| Tuesday, May 19 |
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| 2:45 pm–3:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
 CTO Roundtable Today's environment is characterized by an explosive growth in the development of new technologies. Some of these technologies will gain broad marketplace acceptance, while many others will not. Companies that invest in emerging technologies early in their development cycle typically gain a competitive advantage if these technologies become mainstream technologies. In this session, the chief technical officers (CTOs) of industry-leading companies will present their insight into which technologies will cross the chasm, and which ones will not. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Evan Jafa, SVP and CTO, The First American Corporation
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| 4:00 pm–5:00 pm |
Conference Sessions
The Impact of IT Virtualization on Applications and Networks Virtualization is not new. However, what is new and evolving is the great interest in deploying server, storage and desktop virtualization. While each of these forms of virtualization can provide significant business value, each have the potential to significantly complicate the task of ensuring acceptable application performance. In this session, vendors from different areas of IT will identify network technologies, designs and best practices that enable IT organizations to enjoy the benefits of virtualization without enduring the potential pitfalls.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Alan Murphy, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5
Speaker - Liad Ofek, Manager, Technical Marketing, Application Delivery Business Unit, Cisco
| | Wednesday, May 20 |
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
What's Wrong with the WAN Firewall?The traditional wide-area network (WAN) firewall makes two flawed assumptions. One assumption is that the information contained in the first packet in a connection is sufficient to identify the application. The second assumption is that the transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) well-known port numbers are always used as intended. These are just two of the issues that suggest that the traditional WAN firewall cannot effectively support the current environment. In this session, the panelists will describe the limitations of the traditional WAN firewall, and identify what functionality firewalls need to implement to overcome these limitations.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Steve Mullaney, VP Marketing, Palo Alto Networks Steve Mullaney is vice president of marketing for Palo Alto Networks, and has more than 22 years of marketing, product management and engineering experience in networking and information security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Steve was vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems where he helped grow the company from $40m to $250m annual run rate. Steve was also the vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco), and ShoreTel. Prior to that, Steve spent ten years at SynOptics and Bay Networks in various marketing, product management, and engineering roles, and was most recently vice president of enterprise marketing responsible for products contributing over $2B annual revenue. Before SynOptics, he held various design engineering positions at GTE Government Systems.
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| 2:00 pm–3:00 pm |
Conference Sessions
Network Requirements for Supporting Enterprise Video ConferencingVideo conferencing places significant demands on the enterprise network—both in terms of how the traffic needs to be treated (priority and quality of service) and in the bandwidth needed to support good video. Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its uptake as a business tool. This session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high-quality video conferencing and telepresence communications.
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| 3:15 pm–4:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
How to Integrate Wired and Wireless LANsThe first wireless LANs were deployed as an overlay to the existing wired LAN infrastructure. That approach is fine, as long as the wireless LAN deployment is limited. However, as the use of wireless LANs grows, IT organizations need to move away from an overlay model and toward a model that integrates both wired and wireless LANs from both a physical, as well as from a management perspective. In this session, the approach that leading vendors take to integrating wired and wireless LAN will be identified so that you can choose which approach makes the most sense for you.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
| | Thursday, May 21 |
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| 9:00 am–10:00 am |
Conference Sessions
Is There a Need for a Next-Generation LAN Switch? As recently as a decade ago, the majority of local area networks (LANs) were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing services, such as security in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in LAN switches that either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support enterprise applications, as well as key initiatives such as mobility and unified communications.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Jeff Prince, Chairman and CTO, Consentry Jeff has more than 20 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming Chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he led Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995 and became a billion dollar product line for Bay. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP.
Speaker - Kumar Srikantan, VP, Product Management, Cisco
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
Is Routing Undergoing a Mid-Life Crisis?According to industry pundits, there is a need for a next generation of routing. The pundits state that business initiatives are driving the need for much higher levels of performance, security and availability. They also claim that routers must become more energy efficient and provide functionality, such as multicast and deep packet inspection. In this session, leading routing vendors will be asked to identify which business initiatives are driving the need for enhanced routing functionality and to explain exactly how routers provide that functionality.
Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm.
Speaker - Kumar Srikantan, VP, Product Management, Cisco
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