2010 Speaker List

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

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

Interop represents a microcosm of the typical enterprise network. Learn about three unusual deployment problems encountered at recent New York Interop shows, all similar to what your network may experience.

• Network-wide intermittent Internet access.

• Almost operational 802.11 Access Point

• 802.11b/g performance challenges

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine.

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

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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

For more information click here.

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

The InteropNet functions like service provider, corporation, and academic institution, all at the same time. Each of these environments has it’s own native security challenges, all of which get more complex when combined. Josh will discuss how various McAfee security products, in careful coordination with many of the other InteropNet providers, address and mitigate these security threats in one of the most dynamic and challenging networks in the world.

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

While convergence of many forms remains a key topic in enterprise IT, we’re seeing just the opposite in handsets and mobile operating systems: continuing and even accelerating diversity. This has led many to ask a number of key questions with far-reaching impacts on both IT and the bottom line: Which platforms survive? What will these look like going forward? And how can the enterprise successfully plan the evolution of mobility given these shifting sands? This session will feature a debate of the key issues and opportunities surrounding these vital concerns.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

One of the biggest concerns companies face with public clouds is the storage of their secrets in third-party locations. Moving confidential data into on-demand environments may violate laws, weaken copyright claims, and put the organization at risk. In this session, we'll separate legitimate concerns from the unjustified fears of server-huggers.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

IT professionals and even cloud providers are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see the potential of loss of control that may increase their organization’s risk profile. Either way, cloud developments call many security assumptions into question. This discussion format panel will give Cloud Providers a chance to offer diverging opinions about the myths and realities of security in the cloud, and how their companies see the future of cloud security developing.

Choosing a video conferencing system is daunting. You face a sea of choices. Solutions range from multi-million dollar telepresence suites to desktop software available for pocket change. Your supporting infrastructure can be ad hoc, centralized within your enterprise, integrated with voice or unified communications solutions, or outsourced to a managed services provider. Which technologies will best suit your needs? This session presents a decision tree approach for sifting through vendor offerings and hype so you can determine the right size, bandwidth, features and infrastructure to meet your visual communications needs.

Real-time traffic (voice and video) demand that the network provide low latency, low packet loss and low jitter. Today’s dynamic networks are constantly changing, and the distributed nature of network configuration often lead to errors in design or implementation that can cause quality problems for voice and video conferencing applications. A new breed of testing methodologies and tools is required to test or monitor networks and to isolate problems. This session will explore the need for these tools, will categorize the tools and will list vendors that provide the different kinds of solutions needed to manage today’s complex converged networks. You’ll also learn how to use these tools to troubleshoot when problems do arise.

Video conferencing is arguably the toughest application your enterprise network must support. It gobbles bandwidth while demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support enterprise video conferencing is key to its acceptance as a business tool. This session will explore technical aspects of designing, testing, and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence -- and dive deeply into security, LAN QoS, and WAN QoS issues.

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

Enterprises are universally considering and installing features of Unified Communications. The forces of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobility are driving change into every aspect of enterprise communication. Learn how Unified Communications will become ubiquitously deployed as these technologies sweep through the workplace. ShoreTel’s Founder and CTO, Ed Basart describes the future of enterprise communications.

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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

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

Are public cloud providers ready to offer meaningful service level agreements? How can we monitor their performance and availability? In the last year, there's been considerable research into the reliability of on-demand platforms, and in this session, we'll look at the tools and techniques you can use to measure cloud SLAs and keep providers honest.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

Armed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

Virtualization impacts every major compliance standard and requires fundamental changes to security practices. What should this mean to you? This session will discuss what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to virtual where compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas discussed will include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. The session will also discuss how to build a framework for securing virtual data centers and private clouds, and how to take physical security constructs like Zones and propagate them to the virtual infrastructure to enable consistent security across the entire data center. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Come and meet the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. This elite group is helping to advance private cloud deployments and drive future innovations. Representing a range of expertise, the Cloud Advisors will discuss the areas needed to successfully and securely deploy your own private cloud.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

Building a large-scale cloud is hard work. It requires massive automation of a scalable architecture across widely varying underlying systems. And it needs a team with a wide range of technical disciplines.

When all of the stakeholders in an IT investment -- security, developers, business, storage, network, administrators, and DBAs -- all want something different, the result is today's typical enterprise data center. But there's a better way, and if you want to build a true cloud, you need to break down silos of all kinds. It takes tremendous willpower and solid executive buy-in to break down these barriers and align disparate interests.

Join Randy Bias, CEO of Cloudscaling and a leading authority on cloud architectures, for a journey through the challenges of building a private enterprise cloud that's deliberately designed along the principles of cloud giants like Amazon and Google. We'll unearth the political challenges, cultural land mines, and technological hurdles you'll need to overcome, using a real-world use case as an example and arming you with a strategy and roadmap for your journey.

Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

Contrary to popular belief, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is not the only game in town. There are several virtualization techniques for desktops and applications and a blended approach is often the most cost-effective way to deliver the right services to varying user types. Learn how choice and flexibility can deliver the best desktop virtualization results.

There’s more confusion surrounding the contemporary “Gs” of wireless than most areas of IT and even wireless overall. This session will provide a detailed look at the practical side of next-generation mobile broadband, presenting a look at the performance, timetables for deployment, and additional advances in this key capability. With so much riding on the broadband services embodied in handsets, this session is a must for anyone involved in setting the direction for enterprise mobility initiatives.

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

While it’s seemingly impossible to produce multi-year plans for mobile IT deployments, that’s the number-one task facing many enterprise IT and network managers today. How can one pick the right combination of devices, networks, services, and applications? This session will offer advice on developing a strategy for success given a broad range of variables and greater strategic pressure than ever to set the right course.

This presentation will educate attendees on the importance of a UC strategy based on SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) open standards and interfaces, allowing for flexible deployment and integration into diverse IT and Telephony environments, including Microsoft and IBM. The session will discuss the transformational process efficiencies of CEBP (Communications enabled business processes) as well as explore the integration of social media applications within the enterprise.

Security budgets have recently come under intense scrutiny and often are being cut or left the same as previous years even in a climate where security threats and attacks are on the rise. In these conditions where do you invest your available budget? Why isn’t the technology you have invested previously solving your security problems? How do you use the technologies and capabilities that you already have more effectively? How do you convince your management and leadership that security is still relevant and important? What should you be thinking about next? This panel discussion will answer these questions and more by providing knowledge and insights from professionals who are successfully overcoming these challenges every day.

The mega vendor storage world is filled with the inefficiencies and inequities of bloated, archaic legacy storage companies unable to tap the SMB market. This market has long been disregarded, leaving a huge segment of users to make do with stripped down enterprise products, or a personal storage device left to under deliver. As digital data continues to grow, and data retention regulations and compliance filter down to SMBs, the benefit of data storage is fully felt at all levels.

SMBs require the sophistication of enterprise-level data safety and unprecedented expandability in a virtualized architecture. For a market that was sized in 2009 to be worth $6.3B to $24.5B (IDC Research) it’s due time to discuss requirements and the technology providers paving the way for real SMB storage infiltration.

Key objective of the session include:

* Debate the stall in storage innovation –specifically around RAID technology. RAID is the same data protection scheme, plus and minus a few features since 1984. When it was contemplated 25 years ago, nobody ever imagined the amount of digital data or storage arrays, or how many small businesses would be relying on digital data and the need for simplicity. Storage was never designed for this segment. The Mac is 25 years old and now we have an iPad, and RAID's 25 years old, and it's still RAID. Who is continuing to innovate and how will that impact the overall storage market/ecosystem?

