Blog posts tagged with 'keynotes'

Reporting directly to Henning Kagermann, Sikka is responsible for driving the company's technology and architecture strategy across its product portfolio. Sikka is ensuring a clear and harmonized roadmap for SAP products to deliver new innovations and increasing value to customers. As CTO, Sikka also leads the company's forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies and is responsible for mapping SAP's next-generation architecture.

Scott is VP ISS Software and leads the ISS Software team. Scott and his team are focused on the total business for ISS software and related internal and external partnerships. The ISS software team includes base ISS management software, operating systems, SmartStart, and Virtualization software technologies.

Scott joins Hewlett Packard by way of acquisition of RLX Technologies in October 2005. Scott joined the founding team at RLX Technologies in December 2000, Scott Farrand has been responsible for operating systems support, ServerBlade management and solutions development for scale-out applications.

Roberto Moctezuma is the vice president and general manager for Desktop Solutions. Based in Houston; he is responsible for the global business unit (GBU) that focuses on the emerging thin client and virtualization market. It includes Thin Clients, CCI (Consolidated Client Infrastructure), Blades Workstations and Retail Point of Sale solutions.

Pat Gelsinger is senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG). This group is Intel's largest business group accounting for more than half of the corporation's revenue. As co-general manager, Gelsinger is focused on delivering leading platforms and products to businesses worldwide. These platforms span the full gamut of business needs including servers, business clients, storage, communications and embedded applications. In addition to delivering platforms, DEG designs and develops many of the platform ingredients such as microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, networking components and software.

Mr. Booth is president of CSC's global sales and marketing. He is responsible for designing and implementing CSC sales and marketing strategies worldwide to help create and sustain competitive advantage in bringing service offerings to market. His responsibilities also include sales and marketing strategies to increase penetration in key markets; strengthening and enhancing sales and marketing capabilities across the business; creating and maintaining alliances to augment growth goals; and establishing strategies, programs and practices that define CSC's presence in the marketplace. In addition, Mr. Booth is responsible for developing and implementing a focused market segmentation strategy, improving the alignment of the sales function with the overall business, developing CSC's brand, and strengthening the sales and marketing culture within CSC across the globe. These programs, and others developed as part of Project Accelerate, will help transform how CSC goes to market. The appointment supports Project Accelerate, the company's comprehensive new strategy to accelerate growth and improve customer service.

George Kurian is the Vice-President and General Manager for Cisco System's Application Delivery Business Unit. He leads the development and implementation of the Cisco-wide strategy for Application Delivery products including product strategy, development, acquisitions and investments, and coordinating the company's Go-to-Market capabilities for this Advanced Technology segment.

Bob Muglia is Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), a part of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. STB is chartered to deliver Microsoft's unique vision for information technology professionals and developers: "Empower People across the IT Lifecycle through Integrated Software Innovation." As STB business leader, Muglia is responsible for developing and marketing Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. This integrated set of products provides the foundation for IT operations, security, application development and integration. This portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center management products and the Forefront line of business security products.
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Since joining Microsoft in January 1988, Muglia has served in a variety of positions, including managing the development of the MSN network of Internet services and Microsoft Office family of business productivity applications, Windows Server applications, and productivity appliances such as Pocket PCs, eBooks and Tablet PCs. In addition, Muglia helped to bring together the Visual Studio family of developer tools and drive the Win32 API, customer requirements and product specification for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

Hyper-V

First of all I asked the obvious question about Hyper-V, if he would be more detailed on the release date than "after 180 days of the release of Windows Server 2008" He smiled and just repeated "180 days of the release of Windows Server 2008"

I asked him about Hyper-V and the stand-alone SKU it will be released in, can you walk in a store and buy it from the shelve for the announced $28?
He said it probably will be popular in the OEM channel and not in the retail.
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SCVMMv2

Now that Hyper-V beta is out, it is a pity there is no System Center Virtual Machine Manager that can mange Hyper-V. When can we expect a beta of SCVMMv2? He said the beta will be out this spring (which meteorological) is now) The final version is to be expected the same time as Hyper-V RTM is available.

I told him that I was kind of surprised when Microsoft announced a few months ago that SCVMMv2 will manage Vmware (ESX) servers. He said this was all customer demand, It should be manageable, integrated and easy. So also not just Microsoft but also Vmware, not just Windows VM's but also Linux.

A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn't just change how businesses operate. It set off a chain reaction of economic and social transformations that brought the modern world into existence. Today, a similar revolution is under way. Hooked up to the Internet's global computing grid, massive information-processing plants have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it's computing that's turning into a utility.

The shift is already remaking the computer industry, bringing new competitors like Google and Salesforce.com to the fore and threatening stalwarts like Microsoft and Dell. But the effects will reach much further. Cheap, utility-supplied computing will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. We can already see the early effects — in the shift of control over media from institutions to individuals, in debates over the value of privacy, in the export of the jobs of knowledge workers, even in the growing concentration of wealth. As information utilities expand, the changes will only broaden, and their pace will only accelerate.

Nicholas Carr is the ideal guide to explain this historic upheaval. Writing in a lucid, engaging style, he weaves together history, economics and technology to describe how and why computers are changing — and what it means for all of us. From the software business to the newspaper business, from job creation to community formation, from national defense to personal identity, The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer."