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5 A's: Applications, Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, who's Authorized

Applications are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. As workers become increasingly untethered from their desks, their ability to securely and quickly connect to the applications they rely on has become mission critical. However, as companies make these applications available across the distributed enterprise, they also have to consider important issues such as security, data compliance practices, and disaster recovery. This session will investigate the issue of ‘everywhere applications’, examine how the enterprise is balancing the demands for greater access without compromising security, and identify which tools and technologies they’re using to meet these fast evolving requirements.

Lee Klarich, VP Product Management, Palo Alto Neworks   Jason Needham, Senior Director of Product Management, F5 Networks Raja Mukerji | Co-Founder and President

Moderator:
Danny Luedke,
Senior Sales Engineer, Network Computing Architects

Danny Luedke brings experience ranging from start-ups to a Fortune 1000 company. With over 14 years of experience in operations and professional services, he brings a strong expertise in applications, operating systems, architecture, and security. Danny leads our security audit sub practice focusing on customer’s business initiatives. Danny specializes in information security and is the primary architect of NCA’s security audit framework. Prior to joining NCA, Danny was a Systems Engineer for Corbis. Danny’s primary focus with Corbis was spent stabilizing the commerce web sites, incorporating the operations team in the development lifecycle, and creating a world-class data center facility. Among his significant previous positions, Danny helped form the network operations team and professional services team at ViAir.

Panelist:
Mike Menduno,
Senior Reporter, OTR Global

Michael is a senior reporter at OTR Global, where he leads an international team of reporters covering application delivery networking as part of OTR's Enterprise Technology Group.

Before joining OTR in 2001, Menduno worked as a freelance journalist who wrote about business and technology for clients including; Business 2.0, Crain's Chicago Business, Hospitals and Healthcare Networks, Scientific American and Wired magazine.

He was also the founder, and editor-in-chief of aquaCORPS: The Journal for Technical Diving (1990-1996)," which helped usher in a technological revolution in sport diving including the use of mixed gas and rebreather technology. He remains an active "tech diver."

Prior to his writing career, Menduno spent a decade working in market and strategic planning for a variety of Silicon Valley technology companies and start-ups, including working as the manager of strategic planning for Tymnet, a precursor to the Internet, and Tymshare, the original "software as service" company.

Menduno holds M.S. degrees in Engineering Economic Systems and Mathematics from Stanford University, where he studied decision analysis, mathematical modelling, and the economics of large-scale computer networks. His first computer (1972) was an IBM 360-30 mainframe, which he operated nights at First Evanston Bank while attending Junior college.

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Panelist:
Lee Klarich,
Vice President Product Developement, Palo Alto Networks

Lee Klarich brings a strong track record in network security product management to Palo Alto Networks. Lee was Director of Product Management for Juniper Networks, where was he responsible for firewall/VPN platforms and software. He joined Juniper Networks through the NetScreen Technologies acquisition, where he managed the same product line. Prior to NetScreen Technologies, Lee held various positions at Excite@Home and Packard Bell-NEC.

Panelist:
Keith Carter, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Estee Lauder

Panelist:
Jason Needham, Senior Director of Product Management, F5 Networks

Jason Needham is responsible for the product planning, business strategy, and market positioning for F5’s core BIG-IP product portfolio. With over nine years at the company, he has led numerous new product initiatives including the development of global load balancing, multi-homing, F5’s next-generation modular architecture called “TMOS”, as well as current virtualization roadmap and integration efforts for the F5 portfolio.  Prior to joining F5, he held the position of Sales Director at Trados, a software translation company. Before that, Needham helped to define and grow key emerging markets at WRQ, a leading provider of host-connectivity solutions that has since merged with Attachmate, and he was an integral part of the growth and sale of startup Express Systems, a desktop monitoring and meeting software provider. He holds a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University.

Panelist:
Raja Mukerji, Co-Founder and President, ExtraHop

Raja Mukerji is the President and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where he contributes to nearly all aspects of the business. Raja ensures customer success, leveraging his expertise in network-protocol development and his background in the financial-services industry.

Raja co-founded ExtraHop after a seven-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. He was one of the lead developers behind the BIG-IP v9 product and the major-accounts liaison for critical issues within Product Development. Prior to F5, Raja worked as a Technology Architect at Strong Capital Management.

Raja is a renowned expert in application delivery and network protocols. He was involved in the FreeBSD project and contributed several enhancements to its TCP stack. Raja holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.