Keynote Presentation: Virtual Integrity: Reputation Management Meets Internet Security
11/19/2008 9:15:00 AM
Even smallest companies can now have a global presence thanks to the web, but business still requires the same "metrics" to be successful. You need to establish trust and working relationship with business partners, whether they're next door or on the other side of the globe. You need to also secure sensitive information, while still allowing people to have access to allow them to do their jobs. We'll discuss how the tools of the information economy have changed the flow of data, its implications in a 24 x 7 World, and discuss how to balance access with security, efficiency with safety.
Speakers:
Whitney Hoffman
CEO
Hoffman OmniMedia
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SECURITY: UTM: Simple, Elegance and Power
11/19/2008 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:
Rudy Ricci
Astaro
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THE NEXT WORKPLACE: Beyond E-Mail: Moving your entire workplace to the cloud
11/19/2008 10:15:00 AM
How will advanced mobile devices like iPhone and fast developing web 2.0+ technology change the workplace? Globally dispersed teams, telecommuters, flex-time workers, all are now adopting new technology for working together online, often without top management support. But real teamwork is not easier to achieve online than it is offline. It may even be harder.
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How do you prepare a workforce for a "virtual workplace"?
What are the challenges?
What tools are needed?
What problems must be addressed?
This session is based on 10 years successful online team building. You will see case studies of successful globally dispersed teams. You will learn about a platform, process and tools that have been proven successful in forming online teams. And you will see live examples of online project management, time management, document management, contact management, online training, video conferencing, and more.
Speakers:
Tom Simon
Founder and CTO
iPrismGlobal
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THE NEXT WORKPLACE: Be In The Know
11/19/2008 10:15:00 AM
This presentation will share concepts to assess your organization's IT investments and compare them to the business vision in an effort to determine what is important to stay competitive in today's market place. It will also expose the elements and strategies of how to begin making adjustments as the marketplace shifts.
Speakers:
Erik Tavenner
Senior Solutions Consultant
Plus Consulting
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VIRTUALIZATION: Application Flow Analysis - The benefits of monitoring with NetFlow
11/19/2008 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:
Steve McKenney
Fluke Networks
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VIRTUALIZATION: The Right Tool for the Right Job: Solid State Disk Drives and Their Rightful Place in the Storage Hierarchy
11/19/2008 10:45:00 AM
This session will discuss the applicability of Solid State Disk technology within todays computing environments and how and why they can provide cost-justifiable benefits over other storage technologies currently available. It will dispel many of the myths and rumors of SSD performance and reliability and will provide customers with insight towards implementing them within their own environments.
Speakers:
Christopher Caprio
Channel Sales Manager
Imation
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CONSUMERIZATION: Business Intelligence Technology for Small and Medium Sized Organizations
11/19/2008 10:45:00 AM
We live in a global economy that is increasingly competitive and fast-paced, requiring both prompt and accurate decisions-making. To build an agile, innovative and successful organization, you need up to the minute information on your company's performance.
Business Intelligence provides organizations with a suite of tools which provide users with highly visual and actionable information. These tools can be configured to reflect the technical proficiency of individual users, as well as providing them with job-appropriate information.
A few years ago only large companies could afford Business Intelligence solutions. Today, that same technology has been re-packaged so that smaller organizations can both afford it and deploy it. In fact, organizations today both large and small cannot afford to be without it.
Business Intelligence Solutions often incorporate the components shown below, although many additional capabilities are available as well.
Dashboards: Executive and Managerial information presented visually;
Corporate Reporting: Standard reports delivered to internal and external users on a regular basis;
Ad hoc Reporting: Reporting tools that allow power users the ability to perform in depth analysis of company data to establish causal relationships
Administration: Managing the user community and controlling the distribution of information;
Data Integration: Integrating the reporting tools with Applications and/or Data Warehouse solutions.
