Keynote Speaker

Date/Time	Friday, 26 October 2012 / 08:15 – 09:00
Room	Martinique A
Speaker	Jeff Hilland, DMTF President

Abstract

DMTF Progress and Opportunities – DMTF members collaborate to develop IT management standards that promote multi-vendor interoperability worldwide. Together with a broad range of alliance partners, the group is at the center of the systems-management industry, developing standards that are continually improving the IT management landscape. This presentation will cover the progress the DMTF has made in developing these standards as well as opportunities for further investigation, research projects and collaboration.

Biography

Jeff Hilland is a Senior Systems Architect in the Enterprise Storage & Servers Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Jeff served as VP of Technology for the DMTF for 6 years before being appointed President of the DMTF. Jeff has served in various leadership roles in the DMTF since 2003, including co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Group. Jeff has spent the last 15 years driving industry standards and has served in chairing roles in both the RDMA Consortium and the Infini Band Trade Association.

Jeff’s 30-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, management protocols, data modeling, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and performance analysis. It has also included significant contributions to high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including RDMA, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.

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