* Candidly discuss the value and opportunity of the SMB storage market and address concerns, objectives and requirements. In discussing real-world SMB use cases of network attached storage deployments attendees will get a better idea of computing requirements, trends and SMB purchasing behaviors.

* Actively debate and converse on the SMB storage opportunity through Q&A with lead presenter (CEO, Data Robotics) and attending participants. With the overall objective, to garner a better understanding of this burgeoning market we call SMB.

Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

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

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

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

Who Should Attend and What You Will Learn

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

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

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

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

While convergence of many forms remains a key topic in enterprise IT, we’re seeing just the opposite in handsets and mobile operating systems: continuing and even accelerating diversity. This has led many to ask a number of key questions with far-reaching impacts on both IT and the bottom line: Which platforms survive? What will these look like going forward? And how can the enterprise successfully plan the evolution of mobility given these shifting sands? This session will feature a debate of the key issues and opportunities surrounding these vital concerns.

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

For more information click here.

Learn how centralizing your desktops can lower the cost of end point management. How can it give the most optimal user experience for a virtualized environment? This session will go into detail on end-to-end solutions. Sophisticated simplicity with an uncompromising user experience.

Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy.

Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure.

Virtualization impacts every major compliance standard and requires fundamental changes to security practices. What should this mean to you? This session will discuss what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to virtual where compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas discussed will include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. The session will also discuss how to build a framework for securing virtual data centers and private clouds, and how to take physical security constructs like Zones and propagate them to the virtual infrastructure to enable consistent security across the entire data center. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Anyone deploying mobile applications of any form is faced with a broad range of key decisions: Local apps or Web services or a hybrid? What tools should be used for current (and future) app development, deployment, and management? And how can mobility managers pick the best apps from a sea of hundreds of thousands? This session will provide practical advice on this key element of a successful mobility strategy.

Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

Hacking is a profitable business, and like any business, to achieve scalability, it must become organized and various groups must become specialized. At its core, industrialized hacking can be understood by looking at three areas including the roles and responsibilities of the individuals involved, the optimization of compromised resources, and the automation of the attack vectors. This presentation will explore research that has been done around the industrialization of hacking. It will include an analysis of processes and techniques such as automated attacks and business logic attacks that are being used by modern attackers as well as countermeasures to thwart them.

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

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.

Having trouble telling the difference between a Web App Firewall and an Application Aware Firewall? between a UTM and an XTM? How deep is this deep packet inspection versus that one? How many network security appliances do I need anyhow? Which "products" should really be features? With so much marketing and vendor FUD, how can anyone tell what they really need? How do virtualization, clouds, and APTs affect my ability to do Network Security - or at least change requirement priorities? Together, we will map all legacy network security appliances to a common model and the OSI stack and discuss key changes in the threat and technology landscapes - cutting through marketing and history. Participants will leave better informed and more equipped to save time, money, and hassle going forward.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

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The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application.

Armed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time.

In this concluding session, we'll look at what private cloud adoption means for enterprises. Once IT is democratized, how does the IT team's role change? What's on the horizon? What skill sets are needed to survive and thrive in an on-demand, self-service world?

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

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In this opening session, we'll look at the cultural changes that cloud computing brings to enterprise IT. Clouds are more than just a set of technologies--they're a shift away from IT as a monopoly towards IT's new role as a steward of applications and services.

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As we conclude the New York Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll look at the mainstreaming of cloud computing. Within a few short years, IT won't be asking what it can move to on-demand platforms -- it'll be asking what it has to keep operating on its own. As this happens, the role of enterprise IT professionals will change dramatically. We'll speculate on how this change will happen, and look at what the IT industry can do to prepare for the shift.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Cloud Computing is part of a more fundamental shift in IT: from a monopoly to a democracy. Once, computers were expensive, and the people who built applications for them were specialists. Today, however, computing is nearly free and everyone's a technologist. IT is shifting from a monopoly to a free market, much as other legal monopolies -- the phone company, the railroads -- were eventually forced to give up control. This presentation will take a step back to look at the big picture of ubiquitous, cheap computing and what it means for IT.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service computing uses the virtual machine as its fundamental unit: a single computer, rented by the hour. It's the ultimate in flexibility, but it burdens you with all of that machine's maintenance and scaling. On the other hand, Platform-as-a-Service promises virtually limitless scalability and freedom from low-level operations, at a price: custom APIs, limited choice, and even rewriting your code. This session will compare the two fundamental models of cloud computing, arming you to choose the right one for different situations.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

For more info click here.

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

This session will provide a brief summary of the build, documentation, and management of the Interop Show Network. We will take you through the processes and tools used to build, test and monitor the Interop Network from the Hot staging area in Brisbane, CA. to the show floor in NYC. We will cover backbone installation and testing, cable plant installation testing and documentation, network certification and delivery, and management and monitoring of the production network with the software and hardware tools used.

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

E-mail performance is increasingly significant as corporate workforces become more mobile. But with interfering factors like Internet congestion and cell network issues, mobile e-mail performance can become seriously impaired. This session will examine how one managed service provider successfully reduces latency and connectivity issues for its global hosted Exchange customers.

It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider.

The need for a definitive cloud architecture for the enterprise is addressed by Morphlabs' session on Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA). Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA) describes the building blocks and binding components of a fault tolerant, elastic and highly automated platform to run highly reliable applications and services. ECA implements the complete platform combination for cloud computing (also known as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS). In this 20-minute session, the elements of ECA, functional definition and the layers that comprise ECA will be introduced.

As cloud computing becomes more prevalent and moves from an option to an edict, it is important to understand the framework that makes it reliable and scalable. This session will discuss the building blocks of the cloud architecture and the functional innovation it brings:

* The "Assumed Failure" model of deployment

* Mechanics of self-healing and autoscaling for clouds and applications

* Application high availability vs VM high availability;

* Interoperability (and what it means for your deployment)

* Why standards are necessary

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A key direction for enterprise mobility management is to extend the edge of the organization’s network all the way to the mobile device - handsets and other mobile subscriber units can now be managed just like the rest of the network. But there are many possible directions, choices, and options to be considered in this rapidly-evolving field, and this session will examine key alternatives in what is becoming a vital concern – and opportunity - for organizations on the go.

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

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

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

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

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings.

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

Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure.

Virtualization impacts every major compliance standard and requires fundamental changes to security practices. What should this mean to you? This session will discuss what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to virtual where compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas discussed will include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. The session will also discuss how to build a framework for securing virtual data centers and private clouds, and how to take physical security constructs like Zones and propagate them to the virtual infrastructure to enable consistent security across the entire data center. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

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

Server memory is a critical resource constraint in datacenters and as demand for virtualization and cloud applications continues to increase; this limitation will have economic and operational impact. This presentation explores the new HyperCloud memory technology from Netlist and how it can maximize server utilization, improve productivity and reduce TCO.

Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

In this session, we'll look at where public clouds are today. In just a few short years, they've gone from unreliable and unpredictable to global and highly available. But are they ready for production code? Is it a one-horse game? What new features and capabilities might swing the balance from private to public?

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

For more information click here.

You’ve heard the messages over and over: everyone, everywhere is going wireless. Far be it from us to belittle the migration to mobility, but a reality check is in order: can an enterprise go entirely wireless? If so, what will IT infrastructures look like going forward? And, if not, what roles will wire play as at least the edge of the network cuts the cord? This session will provide a lively debate of this critical strategic issue.

