Data accuracy and low latency are today's key differentiators on the Street. This means that high standards and advanced technology are mandated in the way data is organized, stored, backed up, secured and accessed. Enabling disciplines for this include Data and Information Lifecycle Management (DLM and ILM), Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), Master Data Management (MDM), Replication/Resiliency, Storage Virtualization and Content Management. Innovative solutions have been created for workflow, stewardship and warehousing. Multidimensional data structures have been increasingly leveraged for Decision Support, Analytics and Dashboards. This WSTA seminar is designed for both business and technical stakeholders in data storage, information lifecycle, data transformations and decision support

Immediately Following the Seminar (approx. 11:45AM)
Members Only Luncheon (Financial Service Members)
"Securing your Virtualized Data Center"
Mark Townsend-Manager, Product Marketing , Enterasys

*The seminar portion of this event is expected to conclude at 11:45AM. From 11:45AM until approximately 1PM there will be a Members Only (Financial Firm Members) Luncheon Sponsored by Enterasys Secure Networks and Dell.

8:00AM- 8:30AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30AM-8:45AM WSTA Introductions

8:45AM - 9:45AM Keynote Presentation
Command and Control in the Integrated ITIL Data Center Environment

CS Technology

 CS Technology.pdf 1.40 MB

James Dow, CTO, CS Technology
From the dirt upon which a data center rests to the business it delivers, a myriad of differing technologies must function perfectly to deliver the 99.999% or better uptime expected by today’s businesses. Spanning the professional areas of mechanical and electrical engineering, networking, SAN storage, server platforms, virtualization, and service delivery, an effective command and control environment must aggregate multiple disciplines and serve multiple constituencies.

In this presentation, the audience will be presented with a structured approach for developing an effective and efficient data center command and control environment, learn some best practices, and become aware of common pitfalls experienced by their peers within the industry. Attendees should expect to leave this presentation with an understanding of how to structure a program to deliver command and control, how to present command and control to senior management, and understand the provider capabilities in the space today.

9:45AM-10:15AM
Trigence, Inc.

Trigence Inc.

 Trigence Inc..pdf 1.41 MB

Application Virtualization for the Data Center
Ed Johns, Senior System Engineer
Unlike virtual machines or hypervisor technologies, pure Application Virtualization turns UNIX, Linux & Windows server applications into discrete, moveable objects thereby empowering data center managers to control their applications in ways that simplify operations & require fewer resources.Companies Use Application Virtualization to:

• Manage all applications throughout their lifecycle from development to delivery to maintenance
• Consolidate physical & virtual server environments
• Migrate and maintain modernized Unix, Linux and Windows applications

10:15AM-10:45AM Break and Demo area visits

10:45AM-11:15AM

Forsythe

 Forsythe.pdf 740.58 kB

Forsythe Technology, Inc. with EMC
Business-Driven Capacity Management
Tim J. Arland, Principal Consultant, Storage Solutions, Forsythe Solutions Group
Business driven capacity management enables an organization to effectively manage the acquisition, distribution, and cost structure of IT resources, specifically server and storage infrastructure. Aligning capacity management processes across functional IT groups and lines of business creates a synergy that drives efficiency and stability while providing the best value to the business and consistency to the IT organization.
This session will address:

• Balancing capacity forecasting with user demands
• Educating business users to improve utilization and cost efficiency
• Educating IT groups to utilize industry standard processes to manage capacity and simplify provisioning
• Building effective communication processes to enhance capacity management

11:15AM-11:45AM

IBM

 IBM.pdf 500.53 kB

Optim Solutions, IBM Software Group
Data Privacy...Closing the Gap
Eric Offenberg, CIPP and Business Development Manager, IBM
Privacy breaches continue to make headlines. Even as financial services organizations attempt to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in their testing environments is often overlooked.

Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your enterprise is recognized as a best practice. In this session we will explore strategies to help your organization achieve compliance, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next “Privacy Breach Headline”

• Learn strategies that can be deployed in the testing environment to support compliance initiatives.
• Explore strategies for de-identifying data in the test environment
• Review case studies on how and what leading organizations are doing to ensure compliance

11:45AM-1:00PM

Enterasys

 Enterasys.pdf 417.85 kB

Dell

 Dell.pdf 346.17 kB

Members Only Luncheon (Financial Service Members)
"Securing your Virtualized Data Center"
Mark Townsend-Director of Solutions Technologies at Enterasys Networks
Steve Gorgone, System Consultant Advanced Systems Group- Dell
In the rush to deploy virtualization technologies, many organizations focus on the deployment and performance optimization aspects without taking into account the security risks and vulnerabilities. Learn how networks can sense and automatically respond to the dynamic mobility of virtual machines; enforce network access control policies; and comply with internal, industry and government regulations. Hear about new ways to ensure reliability, quality of service, mobility, manageability, scalability and performance of data center information systems.

Presented by:

The Warwick New York Hotel
65 West 54th Street
New York City

James Dow, Chief Technology Officer, CS Technology
James Dow is a highly experienced technology manager with over 20 years of experience in systems design, systems management, and software development in the Financial Industry.

Focusing principally on Data Center Strategy development and empirical modeling, he has significant external customer accomplishments including, delivery of CTO services for large scale data center and Headquarters development, Global Financial Systems infrastructures, and wireless commerce systems for such Fortune 500 corporations as Bank of America, AIG, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, UBS, Fidelity Investments, and Wachovia.

His management expertise includes formulation, socialization and transition to execution for complex technology strategies. His technical expertise includes both distributed systems and zSeries Operating Systems environments, virtualization technologies, Mass Storage SAN and data replication, as well as LAN, WAN, file and print, messaging, desktop, remote access, internet access, corporate directories, voice / data telecommunications, and network security technologies.

Tim J. Arland, Principal Consultant, Storage Solutions, Forsythe Solutions Group
As principal consultant, storage solutions, Tim Arland develops methodology used by Forsythe’s professional services practice to deliver strategic consulting engagements focused on information policy, information lifecycle management, tiered storage, operational backup and recovery, and data replication and archiving. His consulting knowledge-base also encompasses storage technology infrastructure, including networked storage, and business continuity and disaster recovery as related to storage.

In addition, Arland works with regional and national Forsythe storage architects assisting customers in creating strategic storage roadmaps for their mission critical environments.

Prior to joining Forsythe, Arland worked with several Fortune 500 companies in the insurance and financial industries designing and deploying enterprise storage solutions.

Ed Johns, Senior System Engineer, Trigence, Corp.
Ed has 20 years of industry experience in data center operations, systems engineering and project management. He has worked with corporations such as Microsoft, NetIQ, Softlab, Cap Gemini, Northrop and various start-up ventures such as Antepo and Trigence. Ed has worked at Trigence for close to 3 years which specializes in Application Management for the data centers and the desktop as a Senior Systems Architect. Prior to Trigence, Ed was as Senior System Engineer at NetIQ which was leader in Windows/UNIX System management solutions. Earlier positions included managing an Application Engineering team in Eastern Europe for Microsoft and running his own consulting firm in Germany. Ed has a bachelor’s degree from the St. Anslem's College in New Hampshire.

Eric Offenberg, CIPP and Business Development Manager, IBM, has established himself as a thought leader on data governance, database archiving, enterprise data management and data privacy. With more than a decade of experience across industries, Eric is a regular speaker in live Webinars, industry events, with media and analysts on behalf of IBM. He holds an MBA with a concentration in marketing from Rider University and a BA degree in communications from Rutgers University.

Mark D. Townsend, Director of Solutions Technologies at Enterasys Networks.

With more than 13 years experience in data networking at Cabletron Systems and Enterasys Networks, Mark brings a wealth of technology experience and understanding to his organization. He has contributed to platform development for the Enterasys Network Admission Control products and was a key contributor to the Distributed Intrusion Prevention solution.

Mark has several pending patents in information security and is a contributing member of several information security industry standards including the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC). Mark currently works with customers and technology partners developing solutions for virtualization and information security projects.

Prior to his current position, Mark has served a variety of roles including service and support, marketing, sales management and business development. Mark is often a guest lecturer at universities and industry events.

Steve Gorgone, System Consultant Advanced Systems Group- Dell
Has worked at Dell for 9 years, 8 of them as an Enterprise Systems Consultant. All 9 years have been spent in the Global Financial segment within Dell focusing on Wall Street related customers.

Forsythe Technology/EMC, Trigence, Inc., Optim Solutions, IBM Software Group

Luncheon Sponsor-Enterasys Secure Networks and Dell