Conference: Cloud Computing Track

For the past 25 years, Jim Salem has been a pioneer in distributed computing and in the software/platform as a service space. He has extensive experience in all aspects of internet service delivery including scalable hosting infrastructure design, automated application provisioning, efficient storage and server management, and 24x7 operations. Since 1999, Salem has served as Chief Architect of Intuit QuickBase where he has been responsible for designing, building, and delivering fast, reliable PaaS and SaaS services to hundreds of thousands of users in more than half of the Fortune 100 and thousands of smaller businesses. He has also held senior management positions at Intuit in engineering and internet operations. Prior to Intuit, Salem served as Director of Web Hosting Engineering at GTE Internetworking (BBN Planet) where he supported thousands of servers in ten data centers. Earlier, he was engineering manager at Thinking Machines, which developed a 65,536 processor parallel computing platform. Salem earned a B.S.E.E. degree from M.I.T. in 1984. He is based in Massachusetts.

Andrew Gross has over 16 years of experience in the design, development, administration and security of complex IT operations systems. In his current role as Chief Scientist and Architect at StackSafe, Gross is responsible for product architecture, evaluation of new technologies and research efforts. An expert in DSP algorithm design, architectural evaluation and source code review, Gross has extensive experience providing strategic consultation to companies on a variety of mission-critical operations and security issues. Prior to joining StackSafe, Gross served as a key software architect for Zenph Studios, an entertainment technology company. Gross also held the title of Chief Architect for Counterpane Internet Security, where he was responsible for the design of production operations and real-time forensic analysis systems in support of the Secure Operations Center. Gross conducted security research for the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), where he was responsible for covering a broad range of areas, including dynamic network monitoring and kernel auditing. In addition, he developed new tools for intrusion analysis and tracing and eventual system recovery. He also served as a network and security administrator for SDSC. Gross received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1997, where he wrote the seminal dissertation on computer forensic analysis.

Mr. Armijo is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management for Cloud Computing firm 3tera, where he is responsible for product and service definition as well as building customer and partner relationships. Prior to 3tera, he was Director of Marketing with SolarFlare Communications, a fabless semiconductor startup developing 10GBASE-T. Earlier, he was co-founder and Director of Marketing for fabric computing pioneering startup Topspin Communications. At Topspin, he developed the company's product roadmap for transparently combining LAN, SAN and server area networks into a virtualized resource pool, now Cisco's V-Frame. Bert has also held management positions with Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cipher Data Products, California Peripherals, CMS Enhancements, Everex and Mobius Technologies.