Keynote Speakers

COMMON Opening Keynote Session: The Future of the Internet
John Patrick, President, Attitude LLC and Former Vice President of Internet Technology, IBM Corporation
March 13, 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Hear about "The Future of the Internet," straight from one of the world's first "Web visionaries”. John Patrick, president of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, will be the keynote speaker at the COMMON Opening Session on Sunday, March 13. All USERblue attendees are invited to attend this session.

Opening Keynote Presentation: IBM pSeries and AIX Customer Value Proposition, Strategy and Roadmap
Satya Sharma, Chief UNIX Architect, IBM Corporation
March 13, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Satya Sharma is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief UNIX Architect at IBM Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for setting technical strategy, direction and roadmap of IBM's UNIX software - AIX. Recently, he has been driving the following key technologies:

• Scalability
• Virtualization: Logical Partitioning (LPAR), Virtual I/O, Virtual Ethernet, etc.
• InfiniBand-Based Clustering
• Workload and Resource Management
• Accounting / Chargeback

This session will focus on these key technologies and review IBM’s overall strategic direction for UNIX.

Closing Keynote Presentation: The Second Wave of Internet Innovation
Aristotle Balogh, Senior Vice President, Operations and Infrastructure, VeriSign Inc.
March 16, 11:00am - 12:15pm

Though the crazy days of bubble-era innovation in Internet services is long gone, this second wave may prove just as creative and even more hazardous to ignore. With the ever growing importance of the Internet, a new wave of innovation in Internet crime proves the "bad guys" follow the money and opportunity. This session will look at how bad it is already, how much worse it's going to get, and what the imperatives are to keep the network neighborhood safe.

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