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Monday
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| What if you could allocate 50% more of your IT budget to new projects? The recent IBM Data Center Study found that only 21% of data centers are highly efficient. Learn the best practices of the most efficient data centers across server, storage, network, resiliency, facilities and data center operations. Leverage the data center operational efficiency model developed by the study to assess your data center and understand how to progress your data center transformation. |
Monday
01:15 PM - 02:15 PM | |
| IT operations management is often an afterthought that follows the deployment of new or emerging technology. However, IT operations management can, in fact, lead the charge for the implementation of new technology and influence successful business outcomes. This presentation highlights key decision points in IT operations management technology, processes, and organizational approaches.
•What current-state IT operations management investments impair future change?
•What investments in IT operations management best facilitate future change?
•What immediate actions should IT take to prepare for the planning horizon?
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Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| There are significant transformations taking place in IT infrastructure, especially as data centers strive towards greater efficiency and agility through virtualization and cloud technologies. Additionally, new demands on Storage are driving massive growth in the volume, velocity and variety of data required to be stored. Storage is becoming a critical tool to help manage this explosion of data with affordable efficiency and flexibility. Join Ed Walsh and Jacqueline Woods as they share insights into how IBM is helping its customers become leaders in this IT transformation. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| In today’s world of mobile computing, eCommerce and instant decision-making combined with shrinking budgets, ensuring business application availability is becoming a challenge for IT Executives. Join SunGard as we address how to determine if Cloud is right for DR purposes. We’ll discuss how companies are dealing with divergent infrastructure requirements and market demand for responsiveness, and how companies optimize their skill set mix and deployment to meeting production, test / development, and availability requirements. |
Monday
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | |
| Next-generation virtualized data centers are evolving to support private cloud computing models. Workloads are becoming mobile and self-provisioned, challenging traditional static security models. Increasingly, organizations are extending their virtualized data centers to public cloud infrastructure as service providers, further challenging today’s security architectures. This presentation discusses next-generation security infrastructure and strategies to address the challenges of securing private and public cloud computing environments.
•How must information security evolve to support cloud-based computing environments?
•How can workloads be secured when consuming cloud-based infrastructure as a service?
•What are the best practices and strategies to use the cloud and stay secure?
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Tuesday
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | |
| With up to 50% of the cost of power in the data center going to cooling the data center and its equipment, efficient cooling has moved to the forefront in cost savings and carbon footprint reduction. Over the past five years, new cooling technologies have made an appearance on the data center stage with increasing media attention. This presentation looks at the cooling technology marketplace and cuts through the hype to present which technologies you should be using now, which should be considered in the next five years and which should be passed by.
• What should you be looking for in a data center cooling solution?
• Which cooling technologies should you be using today?
• Which cooling technologies will mature in the next five years and which will not?
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Tuesday
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | |
| Ensuring that your business can recover from a disaster is not a game. There are risks you face in the operations of your data center, from cyber attacks to natural disasters. While these events are no laughing matter, let's take a break and play the Data Center Down Game! In this game, you will learn about how you can keep your applications highly available and your data center resilient in the face of unforeseen events, and you'll have a chance to win some fabulous prizes. Don't miss out on the fun! |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| Trends such as social apps, cloud, and BYOD offer the opportunity to significantly improve customer experiences and increase worker productivity. Making the most of these trends, however, is going to require some new thinking about infrastructure. This session will explore how to build on your existing investments and create a programmable data center that will give you the agility and flexibility to keep up with today’s on-demand world. |
Tuesday
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| Cloud computing enables IT to redefine the way datacenter services are built, delivered and consumed. In this session, VMware will demonstrate how combining innovative cloud infrastructure and management technologies with leading approaches to processes, organizational models and financial management helps IT achieve the greatest business benefits. VMware will discuss how to ensure the health, efficiency and compliance of your cloud infrastructure and applications while enabling policy-based, automated provisioning and management of services across heterogeneous platforms and hybrid clouds. |
Tuesday
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM | |
| DCIM is a hot topic — and one of considerable vendor confusion. This session will help you understand what DCIM really is, why these tools are vitally important, what DCIM can do for you now, and what the future holds in store.
•What is DCIM and why are these tools critically important to data center managers?
•What can DCIM tools accomplish now and in the next three years?
•How should DCIM tools be best integrated with IT operations management?