Speakers:
Robert Stromberg
Account Manager
Xenon Consulting
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
11/19/2008 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:
Scott Wizner
Eastern U.S. Sales Manager
ArcMail Technology
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VIRTUALIZATION: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): The Future of Desktops
11/19/2008 10:45:00 AM
As we all know, the motivating factor behind most technology decisions is improving the bottom line. To reduce hardware and energy expenses, a growing number of companies are implementing various layers of server virtualization. Unfortunately, in the rush to implement server virtualization, many have overlooked the value of desktop level virtualization, even though desktop management takes up more IT expenses than management of the server.
Desktop level virtualization is an important cost-saving strategy that provides the flexibility that today's enterprises require.
From this presentation, you will learn:
The advantages / disadvantages of Desktop Virtualization.
How to leverage Desktop Virtualization as a cost- saving measure.
How Desktop Virtualization affects security in our enterprise.
The problems that can be solved with Desktop Virtualization.
Speakers:
Scott Brousseau
Senior VP and CTO
PBG, Inc
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SECURITY: Botnets: Battling the Borg of the Internet
11/19/2008 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 Pinzon
Information Security Analyst
WatchGuard Technologies
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Break On Through To The Other Side
11/19/2008 11:45:00 AM
Successful companies know that their most profitable investment is in their employees. When people are at their peak performance,
productivity increases, business operations are more accurate, and the costs involved with human error decrease.
Join us as we discuss the key concepts to help your company "break on through to the other side".
What new technologies are available to your company.
Learn how to effectively train your employees for these new technologies.
Understand the different training platforms available for your company.
Develop and nurture your company's strongest resources.
Learn money saving principles in today's slowing economy.
Speakers:
Keith Nielsen
Business Development Manager
LearnKey
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VIRTUALIZATION: Over Coming the Challenges of Server Virtualization in the Datacenter
11/19/2008 11:45:00 AM
NetApp is an established and recognized leader for Storage Management solutions. Server virtualization is igniting change in the datacenter, from small to large enterprises and is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, Alliant Technologies will review why NetApp is the best choice as your storage solution for VMware virtualized server environments. Go further, faster, with NetApp.
Things you will learn:
Understand what is server Virtualization and the benefits from it
Challenges and solutions from Server Virtualization
How NetApp Management solutions make Virtualization simple
Which NetApp storage solution technology is right for you
NetApp 50% Virtualizationguarantee that you will use 50% less storage Speakers:
Cesar Cardenas
Product manager, Virtualization & Storage
Alliant Technologies
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CLOUD COMPUTING: Dedicated SaaS: The Next Generation of Hosted Email Security Solutions
11/19/2008 11:45:00 AM
McKinsey reports that the average SaaS deployment reaps up to a 30% TCO savings than on premise applications. With advancements in efficient server clustering architecture, it is now possible to have the total control of on premise email security, DLP, email encryption and email archiving with 5 x 9's availability but have the physical infrastructure securely housed, powered, cooled and maintained in redundant data centers for you.
In this session, we'll discuss:
What has changed and why companies are leveraging SaaS for a broader range of email security services
How SaaS and hybrid solutions can deliver more value and solve more problems than on premise solutions alone
How Proofpoint on Demand fully integrates advanced anti-spam and virus control with comprehensive, state-of-the-art data loss prevention and encryption
How Proofpoint Email Archiving combines the best of SaaS and on-premises attributes to deliver a superior archiving solution
How leading companies are solving difficult business problems using SaaS and hybrid deployments
Speakers:
Paul LaPorte
Global Solutions Manager
Proofpoint
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Keynote Presentation: Thinking Globally in Today's Economic Environment and How To Expand Globally in an IT Market
11/19/2008 12:15:00 PM
Please join us in this insightful discussion as Val Kogan moderates a panel with Vladimir Eskin as he addresses "Business Intelligence Software Application", as organizations look to IT to provide business decision makers with consistent and accurate information. Michael Zaitsev, will discuss how Eastern European Talent Drives Innovations in the Current Economic Environment and Dr. Andrew Gidaspov, author of Riding the Russian Technology Boom will reveals his findings on this $40 billion market.
