2011 Speaker List

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a going forward basis, IT organizations looking to implement WAN optimization have a couple of fundamental questions. One such question is should the implement WOCs themselves or acquire the functionality from a cloud provider. The other question is whether or not the current generation of WOCs can support massive file transfers between branch offices. The panelists on this session will take opposing views on these questions and give you the insight you need to plot the best course for your organization.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Desktop, application, and user virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first invaded enterprises in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? How can they help support the plethora of new tablets, smartphones and future devices as part of the new BYOC efforts and deliver a successful end-user experience which sometimes requires rich graphics? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing these solutions? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, persistent/non-persistent desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop, application, and user virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Location: Room 1E16
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Big data--the idea that the business wants to store everything for mining and analysis--is having an impact on enterprise storage. While storage costs are dropping, big data--measured on petabytes according to some definitions--will still be expensive to build, manage, and use. In this session we examine typical forms of big data, how it is used, the capacity and performance requires. We also address some newer technologies that are aimed at storing, managing, and retreiving big data.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:55 AM-11:55 AM

Large businesses are interested and even eager to embrace cloud services as a means of offloading IT costs and complexities but they have many requirements, including the need for service providers to understand their business. On this panel, enterprise executives will spell out their requirements for a efficient cloud service delivery model which can support public cloud as well as hybrid cloud environment without losing focus on security, flexibility, QoS and ease-of-use.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This panel of vendors will offer their opinions on which video conferencing technologies will be the most significant in helping your company’s bottom line. Their vision of the future and how their company is better positioned to help you with video collaboration will be discussed. Specifically, the panelists will describe how to manage a large video conferencing network, what underlying technologies distinguish their products, the role of standards in their products, and what tools they offer to troubleshoot networks . Get the scoop in a single session.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM

Service providers see cloud computing as a new opportunity for adding value to their IP transport offerings. For this new opportunity to generate profits, however, service providers must be able to differentiate their services, target them to appropriate audiences, and find their competitive niche in a crowded field. Many will also want to develop a portfolio of XaaS offerings including security, storage, software, and applications, all of which can be packaged with IP transport services or with other managed services. This panel will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical offerings, as well as ways to make better service translate into market success.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:40 AM-10:40 AM

Service providers have the optical transport networks and data centers that are the muscle of any cloud infrastructure. But delivering on-demand services requires greater flexibility in use of those resources, such as more agile operations and billing systems to facilitate self-service ordering, service assembly & management, process automation and usage-based billing. This panel will explore the challenges in building a more nimble cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a going forward basis, IT organizations looking to implement WAN optimization have a couple of fundamental questions. One such question is should the implement WOCs themselves or acquire the functionality from a cloud provider. The other question is whether or not the current generation of WOCs can support massive file transfers between branch offices. The panelists on this session will take opposing views on these questions and give you the insight you need to plot the best course for your organization.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

For well over a decade most IT infrastructures have relied on physical appliances including physical routers, WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). However, over the last few years, an increasing number of virtualized appliances have entered the marketplace. These appliances have the potential to provide dramatically lower cost and dramatically increase agility. That raises the question: Is there any longer a need for physical appliances? The panelists will discuss their stances on this question and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E07
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Security is an important concern of cloud implementations- and with good reason. Hackers and other online criminals invented cloud computing years ago by harvesting our machines, creating huge networks to steal private information. The speaker will explain how to stay a step ahead of the bad guys by learning best practices in cloud security. Solutions to the security problem include deploying a line of defense at the virtual machine itself, using bi-directional firewalls on individual virtual machines, and leveraging virtualization-aware malware protection.

Location: Room 1E07
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Email encryption is commonly used by organizations to send sensitive information via email. In this session, we’ll explore different email encryption technologies and discuss the pros and cons of each option. We’ll discuss implementation, cost, and end user experience for PGP, S/MIME, TLS and Web based email encryption technologies.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 2:25 PM-2:50 PM

In this case study session, the New York Stock Exchange's Chief Counsel of Technology, Legal & Government Affairs will walk us through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The handset has evolved from a voice-centric to a data/networking-centric device in only a few short years, as the required processor, storage, and wireless technologies have reach new peaks of price/performance excellence – with no end in sight. But with the popularity of today’s smartphones, is innovation in the handset space about to plateau? Is the current smartphone form factor all we need? What will the next generation of handsets look like, and what features will they require to meet organizational IT objectives?

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Business-grade social software is gaining broader acceptance in business. The toolsets are maturing and some strong business use cases have emerged. This session will include three practitioner-led use cases for enterprise social software. Speakers will discuss their business drivers, technology and architectural approaches, and share operational best practices.

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Cloud computing offers tremendous opportunities and return-on-investment; however, you need to approach this carefully, leveraging industry models in conjunction with good governance practices.The presentation describes the key part of the NIST (National Institute of Standards for Technology) cloud computing frameworks in conjunction with other enterprise architecture and modeling approaches for cloud computing.Industry standards for cloud computing will be discussed and what many international governance, standards and frameworks organizations are exploring in cloud computing.This includes: models, taxonomies, standards, business cases, governance, estimation, security, privacy and policies.

Location: Room 1E07
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Application security has evolved far beyond the old days of “allow” or “deny” at the firewall. The rapidly changing nature of applications has made enforcing network security extremely challenging for organizations looking to stay ahead of the latest threats. Traditional firewalls and stand-alone network security solutions cannot detect many of today’s most popular applications, creating dangerous gaps in network security strategies. This session will provide examples of how attackers are taking advantage of the latest applications to hide malicious content, and the range of options offered by network security vendors that organizations can use to detect and block these threats.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

It’s a foregone conclusion that BYOD is going to be a factor in essentially every organization. But the transition to consumer/employee-owned devices isn’t a slam dunk; it’s instead a path that fraught with slippery slopes and outright pitfalls, from potential high costs to a new class of security threats. This session will center on the key elements of policy, management, and the strategies required to make BYOD a success.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:55 AM-12:15 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:55 AM-11:55 AM

Large businesses are interested and even eager to embrace cloud services as a means of offloading IT costs and complexities but they have many requirements, including the need for service providers to understand their business. On this panel, enterprise executives will spell out their requirements for a efficient cloud service delivery model which can support public cloud as well as hybrid cloud environment without losing focus on security, flexibility, QoS and ease-of-use.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Business-grade social software is gaining broader acceptance in business. The toolsets are maturing and some strong business use cases have emerged. This session will include three practitioner-led use cases for enterprise social software. Speakers will discuss their business drivers, technology and architectural approaches, and share operational best practices.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

With wireless and mobility now crucial to the success of enterprises and organizations around the world, we’ll kick off this year’s conference with the views of some of the top analysts and pundits working in wireless today. No topic is off-limits, and no holds are barred – this high-energy examination of the key issues facing what is still a rapidly-evolving field is always very popular, highly-informative, and essential to anyone involved in IT planning, technology, management, and operations. What’s next, and will it matter? This panel has the answers.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a going forward basis, IT organizations looking to implement WAN optimization have a couple of fundamental questions. One such question is should the implement WOCs themselves or acquire the functionality from a cloud provider. The other question is whether or not the current generation of WOCs can support massive file transfers between branch offices. The panelists on this session will take opposing views on these questions and give you the insight you need to plot the best course for your organization.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

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. IT 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, virtual and physical. You will also learn about various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:05 PM

One employee. One malicious website. One click of a mouse. That's all it takes to create one expensive nightmare for businesses today. Join us to learn how to get protected and stay productive in the face of growing Web-based threats.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:55 AM-11:55 AM

Large businesses are interested and even eager to embrace cloud services as a means of offloading IT costs and complexities but they have many requirements, including the need for service providers to understand their business. On this panel, enterprise executives will spell out their requirements for a efficient cloud service delivery model which can support public cloud as well as hybrid cloud environment without losing focus on security, flexibility, QoS and ease-of-use.

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:00 AM-11:15 AM

In this case study session, Phototronics' Director of IT will walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM

Service providers see cloud computing as a new opportunity for adding value to their IP transport offerings. For this new opportunity to generate profits, however, service providers must be able to differentiate their services, target them to appropriate audiences, and find their competitive niche in a crowded field. Many will also want to develop a portfolio of XaaS offerings including security, storage, software, and applications, all of which can be packaged with IP transport services or with other managed services. This panel will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical offerings, as well as ways to make better service translate into market success.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path Ethernet using Fabric Shortest Path First, TRILL, or Shortest Path Bridging, finds the shortest path and load balances traffic over multiple Ethernet links reducing congestion and making better use of your Ethernet capacity. Multi-path Ethernet can have significant impact on the product selections you can add to your FCoE fabric as well as the management and operations of your data and storage network. In this session, we will describe the commonality of multi-path Ethernet protocols, the differences, and the impact to integration and management.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:35 PM-12:55 PM

Learn about new networking technology and standards including Ethernet Fabrics, TRILL, Data Center Bridging, Priority Flow Control, and how to eliminate older protocols like Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) which can inhibit building a cloud-ready infrastructure or limit the effectiveness of scaling out server virtualization. Ethernet Fabrics can provide the flexibility required for this new IT paradigm to meet increasing SLA requirements and open the door to operational cost savings as the network scales out with true intelligence all while integrating into existing network infrastructure to maximize your existing investment.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

A mobility strategy is crucial to the success of any organization. Our panel of experts from manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare will discuss 802.11n migration, policies for managing tablets and smartphones, how to deploy mission critical voice, lessons learned from RF interference, and design guidelines for high density environments. This panel offers real-world discussion and practical tips for enhancing your wired and wireless network.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:30 PM-3:50 PM

Ever thought about how to safely archive all this mountains of information in the cloud? What data is important and how long is your retention policy? Come hear our 20 minute presentation on how to cost effectively and safely manage your data assets for long term storage in the cloud

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 10:45 AM-11:10 AM

Most enterprise cloud adoption has relied on virtual machines and infrastructure as a service. However, there is a lot to love about the other approach to clouds—platform as a service. In a PaaS model, you worry about your code, and the systems take care of the rest. True Platform-as-a-Service not only reduces the cost of hardware infrastructure, but also reduces the complexity of the software stack that runs on it. PaaS promises to trim development and deployment time from months and years to days and weeks, but what are the signs of a true PaaS powerhouse? Is it simply free of servers or software to manage? Does it provide automatic upgrades and elasticity? Can you develop in multiple languages and across multiple device platforms? Many informed analysts think PaaS is the inevitable consequence of true utility computing. In this session, Patrick Chanezon of VMWare explains why PaaS may be the future of the enterprise.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Mobile app development is now the focus of the software industry, but putting together a cost-effective enterprise strategy remains a daunting proposition. This session will explore the development and deployment alternatives available today, examining the pluses and minuses associated with each. We’ll also look at best practices for sustainable development initiatives, and examine what’s next in this vital element of mobility.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 1:30 PM-1:40 PM

In this session, Salesforce.com has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:40 PM-5:00 PM

There are key planning steps that will help you to have a smooth transition of your applications to the cloud. Attend this session to learn about the primary strategic and project components that you need to assess for a move to the cloud.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being challenged to support the adoption of desktop virtualization and to enable both SaaS and the dynamic movement of VMs. Unfortunately the WAN is not experiencing the same type of price reduction as is computing and storage resources. The panelists in this fast-paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging WAN technologies and services that you can utilize to successfully support emerging requirements.

