Due to the abundance of networking technologies
available, as well as the changing needs of
corporate enterprises, it is essential to have a
well thought-out network and systems management
plan. To be most effective the plan must align
network and systems operations to the needs of
the business.
In this
challenging economy, what should you be doing
differently? How can you do more with less and
still be effective?
Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am -
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
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Bakstran |
Gaining Competitive Advantage: How to Align Network & Systems
Infrastructure with Business Needs
Brian Bakstran, Vice President of
Product Marketing, CA
CEOs and CIOs want IT to be converted from a cost center into
an enabler of competitive advantage. But what
does this mean and how do you accomplish this?
Can disciplines such as ITSM/ITIL really help
you? What things can you do informally or at a
‘grass roots’ level that can help you make your
infrastructure more responsive to business
needs? How can you leverage your infrastructure
to better support applications that the business
is demanding?
In this session, attendees will learn:
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How to leverage formal IT disciplines to
help align infrastructure with business
needs
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How to ensure your systems will be able to
support next generation business required
applications
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How to articulate to management
that IT is an enabler and not a cost center
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How to form teams internally to drive
business/IT infrastructure decision making
that is closely aligned to business needs
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How to make the datacenter and systems more
agile/flexible to support business needs
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How to choose technologies that support the
next generation business application needs
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How investments today can help reduce cost
operating costs in the future
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What individual and collective actions you
can take to 'push' vendors to fill
your needs
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30am - 11:30am
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Muradian |
How to Manage Your Network and Systems During
Challenging Economic Times
Sevan Muradian,
Engineer, Kace and adjunct faculty for
Northwestern University
In these tough times, IT departments have the added stress of
being asked to do more with less staff,
resources, tools and funding. However, this
presents an opportunity for individuals to lead,
achieve and prove the flexibility of IT.
In this session ,attendees will learn how to use these
challenging times as opportunities for
innovation, growth and achievement.
Topics that will be covered include:
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How to leverage your network and systems for
energy efficiency
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How to improve service delivery and
effectiveness
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How to better negotiate with your suppliers
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How to crosstrain the staff that you have
11:30am - 12:30pm
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Landrum |
How to
Leverage WAN Optimization Techniques to
Reduce Application Performance Issues
Alfred
Landrum, Manager, Global Consulting
Engineers, Riverbed
A stumbling block to successful server
consolidation & virtualization is the severe
impact on application performance
experienced by remote users. The problem is
caused by three key factors: application
latency, TCP latency and application
chattiness over the Wide Area Network. WAN
optimization techniques including
application streamlining, data streamlining,
and transport streamlining address these
issues. This talk will describe the key
elements of WAN optimization, concomitant
security challenges, and how these issues
are being solved today.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon
1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Dahl |
Getting a Handle on Your IT Infrastructure with
a Model-Driven Approach
Erik Dahl, CTO, Zenoss
A model is at the heart of all IT infrastructure
and management tools. It attempts to describe
the IT environment so the tools around it can
perform various monitoring and management
functions that are critical to seamless IT
operations. Erik Dahl, CTO and co-founder of
Zenoss, has been using modeling to build IT
management tools for over 16 years. In this
session, he will look at the evolution of
modeling from simple lists of devices to ping,
through network topology root cause analysis and
virtual computing sprawl management. Critical
workflows of detailed models will be examined:
discovery, population, automation, and change
tracking and their impact on TCO and ROI. The
CMDB, now the gold standard, will be discussed
as a starting point towards future
implementations of IT modeling.
In this session attendees will learn:
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Sumar |
Employing Your Infrastructure
to Come Work for You: How to Effectively Plan,
Design and Implement Strategies to Consolidate
and Centralize your Infrastructure to Lower
Total Cost of Ownership
Annur Sumar, Sr.
Infrastructure Architect, Duff & Phelps, LLC
As the economy continues to
weaken and follow a receding trend, there is
more pressure than ever on IT Managers to reduce
operating costs and lower TCO by consolidating
and centralizing their IT Environment. The one
major roadblock that most IT Managers and IT
Professionals run into during the planning and
designing stage is "Funding the Cost to Lower
Cost". If technology enhancement projects are on
hold, head count is limited, and budgets have
been drastically cut, what tactics and
technologies can be employed to consolidate and
centralize an infrastructure to streamline
processes?
In this session, attendees
will learn:
How to position and design
strategic technology driven process improvements
based on the Microsoft Operations Framework
Model by aligning IT Services, Engineering best
practices, Operations Management, and Helpdesk
Support to lower Total Cost of Ownership and
raise Return on Investments.
4:00pm - 5:00pm
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Phinick
Kwong
Wieczorek
Tracy
Warner |
How Network Managers are Doing ‘More with Less’
to Support the Business
Moderator: Mark Phinick, Regional Manager, BigFix
Panelists:
Fred Kwong, Ph.D.,
Network and Distributed Security Technology,
GITO, Zurich Insurance
David Wieczorek,
Network Manager, Loyola University Chicago
Kim W. Tracy,
Exec. Dir. University Computing Services,
Northeastern Illinois University
Scott Warner, Manager Technical Operations, Hart
Schaffner Marx
In this session, attendees will learn from
seasoned network managers as to how they are
working challenges that the current economic
environment presents.
Content that will be covered includes:
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How to adapt to reduced funding
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How to work more efficiently with suppliers
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How they are supporting new applications
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How they are partnering with the business
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How to prepare for the economic recovery
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
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How to Do More with Less
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The Role the Network will Play in the Next Generation Data
Center
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How to Plan for, Implement and Manage Infrastructure Changes
& Upgrades
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Strategies for Simplifying Network Management
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Implement Service-Level Management through IT Processes
(ITIL)
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Monitor Availability and Performance Through Metrics
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How to Monitor Diverse Systems and Technologies and Make
Sense of the Results
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How to Articulate the Value of the Network and Systems in
Terms that Line Executives can understand
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How to leverage Green IT for the benefit of
the network, data center and the extended
enterprise
Conference
price:
$219 per
person
Each attendee will receive a certificate
awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing
education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7
PDUs.CISSP is a registered
certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the
case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks
will not include product presentations.
During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks,
and the luncheon break you will have the
opportunity to informally meet representatives
from the following sponsoring companies, who
have solutions in the area of the conference.
