Niki Acosta is a Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace. A Racker since 2008, she had held numerous roles throughout the organization and across many different products in the Rackspace portfolio. Prior to joining the Private Cloud team, Niki was responsible for training and sales enablement for the Rackspace Public Cloud products. A frequent speaker, tweeter, and blogger, Niki has become a recognized name in the cloud industry.
Brian Aker is an HP Fellow in the Cloud Services organization. He is responsible for infrastructure engineering, technical operations and customer satisfaction for the cloud services business.
Aker brings more than 22 years of IT experience to HP with an extensive background in both technical and business leadership, along with in-depth experience in next generation open source technologies. Prior to joining HP, Aker was a distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems where his team was responsible for the next generation MySQL and Drizzle open source databases. He also led efforts to improve
... Read moreLaura Alves is a Physics CS student and long-time FOSS user and supporter. Before joining OPW as an intern for OpenStack Documentation, she worked at private companies in areas like Technical / Infrastructure Support and Localization Engineering.
Val joined NetApp in 1998 and leads the Strategic Planning Team within the office of the CTO. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Val focuses on next-generation research projects and is responsible for NetApp’s product vision. As an early Big Data adopter, Val chairs the Enterprise Data Architecture Track of the Hadoop Summit. Val also introduced the first Cloud Standard to the industry as chairman of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative, whose mission is to foster the growth and success of the cloud storage market. Previously, Val served as the vice-chair of SNIA’s Solid-State
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His prescient views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the industry’s most influential voices. He is an evangelist who was among the first to articulate the generational transition of IT from the “first platform” (mainframe computing) to the “second platform” (enterprise computing) and then to the “third platform” (cloud computing). He also popularized the cloud server "pets vs. cattle" meme. He has been called a “top ten cloud pioneer” (InformationWeek), “top cloud 5 can’t miss bloggers” (SearchCloudComputing), and “top cloud
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Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.
Martin Casado founded Nicira, which pioneered network virtualization and was acquired by VMware. He received his PhD from Stanford University where his dissertation work led to “Software-Defined Networking” and “OpenFlow.” Currently, Martin is the Chief Architect and CTO for Networking & Security at VMware.
Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project. Jorge has been using Linux since 1998, and his current passion is juju, the new cloud deployment tool. He has spoken at the Ohio Linux Fest, SCaLE, Velocity, and OSCON as well as various LUGs over the years.
Ales Cernivec received his B.Sc. degree in 2007 at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, with title "Framework for Implementation of Distributed Algorithms in PlanetLab". In 2007 he joined XLAB research team and started with junior research programme at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. He received his M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Ljubljana in 2011 with the thesis titled "Distributed Algorithm for the minimum k-center problem". His main interests consist of fields such as distributed computing (facility location algorithms
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Mike Cohen is Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems where leads open source development for the Insieme business unit. Mike began his career as an early engineer on VMware's hypervisor team and subsequently worked in infrastructure product management on Google and Big Switch Networks. Mike holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Don Dugger is an Intel Open Source Engineer involve in virtualization efforts with a concentration on enabling advanced hardware features in the cloud environment.
A Ceph developer prior to Inktank, Josh has been working on Ceph for over a decade, across many parts of the system and surrounding projects. Currently he helps lead Ceph development as a member of the Ceph Executive Council, and works as a manager at IBM.
Eileen Evans is the vice president and associate general counsel of Open Source Strategy and Intellectual Property at HP. In her role, Evans is responsible for leading open source strategy as well as related intellectual property and program management. She also leads legal support and helps to drive the open source business strategy for HP Cloud Services. Currently, Evans is representing HP on the proposed OpenStack Foundation Board, serves on the OpenStack Legal Committee and is actively participating in other cloud-related open source communities.
During her 12 year tenure with Sun Microsy
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Anne Friend is Director, Strategic Accounts at Mirantis with responsibility for managing enterprise-grade OpenStack and PaaS implementations and ensuring business value is delivered. She has directed teams working on cloud projects for the past four years, and has a deep commitment to managing the organization change needed to transform large enterprises into nimble high velocity cloud organizations. Her involvement with OpenStack began in late 2010 with a pilot for a large financial company.
Anne has over 20 years in strategic leadership positions in the financial industry, including such gi
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Saar Gillai is the senior vice president and general manager of Converged Cloud for Hewlett Packard, responsible for driving HP’s cloud portfolio and solutions that enable enterprises to build, operate, and consume cloud services seamlessly across traditional, public, private, and managed clouds.
Previously, Gillai was vice president and general manager of Cloud Networking, where he drove the development, marketing and sales of HP Networking products and solutions for the cloud. He also served as the chief technology officer of HP Networking, responsible for developing the technology, vis
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As chief technology evangelist at the Enterprise Solution Group Mr. Greenblatt will be heavily involved in the architecture, communication and technical promotion of Dell's Enterprise family of products. Mr. Greenblatt will help drive the ESG Company’s development teams toward a strong and unified architectural construct, while externally translating and communicating the technology vision to customers, new prospective partners and the industry as a whole. Sam held multiple positions at Hewlett Packard from being a General Manager to being a chief technology officer for several divisions.
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Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered networking security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.
Eric is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a Certif
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Jean Staten Healy manages a marketing and business development organization with the responsibility for IBM Linux and Open Virtualization strategy and marketing across all company brands and the relationship with IBM's Linux Distribution Partners. She acts as the IBM spokesperson in the Linux and Open Virtualization space and represents IBM on the Board of Directors for the Open Virtualization Alliance. Prior to her current position, Ms. Staten Healy has held positions in IBM’s Software, Hardware, Services and Corporate Headquarters divisions, including the IBM Customer Advocate role in the Office
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Paul is the leader of Open Source Strategic Programs within HP’s Open Source Program Office. For ten years, he has helped HP teams properly utilize open source software in their solutions and engage in the open source community. His areas of specialty include open source strategy, business impact, and governance. In his current role, Paul is responsible for aligning HP’s OpenStack efforts across the company in order to deliver on its cloud strategy.