Just last year Polycom and Tandberg were the top two players providing primarily room-based video conferencing equipment running H.323 to enterprises, with a number of additional players in the market working hard to take away some of their market share. Suddenly we have Cisco as the largest video vendor and HP announcing a strong new line of products with their partner Vidyo. Desktop video conferencing is on the rise. Unified Communications (UC) architectures are becoming the core of the video infrastructure involving Microsoft, IBM and Avaya in the fray, and using SIP as the standard for video signaling. How will all this settle out? If I am making a video conferencing decision now that I want to sustain my company for the foreseeable future, which way should I go?

In this panel, the video conferencing vendors will discuss these key transitions and how they see the market shaping up as we move forward. Join us to see if they agree or disagree, and learn which vendor’s vision best suits the requirements of your company.

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

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

While convergence of many forms remains a key topic in enterprise IT, we’re seeing just the opposite in handsets and mobile operating systems: continuing and even accelerating diversity. This has led many to ask a number of key questions with far-reaching impacts on both IT and the bottom line: Which platforms survive? What will these look like going forward? And how can the enterprise successfully plan the evolution of mobility given these shifting sands? This session will feature a debate of the key issues and opportunities surrounding these vital concerns.

Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy.

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

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

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

Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each.

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from managers and users putting mobility into practice across a wide array of applications. We’ll examine what works, what doesn’t, and what key requirements have been identified for the next generation of applications. We’ll also explore cost issues and how to make the best decisions regarding the marriage of applications and mobility.

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

For more info click here.

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

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

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

Vulnerability management has become a key component to information infrastructure security, however, it needs to evolve quickly to stay ahead of the hacking community and become more useful to IT Leadership. In order to keep up with the ever-growing threat landscape of technical vulnerabilities it is important to understand where you are vulnerable from both an application and network perspective. Traditional vulnerability management capabilities, techniques, and technologies may no longer be sufficient and can produce mixed results due to both the volume of vulnerabilities and credibility of the results. This session will focus on the current leading practices and the next generation of tools and techniques organizations can deploy for effective and realistic vulnerability management including:

* Prioritization of exploitable vulnerabilities

* Vulnerability enumeration techniques

* Remediation management concepts

* Compliance reporting capabilities

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

For more info click here.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

PCs, smartphones, and Web-based services create a fractured personal computing experience, with data and content scattered across diverse devices and online services. To solve this, service providers are building the next form of personal computing: the personal cloud ecosystem. Personal cloud services will include a combination of a data center cloud software platform, browser-based code to enable rich Web experiences, and device-level player or presentation code for richer experiences than the browser can provide. And they will create an ecosystem of complementary software and service providers on top of their own offerings.

DCIM encapsulates new approaches to integrating IT and facility management by centralizing monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of critical infrastructure. This session shares lessons learned in implementing Emerson’s 35,000-square-foot global data center, including actionable insight into infrastructure utilization in a virtualized environment, true measurement of capacity and power consumption, and accurate capacity planning.

It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider.

Cloud computing is becoming a more significant part of the IT resource chest and organizations are leveraging this to deliver their applications to customers. In a world where physical computing resources are by definition shared and virtual, delivering a good user experience becomes paramount.

There’s more confusion surrounding the contemporary “Gs” of wireless than most areas of IT and even wireless overall. This session will provide a detailed look at the practical side of next-generation mobile broadband, presenting a look at the performance, timetables for deployment, and additional advances in this key capability. With so much riding on the broadband services embodied in handsets, this session is a must for anyone involved in setting the direction for enterprise mobility initiatives.

One of the biggest concerns companies face with public clouds is the storage of their secrets in third-party locations. Moving confidential data into on-demand environments may violate laws, weaken copyright claims, and put the organization at risk. In this session, we'll separate legitimate concerns from the unjustified fears of server-huggers.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

For more information click here.

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

For more information click here.

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

Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault.

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

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.

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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy.

Everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does it really mean? It certainly includes virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on server virtualization technologies. But taking a broader look, there are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. This session will offer a view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI, server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.

The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings.

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

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

While it’s seemingly impossible to produce multi-year plans for mobile IT deployments, that’s the number-one task facing many enterprise IT and network managers today. How can one pick the right combination of devices, networks, services, and applications? This session will offer advice on developing a strategy for success given a broad range of variables and greater strategic pressure than ever to set the right course.

Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault.

A key direction for enterprise mobility management is to extend the edge of the organization’s network all the way to the mobile device - handsets and other mobile subscriber units can now be managed just like the rest of the network. But there are many possible directions, choices, and options to be considered in this rapidly-evolving field, and this session will examine key alternatives in what is becoming a vital concern – and opportunity - for organizations on the go.

Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures.

Get a perspective on how how to leverage the benefits of enterprise cloud technology in ways that are financially and operationally responsible. Let the cloud model work for you rather than trying to make your needs fit in to the cloud and get the most out of your investments.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

For more information click here.

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

With most network management and analysis solutions you slice and dice data to deal with network traffic from 10 Gigabit (10G) network segments. You’re forced to chose between real-time network performance statistics and network forensics. Learn best practices for achieving real-time visibility and storage of historical network data.

The number of Wi-Fi enabled devices has exploded. Additionally, application requirements are pushing bandwidth demand to a whole new level. Xirrus, the official Wi-Fi provider for Interop, will guide you through their planning and configuration for wireless services in a high-density environment. The presentation will cover both technical and non-technical methods, and attendees will leave with practical recommendations for building a reliable wireless network.

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

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

There’s more confusion surrounding the contemporary “Gs” of wireless than most areas of IT and even wireless overall. This session will provide a detailed look at the practical side of next-generation mobile broadband, presenting a look at the performance, timetables for deployment, and additional advances in this key capability. With so much riding on the broadband services embodied in handsets, this session is a must for anyone involved in setting the direction for enterprise mobility initiatives.

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You’ve heard the messages over and over: everyone, everywhere is going wireless. Far be it from us to belittle the migration to mobility, but a reality check is in order: can an enterprise go entirely wireless? If so, what will IT infrastructures look like going forward? And, if not, what roles will wire play as at least the edge of the network cuts the cord? This session will provide a lively debate of this critical strategic issue.

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

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

The Associated Press is the world’s largest syndicator of news content. Period. For them, the cloud offers the opportunity to further operationalize this asset, focus on the business challenges on hand and less on the infrastructure challenges. Join us for a case study in how they have used the Dallas data marketplace and other key building blocks of the Windows Azure Platform to create a new business opportunity. They will discuss their challenges, the approach, and lessons to date.

Few companies appreciate archived data like the Associated Press. Normally archived data refers to info we never plan to use other than on an exception basis. Yet we will still incur costs like computer hardware and software, electric power, and human resources. Why not monetize that information via a data marketplace? This how-to session will do just that. We will walk through how you can use the “Dallas” data marketplace as AP did. You’ll learn how to create a cloud-based information marketplace that allows monetization of content via a unified provisioning and billing framework. Additionally, we will show how “Dallas” enables developers and information workers to easily discover, purchase, and manage premium data subscriptions for current or new business needs, via the Windows Azure platform. Join us and see it in action!

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings.

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

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

Organizations are increasingly looking for opportunities to save energy outside of their data center. Why? According to Forrester Research, more energy may be consumed by distributed IT assets outside of the data center – like PCs and monitors – than within it. To reduce energy consumption and other environmental impacts of the PC environment, organizations can not only source more energy efficient PCs, such as thin clients, but then power down PCs at nights and over weekends when they’re not being used. This session will help IT professionals understand the tactics used to green their PC environment for cost savings, estimate the extent of these savings.

Security budgets have recently come under intense scrutiny and often are being cut or left the same as previous years even in a climate where security threats and attacks are on the rise. In these conditions where do you invest your available budget? Why isn’t the technology you have invested previously solving your security problems? How do you use the technologies and capabilities that you already have more effectively? How do you convince your management and leadership that security is still relevant and important? What should you be thinking about next? This panel discussion will answer these questions and more by providing knowledge and insights from professionals who are successfully overcoming these challenges every day.

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Today companies need solutions that accelerate deployment of automated private cloud environments that match the speed, flexibility and economics of public clouds – without risk or loss of control. Learn how to build a foundation to the cloud and identify a plan to converge public and private cloud solutions with common control, governances and security.

Come and meet the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. This elite group is helping to advance private cloud deployments and drive future innovations. Representing a range of expertise, the Cloud Advisors will discuss the areas needed to successfully and securely deploy your own private cloud.

A key direction for enterprise mobility management is to extend the edge of the organization’s network all the way to the mobile device - handsets and other mobile subscriber units can now be managed just like the rest of the network. But there are many possible directions, choices, and options to be considered in this rapidly-evolving field, and this session will examine key alternatives in what is becoming a vital concern – and opportunity - for organizations on the go.

In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

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

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

Amazon Web Services are the de facto model for public cloud platforms: a core offering of virtual machines, surrounded by a range of storage, messaging, and mamnagement service. For many companies, this will be their first taste of a public cloud. In this session, we'll walk through deploying your first application atop AWS -- from evaluating your workload profile, to selecting the right services, to migrating and configuring the application itself.

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider.

Desktop virtualization is more than VDI and IT must understand the different technologies, how to choose which users to start with, and how to take that success and expand it. Learn how desktop virtualization can transform desktop computing to address your management challenges while offering flexibility for users.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

For more info click here.

As you consider the most secure and cost-effective ways to take advantage of cloud computing in your enterprise, there are several factors you should assess for your strategy. Attend this session to learn about the technical, operations and business decisions that are the keys to a successful cloud implementation.

There’s more confusion surrounding the contemporary “Gs” of wireless than most areas of IT and even wireless overall. This session will provide a detailed look at the practical side of next-generation mobile broadband, presenting a look at the performance, timetables for deployment, and additional advances in this key capability. With so much riding on the broadband services embodied in handsets, this session is a must for anyone involved in setting the direction for enterprise mobility initiatives.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

Security budgets have recently come under intense scrutiny and often are being cut or left the same as previous years even in a climate where security threats and attacks are on the rise. In these conditions where do you invest your available budget? Why isn’t the technology you have invested previously solving your security problems? How do you use the technologies and capabilities that you already have more effectively? How do you convince your management and leadership that security is still relevant and important? What should you be thinking about next? This panel discussion will answer these questions and more by providing knowledge and insights from professionals who are successfully overcoming these challenges every day.

Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault.

You’ve heard the messages over and over: everyone, everywhere is going wireless. Far be it from us to belittle the migration to mobility, but a reality check is in order: can an enterprise go entirely wireless? If so, what will IT infrastructures look like going forward? And, if not, what roles will wire play as at least the edge of the network cuts the cord? This session will provide a lively debate of this critical strategic issue.

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

The State of The Service Desk Market is Ready for a New SaaS Gameplan

The Enterprise service desk market is poised for a rapid growth in SaaS because it offers rapid deployment. Traditional premise-based solutions are difficult to deploy, take too long to integrate or beg a RIP approach. SaaS IT service desk tools designed with an ITIL modular approach offer a cost effective gameplan. Integration between the SaaS IT service desk tool and other IT service management (ITSM) tools in the enterprise environmentsis a key selection criteria. Learn more in this session.

In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

GCE, a leader in cloud-computing technology for enterprises, implemented a government agency-wide financial system overhaul within the Department of Labor in early 2010. Through this implementation, GCE has built a best-practice case for adoption, transition and implementation of cloud-based systems that can be applied to other enterprise-class systems. The mission-critical implementations include sensitive financial information management tools such as automated workflows, world-class reporting tools to provide immediate visibility to data, elimination of hardware, software and hosting management, flexibility and scalability as the user's mission changes, security and a quick ramp-up to launch, while staying on budget. Ultimately, the solution will enable an organization to focus on its core mission.

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures.

With the looming move to Windows 7, IT organizations are faced with how to manage the upgrade of every desktop and application in their company. Desktop and application virtualization hold the promise of solving this problem along with the many desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT for decades. But until recently, multiple barriers prevented widespread adoption of virtual desktop technologies, and in fact, many early desktop virtualization projects failed as a result. This workshop will discuss previous barriers, how they now have been eliminated and why 2010 is becoming the year for desktop virtualization. Learn about all the various options available today - from major virtualization vendors to emerging startups - and why one size does not fit all. Hear the latest about the available desktop and application virtualization technologies, how to assess user desktop requirements across your entire organization, and determine how to successfully select and implement the right technologies for your organization.

For more information click here.

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.

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

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

Topics include:

• I/O virtualization for management and security

• The state of FCoE

• End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations

• External I/O virtualization solutions

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

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

With Wi-Fi now the primary or default access in enterprises of all sizes and types around the world, future success depends upon a detailed understanding of the evolution of both the standards and the specifications that determine key product capabilities going forward. This session will provide a detailed look at current and future developments in all aspects of wireless-LAN technologies, featuring the experts from industry responsible for bringing new capabilities to market.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

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

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

Organizations are increasingly looking for opportunities to save energy outside of their data center. Why? According to Forrester Research, more energy may be consumed by distributed IT assets outside of the data center – like PCs and monitors – than within it. To reduce energy consumption and other environmental impacts of the PC environment, organizations can not only source more energy efficient PCs, such as thin clients, but then power down PCs at nights and over weekends when they’re not being used. This session will help IT professionals understand the tactics used to green their PC environment for cost savings, estimate the extent of these savings.

Desktop virtualization has become one of the hot spots for 2010, in part because many of the barriers of the past have been eliminated. Along with the promise of solving the decades old problems of desktop management and support, desktop virtualization is bringing with it a renewed look at thin client (now also zero client) computing. How do server hosted applications and desktops relate to thin client computing and thin/zero client devices? How have these technologies changed/improved to become strong solutions for today's desktop challenges. Where do other technologies like Windows 7, smartphones and iPads fit in? Learn if, why and and how all these technologies should fit into your desktop strategy.

You’ve heard the messages over and over: everyone, everywhere is going wireless. Far be it from us to belittle the migration to mobility, but a reality check is in order: can an enterprise go entirely wireless? If so, what will IT infrastructures look like going forward? And, if not, what roles will wire play as at least the edge of the network cuts the cord? This session will provide a lively debate of this critical strategic issue.

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

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault.

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

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

The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network to enable it to support cloud computing. For example, a new LAN access layer has emerged that is comprised of the vSwitches embedded within the hypervisor software. However, these vSwitches typically have poor management scalability and limited traffic visibility. Today’s typical WAN can not effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting. It also is not experiencing the same type of price reductions as are computing and storage resources. In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges created by cloud computing and will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges.

Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each.

Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port.

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

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

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

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine.

