Interop New York 2008 Speaker List

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

It's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon.

IT Professionals bear the challenges and complexities that tend to keep IT departments reactive and tactical rather than proactive and strategic. Most organizations do not have time, resources or budget to acquire, deploy, learn and manage large-scale solutions. Using non-integrated tools from multiple vendors or proprietary, hardware-based solutions can be problematic. Automation of periodic IT tasks is essential to efficient resource utilization and is key to helping IT departments focus on strategic planning and alignment with the goals of the business. This session dives into your IT issues and how IT automation management can vastly improve your operations.

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

Network Access Control takes "defense in depth" all the way to the desktop. With NAC on your network, every connection can be authenticated and controlled, helping to reduce the risk of malware or malicious people taking hold on the network. Because NAC is the hot buzzword for 2008, the products can be confusing and the vendors contentious. However, NAC represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. Network managers are now being given the tools to create a strong link between users, end systems, desktop workstations, laptops, and access to network resources. With components of end-point security, authentication and access control, these emerging NAC architectures and products offer almost endless options. Your job is to select the right components and pieces to match your own requirements.

This full-day seminar will cover the concepts behind NAC, giving you the tools to understand both single-vendor solutions and multi-vendor NAC architectures from Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group. We'll discuss specific issues in deploying NAC in enterprise networks, and cover key strategies you can use to ensure successful NAC planning and deployment. During the day, a panel of leading NAC experts will the debate issues and take your questions.

Course Agenda
NAC Architecture and End Point Security

NAC basics, including an overview of problems NAC is supposed to solve -- compared to the problems it actually solves

In-depth information on NAC's key components of authentication, end-point security, access control, and management

Design and Deployment of NAC Solutions

What it takes to put NAC into a production network

Five main steps of a NAC deployment NAC Product Architectures

An overview of industry-leading NAC solutions, presented in a vendor-neutral way

How Microsoft, Cisco, and other NAC vendors are working together -- and how they are working against each other
NAC Panel

Audience-led Q&A of NAC technical experts on NAC deployment, architecture, and real-world lessons learned. This is not a marketing pitch. This is your chance to ask NAC veterans about how NAC works in the real world.

NAC Enforcement Strategies.

Where should NAC enforcement go in your network, and what are the pros and cons of each NAC enforcement strategy?

Nine Hard Questions about Network Access Control

Hard questions you should be able to answer about your chosen NAC solution, or hard questions you may want to ask your potential NAC vendors

Who Should Attend

Network managers interested in learning about how NAC will affect network architectures, and in building higher security into networks

Security architects interested in pushing security from the perimeter deep into the network with full access control and authentication of end users

Desktop managers looking to enforce security policy compliance and get on top of regulatory issues with tighter controls

What You Will Learn

What NAC is, and the underlying technologies that make it happen

NAC enforcement options, and when to use various options

NAC architecture and solution choice strategies

Implementation issues

Solid strategies for adding NAC, and pitfalls to avoid

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

Controlling power costs is a hot topic in the data center. However, most organizations have far more PCs than servers, and controlling power management policies across many PCs with different usage patterns is much harder than managing power usage in the highly centralized and controlled data center environment. In this session, you will learn about the challenges and solutions for managing PC power consumption, such us how to identify usage patterns, manage user expectations, control policies and report on your success to upper management. The ROI is substantial, and can be proven, as long as you have the right tools. This session will show you how to save money for your company through implementing a simple power management solution.

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

The data center is at the center of IT innovation with many exciting - but also confusing - developments. The session will provide a unifying vision, and a wealth of information and practical advice for companies seeking to build new data centers, planning for growth in existing data centers and transforming their operational practices. Based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with IT executives, this session provides an unbiased, insightful and unique view of best practices from real data centers around the world.

The Green Data Center sounds easier than it is. What are the various components of a green data center and how can companies make their existing data centers "greener"? What is the impact of green IT on the bottom line? Green is not just about the production of energy or the use of alternate sources; it is about energy strategies, energy efficiency, energy management and cost reduction. It's about sustainable computing and competitive advantage. It's about the bottom line as well as environmental responsibility and stewardship. How do you model the cost of electricity across all IT equipment? And how can you convert that cost model into a green ROI? Panelists will discuss strategies, technologies, challenges, cost models and case studies to help demystify green IT.

Will Ethernet unify the storage and data networks into one single fabric? Or does storage need its own network to deliver high performance? Will storage be carried over FCoE or iSCSI, or some other protocol? Or will fiber channel continue to grow and evolve? Panelists will discuss these and other issues around next-generation data center networks, take audience questions and present case studies to support their claims.

Build or Buy? This is the most common question related to the data center. Where do you put your IT equipment? Many choices are available today - building a new data center, converting an existing space, co-location, server and virtual server hosting or even "in the cloud." Which of these approaches is best for your business? This panel will discuss the various options and look at the balance between flexibility, cost and control that they offer.

What is service oriented architecture (SOA)? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web services? Are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.

The Green Data Center sounds easier than it is. What are the various components of a green data center and how can companies make their existing data centers "greener"? What is the impact of green IT on the bottom line? Green is not just about the production of energy or the use of alternate sources; it is about energy strategies, energy efficiency, energy management and cost reduction. It's about sustainable computing and competitive advantage. It's about the bottom line as well as environmental responsibility and stewardship. How do you model the cost of electricity across all IT equipment? And how can you convert that cost model into a green ROI? Panelists will discuss strategies, technologies, challenges, cost models and case studies to help demystify green IT.

There's a slow, inexorable exodus going on. First bursty seasonal computing, then storage, then eventually all but specialized tasks are moving out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. But this big migration is a gradual one. There are times when it doesn't yet make sense to embrace on-demand computing. We'll chart the course of a migration into the cloud with some of the industry's sharpest innovators in on-demand provisioning and deployment.

As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications.

Build or Buy? This is the most common question related to the data center. Where do you put your IT equipment? Many choices are available today - building a new data center, converting an existing space, co-location, server and virtual server hosting or even "in the cloud." Which of these approaches is best for your business? This panel will discuss the various options and look at the balance between flexibility, cost and control that they offer.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

If you are deploying video conferencing as a mission critical communications service, you must navigate a variety of challenges. Deploying a network to support video conferencing and/or telepresence requires understanding real-time traffic, Quality of Service, bandwidth management and specialized test tools. The right agreements for service must be worked out with the WAN service provider. Security issues must be addressed to manage video security and not violate network security. Supporting business-to-business calling, especially with telepresence, requires a new model of WAN service provider deployment. This session will shed light on how to approach each of these challenges, and will provide a forum in which to explore the solutions available to fit your specific needs.

When it's your application on their infrastructure, you have a hard time knowing what's happening. On-demand computing environments often hide details from application operators as a result of their virtualization. New computing means new management. This panel of experts and innovators looks at emerging best practices for managing applications when they're running in the cloud.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Social networking is a hot topic these days, mostly fueled by consumer applications such as Facebook and MySpace. Facebook alone has been catapulted to "web platform" status with thousands of third party applications being built around an open API. How will businesses leverage this social networking phenomenon? Are we creating value with social networks in business? Or are we simply creating more distractions?

A debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers.

Is there still a good reason why a mobile browser need be less capable than its desktop counterparts? Perhaps. But with mobile access to the web today just as important as mobile voice service, and with enterprises adopting web services as a fundamental IT strategy, there's now a clear requirement for mobile browsers that support desktop functionality - but in a compact package. This session includes a discussion of required features, demos of the latest mobile browsers, as well as a debate attempting to define best approach to user interface strategy and implementation.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Now Web 2.0 is also over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. That would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are just in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists on this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them.

Increasing complexity, manual processes, plus operational tools that are difficult to use and are not integrated can cause significant problems for enterprises, including excessive downtime, large-scale errors, loss of data, and compliance problems. IT and business executives face many challenges in trying to solve these problems, while keeping labor costs down, providing adequate service levels, and driving operational efficiency. This is especially true in critical IT functional areas such as Service Level Monitoring, Event Lifecycle Management, and End-User Service. Meanwhile, tremendous advances have been made in automating IT functions. Today's tools have become quite sophisticated and "intelligent." This session will explain how IT Automation can provide a large measure of relief. You will learn how automation can help you reduce IT costs, deliver higher levels of service and ensure more efficient resource utilization. You will also learn what types of tools you should consider when planning to automate various IT functions.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

To date, technology analysts have quite properly focused on the social and business aspects of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. And yet, Enterprise 2.0 tools - including collaboration suites, pure-play blog / wiki / social-networking products, and revamped portal products from major vendors - differ quite substantially in maturity, approach, and support. This session will share customer research from noted evaluation firm CMS Watch on leading Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and provide a framework for customers to evaluate the marketplace based on their own needs.

Is there still a good reason why a mobile browser need be less capable than its desktop counterparts? Perhaps. But with mobile access to the web today just as important as mobile voice service, and with enterprises adopting web services as a fundamental IT strategy, there's now a clear requirement for mobile browsers that support desktop functionality - but in a compact package. This session includes a discussion of required features, demos of the latest mobile browsers, as well as a debate attempting to define best approach to user interface strategy and implementation.

With the web now forming the basis not just for publishing, but also for B2B and B2C m-commerce as a platform for applications, it's critical to understand the technologies of the mobile web. Also, businesses need to know how to extend their web strategies to mobile users. That's what this session is about. We'll explore how new web applications can be effective on mobile platforms, and the key tools and technologies required to be successful in making next-generation web applications mobile.

Historically, enterprises have operated with a technology-centric view of the technology infrastructure and attempted to create standardized processes across technology "silos". However, today's organizations are faced with the reality that this component approach is not enough to meet the dynamic requirements from the business. This is driving organizations to move toward processes and technologies, such as Business Service Automation, that enable a more flexible, business-driven approach to infrastructure management. In this session, learn why industry experts are urging customers to turn their strategies towards a more comprehensive approach that automates the entire business service, and how to derive more value out of technology operations.

With the web now forming the basis not just for publishing, but also for B2B and B2C m-commerce as a platform for applications, it's critical to understand the technologies of the mobile web. Also, businesses need to know how to extend their web strategies to mobile users. That's what this session is about. We'll explore how new web applications can be effective on mobile platforms, and the key tools and technologies required to be successful in making next-generation web applications mobile.

Windows Vista includes many advances that help IT organizations better control their desktop environments and prevent user-generated configuration conflicts. Many desktop problems can be traced to simple changes the end user knowingly or unknowingly makes to their PC. Learn how to take advantage of the advanced capabilities in Windows Vista, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), and Microsoft System Center to reduce disruption, lower the burden on the IT Help Desk, and ensure maximum uptime for desktop users. In addition, learn how remote assistance capabilities in Windows Vista can enable remote troubleshooting, making problem resolution much more efficient.

Having trouble seeing the merits of the Windows Vista desktop versus Windows XP? Windows Vista brings advancements from componentization to extended Group Policy management controls. Learn how to save time applying security and managing your operating systems, and how to ensure that your desktop configurations remain standardized across your organization. We'll also discuss and demo how Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) solutions can help you progress toward - and maintain - a more optimized desktop environment.

There's a slow, inexorable exodus going on. First bursty seasonal computing, then storage, then eventually all but specialized tasks are moving out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. But this big migration is a gradual one. There are times when it doesn't yet make sense to embrace on-demand computing. We'll chart the course of a migration into the cloud with some of the industry's sharpest innovators in on-demand provisioning and deployment.

How reliable is the cloud? Enterprises demand predictable service levels, reliable delivery, and committed availability. This panel will look at what level of service we should demand - and can expect - from cloud computing infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices for measuring it.

Compliance and eDiscovery are two of the biggest challenges facing I.T. today. Information continues to grow exponentially, and with it, the need to comply with industry and government regulations and prepare for eDiscovery while keeping costs down. This session will discuss the situation in which many companies today find themselves - trying to reconcile records management, compliance and governance requirements, and manage to these requirements with tools that are available today. In particular, it will look at classification, archiving and retention policy management to proactively address compliance, and as tools to treat eDiscovery requests as arepeatable business processes.

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications.

The iPhone is arguably the most exciting and ultimately influential wireless handset ever developed, and is already spawning a broad range of imitators. Originally targeted at consumers, the iPhone itself is now being directly marketed to the enterprise, and has already found a home with many business users. This session will explore the enterprise-specific features of the iPhone, as well as what's involved in both using the device and integrating it to enterprise IT solutions.

The Windows Mobile software platform helped create the category of smart mobile phones and devices and is arguably the most mature of the current mobile platforms. Leveraging decades of server, desktop and mobile experience come learn how the Windows Mobile platform is evolving. The operating system, software development frameworks, tools and hardware capabilities of the Windows Mobile architecture will be presented in this session. Come see what is new in the most mature mobile device platform.

The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will then identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not.

The challenges of building, deploying, and managing mobile applications mirror those of the desktop world, and lead to a fundamental question: should a mobile platform simply mirror the services of the desktop OS, or is a thin-client (or at least thinner-client) approach ultimately going to win? This session will examine these two key alternatives and provide insights as to how to best match application requirements to platforms, as well as a look into the future of mobile software environments.

In the 1980s, IT organizations began to deploy TDM-based WANs. In the 1990s, many IT organizations migrated their WANs - first to Frame Relay and then to ATM. In this decade, many IT organizations have migrated to MPLS based networks. However, there is very little buzz in the industry about a technology that is the successor to MPLS. In this session the panelists will address the question of whether or not there are any fundamental changes coming to WAN services. Are today's MPLS services the end of the line for at least the foreseeable future?

