Speakers

Wayne M. Adams

Chairman, Board of Directors, SNIA
Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO
EMC Corporation

Wayne M. Adams is a Senior Technologist and Director of Standards within the Office of the CTO, responsible for expanding and managing EMC technology initiatives with the industry standards bodies. Wayne has proudly served on the SNIA Board of Directors since 2003 and was previously elected Chair for two years.

Wayne also is a Board Member for the DMTF technology association and serves as the Vice President of Marketing. Within EMC, previous managing positions include partner management and software product management, where responsibilities included API licensing and product lifecycle management for Storage Resource Management, SAN Management, and I/O pathing product lines. Prior to EMC, Wayne was responsible for product marketing and business development of various strategic software and hardware products at Digital Equipment Corporation.

He started his high-tech career at Eastman Kodak as a system designer of real-time control systems. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a dual major in Computer

Kamran Amini

Director and Business Line Executive
IBM BladeCenter

Kamran Amini is Director and Business Line Executive for IBM BladeCenter. Kamran has responsibility for all facets of IBM’s BladeCenter business including strategy, marketing, sales enablement, technology development and overall financial performance.

Previously, he was Program Director for BladeCenter & System x Development. In that role he provided leadership for the technical direction and development of BladeCenter and mainstream 2 sockets x86 rack server products. Kamran has held a variety of other management positions within System x development organization.

Educationally, Mr. Amini earned his bachelors and master’s of science in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. He then continued his education at the University of North Carolina where he earned an MBA at the Kenan Flagler Business School.

Ed Beauvais

Senior Manager, Product Management, Cloud Infrastructure Group
EMC Corporation

Carol Baroudi She is the lead author of Green IT For Dummies, which gives organizations basic principles and guidance in moving toward sustainability, including basics of power management and what to consider in greening your data center. She is the Sustainability Practice Advisor for Redemtech, working with Redemtech’s customers in support of their sustainability initiatives, including education, evangelizing and reporting on sustainability choices, metrics and goals. As an industry analyst she was Research Director of Sustainability and Green IT at Aberdeen Group, CEO of Baroudi Bloor International, and Vice President at Hurwitz Group. Her other books include the first 11 editions of The Internet For Dummies, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, Mastering COBOL, Internet Secrets, and Email For Dummies. There are more than 7 million copies of her books in print.

Michael Cheslock

Vice President of Technology & Sales
DestructData

Michael has been in the electronic data destruction field for the last 5 years, consulting with and delivering solutions to enterprise organizations in every vertical market. He has worked closely with leaders in the Information Technology Asset Disposal Industry to simplify on-site and in-house media sanitization practices, strengthen the audit trail, and decrease labor and energy-related costs. Having worked with other thought-leaders in developing new media sanitization standards, Michael is an expert in the guidelines and challenges that surround the handling of end-of-service storage media, and in the methods and technologies that allow organizations to meet those.

Carl Cottuli

Vice President of Products and Services
Eaton Corporation

With more than a 20 years experience in power, cooling and management standardization, Carl has served as a supervising member of several data center IT management teams. He has successfully launched professional installation services in organizations within the US and around the world, consistently providing innovative solutions that solve real customer problems.

Carl has been quoted on data center management in publications including: BusinessWeek, ECN Magazine, Network World, Consulting Systems Engineer (CSE), System Management News, PowerPulse.com EC Magazine, TechTarget.com, Today’s Facility Manager, TheStandard.com and many more. He has also written a number of articles on green data centers/power management, has presented webinars and has spoken at several conferences including: AFCOM, 7×24 and Interop – all on low cost, energy-efficient, data center management issues.

Prior to his current position with Eaton’s Wright Line business, Carl, for seven years, held a series of critical management positions with American Power Conversion (APC), a global leader in network critical infrastructure solutions. Prior to APC, Carl spent 10 years with Russ Electric, Inc., a manufacturer of power control and protection systems.

Mark Harris

Vice President of Marketing
Server Technology Inc.

As Vice President of Marketing at Server Technology Inc. of Reno Nevada, Mark Harris is responsible for the creation and execution of all aspects of presenting Server Technology to customers, analysts and partners. This includes the tactical marketing communications role, as well as the development of strategic marketing initiatives which drive new ways of thinking.

Before being named to his current position at Server Technology, Harris served in various senior roles within the Physical layer of the IT sector, including executive sales and marketing positions at Raritan, Avocent, and Cyclades. He also held executive level positions with both Cabletron and Extreme Networks during the formative years when Gigabit networking was just beginning to take hold throughout the industry.

Harris began his career with a long career with Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP), taking increasingly senior positions focused on commercial systems and networking solutions, most notably as a founding member of the core team introducing the world’s first volume LAN attached product lines

Harris is a 1983 graduate of Arizona State University near Phoenix.

Keith Jackson

Sales Director, Eastern Region and Canada
Raritan

Keith Jackson has over 20 years of experience in Engineering and Sales Management. He was originally with Rees Scientific where he managed the National sales and service teams. There he focused on the deployment and specification of environmental monitoring hardware and software solutions. For the last 12 years he’s been working with Raritan, Inc., specifying and deploying mission critical systems to improve; energy management, remote infrastructure access, and capacity planning. Keith has been engaged with over a hundred data centers, working closely with data center managers, consultants, channel representative and ecosystem partners to find hardware and software solutions that increase efficiency, security, and sustainability while reducing costs.

Keith holds a Bachelor’s degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. He is also an active member of AFCOM, 24×7, BICSI and the Green Grid. In addition, Keith is also the Executive Director of Next Level Youth, a non-profit organization promoting education and athletics to at-risk children.

