2010 Speaker List

As data centers move become more virtualized, companies are still determining how to secure these environments. This session will examine the inner workings of the virtual data center, including where the security weak spots are and what can be done to ensure protection of critical data being stored there.

While major wireless security concerns have long since left the front page, security is the one area in IT (and especially in mobile IT) where “done” is never achieved. New challenges and outright threats appear on essentially a weekly basis, and it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. Our goal for this session is to look at the latest in mobile security threats, and how new solutions are enabling mobile users to go about their business without compromise to corporate assets.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Traditional video conferencing vendors and a set of recent market entries are pushing a wide variety of video conferencing solutions all the way from high end Telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop.  Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for the needs of your enterprise?  This session will propose a decision tree for sorting through the vendor offerings and hype and focusing on the right size, right bandwidth and right features to meet your visual communications needs.  

Desktop video conferencing has traditionally consumed the PC, used up the screen real-estate and provided poor images.  Has this technology evolved into a useful tool?  What are the enterprise applications where desktop video can provide productivity enhancements or better customer interactions that justify its deployment?  In this session we will quiz the desktop video vendors to see if we can rationalize deploying yet another complex application on the desktop.  

Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support.  It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool.  This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues.

Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention.

Key to the success of any mobile strategy is putting the right devices into the hands of users in the field. But this can be a difficult task – with so many choices, including a broad range of handsets, operating environments, and applications, how can IT management make the best choice? This session will feature a look at some of the key alternatives, provide show-and-tell demonstrations of important features, and help you make the decision as to the optimal mobile arsenal for your enterprise.

To be sure, there’s still a good deal of debate around the very definition of 4G, and 4G services to date has been spotty. Fear not, 4G is in fact well on the way to reality now, offering improved throughput and a broad range of additional capabilities to mobile devices and their users. This session will examine the key options for 4G, including their features, benefits, and status, and discuss the evolution of 4G as plows ahead towards ubiquity, and, we might add, 5G.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention.

Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers.  This raises some critical questions:  How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops?  Should the next generation branch office be serverless?  What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed?  What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues?  The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Along with its many benefits, the move to a virtual infrastructure brings new challenges to managing the data center. These challenges include virtual server sprawl (largely due to the ease of provisioning virtual servers), capacity and performance management of the virtualized infrastructure, and troubleshooting problems across the virtual and physical environment. While network and systems management toolsets have been around for decades, are they able to handle a virtual world?  Hundreds of new tools have emerged to specifically address virtualization management, while existing tools are evolving with new virtual capabilities. Learn about how both of these types of tools can be implemented to help you with the long-running challenge of successful end-to-end management.

This intensive workshop offers a critical, independent evaluation of SharePoint, detailing the platform's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to use SharePoint -- and reviews how well SharePoint "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives.

The workshop will also prepare you for developing a SharePoint strategy for your enterprise, empowering business and technology managers to reach a common assessment of what SharePoint can and can't do effectively for your enterprise. This course will enable you to confidently assess and plan any effort to extend SharePoint beyond a set of departmental installations into an enterprise-wide platform.

Course Outline
* What Is and Isn't SharePoint
* How SharePoint 2010 Changes the Picture
* SharePoint Architecture for Business Managers
* Evaluating SharePoint's Core Features and Functionality
* SharePoint as an Application Development Platform
* Enterprise Architecture and Operations
* Evaluating the SharePoint Ecosystem
* Best Practices and Looking Forward

Who Should Attend and What You Will Learn

* Business analysts -- to learn what SharePoint does and doesn't offer out of the box, and what are the likely costs
* Enterprise architects and IT managers -- to better guide business colleagues about choices and impacts before they try to dive into SharePoint, by understanding architectures, governance, critical 3rd-party modules employed at the enterprise level
* SharePoint project managers, senior architects, and lead developers -- to understand what you're about to get into, with respect to architectures, licensing, and functionality, as well as different approaches for customizing and extending SharePoint
* SharePoint evaluation teams -- to level-set understanding and terminology among the team, and make more informed choices about whether and where to employ SharePoint
* Information and Knowledge Managers -- to compare SharePoint against other information and knowledge management tools in your enterprise, as well as what key investments need to be made to up-size SharePoint for the enterprise
* Consultants -- to understand where SharePoint works well, and where it does not, as well as how to improve SharePoint implementations through better governance and 3rd-party tools
* Anyone who wants to understand the impact of SharePoint 2010 on any existing deployments

To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of social software. And yet, social software tools (including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors) differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading social software technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs.

With corporate environmental sustainability on the rise, IT departments are increasingly turning to green IT initiatives. While most organizations start on their path towards greener IT in the data center – organizations oftentimes lack a comprehensive strategy and struggle to prioritize projects. To spend time and capital wisely – ultimately delivering financial and environmental benefits – this session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets.

There are two major subsystems in a data center: physical infrastructure and IT equipment.  PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) indicates the proportion of power consumed by both.  Companies around the globe are publishing PUE values that are close to perfection, but are these numbers achievable in a real-world production data center?  This session will help attendees filter out the hype, understand the science behind PUE, and set realistic expectations for their own data centers.  Beyond the basic calculations, you will examine what factors could increase or decrease your PUE and set you on track for improving your data center efficiency.

Throughout the early stages of the data center design/build process, complex decisions are made that greatly impact the eventual efficiency and performance of the data center.  There are free tools available that can simplify this decision making process by experimenting with numerous “what if” scenarios regarding virtualization, efficiency, capital cost, and other key design issues.  This presentation will review two of these tools, PUE and Capital Cost Calculator, and demonstrate each of them.

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands.  What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC).  In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm.  However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide.  In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 

Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support.  It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool.  This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues.

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

It’s more than a question of Web/cloud services vs. traditional applications vs. device-specific apps. It’s a question of how best to get enterprise information into the hands of those who need it no matter when or where. Building mobile apps has definitely become easier with device-independent tools, but challenges remain. We’ll look in detail at the key options for building mobile apps, and suggest alternatives that provide the greatest flexibility at the lowest cost.

One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN.  Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links.  The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment.

Data security via Web application and database controls is difficult and rapidly evolving. With the introduction of cloud computing new questions around sensitive data protection arise. Learn how data security can be achieved within cloud computing environments. See several use cases demonstrating effective, risk mitigating strategies.

The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage.  We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs).  These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery.  The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances.  What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance?  How will these devices be managed?  Do they work with all hypervisors?  Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality?  Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors?  How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance? 

