Benjamin Black
Co-founder, Boundary

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Mr. Black is the co-founder of Boundary and a recognized expert in large-scale technology infrastructure design, implementation,and operation. Previously, he was an engineering director in the ECN group at Microsoft Windows Live, where he helped build one of the largest content delivery networks in the world. As the manager of website engineering at Amazon, he lead the design and implementation of a new, layer 3 network for Amazon’s production network. As principal engineer for Amazon infrastructure, he co-authored the first documents on what later became EC2. As senior manager for information security, he owned and successfully delivered Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS compliance for Amazon infrastructure, including the critical payments processing systems. His work in the Internap R&D team resulted in his being awarded 3 patents in Internet routing and traffic optimization. Mr. Black is also co-author on several IETF RFCs on MPLS control protocols and IPv6 network operations.

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1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010

What We Need are Standards in the Cloud

Location: Portland_Ballroom

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Sam Johnston (Google), Benjamin Black (Boundary), Subra Kumaraswamy (eBay Inc), Mark Masterson (CSC), Patrick Kerpan (Cohesive Flexible Technologies), Stephen O'Grady (Redmonk)

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Do standards matter in the cloud, are they important or a pointless waste of time which is more likely to inhibit innovation rather than benefit it? Read more.

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Benjamin Black Co-founder, Boundary