Minnesota Emerging Technology Showcase
Nebraska 2007
Kansas City 2007
Nebraska 2007
Kansas City 2007
Conference Agenda at a Glance:
| Greenway Ballroom A | Greenway Ballroom B | Greenway Ballroom C | |
| 8:00am | Unified Data Mgmt. | VOIP | ILM |
| 9:00am | Cyber Terrorism | Provisioning | SAN |
| 11:00am | Security Solutions | Asset Management | Spam & Email Security |
| 1:00pm | Web Enabling Apps. | Disaster Recovery | Data Architecture |
| 2:00pm | ID Management | Service Desk Tools | Virtualization |
| 4:00pm | Mobility | Open Source | Backup/Recovery |
Demonstration Theater Agenda at a Glance:
| Demonstration Theater 1 | Demonstration Theater 2 | |
| 8:00am | Instant Messaging | SLA's |
| 9:00am | Spyware | Server Consolidation |
| 10:00am | Patch Management | VOIP |
| 11:00am | ID Management | Business Alignment |
| 12:00pm | Wireless | ITIL & Service Management |
| 1:00pm | Intrusion Prevention | RFID |
| 2:00pm | Storage | Security Assessments |
| 3:00pm | SAN Solutions | Backup / Restore |
| 4:00pm | Business Transaction Assurance | Antivirus & Antispam Security |
Session Details:
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| 8:00am | Unified Data Management Presented by CommVault Greenway Ballroom A Protecting your information assets is no longer a simple matter of backup and recovery. Disaster recovery, archive requirements and compliance regulations place ever increasing demands on the storage management infrastructure of today’s data centers. Combined with the continuing pressures to reduce IT expenditures, these new requirements are straining existing IT methods. Clearly, new ways are needed to tackle this challenge. A unified data management strategy provides a number of key benefits that allow you to address these challenges. By combining the data intelligence of data protection, disaster recovery and information lifecycle management, you will learn how significant cost savings, and operational efficiencies gained allow you to address these new operational challenges while reducing cost. |
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| 8:00am | IP Communications-Applications Driving Convergence Presented by Charles Meany, IP Telephony Product Specialist, Cisco Greenway Ballroom B Migrating your communications infrastructure to an IP network provides a converged architecture that supports a wealth of new applications. Building a robust IP infrastructure, both in the LAN and WAN, creates the flexibility to distribute applications throughout the organization. These new applications include IP Telephony, IP contact centers, IP video telephony and conferencing, unified messaging, and rich-media collaboration tools. The benefits to the organization are workforce mobility, enhanced productivity, service resilience, and lower cost of ownership. |
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| 8:00am | Information Life Cycle Management Presented by HDS Greenway Ballroom C Managing information as a corporate asset through its life cycle requires a holistic approach to implementing processes and technologies to ensure it is effectively protected and available. While the life of an information asset begins at the point of creation at the application layer, the greatest amount of its life is spent within the storage environment. There is a convergence occurring between enterprise content management offerings and other applications with storage infrastructure needed to provide a comprehensive information life cycle solution. New storage technologies to more effectively manage tiered storage delivers greater flexibility in storing information on the appropriate class of storage based on information value and/or its state in a life cycle provides opportunities for lowering the cost of storing it over time. ILM is not just about tiering storage for cost reduction, but also protecting it to meet business continuance and information availability requirements. |
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| 8:00am | Real Time Collaboration with Microsoft Presented by Jack Lyones, Live Communicatios Server Solution Specialist, Microsoft Corporation Demonstration Theater 1 The Real-Time Collaboration Market is projected to be $6.9 Billion over the next few years and customers are already asking about our offering. Jack Lyons of the Live Communications Server Team will share the RTC Vision, Platform and Roadmap. We’ll show you how to help your company increase productivity and decrease costs. Microsoft’s Real Time Collaboration strategy provides you with a compelling vision for unified communications and collaboration with IM, Web conferencing, video, presence, telephony and more. |
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| 8:00am | Service Level Agreements Presented by Nimsoft Demonstration Theater 2 Service Level Agreements (SLAs); are they a worthwhile endeavor? The answer is an unequivocal “yes”!
