The 50 most powerful people in networking

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MOVERS & SHAKERS.

Our 17 movers & shakers have gains on the brain - in market share, IT savvy, respect and more.

Joe Tucci, president and CEO, EMC

Tucci is enjoying payoffs from his $3.6 billion shopping spree in 2003 that netted his company Documentum, Legato Systems and VMware. Server virtualization specialist VMware has prospered with revenue of $61 million for the most recent quarter, up more than 200% compared with a year earlier. Performances like that have turned EMC's financial doldrums into yesterday's news. Five consecutive quarters of double-digit revenue growth have trumped successive annual net losses of $508 million and $119 million in 2001 and 2002. This year, Tucci focused on small and midsize businesses by expanding EMC's partnership with Dell and overseeing the acquisition of Dantz Development, a suppler of back-up and recovery software. On the product development front, he championed manufacturing efficiencies. EMC's high-end Symmetrix storage arrays and midrange Clariion arrays today use many of the same disk drives and components to help keep down production costs.
Rank: 7, Last year's rank: 9

Gary Bloom, chairman, president and CEO, Veritas Software

With the buyout of Veritas by Symantec for for $13.5 billion announced Dec. 15, Bloom has helped his new employer, Symantec, become a $5 billion giant. Bloom is slated to take on the No. 2 role when the deal closes, expected to be in the second quarter 2005, with a title of vice chairman and president.
Rank: 35, Last year's rank: 36

Dick Cantwell, vice president of Auto-ID, Gillette

While others are talking about radio frequency identification (RFID), Cantwell is making it work. He is among the bleeding-edge adopters of RFID for the supply chain - Cantwell started an RFID initiative at Gillette well before Wal-Mart's infamous adoption mandate. He is sharing his expertise and steering the development of global standards for using RFID in trading networks through his leadership role at EPCglobal.
Rank: 45, Not on last year's list.

Jeffrey Citron, chairman and CEO, Vonage

Citron closed a $105 million investment round in summer, bringing the company's funding to $208 million. In November, a key FCC decision ensured Citron won't have to spend all that money on litigation. The FCC ruled Vonage's Internet phone service will be subject to federal, not state, regulation - meaning Citron won't have to navigate a quagmire of state rules.
Rank: 42, Not on last year's list.

Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platform, Novell

With Novell for less than 18 months, de Icaza has staked a role guiding the company's Linux strategy. His experience includes co-founding the GNOME Foundation, which led to Ximian, the Linux desktop and management company de Icaza co-founded and Novell bought. Among other projects, de Icaza heads the Novell-backed Mono effort to develop an open source, Unix version of Microsoft's .Net development platform.
Rank: 44, Not on last year's list.

Scott Griffin, CIO, Boeing

Internally, Boeing's top IT executive is paring down the number of corporate applications from 4,500 to 3,100, building an MPLS backbone and expanding an IP telephony rollout across the entire corporation. Externally, Griffin is working to transform the U.S. military's network through the Future Combat Systems program, a multiyear, multibillion-dollar plan to link soldiers, air and ground vehicles with a fast, secure communications network.
Rank: 25, Last year's rank: 25

Don Haile, president and CIO, Fidelity Investments Systems

With his $1.8 billion annual IT budget, Haile lords over computer operations, global communications networks, and enterprise applications support and development at the mutual fund company. Some of Haile's 2004 projects include expanding VoIP use at dozens of investment centers and a consolidation project to winnow down Fidelity's 14 mainframes, 1,500 switches, 500 routers and 9,000 servers.
Rank: 15, Not on last year's list.

John Halamka, CIO, CareGroup Health System; CIO, Harvard Medical School

Halamka is a prominent figure in healthcare IT. One minute he's a regular IT guy fighting the familiar battles every CIO faces, such as security. The next minute he's wrapped up in a cutting-edge effort, such as implementing bar codes for medication. Or he's taking part in a project like MedsInfo-ED, an ambitious effort to link healthcare providers' databases containing patient medication history and make the data available in real time to emergency room caregivers at Boston-area hospitals. One of Halamka's most surprising traits is his accessibility: Despite everything on his plate, Halamka is active in industry associations such as the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, and he makes the rounds talking to his peers at user conferences.
Rank: 41, Not on last year's list.

