Biography

Adam Jollans is currently leading the worldwide cross-IBM Linux and open virtualization strategy for IBM. He is now based in Hursley, England, following a two year assignment to Somers, NY where he led the worldwide Linux marketing strategy for IBM Software Group. He has been involved with Linux since 1998, and prior to his US assignment he led the European marketing activities for IBM Software on Linux. He joined IBM in 1984, and since then has worked in a range of technical, sales and marketing roles - most of them associated with PC and small systems hardware and software. During his time at IBM he has worked with a leading UK Bank on designing and implementing their distributed branch information system. He also spent two years on assignment to IBM development in Florida working on advanced operating systems. Prior to joining IBM, he worked as an application software designer and programmer, developing commercial graphics and business software. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a degree in Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the British Computer Society.

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Sudin Baraokar has spent two decades in IT Industry and currently heads the Center of Innovation at Barclays Technology Center India. Has established BUTIP — Barclays Unified Technology Innovation Platform that hosts over 300 Applications, Software and Tools covering Core Banking, Internet, Mobile, Analytics and DW-BI.

Sudin is now implementing first-of-a-kind Private Cloud and Virtualization Solutions using IBM ISDM and Mash-ups to help integrate Applications and publish Application Service Catalogue Mashup (ASCM) which will help improve the management of Cloud and VM components as well as integrate the Application layer providing a bridge to help close the Business and Technology gap (so prevalent in today's world)

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Bill Bauman began his 18-year technology career in processor and network products development at Intel. He is currently recognized for his x86 virtualization and cloud computing industry leadership and serves as a cloud and virtualization solution architect at Red Hat. Prior to this role, he spent almost 13 years at IBM, most recently specializing in emerging technologies for IBM System x. Bill is also a specialist in scalable systems and is published in the field of processor performance.

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Mike Day is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Virtualization Architect for IBM's Open Systems Group. Mike has designed or developed technologies used every day by millions of people including network operating systems, internet protocols, systems management, security, and virtualization. Mike has many patents, has authored key technology standards, written books, and worked on commercially successful products for companies including Novell, Intel, IBM, and a couple of start-ups. Today Mike focuses on Linux, and Open Source Virtualization technology. Mike lead IBM's entry into open-source hypervisor development with the Xen hypervisor, and now directs IBM's Open Source Virtualization development efforts with Linux and the KVM hypervisor. Mike graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Philosophy.

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Martijn van Zoeren is CEO at Dutch Cloud, delivering SLA-based Cloud- and OnDemand Computing to the SMB Market in Europe. Dutch Cloud is THE specialist in IaaS-offerings (Infrastructure as a Service) with focus on integration of Cloud Computing into customers' Business Processes. Network-integration and security are key as well as the automated provisioning of virtual and physical components. Martijn was also Managing Director of the first IBM Blue Cloud initiative in Europe (iTricity) and has a proven track-record of building new business initiatives together with IBM. Martijn started his career as Business Development Director at Level(3) Communications and BMC Software and was CEO at FourtyOne IT in Europe for more than 7 years.