J. Neil Kronimus
Director of Cloud Computing Services
CSC
Mr. Kronimus is a technology executive with over 18 years of experience delivering profitable, innovative solutions to the marketplace. His experience includes both technology and management roles in information technology, systems engineering, test and integration, operations and maintenance, information assurance and telecommunications. His work at other companies, Nortel, PEC Solutions and GE, allows him to bring depth and breadth of experience from both the federal and commercial world.
Mr. Kronimus holds a MBA degree from James Madison University and a BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He also has many certifications including as PMP, ITIL v3 Expert, Six Sigma Black Belt and several Microsoft certifications.
Mr. Kronimus is currently the Director of Cloud Computing Services for CSC’s North American Public Sector. He also leads CSC’s Global Cloud Strategy for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In this role, Mr. Kronimus is responsible for the strategy direction, operations and business management of CSC’s Cloud Computing offering in the marketplace. He is also a recipient of CSC’s Chairman’s Award for Excellence in 2010 for his work in Cloud Computing.
David S. Linthicum
Presenter
CTO
Bick Group
David S. Linthicum (Dave) is CTO of the Bick Group focusing on emerging
technology spaces including cloud computing. In addition, Dave is an
internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader, and the
author and coauthor of 13 books on computing, including the best-selling Enterprise Application Integration, and his latest book Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise.
Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Web 2.0, and enterprise architecture,
and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. He is a blogger for InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, covering SOA and enterprise computing topics.
Today’s cloud computing is often described as three offerings: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). These models assume that the cloud replaces either local systems or applications and runs them remotely. When will application developers actually write cloud applications and what will these look like? This session will focus on:
> Current industry efforts in cloud application development
> The role of scalable distributed file systems
> Cloud computing burst-able scaling model for developers