Jeff Kaplan

Founder
THINKstrategies

Jeff Kaplan is the founder of THINKstrategies, the only independent strategic consulting firm dedicated to helping enterprise IT decision-makers and technology solution providers achieve their business objectives by leveraging the value of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing and managed services.

Jeff founded THINKstrategies to address the unprecedented IT/network management and sourcing issues facing enterprise IT executives, IT solutions providers and venture capital firms today. Jeff has a history of success working with clients from each of these sectors.

Jeff has over twenty years of experience and recognized expertise in IT/network management, SaaS, managed services, cloud computing, telecommunications and outsourcing trends. Prior to founding THINKstrategies, Jeff was a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest, and META Group, and successful senior marketing executive at InterOPS Management Solutions and International Network Services (INS). Jeff also founded the Software-as-a-Service Showplace® and Managed Services Showplace®, the leading vendor-independent online directories and best practice resource centers in these rapidly growing marketplaces.

Jeff is a senior advisor to Triple-Tree, LLC. He also serves as a member of the On-Demand Services steering committee of the SIIA; and the chairman of the SaaS/cloud computing/managed services track of NetworkWorld’s IT Roadmap and Interops. He has also served as a member of the AMR Research Board of Directors. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek Online, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Web Host Industry Review on topics including managed services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud computing, outsourcing strategies; network and systems operations, service level management (SLM); and IT ROI and TCO calculations. Vist the THINKstrategies’ website to view our latest columns & commentaries.

Kevin M. Kosko

Sr. Product Manager Data Center Solutions, Services and Software
APC by Schneider Electric

Kevin Kosko is a Senior Product Manager for APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and formed the Critical Power & Cooling Services (CPCS) Business Unit, which includes the APC and MGE UPS Systems brands.

In his current role, Kevin is responsible for data center software product management and marketing. Prior to joining APC in 2007, Kevin spent 20 years at various software startups in the Boston area holding positions from development to senior management.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. He has also studied computer science at Boston College and Boston University.

John Linn

Senior Technologist in the Office of the CTO
RSA, The Security Division of EMC

John Linn, Senior Technologist in the Office of the CTO at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, joined RSA in 1997. He has worked in security technology since 1980 and has authored a variety of related papers, articles, and standards. His areas of expertise and research interest are diverse, including security and privacy requirements and methods for end systems, networks, distributed systems, virtualized environments, electronic messaging, and public key and identity management infrastructures.

Chris Loeffler

Product Manager, Distributed Power Quality – Americas
Eaton Corporation

Mr. Loeffler is a Product Manager for Eaton Corporation, specializing in power system designs for commercial, industrial, medical, and military applications. With more than 19 years of experience in the UPS industry, he has overseen Product Management of more than 20 UPS system designs for data centers, medical imaging, military and industrial applications, including Eaton’s scalable rack based three-phase UPS, the Eaton BladeUPS®. Mr. Loeffler has held a variety of positions with Eaton, including roles in Service Engineering, Application Engineering, Program Management and more than 10 years within Product Management. Mr. Loeffler has authored a number of articles for trade publications and written a number of white papers concerning UPS design technology, energy efficiency, virtualization, cloud computing and power distribution for applications from the data center to the factory floor. Mr. Loeffler’s degree is in electronics engineering and he is currently a member of The Green Grid.

Eric Lundquist

Vice President of Editorial
Ziff Davis

Since 1996, Eric Lundquist has been Editor in Chief of eWEEK, which includes domestic, international and online editions. As eWEEK’s EIC, Lundquist oversees a staff of nearly 40 editors, reporters and Labs analysts covering product, services and companies in the high-technology community. He is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings and user events and sits on numerous advisory boards. Eric writes the popular weekly column, **QTE**Up Front,**QTE** and he is a confidant of eWEEK’s Spencer F. Katt gossip columnist.

Peter Moldave

Gesmer Updegrove
Partner

As a partner at Gesmer Updegrove, Peter’s practice focuses on the areas of computer software licensing transactions and corporate and securities law. His computer skills and expertise were honed while working for Apple Computer, Inc. handling federal securities law compliance and legal aspects of corporate finance transactions and technology joint ventures.

He advises a wide variety of clients in the software industry, including emerging software companies in the internet and enterprise software area, investors in software companies, and individual executives, authors and consultants, on issues including business formation, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, equity-based compensation, and software development, distribution, publishing and licensing arrangements.

Gary Murphy

Principle
Integrated Design Group, Inc

Gary Murphy is a founding partner of Integrated Design Group, Inc. an architecture and engineering firm that focuses exclusively on the design of critical data centers. Their recent projects include data centers for Citizens Bank, Thomson Reuters, Fidelity Investments and Brown University.
With over 25 years of experience in the real estate, design and construction industries, Gary’s background and experience span a wide variety of project types including biotech, laboratory, data center, office and manufacturing. He has spent the last 15 years focused exclusively on the data center design and construction business.
Gary is currently focusing on issues related to data center efficiency. He is active in organizations such as The Green Grid, The Uptime Institute and 7×24 Exchange.

Benjamin Woo

Program Vice President
Worldwide Storage Systems

Benjamin Woo, Program Vice President of IDC’s Worldwide Storage Systems Research, leads a team of analysts responsible for advising clients on the evolution and trends related to data storage systems; the impact storage systems have on adjacent technologies including servers, software, cloud and virtualization; and best practices in go-to-market strategies related to the storage industry. In addition to authoring thoughtful and provocative insight on the storage industry, Mr. Woo frequently speaks at IDC, industry and customer events worldwide and is frequently quoted in the leading business and technology press.