Jonathan Eunice

Principal IT Advisor

Illuminata

Mr. Eunice is a recognized authority on networked information technologies and their application. In his nearly twenty years as an analyst, he has authored hundreds of publications and client inquiry responses on system architectures, operating environments, middleware, security, management utilities, and development tools. His books include MVS vs Unix: Midnight in the Garden of Open and Proprietary, Enterprise Systems Management, Unix in Transition, Unix Matures, and Leaders in Object Technology. In addition to hands-on systems management experience, Mr. Eunice has taught and used programming languages as diverse as Ada, C, Java, Perl, Prolog, and Smalltalk. He has briefed clients and given presentations internationally. Mr. Eunice holds degrees in Mathematics/Computer Science and Philosophy.

Jim Hall

President

Blade Systems Alliance

Jim Hall is currently President of Blade Systems Alliance, an industry association focused on accelerating development and adoption of blade server technologies; and serves as Summit Chairman, BladeSystems Insight 2010.

Jim has over two decades of leadership experience in business development, marketing, engineering, and operations management in the power industry and has held marketing, business development, and product management positions with Emerson Network Power (Liebert), Marconi (formally RELTEC), American Power Conversion, and Antec. He is a graduate of General Electric's Manufacturing and Raytheon's Advanced Management Programs and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Champaign.

Dan Kusnetzky

Vice President of Research Operations

451 Group

Dan Kusnetzky has joined The 451 Group as vice president of research operations. In addition to heading up research operations, he will ramp up The 451 Group's market research and analysis on cloud computing and virtualization. He is a well-established analyst and blogger with a reputation spanning his own analyst practice as Kusnetzky Group, his ZDNet blog and more than a decade with IDC."Our clients rely on us to provide straight talk about who wins and who loses as a result of disruptive changes in IT," said Martin V.McCarthy, Chief Executive Officer of The 451 Group. "And cloud computing is one of the most profound changes we have seen in two decades. Dan's addition will be key to helping us assess the viability of these and other emerging segments for vendors, investors, bankers and technology end users."Dan Kusnetzky brings The 451 Group more than three decades of industry experience. Before joining the senior team of The 451 Group, Kusnetzky was Principal Analyst at KG LLC. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Corporate and Marketing Strategy for Open-Xchange, a software company that provides open-source collaborative solutions.Kusnetzky also spent 12 years at International Data Corporation (IDC), four of them as Vice President of System Software Research. During this time, he led an extended team of 16 analysts and created an industry-leading research practice based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis.Prior to that, Kusnetzky spent 16 years with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was responsible for program and product management and marketing in the areas of client software, server software, and clustered and networked systems, and he had the responsibility of being the Intel/UNIX Business Manager.

Tom Pisello

CEO

Alinean

Tom Pisello has built his 20-year career with a single-minded vision: helping companies prove and improve the business value from IT investments. Tom's latest endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop software, methodologies and tools for accurately evaluating, presenting and measuring the value of IT investments using benchmarking and ROI analysis; particularly helping vendors use business value selling to streamline the justification of new investments and assuring true value delivery. Alinean has exclusive partnership with leading IT industry analyst firm IDC, and customers including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel, BellSouth and Dell, many of the worlds leading consultancies and CIOs.Tom's pioneering ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with Interpose, a company he founded to develop the first automated ROI and TCO analysis software for CIOs and IT vendors. Interpose was acquired by Gartner in 1998 and formed the foundation for Gartner's Measurement, ROI and TCO software solutions. Tom served Gartner as managing VP and was instrumental in the software becoming the industry standard for TCO assessment.Tom is a serial entrepreneur having served as a founding member or advisor for several technology start-ups including Full Armor Corporation (acquired by NetIQ in 2003), Connotate Technologies, Digital Owl, OurBeginning.com and Spiral-Up Interactive.Tom is a regular contributor to ComputerWorld, CIO Decisions and other TechTarget online journals, CIOInsight and other leading IT publications. He holds several software patents and is a featured speaker at major IT and management conferences. He has written several key e-books on ROI and TCO analysis; including "Return on Investment For Information Technology Providers: Using ROI as a Selling and Management Tool" and "IT Value Chain Management - Maximizing the ROI from IT Investments."

Bill Sell

Vice President & General Manager

Life Sciences Technology Insight

Bill Sell has over 30 years in events and media management. At CrossTech, Bill oversees the Forums hosted events program group and the CrossTech Media portfolio of e-newsletter publications, conferences, ITEC-TV netcasts and strategic alliances.Bill's past leadership experience includes being a Vice President and General Manager of COMDEX, CeBIT America, and the VON events with responsibilities for audience development, program creation and event sponsorships and sales. Bill also served as the Vice President of Events with Fidelity Investment's Fidelity Capital/Seaport World Trade Center Boston; and as VP of Planning and Development at IDG's World Expo, with ComNet and MacWorld Expo as two of the key product groups.A frequent industry speaker on benefits of face-to-face marketing, Bill is a founding member of the Society of Independent Show Organizers and past chair of the New England chapter of the International Association for Exhibitions and Events.

Harkereet Singh

Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology

Thomson Reuters

Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh is Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology at Thomson Reuters. He is seen as the Energy 'Czar' and one of the main enablers of a greener and more sustainable future for the company. In his role Harqs is responsible for energy efficiency and sustainability across the Markets division, including Data Centres, Servers, Storage, Network and Desktop. Harqs has been working within the industry specifically looking at data centers and IT in both Europe and the US for some time, particularly in the pursuit of advancing energy efficiency principles and working across traditional boundaries to achieve 'holistic' efficiency. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in August 2009 he held a variety of roles at BT, including Head of Data Centre Strategy.At Thomson Reuters Harqs is responsible for industry engagement around energy optimization, liaising with The Green Grid, ASHRAE, the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and the US EPA/DoE energy efficiency initiatives and many other forums across the industry. He is also a lead representative for Global Climate Change Policies - UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, ACES (American Clean Energy & Security Act) and others across the world. Harqs holds a BSc in Computer Science and Business Management from the University of Birmingham and awards which include a Strategy Award from Accenture.

James Staten

Principal Analyst

Forrester Research

James serves Infrastructure & Operations professionals providing insights into server-centric issues including infrastructure consolidation and virtualization, data center migration and reconfiguration (including the transition to 10GbE), cloud computing (public and internal), and high performance and technical computing infrastructures. Staten is the author of best practice analysis on IT consolidation, the new IT service outsourcing (strategic right-sourcing), maturing your virtualization practice, building a cloud computing consumption strategy and optimizing web site infrastructures for blazing fast performance. He also assists clients in understanding the technical and vendor landscape of server and virtual infrastructure choices in the market including blade servers, CPU choice, virtualization platforms, and configuration optimizations.

Jon William Toigo

CEO and Managing Principal

Toigo Partners International

Jon Toigo is a consultant, author and writer with 25 years of experience in IT operations and data storage management. He is the founder of the Data Management Institute, an organization for those who create, manage and protect their organizations' most irreplaceable assets: their data. DMI has more than 7000 members, most of whom have completed DMI Certification courses in disaster recovery, data management and data security. Toigo is a prolific author has written 15 books, including 5 covering the topic of disaster recovery planning. He has also produced thousands of articles for the trade press and his blog, DrunkenData.com, is read by over 120,000 visitors each month. As part of his global consulting practice, he has developed, tested, and in some cases assisted with the implementation of, disaster recovery plans for more than 100 companies in the US, Europe, Africa, and Australia.