Phil Edholm is the Chief Technologist and Vice President of Network Architecture for Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Prior to Nortel, Phil had 9 years with Sytek/Hughes LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. He's been a featured speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as a visionary and leader of the convergence transformation. Phil has been in the VoiceCon Great Debate three times and is recognized by the IEEE as the originator of Edholm's Law of Bandwidth as published in July 2003 IEEE Spectrum magazine. [Edholm, Phil [SC100:4154:EXCH]] He has been recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Lifetime Achievement in Growth and Innovations in the Telecommunications Industry. Phil has 9 patents with 15 patent applications pending. Less   View all posts

Jeff Nick is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation, where he leads EMC's Office of Technology and works directly with EMC customers and leading technologists, as well as with the industry in developing standards. Nick joined EMC in September 2004 from IBM, where he held the distinguished title of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor that IBM bestows on its IT innovators. During his 24-year career with IBM, Nick filed more than 80 inventions and holds more than 50 U.S. patents in computer systems technology. Most recently, he was Vice President, Architecture and Design, eBusiness On Demand, IBM's On Demand initiative. He also led IBM's Grid Computing strategy, responsible for the definition and evolution of IBM's Open Grid Services Architecture. Less   View all posts

John is a highly respected expert on storage and information management, including storage utility and grid services, integration strategies, storage-server evolution, storage virtualization, ILM, and distributed data protection. His prior positions include Senior Analyst at Data Mobility Group; Vice President, Marketing, for Storage Computer Corporation; Director of Computing Research at the Yankee Group; and Senior Analyst at the Clipper Group and International Data Corporation. In addition to being past Chairman of the Greater Boston Regional Computer Measurement Group, John is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Management Forum and serves as liaison to the SNIA End User Council (EUC). He a featured speaker at industry events and conferences, including Storage Networking World, Storage Management, Storage World Conference, and COMDEX. Less   View all posts