Location: Room 1E07
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Having an optimized security strategy is an organizational necessity in today’s world of insider, industrialized, and advanced, targeted threats, let alone constant pressures to embrace new trends in IT such as mobility, web 2.0, and the cloud. Disjointed solutions have created complexity, increased costs, and kept security teams locked in firefighting, tactical roles instead of becoming more proactive, strategic, and aligned with business priorities. It’s time to re-think how we approach security. It’s time to stop repeating the same mistakes decade after decade. It’s time to break on through to the other side; optimized security strategies are tenable today.

Attendees will be able to define requirements for an optimized security strategy within their own organizations, recognize key areas for ROI and ROSI improvement, and translate these areas into tangible points understandable by business leaders.

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Cloudbursting allows you to deploy a base level of capacity that meets average loads while retaining the ability to scale rapidly on public cloud infrastructure to address spikes. That's great, but how do you actually achieve this ideal if you're deploying to VMware in your data center today and want to securely leverage Amazon EC2 on-the-fly? Come to this session to learn how to use asynchronous processing, message queues, and virtual private clouds to save money and keep users happy when they all hit your web site at the same time.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

Bullet proof Wireless LAN security is not a pipe dream. By applying a layered security approach through mechanisms including Authentication, Encryption, Firewalls, and IDS/IPS, wireless networks can be assuredly secured. This session will demonstrate how a layered approach can deliver a security that exceeds that of most all wired networks today.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:30 PM-3:50 PM

Consumerization and BYOD have unleashed a torrent of network data and application accessibility through the Cloud. Employees have co-mingled personal applications with corporate applications that are all available through online app stores. How can Enterprises regain command and control while still allowing this activity through the cloud zones?

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

How can the cloud address real business needs in the areas of mobility, web, and social? Learn how American Airlines delivers flight updates to business travelers without spiking traffic on premise. Hear about how Travelocity runs a Java site performance application without impacting the booking path. And finally, find out how Outback Steakhouse deploys Facebook promotions landing 80K prospects in one day.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

One of the biggest complaints from users – and concerns for IT and telecoms managers – is how to reliably provision in-building cellular coverage for both voice and data. Numerous alternatives exist here: repeaters, distributed antenna systems (DAS), femtocells, Wi-Fi convergence, and other strategies, some tied to specific carriers, and some not. Which of these is the most important going forward? And is there a solution to the cellular coverage problem that will drive broad enterprise adoption?

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Clouds and virtualization are the hottest buzzwords in the industry today as data centers undergo a massive transformation of their servers, storage and network systems. The focus most recently has been on the hypervisor and application, but this is a red herring: it's the network and storage architecture that makes clouds reliable and secure. In this session, we'll go beyond "on-demand metal" and understand the challenges of orchestrating and automating all of a data center's infrastructure to deliver the elasticity and agility clouds promise.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:55 PM-3:15 PM

Are private clouds next frontier? Yes--but a key inhibitor to their deployment is the complexity associated with clouds and the enterprise datacenter.

Hear how companies are using full turnkey private cloud solutions that are launched in minutes by leveraging existing on-premise hardware, managing resources and easily migrating workloads.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:25 PM-3:55 PM

It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 1:40 PM-2:15 PM

With IT spread across on-premise and on-demand components, and virtual machine sprawl creating a deluge of new systems to manage, CIOs face a huge challenge: measuring and managing their virtual infrastructure to ensure adequate performance, good management of risk, and a controlled approach to billing. In this panel, we'll look at how companies are tackling management and monitoring in utility computing deployments.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:05 PM-4:25 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:25 PM-4:30 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:01 AM-9:05 AM

ECS chair Alistair Croll will set the stage for the public cloud day of ECS, focusing on the arrival of Just-in-time business models to IT and computing.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:05 AM-9:20 AM

Think you know clouds? Think again. Many of the assumptions we make about IT—from the value of machines to the reliability of the underlying platforms to the requirement that data is always accurate—are dead wrong. In this session we'll look at ten fundamentals of cloud computing that every IT professional needs to take to heart.

Location: Room 1E12
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Cloud Computing is a major shift in IT. It's similar to the switch from circuit- to packet-based networking, or from procedural to object-oriented programming, or from mainframes to client-server models. As with those shifts, some IT professionals will thrive -- and others will become obsolete. Clouds rely on a new set of fundamentals: horizontal scaling, sharding, eventually consistent data systems, virtualization, and more. In this two-hour workshop, we'll cover these fundamentals and understand how they combine to give us today's cloud offerings.

Need to get up to cloud speed in a hurry? This fast-paced workshop will give you the foundation you need to understand where utility computing is headed and arm you with the fundamentals of on-demand infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

We have reached a critical point in the future of the Internet. IPv4 addresses have now fully depleted from the IANA free pool, and it is imperative that companies adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, before time runs out and the global Internet community is fragmented. In order to avoid potential operability issues later, organizations everywhere are encouraged begin IPv6 adoption now, as consumers will start to expect IPv6 enabled websites. John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will moderate a panel that will discuss the impact IPv4 depletion will have on the global Internet, including the dynamics that are driving this momentous change to IPv6. Along the way, the panel will cover best practices for making the overall transition as seamless as possible, as well as key considerations during an organization’s IPv6 adoption.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 11:20 AM-11:35 AM

In this case study session, Cushman & Wakefield walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

OK, you’re in the middle of that all-important (and large-scale) upgrade of 802.11g to .11n, when, what’s this, we have two more significant improvements in performance now on the horizon? Yes, 802.11ac and .11ad will be with us shortly, with the required technologies already in place and the development of standards now far along. But are these a new and essential upgrade path to .11n, or will they be reserved for special applications and power users? Where should gigabit Wi-Fi be in your plans today?

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:25 PM-3:55 PM

It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

For well over a decade most IT infrastructures have relied on physical appliances including physical routers, WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). However, over the last few years, an increasing number of virtualized appliances have entered the marketplace. These appliances have the potential to provide dramatically lower cost and dramatically increase agility. That raises the question: Is there any longer a need for physical appliances? The panelists will discuss their stances on this question and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

It’s a foregone conclusion that BYOD is going to be a factor in essentially every organization. But the transition to consumer/employee-owned devices isn’t a slam dunk; it’s instead a path that fraught with slippery slopes and outright pitfalls, from potential high costs to a new class of security threats. This session will center on the key elements of policy, management, and the strategies required to make BYOD a success.

Location: Special Events Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

How many mobile devices do you want to buy, carry, and manage? A handset is a given, but can a tablet really replace a notebook? Will the huge (and increasing) diversity of tablet devices and operating environments give new life to the notebook, or are we in the early stages of an epic transition that will fundamentally transform mobile IT? Join us for a detailed exploration beyond the consumer-driven hype to the enterprise issues that really matter.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

One of the biggest complaints from users – and concerns for IT and telecoms managers – is how to reliably provision in-building cellular coverage for both voice and data. Numerous alternatives exist here: repeaters, distributed antenna systems (DAS), femtocells, Wi-Fi convergence, and other strategies, some tied to specific carriers, and some not. Which of these is the most important going forward? And is there a solution to the cellular coverage problem that will drive broad enterprise adoption?

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlow or Packet Monitoring? Local or SaaS? Proactive or Reactive? Internal or MSP? And the stakes could not be higher - networks are returning to prominence as a critical infrastructure, and expectations for reliability and sustained performance are ratcheting upward. In this session, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will drive a lively session amongst management technology leaders who will look at the pros and cons of some of the major decisions points when selecting management approaches and strategies.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:15 AM-11:45 AM

In this panel discussion, we look at which cloud frameworks are best for which applications. When does it make sense to use the control -- and overhead -- of infrastructure as a service, wrestling rented metal? When is a turnkey platform the right choice, and when is it a liability that locks you into an expensive platform?

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Business-grade social software is gaining broader acceptance in business. The toolsets are maturing and some strong business use cases have emerged. This session will include three practitioner-led use cases for enterprise social software. Speakers will discuss their business drivers, technology and architectural approaches, and share operational best practices.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:40 AM-9:55 AM

In this case study session the CTO of Tendril Inc. will walk us through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:05 PM-4:25 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Planning your journey to the cloud? Attend this session to learn how to simplify IT operations by automating application to infrastructure provisioning, compliance and system level performance monitoring in the cloud. During this session, the HP’s Cloud Advisors will be available to answer your real world cloud deployment questions.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

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. IT 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, virtual and physical. You will also learn about various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:20 PM-4:20 PM

The ability to deliver Service Level Agreements to guarantee reliability, security, visibility and availability of cloud services is critical to their success. Given the many varied and often shared elements that will comprise cloud services, success of service providers will be based on their ability to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Experience to their cloud customers. This panel will address what QoE will look like in the cloud realm, and how to deliver and monitor it.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 10:05 AM-10:30 AM

Cloud Service Providers everywhere want to "move up the stack", but there is more to Platform as a Service than simply that. In this talk Joyent’s James Duncan spells out what is at stake, where the challenges lay, and why the virtual machine is merely the bluntest instrument in our toolbox.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:45 AM-11:55 AM

In this session, Joyent has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

With wireless and mobility now crucial to the success of enterprises and organizations around the world, we’ll kick off this year’s conference with the views of some of the top analysts and pundits working in wireless today. No topic is off-limits, and no holds are barred – this high-energy examination of the key issues facing what is still a rapidly-evolving field is always very popular, highly-informative, and essential to anyone involved in IT planning, technology, management, and operations. What’s next, and will it matter? This panel has the answers.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 1:40 PM-2:15 PM

With IT spread across on-premise and on-demand components, and virtual machine sprawl creating a deluge of new systems to manage, CIOs face a huge challenge: measuring and managing their virtual infrastructure to ensure adequate performance, good management of risk, and a controlled approach to billing. In this panel, we'll look at how companies are tackling management and monitoring in utility computing deployments.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Special Events Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a going forward basis, IT organizations looking to implement WAN optimization have a couple of fundamental questions. One such question is should the implement WOCs themselves or acquire the functionality from a cloud provider. The other question is whether or not the current generation of WOCs can support massive file transfers between branch offices. The panelists on this session will take opposing views on these questions and give you the insight you need to plot the best course for your organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 1:40 PM-2:15 PM

With IT spread across on-premise and on-demand components, and virtual machine sprawl creating a deluge of new systems to manage, CIOs face a huge challenge: measuring and managing their virtual infrastructure to ensure adequate performance, good management of risk, and a controlled approach to billing. In this panel, we'll look at how companies are tackling management and monitoring in utility computing deployments.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Due to high TCO, burdensome operational administration, lack of data control and replacement frequency, physical desktop management doesn’t make sense anymore. Unfortunately, VDI hasn’t been able to supplant that world yet. Attend this session and learn how a properly configured 1U appliance solution can host up to 300 high performance virtual desktops.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Room 1E09
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Mobility managers are facing increasing challenges as organizations look to capitalize on the mobility revolution. Mobile operators are deploying 4G network services that promise to offer wireline-like performance and reliability, but they are eliminating unlimited pricing plans. Users are demanding a wider selection of mobile device or the ability to use their personal mobiles for work fundamentally altering the security picture for IT managers. Line of business managers are looking to mobilize more applications, but those efforts are being stymied by the range of devices, both smartphones and tablets, those apps will need to run on. At the same time, CFOs are watching mobile expenses skyrocket raising the need to focus on wireless expense management and rate plan optimization.

