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Panel #1
"Big Data and Cloud Transitions"
Abstract
Panel Session with leading end users, industry participants and scientists discuss the issues in “big data,” large scale data systems/cloud solutions and adoptions looking at the "State of the Industry" in 2015.
- Panel Objectives:
- Provide attendees with ideas on how big data will impact their data centers, storage, and development plans
- Give insight into actual end user operations that will be presented by IT professionals in a variety of vertical industries
- Enable real time Q&A from the audience to engage and set the stage for consideration of big data issues as they relate to storage development and cloud
Moderator/Panelist's Bios
Chaitan Baru, Distinguished Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center/Center for Large Scale Data Systems
Bio
Chaitan Baru is a Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego. He leads the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development (ACID) group and is the Director of the Center for Large-scale Data Systems research (CLDS). Over the past 15 years, Baru has led a number of cyberinfrastructure projects focusing on management of scientific data in disciplines ranging from neuroscience, geoscience, ecology, engineering, and behavioral medicine. He has played a leadership role in a number of national and international-scale projects including the Geosciences Network (GEON), the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM), National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Hydrologic Information System (HIS), and the Center for Advanced Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA). He is PI of a project to evaluate parallel database technologies versus Hadoop-based techniques. Prior to joining SDSC, Baru led one of the development groups at IBM for DB2 Parallel Edition, where he also participated in the effort to define the TPC-D benchmark. Baru has also served on the faculty of the EECS Department at the University of Michigan, where he supervised 3 PhD dissertations. He has served as Principal Investigator for over $15M in research funding.
Val Bercovici, CSI Chair, NetApp
Bio
Val joined NetApp in 1998 and leads the Strategic Planning Team within the office of the CTO. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Val focuses on next-generation research projects and is responsible for NetApp’s product vision. Val introduced the first Cloud Standard to the industry as chairman of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative, whose mission is to foster the growth and success of the cloud storage market. Previously, Val served as the vice-chair of SNIA’s Solid-State Storage Initiative. Val has over 25 years of IT industry experience spanning NCR (AT&T) and Cognos (IBM), with 12 years in storage at EMC and NetApp. Previously, he worked as a consultant to private industry and government. Val holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.
Jerome Lecat, CEO, Scality
Bio
Jérôme Lecat is a serial entrepreneur and business angel with 15 years of Internet startup experience. He has lead multiple Internet startups to success.
Jérôme has also been active as a Business Angel and Board Member in several leading technology companies, including Vision Objects, the world leader in handwriting recognition, which was sold to DoubleDay in 2009.
Jérôme holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, a research masters degree on Cognitive Science from Université Paris VII. Jérôme attended the AMD program at INSEAD. Jérôme lives in San Francisco with his wife Anna and son Nathan.
Raghunath Nambiar, Performance Architect, Cisco Systems
Bio
Raghunath Nambiar has 18 years of technical accomplishments with significant expertise in computer system architecture and performance engineering. He has served on several industry standard committees for performance evaluation and benchmarking. He is a member of the board of directors of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) and chair of TPC's International Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. He has served on program committees of several academic and research conferences. He has published two books and over 30 industry-research papers. Currently a performance architect at Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) Business Unit. Prior to joining Cisco, he spent 16 years at Hewlett-Packard as a senior technologist. Raghu holds master's degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University.
Wes Perdue, Seagate
Bio
Wes Perdue’s current responsibilities include Seagate’s Enterprise Product Line Management Cloud Storage Strategy. For the past 10 years, he has held leadership positions in Seagate’s Strategic Technology Management, Business Development and Product Line Management. Prior to joining Seagate in 2001, he served as President of Danfoss Videk, an electronic imaging systems company. Earlier career highlights include General Manager and Vice President positions at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY. Wes holds a patent on an Automated Document Imaging System and has a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business.
Erik Riedel Ph.D, Senior Director of Technology & Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
Bio
Erik leads several engineering teams working to build cloud storage technology for deployment in private and public clouds. Focus areas include scalability, robustness, metadata-informed policy, multi-tenancy and security. Before joining EMC, Erik was Director of Interfaces & Architecture at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA. The group he founded and led focused on novel storage devices and systems with increased intelligence to optimize performance, improve security, improve reliability, and enable smarter organization of data. The technology targeted both large-scale enterprise storage clusters and ad-hoc collections of consumer and mobile storage devices working together. Erik was an appointed and elected member of the SNIA Technical Council, and has helped lead industry-wide education, technology promotion and standardization efforts for that organization for many years. Previously, Erik was a researcher in the storage program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. He has authored and co-authored eleven granted patents and a number of pending patent applications, as well as numerous technical publications on a range of storage-related topics. Erik holds B.S., M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work was on Active Disks as an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).
John Roese, CTO, Huawei
Bio
John is an industry recognized Chief Technology Officer and ICT visionary. Currently John is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Futurewei, Huawei’s North American R&D organization. Huawei is the world’s second largest telecom solution provider serving over 2 billion people in more than 140 countries. Futurewei provides technical expertise across all Huawei products including wireless, wire line, core networking, silicon development, terminals, software and solutions. John is also the executive leader of Huawei’s Enterprise Global Competency Center, which provides Enterprise technology innovation and incubation as well as sales, marketing and operations support for Huawei’s Enterprise field sales and marketing teams worldwide. Prior to Huawei, John was CTO of Nortel, the senior technology and R&D executive globally for the corporation, with functional responsibility for12,000 R&D staff and $1.7B annual budget. Prior to Nortel John was CTO for networking technologies at Broadcom Corporation. Prior to Broadcom, John was CTO, CMO and CIO of Enterasys Networks. John started his career at Cabletron Systems where he grew within the company ultimately becoming the global CTO.
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