Speakers:
Vladimir Eskin
Chief Executive Officer
International Operations
Marina Kolesnik
Senior Vice President
DataArt
Lawrence Kogan
President/CEO
Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development
Matthew Hird
Vice President of Operations & Client Delivery
Prognoz
Val Kogan
President
Mid Atlantic-Russia Business Council
Dr. Andrey Gipaspov
Author and Consultant
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SECURITY: Multi-Tiered Enterprise Functionality for Everyone
11/19/2008 1:15:00 PM
You may not be an enterprise organization, but in today's environment businesses of all sizes need the functionality of a multi-faceted security solution. SecurElement and Barracuda will present:
A basic understanding of vulnerable points in the network
Current trends in multi-layered security protection and why it is happening
How hosted security enhances business agility, controls costs and reduces risk
Protection options for your business including potential legal disruptions or economic disasters
How moving to a Managed Environment will unify security with all aspects of the mission-critical network
Speakers:
Bryan Ramona
Account Executive
SecurElement
Tim Soloman
Regional Sales Manager
Barracuda Networks
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SECURITY: Protecting Mission Critical Data Throughout the Information Lifecycle
11/19/2008 1:15:00 PM
Information is the most valuable commodity any organization can possess. The sheer volume of information that is stored and processed on a daily basis makes the job of those responsible for safeguarding mission critical data a difficult one to say the least. Security is too often left to the last budget dollars, which can lead to disaster. Compounding the complexity of this task is the variety of threats to the integrity of both active and archival data:
The inherent high risk of data center fires, due to the need for high voltage power systems and 24/7 operation of heavy-duty cooling systems.
Physical threats, such as theft, sabotage, poor climate control, etc.
Corruption of data from viruses, hackers, human error and intentional employee tampering.
To ensure the survival of your organization's information it must be protected throughout its lifecycle. Firelock will discuss how IT infrastructure and the valuable data it contains can be protected within its modular vaults on-site as well as through a well planned offsite rotation plan with a secure storage service providers. Case studies on co-location and managed hosting facilities that offer the highest level of data protection will also be presented. The evolution of new technologies creates myriad problems with security. How does one ensure a trustworthy and secure Cloud infrastructure? Docusafe will review best practices for offsite storage of active data sets and archival information, as well as the trend toward high security offsite data storage. After all, without mission critical information, there can be no recovery from a disaster.
Speakers:
Marvin Parker
Docusafe
Todd Smith
Firelock Modular Fireproof Vaults
Hugh Smith
Firelock Modular Fireproof Vaults
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VIRTUALIZATION & DATA CENTERS: Obtaining Cost Effective and Reliable Support for HP 3000/9000 and SuperDome Servers
11/19/2008 1:15:00 PM
Your HP 3000 or 9000 series servers have been running well and are critical to your organization. How do you ensure system continuity now that they are out-of-warranty? Is it necessary to purchase new servers?
This session explores how these HP 3000 and 9000 servers, including the Superdome, can be maintained and supported through reliable third-party providers.
Expert managed IT support for HP 3000, HP 9000, and the Superdome Enterprise Solution (including all parts, labor and O/S Help Desk) is available on a 24x7x365 basis.
HP Certified technicians assist in ongoing support and field technician training.
Fully operational spare parts are warehoused and immediately available as part of post-warranty service.
Customized solutions are available and may include hardware upgrades, firmware upgrade assistance, and other services.
Initial and on-going system audits are made to provide consistent asset management.
Speakers:
Ed Butler
Senior Director of IT and Contact Center Services
ISS Solutions
Jim Bizjak
Principal, Co-Founder
Wellington Technologies, Inc
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Addressing Green Enterprise Trends Effects on Application Delivery
11/19/2008 1:15:00 PM
Green enterprise trends pertaining to information technology include data and server consolidation initiatives that save money by reducing the costs of power, cooling, rack space, and more. When such trends extend to the enterprise branch, application performance can suffer. Another green enterprise trend is to enable occasional or even permanent tele-work to reduce commuting. Tele-work can affect application performance even more due to residential broadband connectivity challenges.
Five things you will learn in this session
Green enterprise drivers that affect application delivery
How to fill the WAN pipe
Mitigating protocol inefficiencies
Data reduction techniques
How to ensure application performance for tele and mobile workers
Speakers:
Eric Wolff
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Blue Coat Systems
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SECURITY: FTP: The Enemy Within
11/19/2008 1:45:00 PM
There was a time when simple things such as transferring files from one location to another was just a matter of getting your IT guy to install an FTP client on your machine. These times are over, and in a world where security has become paramount, auditors, shareholder and customers are requiring organizations to scale up their security efforts. Getting it right is not easy, and unbeknown to them, many companies still rely on unsecure legacy protocols such FTP for file transfer or Telnet for remote access. Join us in this session as we explore the threats and financial impact of using these protocols and discuss how Connectivity Secure Server, Hummingbird new high-performance secure shell solution, can help you achieve secure file transfer and network protection.
Speakers:
Robert Wong
Senior Product Manager
Hummingbird
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SECURITY: Protecting Mission Critical Data Throughout the Information Lifecycle (CON'T)
11/19/2008 1:45:00 PM
Information is the most valuable commodity any organization can possess. The sheer volume of information that is stored and processed on a daily basis makes the job of those responsible for safeguarding mission critical data a difficult one to say the least. Security is too often left to the last budget dollars, which can lead to disaster. Compounding the complexity of this task is the variety of threats to the integrity of both active and archival data:
The inherent high risk of data center fires, due to the need for high voltage power systems and 24/7 operation of heavy-duty cooling systems.
Physical threats, such as theft, sabotage, poor climate control, etc.
Corruption of data from viruses, hackers, human error and intentional employee tampering.
To ensure the survival of your organization's information it must be protected throughout its lifecycle. Firelock will discuss how IT infrastructure and the valuable data it contains can be protected within its modular vaults on-site as well as through a well planned offsite rotation plan with a secure storage service providers. Case studies on co-location and managed hosting facilities that offer the highest level of data protection will also be presented. The evolution of new technologies creates myriad problems with security. How does one ensure a trustworthy and secure Cloud infrastructure? Docusafe will review best practices for offsite storage of active data sets and archival information, as well as the trend toward high security offsite data storage. After all, without mission critical information, there can be no recovery from a disaster.
Speakers:
Marvin Parker
Docusafe
Todd Smith
Firelock Modular Fireproof Vaults
Hugh Smith
Firelock Modular Fireproof Vaults
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Second Circle Innovation: Bringing New Media and Web 2.0 Tools Into The Enterprise
11/20/2008 9:15:00 AM
In the new marketing technology landscape of Web 2.0 applications, there are many new tools that can provide immediate value for a business with little to no cost. The challenge is that with such a wide variety of tools, how are you going to decide what tools to implement and tie them all together? In this session you will gain insight into various tools of the trade, including; blogs, microblogs, RSS feeds, social networking, and wikis and how they tie together in digital marketing platform. Come away with the knowledge you need to make informed decisions around your second circle web strategy.
Speakers:
John Stone
President
CrossTech Partners
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SECURITY: Managing Web 2.0 Application Risks on Your Network
11/20/2008 10:15:00 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:
Chris King
Director of Product Marketing
Palo Alto Networks
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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS: THE EVOLVING CONTACT CENTER - How today's VoIP and CRM technologies are changing the landscape of customer service.
11/20/2008 10:15:00 AM
Customer service is evolving rapidly--integrating newer technologies like Instant Messaging, e-mail, and "click to call" with traditional call center environments. Mr. McFadden's presentation will discuss how small and medium businesses can leverage evolving technologies to better serve customers, make more efficient contact with prospects, and reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining contact center technology.
Highlights:
VoIP in the Contact Center
Instant Messaging and E-Mail Integration
CRM & Ticketing
Systems Integration
Open-Source Software
Speakers:
Corey McFadden
Managing Partner
Infradapt
Corey McFadden
Managing Partner
Infradapt
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Are Energy Costs Eating Away At Your IT Budget?
11/20/2008 10:45:00 AM
New backup power system designs are delivering more power in a smaller space and saving you thousands of dollars is energy costs, almost paying for themselves in the life of the product.
Come see how Eaton's newest technological advancements can work for you. What you will learn in this session:
How simple decisions you make can effect our environment
What changes may you see in deploying VoIP
Where can you find help when trying to determine actual power draw from IT equipment
How one customer fit the high power UPS they needed in the only space they had
How high efficiency products effect TCO
Speakers:
Kevin Macomber
Business Development Manager
Eaton
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VIRTUALIZATION & DATA CENTERS: Obtaining Cost Effective and Reliable Support for HP 3000/9000 and SuperDome Servers
11/20/2008 10:45:00 AM
Your HP 3000 or 9000 series servers have been running well and are critical to your organization. How do you ensure system continuity now that they are out-of-warranty? Is it necessary to purchase new servers?
This session explores how these HP 3000 and 9000 servers, including the Superdome, can be maintained and supported through reliable third-party providers.
Expert managed IT support for HP 3000, HP 9000, and the Superdome Enterprise Solution (including all parts, labor and O/S Help Desk) is available on a 24x7x365 basis.
HP Certified technicians assist in ongoing support and field technician training.
Fully operational spare parts are warehoused and immediately available as part of post-warranty service.
Customized solutions are available and may include hardware upgrades, firmware upgrade assistance, and other services.
Initial and on-going system audits are made to provide consistent asset management.
Speakers:
Ed Butler
Senior Director of IT and Contact Center Services
ISS Solutions
Jim Bizjak
Principal, Co-Founder
Wellington Technologies, Inc
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SECURITY: HOT Bare Metal Data Backup & Recovery
11/20/2008 11:30:00 AM
Data Backup and Recovery is an important component in your DRP and BCP plans. This should cover the following: OS recovery, Active Directory, registry settings, applications, and data. However, this is not enough, you should consider more scenarios such as: Backup and recovery times, Hardware failure, server upgrades, offsite backups, multiple OS environment.
Improving data backup and recovery operations
Disk 2 Disk data Backup and Recovery
Hot Bare Metal Recovery in multiple OS networks
Vaulting your data offsite
Speakers:
Yigal Behar
Co-Founder and IT Security Consultant
2Secure
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UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND VoIP: When Everything Connects!
11/20/2008 11:30:00 AM
Nortel's partnership with Microsoft has created Hyperconnectivity. CSG will review how enterprises are transforming into real-time everything with increased personal productivity, seamless mobility, rich collaboration and business process acceleration through optimized communications. "What the internet did for information, Hyperconnectivity will do for communications." Mike Zafirovski, Nortel CEO.
Speakers:
Joe Pacuska
Channel Manager
Nortel
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NEXT WORKPLACE: Economic Turmoil: The Undeclared Disaster
11/20/2008 12:00:00 PM
Although many economists are predicting a deep recession extending through 2009, the business continuity community has been relatively silent on the issue. Most conventional business continuity plans are designed to deal with physical disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina. Financial disasters, however, can be just as devastating. To help their organizations cope with major economic downturns, enterprise planners must develop a comprehensive Financial Continuity Plan.
From this presentation, you will learn:
How to conduct a financial-oriented Business Impact Analysis;
How to mitigate financial risks though multi-sourcing and other techniques;
How to relieve economic stress through the prudent application of "green" IT; and
How to incorporate a Financial Continuity Plan into the enterprise's other business continuity planning instruments.
Speakers:
James Barr
Senior Business Continuity Analyst
PBG, Inc
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ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Email Archiving: Improving Productivity and Meeting Compliance Requirements
11/20/2008 12:00:00 PM
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:
Scott Wizner
Eastern U.S. Sales Manager
ArcMail Technology
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Knowledge Management and Collaboration
11/20/2008 12:45:00 PM
Emerging technologies are enabling better Knowledge Management (KM) search and document management. Tools like collaboration, wikis, blogs, RSS, and tagging are being actively used behind the firewall. Too often, the value of these applications are not fully realized. This often results from a lack of coordinated investment and buy in as well as a poor user experience. In this session, John Stone from CrossTech Partners, will review the landscape of KM and Collaboration Technologies and share a practical top-down approach to defining your strategy and aligning your stakeholders toward a common vision.
Speakers:
John Stone
President
CrossTech Partners
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