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OpenStack's Digital Transformation Opportunity

CIO Cloud Strategy

As customers across all industries are responding to evolving customer behaviors, market opportunities, and competitive pressures, IT organizations must adopt a more strategic role in delivering greater business value and ensuring competitive differentiation in their designated markets.

Al Sadowski of 451 Research forecasts that OpenStack ecosystem revenues will exceed $5bn by 2020. But what will the return look like for those who invest in these technologies with the desire to save money, increase operational efficiency and innovate faster? What obstacles stand in they way of digital transformation?

Join this session to find out!

Panelists:

Al Sadowski, Research VP for the Infrastructure Practice at 451 Research

Rafi Khardalian, Cisco

Thomas Cameron, Red Hat

Moderated by Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelist at Cisco

What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn:

The perils of one-size-fits-all and piecemeal strategies
What role OpenStack plays in the path to digitization
How companies are addressing cultural change necessary to innovate faster
Strategies for keeping up with the pace of change and minimizing technical debt
How rapidly evolving market conditions and open source technolgies are changing how companies deliver value inside and outside of their organizations

Thursday, May 11, 9:00am-9:40am (1:00pm - 1:40pm UTC)

Hynes Convention Center - Level Two - MR 210

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Tags: CxO Enterprise Governance Telecom Security Infra Public Cloud

Niki Acosta

Cisco

Niki Acosta is an OpenStack Evangelist who came to Cisco by way of the Metacloud Acquistion in late 2014. Her OpenStack journey began when she joined Rackspace in 2008, eventually becoming an OpenStack Evangelist for the Rackspace Cloud, and later, the Private Cloud business. As a frequent speaker, podcaster, and blogger, she has become a recognized name in the cloud industry both on... FULL PROFILE

Al Sadowski

Research Vice President

As Research Vice President, Al is responsible for setting the research agenda for the Infrastructure practices, spanning servers, storage, networking and software-defined infrastructure. He regularly advises the vendor and service provider C-suite, investment bankers and enterprise CIOs on the business problems technology attempts to solve and the companies that build, use and invest in these... FULL PROFILE

Rafi Khardalian

Director, Engineering & Operations

Rafi Khardalian is Directory of Engineering & Operations for Cisco OpenStack Privage Cloud at Cisco and was a member of the founding team at Metacloud. Prior to joining Metacloud, Rafi was the Director of Systems Architecture at Ticketmaster Entertainment. He was responsible for driving innovation while designing highly scalable, globally distributed infrastructure to meet the unique... FULL PROFILE

Thomas Cameron

Senior Principal Cloud Evangelist

Thomas Cameron is a Senior Principal Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat. He has been in the information technology industry since 1993, and has held certifications as a Novell Certified NetWare Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer/Trainer. Thomas is currently a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), a Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack, a Red Hat... FULL PROFILE