Course Outline:

Challenges in Enterprise Mobility

• Balancing Consumerization With Security and Management
• Enabling Business Transformation Through Mobility
• Impact of Tablets, Embedded Wireless, and M2M Applications

Fixed Mobile Convergence and Mobile Unified Communications

• Mobile Policy Development
• Why You Need a Mobility Policy
• Major Areas to Address
• Options and Tradeoffs
• Executive and HR Roles in Policy Development

Sizing up the Mobile Device Ecosystems

• Smartphone Penetration
• Mobile O/S Assessment: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Directions
• Who Thrives and Who Dies

Mobile Device Management

• Surviving the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Model
• Device Provisioning
• Security Requirements: Encryption, Policy Enforcement, Remote Wipe
• Applications Management
• Help Desk and Support
• Service Monitoring
• End of Life/Decommissioning
• MDM Suppliers

Mobilizing Applications

• Apps versus Browsers
• Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAPs)
• Packaged Mobile Applications
• Mobile Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Expense Management

• Rate Plan Optimization
• Wireless Expense Management Options
• The International Dilemma

Mobile Operator Issues

• Industry Consolidation/Regulatory Challenges
• Spectrum Availability
• Mobile Video: Capabilities and Applications
• M2M and Embedded Wireless
• Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Femtocells
• Wi-Fi Offloading

Conclusion: Wireless Five Years Hence

You Will Learn

Attendees will leave this workshop with the tools necessary to develop a sound mobility policy and implement a mobile device management and security plan that protects their organizations while enabling the implementation of mobile applications that can cost-effectively optimize business processes.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed to bring IT and mobility managers up to speed on the major issues involved in enterprise mobility today, and to discuss current best practices in addressing each of these areas.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Desktop, application, and user virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first invaded enterprises in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? How can they help support the plethora of new tablets, smartphones and future devices as part of the new BYOC efforts and deliver a successful end-user experience which sometimes requires rich graphics? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing these solutions? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, persistent/non-persistent desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop, application, and user virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

The notion that Fibre Channel is for data centers and iSCSI is for SMB’s and workgroups is outdated. Increases in LAN speeds and the coming of lossless Ethernet position iSCSI as a good fit for the data center. Whether your organization adopts FC or iSCSI depends on many factors like current product set, future application demands, organizational skill-set and budget. In this session we will discuss the different conditions where FC or iSCSI are the right fit, why you should use one and when to kick either to the curb.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Which one wins is the topic of hot debate as the storage landscape is changing. Is Fibre Channel on its last legs propped up by an entrenched storage ecosystem or is it going to continue to evolve and remain relevant and viable in the enterprise? Will iSCSI supplant FC as the primary storage protocol by breaking out of it's departmental pigeon hole and into the main stream? This debate will ask attendees to vote at the start of the session and again at the end after the arguments are heard. Bring your questions to stump out panel.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 1:40 PM-2:15 PM

With IT spread across on-premise and on-demand components, and virtual machine sprawl creating a deluge of new systems to manage, CIOs face a huge challenge: measuring and managing their virtual infrastructure to ensure adequate performance, good management of risk, and a controlled approach to billing. In this panel, we'll look at how companies are tackling management and monitoring in utility computing deployments.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 4:20 PM-4:25 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:01 AM-9:15 AM

We'll kick off the first day with a quick look at private clouds and the emergence of elastic on-premise computing.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:15 AM-11:45 AM

In this panel discussion, we look at which cloud frameworks are best for which applications. When does it make sense to use the control -- and overhead -- of infrastructure as a service, wrestling rented metal? When is a turnkey platform the right choice, and when is it a liability that locks you into an expensive platform?

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path Ethernet using Fabric Shortest Path First, TRILL, or Shortest Path Bridging, finds the shortest path and load balances traffic over multiple Ethernet links reducing congestion and making better use of your Ethernet capacity. Multi-path Ethernet can have significant impact on the product selections you can add to your FCoE fabric as well as the management and operations of your data and storage network. In this session, we will describe the commonality of multi-path Ethernet protocols, the differences, and the impact to integration and management.

Location: Special Events Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:40 AM-10:40 AM

Service providers have the optical transport networks and data centers that are the muscle of any cloud infrastructure. But delivering on-demand services requires greater flexibility in use of those resources, such as more agile operations and billing systems to facilitate self-service ordering, service assembly & management, process automation and usage-based billing. This panel will explore the challenges in building a more nimble cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlow or Packet Monitoring? Local or SaaS? Proactive or Reactive? Internal or MSP? And the stakes could not be higher - networks are returning to prominence as a critical infrastructure, and expectations for reliability and sustained performance are ratcheting upward. In this session, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will drive a lively session amongst management technology leaders who will look at the pros and cons of some of the major decisions points when selecting management approaches and strategies.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

OK, you’re in the middle of that all-important (and large-scale) upgrade of 802.11g to .11n, when, what’s this, we have two more significant improvements in performance now on the horizon? Yes, 802.11ac and .11ad will be with us shortly, with the required technologies already in place and the development of standards now far along. But are these a new and essential upgrade path to .11n, or will they be reserved for special applications and power users? Where should gigabit Wi-Fi be in your plans today?

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

A mobility strategy is crucial to the success of any organization. Our panel of experts from manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare will discuss 802.11n migration, policies for managing tablets and smartphones, how to deploy mission critical voice, lessons learned from RF interference, and design guidelines for high density environments. This panel offers real-world discussion and practical tips for enhancing your wired and wireless network.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:20 PM-4:20 PM

The ability to deliver Service Level Agreements to guarantee reliability, security, visibility and availability of cloud services is critical to their success. Given the many varied and often shared elements that will comprise cloud services, success of service providers will be based on their ability to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Experience to their cloud customers. This panel will address what QoE will look like in the cloud realm, and how to deliver and monitor it.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Expanding your operations overseas can seem like a daunting task. Nevertheless, ignoring the opportunities represented by the sheer volume of the IT market in Europe can be a mistake. This session will give you practical information on how to enter the European market, discuss challenges and special considerations, and help you learn from others who have already done so.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

It’s a foregone conclusion that BYOD is going to be a factor in essentially every organization. But the transition to consumer/employee-owned devices isn’t a slam dunk; it’s instead a path that fraught with slippery slopes and outright pitfalls, from potential high costs to a new class of security threats. This session will center on the key elements of policy, management, and the strategies required to make BYOD a success.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 2:25 PM-2:50 PM

In this case study session, the New York Stock Exchange's Chief Counsel of Technology, Legal & Government Affairs will walk us through his experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 3:15 PM-3:30 PM

Are clouds secure? Can you trust your data to on-demand platforms, or will complying with the law break the promise of the private cloud? In this session, Proksauer's Nolan Goldberg tells you what you need to know about clouds, data, and the law, drawing from his extensive background as an attorney and practicing lawyer.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The definition of a “desktop” is changing in many ways. Virtualization technologies have expanded and improved, offering better ways to deliver desktops and applications, ranging from VDI to session virtualization to streamed desktops to client hypervisors to Desktop as a Service. New devices continue to emerge and proliferate (including tablets, smartphones, thin clients and zero clients), and Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) initiatives are gaining ground. As IT organizations consider the best strategy for delivering and supporting desktops and applications for the next decade, and address tactical issues like migration to Windows 7, IT has the opportunity to change the paradigm for delivering endpoint access to users and devices anywhere. Desktop and application virtualization offer new ways to incorporate the new types of users and devices, and many of the past barriers to virtual desktops have been overcome.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Once an organization has completed the initial phase of server virtualization and consolidation, the next step is to optimize the virtual infrastructure to enable expansion from the typical initial 25% virtualized to a more complete fully virtualized infrastructure. Along with this expansion, the critical path to realizing the full potential of virtualization is to add the management layers to transform IT operations and deliver IT as a service. By properly managing, securing, protecting, optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E12
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

Server and desktop virtualization bring a slew of new acronyms, technologies, concepts and trends. Need a high-level overview of what different types of virtualization mean to you, your business and the industry overall? Do you want to get your arms around server virtualization, available hypervisors and tools?

Plus, everyone is talking about desktop virtualization, but what does that really mean? There are a variety of virtualization technologies for delivering, provisioning and managing desktops and applications. Learn about a broad view of desktop virtualization which includes and explains VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), server-based computing/session/presentation virtualization, hosted applications, terminal services/RDS, client hosted virtualization, client hypervisors, server-side and client side application virtualization, user virtualization/personalization and more, and how to match these technologies with user requirements.

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

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Desktop, application, and user virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first invaded enterprises in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? How can they help support the plethora of new tablets, smartphones and future devices as part of the new BYOC efforts and deliver a successful end-user experience which sometimes requires rich graphics? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing these solutions? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, persistent/non-persistent desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop, application, and user virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Location: Room 1E09
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand a POC rollout of VDI must know to get VDI off on the right foot and avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize the project. This includes runaway costs—how to avoid adding CAPEX and OPEX; deadly IOPS—how to measure current input outputs/second per user and per application; why storage sizing is so important; evaluating persistent verses non-persistent desktops; best practices for user-authored data stores; and ensuring a quality user environment.

What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending your session?

Everyone knows that, while VDI holds tremendous promise, the costs and complexities can—and have—caused many organizations to put VDI projects on hold. Attendees will return to their companies as heroes who put VDI on the right track, certain of what they must assess and put in place to facilitate a strong ROI.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.

Location: Room 1E09
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Now that you've implemented server virtualization, the next step to realizing its full potential is to add the management layers to deliver cloud-like services. By optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud. This session is a primer on how to implement advanced management capabilities such as dynamic workload balancing, automated policy-based workflows, self service provisioning, high availability, automated disaster recovery, and capacity and performance management. It will discuss the value and process of implementing these advanced management features and describe the landscape of solution vendors, from start-ups to long-time industry leaders.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 2:30 PM-2:45 PM

In this session, Skytap has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Organizations are investing in Enterprise 2.0 as a means to improve employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. While social tools can play a critical role, driving organizational change requires IT strategists to look beyond technology deployment. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand E2.0 adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

OK, you’re in the middle of that all-important (and large-scale) upgrade of 802.11g to .11n, when, what’s this, we have two more significant improvements in performance now on the horizon? Yes, 802.11ac and .11ad will be with us shortly, with the required technologies already in place and the development of standards now far along. But are these a new and essential upgrade path to .11n, or will they be reserved for special applications and power users? Where should gigabit Wi-Fi be in your plans today?

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlow or Packet Monitoring? Local or SaaS? Proactive or Reactive? Internal or MSP? And the stakes could not be higher - networks are returning to prominence as a critical infrastructure, and expectations for reliability and sustained performance are ratcheting upward. In this session, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will drive a lively session amongst management technology leaders who will look at the pros and cons of some of the major decisions points when selecting management approaches and strategies.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 2:50 PM-3:00 PM

In the third of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll hear about Makara and private PaaS stacks.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Special Events Hall
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:05 PM-4:25 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:55 PM-4:10 PM

In this case study session, Biogen Idec's Director of Decision Support will walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

How many mobile devices do you want to buy, carry, and manage? A handset is a given, but can a tablet really replace a notebook? Will the huge (and increasing) diversity of tablet devices and operating environments give new life to the notebook, or are we in the early stages of an epic transition that will fundamentally transform mobile IT? Join us for a detailed exploration beyond the consumer-driven hype to the enterprise issues that really matter.

Location: Room 1E07
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Social media is now the top delivery vehicle for malware. And social media attacks are no longer limited to those who simply post a wealth of private information to these sites. Rather, they utilize advanced techniques, such as click jacking, spear phishing and password sniffing. By not only expanding the information we are placing on social websites, but also being too trusting of fellow users and eagerly sharing our opinion with that ever popular “like” button, we are making the job of social engineering easier for the bad guys. Let’s move from defense to offense and regain control of our accounts.

