Keynote Presenter

John Keagy

CEO, GoGrid

John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of ServePath, a Managed Hosting provider based in San Francisco that has just launched its new GoGrid cloud computing service. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. John Keagy’s entrepreneurial skills and strategic vision have led Servepath’s rapid growth. The company was recently named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 in recognition of its growth (#11 in Silicon Valley and #77 in North America). In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath’s second growth opportunity. Much as the shift from in-house or colocated servers to outsourced dedicated and managed hosting had driven ServePath’s first half decade of growth, the shift to server virtualization will drive the next five years.

Keagy’s vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel. Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California. John was also a staff consultant for Andersen Consulting, served as sales team leader for IBM for two years, held an IS position with MCI, and was an IS project manager with Cookson PLC in London. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley where he earned the Kennedy Award in Business Administration. He is also an alumnus of the Stanford Business School Executive Program. John lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.

Keynote Presenter

Jeff Kaplan

Managing Director, THINKstrategies

THINKstrategies was founded by Kaplan -- formerly a leading industry analyst at IDC, Dataquest, and META Group, and successful senior marketing executive at InterOPS Management Solutions and International Network Services (INS) -- as the only independent strategic consulting firm dedicated to helping enterprise IT decision-makers and technology solution providers achieve their business objectives by leveraging the value of IT/telecom services, ranging from professional services to on-demand services, including application, hosting and managed services, as well as IT and business process outsourcing (ITO/BPO).

Jeff has over twenty years of experience and recognized expertise in IT management, managed services, utility computing and outsourcing trends.

He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and contributing columnist for BusinessWeek Online, Mass High Tech Journal, Financial Times of London, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Web Host Industry Review on topics including managed services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, outsourcing strategies; network and systems operations, service level management (SLM); and IT ROI and TCO calculations.

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