While the fundamental challenges in managing today’s Data Centers have not changed relative to the challenges of the past, a new challenge has emerged. We need to orchestrate a number of technological solutions as we have them at our disposal. This creates complexity, and the critical success factor is in how well we can harmonize the disparate solutions for best results.

While the technologies have changed, the drivers have changed. Today’s business model demands Green IT and enablement to work in secure shared environments using infrastructure as a service. Servers, storage, networks, applications and even desktops can be virtualized using data center solutions, driving down the total cost of ownership (TCO), moving financial institutions into the virtuous cycle of utility computing.

All this requires a comprehensive understanding of the risk, provisions for disaster recovery and resiliency, cost management and service level administration. This WSTA seminar is designed to define the solution set constituting the “new normal” data center technology and operations.

Suggested Topics:

• Demand Virtualization
• Server Virtualization
• Storage Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
• Application Virtualization
• Cost Management
• Green IT
  • Alternative power, HVAC, facilities, critical systems, modular power, monitoring, carbon crdtis, carbon imprint, reduced power draw in equipment, environmental regulations
  • Equipment Disposal
• Disaster Recovery, BCP, COOP
• Resiliency Management Model
• Risk Management, Compliance, Information Security
• Carrier-Class Data-Center Networking
• Cloud Computing
• SaaS
• Defining the "New Normal" in the Data Center Infrastructure

Please be sure to review our cancellation policy located at the bottom of the registration form.

Keynote -- “Financial Services Infrastructures: Better, Faster, Cheaper”
Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group
The question, “How do we do more with less?” is age-old, but more pertinent today than ever. Even with global equity markets now out of the doldrums, the events of 2008 provided a wakeup call that efficient use of compute power and bandwidth should always be in style. Lower costs will always equal higher profits. But a combination of volatility, increasingly complex trading algorithms, and latency measured in microseconds makes cutting back on purchases a non-option.

Virtualization, cloud computing, energy efficient processors and bandwidth management are only a few of the techniques that will be at the center of tomorrow’s financial services data center. Finding the right balance between ever changing business requirements and cutting edge technology is no easy task however. In his presentation Kevin will highlight the needs from both sides of the fence in an attempt to create a more clear view of next generation financial services infrastructures.

“Data protection; a New Paradigm”
Ray Bernard, Senior Systems Engineer, InMage
Integrated recovery solutions that combine backup, DR, and application recovery into a single platform lower costs and save time while they address real business issues like compliance and meeting SLAs. InMage will discuss the next generation data protection technologies that go into these solutions, highlighting the business value they offer to both small and large enterprises.
Takeaways:
· One management interface to recover your enterprise
· Local and/or remote data and/or application recovery
· Improve recovery while reducing tape infrastructure

Westin New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd St., New York, NY 10036

Keynote
Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB Group
Kevin McPartland, a senior analyst at TABB Group, has over 10 years of capital markets industry experience with deep expertise in financial services technology and latency-sensitive infrastructures.

Kevin has authored several technology focused research reports including “US Equity Technology 2010: The Sell Side Perspective;” “Hardware Acceleration: Traders and Teraflops;” “Financial Services Data Centers: Power, Proximity and Profit;” and “Low-Latency Options Trading: Unraveling the True Meaning of Speed.” Kevin’s ongoing financial services technology-related research includes optical networking, virtualization, cloud computing, data center strategy and low latency development techniques.

Kevin joined TABB Group in September 2007 from Detica (formerly m.a.partners), where he was a senior manager in the Global Financial Markets division, responsible for strategic and implementation projects across equities, derivatives and fixed income for the firm’s top tier investment banking clients. Prior to joining Detica, he held positions at JPMorgan Chase in both the equities and futures & options, where he managed the development and implementation of electronic trading systems, as well as project management and business analysis of major business and technology initiatives, strategic architecture design and business process definition.

Kevin has presented at a wide range of industry conferences and is quoted regularly in the financial media including The Economist, Financial Times, Business Week, Bloomberg News, Reuters News, Financial News, Wall Street & Technology, Advanced Trading and numerous other industry publications. He has also provided live and taped commentary for CNBC, National Public Radio, Bloomberg TV and Reuters TV. Kevin is also a regular contributor to www.tabbforum.com and discusses his ongoing research at twitter.com/kmcpartland.

Raymond Bernard, Senior Systems Engineer, InMage
Raymond Bernard joined InMage in 2009 as a Senior Systems Engineer. Mr. Raymond has over 17 years of experience in the fields of solution architecture, storage network architecture, and project management systems\integration engineering. Mr. Bernard held senior engineering positions at Dell, McDATA, Storage Networks, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corp where he helped unlock the promise of networked storage for enterprise customers. Mr. Bernard is an award winning engineer that has had the responsibility of leading IT consulting engagements at major Wall Street firms from a global services perspective. Formally, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, he holds a number of technical certifications from HP, McData (Brocade), and IBM. Additionally, Mr. Bernard has driven technical implementations from a project management perspective, and holds several Master level certificates in project management from The George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management.