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Join us on Thursday, May 12 as InformationWeek Analytics goes in-depth on nine of the most critical issues facing business technology professionals today. Our analysts are practicing IT professionals, each with years of experience implementing new technologies in businesses of all sizes. These interactive discussions of implementation best practices, pitfalls to avoid and practical advice will help you get the most out of your IT spending.

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Thursday, May 12
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM InformationWeek Analytics - How IT Makes a Difference to the Midmarket Company: Mobility & Security Location: Mandalay Bay K IT teams in midmarket companies—those with around 500 employees—are pivotal in the process of growth but face unique challenges. In this session, our Analytics experts will discuss innovative ways to securely equip a mobile workforce. We’ll discuss a range of new technologies that provide enterprise-class productivity and data protection without breaking the budget. Moderator - Art Wittmann, Vice President/Director, InformationWeek Analytics Art Wittmann currently serves as the director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's analyst business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high-tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Network Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek. Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Panelist - Grant Moerschel, Co-Founder, Wavegard Grant Moerschel is co-founder of WaveGard, a vendor-neutral technology consulting firm. His 20 years of IT experience encompass a wide range of strategic and tactical business technology functions, including significant experience with security engineering, IT risk and vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance assessment, wireless and wired network engineering, and wireless technology training. He has consulted for many clients in both the public and private sectors. Grant is the co-author of the McGraw-Hill title, Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) v2 study guide and the Cisco Press title, CCSP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack. He has written numerous technical articles for InformationWeek and courseware for (ISC)2, in addition to holding several well-regarded IT industry certifications, such as the CISSP, CCSP and CWNA. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware. Panelist - Michael Davis, CEO, Savid Technologies Inc. Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits. He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups.
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM InformationWeek Analytics - Unified Computing Stack Wars Location: Mandalay Bay J Major vendors are fighting to control the next generation of the data center. Battle lines are drawn, with Cisco, VMware and EMC on one side, and HP, IBM and Hitachi on the other. Are you willing to be tied to an OPEC-like consortium in exchange for tightly integrated network, compute and storage? Or can you build an agile data center by playing the field and linking disparate vendors with third-party software? Our Analytics experts help you decide. Moderator - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products & Business Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing Andrew Conry-Murray is business editor at InformationWeek. He writes about information management and compliance issues. Andrew has covered information technology topics including security and network and information management for nine years, with Network Computing and Network Magazine before joining InformationWeek. He is a co-author of The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security. Panelist - Kurt Marko, Contributor, IT Journalist, Information Week Analytics, Network Computing Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer. Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services. Panelist - Michael Healey, President, Yeoman Technology Group Mike Healey is the president of Yeoman Technology Group, an engineering and research firm focusing on maximizing technology investments for organizations, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has more than 23 years experience in technology and software integration. Prior to founding Yeoman, Mike served as the CTO of national network integrator GreenPages. He joined GreenPages as part of the acquisition of TENCorp, where he served as president for 14 years. Prior to founding TENCorp, Mike was an international project manager for Nixdorf Computer and a Notes consultant for Sandpoint Corp. Mike has taught courses at MIT Lowell Institute and Northeastern University and has served on the Educational Board of Advisers for several schools and universities throughout New England. He has a BA in operations management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Babson College. He is a regular contributor for InformationWeek, focusing on the business challenges related to implementing technology. His work includes analysis of the SaaS market, green IT and operational readiness related to virtualized environments.
