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• Desktop Virtualization
• Server Virtualization
• Application & Storage Virtualization
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Managed Services
• Virtual Appliances
Application Virtualization
Sevan Muradian,
Senior Sales Engineer,
KACE
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• Unified Communication
• Collaboration
• IP-PBX
• VoIP Services & Management
• Enterprise Mobility & Fixed Mobile Convergence
Making Wi-Fi Suck Less with Dynamic Beamforming
GT Hill,
Director of Technical Marketing,
Ruckus Wireless
Global MPLS Networks and the use of Extended-Net Networks
Rex Stover,
Vice President, Enterprise Business Development, Americas,
PCCW Global
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• Consolidation
• Storage
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery
• NAS
• SAN
• Green IT
• Infrastructure
• 10G Ethernet
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• Application Performance Management
• WAN Optimization
• Asset Management
• Network Management
• Patch Management
• Storage Management
• WAN/LAN/WLAN Management
Top 5 Biggest Network Management Mistakes – and How to Avoid Them
Tim Connelly,
Director of Systems Engineers,
Netcordia
Managing Service Delivery From the Data Center thru the Core to the Branch
Michael Valladao,
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
NetScout
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• Anti-Malware
• Identity Management
• Compliance & Regulation
• Cyber-Crime
• Data Loss Prevention
• e-Discovery
• Desktop Firewall/Host IPS
• Enterprise Firewall/UTM
• IDS/IPS
• NAC
• VoIP Security
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Abstracts
Cloud Computing and Virtualization: How the Global 2000 Are Evolving Their IT Infrastructure
Ken Male, Executive Vice Chairman and Founder, TheInfoPro
How are the Global 2000 transforming their IT infrastructure? How is virtualization a key building block in the transformation? What lessons are they learning? In this session TheInfoPro’s Ken Male will present findings from thousands of one-on-one interviews with Global 2000 IT decision makers. You’ll learn how they are employing internal and external cloud architectures -- and find out how virtualization is playing a key role in the evolution.
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Managing, Controlling and Optimizing Application Delivery
Jim Metzler, Network World Columnist; President, Ashton Metzler & Associates
It was only a few years ago that IT organizations began to systematically focus on ensuring acceptable application delivery. They did so by deploying a first generation of solutions that were intended to mitigate the impact of chatty protocols such as CIFS (Common Internet File System), to offload from servers computationally intensive processing such as TCP termination and multiplexing, and to provide visibility into the performance of applications. While these solutions continue to play an important role, additional challenges – and solutions – are emerging to deal with the issues raised by server, desktop and storage virtualization as well as public and private cloud computing. In this session, you’ll understand some of the new and long-standing application delivery challenges -- and how to apply contemporary strategies and solutions to your best advantage.
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Securing Against the Evolving Threat Landscape
Andreas Antonopoulos, Network World Columnist; Senior Vice President and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
In their constant arms race with cyber-criminals, security professionals must refresh and broaden their knowledge. New technologies and applications—cloud computing, social computing, rich internet applications and collaboration—make that a constant and growing challenge. Continuing changes in building and delivering applications demand new security strategies, architectures and technologies, forcing us to re-evaluate everything we knew about security: perimeter defenses, defense-in-depth, compliance and audit. What are your most critical assets? Where do you apply security devices and controls? How do you manage risk and without sacrificing agility?
This session provides actionable guidance on how best to protect critical assets in the face of ever-increasing threats. Beyond exploring security trends and best practices, it lays out a critical roadmap to refocused, improved security for enterprises facing rising compliance burdens while increasingly mixing in-house and outsourced services, federating with partners and suppliers, and providing ever greater access and services to users.
