The Cloud is just someone else's computer - an evening of infrastructure talk

Join us at MediaMath HQ in 4 WTC for a night of discussion about the underpinnings of the "cloud", running applications in hybrid environments, and the tricky aspects of running the internet in the "real world".

1. Building the Agnostic Data Center

Companies that provide enterprise software in industries that change rapidly face unique scaling challenges that require more independence, control, and responsiveness than either in-house or cloud architecture could provide on their own. To provide their clients with enterprise-level service while maintaining a dynamic architecture that can support in-house and cloud environments, designers macro-manage their architecture from the beginning so that it can scale to enterprise-level. This talk will explain how MediaMath handled the Enterprise problem and how we designed an architecture that combined the flexibility of cloud architecture with the independence of owned hardware. We’ll share how we integrated dynamic virtual environments, dynamic storage, to cloud-based architecture use, and monitoring/analytics in an agnostic datacenter.

Presenting Company: MediaMath (http://www.mediamath.com/)

2. Operating in a Hybrid World: Enabling networks and applications where you need them when you need them as it applies in the data center

Sabey Data Centers is an owner and operator of over 3 million square feet of data center facilities across the U.S. This talk will focus on building and operating Manhattan's only purpose-built data center at 375 Pearl Street for customers seeking a hybrid colocation environment.

Presenting Company: Sabey Data Centers (http://www.sabeydatacenters.com)

3. Making a bare-metal cloud: How Packet designed and built a fully dedicated, single tenant, bare metal cloud

Providing dedicated, bare-metal servers on demand with the same availability and flexibility of the virtualized public clouds presents a myriad of challenges. Network design, power management, out of band access, handling hardware failures, ensuring operating systems work with bare metal hardware without a virtualization layer, providing services like metadata that end-users have come to expect from the cloud were all challenges we faced while automating "layer 0" . Come hear how we designed and built the platform to provide a cloud experience without the downsides of co-tenancy and the convenience of a hypervisor in our toolkit.

Presenting Company: Packet (https://www.packet.net/)

Presenters

Patrick Neville, Manager of Systems Operations, MediaMath

Patrick Neville is the Manager of System Operations in the Platform Operations tribe at MediaMath, where he specializes in composing infrastructure environments with hard-separated static and dynamic resources.

Patrick has worn many hats in his career, from his start in a datacenter NOC, to DevOps/SysOps and site reliability engineering roles through his present role as a technical lead and mentor at MediaMath. He’s designed scalable architecture for almost every kind of application, amassing a wide range of skills along the way. Today he is a proud generalist who loves solving conventional problems with non-conventional, but intuitive, solutions.

Dan Meltzer, Vice President Sales and Leasing - New York, Sabey Data Centers

Dan Meltzer has primary responsibility for sales and leasing at our Intergate.Manhattan data center located at 375 Pearl Street in New York City. From there, he leverages the entire Sabey Data Center national portfolio to meet his customers’ requirements beyond the New York market.

Dan is responsible for Sabey Data Centers’ relationships with telecom carriers both domestic and international and is also actively involved with Sabey’s cloud initiatives and IGX Networks, Sabey’s telecommunication services division.

Dan brings over thirty years of professional sales experience as well as key relationships in the telecommunications and data center industries having worked at MCI Telecommunications, PSINet, GlassHouse Technologies and, most recently, Optimum Lightpath. He is focused on several verticals for Sabey Data Centers including financial services, health care, new media, telecommunications and retail/wholesale colocation and hosting providers.

Dan lives in New York City and graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Aaron Welch, SVP Product, Packet

Aaron comes from the digital agency background where his company Advomatic worked with high-profile clients in government, education and the non-profit sectors. A veteran of the online political industry, he served as Internet Technology Director for Senator Chris Dodd’s 2008 Presidential campaign and was the Iowa-state web developer for Governor Howard Dean's Presidential campaign.

A server monkey at heart, Aaron created Advomatic’s boutique hosting division (Cadre), which was acquired by Packet in 2014. Originally from Seattle, and with a background in technical theatrical production, Aaron sits on the board of the Obie Award Winning Bushwick Starr Theatre.

In his spare time he scuba dives, eats fire and is a master of ceremonies for amateur talent shows.