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

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

IT professionals and even cloud providers are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see the potential of loss of control that may increase their organization’s risk profile. Either way, cloud developments call many security assumptions into question. This discussion format panel will give Cloud Providers a chance to offer diverging opinions about the myths and realities of security in the cloud, and how their companies see the future of cloud security developing.

We’re kicking off this year’s Wireless and Mobility track with a detailed look at the often confusing and complex world of wireless technologies. These key elements form the basis of modern wireless communications, and this session is designed to provide enterprise decision-makers and practitioners with all they need to know to pick the best solutions for requirements at hand, as well as to detail the still-evolving wireless landscape so as to best address upcoming user and application demands efficiently and cost-effectively.

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

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.

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

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

Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure.

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine.

Virtualization impacts every major compliance standard and requires fundamental changes to security practices. What should this mean to you? This session will discuss what gaps are introduced in the move from physical to virtual where compliance is concerned, and prescribe specific steps to ensure compliance for production deployments. Regulatory areas discussed will include FISMA, DIACAP, PCI, HIPAA and SOX/GLBA. The session will also discuss how to build a framework for securing virtual data centers and private clouds, and how to take physical security constructs like Zones and propagate them to the virtual infrastructure to enable consistent security across the entire data center. You will learn how various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

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

This session outlines the current power demands and industry trends within today’s Data Center, including regulatory direction along with the different types of power being used today and their advantages. Specific tools for device management and power monitoring will be explored including those implemented within the InteropNet.

The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

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In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

It is estimated that by next year, most data centers will have doubled their power consumption over a five year period. This session examines how companies can reverse the power consumption trend and extend the life of the data center through best practices, holistic planning and new technologies. By using a combination of consolidation, systems management, and green technologies, companies can get more capacity out of their current data center while allowing them to be more efficient in their business.

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

Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine.

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

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Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

The current legacy approach to security is expensive, resource intensive and ineffective. Babak Pasdar explains CloudSec, a comprehensive, robust and complete perimeter security solution that replaces equipment, support and subscriptions. Cloud/Sec is security in-the-cloud that delivers consistent security to all organizational sites while eliminating expense, and burdens of legacy tools and approaches.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings.

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

IT professionals and even cloud providers are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see the potential of loss of control that may increase their organization’s risk profile. Either way, cloud developments call many security assumptions into question. This discussion format panel will give Cloud Providers a chance to offer diverging opinions about the myths and realities of security in the cloud, and how their companies see the future of cloud security developing.

It may not be the sexiest technology, but there’s plenty to love about the kinds of cost savings you can get with SIP Trunking—not to mention the fact that SIP trunking is the only way to do true end-to-end UC within your enterprise. SIP Trunking remains one of the most talked-about topics in enterprise communications because the potential benefits are so great, while the availability of SIP trunk service offerings, and the maturity of those offerings, still falls short. In this session, the leading expert on SIP trunks will help you understand how to find a service provider, and how to get the right service for your enterprise.

Description to come.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

An effective Information Risk Management and Security strategy allows an organization to define how it will operate in order to achieve its business goals and requirements while still effectively protecting its information infrastructure and data assets. If developed properly strategy provides a roadmap for success that includes the definition of the capabilities, goals, timelines, functions, requirements, and metrics required to develop and implement an effective set of capabilities. It also assists an organization to answer the vital question of how much is enough? This session will focus on the key concepts and capabilities that should be considered when developing an Information Risk Management and Security strategy. Case studies of strategy development and implementations will be utilized throughout the session as well as discussions of current industry leading concepts and practices.

Security budgets have recently come under intense scrutiny and often are being cut or left the same as previous years even in a climate where security threats and attacks are on the rise. In these conditions where do you invest your available budget? Why isn’t the technology you have invested previously solving your security problems? How do you use the technologies and capabilities that you already have more effectively? How do you convince your management and leadership that security is still relevant and important? What should you be thinking about next? This panel discussion will answer these questions and more by providing knowledge and insights from professionals who are successfully overcoming these challenges every day.

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from managers and users putting mobility into practice across a wide array of applications. We’ll examine what works, what doesn’t, and what key requirements have been identified for the next generation of applications. We’ll also explore cost issues and how to make the best decisions regarding the marriage of applications and mobility.

Cloud computing is the great leveller--replacing upfront investment with pay-as-you-go pricing, and making new kinds of companies possible. For many early stage companies, the economics are unbeatable, encouraging them to experiment while reducing the amount of investment needed to get to an initial product. This panel of startups and web companies will tell us what they learned as they built their new ventures on cloud platforms.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

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

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

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

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

Hear from past attendees of Principles of Effective IT Management:

-If I implement just a few of the gems he provided I will improve my IT department in big ways. Tom was very impressive.

-This workshop was perfect as it touched on a lot of activities that are currently being worked on or are in process to be implemented.

-Thomas was an excellent presenter, who related with everything that my business is going through at the moment.

-Best speaker I've seen in ages. Very relevant to my work.

-Very impressed with this workshop.

-Without a doubt, this has been one of the most informative classes I have attended in the past three years I have been attending Interop.

-I was one of the lucky people who managed to attend Principles of Effective Management. The information presented is going to be very beneficial as I work towards improving my IT department process.

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

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

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

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

Hear from past attendees of Principles of Effective IT Management:

-If I implement just a few of the gems he provided I will improve my IT department in big ways. Tom was very impressive.

-This workshop was perfect as it touched on a lot of activities that are currently being worked on or are in process to be implemented.

-Thomas was an excellent presenter, who related with everything that my business is going through at the moment.

-Best speaker I've seen in ages. Very relevant to my work.

-Very impressed with this workshop.

-Without a doubt, this has been one of the most informative classes I have attended in the past three years I have been attending Interop.

-I was one of the lucky people who managed to attend Principles of Effective Management. The information presented is going to be very beneficial as I work towards improving my IT department process.

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

Today companies need solutions that accelerate deployment of automated private cloud environments that match the speed, flexibility and economics of public clouds – without risk or loss of control. Learn how to build a foundation to the cloud and identify a plan to converge public and private cloud solutions with common control, governances and security.

Come and meet the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. This elite group is helping to advance private cloud deployments and drive future innovations. Representing a range of expertise, the Cloud Advisors will discuss the areas needed to successfully and securely deploy your own private cloud.

A key direction for enterprise mobility management is to extend the edge of the organization’s network all the way to the mobile device - handsets and other mobile subscriber units can now be managed just like the rest of the network. But there are many possible directions, choices, and options to be considered in this rapidly-evolving field, and this session will examine key alternatives in what is becoming a vital concern – and opportunity - for organizations on the go.

Articles often describe the value that virtualization technologies can bring to IT but what are the realities of implementing server and desktop virtualization? Do they really offer the benefits that vendors are touting? What are the "gotchas" to avoid? Hear about the experiences of those who have implemented various virtualization solutions. Find out what strategies worked and which ones didn't. Listen to accounts of life in the trenches, and learn next steps to consider in your own implementations of virtual infrastructure.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each.

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

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On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

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IT professionals and even cloud providers are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see the potential of loss of control that may increase their organization’s risk profile. Either way, cloud developments call many security assumptions into question. This discussion format panel will give Cloud Providers a chance to offer diverging opinions about the myths and realities of security in the cloud, and how their companies see the future of cloud security developing.

Moving to the cloud raises lots of questions, mostly about security. Providers worthy of your business should answer them clearly and honestly. Amazon Web Services has built an infrastructure and established processes to mitigate common vulnerabilities and offer a safe compute and storage environment. Steve Riley will discuss common cloud security concerns, show how AWS protects its infrastructure from internal and external attack, and explain how you can take advantage of the security features of AWS in your own applications as you extend your enterprise into the cloud.