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM InformationWeek Analytics - Creating Functional Teams for a Cloudy and Virtualized World Location: Mandalay Bay J As data centers converge, the lines of responsibility for storage, server, application and network teams are blurring. The politics can get messy, but bring these specialists together right and you’ll gain significant benefits by breaking down silos and integrating key roles in ways that allow you to be incredibly flexible and responsive to the business. Our Analytics experts will discuss practical ways to quell turf wars and build truly converged teams. Moderator - Art Wittmann, Vice President/Director, InformationWeek Analytics Art Wittmann currently serves as the director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's analyst business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high-tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Network Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek. Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Panelist - Jonathan Feldman, Contributing Editor, Network Computing and InformationWeek Jonathan Feldman serves as director of information technology services for a city in North Carolina. The city has won several technology innovation awards during his tenure, including the International Economic Development Council New Media Award. He has also directed professional services in the private sector, providing security and network infrastructure services to the military, healthcare, financial services and law enforcement markets. Jonathan has worked for 20 years in the fields of IT security, reliability and human resources management, and has written, taught and consulted extensively on these topics, notably as co-author of Maximum Security and author of Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting. His writing, which readers call “funny and easy to read,” has been translated into many different languages. As an award-winning Network Computing and InformationWeek contributing editor, he has worked with dozens of public- and private-sector organizations to document real business benefits, risks and appropriate governance of new technologies and surrounding practices and procedures. A speaker at regional and national venues, including Interop, PC Expo, CNet Radio, The Institute of Internal Auditors and for the United States Army, Jonathan has been active in the community with organizations such as Infragard and GMIS International. He holds an MS degree from Georgia Tech. Panelist - Michael Biddick, President & CTO, Contributor, Fusion PPT, InformationWeek Analytics Michael Biddick is president and CTO of Fusion PPT and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has worked with hundreds of government and telecommunications service providers in the development of operational management solutions. Most recently he has supported the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Defense in the deployment of ITIL-based processes that are utilized to make their organizations more transparent and cost effective. Certified in several ITIL lifecycle service areas, Michael is also able to leverage over a decade of operational tool design and implementation experience with service desks, network management systems and consolidated management portals in making enterprise architecture decisions. Prior to joining Fusion PPT, Michael spent 10 years with Windward IT Solutions and also worked with Booz Allen Hamilton in its Enterprise Network Services group, developing network management solutions for a wide variety of both government and commercial clients. He also served on the academic staff of the University of Wisconsin Law School as the Director of Technology, heading up all aspects of IT management for the organization. Michael earned a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a contributing technology editor to InformationWeek and Network Computing, he has authored more than 50 articles, including reports on cloud computing, government IT strategies, SaaS and IT process improvement.
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM InformationWeek Analytics - IPv6: Moving to the Next-Generation Internet Location: Mandalay Bay K Transitioning to IPv6 may not be an imperative in 2011, but you do need to start putting a plan in place. Our Analytics experts will discuss how to prioritize migration (services available to the Internet should probably move quickly; internal networks can wait longer). We’ll discuss architectural and design considerations for dual-stacking IPv6 and IPv4, supporting network devices that can't run in this mode, network number assignments, and other key considerations. PLUS: A sneak peek at the No. 1 problem child of IPv6 migrations: Security. Moderator - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products & Business Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing Andrew Conry-Murray is business editor at InformationWeek. He writes about information management and compliance issues. Andrew has covered information technology topics including security and network and information management for nine years, with Network Computing and Network Magazine before joining InformationWeek. He is a co-author of The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security. Panelist - Jeff Doyle, Editor & Contributing Author, Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference Jeff Doyle specializes in IP routing protocols, MPLS and IPv6 and has designed or assisted in the design of large-scale IP service provider networks throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the People’s Republic of China. Over the past few years he has had extensive experience helping in the deployment of IPv6 in large networks around the world. Jeff is the author of CCIE Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I and II; OSPF and IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks; and is an editor and contributing author of Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete Reference. Jeff has presented numerous corporate seminars, and has spoken at NANOG, JANOG, APRICOT, IEEE/OWRA, QUESTnet and IPv6 Forum conferences worldwide. He is one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force and is an IPv6 Forum Fellow. Panelist - Grant Moerschel, Co-Founder, Wavegard Grant Moerschel is co-founder of WaveGard, a vendor-neutral technology consulting firm. His 20 years of IT experience encompass a wide range of strategic and tactical business technology functions, including significant experience with security engineering, IT risk and vulnerability assessment, regulatory compliance assessment, wireless and wired network engineering, and wireless technology training. He has consulted for many clients in both the public and private sectors. Grant is the co-author of the McGraw-Hill title, Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) v2 study guide and the Cisco Press title, CCSP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack. He has written numerous technical articles for InformationWeek and courseware for (ISC)2, in addition to holding several well-regarded IT industry certifications, such as the CISSP, CCSP and CWNA. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Delaware.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM InformationWeek Analytics - IT Automation: Bending the 80/20 Barrier Location: Mandalay Bay J IT faces increasing demands for business-enhancing services yet is saddled with static budgets and outsized operational loads, where 80% of the time, effort and dollars are spent on routine, “keep the lights on” activities, not service or application development. Automation is a key lever in budging this roadblock to innovation, but so too is effective use of service providers, whether external hosting facilities, cloud-based SaaS and IaaS, or third-party managed services. Our Analytics experts will share results of our survey and address some key questions: What areas are ripe for outsourcing? Where to automate internal IT processes? We’ll cover managing across multivendor, heterogeneous in-house/as-a-service systems, providing transparency to the business, and adhering to best-practices frameworks. We'll also examine the human equation -- how to transition IT staff from operational to business-focused tasks, how to increase collaboration both within the enterprise and with external service providers, and how to capture IT knowledge to create policies, SLAs and automation-friendly run books. Moderator - Art Wittmann, Vice President/Director, InformationWeek Analytics Art Wittmann currently serves as the director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's analyst business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high-tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Network Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek. Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Panelist - Michael Biddick, President & CTO, Contributor, Fusion PPT, InformationWeek Analytics Michael Biddick is president and CTO of Fusion PPT and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has worked with hundreds of government and telecommunications service providers in the development of operational management solutions. Most recently he has supported the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Defense in the deployment of ITIL-based processes that are utilized to make their organizations more transparent and cost effective. Certified in several ITIL lifecycle service areas, Michael is also able to leverage over a decade of operational tool design and implementation experience with service desks, network management systems and consolidated management portals in making enterprise architecture decisions. Prior to joining Fusion PPT, Michael spent 10 years with Windward IT Solutions and also worked with Booz Allen Hamilton in its Enterprise Network Services group, developing network management solutions for a wide variety of both government and commercial clients. He also served on the academic staff of the University of Wisconsin Law School as the Director of Technology, heading up all aspects of IT management for the organization. Michael earned a Master of Science from Johns Hopkins University and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a contributing technology editor to InformationWeek and Network Computing, he has authored more than 50 articles, including reports on cloud computing, government IT strategies, SaaS and IT process improvement. Panelist - Kurt Marko, Contributor, IT Journalist, Information Week Analytics, Network Computing Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer. Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM InformationWeek Analytics - Making the Consumerization of IT Work for You Location: Mandalay Bay K Whether it’s an iPad, Android phone or Mac laptop, users are bringing their personal devices to work and expecting IT to support them. Except in heavily regulated shops, trying to turn back this tide may well be counterproductive and cost the company money. Our Analytics experts will explain how IT can apply well-defined processes and goals that balance the needs of the business against a happy workforce and thus make consumerization work for you, not against you. Moderator - Andrew Conry-Murray, New Products & Business Editor, InformationWeek/Network Computing Andrew Conry-Murray is business editor at InformationWeek. He writes about information management and compliance issues. Andrew has covered information technology topics including security and network and information management for nine years, with Network Computing and Network Magazine before joining InformationWeek. He is a co-author of The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security. Panelist - Michael Healey, President, Yeoman Technology Group Mike Healey is the president of Yeoman Technology Group, an engineering and research firm focusing on maximizing technology investments for organizations, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has more than 23 years experience in technology and software integration. Prior to founding Yeoman, Mike served as the CTO of national network integrator GreenPages. He joined GreenPages as part of the acquisition of TENCorp, where he served as president for 14 years. Prior to founding TENCorp, Mike was an international project manager for Nixdorf Computer and a Notes consultant for Sandpoint Corp. Mike has taught courses at MIT Lowell Institute and Northeastern University and has served on the Educational Board of Advisers for several schools and universities throughout New England. He has a BA in operations management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Babson College. He is a regular contributor for InformationWeek, focusing on the business challenges related to implementing technology. His work includes analysis of the SaaS market, green IT and operational readiness related to virtualized environments. Panelist - Michael Davis, CEO, Savid Technologies Inc. Michael A. Davis is the CEO of Savid Technologies, a technology and security consulting firm based in Chicago, and an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. Michael is also a contributing author of Hacking Exposed, the No. 1 text on hacker methodology, and the new Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits. He is a senior member of the HoneyNet project, where he is working to develop data and network control mechanisms for Windows-based honeynets. Michael is an active developer in the open source community and has ported many popular network security applications to the Windows platform, including snort, honeyd, dsniff, and ngrep. He has spoken at several conferences around the world, including Defcon, CanSecWest, Toorcon and MISTI, as well as to local groups.
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