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| 9:00am | Cyber Criminal Methods and Prevention Techniques Presented by Berbee Greenway Ballroom A In this presentation you will learn about information security best practices, motivations of cyber criminals, and the importance of IT Contingency as a key component of your security initiatives. Information that will be discussed from industry experts will include, IT security best practices, NIST, ISO-17799, security trends, and attack methods used from a hacker’s perspective. After leaving this presentation, you will be able to apply principles that will strengthen your security posture from a holistic approach that includes policies, practices and technology. |
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| 9:00am | Increasing Productivity & Revenue through Provisioning Presented by Metilinx Greenway Ballroom B MetiLinx Provision provides the ability to dynamically |
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| 9:00am | Simplification of the Presented by Brocade Greenway Ballroom C This session will present the current and future benefits of Storage Area Networks in the data center. SAN’s are at the intersection of emerging data center trends like |
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| 9:00am | The Battle for Spyware Protection Presented by Bill Streck, Symantec Demonstration Theater 1 Spyware has become more than just a nuisance for enterprise clients, it has attributed to the productivity loss of millions of dollars of revenue for client all over the world. Embracing antivirus and client firewalls is no longer sufficient in today’s ever-changing threat landscape. Understand how Symantec views Spyware, and see firsthand the steps we are taking to ensure clients are protected real-time against this increasingly malicious type of threat. |
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| 9:00am | Reduce Infrastructure Costs Through Server Consolidation Presented by Mike LaPadula , OPNET Systems Engineer, Evolving Solutions Demonstration Theater 2 Best Practice Approaches for Optmizing Server Performance
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| 10:00am | Integrating Non-Windows Environments with existing Microsoft Products Presented by Jason Fehrenbach, Senior Sales Engineer, Vintela Demonstration Theater 1 Have you ever wished your Microsoft products supported Unix, Linux, Mac, or Java? With Vintela, Microsoft's go-to-market partner for non-Windows integration, you can now extend and enable your Microsoft products to your heterogeneous environment. Vintela will demonstrate real-world scenarios showing how you can reduce the cost of managing and maintaining your diverse infrastructure by extending support for non-Windows systems natively and transparently through exiting Microsoft products. This session will show how you can: *Use Active Directory to provide single sign-on (SSO) for Unix, Linux, and Java *Extend the Group Policy framework to allow you apply policies to non-windows systems *Leverage SMS and MOM to manage and monitor heterogeneous systems If you're looking for a way to reduce cost, simplify complexity, and Leverage your existing Microsoft infrastructure for non-Windows systems, you will not want to miss this session. |
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| 10:00am | VOIP Services for Business Consumers Presented by XO Communications Demonstration Theater 2 VoIP (Voice over IP) is the natural “next-step” in the migration of communications to the internet – from email… to instant text messaging… to voice calls… to video… all as applications can flow over a common infrastructure. IPT(Internet Protocol Telephony) is the transmission of voice and fax calls over data networks (often called “converged technology” or “packet telephony”). • No need to segment bandwidth into voice and data lines.• Packet transmission for voice allows for greater efficiency by sharing bandwidth. (In a TDM environment unused bandwidth is not shared.) • IPT is the core “language” used for the Internet. • Enabling Technology: Converged technologies has shifted communications into a “computing” model, thus increasing the potential for expanded capabilities for a wide-range of new and compelling applications. XOptions Flex™ is a dynamic voice and data service for business consumers. A service designed for today’s small and medium businesses, who want to take full advantage of the network and services they spend their valuable dollars on. • XOptions Flex™ Provides advanced functions • Adjusts to on-going Band Width demand capacity fluctuations • Self-administered, real-time feature changes • IVR, Find-me/Follow-me • Unified Messaging • Open Interfaces • Emphasis on Innovation and leveraging convergence • Provides enhanced value (more for less) |