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

When it's your application on their infrastructure, you have a hard time knowing what's happening. On-demand computing environments often hide details from application operators as a result of their virtualization. New computing means new management. This panel of experts and innovators looks at emerging best practices for managing applications when they're running in the cloud.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

This session will examine vulnerabilities that have been demonstrated in VOIP and IPT telephony systems, as well as showing potential security issues in the SIP protocol.

In the vast majority of situations, the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does. This damages the credibility of IT. In addition, there has been an explosion recently in term of how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic - such as Internet Radio - transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better identify, manage and control application usage.

Wireless LANs and Wi-Fi continue to evolve at a rapid rate, with many more 802.11 Task Groups yet to finish their standards, while WLAN system vendors are continuing to push their architectures, system performance, and management features. Advances in performance and support for time-bounded traffic are key, but there's much more in the works. This session will examine key technologies still under development, and the form these will take in extensions to today's enterprise-class products.

Server virtualization is hot! Whether your executives think green or simply want to save some green, everyone is deploying virtualization - the benefits are undeniable. As we embrace virtualization, we must strategically approach security and compliance from the start. Virtualization introduces new attack surfaces and a swath of new availability risks. This brave new world also impacts how we approach compliance, governance, and risk Management. Joshua Corman will explore best practices and real world successes in assuring virtualization benefits while mitigating new risks. Are you virtually secure? Or are you securely virtual?

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

There's a slow, inexorable exodus going on. First bursty seasonal computing, then storage, then eventually all but specialized tasks are moving out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. But this big migration is a gradual one. There are times when it doesn't yet make sense to embrace on-demand computing. We'll chart the course of a migration into the cloud with some of the industry's sharpest innovators in on-demand provisioning and deployment.

Software-as-a-Service applications are often cheaper, more reliable and better performing than their in-house alternatives. Many SaaS firms started as Application Service Providers relegated to niche applications like payroll, and sold to small businesses unable to run their own infrastructure. Today, big business depends on heavyweights like Salesforce.com, ADP, Taleo, RightNow and Netsuite for mission-critical parts of their business. But embracing SaaS can be a challenge. IT managers are giving up control and visibility. There may be privacy and regulatory issues. Reporting and enforcing service levels is difficult and different. Using real-world examples from some of the largest SaaS firms in operation today this session looks at the best practices - and common pitfalls- of moving significant business processes to a SaaS model.

The move to utility computing is changing the landscape of IT in significant and far-reaching ways. This quick overview of cloud computing gives you the facts you need, so you can separate the facts from the hype and understand how cloudy your company's future is.

There's a slow, inexorable exodus going on. First bursty seasonal computing, then storage, then eventually all but specialized tasks are moving out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. But this big migration is a gradual one. There are times when it doesn't yet make sense to embrace on-demand computing. We'll chart the course of a migration into the cloud with some of the industry's sharpest innovators in on-demand provisioning and deployment.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

When it's your application on their infrastructure, you have a hard time knowing what's happening. On-demand computing environments often hide details from application operators as a result of their virtualization. New computing means new management. This panel of experts and innovators looks at emerging best practices for managing applications when they're running in the cloud.

On-demand applications can make a good product great. By tying an online software component to a real-world product, innovative companies are giving themselves an edge in the marketplace. This panel looks at the opportunities that software as a service (SaaS) offers makers of traditional products - what works - and what doesn't.

Whether you're an end user of technology, an IT professional, a vendor of hardware, software or infrastructure solutions, or an industry observer with an interest in technology's energy consumption, Energy Camp is for you. Energy Camp is a collaborative forum where industry stakeholders will gather together to discuss the growing impact of today's energy costs on IT's bottom line, and the overarching importance of energy conservation and utilizing greener IT solutions and methods.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

The promise of increased productivity, more difficult and expensive travel and other business factors are propelling forward-thinking enterprises to IP-based video conferencing. But the range of options and products is so wide it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and determine what's right for your enterprise. This session will present an overview of available video conferencing, solutions and outline a simple approach to narrowing the choices to select an optimal solution. We will describe options for video formats, PC versus room-based versus telepresence, unified conferencing and more. A panel of video conferencing vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings. Bring your tough questions and get answers about how best to deploy video conferencing in your enterprise.

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power. How will this new virtual infrastructure affect your storage, as well as your backup/ DR/ business continuance (BC) strategy? This session will explore the impact of server virtualization on your storage infrastructure and services, including architecture, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and other storage issues.

Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in the corporate world in the early 1980s. What exactly are desktop and application virtualization; how do they differ; and how do they relate to server virtualization? What is application streaming? How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? What are the different architectural approaches? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

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

On-demand applications can make a good product great. By tying an online software component to a real-world product, innovative companies are giving themselves an edge in the marketplace. This panel looks at the opportunities that software as a service (SaaS) offers makers of traditional products - what works - and what doesn't.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

Modern business is heavily regulated, from hiring and staffing guidelines to compliance to financial tracking. An emerging benefit of SaaS models is that the SaaS provider has already passed the audit. This session looks at compliance and regulation in the context of on-demand applications, revealing some of the benefits - and risks - of outsourcing business processes to a SaaS provider.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

The Green Data Center sounds easier than it is. What are the various components of a green data center and how can companies make their existing data centers "greener"? What is the impact of green IT on the bottom line? Green is not just about the production of energy or the use of alternate sources; it is about energy strategies, energy efficiency, energy management and cost reduction. It's about sustainable computing and competitive advantage. It's about the bottom line as well as environmental responsibility and stewardship. How do you model the cost of electricity across all IT equipment? And how can you convert that cost model into a green ROI? Panelists will discuss strategies, technologies, challenges, cost models and case studies to help demystify green IT.

Join market leaders Agito Networks, Psion Teklogix, and SalesNOW on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

4:00 - 4:10
Is Fixed Mobile Convergence Ready for the Enterprise? - Sponsored by Agito Networks
4:20 - 4:30
Mobile Workplace Computing Solutions: Maximizing the ROI of Mobile Technology - Sponsored by Psion Teklogix
4:40 - 4:50
BlackBerry for Business - Beyond Email - Sponsored by SalesNOW

It's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon.

The promise of increased productivity, more difficult and expensive travel and other business factors are propelling forward-thinking enterprises to IP-based video conferencing. But the range of options and products is so wide it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and determine what's right for your enterprise. This session will present an overview of available video conferencing, solutions and outline a simple approach to narrowing the choices to select an optimal solution. We will describe options for video formats, PC versus room-based versus telepresence, unified conferencing and more. A panel of video conferencing vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings. Bring your tough questions and get answers about how best to deploy video conferencing in your enterprise.

The Green Data Center sounds easier than it is. What are the various components of a green data center and how can companies make their existing data centers "greener"? What is the impact of green IT on the bottom line? Green is not just about the production of energy or the use of alternate sources; it is about energy strategies, energy efficiency, energy management and cost reduction. It's about sustainable computing and competitive advantage. It's about the bottom line as well as environmental responsibility and stewardship. How do you model the cost of electricity across all IT equipment? And how can you convert that cost model into a green ROI? Panelists will discuss strategies, technologies, challenges, cost models and case studies to help demystify green IT.

A very small number of companies generate the vast majority of today's web pages, from Facebook applications to hosted sites. With compelling economics, they may be running most of the world's computing in a short while. This panel gets behind the scenes with some of the world's Big Cloud operators for a look at what they know about running large-scale computing.

With the success of networking itself largely the product of an environment defined by open standards and interoperability, it's no surprise that these elements are now defining the future of wireless - a world formerly closely-guarded by carriers protective of their networks and their market positions. While the carriers must maintain their competitiveness, they now realize that openness - for both devices and applications - is critical to their future success. This session will explore the key trends of network neutrality and open access from a wireless perspective, and will examine how the enterprise can best take advantage of these trends.

There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to improve application performance, as well as to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. However, there is a wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to develop an effective strategy for implementing policy and control.

Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Enterprise wireless LANs are in the midst of a major upgrade, as networks of stand alone access points are being replaced with centrally controlled wireless LAN switching systems. This migration is being driven by a number of factors: primarily the need to improve network control and management, centralize security and the requirement to support voice, as well as data services over the WLAN infrastructure. Each of these goals brings with it a number of challenges in the rapidly evolving WLAN space. While virtually all large-scale deployments are being built on centrally-controlled WLAN switching systems, users must now choose among centralized, distributed, and collaborative architectures. That choice becomes more critical with the advent of the higher capacity 802.11n radio link.

This session is designed to bring you up to speed on the latest WLAN developments and provide the background you will need to approach these decisions intelligently.

Outline:
? WLAN Fundamentals
- Wi-Fi Network Configurations
- Wireless Network Challenges
- Network Components: NICs, Access Points, Antennas
- Legacy Radio Links (802.11 a/b/g): Capabilities, Compatibility, and Trade-offs
- Impact of the 802.11n Radio Link
- WLAN Network Architectures
? WLAN Switching Options:
- Major Features/Benefits
- Configurations: Centralized, Distributed, Collaborative
- Network Monitoring/Management Capabilities
? WLAN MAC Protocol
- CSMA/CA Concepts and Overall Operation
- QoS Options: 802.11e/WMM, SVP, Meru's ATC
- Handoffs: 802.11r, Proprietary Solutions
? WLAN Security
- Recognized Security Issues
- Three Generations of WLAN Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2
- Authentication Mechanisms: 802.1x Options
- Wireless Intrusion/Prevention Systems
? The Next Frontier: Voice over Wireless LANs
? Major Planning Steps for a WLAN Deployment

Who Should Attend
Network planners, designers and managers, as well as equipment suppliers who are investigating or planning WLAN network deployments or upgrades.

You Will Learn
This program will provide a comprehensive, vendor-neutral description of client and infrastructure requirements for WLAN voice and data networks, the management requirements, and an objective review of the major developments in this fast-moving arena.

With the growing use of mobile applications, security has become a major concern for the enterprise. Transmitting signals through free space introduces inherent security vulnerabilities, as hackers can easily intercept and read any unencrypted or poorly-encrypted transmissions. However, that is only one of many security issues in a mobile environment. Many mobile devices now have multiple wireless interfaces including Wi-Fi, 2.5G/3G cellular, and Bluetooth. Hackers could potentially exploit any of these as a point of entry. Those mobile devices could attach to any number of wireless networks exposing them to the introduction of viruses and malware that could then infect the corporate network. Lost and stolen devices with unencrypted data files pose an even greater concern and require strategies to protect the security of that information. While mobile security had initially dealt solely with laptops, we may now find it necessary to protect smart phones and mobile PDAs from various types of malware. Organized around the wireless technologies themselves, the program will feature a discussion of the full range of vulnerabilities inherent in each of the major wireless services and the best practices we have found for addressing them.

Outline:
? Mobile Security Overview
- Major Areas in Network Security
? Emerging Security Concerns
- Defense in Depth Concepts
- Wireless Threat Analysis
? Wi-Fi Security Options
- Basic Security Exposures
- Emerging Wi-Fi Threats: RF Jamming, Association Floods
- Disassociation Attacks, CTS Spoofing, Misconfigured APs
- Encryption Options: WEP, IPsec Overlay, WPA, 802.11i/WPA2
- Authentication: 802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol Options
- Wireless Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems
- Current Best Practices for WLAN Security
? Cellular 2.5/3G Security Elements
- Cellular Security Elements: Authentication, Encryption
- Limits and Vulnerabilities in Cellular Security
- Extending the Security Profile
? PDA/Smartphone Security
- PDA/Smartphone Threat Analysis
- Mobile Malware Review
- Mobile Device Security Tools and Techniques
- Protecting Smartphones and PDAs
? Developing a Mobile Security Policy


Who Should Attend
Wireless network managers and security specialists who need a clearer understanding of the security threats posed by the full range of wireless network options, and the current best practices for dealing with them.

You Will Learn
This session is designed to help managers understand security issues involved in the full range of wireless networks including Wi-Fi, 2.5G/3G cellular and Bluetooth.

Some analysts believe that the convergence of wireline and wireless - and more importantly, the convergence of multiple mobile wireless technologies into a single handset with the real-time handoff of a connection - defines the ultimate wireless solution. But others believe that the deployment of a single technology using both traditional cells and indoor femtocells is a much simpler - and much more effective - approach. This session will examine fixed/mobile convergence, mobile/mobile convergence, device and software trends, and femtocells and related approaches in a debate designed to answer this fundamental question for enterprise IT managers and users.

Network Access Control takes "defense in depth" all the way to the desktop. With NAC on your network, every connection can be authenticated and controlled, helping to reduce the risk of malware or malicious people taking hold on the network. Because NAC is the hot buzzword for 2008, the products can be confusing and the vendors contentious. However, NAC represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. Network managers are now being given the tools to create a strong link between users, end systems, desktop workstations, laptops, and access to network resources. With components of end-point security, authentication and access control, these emerging NAC architectures and products offer almost endless options. Your job is to select the right components and pieces to match your own requirements.

This full-day seminar will cover the concepts behind NAC, giving you the tools to understand both single-vendor solutions and multi-vendor NAC architectures from Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group. We'll discuss specific issues in deploying NAC in enterprise networks, and cover key strategies you can use to ensure successful NAC planning and deployment. During the day, a panel of leading NAC experts will the debate issues and take your questions.

