Industry Insights Keynotes
Vita Bortnikov
IBM Research, USAVisit Homepage
The Journey to Multi-Cloud NetworkingMulti-cloud Networking is crucial for sustainability of modern enterprise in today’s hyper-connected era where applications, data, and devices are globally distributed among multiple cloud providers, private data centers, mobile locations, and edge environments.
Decades ago Internet protocol allowed world-wide connectivity and completely changed the world. However, in the past fifteen years a wide set of private networking technologies have emerged including public cloud SDNs for VPC services, SDN overlays for data centers, and SD-WANs for interconnecting remote locations. These technologies were created to provide the required networking capabilities while overcoming the shortcomings of the original Internet protocol design.
As a result the current networking world is a collection of different non-compatible and non-interoperable public and private networking technologies.
Vita is an IBM Fellow for Multi-cloud Networking and Software Defined Infrastructure She leads the Networking strategy in IBM Research, building the next generation networking to enable multi-cloud evolution. Vita is an expert in distributed systems — a critical discipline in computer science with applications to cloud computing and beyond. Her passion lies in combining theory and technology to bring about practical innovations for large-scale systems. Towards this end she specializes in high availability, robustness and scalability applied to enterprise solutions. During her career Vita contributed to a number of strategic products - WebSphere, PureApp, IBM Cloud, Blockchain. She also was at the foundation of the Istio Service Mesh project. Vita holds MSc and BSc from The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
