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Cutting-edge expertise from technology specialists. See-around-corners vision from national analysts. Fresh-from-the-enterprise case histories direct from end users. When you choose your tracks you board an express train headed straight to fully-focused solutions that anticipate problems, work for your enterprise, and speed results to your bottom line.
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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
Enterprise Mobility
No technology has transformed the enterprise more. What's next? Find out here.
Summary: Managing the extended enterprise means being able to deliver job-relevant information instantly to employees the moment they need it. And that means dependence on wireless technologies. Wireless LANs are at the heart of such an enterprise, and with increases in bandwidth, wide-area data networks are becoming reliable components as well. Beyond infrastructure, the proper applications, tools, and devices for wireless communications are also important. There are also new wireless technologies, ranging from Voice over WiFi to WiMax to third-generation services likely to shape the direction of wireless as we know it today.
Analyst: Craig J. Mathias, Farpoint Group
Theme: Mobilizing Everyone: Enterprise WLANs and Emerging Mobile Broadband Systems
Topics:
* Review of WLAN opportunities, constraints, and applications
* WLAN architectures and technologies
* Moving the LAN to everywhere - an introduction to WMANs and WWANs
* WiMAX - where does it fit?
* Understanding wireless wide-area broadband
* The ultimate goal: transparency
Technologies:
* 3G/Broadband Wireless
* WiMax
* Voice over WiFi
* Wireless Personal-Area Networks
* Wireless Web services
* 4G Wireless networks
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
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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
VoIP & 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
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
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