In this session Makara will cover a topic familiar to many SugarCRM implementors: deploying and managing many instances in the Cloud. From multiple clients and multiple departments to having development, test & staging environments, it seems suddenly everybody has their own instance. And then there is scaling, where SugarCRM requires a unique approach. Clouds such as VMware vCloud and Amazon EC2 enable deployments without waiting for hardware, but everything above the hardware is still left to do. Our speaker will cover the relevant issues, things to look out for, and demonstrate open source and managed solutions for automating deployment, scaling & management.
With over 20 years of enterprise development and operations experience, Tobias drives application management and cloud computing technology for Makara. Previously he led Lycos' next-gen Platform Engineering division, growing Lycos' comparison shopping franchise including datacenter with 100+ servers based on OSS/LAMP.
For over 100 years, FamilySearch has assembled the world’s largest collection of genealogical records. In spite of our efforts, billions of genealogical records remain, many in danger of destruction. To economically preserve the world's heritage and facilitate research, FamilySearch must create a global network of communities consisting of commercial and non-profit organizations as well as individuals. Come see how FamilySearch has leveraged the expertise of Plus Consulting, SugarCRM, Drupal and the Cloud to begin to create a worldwide community portal and communication platform.
Ransom Love, Senior Vice President, FamilySearch International
Ransom Love has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. In 1994 he founded Caldera, one of the first companies focused on bringing Linux to the enterprise. He led Caldera through a remarkable period of growth, making strategic acquisitions, raising more than $130 million in capital, and taking the company public in 2000. In 2002, he was the catalyst behind the creation of UnitedLinux—an alliance of leading Linux companies—whose goal was to create an enterprise-class, industry-standard Linux operating system. His wide-ranging experience also includes product management positions at Novell and Sanyo Icon. Mr. Love holds an Executive MBA and a BA in International Relations from Brigham Young University.
The open source market has matured, but still has a ways to go to reach its full potential for the enterprises that increasingly build their businesses on it. In this session, Matt Asay will give a "state of the union" update on open source, and will identify key areas that need to improve in order for enterprises to more fully leverage its disruptive power. Specifically, Asay will walk through how enterprises should approach the opportunities (and pitfalls) that open source and cloud computing provide.
Matt Asay, Chief Operating Officer, Canonical
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay is chief operating officer of Canonical, responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of the company's marketing and back-office functions. Prior to Canonical Asay served as general manager, Americas, and vice president, Business Development, for open-source application leader Alfresco.
As one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, BMW is used to solving complex problems on a massive scale. In order to tackle its marketing and lead management challenges with over 100 dealers in Italy, BMW Italy turned to Open Symbol, a SugarCRM partner, to help solve lead collection, distribution and measurement. In this session, Open Symbol CEO Enrico Maggi will discuss how BMW Italy is using SugarCRM and Amazon EC2 to deliver highly available (and scalable) lead management services for its partner network.
Enrico Maggi, CEO and Co-Founder, OpenSymbol
Enrico Maggi is Co-Founder and CEO of Open Symbol, a technology consulting firm founded in 2004. Specializing in CRM, document management and open source technologies, Open Symbol is a CRM Gold Partner that has implemented customer management strategies for customers across southern Europe.
With the rising acceptance of cloud-based computing, the difficulty of funding, acquiring, configuring and maintaining IT infrastructure has eased significantly - opening the door for broader and simpler use of applications, like Business Intelligence, throughout an organization. Join Brian Gentile for an interactive discussion on the benefit of using BI in the Cloud and the possibilities for widespread use and improved business insight that can result.
Brian Gentile, CEO, Jaspersoft
Brian Gentile brings a successful 24-year track record to Jaspersoft, helping it to become the open source business intelligence market leader, measured by product downloads, production deployments of its software, number of registered community members, and of course commercial customers. Prior to Jaspersoft, Mr. Gentile was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company, where he helped the company grow consistently and substantially. Previously, Mr. Gentile served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Brio Software, a leading business intelligence software provider, where he was responsible for the company’s global market position and strategy, product marketing, corporate marketing and strategic partner relationships. Prior to Brio, as a Vice President at Sun Microsystems, Brian created Sun’s first-ever worldwide Developer Relations team and helped build the Sun and Java Developer Connection Programs, which reached over 2 million active members during his tenure. And prior to Sun, Brian led Apple’s Evangelism and Developer Relations team, enabling 10,000 independent software vendors to work closely and successfully with Apple’s products and technologies.
A customer purchase of software is about 'value'; not open or closed source; nor open or closed clouds. In this session, we will examine how open source is not an end unto itself but a possible means to an end, from a vendor perspective. We will also see how customer purcase decisions are fundamentally about the 'value' they derive or don't derive from a purchase. Open source and open cloud, is but incidental in the purchase process and decision.
Navin Nagiah, President & CEO, Dotnetnuke
Navin is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in high-technology enterprises in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining DNN Corp., Navin served as President and CEO of CIGNEX, an open source ECM company, and was the founder, president, and CEO of Xisource, a San Francisco-based enterprise software company with offices in London and Mumbai. Before Xisource, he was one of the founding employees of Internet Securities Inc., where he set up the company’s operations in India, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, and was the managing director for Asia at the time of the company's $60 million merger with Euromoney (LSE Symbol: ERM). Navin also has extensive experience as a board member/advisor of pre-IPO companies and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University.