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has become the central driver of the Information Technology Security. The Data Security Standard’s oppressive costs and low efficacy have distracted organizations from performing true information risk management. Paved with good intentions, where does this road lead? Did raising the bar lower it? Is the cure worse than the disease? We will compare PCI to “No Child Left Behind Act”, explore PCI’s origins, motives, and impact, and outline actionable areas for improvement.  

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

When you buy a car, it comes with a speedometer. It doesn't come with a roofrack. The automobile industry decided long ago what was built into a car, and what was purchased from third-party vendors. While many companies are using cloud computing today, the cloud ecosystem is still in flux. It's unclear what functions are part of a cloud, and what pieces will come from third party providers. In this opening session, Bitcurrent's Alistair Croll looks at how the industry is deciding what's an essential part of a cloud offering and what's an optional, third-party component.

Anything that disrupts a market reveals new opportunities -- and few changes have been more disruptive to IT than cloud computing. This panel of investors talks about how utility computing is changing their investment philosophies. From reduced upfront capital that changes founder dillution to the ecosystem of tools and infrastructure that's emerged to support cloud computing, you'll get a long view of on-demand IT in this session.

For decades, we've focused on capacity and deployment as a way of dealing with performance issues. When things became slow, we threw CPU and bandwidth at the problem. This approach breaks down in the elastic model of cloud computing, however: when capacity is (potentially) unlimited, companies need to decide what kind of user experience they can afford. To make matters worse, virtualized infrastructure is harder to monitor and measure. This panel looks at how we measure cloud computing performance, and how capacity, user experience, and cost are related in an on-demand world.

Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention.

Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges.  The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. 

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

As IT is challenged to deliver services – not manage assets – could computing presents itself as an affordable, scalable strategy. And the pressure is mounting for data center managers to move their on-premise infrastructure and applications into the cloud. But security concerns, poor service-level commitments, and lack of organizational readiness – and willingness – are all valid roadblocks that stand in the way. This session will help data center managers determine if could computing is right for them – and if not, how to achieve cloud-like efficiencies in their current environment.

One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN.  Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links.  The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges.

Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers.  This raises some critical questions:  How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops?  Should the next generation branch office be serverless?  What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed?  What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues?  The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Given the rapid rate of change in wireless and mobile technologies, services, products, and applications, it’s no surprise that the experts will disagree as to what the single most important item on your mobility to-do list should be. This session, nonetheless, will provide just that – a list of single best ideas (and subsequent debate) to enable you to pick what will be at the top of your list. Join us for a fast-paced kickoff session that will bring the entire range of wireless and mobile opportunities into focus.

When companies conduct risk analyses, they often have to take into consideration the costs associated with protecting their organizations against malware (malicious software) and the potential likelihood that the end user is going to take an action that will increase their risk. To combat the complexity and sheer volume of malware creation and distribution, analyzing malware traffic, behavior and code continue to be the known methods for identifying and reducing the malware risk. Taking behavior analysis to the next level: the end user - provides a means of determining whether or not end users have been exploited and now pose a threat to themselves and, potentially, their organizations. The end user has, traditionally, been regarded as the “weakest link”. Learning and leveraging end user behavior has the potential to not only add to the security layering, but also increase the strength of the weakest link.

Rising energy costs, an economic slowdown and environmental awareness are forcing enterprises and government to consider greener IT. To address these challenges, the State of California initiated one of the largest government-green IT projects across its 50,000 hardware devices and 2 million software titles. In all, the initiative expects to save $44 million in energy expenses and avoid over 200,000 tons of carbon emissions. This case study will provide attendees with the State of California’s approach to green IT, projects initiated and valuable lessons learned along the way.

Desktop virtualization can simplify IT, secure corporate data and reduce costs like never before.  That said, upcoming Windows 7 migrations will be one of the most daunting and expensive projects facing CIOs today.  In this presentation, you’ll hear how real-life customers are successfully implementing desktop virtualization with a staged approach and benefitting from a desktop upgrade process that’s simpler and more cost-effective.
 

Learn how SIEM and real-time, in memory, analytics combine to capture, correlate and respond to network attacks and insider abuse. See automated responses to network attacks, policy violations, inappropriate web browsing and USB device usage. Hear how mid-sized enterprises use SIEM to meet regulatory compliance initiatives and gain network control.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands.  What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC).  In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm.  However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide.  In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 

The over-provisioning model used by data centers for years is unsustainable – and a new dynamic model is emerging driven by virtualization and automation. While these technologies aren’t necessarily new, IT departments must become competent and refine their skills in the use of virtualization and automation to contain costs as businesses continue to demand IT services. This session will help data center managers learn how to leverage these virtualization and automation technologies to create a business-driven data center that delivers new levels of service quality, efficiency, agility and risk reduction.  

Along with its many benefits, the move to a virtual infrastructure brings new challenges to managing the data center. These challenges include virtual server sprawl (largely due to the ease of provisioning virtual servers), capacity and performance management of the virtualized infrastructure, and troubleshooting problems across the virtual and physical environment. While network and systems management toolsets have been around for decades, are they able to handle a virtual world?  Hundreds of new tools have emerged to specifically address virtualization management, while existing tools are evolving with new virtual capabilities. Learn about how both of these types of tools can be implemented to help you with the long-running challenge of successful end-to-end management.

The 802.11n standard is official, and enterprises are now rolling out .11n both in replacement/upgrade and greenfield deployments. This session will explore the best ways to implement 802.11n in your enterprise. We’ll look at channel planning, device issues, system architecture, wireless network management, and how to perform the big upgrade with a minimum of disruption, cost, and confusion.    

While evaluating and managing technology comes naturally to IT professionals, communicating business value may not. With data center transformation at the heart of delivering on businesses demand for reliable, flexible and resilient IT services at an affordable cost, data center managers must learn to develop and articulate business cases. This session will help attendees create a successful transformation strategy by: demonstrating ROI to secure CEO support for migrating to a next-generation data center; highlighting attributes to build the business case; and identifying infrastructure features that increase efficiency and lower costs, while delivering business value.

