{"id":4625,"date":"2014-02-05T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:37:43","slug":"spotlight-ignite-2014-third-keynote-speaker-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/spotlight-ignite-2014-third-keynote-speaker-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight On Ignite 2014: Third Keynote Speaker Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/campaigns\/ignite\/ignite-2014\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ignite 2014<\/a> is your opportunity to hear from some of today\u2019s most compelling thinkers on mobile, cloud and other computing trends that have pushed legacy products to their breaking point and require a new approach to enterprise security.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already told you that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/announcing-ignite-2014-keynote-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Levie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/spotlight-on-ignite-2014-keynote-speaker-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Kaminsky<\/a> will be joining us in Las Vegas as keynote speakers, and today we\u2019re excited to announce the next addition to our main stage lineup\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <b>Carl Eschenbach, president and COO of VMware!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"250\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:120%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4626 lozad\" alt=\"carl_eschenbach_headshot\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/carl_eschenbach_headshot.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/carl_eschenbach_headshot.jpg 250w, https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/carl_eschenbach_headshot-230x276.jpg 230w, https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/carl_eschenbach_headshot-33x40.jpg 33w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/center>Carl joined VMware in 2002 and has been in the industry for more than 24 years, with experience in infrastructure software, networking, telephony and storage. Before joining VMware, where he currently serves as chief operating officer, he was vice president of North America sales at Inktomi, and also held various sales management positions with companies including 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Palo Alto Networks and VMware is a deep and fruitful one; last November, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/palo-alto-networks-vmware-milestone-software-defined-data-center-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">we announced a joint integration of VMware\u2019s NSX network virtualization platform with Palo Alto Networks<\/a> next-generation security solutions and management software. We\u2019re excited to have Carl aboard to share his perspective on securing virtualized infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/campaigns\/ignite\/ignite-2014\/speakers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron, Dan and Carl<\/a> are part of a packed Ignite 2014 roster that already includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keynote presentations from <b>Mark McLaughlin<\/b>, Palo Alto Networks Chairman, President and CEO, <b>Nir Zuk<\/b>, Palo Alto Networks Founder and CTO, and <b>Lee Klarich<\/b>, Palo Alto Networks Senior Vice President of Product Management<\/li>\n<li>More than 55 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/first-look-heres-whats-coming-ignite-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">technical sessions from security experts and customers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/spotlight-on-ignite-2014-firewall-panorama-hands-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\">hands-on sessions providing classroom training on Palo Alto Networks<\/a> technology<\/li>\n<li>Lots of opportunities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/spotlight-on-ignite-2014-one-one-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\">network with peers and Palo Alto Networks representatives one-on-one<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many more surprises are in store, so keep watching this space for all the details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ignite2014.paloaltonetworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Register for Ignite 2014<\/a> while there\u2019s still time, and follow us on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ignite_Conf\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\"  target=\"_blank\">@Ignite_Conf<\/a>) for more important updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignite 2014 is your opportunity to hear from some of today\u2019s most compelling thinkers on mobile, cloud and other computing trends that have pushed legacy products to their breaking point and require &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[217,290,279,175],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignite","tag-ignite-2014","tag-keynote","tag-spotlight","tag-vmware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}