2013 Speaker List

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Most IT organizations are already using server virtualization, and most are or will soon start down the road to private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although this journey can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path now well-traveled by a growing number of organizations. This session will discuss real world lessons gathered over the past few years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for making the transition from virtualization to the cloud.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization has clear benefits for enterprises along with widespread adoption. But what about small-to-medium businesses? Do those benefits apply? How are the solutions the same/different for SMBs? Are the steps to virtualization and private cloud the same/different? Should SMBs do it themselves or should they look to service providers to take over? How does virtualization relate to private/ public/hybrid cloud and how should SMBs view the journey?
Attendees will gain perspective on the benefits, challenges and available solutions of virtualization and cloud, from the SMB point of view.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

It’s one thing for hardware, software, systems, and carrier vendors to present tons of cool new things to buy, and quite another to use these effectively in enterprise and organizational settings. This session features leading IT practitioners offering their best advice on how to deal with rapid technological change, overlapping solutions, and meeting IT objectives while maximizing end-user productivity and minimizing budgetary impacts.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Microsoft’s Lync has been gaining in mind-share for IM/presence and related UC and collaboration functions, and it’s also now available with PBX telephony functionality. So, what’s the experience so far? Are enterprises finding it straightforward to layer Lync on top of their Exchange messaging, and is the result proving a benefit to end users and the enterprise generally? For enterprises that have implemented Lync telephony, are they glad they did? What lessons have they learned and what’s their plan for enterprise communications going forward? This session will be an invaluable first-hand look at living with Lync.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

In this session, Eli Almog will show you a simple way to start and an easy way to grow in the cloud. Pointing out which workloads are right for the cloud to the ones born for the cloud, we'll show you how to move them and more importantly how to secure and manage the cloud for enterprise grade service quality. Discover which enterprise cloud solution best fits your business needs as you gain control, mitigate risk, and become more agile with cloud.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Can Clouds Make a Business Better?

Cloud Computing has been touted as a magical cure-all for enterprise agility. Deploy clouds, the story goes, and you'll make the company faster, more responsive, and more efficient. But clouds are only part of a bigger change that includes continuous deployment, lean product management, customer development, analytics, and more.

Join John Considine, Steven Shalita, Eli Almog, and Alistair Croll for a no-holds-barred panel that looks at what else companies need to capitalize on on-demand infrastructure, and what the obstacles—and opportunities—for re-engineering the business look like.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becoming more challenging. The solutions used to protect organizations against these threats and mitigate the risks they create are also changing and evolving. This panel discussion will look at the emerging trends in information risk management security from both a business and technological perspective.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Great IT solutions are fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, optimizing the application of such technologies as virtualization, the cloud, and collaboration, just to name a few. This session will examine mobility in just that context, and attempt to answer the big question of how to design, build, and operate optimal mobile solutions that take advantage of innovations across the IT spectrum today.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Networking is seeing tremendous upheaval. Whether it's dislocation with the intrusion of hypervisor-based virtual networks or consolidation with storage convergence, networks are being grabbed and shoved in different directions. Could this really be the time to build better network management controls? This panel will slice and dice the idea that chaotic moments in the network are the times when it's most important to put more sophisticated management in place. Can more control help you be the change? We'll see.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Over the past year, Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) has quickly made the jump from industry trend to business imperative, and organizations are now feeling the pressure to open their networks to employee-owned devices. Unlike corporate-issued devices that are well-managed and under IT's control, BYOD introduces a unique set of security challenges that require a balance of flexibility, visibility and security. In this new era of BYOD, the days of a static, one-size-fits-all policy are over. IT needs to know what devices, where they are, and who the user is so they can provide convenient, secure access to authorized users based on their user profiles and devices. In this session, the presenter will share the ten steps to developing a secure and comprehensive BYOD ecosystem. This session will outline the security and management issues that BYOD introduces to enterprises and share best practices and real-world experiences on the technologies and techniques needed ensure full visibility and control of the network and mobile devices. It will also discuss the personnel and process issues that organizations should examine in order to design an effective BYOD strategy for their organizations.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Innovation is one of those terms always championed but rarely encouraged in the corporation. In the corporation, innovation is as much about organization as it is technology. The best way to learn about successful innovation is to hear how others have overcome corporate obstacles to become innovation champions in their organization. What corporate structures are the best for encouraging innovation, how do you break down the corporate silos that inhibit growth and which technologies provide the best foundations for developing an innovative technology framework in your company.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Lagoon H
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

IP, the Internet Protocol, and not IP, Intellectual Property, has long been considered too “heavy weight”, too complicated, too much overhead and just not necessary for sensor networks – the phrase, “I need something more optimized” is often heard or used. The reality today is that IP is not only applicable in sensor network applications, but can be better suited and more efficient than special purpose or “optimized” protocols. This talk presents the current state of available standards such as IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, RPL, COAP and provides information on the cost / benefit analysis of IP and the choices at each layer. It is important for engineers and developers to understand the impact of their decisions, to either try to invent their own “optimized” solution, to use another proprietary protocol or to build an interoperable system using IP. Quite often this decision is based on faulty or insufficient information. Additionally there are design choices such as “mesh under” vs “route over” that impacts network design and architecture; TCP vs UDP that affect resource management and COAP vs HTTP that change system complexity. Choosing to insert a gateway to translate from that proprietary solution to IP in order to be compatible with the Internet and its systems is fraught with problems that include maintenance, cost and security. The protocol that has connected much of the World's 6 billion population canand should now be used to connect the World's trillions of devices.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

The 2013 InformationWeek Wireless LAN survey showed a huge 21-point jump in the number of respondents using WLANs now on a large scale, and looking to grow. One reason: Companies are deluged with mobile devices. The fifth generation of enterprise Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, brings to the table unprecedented speed, but also deployment and management hurdles. Still, some may not have a choice about moving early. We’ll discuss similarities and differences with current 802.11n, deployment considerations and how to optimize WLAN designs for single-stream mobile devices.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:00 PM

A landscape view of the open source software available of Open Networking Foundation standards such as OpenFlow and OF-Config. I will discuss open source options and active projects at the switch level, controller level, and above and how they map to developments within the Open Networking Foundation.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Virtualization demands new network designs that move away from the traditional three-tier (fat tree) architecture and break down geographic borders. While large data centers have been deploying the new designs, smaller data centers such as those in the typical enterprise have been later to adopt. In this session, Ethan Banks will present a technical overview of several disruptive technologies available, and their use-cases in small data center design. The audience will have the opportunity to share lessons learned in their own deployments of these technologies. Technologies to be reviewed include various vendor implementations of multichassis link aggregation (MLAG), a commentary on shared vs. separated control-plane strategies, and new layer 2 forwarding paradigms (TRILL, SPB). A brief overview of layer 2 extension aka overlay technologies, and the practical side of software defined networking and OpenFlow will follow.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Several trends are emerging in the video space that could change how you purchase, deploy, and use the next generations of video technology. This session will help you understand some of the key changes that are disrupting video communications including:

• Cloud-based video infrastructure and services
• Video vendors’ migration from hardware to software models
• The continued growth of consumer-grade video applications like Skype
• The emergence of WebRTC for native video capabilities within Web browsers

In this session, video experts will explain the state of the art in each of these areas of potential disruption, and will help you understand how these changes will affect your enterprise infrastructure and end users. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to take advantage of cost efficiencies from new developments in video, while still protecting your existing investments in equipment and expertise.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:55 PM

This session will involve 3 or 4 organizations that are either evaluating SDN or have deployed it. The panelists will discuss what drove them to consider SDN, what choices they make or are looking to make, what they accomplished, what they learned about SDN so far and the next steps they are planning to take.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM

ISC² and Interop have partnered to bring a taste of the certification process to Las Vegas attendees. ISC², is the global, not-for-profit leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers. ISC² is recognized for Gold Standard certifications and world class training programs.

Join ISC² for this FREE half-day credential clinic to learn about the Systems Security Certification Practitioner (SSCP) certification. This certification is for the hands-on practitioner who continuously monitors information systems to safeguard against security threats while having the knowledge to apply security concepts, tools and procedures to react to security incidents. By learning the SSCP CBK, you will demonstrate competency in access controls, cryptography, malicious code and activity, monitoring and analysis, networks and communications, risk, response and recovery, and security operations and administration. Space is limited.

To register for the clinic please click here. (ISC)² Members earn 4 CPEs by attending.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

A common question (and subject of significant debate) in enterprise Wi-Fi deployments is how to design, build, and manage optimal deployments. A key element in this challenge is understanding how to test, verify, and benchmark WLAN deployments, especially critical in the rapidly-increasing number of sites with thousands of access points. This session will look at the key technologies and best practices involved in this critical area.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:30 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-3:45 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-3:45 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Come learn how F5 provides Intelligent Firewall and DDoS Protection, Remote Access, and Global High Availability, within the Interop Network. Watch a live DDoS attack against the Interop network.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

It’s one thing for hardware, software, systems, and carrier vendors to present tons of cool new things to buy, and quite another to use these effectively in enterprise and organizational settings. This session features leading IT practitioners offering their best advice on how to deal with rapid technological change, overlapping solutions, and meeting IT objectives while maximizing end-user productivity and minimizing budgetary impacts.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Jasmine B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

More and more businesses are adopting Apple Technology in their enterprise and small-to-medium business (SMB) environments. Sadly, these businesses lack the experience to properly deploy and manage this technology. Corporate IT looks for an outside specialist to apply specific solutions while the SMB market outsources their IT to better manage costs. In this session, we'll spend time discussing how to engage with an Apple Consultant as well as what it means to work in the Apple "Channel". Lastly, we'll also review how best to run an Apple Consulting business in today's environment - it isn't just helping Grandma with her iPhoto… we're talking large scale deployments of iOS and Mac technologies here.

Location: Jasmine B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:30 PM

Apple, Microsoft, Google? What's the best choice? Why deploy Apple in your business - aren't those things for Graphic Designers and alternative folks? Seriously, what are the impacts to the business when deploying these technologies, including security, training and more? Why deploy iOS when you can choose from Windows Phone 8 or Android? What if you need to deploy and manage all of the above? Well, come to this session and we'll explain how best to choose the right technology for your business. We'll focus on the end-user as well as the IT side - because it isn't about one or the other - it's about both.

Location: Lagoon H
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This session takes a tongue-in-cheek look at one of networking's most hated protocols: Loved by few, hated by most, this protocol that was designed with networks of 20 years ago in mind has caused a number of issues in our data centers. A case is made that spanning-tree's time has come, even from the perspective of its creator (the venerable Radia Perlman) as she is the designer of one of the modern alternatives.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Millions of packets traverse modern networks every second of every day, and it's virtually guaranteed that some of those packets are the result of nefarious behavior. Even the most effective preventative controls miss some malicious activity, so conventional wisdom now dictates that people in charge of big networks augment preventative controls with an incident response capability in the form of talent, techniques and technology.

As the volume of network traffic grows, security incident investigations and response necessarily become a big data problem that the “bad guys” hope you don’t solve. Unfortunately for them, we're going to teach you how existing big data security analytics tools give incident responders the upper hand. Attendees will hear about and see the effects of real, recent cybercriminal attacks, and will learn some of the big data security analytics techniques that, today, help many organizations improve their incident response effectiveness and capabilities by bringing a common-sense approach to this increasingly intractable problem.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Mobile devices are a part of everything we do. It's uncommon for someone to not have a smart-phone and/or tablet. So how do you ensure you are ready to support employees who bring their own devices onto your network? In this session, attendees will understand the challenges with bring your own device (BYOD) and how you can prepare for supporting a BYOD strategy.

Location: Breakers D
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Seems that we’re constantly talking about the same major roadblocks to adopting cloud computing in the enterprise. Security, compliance, performance and lock-in are risks that are perennially cited. Are these issues nothing more than convenient excuses to justify avoiding more aggressive cloud adoption? Or, are they legitimate concerns for which technology and process have not yet provided adequate answers? This panel will examine each of these four topics and offer current examples of how organizations are deploying creative, workable and actionable solutions.

• Security and Compliance: Comply with privacy, data residency and system administration in private and public cloud scenarios.
• Performance: Develop architectural considerations to manage reliability and uptime. Minimize latency for applications that demand ready access to network resources.
• Vendor Management: Orchestrate and manage workloads across multiple service providers. Develop policies for resolving SLA violations before signing the contract.
• Lock-In: Avoid becoming wedded to one vendor and their proprietary hardware appliances or software.

Location: Breakers L
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

The accelerating pace of enterprise technology change offers unprecedented opportunities – along with major stress – for IT leaders. Business units looking to exploit new opportunities presented by emerging technologies have given rise to “shadow procurements” leading to the broad proliferation of tools and suppliers in the enterprise. Obvious gains in short-term agility have been accompanied by longer-term architectural and sustainability challenges, especially in immature marketplaces, where vendors often pay insufficient attention to enterprise-scale considerations. Designed for enterprise architects, IT strategists, and technology procurement professionals, this workshop will help you get out in front of emerging technologies. It will offer you tools to pro-actively identify which technologies will bring the most business value in your particular environment, as well as the savvy to avoid common pitfalls. The workshop will examine the challenge and benefits of emerging technologies in particular technology segments where business and IT interests overlap – and sometimes come into conflict. Specifically, we’ll look at: Social Collaboration Cloud-based File-Sharing Mobile Middleware Enterprise Video Social Media Monitoring & Intelligence You’ll come away with proven, test-based methodologies for evaluating and selecting vendors in fast-moving technology landscapes

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Social software applications continue to grow as a part of everyone’s daily life—including on the job for many knowledge workers. But many enterprises remain uncertain about how to pursue a strategy for implementing social capabilities within their digital workplace, and how to integrate these capabilities with the collaboration and communications systems that go hand-in-hand with social. This session will give you an overview of the leading players in the market for creating dedicated social/collaboration services as well as social-enabling existing systems. You’ll get a real-world analysis of the positioning of the major vendors, their strengths and weaknesses, and future prospects. If you’re grappling with the challenge of taking social to the next level of collaboration, this session is a must.

Location: Banyan A
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This course covers how to manage iOS devices both locally and using the Apple Profile Manager service in OS X Server.
iPad Support & Deployment is a two-day course for iPad users who support iOS mobile devices. Students will learn how to deploy and maintain iOS-based devices and provisions for in-house developed apps. Students will learn how to use different methods for creating and deploying iOS Configuration Profiles, supporting large numbers of devices, and how to set up and maintain a Mac Lion server for overseeing the whole process. Instructors will also demonstrate and discuss other iPad Apps for assisting in day-to-day IT tasks.

Who Should Attend
iPad Support & Deployment is designed for IT professionals, managers and system administrators who use the iPad on a daily basis in their professional environment or who implement and maintain iOS-based devices in their organizations. Or anyone who uses an iPad professionally and wants to set up their skills and become an iPad "power user".

Prerequisites
Students who attend iPad Support Essentials should have a working knowledge of the iPad. An iPad will be provided to the student for the duration of the class. For students new to iPads who wish to read up and prepare prior to class, FMC recommends iPad Portable Genius by Paul McFedries. Course Outline: Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Morning Session:
Lesson 1: Basic setup & New features in iOS 5

• Overview of iOS versions
• Backing up with iCloud
• Upgrading wirelessly
• Resetting & restoring an iOS device
• Restoring a Jailbroken iOS device
• Suspending an App

Lesson 2: Email, contacts & collaboration

• iCloud
• Basic IMAP accounts
• Microsoft Exchange
• Managing multiple accounts
• Notification center
• ActiveSync
• Sharepoint
• Lion Wiki Server

Lesson 3: File sharing

• iTunes
• Dropbox
• iCloud
• Viewing PDFs with iBooks, Acrobat
• Lesson 4: Presenting from an iPad
• VGA, HDMI
• AirPlay
• AirVideo
• Reflection
• Keynote

Afternoon Session:
Lesson 5: Security

• Setting a Passcode
• Restrictions
• VPN
• Private browsing, history & cookies
• Find my iPad
• Locations and privacy

Lesson 6: Accessibility features

• Zooming & inverting the screen
• The notification center
• Keyboard shortcuts
• VoiceOver
• Flash on the iPad

Lesson 7: Device Deployment & Management

• Mobile Device profiles
• Manually configuring with Apple Configurator
• Deploying policies with Activesync
• Setting up Lion Server
• SSL Certificates
• Lion Server Profile Manager
• Remote lock & wipe devices

Lesson 8: Custom Apps

• Apple App Store
• Apple Volume Purchase Program
• Buy retail apps or develop in-house?
• Custom B2B apps
• Dascode & web apps
• Overview of the iOS developer program
• Other tools for IT & Sysadmins

Location: Jasmine B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Deploystudio is a diverse and multifaceted tool for deploying systems. It has capabilities of deploying OS X and Windows to both Macs and PCs. In addition to showing how to use the software to build both Windows and Mac images, we are going to delve into how to perform a basic setup of Deploystudio on OS X Server as well as an in- depth look on how to manage workflows and repositories. There will also be an advanced section on how to work with semi-modular deployments in the best practices section.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

What is innovation exactly--how do companies define it? And what is the CIO's specific role in seeking and vetting ideas and organizing, cultivating and funding innovation? Is innovation a repeatable process or more of an ad hoc outcome? Which technical and other skill sets are needed? Who are the key stakeholders within the C-suite and elsewhere? How are CIOs tapping external partners and vendors? Must the CIO become a de facto chief innovation officer? Our panel of senior business technology executives, all of them at the center of their companies' innovation programs, discusses what works and what doesn't based on their experiences.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Cloud computing promises significant benefits to consumers as well as cloud providers around pay per use, cash flow, and speed. These benefits can only be realized with a properly designed physical data center architecture that can support it. Clouds place unique and severe demands on data centers due to the need to minimize real estate, infinite and instantaneous scale, while minimizing energy use to fulfill business profitability goals. Join us as we discuss best practices for deploying infrastructure and architecture for "cloud ready" data centers.

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The availability of applications and services is crucial to businesses of all kinds, but the hardware and software infrastructures that underpin these services are more vulnerable than ever. Whether it’s system failures or natural disasters that take out key resources or disruptive service failures due to a lack of visibility, it is critical to spot signs of trouble before applications fail and affect user experience. This session will offer practical advice for data center and network pros on how to ensure that the applications and services that run the business are alive and well at all times through solutions like robust network monitoring fabrics and optimal data center design.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

With gigabit-plus wireless LANs and megabit-plus wireless WANs now in use, one might assume that the rate of evolution in the core technologies required to propel wireless (and thus mobile) technologies forward would be slowing. But one would be wrong – exciting new developments across the board promise ever-greater capability, even as core challenges in economics and carrier operations remain. This session will explore key advances in wireless and mobile technologies, including timelines and risks.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

Location: Breakers L
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

As with all other aspects of IT, collaboration and communications is moving to the cloud. But the combination of installed equipment base, policy/security concerns, and cloud’s uncertain ROI/TCO adds nuance to the decision. Most enterprises won’t simply outsource all their communications and collaboration to the cloud, but many will deploy hybrid cloud architectures, and many vendors and service providers are starting to promote hybrid cloud as the most cost-effective first step. In this session, analysts, vendors and service providers will discuss what your hybrid cloud deployment could look like for communications. You’ll come away with various models for architecting a hybrid communications cloud, and with a clear idea of the costs and benefits of the different approaches.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:45 PM-2:30 PM

Location: Lagoon B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network analyzer with over 500,000 downloads per month. In this Advanced Wireshark course Laura will take your skills from basic to advanced level by demonstrating the fastest techniques to locate, analyze and report on network performance and security problems. Bring your laptop loaded with the latest version of Wireshark (and a DVD drive) to follow along and become a Wireshark expert. Students will receive a DVD with sample trace files, training videos and all the supplemental/configuration files referenced in the training.

Key Takeaways

• Skills checklist: advanced tasks to master and why
• Key traffic to detect: why we use these advanced features
• Customize Wireshark with profiles and key preferences
• Advanced packet capture techniques
• Build custom views to locate anomalies/problems
• Interpret Advanced IO and TCP Time-Sequence graphs
• VoIP, HTTP and other data reassembly techniques
• Incorporate Regex in your filters
• Extract stats/fields from trace files
• Future features: Peeking at Wireshark 1.10

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

A common question (and subject of significant debate) in enterprise Wi-Fi deployments is how to design, build, and manage optimal deployments. A key element in this challenge is understanding how to test, verify, and benchmark WLAN deployments, especially critical in the rapidly-increasing number of sites with thousands of access points. This session will look at the key technologies and best practices involved in this critical area.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is radically different from those old x-clients you may have played with in your youth. Painfully it's been painted by the mistakes made with the early days of Citrix Metaframe and Microsoft Terminal Server, but we can do much better now. The concept of putting an entire virtual machine behind that remote session means that you can have amazingly good remote performance through some careful planning of your virtual infrastructure. Microsoft and Citrix have even gone as far as leveraging a shared graphics processor in the server to allow the heavy lifting of 3D rendering to stay on the superfast bus of the server; giving even resource hogs like AutoCAD Revit 3D the ability to run on iPads or thin clients.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Nothing strikes fear into the heart of an engineer more than the installation of a firewall to achieve the laudable goal of defense-in-depth through network segmentation. Security teams demand the implementation of firewalls telling everyone, “It’s for compliance!” But the addition of firewalls and other security appliances (aka chokepoints) into an infrastructure infuriates network engineers who design to optimize speed and minimize latency. Sysadmins and DBAs are equally frustrated, because of the increased complexity in building and troubleshooting applications. So it’s down the rabbit hole we go trying to achieve the unachievable with everyone waxing rhapsodic for those bygone days when the end-to-end principle ruled the Internet. Is it really possible to have security coexist with operational efficiency? Organizations seem happy to throw money at technology and operations, but when it comes to policies and procedures, they fail miserably. This is the biggest problem with building a layered design. As engineers, if we don’t have clear policies as a set of requirements, how will we determine the appropriate network segmentation and protections to put in place? The answer lies in aligning network segmentation with an organizational data classification matrix and understanding that while compliance and security often overlap, they’re not the same.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

It’s one thing for hardware, software, systems, and carrier vendors to present tons of cool new things to buy, and quite another to use these effectively in enterprise and organizational settings. This session features leading IT practitioners offering their best advice on how to deal with rapid technological change, overlapping solutions, and meeting IT objectives while maximizing end-user productivity and minimizing budgetary impacts.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:15 AM

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is emerging as among the most influential forces shaping Software Defined Networking. Engaging the end-user community, the ONF is propelled by 85+ members spanning the entire gamut of networking. In this presentation, we will examine the ONF’s role in driving SDN adoption, primary objectives, challenges, and important standardization activities underway. A glimpse of the future of SDN standards is also presented.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Paychex, Inc. ranks among the nation's largest companies providing payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion. In this session, the speakers describe how they leveraged the cloud to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks with critical customer-facing applications. Paychex is leveraging the cloud both to improve the experience customers have with its applications, and to take advantage of multiple SaaS solutions. Improvements and enhancements to Paychex applications have been made at all levels: infrastructure, database, hardware, and software. In fact, without the cloud, the performance and scalability improvements of the underlying infrastructure would not have been possible. The cloud has increased the confidence the Paychex organization has in the scalability of its applications.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

Hybrid cloud sprawl is making life challenging for IT admins. Different environments, different functionalities and capabilities, different interfaces. Kit will discuss how the next generation of management tools will abstract over differences in heterogeneous environments to allow for a consistent approach to private, public, and hybrid cloud management.

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The availability of applications and services is crucial to businesses of all kinds, but the hardware and software infrastructures that underpin these services are more vulnerable than ever. Whether it’s system failures or natural disasters that take out key resources or disruptive service failures due to a lack of visibility, it is critical to spot signs of trouble before applications fail and affect user experience. This session will offer practical advice for data center and network pros on how to ensure that the applications and services that run the business are alive and well at all times through solutions like robust network monitoring fabrics and optimal data center design.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Before exploring the cloud of tomorrow, John Considine, Chief Technology Officer of Verizon Terremark, describes what core characteristics compose today’s cloud, and discusses three fundamental features: independent architectures, multi-tenant infrastructures and the concept of ‘different controls.’

While the cloud is able to house different applications in terms of complexity and criticality, most enterprise applications are not apt for virtualized environments, such as cloud computing. Considine explores the challenges that exist in running enterprise applications, or what he calls the “hard stuff”, and the ideal features future cloud offerings should provide enterprises including security, dependencies, application management and performance.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Can Clouds Make a Business Better?

Cloud Computing has been touted as a magical cure-all for enterprise agility. Deploy clouds, the story goes, and you'll make the company faster, more responsive, and more efficient. But clouds are only part of a bigger change that includes continuous deployment, lean product management, customer development, analytics, and more.

Join John Considine, Steven Shalita, Eli Almog, and Alistair Croll for a no-holds-barred panel that looks at what else companies need to capitalize on on-demand infrastructure, and what the obstacles—and opportunities—for re-engineering the business look like.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Millions of packets traverse modern networks every second of every day, and it's virtually guaranteed that some of those packets are the result of nefarious behavior. Even the most effective preventative controls miss some malicious activity, so conventional wisdom now dictates that people in charge of big networks augment preventative controls with an incident response capability in the form of talent, techniques and technology.

As the volume of network traffic grows, security incident investigations and response necessarily become a big data problem that the “bad guys” hope you don’t solve. Unfortunately for them, we're going to teach you how existing big data security analytics tools give incident responders the upper hand. Attendees will hear about and see the effects of real, recent cybercriminal attacks, and will learn some of the big data security analytics techniques that, today, help many organizations improve their incident response effectiveness and capabilities by bringing a common-sense approach to this increasingly intractable problem.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:15 PM-3:00 PM

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mitigate security risks until they gain more experience. But many enterprises are making mistakes that are going to result in the failure of these private cloud projects, setting the journey back months or even years. Fortunately, these mistakes are perfectly avoidable. This session will discuss these mistakes and actions that can be taken by enterprises to avoid cloud project failures.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Can Clouds Make a Business Better?

Cloud Computing has been touted as a magical cure-all for enterprise agility. Deploy clouds, the story goes, and you'll make the company faster, more responsive, and more efficient. But clouds are only part of a bigger change that includes continuous deployment, lean product management, customer development, analytics, and more.

Join John Considine, Steven Shalita, Eli Almog, and Alistair Croll for a no-holds-barred panel that looks at what else companies need to capitalize on on-demand infrastructure, and what the obstacles—and opportunities—for re-engineering the business look like.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

This is an overview of the different 10GbE module form factors (SFP+, XFP, X2, XENPAK), and optical standards (10GBASE-SR, LR, ER, etc) with the common applications/shortcomings of each.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Faced with rapidly changing technologies and continuing pressures to deliver IT services in tune with business demands, IT leaders need to find the right people with the right skillset for open positions. According to the joint research from HDI and Robert Half Technology, the war for talent continues to be a challenge. This session assembles a panel of senior IT service leaders and staffing experts to discuss how they are surviving, even winning the war for talent. Moderated by Cinda Daly, the panelists will touch on the key findings of the research, share real-world advice, and discuss solutions on how to conquer these issues.

Issues we will cover include:
• How organizations are handling vacant positions
• What skills organizations value
• How to reduce turnover rates
• Where organizations find new recruits
• How to build an appealing corporate culture
• Employee pain points that lead to turnover and how to address them
• Which benefits and perks are the most important to employees

Location: Breakers D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Effective communication is critical to the success of all businesses. For the technical manager-whether internal or external, shared services or level two support-understanding the financial goals underlying in an organization's business strategy is a fundamental component of successful partnerships within an organization.

The most successful technical managers engage with their business partners through a shared understanding-and language-of an organization's financial goals and requirements. Honing that understanding by learning the financial terms and concepts involved increases cooperation and provides more opportunity for achieving success.

As a business-focused manager, it is imperative to communicate how technical activities translate into financial benefits that impact the business as well as how business strategy can incorporate more effective technical support to achieve its goals. Technical managers can add more value to their organizations by developing an understanding of costing, planning (budgeting/forecasting), accounting, valuing, and communicating that information to the business in financial terms.

This course will provide the tools to develop this understanding and explore core concepts such as total cost of ownership, return on investment, and value analysis (all essential to justify changes, prioritize work, and obtain support for initiatives).

Who Should Attend?

Anyone responsible for managing resources & projects and who needs to improve their financial skills.

Key Takeaways

• Planning (budgeting), accounting, charging
• Difference between budget, allocation, and chargeback
• Different types of chargeback models
• Difference between revenue and costs
• Cost drivers
• How to use an understanding of costs to better manage your business
• Return on investment
• Value on investment

Location: Breakers D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Effective communication is critical to the success of all businesses. For the technical manager-whether internal or external, shared services or level two support-understanding the financial goals underlying in an organization's business strategy is a fundamental component of successful partnerships within an organization.

The most successful technical managers engage with their business partners through a shared understanding-and language-of an organization's financial goals and requirements. Honing that understanding by learning the financial terms and concepts involved increases cooperation and provides more opportunity for achieving success.

As a business-focused manager, it is imperative to communicate how technical activities translate into financial benefits that impact the business as well as how business strategy can incorporate more effective technical support to achieve its goals. Technical managers can add more value to their organizations by developing an understanding of costing, planning (budgeting/forecasting), accounting, valuing, and communicating that information to the business in financial terms.

This course will provide the tools to develop this understanding and explore core concepts such as total cost of ownership, return on investment, and value analysis (all essential to justify changes, prioritize work, and obtain support for initiatives).

Who Should Attend?

Anyone responsible for managing resources & projects and who needs to improve their financial skills.

Key Takeaways

• Planning (budgeting), accounting, charging
• Difference between budget, allocation, and chargeback
• Different types of chargeback models
• Difference between revenue and costs
• Cost drivers
• How to use an understanding of costs to better manage your business
• Return on investment
• Value on investment

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Rack scale architecture innovation is addressing hyper scale customers looking for ways to deliver services quickly, in a flexible architecture and at the lowest cost, through rack dis aggregation. In this session, you will hear about how accelerating rack scale innovation by delivering a range of rack scale technologies optimized for flexibility, performance and cost. Some of the innovations extend beyond the traditional compute platform into standard and open storage platforms, network platforms and the compute/network fabric.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mitigate security risks until they gain more experience. But many enterprises are making mistakes that are going to result in the failure of these private cloud projects, setting the journey back months or even years. Fortunately, these mistakes are perfectly avoidable. This session will discuss these mistakes and actions that can be taken by enterprises to avoid cloud project failures.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Faced with rapidly changing technologies and continuing pressures to deliver IT services in tune with business demands, IT leaders need to find the right people with the right skillset for open positions. According to the joint research from HDI and Robert Half Technology, the war for talent continues to be a challenge. This session assembles a panel of senior IT service leaders and staffing experts to discuss how they are surviving, even winning the war for talent. Moderated by Cinda Daly, the panelists will touch on the key findings of the research, share real-world advice, and discuss solutions on how to conquer these issues.

Issues we will cover include:
• How organizations are handling vacant positions
• What skills organizations value
• How to reduce turnover rates
• Where organizations find new recruits
• How to build an appealing corporate culture
• Employee pain points that lead to turnover and how to address them
• Which benefits and perks are the most important to employees

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

While SDN promises to improve business agility and economics, it can become a nightmare if you ignore some fundamental design principles. Whether you’re kicking the tires or making a strategic decision to adopt SDN in your data center, this session highlights the infrastructure, automation and orchestration details you need to consider.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:55 PM-2:30 PM

In this session, leading SDN vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes how they define SDN, why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Maybe your company isn’t in the crosshairs of a global hacker network. But the techniques used by Anonymous, from social spying to botnets that launch DDoS exploits, are trickling down to criminal groups that are going after your data. More important: Feverish media coverage means the CEO’s paying attention, so take advantage. We’ll present highlights of our 2013 Strategic Security Survey; discuss the latest techniques to monitor for, detect and terminate breaches; and explain how to clean up with minimal brand damage.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becoming more challenging. The solutions used to protect organizations against these threats and mitigate the risks they create are also changing and evolving. This panel discussion will look at the emerging trends in information risk management security from both a business and technological perspective.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Workers today want choice – the ability to use their own tablet, smartphone, laptop… to access corporate applications and desktops remotely, search the Web without restriction and download data using any device. A few years ago, this was considered the exception but today, it is essential if companies want to attract the best and brightest in their industry. But how do you support this brave new world, and balance security and control of corporate assets vs. end-user demand choice and a changing workplace culture? Building and managing the right infrastructure for today and tomorrow may seem daunting and fraught with challenges so how do you know if your organization is ready? This session will explore key considerations to ponder when planning your workspace strategy for desktops, applications, cloud and BYOD.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Indiana University has developed and deployed nationwide OpenFlow backbone for Internet2 based on open-source controller and application software. We are also the only university that is deeply engaged in the Open Networking Foundation including holding the vice-chair position in the ONF's Testing and Interop Working and leading the ONF PlugFest interoperability testing events. I will share our unique perspective on SDN based on our actual experiences in the field.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Workers today want choice – the ability to use their own tablet, smartphone, laptop… to access corporate applications and desktops remotely, search the Web without restriction and download data using any device. A few years ago, this was considered the exception but today, it is essential if companies want to attract the best and brightest in their industry. But how do you support this brave new world, and balance security and control of corporate assets vs. end-user demand choice and a changing workplace culture? Building and managing the right infrastructure for today and tomorrow may seem daunting and fraught with challenges so how do you know if your organization is ready? This session will explore key considerations to ponder when planning your workspace strategy for desktops, applications, cloud and BYOD.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:15 PM

As one veteran executive recently put it, elite IT teams handed innovation responsibilities are "loathed by the people who actually run the company" if they're not connected to real-world challenges. As such, innovation isn't for a high-and-mighty committee. It takes collaboration among people across the company – IT, marketing, sales, HR and other key stakeholders. In this session, executive leaders will discuss how deep collaboration led to specific innovations at their companies.

Location: Breakers D
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Big Data was the hot topic of 2012, and there is no sign of cooling in the near future. Come hear Jeremy Edberg, Reliability Architect for Netflix and former Information Cowboy for reddit, give an overview of the Big Data technology landscape with a mix of war stories and practical examples of how to use Big Data to make your business more successful. The session will include explanations of all the Big Data concepts, such as nosql vs sql and when to use each and hadoop and map/reduce. We'll also cover various technologies such as Cassandra and redis, how to effectively use them, and how Netflix and reddit use those technologies. Lastly, we'll cover distributed architectures for Big Data and how to best take advantage of the cloud.

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Looking for a public cloud computing provider? You have many questions to consider. First, does the provider offer the services you need to support the solution? Second, what’s the cost of using that provider over time? Third, can you get the right level of security and governance from your provider? Finally, will the provider stay up-and-running, and in business over the long haul.

In this panel, we’ll leverage top experts in the world of cloud computing to provide practical and sound advice around the process of evaluating and selecting a public cloud computing provider. This includes understanding your own requirements, searching out the right public cloud computing provider, and evaluating that provider before making the final selection.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

With mobility now at the core of many if not most enterprise IT strategies, and rapid technological evolution still a complicating factor in setting key directions, it’s critical to consider a broad range of technical, management, and even financial elements before defining the next evolution of any IT deployment. This session features leading experts on mobility, and will debate the key issues in mobility over the next five years from both technological and operational perspectives.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Ethernet fabrics enable the deployment of a simplified, highly resilient and scalable multipath Ethernet network - where new services are enabled only at the network edge. As this technology enters the adoption phase of the technology lifecycle, this presentation will provide answers to key questions such as what options exist in the industry for deploying a fabric, what the different deployment models are for Ethernet fabrics (Data Center, Campus, Multitenant) and how to deploy virtualized services as well as optimize routing and multicast to provide a unified, more resilient, fabric-enabled network.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becoming more challenging. The solutions used to protect organizations against these threats and mitigate the risks they create are also changing and evolving. This panel discussion will look at the emerging trends in information risk management security from both a business and technological perspective.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

The implementation or migration to IPv6 can be daunting. Our team aims to de-mystify the process utilising methodologies that have been applied in the InteropNet.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:45 PM-2:30 PM

Federal, state and local government agencies are under pressure to deliver new and better public services, often on flat or declining IT budgets. Government IT teams must respond by implementing technologies and services that are more flexible and efficient and that support new, more collaborative ways of working. Cloud computing, mobility and modular development are just some of the ways that government IT pros can help their agencies become more agile in this push to do more with less. Join us to explore IT strategies for creating a more nimble IT government enterprise and brainstorm over next steps.

Location: Interop Theater, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Our panel of editors and CIOs will reveal how to move from an IT staff role to the CIO seat. Do you know — really know — what your business counterparts need to succeed? Can you break out of the “keeping the lights on” mindset and focus on innovation? Do you have the intestinal fortitude to put failing projects out of their misery? We’ll discuss the path to CIO and share results of our 2013 InformationWeek Global CIO Survey.

Location: Lagoon K
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Implementing server and/or desktop virtualization (e.g. VDI) has serious implications for the storage infrastructure. The requirements for storage are affected and the storage solutions need to be evaluated based on a different set of considerations. Important to consider are the bottlenecks created and how they can limit the number of virtual machines per physical server and the number of virtual desktops. This discussion will explain the implications of virtualized environments on storage and what attributes of a storage system are important to meet the virtualized environment requirements. Performance details of a VDI environment also will be explained to aid in understanding of storage recommendations.
Attendees will gain an understanding of the storage issues created by server virtualization and VDI environments, and the information provided will help determine organizational requirements for storage systems and capabilities that can address these issues.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Traditionally, business continuity and disaster recovery have been among the biggest challenges for IT, and the ability to maintain application uptime and provide rapid recovery from disasters has never been more important. And in fact, virtualization increases the vulnerability and risks from server outages by consolidating many workloads on individual servers. At the same time, virtualization has brought tremendous benefits in the area of BCDR and opened up new opportunities for IT to maximize application uptime at lower cost. Both virtual and physical servers can greatly benefit from virtualized disaster recovery, bringing RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) and RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) down from hours or days to minutes. This session will discuss ways to leverage virtualization and cloud technologies for backup and disaster recovery for all servers, including how virtualization improves BCDR, how established technologies like replication and backup are evolving and where they fit, and how all of these technologies can be used to protect both virtual and physical servers.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Big data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the delivery of open, web-based services. They are also creating the next wave of cloud innovation and adoption which will drive the migration of production workloads to a cloud model.

Increasing pressure is being put on businesses of all sizes to lower costs, improve execution, and accelerate innovation. This in turn is creating demand for cloud platforms that provide open services in a secure environment, backed by industry-leading SLAs and security, and supported by quality customer support.

Glenn Ferguson, Global Manager of Pre-Sales Engineering, HP Cloud Services, will share the implications of these shifts and the resulting use cases applicable to the public cloud. He’ll discuss how some IT managers today are taking advantage of the public cloud including how simple it is to introduce a public cloud into a private cloud environment.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Gigabit-class 802.11ac isn’t the only hot topic in wireless LANs today. Additional developments underway within the IEEE 802.11 organization, the Wi-Fi Alliance, and at the system vendors themselves are promising new innovations in a number of key productivity-enhancing areas. Join us for an update on Wi-Fi and a look at what the near-term – and beyond – future holds.

Location: Lagoon H
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

With the explosion of mobile devices and applications in the enterprise and the challenges brought on by bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, mobility is becoming a key responsibility within IT. The desire to honor employee preferences regarding mobile devices must be balanced with IT’s responsibilities to manage and secure corporate data and systems.

While the initial feeling was that adequate management could be extended through push email tools like Microsoft’s Exchange Active Sync or Lotus Notes Traveler, organizations quickly learned that they needed more comprehensive tools like those being offered by the mobile device management (MDM) vendors. However, users continue to discover new mobile threats including those related software vulnerabilities. In planning for their mobility management solutions, enterprises need to address the full range of mobile threat vectors including applications, operating systems, over-the-air snooping, wireless denial of service, and careless user behavior.

This program will provide the groundwork for developing, implementing, and maintaining a best practices mobility plan and policy. The major elements involved in ensuring mobile security and management including MDM systems, internal app stores, and self-service portals will be discussed, along with an overall program for how these systems must be developed in line with the specific business goals of the organization.

Who Should Attend

Enterprise mobility managers or anyone involved in the development or maintenance of enterprise mobility policies for BYOD implementations.

Key Takeaways

• A comprehensive understanding of the tools and techniques used to manage a mobile environment including MDM systems, app stores, guest portals, and the rest.
• Key areas to address in the selection of a mobile device management solution.
• An update on the latest developments in mobile security involving networks, devices, data, and applications
• A checklist of the major issues to be addressed in a mobility policy, the range of options we typically see considered, and their implications
• A template to help your organization develop and maintain an effective mobility plan and policy for both corporate liable and individually owned mobile devices

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

With mobility now at the core of many if not most enterprise IT strategies, and rapid technological evolution still a complicating factor in setting key directions, it’s critical to consider a broad range of technical, management, and even financial elements before defining the next evolution of any IT deployment. This session features leading experts on mobility, and will debate the key issues in mobility over the next five years from both technological and operational perspectives.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

For a business without a dedicated data center operations manager, managing the data center can be a challenge as well as expensive. Having IT personnel manage power and HVAC systems is never an ideal situation. That’s why you’re probably considering outsourcing to a colocation facility or the cloud.

But this doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods. If your data center moves, you still need to have network access equipment on site, and this equipment is going to be the lifeline to your critical IT assets. Many businesses are making the mistake of housing this on-site equipment in a “network closet” —which is a nice way of saying a mop closet —and are putting their businesses at high risk for downtime and interruptions in key business processes. This presentation delves into the critical considerations regarding onsite equipment when outsourcing, and how to make that migration successful.

Key Takeaways:

• How virtualization affects the rest of the data center
• What to do to ensure that remaining network architecture stays available
• How to realize the full benefits of moving to a colo or the cloud

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:45 PM-2:30 PM

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Most IT organizations are already using server virtualization, and most are or will soon start down the road to private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although this journey can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path now well-traveled by a growing number of organizations. This session will discuss real world lessons gathered over the past few years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for making the transition from virtualization to the cloud.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:45 PM-2:30 PM

Federal, state and local government agencies are under pressure to deliver new and better public services, often on flat or declining IT budgets. Government IT teams must respond by implementing technologies and services that are more flexible and efficient and that support new, more collaborative ways of working. Cloud computing, mobility and modular development are just some of the ways that government IT pros can help their agencies become more agile in this push to do more with less. Join us to explore IT strategies for creating a more nimble IT government enterprise and brainstorm over next steps.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

This session will explore Huawei’s Software Defined Networking strategy and architecture and how it enables dealing with the rapidly changing requirements of modern and next-generation data centers. Attendees will gain an understanding of how a strong SDN strategy and vision will help enterprises meet the current and future wave of business driven requirements for their data centers through architectural flexibility enabled by pervasive and open network programmability.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Faced with rapidly changing technologies and continuing pressures to deliver IT services in tune with business demands, IT leaders need to find the right people with the right skillset for open positions. According to the joint research from HDI and Robert Half Technology, the war for talent continues to be a challenge. This session assembles a panel of senior IT service leaders and staffing experts to discuss how they are surviving, even winning the war for talent. Moderated by Cinda Daly, the panelists will touch on the key findings of the research, share real-world advice, and discuss solutions on how to conquer these issues.

Issues we will cover include:
• How organizations are handling vacant positions
• What skills organizations value
• How to reduce turnover rates
• Where organizations find new recruits
• How to build an appealing corporate culture
• Employee pain points that lead to turnover and how to address them
• Which benefits and perks are the most important to employees

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

Billions of people and their many devices will be coming online in the next decade, and those who are already online are living ever-more connected lives. The industry is building out a huge physical infrastructure to support this growth, but we are doing so in a largely closed fashion, inhibiting the pace of innovation and preventing us from achieving the kinds of efficiencies that might otherwise be possible.

In this keynote, Frank Frankovsky will provide an overview of the Open Compute Project, a thriving consumer-led community dedicated to addressing this issue, promoting more openness and a greater focus on scale, efficiency, and sustainability in the development of infrastructure technologies. Frank will delve into the brief history of the project and describe its vision for the future.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

The 2013 InformationWeek Wireless LAN survey showed a huge 21-point jump in the number of respondents using WLANs now on a large scale, and looking to grow. One reason: Companies are deluged with mobile devices. The fifth generation of enterprise Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, brings to the table unprecedented speed, but also deployment and management hurdles. Still, some may not have a choice about moving early. We’ll discuss similarities and differences with current 802.11n, deployment considerations and how to optimize WLAN designs for single-stream mobile devices.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:25 PM

While excellent progress is being made in proving out the viability and values of SDN technologies, mainstream adoption and deployment will require disciplined approaches to managing and securing them. New or amended practices are needed across the lifecycle, from planning and deployment through monitoring and troubleshooting, in order to move SDN beyond proof of concept and into the mainstream. This includes establishing new levels of coordinated policy management, recognizing new entity relationships, and handling a much more dynamic managed environment. This session will provide a detailed review of SDN management and security issues and best practices, based on practitioner-centric research conducted by EMA.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

In this session, several vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Breakers F
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Mobility, cloud-computing, and distributed workforces are changing how we define “work” and tearing down barriers between individuals and organizations. New communications and collaboration capabilities are entering the workforce at record pace, supported by new organizational structures, delivery mechanisms, infrastructure, and devices.

Navigating this new workplace requires a roadmap that allows you to organize your IT staff properly, evaluate competing technologies, and select the right vendors for your organization—all while evaluating integration, security, and management challenges.

During this interactive workshop, we’ll walk through the components of a successful unified communications and collaboration strategy. Leveraging benchmark data gathered from hundreds of IT professionals, we’ll show you what works, what doesn’t, and what best practices you should adopt to ensure success. During the session, we will discuss:

Organizational trends – How should you change your organizational structure to become more effective and strategic in leveraging the new UC/collaboration strategy?
Key trends and players – What are the latest adoption statistics, trends, and challenges with UC? Who are the key players, and what do they offer?
Management strategies – The new world of UC is more complex. How can you stay on top of it?
Remote extension – What UC and collaboration services should you extend to your remote and mobile workers first, and how? How should you cross company boundaries?
Delivery type – On-prem? In the cloud? Via a Managed Service Provider? Some of each? What is the best delivery platform for your organization?
Business case – How to you gain buy-in from business leaders and end users from a business perspective? What do these rollouts typically cost, and what should you budget?

Who Should Attend:
IT professionals responsible for setting the UC/collaboration strategy, as well as those deploying, integrating, and managing real- and non-real-time collaboration services.

Key Takeaways:
A solid understanding of key trends in UC and collaboration technologies
Evaluate competing and complementary services
Evaluate service delivery models
Extend services out to mobile workers
Develop a roadmap that ensures success

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:55 PM

This session will involve 3 or 4 organizations that are either evaluating SDN or have deployed it. The panelists will discuss what drove them to consider SDN, what choices they make or are looking to make, what they accomplished, what they learned about SDN so far and the next steps they are planning to take.

Location: Lagoon E
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization has clear benefits for enterprises along with widespread adoption. But what about small-to-medium businesses? Do those benefits apply? How are the solutions the same/different for SMBs? Are the steps to virtualization and private cloud the same/different? Should SMBs do it themselves or should they look to service providers to take over? How does virtualization relate to private/ public/hybrid cloud and how should SMBs view the journey?
Attendees will gain perspective on the benefits, challenges and available solutions of virtualization and cloud, from the SMB point of view.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM-4:15 PM

GE, Cisco, IBM and other major industry players estimate that the "Industrial Internet," otherwise known as the "Internet of Things," "Internet of Everything" and "Internet of Objects," could generate as much as $15 trillion in economic growth over the next 20 years. But is Silicon Valley sufficiently plugged into the technology needs of the industrial economy and its CIOs? A panel of industry players squares off.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 5:00 PM-5:45 PM

Enterprise IT organizations are fast embracing cloud computing and consumerization, compelling them to transform from purely delivering applications to delivering services on a variety of devices such as tablets and smart-phones, while maintaining service levels. Traditional application delivery products and technologies cannot fully support IT in achieving these goals. The requirement is for a solution that provides capabilities to maintain performance and security, provides ubiquitous coverage to a variety of end-points, and an effective management architecture and system that enables intelligent control and coordination of all service delivery capabilities and components. This session will introduce the very latest networking technologies required to implement an effective service delivery fabric with a user-centric approach.

Location: Lagoon E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Your organization wants to move fast, but security is complex and you may often feel like you are slamming on the brakes. This is exacerbated by new paradigms for IT adoption, where users and non-technical departments are deploying systems directly, bypassing IT and security altogether. This presents a huge challenge in terms of understanding what you have and how it’s being used, and protecting the organization becomes nearly impossible. In order to accelerate your security, you need visibility in three main areas: your IT environment, your users and the real threats you face. Only by fully investigating and understanding these pillars can you know your true risk posture and identify the necessary measures to mitigate and protect. This session will discuss how contextual insight into what's happening in your information security environment will enable you adapt to whatever obstacles rise up in the road, so your organization can go as fast as it needs. Attendees will learn how to can gain a clear view of your environment, your user activity, and the threats you face.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 PM-5:45 PM

Enabling knowledge workers and field-based employees with mobile data connectivity brings immense value to the enterprise—but how can you maximize these benefits in a cost effective manner as operators roll out faster 4G technologies? This session will help you understand the key wireless technology trends and issues from a device and network standpoint as 4G deployments become more prevalent. We will discuss the current state of the cellular industry, new flexible no contract data plans, our view of the path going forward and ideas for helping enterprise customers manage the transition.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

In this session, several vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Lagoon E
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

This session will cover the practical considerations that security managers or practitioners should be aware of regarding the current state of E-discovery law, from both pre-litigation policy and post-litigation points of view, including those potentially problematic areas where best practices are still developing, such as the impact of BYOD on e-discovery and data security and the use of automated decision-making tools, such as predictive coding. This session will also provide a framework to manage the expense of the process through the development of the specific facts needed by outside counsel to make limiting arguments. Such arguments include proportionality (balancing the burden of e-discovery against its value in a particular case); proving the validity of your efforts through sampling; quantifying burden; identifying and raising the inaccessibility of repositories; and issues relating to cross border e-discovery.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:30 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-3:45 PM

Location: Lagoon E
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

The definition of a “desktop” has changed and today the term “desktop” has become a metaphor for all the devices, applications, services, and content to which users subscribe, both within the enterprise and in the cloud. Transforming the desktop of the past to the workspace of the future includes an ever-growing array of devices, choices, and policies - including tablets, smartphones, thin/zero clients, client hypervisors, virtual desktops, hosted applications, streamed applications, cloud-based services, BYOC and BYOD, with more options coming all the time.

Desktop and application virtualization technologies have matured significantly, offering better ways to deliver desktop and application services, ranging from VDI to session/presentation virtualization to streamed desktops to client hypervisors to Desktop as a Service. Tablets and smartphones have now surpassed desktops in number. New tablet and mobile devices continue to emerge and proliferate and Bring Your Own Computer/Device (BYOC/BYOD) initiatives are emerging everywhere, and need to be blended into overall end user computing strategies. As organizations consider the best strategy for transforming their user workspace strategy, IT has the opportunity to change the paradigm to support any user, any device, any application, any data, anywhere (with the appropriate security of course).

Until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of desktop and application virtualization technologies, and in fact, many early desktop transformation projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss the state of previous barriers and which ones have been eliminated, and how to successfully leverage today’s solutions to transform from the old desktop paradigm to user-centric computing and the workspace of the future.

We will cover desktop virtualization and transformation from the ground up, giving you everything you need to know to understand and assess your user requirements, develop a strategy, select the right products and technologies, and set the right policies for your needs. This transformation is much broader than VDI and it is critical to understand all of the available desktop, application, user virtualization and mobile technologies, and where/how they should apply in your environment. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop, application, user virtualization and management technologies, how to assess user requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

Who Should Attend
This workshop targets IT managers and staff who are involved in the planning, implementation and support of desktop and application delivery through virtualization. It is geared for those interested in developing a deeper knowledge of virtual desktops, session/presentation virtualization, application virtualization, and user virtualization/personalization technologies to better design and implement a forward thinking strategy for desktop and application delivery and the workspace of the future within their companies.

Key Takeaways

• Understanding of the current state of desktop, application and user virtualization, including barriers eliminated, available technologies and solutions and how they map to various use cases
• Methodology for evaluating user requirements and determining which technologies and combined approaches are best suited for users' needs
• Insights into the interrelationships between desktop, session, application and user virtualization including the role of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) versus session virtualization technologies such as Citrix XenApp and MS Remote Desktop Services (RDS)/Terminal Services; client hypervisors and offline VDI; application virtualization technologies such as MS App-V; and the critical role of user virtualization and personalization
• Deeper understanding of the various approaches and architectures of the different desktop virtualization, application virtualization and user virtualization/personalization technologies
• Knowledge about end user computing access device choices (from tablets and smartphones to rich clients to thin clients to zero clients), how they fit into the new BYOC and BYOD initiatives, and how to integrate them into various approaches and technologies
• Information on the latest improvements in handling/integrating 3D graphics, video, and voice into the workspace
• Information on the new generation of tools for managing across Windows, web apps and SaaS apps and for file and data delivery/synchronization across devices

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends, and private clouds have muddied the waters even further. Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you, your business and the industry overall? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools? Trying to understand the relationship between server virtualization and private clouds?
Part one of this crash course will give you the foundation you need to understand virtual infrastructure and its path to private cloud.
For part 2, we'll move on to desktop virtualization, transformation and BYOD - the latest buzz in virtualization. What do all these really mean and how are they related? There are a wide variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications, and supporting new mobile devices and tablets. Learn about a broad view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.

If you are looking for a solid foundation for understanding server and desktop virtualization and the relationship to clouds, this double session crash course is the one for you.

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends, and private clouds have muddied the waters even further. Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you, your business and the industry overall? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools? Trying to understand the relationship between server virtualization and private clouds?
Part one of this crash course will give you the foundation you need to understand virtual infrastructure and its path to private cloud.
For part 2, we'll move on to desktop virtualization, transformation and BYOD - the latest buzz in virtualization. What do all these really mean and how are they related? There are a wide variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications, and supporting new mobile devices and tablets. Learn about a broad view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.

If you are looking for a solid foundation for understanding server and desktop virtualization and the relationship to clouds, this double session crash course is the one for you.

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Most IT organizations are already using server virtualization, and most are or will soon start down the road to private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although this journey can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path now well-traveled by a growing number of organizations. This session will discuss real world lessons gathered over the past few years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for making the transition from virtualization to the cloud.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization has clear benefits for enterprises along with widespread adoption. But what about small-to-medium businesses? Do those benefits apply? How are the solutions the same/different for SMBs? Are the steps to virtualization and private cloud the same/different? Should SMBs do it themselves or should they look to service providers to take over? How does virtualization relate to private/ public/hybrid cloud and how should SMBs view the journey?
Attendees will gain perspective on the benefits, challenges and available solutions of virtualization and cloud, from the SMB point of view.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Traditionally, business continuity and disaster recovery have been among the biggest challenges for IT, and the ability to maintain application uptime and provide rapid recovery from disasters has never been more important. And in fact, virtualization increases the vulnerability and risks from server outages by consolidating many workloads on individual servers. At the same time, virtualization has brought tremendous benefits in the area of BCDR and opened up new opportunities for IT to maximize application uptime at lower cost. Both virtual and physical servers can greatly benefit from virtualized disaster recovery, bringing RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) and RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) down from hours or days to minutes. This session will discuss ways to leverage virtualization and cloud technologies for backup and disaster recovery for all servers, including how virtualization improves BCDR, how established technologies like replication and backup are evolving and where they fit, and how all of these technologies can be used to protect both virtual and physical servers.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Workers today want choice – the ability to use their own tablet, smartphone, laptop… to access corporate applications and desktops remotely, search the Web without restriction and download data using any device. A few years ago, this was considered the exception but today, it is essential if companies want to attract the best and brightest in their industry. But how do you support this brave new world, and balance security and control of corporate assets vs. end-user demand choice and a changing workplace culture? Building and managing the right infrastructure for today and tomorrow may seem daunting and fraught with challenges so how do you know if your organization is ready? This session will explore key considerations to ponder when planning your workspace strategy for desktops, applications, cloud and BYOD.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Using real-world customer examples this session will explore what DCIM really means and how it should be approached and implemented in the enterprise. The ways in which DCIM can, and can’t, help IT and facilities groups manage better will be addressed. The session will conclude with a case study of how DCIM is used to drive the InteropNet Layer 1 deployment and management.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Location: Breakers L
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

As with all other aspects of IT, collaboration and communications is moving to the cloud. But the combination of installed equipment base, policy/security concerns, and cloud’s uncertain ROI/TCO adds nuance to the decision. Most enterprises won’t simply outsource all their communications and collaboration to the cloud, but many will deploy hybrid cloud architectures, and many vendors and service providers are starting to promote hybrid cloud as the most cost-effective first step. In this session, analysts, vendors and service providers will discuss what your hybrid cloud deployment could look like for communications. You’ll come away with various models for architecting a hybrid communications cloud, and with a clear idea of the costs and benefits of the different approaches.

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Applications used in today’s business and information technology (IT) environments often include a mix of cloud, premise, and hybrid solutions. In most cases, these applications need to interact with each other in order to meet the demands of the end users they serve. To meet this goal, IT leaders must identify when to use the cloud for applications vs. an on-premise solution, when a hybrid solution is appropriate and what if any renovations are necessary in the application.
To ensure that business goals and expectations are constantly being met, successful IT organizations must develop a plan and operating model that enables them to effectively monitor and manage these applications wherever they reside. In this interactive session, the speaker will provide insights into how one organization is successfully addressing this challenge from the perspective of the IT leader whose job it is to ensure that applications and IT capabilities are always available, operate at a minimum cost, meet their ever changing and expanding needs and expectations, and are secure and compliant.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

With mobility now at the core of many if not most enterprise IT strategies, and rapid technological evolution still a complicating factor in setting key directions, it’s critical to consider a broad range of technical, management, and even financial elements before defining the next evolution of any IT deployment. This session features leading experts on mobility, and will debate the key issues in mobility over the next five years from both technological and operational perspectives.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Networking is seeing tremendous upheaval. Whether it's dislocation with the intrusion of hypervisor-based virtual networks or consolidation with storage convergence, networks are being grabbed and shoved in different directions. Could this really be the time to build better network management controls? This panel will slice and dice the idea that chaotic moments in the network are the times when it's most important to put more sophisticated management in place. Can more control help you be the change? We'll see.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

Are you working on projects to address BYOD, mobility, and cloud challenges? Come to this session to learn how Cisco Unified Access can help you simplify your IT operations and enhance user experience with wired-wireless convergence, policy consistency, and drastically improved network manageability.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

What is innovation exactly--how do companies define it? And what is the CIO's specific role in seeking and vetting ideas and organizing, cultivating and funding innovation? Is innovation a repeatable process or more of an ad hoc outcome? Which technical and other skill sets are needed? Who are the key stakeholders within the C-suite and elsewhere? How are CIOs tapping external partners and vendors? Must the CIO become a de facto chief innovation officer? Our panel of senior business technology executives, all of them at the center of their companies' innovation programs, discusses what works and what doesn't based on their experiences.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

An overview of Omnipeek in the InteropNet using appliance-based protocol analysis.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Networking is seeing tremendous upheaval. Whether it's dislocation with the intrusion of hypervisor-based virtual networks or consolidation with storage convergence, networks are being grabbed and shoved in different directions. Could this really be the time to build better network management controls? This panel will slice and dice the idea that chaotic moments in the network are the times when it's most important to put more sophisticated management in place. Can more control help you be the change? We'll see.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Ethernet has been ubiquitous in end-user networks due to its familiarity, common management, scalability and backwards compatibility. Learn how to apply evolving 10G options and the recent 10GBase-T innovations in servers, switches, cabling systems and testing. These latest innovations lower network cost and are accelerating end-user migration towards 10GBase-T.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

The network is an ever-increasingly critical component to delivering business outcomes in the digital economy, but how do you know it is secure, scalable, and moving your business forward? Learn how network visibility can transform your network to accelerate and secure application delivery to your end users.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

In this session, several vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Jasmine B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

Deploystudio is a diverse and multifaceted tool for deploying systems. It has capabilities of deploying OS X and Windows to both Macs and PCs. In addition to showing how to use the software to build both Windows and Mac images, we are going to delve into how to perform a basic setup of Deploystudio on OS X Server as well as an in- depth look on how to manage workflows and repositories. There will also be an advanced section on how to work with semi-modular deployments in the best practices section.

Location: Jasmine B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

OS X has been considered a secure operating system since its inception over ten years ago, yet through added integration and interpretability options have been continually added to adapt OS X into more complex and enterprise echo systems there can be burgeoning security issues that arise. In this session we take a look at the current security posture of OS X and steps your organization can take to ensure your Macs "Just Work.”

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

A new breed of carefully orchestrated, multi-vector assaults are overwhelming the security infrastructure and overpowering typical network security measures of enterprises worldwide. Traditional countermeasures have failed and will continue to fail in future incidents. Through firsthand forensic analysis and success stories, Carl will provide insight into the necessity of deploying active counterattack / active defense techniques, focusing on the need for application-level security as an absolute must-have in an overall perimeter attack mitigation system.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Paychex, Inc. ranks among the nation's largest companies providing payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small to medium-sized businesses, with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion. In this session, the speakers describe how they leveraged the cloud to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks with critical customer-facing applications. Paychex is leveraging the cloud both to improve the experience customers have with its applications, and to take advantage of multiple SaaS solutions. Improvements and enhancements to Paychex applications have been made at all levels: infrastructure, database, hardware, and software. In fact, without the cloud, the performance and scalability improvements of the underlying infrastructure would not have been possible. The cloud has increased the confidence the Paychex organization has in the scalability of its applications.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:15 PM

As one veteran executive recently put it, elite IT teams handed innovation responsibilities are "loathed by the people who actually run the company" if they're not connected to real-world challenges. As such, innovation isn't for a high-and-mighty committee. It takes collaboration among people across the company – IT, marketing, sales, HR and other key stakeholders. In this session, executive leaders will discuss how deep collaboration led to specific innovations at their companies.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM-4:15 PM

GE, Cisco, IBM and other major industry players estimate that the "Industrial Internet," otherwise known as the "Internet of Things," "Internet of Everything" and "Internet of Objects," could generate as much as $15 trillion in economic growth over the next 20 years. But is Silicon Valley sufficiently plugged into the technology needs of the industrial economy and its CIOs? A panel of industry players squares off.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Several trends are emerging in the video space that could change how you purchase, deploy, and use the next generations of video technology. This session will help you understand some of the key changes that are disrupting video communications including:

• Cloud-based video infrastructure and services
• Video vendors’ migration from hardware to software models
• The continued growth of consumer-grade video applications like Skype
• The emergence of WebRTC for native video capabilities within Web browsers

In this session, video experts will explain the state of the art in each of these areas of potential disruption, and will help you understand how these changes will affect your enterprise infrastructure and end users. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to take advantage of cost efficiencies from new developments in video, while still protecting your existing investments in equipment and expertise.

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Data centers are undergoing a sea of change in the way they operate, creating a world where the number of devices to be managed grows exponentially while resources remain stagnant. Ethernet Fabrics are key in this evolution. In this session, learn how foundational technologies utilized in fabrics are changing how networks are built, perform and managed.

This session will cover:

• How legacy Active-Passive Data Centers utilizing legacy protocols are wasting network and human resources
• A review of the pros and cons of TRILL, SPB, and MLAG protocols and the efficiencies and stability these technologies deliver to Data Centers
• The impact of creating an Active-Active Data Center and how multi-layer, multi-pathing network technology drives maximum network bandwidth utilization and fault-tolerance both within and across data centers
• Wipro, a system integrator, describes how these technologies are being deployed today and the business value they are delivering to their customers

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

This session is for enterprise IT professionals who are tasked with maintaining the data center network while also enabling future business initiatives. Progressive Insurance operates 2 data centers to support 500+ applications, 7,800 servers (75% virtual), and 25,000 + clients. Participants will hear first-hand about how Progressive’s IT Network team balances the demands of ongoing maintenance and supporting new initiatives. Attendees will also get insight into the company’s approach to emerging technologies, including IPv6, the cloud and network virtualization.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The phrase “Time is money” aptly describes the importance application performance for online brokerage services. That’s why the team responsible for IT operations at a Seattle-based Online Brokerage service embarked on a three-year journey to improve end-user experience. By instituting new rigorous processes for identifying and resolving issues and implementing a complementary combination of technology solutions, the IT operations team improved their performance rankings for user experience to be among the top three in the industry. Attend this session to learn why a combination of people, processes, and technology is required to ensure world-class online services.

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

There are two trends leading to the next transformation of the datacenter. First, the proliferation of virtualization across datacenter hardware and software is modernizing the datacenter. Second, changing business needs are demanding faster response from IT. These trends are leading to a new approach – the software-defined datacenter – where all IT infrastructure services are virtualized and delivered as a service, and the control of this datacenter is entirely driven by software. But how do you go from virtualization to full achieving a software-defined datacenter? What are the necessary steps organizations need to take to realize this transformation? What does the journey look like? What are the operational challenges and roadblocks, and the major decisions that business will need to make? What are the right investments and when is the right time?

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

This is an overview of the different 10GbE module form factors (SFP+, XFP, X2, XENPAK), and optical standards (10GBASE-SR, LR, ER, etc) with the common applications/shortcomings of each.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Jasmine F
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This course covers integrating mac OS X Mountain Lion Computers into a Windows environment.
“Apple Certified Associate” certification course. Topics covered will include Active Directory, File Sharing, and Exchange integration.

Mac Integration Basics is a one-day course designed for individuals bringing a Mac computer into an education or small business environment that is predominantly Windows-based. And for those who need to prepare for the Mac Integration Basics Certification exam. The course focuses on getting to know the foundations of Mac OS X integrated in a Windows environment.

Who Should Attend?
The seminar is designed for technical professionals who want to learn more about integrating a Mac into a Windows or other standards-based environment, including:

• Employees bringing their first Mac into a business with a Windows server.
• Windows IT professionals who need to integrate a Mac into their Windows network.
• Resellers, distributors, systems integrators, and consultants who are selling and/or integrating Mac computers into a Windows environment.

Prerequisites:
Practical working knowledge of computers and a basic Mac OS X skills.
Course Outline: Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Morning Session

• Basic Mac OS X interface and terminology overview
• Connecting to a Network Account Server
• Sharing Files Between Mac OS X and Windows Computers
• Email, Calendars and Contacts
• Security
• Printing
• Instant Messaging

Afternoon Session

• Data Management and Backup
• Cross-Platform Compatibility
• Exam Preparation
• Certification Exam (included with this class*)

*First attempt is included

Certification
Exam name: Mac Integration Basics 10.8
Certification name: Apple Certified Associate - Mac Integration 10.8

Location: Banyan A
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This course covers a basic integration of iPad use. Topics covered will include an overview of the features and functionality of iOS devices for a new user.

iPad Fundamentals is a one-day course designed for new iPad owners who want to learn how to use the Apple apparatus efficiently. Learn how to effectively use the basic functions and applications that the iPad offers. Students will learn how to use the iPad in casual and professional environments.

Who Should Attend
iPad Fundamentals is designed for beginning and intermediate iPad users who want to maximize their skill set.

Prerequisites
Students who attend iPad Fundamentals must provide their own iPad.
Course Outline Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: Introduction to iOS Devices

• Power Modes and Battery Life
• Inputs and Jacks
• iOS Screen Care
• Connecting to Printer and Keyboard
• Multitasking
• Home Screen and Folders

Lesson 2: iTunes, iCloud & Apple TV

• Installing and Updating iTunes
• Back Up and Restore with iTunes
• Back Up and Restore with iCloud
• Transferring Purchases
• Using iPad with Apple TV

Lesson 3: iOS Inputs

• Touch Screen Gestures
• Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Digital Compass
• Keyboard Tips and Shortcuts
• Editing with Search, Copy and Paste
• Rich Text Formatting

Lesson 4: Going Online

• Connecting to Wifi
• Using Safari and Email
• Using Maps with GPS
• App Store and iBooks

Lesson 5: iWork and iLife

• Pages
• Numbers
• Keynote
• iMovie
• Garage Band

Lesson 6: Using the Camera

• Taking Photos
• Shooting Video
• Augmented Reality

Lesson 7: Instant Communication

• Facetime
• iMessage
• Skype

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Great IT solutions are fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, optimizing the application of such technologies as virtualization, the cloud, and collaboration, just to name a few. This session will examine mobility in just that context, and attempt to answer the big question of how to design, build, and operate optimal mobile solutions that take advantage of innovations across the IT spectrum today.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 PM-5:45 PM

Mobile technology innovation and consumer adoption move fast creating a mash-up of various mobile devices. Enterprises, on the other hand, have historically preferred to minimize change with an “if it’s working, don’t touch it” attitude. This session is a must-attend for IT pros who want to know how to make the most of mobile mash-ups for the enterprise. After this session you will have an understanding of the great potential that lies in embracing the mobile mash-up, identify the things that can improve organizational performance, and learn tips on how to implement an adoption strategy.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

This session offers an overview of advanced traffic monitoring switches, packet brokers, flow load-balancing, and inline security enforcement used in the InteropNet and how they can help.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mitigate security risks until they gain more experience. But many enterprises are making mistakes that are going to result in the failure of these private cloud projects, setting the journey back months or even years. Fortunately, these mistakes are perfectly avoidable. This session will discuss these mistakes and actions that can be taken by enterprises to avoid cloud project failures.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Great IT solutions are fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, optimizing the application of such technologies as virtualization, the cloud, and collaboration, just to name a few. This session will examine mobility in just that context, and attempt to answer the big question of how to design, build, and operate optimal mobile solutions that take advantage of innovations across the IT spectrum today.

Location: Surf E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Economic pressures have forced organizations to start architecting automated data centers, which require discrete components to become an integrated set of subsystems. Today’s network evolution demands a new architectural approach to the data center and a fabric that reduces network complexity and improves performance, scale and efficiencies while lowering operational and capital expenses.

In this joint session presented by Forrester’s Andre Kindness and David Newman from Network Tests, Andre will share recent findings from the report titled “The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware”. Forrester recommends using a systematic and prescriptive approach aligned to business requirements when evaluating vendors’ data center networking offerings. David will then follow by providing specific functional and performance testing recommendations that technical IT professionals need to consider as they develop their networking test plans. Discussion topics will include 10/40 GbE fabric performance and scaling, network latency and resiliency, and the implications on next generation data centers to deliver cloud service.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

In this session, several vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Data center fabrics are continuing to evolve to meet requirements of cloud scalability, workload mobility, automation, open networking, software-defined networking, and more. This session looks at tenets of the next-generation fabric requirements and emerging technologies that help build a truly unified data center. Data center, network, and virtualization architects will benefit from this session.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Ethernet has been ubiquitous in end-user networks due to its familiarity, common management, scalability and backwards compatibility. Learn how to apply evolving 10G options and the recent 10GBase-T innovations in servers, switches, cabling systems and testing. These latest innovations lower network cost and are accelerating end-user migration towards 10GBase-T.

Location: Lagoon H
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The time is now to consider photonic circuit switching technology in data center networks. Adding photonic circuit switching as an access layer between IP core routers and top-of-rack switches can dramatically improve application performance through reduced latency, and better accommodate large, high-persistence data flows. Photonic circuit switches based on advanced 3D MEMS photonics use tiny mirrors to switch up to 320 light signals, providing the port density needed to build flat data center networks. In a hybrid circuit/packet switched network design, bursty traffic goes through the packet-switched network and more persistent flows are directed to the circuit-switched network. The result is an improvement in latency and virtually unlimited network bandwidth for persistent flows. This is thanks to the reconfiguration of circuit switch data paths to provide connectivity and capacity to match traffic flows. This network can also be controlled through the use of software-defined network (SDN) controllers that reside outside of the network elements to provide better global control and management of the network.

Location: Breakers L
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

As with all other aspects of IT, collaboration and communications is moving to the cloud. But the combination of installed equipment base, policy/security concerns, and cloud’s uncertain ROI/TCO adds nuance to the decision. Most enterprises won’t simply outsource all their communications and collaboration to the cloud, but many will deploy hybrid cloud architectures, and many vendors and service providers are starting to promote hybrid cloud as the most cost-effective first step. In this session, analysts, vendors and service providers will discuss what your hybrid cloud deployment could look like for communications. You’ll come away with various models for architecting a hybrid communications cloud, and with a clear idea of the costs and benefits of the different approaches.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Join key video equipment manufacturers and competitors as they engage in a panel discussion regarding the evolution of hosted B2B video and UC services over the next 3-5 years. The panel will discuss and debate the options and limitations of current solutions and how each are working harmoniously to help address the barriers preventing ubiquitous video and UC video dial-tone. Although fierce competitors in the marketplace, these vendors will address what it takes to change an industry and how we can visually communicate in a global economy.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Desktop virtualization offers great benefits if done well, but there are many potential pitfalls. This session offers the straight scoop with real world information on the good and the bad experiences during multiple virtual desktop project field implementations. Hear about successes and failures from hands-on projects – highlighting what works and what does not; and why. From this you will learn of potential pitfalls to avoid as well as keys to successful VDI projects.
Attendees will hear anecdotes regarding hands-on project management experiences. These will highlight lessons learned, demonstrating what works and what does not work. This session is beneficial for any field engineer, architect or project manager.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Rack scale architecture innovation is addressing hyper scale customers looking for ways to deliver services quickly, in a flexible architecture and at the lowest cost, through rack dis aggregation. In this session, you will hear about how accelerating rack scale innovation by delivering a range of rack scale technologies optimized for flexibility, performance and cost. Some of the innovations extend beyond the traditional compute platform into standard and open storage platforms, network platforms and the compute/network fabric.

Location: Jasmine F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

Unlock the potential of your DBMS data by delivering it directly to mobile devices. In this session, based on the FileMaker Platform, we'll explore tools that allow sharing SQL data directly to iPads and iPhones, demonstrate live connectivity, and discuss real-world use cases for executive decision support and mobile data monitoring. We'll also discuss techniques for remote data capture, so you can implement mobile forms, audits, surveys and more. By the end of this session, you'll be ready to plan your own fast, low-cost implementations.

Location: Jasmine F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Jump-start your iOS development: In this practical session, you'll learn how to prototype and deliver database solutions, running on iPad and iPhone, in hours or days, not weeks or months. With the FileMaker Platform, no iOS app programming or design experience is required. Solutions created with FileMaker can also be deployed to Mac and Windows, and can run in web browsers. So you'll be able to implement business processes that span your entire team. You will also learn how to secure your mobile solutions and integrate them into your existing business systems.

Location: Lagoon E
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

As businesses continue to move critical operations online, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency, sophistication and range of targets. In 2011, 63% of respondents to a DDoS survey reported to have experienced at least one attack, while 51% reported revenue loss as a result of downtime from the attack. The success of these attacks indicates that IT managers still need to search for the right protection formula to proactively mitigate attacks before they inflict damage on a company's infrastructure, revenue and reputation. This session will discuss:-The major types of DDoS attacks and how they have evolved in magnitude and sophistication-Essential tools for combatting attacks from early detection techniques to protection strategies-Best practices for organizations to integrate advanced intelligence around cyber security risks into their ongoing security operations and policies.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

In this session, you will learn how intelligent management of your Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure can do more than just improve the overall availability of network-based assets. With the right tools and resources in place, DNS can act as a layer of sophisticated routing that improves geographically—specific response times, improves security and business continuity, and even drives more efficient and cost-effective content distribution.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Despite all of the investments that organizations have made in their information risk and security programs in recent years, there are typically two profiles that exist in the world today - those who know they have been compromised, and those who have yet to realize it. For many organizations, it is no longer a matter of if but when their defenses will be successfully infiltrated and systems compromised. The increasing frequency of public disclosures and non-stop global news headlines concerning cyber security is proof of this impending reality. Most organizations have been heavily focused on building taller wider walls thinking they can keep the adversaries out, but this is clearly not proving to be a successful strategy. There is obviously a need to do something different than the current overweight focus on prevention as the primary defense. This session is intended to provide one CISO's perspective of how he is adjusting his approach to be more balanced by demonstrating the value of shifting some focus away from a prevention strategy and investing more in enhancing visibility and response capabilities

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Most IT organizations are already using server virtualization, and most are or will soon start down the road to private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although this journey can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path now well-traveled by a growing number of organizations. This session will discuss real world lessons gathered over the past few years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for making the transition from virtualization to the cloud.

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Enterprise hybrid cloud platforms have the potential to transform and enable IT professionals to have more impact on their organizations than ever before. At the same time, not all clouds are created equal and there are many design and deployment models. This session will focus on the journey of IT to the cloud, what is key for the enterprise, examples of hybrid clouds in production today and where the industry is going into the future.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Manage the mobile device? Mobile apps? Mobile data? What about mobile expense management and policy specification and management? While mobility is now essential to organizational success, the solutions required are anything but standardized. This session will examine and debate alternative solutions and discuss how to integrate mobility with the remainder of IT management overall.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:30 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:30 PM-2:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-3:45 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 4:15 PM-4:30 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Your career as an IT professional depends upon your ability to align IT assets with the needs of the business. This means leveraging technology that is best able to adapt to changing business needs, as well as adjust effectively to increasing or decreasing demand. Cloud computing has lots of potential here, but it must be leveraged in the right ways at the right times.

Cloud computing isn't about managing enterprise computing resources more efficiently; it's about making the organization more cost effective and, most importantly, more agile. Early cloud adoption focused on replacing infrastructure, but tomorrow's clouds will provide the foundation to create business-critical applications that can be stood up in record time. Long hardware and software procurement cycles will become bad memories. Limitations on quickly provisioning resources will disappear. You can also forget about concerns for scalability as the business grows.

The ECS Platform Day is the place to understand this move up the stack and out into the public cloud, along with the opportunities and risks of making that move. The knowledge gained here could potentially save your organization millions of dollars as you avoid the common mistakes and understand emerging best practices.
Within this workshop we’ll examine the use of public clouds in new and dynamic ways, including:

• Business. The ability to understand the business case for public clouds, and the right way to plead your case to your leadership.
• Requirements. How to define your own business and technology requirements, understanding how this will lead to the right definition of the problem.
• Architecture. How to define and create the right public cloud-based solution that meets the needs of the business right out of the gate. Moreover, how to leverage emerging best practices and avoid problems before they begin.
• Technology. How to pick the right technology, including public cloud computing providers, the first time. Also, how to properly layer this technology back into the architecture.
• Migration. How to pick and choose which systems and business data are right for migration into public clouds, as well as best practices around application, process, and data migration.
• Development. How to build cloud-based systems that are able to leverage the native advantages of public clouds, including emerging tools and approaches.
• Operations. How to insure that your public-cloud based systems will provide the resiliency and reliability that the business expects.

Who Should Attend

• Developers considering where to build their next application.
• IT operators who want to understand how to launch, manage, and move workloads across public and private infrastructure.
• Architects who need to tune their infrastructure for greater uptime, faster performance, and lower cost.
• IT professionals plotting their infrastructure and platform strategy.
• Analysts and industry insiders who want to understand and profit from on-demand computing.
• Anyone who wants to make their business more agile.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

So, what are the proper ways to design, build, and leverage cloud computing systems? What are the steps to success? What are the emerging best practices? How does SOA fit in? In this session we’ll answer these questions, and more, covering the right and wrong ways to leverage, design, and build cloud-based systems and infrastructure. Going beyond the hype, this includes advice from those currently in the trenches who make cloud computing work for the Global 2000 and government. The audience is anyone who will soon fight to make cloud computing work for their clients, employers, and/or investors, and need to knock it out of the park the first time.

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

So, what are the proper ways to design, build, and leverage cloud computing systems? What are the steps to success? What are the emerging best practices? How does SOA fit in? In this session we’ll answer these questions, and more, covering the right and wrong ways to leverage, design, and build cloud-based systems and infrastructure. Going beyond the hype, this includes advice from those currently in the trenches who make cloud computing work for the Global 2000 and government. The audience is anyone who will soon fight to make cloud computing work for their clients, employers, and/or investors, and need to knock it out of the park the first time.

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Looking for a public cloud computing provider? You have many questions to consider. First, does the provider offer the services you need to support the solution? Second, what’s the cost of using that provider over time? Third, can you get the right level of security and governance from your provider? Finally, will the provider stay up-and-running, and in business over the long haul.

In this panel, we’ll leverage top experts in the world of cloud computing to provide practical and sound advice around the process of evaluating and selecting a public cloud computing provider. This includes understanding your own requirements, searching out the right public cloud computing provider, and evaluating that provider before making the final selection.

Location: Lagoon K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Most IT organizations are already using server virtualization, and most are or will soon start down the road to private/hybrid cloud and the delivery of IT-as-a-Service. Although this journey can seem complicated and overwhelming, it is a path now well-traveled by a growing number of organizations. This session will discuss real world lessons gathered over the past few years to illustrate the journey, pitfalls and success criteria for making the transition from virtualization to the cloud.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Businesses have an ever-growing need to respond to market forces almost immediately. IT organizations implement private clouds, while users procure resources from public cloud vendors. Mathew will help you solve infrastructure bifurcation by bridging the benefits of a Software-defined Datacenter with on-demand access to a secure public cloud to build your hybrid cloud of choice.

Location: Breakers D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Looking for a public cloud computing provider? You have many questions to consider. First, does the provider offer the services you need to support the solution? Second, what’s the cost of using that provider over time? Third, can you get the right level of security and governance from your provider? Finally, will the provider stay up-and-running, and in business over the long haul.

In this panel, we’ll leverage top experts in the world of cloud computing to provide practical and sound advice around the process of evaluating and selecting a public cloud computing provider. This includes understanding your own requirements, searching out the right public cloud computing provider, and evaluating that provider before making the final selection.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Designing and implementing a cloud requires a solid understanding of the components – from the type of infrastructure to the resources you will need and the workloads you will run. These elements drive design decisions that can make the difference between a cloud that propels your business to unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity and just another virtualized infrastructure. Join this discussion of best practices to design an open and efficient cloud that leverages existing infrastructure.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mitigate security risks until they gain more experience. But many enterprises are making mistakes that are going to result in the failure of these private cloud projects, setting the journey back months or even years. Fortunately, these mistakes are perfectly avoidable. This session will discuss these mistakes and actions that can be taken by enterprises to avoid cloud project failures.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Enterprises are waking up to the deluge of opportunities to collect and analyze data on every aspect of their business. However, bigger, faster, and more complicated data doesn’t necessarily mean more clarity for your business, in fact, it often means just the opposite. This session will provide insights into how enterprises can harness the power from big data with an intelligent end-to-end approach with an equal focus on information infrastructure, information management and information insight.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Software-defined networking is a potential game changer, but how do you know which vendor to partner with? In this interactive guide, we’ll cut through the hype and discuss the top 10 questions IT must ask before cutting a check. Then, we’ll set out onto the show floor and quiz top providers based on our purchasing criteria in a “speed dating” format. Attendees will also be able to download in-depth matrixes from our companion Network Computing SDN Comparison and do a Q&A with the author.

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Virtual desktop infrastructures place unique stresses on their back end storage systems. When you take hundreds or thousands of desktops, each of which had its own disk drive, and replace them with a shared infrastructure, it will demand more IOPS than a conventional disk array can provide. As a result, studies show that over 40% of VDI pilot projects stall when they need to scale up to production.
This session will explore the impact of VDI on storage infrastructures, from boot and login storms to the high level of write traffic during the day. We’ll then look at innovative solutions that use RAM, flash and clever software to tame the VDI storage beast.

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The widespread deployment of flash-memory based solid state disks (SSDs) has revolutionized the storage industry. While flash can be a solution to many storage performance problems, SSDs are much more expensive than spinning disks for capacity. Vendors have tried to address this disparity by using SSDs in many ways, from PCIe flash cards in servers and all solid state arrays to hybrid storage systems that try to take advantage of the best attributes of flash and disk.

In this session we’ll look at how flash-based SSDs work and the various ways they can be deployed. We’ll pay close attention to the workloads and use cases that each deployment model is best suited to.

Location: Jasmine B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:30 PM

During this presentation, Todd Marks will focus on how to successfully develop a business model around producing an application. He will discuss how to identify the users and determining what the best type for the app. Todd will demonstrate how to assess a return on your investment for the application, which may or may not include how to monetize the app through things such as app purchases, in-app purchases, advertising, or content delivery. Lastly, he will show how to distribute and market your app to get the most number of downloads.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:45 PM-2:30 PM

Federal, state and local government agencies are under pressure to deliver new and better public services, often on flat or declining IT budgets. Government IT teams must respond by implementing technologies and services that are more flexible and efficient and that support new, more collaborative ways of working. Cloud computing, mobility and modular development are just some of the ways that government IT pros can help their agencies become more agile in this push to do more with less. Join us to explore IT strategies for creating a more nimble IT government enterprise and brainstorm over next steps.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The increasing degree of functional overlap between tablets, notebooks, and handsets continues to drive the debate as to what constitutes an adequate complement of mobile devices in any given use case. This session will examine both technological and operational trends for each of these mobile device classifications, and discuss key end-user, management, and market drivers as well.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

With gigabit-plus wireless LANs and megabit-plus wireless WANs now in use, one might assume that the rate of evolution in the core technologies required to propel wireless (and thus mobile) technologies forward would be slowing. But one would be wrong – exciting new developments across the board promise ever-greater capability, even as core challenges in economics and carrier operations remain. This session will explore key advances in wireless and mobile technologies, including timelines and risks.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

A common question (and subject of significant debate) in enterprise Wi-Fi deployments is how to design, build, and manage optimal deployments. A key element in this challenge is understanding how to test, verify, and benchmark WLAN deployments, especially critical in the rapidly-increasing number of sites with thousands of access points. This session will look at the key technologies and best practices involved in this critical area.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

HP is transforming the networking industry with the most complete software-defined network fabric. Sears is changing the way the people shop.

According to industry analysts, 30 years of network design principles have kept virtual network infrastructure at bay. This is constraining data centers as more than 80 percent of all traffic is between servers, and up to 80 percent of end-user traffic will move to the WAN by 2014. Preventing agility is the manual box-by-box administration of networks known as human middleware.

Join Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, HP Networking to learn about data center networking innovations that simplify, scale and automate the network to enable virtualization, big data and cloud.

Joining Bethany will be Conrad Menezes, vice president, Network and Information Security, Sears Holdings Corp. Sears deployed HP data center network solutions in creating a large-scale private cloud that is increasing agility to modernize the way people shop – at the store, online and in the home.

Conrad from Sears will talk about their journey to a modern network so that its Members and customers can “Shop Your Way.”

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Workers today want choice – the ability to use their own tablet, smartphone, laptop… to access corporate applications and desktops remotely, search the Web without restriction and download data using any device. A few years ago, this was considered the exception but today, it is essential if companies want to attract the best and brightest in their industry. But how do you support this brave new world, and balance security and control of corporate assets vs. end-user demand choice and a changing workplace culture? Building and managing the right infrastructure for today and tomorrow may seem daunting and fraught with challenges so how do you know if your organization is ready? This session will explore key considerations to ponder when planning your workspace strategy for desktops, applications, cloud and BYOD.

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization has clear benefits for enterprises along with widespread adoption. But what about small-to-medium businesses? Do those benefits apply? How are the solutions the same/different for SMBs? Are the steps to virtualization and private cloud the same/different? Should SMBs do it themselves or should they look to service providers to take over? How does virtualization relate to private/ public/hybrid cloud and how should SMBs view the journey?
Attendees will gain perspective on the benefits, challenges and available solutions of virtualization and cloud, from the SMB point of view.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Digital disruption happens when people take advantage of powerful yet cheap digital tools to create new product experiences. These digital disruptors can offer more value to more customers more inexpensively than before, drawing them into a growing wave of digital-led innovation. But don’t think you can participate in this transformation by merely bolting a digital product onto your existing process. Your company can’t possibly generate that new and improved product experience without undergoing a more fundamental internal disruption that involves making everyone's job digital.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Great IT solutions are fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, optimizing the application of such technologies as virtualization, the cloud, and collaboration, just to name a few. This session will examine mobility in just that context, and attempt to answer the big question of how to design, build, and operate optimal mobile solutions that take advantage of innovations across the IT spectrum today.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

HP is transforming the networking industry with the most complete software-defined network fabric. Sears is changing the way the people shop.

According to industry analysts, 30 years of network design principles have kept virtual network infrastructure at bay. This is constraining data centers as more than 80 percent of all traffic is between servers, and up to 80 percent of end-user traffic will move to the WAN by 2014. Preventing agility is the manual box-by-box administration of networks known as human middleware.

Join Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, HP Networking to learn about data center networking innovations that simplify, scale and automate the network to enable virtualization, big data and cloud.

Joining Bethany will be Conrad Menezes, vice president, Network and Information Security, Sears Holdings Corp. Sears deployed HP data center network solutions in creating a large-scale private cloud that is increasing agility to modernize the way people shop – at the store, online and in the home.

Conrad from Sears will talk about their journey to a modern network so that its Members and customers can “Shop Your Way.”

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

In this session, several vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:55 PM

This session will involve 3 or 4 organizations that are either evaluating SDN or have deployed it. The panelists will discuss what drove them to consider SDN, what choices they make or are looking to make, what they accomplished, what they learned about SDN so far and the next steps they are planning to take.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:55 PM-2:30 PM

In this session, leading SDN vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes how they define SDN, why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 4:25 PM-4:30 PM

This session will summarize the key points of the day with the goal of identifying how SDN is likely to evolve in the next year.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new approach to networking that has the potential to fundamentally change how IT organizations implement branch office and data center LANs as well as wide area networks. The initial definition of SDN focused on the decoupling of the network control plane from the network forwarding plane and the centralization of the control functionality in a controller. The early definition of SDN also tended to focus L2 and L3 functionality. However, as is typical of emerging technologies and new approaches to networking, there is currently somewhat of a broadening of how the industry, particularly vendors, define SDN.

In addition to not having a definition of SDN that is generally agreed to, there isn’t general agreement in the industry about SDN’s value proposition. Some SDN advocates position SDN as being very strategic and claim that it will enable network operators to closely link the IT infrastructure with the organization’s business goals. Even those advocates that take a more tactical view of SDN’s value proposition can not agree if the key role of SDN is to support the dynamic movement of virtual machines or to make data networks more flexible as well as easier to operate and manage. The bottom line is that SDN has the same characteristics that cloud computing had just two or three years ago: lots of ambiguity and the potential to drive significant change in a short period of time.

This program will provide the attendees with the information they need to develop a plan to evaluate and implement SDN. The primary ways that SDN is being defined, the key enabling technologies and the initial set of use cases will be discussed. Also discussed will be the drivers and inhibitors of SDN as well as the role of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the status of interoperability testing.

Who Should Attend

Anybody involved in the planning and operations of networks. This includes both management personnel as well as individual contributors responsible for the architecture, design, vendor selection, management and operation of networks.

Key Takeaways

• Varying ways that SDN is defined
• Drivers and inhibitors of SDN
• Role of the ONF
• Key concepts and technologies that comprise OpenFlow
• Current and planned adoption of SDN
• Status of vendor implementations of OpenFlow
• Role of the SDN controller
• Pros and cons of pure SDN switches vs. hybrid SDN switches
• Management, availability and security challenges associated with SDN

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Innovation is one of those terms always championed but rarely encouraged in the corporation. In the corporation, innovation is as much about organization as it is technology. The best way to learn about successful innovation is to hear how others have overcome corporate obstacles to become innovation champions in their organization. What corporate structures are the best for encouraging innovation, how do you break down the corporate silos that inhibit growth and which technologies provide the best foundations for developing an innovative technology framework in your company.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Great IT solutions are fundamentally interdisciplinary in nature, optimizing the application of such technologies as virtualization, the cloud, and collaboration, just to name a few. This session will examine mobility in just that context, and attempt to answer the big question of how to design, build, and operate optimal mobile solutions that take advantage of innovations across the IT spectrum today.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 PM-5:45 PM

Most wireless networks are provisioned at under 5% the capacity of wired networks, making enterprise users expect less from their wireless connection. Learn how appropriate infrastructure design can provide high-performing, reliable Wi-Fi to deliver the required level of service to business-critical applications while minimizing costs and the impact of BYOD proliferation.

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

The user experience is always a top of mind issue to business leaders and application owners. Managing and monitoring the user experience of today’s Internet facing applications has become more challenging and important than ever given the different geographies, devices, and network types that are used to access them. This session will discuss some of the key concepts and leading practices associated with managing and monitoring the user experience in today including geographic monitoring, simulating mobile and high latency network access, localization concerns, and other key considerations.

Location: Jasmine F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

The Casper Suite is the leading OS X and iOS management solution, a best-of-breed tool built to simplify the life of anyone managing or using an Apple device. In this session, we’ll take a look at the eight tenets of client management including Inventory, Software Distribution, and Security Management, and show you how to easily manage your Macs and iOS devices from a single console.