The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources.

Social networks simultaneously offer huge business benefits and unheard of security risks. How can enterprises effectively use social networks while not putting their security and data at risk? This session will detail the significant security and privacy risks that social networks create, and will also provides detailed guidance on ways organizations and individuals can use social networks in a safe and secure manner.

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

As we try to use clouds for increasingly mainstream, production-grade applications, performance and reliability become a greater concern. In this session, we'll review existing studies on cloud performance, and look at what and how to measure cloud performance.

The data center is a common starting point for most green IT initiatives. Data centers not only consume a tremendous amount of energy, but are riddled with IT inefficiencies. Take, for example, the average server environment where 30% are of servers are “dead” — consuming energy, but performing no useful work. And data center managers have ample opportunity to improve efficiencies across other IT systems, like storage and networks, and facilities equipment, like power distribution and cooling. This session will help data center managers develop a comprehensive green data center framework across their server, storage, network and facilities assets to deliver financial and environmental savings.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

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While it’s seemingly impossible to produce multi-year plans for mobile IT deployments, that’s the number-one task facing many enterprise IT and network managers today. How can one pick the right combination of devices, networks, services, and applications? This session will offer advice on developing a strategy for success given a broad range of variables and greater strategic pressure than ever to set the right course.

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

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

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from managers and users putting mobility into practice across a wide array of applications. We’ll examine what works, what doesn’t, and what key requirements have been identified for the next generation of applications. We’ll also explore cost issues and how to make the best decisions regarding the marriage of applications and mobility.

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

With the promise of better pricing, simplicity and now several enterprise-grade solutions to pick from, SaaS email seems very compelling. But are SaaS-based offerings truly ready for enterprise demands? Are the pricing models still attractive when scaled to large companies? How will SaaS-based products integrate with on premise applications? This is a must attend session for anyone considering the move to SaaS email.

Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures.

Businesses are always looking for ways to maximize the latest applications on the market. This session will introduce the world’s first matchmaking engine connecting specific businesses with relevant applications, an innovative approach to helping customers find the SaaS apps that fit their needs.

Businesses today have more choice in cloud-based applications than ever before. Understanding how this technology can work to your business’ advantage is more critical than ever. This session will help you understand the specific benefits of using SaaS cloud-based solutions instead of traditional solutions.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

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Both software vendors and internal IT groups are struggling with how to migrate existing business applications to Software as a Service (SaaS) models in the cloud. Find out how leading companies are streamlining ongoing application delivery operations while also achieving first mover advantage by maximizing speed to market.

IT security technology is extremely dynamic in nature. Not only do new and improved security technologies constantly emerge, but some technologies become increasingly prevalent, whereas others fall by the wayside. Furthermore, many information security experts believe that we have been using the same basic security measures over the last 20 years and that this is one of the major reasons for the growing gap between actual risk and managed risk. The technology arena is not excepted from this view. Because technology is so critical in mitigating information security-related risk, keeping in touch with security technologies (especially new and emerging ones), understanding their real functionality, capabilities, limitations, and potential for improvement despite all the hype that surrounds them, understanding environments and contexts in which they are most likely to be successful, and learning how to develop an effective strategy for deploying and phasing in these technologies is essential.

This one-day course will cover four extremely critical security technologies: network security, cloud computing, virtualization, and intrusion detection technology. The course will present a realistic view of each technology and will then delve into security issues related to each one.

Course Outline

* Network security
* Cloud computing
* Virtualization and security
* Intrusion detection technology
* Wrap-up

You Will Learn

* The major types of current and emerging threats against network security and how the network threat landscape has changed over the last few years
* Major kinds of network security technologies (with an emphasis upon new and emerging technologies), how each can help protect against network attacks, and limitations of each
* How to develop and implement an effective network security strategy
* The nature and benefits of cloud computing, including the types of cloud services that are available
* Security risks in cloud services and available control measures (where they exist)
* Likely future developments in cloud computing and their probable impact upon security
* How to develop an effective strategy for mitigating cloud-related security risk
* What virtualization is and how virtualization works
* Major types of virtualization
* Benefits and downsides (especially from a security perspective) of virtualization
* Controls that counter virtualization-related security risk
* How virtualization technology is likely to evolve over time and the probable impact upon information security
* How to develop an effective strategy for mitigating virtualization-related security risk
* What intrusion detection is and how it works
* The major approaches to intrusion detection
* What is right and what is wrong with today’s intrusion detection technology
* How SIEM technology helps compensate for limitations in today’s intrusion detection technology
* Intrusion detection in the future
* How auditors need to approach auditing today’s new and emerging technology deployments

Who Should Attend

* IT staff members (especially system and network administrators)
* Information security specialists
* Auditors
* Managers and executives who need to know “what’s up and what’s coming down the pipe” in information security technology

A cloud data center has different power, network, and storage requirements from a traditional one. In this session, we'll cover the changes that private cloud environments will bring to the underlying infrastructure.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

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

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

Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures.

While it’s seemingly impossible to produce multi-year plans for mobile IT deployments, that’s the number-one task facing many enterprise IT and network managers today. How can one pick the right combination of devices, networks, services, and applications? This session will offer advice on developing a strategy for success given a broad range of variables and greater strategic pressure than ever to set the right course.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources.

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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Building a private cloud does not require building a whole new data center. The quickest path to the cloud is to reclaim and repurpose your current IT infrastructure into a new private cloud likely within your current data center facility. Making the move from the static data center requires more than just infrastructure; it also requires new processes and automation. This session will help data center managers: 1) Learn how automation aides in the migration to and management of private clouds; 2) Understand the benefits of deploying a private cloud; and 3) Review best practices for enabling self-service to a private cloud.

Building a successful business case for Enterprise 2.0 requires a well thought out strategy. Through thoughtful analysis and concrete customer examples, this session tackles how to best leverage collaborative technologies around specific business objectives. Your business case for Enterprise 2.0 starts here

To run private clouds efficiently, you have to instrument and manage them. But cloud management is a different beast, requiring a multi-user approach with a greater focus on billing and utilization. It also demands new tools to protect your users from one another -- and from themselves. This session will look at how private clouds are changing IT management.

In the first of three end user panels at this year's Enterprise Cloud Summit New York, we'll hear from companies who've built and run their own private clouds -- what worked, what didn't, why they chose to build their own, and what they plan to connect those clouds to in future.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

This session will show you how to gain operational efficiencies via automated access rules at the network edge. Review the benefits of providing policy-based control at the access level, impeding malicious activity before it reaches the core of the network, and greatly improving network uptime and application performance.

Windows 7 is set to inherit the XP kingdom. Attend this workshop and learn the security tricks needed to keep your kingdom safe. You'll understand Microsoft's new security model and how to make it work for you. Be dazzled by over 300 diagnostic tools built in Win 7, which can make you a Diagnostic Demon! Understand where the hidden folder system is that your files and programs are installed and where the registry hides your setting. (Hint: they don't exist in XP!) You'll learn unique optional security setting to really secure Win 7 so you comply with the Federal security regulations. None of these setting are on by default, all are deep screened and all increase your security for Free. Finish by constructing a self booting USB copy of Win 7 that can be used for enterprise rollout, diagnostic or just a great OS on a stick. Using information gathered from multiple sources - including private discussions with developers, inside MS sources and personal investigation — this workshop will help you understand the next generation of Microsoft clients NOW!

