South Florida Technology Alliance Welcome And
Creating Successful IT Implementations
10/7/2008 9:00:00 AM
A brief sponsor's welcome to attendees.
ITEC is about understanding the key products and services that will make companies competitive and efficient in the coming years. The process of selecting and implementing the right products and services will have a material impact on getting the expected return on investment. Based on 30 years in IT and delivering over 500,000 software licenses worldwide, Mr. Casanave will share key points that lead to successful, effective, product and service selection, implementation and vendor relations.
Speakers:
Charles Casanave
CEO
Data Access Worldwide
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Keynote Presentation: Customer Benefits from Oracle's Acquisition Strategy
10/7/2008 9:30:00 AM
? Come hear why customers recognize that Oracle's acquisition strategy is a very good thing for them. The products are quickly enhanced and tested more thoroughly, supported globally, and integrated into the Oracle stack. Oracle's strategy is consistent with the decisions customers are already making: They want fewer software suppliers and more accountability, more standardization and pre-integration, and less complexity. Oracle is removing the complexity from their environments by taking responsibility for integration, certification, and testing across all these products. Oracle does it once instead of each customer doing this on their own.
Speakers:
Robert Stanoch
Master Principal Sales Consultant
Oracle
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SECURITY: UTM: Simple, Elegance and Power
10/7/2008 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:
Cameron Byers
Customer Support Manager
Astaro
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VIRTUALIZATION: Moving To a New World of Dynamic Computing
10/7/2008 10:15:00 AM
Should businesses, regardless of industry, business classification (Non-Profit or Profit, Private or Public, or size) be moving to a new way of computing better known as Dynamic Computing? What is Driving the Need? Simple: New economic pressures/challenges, increase in regulatory compliancy mandates, the push for 'Green I.T.', and the rippling effects that fuel costs have on food, technology, and every facet of our personal and business realms. Come Listen to see if it Dynamic Computing is for you and/or your respective clients.
Get Answers to:
What is Dynamic Computing?
What is My Role in a Green Computing Era?
Flex Workforce ? Will It Be the Norm?
What are some of the challenges facing South Florida businesses?
Speakers:
Hugo Perez
Managing Partner
NetApp presents DATCORP
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VIRTUALIZATION: My Present Data Center does not Meet Our Changing Business Needs. Now What?
10/7/2008 10:45:00 AM
In today's ever-evolving business environment, the need for day-to-day IT operational support and data center expertise is becoming more prevalent. Businesses are finding that outsourcing their data center needs to be more cost-effective vs. building and maintaining in-house . Hosting providers are challenged with an increase in demands for space and power and staying ahead of the technology curve, while continuing to meet regulatory compliances. This leads to several questions regarding how one finds the "perfect fit" when selecting a hosting provider.
Bullet Points:
Requirements for Data Center Facilities
Building to meet present and future requirements
Staying Ahead of Technology Curve
Data Center Services Available
Why Outsource?
Speakers:
Michael Kurtz
General Manager, Southeast
Quality Technology Services
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
10/7/2008 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 Technology
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SECURITY: Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet
10/7/2008 11:45:00 AM
Sure, you've heard of bots and botnets. But have you ever actually seen a bot, bot source code, or a bot herder's Command and Control (C&C) center in action? Now you can.
In this presentation, WatchGuard Technologies, uncovers what makes bots tick. The talk covers topics both beginning and advanced:
What a "botnet" is
What bot source codes looks like and does
How bot herders control bots via C&C centers
How a crook might recruit an army of bots
How to render bots powerless on your network
During the talk, you'll see the inner workings of some real-world, malicious bots, found in the wild on underground sites. Learn about the many attacks botnets can launch, and how to defend against them. Since the best way to understand these sophisticated attacks is to see them unfold right before your eyes, we will present video captures of bots in action. Once you understand how these evil botnets get built, you'll have the power to avoid assimilation. Resistance is not futile.
Speakers:
Scott Burgin
Field Sales Engineer
WatchGuard
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: How To Transform from an IT, Application, or Business Consultant to a Business Process Expert
10/7/2008 11:45:00 AM
Who is a Business Process Expert?
What is the potential role of Business Process Experts in an organization?
Why are we building a community around this set of roles?
What are the advantages of becoming a Business Process Expert?
What can your company do to enter into the Business Process Revolution?
Speakers:
Ed Sanchez
Business Consultant
SAP Partner CCG International
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Keynote - Greener Pastures for IT Security
10/7/2008 12:15:00 PM
A presentation on emerging eco friendly trends in networking that can help companies reduce their budgets and carbon footprint.
Speakers:
Cameron Byers
Customer Support Manager
Astaro
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SECURITY: WWW: the Wild Wild West; A defense-in-depth approach to web security.
10/7/2008 1:15:00 PM
The session will touch on some of the prevalent trends with web attacks and how a defense-in-depth strategy can be deployed to protect against these attacks. The session will examine the conceptual layers with web security and the protective technologies at these layers.
Session will discuss?
Common web attack motivations
The session will touch on some of the prevalent trends with web attacks and how a defense-in-depth strategy can be deployed to protect against these attacks. The session will examine the conceptual layers with web security and the protective technologies at these layers.
Session will discuss?
Common web attack motivations
Common web attack techniques
Protection layers in web security
Technologies at the different layers
Ways to reduce overall risk
Protection layers in web security
Technologies at the different layers
Ways to reduce overall risk
Speakers:
Juan Perez
Sr. Security Engineer
NH&A
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Keynote Presentation: The Latest Online Marketing Trends for Business
10/8/2008 9:30:00 AM
The Digital Age is Upon Us
The Internet has Transformed how Business is being Done
"Old Marketing" = Outbound Marketing
"New Marketing" = Inbound Marketing
Using Web 2.0
A: Promote your business, products and services
B: Brand your name
C: Generate sales
D: "Fish" for leads
E: Use as a virtual online networking tool
F: Find job positions
G: Find employees
H: Promote yourself and your expertise
Using Online Video
A: Online video ads
B: Site Greeters
C: Video E-mail
D: Video instant messaging
E: Video conferencing
F: Video broadcasting
Online radio
Speakers:
George Dubec
Senior Vice President
Securenet Systems
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NEXT WORKPLACE: PaperSave Software?Automates the process of imaging and storing source documents
10/8/2008 10:15:00 AM
Find Documents instantly
Share information across offices
Dramatically improve efficiencies
Eliminates lost documents, file cabinets and offsite storage
Going Paperless
Speakers:
Wadih Pazos
Senior Vice President
Solutions@MBAF
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VIRTUALIZATION: Case Study: Best Practices and VMware Methodology, Town of Jupiter
10/8/2008 10:45:00 AM
Operational Benefits
Datacenter Benefits
Cost Benefits
VMware Best Practices
How to Proceed with a Virtualization Project (Capacity Planning, Cost Assessment and Knowledge Transfer)
Speakers:
Andrew Judge
CEO
Grove Networks
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VIRTUALIZATION: Moving To a New World of Dynamic Computing
10/8/2008 11:30:00 AM
Should businesses, regardless of industry, business classification (Non-Profit or Profit, Private or Public, or size) be moving to a new way of computing better known as Dynamic Computing? What is Driving the Need? Simple: New economic pressures/challenges, increase in regulatory compliancy mandates, the push for 'Green I.T.', and the rippling effects that fuel costs have on food, technology, and every facet of our personal and business realms. Come Listen to see if it Dynamic Computing is for you and/or your respective clients.
Get Answers to:
What is Dynamic Computing?
What is My Role in a Green Computing Era?
Flex Workforce ? Will It Be the Norm?
What are some of the challenges facing South Florida businesses?
Speakers:
Hugo Perez
Managing Partner
NetApp presents DATCORP
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SECURITY: The Three Undocumented Layers of the OSI Model and Their Impact on Security
10/8/2008 12:00:00 PM
It's not individual hackers, cyber gangs, inadequate firewalls, missing patches, or even negligent employees. It's not found in the application layer of the OSI Basic Model. Instead, three factors present the greatest threat to data security due to their enormous influence on security decisions and the integrity of security programs: Politics, the Religion of Technology, and Economics. These factors often result in sub-optimal IT decisions that leave a program vulnerable to malicious intrusion or attack. Real-life examples are described as experienced during our IT security audits, and practical guidance is provided for navigating these pitfalls in order to become more effective IT and security professionals.
Speakers:
Michael Scheidell
President, Founder & CTO
SECNAP, Network Security Corporation
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Keynote Presentation: Windows Small Business Server 2008
10/8/2008 12:45:00 PM
Discover how Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed and priced especially for small businesses, so you can improve productivity and help protect your vital business information. It is designed to work with existing technology, build on Microsoft best practices, and deliver a comprehensive network at an affordable price.
Windows Small Business Server 2008 helps protect your vital business information from loss, by backing up the data on your network and helping enable you to recover accidentally deleted files. It also gives you highly secure access to business contacts, calendars, e-mail, files, and other important desktop resources from any Internet-connected computer, virtually anywhere at any time, so you can be productive while you're away from the office or on the road.
Affordable, Integrated Solution
Protect Your Business Data
Grow Your Business Capacity
Speakers:
Gary Shatz
President
Fastteks
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