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| 11:00am | Preserve Business Service Availability with a Resilient Infrastructure Presented by Harlan Blumenthal, Enterprise Account Manager, Symantec Greenway Ballroom A Today’s security professionals are challenged more than ever to meet the demanding requirements of providing secured data to their internal and external clients, all the while being able to effectively manage this information. Compound this with the need to think ahead of the curve, to be more proactive in a reactive situation and you have the potential for a highly exploitable threat to breach your infrastructure. This session will help to provide enterprise clients with an overview of how to create a resilient infrastructure by understanding how to maximize the effectiveness of their own people, processes and technologies. |
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| 11:00am | Caging the Beast: Getting the Upper Hand in Managing Software Assets Presented by Glen Kaminski, Senior Consultant, Computer Associates Greenway Ballroom B Managing software assets can seem time-consuming and expensive, but failing to manage software assets can prove extremely costly both in terms of money and tarnished reputations. Organizations often struggle on how to get a handle on software asset management : · Where do I start? · What factors must I consider? · When am I done? The fact of the matter is that software asset management requires managing people, processes, and technology not only to prove compliance, but eventually to optimize the use of software assets. Glen Kaminski of Computer Associates will provide advice on how to establish a software asset management program, describing actionable steps to move from software tracking through software compliance to software management and optimization. |
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| 11:00am | Spam & Email Security Presented by Angela Hauge, Message Labs Greenway Ballroom C Listen to email security expert, Angela Hauge, discuss the convergence of viruses and spam, and provide solutions to protect your network from these threats. In addition, she will explain how to control your network and keep it clean of any unwanted content. |
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| 11:00am | Nsure ID Manager, presented by Novell Demonstration Theater 1 Your systems must be secure, yet agile enough to meet the ever-changing needs of your users. As new hires, customers, partnerships, mergers, job changes, and terminations reshape user access needs, NovellR NsureT Identity Manager delivers swift, secure management. It automates changes to user access rights, passwords and profiles, streamlining administration and reducing costs. We will be showing off our latest features and new graphical administrative tool set. |
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| 11:00am | Business Alignment and the SMB Presented by BMC Software Demonstration Theater 2 IT and Business Alignment has always been thought of as an objective for enterprise customers. But SMBs can also benefit it as well. Today’s small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) are continually looking at how to gain a competitive advantage and ensure their companies will continue to grow and meet their goals and objectives – whether its related to improving customer service, improving operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, or enhanced organizational control. SMBs, just like large enterprises, must align IT with the needs of the business. No longer can IT operate as an island within the business or be treated as an afterthought—its goals and the business goals need to be aligned to ensure success. This alignment is critical in today’s competitive environment, where limited resources, increased reliance on IT, and even government regulations are forcing businesses to implement best-practices, such as ITIL, to maintain both costs and control. For SMBs, it’s time IT became a true enabler of business success. This concept should be applied to all organizations regardless of their size. In essence, there are no IT projects any longer— there are simply business projects that are supported by IT. The complexity of IT and business alignment can and will vary depending on the size of the business, but it is important to note that SMBs can reap the same benefits of BSM that large enterprise businesses can, with lower costs and resources. Attendees will learn:
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| 12:00pm | Wireless Intrusion Detection Service Presented by IBM Demonstration Theater 1 IBM will be demonstrating its Wireless Intrusion Detection Service. Powered by AirDefense sensors, IBM delivers a turnkey solution that provides the tool & technology, the monitoring, & and analsys for the security of your Wireless LAN. Wireless IDS will identify all your wireless assets, find the rogue APs, show relatioInship, and allow you to terminate suspicious connection. It also can identify hackers, know & suspicious activity, & DoS attacks. |