Deduplication (dedupe) and single instance storage (SIS) are perhaps the hottest topics in the storage industry.  EMC just acquired a dedupe startup for over two billion dollars!  Meanwhile, all of the leading backup vendors are scrambling to integrate dedupe into their products.  But this is just the beginning of a major new technology trend!  Dedupe offers benefits not just for backups, but also for cloud storage, archiving, virtual desktops, and even primary storage for high performance production servers and VMs.   This session is broken into three parts:  1) The first section discusses the fundamental technology of dedupe, revealing both the shortcomings of current approaches and the opportunities for new solutions.  2)  The second section focuses on dedupe for backups.  We illustrate different ways to integrate dedupe into backup systems as well as revealing non-dedupe approaches that might deliver similar results at lower costs.  3)  Lastly, we describe applications for dedupe and SIS in rich media archives, virtual desktops, and primary storage.    

Data storage is just one element in the application delivery ecosystem, but it turns out that it is often the critical performance bottleneck.  A number of new technologies have come out in the recent years to optimize storage performance.  This session reviews several of these innovations and explains how  some performance-optimization technologies can be easily integrated into the existing storage infrastructure. Topics include spindle aggregation, various storage acceleration devices, application-level QoS techniques, and caching or hot-spotting with solid state disk.  Specific attention will be given to accelerating network file systems, MS Exchange, and SQL databases. 

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Anything that disrupts a market reveals new opportunities -- and few changes have been more disruptive to IT than cloud computing. This panel of investors talks about how utility computing is changing their investment philosophies. From reduced upfront capital that changes founder dillution to the ecosystem of tools and infrastructure that's emerged to support cloud computing, you'll get a long view of on-demand IT in this session.

Wi-Fi is now a fixture in a huge range of applications within enterprises around the globe. With the 802.11n standard now finished, many have assumed that Wi-Fi is now “done”. Not so fast – new developments continue within both the IEEE 802.11 Working Groups and the Wi-Fi Alliance, all of which will influence what you’ll be doing with Wi-Fi over the next five years. In this session, we’ll present the views of experts and practitioners, helping you set a wireless LAN strategy delivering maximum benefits at the lowest possible cost.

Morning Focus
Managing and Securing Mobile Devices
Enterprises are depending more and more on mobile applications to increase productivity and responsiveness. However cellular charges are growing faster than any other element in the networking budget and organizations need to develop policies that ensure they are getting the best return on that investment. Along with controlling the costs associated with mobility, networking departments will have to develop systems and procedures to allow them to manage, maintain, and secure the growing number of laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices that are now becoming an important part of their responsibility. Security is a major part of that concern. With incidents like the TJX security failure, the requirement to secure mobile networks and devices has become a major issue for the enterprises. This workshop is designed to help enterprise IT departments to define their mobility requirements and develop systems and policies to manage the growing assortment of mobile devices users are demanding. The program will feature a discussion of the overall task of managing mobility solutions, the vulnerabilities inherent in each of the major wireless technologies, and the best practices for addressing them.

Course Outline
* Mobile Device Management
* Mobile Security Overview
* New Wi-Fi Security Issues
* Cellular 2.5/3G Security Elements
* PDA/Smart Phone Security

You Will Learn This workshop is designed to help managers understand the management and security issues involved in the full range of wireless networks and mobile devices.

Afternoon Focus
Next Phase Planning for Wireless LANs: 802.11n, Voice over Wireless LANs, and Fixed Mobile Convergence
Enterprise wireless LANs have gone from being a convenient network access mechanism to a critical part of the network infrastructure. Centrally-controlled WLAN switching systems have become commonplace, and we are now in the midst of a major upgrade as to the new higher-capacity 802.11n radio link. To ensure that the upgrade delivers the full benefit, buyers will need to understand the different 802.11n implementations, new network design factors, core network capacity, security requirements, testing, frequency planning, and access point powering. This workshop is designed to bring you up to speed on the major developments in wireless LAN technology and applications. While it features a brief overview of WLAN technologies, the program assumes a fundamental understanding of the basic concepts and focuses on planning issues for the developing areas in WLAN technology.

Course Outline
* WLAN Fundamentals
* The 802.11n Radio Link
* Voice over Wireless LANs
* Fixed-Mobile Convergence and Mobile Unified Communications

You Will Learn
This program will provide a comprehensive, vendor-neutral description of client and infrastructure requirements for WLAN voice, and the range of options for implementing FMC.

Who Should Attend
Wired and wireless network managers and security specialists who need a clearer understanding of the challenges involved in the developing areas of mobility and the current best practices for dealing with them

Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment.

The concept of thin provisioning is not new, but the state of the art has advanced, adding awareness between the operating system and storage device for enhanced efficiency. This session introduces the value proposition and concept of thin provisioning, covers the technology of the major thin storage vendors (3PAR, BlueArc, Compellent, Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pillar) and operating system integration layers (Symantec, VMware, and T10), and presents novel approaches from Data Robotics, Apple, and cloud storage systems. We will present the pros and cons of these various approaches in the context of enterprise storage management.

Enterprises are now leveraging cloud storage services at a rapid pace and are looking for qualified answers on how using a cloud platform can increase efficiency and ROI simultaneously. The old model of purchasing expensive storage systems or using large amounts of tape are prehistoric, adapting a new approach to storage is necessary in today’s tough economic climate as budgets continue to be slashed and performance upkeep is critical . This session will enable users to learn about the benefits and economies of scale as it relates to developing/implementing a cloud storage solution, a focus will be placed on performance, cost-effectiveness, user experience, and customer service/satisfaction.

As IT is challenged to deliver services – not manage assets – could computing presents itself as an affordable, scalable strategy. And the pressure is mounting for data center managers to move their on-premise infrastructure and applications into the cloud. But security concerns, poor service-level commitments, and lack of organizational readiness – and willingness – are all valid roadblocks that stand in the way. This session will help data center managers determine if could computing is right for them – and if not, how to achieve cloud-like efficiencies in their current environment.

Data center (DC) consolidation harkens back to the centralized glass room, enabling better control over fixed costs. Virtualization drives up utilization of server compute and storage assets, reduces sprawl and helps  reduce power and cooling.
The next phase of DC evolution will help applications adjust to load. Referred to as Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) a few years ago, it is now being mixed in with cloud computing and networking.  The tools are there to usher in a new way of making traditionally static networks ‘dynamic.’ The network  responds automatically to requests for more or less bandwidth, provisioning network access, security and QoS, all without human intervention. This session will illustrate how existing data center assets have been repurposed to increase utilization, and improve application agility.
 

The 802.11n standard is official, and enterprises are now rolling out .11n both in replacement/upgrade and greenfield deployments. This session will explore the best ways to implement 802.11n in your enterprise. We’ll look at channel planning, device issues, system architecture, wireless network management, and how to perform the big upgrade with a minimum of disruption, cost, and confusion.    

