8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Keynote:
Hyperscale Computing – An Inflection Point for Data Centers (session)
John V. Healy is a vice president in the Data Center Group and general manager of the Software Defined Datacenter Solutions Group (SDSG) at Intel Corporation. He has overall responsibility to deliver solutions that align with Intel’s strategy to shape the future of agile, software-defined datacenters for communications, enterprise and cloud service provider markets. This role includes leadership of the multinational team that delivers the innovation software and ecosystem solutions for Intel® Rack Scale Design as well as optimizes industry-leading orchestration and management software to optimally run on Intel Architecture.
A specialist in software-driven industry transformation, Healy has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the technology industry, spanning engineering, network deployment, transmission planning, product marketing and business strategy. His prior roles at Intel include leading the software-defined network business and serving as director of strategic business planning for the Communications Storage and Infrastructure Group (CSIG). He joined Intel in 2001 in Shannon, Ireland, initially serving as marketing manager for network processors in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Before joining Intel, Healy held various engineering management and business development roles at Telecom Eireann and Eircom Ltd. The latter included two-year assignments at AT&T Unisource and Infonet Services as part of a strategic alliance.
Healy earned a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and telecommunications from the University of Limerick in Ireland. He is a chartered engineer in Ireland and a chartered European engineer. A member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, he is a regular industry speaker and writer on topics related to network transformation, software-defined infrastructure and datacenter architecture.