Course Agenda
NAC Architecture and End Point Security

NAC basics, including an overview of problems NAC is supposed to solve -- compared to the problems it actually solves

In-depth information on NAC's key components of authentication, end-point security, access control, and management

Design and Deployment of NAC Solutions

What it takes to put NAC into a production network

Five main steps of a NAC deployment NAC Product Architectures

An overview of industry-leading NAC solutions, presented in a vendor-neutral way

How Microsoft, Cisco, and other NAC vendors are working together -- and how they are working against each other
NAC Panel

Audience-led Q&A of NAC technical experts on NAC deployment, architecture, and real-world lessons learned. This is not a marketing pitch. This is your chance to ask NAC veterans about how NAC works in the real world.

NAC Enforcement Strategies.

Where should NAC enforcement go in your network, and what are the pros and cons of each NAC enforcement strategy?

Nine Hard Questions about Network Access Control

Hard questions you should be able to answer about your chosen NAC solution, or hard questions you may want to ask your potential NAC vendors

Who Should Attend

Network managers interested in learning about how NAC will affect network architectures, and in building higher security into networks

Security architects interested in pushing security from the perimeter deep into the network with full access control and authentication of end users

Desktop managers looking to enforce security policy compliance and get on top of regulatory issues with tighter controls

What You Will Learn

What NAC is, and the underlying technologies that make it happen

NAC enforcement options, and when to use various options

NAC architecture and solution choice strategies

Implementation issues

Solid strategies for adding NAC, and pitfalls to avoid

Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC enabled and many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.

What is service oriented architecture (SOA)? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web services? Are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.

Are you dealing with an ever-growing demand for business services across an increasingly complex infrastructure, while challenged by inefficient and expensive manual processes, underutilized assets, and configuration changes? Automating key IT processes, including server provisioning, configuration auditing and workloads, can help optimize data center resources, improve efficiency and manage costs. This session discusses the current and future states of data center automation, and key considerations that automation should accommodate.

Join market leaders Foxit Software, ESRI, Mackay Communications and Sybase iAnywhere on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.
12:10 - 12:20
An Immersive and Innovative Experience Of Mobile Document Viewing - Sponsored by Foxit Software Company
12:30 - 12:40
Take the Geographic Advantage to the Field - Sponsored by ESRI
12:50 - 1:00
Broadband Connectivity - The Satellite Solution - Sponsored by Mackay Communication
1:10 - 1:20
This is Not Your Uncle's Mobile Device Management Solution: Why MDM is Now for Every Organization - Sponsored by Sybase iAnywhere

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power. How will this new virtual infrastructure affect your storage, as well as your backup/ DR/ business continuance (BC) strategy? This session will explore the impact of server virtualization on your storage infrastructure and services, including architecture, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and other storage issues.

Application Delivery Controller software allows customers to improve the performance of their services and create and manage online services more quickly. Learn from real-world examples, and get insight into the kinds of problems you can solve.

Will Ethernet unify the storage and data networks into one single fabric? Or does storage need its own network to deliver high performance? Will storage be carried over FCoE or iSCSI, or some other protocol? Or will fiber channel continue to grow and evolve? Panelists will discuss these and other issues around next-generation data center networks, take audience questions and present case studies to support their claims.

Wireless LANs and Wi-Fi continue to evolve at a rapid rate, with many more 802.11 Task Groups yet to finish their standards, while WLAN system vendors are continuing to push their architectures, system performance, and management features. Advances in performance and support for time-bounded traffic are key, but there's much more in the works. This session will examine key technologies still under development, and the form these will take in extensions to today's enterprise-class products.

Join market leaders Foxit Software, ESRI, Mackay Communications and Sybase iAnywhere on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.
12:10 - 12:20
An Immersive and Innovative Experience Of Mobile Document Viewing - Sponsored by Foxit Software Company
12:30 - 12:40
Take the Geographic Advantage to the Field - Sponsored by ESRI
12:50 - 1:00
Broadband Connectivity - The Satellite Solution - Sponsored by Mackay Communication
1:10 - 1:20
This is Not Your Uncle's Mobile Device Management Solution: Why MDM is Now for Every Organization - Sponsored by Sybase iAnywhere

With the web now forming the basis not just for publishing, but also for B2B and B2C m-commerce as a platform for applications, it's critical to understand the technologies of the mobile web. Also, businesses need to know how to extend their web strategies to mobile users. That's what this session is about. We'll explore how new web applications can be effective on mobile platforms, and the key tools and technologies required to be successful in making next-generation web applications mobile.

SANs are no more than "virtual SCSI Cables". SAN plumbing! Yet, we spend heavily on this plumbing; our storage network infrastructures. This workshop examines why organizations implement NASs and SANs. It provides a comprehensive technical examination of fibre channel, iSCSI and various IP Storage technologies. The workshop also examines the practical problems faced in the heterogeneous world where the "any-to-any" connectivity provided by SANs can present more problems than it solves. You will learn the best way to continue to gain asset utilization in a mixed technology world.

Techniques used to overcome issues through the use of zoning, persistent binding and virtual fabrics. The workshop identifies components and products that make up a NAS or SAN, examines the design and performance aspects of a SAN and finally explores where storage networks are headed over the next few years.

Course Outline

Networks vs. Storage Concepts

Why DAS, NAS & SAN are all relevant

Fibre Channel

IP Storage

Fibre Channel vs. IP Storage Performance Comparisons

Fibre Channel & IP Storage: When & Why

Storage Networking Products & Vendors

Storage Networking Futures

Data Center Ethernet and FCoE

Who Should Attend
Anyone who designs, implements, manages, specifies or selects storage networking technologies. IS/IT technical staff and managers, product developers, systems integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel. Anyone who wants to understand more about storage networking solutions and technologies

You Will Learn
How to separate the myth from reality of the various storage networking technologies and give you a better understanding what storage networks can and cannot do for you.

On-demand applications can make a good product great. By tying an online software component to a real-world product, innovative companies are giving themselves an edge in the marketplace. This panel looks at the opportunities that software as a service (SaaS) offers makers of traditional products - what works - and what doesn't.

The challenges of building, deploying, and managing mobile applications mirror those of the desktop world, and lead to a fundamental question: should a mobile platform simply mirror the services of the desktop OS, or is a thin-client (or at least thinner-client) approach ultimately going to win? This session will examine these two key alternatives and provide insights as to how to best match application requirements to platforms, as well as a look into the future of mobile software environments.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?

Join market leaders Datasquirt, Metageek, Varaha Systems, and OQO on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

12:10 - 12:20
Multi-Channel, Contact Management - Sponsored by Datasquirt
12:30 - 12:40
Visualizing Your Wireless Landscape - Sponsored by MetaGeek
12:50 - 1:00
uMobility - Revolutionizing and Simplifying Enterprise Communications! - Sponsored by Varaha
1:10 - 1:20
Enable Your Mobile Workforce with OQO - Sponsored by OQO

For security programs to be successful in 2008, executives must be able to consistently evaluate their organization's security performance, determine the highest "at risk" areas within the organization, and ensure that their most sensitive data remains protected. This includes evaluating sensitive information, writing enforceable policies, implementing appropriate security mechanisms, educating employees on policies and compliance and assessing and monitoring the security program once in place. Businesses who can find a way to securely share information and protect it from exploitation while complying with strictly enforced governmental regulations will emerge as leaders. This session will discuss the value of protecting sensitive content within an organization and study the steps required to plan, implement, deploy and sustain a solution to secure it.

The iPhone is arguably the most exciting and ultimately influential wireless handset ever developed, and is already spawning a broad range of imitators. Originally targeted at consumers, the iPhone itself is now being directly marketed to the enterprise, and has already found a home with many business users. This session will explore the enterprise-specific features of the iPhone, as well as what's involved in both using the device and integrating it to enterprise IT solutions.

Cloud computing is often referred to as hardware-as-a-service, implying openness and complexity. At the other end of the spectrum, SaaS does not offer much room for customization. But there's a middle ground, where providers offer an on-demand platform, often with its own coding and conventions. This session looks at how companies can build custom applications that run in the cloud, letting the platform provider worry about operations and data integration.

There's a slow, inexorable exodus going on. First bursty seasonal computing, then storage, then eventually all but specialized tasks are moving out of the corporate data center and into the cloud. But this big migration is a gradual one. There are times when it doesn't yet make sense to embrace on-demand computing. We'll chart the course of a migration into the cloud with some of the industry's sharpest innovators in on-demand provisioning and deployment.

Increased information privacy legislation requires organizations to secure online processes, including automated business processes with partners. Organizations are challenged to achieve this because their information systems, HR, ERP, CRM, and finance, were not designed to provide the secure interoperability required for automating workflow. Web services technologies offer a new architecture for enterprises struggling to automate business processes - a services-oriented architecture (SOA). While Web services deliver efficient automated workflows, governance is lost. An emerging alternative model for SOA deployment is presented which includes a network-embedded security and compliance infrastructure applicable to healthcare, finance, utilities, state & local government, and education.

If you believe all the articles in the trade magazines, it seems like all of the physical components of IT (i.e., desktops, networks, servers, firewalls, storage, application front ends, etc.) are being virtualized. The promised benefits of virtualization are compelling. However, there is just one problem: How can IT organizations that are currently struggling to manage their physical assets start to manage all of those virtual assets? The panelists on this session will detail what capabilities exist today to manage virtualized resources and will identify what new functionality you can expect to see over the next year.

Join market leader Cortado on the Mobile Business Expo show floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

4:00 - 4:10
Extending Mobility To Anywhere: Extending Your Desktop While Mobile - Sponsored by Cortado

As IP telephony deployments scale up from the pilot stage to enterprise-wide implementations, it becomes more challenging to manage them and keep them running. This session helps the audience understand common sources of problems, and how to detect and fix them.

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Now Web 2.0 is also over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. That would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are just in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists on this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them.

Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC enabled and many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.

The attack community has begun to shift gears and focus more on the endpoint and less on the network, as well as the supporting infrastructure that the endpoint relies upon. This new level of attention has already resulted in numerous attacks using spyware tools, Trojan horse applications, keystroke loggers and other malicious software that is being installed without the knowledge of the users and under the radar screen of current endpoint protection techniques. This session will discuss the key concepts that need to be considered when choosing an endpoint security solution and highlight some of the capabilities that exist in the market today for endpoint security solutions.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

One of the reasons that virtualization has gained so much traction is that it brings very compelling business and financial benefits. Whether you are just starting to evaluate server virtualization or have completed your server consolidation and are evaluating virtual desktops, building a business case for your next phase can help you get the investment dollars you need to move forward. This session will give you the information you need to begin to build that business case and help your management understand why virtualization is the foundation needed to move your IT shop into the future.

The promise of increased productivity, more difficult and expensive travel and other business factors are propelling forward-thinking enterprises to IP-based video conferencing. But the range of options and products is so wide it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and determine what's right for your enterprise. This session will present an overview of available video conferencing, solutions and outline a simple approach to narrowing the choices to select an optimal solution. We will describe options for video formats, PC versus room-based versus telepresence, unified conferencing and more. A panel of video conferencing vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings. Bring your tough questions and get answers about how best to deploy video conferencing in your enterprise.

Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, vendors have recently started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to both the switch and router operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists on this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so.

It's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon.

Social networking is a hot topic these days, mostly fueled by consumer applications such as Facebook and MySpace. Facebook alone has been catapulted to "web platform" status with thousands of third party applications being built around an open API. How will businesses leverage this social networking phenomenon? Are we creating value with social networks in business? Or are we simply creating more distractions?

On-demand applications can make a good product great. By tying an online software component to a real-world product, innovative companies are giving themselves an edge in the marketplace. This panel looks at the opportunities that software as a service (SaaS) offers makers of traditional products - what works - and what doesn't.

Social networking is a hot topic these days, mostly fueled by consumer applications such as Facebook and MySpace. Facebook alone has been catapulted to "web platform" status with thousands of third party applications being built around an open API. How will businesses leverage this social networking phenomenon? Are we creating value with social networks in business? Or are we simply creating more distractions?

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

Will Ethernet unify the storage and data networks into one single fabric? Or does storage need its own network to deliver high performance? Will storage be carried over FCoE or iSCSI, or some other protocol? Or will fiber channel continue to grow and evolve? Panelists will discuss these and other issues around next-generation data center networks, take audience questions and present case studies to support their claims.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Few mid-sized organizations understand how to streamline network management to their advantage. This session discusses a unique approach for delivering IPAM for the mid to large sized customer. Learn how to centralize control of IPv4/IPv6 networks to improve operational efficiencies, enhance security, implement NAC and drive compliance, all while dramatically lowering the TCO for your network.

The use of a global positioning system (GPS) has become pervasive throughout the world, and many now use location and tracking technologies available on most wireless-LAN systems to implement similar capabilities indoors. The remarkable variety of devices and applications now available opens the door to new possibilities for the enterprise. This session will discuss the technologies, products, and applications now available - and on the way - to maximize the value of an investment in location and tracking meeting a broad range of enterprise requirements.

Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based on a variety of data protection approaches. Today, because 24x7x365 access is expected, a range of data recovery capabilities are needed to map to all of your organization's recovery objectives. During this presentation we discuss best practices of a tiered BC/DR platform that integrates modular products such as CDP, replication, and automated failover capabilities with traditional backup and recovery for multi-layered protection. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of top five best practices to consider and key items/actions to include in the development of their BC/DR plans.

Energy efficiency and environmental responsibility sound good as PR initiatives. But can they be done in the context of a well justified TCO/ROI project for IT cost control? Nemertes Research President, Johna Till Johnson presents a cost model analysis based on real-world data from enterprise IT efficiency and energy metrics.

With the success of networking itself largely the product of an environment defined by open standards and interoperability, it's no surprise that these elements are now defining the future of wireless - a world formerly closely-guarded by carriers protective of their networks and their market positions. While the carriers must maintain their competitiveness, they now realize that openness - for both devices and applications - is critical to their future success. This session will explore the key trends of network neutrality and open access from a wireless perspective, and will examine how the enterprise can best take advantage of these trends.

Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in the corporate world in the early 1980s. What exactly are desktop and application virtualization; how do they differ; and how do they relate to server virtualization? What is application streaming? How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? What are the different architectural approaches? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

Even small organizations have dozens of SaaS relationships. With new portals and tools being launched every day, and more and more employees using them, the SaaS explosion is a recipe for disaster. This session looks at the challenges of running multiple SaaS portals across an organization - from reporting and management to single-sign-on and administration.

The promise of increased productivity, more difficult and expensive travel and other business factors are propelling forward-thinking enterprises to IP-based video conferencing. But the range of options and products is so wide it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and determine what's right for your enterprise. This session will present an overview of available video conferencing, solutions and outline a simple approach to narrowing the choices to select an optimal solution. We will describe options for video formats, PC versus room-based versus telepresence, unified conferencing and more. A panel of video conferencing vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings. Bring your tough questions and get answers about how best to deploy video conferencing in your enterprise.

The attack community has begun to shift gears and focus more on the endpoint and less on the network, as well as the supporting infrastructure that the endpoint relies upon. This new level of attention has already resulted in numerous attacks using spyware tools, Trojan horse applications, keystroke loggers and other malicious software that is being installed without the knowledge of the users and under the radar screen of current endpoint protection techniques. This session will discuss the key concepts that need to be considered when choosing an endpoint security solution and highlight some of the capabilities that exist in the market today for endpoint security solutions.

When most organizations today think about information protection, compliance is at the top of that list. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "Security by Compliance", which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure.

Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC enabled and many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.

Will Ethernet unify the storage and data networks into one single fabric? Or does storage need its own network to deliver high performance? Will storage be carried over FCoE or iSCSI, or some other protocol? Or will fiber channel continue to grow and evolve? Panelists will discuss these and other issues around next-generation data center networks, take audience questions and present case studies to support their claims.

Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, vendors have recently started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to both the switch and router operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists on this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so.

As virtualization becomes more widely deployed, and enterprises look for new ways to leverage this revolutionary technology, the consumption and delivery of this technology is changing. It is no longer one-size-fits-all and confined to a specific area of the data center, but instead is proliferating within the data center and out to the user via the desktop and applications. This session will provide IT organizations with a short- and long-term roadmap by focusing on the new delivery models for virtualization (including embedded hypervisors and managed services), what's available today and what can be expected in the future, and best practices for deployment.

A debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers.

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?

As IP telephony deployments scale up from the pilot stage to enterprise-wide implementations, it becomes more challenging to manage them and keep them running. This session helps the audience understand common sources of problems, and how to detect and fix them.

This session will examine vulnerabilities that have been demonstrated in VOIP and IPT telephony systems, as well as showing potential security issues in the SIP protocol.

Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC enabled and many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

Clouds. Grids. PaaS. There are dozens of names to describe on-demand computing, and lots of confusion. This session tries to bring some order to the chaos, offering a comparison of different on-demand computing models including hardware-as-a-service, custom platforms, and large-scale compute infrastructures such as Hadoop.

How reliable is the cloud? Enterprises demand predictable service levels, reliable delivery, and committed availability. This panel will look at what level of service we should demand - and can expect - from cloud computing infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices for measuring it.

A very small number of companies generate the vast majority of today's web pages, from Facebook applications to hosted sites. With compelling economics, they may be running most of the world's computing in a short while. This panel gets behind the scenes with some of the world's Big Cloud operators for a look at what they know about running large-scale computing.

Network Access Control takes "defense in depth" all the way to the desktop. With NAC on your network, every connection can be authenticated and controlled, helping to reduce the risk of malware or malicious people taking hold on the network. Because NAC is the hot buzzword for 2008, the products can be confusing and the vendors contentious. However, NAC represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. Network managers are now being given the tools to create a strong link between users, end systems, desktop workstations, laptops, and access to network resources. With components of end-point security, authentication and access control, these emerging NAC architectures and products offer almost endless options. Your job is to select the right components and pieces to match your own requirements.

This full-day seminar will cover the concepts behind NAC, giving you the tools to understand both single-vendor solutions and multi-vendor NAC architectures from Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group. We'll discuss specific issues in deploying NAC in enterprise networks, and cover key strategies you can use to ensure successful NAC planning and deployment. During the day, a panel of leading NAC experts will the debate issues and take your questions.

Course Agenda
NAC Architecture and End Point Security

NAC basics, including an overview of problems NAC is supposed to solve -- compared to the problems it actually solves

In-depth information on NAC's key components of authentication, end-point security, access control, and management

Design and Deployment of NAC Solutions

What it takes to put NAC into a production network

Five main steps of a NAC deployment NAC Product Architectures

An overview of industry-leading NAC solutions, presented in a vendor-neutral way

How Microsoft, Cisco, and other NAC vendors are working together -- and how they are working against each other
NAC Panel

Audience-led Q&A of NAC technical experts on NAC deployment, architecture, and real-world lessons learned. This is not a marketing pitch. This is your chance to ask NAC veterans about how NAC works in the real world.

NAC Enforcement Strategies.

Where should NAC enforcement go in your network, and what are the pros and cons of each NAC enforcement strategy?

Nine Hard Questions about Network Access Control

Hard questions you should be able to answer about your chosen NAC solution, or hard questions you may want to ask your potential NAC vendors

Who Should Attend

Network managers interested in learning about how NAC will affect network architectures, and in building higher security into networks

Security architects interested in pushing security from the perimeter deep into the network with full access control and authentication of end users

Desktop managers looking to enforce security policy compliance and get on top of regulatory issues with tighter controls

What You Will Learn

What NAC is, and the underlying technologies that make it happen

NAC enforcement options, and when to use various options

NAC architecture and solution choice strategies

Implementation issues

Solid strategies for adding NAC, and pitfalls to avoid

Join market leaders Foxit Software, ESRI, Mackay Communications and Sybase iAnywhere on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.
12:10 - 12:20
An Immersive and Innovative Experience Of Mobile Document Viewing - Sponsored by Foxit Software Company
12:30 - 12:40
Take the Geographic Advantage to the Field - Sponsored by ESRI
12:50 - 1:00
Broadband Connectivity - The Satellite Solution - Sponsored by Mackay Communication
1:10 - 1:20
This is Not Your Uncle's Mobile Device Management Solution: Why MDM is Now for Every Organization - Sponsored by Sybase iAnywhere

Build or Buy? This is the most common question related to the data center. Where do you put your IT equipment? Many choices are available today - building a new data center, converting an existing space, co-location, server and virtual server hosting or even "in the cloud." Which of these approaches is best for your business? This panel will discuss the various options and look at the balance between flexibility, cost and control that they offer.

The challenges of building, deploying, and managing mobile applications mirror those of the desktop world, and lead to a fundamental question: should a mobile platform simply mirror the services of the desktop OS, or is a thin-client (or at least thinner-client) approach ultimately going to win? This session will examine these two key alternatives and provide insights as to how to best match application requirements to platforms, as well as a look into the future of mobile software environments.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will then identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not.

Is your data center underpowered? Do you worry about "hot spots" shutting you down? Does the thought of a new blade server deployment keep you awake at night? Is power management and control a faraway place? Are you being asked to do more with less? Is being "Green" a new direction that management feels you need to address? Find out how to address these issues and more within your data center infrastructure, and what practical steps and solutions are available to modernize your existing, or plan for your future, Data Center design.

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

The benefits of Network Access Control (NAC) are well understood. However, translating these benefits into hard savings has been elusive. This session will address the reasons why ROI for NAC has been difficult to nail down and discuss non-traditional benefits that provide a quantifiable ROI path for investing in NAC.

A debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers.

When most organizations today think about information protection, compliance is at the top of that list. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "Security by Compliance", which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure.

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power. How will this new virtual infrastructure affect your storage, as well as your backup/ DR/ business continuance (BC) strategy? This session will explore the impact of server virtualization on your storage infrastructure and services, including architecture, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and other storage issues.

The attack community has begun to shift gears and focus more on the endpoint and less on the network, as well as the supporting infrastructure that the endpoint relies upon. This new level of attention has already resulted in numerous attacks using spyware tools, Trojan horse applications, keystroke loggers and other malicious software that is being installed without the knowledge of the users and under the radar screen of current endpoint protection techniques. This session will discuss the key concepts that need to be considered when choosing an endpoint security solution and highlight some of the capabilities that exist in the market today for endpoint security solutions.

The attack community has begun to shift gears and focus more on the endpoint and less on the network, as well as the supporting infrastructure that the endpoint relies upon. This new level of attention has already resulted in numerous attacks using spyware tools, Trojan horse applications, keystroke loggers and other malicious software that is being installed without the knowledge of the users and under the radar screen of current endpoint protection techniques. This session will discuss the key concepts that need to be considered when choosing an endpoint security solution and highlight some of the capabilities that exist in the market today for endpoint security solutions.

How long would it take your company to recover if your primary datacenter suffered a major disaster? If your organization is like many you could save a current set of backup tapes with a 10 minute warning during business hours, but a datacenter disaster at 4 a.m. requires reverting to the tapes from the previous day.

You know it's a problem but are unclear how to build a disaster recovery plan that will work without eating up your entire IT budget. This workshop will explain how. From the basics of high availability to building out a disaster recovery hot-site, this workshop will explore the options and help you choose the solutions that balance risk against cost to come up with a plan that's right for your organization.

Course Outline

Defining Disaster

Avoiding disasters in the first place

How DR and backups differ

The Delivery Elements (what you must restore)

Setting your Objectives

The DR planner's pantry

Selling the need to management

The 9 steps to a DR plan

Finding and equipping a DR site

Recipes for small business

Recipes for Microsoft Exchange

Recipes for Oracle

Recipes for SQL Server

Running the DR drill

Recovering from the recovery

Who Should Attend
IT managers and system administrators looking to protect their data and businesses against disasters and even more frightening - user error.

You Will Learn

How to set your recovery time and recovery point objectives

How to balance recovery time, cost and distance

How to use terminal services and server virtualization in your recovery plan

Where to find recovery services

How to match products and services to your objectives

Mistakes others have made in their DR planning so you can avoid them

This session will examine vulnerabilities that have been demonstrated in VOIP and IPT telephony systems, as well as showing potential security issues in the SIP protocol.

Success in any enterprise today depends upon getting required information into the hands of those who both need it and can act on it ahead of the competition - anytime, anywhere. Also, the technologies of mobility enable far more than simple competitive advantage. Cost savings, enhanced customer service, and improved productivity are also key benefits. But the effective utilization of mobile tools and technologies depends upon a solid background in the products and services available, how it works (and why it sometimes doesn't), and where the industry is going in the next few years.

This workshop is designed as a quick yet comprehensive update to wireless for IT, as well as for network managers and staff. We will discuss all major and emerging broadband wireless technologies and systems, including advances in the IEEE 802.11 wireless-LAN standard and both today's 3G and tomorrow's 4G wide-area wireless services. With the key challenges today centering on how to pick the best wireless and mobile tool for the job; how to integrate wireless products and systems into a comprehensive IT solution; and how to plan the future of IT infrastructure and services given the continuing rapid evolution of wireless itself, this workshop is designed to illuminate both technologies and strategies in a fast-paced, informative half-day session.

Course Outline:
? Fundamentals of wireless communications ? Review of major wireless technologies and systems ? Improving performance: advanced wireless technologies ? 802.11 and enterprise-class wireless LANs: architectures and implementations ? 3G cellular broadband - UMTS and CDMA2000 ? 4G cellular broadband - Mobile WiMAX and LTE ? Mobile computers and communicators ? Looking ahead: issues and opportunities

Who Should Attend
A working knowledge of networking is required as a prerequisite. This workshop is moderately technical in nature, and some background in wireless is suggested. It is intended for enterprise IT and staff, network planners and operations staff, and advanced users, but will also be of value to the vendor, carrier communities and those allied to the field.

You Will Learn
The primary objective of this workshop is to provide enterprise IT management and staff with the information they need to develop effective IT strategies and to evaluate, select, and optimize mobile broadband products and services.

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

With the success of networking itself largely the product of an environment defined by open standards and interoperability, it's no surprise that these elements are now defining the future of wireless - a world formerly closely-guarded by carriers protective of their networks and their market positions. While the carriers must maintain their competitiveness, they now realize that openness - for both devices and applications - is critical to their future success. This session will explore the key trends of network neutrality and open access from a wireless perspective, and will examine how the enterprise can best take advantage of these trends.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

Network Access Control takes "defense in depth" all the way to the desktop. With NAC on your network, every connection can be authenticated and controlled, helping to reduce the risk of malware or malicious people taking hold on the network. Because NAC is the hot buzzword for 2008, the products can be confusing and the vendors contentious. However, NAC represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. Network managers are now being given the tools to create a strong link between users, end systems, desktop workstations, laptops, and access to network resources. With components of end-point security, authentication and access control, these emerging NAC architectures and products offer almost endless options. Your job is to select the right components and pieces to match your own requirements.

This full-day seminar will cover the concepts behind NAC, giving you the tools to understand both single-vendor solutions and multi-vendor NAC architectures from Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group. We'll discuss specific issues in deploying NAC in enterprise networks, and cover key strategies you can use to ensure successful NAC planning and deployment. During the day, a panel of leading NAC experts will the debate issues and take your questions.

Course Agenda
NAC Architecture and End Point Security

NAC basics, including an overview of problems NAC is supposed to solve -- compared to the problems it actually solves

In-depth information on NAC's key components of authentication, end-point security, access control, and management

Design and Deployment of NAC Solutions

What it takes to put NAC into a production network

Five main steps of a NAC deployment NAC Product Architectures

An overview of industry-leading NAC solutions, presented in a vendor-neutral way

How Microsoft, Cisco, and other NAC vendors are working together -- and how they are working against each other
NAC Panel

Audience-led Q&A of NAC technical experts on NAC deployment, architecture, and real-world lessons learned. This is not a marketing pitch. This is your chance to ask NAC veterans about how NAC works in the real world.

NAC Enforcement Strategies.

Where should NAC enforcement go in your network, and what are the pros and cons of each NAC enforcement strategy?

Nine Hard Questions about Network Access Control

Hard questions you should be able to answer about your chosen NAC solution, or hard questions you may want to ask your potential NAC vendors

Who Should Attend

Network managers interested in learning about how NAC will affect network architectures, and in building higher security into networks

Security architects interested in pushing security from the perimeter deep into the network with full access control and authentication of end users

Desktop managers looking to enforce security policy compliance and get on top of regulatory issues with tighter controls

What You Will Learn

What NAC is, and the underlying technologies that make it happen

NAC enforcement options, and when to use various options

NAC architecture and solution choice strategies

Implementation issues

Solid strategies for adding NAC, and pitfalls to avoid

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

Join market leaders Agito Networks, Psion Teklogix, and SalesNOW on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

4:00 - 4:10
Is Fixed Mobile Convergence Ready for the Enterprise? - Sponsored by Agito Networks
4:20 - 4:30
Mobile Workplace Computing Solutions: Maximizing the ROI of Mobile Technology - Sponsored by Psion Teklogix
4:40 - 4:50
BlackBerry for Business - Beyond Email - Sponsored by SalesNOW

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to improve application performance, as well as to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. However, there is a wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to develop an effective strategy for implementing policy and control.

What is driving enterprises to deploy PC- and PDA-based softphones today, and what are the prospects for these mobile and/or converged devices eliminating the need to buy single-function desktop telephones? What are the arguments for and against eliminating the desk phone, at least for knowledge workers?

In the vast majority of situations, the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does. This damages the credibility of IT. In addition, there has been an explosion recently in term of how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic - such as Internet Radio - transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better identify, manage and control application usage.

What is driving enterprises to deploy PC- and PDA-based softphones today, and what are the prospects for these mobile and/or converged devices eliminating the need to buy single-function desktop telephones? What are the arguments for and against eliminating the desk phone, at least for knowledge workers?

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power. How will this new virtual infrastructure affect your storage, as well as your backup/ DR/ business continuance (BC) strategy? This session will explore the impact of server virtualization on your storage infrastructure and services, including architecture, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and other storage issues.

In the 1980s, IT organizations began to deploy TDM-based WANs. In the 1990s, many IT organizations migrated their WANs - first to Frame Relay and then to ATM. In this decade, many IT organizations have migrated to MPLS based networks. However, there is very little buzz in the industry about a technology that is the successor to MPLS. In this session the panelists will address the question of whether or not there are any fundamental changes coming to WAN services. Are today's MPLS services the end of the line for at least the foreseeable future?

In the vast majority of situations, the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does. This damages the credibility of IT. In addition, there has been an explosion recently in term of how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic - such as Internet Radio - transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better identify, manage and control application usage.

In the vast majority of situations, the end user notices application degradation before the IT organization does. This damages the credibility of IT. In addition, there has been an explosion recently in term of how much bandwidth intensive recreational traffic - such as Internet Radio - transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better identify, manage and control application usage.

The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will then identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not.

This session will be a roundtable discussion with senior IT professionals on the IT function's current status. During the session, panelists will be asked to discuss how the difficult economic times are impacting their organizations; what progress they have made at breaking down stove pipes within their organization; and how they are establishing sustainable links with the business unit managers that fund IT. They will also be asked to give their opinions on which initiatives and technologies are most important to them over the next year and what type of a business case they need to justify spending.

If you believe all the articles in the trade magazines, it seems like all of the physical components of IT (i.e., desktops, networks, servers, firewalls, storage, application front ends, etc.) are being virtualized. The promised benefits of virtualization are compelling. However, there is just one problem: How can IT organizations that are currently struggling to manage their physical assets start to manage all of those virtual assets? The panelists on this session will detail what capabilities exist today to manage virtualized resources and will identify what new functionality you can expect to see over the next year.

Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, vendors have recently started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to both the switch and router operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists on this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so.

There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to improve application performance, as well as to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. However, there is a wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to develop an effective strategy for implementing policy and control.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

In the 1980s, IT organizations began to deploy TDM-based WANs. In the 1990s, many IT organizations migrated their WANs - first to Frame Relay and then to ATM. In this decade, many IT organizations have migrated to MPLS based networks. However, there is very little buzz in the industry about a technology that is the successor to MPLS. In this session the panelists will address the question of whether or not there are any fundamental changes coming to WAN services. Are today's MPLS services the end of the line for at least the foreseeable future?

As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications.

Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Now Web 2.0 is also over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. That would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are just in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists on this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them.

This session will be a roundtable discussion with senior IT professionals on the IT function's current status. During the session, panelists will be asked to discuss how the difficult economic times are impacting their organizations; what progress they have made at breaking down stove pipes within their organization; and how they are establishing sustainable links with the business unit managers that fund IT. They will also be asked to give their opinions on which initiatives and technologies are most important to them over the next year and what type of a business case they need to justify spending.

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

A debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers.

Social networking is a hot topic these days, mostly fueled by consumer applications such as Facebook and MySpace. Facebook alone has been catapulted to "web platform" status with thousands of third party applications being built around an open API. How will businesses leverage this social networking phenomenon? Are we creating value with social networks in business? Or are we simply creating more distractions?

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

How reliable is the cloud? Enterprises demand predictable service levels, reliable delivery, and committed availability. This panel will look at what level of service we should demand - and can expect - from cloud computing infrastructure, as well as tools and best practices for measuring it.

Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Now Web 2.0 is also over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant. That would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are just in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed and applications build using either architecture are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. The panelists on this session will detail the management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and give their insight into what you can do to avoid them.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to improve application performance, as well as to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. However, there is a wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to develop an effective strategy for implementing policy and control.

With the success of networking itself largely the product of an environment defined by open standards and interoperability, it's no surprise that these elements are now defining the future of wireless - a world formerly closely-guarded by carriers protective of their networks and their market positions. While the carriers must maintain their competitiveness, they now realize that openness - for both devices and applications - is critical to their future success. This session will explore the key trends of network neutrality and open access from a wireless perspective, and will examine how the enterprise can best take advantage of these trends.

Today the threat has changed. Hackers are no longer kids trying to create a name for themselves; they're professionals with a vast network and are capable of increasingly sophisticated and highly targeted attacks. In fact, many of today's attacks are so stealthy that the victims may not even realize their systems have been compromised for days, weeks or even months. So how do organizations address malware attacks as part of their overall risk management program? What steps can you take to ensure that your organization is not the next TJX or Ameritrade? This session will provide an overview of the attacks targeting the enterprise today, as well as an insider's look into how a malware attack is executed and what tools are needed to respond effectively. The presentation will provide recent statistics on malware from the Kaspersky Anti-Virus Research Lab in Moscow and the specific business risks they represent. Key components of the presentation will include: risk analysis, virus dissection and recommended mitigation frameworks.

In the 1980s, IT organizations began to deploy TDM-based WANs. In the 1990s, many IT organizations migrated their WANs - first to Frame Relay and then to ATM. In this decade, many IT organizations have migrated to MPLS based networks. However, there is very little buzz in the industry about a technology that is the successor to MPLS. In this session the panelists will address the question of whether or not there are any fundamental changes coming to WAN services. Are today's MPLS services the end of the line for at least the foreseeable future?

It's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon.

The challenges of building, deploying, and managing mobile applications mirror those of the desktop world, and lead to a fundamental question: should a mobile platform simply mirror the services of the desktop OS, or is a thin-client (or at least thinner-client) approach ultimately going to win? This session will examine these two key alternatives and provide insights as to how to best match application requirements to platforms, as well as a look into the future of mobile software environments.

Even small organizations have dozens of SaaS relationships. With new portals and tools being launched every day, and more and more employees using them, the SaaS explosion is a recipe for disaster. This session looks at the challenges of running multiple SaaS portals across an organization - from reporting and management to single-sign-on and administration.

The promise of increased productivity, more difficult and expensive travel and other business factors are propelling forward-thinking enterprises to IP-based video conferencing. But the range of options and products is so wide it's hard to distinguish hype from reality, and determine what's right for your enterprise. This session will present an overview of available video conferencing, solutions and outline a simple approach to narrowing the choices to select an optimal solution. We will describe options for video formats, PC versus room-based versus telepresence, unified conferencing and more. A panel of video conferencing vendors will be on hand to answer questions and present the merits of their offerings. Bring your tough questions and get answers about how best to deploy video conferencing in your enterprise.

Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC enabled and many other capabilities. If NAC is the answer then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regards to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

Effective automation of service request management processes is key to the success of an overall service management strategy. This session will explore how integrated service request management can provide a foundation for delivering the visibility, control and automation needed to deliver top quality service.

Build or Buy? This is the most common question related to the data center. Where do you put your IT equipment? Many choices are available today - building a new data center, converting an existing space, co-location, server and virtual server hosting or even "in the cloud." Which of these approaches is best for your business? This panel will discuss the various options and look at the balance between flexibility, cost and control that they offer.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

Over the last few years a lot of resources have been devoted to developing myriad techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over then next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Is there still a good reason why a mobile browser need be less capable than its desktop counterparts? Perhaps. But with mobile access to the web today just as important as mobile voice service, and with enterprises adopting web services as a fundamental IT strategy, there's now a clear requirement for mobile browsers that support desktop functionality - but in a compact package. This session includes a discussion of required features, demos of the latest mobile browsers, as well as a debate attempting to define best approach to user interface strategy and implementation.

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

It's often the case that overall operational management of mobile users, the devices they carry, and the networks they depend upon do not get the attention they deserve. And yet the ultimate success of enterprise mobility, as well as the minimization of operational expense and the maximization of return on investment, depend upon a solid management strategy for mobile operations. This session will examine these key elements of mobility management and explore the options today - as well as those on the horizon.

Unified Communications (UC) offers enormous opportunities for dramatic enhancements to your communications environment. But there is a real need to organize these opportunities into a coherent and cost-justified plan for your company or institution. This one-day workshop will provide you with the information and tools to create that plan for your enterprise.

Course Outline
Based on the proven two-day BCR Training Course, "Planning and Implementing VoIP Unified Communications", this workshop will answer these questions:
? What is Unified Communications (UC)? ? What are the new technologies that make UC possible? ? What are the personal productivity applications for UC? ? What are the business process applications for UC? ? How can we find the best UC applications for our enterprise? ? What is a communications "hot spot" and how do we find them? ? How do we design and implement a UC application? ? Who are the major suppliers of UC technologies? ? What are the UC solution elements from the top suppliers (template format)? ? UC differences from desktop, IP Telephony, applications, and mobility vendors? ? What technologies do we need to buy for our UC applications? ? How do we determine the ROI of a new UC application? ? What are the implications for UC applications for my network? ? How can we organize the best applications into a multi-year UC Plan?

Who Should Attend

This course will support the job responsibilities, leadership requirements and business development goals for the following roles: ? IT Director/Supervisor: Communications, Messaging, Applications or Network ? Telecom Director/Supervisor: Communications, Applications or Network ? IT Strategic Planning Director/Supervisor ? Director/Supervisor of Business Analysis (IT or Line of Business)

You Will Learn

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have an understanding of how to investigate and evaluate UC solutions, how to create a plan based on those solutions, and how to proceed with the selection and implementation of the appropriate technologies, services and change management programs to produce a high-return sequence of Unified Communications investments. The workshop will include a UC Planning Toolkit which will be available in electronic form for all course attendees.

The Symbian platform is the most popular in the world, implemented on more than half of the world's smartphones. And with the recent announcement of the Symbian Foundation and new support for leading vendors, Symbian is poised for new growth even in the face of significant competition. This session will examine the details of the Symbian OS and its development tools, and provide attendees with a complete by concise look at services and capabilities of this important platform.

These days, improved mobile hardware means that growing companies can have "offices" virtually anywhere - but to make those offices productive you have to choose your equipment wisely. To help, bMighty.com identifies the top smartphones and laptops for smaller companies. Learn which handsets - and which headsets - are right for your company. And find out which laptops value-oriented companies should turn to for portability and affordability.

New technology and market developments like SaaS, PaaS, cloud computing, Web 2.0, mobility, social networking, and the rise of consumer technology in business mark a sea change in the competitive landscape. Rather than merely leveling the playing field, these developments actually give growing companies significant advantages compared to larger firms. bMighty.com publisher and editor-in-chief Fredric Paul explains how bMighty.com can help your company benefit from this historic trend.

New technology and market developments like SaaS, PaaS, cloud computing, Web 2.0, mobility, social networking, and the rise of consumer technology in business mark a sea change in the competitive landscape. Rather than merely leveling the playing field, these developments actually give growing companies significant advantages compared to larger firms. bMighty.com publisher and editor-in-chief Fredric Paul explains how bMighty.com can help your company benefit from this historic trend.

What is service oriented architecture (SOA)? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web services? Are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.

Despite its 100-plus year history, wireless today is benefiting from a level of innovation unmatched in any other area of high technology. New developments appear at a remarkable rate, with the accompanying marketing hype. However not all new developments are ultimately successful or even meaningful. This session will explore a number of key technology directions in basic wireless technologies and provide an analysis of which wireless technologies are going to matter in the long run.

This session builds on Storage Virtualization I from both Interop New York 08 and Interop Las Vegas 08. Attendees should already have a basic understanding of this subject. Storage Virtualization Part II covers practical issues of block virtualization in order to make most effective use of it. This session describes the implementation step by step and aspects of availability, performance and capacity improvements, among other topics The session also covers the role of storage virtualization within policy-based management and describes its integration in the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

Learning Objectives: 1. Understand a detailed example of the implementation of storage virtualization
2. Understand the management techniques necessary to effectively control virtualized storage
3. Increase awareness of the impact of virtualized storage on other aspects of computation (especially virtual servers) and networking

Getting blamed for performance problems? Don't let the foundation of your network be the bottleneck! This workshop covers how to troubleshoot Ethernet and switched networks. In most cases, networks are designed and installed, but never thoroughly tested to make sure they are performing as they were designed. The instructor will review the operation of Ethernet and the types of errors that typically occur. Ethernet topics include Ethernet Signaling, Fast Link Pulse, CRC/Alignment Errors, Collisions and Fragments. The switching portion of the course examines the basics of switch and spanning tree operation. This overview provides the basis for covering troubleshooting techniques in the switched environment. Plan to leave this course with the skills necessary to successfully test and troubleshoot the physical and data link layers of today's Ethernet networks.

Course Outline

Overview of Ethernet operation

Impact of Ethernet Errors

Measuring network performance

Troubleshooting Ethernet networks

Overview of Switching technologies

Packet capture and analysis in switched environments

Troubleshooting tool matrix, what to use and when

Who Should Attend
This course is intended for network administrators, designers, and analysts that are responsible for Ethernet networks.

You Will Learn
Students will be prepared to test existing Ethernet networks to determine if they are operating properly and how to quickly isolate and resolve problems - should they exist.

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

The instructors will take attendees through a series of trace files from real networks to show how protocols should and should not work. How and where to capture packets will be covered.

Filter examples for Wireshark and configuration examples for MRTG will be provided as part of this course. The attendees will leave the class with the tools and skills necessary to begin troubleshooting problems upon returning to work. A CD containing each of the tools will be provided, along with same trace files.

Course Outline

Open Source Troubleshooting Tools, Best of the Best

Packet Capture and Analysis using Wireshark

The Basics of Protocol Analysis

Measuring Network Throughput with Iperf

Monitoring SNMP devices using MRTG

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

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

Wireless LANs and Wi-Fi continue to evolve at a rapid rate, with many more 802.11 Task Groups yet to finish their standards, while WLAN system vendors are continuing to push their architectures, system performance, and management features. Advances in performance and support for time-bounded traffic are key, but there's much more in the works. This session will examine key technologies still under development, and the form these will take in extensions to today's enterprise-class products.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

Information security has become a critical issue within organizations, and a key success factor for businesses. In order to effectively maintain the integrity and security of an organization's information infrastructure effective security metrics and measures must be developed, implemented, and monitored. This presentation will discuss the concept of enterprise security metrics and measures as well as the topics that must be considered when developing, implementing and monitoring them. These topics will include the identification of measurable points and activities, the development of meaningful metrics and measures, monitoring concepts, and reporting strategies. Case studies and scenarios will also be used to demonstrate operational scenarios for the benefits and challenges of this throughout the presentation.

When most organizations today think about information protection, compliance is at the top of that list. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "Security by Compliance", which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

Build or Buy? This is the most common question related to the data center. Where do you put your IT equipment? Many choices are available today - building a new data center, converting an existing space, co-location, server and virtual server hosting or even "in the cloud." Which of these approaches is best for your business? This panel will discuss the various options and look at the balance between flexibility, cost and control that they offer.

If you believe all the articles in the trade magazines, it seems like all of the physical components of IT (i.e., desktops, networks, servers, firewalls, storage, application front ends, etc.) are being virtualized. The promised benefits of virtualization are compelling. However, there is just one problem: How can IT organizations that are currently struggling to manage their physical assets start to manage all of those virtual assets? The panelists on this session will detail what capabilities exist today to manage virtualized resources and will identify what new functionality you can expect to see over the next year.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

The RIM BlackBerry system is one of the most successful enterprise mobile platforms ever introduced, and the platform is not standing still. With a number of exciting new models, broadening appeal, highly-visible marketing, and new software features, the BlackBerry will remain the platform of choice for many enterprises even as the platform space heats up. This session will provide the details developers need to take advantage of all the BlackBerry has to offer.

The growth of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geospatial solutions and tracking technology for positioning both outside and inside buildings is exploding. The problem with these technologies is they are often misunderstood and deployments can be more challenging than expected. This workshop will help attendees understand the options and capabilities of the current location marketplace and help provide a roadmap for gaining real value for enterprise organizations -- large and small.

During this workshop we'll cover: * Basic GPS technology, terminology and hardware sources and components to build a solution * The role of all components in a total solution involving the different technologies of GPS, Wireless Cellular, Active RFID, Satellites, Sensors, Antenna and more * Geo-mashups - how to manipulate data and mapping to create new knowledge * How to plan and build a business case for Location Based Solutions * Geo File formats and how to combine raster and vector data * Geo-coding -- how to convert location codes from one system to another * Understanding the Geo-Standards world of the Open Geospatial Consortium * Mobile phone location services - applications for business, social networking and entertainment - all in a phone * In-building tracking solutions - why they are different than GPS and the wide variety of options * Limitations and tradeoffs of geomashups vs. enterprise geo-solutions * The future direction and current research in Geospatial Information and pervasive Web Services

We'll end the session with a review of the vendors providing hardware and solutions in the market.

Who Should Attend CTO, CIO, Project Managers, Developers, Transportation and Logistics Specialist, Government and Municipal Planners, Field Service Managers, Sales Force Specialist, Network & Telecommunication Specialist, Health and Human Service Providers, Natural Resource Specialist and anyone interested in understand Geographic Information Systems and Location Based Services.

The use of a global positioning system (GPS) has become pervasive throughout the world, and many now use location and tracking technologies available on most wireless-LAN systems to implement similar capabilities indoors. The remarkable variety of devices and applications now available opens the door to new possibilities for the enterprise. This session will discuss the technologies, products, and applications now available - and on the way - to maximize the value of an investment in location and tracking meeting a broad range of enterprise requirements.

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

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

Course Outline

How to develop a new framework for the business of IT

How to formalize policies and processes

How to map the organization to new business models and processes

How to identify, hire, train, and retain the right employees

How to select support systems and tools

How to manage customer expectations and set customer service levels

How to develop end-user and IT buy-in

How to build executive management commitment

Know the critical success factors

How to make it all happen

Who Should Attend

Directors and managers of IT organizations or units<

IT and IS professionals

Anyone who needs to realign IT with the business

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

Join market leaders Agito Networks, Psion Teklogix, and SalesNOW on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

4:00 - 4:10
Is Fixed Mobile Convergence Ready for the Enterprise? - Sponsored by Agito Networks
4:20 - 4:30
Mobile Workplace Computing Solutions: Maximizing the ROI of Mobile Technology - Sponsored by Psion Teklogix
4:40 - 4:50
BlackBerry for Business - Beyond Email - Sponsored by SalesNOW

This workshop covers the philosophical tricks and technical approaches that experts use in building advanced firewall and secure network architectures. Learn about the art of firewall design, so that you can reason about and build high-performance high-security systems. We will focus on various architectures of security systems in the broad sense, rather than delving into individual details about particular products that are currently on the market. Additionally, you will learn about related firewall/security techniques including how to build filtering rules for intrusion prevention, setting up caching proxy servers, failing over multiple firewalls, compartmenting wireless traffic, setting up SSH and SSL services and secure email access. Overall, we emphasize a "do it yourself" attitude based on using freeware/open source tools to get the job done securely.

Course Outline

Philosophy of Firewall design and deployment

Policy kung fu

The security stack

Advanced dirty tricks for filtering and blackholing traffic

Web proxies

Firewall logs and what to do with them

Building ultra-secure web DMZs

Who Should Attend
Security administrators interested in building advanced security systems.

You Will Learn:
How to demystify, build and understand firewall architectures and advanced internet security configurations.

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

The use of a global positioning system (GPS) has become pervasive throughout the world, and many now use location and tracking technologies available on most wireless-LAN systems to implement similar capabilities indoors. The remarkable variety of devices and applications now available opens the door to new possibilities for the enterprise. This session will discuss the technologies, products, and applications now available - and on the way - to maximize the value of an investment in location and tracking meeting a broad range of enterprise requirements.

Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, vendors have recently started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to both the switch and router operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists on this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

Will Ethernet unify the storage and data networks into one single fabric? Or does storage need its own network to deliver high performance? Will storage be carried over FCoE or iSCSI, or some other protocol? Or will fiber channel continue to grow and evolve? Panelists will discuss these and other issues around next-generation data center networks, take audience questions and present case studies to support their claims.

IT organizations are under increasing pressure to meet highly demanding business priorities, while dealing with day to day operational limitations. Technologies such as virtualization and Unified Fabric offer a great opportunity for IT leader to improve the responsiveness and agility of their organizations. Nonetheless, the evolutionary path to full adoption of these converged technologies in the data center involves changes to IT processes, network architecture, as well as the skill set required to support the new IT. As unified fabric architectures evolve the network will be the SAN for block or file access. This creates new opportunities for further storage consolidation and network architecture optimization. This session will explore the business benefits of unified fabric with FCoE on the SAN and the network architecture implications. This session will also discuss the business benefits of converged technologies in IT, with a particular focus to the data center, and highlight some of the implications that these technologies will have on processes and people within IT.

The iPhone is arguably the most exciting and ultimately influential wireless handset ever developed, and is already spawning a broad range of imitators. Originally targeted at consumers, the iPhone itself is now being directly marketed to the enterprise, and has already found a home with many business users. This session will explore the enterprise-specific features of the iPhone, as well as what's involved in both using the device and integrating it to enterprise IT solutions.

Join market leaders Datasquirt, Metageek, Varaha Systems, and OQO on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

12:10 - 12:20
Multi-Channel, Contact Management - Sponsored by Datasquirt
12:30 - 12:40
Visualizing Your Wireless Landscape - Sponsored by MetaGeek
12:50 - 1:00
uMobility - Revolutionizing and Simplifying Enterprise Communications! - Sponsored by Varaha
1:10 - 1:20
Enable Your Mobile Workforce with OQO - Sponsored by OQO

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

Course Outline

Voice Coding

Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP)

Quality of Service

SIP

Security

NAT and Firewall Traversal

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

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

Some analysts believe that the convergence of wireline and wireless - and more importantly, the convergence of multiple mobile wireless technologies into a single handset with the real-time handoff of a connection - defines the ultimate wireless solution. But others believe that the deployment of a single technology using both traditional cells and indoor femtocells is a much simpler - and much more effective - approach. This session will examine fixed/mobile convergence, mobile/mobile convergence, device and software trends, and femtocells and related approaches in a debate designed to answer this fundamental question for enterprise IT managers and users.

Over the years, there have been numerous advancements in IT security designed and built with the purpose of mitigating the emerging or newly identified attack vector. As the old Latin adage states "Mater Artium Necessitas" or as we more commonly refer to it: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". Do we as IT security professionals - the guardians of the corporate jewels - ever stop and holistically look at the ever growing hodge-podge of security solutions deployed in our environments and think: has my security architecture been built on the "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" philosophy? Is there a better way to approach IT security? Here's the good news there is!

A current chief information security officer (CISO) with an industry leading information security program will share information on the implementation of a knowledge management process and capability that supports and enables core information security processes while also providing relevant artifacts for stakeholders, auditors and regulators. The knowledge management process achieves a reasonable balance between due diligence security practices and the demonstration of due diligence for multiple stakeholders. The CISO will draw upon experience from two financial service firms that have implemented this process; thus improving their productivity by significantly reducing staff time allocated to the preparation and completion of audit and regulatory work requirements. The knowledge management framework is a combination of core processes, work flows and a repository of artifacts that leverages a vendor-provided technology solution based on industry best practices, along with custom developed applications.

When most organizations today think about information protection, compliance is at the top of that list. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "Security by Compliance", which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure.

Some analysts believe that the convergence of wireline and wireless - and more importantly, the convergence of multiple mobile wireless technologies into a single handset with the real-time handoff of a connection - defines the ultimate wireless solution. But others believe that the deployment of a single technology using both traditional cells and indoor femtocells is a much simpler - and much more effective - approach. This session will examine fixed/mobile convergence, mobile/mobile convergence, device and software trends, and femtocells and related approaches in a debate designed to answer this fundamental question for enterprise IT managers and users.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves.

Attend the two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs at billion-dollar-plus organizations: Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world.

The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will then identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not.

A very small number of companies generate the vast majority of today's web pages, from Facebook applications to hosted sites. With compelling economics, they may be running most of the world's computing in a short while. This panel gets behind the scenes with some of the world's Big Cloud operators for a look at what they know about running large-scale computing.

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

Join market leaders Datasquirt, Metageek, Varaha Systems, and OQO on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

12:10 - 12:20
Multi-Channel, Contact Management - Sponsored by Datasquirt
12:30 - 12:40
Visualizing Your Wireless Landscape - Sponsored by MetaGeek
12:50 - 1:00
uMobility - Revolutionizing and Simplifying Enterprise Communications! - Sponsored by Varaha
1:10 - 1:20
Enable Your Mobile Workforce with OQO - Sponsored by OQO

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?

Are you dealing with an ever-growing demand for business services across an increasingly complex infrastructure, while challenged by inefficient and expensive manual processes, underutilized assets, and configuration changes? Automating key IT processes, including server provisioning, configuration auditing and workloads, can help optimize data center resources, improve efficiency and manage costs. This session discusses the current and future states of data center automation, and key considerations that automation should accommodate.

Enterprises and Service Providers tend to offer WAN optimization as a tactical "quick fix" to performance problems in certain parts of the network. Taking a more strategic approach to WAN optimization can yield benefits across the enterprise that is not limited to fixing short-term performance and bandwidth challenges. This session will discuss the benefits of a strategic approach.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual property accounted for more than 74 percent of IT financial losses last year. This session will discuss how a single console solution can help your business create and enforce security policies for all components of your perimeter.

Virtualization allow companies to meet new business needs and say goodbye to underutilized hardware platforms, server sprawl and spiraling IT costs. This session will discuss how organizations can create an agile, policy-based environment to automate and orchestrate virtual machine lifecycle management. Without proper management, companies only have a piece of the virtualization puzzle.

When it's your application on their infrastructure, you have a hard time knowing what's happening. On-demand computing environments often hide details from application operators as a result of their virtualization. New computing means new management. This panel of experts and innovators looks at emerging best practices for managing applications when they're running in the cloud.

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

When it's your application on their infrastructure, you have a hard time knowing what's happening. On-demand computing environments often hide details from application operators as a result of their virtualization. New computing means new management. This panel of experts and innovators looks at emerging best practices for managing applications when they're running in the cloud.

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

Prepare your network for the new demands of globalization, virtualization, round-the-clock operations, and worldwide, highly mobile workforces. This session describes in detail the services and framework needed at the WAN edge to meet global business demands for collaboration by delivering constant, reliable access to rich media and applications with uncompromising security and network performance.

The technology behind anti-virus today is inefficient when it comes to protecting against modernized threats. The fact is vendors simply can't keep up with all of the new malware surfacing every day. This presentation will address alternatives to the traditional anti-virus model and how companies can adopt a SaaS model.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

If you believe all the articles in the trade magazines, it seems like all of the physical components of IT (i.e., desktops, networks, servers, firewalls, storage, application front ends, etc.) are being virtualized. The promised benefits of virtualization are compelling. However, there is just one problem: How can IT organizations that are currently struggling to manage their physical assets start to manage all of those virtual assets? The panelists on this session will detail what capabilities exist today to manage virtualized resources and will identify what new functionality you can expect to see over the next year.

It seems as though 3G just arrived, but, in reality, 3G is over 10 years old. Meanwhile, 4G is now on the way in the form of both Mobile WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems and technologies. This session will review the key 3G technologies now available, and frame the advances embodied in 4G. We'll also discuss the definition of 4G - which is still the subject of some debate - and rollout plans. Lastly, we will explore what may be a key battle shaping up between Mobile WiMAX and LTE.

A debate is brewing - what is the best software environment for mobile devices? Is a robust operating system required, along with support for third-party applications, or will a more contained and manageable smartphone platform ultimately be preferred? How can software for mobile devices be economically and reliably developed? What are the security and management requirements for mobile devices? How will information be managed and distributed in a highly-mobile world? This session has the answers.

What is service oriented architecture (SOA)? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web services? Are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.

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

Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in the corporate world in the early 1980s. What exactly are desktop and application virtualization; how do they differ; and how do they relate to server virtualization? What is application streaming? How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? What are the different architectural approaches? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

The concept of server-based computing is not new - published applications have been running in production for years on Windows Terminal Services and/or Citrix Presentation Server (now called XenApp). Today it is used in over 200,000 IT shops. This architecture has been the mainstay of call centers and users working occasionally from home. Now the ability to deliver a complete virtual desktop offers new possibilities to extend this virtual model to a whole new wave of users. But how do you evaluate which technologies best fit which types of users? How can you best use each of these technologies, with the best and most seamless user experience, along with the best management tools across the user base? Learn about how the lines are blurring across these technologies and how to take best advantage of one or both to fit the use cases in play within your organization.

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power. How will this new virtual infrastructure affect your storage, as well as your backup/ DR/ business continuance (BC) strategy? This session will explore the impact of server virtualization on your storage infrastructure and services, including architecture, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and other storage issues.

As IP telephony deployments scale up from the pilot stage to enterprise-wide implementations, it becomes more challenging to manage them and keep them running. This session helps the audience understand common sources of problems, and how to detect and fix them.

When you buy a switch, you are buying - and buying into - the switching vendor's architecture. In other words, you are adopting as your own that switching vendor's concept and strategy for how business should be conducted. Know what kind of strategic decisions are you making when you purchase a given vendor's switch. This session will discuss four categories of switching architecture and the strategic decisions network managers make when they buy them.

While Vista has received lots of venom since its release, it has great features people have never taken the time to learn. It is still a mystery why it acts the way it does. This session will help you understand these mysteries and how to use Vista successfully. Where do virtualized files go? This will be revealed, so repair is easy. Lock down Vista to comply with Federal regulation and stay secure. Learn where adjustment to control files can make your program Vista friendly. Add a hidden layer of security that groups can't override and few even know exits. Make a self-booting Live CD of Vista that you can easily customize like forensics, disaster recovery and penetration testing. All this and much more!

Course Outline

• Vista History
• Demonstration of Vista Virtualization
• What are dot Manifest files
• How to re-adjust Manifest files
• What is Biba integrity label security
• Demonstration of security labels
• How to create live Vista CD's
• What are the diagnostic tools in Vista
• Demonstration of troubleshooting common Vista problems
• How to increase Vista security

You Will Learn

Where your files went when Vista virtualized them and methods of assessing and repairing virtualization problems. They are not where you think.

How to get legacy programs to run in Vista by adjusting one file most people don't even know exists - he dot manifest.

How to lock files and folders from users that can't be overridden by group membership, all from a single command line entry.

How to make a bootable Vista live CD that can be used for diagnostics, disaster recover, even forensics. You'll even be able to put your favorite tools on this invaluable CD to meet your exact needs.

How to grasp the full range of trouble-shooting ability aided by 300 different tools in Vista.

How to finish securing Vista so it complies with federal standards.

Who Should Attend

• Technicians and supervisors who are moving to Vista
• Managers and Executives who need to make a decision on Vista

According to a survey from the Computer Security Institute, 2007 marked the first year that insider threats topped external attacks as the most pressing security issue. Despite efforts to prevent these breaches, businesses remain shockingly vulnerable. Internal blind spots leave companies open to fraud, policy violations and theft of intellectual property. Security managers lack the real-time monitoring and policy enforcement tools to effectively see and manage end-user activity. What can security teams do? This session will discuss existing approaches and current constraints to preventing insider threats. Attendees will also learn new strategies and techniques for minimizing their risks.

This session will provide a detailed report on hands-on testing of some of the leading vendor UC packages, showing how well these systems perform and where there is still a need for improvement.

This session will be a roundtable discussion with senior IT professionals on the IT function's current status. During the session, panelists will be asked to discuss how the difficult economic times are impacting their organizations; what progress they have made at breaking down stove pipes within their organization; and how they are establishing sustainable links with the business unit managers that fund IT. They will also be asked to give their opinions on which initiatives and technologies are most important to them over the next year and what type of a business case they need to justify spending.

The concept of server-based computing is not new - published applications have been running in production for years on Windows Terminal Services and/or Citrix Presentation Server (now called XenApp). Today it is used in over 200,000 IT shops. This architecture has been the mainstay of call centers and users working occasionally from home. Now the ability to deliver a complete virtual desktop offers new possibilities to extend this virtual model to a whole new wave of users. But how do you evaluate which technologies best fit which types of users? How can you best use each of these technologies, with the best and most seamless user experience, along with the best management tools across the user base? Learn about how the lines are blurring across these technologies and how to take best advantage of one or both to fit the use cases in play within your organization.

This fast-paced one-day hands-on workshop will provide you with exposure to all the major components of computer forensics - identification, preservation, analysis, and reporting.

Instructor Mark Spencer will draw upon his extensive experience in both the public and private sectors to lead the class through applying the proper tools to a "seized" hard drive in a case involving employee wrongdoing. Commercial and open-source tools designed to forensically tackle different types of electronic data will be applied during the investigation.

Computer Forensics Kickstart has been designed to prepare you to select and implement computer forensics tools that will be critical to successful investigations.

This is a hands-on workshop. Please be sure to bring your laptops.

Course Outline

• Identifying the "Universe of Data"
• Critical computer forensics tools
• Acquiring data at rest and in motion
• Constructing proper searches
• Evidence goldmines
• Professional report structure

Who Should Attend

• Anyone curious about computer forensics
• Experienced practitioners looking for a refresher course.

You Will Learn

You will learn which tools are necessary to conduct successful computer forensics investigations and how experienced computer forensics practitioners implement them.

Establishing an architectural framework that enables an organization to adapt its IT infrastructure and services in the context of enterprise strategies has never been more critical. This Workshop teaches the skills IT managers need to develop an enterprise network architecture using a decision-making framework and methodology for technology selection based on proven architectural principals, technical positions and template frameworks.

Course Outline

Network architecture value and benefits

Network architecture development methodology

Network architecture framework

Architectural principles

Technical positions: network protocols, IP addressing, routing protocols, QoS, IP multicast, switching and routing, local area

Networking, WAN/MAN services, wireless LANs, remote access, resiliency, IP Telephony, Internet access, storage area

Networking, and WAN performance optimization

Architectural templates: large/medium/small sites, campus, WAN/MAN, Internet access

Creation of Gap analysis and migration plans

Architecture implementation and review process

Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed specifically for enterprise network architects and technologists involved with network planning, network designers and consultants, and integrators and VARs.

You Will Learn
Attendees will learn valuable technical information and understand how to create network plans that support business initiatives.

What is service oriented architecture (SOA)? Is it really happening or is it just vendor hype? Are we witnessing a revolution in software design, integration and interoperability? For many, SOA sounds suspiciously familiar, evoking the same over-promised vendor-hype of previous failed integration attempts such as CORBA. Is SOA more than web services? Are companies really deploying service-oriented architectures, or are they just using the word as a shorthand for SOAP interfaces and a bit of ESB? Panelists will debate the hype vs. reality of SOA in today's enterprise.

When most organizations today think about information protection, compliance is at the top of that list. This new level of consciousness has become a great benefit to information security professionals as well as their greatest nightmare. The leadership of many organizations are now falling into the trap of "Security by Compliance", which has created a false sense of security for them. They believe that if they meet their legal and regulatory compliance requirements, they have fulfilled their requirements for information risk management and protection. This panel will discuss the challenge of taking advantage of the benefits created by new compliance requirements, while also overcoming the challenge of this new operating procedure.

What is driving enterprises to deploy PC- and PDA-based softphones today, and what are the prospects for these mobile and/or converged devices eliminating the need to buy single-function desktop telephones? What are the arguments for and against eliminating the desk phone, at least for knowledge workers?

With the release of Hyper-V in fall 2008, Microsoft is delivering a critical component of its overall virtualization strategy. Joining the ranks of the VMware and Xen hypervisors, Hyper-V is now part of Microsoft's next-generation server operating system Windows Server 2008, integrating it with the Systems Center management tools. Learn about Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008, and hear the experiences of early users to help you understand whether, where and how to take advantage of this new virtualization technology in your Windows shop.

Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in the corporate world in the early 1980s. What exactly are desktop and application virtualization; how do they differ; and how do they relate to server virtualization? What is application streaming? How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? Where should they fit into an overall desktop management strategy? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing them? What are the different architectural approaches? Learn about implementing virtual desktops and application virtualization and streaming, and evaluate how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Virtualization requires ?agentless' management. New strategies are needed for rapid deployment, monitoring, and remediation. This session addresses a novel approach which is characterized by rapid deployment and high reliability for virtual applications management.

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

What is driving enterprises to deploy PC- and PDA-based softphones today, and what are the prospects for these mobile and/or converged devices eliminating the need to buy single-function desktop telephones? What are the arguments for and against eliminating the desk phone, at least for knowledge workers?