What's a cloud worth? With so many definitions of cloud computing, and such a diverse range of implementations, it's hard to get a grip on cloud costs. This session will look at the fundamentals of cloud economics, as well as many of the factors enterprises need to consider when making financial decisions about on-demand options.
 

When one looks at the main benefits of storage networking people often cite performance.  Performance means many things to many people in the IT world.  This two hour session identifies just what aspects of performance are and are not critical to the successful deployment of these storage and storage networking technologies.  We will look at the different kinds of information flow requirements and how best to map those to storage infrastructures today.  We will examine the best place to invest for performance as well as talk about some of the performance "myths" as well.  Session topics will include:   Performance Elements - What's Important Storage Device & Controller Technology - Performance Enablers Storage Networking: Bit Rate, Bandwidth, Latency & Throuput The Role of iSCSI and Fibre Channel in today's data center Unified Fabric and FCoE Developments  

Once an organization has completed the initial server virtualization/consolidation phase, it becomes clear that the right advanced management tools along with the right policies and processes are required to better monitor, manage, secure, troubleshoot and tune this new virtual infrastructure, to reap the full benefits of operational efficiency and IT agility. IT managers have to sift through the plethora of virtualization management solutions to identify which products are really ready for prime time, and then how to match their particular needs with available solutions. In addition, many shops with traditional Enterprise Systems Management solutions are wondering how new management tools integrate with/utilize what they already have. In addition to operational management, successfully moving towards full virtualization requires optimization and automation of the virtual infrastructure – creating a self-managing compute factory. Add self-service provisioning and a service catalog to the mix and you have a private cloud, which may extend to public/hybrid cloud computing.

Attendees of this workshop will gain:
•    Insight into the impact the new virtual infrastructure has on IT and the challenges it creates
•    An understanding of the base management functions that come from virtualization vendors as well as the add-on tools available from startups and long time management players
•    An understanding of the requirements, options and best practices for managing all the aspects of the virtual infrastructure including
    o    Virtual machine lifecycle, VM image management and provisioning (IT and self-service based)
    o    Capacity management across the virtual and physical infrastructure
    o    Application performance management from the application through the virtual and physical layers
    o    Root cause analysis and fault monitoring and management
    o    Data protection, backup, disaster recovery and storage management
    o    Securing the virtual environment, from switches to trust zones to hypervisor integrated security
•    An independent look at the different approaches of virtualization management solutions
•    Considerations for choosing and implementing virtualization management solutions
•    How virtualization and advanced management capabilities enable cloud computing – how do you get there from here?
•    An update on the recent changes and future of virtualization management
•    A discussion of various vendor alternatives and experiences moving beyond consolidation to advanced virtualization management and virtualization-enabled cloud computing

You Will Learn
During this workshop, industry analysts and virtualization experts from FOCUS will discuss the challenges that come with the new virtual infrastructure and the move to cloud computing, and the types of solutions available for virtualization management, optimization and automation.

Who Should Attend
This workshop targets IT managers and administrators who are looking to fulfill the full promise of virtualization and the move to cloud computing, especially around improving operational efficiencies, optimization, and automation – improving IT agility while reducing costs.
 

Most companies have already implemented server consolidation projects utilizing virtualization technologies, and have brought significant cost reductions to both capital and operational expenditures. Recent FOCUS research shows that the next priority for virtualization amongst advanced organizations is desktop virtualization. Companies are looking to leverage server, desktop and application virtualization technologies to bring order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what are the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, and where/how do they apply in your environment? More importantly, how can your IT organization assess desktop requirements across the entire organization and leverage the appropriate technologies to deal with the unrelenting daily demands of provisioning, administering, securing and supporting hundreds or tousands of corporate desktops and applications for a wide variety of user types?

Course Outline
•    Methodology for evaluating your user requirements and determining which technologies and combined approaches are best suited for your users' needs
•    A deeper understanding of the various approaches and architectures of the different desktop virtualization and application virtualization and streaming technologies
•    An independent look at the top desktop and application virtualization solutions
•    Considerations for IT managers and administrators developing strategies for the selection and implementations of these technologies
•    Removing barriers, implementing best practices, and avoiding pitfalls of desktop and application virtualization
•    Compliance and licensing issues with desktop virtualization
•    A look into the recent changes and future of desktop and application virtualization
•    A discussion of various vendor alternatives and experiences involving the different approaches to delivering desktops and applications to all types of users

You Will Learn
During this workshop, industry analyst and virtualization experts from FOCUS will detail the technologies and solutions available for desktop virtualization, and application virtualization and streaming.

Who Should Attend
This workshop targets IT managers and administrators who are interested in developing their knowledge of virtual desktops, application virtualization and streaming technologies to better design and implement a forward thinking strategy for desktop and application delivery within their companies

Feeling bewildered by a slew of new acronyms, technologies and concepts describing virtualization?   Need a high-level overview of what the different types of virtualization mean to you and your business?  Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, hypervisors, OS virtualization, hardware assists, virtual desktop architectures, application streaming and isolation, and where all the various virtualization vendors fit? This is the session for you.  

As virtualization implementation progress, the key to realizing the full potential of virtual infrastructures is though advanced management, optimization and automation. This session is a primer on advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity and performance management, and automated policy-based workflows. It will discuss the value of implementing advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders.

When discussing virtual desktops, most people think of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. However, there are a number of methods for delivering, provisioning and managing virtual desktops. This session will examine a range of technologies that can be used to deploy and manage virtual desktops, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Vulnerability identification and management has quickly become an essential capability within information security organizations.  This capability has moved beyond basic identification of unpatched systems and open ports to include elements such as log management, security event monitoring, and other advances that help organizations understand where they have technological challenges.  This session will focus on the concepts and technologies that are used in next generation technical vulnerability identification and management capabilities and how to more effectively use the information that is generated from them.  

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

 To mitigate website security risks, organizations need to know what vulnerabilities bad guys are exploiting as well as issues that could possibly be taken advantage of. This session will combine comprehensive data with leading industry insight to address the “possible” and “probable” to help attendees make better website security decisions.    

Storage Area Networks (SANs) are expensive and complex – to implement, manage and grow.  Organizations need to understand how they can reduce their capital investment and extend technology lifecycles while supporting critical applications.  This session will help you to understand how to easily expand and repurpose your storage resources over an extended lifecycle.

Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare.  For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains:  the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers.  Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains.  Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains.  The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment.    

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future IT.

Even as the blistering pace of innovation in wireless and mobile continues, there are signs that the industry in converging (so to speak) on a set of technologies that will provide a degree of stability that’s not been seen in the past two decades. Which technologies will survive and prosper, and what direction should your planning take to maximize benefits while minimizing costs? This session will explore key wireless technologies and the impacts they will have.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

According to a recent FOCUS survey, “Managing the Virtual Environment”, backing up the virtual environment is IT’s biggest virtualization pain point. The application data contained within each virtual machine is only part of what needs to be backed up. This session will cover best practices for backup in the virtual environment and will discuss capabilities available to assist and simplify your backup process.    

Come see how the System Center R2 add-in for Visio 2010 works along with Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. We will show you how the add-in works and discuss in detail what is needed to get to this magic show on its way to totally amaze your management team and colleagues. We will launch the Visio 2010 add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2,  which includes the data module for Visio Services in SharePoint 2010. The new cool in network and infrastructure management using Visio 2010 and Visio Services in SharePoint 2010.

Anything that disrupts a market reveals new opportunities -- and few changes have been more disruptive to IT than cloud computing. This panel of investors talks about how utility computing is changing their investment philosophies. From reduced upfront capital that changes founder dillution to the ecosystem of tools and infrastructure that's emerged to support cloud computing, you'll get a long view of on-demand IT in this session.

Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support.  It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool.  This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues.

 To mitigate website security risks, organizations need to know what vulnerabilities bad guys are exploiting as well as issues that could possibly be taken advantage of. This session will combine comprehensive data with leading industry insight to address the “possible” and “probable” to help attendees make better website security decisions.    

The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands.  What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC).  In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm.  However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide.  In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 

It used to be a given that, like the notebook PC, the enterprise would provide wireless handsets for business use. But, of course, everyone has a personal cell phone, so another handset to carry may not be a plus. Isn’t there, then, a way to allow mobile workers to use their personal phone without compromising enterprise security or the company budget? The answer will surprise you – and it will also save you money, increase user satisfaction, and boost productivity. Welcome to the era of personal liability, a hot topic at this year's conference.  

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

To be sure, there’s still a good deal of debate around the very definition of 4G, and 4G services to date has been spotty. Fear not, 4G is in fact well on the way to reality now, offering improved throughput and a broad range of additional capabilities to mobile devices and their users. This session will examine the key options for 4G, including their features, benefits, and status, and discuss the evolution of 4G as plows ahead towards ubiquity, and, we might add, 5G.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future IT.

This presentation will discuss 10 years of research and benchmarking of 1,000 organizations by the IT Process Institute, that uncovered the 20% of IT controls that deliver 80% of the performance improvement, as well as creating a sustainable and secure controls environment.  Case studies of effective organizations will be discussed as well as observations and conclusions that where developed as a result of the research.

Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers.  This raises some critical questions:  How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops?  Should the next generation branch office be serverless?  What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed?  What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues?  The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise.

There is continued pressure in today’s corporate environment to do more with less, to reduce costs and to become more agile in order to meet rapidly changing business demands in a difficult global economy. Outsourcing IT Security services is often senior management’s response to these challenging times, so the question is not if it will happen, but rather when and how it will happen, if it hasn’t already.  However, has anything really changed, though?  What is the true impact of the decision to outsource IT Security services?  When IT Security is outsourced, what are the hidden challenges?  This session will be presented from the perspective an enterprise security manager who has first-hand knowledge of how outsourcing certain IT Security services can help meet the resource and costs pressures of an organization without compromising its IT Security posture.

Anything that disrupts a market reveals new opportunities -- and few changes have been more disruptive to IT than cloud computing. This panel of investors talks about how utility computing is changing their investment philosophies. From reduced upfront capital that changes founder dillution to the ecosystem of tools and infrastructure that's emerged to support cloud computing, you'll get a long view of on-demand IT in this session.

It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

The dream of portable, fluid workloads is far from today's reality. While companies might like to move their IT from provider to provider, or from on-premise to on-demand environment, quickly and easily, the reality is that competing standards and formats stand in the way. There's no common language for managing cloud computing, and proprietary formats, custom scripts, and relying on third-party middleware to insulate applications from the underlying platform are the norm. In this session, we'll look at cloud standards that are trying to overcome this chaos, and see whether truly portable, interoperable cloud platforms will become a reality.  

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers.  This raises some critical questions:  How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops?  Should the next generation branch office be serverless?  What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed?  What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues?  The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.

While wireless broadband gets all the attention, many other types of wireless links are humming away in all kinds of enterprise applications, from manufacturing and logistics to energy management and security. Sensor-based wireless networks, RFID, machine-to-machine communications, and many other wireless telemetry and control systems are becoming essential to businesses everywhere. This session will have the latest details on this exciting aspect of mobility.  

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

To be sure, there’s still a good deal of debate around the very definition of 4G, and 4G services to date has been spotty. Fear not, 4G is in fact well on the way to reality now, offering improved throughput and a broad range of additional capabilities to mobile devices and their users. This session will examine the key options for 4G, including their features, benefits, and status, and discuss the evolution of 4G as plows ahead towards ubiquity, and, we might add, 5G.

By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory.  Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections.  With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. 

This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning. 

 Topics include:

·        I/O virtualization for management and security

·        The state of FCoE

·        End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations

·        External I/O virtualization solutions

·        10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center

There's no question that web 2.0 technologies are powerful, flexible and can provide enormous benefits, but sometimes ad hoc uptake and usage can actually result in an enterprise being less organized, productive and successfully governed.

This session aims to demystify and focuses on pragmatically strategy, providing real world experience on viable tactics for budgeting, value propositions and measuring your desired results.

We aim to to help you unlock the value of these rapidly maturing and increasingly important social constructs to meet your business needs, and address how they can significantly augment the value you get from your current technology investments with greater employee, customer and partner performance.

It’s finally time to stop thinking of wireless as “the other network”, and instead to begin enjoying the benefits of a unified wired/wireless network infrastructure. Wired and wireless share broad areas of commonality, but wireless does indeed introduce new concerns inherent in signals that propagate unpredictably and new benefits in terms of location-based services, user convenience, and more. We’ll look at opportunities to take advantage of the unification of wired and wireless into a single network, with a focus on unified network management strategies that lower operating expenses while providing great visibility to the enterprise.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Enterprises have invested money in disaster recovery (DR) for years, while small and mid-sized companies with limited budgets simply hoped and prayed that nothing disastrous would happen. Today, companies of all sizes are leveraging virtualization to create cost-effective DR implementations. This session discusses why and how so many companies are utilizing virtualization to implement successful disaster recovery plans.    

