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Dave Roberts

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Vice President, Strategy, ServiceMesh, Inc.

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Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the ...

Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned Vyatta as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he pioneered virtualized security and networking technology for utility and cloud computing. Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in a variety of technologies, Mr. Roberts is the author of eleven patents, three technical books, and numerous industry articles. Mr. Roberts regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Jan. 4, 2012

Dave Roberts and 1 other person answered this question

Intel looks poised to enter mobile market with the Intel Medfield Android. How will it will fare?

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Medfield Android

Jan. 4, 2012

Dave Roberts and 6 other people answered this question

How has cloud computing impacted the creativity of IT departments?

Let me challenge the question itself: Do we really want IT departments to be "creative?" If so, in what ways?
Here's the problem: The IT department is not the business (unless IT is your business).
I think it's obvious that we want business units to ... more

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Cloud Computing

Nov. 7, 2011

Dave Roberts and 3 other people answered this question

How successful do you think HP's recently announced ARM-based "Moonshot" servers will be?

And the problem is that without developer tools capable of doing what people want, that "You go first" mentality is even more pronounced. Put another way, if my standard development environment is Windows folks writing in .Net using Visual Studio, Moonshot is basically a paperweight ... more

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Cloud Computing

Oct. 25, 2011

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How do you get rid of cloud data?

You may be right, but it depends how things are implemented. Worst case, the CSP is just using a simple storage array where blocks are blocks and there is no wiping. Data leaks between customers when customers do simple Linux-level reads of the raw disk ... more

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Cloud Computing

Sept. 20, 2011

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POLL: Google+ now open to the public - but did they miss the hype window?

I agree with Chris that it's a marathon. The one thing that Google+ has that Facebook doesn't is all the other Google properties creating Google accounts, all of which can be instantly G+ enabled. Everybody has a GMail account, so how many of those GMail ... more

Sept. 14, 2011

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Austrian v. Keynesian: to which economic school of thought do you subscribe? Why?

I don't see any abstract difference between roads and planes. They are merely different modes of transportation. I suppose that somebody could just enjoy flying and therefore buy a private jet to support that hobby, but many people also enjoy driving for fun. Most people ... more

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