David Bernstein is Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Computing efforts for Cisco, as part of the Office of the CTO. He is responsible for the innovative team that runs Cisco’s Cloud Lab, is responsible for Cisco’s Cloud Gateway products, and heads development for Cisco’s Cloud Interoperability and Standards initiatives.

Prior to joining Cisco, Bernstein was Vice President of Technology for Siebel Systems where he led the core applications technology group that was responsible for Siebel’s application platform including the On-Demand (SaaS) technology. Prior to Siebel, Bernstein was CEO of Pluris, an early optical router start-up, and Tycho Networks, a mid-size ISP and CLEC. Before that Bernstein served as vice president of AT&T’s ISP platform. Bernstein started his career as a founding engineer of Santa Cruz Operation where he was responsible for the first implementation of UNIX on the PC called XENIX where he also co-authored the POSIX specification.

David holds nearly a dozen patents in software and communications, publishes research regularly in IEEE, ACM, and IARIA conferences, and is a member of the IEEE Advanced Technology Executive Forum. He was a key author/contributor to many industry standards such as OpenSOA.org, OASIS SCA, WS-I, JCP/J2EE, and IEEE POSIX. David holds degrees from University of California at Santa Cruz in physics and mathematics, and was a UC Regents Scholar for his funded work for the Office of Naval Research.

Presentation

Fundamentals of Cloud Interoperability and Standards

For Cloud Computing to reach the level of interoperability of the Internet a similar set of protocols and standards are being developed. This talk will outline the concepts of what interoperability and standards mean for Cloud Computing as well as details around name service extension, trust infrastructure, and most importantly the introduction of a new addressing scheme which, unlike IP addresses, enables the seperation of location and identification. How these standards are fundamental to Cloud Computing and Virtualization will be discussed and how they will be implementated as an overlay to todays' Internet will be introduced.

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