Upcoming Targeted IT Conferences

What You Will Learn

9:00 am - 10:00 am

ITIL & Application/Network Performance: How to Meet Service Level Requirements
Dwight Barker, Vice President, Product Management, Network Physics
 

ITIL is a set of best practices meant to ease IT management challenges by creating uniform, well-documented processes for tasks such as problem identification and resolution, hardware or network changes, software updates and disaster recovery. In this session, you will learn how the ITIL framework will help you with the design, management, deployment and maintenance of enterprise networks and applications.

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break
 

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Best Practices for Managing Network Capacity to Support Application Performance
Steve Tindall, Sr. Network Analyst, Cardinal Health

In order to maintain necessary response times, the right amount of network capacity has to be available. For 27 years our speaker, Steve Tindall, has held positions involving voice and data planning /support on some of the country's largest, and most response-time-critical networks. He has extensive experience using protocol analyzers and network management tools and has supported VPNs, routers, switches and firewalls.

From his real-life experiences, he will describe the methodologies he uses to determine network capacity for a new application. He will also provide a checklist of what factors and technologies to consider in designing and managing networks around the needs of current critical applications.
 

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

How to Optimize Your Application / Network Performance
Bob Gilbert, Senior Product Manager, Riverbed Technology

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Luncheon

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Refreshment Break
 

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

How to Accelerate the Performance of Your Web Applications
Larry Byrd, Senior Systems Engineer, Expand Networks
 

In today’s web-enabled economy, being able to effectively communicate and connect with your customers is more important than ever for the health of your business and to edge out your competitors.  Your intranet is of extreme importance to your internal users to get access to the information they need to make informed decisions relating the growth of the business.  At the same time, your external customers need real-time information about your products and services via the web.  All of the information available on the web has made decision making that much faster.  There is a downside: This vast amount of available information can slow down the actual receipt of information by your external and internal users thereby increasing the time for information access and business transactions.

In this session you will learn how to accelerate the performance and increase cost savings of your web applications through:

* setting achievable performance goals

* decreasing bandwidth usage

* reducing the size of web application content

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

How to Prioritize Your Applications and Network Upgrades Based on the Needs of the Business
Rana Kanaan, Sr. Product Manager, Orbital Data

Delivering stellar applications to your business means fully understanding the needs of your business.  At the same time you have limited resources and need to balance those with business priorities.  Are refinements to your sales-force wireless applications higher in importance than web applications for your customers?  Are they higher in importance than critical applications that your senior level executives require? At the same time, will you need to prioritize your applications based on what your network can support?
 

In this session you will learn best practices for:

* Determining which applications should receive higher priority and why

* Understanding the impact on the network -- how to determine which types of applications will require additions to the network

* How to best utilize the current network to support most of your important applications