With corporate environmental sustainability on the rise, IT departments are increasingly turning to green IT initiatives. While most organizations start on their path towards greener IT in the data center – organizations oftentimes lack a comprehensive strategy and struggle to prioritize projects. To spend time and capital wisely – ultimately delivering financial and environmental benefits – this session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets.

In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges that is driving the transition to Application Delivery 2.0.  This includes virtualization of every component of IT, public and private cloud computing, the need to support mobile workers and the need to support applications such as Unified Communications.  Jim will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges and will focus on the technologies that will be featured at Interop. 

The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage.  We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs).  These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery.  The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances.  What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance?  How will these devices be managed?  Do they work with all hypervisors?  Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality?  Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors?  How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance? 

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market.  The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies.  Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs.

The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands.  What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC).  In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm.  However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide.  In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 

One impact of the movement to use more private and public cloud computing solutions is that it increases the likelihood that IT resources will be accessed over a relatively low capacity, high latency WAN.  Even worse, in some cases these IT resources will be accessed over multiple WAN links.  The panelists on this session will identify both the performance challenges associated with cloud computing as well as myriad technologies and services that IT organizations can use to mitigate the impact of those challenges.

Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare.  For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains:  the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers.  Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains.  Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains.  The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment.    

The role of network management has fundamentally changed.  It is no longer just about the availability of networks.  In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications.  In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging.   Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies.     

Most IT organizations are taking IT resources such as servers, applications and storage out of branch offices and placing them in centralized data centers.  This raises some critical questions:  How can IT organizations overcome the impediments to the broad deployment of virtual desktops?  Should the next generation branch office be serverless?  What type of device(s) needs to still be in the branch office and how is it managed?  What techniques can be used to overcome the performance issues?  The speakers on this panel will answer those questions and will present alternative designs for your next generation branch office.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Given the rapid rate of change in wireless and mobile technologies, services, products, and applications, it’s no surprise that the experts will disagree as to what the single most important item on your mobility to-do list should be. This session, nonetheless, will provide just that – a list of single best ideas (and subsequent debate) to enable you to pick what will be at the top of your list. Join us for a fast-paced kickoff session that will bring the entire range of wireless and mobile opportunities into focus.

This panel of enterprise IT executives looks at their experience with cloud computing platforms, with a particular focus on compliance, performance, and the support for legacy applications. What could they move? What broke? Join this revealing discussion if you're tasked with enterprise cloud migration.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

While major wireless security concerns have long since left the front page, security is the one area in IT (and especially in mobile IT) where “done” is never achieved. New challenges and outright threats appear on essentially a weekly basis, and it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. Our goal for this session is to look at the latest in mobile security threats, and how new solutions are enabling mobile users to go about their business without compromise to corporate assets.

While major wireless security concerns have long since left the front page, security is the one area in IT (and especially in mobile IT) where “done” is never achieved. New challenges and outright threats appear on essentially a weekly basis, and it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. Our goal for this session is to look at the latest in mobile security threats, and how new solutions are enabling mobile users to go about their business without compromise to corporate assets.

The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage.  We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs).  These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery.  The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances.  What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance?  How will these devices be managed?  Do they work with all hypervisors?  Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality?  Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors?  How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance? 

Recent data breaches have taught us that we cannot solely rely on Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) alone to identify security challenges. Enterprises need to take a proactive approach to securing their network and applications by implementing a log management system that allows for real time access to data and reports so problems can be stopped before they start.  This session will discuss the current industry leading methods and practices for log management.

Technology has advanced in all the aspects necessary to enable HD quality video conferencing over the Internet. So why are we still breaking natural workflow to utilize fixed room Telepresence? Participants will be able identify both challenges and actionable solutions for implementing Personal Telepresence solutions for a more effective tele-workforce.

The 802.11n standard is official, and enterprises are now rolling out .11n both in replacement/upgrade and greenfield deployments. This session will explore the best ways to implement 802.11n in your enterprise. We’ll look at channel planning, device issues, system architecture, wireless network management, and how to perform the big upgrade with a minimum of disruption, cost, and confusion.    

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

This two-part session is designed to help enterprises chart their course through UC adoption and deployment. The first hour will provide a comprehensive overview of the options available for Unified Communications, along with an assessment of suppliers for each option. It is intended for enterprise CXOs, decision-makers, IT managers, communications managers, and business managers who are planning to install UC -- either via a new system or by adding UC to existing PBXs, email systems and business applications. The session will highlight the five most popular Unified Communications enterprise deployment options. Top-ranking vendors for each option will be compared and evaluated, and estimated pricing of each approach will be included in the analysis.   The second hour will provide you with the details you need to make your UC decisions, to select the best vendors, and to plan your implementation. This section will show the specific UC configurations and investments that are required for the most common cases for UC investments. In each case, we will review the system configurations, the added software and hardware elements, and the systems integration scope of work likely to be required to achieve the desired outcome.  

There's no question that web 2.0 technologies are powerful, flexible and can provide enormous benefits, but sometimes ad hoc uptake and usage can actually result in an enterprise being less organized, productive and successfully governed.

This session aims to demystify and focuses on pragmatically strategy, providing real world experience on viable tactics for budgeting, value propositions and measuring your desired results.

We aim to to help you unlock the value of these rapidly maturing and increasingly important social constructs to meet your business needs, and address how they can significantly augment the value you get from your current technology investments with greater employee, customer and partner performance.

To be sure, there’s still a good deal of debate around the very definition of 4G, and 4G services to date has been spotty. Fear not, 4G is in fact well on the way to reality now, offering improved throughput and a broad range of additional capabilities to mobile devices and their users. This session will examine the key options for 4G, including their features, benefits, and status, and discuss the evolution of 4G as plows ahead towards ubiquity, and, we might add, 5G.

This session provides introductory material and discussion of solid state storage.  A comprehensive overview of the technology, from components to devices to systems is provided, along with an overview of several current topics surrounding the integration, deployment, use and application of solid state storage.  The material is intended for those who are not familiar with solid state storage in the enterprise and wish to develop a working understanding of the technology and its usage.   Learning Objectives Understand solid state storage technology in its various forms Understand common characteristics and behaviors of solid state storage Understand the benefits of using solid state storage in enterprise applications  

Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems.