Course Outline
* MS Security history and why / what they changed.
* Virtual Lies!
* Hey Biba, what a theory like you doing in a place like this?
* Diagnostics Delights of Win 7
* 5 security upgrades for just a click
* Live from your USB - It's Windows Seven!!!
* Demonstration driven so bring you laptop with 7 or Vista

You Will Learn
* The basic security concept that Microsoft uses for their new product line
* What the UAC really does and how to tame it
* How to verbalize why your programs don't run with Win 7 and 5 different ways to fix your problem
* 3 great improvements that can be used to increase your security
* How to make a self booting USB/CD for simple enterprise rollout, diagnostic or just a great OS on a stick

Who Should Attend
* Technicians or supervisors who have to work with Windows 7
* Managers or Executives who need to make decisions about Windows 7
* Security professional who need to update their Windows 7 security knowledge

Hear from past attendees of Securing Windows 7:

-One of the best, if not the best, workshops that I have attended. Brad was very organized with clear objectives and plenty of time for questions. He had many demos during the workshop and tips and software recommendations. Very good workshop.

-Brad was very informative. He made his presentation with style and pizazz. He was very knowledgable on all subjects discussed.

-This was an excellent course. The information was highly relevant Brad is a fantastic instructor. Energetic and extremely knowledgeable. Thanks for a great class.

-Kept the session entertaining. A good amount of information was given as well as links to applications, and information.

-Brad is a very good instructor/speaker. I've been taking his workshops for a few years now and learn something new every time.

-Brad exposed the underbelly of Windows 7 and its tools, A lot of what is not advertised he showed me. Excellent.

-Brad Smith is an exciting presenter who draws you in and gets you as excited about his topics as he is. I wished he had more sessions so I could just go to all of his!

-Mr. Smith is enthusiastic, knowledgeable and entertaining. I found it refreshing that the instructor was not employed by the vendor (Microsoft) and enjoyed learning the topic from a non-sales point of view.

Social Engineering (SE) driven by the science of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has become one of the dominant threats in security landscape. SE is used by many professions who must make decisions about people, rapidly and accurately. More importantly, it’s used to help you say yes. Even when you don’t want too! The information taught in this session is seldom available outside of the social science field because of its many powerful uses. This session will help you understand the SE threat, how you can tell if you’re under an SE attack, what you can do about these attacks and how to monitor and mitigate this threat.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

For more information click here.

Increasingly companies are looking to improve service delivery while lowering costs. This session looks at how three different companies deployed automated and on-demand access to IT resources, allowing users to get secure multi-tenant access to what they need (virtual or physical), when they need it, without manual intervention.on-demand access to IT resources; allowing users get secure multi-tenant access to what they need (virtual or physical), when they need it, without manual intervention.

While it’s seemingly impossible to produce multi-year plans for mobile IT deployments, that’s the number-one task facing many enterprise IT and network managers today. How can one pick the right combination of devices, networks, services, and applications? This session will offer advice on developing a strategy for success given a broad range of variables and greater strategic pressure than ever to set the right course.

Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Vembu Technologies, a leading provider of on-premise and cloud backup software and services, will be demonstrating StoreGrid Professional Edition, a Network-based disk-to-disk-to-cloud data backup software. With StoreGrid, businesses can backup to an on-premise backup server with optional replication to the Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure. StoreGrid supports backing up Windows desktops, MAC OS X, Windows servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, MySQL, Linux Server, FreeBSD and Solaris Servers.

Public clouds aren't just for startups. Enterprises are using them for training, QA, and other non-production applications. They're also leveraging their elastic capability for all manner of bursty applications, from monte carlo simulations to genomics to architectural modeling. This panel of established enterprise users will show us how on-demand computing is changing the way they run their businesses, and what convinced them to embrace third-party IT models.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

For more information click here.

Armed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

IT today is making decisions on how, when and what to move to the cloud. A large part of this process is how to monitor your new cloud resources and your existing IT infrastructure in a holistic way. EM7’s monitoring of InteropNet provides some lessons and caveats for anyone moving to the cloud.

Moving to a virtual infrastructure brings both significant benefits and challenges in terms of data protection and availability. A well managed virtual environment should include leveraging virtualization and newly available tools to improve the way you implement Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and possibly Fault Tolerance. Learn how various virtualization capabilities fit on the continuum of protection and availability and hear best practices involving various technologies including image backup, VM and storage snapshots, replication, HA clustering, and fault.

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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

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

It was just one year ago that Avaya secured the purchase of Nortel Enterprise Solutions by winning a bankruptcy auction with a bid of almost $1 billion. With that acquisition behind it, has Avaya managed to keep the large installed base of Nortel customers on its side—or are the poachers prevailing? That’s just one of the many issues that will determine how the enterprise communications market shakes out over the coming year. In this session, you’ll learn who the market leaders are in terms of stations shipped and revenues, and an understanding of the strengths of their product lines, market positioning and corporate leadership.

Security budgets have recently come under intense scrutiny and often are being cut or left the same as previous years even in a climate where security threats and attacks are on the rise. In these conditions where do you invest your available budget? Why isn’t the technology you have invested previously solving your security problems? How do you use the technologies and capabilities that you already have more effectively? How do you convince your management and leadership that security is still relevant and important? What should you be thinking about next? This panel discussion will answer these questions and more by providing knowledge and insights from professionals who are successfully overcoming these challenges every day.

You’ve heard the messages over and over: everyone, everywhere is going wireless. Far be it from us to belittle the migration to mobility, but a reality check is in order: can an enterprise go entirely wireless? If so, what will IT infrastructures look like going forward? And, if not, what roles will wire play as at least the edge of the network cuts the cord? This session will provide a lively debate of this critical strategic issue.

Join Terremark for an interactive demonstration of Terremark's Cloud products and receive a gift card good for free computing on Terremark vCloud Express.

Multivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will highlight the interoperation needed for the top UC applications and will help you understand how much has really been accomplished, and how much farther there is to go. A panel of leading vendors will respond with their claims, commitments and directions and will comment on industry efforts to establish standards via the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) and the Internet standards bodies.

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

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources.

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

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

Clouds aren't just on-demand machines. A successful cloud--whether private or public--requires both compute infrastructure and a set of services for storage, message queueing, parallel computation, and more. In this session, we'll look at what IT executives need to deploy to create a true cloud environment.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

For more information click here.

While convergence of many forms remains a key topic in enterprise IT, we’re seeing just the opposite in handsets and mobile operating systems: continuing and even accelerating diversity. This has led many to ask a number of key questions with far-reaching impacts on both IT and the bottom line: Which platforms survive? What will these look like going forward? And how can the enterprise successfully plan the evolution of mobility given these shifting sands? This session will feature a debate of the key issues and opportunities surrounding these vital concerns.

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

Topics include:

• Tales from Top-of-Tech
• The CIO Role Today
• The IT Organization of the Future
• IT in the SMB World – Issues, Realities & Best Practices
• Health Care IT
• Business Analytics
• CIO Unplugged

For more information click here.

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

Topics include:

• Vendor Management
• Managing the Next Technology Portfolio
• Green IT/Sustainability
• Managing Social Media
• IT Leadership

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We have all heard that 10GbE is moving into the mainstream, but is it really? In this session we will look at the most pragmatic ways to consider deploying 10GbE today, prepare for network convergence tomorrow, and how to build a pragmatic plan for moving 10GbE into your main stream operations.

