From Collaboration to Interoperability to the Private Cloud: Future Proofing Your Heterogeneous Data Center with Microsoft and Novell

Brent Phillips is a senior product manager with Microsoft’s intellectual property and licensing division and responsible for marketing and business development programs for the Novell Interoperability Alliance. Brent joined Microsoft in 2006 and helped the company establish and drive its framework for interoperability that included the development of the Interoperability Vendor Alliance and the Interoperability Executive Customer Council. Both programs, among others, foster open collaboration and innovation among IT organizations to improve the way heterogeneous systems work together. In particular Brent spends a significant amount of time understanding how open source and commercial business models can align to drive greater value for customers.

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Aaron Holzer is a Senior Product Manager in Microsoft’s Virtualization Marketing organization responsible for virtualization performance marketing and the Microsoft relationship with Novell. He also developed and launched the Server Virtualization Validation Program. Prior to joining Microsoft, Aaron spent seven years at Intel where he was a Senior Product Marketing Engineer in Intel’s Server Platform Group responsible for server virtualization marketing strategies as well as a Strategic Relationship Manager responsible for Intel’s technical and business activities with key ISVs. Before Joining Intel, Aaron spent nearly 21 years at Digital Equipment and Compaq in various technical and marketing roles. Aaron has a BS and MS in Computer Sciences from the City College of NY as well as an MBA from Boston College.

Frank Rego is a Senior Product Manager in Novell’s Open Platform Solutions business unit and is responsible for managing the technical collaboration with Microsoft. Frank joined Novell from Immunix, a startup company that developed the AppArmor security technology for Linux which is now an integrated piece of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform. Frank has an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Portland State University.

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