Joe Weinman leads the Strategic Solutions Sales organization, with responsibility for working with AT&T's largest customers globally to co-create leading edge solutions that develop competitive advantage in their industry. His team focuses on network-centric solutions for industry verticals as well as customer strategic imperatives such as unified communications and data center evolution.
Joe has consulted for government and large enterprise organizations and lectured audiences on five continents, keynoting or speaking at academic symposia, industry, publisher, and analyst events.
Prior to his current assignment, he was responsible for corporate business development, evaluating emerging technologies such as immersive video conferencing, utility and grid computing, web services, application services, IP Video, Display over IP, RFID, advanced optical networking, intelligent networking, and next generation management. He also helped develop alliances and evaluate firms for acquisition or investment.
A 27-year veteran of AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T, he earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW-Madison respectively, and completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has been awarded 11 US and international patents in areas such as pseudo-ternary line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications, and has numerous more pending in areas ranging from Internet search algorithms to utility computing infrastructure. He has also written a variety of papers appearing in publications of the ACM, the IEEE, CIO, the AT&T Technical Journal, and Business Communications Review.
He is currently or has been a member of the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Advisory Boards of a large Silicon Valley venture capital firm and start-up, and the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, where he is also a Best Practice Awards judge. He is also a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board and the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona.
Joe has held leadership positions in business continuity, engineering and operations, systems engineering, software development, research, and conducted reengineering and strategy consulting for defense, postal, telecom, manufacturing, metals, paper, and financial services clients around the globe.
Joe Weinman is well known in the cloud computing community as the founder of Cloudonomics. Presenting complex simulation tools, Weinman characterizes the sometimes counterintuitive business, financial, and user experience benefits of cloud computing including its on-demand, pay-per-use and other buisness aspects. Last month I had the pleasure of participating in Weinman’s webinar. Weinman discussed several interesting points which I would like to share with you.
Cloud Computing just might be one of the most well-used industry buzz phrases, but in spite of the ubiquitous discussions, companies are struggling to understand cloud computing in general, the benefits it will bring them, and the risks such as security and data governance. Looking towards 2011, this distinguished panel of industry experts delivers a lively discussion about cloud computing, and how and if it will change the way companies run their businesses. Simon Crosby - CTO, Data Centers & Cloud at Citrix Gregory Smith - VP, Technical Deal Solution Management at T-Systems Roland Wartenberg - Enterprise Virtualization Strategies at SAP Labs Joe Weinman - VP of Strategy and Business Development at AT&T Moderator: Rachel Chalmers - Research Director, Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise at The 451 Group
There is a great depate in the computing industry over the definition of cloud computing and if there is such a thing as a hybrid cloud strategy. The VP of Strategic Solutions at AT&T, Joe Weinman, has completed statistical research on this matter and explains a hybrid cloud.
Standardization, Simplification, and Jumping in Headfirst At the CloudWorld event in San Francisco, panelists question whether cloud computing, quickly gaining mainstream adoption, could replace system ownership entirely. The Panel was moderated by Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies and the panelists included Joe Weinman of AT&T Business Solutions, Sam Charrington of Appistry, James Urquhart of Cisco Systems and the CNET Blog Network, and Timothy Chou of Ming Holdings.
Cloud infrastructure services are particularly good at supporting variable demand and peaks with unpredictable timing or amplitude. Peaks are a challenge for CIOs, because forecasting too low may lead to poor performance or service unavailability, and guessing too high means paying for unneeded capacity. Peaking through clouds, instead of handling peaks with your own resources, can minimize cost while enhancing flexibility.
As businesses struggle to remain viable, much less grow, cost management is an imperative. Massive data center consolidation, automation and virtualization can drastically reduce costs - reportedly up to a billion dollars annually, in at least one case. However, money isn't everything: CIOs need to balance the Six FACETS of IT: Flexibility, Availability, Cost, Experience, Timeliness and Security.
Is there any subject in IT today with more promise - or more confusion - than cloud computing? Current enthusiasm could have you believing that clouds will be taking over all IT, saving you boatloads of money, and saving the planet. Here are commonly held views on Cloud Computing that, while not completely wrong, may not be entirely accurate.
Is there any subject in IT today with more promise - or more confusion - than cloud computing? Current enthusiasm could have you believing that clouds will be taking over all IT, saving you boatloads of money, and saving the planet. Here are commonly held views on Cloud Computing that, while not completely wrong, may not be entirely accurate.
Green Telecom talks to AT&T's Joe Weinman about what the company's long history, global network and enterprise support capabilities bring to the cloud computing space.
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