Location: Room 1E07
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Information Security data is widely available. How do you locate it, assess it, analyze it, mine it and create a plan to use it? Learn about one team’s approach to applying the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) to reputable security data sources to bring greater context to critical information security decisions. Explore tactical approaches to implementing short-term effective responses (firewall rules, IPS signatures) and providing operational situation awareness. Discuss strategic options for budgeting, creating new controls and providing executive situational awareness.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

A mobility strategy is crucial to the success of any organization. Our panel of experts from manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare will discuss 802.11n migration, policies for managing tablets and smartphones, how to deploy mission critical voice, lessons learned from RF interference, and design guidelines for high density environments. This panel offers real-world discussion and practical tips for enhancing your wired and wireless network.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

H.264 AVC, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, has established itself as the compression algorithm of choice for video. While licensing continues to be an issue, it is meeting most of the needs of industry and has a commanding lead over other compression technologies. Now a new extension, scalable video coding, has generated significant attention because it allows for significantly better video resolution while using the Internet as the transport network. This presentation will explain how SVC works and speculate on how much it may change video delivery.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This panel of vendors will offer their opinions on which video conferencing technologies will be the most significant in helping your company’s bottom line. Their vision of the future and how their company is better positioned to help you with video collaboration will be discussed. Specifically, the panelists will describe how to manage a large video conferencing network, what underlying technologies distinguish their products, the role of standards in their products, and what tools they offer to troubleshoot networks . Get the scoop in a single session.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:05 PM

Data protection and Disaster Recovery are two of the leading use cases of the cloud being adopted today. Traditional DR methods have fallen behind in technology and cloud-based disaster recovery is becoming the new standard. This session will discuss technologies behind this market and why it’s one of the leading cloud business cases.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:40 AM-10:40 AM

Service providers have the optical transport networks and data centers that are the muscle of any cloud infrastructure. But delivering on-demand services requires greater flexibility in use of those resources, such as more agile operations and billing systems to facilitate self-service ordering, service assembly & management, process automation and usage-based billing. This panel will explore the challenges in building a more nimble cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

What if every application comes with its own communications function? A good example of how this is playing out is in the SaaS CRM market, where cloud-based leader salesforce.com has added a collaboration component called Chatter to its platform. Does Chatter portend a new model, one in which communications functionality is fragmented, implemented in a series of the enterprise’s business critical apps, relegating the core communications function to a lower-layer, default choice for a dwindling number of users whose primary interface is still the desktop telephone? In this session, we’ll examine salesforce.com Chatter and similar approaches to basing your enterprise’s communications capabilities within your most mission-critical business apps.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:20 PM-2:40 PM

Want to get your head in the clouds without leaving your feet off the ground? This session will provide examples of how businesses of all sizes are harnessing the power of the Cloud to make their businesses more efficient and productive. Learn about some of the newest tools available to help you more easily manage your computing operations. We’ll guide you in acquiring the skills needed in deploying the latest cloud computing technologies and tools, which can ultimately enhance your business’s operations and save you money..

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM

Service providers see cloud computing as a new opportunity for adding value to their IP transport offerings. For this new opportunity to generate profits, however, service providers must be able to differentiate their services, target them to appropriate audiences, and find their competitive niche in a crowded field. Many will also want to develop a portfolio of XaaS offerings including security, storage, software, and applications, all of which can be packaged with IP transport services or with other managed services. This panel will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical offerings, as well as ways to make better service translate into market success.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:50 AM-11:10 AM

Managing and protecting physical and virtual infrastructure separately mean complexity and cost increases. Unified management platforms are the solution to this problem. Bringing together virtual and physical infrastructure management enables consolidation of IT processes and streamlining operations, resulting in massive hardware and operational efficiencies.

Location: Room 1E09
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

This session willl discuss methodologies that will help guide managers and executives in their decisions regarding design and operational requirements for data center services; whether in-house data centers, outsourced colo or managed data center services, or cloud based services. The recently released ANSI/BICSI 002-2011 Data Center Design and Implementation Best Practices standard is one tool that can be used to help determine specific requirements. The “performance-based” approach of this ANSI standard will be reviewed, as well as how it can help guide decisions regarding operational requirements or design reliability and redundancy requirements for the data center facility and the IT enterprise architecture.

Attendees will learn:

• How to identify appropriate reliability criteria, based on the users specific business objectives, for the data center services; facility and IT enterprise architecture.
• How to apply consistent methodology in reliability analysis for the data center services across the enterprise
• How to strategically implement applications within a multi data center enterprise with a combination of in-house data centers, outsourced colo or managed data center services or cloud based services.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:20 PM

When is the last time you thought about ROI for time to market? How do you manage provisioning, billing, and management for your VMs? When Phoenix NAP, a premier data center and infrastructure-as-a-service provider, set out to address these questions, Secured Cloud, a self-provisioned and consumption based public cloud solution took shape. Secured Cloud was developed to include VMware, F5, Cisco, and NetApp as its supportive, enterprise grade technologies. Join Jordan Jacobs, Phoenix NAP director of corporate strategy, as he outlines the unique approach and background of Secured Cloud.

Location: Room 1E09
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

While VMware virtualization is already widely adopted, and private clouds are constantly talked about, many IT organizations are unclear how to implement the steps to build a VMware private cloud. Many CIOs, IT managers and IT administrators are in the process of evolving their data centers and adopting this technology that is re-inventing the model for IT infrastructure. This session will discuss how several IT organizations are building on their VMware infrastructure and adopting private cloud computing, and will show how private clouds can address a wide range of technology and business challenges that span industries.

Location: Room 1E07
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Changing business requirements, frequent audits and legacy rule sets make it increasingly difficult to define and maintain a secure and efficient network security policy. According to Gartner, 95 percent of firewall breaches are caused by firewall misconfigurations, not firewall flaws. This session will share insights, case studies and technologies that help organizations more effectively manage the security policy

Attendees will be provided with real-world use cases and experience with firewall policy management, providing insight into:

• The challenges of firewall policy management
• The most common firewall policy misconfigurations
• Leading practices for managing firewall rule sets.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

There has been a lot of discussion recently about assuring the user experience. While many vendors claim an ability to monitor and report on user experience, the question is what vantage point provides the most relevant view into what a user is actually experiencing? Does looking at synthetic transactions that are meant to “replicate” a user transaction provide such a view? Or does looking at how applications perform across multiple tiers within in the data center represent a user experience perspective. The panelists on this session will review the question of how best to assure the user experience and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

It’s a foregone conclusion that BYOD is going to be a factor in essentially every organization. But the transition to consumer/employee-owned devices isn’t a slam dunk; it’s instead a path that fraught with slippery slopes and outright pitfalls, from potential high costs to a new class of security threats. This session will center on the key elements of policy, management, and the strategies required to make BYOD a success.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 11:35 AM-12:00 PM

While clouds are still relatively new to the enterprise, academics have been using shared computing fabric for nearly a decade to process large amounts of research data in parallel. What can the history of grid computing teach us? In this session, we'll hear about the lessons learned -- and mistakes made -- from years of grid computing, straight from one of the people behind the dominant academic grid fabric.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Google has always been cloud-based, but Microsoft is also promoting cloud-based versions of its office-productivity software, via the Office 365 cloud-based service. This market development has resulted in Google winning some enterprise accounts for its Gmail service, but is Gmail ready for prime time? And the larger question is: Now that Google and Microsoft have added communications “hooks” into their office suites, are we on the verge of another round of convergence? Will enterprises move toward (or away from) Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, etc., based on the effectiveness of these systems’ integrated communications functionality? In this session, industry experts will help you understand how cloud-based office applications use communications integration to enable and promote collaboration.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Your enterprise probably has users, customers and partners on Skype, and many may use GoogleVoice as well. If your enterprise IP communications platform could talk to these public services, you could greatly expand your reach, using voice, video or other collaboration modes, without ever touching the legacy PSTN. Skype and Google both have the global scale and branding to position themselves at the center of a new public network—but the matter is complicated by Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft, and Google’s potential to compete with the vendors in this space. This session will help you understand the mechanisms available today to use cloud-based providers like Skype and Google to reach your stakeholders with all-IP communications; it will also show you the obstacles to this goal. You’ll come away with a grasp of the state of the art today, and what you can expect tomorrow.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:30 AM-9:55 AM

The best SLA is the one you design for yourself. Clouds have all of the things you need to make reliable, highly resilient applications: redundant, geographically distributed processing and sharded, shared storage systems. But, getting an application to run reliably requires a different kind of architecture. In this session, cloud architect, Daniel Koffler, will show you what it takes to build high availability into a cloud application.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being challenged to support the adoption of desktop virtualization and to enable both SaaS and the dynamic movement of VMs. Unfortunately the WAN is not experiencing the same type of price reduction as is computing and storage resources. The panelists in this fast-paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging WAN technologies and services that you can utilize to successfully support emerging requirements.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Google has always been cloud-based, but Microsoft is also promoting cloud-based versions of its office-productivity software, via the Office 365 cloud-based service. This market development has resulted in Google winning some enterprise accounts for its Gmail service, but is Gmail ready for prime time? And the larger question is: Now that Google and Microsoft have added communications “hooks” into their office suites, are we on the verge of another round of convergence? Will enterprises move toward (or away from) Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, etc., based on the effectiveness of these systems’ integrated communications functionality? In this session, industry experts will help you understand how cloud-based office applications use communications integration to enable and promote collaboration.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Your enterprise probably has users, customers and partners on Skype, and many may use GoogleVoice as well. If your enterprise IP communications platform could talk to these public services, you could greatly expand your reach, using voice, video or other collaboration modes, without ever touching the legacy PSTN. Skype and Google both have the global scale and branding to position themselves at the center of a new public network—but the matter is complicated by Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft, and Google’s potential to compete with the vendors in this space. This session will help you understand the mechanisms available today to use cloud-based providers like Skype and Google to reach your stakeholders with all-IP communications; it will also show you the obstacles to this goal. You’ll come away with a grasp of the state of the art today, and what you can expect tomorrow.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E09
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand a POC rollout of VDI must know to get VDI off on the right foot and avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize the project. This includes runaway costs—how to avoid adding CAPEX and OPEX; deadly IOPS—how to measure current input outputs/second per user and per application; why storage sizing is so important; evaluating persistent verses non-persistent desktops; best practices for user-authored data stores; and ensuring a quality user environment.

What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending your session?