The instructor will take attendees through each one of these tools, showing how they can be easily installed and configured.

Course Outline
•    Open Source Troubleshooting Tools, Best of the Best
•    Iperf for throughput monitoring
•    Cacti for monitoring network utilization
•    nTop for monitoring conversations
•    SmokePing for monitoring response time and packet loss
•    OpenNMS for monitoring device availability

Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers and analysts that are responsible for determining why network and applications are not running as fast as they should.

You Will Learn
Attendees will learn how to measure network throughput and monitor network utilization all using Open Source tools.
 

Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today.  While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets.  In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic.  We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols.  Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly.

As part of this course the attendees will be taken step by step through the process of building a capture to disk appliance using freely available software.

Course Outline
•    Packet capture techniques
•    Creating capture filters
•    Creating display filters
•    TCP traffic analysis
•    Using the Expert Information to quickly isolate problems
•    Reassembly of Voice over IP traffic
•    Use of graphs to visually analyze traffic flows

Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers, and analysts that are responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting network traffic.

You Will Learn
Students will be prepared to reliably capture and analyze network traffic.
 

Social networking represents special challenges to security, to safety, and to privacy for individuals, companies, and government agencies.  Attendees will come away with a historical perspective and better understanding of the scope, attractions and dangers of Social Networking in every form, plus special points of protection, of needed protection, and of user education that can secure a system in these treacherous waters.

While major wireless security concerns have long since left the front page, security is the one area in IT (and especially in mobile IT) where “done” is never achieved. New challenges and outright threats appear on essentially a weekly basis, and it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. Our goal for this session is to look at the latest in mobile security threats, and how new solutions are enabling mobile users to go about their business without compromise to corporate assets.

With corporate environmental sustainability on the rise, IT departments are increasingly turning to green IT initiatives. While most organizations start on their path towards greener IT in the data center – organizations oftentimes lack a comprehensive strategy and struggle to prioritize projects. To spend time and capital wisely – ultimately delivering financial and environmental benefits – this session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets.

Given the rapid rate of change in wireless and mobile technologies, services, products, and applications, it’s no surprise that the experts will disagree as to what the single most important item on your mobility to-do list should be. This session, nonetheless, will provide just that – a list of single best ideas (and subsequent debate) to enable you to pick what will be at the top of your list. Join us for a fast-paced kickoff session that will bring the entire range of wireless and mobile opportunities into focus.

The 802.11n standard is official, and enterprises are now rolling out .11n both in replacement/upgrade and greenfield deployments. This session will explore the best ways to implement 802.11n in your enterprise. We’ll look at channel planning, device issues, system architecture, wireless network management, and how to perform the big upgrade with a minimum of disruption, cost, and confusion.    

Information security is quickly evolving into information risk management.  The enterprise of today can no longer rely on technology alone to protect information and information infrastructure, and requires a business-aligned approach to information risk management, governance, and compliance to be successful.  The growth in global regulatory and compliance requirements, lack of available resources and funding, and constant need to balance protection with the business needs of the organization is a great challenge for professionals in this area.  The Governance, Risk, and Compliance track will focus on providing insights and guidance from experienced practitioners on key issues which enterprises are facing today as they mature their capabilities and transform a reactive and technologically focused approach to information security into a proactive approach to information risk management.

Major vendors are racing to build out viable, enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-mail solutions. For IT, e-mail is only conspicuous in when it is absent, so treating e-mail as an utility and managing it for maximum uptime is IT’s mantra. Therefore, the opportunity to offload e-mail to reliable service is very attractive because of the management and economic benefits.

Cloud Computing is transforming the way applications are delivered. Collaboration workloads are perfectly suited for the cloud - providing solutions that enable companies to work more closely and effectively with their customers, suppliers and partners. Learn how your business can quickly realize the value of collaboration in the cloud.

The role of network management has fundamentally changed.  It is no longer just about the availability of networks.  In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications.  In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging.   Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies.     

This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you.

Course Outline
* How to develop a new framework for the business of IT
* How to formalize policies and processes
* How to map the organization to new business models and processes
* How to re-engage your technology roadmap post recession
* How to manage customer expectations and set customer service levels
* How to develop end-user and IT buy-in
* How to build executive management commitment
* Know the critical success factors * How to make it all happen

You Will Learn
Principles that can develop or enhance your own IT policies, processes, organization, and practices, thus creating a more effective IT business unit.

Who Should Attend
* Directors and managers of IT organizations or units
* IT and IS professionals
* Anyone who needs to realign IT with the business 

This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve your IT organization, business model, tools, staffing and skill levels, as well as your policies and operational procedures. In an environment of constant change, IT accountability has taken on new levels of urgency. IT departments regularly struggle with staffing levels, turnover, burnout, lack of credibility, or end-user and managerial dissatisfaction. If you're questioning how to satisfy the end user, control or cut costs, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you.

Course Outline
* How to develop a new framework for the business of IT
* How to formalize policies and processes
* How to map the organization to new business models and processes
* How to re-engage your technology roadmap post recession
* How to manage customer expectations and set customer service levels
* How to develop end-user and IT buy-in * How to build executive management commitment
* Know the critical success factors * How to make it all happen

You Will
Learn Principles that can develop or enhance your own IT policies, processes, organization, and practices, thus creating a more effective IT business unit.

Who Should Attend
* Directors and managers of IT organizations or units
* IT and IS professionals
* Anyone who needs to realign IT with the business Y

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day One of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

The proliferation of web-based applications has increased the enterprise's exposure to a variety of threats.  There are overarching steps that can and should be taken at various steps in the application's lifecycle to prevent or mitigate these threats, such as implementing secure design and coding practices, performing source code audits, and maintaining proper audit trails to detect unauthorized use. This workshop will enable students to test the security of web-based applications from the perspective of the end user.  Security testing helps to fulfill industry best practices and validate implementation.  Security testing is especially useful since it can be done at various phases within the application's lifecycle (e.g. during development), or when source code is not available for review. The most popular threats and their potential impact will be covered via the OWASP "Top Ten". Demonstrations will be used to teach the tools and techniques needed to remotely detect and validate the presence of these threats.