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| 12:00pm | ITIL & Service Management Awareness Presented by New Horizons Demonstration Theater 2 Our ITIL and Service Management Awareness seminar provides a general introduction IT Service Management and how it can contribute to IT and business objectives. The eleven (11) ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Service Support and Service Delivery components are introduced and discussed within the best practice framework. We’ll give a brief overview of Service Management as well as benefits of IT Service Management and the IT Service Management Framework. During the presentation we’ll give a high level overview of service management processes: · Service Desk · Incident Management · Problem Management · Change Management · Release Management · Configuration Management · Service Level Management · Availability Management · Capacity Management · Financial Management · IT Service Continuity Management |
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| 1:00pm | Web Enabling Applications - Cost Saving Secrets Presented by Collier Computing Greenway Ballroom A Collier Computing, a top local iForce partner of SUN Microsystems, will be discussing how to web enable applications and how to combine them with new operating system technologies to provide significant reductions in cost and complexity for your organization. Some organizations have been able to cut the entire cost of development infrastructure from their budgets. Let us tell you how they did it before the window of opportunity closes. You will leave this session with cost saving secrets learned through implementations of Portal, Tarantella®, ORACLE® Clusters, SOLARIS 10® and Thin Client Technology. |
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| 1:00pm | Data Protection in the 21st Century - STAY Ahead of The Game Presented by Richard Fordham , IBM Greenway Ballroom B Companies of all sizes have to consider that backup and recovery are no longer separate events . During this session we will discuss the issues related to protecting information such that it's integrity and availability is ensured to meet 21st Century Regulatory, Operational and Recovery imperatives across complex technology environments. We will explore data back up techniques designed to improve operational efficiency and cost optimization, eliminating common causes of lost data integrity and facilitating recovery options for today's business demands. |
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| 1:00pm | 7 Habits to Achieve Highly Effective Data Integration Presented by Informatica Greenway Ballroom C Every company relies on information from many facets of their operations to run the business. The information or “captured data”, however, usually originates from an assortment of disparate sources, all with distinct formats, structure, and locations. The challenge is integrating all this information so that business decisions can be made in a timely manner and with a high degree of confidence that decisions are made based on accurate data. Attendees will learn the value of data integration and the “7 habits” a company needs to adopt to achieve an effective data integration process and architecture that will help maintain competitive advantage, reduce risk and costs and, ultimately, improve profitability. |
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| 1:00pm | Check Point Technologies Total Access Protection Presented by Pat Waters, Sales Engineer, Check Point Software Demonstration Theater 1 Check Point Technologies Inc.'s InterSpect specifically addresses internal network security based on detailed input from our partners and customers. Check Point InterSpect is an internal security gateway that blocks the spread of worms and malicious traffic inside the network. InterSpect also allows organizations to compartmentalize their internal networks into security zones, which is critical for not only containing threats, but also an easy and effective way of preventing unauthorized access to zones. |
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| 1:00pm | The Future of Data Collection - RFID Presented by AbeTech Demonstration Theater 2 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is labeled as the future of data collection. In an attempt to thwart the high costs of compliance RFID rollout and broad acceptance, industry boards have attempted to standardize the technology to help decrease the costs of consumable RFID tags and their various form factors. Standard mobile radio frequency enabled data collection experienced years of high cost hardware as proprietary radios were standard and only when the IEEE ( Learning objectives: 1. How RFID has been used in the past and how it can be used in your business plan. 2. Separate myth from reality in the ever-changing world of RFID. |
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| 2:00pm | The Second Wave of Indentity Management Presented by HP Greenway Ballroom A What is Identity Management and what are the business benefits?
