ITO America Executive Panel: Application Fluent Networking

Application Fluent Networking: ITO speaks to industry leaders about the hype surrounding one of the hottest networking subjects of recent times. Topics include WAN optimization, network management, WAN architecture snd furthuring wide area network communication. Mark Fabbi, VP & Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research, has spent 10 years with Gartner and 20 years in the IT industry. Fabbi has played a leadership role in developing the networking market and has affiliated companies in varied technical and marketing management positions.

• 'The application fluent technologies cross a lot of boundaries,' Mark Fabbi

Mark Urban, Director Marketing, Packateer, has spent almost five years working closely with major enterprise and service provider customers to identify issues with application delivery and performance over the WAN and Internet. Mark has learned IT management hands-on, and transitioned the business infrastructure to networked and internetworked systems.

• 'I think first and foremost, data centralization has exposed the performance issues associated with certain protocol,' Mark Urban

Roy Zisapel, CEO and co-founder, Radware, has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since the company's inception in April 1997. Mr. Zisapel provides focused vision and direction to Radware as it leads the market in integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking.

• 'The three main business drivers that we are seeing in the market revolve around business agility, capital and operational cost savings, and regulatory compliance,' Roy Zisapel

James Barrese, SVP Systems Architecture, eBay, has deep experience building large-scale Internet applications, WAN architectures and frameworks. Barrese is responsible for the company's infrastructure architecture, software development frameworks, ebay API and a GRID management system.

• 'They are the same things that effect major tectonic plate shifts within technology, and those are: how to get better business agility through technology, how to lower your time to market, and how to lower cost while still scaling out a large scale business,' James Barrese

Ross Roesner, VP, WAN Acceleration, Juniper Networks, directs engineering and marketing for Juniper's WX product line. Rosner served as Vice President of Engineering at Redline Networks, an innovative application start-up acquired by Juniper.

• 'Application acceleration enables substantial cost savings,' Ross Roesner

George Kurian, VP Application Networking Group, Cisco Systems leads the development and implementation of the Cisco-wide strategy for Application Delivery products including product strategy, development, acquisitions and investments and coordinating the company's Go-to-Market capabilities for this Advanced Technology segment.

• 'We see the movement towards true enterprise mobility along two fronts,' George Kurian