Location: Jasmine F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:30 PM

The Casper Suite provides IT administrators with features and functionality to meet the challenges of supporting both OS X and iOS devices. Its powerful framework offers a unified and extensive approach to managing all of your Apple devices, allowing organizations to focus on what matters most such as end-user productivity and the user experience. In this session, we’ll take a deeper dive into the capabilities of the Casper Suite for OS X and iOS management.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

It’s one thing for hardware, software, systems, and carrier vendors to present tons of cool new things to buy, and quite another to use these effectively in enterprise and organizational settings. This session features leading IT practitioners offering their best advice on how to deal with rapid technological change, overlapping solutions, and meeting IT objectives while maximizing end-user productivity and minimizing budgetary impacts.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Cisco has redefined the role of the router to be an application delivery platform with the Cisco Integrated Services Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX). Learn why the network offers the optimal control point for application delivery, accelerating critical applications up to 70 percent, lowering bandwidth costs by more than 50 percent and simplifying IT operations.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

NCS enables network engineers to manage all of their equipment – network-wide – with a single tool. It provides fine-grained control which allows deep, detailed configuration of equipment. Further, engineers can apply complex configuration sequences across many devices as atomic change-sets. If anything fails the entire transaction can roll back safely. NCS controls multi-vendor, multi-service and multi-technology networks.

Location: Breakers D
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Seems that we’re constantly talking about the same major roadblocks to adopting cloud computing in the enterprise. Security, compliance, performance and lock-in are risks that are perennially cited. Are these issues nothing more than convenient excuses to justify avoiding more aggressive cloud adoption? Or, are they legitimate concerns for which technology and process have not yet provided adequate answers? This panel will examine each of these four topics and offer current examples of how organizations are deploying creative, workable and actionable solutions.

• Security and Compliance: Comply with privacy, data residency and system administration in private and public cloud scenarios.
• Performance: Develop architectural considerations to manage reliability and uptime. Minimize latency for applications that demand ready access to network resources.
• Vendor Management: Orchestrate and manage workloads across multiple service providers. Develop policies for resolving SLA violations before signing the contract.
• Lock-In: Avoid becoming wedded to one vendor and their proprietary hardware appliances or software.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Mobile, social and web-based applications are expanding traditional business processes, while creating new opportunities to engage with employees and customers. As a result, organizations have an opportunity to fuel innovation and competitive differentiation by embracing the changing IT landscape. But are organizations poised to take advantage of new market opportunities? Can they adapt and respond fast enough to keep pace with business demands and the competitive landscape? During this session, Matt Morgan will discuss best practices for continuous delivery of innovative applications, while also sharing his view about the future of applications as organizations embrace new technologies, practices and platforms.

Location: Breakers F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing has been demonstrated to deliver a cost-effective approach to delivering new applications that support needs for scale and availability. However, most businesses with an existing portfolio of applications are now seeking direction for how cloud computing can assist them in the areas of increased agility, improved operational management and overall increased efficiencies in IT. To achieve this goal, businesses are going to have to assess their existing portfolio assets with regard to the impact of moving to a cloud computing environment. This workshop will provide direction for businesses in analyzing their existing application portfolios for cloud appropriateness, best practices for migrating from application silos to cloud services, application re-engineering techniques and troubleshooting techniques post-migration.

Location: Breakers D
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

As mobile, social and cloud trends gain increasing traction with consumers, applications that serve these new trends are getting increasingly complex. Machine data from various components of your n-tier application architecture can provide valuable insights into not just application execution, but also insights into user behavior, experience and preferences. Join this session to learn how you can use Big Data analytics to glean rich application insights that can be used to monitor application operations as well as to gain valuable business-relevant awareness about application usage and customer experience.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

If 2012 was the year of SDN hype and excitement, 2013 is shaping up to be the time of SDN pragmatism and execution. The truth is that SDN has tremendous promise to reduce costs, accelerate service introduction and fuel innovation—but to reap these benefits we must first clearly understand the key principles of SDN, and plan a clearly mapped and non-disruptive transition path. Additionally SDN will demand business models transform to meet the increased importance of software and the coming evolution of networking.

In this keynote presentation, Bob Muglia will outline a clear and cohesive SDN vision, the 6 key principles that underscore SDN, 4 steps for a pragmatic evolution towards SDN, and 1 new business model to enable it all. This presentation will decode the SDN hype and give attendees a clear understanding of what SDN means to the Data Center and beyond.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM-4:15 PM

GE, Cisco, IBM and other major industry players estimate that the "Industrial Internet," otherwise known as the "Internet of Things," "Internet of Everything" and "Internet of Objects," could generate as much as $15 trillion in economic growth over the next 20 years. But is Silicon Valley sufficiently plugged into the technology needs of the industrial economy and its CIOs? A panel of industry players squares off.

Location: Interop Theater, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Our panel of editors and CIOs will reveal how to move from an IT staff role to the CIO seat. Do you know — really know — what your business counterparts need to succeed? Can you break out of the “keeping the lights on” mindset and focus on innovation? Do you have the intestinal fortitude to put failing projects out of their misery? We’ll discuss the path to CIO and share results of our 2013 InformationWeek Global CIO Survey.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:30 AM-11:15 AM

Innovation is often a major catalyst for success, and the Major League Baseball World Series Champion San Francisco Giants embody that notion. The Giants have won two of the past three World Series, sold out nearly every game during the past three years, and are well positioned to continue this amazing trend. But a baseball franchise is a small corporation, and every aspect of that entity has to be working in unison, innovating at every step of the way. Giants CIO Bill Schlough, InformationWeek's Chief of the Year for 2012, embraces and accelerates innovation inside the organization, working with baseball operations, ticketing, marketing and every other facet of The San Francisco Giants. Those Giants have taken huge risks, technology wise, including dynamic ticket pricing, high speed WiFi, data analytics and more. And much of the Giants' success can be traced to the organization's technology risk taking. We'll delve into these innovations, and more, and we'll talk to Bill about how the Giants build innovation into their culture.

Location: Surf E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Economic pressures have forced organizations to start architecting automated data centers, which require discrete components to become an integrated set of subsystems. Today’s network evolution demands a new architectural approach to the data center and a fabric that reduces network complexity and improves performance, scale and efficiencies while lowering operational and capital expenses.

In this joint session presented by Forrester’s Andre Kindness and David Newman from Network Tests, Andre will share recent findings from the report titled “The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware”. Forrester recommends using a systematic and prescriptive approach aligned to business requirements when evaluating vendors’ data center networking offerings. David will then follow by providing specific functional and performance testing recommendations that technical IT professionals need to consider as they develop their networking test plans. Discussion topics will include 10/40 GbE fabric performance and scaling, network latency and resiliency, and the implications on next generation data centers to deliver cloud service.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Understand the corporate cloud landscape and learn how today’s widening spectrum of endpoint device technology untethers the end user. Unravel mysteries and misconceptions by seeing how technology interconnects. This session will look at how any organization can leverage a strategic mix of end-point devices to expand the benefits of desktop virtualization.

Location: Lagoon E
Monday, May 6, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Location: Lagoon E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Conservative carriers frequently leave privilege escalation vulnerabilities unpatched for months and years on today's consumer mobile platforms, a far cry from the near-instant silent updates delivered to desktop platforms. These large windows of vulnerability allow even unsophisticated attackers to reuse off-the-shelf exploits and target users with their malicious mobile apps. This presentation explores how such privilege escalation vulnerabilities can be enumerated with a standard market-delivered application, allowing enterprises, and even end users, to assess the risk of their mobile devices. Results of a public release of a vulnerability assessment app run on over 25,000 Android devices will be presented.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

As traditional distributed network solutions become increasingly inflexible and costly to deploy and manage, many IT organizations are investigating Software-Defined Networking (SDN). In this session, learn how to simplify SDN deployment and product development through open, extensible designs for physical and virtual network environments.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:55 PM

This session will involve 3 or 4 organizations that are either evaluating SDN or have deployed it. The panelists will discuss what drove them to consider SDN, what choices they make or are looking to make, what they accomplished, what they learned about SDN so far and the next steps they are planning to take.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Innovation is one of those terms always championed but rarely encouraged in the corporation. In the corporation, innovation is as much about organization as it is technology. The best way to learn about successful innovation is to hear how others have overcome corporate obstacles to become innovation champions in their organization. What corporate structures are the best for encouraging innovation, how do you break down the corporate silos that inhibit growth and which technologies provide the best foundations for developing an innovative technology framework in your company.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Enterprises have been steadily embracing private and managed cloud environments and are increasingly finding use cases for the public cloud. We are past the point of the cloud being limited to shadow IT and startups. We are now entering the next wave of innovation and adoption which will drive the migration of production workloads to a cloud model and will require seamless interoperability across traditional IT to private, managed and public clouds.

This move will create a greater demand for cloud platforms that provide innovative, open services in a secure environment, backed by business level SLAs, and supported by quality service. Adopting a hybrid delivery model across private, managed and public clouds to ensure flexibility and scale will no longer be an option but rather a necessity.

Wendy Cartee, VP of Global Converged Cloud Marketing, will share how customers are currently taking advantage of this hybrid delivery capability and the untapped opportunities and benefits to moving production workloads to the cloud and what it will take to lead this next wave of adoption.

Location: Lagoon B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

When major network components fail it is easy to identify and resolve the problem. However, when intermittent and ongoing problems plague a network, it is often difficult to isolate the exact cause and apply the right fix. This class is focused at walking the attendees through a structure approach troubleshooting recurring problems. The topics covered in this class include:

• What to do before the problem occurs
• What not to do when troubleshooting intermittent problems
• Isolating intermittent problems
• Formulating a fix
• Validating the fix

Key Takeaways:

• Examples of how this structured approach can be supplied
• Network troubleshooting checklists
• Additional resources that will assist in implementing this approach

Location: Lagoon B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

Many applications are designed and tested in isolated, high speed, low latency environments. They are then deployed on networks with other applications, low speed links, and high latency. In this class we will examine the factors that impact application performance and what can be done to help ensure that the application being deployed is ready for your network.

The topics included:

• Getting a baseline of your existing network
• The language of application analysis
• Analyzing the new application prior to deployment
• Accessing the new application
• Testing the new application
• Measuring the application post deployment

Key Takeaways:

• Application analysis process model
• Free and Open Source tools to assist in application analysis
• Application analysis checklist
• Examples of trace files showing good and bad applications

Location: Lagoon B
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

Theory and great stories are nice, but this class is designed to help you knock out problems you currently have and help prevent problems in the future. In this class Mike will provide step by step processes for doing 11 things that will help improve the performance on your current network. The topics covered in the class include:

• Ensuring you are getting the throughput you paid for
• Eliminating unnecessary network traffic
• Ridding the network of packet loss
• Network validation techniques
• Make sure packets are taking the routes you expect

Key Takeaways:

• Documented procedures for improving network performance
• Step by step examples of how this has been successfully implemented
• Free and Open Source software required to conduct the testing

Location: Breakers F
Monday, May 6, 2013, 1:00 PM-4:30 PM

The ossified concepts of traditional VLAN-based data center networking are a poor fit to the dynamic world of server virtualization and cloud computing. The networking and virtualization vendors have responded with a plethora of incompatible solutions, ranging from overlay networking (example: VXLAN and NVGRE) to large-scale layer-2 fabrics (example: FabricPath, QFabric and VCS Fabric) and VM-aware networking (example: IEEE 802.1 Qbg). Not surprisingly, each vendor touts its particular (and usually proprietary) solution as the best one to solve your networking infrastructure challenges, forcing you to make a set of tough choices when designing or deploying the network infrastructure for a private or public cloud.

This vendor-agnostic workshop will analyze the networking needs of server virtualization and Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing and give you the critical insight into the architecture, scalability, benefits and limitations of numerous virtual networking technologies and overlay virtual networking. You’ll also learn how to build large equidistant fabrics and how to integrate firewalls and other virtual or physical appliances with the networking infrastructure and cloud orchestration systems.
The final part of the workshop will address the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow technology and describe how you can integrate them with your existing networking infrastructure.

Who Should Attend

This workshop targets network architects, designers and deployment/operations engineers who are planning, designing or building next-generation networking infrastructure to support private or public cloud services. It will also help virtualization and server engineers understand the limitations of traditional virtual networking and the options made available with the emerging virtual networking and SDN technologies.

Key Takeaways
After attending this workshop you’ll be able to:

• Select the optimal virtual networking technology for your private or public cloud deployment;
• Design an optimal network fabric;
• Integrate layer 4-7 services (firewalls, load balancers) with the virtual networking infrastructure.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Software-defined networking is a potential game changer, but how do you know which vendor to partner with? In this interactive guide, we’ll cut through the hype and discuss the top 10 questions IT must ask before cutting a check. Then, we’ll set out onto the show floor and quiz top providers based on our purchasing criteria in a “speed dating” format. Attendees will also be able to download in-depth matrixes from our companion Network Computing SDN Comparison and do a Q&A with the author.

Location: Lagoon H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Networking and virtualization vendors have launched numerous overlay virtual networking solutions in the last 18 months as a response to the rigidity and scalability failures of traditional VLAN-based data center virtual networks. Not surprisingly, each vendor touts its particular (and usually proprietary) solution as the best one to solve your networking infrastructure challenges, forcing you to make tough choices when designing or deploying the network infrastructure for a private or public cloud. This vendor-agnostic session will briefly revisit the networking needs of server virtualization and IaaS cloud computing and describe the benefits and drawbacks of overlay virtual networks as compared to traditional VLAN-based solutions (including VM-aware networking technologies like 802.1Qbg). The second half of the session will focus on architectural and scalability aspects of individual solutions from major virtualization vendors and emerging startups.

Location: Lagoon H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

The facts are unambiguous: half of the world has depleted its public IPv4 address allocation pool, with the other half facing the same fate in the next few years. You might think you don't need to consider IPv6 in the near future ... and you might be right, unless you plan to grow, expand into new geographies, or communicate with mobile Internet users. As with every major IT transition, nobody will ask for your opinion: you'll either adapt or be left behind. After answering the obvious questions like "why should you care about IPv6" and "where will I encounter it first", this session will focus on practical IPv6 deployment guidelines: how do you get ready for IPv6, where to deploy it in your network, and the hiccups you could expect on your way to the IPv6-enabled world.

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

With mobility now at the core of many if not most enterprise IT strategies, and rapid technological evolution still a complicating factor in setting key directions, it’s critical to consider a broad range of technical, management, and even financial elements before defining the next evolution of any IT deployment. This session features leading experts on mobility, and will debate the key issues in mobility over the next five years from both technological and operational perspectives.

Location: Lagoon E
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Information risk management and security is as much an art as it is a science. The adversary community has evolved their approach to integrate innovative capabilities such as social concepts and business process knowledge into their attack techniques and technologies to increase their likelihood of success. They are also becoming more protective of their knowledge and capabilities and no longer freely advertise their capabilities in the name of research or status achievement. Organizations have also evolved and matured their approach to their defenses to incorporate new capabilities into their arsenal that include improved risk and security intelligence, advanced security technologies, broader education, and enhanced business alignment. And so, the epic battle between good and evil continues with no clear winner in site.

The constant changing and evolving landscape of attacks, adversaries, regulations, and compliance requirements has forced many organizations to aggressively implement best effort capabilities to meet their immediate needs that often operate on a challenged and reactive basis. By using a risk based and business aligned approach to design, implementation, and operation comprehensive and proactive programs and their associated capabilities can be easily introduced, sustained, and matured within organizations. This workshop will explore the current state of information risk management and security and where it is evolving to in order to continue to meet the business requirements and demands that are ever present. Topics will include the development of a strategy, frameworks and capabilities associated with an information risk management program, and key areas of consideration when evaluating risk management and security programs and capabilities. This workshop will utilize interactive discussions, examples, and cross industry case studies throughout to provide examples of discussion points as well as identify and explore current and evolving industry-leading practices associated with information risk management and security.

Key Takeaways

• The concepts, methods, and practices to develop an information risk management and security strategy
• Understanding of evolving frameworks and operating concepts for information risk management and security
• Use cases, case studies, and techniques that will assist the IT security professional to communicate and work more effectively with their business leadership and stakeholders.
• Techniques to using culture to create a force multiplier to assist in information protection.
• Using Threat and Vulnerability Analysis to be proactive and work smarter not harder in information risk management and security

Module 1: Developing an Information Risk Management and Security Strategy

• Why is Strategy Important to Information Security and Risk Management?
• Current Business Conditions
• Risk Profile
• Budget Availability
• Annual vs. Rolling Three Year Plan
• Point of Arrival
• Staff Availability
• Cultural Awareness
• Operational Components Yes or No?
• Reporting Structure
• Competency Models
• Sourcing Plans
• Industry Standard Alignment
• Key Performance Indicators
• Global Considerations
• Compliance and Risk
• Consequence Management
• Oversight and Reporting
• Organizational Interactions
• Communication and Awareness
• Cultural Change – Security vs. Risk Management

Module 2: Information Security 2.0 - Transforming Information Security into Information Risk Management

• Current State of Information Security
• Evolution and Transformation from Information Technology Protection to Information Infrastructure
• Protection
• Risk Management versus Security
• Key Elements of Chief Risk Office
• Business Goal Alignment
• Baseline Functional Framework
• Threat and Vulnerability Management
• Compliance Management
• Business Risk Management
• Metrics and Measures
• Meaningful reporting: Providing the right people with the right information

Module 3: Changing the Mindset: Creating a Risk Conscious and Security Aware Culture

• Using Risk Management to Remove the Fear of Security
• Risk Management and Security vs. Security and Risk Management
• Business and Information Risk Profile
• Fighting the Hype Cycle
• Security by Compliance – Fear the Auditor more than the Attacker
• Polices and Standards First, Controls and Technology Second
• Focus on The Protection Data and Business Process Not Technology
• Data Classification
• Users – Your Greatest Asset and Most Challenging Adversary
• Trust by Verify
• Oversight Board – Removing the Perception of the Ivory Tower
• Winning the Hearts and Minds
• Embrace but Educate – Turning No into Yes
• Personal Benefits
• Effective Reinforcement Methods
• Focus on What Really Matters – Threat and Vulnerability Analysis
• Effectively Managing Risk – Control Objectives and Controls

Module 4: Key Elements of a Threat and Vulnerability Management Program

• Overview of Threat and Vulnerability Management Programs
• Asset Identification
• Threat Analysis Who, What, When, Where, and How
• OSI+ Methodology
• Intelligence Gathering and Assessment
• Vulnerability Management

Location: Lagoon E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Information risk has become a top-of-mind issue for many business leaders and information risk management security (IRMS) professionals. These two groups have historically had challenges interacting with each other due to a natural resistance driven by a misunderstanding of each other’s activities and motives. For example, business leaders recognize and embrace the need to take risks and often incent their constituents to take them as well in order to achieve business goals. Conversely, IRMS professionals are charged with minimizing risk and ensuring their organization’s information infrastructure and associated data assets are properly protected. The best way for both of these parties to reduce friction and meet their individual requirements is to mutually develop and maintain an information risk profile that they both can use to guide their respective activities.