Everyone knows that, while VDI holds tremendous promise, the costs and complexities can—and have—caused many organizations to put VDI projects on hold. Attendees will return to their companies as heroes who put VDI on the right track, certain of what they must assess and put in place to facilitate a strong ROI.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:20 AM-9:40 AM

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

“Rent vs. buy” is one of the oldest conundrums in communications, dating back to the days of Centrex. Now the decision centers on whether you should host your “PBX” or other UC application in the cloud and allow a third party to provide the function as a service. In this session, we’ll offer you a complete overview of your options: Who the potential providers are; what their business models are; what applications you can outsource today, and which aren’t yet available as a service; the feasibility of hybrid deployments, with some locations or applications in the cloud, and others remaining on premise; and whether it’s really less expensive to rent than buy. You’ll come away with a set of decision factors that will let you evaluate what’s out there and what it has to offer your enterprise.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:25 AM-11:45 AM

Service providers have capitalized on their existing data centers and global IP networks to roll out cloud services, in some cases partnering with other infrastructure and networking providers. Going forward, as cloud computing becomes more widely deployed, service providers need to achieve greater integration and efficiency for their cloud offerings. This panel will look at what telecom network operators need to do to prepare and manage their networks, including breaking down internal barriers between the network transport and IT functions of the carrier operation, as well as opening up to third-party application providers, designing billing systems for pay-as-you-go charging models, and preparing back-office operations to deliver on SLAs for cloud customers.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:35 PM-12:55 PM

Traditional VDI means exponentially growing, costly server farms, no offline use and limited user experience – stalling VDI adoption. In this session, you will learn how the new Type 0 Hypervisor technology and Hosted Virtual Desktops techniques can increase per-server density, slash operational and licensing costs, and ensure rich, offline-capable experience.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

With wireless and mobility now crucial to the success of enterprises and organizations around the world, we’ll kick off this year’s conference with the views of some of the top analysts and pundits working in wireless today. No topic is off-limits, and no holds are barred – this high-energy examination of the key issues facing what is still a rapidly-evolving field is always very popular, highly-informative, and essential to anyone involved in IT planning, technology, management, and operations. What’s next, and will it matter? This panel has the answers.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 3:30 PM-3:40 PM

In this session, Terremark has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

While the cloud represents a revolution in IT strategy, it's not a cloud-only world, and IT leaders today are faced with the challenge of integrating cloud infrastructure with existing applications, technologies, networks and processes. This session presents a practical and pragmatic guide on integrating clouds for the enterprise, focusing on how to take advantage of the power and potential of the cloud while minimizing disruption, waste and compromise.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:15 AM-11:45 AM

In this panel discussion, we look at which cloud frameworks are best for which applications. When does it make sense to use the control -- and overhead -- of infrastructure as a service, wrestling rented metal? When is a turnkey platform the right choice, and when is it a liability that locks you into an expensive platform?

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 11:20 AM-11:35 AM

In this case study session, Cushman & Wakefield walk us through their experience with cloud platforms, sharing what's worked and what hasn't.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Which one wins is the topic of hot debate as the storage landscape is changing. Is Fibre Channel on its last legs propped up by an entrenched storage ecosystem or is it going to continue to evolve and remain relevant and viable in the enterprise? Will iSCSI supplant FC as the primary storage protocol by breaking out of it's departmental pigeon hole and into the main stream? This debate will ask attendees to vote at the start of the session and again at the end after the arguments are heard. Bring your questions to stump out panel.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

This detailed two-hour session will examine the key management and operational issues involved in successful mobile operations. Each presenter will discuss key best practices, learned over many years of experience, and help put any organization on the path to mobile success. We’ll cover, in depth, vital issues related to managing a mobile workforce and ensuring security and integrity, and also explore the very important emerging field of mobile device management – all in an interactive, cross-disciplinary setting.

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

One of the biggest complaints from users – and concerns for IT and telecoms managers – is how to reliably provision in-building cellular coverage for both voice and data. Numerous alternatives exist here: repeaters, distributed antenna systems (DAS), femtocells, Wi-Fi convergence, and other strategies, some tied to specific carriers, and some not. Which of these is the most important going forward? And is there a solution to the cellular coverage problem that will drive broad enterprise adoption?

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Chassis servers are evolving from server blades in sharing I/O and power to centrally managed, hardware platforms designed to support virtualized applications and be flexible enough to enable both general purpose computing as well as specialized instances of hardware configurations.

However, the decisions aren't just about hardware. The management and monitoring environment from pre-packaged management systems to exposed API's and SDK's for integration have to be considered since you will make the most of your virtualization strategy by automating virtual server deployments, moves, and teardowns. In this session, we will examine the cutting edge aspects of unified computing platforms with a focus on advanced hardware and management features.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

With wireless and mobility now crucial to the success of enterprises and organizations around the world, we’ll kick off this year’s conference with the views of some of the top analysts and pundits working in wireless today. No topic is off-limits, and no holds are barred – this high-energy examination of the key issues facing what is still a rapidly-evolving field is always very popular, highly-informative, and essential to anyone involved in IT planning, technology, management, and operations. What’s next, and will it matter? This panel has the answers.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Expanding your operations overseas can seem like a daunting task. Nevertheless, ignoring the opportunities represented by the sheer volume of the IT market in Europe can be a mistake. This session will give you practical information on how to enter the European market, discuss challenges and special considerations, and help you learn from others who have already done so.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Driven largely by the need to support the flow of information between branch offices and data centers, many IT organizations have implemented WAN optimization controller (WOC) functionality. On a going forward basis, IT organizations looking to implement WAN optimization have a couple of fundamental questions. One such question is should the implement WOCs themselves or acquire the functionality from a cloud provider. The other question is whether or not the current generation of WOCs can support massive file transfers between branch offices. The panelists on this session will take opposing views on these questions and give you the insight you need to plot the best course for your organization.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being challenged to support the adoption of desktop virtualization and to enable both SaaS and the dynamic movement of VMs. Unfortunately the WAN is not experiencing the same type of price reduction as is computing and storage resources. The panelists in this fast-paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging WAN technologies and services that you can utilize to successfully support emerging requirements.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

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 and the management of the network to enable them to support cloud computing. For example, the deployment of vSwitches will potentially result in IT organizations having to manage hundreds of new switches from multiple vendors. In addition, today’s WAN can’t effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting and most management tools and processes are focused on static not dynamic 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.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

For well over a decade most IT infrastructures have relied on physical appliances including physical routers, WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). However, over the last few years, an increasing number of virtualized appliances have entered the marketplace. These appliances have the potential to provide dramatically lower cost and dramatically increase agility. That raises the question: Is there any longer a need for physical appliances? The panelists will discuss their stances on this question and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

There has been a lot of discussion recently about assuring the user experience. While many vendors claim an ability to monitor and report on user experience, the question is what vantage point provides the most relevant view into what a user is actually experiencing? Does looking at synthetic transactions that are meant to “replicate” a user transaction provide such a view? Or does looking at how applications perform across multiple tiers within in the data center represent a user experience perspective. The panelists on this session will review the question of how best to assure the user experience and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Google has always been cloud-based, but Microsoft is also promoting cloud-based versions of its office-productivity software, via the Office 365 cloud-based service. This market development has resulted in Google winning some enterprise accounts for its Gmail service, but is Gmail ready for prime time? And the larger question is: Now that Google and Microsoft have added communications “hooks” into their office suites, are we on the verge of another round of convergence? Will enterprises move toward (or away from) Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365, etc., based on the effectiveness of these systems’ integrated communications functionality? In this session, industry experts will help you understand how cloud-based office applications use communications integration to enable and promote collaboration.

Location: Room 1E09
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Your enterprise probably has users, customers and partners on Skype, and many may use GoogleVoice as well. If your enterprise IP communications platform could talk to these public services, you could greatly expand your reach, using voice, video or other collaboration modes, without ever touching the legacy PSTN. Skype and Google both have the global scale and branding to position themselves at the center of a new public network—but the matter is complicated by Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft, and Google’s potential to compete with the vendors in this space. This session will help you understand the mechanisms available today to use cloud-based providers like Skype and Google to reach your stakeholders with all-IP communications; it will also show you the obstacles to this goal. You’ll come away with a grasp of the state of the art today, and what you can expect tomorrow.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

BYOD has breached the Enterprise and won’t be stopped. Businesses are taking advantage of the financial and social values it brings and IT departments must adjust. This means re-engineering the network infrastructure to account for client densities and diversity never previously expected. This session identifies the components required to be successful.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Which one wins is the topic of hot debate as the storage landscape is changing. Is Fibre Channel on its last legs propped up by an entrenched storage ecosystem or is it going to continue to evolve and remain relevant and viable in the enterprise? Will iSCSI supplant FC as the primary storage protocol by breaking out of it's departmental pigeon hole and into the main stream? This debate will ask attendees to vote at the start of the session and again at the end after the arguments are heard. Bring your questions to stump out panel.

Location: Room 1E09
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

LTE has been described by some as the only wide-area wireless technology that will matter over the next decade. Indeed, with major carriers investing billions in global deployments now underway, a working understanding LTE technology, capabilities, and vendor/carrier evolutionary strategies is essential for anyone involved in managing enterprise mobility. This session will present a detailed overview of LTE – what it is, what it can do, how is will become a key part of your operations, and how it will evolve over the next several years – and beyond.

Location: Room 1E15
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Once an organization has completed the initial phase of server virtualization and consolidation, the next step is to optimize the virtual infrastructure to enable expansion from the typical initial 25% virtualized to a more complete fully virtualized infrastructure. Along with this expansion, the critical path to realizing the full potential of virtualization is to add the management layers to transform IT operations and deliver IT as a service. By properly managing, securing, protecting, optimizing and automating the virtual infrastructure, IT can transform itself to run as a private cloud.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

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. IT 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, virtual and physical. You will also learn about various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being challenged to support the adoption of desktop virtualization and to enable both SaaS and the dynamic movement of VMs. Unfortunately the WAN is not experiencing the same type of price reduction as is computing and storage resources. The panelists in this fast-paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging WAN technologies and services that you can utilize to successfully support emerging requirements.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

For well over a decade most IT infrastructures have relied on physical appliances including physical routers, WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). However, over the last few years, an increasing number of virtualized appliances have entered the marketplace. These appliances have the potential to provide dramatically lower cost and dramatically increase agility. That raises the question: Is there any longer a need for physical appliances? The panelists will discuss their stances on this question and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

For well over a decade most IT infrastructures have relied on physical appliances including physical routers, WAN optimization controllers (WOCs) and application delivery controllers (ADCs). However, over the last few years, an increasing number of virtualized appliances have entered the marketplace. These appliances have the potential to provide dramatically lower cost and dramatically increase agility. That raises the question: Is there any longer a need for physical appliances? The panelists will discuss their stances on this question and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E09
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

LTE has been described by some as the only wide-area wireless technology that will matter over the next decade. Indeed, with major carriers investing billions in global deployments now underway, a working understanding LTE technology, capabilities, and vendor/carrier evolutionary strategies is essential for anyone involved in managing enterprise mobility. This session will present a detailed overview of LTE – what it is, what it can do, how is will become a key part of your operations, and how it will evolve over the next several years – and beyond.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

OK, you’re in the middle of that all-important (and large-scale) upgrade of 802.11g to .11n, when, what’s this, we have two more significant improvements in performance now on the horizon? Yes, 802.11ac and .11ad will be with us shortly, with the required technologies already in place and the development of standards now far along. But are these a new and essential upgrade path to .11n, or will they be reserved for special applications and power users? Where should gigabit Wi-Fi be in your plans today?

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:20 PM

The session will open with technological dive into virtual networks, virtual switches and how they are implemented in ESX environments. The security challenge will be discussed in the context of virtualized networks and the security concern with the traffic invisibility. The second part of the session will cover the existing technologies for virtual networks monitoring solutions starting with virtual switch promiscuous mode, VM layer probes and the recently announced kernel implementation of a monitoring shim. Real use cases of VMWare and Net Optics customers will be shared (pending approval) to demonstrate how monitoring visibility has helped restore security monitoring in area where compliance and security were of critical importance.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 2:45 PM-3:00 PM

What's next for cloud computing? Will IT in our pocket change business forever?

