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Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| There is no one-size-fits-all approach to data center management. And with the introduction of so many hybrid computing options, choice becomes even more important so you can strike the balance across cost, risk and speed. A continuum of option--from ‘just enough’ management to comprehensive hybrid services management--is required. Customer perspectives will be used to frame the factors you should consider to maximize choice and decide which approach is best. |
Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Innovation is crucial for IT infrastructure to take advantage of new technology trends, including cloud computing and “big data,” while supporting current and emerging applications. Customers will derive the greatest value from the tight integration of emerging software approaches with the underlying hardware infrastructure. This session explores the newest developments in the Cisco Unified Data Center platform, which unifies computing, networking, security, and management to deliver business agility, IT simplicity, and financial efficiency. |
Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Cloud, Big Data, Convergence, Mobility. Technology transitions are TOUGH. Doesn't it feel like so many changes are going on right now simultaneously? It's confusing and daunting and you're struggling with whether the decisions you're making are the right ones and how to predict the impact your investments will have on your infrastructure and the business in the future.
Join Matt Baker, Executive Director of Enterprise Solutions Strategy at Dell, as he explores how Dell can help you excel at creating value during these difficult transitions.
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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
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Cloud computing is changing the way IT deploys infrastructure, provisions resources, provides application access, resulting in both greater efficiency and agility. At the same time Big Data is promising to transform businesses. Join EMC as we address the changes necessary to move to a new model that transforms IT to an internal service provider delivering greater business agility. We will discuss EMC’s technology direction and highlight customers who have transformed IT and their business. |
Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| As organizations drive past virtualization to automation and cloud, Wipro explores the triggers propelling organizations to migrate to cloud, the adoption drivers and the challenges. Wipro shares effective adoption models, and realistic expectations for savings and ROI. In addition, one of Wipro’s VIP customers, Pitney Bowes, shares its successful cloud adoption strategy and lessons learned. Wipro concludes by providing a roadmap for adopting an Enterprise Cloud Solution that works. |
Monday
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Your data center is evolving. You are virtualizing more applications and adopting various cloud like architectures to increase efficiency, reduce cost and automate operations. However, there are inherent risks these technologies introduce that must be taken into account and most tools only protect individual components of your environment. Additionally, there are a multitude of threats ranging from common system outages and human errors, to wide scale events including cyber attacks and natural disasters that can take your business off-line. In this session we will discuss best practices and comprehensive strategies for keeping your entire data center business resilient, highly available and fully protected against today's threats while you deploy new technologies and evolve your data center. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| The explosive growth of data storage requires a strategy that expands capacity, while still aligning with your organization’s cost containment goals. Join us to learn how one of our customers was able to maximize space in their data center by implementing an end-to-end solution from Legrand | Ortronics. You will walk away from this session with an understanding of flexibility, scalability and airflow management to effectively prepare your data center for the future. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Given the strong adoption of cloud and the flexibility required as internet-content-social-media-focused companies scale quickly, how do multi-tenant colocation data centers evolve their supply chains and processes to scale at the necessary speed? A certain degree of modularity and pre-planning is part of the answer, as well as strong relationships with trusted suppliers. We’ll explain how working together with Schneider Electric allows us to maintain the robust design and operation standards that we have set for the industry. |
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
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Companies are on the road to cloud computing. Whether increasing automation, growing virtualization, leveraging external resources from hosting to public cloud, or offering self-service, IT operations represent a mix of steps towards the cloud IT model. Join Herb Van Hook, VP of Strategy at BMC Software and Mike Keogh, SVP, Infrastructure Strategy & Design at CompuCom as they walk through the starting points, short cuts, and scenic lookouts on the way to ultimate success with cloud computing. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Cloud Recovery within the Mid and Enterprise Market is at last a real option. As IT teams are forced to do more with less, the availability of cost-effective, enterprise grade cloud recovery and archiving solutions makes executing a business continuity strategy an achievable priority now. Join NTT for a detailed analysis of the main components required for a Recovery as a Service program, how they can be implemented within your complete IT strategy, and how to get started today. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Skyrocketing costs, time to deployment, lack of scalability, and the need for sustainable solutions has led the industry to the tipping point in Data Center Infrastructure. This critical point in the evolution of the industry has led to a new and innovative development; Data Center 2.0. George Slessman, CEO of IO and noted technology thought leader, will discuss the causality of recent events in enterprise information technology and present a roadmap to a sustainable and scalable enterprise data center architecture. |
