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Networking Group Eyes Critical Issues at Upcoming Conference

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Networking Group Eyes Critical Issues at Upcoming Conference

 
April 13, 2016

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  By Rory J. Thompson, Web Editor

As open networking continues to gain traction in the industry, new challenges are rising up almost daily. Critical issues directly affecting open infrastructure technologies need to be discussed, and an upcoming conference will give everyone the chance to do so.


The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) has announced the topics and speakers for two forums, the Great Debate and the Town Hall Meeting, scheduled to take place at the group’s annual conference, ONUG Spring, 2016. This year’s event takes place at Intuit (News - Alert) in Mountain View, California, May 9-11.

The Great Debate, moderated by Ernest Lefner, SVP of Network Engineering at Bank of America and ONUG co-founder and co-chairman, is scheduled to take place on May 10. Dr. Douglas Comer, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (News - Alert), and Bill Coughran, Partner at Sequoia Capital, will engage the ONUG Community in this popular ONUG exchange, as they debate public versus private cloud services and which is best for enterprise workloads.

“Coughran will argue that public cloud services offer the best long-term option for on-demand IT service delivery and lower costs,” ONUG said in a statement leading up to the conference. “Comer, meanwhile, will contend that IT business leaders can gain the same cost and agility benefits of public cloud (and maintain better security, surveillance mitigation, regulatory compliance, and reduced hacker exposure), by building their own private cloud infrastructure.”

Also on the docket will be the Town Hall Meeting, which is designed to actively engage the ONUG Community by providing a venue for candid discussions between vendors and IT business leaders, as speakers directly address questions from the audience.

Moderated by Lane Patterson, VP of Global Network Infrastructure at Yahoo, the Town Hall Meeting will welcome industry leaders including:

  • Andy Warfield, Co-Founder and CTO, CoHo Data
  • Tom Edsall, Engineering Fellow and CTO, (INSBU) Cisco
  • Dr. Rajiv Ramaswami, GM and EVP of Networking and Security Business, VMware
  • David Meyer, Chief Scientist and Brocade (News - Alert) Fellow, Brocade

“This spring’s Town Hall Meeting explores the impact of networking on storage and compute and looks at balancing or optimizing traffic flows within a converged network infrastructure,” ONUG said.




Edited by Peter Bernstein
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