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Application
and Content Security | Wireless
LANs and Enterprise Mobility | The
New Data Center | Network
and Application Acceleration | Storage & Data
Compliance | VoIP,
Convergence & Collaboration | Network
Management
CHOOSE A MORNING TRACK
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: Phil Keith, Director of Technical Security,
Sabre Holdings
Presentation: Architecting for Defense in Depth
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: Greg Britz, Network
Operations Manager, BNSF Railways
Presentation: The Evolution of
Wireless at BNSF Railways (subject to change)
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: Kurt Page, Network administrator,
American National Bank
Presentation: Management on a
Budget
The New Data Center
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
Topics:
- Staffing the 21st century data center.
- Must-have
expertise and where to source it
- Team building to maximize the value of
virtualization and grid computing
- The suddenly
obsolete: Skills to eliminate. And the one new
position to fill.
- The five pillars of next-generation
data center architecture.
- Identifying and orchestrating
the critical components that support them.
- Building
and moving toward tomorrow’s
state-of-the-art physical plant
- The future key
three: Clustering, virtualization, on-demand
computing
- Unrolling a functional blueprint for
evaluating, phasing and deploying emerging technologies
at their first moment of enterprisewide effectiveness
- The
new best practices. Real-world strategies for
what works, what doesn’t, and what’s
myth—documented exclusively by Nemertes-compiled
data center benchmarks.
Technologies:
- Virtualization
- Management: infrastructure and
applications
- Grid computing and clustering
- High-performance data center networking
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Security: From data to equipment to personnel
- Facilities: From HVAC to power systems
to physical construction
Speaker: Jamey Vester, production
control, Subaru of Indiana
Presentation: Server Consolidation
through Virtualization
CHOOSE AN AFTERNOON TRACK
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: Matt Pittman, Director
or Enterprise Systems, Penson Financial Services
Presentation: Synchronous Replication
and ILM: The Path to Maximum Data Availability
and Protection
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: Bobby Badugu, Vice
President of Information Technology, Gold’s
Gym International, Inc.
Presentation: The Good, Bad and
Ugly of a VoIP Implementation
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: Arun Desouza, Manager,
Global Service Assurance and Chief Information
Security Officer, Inergy Automotive
Presentation: Providing Enterprise
QoS Around the Globe
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