Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am -
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am
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Jackson |
Application Virtualization: How to Simplify IT
Operations & Enable Business Strategies
Gordon Jackson, Virtualization Evangelist,
DataSynapse
IT departments are under constant pressure to
better utilize the investments they have made in
their infrastructures. At the same time, many
companies are building more and more
applications to meet the varying needs of both
their internal and external customers. This
forces IT professionals to be faced with the
challenges of reducing the server, storage and
OS costs that seem to be growing out of control
due to the heavy demand placed on them by all
these different applications.
One of many solutions is Application
Virtualization. But how does it work? How can
it save your team time and make the IT
organization more flexible?
In this session, you will learn approaches of
Application Virtualization to:
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Better manage your applications
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Simplify IT operations and enable business
strategies
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More effectively manage your resource
utilization
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Protect your operating systems from poorly
written code
10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30am -11:30am
|
McDaniel |
Server Virtualization: How to Understand the
Different Approaches and Techniques for
Managing Performance
Chris McDaniel, Solutions Architect,
Nimsoft
There are several well-known approaches to
server virtualization which include: virtual
machine model, the paravirtual machine
model, and virtualization at the operating
system layer. Each approach provides
hardware consolidation strategies, but they
also present new challenges to a maintaining
a high performance IT environment.
How do you make sense of these and determine
which server approach is best for your
environment? What strategies need to be in
place to manage the availability and
performance of these virtual environments?
Can these environments be managed according
to the needs of your end users and
application requirements? After you have
made a determination of the appropriate
approach, how do you plan for implementation
of your monitoring?
In this session attendees will learn:
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The distinct differences between the
various server virtualization approaches
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How to determine which approach is right
for your environment
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How to
overcome challenges that virtualized
environments introduce to maintaining
highly available environments
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How to plan strategically to monitor
your virtual environments according to
end users and application requirements
11:30am -12:30pm
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Samuelson |
The Tenets of Storage Virtualization: Where, How
and When
Mark Samuelson, Senior Enterprise Consultant,
Optimus Solutions
As with other types of virtualization there are
several approaches to storage virtualization.
Before acting on the idea that storage
virtualization is going to be the savior to your
storage challenges and worries, it is important
that you understand the different approaches and
determine which is best for your environment.
In this session attendees will gain an
understanding of:
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The various storage virtualization
architecture options
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Which areas it can be implemented in
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How to use a combination of technologies to
address your specific needs and requirements
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The differences between in-band, out-of-band
or split path architecture advantages
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How the different approaches will vary based
on different tiers of storage and
applications
12:30pm -1:30pm – Luncheon
This is a great opportunity to network with your
peers from other companies and learn how they
are work through their virtualization
initiatives and projects.
1:30pm - 2:30pm
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Fitzgerald |
How to Plan for Imminent and Potential Security
Risks in a Virtual Environment
Joe Fitzgerald,
CEO and Founder of ManageIQ.
Leading analysts argue that as more applications
use virtualization, there will be increased
activity in VM bug disclosures. Analysts say
that one of the biggest challenges is that
virtualization creates a new environment in IT
infrastructure that traditional security
approaches do not address well.
In this session attendees will learn:
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Approaches to take to extend current
physical security policies to a virtual
environment
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What the next generation of hackers may be
attempting to do to your virtual environment
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How real the threats are
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Planning and actions you can take today to
mitigate these potential threats
Whether you have relaxed security policies in
your environment or very tight controls, this
discussion with go through the variety of
scenarios that exist and provide suggestions for
handling the potential of increased security
risks when migrating to a virtual environment.
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Posavatz |
How to Enable Greater Efficiencies in a Disaster
Recovery Environment through Virtualization
John Posavatz,
Vice President, Product Management, Neverfail
Group
Many claim that there are inherent advantages
in utilizing virtualization in a disaster
recovery environment. But what are they and is
there a trade-off between increased potential
security threats versus a more efficient DR
environment?
In this session attendees will learn:
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How effective a test bed environment is with
the involvement of virtualization
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How frequently should a DR plan be tested
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Can money be conserved in a testing
environment and does this outweigh the
investment in virtualization technologies?
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Is there personnel savings of time and money
in this environment?
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Panel Discussion:
The Benefits of Virtualization to IT and the
Extended Enterprise – An End-User Perspective -
(panel discussion)
Moderator:
Jim Prentiss, Business Manager, Tideway Systems
Panelists: Joe
Ryan, Manager of Operations & Infrastructure for
Americas IT, Jones Lang LaSalle
Ilir Zenku,
Director Information Systems, University of
Chicago, BSD/UCPG
Jeremy Wendel,
Systems Engineer - Desktop Virtualization, Hewitt
Associates
Dean Hobart,
Systems
Team Lead; MCSE, MCP+I, CNE, ITIL, Philips
Lighting North America
There is clear evidence that IT support and
infrastructure costs can be decreased when
migrating to a virtualization environment. But
what about the benefits to the business? As many
companies look to IT as an enabler of business
productivity, how can IT translate this
investment in concepts that business executives
can understand? What is the real value to the
business in terms of employee productivity,
company profitability, and new business
opportunities?
In this session attendees will have these
questions, and more, answered by a group of
seasoned enterprise IT virtualization
professionals.
Conference Price:
$179.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate
awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing
education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of
(ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks
will not include product presentations. During the
continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the
luncheon break you will have the opportunity to
informally meet representatives from the
following sponsoring companies, who have
solutions in the area of the conference.
