Speakers

Lane F. Cooper
InformationWeek, Contributing Editor

Lane is the founder and editorial director of BizTechReports.Com. He has 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. Lane has covered the emergence of virtualization as an IT strategy at both the data center and desktop levels.

News services and magazines that have carried his by-line include:

Lane also broadcast The Washington News Bureau Technology Minute for WTOP radio, the top rated news and information station in the Washington Metropolitan area. He received a Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the American University in Washington DC.

Anurag Chauhan
Senior Manager, Accenture
Anurag Chauhan is a Senior Manager with Accenture and based in Chicago Illinois. Anurag has extensive enterprise-level data center and infrastructure management experience, within the High Tech, Consumer Products, HealthCare, Logistics and Financial Services industries.  Anurag has an extensive background in strategic planning and delivery of large scale IT and Infrastructure Operations programs.
Anurag specializes in leading large-scale Data Center IT initiatives including data center development and optimization,  IT integration and business critical technology solutions deployment, including planning/deployment/consolidation of enterprise data centers, server/data migration, high end infrastructure design and architecture. Anurag has considerable experience in the development and delivery of shared infrastructure services models, strategic sourcing solutions and managing the deployment of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, risk assessment, and data center implementations/consolidation.
Anurag is an engineering graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, India. He also has MS degree in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Jay Corn
Senior Manager, Accenture

Jay Corn is a Senior Manager with Accenture. Jay is the North American lead for Accenture’s Infrastructure Automation initiatives as well as the global co-lead for Accenture’s Utility Computing and Virtualization practices. Working with information systems since 1993 Jay has delivered large programs for a wide variety of clients in diverse environments and multiple disciplines. Jay’s background includes both infrastructure consulting as well as application development/deployment. Jay has extensive experience with program delivery for Fortune 100 clients across data center provisioning and rationalization, server/storage consolidation, system integration, and custom application development.

Carl Drisko
Global Strategic Partner Executive
Data Center Evangelist
Novell

Mr. Drisko is responsible for supporting Novell's Global Strategic Partners in delivering Novell Data Center technology to clients across the globe.

Mr. Drisko has spent most of his 30 year career building large-scale, highly-available systems for large companies. He has also been the CEO, President or Founder of 5 start-up companies. Additionally, Mr. Drisko spent 7 years at Computer Sciences Corporation as a Partner, Practice Director and Director of Technology. He has been a frequent speaker at technology and industry conferences, including, but not limited to:

- LinuxWorld
- Gartner
- Linux on Wall Street
- SIBOS
- Treasury Management Association (TMA)
- Logistics Management Institute (LMI)
- National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA)
- Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)

Mr. Drisko is a graduate of Cornell University, with two Bachelor’s degrees in Applied and Engineering Physics and Intellectual History and a Master’s in Computer Science.

Steven Hill
Contributing Editor
InformationWeek

As the Technology Editor of Storage and Servers for Network Computing Magazine, Steven Hill was responsible for the coverage of emerging technologies for the modern datacenter; and he personally tested, analyzed, and reported on some of the newest enterprise-level hardware and software offerings available today. Prior to Network Computing, his 35-year career provided production and problem-solving experience in small business as well as Fortune 500 corporate environments. Steven now serves as an independent IT consultant, writer, analyst and Contributing Editor for TechWeb and InformationWeek. He currently operates out of his secret test facility based in the woods of Northeastern Wisconsin; along with his Hound Dog/Network Administrator Tucker and Sheltie Mix/Security Officer Mia. Steven, Tucker and Mia can be contacted at shill@nwc.com

John Stetic
Director of Product Management, Systems & Resource Management
Novell

In his role of Director of Product Management for the Systems and Resource Management (SRM) unit of Novell, John is responsible for overseeing the product management teams for both the Novell ZENworks and PlateSpin product lines. Additionally, John works to set the strategic vision and future roadmap for both product lines.

John was one of the co-founders of PlateSpin and helped drive PlateSpin’s product and services offerings globally prior to the Novell’s acquisition of the company in March 2008. John has a broad range of experience with innovative emerging software products and projects ranging from wireless application servers to data center management solutions.

Prior to joining PlateSpin, Mr. Stetic held engineering and technical positions at a number of software and hardware companies including Brightspark and Classwave. He holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University. John has presented on business and technical issues at numerous high-profile industry trade shows, events and webinar series including:
- VMworld
- VMworld Europe
- Gartner Data Center Conference
- BrainShare, Novell’s annual user conference