Chris started his career developing software at Bolt Beranek and Newman. He later signed on as product manager for eRoom, a collaboration software startup. He stayed at eRoom in a variety of product management and operating roles, including a stint as Director of Asia/Pacific Operations. His last role at eRoom prior to its acquisition by EMC was general manager of its SaaS hosted operation. Subsequent to eRoom, Chris went to security startup Liquid Machines, followed by his current role as Director of Product Management at Virtual Iron Software. At Virtual Iron, Chris is responsible for the full product lifecycle, including market requirements gathering, synthesis, product direction, and technology partnerships.

Chris has a range of technical accomplishments, including a patent for a method of speech recognition over the Internet. His more recent interests involve building and launching enterprise software products.

Andrew Binstock is the principal analyst at Pacific Data Works LLC, a firm that specializes in high-technology white papers. Previously, he was in charge of Global Technology Forecasts for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Earlier, he was the editor-in-chief of UNIX Review. He currently writes the Integration Watch column for Software Development Times (SD Times) and is a Senior Contributing Editor for InfoWorld, where he focuses on enterprise software-development technologies.

Scott has been with Bank of America for six years and currently manages a team of software engineers that supports the Bank of America trading environment. A technology manager at heart, Scott has more than two years of hands-on experience with application and software virtualization. He and his team are currently focused on the rollout of an integrated Altiris Software Virtualization Solution and AppStream implementation. Scott has years of experience building software packaging and deployment best practices for more than 100,000 PCs and now champions the benefits of innovative technologies like desktop virtualization.

Michael Callahan was formerly the head of Advanced Development at Ask Jeeves. He has over 15 years of research experience in computer vision, scientific visualization, differential geometry and topology, networking and distributed file systems. The Linux networking software he wrote is in use at millions of sites worldwide. He was a Rhodes Scholar and Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at Oxford University and holds a BA from Harvard University.

George Chlentzos is the Director of Engineering Services for PGP Corporation, a global security software company. George brings more than 15 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Test Automation, and Release Engineering to PGP. A hands-on early adopter of Test Automation and Environment Virtualization technologies, he has led test automation efforts throughout his career. Prior to working at PGP, he held positions at Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and Peter Norton Computing. At PGP, George is responsible for Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Release Engineering, Technical Education, and Product Globalization.

Cadman has held numerous senior marketing positions over the last 8 years at IT companies with products and solutions focusing on the enterprise data center. Prior to joining PlateSpin, Cadman led the product marketing and product management teams at Cybermation Inc., a leader in enterprise job scheduling and software change management. He has also held senior product management and product marketing positions at DataMirror Corporation, managing their flagship cross-platform database integration products. He holds an MBA degree from the Schulich School of Business (York University) and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.

In his role as chief architect at Avanade, Patrick has global responsibility for designing and delivering assets and tools used by Avanade customers and consultants to deliver infrastructure and security solutions. Patrick has 17 years experience in the IT industry in systems consulting, software development, and IT operations. Patrick has experience with large-scale application infrastructure environments, storage expertise, SAP systems, and application development with a wide range of technologies including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and mainframe environments. He has worked within multi vendor environments with complex systems for a broad range of industry sectors.

Patrick has been with Avanade since 2000 and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Dayton.

Doug is responsible for InfoWorld's product reviews and testing projects. In addition to overseeing Test Center coverage of enterprise IT products, Doug also helps plan and produce technology analyses and test-driven feature articles. He holds a bachelor's of science degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kelly Flanagan is currently the Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Brigham Young University. He is responsible for campus computing, telephony, network infrastructure, campus software development, and a global operations center. In addition to the responsibilities associated with this position, Kelly continues to mentor several PhD students in Computer Science where he has been a professor since 1993. He has published more than 30 technical papers, acquired significant external research funding, and has won numerous awards.

Steve oversees day-to-day editorial operations for InfoWorld Media Group and is responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives. He brings 28 years of publishing experience to the job, including, most recently, two-plus years as editorial director of CNET, where he directed coverage for both CNET.com and ZDNet.

