Event Information

Virtualization and Beyond: Emerging Technologies that Redefine IT

Panel Discussion & Reception

Co-hosted by AmBAR and Grid Dynamics

Date: October 8, 2009

Time: 6:45pm

Russian food and appetizers will be served!!!!!!

Location:
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
1530 Page Mill Road
Suite 200
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Directions: http://www.sonnenschein.com/firm_facts/offices/silicon_valley/directions.aspx

Description: The consumer and enterprise Internet has become deeply woven into our daily lives. Its importance continues to grow, further driven by an increasing shift from on-premises software to the SaaS delivery model. Naturally, the data centers supporting all this growth are seeing a corresponding explosion in scale and complexity.

Virtualization is part of the industry's response. Beyond its current uses, the bigger news is the role of virtualization as an innovation enabler: a game-changing paradigm that's altering how IT infrastructure is designed and deployed. This transformation is impacting everything from data-center architecture to the delivery of end-client applications.

Join us for an enlightening panel discussion various disruptive technologies that are shaping the future of IT.

               Distinguished Panelists

David Allen - CTO, i365, Seagate's SaaS storage management company

David has contributed more than 25 years in senior IT infrastructure roles for high-profile financial services and technology leaders, including Visa and The Reuters Group. As CTO of Seagate's i365, he spearheads the company's architecture and technology vision.

 Shai Fulheim - CEO, ScaleMP, a Sequoia-backed virtualization startup

An expert in scalable computing and large-scale infrastructure, Shai co-founded several technology startups and served as CTO of a leading Israeli venture-capital fund. His company ScaleMP develops aggregation-based virtualization solutions for high-end computing.

 John Keagy - Founder and CEO, GoGrid, a cloud hosting service

John is a renowned Internet infrastructure pioneer with many firsts to his credit in the dedicated server hosting market. He is co-founder and CEO of managed hosting provider ServePath as well as GoGrid, its recently launched cloud hosting service.

Daniel Templeton - an engineer on the Sun Grid Engine team at Sun Microsystems and a Software & Java Ambassdor.

His current role is focusing on customer and ISV issues, internal collaboration, and training. Daniel has been with Sun for eleven years, both in sales and engineering, and has been working with the Java platform since 1995. He is a co-chair of the Distributed Resource Management API working group and the primary author of the DRMAA Java Language Binding Specification. Daniel has been an active member of the Open Grid Forum since 2003.

              Moderator

Boris Renski - Director of Marketing, Grid Dynamics

A specialist in the international IT business, Boris directs Grid Dyamics' marketing strategy and relationships with key partners. In his prior role as VP of Business Development at R&K, one of Eastern Europe's largest IT distributors, he managed strategic relationships with Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Western Digital, and AMD.