Nth Generation's 10th Annual Technical Symposium

Dr. Stephen Herrod  
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D, VMware.
WEDNESDAY 8/4  9:30am

Stephen Herrod was named CTO of the Year by InfoWorld in 2009.  He is responsible for VMware’s new technologies and collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups.  Stephen has led the VMware ESX group through numerous successful releases and product launches.  He 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.
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Mark Potter, V.P.
Industry Standard Servers, HP
WEDNESDAY 8/4 10:55pm

Mark Potter leads HP's Industry Standard Servers business unit which develops & markets HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystems to meet the needs of enterprise data centers, remote offices, service providers and small/medium businesses. Since joining HP in 1989, Mark has been responsible for increasing ProLiant server leadership to support enterprise-level computing in the areas of systems mgmt, high availability, fault mgmt & operating systems.
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Chris VanWagoner
Chief Strategy Officer, CommVault
THURSDAY 8/5 10:35am

Chris VanWagoner leads CommVault’s evaluation of next generation technologies and the investigation, analysis and recommendation of CommVault’s core technology and business strategies. He joined CommVault in 1996 and spearheaded many corporate milestones including the launch of CommVault’s Galaxy backup and recovery product. Chris also lead in transforming CommVault from a leading data protection software provider to a broader unified data management company.
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Joel Manfredo
CTO for Orange County
TUESDAY 8/3 1:30pm

As the CTO for Orange County, Joel Manfredo manages all aspects of the County’s IT infrastructure and business information, i.e., network & platform, telephony, data center operations, security & business continuity operations, a 66,000 sq ft data center, database, applications, IT processes & quality assurance. Joel has worked for major organizations in transformational CIO roles for 30 years including The Irvine Company, where he managed hyper growth while quadrupling output and achieving technical reliance on system-generated financial statements.
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Larry Singer, V.P.
Local Govt & Education, Technology Solutions Group, HP
TUESDAY 8/3 12:15pm

Larry will discuss the impact of the Cloud on Public Sector IT. Can the promised cost savings of the Cloud be realized?

Is the Cloud a good fit for local governments and the public/private education sectors? Prior to HP, Larry was a Senior V.P. at Sun Microsystems, as well as the first CIO for the State of Georgia.
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Steve Sicola
CTO, Xiotech
THURSDAY 8/5 11:10pm

Steve Sicola is the CTO at Xiotech and a 30-year veteran of the Storage industry who owns 40 patents granted or filed in the areas of in RAID, Caching, Fault Tolerance, Reliable Systems, Error Recovery and ILM. Earlier, Steve was CTO for the StorageWorks Division at Digital where he developed three generations of Storage Arrays (including the groundbreaking EVA) and pioneered SANs, Switching & Multi-Pathing. He continues to develop & deliver storage solutions at Xiotech with a focus on reliability, performance & density.
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Shannon Smith, Esq.
eDiscovery/Archiving Specialist, CommVault
TUESDAY 8/3 11:00am

Shannon will help us better understand legal & compliance issues associated with Cloud Storage.

What are the risks with sensitive information? Shannon is an experienced attorney with extensive knowledge of records management, litigation readiness and archiving solutions. Prior to CommVault, she worked as General Counsel for an IT firm, specializing in data archiving and eDiscovery. She has assisted numerous organizations in developing record retention policies and litigation readiness strategies.
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Scott Crenshaw
VP & Gen'l Mgr, Cloud Computing, Red Hat
WEDNESDAY 8/7 8:25am

Scott Crenshaw leads Red Hat's Cloud Business Unit and is responsible for the company's strategy and execution in the Cloud Computing and virtualization markets. In addition, Scott leads Red Hat's drive to integrate marketing across all business units. Previously, Scott led Red Hat's Platform Business Unit where he helped grow the company's flagship RHEL nearly 300%.
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Scott Huck
Competitive Architect, Data Center Group, Intel
THURSDAY 8/5 8:35am

Scott Huck specializes in architectural and performance comparisons between Intel’s server processors and platforms and other processor vendor’s server platforms from companies such as AMD, Sun and IBM. He has a focus on server virtualization and GPU technologies. In 24 years at Intel, Scott has held positions as a microprocessor design engineer, a technical marketing engineer/manager for Intel's Server boards, systems and microprocessors as well as a server platform technologist.
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KC Choi
Vice President, Americas Solutions Architecture, HP
TUESDAY 8/3 2:10pm

What are the underlying technological, environmental & business trends driving Cloud computing?

What strategies should we consider to leverage these forces? Most importantly, how can we dramatically reduce costs while improving IT service levels? KC Choi will report on the work his team of 700 has performed in mapping the role of Next Gen Data Centers. Don’t miss KC Choi!
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