AppZero CEO Selected to Present at CloudSlam'10

CASE STUDY: Fortune 100 data center provisions to/from *Cloud with Virtual Application Appliances

Session Date and Time: Day 1, March 23, 13:00am EST (10:00am PST) (1hr)
Keywords: application virtualization, server side application virtualization, Virtual Application Appliances, private cloud.
Authors: Greg O'Connor, CEO of AppZero.
Abstract: Move Server-side Applications. One Click. You're Done.

As hype cools and work gets under way, there is a general hunger for practical, experience-based advice. In this presentation, Greg O'Connor, AppZero CEO, follows a real world customer's use of a single gold server-application image for cross-domain provisioning of the data center, to multiple clouds and back.

The ability to move server-based applications across virtual machines without any modifications, freed this Fortune 100 company from infrastructure lock-in. O'Connor examines the multiplier effect of that freedom across the data center to *clouds, where "*" == any combination of Disaster Cloud, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud or any combination of cloud vendors' offerings.

Greg O'Connor, President & CEO Pioneering the Virtual Application Appliance approach to simplifying application-lifecycle management, Greg O'Connor is responsible for translating Appzero's vision into strategic business objectives and financial results. O'Connor has over 25 years of management and technical experience in the computer industry. He was founder and president of Sonic Software, acquired in 2005 by Progress Software (PRGS). There he grew the company from concept to over $40 million in revenue. At Sonic, Greg O'Connor evangelized and created the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product category, which is generally accepted today as the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). O'Connor earned a B.S. in Computer Science at Purdue University. Follow Greg O'Connor on Twitter @gregoryjoconnor.