2008 Speaker List

How do you get to the Next Generation Data Center? This session will examine the critical steps including how to focus on people, process, technology and facilities, how to sell the value to the business, and how to manage the transition to the next-generation data. Taking a phased approach, the next-generation data center is an evolution, not a revolution. This session will show you how to manage expectations, measure value achievements and how to identify the critical success factors.

The panel explores people related issues in driving the success of the startup. Topics to be discussed include hiring the right team, leveraging the board and what to look for in advisory boards.

Until this point, SaaS applications have been created in separate silos. However, now there are platform choices that enable mash-ups and composite applications. Learn how Web services affect application development and integration. As SaaS applications become mission critical for the enterprise, these applications need to be integrated into wide variety of applications including other online solutions or behind-the-firewall legacy applications.

Security-related policy isn?t just Sarbanes–Oxley and PCI. This session will give you a rundown that includes: data breach disclosure laws, bills that are being reviewed by Congress and by state legislatures, precedent-setting court cases and actions by the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies. (And yes, PCI and SOX.)

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) remains the central standard in VoIP and Unified Communications networks. But work is still going on to bring SIP-based networks to parity with legacy TDM systems in terms of feature/functionality. Will SIP ever support the full 500-feature set that characterized the TDM systems ? and does it even need to? This session will help you understand how to evaluate whether a SIP-based IP Telephony gives your end users the functionality they need; whether it will interoperate with IPT elements from other vendors; and what your strategy should be for building an IPT system from SIP-based piece parts.

With the availability of products based on the Wi-Fi Alliance?s interim Draft 2.0 specification, the last barrier to enterprise adoption of wireless LANs has fallen. Or has it? With a continuing stream of advances in both technology and products, as well new and increasing application demands, it?s critical to stay up-to-date on the status of Wi-Fi and plan for innovations. This session will cover the latest advances in the IEEE 802.11 standard, as well as what?s next in the evolution of wireless LANs.

Today?s startup can build an entire application without touching a server. On-demand computing offerings from Amazon and others let cost-conscious entrepreneurs pay for their applications as they are needed. And it?s not just Amazon: eBay, Salesforce, Facebook and others all offer platforms atop which developers can code. Building on-demand applications poses unique challenges, from design and staging to scaling and monitoring. This session?s panelists, who?ve all built applications in the cloud, will share what they have learned, what mistakes to avoid, and how the world gets better when you stop thinking about your servers.

Data centers are viewed as "not green" because they appear to be unnecessarily consuming energy, water, and other resources. There are many actions to reverse the trend of the rapidly growing consumption of energy and materials in data centers. This presentation provides quantitative examples of new methods for reducing energy consumption by power and cooling systems.

Virtualization can increase efficiency and reduce operating cost by eliminating low-performance or low-efficiency servers. This presentation will focus on how new power and cooling technologies and effective data center planning and design, including management systems, are saving additional electrical costs, sometimes even more than the original savings from virtualization.

?Green" networks are a hot topic, and saving on power costs is a corporate mandate at many enterprises. And many aspects of an IP Telephony deployment offer unique challenges in this area. For example, many enterprises are already unaware of the powering costs for their wiring closets, and these costs are likely to increase as an enterprise is required to deploy power over Ethernet into each of its wiring closets. This session will help you locate the new power pain points that you will encounter as you roll out voice over IP ubiquitously.

How are companies incorporating Enterprise 2.0 within their business environment? How is it different from the previous generation of software applications? How do Enterprise 2.0 technologies enable the extended enterprise? What are the potential challenges in deploying such technologies? This session attempts to answer these questions through case studies of successful deployments.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

Over the last few years resources have been devoted to developing techniques to ensure acceptable application performance. For example, several vendors have deployed products to optimize the performance of the WAN and of servers. What can IT organizations expect to see over the next year? This session will explore some of the possibilities including topics like: is storage optimization likely to happen, and if so, will anybody care? Will functionality such as symmetric and asymmetric application acceleration merge? Should you build the network you need to support applications or can applications dynamically control the network resources they need?

