Private Cloud, What Is It and Why You Should Care

Speaker Frank Yang

Frank Yang is co-founder and CTO of Platina Systems. Platina Systems specializes in transforming on-premises assets into private cloud.  Frank’s responsibility includes exploring the role of on-premises infrastructure in the era of hyper scale public clouds, and what lies beyond in the future for workloads and workflows.  Frank holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.  In the last 25 years, Frank has been leading technology innovation at companies such as Ciena, Foundry Networks, Brocade, and Platina Systems. Frank’s field of expertise ranges from optical communication, switching and routing, storage area networks, and cloud infrastructure and management.

Speaker Tab Butler

Tab Butler is an Emmy Award winning media and entertainment consultant specializing in Media Management, Workflow Orchestration, and Software Development for Digital and Linear Content Production and Distribution. With extensive experience in Live Production, Studio, and Post-Production, as well as Business Development and Sales, he helps media organizations adopt advanced technologies. 
 
Tab's most recent experience includes 12 years as the Senior Director of Media Management and Post-Production at MLB Network where he worked closely with executive leadership to design, develop, and deploy original file-based infrastructure of MLB Network’s launch in 2009. Tab managed, developed, expanded, and adopted new technologies, leading the marketplace with state-of-the-art post-production and media management technologies and workflow advancements at MLB Network.  Tab is a recognized leader in the industry. He participates in SMPTE, NATAS, HPA, and SVG, and chairs the Sports Content Management Committee of the SVG.