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Crucial Intersection: IT Converges Applications, Services, & Infrastructure to Support the Distributed Enterprise
Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President & Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
The convergence of all types of traffic over wireless and wireline infrastructure is vital to improving competitiveness. A growing virtual workforce requires access to data and applications in central data centers. Ballooning demand for high-speed voice, data, and multimedia applications available to any device at any location increase the need for a robust network. IT, networking, and applications teams must, therefore, provide a reliable, robust communications infrastructure, supporting a variety of integrated applications, including voice, high-definition video, Web conferencing, streaming media, text messaging, Web 2.0, and more.
This session will provide best practices recommendations to answer: Which WAN, wireless, and mobile technologies make the most sense for your organization? What should be in your branch and mobility strategies? What unified communications and collaboration architectures should you deploy? How difficult is integration among vendors? When should you rely upon managed service providers? Learn how to architect and implement effective converged communications for your organization.
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Architecting for Data Center Agility
Johna Till Johnson, Network World Columnist; President & Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Business needs and technological advances pull the data center in more directions all the time, and require it to change directions quickly and cleanly. To meet these challenges, IT must reassess and re-imagine its data center strategies. By making wise and flexible use of the spectrum of sourcing options available, from do-it-yourself to infrastructure-as-a-service, IT must put agility, risk management, and cost management at the center of its thinking about how to provision and deliver services.
This session will explore current trends in data centers, examine how enterprises should make choices about sourcing, and discuss the roadmap for re-architecting the in-house data center in ways that allow it to scale services up or down on the fly, to waste fewer resources (power, space, human), and to turn on a dime to pursue new opportunities or abandon failed strategies.
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VOIP & WiFi Make for a Winning Combo
Chris Nowak, Chief Information Officer, Anthony Marano Company
Anthony Marano Company is one of the largest fresh produce distributors in the nation, serving the entire Midwest 7 days a week from its 10-acre distribution facility. Its sales people, who are also buyers, rely heavily on voice communications to field some 3,000 orders per day, about 80% of them for same-day delivery. The sales people are also often on the move among different produce areas, offices, shipping and receiving docks both inside and outside the metal and concrete facility. To ensure they never miss a call, Anthony Marano Co. needed a phone system that would work both outside the facility where cellular phones are preferred, and inside where cell signals can’t penetrate. Christopher Nowak will detail the solution he found in a converged VOIP-WiFi combo that brings with it some crucial features that help ensure his company never misses a sale.
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Lessons Learned about Consolidation, Virtualization and Disaster Recovery
Shandor Simon, Director, Networking Services, The Latin School of Chicago
The Latin School of Chicago is heavily invested in technology to help educate its 1100 students, with some 80 servers in two data centers. The school had also consolidated much of its data onto a SAN, which led to problems when the air conditioning failed in one data center. The virtual servers were supposed to fail over to the backup data center but it didn’t quite happen as expected. Shandor Simon will explain what went wrong, the corrective actions he’s taken and lessons to keep in mind when dealing with consolidation, virtualization and disaster recovery.
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Optimizing for Storage Savings
Sergey Chernov, Manager, Enterprise Architecture, NiSource
NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI), based in Merrillville, Ind., is a Fortune 500 company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution with some 8,000 employees and 3.8 million customers. Like most any other large company, its storage demands are significant, to say the least. And given that it outsources many of its IT functions, the more storage it uses, the more it pays. Sergey Chernov will detail the storage initiative that is helping NiSource cut out waste, using a combination of tiered storage, reporting initiatives and optimization techniques.
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Bring Your Own PC – Thanks to NAC
Jeff Crawford, Manager of Networking and Security, East Grand Rapids Public Schools
In a challenging economy, providing computers for some 3,000 students just isn’t feasible in many school districts, including East Grand Rapids Public Schools. The district instead found a way to enable students, staff and visitors to bring their own laptops and take advantage of the school’s network – by using network access control technology. Jeff Crawford will explain how the system is able to check the health of each PC before it connects and apply policy and rules to determine who gets to go where on the network – all with no direct IT intervention.
