Keynote Presentation: Technology is Broken and How to Fix IT
9/24/2008 8:45:00 AM
James E. Gaskin's irreverent but successful approach will explain which technologies and technical products cause too many problems, which can be tolerated, and which can save time and make money. Using dozens of real world examples gathered during years of consulting, and writing 16 technology books and thousands of articles, Gaskin's "unbiased and unboring" speeches balance technical frustration with laughter. Learn how to choose hardware (computers and networking), software (Microsoft), and even people. Laugh while learning how to make the technology in your business work for you and not against you.
Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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Briefing on Social Media
9/24/2008 9:30:00 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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SECURITY: UTM: Simple, Elegance and Power
9/24/2008 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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CLOUD COMPUTING: Need Offsite Data Back-up and Recovery That's Quick and Easy But You Don't Have The Technology and Facilities To Do The Job? In the event of a Disaster can your business wait the days it takes to restore from tapes?
9/24/2008 10:15:00 AM
System failures, power outages, and natural disasters all put business-critical data at risk of being permanently lost or inaccessible for extended periods of time. To make matters worse, limited technical resources, shrinking back-up windows to maximize online availability, and growing technological complexity, all contribute to the increased difficulty and importance of data protection. Businesses today need a highly available recovery plan for back-up and recovery to eliminate the risk of data lost. Replication solutions provide a wide range of capabilities beyond conventional disks and VTLs. They shorten backup times without affecting backup windows or performance, while providing more efficient storage and reducing the operational backup window to virtually zero (for continuous data protection). You now have an opportunity to reduce costs significantly with a low monthly service fee vs the alternative of acquiring the necessary technology to build out your own Backup and Disaster infrastructure. Learn how easy it is to get an exact copy of your company's data, typically for recoverability, high availability, or nonstop maintenance purposes.
Speakers:
Chris Aliberti
Vice President
Insight Investments Corp
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ENTERPRISE AND SOCIAL SOFTWARE - Behind and Outside the Firewall
9/24/2008 10:15:00 AM
Technology such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogging isn't just for school kids any more. Businesses are paying more and more attention to the enterprise collaboration opportunities these types of software afford, and they are moving quickly into trials and full fledged adoptions of social software. Learn from Chris Brogan what an organization's benefits from adopting this technology will be, where the pitfalls are, and what comes next.
Speakers:
Chris Brogan
Vice President of Strategy and Technology
CrossTech Media
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VIRTUALIZATION: Doing More Over Less ? Working remotely between Windows and UNIX / Linux
9/24/2008 10:45:00 AM
Has distance between sites caused you grief when trying to connect to your UNIX / Linux servers? Do you wish the servers you are connecting to are right beside you so network bandwidth is not of concern? Do you feel your company has chosen to consolidate the UNIX / Linux server environment at the cost of user productivity?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will need to attend this session. Alexander Mak will be explaining how distance and low bandwidth, which can be seen as hindrances to user productivity, can be mitigated. The solution will allow companies to continue to apply the cost savings of a centralized network while opening up a whole new level of productivity on the user end.
You will learn:
How to bring in higher performance over a lower bandwidth connection.
How to maximize ROI of the existing infrastructure.
How a complete all rounded solution can benefit you.
Speakers:
Alexander Mak
Systems Engineer
Hummingbird
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Greening Initiatives, Power Consumption and Provisioning is it Really Necessary for Data Centers?
9/24/2008 10:45:00 AM
Greening initiatives, power consumption and provisioning are among the top major concerns for Data Center managers today. As the pressure to expand computing resources increases, concerns relating to power and cooling become more and more important. For these reasons and more, there has been an interest in developing opportunities for improving power capacity planning, uptime and energy efficiency. Raritan's Power Management solutions help Data Centers address these challenges with accurate, real-time outlet level monitoring of power consumption as well as humidity and temperature censors for the rack.
Speakers:
Peter Chianchiano
Territory Sales Manager
Raritan
Mike Mogavero
Data Sytem World Wide
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
9/24/2008 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 losing 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
9/24/2008 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:
Coy Thorp
Regional Sales Engineer
WatchGuard Technologies
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Creating Effective Communication in a Global IT Workforce
9/24/2008 11:45:00 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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VIRTUALIZATION: Application Flow Analysis - The benefits of monitoring with NetFlow
9/24/2008 11:45:00 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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Keynote - Greener Pastures for IT Security
9/24/2008 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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VIRTUALIZATION: Applying 60GHz and 80GHz Wireless Solutions for Virtualization of Data Center
9/24/2008 1:15:00 PM
This session will focus on key aspects of BridgeWave GigE Wireless Solutions that allow enterprise clients to establish virtual data centers. Content will focus on how implementation, ROI, QoS, security, and performance criteria are addressed via GigE wireless LAN extensions.
Speakers:
Randy Montoya
Sales Director
BridgeWave Communications
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Explaining Geeks to Human and the Inverse
9/24/2008 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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Keynote Presentation: Breaking Out of the Fish Bowl
9/25/2008 9:15:00 AM
The fish bowl is a common nickname for the office space of many IT departments. Enclosed primarily in glass, these offices allow for open viewing of the worlds on either sides but little actual interaction. Instead communications take place through email and most employees worst nightmare, your help ticket system. Instead empower employees to find solutions and join the conversation using the latest social media and immerging technology available.
Speakers:
Sean Percival
seanpercival.com
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: The False Positive: Anti-Spam's Dirty Little Secret
9/25/2008 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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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS: Economical, Scalable, and Reliable: Why Wireless Connectivity is Hot in Today's Economy
9/25/2008 10:15:00 AM
Wireless broadband is about giving your business new opportunities and giving you a competitive edge. The ability to connect and deliver information in real time, at high speeds, improves the efficiency and bottom line of your operation. From fixed point-to-point to Mesh, from indoor to outdoor, we will go over several applications where end users found quick returns by moving to a wireless solution.
Speakers:
Rob Hollis
Wireless Broadband Sales Manager
Day Wireless Systems
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SECURITY: Laptop Safety Seminar, Part 1
9/25/2008 10:45:00 AM
How to keep your laptop safe, your data safer, and your reputation spotless.
How to keep your laptop from being stolen.
How to use labels to get lost laptops returned.
How to track stolen laptops.
How to back up laptop data intelligently
How to protect your data when thieves steal your laptop just for that data.Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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SECURITY: PCI & DSS Compliance: Helping Your Customers Achieve It
9/25/2008 10:45:00 AM
While you are probably familiar with PCI & DSS Compliance, do you possess the understanding and know-how to achieve it for your customers?
In this presentation, WatchGuard Technologies Field Sales Engineer, Coy Thorp uncovers the ins and outs of this often misunderstood regulation. During this presentation, you will learn about:
Why PCI & DSS was initially created
Common misconceptions related to achieving PCI & DSS Compliance
What the actual requirements are and how to address them
Implementing a viable network security solution
Vulnerability testing & maintenance
Join us to expand your understanding of this incredibly hot industry topic and learn how you can increase your existing opportunities and marketability as a knowledgeable network solution provider. Speakers:
Coy Thorp
Regional Sales Engineer
WatchGuard Technologies
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SECURITY: Laptop Safety Seminar, Part 2
9/25/2008 11:45:00 AM
Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
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VIRTUALIZATION: From Desktop to Data Center; The Importance of Building and End-to-End Strategy
9/25/2008 12:15:00 PM
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Master Mind Panel and Lunch: Security for Second Circle Technologies
9/25/2008 1:00:00 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.
Speakers:
James Gaskin
Author and Columnist
David Troup
CEO & Founder
MailFoundry
Coy Thorp
Regional Sales Engineer
WatchGuard Technologies
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