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

If you think your VMware environment is a private cloud, you will be sorely disappointed with the results. While virtualization is a foundation for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), there is much more to the design and operation of a private cloud. To develop your path to the private cloud, you will learn: • The difference between a virtual server environment and a private cloud. • What your developers expect from a cloud and why this matters.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

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. IT 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, virtual and physical. You will also learn about various hypervisor security architectures coupled with VM Introspection and automation can deliver dynamic, granular insights into security.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Media-rich collaboration, mobility and cloud services are crushing the legacy network. With over 75% of data center traffic now server-to-server, nearly 25% of enterprise network traffic dominated by video, and the explosion of mobile devices, it’s more important than ever that Enterprises rethink their network architecture. Learn how a HP FlexNetwork Architecture can help simplify, accelerate, and secure enterprises from the virtualized cloud to the virtual workplace.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:55 PM-3:15 PM

Cloudy days ahead? Cloud computing is the hot topic, but how will the cloud effect your disaster recovery plans? In this session you'll learn important differences between pubic, private and hybrid clouds and why it matters when designing your DR plan. We*ll explore how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how you can reduce cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 4:10 PM-4:20 PM

In the fourth of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Chef, an open source provisioning and automation platform.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:40 PM-5:00 PM

IaaS clouds transformed how people think about infrastructure. Unfortunately, the popular technique of snapshotting and cloning creates image sprawl and makes it hard to move to different providers.

This session will explore modern configuration management techniques and the tools that enable them, allowing participants to float among
the clouds.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

As more and more businesses begin scaling IT needs to the cloud, there has been an increasing need to find ways to connect dedicated hosting offerings to cloud computing solutions. How can you effectively use IaaS services while also considering your current hosting needs? Attendees of this session will learn how they can bridge the gap between hosting and cloud in a scalable, cost-effective and secure way.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:55 AM-10:05 AM

In this session, Microsoft Azure has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

How can the cloud address real business needs in the areas of mobility, web, and social? Learn how American Airlines delivers flight updates to business travelers without spiking traffic on premise. Hear about how Travelocity runs a Java site performance application without impacting the booking path. And finally, find out how Outback Steakhouse deploys Facebook promotions landing 80K prospects in one day.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 3:40 PM-4:05 PM

When web upstarts started offering cloud services, they stirred the sleeping enterprise giants and hosting companies into action as well. The buyer is now spoiled, for from the bedroom to the boardroom there is a vendor that can offer it the right cloud.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:25 PM-3:55 PM

It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E07
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Sometimes using tools like PING and Traceroute aren’t enough to isolate the cause of network problems. This class will take a hands-on approach to learning how to use the Wireshark protocol analyzer to capture packets and analyze network traffic. Numerous examples will be used throughout the day to walk the attendees though the process of filtering out those packets that are working well and drilling down to those that are at the root of the problem. Attendees will be provided with a CD containing a number of open source network troubleshooting tools, as well as the trace files used in the class. Laptops are required.

Course Outline:

• Installing and Configuring Wireshark
• Using Display Filters
• Using Capture Filters
• Isolating the cause of slow data transfers
• Running Wireshark from the command-line
• Building a capture to disk appliance

Who Should Attend:

• Network Administrators
• Network Analysts
• Server Administrators
• Desktop Administrators
• Network Managers

Location: Room 1E07
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Every company has one, the slow application. Whether it started that way, or slowed down over time, it has become unbearable for the customers. This course is designed to provide insight into what makes applications run poorly and what can be done to correct the problem.

Attendees will leave this presentation with an understanding of how to troubleshoot application performance problems and how to recognize an application that was not designed to run in a WAN environment. As part of this course, we will examine a number of applications, including HTTP, SQL, and SMB.

Course Outline

• Predicting Application Performance – Know how an application will perform before putting onto your network.
• Troubleshooting Multi-Tiered Environments – Learn how to track transactions through web, application and database servers.
• Impact of Bandwidth and Latency on Application Performance – Throwing more bandwidth at the problem doesn’t always make things faster. This presentation discusses the differences between a bandwidth dependent and latency dependent application.
• Monitoring Application Performance – After the application has been implemented it is important to ensure it is operating as it should.
• What makes a good WAN application? – The characteristics of a good WAN based application will be covered in this presentation.

Who Should Attend:

• Network Analysts
• Application Developers
• Network Managers
• Server Administrators

Location: Room 1E16
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

IT is experiencing the benefits of rapid technology change. Processor core performance has doubled every two years since the 1970s, expanding server capacity and enabling technologies that simplify IT administration and reduce costs. Understanding processor compute performance and platform capacity is critical for building and maintaining effective enterprise operations. This session shares lessons learned from over 20 years of IT consulting and operations experience, building systems for regional, national, and global compute intensive geospatial operations. A proven hardware selection methodology along with capacity planning tools that clearly identify the best buy for your operational needs will also be presented.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:10 PM-1:30 PM

You work in a dynamic, fast-changing tech environment. You never really know what questions you’ll face tomorrow. But, with your library in the cloud, you know whatever you need will be there. And you can get the answers you need immediately.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

This detailed two-hour session will examine the key management and operational issues involved in successful mobile operations. Each presenter will discuss key best practices, learned over many years of experience, and help put any organization on the path to mobile success. We’ll cover, in depth, vital issues related to managing a mobile workforce and ensuring security and integrity, and also explore the very important emerging field of mobile device management – all in an interactive, cross-disciplinary setting.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:55 AM-10:05 AM

In the first of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Openstack.

Location: Room 1E07
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Somewhere along the way information security become about buying the next great piece of technology to solve the problem or fill the box in the auditors checklist. Unfortunately this approach has yielded only nominal results to date and the challenges of information security and risk management are far surpassing any of the technology or compliance requirements we have today to solve them. Instead of moving the pieces of the puzzle around the board in a desperate effort to combat the technical and regulatory threats of today we should instead be trying to solve the puzzle to effectively and adequately address the information risks of both today and tomorrow. This discussion will discuss five key activities an organization can perform to truly enhance their information security and risk management capabilities prior to making the next purchase of the technology that they think will solve the problem by may ultimately become the problem.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Rather than just housing servers, a data center rack can become a platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the addition of key applications. By integrating applications at the top of rack, data center operators can reduce application latency and provide elastic computing resources on a per-rack basis. In this session, the presenter will explain why integrating applications at the top of rack increases IaaS flexibility and reduces latency, will offer examples of applications running at the top of rack, and will detail the requirements for integrating applications at the top of rack.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:20 PM-5:00 PM

A group of industry analysts who have participated in the day's events will offer opinions and reactions on what has been discussed during the Carrier Cloud Forum and on the cloud market in general.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Special Events Hall
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

We have reached a critical point in the future of the Internet. IPv4 addresses have now fully depleted from the IANA free pool, and it is imperative that companies adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, before time runs out and the global Internet community is fragmented. In order to avoid potential operability issues later, organizations everywhere are encouraged begin IPv6 adoption now, as consumers will start to expect IPv6 enabled websites. John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will moderate a panel that will discuss the impact IPv4 depletion will have on the global Internet, including the dynamics that are driving this momentous change to IPv6. Along the way, the panel will cover best practices for making the overall transition as seamless as possible, as well as key considerations during an organization’s IPv6 adoption.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 4:05 PM-4:25 PM

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Following in the footsteps of our recent Great Debate on cloud security, this session pits two teams against one another. It's one team's job to convince you that we'll always have on-premise private clouds, and the other's to argue that we'll eventually move to a utility model where you never touch your servers. Following the Oxford Debate format, you'll hear imploring arguments and fiery rhetoric as you decide who makes the best case.

Location: Room 1E08
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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.

For more information click here.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

This session focuses on Enterprise IPv6 deployment considerations for specific areas of the network such as campus, WAN/branch and data center. The session features best practices for deploying IPv6 with a variety of associated technologies.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:15 AM-9:40 AM

One of the most hyped and least talked about aspect of private clouds is reliability. Building a private cloud doesn’t not magically make your applications more reliable. There are a number of options available at all tiers of the stack to build reliability into a private cloud architectures. In this session, we will outline why you need to focus on application reliability.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Learn the differences between and the benefits of both the public and private cloud. Find out how to analyze which type of cloud solution is right for your company. We will be discussing cloud technology options as they relate to virtualization, business continuity and storage, integration and infrastructure replacement.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E07
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

This lively and fast paced presentation will examine the most recent developments in hacker tools, exploits, trends, legislation, and cyber-crime news. Live demos for some of the newest tools will be given. The session aims to educate the participates with knowledge about the current state-of-the-art in IT security, to better equip the participant to defend against newer threats, identify new resources for auditing IT systems, and plan for coming trends and legislation.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

A mobility strategy is crucial to the success of any organization. Our panel of experts from manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare will discuss 802.11n migration, policies for managing tablets and smartphones, how to deploy mission critical voice, lessons learned from RF interference, and design guidelines for high density environments. This panel offers real-world discussion and practical tips for enhancing your wired and wireless network.

Location: Room 1E07
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

This session will discuss the lessons IT managers and security officers can learn from the WikiLeaks scandal and the actionable steps they can take to help detect, deter, and prevent insider threats and security breaches. The discussion will include technology that maps directly to organizational policies, managing information security controls and real-world examples.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Special Events Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E09
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Managing your VDI project before it begins may seem daunting, but it’s integral to the project’s success. This session will explore what organizations implementing VDI or looking to expand a POC rollout of VDI must know to get VDI off on the right foot and avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize the project. This includes runaway costs—how to avoid adding CAPEX and OPEX; deadly IOPS—how to measure current input outputs/second per user and per application; why storage sizing is so important; evaluating persistent verses non-persistent desktops; best practices for user-authored data stores; and ensuring a quality user environment.

What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending your session?

Everyone knows that, while VDI holds tremendous promise, the costs and complexities can—and have—caused many organizations to put VDI projects on hold. Attendees will return to their companies as heroes who put VDI on the right track, certain of what they must assess and put in place to facilitate a strong ROI.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Come learn about a new strategic portfolio of solutions, focused on virtualized workloads and based on converged infrastructure. With integrated and optimized servers, networking, and unique scale out storage technologies, HP VirtualSystem utilizes leading technologies, accelerating time to value and addressing today’s number one priority for IT -- reducing data center complexity.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This panel of vendors will offer their opinions on which video conferencing technologies will be the most significant in helping your company’s bottom line. Their vision of the future and how their company is better positioned to help you with video collaboration will be discussed. Specifically, the panelists will describe how to manage a large video conferencing network, what underlying technologies distinguish their products, the role of standards in their products, and what tools they offer to troubleshoot networks . Get the scoop in a single session.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

We have reached a critical point in the future of the Internet. IPv4 addresses have now fully depleted from the IANA free pool, and it is imperative that companies adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, before time runs out and the global Internet community is fragmented. In order to avoid potential operability issues later, organizations everywhere are encouraged begin IPv6 adoption now, as consumers will start to expect IPv6 enabled websites. John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will moderate a panel that will discuss the impact IPv4 depletion will have on the global Internet, including the dynamics that are driving this momentous change to IPv6. Along the way, the panel will cover best practices for making the overall transition as seamless as possible, as well as key considerations during an organization’s IPv6 adoption.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Today’s business relies on its network like never before and its applications are virtual. While this puts a strain on the network, organizations must now support secure anywhere access of a heterogeneous user base, on a variety of different devices in a variety of different locations. And all of these elements can change at a moment’s notice. This session will discuss the requirements and challenges organizations face by not only supporting cloud based applications but also cloud based employees.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:25 AM-11:45 AM

Migrating apps and data to the cloud isn’t easy. Learn how you can optimize data transfer and application performance, discover crucial interdependencies of systems to be migrated, gain clear visibility into network constraints, and enable easy integration of remote IT resources internal or external to your company.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:25 PM-3:55 PM