Even small organizations have dozens of SaaS relationships. With new portals and tools being launched every day, and more and more employees using them, the SaaS explosion is a recipe for disaster. This session looks at the challenges of running multiple SaaS portals across an organization - from reporting and management to single-sign-on and administration.

Join market leaders Foxit Software, ESRI, Mackay Communications and Sybase iAnywhere on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.
12:10 - 12:20
An Immersive and Innovative Experience Of Mobile Document Viewing - Sponsored by Foxit Software Company
12:30 - 12:40
Take the Geographic Advantage to the Field - Sponsored by ESRI
12:50 - 1:00
Broadband Connectivity - The Satellite Solution - Sponsored by Mackay Communication
1:10 - 1:20
This is Not Your Uncle's Mobile Device Management Solution: Why MDM is Now for Every Organization - Sponsored by Sybase iAnywhere

Today's networks are highly complex, dynamic environments. Managing them can be very time consuming. Change and configuration management and routine administrative tasks are just some of the activities that consume valuable time. It is imperative that IT organizations find more efficient ways to manage their networks. Automation may offer relief, but will the "cure" be worse than the problem? In this session, you will learn about new technologies that are available to help simplify the challenge of automating network management. You will also learn about best practices that you can apply in your company to improve productivity while reducing costs and risks.

SaaS puts small startups on the same footing as their larger competitors. At first, so-called "small business" SaaS firms found that enterprise teams were their early adopters. But a new wave of simple, easy-to-use SaaS tools tied into the way smaller companies do business is changing this. This panel looks at the next generation of SaaS for SMB and how it is undermining the IT advantage of larger firms.

Some analysts believe that the convergence of wireline and wireless - and more importantly, the convergence of multiple mobile wireless technologies into a single handset with the real-time handoff of a connection - defines the ultimate wireless solution. But others believe that the deployment of a single technology using both traditional cells and indoor femtocells is a much simpler - and much more effective - approach. This session will examine fixed/mobile convergence, mobile/mobile convergence, device and software trends, and femtocells and related approaches in a debate designed to answer this fundamental question for enterprise IT managers and users.

What you don't know may hurt you, and is likely costing you money. As security technologies evolve to work faster and more efficiently amidst Web 2.0 video and peer-to-peer use on networks, they also work more deeply to reveal insights essential to maintain high security. In this session, you'll learn how to use security tools for performance monitoring, real-time event correlation, CPU utilization controls, latency demands and more. You will also learn how Nokia approaches security intelligence for some of the world's most demanding networks to deliver more efficient network security appliance usage and deployment.

Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based on a variety of data protection approaches. Today, because 24x7x365 access is expected, a range of data recovery capabilities are needed to map to all of your organization's recovery objectives. During this presentation we discuss best practices of a tiered BC/DR platform that integrates modular products such as CDP, replication, and automated failover capabilities with traditional backup and recovery for multi-layered protection. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of top five best practices to consider and key items/actions to include in the development of their BC/DR plans.

Wireless LANs and Wi-Fi continue to evolve at a rapid rate, with many more 802.11 Task Groups yet to finish their standards, while WLAN system vendors are continuing to push their architectures, system performance, and management features. Advances in performance and support for time-bounded traffic are key, but there's much more in the works. This session will examine key technologies still under development, and the form these will take in extensions to today's enterprise-class products.

Is there still a good reason why a mobile browser need be less capable than its desktop counterparts? Perhaps. But with mobile access to the web today just as important as mobile voice service, and with enterprises adopting web services as a fundamental IT strategy, there's now a clear requirement for mobile browsers that support desktop functionality - but in a compact package. This session includes a discussion of required features, demos of the latest mobile browsers, as well as a debate attempting to define best approach to user interface strategy and implementation.

Servers are the backbone of business today -- from e-mail and Web servers to file and print servers. bMighty.com lays out the basic nuts-and-bolts information growing businesses need to assess server requirements, make purchasing decisions, manage power consumption, and keep servers and valuable data out of harm's way.

If cloud computing offers significant benefits to IT departments in the enterprise, it's an absolute godsend for small and midsize companies. Instead of making do with a small, under-resourced IT staff trying to emulate the productivity of billion-dollar IT outfits, growing companies can now access enterprise-class solutions with limited up-front costs and easy scalability. bMighty.com addresses the important questions to help you decide when cloud computing is right for your business.

If cloud computing offers significant benefits to IT departments in the enterprise, it's an absolute godsend for small and midsize companies. Instead of making do with a small, under-resourced IT staff trying to emulate the productivity of billion-dollar IT outfits, growing companies can now access enterprise-class solutions with limited up-front costs and easy scalability. bMighty.com addresses the important questions to help you decide when cloud computing is right for your business.

As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications.

The Green Data Center sounds easier than it is. What are the various components of a green data center and how can companies make their existing data centers "greener"? What is the impact of green IT on the bottom line? Green is not just about the production of energy or the use of alternate sources; it is about energy strategies, energy efficiency, energy management and cost reduction. It's about sustainable computing and competitive advantage. It's about the bottom line as well as environmental responsibility and stewardship. How do you model the cost of electricity across all IT equipment? And how can you convert that cost model into a green ROI? Panelists will discuss strategies, technologies, challenges, cost models and case studies to help demystify green IT.

This session explains the basic concepts of Unified Communications (UC), including communications enabled business processes; multimedia collaboration; systems integration in UC; and the interrelationship of UC and contact center technologies.

Social bookmarking installations often go from good to great to overwhelming. Although social bookmarking offers a rich potential for discovery and connecting it requires analysis and understanding of what is hidden in the mass of shared contributions. This session will show how to manage and make sense out of this flood of information.

A very small number of companies generate the vast majority of today's web pages, from Facebook applications to hosted sites. With compelling economics, they may be running most of the world's computing in a short while. This panel gets behind the scenes with some of the world's Big Cloud operators for a look at what they know about running large-scale computing.

The use of a global positioning system (GPS) has become pervasive throughout the world, and many now use location and tracking technologies available on most wireless-LAN systems to implement similar capabilities indoors. The remarkable variety of devices and applications now available opens the door to new possibilities for the enterprise. This session will discuss the technologies, products, and applications now available - and on the way - to maximize the value of an investment in location and tracking meeting a broad range of enterprise requirements.

The attack community has begun to shift gears and focus more on the endpoint and less on the network, as well as the supporting infrastructure that the endpoint relies upon. This new level of attention has already resulted in numerous attacks using spyware tools, Trojan horse applications, keystroke loggers and other malicious software that is being installed without the knowledge of the users and under the radar screen of current endpoint protection techniques. This session will discuss the key concepts that need to be considered when choosing an endpoint security solution and highlight some of the capabilities that exist in the market today for endpoint security solutions.

Networks and services may be converging, but divergence in mobile subscriber units continues to be the rule. Today's mobile handsets feature a broad range of form factors, operating environments, expansion options, and user interfaces, challenging enterprise IT managers, network planners, operations staff, and users to carefully define requirements and ask the right questions before a purchasing decision is made. This session will look at the key new mobile and wireless products aimed at business users, and will feature demos of products you'll want to see.

With the web now forming the basis not just for publishing, but also for B2B and B2C m-commerce as a platform for applications, it's critical to understand the technologies of the mobile web. Also, businesses need to know how to extend their web strategies to mobile users. That's what this session is about. We'll explore how new web applications can be effective on mobile platforms, and the key tools and technologies required to be successful in making next-generation web applications mobile.

Information privacy has become a major policy, technology, and business operations issue for organizations large and small in the corporate, government, financial, health care and retail, among other sectors. Compliance initiatives are not only complex, but can be very costly, cumbersome and confusing. As digital business communication continue to become more and more essential and ubiquitous, it is also contributing to a proliferation of personal customer data and information that organizations must protect. Clearly, corporations and technological developments haven't kept pace with data privacy needs. Information must be protected wherever it is collected, stored and used. This session will give audience members a 360-degree view of the privacy issues we face, and will inform audiences about how they can go beyond compliance to protect critical personal information while achieving greater business process efficiencies. Examples will be cited to illuminate key points.

As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications.

Some analysts believe that the convergence of wireline and wireless - and more importantly, the convergence of multiple mobile wireless technologies into a single handset with the real-time handoff of a connection - defines the ultimate wireless solution. But others believe that the deployment of a single technology using both traditional cells and indoor femtocells is a much simpler - and much more effective - approach. This session will examine fixed/mobile convergence, mobile/mobile convergence, device and software trends, and femtocells and related approaches in a debate designed to answer this fundamental question for enterprise IT managers and users.

Collaboration is a key strategic objective mandated by corporate executives to help accelerate company growth, build brand value and maintain competitive advantage. Novell's collaboration solutions can help companies foster innovation, positive teaming cultures, and support of continuous employee self-training and improvement. Supported by research from CIO magazine, this session will showcase solutions for enterprise collaboration and social software using Web 2.0 technologies. You will learn multiple use cases scenarios that apply to each line of business units within your organization and how each use case scenario can help you achieve your strategic corporate objectives.

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?

Ever think that wireless and mobile are so big, complex, and evolving so quickly that figuring it all out is a full-time job? In this session, you'll have the opportunity to meet the top analysts who do just that - predict the future of everything related to mobility. And, of course, whenever you get two or more analysts together, it's a sure bet that there will be heated debate driven by a detailed knowledge of the industry, technology, and markets. We'll allow plenty of time for questions from the audience, so join us as we kick off MBX 2008 with a lively discussion of the issues, and what's next for wireless.

Is there still a good reason why a mobile browser need be less capable than its desktop counterparts? Perhaps. But with mobile access to the web today just as important as mobile voice service, and with enterprises adopting web services as a fundamental IT strategy, there's now a clear requirement for mobile browsers that support desktop functionality - but in a compact package. This session includes a discussion of required features, demos of the latest mobile browsers, as well as a debate attempting to define best approach to user interface strategy and implementation.

The vast majority of workers currently reside in branch offices and access applications over a relatively low-speed, high-latency WAN. The use of the WAN causes many applications to perform badly. As a result, many vendors have deployed solutions to improve the performance of these applications. From a distance, all of these solutions in this area look similar. However, there are many significant differences between them. This will be a question and answer session that will identify the key differences between the current solutions.

Join market leaders Datasquirt, Metageek, Varaha Systems, and OQO on the Mobile Business Expo floor for a series of sessions highlighting exciting products and important trends in mobility today.

12:10 - 12:20
Multi-Channel, Contact Management - Sponsored by Datasquirt
12:30 - 12:40
Visualizing Your Wireless Landscape - Sponsored by MetaGeek
12:50 - 1:00
uMobility - Revolutionizing and Simplifying Enterprise Communications! - Sponsored by Varaha
1:10 - 1:20
Enable Your Mobile Workforce with OQO - Sponsored by OQO

The next few years will bring widespread awareness of the environments impact (especially energy costs) associated with data storage. Already several regulations and initiatives (e.g. ROHS, WEEE, and Energy Star) affect manufacturers of storage components or computers. There are also some innovative storage technologies especially targeted towards energy conservation including MAID, along with the well-known alternatives of removable storage like tape and optical. Several vendors have also begun to offer data on power use, energy consumption and cooling loads in response to competitive pressures from other vendors and customers. Some vendors and consultants are offering energy modeling as part of their TCO analysis, either for competitive reasons or as part of their professional services portfolio. This presentation will quickly review basic engineering topics relevant to understanding "Green", including stuff you may have successfully avoided, such as environmental chemistry, thermodynamics, energy vs. power; and computational and storage density, as well as the resulting energy and cooling issues. Conceptual models sufficient to understand or even develop energy budgets will be taught. All of this will converge on a basic model for TCO that includes energy modeling. This session has been brought to you by the SNIA Green Storage Initiative.

The general buzz in the trade press is that IT organizations should optimize the performance of their company's key enterprise applications. While it is difficult to disagree with that statement, it does beg the question of how best to do it. In this session, the speakers will describe the data flow of key enterprise applications from companies such as SAP and Oracle. The speakers will then identify the performance roadblocks associated with those applications and will also identify which optimization techniques improve the performance of these applications and which ones do not.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

In the beginning, software vendors thought that they could handle security vulnerabilities as they handle software bugs using their regular support process. Unfortunately, it's not always so easy. Software security vulnerabilities are not like other software defects; they have a timeline and they are not simply triggered by random user events. Once attackers know how to exploit a vulnerability, they will actively attack until it is patched. This "window of vulnerability" has gotten smaller with auto-update and patch management solutions, but having a window of vulnerability at all is a problem. If you are not doing anything to reduce security flaws during your development cycle, you certainly have them in your software. In this session, Chris Wysopal will explain the steps that reduce security defects and how they will be beneficial to securing your code.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

Discuss cloud computing, social networks and mobility in an informal, collaborative setting.

This session will be a roundtable discussion with senior IT professionals on the IT function's current status. During the session, panelists will be asked to discuss how the difficult economic times are impacting their organizations; what progress they have made at breaking down stove pipes within their organization; and how they are establishing sustainable links with the business unit managers that fund IT. They will also be asked to give their opinions on which initiatives and technologies are most important to them over the next year and what type of a business case they need to justify spending.

The debate surrounding the concept of an "all-wireless enterprise" has been fierce - and with good reason - the outcome will have a profound impact on the near-term future of IT strategies and budgets alike. Can wireless LAN infrastructures support voice, data, and more? What role will the wired LAN play in an era dominated by mobility? And how will unified wired/wireless architectures ultimately define the future of enterprise connectivity?