10/27/10
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
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.
Tom Kresic
Director of Technology - Federal
CommVault
Jon Oltsik
Moderator
Sr. Principal Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group
Jon Oltsik is a principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group as well as the founder of its Information Security and Networking services. Oltsik is widely recognized as an expert in security management and technology as well as identity and access management. Most recently, Oltsik has focused on Information Technology and Cybersecurity in the U.S. Federal Government. Oltsik has been in the technology industry for well over 20 years. Prior to joining ESG, Oltsik was the founder and principal of Hype-Free Consulting. Mr. Oltsik has also held senior positions at GiantLoop Network, Forrester Research, and EMC Corporation, and Epoch Systems. Mr. Oltsik has an MBA and a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
While many cloud computing use cases are still developing, cloud storage services are in wide use today for the archiving and backup of non-sensitive data. How are organizations justifying this cloud storage? What does cloud storage look like? How are they measuring their success? Are they building private storage clouds or using service providers? Why? This session will answer these questions and more.
Participants will learn:
Government employees: Register now for your FREE Expo Pass! You'll get access to the Exhibition on October 26, as well as the Professional Education Program!