Past Event Example: Santa Clara, CA — Virtualization & Cloud Event

• Cloud—the hype, the economics, marketing strategies, and how vendors roles fit into this much-talked-about space.
  • Panels
    • Object Storage in the Cloud- moderated by Andrew Reichman of Forrester
    • So Much SSD, So Little Time- moderated by Alan Niebel and Walker Blount from Web-Feet Research
    • Cloud Gateways – The Onramp to the Cloud- moderated by Jim Damoulakis of GlassHous
    • Disruptive Technologies – Not to be missed ! Moderated by Henry Baltazar of The 451 Group
  • Presentations
    • Keynote – by Jim Lewandowski – SVP of WW Sales for Rackspace
    • Cloud Drivers – What’s Pushing the Cloud Wave for Your Customers? - by Patrick Harr, VP of Cloud Strategy for HP.
    • Peter Levine – Venture Partner at Andreesson Horowitz
    • James Bagley – SSG – NOW – SNIA sponsored Cloud Storage Survey
    • Dan Scheel – President, Texas Memory Systems – History of SSD
    • Amit Walia – VP and GM of Symantec’s Backup Exec as well as Cloud Strategy

• Virtualization—VDI, architecture, reference architecture, and “where vendors fit” case studies
  • Panels
    • New Technology Spotlight- moderated by George Crump of Storage Switzerland
    • Data Protection For Virtualized (and Cloud) Environments - moderated by Curtis Preston of TruthInIT
    • Disruptive Technologies – Not to be missed ! Same as the Cloud panel

• • Presentations
    • The Real Business Case for VDI - Erwin Vollering, Virtualization Services Director at GlassHouse

• Speaker Bio’s Can Be Found Here.

• Today’s Speaker Spotlight – Jim Lewandowski, SVP and GM of Rackspace

As senior vice president and General Manager of Rackspace’s Enterprise group, Jim brings to Rackspace more than 20 years of sales management and experience. It is his responsibility to take an already established, high performing, sales force, and continue to grow and generate consistent revenue through new sales, channel partners and emerging technologies like cloud computing.

Jim has been in the high-tech industry his entire career. Most recently, he was the executive vice president of the Americas for McAfee where he was responsible for all sales in the Americas for McAfee. Jim also served as vice president of Yahoo! Enterprise Services, tasked with diversifying the company’s efforts by building an enterprise software business to move the company beyond their traditional business. Jim has also held executive positions at BMC Software and IBM.

Jim has a bachelor ofscience in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University and an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

Information on our Virtualization & Cloud Sponsors can be found here.