Challenges recognized by the first generation of Identity Management
Characteristics of second generation solution
Case Study
Industry and HP Direction
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| 2:00pm | How to Apply ITIL to the Mid-Market Presented by BMC Software Greenway Ballroom B ITSMF states that "ITIL is of benefit and is applicable to all IT organizations, irrespective of size". Mid-sized companies experience business issues and challenges that are inherently different from those of larger enterprises. They generally have smaller workforces, lower budgets and less complex IT environments than enterprise organizations. And yet mid-sized businesses must meet the same types of demands as enterprise organizations and optimize service levels to support business objectives, control costs and align IT with what matters to the business. Mid-sized business can achieve these objectives by delivering Service Management based on the industry’s guiding principles—ITIL® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). This session will show you how you can get the most from ITIL and how it can help transform your service center from reactive to a value creation stage. |
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| 2:00pm | Microsoft's Approach to Virtual Machine Technology Presented by Ivar Hyngstrom Storage & Virtulization Technology, Microsoft Corporation Greenway Ballroom C Get an overview of Microsoft's approach to virtualization and the features and benefits of Virtual Server 2005. You will learn about the architecture of virtual machine technology and how the combination of Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides a powerful virtualization platform as well as best practices, scripting tips, clustering, and more from a Microsoft expert virtual machine technology. |
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| 2:00pm | Disrupting the Storage Marketplace and Making IT History Presented by Agámi Systems Demonstration Theater 1 Agámi Systems™ is redefining the five billion dollar network attached storage (NAS) market by delivering an information appliance that has unparalleled functionality, breakthrough performance, limitless scalability and a simple, intuitive user interface. Agámi’s enabling technology disrupts the existing market place and allows for a far wider use of NAS than previously capable. Agámi harnesses the latest mainstream technologies for enormous reductions in capital expenses while also dramatically reducing operating expenses. |
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| 2:00pm | Know Your Enemy Presented by Berbee Demonstration Theater 2 “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result….” ---Sun Tzu The only way to protect your corporate assets is to think and act as a cyber criminal. At Berbee, our dedicated team of security professionals are familiar with the attack methods of cyber criminals. In this demonstration, we will show some of the tools we use in a security assessment and penetration testing. We will demonstrate exploit techniques such as password cracking, email spoofing, steganography, Trojans, sniffing, buffer overflows, and vulnerability scanners. In addition, we will demonstrate how Cisco’s Security Agent for host based intrusion prevention, will help to thwart cyber attacks. |
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| 3:00pm | 4 Gb/sec SAN Solutions Presented by Todd Bichsel, Systems Engineer, Demonstration Theater 1 In this presentation Brocade will focus on the upgrade benefits, functionality and capabilities of this technology. This session speaks to the benefits of upgrading to this technology thus allowing customers to build future proof SAN fabrics and provide unprecedented investment protection. Also covered will be the positive impact of introducing 4 Gbit/sec SAN technology into your SAN infrastructure, and what are some of the things that you must begin to think about in terms of your overall SAN design. This demonstration is a must for technical IT professionals that are responsible for design, deployment and management of the Storage Area Networks. |
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| 3:00pm | Backup/Restore - As fast as disk, less expensive than tape, better than both. Presented by David Schneider, Evolving Solutions Demonstration Theater 2 For too long the process of backup and recovery of data has been implemented by using tape technology which is not best suited for that application. However, cost effective alternatives have not been available due to the cost differential between tape and disk technology. Evolving Solutions is now offering a new technology that employs a massive compression technique that allows organizations to enjoy the performance and ease of disk backup and recovery at a price point below that of tape technology. The “backup and recovery” appliance provided through Data Domain is completely integrated into the Veritas, Legato, CommVault and Computer Associates backup environments (Tivoli TSM in May 05), which allows the benefits of disk backup without the requirement to implement new backup and recovery processes. This new technology allows much longer retention of data on disk, replication of that data across geographic distance, as well as more efficient use of existing tape infrastructure. It assists organizations wishing to evolve their tape infrastructure to archival purposes and employ disk for backup/recovery purposes at a cost below tape technology. The result being lower cost, greater backup/recovery performance, higher reliability in data recovery, and the ability to replicate backup data for disaster recovery. |
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| 4:00pm | The Future of Mobile Data Greenway Ballroom A The prospects for wide-area mobile data are bright. Current wireless technologies like EV-DO provide speeds of 300-500 Kb/s and future technologies like 802.16 (WiMax) will provide better than T1 speeds. All of this while maintaining the mobility you've come to expect in a cell-based network--with the ability to hand off data sessions from tower to tower. The emergence of high-speed wireless data have the potential to change your applications, infrastructure and business processes in profound ways over the next several years--will you be ready? This session will walk you through the evolution of data services from all of the major cellular providers and provide you with insight as to how you can use this emerging technology in your business. We will look at the underlying technologies, how the different carriers are evolving to address wireless data and the exciting applications that have already been developed and are in use by some of |
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| 4:00pm | High Availability Computing with Linux Presented by Jerry Mayfield, Corporate Business Strategist, Novell Greenway Ballroom B Novell's data center strategy centers on providing the crucial technology components to support moving mission-critical line-of-business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) from UNIX to Linux.