This session will focus on the key elements and their development that should be considered when creating an information risk profile. Approaches, considerations, techniques, and case studies of organizations that have are in process of or have successfully created and used information risk profiles will be presented throughout the session as well as discussions of current industry leading concepts and practices.

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becoming more challenging. The solutions used to protect organizations against these threats and mitigate the risks they create are also changing and evolving. This panel discussion will look at the emerging trends in information risk management security from both a business and technological perspective.

Location: Lagoon H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has revolutionized the networking industry through its capability to facilitate direct, real-time programming of network functionality. It is considered one of the most promising and disruptive technologies that enables customization, optimization, and improved operations. Since 2011, the Open Networking Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance the commercialization and use of SDN and OpenFlow, has spearheaded the movement and seen its membership grow from approximately 20 to more than 80 companies. Within the Foundation, there has been technical progress of SDN and the OpenFlow Protocol, including the release of updated versions of the standard, prototype demonstrations, interoperability experiments, and product announcements, as well as newly chartered technical initiatives and working groups to accelerate deployment of the protocol. With ONF evolving from a stable OpenFlow base, the organization is increasing its attention to a number of other important aspects of SDN that bring real value to users. Among these are advances at the switching and transmission layers, means of introducing OpenFlow to existing networks, and the hugely valuable software constructs above OpenFlow. In this session, ONF will describe where this movement is headed in 2013 as ONF reinforces its commitment to bringing the benefits of SDN to network users and operators worldwide.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Join key video equipment manufacturers and competitors as they engage in a panel discussion regarding the evolution of hosted B2B video and UC services over the next 3-5 years. The panel will discuss and debate the options and limitations of current solutions and how each are working harmoniously to help address the barriers preventing ubiquitous video and UC video dial-tone. Although fierce competitors in the marketplace, these vendors will address what it takes to change an industry and how we can visually communicate in a global economy.

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Mobility has shattered the traditional “office phone” infrastructure and modern demands require a transparent connection to corporate unified communications systems. How do major vendors stack up in the critical areas of Capabilities, Usability, Cost, Performance and Vision? Who should you partner with as the industry seems to change daily?

Topics Discussed:

• Differentiating capabilities. What is attractive about each of the offerings?
• Usability. Is each product intuitive to use? Is the design on par with what Apple is renowned for?
• Cost. Up-front and ongoing? Why invest the capital vs. hosted solution with monthly charge?
• Performance. Reliability - WIFI vs. Cell data coverage? What’s needed in the backend network?
• Vision. Future of UC mobile solutions? How will we “wow” workers down the road?
  

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

This is an overview of the different 10GbE module form factors (SFP+, XFP, X2, XENPAK), and optical standards (10GBASE-SR, LR, ER, etc) with the common applications/shortcomings of each.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

What is innovation exactly--how do companies define it? And what is the CIO's specific role in seeking and vetting ideas and organizing, cultivating and funding innovation? Is innovation a repeatable process or more of an ad hoc outcome? Which technical and other skill sets are needed? Who are the key stakeholders within the C-suite and elsewhere? How are CIOs tapping external partners and vendors? Must the CIO become a de facto chief innovation officer? Our panel of senior business technology executives, all of them at the center of their companies' innovation programs, discusses what works and what doesn't based on their experiences.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:15 PM

As one veteran executive recently put it, elite IT teams handed innovation responsibilities are "loathed by the people who actually run the company" if they're not connected to real-world challenges. As such, innovation isn't for a high-and-mighty committee. It takes collaboration among people across the company – IT, marketing, sales, HR and other key stakeholders. In this session, executive leaders will discuss how deep collaboration led to specific innovations at their companies.

Location: Interop Theater, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Our panel of editors and CIOs will reveal how to move from an IT staff role to the CIO seat. Do you know — really know — what your business counterparts need to succeed? Can you break out of the “keeping the lights on” mindset and focus on innovation? Do you have the intestinal fortitude to put failing projects out of their misery? We’ll discuss the path to CIO and share results of our 2013 InformationWeek Global CIO Survey.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:45 AM-9:45 AM

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Business interoperability goes under the name of several big trends: the API economy, the cloud-driven enterprise and software as a service. The ability to design and deploy applications created from outside sources meshed with inside capabilities will redefine the concept of applications. While the application may get the headlines, it is the infrastructure underlying those applications which will define success. Disaster recovery, privacy, security, compliance and infrastructures that mix virtualized internal resources with cloud-based infrastructures represents a new model for the IT manager. Interoperability is quickly moving up the infrastructure stack and IT managers need to understand how that model will change their underlying technology architecture.

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Within five years the primary way your company's employees and execs, your customers and your suppliers will interact with your firm will be via smartphones. Those smartphones will be purchased outside of your budget, will run on networks you don't control and will contain both corporate and consumer applications. You will be responsible for creating the network that will deliver your company's information securely, creating an applications model that meshes inside and outside resources in a modern user interface and is always available 7x24. Thinking mobile first is the biggest IT infrastructure change since the Internet and you won't get a second chance for success. How to evaluate the devices, the network infrastructure and the new application models for your company will be a major IT priority.

Location: Lagoon E
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

This talk gives the findings of the first-ever global insider threat study that catalogs common practices used by leading organizations across numerous verticals and geographies. We detail how leading organizations combine executive, HR, legal and technical strategies to hinder rogue and compromised insiders. Insider threats are a major threat to business today--taking IP and data. In a recent survey, 70% of employees plan to take sensitive business data with them when they leave their job. Nearly 50% of employees feel they have rights to corporate data and IP. Pinpointing the source and scope of data theft is often hard to quantify, especially since the largest internal threat may actually be one of your most loyal employees. Our talk presents the findings of the first-ever global insider threat study that catalogs common practices used by leading organizations across numerous verticals and geographies. We detail how leading organizations combine executive, HR, legal and technical strategies to hinder rogue and compromised insiders.

This presentation will:

• Define the insider threat
• Quantify the prevalence of the problem
• Uncover controls that have proven most effective at minimizing the risk of insider threats.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

Location: Lagoon K
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve the effectiveness of your IT organization and ensure alignment with the business you support. We will focus on critical policy areas and the translation of those policies into standard operating procedure through the development and implementation of core ITIL processes. 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, determine the best sourcing options by category of work effort, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Most importantly, over the 15 years this course has been offered at Interop, we have learned how to engage you and your fellow classmates to help each other through sharing what is working and why.

Agenda

Day 1

• How to develop a new framework for the business of IT
• How to formalize policies and processes and put them into practice
• How to map the organization to meet the demands of global, 24x7 business
• How to define projects and ensure end user satisfaction and IT recognition

Day 2

• How to manage end user and management expectations
• How to engage stakeholders as accountable parties in critical decisions
• How to build executive management commitment
• How to manage critical vendor relationships
• How to make it all happen through consideration of multiple sourcing options

Who Should Attend

Directors and managers of IT organizations or units, IT and IS professionals, and anyone who needs to realign IT with the business

Key Takeaway

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

Location: Lagoon K
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This two day tutorial focuses on specific steps you can take to improve the effectiveness of your IT organization and ensure alignment with the business you support. We will focus on critical policy areas and the translation of those policies into standard operating procedure through the development and implementation of core ITIL processes. 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, determine the best sourcing options by category of work effort, and still offer a balanced and fulfilling career progression to IT professional staff, we have answers for you. Most importantly, over the 15 years this course has been offered at Interop, we have learned how to engage you and your fellow classmates to help each other through sharing what is working and why.

Agenda

Day 1

• How to develop a new framework for the business of IT
• How to formalize policies and processes and put them into practice
• How to map the organization to meet the demands of global, 24x7 business
• How to define projects and ensure end user satisfaction and IT recognition

Day 2

• How to manage end user and management expectations
• How to engage stakeholders as accountable parties in critical decisions
• How to build executive management commitment
• How to manage critical vendor relationships
• How to make it all happen through consideration of multiple sourcing options

Who Should Attend

Directors and managers of IT organizations or units, IT and IS professionals, and anyone who needs to realign IT with the business

Key Takeaway

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

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:55 PM-2:30 PM

In this session, leading SDN vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes how they define SDN, why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Faced with rapidly changing technologies and continuing pressures to deliver IT services in tune with business demands, IT leaders need to find the right people with the right skillset for open positions. According to the joint research from HDI and Robert Half Technology, the war for talent continues to be a challenge. This session assembles a panel of senior IT service leaders and staffing experts to discuss how they are surviving, even winning the war for talent. Moderated by Cinda Daly, the panelists will touch on the key findings of the research, share real-world advice, and discuss solutions on how to conquer these issues.

Issues we will cover include:
• How organizations are handling vacant positions
• What skills organizations value
• How to reduce turnover rates
• Where organizations find new recruits
• How to build an appealing corporate culture
• Employee pain points that lead to turnover and how to address them
• Which benefits and perks are the most important to employees

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

The prevailing IT philosophy has been "Network Video for Surveillance? Not On My Backbone!" But that attitude is changing. Why compete with physical security for already stretched resources? Join us to learn about current best practices and trends in providing the backbone to support physical security in today's economic and technology environment.

Location: Lagoon K
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

We are now in the era of software-defined everything: servers, networks, storage, etc. How about a really radical idea -virtualized security? Software-defined security presents us with an opportunity to improve our data center security while simultaneously helping security operations better support the priorities of the entire business. In fact, software-defined security will be the only effective way to do security in 5 years. What is it, why should I care, and how does it work? Learn more here.

Location: Lagoon H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization rules the cloud. No longer do we discuss servers, CPUs, and disks, but instead instances, v-cores, and ephemeral volumes. Software abstractions have already replaced hardware appliances everywhere except the network, so now it’s time to get serious about virtualizing that final frontier. The cloud transforms large and dynamically-extensible collections of relatively homogenous compute engines into sophisticated on-demand data processing systems. It’s natural to extend this thinking, and replace traditional network hardware devices with sophisticated traffic-processing software. In addition, it becomes easier to create a meta-control plane that allows for easier dynamic provisioning and coordination of those software entities. Crucially, it’s important to deliver traffic-processing capabilities that can be integrated into the DevOps paradigm, since that’s an increasingly important style of delivering applications.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 4:30 PM-4:45 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Whether you're just starting your cloud journey or enhancing your existing cloud landscape, the odds are that a private cloud will figure heavily into your planning. Unfortunately, most enterprises will take a slipshod approach to a private cloud development, often slapping a simple web-based front-end on a well-worn virtualization environment and calling that a private cloud. The result is often an environment that over-promises and under-delivers, causing business users to seek other alternatives. To succeed where others have failed, you'll need to create a top-notch strategy.

This day-long workshop will utilize an in-depth approach to help you craft a better execution plan. No, you won't be able to sleep through this session, catching up on month-old email traffic. Instead, be prepared to get some digital-dirt under your fingernails! You'll interact with a field of industry experts covering all facets of private cloud strategy and implementation. At the end of the day, you'll leave with an action plan and a variety of tools and resources you can use to help your private cloud implementation succeed once you get back home.

Throughout the day, we'll examine private clouds from multiple angles:

• What? It's important to start with the end in mind. What are the characteristics of a good private cloud implementation?
• Why? Think about the goals you're trying to achieve. Why are you doing this?
• When? Your organization might not be ready to build and run your own cloud. When should you start this project?
• Who? While most organizations approach private clouds as a DIY-project, you can hire a team of experts to help you. Given your skill set and resources, who should be building your private cloud?
• Where? Organizations often build private clouds in private data centers by default, but that may not be the best choice. Where should you build your private cloud?
• How? There are a variety of tools and techniques for building a private cloud. How can you utilize the right components and deliver a success project?

Who Should Attend
This workshop is for practitioners and managers who need to create a successful private cloud strategy.

Key Takeaways

• At the end of this session, you will leave with your own private cloud action plan and a variety of tools and resources that you can use to help you succeed once you return home.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-8:40 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:40 AM-9:00 AM

Location: Lagoon K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Traditionally, business continuity and disaster recovery have been among the biggest challenges for IT, and the ability to maintain application uptime and provide rapid recovery from disasters has never been more important. And in fact, virtualization increases the vulnerability and risks from server outages by consolidating many workloads on individual servers. At the same time, virtualization has brought tremendous benefits in the area of BCDR and opened up new opportunities for IT to maximize application uptime at lower cost. Both virtual and physical servers can greatly benefit from virtualized disaster recovery, bringing RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) and RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) down from hours or days to minutes. This session will discuss ways to leverage virtualization and cloud technologies for backup and disaster recovery for all servers, including how virtualization improves BCDR, how established technologies like replication and backup are evolving and where they fit, and how all of these technologies can be used to protect both virtual and physical servers.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM-4:15 PM

GE, Cisco, IBM and other major industry players estimate that the "Industrial Internet," otherwise known as the "Internet of Things," "Internet of Everything" and "Internet of Objects," could generate as much as $15 trillion in economic growth over the next 20 years. But is Silicon Valley sufficiently plugged into the technology needs of the industrial economy and its CIOs? A panel of industry players squares off.

Location: Lagoon K
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand a POC rollout of VDI must know to get VDI off on the right foot and avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize the project. This includes runaway costs—how to avoid adding CAPEX and OPEX; deadly IOPS—how to measure current input outputs/second per user and per application; why storage sizing is so important; evaluating persistent verses non-persistent desktops; best practices for user-authored data stores; and ensuring a quality user environment.
What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending your session?
Everyone knows that, while VDI holds tremendous promise, the costs and complexities can—and have—caused many organizations to put VDI projects on hold. Attendees will return to their companies as heroes who put VDI on the right track, certain of what they must assess and put in place to facilitate a strong ROI.

Location: Breakers D
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

As mobile, social and cloud trends gain increasing traction with consumers, applications that serve these new trends are getting increasingly complex. Machine data from various components of your n-tier application architecture can provide valuable insights into not just application execution, but also insights into user behavior, experience and preferences. Join this session to learn how you can use Big Data analytics to glean rich application insights that can be used to monitor application operations as well as to gain valuable business-relevant awareness about application usage and customer experience.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

The implementation or migration to IPv6 can be daunting. Our team aims to de-mystify the process utilising methodologies that have been applied in the InteropNet.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The phrase “Time is money” aptly describes the importance application performance for online brokerage services. That’s why the team responsible for IT operations at a Seattle-based Online Brokerage service embarked on a three-year journey to improve end-user experience. By instituting new rigorous processes for identifying and resolving issues and implementing a complementary combination of technology solutions, the IT operations team improved their performance rankings for user experience to be among the top three in the industry. Attend this session to learn why a combination of people, processes, and technology is required to ensure world-class online services.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

This session is designed to introduce the Cisco Collaboration portfolio and address how to enable video collaboration with software, cloud, and hardware solutions.

Regardless of your familiarity with Cisco Collaboration, the session will highlight the latest enhancements to provide a new collaborative workspace that delivers the best experience on your device of choice and is:

• More mobile, social, visual, and virtual
• Secure
• Interoperable
• Scalable

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The use of packet-based monitoring for IT operations and security is on the rise, and increasingly these tools are deployed behind network monitoring switches (a.k.a network packet brokers). But there are a number of choices among switch technologies, and ample confusion regarding which is best and for what purposes. Should you seek fixed appliances, or chassis-based solutions? Are these tactical elements, or strategic fabric components within management architectures? What levels of automation are available? What levels of integration are necessary? In this debate-style panel, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will lead a lively discussion among senior network monitoring switch technologists to look at the pros, cons, and major decisions points for selecting monitoring fabrics.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

The past few years have seen dramatic changes in the wireless wide-area landscape – the deployment of LTE, metered data plans, and increasing discussion of Wi-Fi offload. Understanding technology and market trends here is critical to the success of enterprise mobility, and this session will explore both trends in technology and how to take best advantage of these in enterprise operations.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

IT pros are under the gun to accomplish more in less time with better accuracy - that is the nature of business today. Yet, with IT budgets not growing dramatically, what can IT organizations do to ensure they are managing what they have while also being able to evaluate and deploy new technologies in a timely manner. Since most companies are technology dependent and users have more of a say as to what technologies they use, we will discuss best practices required to become a Real-Time IT organization and keep up with the multitude of demands.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

IT pros are under the gun to accomplish more in less time with better accuracy - that is the nature of business today. Yet, with IT budgets not growing dramatically, what can IT organizations do to ensure they are managing what they have while also being able to evaluate and deploy new technologies in a timely manner. Since most companies are technology dependent and users have more of a say as to what technologies they use, we will discuss best practices required to become a Real-Time IT organization and keep up with the multitude of demands.

Location: Lagoon B
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The increasing degree of functional overlap between tablets, notebooks, and handsets continues to drive the debate as to what constitutes an adequate complement of mobile devices in any given use case. This session will examine both technological and operational trends for each of these mobile device classifications, and discuss key end-user, management, and market drivers as well.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:30 AM-11:15 AM

Innovation is often a major catalyst for success, and the Major League Baseball World Series Champion San Francisco Giants embody that notion. The Giants have won two of the past three World Series, sold out nearly every game during the past three years, and are well positioned to continue this amazing trend. But a baseball franchise is a small corporation, and every aspect of that entity has to be working in unison, innovating at every step of the way. Giants CIO Bill Schlough, InformationWeek's Chief of the Year for 2012, embraces and accelerates innovation inside the organization, working with baseball operations, ticketing, marketing and every other facet of The San Francisco Giants. Those Giants have taken huge risks, technology wise, including dynamic ticket pricing, high speed WiFi, data analytics and more. And much of the Giants' success can be traced to the organization's technology risk taking. We'll delve into these innovations, and more, and we'll talk to Bill about how the Giants build innovation into their culture.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Location: Breakers F
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The availability of applications and services is crucial to businesses of all kinds, but the hardware and software infrastructures that underpin these services are more vulnerable than ever. Whether it’s system failures or natural disasters that take out key resources or disruptive service failures due to a lack of visibility, it is critical to spot signs of trouble before applications fail and affect user experience. This session will offer practical advice for data center and network pros on how to ensure that the applications and services that run the business are alive and well at all times through solutions like robust network monitoring fabrics and optimal data center design.

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Can Clouds Make a Business Better?

Cloud Computing has been touted as a magical cure-all for enterprise agility. Deploy clouds, the story goes, and you'll make the company faster, more responsive, and more efficient. But clouds are only part of a bigger change that includes continuous deployment, lean product management, customer development, analytics, and more.

