Upcoming Targeted IT Conferences

Upcoming 2012 Targeted IT Conferences

April 12, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise Mobility Strategies Strategies to help solve today's current mobility challenges
April 26, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure Strategies to help design, implement and manage disaster recovery and business continuity framework to protect your organization's core IT assets, people, and processes
May 10, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Leadership Strategies Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times
May 31, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
June 14, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Business Intelligence/Big Data/Analytics Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework
June 21, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise IT Risk/Security Management Strategies for adopting a comprehensive IT GRC (Governance/Risk Management/Compliance) approach to managing information adhering to business needs
July 12, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Strategies to help IT best align operations and infrastructure management to business needs
Sep 6, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – Resilient Infrastructure Strategies to help design, implement and manage disaster recovery and business continuity framework to protect your organization's core IT assets, people, and processes
Sep 24, 2012 - Monday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Cloud Computing Strategies Strategies for determining how and if moving to the cloud will benefit your organization
Oct 9-10, 2012 - Tuesday, Wednesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Portfolio Management Strategies to help IT best align, prioritize and manage projects according to business needs
Oct 18, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Enterprise Mobility Strategies Strategies to help solve today's current mobility challenges
Oct 25, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Desktop Virtualization Strategies Strategies to help the business and IT benefit from virtualization strategies through effective management, security, and recovery techniques
Nov 6, 2012 - Tuesday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	IT Leadership Strategies Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times
Nov 29, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity - Data Protection Strategies to help protect and recover your organization's most critical data
Dec 13, 2012 - Thursday Rosemont (O'Hare), IL	Business Intelligence/Big Data/Analytics Strategies to help leverage full value from your design and implementation of an effective Business Intelligence framework

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Virtualization & Consolidation

May 24, 2007
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephens Convention Center
Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

Surveys by industry analysts have found that three out of four IT departments have implemented or are planning to implement virtualization. An additional analyst survey found that of those that are currently using virtualization, 45 percent of new server deployments within the new year will be virtualized.

Virtualization of IT infrastructure and applications promises the following benefits:

Business needs can be prioritized
Service levels can be improved
Equipment can be maintained with less effect on the availability/functionality of applications
Consolidation servers and storage
Offering a logical, rather than physical, view of consolidation of computing and data, allowing IT to replicate or relocate workloads from one virtual environment to another
Cost savings

But what is it, how does it work and what are the real benefits and pitfalls to watch out for??

This conference is designed for: Enterprise IT professionals who are trying to understand how virtualization can help their organization as well as individuals who are learning how to refine their current virtualization implementation.

Who Should Attend:
CIOs/IT Directors
Network Managers/Engineers
Storage Managers/Engineers/Architects
Desktop/Server Professionals

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference we will cut through the clutter and hype and provide enterprise IT professionals with in-depth information on:

Understanding what virtualization is and how it works
What are the real versus promised benefits
How to leverage virtualization for the extended enterprise
How to understand the different virtualization technologies
How to implement an assessment of virtualization readiness
How to put your plan in action
How to avoid pitfalls in planning and implementation

Conference Program

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Think Strategically: How to Leverage Virtualization to Benefit IT & the Extended Enterprise

Lewis Prosper, Systems Engineer, PlateSpin Ltd.

IT Departments are continuously being asked to do more with less. Consolidation if done properly can lead to many efficiencies to the extended enterprise including:

Real estate space & costs savings
IT infrastructure savings
Closer alignment between IT & the business

In this session attendees will learn:

How to define the starting and endpoint points
How to articulate to management the need for upfront budget for the project
The effects to existing infrastructure
How to project the associated ROI
An understanding of metrics and specs
How to capitalize on your existing infrastructure and expertise

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

10:30 am - 11:30 am
Making Sense of It All: The Benefits and Pitfalls of the Various Virtualization Approaches

Dave Anderson, President & CEO, Binary Visions

In this session attendees will learn to dissect all of the different virtualization technologies and understand what the benefits are, but also the limitations with the these technologies.

Areas that will be covered include:

VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Server virtualization
Storage virtualization
Full virtualization vs. Paravirtualization

OS partitioning

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Virtualization Assessment: Thoroughly Identifying Areas for Simplification

Edward O'Connell, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems

Before going down the path of virtualization it is essential that you have an understanding of what portions of your IT operations can be virtualized. It is dangerous to assume that all components can be virtualized.

This session will walk you through a thorough assessment which includes:

A performance assessment
Hardware/software inventory
Hardware/software support requirements

Attendees will learn how to conduct the assessment and how to examine the results.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Luncheon

1:30 pm-2:30 pm
Virtualization Strategies: Understanding the Distinct Differences between Virtualized and Physical Environments
George Pradel, Systems Engineer, Vizioncore Inc.

This technical session will provide attendees with an understanding of the distinctions between the Virtualized and Physical Ecosystems in the context of:

Disaster Recovery (Backup/Recovery/Replication)
Business Continuity (Backup/Recovery/Replication)
The need for chargeback capabilities
Capacity management
Performance metric analysis in a virtualized environment

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break

3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Data Center Consolidation: Putting the Plan in Action

Steve McDonald, Vice President of Information Technology, Optimus Solutions

After you have a thorough understanding of your virtualization environment it is time to put the building blocks together. In this session attendees will learn how to implement a plan that covers your unique data center needs. Different examples will be provided.

Content that will be covered includes:

Myths of virtual machine consolidation
Migrating a physical machine into a virtual machine
Print servers and file servers
How to handle hardware keys when consolidating servers
How to simplify 64-bit server adoption
How to consolidate servers
Integrating storage and server virtualization

4:00pm-5:00pm
Balancing Risk with Reward: How to Avoid Pitfalls In Your Virtualization Plan & Implementation
Moderator: John Sharkey, Systems Engineering Manager, Force10Networks
Panelists: David Siles, Chief Technical Officer, Kane County,

Steve McDonald, Vice President Information Technology, Optimus Solutions,

Jesse Luna, Distributed Systems Solutions Architect, Acxiom Corporation,

Kent M. Walker, Manager, Computer Operations, Underwriters Laboratories
David Wollenweber, Staff System Engineer, Tellabs

In this session attendees will learn from four enterprise IT professionals as to how they worked through the challenges and avoided virtualization pitfalls. Content that will be covered includes:

Reliability/serviceability/availability Issues
Challenges with increasing the number of virtual machines
Security holes that can present themselves
Dealing with application providers that are not supporting application on virtual machines
How to handle disaster recovery/business continuity issues

Conference price: $179 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.

CAMP Conferences, Inc., 540 W. Frontage Rd., Ste. 2205, Northfield, IL 60093
Tel: (312) 527-2800 Fax: (847) 881-0747

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