Linux is rapidly being adopted and accepted, moving from performing IT infrastructure services, toward the heart of the enterprise, the data center.
Novell® and Linux in datacenter environments:
Improved data center manageability
Better utilization of data center resources
Increased application scalability and performance
Reclamation of unused computing capacity
Longer life for business-critical legacy applications
Increased stability and security of data center resources and assets. |
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| 4:00pm | Backup & Recovery, presented by EMC Greenway Ballroom C
What's the business value of the technology?
- Better, more consistent performance - Save money through tiered storage - Backup and restores are faster - Higher reliability - Higher availability How does this technology enable the business? - remote replication to a secondary site - allows customers to take advantage of B2D - frees up tape drives for just offsiting data - allows employees to be more proactive other than reactive - Who is using this technology? - Hospitals, Financial, Manufacturing, and Telecom - Customers whom use Tivoli, Veritas, Legato, and CommVault. - Customers that have backup and restore issues. |
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| 4:00pm | The Key to Maximizing Business and IT Systems Performance Presented by Dr. David Ching, CTO, MQSoftware Demonstration Theater 1 Business performance metrics help a company measure how well they are doing in respect to individual company goals, as well as in comparison to other companies with whom they compete. One of the major factors that affects business performance is the ability of IT systems to process transactions timely and successfully. Rather than assuming that the business performs properly when associated IT technologies are available and performing properly, direct measurements of real transaction status will assure that the business is available, performing properly and meeting business objectives. Business transactions are generated by individual business applications and therefore provide the direct relationship between the IT infrastructure and the business. Business managers measure value based on transactions processed, while IT managers measure business availability by performance and availability of IT systems. Unfortunately, performance and availability measurements of IT systems, which business managers use to determine that the business is performing satisfactorily, do not assure that transactions are being processed successfully. Business Transaction Software provides the capability to assure business managers that transactions are being processed, and to assure IT managers that the underlying IT infrastructure supporting the business application is available and performing properly. |
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| 4:00pm | Realizing the Power of Secure Collaboration Presented by Sybari Demonstration Theater 2 Collaboration systems enable your employees to effortlessly share and exchange documents, modify them, track them, and retain versioning. However, like messaging systems, collaboration systems can become easy access points for viru ses and malicious attacks that can expose confidential information, destroy infrastructures, and waste time, money, and resources. While the se collaboration systems can reduce messaging overhead, they also bypass traditional antivirus and content scanning, putting your organization at risk. Collaboration is good, but only as good as the security that protects it. In this enlightening presentation, Neha Sharma, Product Manager at Sybari Software will discuss the security risks and points of failure associated with collaboration systems. She will show you how to tune your existing security to work with next generation security techniques and describe some of the collaborative environment-specific solutions that provide anti-virus, content filtering, and compliance and policy management. Key Objectives:
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