TechTalk: Enterprise Multicloud in the DoD

Greg Bourdelais has been part of the Juniper Networks DoD Sales team for over 15 years. Greg is currently responsible for the management, leadership, and execution of all related DoD sales and business development activities for Juniper Networks in support of US Federal DoD Agencies. Prior to Juniper Networks, Greg Bourdelais served in various Director and Major Account Manager roles providing support for various DoD, Intelligence, and Civilian Agencies for Cloudshield, Lucent Technologies, and FORE Systems. In addition to the 22 years of sales experience, Greg has an additional 6 years of federal experience serving in various Engineering positions with Lockheed Martin, TASC, and the General Electric Company. Greg holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University.

Michael Loefflad leads the Juniper Systems Engineering team serving the US Department of Defense. Together with his team, they provide innovative technology solutions to enable and support the diverse missions of our federal customers across the world. Juniper's technology solutions are focused on engineering simplicity in delivering network infrastructure, cybersecurity, multicloud, software, and automation capabilities to the federal market.

Mike Bushong is Vice President Software and Solutions at Juniper. Mike has spent most of his career managing product and strategy at Juniper, Plexxi, and Brocade. Mike was the product management leader for Junos software, incubating industry efforts around automation, DevOps, SDN, and NFV. At Plexxi, Mike led efforts to drive SDN-based control over optically-interconnected data center solutions. At Brocade, Mike ran the data center business, leading the strategy that drove the acquisition of event-driven infrastructure company StackStorm. He also ran the software business, leading Vyatta and OpenDaylight efforts to drive uCPE, SD-WAN, and SDN controller efforts. More recently, Mike has returned to Juniper where he has been engaged with OS strategy, disaggregation (including white box, P4, Open/R, and the like), data center architecture, and related technology areas.