It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 2:15 PM-2:30 PM

Moving enterprise applications to the cloud – how hard can it be? In this session, we’ll review some of the key challenges enterprise face, and what options exist to ease migration. We’ll focus on complex, multi-tier apps that require connectivity with the enterprise data center for security, networking and other services.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:45 PM-3:05 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 10:45 AM-11:00 AM

In this quick update, Marty Kagan of Cedexis will review his organization's research, collected from millions of samples across cloud and CDN providers, about the performance and uptime of public clouds.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

How can the cloud address real business needs in the areas of mobility, web, and social? Learn how American Airlines delivers flight updates to business travelers without spiking traffic on premise. Hear about how Travelocity runs a Java site performance application without impacting the booking path. And finally, find out how Outback Steakhouse deploys Facebook promotions landing 80K prospects in one day.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:20 PM-2:40 PM

Cloud is a paradigm shift in rendering IT as a service and has become top of mind for everyone right from independent developers to Large Enterprises. The shift is primarily driven by economics. In this session we will cover the supply side and demand side economics of cloud computing to help understand why cloud is seen as the next big thing in IT. We will also go through Microsoft’s approach to the cloud and also introduce you to the Windows Azure Platform, Microsoft’s platform as a service offering.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This panel of vendors will offer their opinions on which video conferencing technologies will be the most significant in helping your company’s bottom line. Their vision of the future and how their company is better positioned to help you with video collaboration will be discussed. Specifically, the panelists will describe how to manage a large video conferencing network, what underlying technologies distinguish their products, the role of standards in their products, and what tools they offer to troubleshoot networks . Get the scoop in a single session.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Consumerization is an unstoppable force that is redefining the modern network. Workers want to access more information, from more locations using a wider variety of end points. The tight, end to end control that IT used to have is all but gone and organizations need to find a way to let workers utilize the consumer tools they want for work but do so in a way that's scalable, manageable and secure. Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President of The Yankee Group, will moderate this panel that will look at the role the network will play in helping to consumerize the enterprise workplace. Topics to be discussed are wireless technologies, creating a secure environment and network architecture.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

There has been a lot of discussion recently about assuring the user experience. While many vendors claim an ability to monitor and report on user experience, the question is what vantage point provides the most relevant view into what a user is actually experiencing? Does looking at synthetic transactions that are meant to “replicate” a user transaction provide such a view? Or does looking at how applications perform across multiple tiers within in the data center represent a user experience perspective. The panelists on this session will review the question of how best to assure the user experience and will provide you the information you need to determine what makes the most sense in your environment.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlow or Packet Monitoring? Local or SaaS? Proactive or Reactive? Internal or MSP? And the stakes could not be higher - networks are returning to prominence as a critical infrastructure, and expectations for reliability and sustained performance are ratcheting upward. In this session, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will drive a lively session amongst management technology leaders who will look at the pros and cons of some of the major decisions points when selecting management approaches and strategies.

Location: Room 1E16
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This panel of vendors will offer their opinions on which video conferencing technologies will be the most significant in helping your company’s bottom line. Their vision of the future and how their company is better positioned to help you with video collaboration will be discussed. Specifically, the panelists will describe how to manage a large video conferencing network, what underlying technologies distinguish their products, the role of standards in their products, and what tools they offer to troubleshoot networks . Get the scoop in a single session.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

One of the biggest complaints from users – and concerns for IT and telecoms managers – is how to reliably provision in-building cellular coverage for both voice and data. Numerous alternatives exist here: repeaters, distributed antenna systems (DAS), femtocells, Wi-Fi convergence, and other strategies, some tied to specific carriers, and some not. Which of these is the most important going forward? And is there a solution to the cellular coverage problem that will drive broad enterprise adoption?

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 10:05 AM-10:30 AM

In this talk, Basho Technologies' CTO will discuss the exciting but maddeningly vague "Big Data" term. The audience will learn what this is really all about, what exactly the technology trends around Big Data are enabling, and how best to use them to their own advantage. We will discard mystique and replace it with practical understanding.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:20 PM-4:20 PM

The ability to deliver Service Level Agreements to guarantee reliability, security, visibility and availability of cloud services is critical to their success. Given the many varied and often shared elements that will comprise cloud services, success of service providers will be based on their ability to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Experience to their cloud customers. This panel will address what QoE will look like in the cloud realm, and how to deliver and monitor it.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

In 2008, the number of connected IP devices like ATMs, digital signage, and smart meters exceeded the number of people on Earth. With this exponential increase, how will you prepare your network for the future? This session will detail the market trends and challenges in this machine-to-machine market with specific use cases and solutions across verticals like financial services, public sector, retail, transportation, and utility.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Location: Room 1E09
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Mobile users on cellular and wireless LAN often have severe performance issues. In this session Eric Siegel of Gartner will first look at the actual performance of cellular and at the technical issues inhibiting both cellular and WLAN performance. He will present design recommendations to improve performance through appropriate use of WAN performance optimization and improvements to the network and the applications.

Location: Room 1E16
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

This full day workshop focuses on improving your skills with security tools so you can better evaluate, penetrate and improve your networks security. Designed for IT professionals who need more than just talk about tools, this hands-on experience helps you fully grasp the tools and their uses.

This workshop utilizes Offensive Security’s BackTrack VM version so you’ll learn and practice using the same tools and techniques that nefarious hackers are using against your network. You’ll learn an organized process to analyze and attack your network including specific tools for each step. You’ll get time to practice each tool on real targets so you really understand the process and tools. Hands on knowledge of tools for evaluating, penetrating and improving your security are the take homes from this class.

Attendees connect wirelessly to our array of virtual computers containing a cornucopia of OS’s for real time practice which helps you understand fully the tools you’re learning. You’ll hear it, see it, read it then do it; this is the ultimate learning experience for those who really want to know the material. We’ll provide the Backtrack VM image (or bring your own), all the targets, an electronic workbook and even prizes for the best info gatherers in the session. All you need to bring is a computer with VMplayer (free) loaded and a desire to learn how to use the latest security tools.

Attendees will be able to:

• State 5 basic tasks needed to get Backtrack functional
• List steps in order needed to properly evaluate/penetrate network security
• Cite reasons some target are yummier than others (low hanging fruit)
• State 3 programs used for gathering information about targets and demonstrate their proper usage
• Verbalize and demonstrate 5 programs used for network mapping and analysis
• Demonstrate how to fully setup and use OpenVAS vulnerability scanner
• Discuss 2 other automated vulnerability scanners and state how to secure demo copies
• State and demonstrate methods of SMB and SNMP analysis
• Demonstrate 2 different methods of SQL injection
• List tools available for network penetration and demonstrate 1 of them
• Discuss password file format an demonstrate how to crack them
• Review basic Wireshark commands used to monitor networks
• Recite how Cryptcat, Netcat and Stunnel work and demonstrate 1 of them
• State 3 places to locate the most common hacker software code
• Describe where to get additional help and knowledge about these tools

Goals:

• Improve attendee’s network diagnostic and mitigation skills
• Increase awareness of security tools available
• Decrease time spent analyzing network vulnerabilities
• Make attendee’s comfortable in security by increasing their hands on skills

Who should attend:

Networking professional who want a hands-on class about the latest security tools.

Security professionals who want more training on Backtrack.

Attendee Requirements:

All attendees MUST have:

• Laptop/notebook/netbook that they can load or already has VMplayer loaded
• Rights and privileges to load a virtual machines image to the VMplayer
• Ability to connect to a wireless network

Location: Room 1E12
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E12
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

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. 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.

Location: Room 1E07
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Advanced malware, zero-day and targeted APT attacks aggressively evade signature-based defenses and compromise the majority of today’s networks. The primary mission for any organization dealing with advanced malware is integrating defenses to block known malware, stop outbound data exfiltration attempts, and detect zero-day, targeted attacks. Ashar Aziz will give five guiding principles for integrated, next-generation threat protection.

What knowledge will the attendee gain or benefit from attending this session?

• Security techniques government institutions can use to protect themselves from advanced malware.
• Understanding and naming the five principles that can be implemented for advanced malware protection.
• Discussion around how advanced persistent threats are using advanced malware to further their objectives (as far as disrupting networks, altering/destroying data, and performing reconnaissance on foreign interests).

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

OK, you’re in the middle of that all-important (and large-scale) upgrade of 802.11g to .11n, when, what’s this, we have two more significant improvements in performance now on the horizon? Yes, 802.11ac and .11ad will be with us shortly, with the required technologies already in place and the development of standards now far along. But are these a new and essential upgrade path to .11n, or will they be reserved for special applications and power users? Where should gigabit Wi-Fi be in your plans today?

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Desktop, application, and user virtualization hold the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first invaded enterprises in the early 1980s. How can these various technologies help reduce desktop and application management nightmares? How can they help support the plethora of new tablets, smartphones and future devices as part of the new BYOC efforts and deliver a successful end-user experience which sometimes requires rich graphics? What benefits can be gained and what pitfalls can be avoided? What is involved in evaluating, planning and implementing these solutions? How do SBC/hosted applications, VDI/hosted virtual desktops, persistent/non-persistent desktops, client hypervisors, application virtualization and user virtualization fit together? Learn best practices for implementing various desktop, application, and user virtualization technologies and how you might incorporate these types of solutions into your desktop and application management strategy.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:50 AM-11:10 AM

Learn how to overcome network challenges when accessing cloud applications by implementing a Unified Performance Management solution. Address the three requirements of application performance management: visibility, control and optimization, all in a single unified platform. Improve ROI and ensure the best possible user experience.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path Ethernet using Fabric Shortest Path First, TRILL, or Shortest Path Bridging, finds the shortest path and load balances traffic over multiple Ethernet links reducing congestion and making better use of your Ethernet capacity. Multi-path Ethernet can have significant impact on the product selections you can add to your FCoE fabric as well as the management and operations of your data and storage network. In this session, we will describe the commonality of multi-path Ethernet protocols, the differences, and the impact to integration and management.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

Increased worker mobility means more devices with sensitive data are being used outside the office and the explosion of cloud-based applications and cost-cutting consumerization are fueling this trend. This session will explore the five overlooked risks of increasing mobility: exposing information on social networks, displaying sensitive data in public, malware on unmanaged devices and more.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:40 AM-10:40 AM

Service providers have the optical transport networks and data centers that are the muscle of any cloud infrastructure. But delivering on-demand services requires greater flexibility in use of those resources, such as more agile operations and billing systems to facilitate self-service ordering, service assembly & management, process automation and usage-based billing. This panel will explore the challenges in building a more nimble cloud infrastructure.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

A mobility strategy is crucial to the success of any organization. Our panel of experts from manufacturing, education, retail and healthcare will discuss 802.11n migration, policies for managing tablets and smartphones, how to deploy mission critical voice, lessons learned from RF interference, and design guidelines for high density environments. This panel offers real-world discussion and practical tips for enhancing your wired and wireless network.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 11:10 AM-11:20 AM

In the second of our under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll consider the Citrix CloudStack model.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Clouds and virtualization are the hottest buzzwords in the industry today as data centers undergo a massive transformation of their servers, storage and network systems. The focus most recently has been on the hypervisor and application, but this is a red herring: it's the network and storage architecture that makes clouds reliable and secure. In this session, we'll go beyond "on-demand metal" and understand the challenges of orchestrating and automating all of a data center's infrastructure to deliver the elasticity and agility clouds promise.

