Wednesday September 24th 5:30-7:30 pm
at Algonquin College, Woodroofe Campus just south of Baseline,
Building T - Room T119 (campus map below)
The Cutting Edge on Virtualization
“The Highest-Impact Trend Changing Infrastructure”
“Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012. Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is creating a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors that will result in considerable market disruption and consolidation over the next few years.” Gartner, April 2008.
Come hear our disguised speakers discuss and debate the trends and issues of virtualization:
Mike Kemp, CTO of Liquid Computing
Mike is the CTO and co-founder of Liquid Computing. Mike holds a joint honors degree in the disciplines of electrical engineering and computing science from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, and has over 24 years of practical industry experience building large scale computer systems with Nortel and DARPA. He has a track record of innovation and bringing technology to market and he has published several papers on large scale switching and interconnect technologies. During his career, he has been responsible for the generation of intellectual property and associated patents in a variety of areas including multiprocessor systems, scalable communications and scalable high availability switching. Mike has developed many highly efficient interconnect and communications systems for a variety of products.
Liquid Computing has delivered a new generation of IT infrastructure that is transforming the traditional server and switch configurations commonplace in data centers. LiquidIQ, the world’s first fully converged communications and computing platform, provides flexible pools of computing, networking and switching resources and makes data center IT infrastructure easy to manage..
Jean-Marc Seguin, Chief Architect of Embotics
Jean-Marc brings more than 18 years of design and development experience to his leadership role as Chief Architect at Embotics. Prior to that, he was Director of Engineering at Symbium, with broad-ranging management responsibilities spanning software applications through firmware and hardware development. With numerous patents granted, Seguin also worked at Mitel designing and building leading-edge, enterprise and telecommunications software applications.
A privately held company founded in 2006, Embotics helps enterprises maximize the benefits of server virtualization through policy based Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management, integration and automation providing traceability and control for both online and offline VM assets.
Miro Adamy, Senior Technical Architect and Founder of Thinknostic
Miro’s experience in software development has spanned the last 20 years, using a multitude of languages/frameworks, business domains, methodologies, and operating systems/platforms. For the last 10 years, he been focused on the architecture, design and development of Java-based enterprise and e-commerce applications..
Thinknostic is one of the fastest growing professional service firms in Canada, developing creative solutions for Government organizations and clients across North America. With over 25 years of development and deployment experience, catalyzed by active thought and true business understanding, The firm provides award winning solutions that enable clients to collaborate and communicate, engage and transact with their audience. From fully integrated portals, world class ecommerce solutions to providing CLF2.0 certified compliant websites and expertise. Responsive and agile approach, combined with collective experience & knowledge, provides clients with solutions that satisfy their needs, enhance their business and exceed their expectations. .
About Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge is an event series occurring on the fourth Wednesday of every month and focusing on emerging technical thought leadership from local entrepreneurs, investors, and research professionals.
The Cutting Edge is a free event made available by:
