Keynote Presentation: Technology is Broken and How to Fix IT
4/28/2009 9:00:00 AM
James Gaskin will explain how Technology Is Broken, and that it may not be your fault. By focusing on four critical areas for businesses, Gaskin shows how to effectively put technology to work in business, and how to choose the right technology for the job at hand. The four discussion areas, laptop and mobility safety, data safety, network safety, and enhanced e-mail value, all follow Gaskin's TPT Rule: Task, Process, Tools. Using dozens of real world examples gathered during years of consulting and writing 17 technology books and thousands of articles, Gaskin balances technical frustration with laughter. Wearing Hawaiian shirts and delivering objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style, Gaskin explains how to "un-break" your broken technology.
Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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Keynote Presentation
4/28/2009 9:30:00 AM
This presentation will demonstrate why social networking is more than just marketing buzz; it is a relational model that has been used for years to define the way human beings interact, and it is the next step in the natural evolution of the Web.
Learn how organizations can improve workflow and productivity by utilizing social software and online collaboration.
See how social networking can be used to efficiently define and enable how work actually gets done on your intranet.
Discover how your intranet can become a dynamic corporate knowledge base that will scale with the company as it grows and will still maintain usability on it own.
Understand why no single user, even the administrator, can possibly identify all of the assets, users and groups and how they need to be connected to each other for your intranet to be a truly collaborative business tool. See how social networking will naturally scale your intranet to define these nodes and ties.Speakers:
William Cava
Chief Technology Officer
Ektron
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SECURITY: UTM: Simple, Elegance and Power
4/28/2009 10:15:00 AM
Modern IT security managers are essentially required to protect against multiple attack vectors while ensuring optimal performance for their organization. This session offers information about Unified Threat Management solution for comprehensive perimeter security. Featuring:
Network Security - Firewall, VPN and Intrusion Prevention
Web Security - URL Filtering, Malware Detection, Bandwidth Management and Application Control
Mail Security - Antispam, Antivirus, Antiphishing and Email Encryption Deployment as hardware, software or virtual appliance
Astaro Security Gateway provides immediate protection for your network, web access and email traffic. The Astaro solution integrates more security applications than any competitor in one award-winning management device. A complete range of hardware appliances scale to the performance level that you demand. Speakers:
Alex Quinonez
Vice President Americas Sales & Support
Astaro
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: New Enterprise Strategies: Rethinking IT
4/28/2009 10:15:00 AM
Costs are dropping on core components in Information Technology, just as complexity is rising. Implementation architectures have multiplied and the options are as valuable as they are staggering. Do you build on big iron, or do you rack servers? Do you use cloud computing services for your web applications, or do you host databases? We unravel the options in this session.
What are some of the options on the larger scale?
Where are the hidden costs to picking one solution over another?
How does an organization best focus on their core business instead of their infrastructure?
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SECURITY: Building A Well Rounded Security Plan
4/28/2009 10:15:00 AM
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SECURITY: Information Security in 2008 and Beyond: Overcoming the Next Threat
4/28/2009 10:45:00 AM
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Creating Effective Communication in a Global IT Workforce
4/28/2009 10:45:00 AM
As North America's workforce has diversified with growing numbers of non-native English speakers, a demand for accent training has emerged among the nations top companies. This seminar is designed to help professionals understand and communicate more effectively in an IT environment with their colleagues and clients for whom English is a second language. This course provides answers to the following questions:
How can I 'tune my ear' to understand my colleagues and customers?
Why is English pronunciation difficult for non-native English speakers?
How can I avoid communication breakdowns in a global workforce?
How can I accurately pronounce non-English names?
What do I do when I can't understand a non-native English speaker in conversation? What is the right thing to say? Speakers:
Judy Ravin
President
Accent Reduction Institute (ARI)
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
4/28/2009 10:45:00 AM
Email today contains discussions, agreements, documents, notifications, contact information, and many other kinds of critical business information. By automatically storing email records, your organization can ensure that they are not loosing or misplacing the information they need. In this session you'll hear how to easily and automatically maintain the required records and to search and find specific information. Takeaway points include:
Options for eliminating the need to retain large volumes of old emails on your mail server.
Details about the government regulations (Sarbannes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc.) that require the retention of and access to email records.
How to use a compact network appliance for your archiving needs.
Speakers:
Dean Richardson
Vice President of Sales
Arcmail
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SECURITY: Next Generation VPN: Beyond Simple Remote Access
4/28/2009 11:45:00 AM
State of Market-IPSec vs. SSL
General growth in the market
Technology convergence
What customer want today
Software & SMS based tokens
Single sign-on
Supplementing SSL with NAC
End point integrity checking
Limiting access
Session Clean-up
Common use cases
Speakers:
Bryan Nairn
Senior Product Manager
WatchGuard Technologies
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Green IT: Saving Power, Paper, Processors, and Dollars!
4/28/2009 11:45:00 AM
Organizations are paying attention to the news around "corporate responsibility" and the questions about "green IT," partially because it's great for the environment, partially because it's great for people's impressions of your organization, but also because a lot of what can make a company green - especially with regards to IT - can also sometimes result in cost savings.
Are there ways you can lower power consumption through your IT choices?
Which processes and methods reduce expense while improving your company's carbon footprint?
Where are the biggest leverage points?
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VIRTUALIZATION: Bring Real-Time Collaboration, Mobility and Productivity to Your Linux and UNIX Users
4/28/2009 11:45:00 AM
Linux has been making great strides in penetrating the enterprise desktop market; as a result the number of business users and mission-critical applications supported by Linux is steadily growing. However, do you know how well your company's Linux desktop strategy will interact with other IT initiatives, such as business mobility, resource consolidation and worldwide project collaboration? In this session, Brian Tam will explain the business and technical challenges that are faced by Linux users and administrators, and solutions that can satisfy both economical and technical buyers. You will learn how your organization can:
Reduce application downtime and improve Linux user productivity
Reduce total cost of access
Improve communication efficiency between Linux and Windows users by enabling real-time collaboration
Speakers:
Brian Tam
Systems Engineer
Hummingbird
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Keynote - Greener Pastures for IT Security
4/28/2009 12:15:00 PM
A presentation on emerging eco friendly trends in networking that can help companies reduce their budgets and carbon footprint.
Speakers:
Alex Quinonez
Vice President Americas Sales & Support
Astaro
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CLOUD COMPUTING: Bringing Cloud Computing down to Earth: A Frank Assessment of What's Available Today
4/28/2009 1:15:00 PM
Storing data in the "cloud" of the internet and using web-based applications has been around almost as long as remote users. But now, software companies are expanding their on-demand offerings beyond adaptations of familiar tools such as email and personal finance to new products such as virtual worlds and social networks. But cloud computing goes beyond SaaS (Software as a Service). In this session, you'll also find out the options for living a digital business life that only exists on the internet. You'll learn:
What is cloud computing and how can you take advantage of it in your business.
The best SaaS applications for your organization. You'll get a frank evaluation of the challenges you'll face if you move important business processes to a SaaS model.
How to evaluate the latest initiatives from companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft's Windows Live and how to evaluate their range of products, including the growing number of online storage options.
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Enterprise Collaboration and Content Management
4/28/2009 1:15:00 PM
Old fashioned file servers and passing info back and forth in email is so 1996. Managing complex collaboration, document version control, rich media and more has changed the game on how this all gets done. Discover the value of a robust content management platform for your organization, and learn what to look for when considering next steps into collaborative technologies.
How do these systems integrate to our other platforms?
How does content security protect but also enable better collaboration?
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Explaining Geeks to Humans and the Inverse
4/28/2009 1:45:00 PM
Geeks love technology but don't understand non-technical employees. Non-technical employees don't understand technology or geeks. The only common ground for these groups? They both hate the idiot vice presidents who can't communicate to employees from either side of the geek divide.
Learn fun facts like how to tell if someone is too stupid to use a computer,
What traits say "I'm a geek",
How to tell if you're a geek wannabe, a geek or an uber geek,
and why HR says there are no good technical people available.
James Gaskin explains how geeks and non-geeks can work together for the same end results: improving their business and avoiding idiot vice presidents. Along the way geeks and non-geeks will learn how to better communicate and work together. Idiot vice presidents will remain clue-free. Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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Briefing on Social Media
4/29/2009 9:15:00 AM
Join Chris Brogan, social media expert and CrossTech Media's VP of Strategy and Technology, in a lively discussion on the impact of social media technologies on businesses and organizations. Learn which tools require your attention, and understand a few basic strategies to grow your capabilities in this space.
Speakers:
Chris Brogan
Vice President of Strategy and Technology
CrossTech Media
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWRE: The False Positive: Anti-Spam's Dirty Little Secret
4/29/2009 10:15:00 AM
Before anti-spam, you never asked, "did you get my email?" Spams, viruses and phishing threats forced the use of email filtering systems, software and services. However, these solutions have made email untrusted for their high false positive rates and inconvenient quarantines. They often require extensive, hands-on training by your administrators, as well as your end-users. In this session you'll learn how to block spam AND save your legitimate email from being caught. Takeaway points include:
You'll learn how to avoid false positive rates.