Scott Kriens, chairman and CEO, Juniper

Kriens has his sights set on enterprise networking - Cisco's stronghold and a market he once pledged to stay away from to avoid competing with Juniper's core service provider customers. Kriens showed his hand early in 2004 with the $4 billion acquisition of NetScreen Technologies. Now his company is readying its J-Series enterprise routers, which will play a key role in Juniper's Infranet Initiative to create a business-viable, public IP network.
Rank: 24, Not on last year's list.

Amnon Landan, president and CEO, Mercury Interactive

At a time when software license revenue remains hard to come by, Mercury's growth continues to outpace that of the enterprise software market. Goldman Sachs forecasts 19% growth for Mercury in 2005, compared with mid-single-digit growth for the rest of the software industry. Landan is aggressively going after senior IT executives under the gun to fulfill compliance requirements and streamline IT operations - and increasingly finding Mercury's testing, application performance management and IT governance products pitted against products from some of the largest infrastructure software makers. Of course, that's just the league Landan wants to play in.
Rank: 39, Last year's rank: 41

Kevin Rollins, president and CEO, Dell

Rollins took the CEO reins in July and is staying the vendor's well-trod course of commoditization over innovation. His targets include servers, storage, professional services, printing and imaging. So far, so good: In its most recent quarter, Dell reported record product shipments, revenue and income - including a 20% increase in spending by U.S. business customers and a 25% leap in profits.
Rank: 9, Not on last year's list.

Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google

Google's successful, albeit unconventional, public offering this summer, which made a billionaire of Schmidt, turned the spotlight on enterprise search technology. People apparently want searching for a corporate document or an old e-mail to be just as easy as a Google-powered Web search. To get in on the enterprise action, Schmidt and company upgraded Google's enterprise search appliance and launched new desktop search software.
Rank: 50, Not on last year's list.

Matthew Szulik, chairman, president and CEO, Red Hat

Red Hat has become almost synonymous with Linux - the company has 70% to 80% of the U.S. market, according to Gartner. But with the rising threat from the newly joined Novell-SuSE contingency, Szulik spent his year keeping Red Hat fresh. The company announced the first version of its open source operating system for desktop computers, released its first open source Java application server and boosted security wares with the acquisition of Netscape server software products from Time Warner.
Rank: 27, Not on last year's list.

Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president, Microsoft's Enterprise Management Division

Tatarinov is driving development of a serious management platform for Windows. Among the projects on his plate is System Center 2005, the forthcoming platform that will wed Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager to enable combined management of servers and clients. The software will be among the first pieces of Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative, a plan to create a self-managing Windows environment.
Rank: 32, Not on last year's list.

Laurie Tropiano, vice president of on-demand implementation and business transformation, IBM

Talk about pressure - IBM CEO Sam Palmisano says there's a $500 billion market opportunity beyond the $1.2 trillion that businesses around the globe spend on IT products and services each year, and has charged Tropiano with going after it. She spearheads IBM's newly coined "business performance transformation services," which combine technical assistance with strategic advice about business methods to help companies improve key processes.
Rank: 34, Not on last year's list.

Ren Zheng Fei , president, Huawei Technologies; CEO, Huawei-3Com

Under Zheng Fei's watch, China's largest telecom equipment vendor has made itself a thorn in Cisco's side. Its main competitive weapon is price. An aggressive competitor, Zheng Fei recently has focused on expanding Huawei's access to international markets, in particular North America and Europe. This fall, Siemens - traditionally a large systems integrator for Cisco products - agreed to resell Huawei's enterprise network products. The deal follows the late 2003 joint venture between Huawei and 3Com for enterprise data network products.
Rank: 28, Not on last year's list.