3rd Silver-lining Meeting - The New England Cloud User Group

Date: December 2, 2008
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7
Meeting: 7-9
Location: Papa Razzi Wellsley MA (private room)
16 Washington St
Wellesley, MA 02481

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=16%20Washington%20Street,02481&hl=en

Just a quick comment folks - each meeting gets bigger and better as we get a handle on keeping this thing going and building on the momentum. For this meeting we have two great speakers - Bret Hartman who is RSA’s CTO and is going to talk about security as it relates to the cloud and Vikram Kumar who has actually started up a company called Pixily which is an online service running on Amazon’s EC2. Vikram is going to share with us what the process was to get his company running in the cloud and what challenges he faced doing that.

Speakers Bio’s:

Bret Hartman Chief Technology Officer RSA - www.rsa.com

As Chief Technology Officer at RSA, the Security Division of EMC, Bret Hartman is responsible for defining the corporate security technology strategy for EMC, as implemented by the RSA division. Prior to RSA, Mr. Hartman was Chief Technology Officer, Information Security, at EMC Corporation.

 

 

Mr. Hartman has over twenty-five years of experience building information security solutions for major enterprises. His expertise includes Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services security, policy development and management, and security modeling and analysis. Mr. Hartman has spoken at dozens of security and privacy industry events and is a recognized authority on distributed systems security.

 

 

Prior to EMC, Mr. Hartman was Director of Technical Services for SOA Appliances at IBM Corporation, and was also Vice President of Technology Solutions at DataPower Technology Inc. (acquired by IBM). Mr. Hartman’s previous roles include Chief Technology Officer at Quadrasis Security (Hitachi Computer Products); Vice President, e-Security Services and Chief Security Architect at Concept Five Technology; President and Co-Founder of BlackWatch Technology Inc; and Director of Information Security at Odyssey Research Associates. Mr. Hartman began his distinguished career as a U.S. Air Force officer assigned to the U.S. National Security Agency.

 

 

At the U.S. National Security Agency Mr. Hartman helped to create the “DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria” (Orange Book). Mr. Hartman was a co-author of Object Management Group’s CORBA Security specification, and co-edited the Security Scenarios document produced by the WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group. Mr. Hartman also co-authored “Mastering Web Services Security” (Wiley 2003), “Enterprise Security with EJB and CORBA” (Wiley 2001), and US patent 6,807,636: “Methods and Apparatus for Facilitating Security in a Network”.

 

 

Mr. Hartman holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

 

 

 

 

Vikram Kumar, CTO Pixily - www.pixily.com

Mr. Kumar is Chief Technology Officer of Pixily who has extensive experience leading and mentoring large teams and in delivering highly scalable and critical applications. He led a number of high-profile projects such as Fidelity.com and Fidelity’s 401(k).com. He graduated with B.E in Electrical Sciences from PSG, Coimbatore, India.

Pixily is an online service that helps you save time, space and money by making your paper and digital documents available at your fingertips. You no longer need to deal with paper clutter and don’t have to worry about not finding an important document when you need it. Pixily combines your paper and digital documents online in a secure location, making them available to you from anywhere. With Pixily, you can search your documents for any keywords, securely share your documents, and easily organize your documents using Pixily’s labeling tools.