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Convergence: Building a VOIP and UC Business Case
Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President & Senior Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
The integration of collaboration, social networking, enterprise applications, and VOIP into UC architecture is one of the most complex, pressing projects in IT today. UC strategies require massive involvement from all IT disciplines, as well as a compelling business case. Whether in IT, human resources or sales, knowing what drives corporate or organizational decisions is one key to knowing how to position your project proposals. The most often-referenced business driver underscoring the movement toward VOIP is “futureproofing” the network. IT executives view the strategic move toward VOIP as the first step in preparing their networks for the future of convergence and multi-application IP infrastructure.
This session will provide best practice recommendations to answer: How do I begin to build a business case for VOIP and UC? Which business units should be involved? What are the best practices for building an ROI model? Should I consider on-going managed services? What other UC applications should be on our roadmap? Participants will learn how to build and implement a VOIP/UC business case that the organization will support.
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The Business Benefits of Virtualization
Kiran Sivaraam, Infrastructure manager, Rising Medical Solutions
Rising Medical Solutions is in the business of finding costs savings for its insurance clients. It’s no surprise then that its IT group has adopted this same fiscal philosophy and has found that virtualization goes a long way in that regard. Kiran Sivaraam led the company in the virtualization of 80% of its roughly 130 servers – which would have easily been more than 100 physical servers without virtualization. But beyond the pure cost savings, Sivaraam will detail the business benefits that virtualization brings, including increased agility to deal with new demands and test new ideas, without breaking the bank.
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Finding the Game-Changers at BP
Paul Stone, Technology Director, Chief Technology Office, BP
IT innovation doesn’t just happen within any organization; you have to plan for it. The energy company BP knows this well and has established a Chief Technology Office to continually search for digital innovations that can help the company do business better – the “game-changers,” as BP calls them. Paul Stone will explain the role of this group, which includes not only finding the game-changers, but helping individual BP business units address specific business challenges through the use of innovative digital technology. He’ll also detail some of the game-changers BP has found to date and identify technologies that hold potential for the future.
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Problem-Solving Technical Tutorial: Wireless LANs and Dealing with RF Ambiguities
GT Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, Ruckus Wireless
While Wi-Fi networks deliver great freedom they also create great problems when it comes to throughput and coverage. Controlling the shared RF domain and understanding channel planning is fundamental to a successful wireless deployment. Join Ruckus Wireless for an exciting and informative chalk talk on dealing with RF management issues...and with no PowerPoint!
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Global MPLS Networks and the use of Extended-Net Networks
Rex Stover, Vice President, Enterprise Business Development, Americas, PCCW Global
MPLS has become ubiquitously available and Enterprises are looking to build their networks with one carrier that can support their growing communications needs throughout the world. Dealing with one Carrier instead of multiple Carriers allows for companies to save cost, cut down on cycles, and focus on their business rather than managing numerous global carriers.
Attendees will learn the unique attributes of Extended-Net Networks and InterCarrier Interconnects; best practices of a seamless implementation; what to look for and how to ensure that One Network Provider has enough experience with providing a seamless, “best-of-breed” global MPLS network solution.
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"Help Me Build My Business Case" Workshop: Application Delivery - Adding Scalability and Flexibility While Reducing Costs
Lynn Sommerlot, Senior System Engineer, A10 Networks
IT professionals are constantly challenged to balance the pressure of increased application performance and the need for new functionality with reduced capital and operational expenditure. In this session A10 Networks discusses how the AX Series Application Delivery Controllers reduce CAPEX and OPEX , including key savings through server reduction, increased performance, virtualization and data center consolidation of legacy load balancers.
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Implementation Strategy Session: Application Delivery Assurance: Ensuring that Business-Critical Transactions Do Not Fail
Jesse Rothstein, Founder & CEO, ExtraHop
With the weight of the enterprise resting on IT, complexity is spiraling out of control. While many organizations are scraping by with existing tools and established processes, there is little hope that the networks, systems, and applications of tomorrow will be more manageable. In this session, ExtraHop Networks explores new advances in real-time analysis technology for accelerated troubleshooting and proactive early warning.
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