Cloud Computing Summit 2010

Chip Brodhun

USMC (Retired)

Director, Enterprise Architecture & Solutions

Coraid, Inc.

Major Brodhun retired from active service in May 2010, leaving Marine Corps Systems Command as the technical director for Enterprise Standards and Technologies within Product Group 10. In this role, Maj Brodhun was responsible for the identification, evaluation, and introduction of advanced and emerging standards, technologies, and processes to the United States Marine Corps. Specifically, the USMC Enterprise Virtualization initiative -- approximately 2300 ESX hosts, nearly 7000 virtual machines deployed, and almost 20,000 hours of deployment engineering and training services delivered across 167 sites globally -- set a number of benchmarks for highly distributed, enterprise-scale, virtualization roll-outs. Now, Mr. Brodhun is the Director, Enterprise Architecture and Solutions at Coraid, Inc. accelerating customer success deploying virtualization and cloud computing environments through delivery of high performance scale-out Ethernet SAN solutions eliminating the bottleneck of legacy controller-based architectures and putting 20% of customer IT budgets back into the customer's budget.

Anil Karmel

Solutions Architect

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Anil Karmel is a solutions architect working in the Network and Infrastructure Engineering division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has been in the IT Industry for over ten years, working with various Fortune 500 companies and government in the areas of Enterprise Virtualization, Messaging & Collaboration. As the architect of LANL's Virtualization and Collaboration solutions, Mr. Karmel has been invited to speak at numerous IT conferences including VMworld and is featured on the cover of FedTech Magazine. He conducted a webinar on GCN.com entitled, "Taking the initiative on virtualization" and is frequently quoted in federal IT publications.

Jeffrey Morrow

Co-Founder & EVP

IronBrick

Jeffrey Morrow is Co-founder and Executive Vice President of IronBrick, a leading provider of datacenter solutions based in the Washington, DC area. In 3 years, Jeff has been largely responsible for driving business development and growing the company into a multi-million dollar venture with clients both in government and commercial enterprises. Jeff diligently manages all partner relationships and has established himself as a thought leader in the industry due to his ability to understand complex business requirements and the impact on infrastructure solution design. Prior to founding IronBrick in 2006, Jeff served as Vice President in Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services Public Sector division. Before working at Citigroup, he held several senior sales and marketing positions with Oracle and Boeing.