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Application & Content
Security
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
Topics:
* Critical Issues for
2006
* The high cost of spyware
* VoIP and wireless security
* Patch management
* Logging and auditing management
* Application security and information protection
* Identity management and federation
* Policy management and automatic policy updates
* Architecting for Defense in Depth: Best Practices
* Bottom Lines
Technologies:
* Critical Issues for
2006
* Anti-spam
* Anti-phishing
* Anti-spyware
* Anti-virus * Encryption
* Application firewalls
* Policy enforcement
* Regulatory compliance
* Identity Management
* Federated Identity
* Logging & Auditing
Speaker: Scott Pinkerton,
Network Services Manager, Argonne National Lab
Presentation: A Holistic
Approach to Cyber Security
Enterprise
Mobility
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
Topics:
* The Big Picture of Wireless:
Picking the right tool for the job
* Review of WLAN opportunities, constraints, and
applications
* WLAN architectures and the role of MIMO
* Fixed/Mobile and Mobile/Mobile Convergence (FMC
and MMC)
* WiMAX – where does it fit?
* Understanding wireless wide-area broadband
* Future directions and opportunities
Technologies:
* 3G/Broadband Wireless
* WiMAX
* Voice over IP over WiFi (VoFi)
* Bluetooth and Beyond: Ultra-Wideband Wireless Personal-Area
Networks
* RFID and RTLS
* Wireless Web services
* 4G Wireless networks
Speaker: Tom Gergets,
Director US I/T Networks & Infrastructure, McDonald's
Corp.
Presentation: Wireless
on a Grand Scale
Network
Management
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
Topics:
* "The agile enterprise:" Reality
vs. hype
* Innovation and network management--is it possible?
* Drill downs: On achieving agility in:
--Applications Management
--Performance Management
--Security Management
--Compliance
--Business Service Management
--Configuration and Patch Management
--Service Level Management
--Web Services Management
Technologies:
* Application Management
* Infrastructure Performance Management
* Configuration and Patch Management
* ITIL - IT Infrastructure Libraries
* Security management
* Web services management
* Business-services management
* Compliance management
* Service-level management
* Analytics
Speaker: Kim Jahnz,
Lead WAN Data Network Engineer, Aurora Health Care
Presentation: Network
Management: The End-User Perspective
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Storage & Data
Compliance
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
Topics:
* Storage and ILM
* DQM
* Compliance
* BCP/DR
* Information Protection (IP)
* Tying it All Together: Building a world-class IT
Architecture
* Organizational best practices
* Operations and processes: What works, what doesn't
* Linchpin technologies.
* Bottom lines
Technologies:
* Wide Area File Services
* Continuous Data Protection
* Data Replication
* Backup and recovery
* Information life-cycle management
Speaker: Joel Kulesa,
Technology Specialist - SAN Architecture, Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
Presentation: To ILM
and Back
VoIP,
Convergence & Collaboration
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
Topics:
* Key Trends in VOIP deployment
* Video-over-IP
* VoIP and wireless
* RTCDs and who uses them
* Critical Challenges and Issues
-- Security
-- Management
-- Build vs. buy: The big decision
* Case Studies
* Best Practices & Recommendations
* Bottom Lines
Technologies:
* VoIP Security
* VoIP Management
* VoIP Assessment Tools
* Voice over WiFi
* Business collaboration tools
* Voice-enabled applications
Speaker: Ahmed El-Haggen,
Vice President of IT and CIO, Coppin State University
Network
and Application Acceleration
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
Topics:
* Application Requirements
* Server Consolidation
* Compression
* Caching
* Differencing
* Read Ahead
* TCP acceleration
* QoS
* MPLS
* Load Balancing
* Wide-Area File Systems (WAFS)
Technologies:
* Compression/caching
* TCP acceleration
* QoS/Migration to MPLS
* VoIP
* Wide-Area File Systems
Speaker: Ryan Nelson,
Director of Operations, MLB.com
Presentation: Application
Acceleration Hits the Majors
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