Steve is no newcomer to IDG. Previously, he held positions of editor-in-chief at pcworld.com, editor at PC World magazine, and editor-in-chief at The Web Magazine. Steve also worked for Omni magazine (where he was Managing Editor for four years), Popular Mechanics, and the IEEE. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.

Andre Garcia is AVP & Director of IT Infrastructure for ABM Industries, a 75,000+ employee-facility services company that uses Citrix exclusively for all application access for employees spanning over 250 offices nationwide. With over 20 years experience in Information Technology, Mr. Garcia has held various consulting, technical, and management positions with Fortune 100 companies like JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, IBM, and Compaq. He has worked in various capacities with very large and complex organizations including the United States Army, United States Navy, US Federal Reserve, US Geological Survey, NASA, Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL), The Walt Disney Company, Boeing, Warner Brothers, Bank of America, ARCO, and American Express. Mr. Garcia has been a speaker at various technology industry events including the InfoWorld CTO Forum and Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC).

Adam Gray, Chief Technology Officer, founder, and member of the board of directors of Novacoast, Inc. has over 13 years experience as a senior network engineer and is an expert in virtualization technology. Mr. Gray and his team have implemented systems running both VMware and XEN for many companies including the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and Tropitone, to name a couple. Recently Mr. Gray finished implementing a XEN cluster spanning several blades and thirty plus virtual machines with both full virtualization and paravirtualization technologies in use. Mr. Gray has worked on projects to virtualize and cluster applications utilizing web technologies, SAP, asterisk systems, and several other enterprise applications.

Mr. Higdon is an industry veteran in the networking, application and database management, and virtualization industries. He leads all product marketing functions across DataSynapse - corporate positioning, product positioning, sales enablement, and more. He was most recently director of product marketing for Quest Software, the leading provider of application, database, and windows management solutions. Prior to joining Quest Software, Mr. Higdon held several leadership positions at BMC Software, a leading provider of enterprise management solutions. He was a strategic part of BMC's e-business management initiative, creating a $20 million product line. Mr. Higdon has extensive international experience in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and France, where he helped drive Quest's presence in the systems management market. Mr. Higdon holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems from The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

Duncan founded Enigmatec Corporation in 2001. Enigmatec has raised $17M in venture funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, Pentech Ventures and Intel Capital. Prior to Enigmatec, he spent 14 years in the Financial Services industry specializing in the development of large-scale distributed trading systems. In 1998, he joined Reuters Group as CTO Fixed Income at Instinet Corporation where he led the development of their new brokerage platform. In recognition of his pioneering work with Java Enterprise Technology in Financial Services, he was a Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate in 2000. Duncan holds an MSc in Computation from Oxford University.

Scott is the Product Manager for the Altiris virtualization technology, including Protect, Software Virtualization Solution and AppStream from Altiris. He has been a Product Manager for over five years, previously focusing on security. Prior to that, Scott was a consultant and a reseller, so he brings a broad range of practical experience to the table as a PM. Scott is an advocate of free and open source software (FOSS) and adept at forging partnerships and building community around his products.

Jack Lo is Sr. Director of R & D at VMware. Jack manages the VMware virtual machine group, which is responsible for the virtual hardware platform across VMware's virtualization products. Prior to joining VMware, Jack was at Transmeta Corporation for five years, where he held several engineering management positions, the most recent being Director of Software Engineering. Jack received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 1998, and B.S./M.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

Marcus MacNeill is Director of Product Strategy at Surgient, where he brings more than 20 years experience in enterprise software to his role. He is responsible for defining and evangelizing the company's product direction and identifying new market opportunities. He is also responsible for the award-winning Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System. Prior to Surgient, Marcus held senior product management and marketing positions at Troux Technologies, Vignette, PeopleSoft and Oracle Corporation. He began his career as a software engineer and development manager at Platinum Technology, and holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University with a specialization in Computer Science.

Pete Manca brings over 20 years' experience in enterprise computing to Egenera. His expertise spans critical enterprise datacenter technologies including virtualization, operating systems, large-scale architectures and open standards. His leadership and experience in virtualization technologies has led to the continued progression of Egenera's advanced PAN (Processing Area Network) architecture. As CTO, Manca leads product planning by working directly with customers to understand their most difficult challenges and guide Egenera's architecture, hardware, and software engineering teams to translate those requirements into solutions.

