John Qualls, President and CEO, BlueLock Brian Ritchie, SVP and GM, Support and Managed Services Division, GlassHouse Technologies Dave Durkee, CEO, ENKI

Seize the Cloud!
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The moderator will be Phil LaForge, Vice President and General Manager of Managed Services for Nimsoft. View this webcast and get proven guidance that can boost your business’ chances for success in the cloud.

Learn from three successful service provider leaders who have already established successful cloud-based businesses. Get practical guidance based on the experiences of our expert panelists.  Find out what worked and what didn’t, and discover some of the key challenges and opportunities that service providers face when moving into cloud computing.

While some service providers tend to look at cloud computing as a threat, the reality is that the cloud is opening up myriad opportunities for businesses. Each of the panelists has taken a fundamentally different approach to cloud offerings, based on their unique business objectives and opportunities. In this interactive webcast, you can ask questions and get specific guidance into the directions that make most sense for your business.



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Attend And Get Answers To These Questions:

  • Is cloud computing an opportunity or threat to your business?
  • Which kinds of service providers will be well-equipped to succeed in the cloud, which won’t, and why?
  • What are some of the best tips for service providers looking to embrace the cloud?
  • What traditional managed services can an MSP leverage in cloud environments?
  • What are some of the keys to making cloud services robust enough for clients’ high stakes business services?

 

John Qualls, President and CEO, BlueLock John Qualls, President and CEO, BlueLock

John Qualls is an accomplished business leader who has spent his entire career developing and promoting innovative technology solutions that drive and enable business growth and profitability. He has helped hundreds of organizations solve their operational challenges by developing predictable and controlled approaches to infrastructure deployment and investment. From his early roots in application development, data center collocation, managed network services and disaster recovery, he offers a keen understanding of the last decade’s technological trends and cycles that have evolved into today and tomorrow’s hosted IT environments.

Once thought to be a futuristic service model, "Infrastructure as a Service" was commercialized and brought to the market by John as a more-effective, more-efficient and more-affordable approach to technology investment and management. In his role as president and CEO of BlueLock, he is responsible for developing and leading the company’s long-term business strategy, managing day-to-day operations, establishing a national footprint and achieving profitability goals.

Prior to co-founding BlueLock, John served as the vice president of sales and marketing for a traditional (co-location) hosting provider where he was responsible for expanding the organization regionally and increasing market awareness for the company's data center, network support services and disaster recovery solutions. Through his leadership role in TechPoint's professional IT peer group, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association, John helped educate the Indiana technology community about critical issues such as spam, cyber security, wireless networks, IT certification, power supply issues, IT research and development, data storage, unified messaging, Voice over IP (VoIP) and open source application development. In addition to his technological industry experience, John served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a decorated Gulf War veteran.

bluelock

About BlueLock
www.bluelock.com

BlueLock is a leading provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, offering the people, expertise and IT infrastructure in a world-class, SAS 70 certified datacenter. Providing virtual cloud computing through Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), BlueLock’s offerings are ideal for Web 2.0 and SaaS applications and IT environments that require high availability and the ability to expand and contract dynamically for production or disaster recovery. BlueLock, a Collina Ventures company, is privately-held and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.bluelock.com.

Brian Ritchie, SVP and GM, Support and Managed Services Division, GlassHouse TechnologiesBrian Ritchie, SVP and GM, Support and Managed Services Division, GlassHouse Technologies

Brian Ritchie has been an executive with GlassHouse for seven years and currently serves as Senior Vice President / General Manager of the Infrastructure Operations Services Division where he manages GlassHouse’s worldwide managed services business.  Prior to this responsibility Brian developed and managed the Partner and Direct Sales organizations at GlassHouse.  Brian joined GlassHouse from Blackstone Computing, where as CEO he raised a $12.6M venture round.

Brian refocused Blackstone from a general purpose consulting company to a provider of software and services for cluster computing environments within the Life Sciences and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industries. Prior to Blackstone Brian was CEO and President of Auspice Inc., a provider of infrastructure automation software to enable the management and control of disparate network technologies and software systems over geographically dispersed networks. 

Brian also served as President and CEO of Alphatronix, a developer of mainframe-caliber software for distributed storage management in client/server environments.  He was responsible for managing the sale of the company to Auspex, where he took on added responsibility as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Auspex’s network-attached storage solutions. He began his career at Prime Computer, where he assumed increasing management, sales and profit and loss responsibility, ultimately serving as Director of Sales Channels and Marketing. 

Brian holds a BS in Electrical Engineering form the University of Rhode Island and a Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, where he was a member of the Graduate School National Scholastic Business and Management Honor Society. 

GlassHouse Technologies

About GlassHouse
www.glasshouse.com

GlassHouse Technologies is a global provider of IT infrastructure services enabling organizations to consolidate, virtualize and manage their IT environments.  GlassHouse delivers services through TransomSM, a unique delivery framework comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise.  We reduce costs, decrease risk and improve service levels by providing measurable results and vendor independent solutions. GlassHouse focuses on the storage/data protection, virtualization and data center markets.

Dave Durkee, CEO, ENKIDave Durkee, CEO, ENKI

Dave Durkee is the founder and CEO of ENKI, whose mission of bringing the resources of a best-in-class IT organization to Cloud Computing infrastructure customers was originally inspired by his experience in senior level IT management and consulting for Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups.

Dave’s experience in the Cloud Computing industry has made him one of the unique few leaders who has created both SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offerings.  As prior CIO of successful SaaS provider NetSuite, Dave created an award-winning million-customer data center, designed to be highly scalable, secure, and 4-nines reliable. 

He also has extensive independent consulting experience in enterprise applications development and deployment, across Windows and Linux platforms, for both large and small companies. 

ENKI

About ENKI
www.enkiconsulting.net
www.primacloud.com/

ENKI is a managed cloud computing services provider that offers fast and reliable virtual private data centers and full IT operations services. By supplying enterprise-grade computing and services on an on-demand, pay-as-you-go basis, ENKI helps its customers manage and grow their Internet- or information-based businesses. For more information, visit www.enkiconsulting.net or call 650 279 2115.