Application Acceleration in the Cloud

Session Date & Time: Day 3, March 25, 9.45am EST (6.45am West Coast) (45min)
Panelists: Bojan Simic, Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, Owen Garrett, Director of Product Marketing, Zeus Technologies, Opher Dubrovsky, AVP Product Marketing, Crescendo Networks and Michael Kuperman, VP of Operations, Cotendo.
Keywords: enterprise applications in cloud.
Abstract The emergence of cloud computing is driving a new demand for application delivery solutions, but it is also changing the market landscape for this type of technology. As organizations are deploying cloud computing services to improve the flexibility and scalability of their infrastructures, they are expecting to achieve similar benefits from using load balancing and other application acceleration technologies. As a result, many application acceleration vendors are upgrading their technology offerings to adjust to these changes and ensure that their solutions can be as effective in the cloud as they are in traditional, internally managed environments.

This panel session will highlight the role that application acceleration technologies play in enabling cloud services. Additionally, it will provide an insight into technology capabilities for application acceleration that are becoming increasingly important when organizations deploy cloud services.

Bio:
Bojan Simic,
Founder and Principal Analyst,
TRAC Research
Bojan Simic is the founder and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, a market research and analyst firm that specializes in IT performance management. As an industry analyst, Bojan interviewed more than 2,000 IT and business professionals from end-user organizations and published more than 50 research reports. Bojan’s coverage area at TRAC Research includes application and network monitoring, WAN management and acceleration, cloud and virtualization management, BSM and managed services.

His domain knowledge includes insights into end user experiences, best-practices in deploying solutions for IT performance management, and strategies of related solution providers.

Bojan is frequently quoted in leading industry publications and he has presented his research findings at more than 30 market facing events.
Simic holds a B.A. in Economics from Belgrade University in Belgrade, Serbia and an M.B.A. from McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University.

Owen Garrett,
Product Manager, Zeus Technology.
Owen Garrett works for Zeus’ Product Management team, focusing on new solutions and applications of Zeus’ application delivery technologies across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

He began his career at Zeus many years ago in Zeus’ Development team and ran several successful online ventures prior to that.

Owen studied Mathematics at Cambridge University, followed by the Post Diploma in Computer Science, the oldest established computer science course in the world.

Opher Dubrovsky
AVP Product Marketing,
Crescendo Networks
Opher serves as AVP Product Marketing at Crescendo Networks where he drives the roadmap and global go-to-market strategies for the AppBeat ADC product line. For the last 15 years, Opher has been driving product activities in a variety of companies ranging from startups to large multinationals.

Having spent years at Microsoft, Opher has enhanced his expertise in networking, security, virtualization and interactive television.

Opher is the co-author of 4 security and acceleration patents and 3 scientific articles. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, Israel.

Michael Kuperman,
VP of Operations, Cotendo

Michael has 10+ years of experience in the content delivery (CDN) and application delivery network (ADN) industry. To his role as VP of Operations at Cotendo he brings deep expertise in deploying and operating mission critical global environments in the US, Europe and Asia. Before joining Cotendo, Michael held senior Operations positions at a number of leading companies in the content delivery network industry. At Netli Michael ran Operations and led the deployment of the Netli Application Delivery Network Service from an idea to worldwide presence serving Fortune 1,000 companies. After Netli was acquired by Akamai, Michael ran the Network Operations team at Akamai before he joined CDNetworks as Director of Global Operations. At CDNetworks he was responsible for the company’s worldwide network in the US, EU and APAC and played a key role in the technical due dilligence and global integration of the Panther Express acquisition. Michael holds a B.S. and M.B.A. from Kennedy Western University.