Prior to Egenera, Manca served as vice president of engineering at Hitachi Computer Products America with responsibility for operating systems and enterprise middleware products-contributing to the development of the world's then-fastest commercial supercomputer. Manca holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Long a champion of open standards, Manca has actively participated in the X/Open and Open Software Foundation consortiums.

Gordon Mangione joins XenSource from Ignition Partners, a Seattle-based venture capital firm where he was an executive in residence. Prior to Ignition, he served as corporate vice president of the Security Business and Technology Unit (SBTU) at Microsoft Corporation. Mangione also served at Microsoft as corporate vice president of both the SQL Server Team and the Exchange team, and as a product unit manager in the Internet Services business and the development manager for SNA Server, one of the first servers developed for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. Mangione joined Microsoft in 1991 after working as a developer at Bell Northern Research, where he focused on PC/telephony integration. He has an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

As a director at Avanade, David has global responsibility for go-to-market activities including the development and enrichment of solutions and reusable assets for customers' infrastructure transformation and security needs for next generation optimized infrastructures. David has 18 years IT industry experience in the systems consulting and software development industries. David has worked with enterprises on infrastructure architectures with Microsoft technologies since 1993. He has worked within multi-vendor environments with complex systems for a broad range of industry sectors.

David has been with Avanade since 2000 and holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing from Loughborough University, England.

Carlos Montero-Luque is the Vice President of Product Management for the Open Platform Solutions Business Unit at Novell. Carlos' team is responsible for the Linux product and solution portfolio at Novell. Prior to this role, Carlos was CTO of the Identity Business Unit and Vice President of Engineering for the ZENworks product suite. Carlos joined Novell from the acquisition of Ximian, where Carlos had been VP of Engineering, developing products serving enterprise customers as well as over a million open source users. Prior to Ximian, Carlos was Inktomi Corp.'s head of East Coast engineering operations for the Network Products and Wireless Divisions. Carlos has held a variety of positions in consulting and engineering at companies such as Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation (acquired by Borland) and the Open Software Foundation. Carlos holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Master's Degree in Government from Harvard University.

Mike Neil is senior director for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including the Windows hypervisor, as part of Windows Server "Longhorn" and directing Microsoft's broader vision for virtualization. Prior to this role, Mike was the product unit manager for Microsoft's virtualization efforts since 2003. Virtual PC and Virtual Server are the client and server virtualization products from Microsoft that allow customers to run two or more operating systems simultaneously on one physical machine.

Mike joined Microsoft as part of Microsoft's February 2003 acquisition of Connectix Corp. While at Connectix, Mike was the vice president of engineering and worked on the original team that developed Virtual PC Mac, allowing Apple Macintosh computers to run Windows. After attending the University of Michigan, Mike joined Apple culminating as the integration and technical lead for Apple's OS project code named Copland.

Gregory Nelson is a Senior Technology Consultant at Russell Investment Group and has over 18 years experience in design, support and management of client computing environments. During the last 9 years Gregory has worked with Russell Investment Group in various capacities, including: Manager of Help Desk and Application Support, Systems Analyst and Senior Technology Consultant. In his current role he is responsible for the client computing architecture and virtualization architecture. In this capacity Gregory has acted as the project leader and senior architect for Citrix, SoftGrid and Server Virtualization technologies. Greg's current efforts are focused on the design and implementation of the next generation client computing environment and support framework for Russell's global enterprise.

