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Kenneth Owens

Chief Technical Officer, Cloud Infrastructure Services

Ken Owens is Chief Technical Officer, Cloud Infrastructure Services at Cisco Systems. Ken is responsible for creating and communicating technical/scientific vision and strategy for Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) technical vision/strategy. He brings a compelling view of technology trends in enterprise IT (e.g., infrastructure, computing, SaaS, virtualization, and cloud) and evangelize the technology roadmap for the business.

Before joining Cisco in 2014, Ken spent over 7 years at Savvis as the Chief Scientist, CTO, and VP Security and Virtualization Technologies. Prior assignments include 5 years as a network security architect at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., and Edward Jones brokerage firms in St. Louis, Mo, and 10 years in the design and architecture of communications systems and components for Erlang Technologies, Tellabs, and Wiltel.

Ken holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Articles

August 29, 2014

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Application Enablement and Innovation Leveraging Linux Containers

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Linux containers and Docker are poised to radically change the way applications are built, shipped, deployed, and instantiated. They accelerate application delivery by making it easy to package the dependencies along with the application. That means that a single containerized application can operate in different development, test and production environments and platforms (physical and virtual). […]

April 10, 2014

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Cisco Intercloud Provides a Platform for Application Enablement and Innovation

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  Over the past weeks, Cisco Cloud Services  introduce a global Intercloud .  Today I'd like to explain how Cisco Intercloud provides a platform for Cisco, ISVs, and partners application...

April 3, 2014

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Cisco Global Intercloud : Open and Interoperable

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Enterprises have taken on many cloud computing opportunities but for the most part the adoption of applications on the cloud is very early and mostly for new applications and for...

April 1, 2014

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Cloud Services : Security and Compliance with Data Sovereignty Law

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Cloud computing has rapidly matured in the market.  Many businesses have adopted private and public cloud strategies and have deployed on to cloud infrastructure and integrated with corporate support      systems.  As this cloud adoption occurred, security, privacy, and data governance have frequently been overlooked by the users of cloud computing, especially when demand comes from […]

March 27, 2014

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What makes Cisco Cloud Services Application Centric ?

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Cisco’s announcement on Cisco Cloud Services "Introducing Cisco's Global Intercloud"  is the next step in our transformation towards being an end-to-end cloud platform and software function solutions vendor. This...