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Ready to secure your core? Respond to attacks? Close vulnerabilities? Begin here!
Summary: Security issues and architectures are increasingly moving "up the stack," focusing on content, applications, and data. Enterprises are moving away from perimeter-based security and towards "defense-in-depth" architectures, which involve building protection into every element of the information architecture. This includes internal and external threat protection, messaging security, and identity management. As security becomes about more than just keeping intruders out, enterprises are also looking to ensure their proprietary information remains safe. They are looking for regulatory and corporate compliance and intellectual property protection, as well as automated encryption and archiving of sensitive information.
Analyst: Andreas Antonopoulos, Nemertes Research
Theme: Enabling Effective Security in a Risky World: Issues,
Strategies, Best Practices
Speaker: Kostas Konstantinides, Director, Schwab.Com
Client Web Services
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No technology has transformed the enterprise more. What's next? Find out here.
Summary: Access to information, and being able to act on it rapidly no matter where you are, are two essential capabilities in the hyper-competitive business world of today. Enterprises of all types and sizes are now taking advantage of advances in mobile computing and communications, and especially the broad range of wireless tools now available. This session will bring the entire spectrum of wireless networking into focus, with a discussion of the key topics that are making a difference in responsiveness, customer service, productivity, and even the bottom line. And we’ll focus on the hot emerging technologies that promise even greater returns in the near future.
Analyst: Craig J. Mathias, Farpoint Group
Theme: Mobilizing Everyone: Enterprise WLANs and Emerging Mobile
Broadband Systems
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It's the new core competency. With today's innovative technology it's the engine that drives the agile enterprise. Are you on board?
Summary: Managing the various aspects of a network is critical to creating an infrastructure that responds to the changing needs of a business. To help take on this challenge, companies are looking to innovative technologies that manage applications, performance, security, Web services, compliance, and more. Configuration and patch management remain key issues in this area, while business-services management is emerging as a strategic way to link business and technology and IT Infrastructure Libraries promise more efficient delivery of IT services.
Analyst: Jim Metzler, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Theme: The Link between an Agile Enterprise and Network Management
Speaker: Joseph Schuldhaus, VP of IT, West Edmonton
Mall
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The management, technology, and dynamics of data centers are changing so rapidly entire systems can go obsolete with the turn of a calendar page. Are you keeping up? Falling behind? Eager to move and stay ahead? Attend the new data center and you’ll be on the right track.
Summary: Gone are the glass houses as companies move to deploy clustered servers and grid computing; virtualized storage; perimeter-less, holistic security architectures; high-performance, high-capacity networks; and service-oriented management platforms.
In the 21st-century data center, shared resources replace fixed technology “silos”. Capacity expands dynamically to accommodate demand. And users experience real-time responsiveness regardless of where they are on the globe. Your ability to design, deploy, and manage this next-generation data center will spell the difference between competing effectively or not at all.
Analyst: Johna Till Johnson, Nemertes Research
Theme: One size fits none: Designing, deploying, and managing
next-generation data centers
Speaker: Christopher Paidhrin, Chief Security Officer,
Southwest Washington Medical Center
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Regulation: The rule of the games-and how best to play it-are changing. Are you prepared? Find out here.
Summary: At the heart of the enterprise is the data; how it's managed and stored can make or break a company. This is particularly true when it comes to corporate and regulatory compliance, which is now a fact of life. New approaches such as wide-are file services, continuous data protection and data replication are emerging, while essential tasks such as backup and recovery and information life-cycle management are as important as ever. What's next for you?
Analyst: John Burke, Nemertes Research
Theme: Information Stewardship: Holistic Data Management in
the Enterprise
Speaker: Vikas Khorana, Network Engineer, Las Vegas
Review Journal
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It went from "potential" to "best practice" at light speed. Where will "convergence 2.0" take the enterprise next? See here.
Summary: By now, most companies have rolled out at least some form of VoIP with hopes of reducing costs and boosting productivity. But building the VoIP infrastructure is just the beginning, it must be managed and secured. Tools that allow for real-time collaboration and other applications promise to deliver significant benefits as well. Looking to the future, emerging technologies such as Voice over WiFi promise to factor prominently into IT roadmaps. See how at this track.
Analyst: Johna Till Johnson, Nemertes Research
Theme: Convergence and Collaboration: The Next-Generation Network
Paradigm
Speaker: Matthew Glotzbach, Head of Products, Google
Enterprise
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Summary: The last few years have seen a growing emphasis on ensuring the optimal performance of a company's key applications and the networks that support them. The good news is that there is a continually growing number of technologies and products that are designed to ensure the optimal performance of networks and applications. The bad news is that it can be difficult to sort through the confusion and identify the value provided by each of these new technologies and products. This track will review the different approaches to boosting network and application performance and will analyze the applicability of each approach. This track will also describe a number of the leading products in this area and will discuss how these products have been used to enhance network and application performance.
Analyst: Jim Metzler, Ashton, Metzler & Associates
Theme: Making Sense of Network and Application Acceleration
Speaker: Ravindra Sunku, Director of IT Services,
Sling Media
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Today’s crucial final step for true security in depth. But as a just-emerging best practice, it can be the Achilles Heel of even the most forward-planned networks with even the tightest architecture. If NAC is new to you, or you want to overtake this quickly emerging management discipline before it overtakes you, attend our fast track to solutions.
Summary: Network Access Control is a revolutionary re-think of network security. Fundamentally changing the focus from edge-based security services, such as perimeter firewalls, and providing a revealing macroscopic view of security. The spotlight is now laser-like on individual points of access: the port; the VPN connection; and the end-user … and how best to secure them case by case, On this track, you’ll learn the language, the landscape and how to deal now with key issues emerging from this exciting new, and remarkably effective, management discipline.
Analyst: Joel Snyder, Senior Partner of Opus One
Theme: The Emergence of NAC: Exploring the New World of Security
Management
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