Joe Weinman leads the Strategic Solutions Sales organization, with responsibility for working with AT&T's largest customers globally to co-create leading edge solutions that develop competitive advantage in their industry. His team focuses on network-centric solutions for industry verticals as well as customer strategic imperatives such as unified communications and data center evolution.
Joe has consulted for government and large enterprise organizations and lectured audiences on five continents, keynoting or speaking at academic symposia, industry, publisher, and analyst events.
Prior to his current assignment, he was responsible for corporate business development, evaluating emerging technologies such as immersive video conferencing, utility and grid computing, web services, application services, IP Video, Display over IP, RFID, advanced optical networking, intelligent networking, and next generation management. He also helped develop alliances and evaluate firms for acquisition or investment.
A 27-year veteran of AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T, he earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW-Madison respectively, and completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has been awarded 11 US and international patents in areas such as pseudo-ternary line coding, simulation and workflow, consumer goods, wireless technologies, and telecommunications, and has numerous more pending in areas ranging from Internet search algorithms to utility computing infrastructure. He has also written a variety of papers appearing in publications of the ACM, the IEEE, CIO, the AT&T Technical Journal, and Business Communications Review.
He is currently or has been a member of the IBM Advanced eBusiness Council, the Veritas (now Symantec) Utility Computing Advisory Board, the Hitachi Technology Advisory Council, the EMC Customer Advisory Council, the Technology Advisory Boards of a large Silicon Valley venture capital firm and start-up, and the Technology Manager's Forum Corporate Advisory Board, where he is also a Best Practice Awards judge. He is also a past Chairman of the joint National Science Foundation / Industry Advisory Board and the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona.
Joe has held leadership positions in business continuity, engineering and operations, systems engineering, software development, research, and conducted reengineering and strategy consulting for defense, postal, telecom, manufacturing, metals, paper, and financial services clients around the globe.
Video:Explaining Hybrid Clouds - December 2009
There is a great depate in the computing industry over the definition of cloud computing and if there is such a thing as a hybrid cloud strategy. The VP of Strategic Solutions at AT&T, Joe Weinman, has completed statistical research on this matter and explains a hybrid cloud.
Video:Mainstream Meanings for the Cloud - August 2009
Standardization, Simplification, and Jumping in Headfirst
At the CloudWorld event in San Francisco, panelists question whether cloud computing, quickly gaining mainstream adoption, could replace system ownership entirely. The Panel was moderated by Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies and the panelists included Joe Weinman of AT&T Business Solutions, Sam Charrington of Appistry, James Urquhart of Cisco Systems and the CNET Blog Network, and Timothy Chou of Ming Holdings.
Article:Peaking Through The Clouds - June 2009
Cloud infrastructure services are particularly good at supporting variable demand and peaks with unpredictable timing or amplitude. Peaks are a challenge for CIOs, because forecasting too low may lead to poor performance or service unavailability, and guessing too high means paying for unneeded capacity. Peaking through clouds, instead of handling peaks with your own resources, can minimize cost while enhancing flexibility.
Article:How Clouds Can Complement Consolidation - GigaOm, June 2009
As businesses struggle to remain viable, much less grow, cost management is an imperative. Massive data center consolidation, automation and virtualization can drastically reduce costs - reportedly up to a billion dollars annually, in at least one case. However, money isn't everything: CIOs need to balance the Six FACETS of IT: Flexibility, Availability, Cost, Experience, Timeliness and Security.
Article: Half-Truths About the Cloud - GigaOm, April 2009 Six Half-Truths About the Cloud Another Half Dozen Half-Truths About the Cloud
Is there any subject in IT today with more promise - or more confusion - than cloud computing? Current enthusiasm could have you believing that clouds will be taking over all IT, saving you boatloads of money, and saving the planet. Here are commonly held views on Cloud Computing that, while not completely wrong, may not be entirely accurate.
Article:Inside AT&T's Cloud Strategy - March 2009
Green Telecom talks to AT&T's Joe Weinman about what makes the company's long history, global network and enterprise support capabilities bring to the cloud computing space.
Video: An Interview with AT&T's VP of Strategy Solutions - October 2008
Article:The Ten Laws of Cloudnomics - BusinessWeek, September 2008
Here's what makes public utility cloud services different - and how they can give you a sustainable strategic advantage.
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