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Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | |
| After years of decentralization, IT organizations are realizing the value of a centralized approach that can deliver the responsiveness and flexibility that the business demands. But how do you get there? You must transform facilities, infrastructure, applications, management, organization and service delivery models while steering toward business benefits. Learn about a proven process that enables you to create a well-defined strategy and a detailed roadmap that focuses on driving early cost improvements to accelerate your transformation. |
Wednesday
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | |
| The most efficient data centers distinguish themselves in their ability to ensure optimal availability, disaster recovery and data protection. The IBM Data Center Study revealed several ways that leading organizations are more sophisticated in their implementation of resiliency and continuity to address new regulations, security threats and services outages. Learn these best practices for optimizing storage, managing data and maintaining your resiliency and continuity plan so you can support rapidly changing business needs. |
Wednesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| I&O team structures will facilitate or inhibit I&O maturity and value advancement. This session discusses commonly used I&O organizational structures along the maturity evolution. Best practices are presented to provide guidance to I&O leaders for designing the organizational roles and the structures of their teams.
•Is now the right time to restructure the I&O organization?
•What factors influence I&O organizational structures?
•How must I&O organization structures evolve as I&O matures?
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Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| As enterprises deploy private clouds into production they are reevaluating their existing IT processes. SUSE believes that enterprise private cloud solutions, such as the OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, will ultimately take a page from public clouds by focusing on standardizing services for easy and rapid delivery to the end user. Come learn how the evolution of this service-oriented approach will enable enterprises deploying private clouds to more efficiently and flexibly meet the needs of their business. |
Wednesday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Many IT organizations are pursuing cloud-based technology investments, but not really addressing the primary problem: an IT culture that is too complex and inflexible thereby potentially negating the benefits of a cloud approach. In this session we examine the necessary steps to implementing an effective DevOps strategy, thus paving the way for an improved cloud outcome.
•From where do the ideas behind DevOps originate?
•What are the key steps to the implementation of a DevOps program?
•How can organizations measure the impact of their DevOps initiative?
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Wednesday
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | |
| Data centers today must deliver high availability, greater efficiency and increased agility. Without availability, services are compromised. Without efficiency, the economics don’t work. Without agility, business outcomes aren’t achieved. With advanced technology, constraints such as power, space, cooling, financials and time can be managed more effectively, delivering more from your data center infrastructure. Whether it’s an enterprise data center or cloud, advances in DCIM are helping to redefine the way data centers are managed. |
Wednesday
05:45 PM - 06:15 PM | |
| From both a capital and operating-expense perspective, data center costs continue to rise, and CIOs, CFOs and CEOs need the tools to quantify these costs in a logical manner. This presentation looks at a TCO model that Gartner has developed and explains the logic, process and practical ways to use TCO in data center planning.
• What are the major components of a data center TCO model?
• How can the appropriate data be captured, or estimated in building the model?
• What steps can be taken to use TCO for long-range planning?
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Thursday
08:45 AM - 09:45 AM | |
| While networking vendors are all offering fabric-based architectures for the data center, each implementation is different. This presentation reviews key decision criteria that sets the baseline of functionality and should be used to evaluate vendor architectures.
• What are the key considerations and business challenges that need to be addressed by a fabric-based data center architecture?
• What emerging technology and business pressures are driving enterprises to implement fabric-based solutions?
• What specific steps are needed in order insure success?
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Thursday
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | |
| IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) is typically 55% or more of the total enterprise IT budget. Although CIOs and I&O leaders have made significant progress to reduce costs here, intense budget pressures continue. Fortunately, Gartner has identified key areas to focus efforts to further reduce cost structure. For most, full implementation of these actions can reduce I&O costs by over 25% within three years.
• What have Gartner clients accomplished to date in reducing I&O costs?
• What are the major opportunities that remain to reduce I&O costs?
• How should IT prioritize I&O cost reduction opportunities?
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Thursday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| Modular data center solutions have been showing an increasing interest in the data center market worldwide. The providers of these solutions vary and come from different business directions, including IT hardware providers, data center services providers and specialty product providers. This presentation will look at 10 modular solutions providers and outline how they differ, as well as what considerations data center managers should make when examining, evaluating, or selecting a modular data center solution.
• What are the types of modular data center providers and how do their approaches differ?
• What specific providers make up the modular data center provider landscape?
• What are the best practices in evaluating different modular solutions and provider types?
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