Monday
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM | |
| Data centers are the central nervous system of any business. Healthcare organizations are no exception; they utilize networking technology to store, process and deliver mission-critical data that literally means the difference between life and death. Join this discussion to learn how Availity, one of the nation’s leading health information networks, and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago use Juniper solutions to build cloud-based health information exchanges and streamline real-time medical, security, and communication processes. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| IT organizations today are challenged to simplify operations and reduce costs, while delivering new services and applications more quickly than ever before. Hear from Brocade customers, Ajubeo and Company 3 describe how moving to a fabric-based networking architecture provides higher levels of automation, flexibility and operational simplicity, while establishing a highly scalable foundation with improved server and storage performance. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| Building a data center is the most expensive, long-lived wager a company can make. Millions of dollars and a 30+ year asset-life means betting your needs today will be the same over the next several years. During this session learn how Nirvanix has leveraged CyrusOne as a best-of-breed partner to ensure a stable, secure and always-up data center environment. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| An enterprise customer of Emerson Network Power will describe how incorporating data center infrastructure management (DCIM) into their global IT operation increased operational efficiency and reduced risks associated with consolidation and virtualization. The company partnered with Emerson Network Power to unify management of the critical infrastructure which resulted in significant ROI and positioned the company to rapidly evolve into a real-time, optimized infrastructure. Hear firsthand how this company planned and executed. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| IT managers are experiencing a fundamental shift in their datacenters with the emergence of cloud computing and big data analytics. The future "IT-as-a-Service" requires the datacenter to become the system and the servers, storage and networking the components. Join Jason Waxman as he shares Intel's views on this transformation and how the use of Intel based technology can help IT deliver an effective IT-as-a-Service solution to meet the evolving needs of the enterprise. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| Complexity and the rate of change in your data center is at a record high. To stay relevant you must embrace the latest trends while maintaining service levels. Thriving in this new data center paradigm means you have to transform data center development and management. Learn how to create an optimized data center that accelerates business innovation and enables growth. Oracle engineers hardware and software together to create the infrastructure needed your optimized data center. |
Tuesday
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM | |
| Is apprehension over security and challenges from multi tenancy/mixed trust level VMs postponing your cloud deployment? Learn about the solution that allows you to consolidate your physical security, secure your virtual server and VDI environments while maximizing performance. You will also hear from Trend Micro's customer Dell. A Cloud Expert from Dell will describe how Dell is using Trend Micro solutions in their datacenter to extend secure public cloud solutions to their customers. |
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 | |
| Providers Cloud computing is a disruptive business model. In the data center services market, cloud computing displaces long term contracts, significantly reduces margins, and threatens core of the data center business. Cloudcuity addresses these concerns by delivering new revenue streams, fueled by the same market forces that threaten traditional business models. By highlighting traditional customization, security and customer service strengths, Cloudcuity marketplace members sell their capabilities as an adjunct with or alternative to commodity cloud services. |
Tuesday
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| Conventional data center cooling is both expensive and can be overly complex. This session explores the use of refrigerant-based, close-coupled cooling for low- to high-density applications in mission critical environments – while delivering exceptional energy efficiency and capacity. Case studies will be discussed identifying different implementation alternatives and corresponding results. |
Tuesday
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| Built on the proven foundation of our Teamcenter software, Siemens Data Center Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Solution intelligently integrates information from traditionally independent systems. This presentation will describe and demonstrate how the tool delivers high definition user experience with the right information to the right people in the right context, at the right time, to make the smarter decisions that result in optimized efficiencies. |
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