The significance of SPAM signatures and how an appliance defeats them.
The new technology you need to successfully eliminate email threats and still deliver important, business critical emails to your user's inbox. Speakers:
David Troup
CEO & Founder
MailFoundry
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VIRTUALIZATION: Application Flow Analysis - The benefits of monitoring with NetFlow
4/29/2009 10:15:00 AM
This presentation will take a look at using NetFlow technology for today's network analysis: You will learn:
How can we leverage NetFlow as a data source?
Is there specific data ormetrics that will help?
What are the limitations of NetFlow?
What problems are we trying to solve?Speakers:
Jim Torres
Sr. Systems Engineer
Fluke Networks
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SECURITY: Managing Web 2.0 Application Risks on Your Network
4/29/2009 10:45:00 AM
This session focuses on enabling your business to safely leverage a new generation of Internet applications. All of these applications, regardless of the business value they provide, carry some risk. Therefore, it's essential to understand their unique behavior and context so that you can effectively manage risk on your network, without undue restrictions on your users, or your business. This proactive strategy is being widely adopted by forward-looking IT organizations that embrace the Internet-based applications as an extension of their own application portfolio. During this presentation, you'll discover what specific applications these organizations are running on their networks, the risks they present, and the IT management strategy being employed to control them.
Speakers:
Matt Keil
Palo Alto Networks
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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS: New Landscape of Networking: RFID, Bluetooth, Mesh, and More,
4/29/2009 10:45:00 AM
Advanced technologies such as Mesh Networking, Bluetooth, RFID, ZigBee, etc., combined with the latest developments in location detection, low-power wireless and other initiatives are opening up a whole new world for wireless users. This session will discuss the current and future technologies and what you need to know now. Takeaway points include:
A complete assessment of the next wave of wireless technologies and networks.
How to determine what the critical issues are in deploying wireless network technology
The basics of a networking solution using RFID.
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Mobile Computing Grows Up: Connected, Powerful, and Flexible
4/29/2009 11:30:00 AM
You can't grow your business when you are tied to your desk. "Portable" and "lightweight" are buzz words that everybody expects in their technology tools and gadgets. This session will show you that it really is possible to outfit your mobile office without breaking the bank, or your back. Takeaway points include:
Expert analysis of the devices you can easily carry with you, such as PDA's, scanners, smartphones and routers.
Advice on buying devices that are small in size but great in practical use and efficiency.
The latest assessment of what to expect for the future.
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Collaborative Computing: Social Applications, Enterprise Communication, and More
4/29/2009 11:30:00 AM
Social networks get a lot of press. From Facebook opening to the business community to YouTube being the hot new place to see corporate video pieces, these tools have more than one application. There are obvious marketing and PR values to social media like blogging and video, but there are collaboration opportunities and business processes that are being explored by some of the most varied organizations in the world.
Which social networks and social media applications work for businesses?
How do IT teams interact with these web-focused technologies, and which ones go behind the firewall?
Where are the landmines, and how do you avoid them?
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NEXT WORK PLACE: Email, IM, SMS, and More: Communicating in the Post GenX World
4/29/2009 12:00:00 PM
New technologies are here to stay and increasingly, today's workforce expects to find the latest technologies at work that they use in their personal life. Younger employees use sophisticated social networking tools at home, which provides a big impetus for rollout of this technology in the workplace. How will your organization meet that expectation and should you even try? In this session you'll get the risks and benefits of using advanced technology that meets the needs of your customers, employees and partners. Takeaway points include:
The best ways to use the new communications technologies as a force for positive change in your business.
How to prevent breaches in security that may result from the use of these technologies.
A thorough review of technology that allows click-to-call on the employees desktop using VoIP phones, business calls that route to mobile devices if they are out and about and voice or video recordings in emails or instant messaging.
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Master Mind Panel and Lunch: Security for Second Circle Technologies
4/29/2009 12:45:00 PM
Our panelists will discuss the latest twist on security risks associated with the proliferation of web-based applications, SaaS, Web 2.0, social networking and anything that might impact your network. You'll get detailed information and analysis from a panel of experts who are ready to share the trends and challenges of securing second circle technologies. Light lunch will be provided during this session and you can pick it up at one of our mobile lunch stations on the Expo Floor.
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