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

For years IT organizations have built three-tier data center LANs based on a number of broadly accepted best practices. However, trends such as the adoption of server virtualization are causing confusion relative to IT organizations understanding the current set of best practices. The panelists in the first part of this session will discuss a number of strategic topics that are central to the evolution of your data center LAN including:

• Architecture and scale,
• The convergence of the LAN and the SAN
• The pros and cons of having a single vendor vs. having multiple vendors.
  

In the second part of this session, panelists will discuss a number of tactical topics that are central to data center LAN design including:

• How to best support a multi-tenant environment
• What are the alternatives to the spanning tree protocol?
• What is the best way to enable the growth in virtual machine mobility?
• Is it the right time to deploy OpenFlow?
• Do you shoot yourself in the foot by implementing pre-standard versions of emerging technologies?

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:30 PM-1:45 PM

Though the concept isn’t new, technologies such as OpenStack’s NetStack and OpenFlow have popularized the concept of software defined networking. As public and private cloud computing architectures require flexible and responsive network management frameworks on increasingly standardized physical architectures, how does an organization realize a cloud service with deployment agility, rapid provisioning, failure tolerance and quality of service in a “lights-out” infrastructure? This session helps attendees understand the key components of software defined networking, what is driving the need for SDN in cloud, and key characteristics of the hardware and software required to achieve its potential.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:25 PM-3:55 PM

It's unlikely that clouds are an all-or-nothing affair, at least in the short term. Companies will blend on-premise and on-demand clouds into what some call a hybrid model, combining the control of machines you own with the flexibility of those you merely rent. But a distributed architecture has its own problems—particularly reliability. In this panel, we'll learn what the challenges of a "stretched cloud" are and how technology can help mitigate performance issues when workloads happen at a distance.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E08
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Ethernet and the upper layer protocols are designed to handle packet loss and variable delay between packets. Fibre Channel, which is just SCSI over a network, needs a stable, lossless connection to work.The Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards define how Ethernet can be lossless, but choke points and congestion can wreak havoc on storage traffic by adding delay and jitter to FCoE. Multi-path Ethernet using Fabric Shortest Path First, TRILL, or Shortest Path Bridging, finds the shortest path and load balances traffic over multiple Ethernet links reducing congestion and making better use of your Ethernet capacity. Multi-path Ethernet can have significant impact on the product selections you can add to your FCoE fabric as well as the management and operations of your data and storage network. In this session, we will describe the commonality of multi-path Ethernet protocols, the differences, and the impact to integration and management.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:20 AM-9:30 AM

In this session Amazon has ten minutes to answer our shortlist questions on pricing, capacity, service levels, data location, and architecture.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 3:00 PM-3:45 PM

Cloud computing promises to enable enterprise agility and flexibility that can translate into competitive advantage. How can large enterprises use the cloud as an extension of their data center without cutting corners on security, reliability and compliance of their data? This session will highlight how large enterprises like Autodesk, NY Times, SAP and Amazon.com are using the AWS cloud today and taking advantage of the flexibility, security, agility, reliability and cost savings benefits of cloud computing. It will also discuss some of latest trends in the enterprise cloud adoption and highlight some of the latest enterprise services that AWS has released in last few months.

Location: Special Events Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Special Events Hall
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Hear industry visionaries discuss the growth and future of IT.

Location: Room 1E16
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM

Virtualization implementation and expansion inevitably causes pain points around storage and backup. Often these pain points result in stalling the growth of virtualization. By many estimates, storage now accounts for up to 60% of the cost of a virtualization deployment. Learn what and where the storage pain points are and hear our roundtable panel of experts discuss ideas for minimizing the pain and optimizing storage and backup for the new virtual/cloud infrastructure.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

How many mobile devices do you want to buy, carry, and manage? A handset is a given, but can a tablet really replace a notebook? Will the huge (and increasing) diversity of tablet devices and operating environments give new life to the notebook, or are we in the early stages of an epic transition that will fundamentally transform mobile IT? Join us for a detailed exploration beyond the consumer-driven hype to the enterprise issues that really matter.

Location: Room 1E08
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

One of the biggest complaints from users – and concerns for IT and telecoms managers – is how to reliably provision in-building cellular coverage for both voice and data. Numerous alternatives exist here: repeaters, distributed antenna systems (DAS), femtocells, Wi-Fi convergence, and other strategies, some tied to specific carriers, and some not. Which of these is the most important going forward? And is there a solution to the cellular coverage problem that will drive broad enterprise adoption?

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-2:45 PM

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 3:15 PM-3:25 PM

In the fourth under-the-covers look at private cloud stacks, we'll learn about Eucalyptus.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM

We have reached a critical point in the future of the Internet. IPv4 addresses have now fully depleted from the IANA free pool, and it is imperative that companies adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6, before time runs out and the global Internet community is fragmented. In order to avoid potential operability issues later, organizations everywhere are encouraged begin IPv6 adoption now, as consumers will start to expect IPv6 enabled websites. John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will moderate a panel that will discuss the impact IPv4 depletion will have on the global Internet, including the dynamics that are driving this momentous change to IPv6. Along the way, the panel will cover best practices for making the overall transition as seamless as possible, as well as key considerations during an organization’s IPv6 adoption.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

The consolidation of applications and servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers has driven an increased amount of delay sensitive traffic over the WAN. Now the WAN is being challenged to support the adoption of desktop virtualization and to enable both SaaS and the dynamic movement of VMs. Unfortunately the WAN is not experiencing the same type of price reduction as is computing and storage resources. The panelists in this fast-paced session will discuss some of the most promising emerging WAN technologies and services that you can utilize to successfully support emerging requirements.

Location: Room 1E15
Friday, October 7, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

There are many choices facing network managers when choosing tools and techniques for planning and operating today's networks. Best of Breed or Integrated Suite? NetFlow or Packet Monitoring? Local or SaaS? Proactive or Reactive? Internal or MSP? And the stakes could not be higher - networks are returning to prominence as a critical infrastructure, and expectations for reliability and sustained performance are ratcheting upward. In this session, Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates will drive a lively session amongst management technology leaders who will look at the pros and cons of some of the major decisions points when selecting management approaches and strategies.

Location: Free Session Room 2, Booth 261
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:00 PM-1:45 PM

A new era in networking requires a new way of thinking. What are the next opportunities for enterprise networking, communications and cloud solutions? What was just the backbone supporting desktop and server connectivity has now evolved into the application platform of the future. In this session you will learn the leap forward that has been made in networking enterprise solutions.

Location: Cloud & Virtualization Zone Theater, Booth 900
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 1:10 PM-1:30 PM

Huawei is the world's second largest provider of telecommunications equipment and a rapidly growing supplier of smart devices globally. As a recent entrant into the Enterprise market, Huawei brings a new perspective to the discussion around how enterprises can best take advantage of what the cloud has to offer. In this session we will discuss Huawei's vision as well as our current family of offerings around voice, video and social collaboration

Location: Room 1E10
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

This detailed two-hour session will examine the key management and operational issues involved in successful mobile operations. Each presenter will discuss key best practices, learned over many years of experience, and help put any organization on the path to mobile success. We’ll cover, in depth, vital issues related to managing a mobile workforce and ensuring security and integrity, and also explore the very important emerging field of mobile device management – all in an interactive, cross-disciplinary setting.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

It’s a foregone conclusion for many that tablets, handsets, and the app-centric environments central to their very definition will be the bulk of the new enterprise edge in the very near future. But wait –here’s an outrageous (to some) but very fair question: does an app-centric strategy even make sense outside the consumer domain? Given huge volumes of data and ever-increasing demands for both security and integrity, can apps form the basis (or even the norm) of successful mobile strategies, or will the Web and the cloud dominate extend their influence here? Join us for a fast-paced debate of this key decision point.

Location: Room 1E12
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Cloud computing offers tremendous opportunities and return-on-investment; however, you need to approach this carefully, leveraging industry models in conjunction with good governance practices.The presentation describes the key part of the NIST (National Institute of Standards for Technology) cloud computing frameworks in conjunction with other enterprise architecture and modeling approaches for cloud computing.Industry standards for cloud computing will be discussed and what many international governance, standards and frameworks organizations are exploring in cloud computing.This includes: models, taxonomies, standards, business cases, governance, estimation, security, privacy and policies.

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 11:15 AM-11:45 AM

In this panel discussion, we look at which cloud frameworks are best for which applications. When does it make sense to use the control -- and overhead -- of infrastructure as a service, wrestling rented metal? When is a turnkey platform the right choice, and when is it a liability that locks you into an expensive platform?

Location: Room 1E11
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The second day of Enterprise Cloud Summitt will review emerging design patterns and best practices, and discuss keeping data private in public places. We will explore the economics of cloud computing, with a focus on end-users'actual experience with clouds. And, new to the program, major public clouds will respond to our shortlist questionnaire, giving attendees a practical, side-by-side comparison of public cloud offerings.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

Business-grade social software is gaining broader acceptance in business. The toolsets are maturing and some strong business use cases have emerged. This session will include three practitioner-led use cases for enterprise social software. Speakers will discuss their business drivers, technology and architectural approaches, and share operational best practices.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:25 PM

If you're trying to build utility computing, you'll need a combination of virtualization, automation, self-service, and monitoring. In this panel, we'll discuss the building blocks of a private cloud, and look at the options IT has today to turn their data centers into on-demand computing resources for their organization.

Location: Room 1E11
Monday, October 3, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

The first day of Enterprise Cloud Summit will look at how cloud technologies from big data and turnkey cloud stacks are transforming private infrastructure. The fundamentals of cloud architectures and the leading private cloud stacks will be discussed. Attendees will also hear end-users tackle the "false cloud" debate and look at the place of Platform-as-a-Service clouds in the enterprise.

For more information click here.

Location: Room 1E15
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

The definition of a desktop is changing. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile and always on, user experience and end user access devices are key to the future of work. The term 'desktop' is becoming a metaphor for the collective devices, applications, services and content to which users subscribe both within the enterprise and in the cloud. This session will discuss the future of the desktop, and how to best deliver a user-centric model including considerations such as the interface and access point. The audience will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies that are critical to creating a unique and positive user experience, and also why user experience is crucial to the overall success and adoption of desktop virtualization.

Location: Room 1E08
Friday, October 7, 2011, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud service. Getting there successfully means addressing such areas as automation of provisioning and virtual operations; performance, capacity management and troubleshooting across and through the virtual and physical infrastructure; lifecycle management; and eventually managing across multiple hypervisors. Hear experiences and best practices from our expert panel on how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and transform your environment into a private cloud.

Location: Free Session Room 1, Booth 461
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 11:00 AM-11:45 AM

Hosted virtual desktop platforms are becoming more and more prominent as businesses seek new ways to simplify desktop management while increasing flexibility and mobility for the workforce. This session will explore how IT professionals can deploy HVD solutions from almost any remote device and how this enables businesses to focus on growing their business without compromising security.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 1:45 PM-2:45 PM

Service providers see cloud computing as a new opportunity for adding value to their IP transport offerings. For this new opportunity to generate profits, however, service providers must be able to differentiate their services, target them to appropriate audiences, and find their competitive niche in a crowded field. Many will also want to develop a portfolio of XaaS offerings including security, storage, software, and applications, all of which can be packaged with IP transport services or with other managed services. This panel will explore how cloud-based services will evolve to be profit engines of the future, including the possibility of industry-specific vertical offerings, as well as ways to make better service translate into market success.

Location: Room 1E11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Cloud computing is ripe for acquisition and consolidation, with the potential for near-monopoly power in relatively short order. This could endanger the open IETF process that has served us well, and threaten the future of open, multi-vendor protocols. Avoiding such an outcome will start with education, and may well end with regulation.