualization and cloud require a very scalable, resilient and open network infrastructure , different from legacy networking.

Stephen Herrod, Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer, VMware .

Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware’s new technologies such as mobile phone virtualization and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. Stephen joined VMware in 2001 and has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases.

Prior to joining VMware, he was Senior Director of Software at Transmeta Corporation co-leading development of their "Code Morphing" technology. Stephen holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University , where he worked with VMware's founders on the SimOS machine simulation project.

Keynote Abstract:
The Private Cloud: Enterprise-ready on and off premise.

Join VMware CTO, Dr. Stephen Herrod as he explains how enterprises can leverage virtualization to continue their optimization into the cloud. He will describe the benefits and features of a Private Cloud, explore the key ingredients to building the internal private cloud, what to look for when you explore external private clouds, and unveil new VMware offerings that make the private enterprise cloud possible.

Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization and Management, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Simon Crosby was founder and CTO of XenSource prior to the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix Systems. Prior to XenSource, Simon was a principal engineer at Intel where he led strategic research in distributed autonomic computing, platform security and trust. Previously, he was the founder of CPlane Inc., a network optimization software vendor, where he held a variety of executive roles. Before joining the private sector, Simon was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he led research on network performance and control, and multimedia operating systems. He is author of over 35 research papers and patents on a number of datacenter and networking topics including security, network and server virtualization, resource optimization and performance. In 2007, Simon was awarded a coveted spot as one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs.

Keynote Abstract:
"Hypervisors are now free, and arguably this will accelerate adoption of virtualization. The Xen project, with its powerful, free, open source hypervisor, has helped to build the core infrastructure for a new class of service providers – the IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon EC2, who can offer compute, network and storage resources, together with other IT infrastructure building blocks at a price point and scale that todays enterprise simply cannot beat. Built from the ground up as lights-out, fully automated and instrumented systems, such clouds offer a powerful new alternative to traditional enterprise owned-IT infrastructures. But are these massive clouds ready for enterprise workloads yet? Can they be trusted, and is it possible to expect privacy, security and isolation? This talk will take a deep dive into today’s IaaS architectures and cast the spotlight on their claims of enterprise readiness. I will argue that the large 3rd party Cloud Providers cannot meet the needs of enterprises today, but posit an alternative set of architectures that are hybrid service-provider and owned clouds, and enterprise-owned clouds. These attempt to deliver the dynamism, orchestration and economics of IaaS, for IT-owned infrastructures.