Join John Considine, Steven Shalita, Eli Almog, and Alistair Croll for a no-holds-barred panel that looks at what else companies need to capitalize on on-demand infrastructure, and what the obstacles—and opportunities—for re-engineering the business look like.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:15 PM-5:00 PM

Sears may be a 120-year-old company, but it's embracing the latest technology with its strategy for using Hadoop and related big data analytics. CTO Phil Shelley will discuss how the retailer is using big data to improve its marketing and customer understanding, as well as to lower the cost of storing and managing growing quantities of diverse data.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

Organizations are embracing BYOD as a business opportunity. However, if IT wants to have a seat at the table and affect business planning, it needs a strong and agile IT platform that becomes a business differentiator. Learn how the Cisco Unified Access Solution provides IT with a platform to capture this BYOD business opportunity. This session will also focus on some of the real-world customer deployments of BYOD and Cisco Unified Access solutions.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Lagoon E
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Information risk management and security is an ever changing and evolving concept and challenge. The threats that are posed to organizations and the risks they create are constantly changing and becoming more challenging. The solutions used to protect organizations against these threats and mitigate the risks they create are also changing and evolving. This panel discussion will look at the emerging trends in information risk management security from both a business and technological perspective.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:30 PM-4:15 PM

GE, Cisco, IBM and other major industry players estimate that the "Industrial Internet," otherwise known as the "Internet of Things," "Internet of Everything" and "Internet of Objects," could generate as much as $15 trillion in economic growth over the next 20 years. But is Silicon Valley sufficiently plugged into the technology needs of the industrial economy and its CIOs? A panel of industry players squares off.

Location: Breakers L
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Everyone expects video traffic to continue to grow within the enterprise, but for those running the communications network, this trend is potentially dangerous: Especially in the case of ad hoc video usage like Skype and YouTube, end user video usage is not being centrally rolled out, managed, and controlled. But even when video is a part of a controlled rollout—say, of a Unified Communications portal like Microsoft Lync—you may not have a clear sense of how much video will actually be used. So do you overprovision the network, possibly devoting more resources than are needed? Or do you risk a situation where video traffic swamps the network and hinders the performance of mission-critical applications? In this session, we’ll offer suggestions to help you walk the fine line of provisioning for video in a world where video’s future is still in flux.

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Mobility has shattered the traditional “office phone” infrastructure and modern demands require a transparent connection to corporate unified communications systems. How do major vendors stack up in the critical areas of Capabilities, Usability, Cost, Performance and Vision? Who should you partner with as the industry seems to change daily?

Topics Discussed:

• Differentiating capabilities. What is attractive about each of the offerings?
• Usability. Is each product intuitive to use? Is the design on par with what Apple is renowned for?
• Cost. Up-front and ongoing? Why invest the capital vs. hosted solution with monthly charge?
• Performance. Reliability - WIFI vs. Cell data coverage? What’s needed in the backend network?
• Vision. Future of UC mobile solutions? How will we “wow” workers down the road?
  

Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AM

We are entering an era of the Internet of Everything (IoE), where networks will gain unprecedented context awareness--with more processing power to connect people, process, data and things like never before. This will create dramatically new opportunities for businesses – by connecting the unconnected and better connecting the connected.

Is your enterprise network ready to take you where you want to go? Will it support the business applications that you are being asked to support?

This will be an Interop keynote you will never forget. Rob Soderbery, SVP/GM of Cisco Enterprise Networking, will be joined onstage by a NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving to show how the next-generation network architecture can optimize the performance of both the network and the things connected to it. Learn how a programmable, open, and application-aware network can unleash the power of IoE and get you where you want to go.

Location: Lagoon B
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The growth of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has rapidly ushered in a new world for IT managers, and particularly for cybersecurity professionals. While the economics of such a move (particularly surrounding support considerations) are still be hotly debated, there is no question that BYOD can pose significant security and privacy risks that must be addressed. This session will highlight these challenges and discuss potential solutions, including privacy rights, legal exposure, and operational strategies.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Understand the corporate cloud landscape and learn how today’s widening spectrum of endpoint device technology untethers the end user. Unravel mysteries and misconceptions by seeing how technology interconnects. This session will look at how any organization can leverage a strategic mix of end-point devices to expand the benefits of desktop virtualization.

Location: Breakers L
Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

As with all other aspects of IT, collaboration and communications is moving to the cloud. But the combination of installed equipment base, policy/security concerns, and cloud’s uncertain ROI/TCO adds nuance to the decision. Most enterprises won’t simply outsource all their communications and collaboration to the cloud, but many will deploy hybrid cloud architectures, and many vendors and service providers are starting to promote hybrid cloud as the most cost-effective first step. In this session, analysts, vendors and service providers will discuss what your hybrid cloud deployment could look like for communications. You’ll come away with various models for architecting a hybrid communications cloud, and with a clear idea of the costs and benefits of the different approaches.

Location: Lagoon H
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Networking is seeing tremendous upheaval. Whether it's dislocation with the intrusion of hypervisor-based virtual networks or consolidation with storage convergence, networks are being grabbed and shoved in different directions. Could this really be the time to build better network management controls? This panel will slice and dice the idea that chaotic moments in the network are the times when it's most important to put more sophisticated management in place. Can more control help you be the change? We'll see.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

IT leaders are considering how to evolve from focusing on “keeping the lights on” to delivering IT as a service. The rewards include bringing unprecedented levels of agility, flexibility and user productivity to their organizations. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and delivers real value to the enterprise.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Innovation is one of those terms always championed but rarely encouraged in the corporation. In the corporation, innovation is as much about organization as it is technology. The best way to learn about successful innovation is to hear how others have overcome corporate obstacles to become innovation champions in their organization. What corporate structures are the best for encouraging innovation, how do you break down the corporate silos that inhibit growth and which technologies provide the best foundations for developing an innovative technology framework in your company.

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Users today want the ability to connect personal devices to corporate resources, but how does IT fulfill that demand safely and securely? Learn how to provide your employees with anytime, anywhere access from any device with a browser and an internet connection, all at an affordable cost.

Location: Breakers D
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Many enterprises are choosing to start their cloud journey by investing in the construction of a private cloud. By doing so, they can leverage existing investments in virtualization technology and mitigate security risks until they gain more experience. But many enterprises are making mistakes that are going to result in the failure of these private cloud projects, setting the journey back months or even years. Fortunately, these mistakes are perfectly avoidable. This session will discuss these mistakes and actions that can be taken by enterprises to avoid cloud project failures.

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Mobility has shattered the traditional “office phone” infrastructure and modern demands require a transparent connection to corporate unified communications systems. How do major vendors stack up in the critical areas of Capabilities, Usability, Cost, Performance and Vision? Who should you partner with as the industry seems to change daily?

Topics Discussed:

• Differentiating capabilities. What is attractive about each of the offerings?
• Usability. Is each product intuitive to use? Is the design on par with what Apple is renowned for?
• Cost. Up-front and ongoing? Why invest the capital vs. hosted solution with monthly charge?
• Performance. Reliability - WIFI vs. Cell data coverage? What’s needed in the backend network?
• Vision. Future of UC mobile solutions? How will we “wow” workers down the road?
  

Location: Mandalay Bay J
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

That’s the question, isn't it? With the rise of BYOD, everyone’s bringing their own tech into the office… and expecting you to support it. In this session, we'll talk stats and strategies: how many companies are adopting BYOD? What management tools are they using? Plus, hear real-world experiences direct from IT pros tackling this challenge head-on.

Location: Lagoon H
Friday, May 10, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

The time is now to consider photonic circuit switching technology in data center networks. Adding photonic circuit switching as an access layer between IP core routers and top-of-rack switches can dramatically improve application performance through reduced latency, and better accommodate large, high-persistence data flows. Photonic circuit switches based on advanced 3D MEMS photonics use tiny mirrors to switch up to 320 light signals, providing the port density needed to build flat data center networks. In a hybrid circuit/packet switched network design, bursty traffic goes through the packet-switched network and more persistent flows are directed to the circuit-switched network. The result is an improvement in latency and virtually unlimited network bandwidth for persistent flows. This is thanks to the reconfiguration of circuit switch data paths to provide connectivity and capacity to match traffic flows. This network can also be controlled through the use of software-defined network (SDN) controllers that reside outside of the network elements to provide better global control and management of the network.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:30 PM

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Big Data has a lot of attention right now and not surprisingly its fair share of hype. Wouldn’t it be great to hear from and interact with a wide array of professionals who live in the Big data world every day?

We put this workshop together knowing that cutting through the hype involves starting with healthy skepticism. From there, we’ll look at the Big Data ecosystem and understand just how many systems and people are affected by the challenge.

Getting to the details will look at how software and hardware need to be carefully considered before starting any implementation. We’ll finish the workshop by looking at specific, popular use cases that will allow attendees to go home with a solid understanding of what can be applied to their own enterprise.

Who Should Attend:

Developers, architects and business owners of Big Data challenges who need to see through the hype and understand what the real choices are.

Key Takeaways:

•Healthy and practical skepticism for the promises of Big Data
•A broad understanding of the real ecosystem that makes Big Data work
•Tangible ways to sort out Big Data requirements in the enterprise environment
•Practical knowledge of how to integrate Big Data and business
•Insights on the hardware infrastructure necessary for Big Data
•A run down of the most requested use cases for Big Data

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-8:45 AM

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM

What is innovation exactly--how do companies define it? And what is the CIO's specific role in seeking and vetting ideas and organizing, cultivating and funding innovation? Is innovation a repeatable process or more of an ad hoc outcome? Which technical and other skill sets are needed? Who are the key stakeholders within the C-suite and elsewhere? How are CIOs tapping external partners and vendors? Must the CIO become a de facto chief innovation officer? Our panel of senior business technology executives, all of them at the center of their companies' innovation programs, discusses what works and what doesn't based on their experiences.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:15 PM-3:00 PM

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

CyrusOne has announced plans to build a 1 MM sf data center in Phoenix. Facebook has open sourced the design of its 1.07 PUE data center. It's clear that scale is forcing a revolution in computing infrastructures. This session will present three experts on operating data centers at scale.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

An overview of Omnipeek in the InteropNet using appliance-based protocol analysis.

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Troubleshooting network problems can be a manual firefighting exercise for many organizations because existing solutions don’t provide enough breadth or depth of information to be able to solve problems. PathSolutions is designed to monitor every link, switch, and router in the network and collect more error counter information (18 counters) than any other product. The information is collected every 5 minutes on your network. This means that you can finally solve problems that “aren’t happening right now, but were happening 2 hours ago”

Location: Lagoon B
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

It really is all about the apps in mobility today – along with mobile operating systems, Web technologies, development tools and techniques, information management, and much more. This session will present an overview of today’s app development landscape, considering local operating environments, development best practices, and the debate over cloud-based apps vs. local apps.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Breakers L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Mobility has shattered the traditional “office phone” infrastructure and modern demands require a transparent connection to corporate unified communications systems. How do major vendors stack up in the critical areas of Capabilities, Usability, Cost, Performance and Vision? Who should you partner with as the industry seems to change daily?

Topics Discussed:

• Differentiating capabilities. What is attractive about each of the offerings?
• Usability. Is each product intuitive to use? Is the design on par with what Apple is renowned for?
• Cost. Up-front and ongoing? Why invest the capital vs. hosted solution with monthly charge?
• Performance. Reliability - WIFI vs. Cell data coverage? What’s needed in the backend network?
• Vision. Future of UC mobile solutions? How will we “wow” workers down the road?
  

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Several trends are emerging in the video space that could change how you purchase, deploy, and use the next generations of video technology. This session will help you understand some of the key changes that are disrupting video communications including:

• Cloud-based video infrastructure and services
• Video vendors’ migration from hardware to software models
• The continued growth of consumer-grade video applications like Skype
• The emergence of WebRTC for native video capabilities within Web browsers

In this session, video experts will explain the state of the art in each of these areas of potential disruption, and will help you understand how these changes will affect your enterprise infrastructure and end users. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to take advantage of cost efficiencies from new developments in video, while still protecting your existing investments in equipment and expertise.

Location: Breakers F
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM

The mobile landscape grows fragmented on a daily basis, so integrating in a complex enterprise environment might seem nearly impossible and leads to many questions: Should my app experience overlap my web experience? Should I create a mobile web site, native web application, or a hybrid approach? Should I develop a mobile app for phones, tablets, or both? What platforms should I target? Who can help us develop our idea? What processes should we follow internally? These questions can seem almost paralyzing to a key enterprise decision maker.

In this session, we'll examine case studies of successful enterprise mobile applications, and examine key points that led to the success of each. We will also look at the important of user experience within enterprise mobile applications and how to successfully leverage vendors in your design and development processes for your enterprise applications. We will tackle the great platform debate and cover the different technical approaches to building a mobile app and see the pros and cons of integrating with existing web experiences. In addition, we'll examine how to start your mobile initiative in an iterative process that encourages user feedback and incorporates user research.

Who Should Attend

Anyone involved in mobile experience discussions within the enterprise including: IT Managers, Marketing Managers, Developers, Designers, and Digital Strategists.

Key Takeaways

• Examining the importance of User Experience (UX) within enterprise mobile applications
• Understanding the role of both phones and tablets in enterprise mobility
• Working with outside vendors for mobile initiatives
• Planning an enterprise application within a consistent enterprise digital strategy
• Empowering users to give valuable feedback in an iterative development process

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-11:30 AM

Location: Breakers L
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Several trends are emerging in the video space that could change how you purchase, deploy, and use the next generations of video technology. This session will help you understand some of the key changes that are disrupting video communications including:

• Cloud-based video infrastructure and services
• Video vendors’ migration from hardware to software models
• The continued growth of consumer-grade video applications like Skype
• The emergence of WebRTC for native video capabilities within Web browsers

In this session, video experts will explain the state of the art in each of these areas of potential disruption, and will help you understand how these changes will affect your enterprise infrastructure and end users. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to take advantage of cost efficiencies from new developments in video, while still protecting your existing investments in equipment and expertise.

Location: Lagoon E
Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

This session will cover the practical considerations that security managers or practitioners should be aware of regarding the current state of E-discovery law, from both pre-litigation policy and post-litigation points of view, including those potentially problematic areas where best practices are still developing, such as the impact of BYOD on e-discovery and data security and the use of automated decision-making tools, such as predictive coding. This session will also provide a framework to manage the expense of the process through the development of the specific facts needed by outside counsel to make limiting arguments. Such arguments include proportionality (balancing the burden of e-discovery against its value in a particular case); proving the validity of your efforts through sampling; quantifying burden; identifying and raising the inaccessibility of repositories; and issues relating to cross border e-discovery.

Location: Mandalay Bay K
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

With the massive transformation of data center infrastructure over the next decade, cloud service providers and enterprises need a flexible and elastic application delivery platform that will enable them to deploy and manage their ADC services on demand. This session will outline how any organization can now automatically provision, deploy, and deliver application services and resources anywhere in their network, data center, or end-user premises.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:55 PM-2:30 PM

In this session, leading SDN vendors will answer questions about their perspective of SDN. This includes how they define SDN, why they think SDN is important, what they see as the primary benefits of SDN, what they see as the technical and organizational impediments to broad adoption and what they see as the short-term future of SDN.

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

CyrusOne has announced plans to build a 1 MM sf data center in Phoenix. Facebook has open sourced the design of its 1.07 PUE data center. It's clear that scale is forcing a revolution in computing infrastructures. This session will present three experts on operating data centers at scale.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Join key video equipment manufacturers and competitors as they engage in a panel discussion regarding the evolution of hosted B2B video and UC services over the next 3-5 years. The panel will discuss and debate the options and limitations of current solutions and how each are working harmoniously to help address the barriers preventing ubiquitous video and UC video dial-tone. Although fierce competitors in the marketplace, these vendors will address what it takes to change an industry and how we can visually communicate in a global economy.

Location: Lagoon H
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:00 PM-1:55 PM

This session will involve 3 or 4 organizations that are either evaluating SDN or have deployed it. The panelists will discuss what drove them to consider SDN, what choices they make or are looking to make, what they accomplished, what they learned about SDN so far and the next steps they are planning to take.

Location: Mandalay Bay D
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:00 AM-9:45 AM

Location: Jasmine B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

How do you get started with iOS Development? This class covers a basic introduction to the Objective-C programming, standard iOS frameworks, Xcode (iOS development environment), and the app store approval process. An ideal attendee is either a designer that needs to talk to developers on a daily basis, or a developer that understands concepts of object-oriented programming, but has never explored creating iOS apps.

Location: Jasmine B
Monday, May 6, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Let's face it: mobile application design is not the same thing as desktop application design. In the last five years, mobile development has exploded. But there are a lot of unknowns for new developers. Android vs iOS? Location? Privacy? Best practices? This session explores the top 10 reasons and technologies for working in an app centric world and how to follow best practices for both.

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Location: Breakers L
Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 9:45 AM-10:30 AM

Location: Breakers F
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Data centers are undergoing a sea of change in the way they operate, creating a world where the number of devices to be managed grows exponentially while resources remain stagnant. Ethernet Fabrics are key in this evolution. In this session, learn how foundational technologies utilized in fabrics are changing how networks are built, perform and managed.

This session will cover:

• How legacy Active-Passive Data Centers utilizing legacy protocols are wasting network and human resources
• A review of the pros and cons of TRILL, SPB, and MLAG protocols and the efficiencies and stability these technologies deliver to Data Centers
• The impact of creating an Active-Active Data Center and how multi-layer, multi-pathing network technology drives maximum network bandwidth utilization and fault-tolerance both within and across data centers
• Wipro, a system integrator, describes how these technologies are being deployed today and the business value they are delivering to their customers

Location: InteropNet Classroom, Booth 2202
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 PM-5:45 PM

Clouds, DCIM, Colos, Virtualization, Storage, Compute and Networking…. It all comes together at InteropNet in about a week’s time. If you are involved with management of any of these technologies, this session will discuss how it all comes together. This session will discuss the variety of systems in use, how they are discovered and monitored for performance and operational purposes at Interop.

Monday, May 6, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:00 PM

Location: Lagoon E
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Software applications are an integral part of 21st century business processes. The majority of software is still installed in-house, either as specially developed custom applications or commercially acquired packages. However, the proportion of software procured as a service is on the rise, as is the use of mobile apps and open source components. In addition, more and more in-house applications are being web-enabled and exposed to the outside world. Regardless of its origin, the vast majority of software will contain flaws which can constitute a security risk, especially for those applications that are web-enabled. The cost of fixing a flaw increases the later that they are found in the development, acquisition and deployment life-cycle. This presentation will explore how businesses are deploying software and what measures are in place for checking the security of applications. This discussion will present new research conducted among US and UK enterprises from a range of industries to assess the scale of the software security problem, the ways in which it can be mitigated, the extent to which this is being achieved, the costs involved and how these can be minimized.

Location: Mandalay Bay L
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Join key video equipment manufacturers and competitors as they engage in a panel discussion regarding the evolution of hosted B2B video and UC services over the next 3-5 years. The panel will discuss and debate the options and limitations of current solutions and how each are working harmoniously to help address the barriers preventing ubiquitous video and UC video dial-tone. Although fierce competitors in the marketplace, these vendors will address what it takes to change an industry and how we can visually communicate in a global economy.