Daniel Knight works as a Senior Architect with responsibility for insuring successful Cassatt solutions. He works with customer and partner accounts in various industries including the financial services, banking and insurance industries. He acts as a lead technical liaison between Product Development and customers in both EMEA and the US.
Prior to joining Cassatt, Mr. Knight was at PostX Software where he was a Senior Solutions Architect working with the 5 largest banks in the world, and the 4 largest insurance carriers. Prior to Postx he worked at SilverStream Software (later Novell) where he focused on Strategic Alliances and worked with the Office of CTO. With SilverStream and later Novell, Mr. Knight helped many financial services companies standardize on J2EE and newer development paradigms including Service Oriented Architectures. Daniel holds a BS in Electrical Engineering degree from Boston University.
Uncertainty on how to support component services has grown and created a
greater chasm between application development and operations. As
organizations allow for partners, customers and even other business units to
use component services, there can be great success. But when services are
reused, and applications are loaded at levels they were not originally built
for, what happens to your service level agreements? You may find yourself
with conflicting service levels and loads that the original architects of the
systems never accounted for. What do you do with the unpredictable loads on
the original applications and how do you manage the service level agreements
holistically?
This talk will confront the often forgotten issue of designing the data
center to adapt to t... (more)
Daniel Knight works as a Senior Architect with responsibility for insuring successful Cassatt solutions. He works with customer and partner accounts in various industries including the financial services, banking and insurance industries. He acts as a lead technical liaison between Product Development and customers in both EMEA and the US. 
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
Per Sjofors
Kirsten Lytsen
Data Recovery Services
Colin Armitage
