VCCG 2010

Mark Bowker

Moderator

Senior Analyst

Enterprise Strategy Group

Mark Bowker joined ESG in 2006 and currently champions ESG’s Data Center Transformation practice, focusing on all things virtualization and cloud computing. In his current role, Mark researches the various virtualization technologies available and the impact these solutions have on IT strategies and the broader marketplace. His other research areas include cloud computing, data center management, and application workload deployment in next generation data centers, as well as the external influences that drive the adoption of these technologies. Prior to ESG, Mark ran the IT organization for a business consulting and technology services company and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. He has experience in designing, implementing, and expanding network and system infrastructure for global organizations. Mark holds a BS in Management Information Systems from American International College and a continuing education certificate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in UNIX administration and C++ programming. He is also a private pilot. You can usually find him flying around the skies of New England on the weekends.

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.

Ray Brow

Ray Brow, Division Chief DoS/IRM/SIO

Dept. of State

Dale Wickizer

CTO - US Public Sector

NetApp

Dale Wickizer is the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp U.S. Public Sector. His responsibilities include setting future technology and product directions for NetApp’s U.S. Public Sector division and managing key customer relationships. Before starting at NetApp, Dale was an Associate Partner and an IT Infrastructure Architect at Accenture, where he was responsible for helping Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies plan and execute IT transformations, data center consolidations and rollouts of large enterprise applications and storage infrastructures to help those companies reduce cost and be more competitive. Dale played a fundamental part in establishing strong alliances between Accenture and key storage vendors (such as EMC and NetApp), and was viewed across the firm as a storage expert. Dale holds both a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also completed Reactor Design School at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory as part of his Navy training.