Course Outline:
Section - Web Primer (HTML, HTTP, Cookies)
Section - Tools & Techniques (MITM Proxies, Fuzzing, Browser Extensions, Educational Tools)
Threat Classification Systems (OWASP Top Ten & WASC Threat Classes)
Vulnerability Category: A1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Vulnerability Category: A2 - Injection Flaws
Vulnerability Category: A3 - Malicious File Execution
Vulnerability Category: A4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference
Vulnerability Category: A5 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Vulnerability Category: A6 - Information Leakage
Vulnerability Category: A7 - Broken Authentication and Session Management
Vulnerability Category: A8 - Insecure Cryptographic Storage
Vulnerability Category: A9 - Insecure Communications
Vulnerability Category: A10 - Failure to Restrict URL Access Overall Testing Advice & Strategies

You Will Learn
* To define the most significant real-world security threats facing web applications today. 
*The tools and techniques needed to remotely validate a web application's security *Suggestions for mitigating security risks in web applications
*To enhance secure programming practices by raising awareness and giving developers and auditors the tools & knowledge needed to test their web application's security from the user's perspective

Who Should Attend
People who are auditing web application security, developing web applications, or managing the development of web applications.  All essentials will be covered in the HTTP primer section of the course, so no prior experience is needed. 

Data security via Web application and database controls is difficult and rapidly evolving. With the introduction of cloud computing new questions around sensitive data protection arise. Learn how data security can be achieved within cloud computing environments. See several use cases demonstrating effective, risk mitigating strategies.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Maybe a private cloud is an oxymoron. In this reprise of the heated debate from Interop New York, we'll debate the elephant in the room: Maybe private clouds are simply enterprise IT finally applying the automation, virtualization, and service-oriented architectures we've been hoping for all these years. Join this panel of industry pundits and provocateurs for a vigorous discussion that goes to the heart of IT reinvention.

This workshop provides a technology overview of Voice and Video over IP (VoIP), including the protocols, technologies and architectures at the core of VoIP products and systems. These include media transport like the real time transport protocol, quality of service technologies such as differentiated services and the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), signaling through the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), security, as well as firewall and NAT traversal using techniques like the Simple Traversal of UDP Through NAT (STUN) and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). The course does not provide a review of products on the markets or network design guidelines.

Course Outline

* Voice and Video Coding
* Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
* Quality of Service
* SIP
* Security
* NAT and Firewall Traversal

You Will Learn
After this Workshop, students will be able to identify the key technologies used within VoIP systems, understand how they fit together, and appreciate some of the complexities in developing VoIP networks.

Who Should Attend
Technologists or technology managers that want to understand how VoIP works "under the hood".

The role of network management has fundamentally changed.  It is no longer just about the availability of networks.  In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications.  In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging.   Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies.     

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Public cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare.  For example, public cloud computing services have at least three separate management domains:  the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers.  Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the domains.  Effective management also requires processes that span the various management domains.  The panelists on this session will identify what you can and must do to manage this complex environment.    

The dream of portable, fluid workloads is far from today's reality. While companies might like to move their IT from provider to provider, or from on-premise to on-demand environment, quickly and easily, the reality is that competing standards and formats stand in the way. There's no common language for managing cloud computing, and proprietary formats, custom scripts, and relying on third-party middleware to insulate applications from the underlying platform are the norm. In this session, we'll look at cloud standards that are trying to overcome this chaos, and see whether truly portable, interoperable cloud platforms will become a reality.  

The last few years has seen a great growth in the deployment of virtualized servers and storage.  We are now seeing the deployment of software based application delivery appliances such as WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs).  These devices hold the promise of fundamentally changing application delivery.  The members of this PowerPoint-free session will discuss the pros and cons of these appliances.  What kind of performance improvements will you experience with a virtualized appliance?  How will these devices be managed?  Do they work with all hypervisors?  Are they integrated with other branch office or data center functionality?  Are they certified with any major software or storage vendors?  How are they priced vs. a traditional appliance? 

The great growth over the last few years in the use of Web applications combined with the recent interest in cloud computing has caused IT organizations to realize that simple server load balancers can’t keep up with the emerging demands.  What is needed is an application delivery controller (ADC).  In addition to balancing traffic, an ADC offloads computationally intensive tasks off of a server farm.  However, the ADCs that are currently available in the market differ dramatically in terms of their underlying architectures and the functions that they provide.  In this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session, leading ADC vendors will be asked questions that serve to identify the similarities and differences between their products. 

Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support.  It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool.  This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues.

Rising energy costs, an economic slowdown and environmental awareness are forcing enterprises and government to consider greener IT. To address these challenges, the State of California initiated one of the largest government-green IT projects across its 50,000 hardware devices and 2 million software titles. In all, the initiative expects to save $44 million in energy expenses and avoid over 200,000 tons of carbon emissions. This case study will provide attendees with the State of California’s approach to green IT, projects initiated and valuable lessons learned along the way.

Even as the blistering pace of innovation in wireless and mobile continues, there are signs that the industry in converging (so to speak) on a set of technologies that will provide a degree of stability that’s not been seen in the past two decades. Which technologies will survive and prosper, and what direction should your planning take to maximize benefits while minimizing costs? This session will explore key wireless technologies and the impacts they will have.

In just a few years, cloud computing has gone from a fringe idea for startups to a mainstream tool in every IT toolbox. The Enterprise Cloud Summit will show you how to move from theory to implementation. We'll cover practical cloud computing designs, as well as the standards, infrastructure decisions, and economics you need to understand as you transform your organization's IT. We'll also debunk some common myths about private clouds, security risks, costs, and lock-in.   On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be dynamically provisioned and moved between servers.  There is just one huge problem - today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical.  So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of milliseconds, it can take days to get the supporting infrastructure in place.  Many industry pundits believe that the way to solve this problem is both through automation and orchestration and by implementing a flat Layer 2 LAN.  Potentially those are good solutions, but what do they actually mean and how do we get there?  In this two-hour, rapid-paced session two groups of panelists will address those questions.  The first group of panelists will discuss what has to happen to the data center LAN in order to support virtualization and what migration strategies make the most sense.  The second group of panelists will discuss the data center automation and orchestration functionality that is ready for production networks today and how that may change over the next twelve months

Virtualization is causing the convergence of server, storage, and network platforms. At the same time, fewer CAPEX dollars coupled with rising energy costs is promoting data center managers to incorporate energy efficient and highly utilized IT equipment in the data center. This session will help data center managers understand virtualization’s role in convergence and plan for a more efficient and highly utilized server, storage and network environment.