Today?s startup can build an entire application without touching a server. On-demand computing offerings from Amazon and others let cost-conscious entrepreneurs pay for their applications as they are needed. And it?s not just Amazon: eBay, Salesforce, Facebook and others all offer platforms atop which developers can code. Building on-demand applications poses unique challenges, from design and staging to scaling and monitoring. This session?s panelists, who?ve all built applications in the cloud, will share what they have learned, what mistakes to avoid, and how the world gets better when you stop thinking about your servers.

There has been so much written in the last few years about the need to focus less on network technologies and more on network provided services. However, very little has been written about what services should be offered and where those services should reside. For example, should QoS be implemented in the router or in a stand-alone device? Should policy and control be exerted as part of the LAN infrastructure or by the firewall? In this session, leading vendors will describe their vision of which services belong where and why.

Hear about the future of technology from visionary leaders.

How are companies incorporating Enterprise 2.0 within their business environment? How is it different from the previous generation of software applications? How do Enterprise 2.0 technologies enable the extended enterprise? What are the potential challenges in deploying such technologies? This session attempts to answer these questions through case studies of successful deployments.

Interoperability demonstrated by Meridio, Microsoft, Open Text, SchemaLogic and Vorsite software tools help improve the efficiency of your portals, connect data among different environments, and protect sensitive information; each tool builds on the functionality of the others, providing you with an integrated solution.

Over the last couple of years SOA and Web services has been over-hyped. Web 2.0 is beginning to be over-hyped. Because of the hype, it is easy to dismiss these application development architectures as irrelevant yet that would be a serious mistake. Both of these architectures are in the early stages of influencing how applications are developed, and applications using either are likely to run poorly and be difficult to manage. This session will detail management and performance issues associated with SOA and Web 2.0 and provide insights into what you can do to avoid them.

It is widely acknowledged that the IT function is comprised of technology and process silos and that this environment needs to change. For example, focusing on application performance requires that network and security operations work closely together. The deployment of IP Telephony is causing voice and network operations to combine, and the deployment of metropolitan Ethernet is requiring LAN and WAN groups to merge. Also driving change are growing multi-function devices such as VPN/Remote Access concentrators and Internet gateways. This session will detail techniques that IT organizations have used to successfully break down the silos and will make suggestions for steps that you should take to be a silo-breaker in your organization.

While Web 2.0 is now considered mainstream, Enterprise 2.0 is relatively new and leverages Web 2.0 technologies in the context of business. This session provides an analyst's view of Enterprise 2.0 - what it is, how it impacts enterprise software and how vendors and IT organizations can use it. This is a must attend session for anyone who wants to get a quick overview of Enterprise 2.0.

Voice over IP is clearly the winning strategy for the deployment of voice services going forward. But there are both wired and wireless solutions available, and it?s very difficult, as a consequence, to determine which alternatives make the most sense in a given case. Should we go entirely wireless? Can we construct unified wired/wireless solutions that make the most of common components and services? This session will define the current landscape and help you evaluate alternatives in setting an enterprise VoIP strategy.

Market research shows that while the vast majority of enterprises have some experience with IPT, few have deployed the technology pervasively throughout their network. This session will help you understand how to approach network-wide deployment: Whether to centralize call control as part of a larger data center consolidation; whether regional/clustered deployments offer a better resiliency option; or whether the deployment is likely to be so drawn-out that it?ll effectively preclude any coherent architectural approach. You?ll also hear the pros and cons of pure IP voice infrastructure versus a hybrid TDM-IP plan; and you?ll hear about trends in open source as well.

Sophisticated mobile platforms need correspondingly-sophisticated management. From provisioning to monitoring, management, and control, a comprehensive and effective mobile device management capability is essential to mobile success. With sensitive corporate and other information now regularly resident on highly-mobile devices, what management strategies can the enterprise apply to keep communication and data manageable and secure? And will mobile management be best addressed as an enterprise or carrier opportunity?

Software companies operate in a competitive, fast changing market where innovation is the key for domination. Companies need to focus on their core competencies and collaborate with partners who have complementary strengths to find the right synergy. Companies are no longer looking at traditional cost-arbitrage outsourcing models but rather looking for partners to provide the innovation edge with risk-reward models. HCL and CA have entered into an industry first risk-reward partnership, where HCL owns Research, Engineering and Product Support, and CA owns sales and marketing for CA?s Threat Management business. We will review this scenario at the session.

