Moderator:
James Powell
Editor, ESJ.com

James E. Powell is the editorial director of Enterprise Strategies (esj.com), a Web site and weekly e-newsletter devoted to enterprise IT issues.  He spent 17 years in corporate IT environments, including several years as an applications systems manager for a major Pacific Northwest bank.  He is the author of seven books on computing subjects and holds an MBA and Bachelor's degree in Mathematics.

Panelist:
Gary Lamb,
Senior Director of Data Center Virtualization, INX

Gary Lamb is a nationally known expert in the virtualization
field and is one of 30 members from around the world on the
VMware Partner Advisory Councils 2009 & 2010 . Gary’s
presentation at Virtualization Congress 2009 was voted one of
the most five popular sessions. Gary was a co-author of the
Sage book, Deploying the VMware Infrastructure, and has coauthored
several virtualization articles and white papers. With
27 years in IT, Gary has worked as a MVS Systems
programmer, LAN/WAN design and integration architect and
an enterprise security assessment practitioner, including
running a consulting practice for 2 ½ years for ISS. He also
has an extensive background in disaster recovery. Gary has
helped several manufacturers build their products to better
interoperate with a virtual infrastructure. Prior to joining INX
via acquisition, Gary co-founded and was Chief Technology
Officer for AccessFlow.

Panelist:
Peter Giannoacopoulos,
President and CEO
Myrmidon Networks Inc.

Peter Giannacopoulos is the founder, President and CEO of Myrmidon Networks. Since 1999, Myrmidon Networks has been providing security and disaster recovery expertise to enterprise accounts with extremely demanding requirements. Prior to founding Myrmidon Networks, Peter was Director of Architecture for McAfee.com, one of the most highly trafficked and attacked sites on the planet (supporting over 3 million unique daily visitors and withstanding well over 40,000 attacks per day). Before joining McAfee, Peter had over 14 years of IT and business consulting experience in the Fortune 500 at such firms as EG&G, Amdahl, Thermo Fisher, Citizens Bank, Manulife, Providian Bancorp and others. Headquartered in Massachusetts, Myrmidon Networks currently has 7 employees and continues to provide virtualization and security consulting for the midcap and enterprise markets. Peter also speaks throughout the United States on security and virtualization matters and writes for several industry publications. Full information can be found at www.myrmidon.net

Panelist:
Kevin Conner, Account Executive, VMWare

Kevin joins us from VMware, Inc. where he supports public sector customers to define business requirements and architectural design.  Kevin’s customers are actively involved in initiatives for cloud-based service delivery.  Given this, and a 15-year history in datacenter systems and security management provides Kevin with a useful perspective; virtualization is recognized as an enabling technology for cloud solutions – however, defining the deeper processes, automation and security boundaries is where the critical thinking and biggest returns take place.

As a former product manager, Kevin has brought to market two award-winning desktop and systems management solutions.  Kevin also has a long history as a featured public speaker at numerous industry conferences where he has shared his perspective on technical impacts of virtualization, ITIL, and convergence of systems and security management solutions.

Panelist:
Josh Fleming, Lead Systems Engineer, Citrix

Josh Fleming is a Lead  Systems Engineer from CITRIX. He has over 13 years in IT prior to joining  CITRIX 3 years ago, Josh managed a large IT infrastructure at the University of Utah. He uses this past  experience as an IT Administrator to bring perspective when discussing Application Delivery and Desktop Virtualization as it applies to each individual customer’s environment.