Open Source adoption in the enterprise is a transformational movement that is trending at an incredible rate. Fueling this movement is the notion that Open Source options present an innovative, economically friendly and more secure alternative to their costly proprietary counterparts. Similarly, Cloud Computing is a transformational movement in that it enables continual innovation and updating - not to mention a highly expandable infrastructure that will reduce the burden on your IT team. Combine these two technologies, and you're looking at the perfect storm for success.
The fusion of Open Source software and Cloud Computing provides for a powerful, flexible and scalable infrastructure. Come hear Tom Erickson, CEO of Acquia, talk about how many organizations are leveraging this disruptive force to scale their business, conquer economic hardships, and ride the wave of the future world wide web.
Thomas Erickson, CEO, Acquia
Thomas Erickson has over 25 years of experience in software products and services. Most recently, he was the CEO of Systinet Corporation, a privately held software company recognized globally as a leader in providing a foundation for service oriented architectures (SOA) in Global 2000 companies. Systinet was sold to Mercury Interactive in 2006, which itself was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP). Prior to Systinet, Thomas was the executive vice-president, international for webMethods, a Nasdaq listed company recognized as the fastest growing software company in the USA from 1998 to 2003. Thomas is a board director of New York and Sydney based Quickcomm Software, a leader in telecom expense management (TEM) software. Thomas Erickson earned his honors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Interest in cloud computing has been growing rapidly over the past year, with the advent of both new technologies and innovative business models. With many enterprises looking to deploy cloud solutions, there is a growing need for a comprehensive ecosystem of both service and technology providers to properly enable the cloud. Only by marrying the technical, business, and legal dynamics of cloud computing across a robust ecosystem will enterprises be able to achieve the reduced costs and increased operational efficiency at the scale that can be delivered by the cloud. This presentation will illustrate both the requirements as well as a strategy for building a robust open cloud ecosystem that will stay true to the promise of cloud computing and reinforce the value that open source is already bringing to the enterprise.
Mike Evans, Vice President of Corporate Development, Red Hat
Michael Evans serves as Vice President, Corporate Development at Red Hat. In this role, he is responsible for identifying emerging business and technology areas for Red Hat. Michael has held the positions of Vice President, Business Development and Vice President, Worldwide OEM and Channel Sales at Red Hat, and has served as a Board of Director for the One Laptop Per Child project. Prior to joining Red Hat in 1999, Michael was a founder of Bluecurve, Inc., a software company that specialized in systems management software. Earlier in his career, he led business development for Intel platforms at Sybase. Michael holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Cloud technologies are changing how organizations think about building and deploying Web applications. PHP, as one of the biggest driving forces behind the Web, is also emerging as a primary driver of cloud-based Web deployments. Cloud-based PHP use is being driven both by the strong affinity of Web developers for PHP, and by the increasing availability of leading PHP applications via large-scale SaaS offerings. In this presentation Andi Gutmans discuss advances that the PHP community and ecosystem have been making to enable PHP users to benefit from and leverage Cloud based architectures. He will cover tooling, deployment, and application architecture.
Andi Gutmans, CEO, Zend
Andi Gutmans co-founded Zend Technologies and has been instrumental in making Zend into the company it is today. In addition to building key partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe, and contributing to major customer & sales engagements, in 2006 he led the company’s largest round of funding to date. Gutmans’ leadership of the company’s open source project Zend Framework has included galvanizing the PHP and enterprise communities around the benefits of standardization and has broadened the professionalism and market reach of PHP and of Zend solutions worldwide. Gutmans has also been a lead contributor to PHP since 1997, when he and Zeev Suraski developed the foundation for PHP 3 and later co-founded Zend Technologies together. PHP 3 was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 5 million developers. Gutmans was named one of Computerworld’s “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40.” He is also recognized from the widely circulated technical publications he has authored and is a frequent speaker on business and technology issues at global conferences. Gutmans is a member of the PHP Group, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Eclipse Foundation, as well as serving on the board of Zend Technologies. Gutmans holds a bachelor's in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Traditional enterprise software is nearing extinction. The cloud is changing the way we do business – partly due to the recent economic downturn, but primarily because web services have finally matured into viable platforms for business. While 2009 was the turning point for the cloud, 2010 is going to be the year of connected clouds. Thanks to open standards and APIs, companies can replace their IT infrastructure with various cloud services that can seamlessly integrate and communicate with each other. This session will dissect how connected clouds will push the cloud tornado to take over the enterprise by storm.
Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder, Box.net
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, which he crated with the mission to make it easy for businesses to manage, access and share all of their content online. He is the visionary behind Box’s product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the natural usability and collaborative focus of social business software, making for a more dynamic content experience. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Accenture Global Summit, Defrag, Enterprise 2.0, Gilbane San Francisco and South by Southwest.
Cloud developers have a lot of options when it comes to platforms on which to base services. What do developers and administrators need to know about these different cloud services? Where should they spend their time? Join Joey Parsons as he provides a tour of how to start or port your Sugar instance onto these different cloud platforms and what you need to know to make sure you get the most out of running Sugar in the clouds.
Joey Parsons, Director of Global Network Operations, SugarCRM
Joey Parsons is the Director of Global Network Operations at SugarCRM. His team is responsible for the technology and infrastructure that automate the Sugar On-Demand platform and serve SugarCRM’s public web sites. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Joey held technical leadership positions at Rackspace and GlobalSCAPE.
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