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| Want to improve operational efficiency? Reduce costs, complexity and risk? Join IBM and learn the best practices for implementing private clouds, based on lessons learned from over 4,000 cloud projects. Successfully establishing a cloud environment requires thoughtful strategy, management know-how and implementation skills. We will highlight solutions that can help you quickly create, manage and monetize private cloud services—including the new IBM SmartCloud for System z, a fully managed, security-rich and production-ready IaaS solution. |
Tuesday
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| Virtual Instruments is the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. As enterprises move mission-critical workloads to their virtual and cloud infrastructure they require the hardware and software instrumentation that only Virtual Instruments can provide. By providing visibility to real-time performance, health and utilization metrics from throughout the open system, VirtualWisdom drives improved performance and availability while lowering the total cost of the infrastructure supporting mission critical applications. |
Tuesday
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | |
| To accelerate business velocity, IT professionals are considering Converged Infrastructure (CI) solutions to deploy new applications faster while lowering operating costs. CI solutions are pre-tested and integrate servers, network, storage, management and hypervisor software. But many CI solutions do not provide the higher performance, scale, availability and easier management required by mission critical workloads. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform overcomes these limitations by combining best-in-class infrastructure, significantly simplified orchestration and enhanced flexibility. |
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | |
| Cloud represents one of the most disrupting trends in IT today. Cisco has been working with both enterprises and service providers to address both the “supply” (public cloud) and “demand” (private cloud) sides of the equation to optimize the customer experience and options. This session will explore the perspectives of a service provider who is deploying cloud services for the enterprise and enterprise customers who’ve chosen to both build their own cloud and use external cloud services. |
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | |
| PureSystems overview including PureApplication, PureData, PureFlex™ System as well as Flex System with special focus on the benefits of PureFlex - a fully integrated system with management integration of compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources that utilize built-in Patterns of Expertise based on IBM's decades of experience. Discussion on how this portfolio helps IBM customers reduce workload deployments from days to minutes, drive faster application performance, and provide increased security without increased administration - enabling shift of operational expenses to new services and innovation. |
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | |
| Technology and infrastructure considerations can add complexity to IT's mission of connecting users to applications. This panel discussion will offer ideas about architectures that provide more network control and greater agility, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Learn best and worst network design practices, and what’s next for networking via cloud computing, virtualization, SDN and mobile scenarios. F5’s invited experts will share policy and practice perspectives, and potholes to avoid, in evolving a dynamic network architecture. |
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
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| BYOD and COPE are the tip of the iceberg. Come learn how to reliably and securely delivering mission-critical applications to a variety of mobile users across a myriad of platforms and use-cases, and how Mobility is really an extension of a proper Enterprise PC Lifecycle Management program. |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| In order to meet the challenges of more – more data, more mobile, more endpoints, more users, more customers, more apps – it’s time for the CIO to revisit their network that may have been on auto pilot for years. Learn how Equinix uses its carrier neutral data centers as “Network Performance Hubs” to: radically lower costs, significantly increase application performance, increase redundancy, and add flexibility to its application deployment strategy. |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| While private clouds have become popular, they often do not provide the desired return on investment. Learn how policy-based optimization saves organizations millions of dollars and delivers on the private cloud promise. In this session, we will present how various companies around the world have implemented policy-based optimization for their private clouds. Focusing on best practices learned from these implementations, we will illustrate how to successfully implement an optimized private cloud. |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| As buzz builds around the potential benefits of cloud deployments, it’s easy to think that the on-demand, pay-as-you-go nature of cloud provides a clear economic advantage. But does it? As an IT leader, you need to evaluate the best way to support business objectives. By providing a mix of tools, you can maximize every IT investment. Join AT&T in a discussion of how to turn the art of balancing IT resources into a science. |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| For M+NLB, a 160 person, nationwide, full-service consulting and building design firm, work sharing is business critical. Its distributed and often mobile teams must be able to work on the same Autodesk Revit model and quickly retrieve all associated information. Centrally managing backups is crucial too for smaller offices lacking local IT support. Riverbed’s Steelhead and Steelhead Mobile have dramatically improved Revit server performance, and Riverbed’s Whitewater is replacing a costly back up service. |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| Modern data protection can enable today’s IT to virtualize everywhere, meet the dynamic demands of applications and deliver critical security and access levels. Join Lathrop & Gage LLP and CommVault to learn how integrating snapshot management, backup, recovery, deduplication and replication in a singular modern data management platform allowed Lathrop to:•Rapidly virtualize 90% of the IT infrastructure •Increase reliability of data backup •Cut weekly admin time from 30 hours to 2 •Provide application-aware protection |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | |
| Capacity management may not be dead yet, but with the adoption of private clouds it’s barely recognizable. Join CiRBA CTO Andrew Hillier as he outlines best practices for gaining control over dynamic capacity supply and workload demand in large scale virtual and cloud infrastructure. Hear how leading Fortune 500 organizations brought together infrastructure teams, capacity teams and application owners to increase agility, reduce risk and costs by optimizing infrastructure planning and management processes. |
Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing technology breakthroughs in history, rivaling the adoption of past breakthroughs like radio, TV and the Internet itself. Predictions show global data center storage capacity growing fourfold—to 6.6 zettabytes per year—by 2016. Cloud usage as a percentage of this will shoot from 39 to 64 percent and the use of multiple cloud providers and workload management will require new strategies for secure high performance hybrid cloud management. Through customer examples, this presentation will illuminate how data center networking and cloud architectures are changing to address these global megatrends. |
Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| The Big Data phenomenon can no longer be ignored. The sheer volume, variety, and velocity of data, coupled with the need to derive value from big data sets have pushed IT infrastructure limits. To overcome these limits there is a need for extreme innovation in data management techniques. |
Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| The future of warfare demands technology agility, capacity and security. Given dramatic increases in cyber threats and geopolitical tensions, the mandate to transform IT into a more efficient and effective enabler is clear, but the strategy for accomplishing this is less defined. In this
session, Ret. Lieutenant Colonel Devine shares his experience providing IT logistics support for America's Military Forces and provides a strategic vision that will help guide IT transformation. |
Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Overcoming barriers to Ethernet convergence in the data center represents the next advance in fabrics. This includes synchronous data replication for DR, the traditional domain of Fibre Channel, and HPC, where Infiniband is widely deployed. Migration also includes virtualization and orchestration integration. All of this requires a fabric both programmable and extensible, offered by SDN and its automation capabilities. Highlighted will be customer successes, 3rd party testing, and CAPEX/OPEX savings. |
Wednesday
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Vallejo Sanitation and Flood Control District leads its field in the adoption of new technologies, including virtualization. But as the district’s virtual infrastructure expanded, its data protection stumbled. Traditional backup agents created budget and management pains. Even more concerning, backups were slow and introduced security risks. Learn how the district converted risk into benefit with a solution from Veeam designed for virtualization that also delivered strategic advantages to the district’s HP storage investment. |
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
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Fundamental shifts in how we use and interact with content require data center operators to break away from traditional server architectures and take another look at how to implement public and private clouds. The advent of Server on a Chip™ technology based on the ARM 64-bit architecture, and a rapidly expanding server software ecosystem, promises to drive down total cost of ownership (TCO), while delivering the performance needed to handle evolving data center workloads. |
Wednesday
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | |
| The network is the single biggest impediment to building next-generation data center networks. Today’s networks are overly rigid, expensive and do not scale to meet increasingly dynamic business demands. What is required is complete re-thinking of the network infrastructure, to bring cloud-like elasticity, agility and economics. This session will introduce the very latest networking technologies that provide nearly unlimited scalability, elastic Pay-as-You-Grow performance and advanced multi-tenancy to build a true enterprise cloud network |
Wednesday
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | |
| How the densification of data centers lends itself to low-cost/low-power multimode optics and why these solutions will continue to grow in popularity with extended reach transceivers. Why are these transceivers the most cost-effective and energy efficient choice for today’s data center networks? More importantly how to manage the migration and co-existence of networked devices requiring various form factors, data rates, and distance limitations.
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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
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | |
| The enterprise datacenter is undergoing major transformations as the adoption of virtualization and the emergence of a new breed of infrastructure vendors deliver unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and efficiency. Compute, networking, and security services have clearly started down this path. Storage is the final frontier in running entire datacenters on commodity x86 servers. Attend this session to learn about hyperconvergence, the trend driving high-performance scale-out convergence at a fraction of the cost of traditional SANs. |