Virtualization proves to have many benefits
for the enterprise. IT managers can
consolidate their physical infrastructures,
preserve their investments in current
operating systems and applications, and
capitalize on hardware investments. As
virtual environments grow, there can be
benefits to capacity management and business
continuity strategies. However, there are
pitfalls to watch out for including security
challenges that will present themselves.
Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am
- Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
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Susina |
Going Green: How to
Leverage Virtualization and Green IT to
Drive Enterprise Efficiencies & Cost Savings
Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus
Technologies
In the current turbulent
economic environment, how technology is used
becomes even more important. Companies are
faced with the following challenges:
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How to cut costs
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How to use resources
more efficiently
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How to cut the carbon
footprint
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How to show your
external customers that your
organization is an environmentally
conscious one
Given these challenges,
how do you 'Go Green'?
In this session attendees
will learn:
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What going green
really means for your enterprise
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The interplay between
virtualization and Green IT
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A sequence of steps
you can take to move forward with a
Green IT initiative
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How you can leverage
virtualization to support your Green IT
goals
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How the business can
leverage Green IT to showcase its
environmental consciousness
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30am -
11:30am
|
O'Donnell |
How to Design and Implement Your
Virtualization Strategy
Shane O'Donnell, Vice President
Engineering, BlueStripe Software
Virtualization has proven to have many IT
and business benefits for the extended
enterprise which include: maximizing
resources, enablement of rapid recovery,
containing server growth and consolidation
to name a few. From a business perspective
costs can be reduced and new services can be
launched. However, this can be a massive
undertaking. Will all that’s involved, how
should you get started?
In this session, attendees will learn how to
identify:
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Key stakeholders and involve them
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Key business objectives
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Critical success factors for the project
and the business
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Risk and constraints
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Different alternatives and approaches
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Where you are and what will it take to
get you to where you need to be
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Costs and Benefits
11:30am -
12:30pm
|
Riddle |
How to Leverage Virtualization to Deliver
Quality Applications to the Enterprise
Mark Riddle, Sr. Systems
Engineer, Surgient
As you make decisions about virtualizing
your environment, you should also think
about the ramifications virtualization will
have on the way that application changes are
developed and tested.
Areas that will be covered in this
presentation include:
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Operational Challenges of Enterprise
Application Change
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Getting Started with Virtualization
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Virtualization Management Approaches
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Avoiding Management Pitfalls
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A New Approach - Virtual Labs
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Architecting a Centralized Lab
Attendees will walk away with a solid grasp
of ‘How to Get this Done!’
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm -
2:30pm
|
Campbell |
How to Enable Greater Efficiencies in a
Disaster Recovery Environment through
Virtualization
Dean Campbell,
Principal Business Consultant,
Hitachi Data Systems
Many claim that there are inherent
advantages in utilizing virtualization in a
disaster recovery environment. But what are
they and is there a trade-off between
increased potential security threats versus
a more efficient DR environment?
In this session attendees will learn:
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How effective a test bed environment is
with the involvement of virtualization
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How frequently should a DR plan be
tested
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Can money be conserved in a testing
environment and does this outweigh the
investment in virtualization
technologies?
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Is there personnel savings of time and
money in this environment?
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break
3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Muradian |
How to Plan for Imminent and Potential
Security Risks in a Virtual Environment
Sevan Muradian, Engineer, Kace and
adjunct faculty for
Northwestern University
Leading analysts argue that as more
applications use virtualization, there will
be increased activity in VM bug
disclosures. Analysts say that one of the
biggest challenges is that virtualization
creates a new environment in IT
infrastructure that traditional security
approaches do not address well.
In this session attendees will learn:
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Approaches to take to extend current
physical security policies to a virtual
environment
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What the next generation of hackers may
be attempting to do to your virtual
environment
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How real the threats are
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Planning and actions you can take today
to mitigate these potential threats
Whether you have relaxed security policies
in your environment or very tight controls,
this discussion with go through the variety
of scenarios that exist and provide
suggestions for handling the potential of
increased security risks when migrating to a
virtual environment.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
How to Get Business Buy-In for Your
Virtualization Environment
Moderator:
Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus
Technologies
Panelists include:
Jeffrey Apa, Manager Data Center and
Servers, Loyola University
Jim Sim, Data Center Solutions, OSI Group IS
Division, Nippon Express USA
Harry Katch, Technology Leader, GE
Healthcare
and other
enterprise IT professionals
There is clear evidence that IT support and
infrastructure costs can be decreased when
migrating to a virtualization environment.
But what about the benefits to the business?
As many companies look to IT as an enabler
of business productivity, how can IT
translate this investment in concepts that
business executives can understand? What is
the real value to the business in terms of
employee productivity, company
profitability, and new business
opportunities?
In this session attendees will have these
questions, and more, answered by a group of
seasoned enterprise IT virtualization
professionals.
What You Will Learn
Whether you are an experienced
virtualization specialist or starting down
the path, this one day conference will
provide you with proven strategies and
tactics for:
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Leveraging virtualization at all layers of
the architecture
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Effectively virtualizing your applications
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Successfully virtualizing your server
hardware
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How to consolidate your storage hardware
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Working through various security challenges
in different virtualization environments
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How to measure resource usage and cost
allocations among applications across a
shared infrastructure
·
How to protect against rogue toolkit
hypervisors
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How to manage the unpredictable errors that
virtualization software can cause
·
How to leverage virtualization for more
effective DR
·
How to show to management the ROI of
virtualization
Conference price: $199 per person.
