Business Problem: Organizations are struggling on a daily basis to make their businesses more resilient. In this presentation, “Inside Out: A Business View of BC/DR Today and Tomorrow,” Michael Croy will address the trends in IT that must be considered to maintain operations at a time of crisis.

IT Solution: One of those trends, IT optimization, is an initiative that can be leveraged to build a more resilient business, while at the same time helping the business operate more effectively. Attendees will leave this keynote presentation armed with an understanding of the latest trends not only in BC/DR, but in facility and infrastructure optimization for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Discussion: An interactive session where audience teams will get together to brainstorm solutions to actual problems. Proposed solutions will be presented to the general audience for discussion. The moderators will then present a real-life case study to the audience. All attendees will be supplied with a synopsis of the discussions as well as the actual cases. Typical discussion subjects include:

• Governance and portfolio management
• Staffing and recruiting
• Compliance
• Security and business continuity

Business Problem: What if you could take 300 servers without VMware software and move them to 8 servers, 1 Rack with VMware software? In a recent Gartner report, it is estimated that through 2007, organizations with more than 200 servers will waste between $500,000 and $720,000 annually supporting underutilized application/server combinations. VMware Virtual Infrastructure Solutions allow corporations to run multiple Operating Systems on a single server. The impact of this is that enterprises can use dramatically less hardware and manage their existing hardware more efficiently.

IT Solution: What if you could:
Minimize your total cost of infrastructure ownership? Improve your team’s responsiveness, serviceability, availability and flexibility? Create a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization? Significantly improve your organizations IT optimization including, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery? Implement a secure desktop environment for application developers, offshore workers, engineering and systems operations staff?
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Discussion:Join us for a Question and Answer panel discussion with representatives from various organizations to discuss the pitfalls and shortcuts to building, managing and maintaining a quality Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan in today’s chaotic world. How have firms found real ways to fund a program? How have organizations managed to keep a DR or BC plan current in the face of ever changing technology and business process? How does acquisition impact a plan?

Business Problem: Gartner estimates that 20% to 25% of all software ends up as shelf-ware!
How much of the software in your organization is actually shelf-ware?
How do you identify and eliminate this underutilized portion of your IT spend?
What is the potential financial impact to the IT budget?
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Business Problem: In today’s marketplace, enterprise mobility is no longer an option; it’s a necessity. Advances in wireless broadband technology have made it possible for businesses to extend the enterprise to access corporate data anytime, anywhere: a timeless extended enterprise. This presents unique challenges in key areas for IT including: deployment, support, management and security.

IT Solution:This presentation will provide insights on device management and security considerations for enterprises as they mobilize their applications. It will provide examples of how Verizon Wireless has utilized the technology to mobilize its workforce and cover key lessons learned.

Discussion: The Internet sheparded in the era of the truly global market. It also made the unified global business possible. This panel will discuss the problems (technical, social, cultural, economic, etc.) that CIOs and IT managers face in supporting their organizations worldwide. The panelists come from the perspective of global companies that perfom all business functions in multiple countries to companies that have global projects.

Moderated by: James C. Barnes,President, Network Access Corporation

Business Problem: With the institution of HIPPA, SOX, GLBA and other outside data protection requirements, organizations are under more pressure than ever, not only to protect their client data, but also to institute demonstrable controls over the dissemination of sensitive information across the enterprise. This creates a strain on available time and resources, as companies struggle to prove compliance, while defending themselves against daily threats.

IT Solution: Part I: The Network Access panel, comprised of local CIO's from diverse industries, will share their real-world perspectives and experiences in achieving regulatory compliance through an open exchange of challenges and best practices that have worked for them.
Part II: Surviving a Security Audit- A panel discussion on critical aspects of the audit process and preparation. Key takeaways from this segment will be to understand how to prepare your organization for a Compliance Audit.

Panelists:	Scott Moyer, VP Emerging Technologies Mastech, iGate
	Michael Gapsky, Managing Consultant, IBM Wireless Practice

Business Problem: The presentation will address the challenge that organization’s face to provide access to information in an on demand environment as well as the opportunity that exists for improved performance based upon early adoption and organizational maturity.

IT Solution: The presentation will address several solutions that can help an organization to evolve in the mobile enterprise and meet strategy business objectives which include RFID, Digitalization from and Information Point of View, and the impact of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) on Mobility.