Alan Clark

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Alan Clark

Chairman of the Board
OpenStack Foundation

Alan Clark is the Chairman of the OpenStack Foundation. An independent entity, the Foundation serves developers, users and the entire cloud ecosystem by providing a set of shared resources to grow the footprint of public and private clouds. In his role as board chairman, Clark serves as an officer of the foundation which, since its inception, has attracted more than 5,600 individual members and secured more than $10 million in funding.

Sessions

Jul 30 2015

8:45 AM

All-Conference Keynote Roundtable: Mapping the New Open Data Center Innovation Genome

Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, OpenStack Foundation Amber Graner, Operations Director, Open Compute Project Foundation Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation Neela Jacques, Executive Director, OpenDaylight Roger Strukhoff, Principal, Tau Institute

Opening remarks by Cole Crawford, Chair, StackingIT
The Transformation from Vendor-led to Open-based, Disaggregated, Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure
Senior-most executives from leading open-source organizations reveal the profound implications of the changing game (and business). These experts GPS-locate us on the roadmap from vendor-driven, closed, proprietary, monolithic technology to open-sourced, knowledge-community-designed, distributed technology. Why is this important? Cost, transparency, efficiency, agility, speed, performance, and resilience. These expert crowd-sourced innovation engines are rewriting the rulebooks and the economics for the provision of data center and cloud technology services.

Session takes place on the Main Stage in the Stacking IT Hall