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

Cost reduction and improved IT responsiveness are at the forefront of discussions related to private clouds, but there’s another issue central to this approach’s value proposition: better infrastructure control. This session will explore seven key ways private clouds can be leveraged to break traditional cost structures, promote greater business agility and reduce the constraints of vendor lock-in through new models of application support. We will discuss the evolution from clusters to grids to clouds, and share how leading Wall Street, technology, biotech and telecom companies are approaching private clouds, and outline best practices for successful planning and deployment.

Once an enterprise has in-house computing in a private cloud, it's time to link to public clouds for elasticity, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. But connecting public and private systems isn't straightforward: workloads may not be portable, and policies between on-premise and on-demand platforms have to be enforced. This session will examine the integration of public cloud platforms with in-house private clouds, and the creation of self-regulating "hybrid" cloud architectures.

Green IT is on the rise to cut costs, mitigate risks and even grow revenues. Despite the challenging economy of 2010, Forrester finds that 45% of IT organizations globally are implementing or creating a green IT strategy, with an additional 34% considering it. So why should you consider green IT if you haven’t already? Should you start inside the data center or outside? What should you improve if green IT is already underway? And how do you prioritize green IT projects and secure budget? To answer these questions, this session will define green IT, track its trajectory, and review best practices from leading organizations who have successfully greened their IT to deliver financial results.

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

Organizations are increasingly looking for opportunities to save energy outside of their data center. Why? According to Forrester Research, more energy may be consumed by distributed IT assets outside of the data center – like PCs and monitors – than within it. To reduce energy consumption and other environmental impacts of the PC environment, organizations can not only source more energy efficient PCs, such as thin clients, but then power down PCs at nights and over weekends when they’re not being used. This session will help IT professionals understand the tactics used to green their PC environment for cost savings, estimate the extent of these savings.

It’s safe to say that any data center manager worth his or her salt will be familiar with the four level data center tiering system popularized by The Uptime Institute. But how much weight should the data center tiering system really carry when designing a new facility? Or when you’re evaluating a data center colocation or outsourcing partner? And is tiered data center really more reliable and efficient than one without a tier classification? To answer these questions, this session will evaluate data center tier standards and classifications, the pros and cons of them, and alternatives to existing standards that data center managers should consider.

Private clouds can be a stepping stone to a hybrid public/private architecture. This session will look at workload portability, focusing on which applications are candidates for public clouds and how to prepare applications that can run in several environments.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

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Come and meet the best technical and strategic minds in cloud computing today. This elite group is helping to advance private cloud deployments and drive future innovations. Representing a range of expertise, the Cloud Advisors will discuss the areas needed to successfully and securely deploy your own private cloud.

Cloud computing is supposed to save us money as well as time. But early studies show that dedicated machines can deliver better costs for certain applications. In other words, your mileage may vary. Joeseph Weinman, who coined the term "Cloudonomics" and conducts research into the economics of cloud computing, will give us a look at the math behind public clouds and where cloud economics are headed.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

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Randy Rowland, Terremark Senior Vice President of Product Development, will present a practical guide to evaluating enterprise clouds and cloud providers. Go beyond the marketing hype, the brands and the buzzwords, and learn how differences in architecture, infrastructure, security and design can have significant impact on your ability to take advantage of the cost-effectiveness and agility of infrastructure-as-a-service without compromise to availability, performance and compliance, and learn how leading enterprises and government agencies are taking advantage of the power and flexibility offered by enterprise cloud computing architecture.

Armed with a set of services, the platforms on which they run, and the management tools to control them, it's time to turn things over to the users. Self-service controls let those users provision, deploy, and relinquish the IT services they need in minutes rather than days. This session will look at how self-service controls should be delivered to ensure reliable, adaptable use of resources in real time.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

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Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

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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 corporations in the early 1980s. 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? How should desktop management change to best leverage these technologies? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop and application virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Once, IT was limited by the time it took to provision and deploy new infrastructure. With clouds, however, we can launch -- and decommission -- entire virtual data centers instantly. This accelerates the cycle time of IT. It's analogous to two other shifts in technology: agile software development methodologies, and the "devops" movement of self-scaling, self-healing architectures. We'll see how the fates of clouds, agile coding, and devops are intertwined, and what this means for IT professionals.

On Day Two of Enterprise Cloud Summit, we'll turn our eye outward to look at the many public cloud offerings that are levelling the IT playing field. Public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go economics and tremendous flexibility; but they also create new security, portability, and performance concerns. Once the exclusive domain of web startups, today enterprises big and small are finding ways to incorporate public cloud platforms into their IT strategy. Whether you're deciding how to embrace them or want to learn from what others are doing, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the place to do it.

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The first step in any cloud is to make workloads virtual and portble. This session will look at application virtualization in a cloud environment, from "naked" machines to predefined stacks of machine, operating system, and application.

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

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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.

Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from managers and users putting mobility into practice across a wide array of applications. We’ll examine what works, what doesn’t, and what key requirements have been identified for the next generation of applications. We’ll also explore cost issues and how to make the best decisions regarding the marriage of applications and mobility.

A key direction for enterprise mobility management is to extend the edge of the organization’s network all the way to the mobile device - handsets and other mobile subscriber units can now be managed just like the rest of the network. But there are many possible directions, choices, and options to be considered in this rapidly-evolving field, and this session will examine key alternatives in what is becoming a vital concern – and opportunity - for organizations on the go.

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

On-demand computing resources are the most disruptive change in IT of the last decade, and much of that disruption begins at home. Day One of Enterprise Cloud Summit will focus on private clouds -- radically new ways to combine virtualization, automation, and self-service models in order to change how you deliver IT to your business.

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There are many ways to create a private cloud -- from turnkey commercial offerings to flexible, adaptable open source models. In this session, we'll look at the various tools available to make applications portable and to allow users to self-provision IT resources.

Today’s businesses are facing the growing pains of an overwhelming amount of information that is scattered across various disparate systems and sources. Millions have been spent on developing various silo-ed information systems, either in the cloud or in house, yet knowledge workers and decision makers are unable to see the information they need quickly - be it live business information or important business documents.? ? With the change of end user’s mindset and expectations, and the impact of the current tough economic conditions, the enterprise users now demand DYI type of quick access of critical information - the kind of capabilities that typically required 6 month or 1-year project to do by a company’s engineering team or consulting firms are now expected to be done in a much faster time frame. Learn how the latest technology innovations incorporate the latest advances in User Interface Virtualization that offers improved productivity, faster decision making and extraordinary business value

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

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Cost reduction and improved IT responsiveness are at the forefront of discussions related to private clouds, but there’s another issue central to this approach’s value proposition: better infrastructure control. This session will explore seven key ways private clouds can be leveraged to break traditional cost structures, promote greater business agility and reduce the constraints of vendor lock-in through new models of application support. We will discuss the evolution from clusters to grids to clouds, and share how leading Wall Street, technology, biotech and telecom companies are approaching private clouds, and outline best practices for successful planning and deployment.

Cloud computing is a cost effective and efficient way for enterprises to automate their processes. However organizations need to be aware of the pitfalls of the many cloud-computing solutions out there - one of the main ones being security. Most of these solutions were built for ease of use and without necessarily security in mind. Companies should ask the solution provider the security measures used in developing the application and get an independent verification to make sure there are no gaping holes. With over 75% of attacks occurring through the Web, any attack through these applications can lead to leakage of confidential information and embarrassment. This session will highlight the security considerations an organization needs to take into account when adopting cloud computing capabilities.