Steve brings extensive marketing and engineering experience at systems, software, and services companies to the Taneja Group. He advises clients on issues concerning product strategy, positioning, messaging, and channel development. His expertise spans operating systems, file systems, databases, server infrastructure, and advanced networking and storage technologies. Steve joins the Taneja Group from PolyServe, a leading clustered storage company, where he was the Vice President of Product Marketing. At PolyServe, he was responsible for the overall marketing and product strategy of the company and successfully launched the company and its two product lines in the market during his tenure. Prior to PolyServe, Steve held senior management positions at Oracle Corporation, CGI-AMS, and Microsoft Corporation. He holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Don Norbeck is the Director of Product Development for SunGard Availability Services. Over the last year, he developed SunGard's Suite of Messaging and Collaboration Services and is responsible for setting SunGard's strategy for Virtualization, Grid and On-demand computing, as well as setting the SunGard Information Availability Product Roadmap. Prior to assuming a product management role, Don served as Solution Engineer and Managed Services Subject Matter Expert, where he assisted in architecting some of SunGard's most complex managed services solutions.

With over 15 years of IT experience, Don has worked as a Solution Engineer for Kana, an ECRM software company, and Digex, a hosting provider. He served as Internet Services Manager and Director of Information Technology for Philadelphia 2000, the host committee for the 2000 Republican Convention. Don holds a Juris Doctorate from Temple University's Beasley School of Law and a B.A. in American Culture from Vassar College.

James Phillips is senior director of VMware's software lifecycle solutions business. He joined VMware in June 2006 when the company acquired Akimbi Systems, a virtualization startup which he co-founded and led as CEO. Prior to Akimbi, James was senior vice president of products and marketing at Actional Corporation (acquired by Progress Software), where he led the company's transformation from an OEM-focused adapter factory to a leader in the service-oriented systems management software category. During his 20 years in the software industry, James has held leadership positions in software engineering, product management, business development and marketing management at Intel, Synopsys, Intuit, Central Point Software (acquired by Symantec) and Fifth Generation Systems (also acquired by Symantec). He also spent three years as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens & Co. and PaineWebber. He holds a BS in mathematics and earned his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago.

Specializing in virtualization architecture and high-end storage implementation, Matt has a true passion for enterprise IT solutions. With more than ten years of experience in the IT industry, Matt has done everything from large-scale internetworking, to developing complex LAMP-based web applications. Over the past eighteen months, Matt has been instrumental to the adoption of virtualization technologies as a means for his clients to decrease both their disaster recovery windows and overall TCO.

Matt is a Senior Network Architect with the SymQuest Group.

Dr. Gregory O. Smith is the Director of Solution Design for T-Systems IT Operations in North America responsible for Dynamic Computing and Application Services. Gregory has an extensive background in virtualization-based delivery of applications with a focus around SAP. Prior to joining T-Systems, Gregory was the Global Manager of Sun Microsystems SAP Competency Center Organization and a core designer of Sun's N1 for SAP Solutions virtualized delivery platform.

Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, has over 20 years of enterprise engineering experience in UNIX and Linux technologies, including work as a developer on the first commercial release of the X Window System. Since joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Stevens has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage and clustering strategies. He now leads the Emerging Technologies group.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Stevens served as CTO of Mission Critical Linux, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development and clustering products. Stevens also spent 14 years at Digital/Compaq as a Senior Member of Technical Staff.

Paul Venezia is an InfoWorld Senior Contributing Editor and a veteran consultant with over a decade in the trenches. Perl, PHP, SQL, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, high-end internetworking - he's been there, done it, and has the scars to prove it. Paul is also a contributor to many open source projects including NeDi, Cacti, and relaydelay.

Mr. Wilson has been in the IT industry for 30 years and has worked as a consultant for a number of companies in the insurance, finance, transportation, software and health industries in the United States and Europe. This experience has included system development, database administration, and for the last decade architectural strategy, design and implementation. Mr. Wilson started with Amerisure Insurance in 2004 as their first Enterprise Architect and has acted as a change agent in that organization to bring about significant change in moving the company forward with a comprehensive virtualization strategy. The early and tangible success of these efforts has created a momentum for driving this strategy broader and deeper across the organization.

Tom Yager has been working in IT and as a hands-on technology journalist for over 25 years. He has published three books, hundreds of reviews and hands-on print articles, and has worked as a columnist for UNIX Review and Windows NT Systems, among others. Today, Tom is the chief technologist for InfoWorld's Test Center, author of InfoWorld's Ahead of the Curve column and author of the Enterprise Mac blog.

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