Just as your technology platform requires regularly scheduled updates so does your leadership tool kit. As the world of information technology changes, so does the skill set required to lead the IT organization of the future. Every three years a major new mode of operation (e.g., outsourcing, Software-as-a-service, grid/cloud computing, Web 2.0) requires re-thinking the work of IT. Every year a major new application area (e.g., mobility, Business Intelligence, social networking]) expands the portfolio. Every quarter a new technology advance makes something that was once impossible/too expensive possible (e.g., desktop supercomputing). Every month a law changes that requires IT resources. Every week business requirements change. Every day a new internal relationship must be managed. Every minute a customer has an issue. Every second something that breaks must be fixed. How do you keep up?

Centuries of educational research and decades of experience at the world?s top business schools demonstrate that the best (and most cost effective) way to avoid making mistakes is to learn from those who made them in the first place. The CIO Posse is a group of been-there-done-that CIOs from billion dollar plus organizations who will share with you the mistakes they have made and roll-up-their-sleeves in personalized workshops to demonstrate how these lessons apply in your world.

The CIO Bootcamp blends ahead-of-the-curve, relevant-to-you academic research with fresh-from-the-trenches practical know-how giving participants a fully rounded tool kit to meet the challenges of the next generation IT organization.

The CIO Posse will open the kimono and share ?war stories? and lessons learned in the following critical areas:

MISTAKES
Alignment/Governance
Change Management
Compliance
Emerging Technologies
Human Resource
Risk
Strategic Planning
Vendor Management


MONEY
Budget Processes
Sourcing Work


MIND SETS
Mind of C-Suite
Mind of Corporation
Mind of Customer
Changing Role of IT
Relationship with ?Suits?
Innovation


METRICS
Benchmarks
Scorecards

Just as your technology platform requires regularly scheduled updates so too does your leadership tool kit. As the world of information technology changes, so does the skill set required to lead the IT organization of the future. Every three years a major new mode of operation [e.g., outsourcing, Software-as-a-service, grid/cloud computing, Web 2.0] requires re-thinking the work of IT. Every year a major new application area [e.g., mobility, Business Intelligence, social networking] expands the portfolio. Every quarter a new technology advance makes something that was once impossible/too expensive possible [e.g., desktop supercomputing]. Every month a law changes that requires IT resources. Every week business requirements change. Every day a new internal relationship must be managed. Every minute a customer has an issue. Every second something that breaks must be fixed. How do you keep up?

Centuries of educational research and decades of experience at the world?s top business schools demonstrate unambiguously that the best [and most cost effective] way to avoid making mistakes is to learn from those who made them in the first place. The CIO Posse is a group of been-there-done-that CIOs from billion dollar plus organizations who will share with you the mistakes they have made and roll-up-their-sleeves in personalized workshops to demonstrate how these lessons apply in your world.

The CIO Bootcamp blends ahead-of-the-curve, relevant to you academic research with fresh-from-the-trenches practical know-how giving participants a fully rounded tool kit to meet the challenges of the next generation IT organization.

The CIO Posse will open the kimono and share ?war stories? and lessons learned in the following critical areas:

MISTAKES
Alignment/Governance
Change Management
Compliance
Emerging Technologies
Human Resource
Risk
Strategic Planning
Vendor Management


MONEY
Budget Processes
Sourcing Work


MIND SETS
Mind of C-Suite
Mind of Corporation
Mind of Customer
Changing Role of IT
Relationship with ?Suits?
Innovation


METRICS
Benchmarks
Scorecards

Will you have enough energy capacity to power and cool your critical high-density equipment or will you be the one they call when the datacenter goes dark? Never fear, the industry?s energy consciousness has evolved and help is on the way. Come listen and learn who?s involved and about the bright horizon ahead.

Learn how Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Foundry Networks, and Mitel, came together to solve the most common unified communications challenges. The integrated solution improves application delivery and interoperability w/ existing voice networks and the ability to leverage Office Communication Server across heterogeneous systems and devices.

Learn how Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Foundry Networks, and Mitel, came together to solve the most common unified communications challenges. The integrated solution improves application delivery and interoperability w/ existing voice networks and the ability to leverage Office Communication Server across heterogeneous systems and devices.

At SW2006 Rick Bennett validated 27 Rules of Guerrilla Warfare. At SW2007 he revealed Larry Ellison?s Law. In this session, he?ll show startups The Secret of Warfare Against Overwhelming Odds.

Market research shows that while the vast majority of enterprises have some experience with IPT, few have deployed the technology pervasively throughout their network. This session will help you understand how to approach network-wide deployment: Whether to centralize call control as part of a larger data center consolidation; whether regional/clustered deployments offer a better resiliency option; or whether the deployment is likely to be so drawn-out that it?ll effectively preclude any coherent architectural approach. You?ll also hear the pros and cons of pure IP voice infrastructure versus a hybrid TDM-IP plan; and you?ll hear about trends in open source as well.

Can a set of open source technologies and tools developed by a loosely affiliated community of developers, offered for free over the Internet, compete with proprietary products from multi-billion dollar companies in building networks? Would you be insane to try to run your business on this stuff, or insanely smart? Either way, open source is going to have a huge impact on network operations over the coming decade. This session will present a case study of a large network built and managed with open source components and tools. You will learn which components and tools others have found successful and the benefits they have received from them.

Social networking is a hot topic these days, mostly fueled by consumer applications such as Facebook and MySpace. Facebook alone has been catapulted to "web platform" status with thousands of 3rd party applications being built around an open API. How will businesses leverage the social networking phenomenon? Are we creating value with social networks in business or are we simply creating more distractions?

While VMware created and has taken the lion?s share of the x86 server virtualization market to-date, open-source-based Xen hypervisors are gaining significant momentum. Advances in XenServer in enterprise class functionality, performance and aggressive pricing, along with the acquisition of XenSource by application delivery giant Citrix and announced interoperability with Microsoft Hyper-V have changed the playing field. With the incorporation of Xen into other OS and application environments including Red Hat, Novell SUSE Linux, Oracle/VM and Sun xVM, the mainstream has taken notice and Xen-based solutions are getting a new look from the enterprise. How will these Xen-based solutions play in the enterprise, both individually and with each other? What advantages might they offer in your environment and how could they fit into your strategic plans?

Whether you?re an end user of technology, an IT professional, a vendor of hardware, software or infrastructure solutions, or an industry observer with an interest in technology?s energy consumption, Energy Camp is for you. Energy Camp is a collaborative forum where industry stakeholders will gather together to discuss the growing impact of today?s energy costs on IT?s bottom line, and the overarching importance of energy conservation and utilizing greener IT solutions and methods.

This panel will discuss key issues related to M&A that are top-of-mind for software company CEO/CFOs.

You know the importance of tailoring awareness messages to each target audience, but what should you be teaching application developers about security that relates to their daily job? Learn from experienced application developers about the content and approaches that will work to impact this tough target audience.

Having already evolved through two successive waves of adoption and service delivery, SaaS is entering the Third Wave - characterized by an increased focus on mission critical business processes, customized and personalized workflows, and collaboration. Departmental and niche solutions are increasingly giving way to broader enterprise requirements - as users increasingly grasp SaaS? evolving role as a key platform to address ?core" business solutions. This presentation will highlight key market trends in SaaS, and build a scenario for how SaaS is likely to evolve over the next three to five years toward its ultimate destination - Cloud Computing. After Mr. McNee?s initial remarks, he will be joined in a fireside chat by Aneel Bhusri, President of Workday, who will share his insights and vision vis-a-vis the future of SaaS - not only from the perspective of being the co-founder of an emerging SaaS provider, but also as a former senior executive from a leading ISV, and as a venture investor.

Server and desktop virtualization return huge consolidation benefits in space, utilization, and power but how will this new architecture affect your network, storage and business continuance (BC) infrastructure? This session will explore networking, storage and business continuity (backup/recovery/disaster recovery) infrastructure issues and architectures that will complement your server and desktop virtualization efforts from the start.