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Opening Guest Speaker presentation by Erik Papir, Director, Global Technical Marketing, HP Networking
The second and final day of the event was opened by Papir’s presentation on how HP is driving an open SDN. For him, the key trends are the need for agility and security, that the network should understand your data, and manage bulk and short network...

Why I believe in an Open Cloud Environment
Keynote presentation by James Walker, President of the Cloud Ethernet Forum (CEF) and Vice President, Managed Network Services, Tata Communications
Walker opened the proceedings with a keynote speech around the open cloud. He highlighted the latest cloud trends, including research showing that, for the first time, more workloads will be run in the cloud in 2014 than in traditional datacentres....

Debate Session – DC Shootout – the quest for the killer infrastructure.
Introduced and chaired by Sean Hackett, 451 Group. Panel members: Dell, HP, IBM, and Nuage Networks.
Presentation highlights: Forecast to 2016; public cloud CAGR 39%, private 21%.  DCs are at the virtualization stage (61%) and will evolve to automation followed by orchestration. Current roadblocks are politics, budget, time and staff.  ...

A mix of around 50+ press and analysts representing 25 countries attended this year’s summit. The keynote presentation by Martin Casado, CTO of Networking, VMware covered the intrinsic differences between the creation of a data center by a company...