This popular WSTA seminar will cover some key disruptive technologies that IT thought leaders in the financial industry need to get familiarized with. This year these will include network topics such as VPLS, advanced computing topics such as Grids, Blades and Desktop Virtualization, cutting-edge Wireless implementation tools, Security Appliances, Data Center Watercooling technologies and Open Source Integration. At this seminar you will hear about new technologies that are most relevant to the financial industry, and discuss them with vendors who are working to bring them to you.

7:30AM - 8:00AM
Registration, Breakfast and WSTA Introductions

8:00AM - 9:00AM

GartnerKeynote

 GartnerKeynote.pdf 1.25 MB

Keynote Presentation – Carl Claunch, Gartner
The Top-10 Disruptive and Strategic Technologies for Financial Services
A disruptive technology is one which drives major change in business processes or revenue streams, consumer behavior or spending, or IT industry dynamics. Strategic technologies impact an organizations long term plans, programs and initiatives. Companies must identify these technologies and understand how they will impact their users and their business in the short and long term. This presentation will identify the top 10 technologies and related trends that will drive significant change over the next 10 years, highlight ways in which they may be exploited by financial services firms, and establish the likely timing for each.

9:00AM - 9:25AM
Premier Sponsor Presentation - Enterasys Secure Networks

Enterasys

 Enterasys.pdf 252.28 kB

“Compliance Automation”
Dennis Boas, Security Solutions, Enterasys Networks
Compliance requires visibility into which users and applications are accessing critical resources. It requires that the infrastructure allow users to access only the data that they are authorized to access. Compliance requires the ability to detect and respond to threats and attacks. Moreover, it requires all of this in real time.

This presentation will showcase the hottest new approach through a layered solution for access control, surveillance, threat detection, and response technologies to address all the above challenges that companies face worldwide today.

9:25AM - 9:40AM
Break and demo area visits

Time		Session 1 Kent Suites		Session 2-Warwick Room
9:45-10:10		Strengthening Change Management with Route Analytics Technology Packet Design  Packet Design.pdf 855.55 kB Alex Henthorn-Iwane, Vice President of Product Marketing, Packet Design, Inc. Increasing change management accuracy is a key goal for many IT managers. In complex IP network environments, it is very difficult to understand how a particular change will actually affect application traffic behavior. This talk explores how route analytics is used to: Establish an baseline understanding of network behavior Model routing and traffic changes and show the resulting network behavior changes Proactively find hidden routing problems that can bedevil network operations		VoIPshield Systems, Inc. Risk Assessment Decisions in a Converged World VoIPshield  VoIPshield.pdf 946.93 kB Rick Dalmazzi, CEO, VoIPshield Systems, Inc. The proposition of risk assessment has taken on greater complexity in the world of unified communications and converged networks. The old adage of the ‘weakest link’ has taken on much great significance when voice and data network entities, once quite separate, are now connected to fulfill the promise of being able to access data and connect with others in a variety of ways. There is significant evidence from a variety of independent research and vendor based studies that enterprise voice over IP (VoIP) systems have significant security issues that traditional data IPS products do not detect. Research has led to the development of products that are now available to protect the various types of VoIP networks available. Organizations that have embraced VoIP security as part of their overall risk assessment strategy, understand that along with the significant cost savings promised by VoIP and Unified Communications, there are identifiable risks to privacy, customer data, and network integrity that must be taken into account.
10:15-10:40		FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary Search-driven Interaction Management: Orchestrating the User Experience Hadley Reynolds, Vice President, Center for Search Innovation, FAST For many financial services firms, both compliance requirements and professional productivity demands are stimulating new strategies to improve the "findability" of enterprise data. Search technologies play an instrumental role in these new strategies, connecting and tailoring elements of structured data, enterprise content, and real time feeds to meet user decision requirements. Today's enterprise search technology has gone far beyond delivering long lists of often-irrelevant documents. It is now able to discover users' intent, help users understand a sentiment behind a collection of content and connect users to relevant experts inside an enterprise.In this session, FAST, A Microsoft® Subsidiary will present the latest advances in interaction management, a new category of software that brings the context of the user into the center of the discovery environment. User intent and enterprise content can now be directly connected through a contextual matching process that enables not just faster access to "the right" data but also enables expert location and ad hoc collaborative discussion for improved decision liquidity.		Packet Motion Multi-core Technology in Action: Solving the Insider Awareness Problem Jonathan Gohstand, Vice President of Marketing PacketMotion  PacketMotion.pdf 653.59 kB Most IT organizations are the first to admit that security limited to protecting the network perimeter is an outdated, flawed strategy.Laptops, VPNs, guest access and contract staff bring threats right past the front door. Even so, an analysis of actual IT security spending shows that the bulk of the money still goes to perimeter technologies such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, and anti-spam. Why? Because the cost, complexity, and risk to key applications by introducing effective internal security is usually too great an obstacle, except when a compliance mandate forces the issue. However, effective use of multi-core hardware, coupled with innovations in software architecture and databases, have made it possible to create security appliances that can deliver deep, broad coverage that solves the insider awareness problem. This presentation will detail an example of this approach, and how it can be used in a manner that is simple, cost effective, and poses no risk to core business applications.
10:45-11:10		MOBOTIX The Advantages of Modern IP Cameras MOBOTIX  MOBOTIX.pdf 771.01 kB Wolfgang Ritter, Director of Sales, MOBOTIX AG What do computers, mobile phones and broadband internet have in common? The answer is simple: all these developments were initially considered to be too expensive and technically too complicated to sustain themselves on the market. The situation is very much the same for IP security cameras. Modern IP cameras seemed unprofitable simply because of their price. However, the technology continues to develop. What has already been proven false for mobile phones, computers, etc. can now also be forgotten for IP security cameras. The latest developments demonstrate that prejudices are unjustified.		AirDefense, Inc. What Hackers Know That You Don’t: Wireless Edition AirDefense  AirDefense.pdf 1.04 MB Dr. Amit Sinha, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AirDefense, Inc. Wireless technology is exploding in popularity. Businesses are not only migrating to wireless networking, they are steadily integrating wireless technology and associated components into their wired infrastructure. The demand for wireless access to LANs is fueled by the growth of mobile computing devices and a desire by users for continual connections to the network without having to “plug in.” This explosion has given momentum to a new generation of hackers who specialize in inventing and deploying innovative methods of hijacking wireless communications. Hackers armed with these new tools are launching attacks on networks that a year ago, were said to be unbreakable. Join us to understand these new and emerging risks to financial service providers, which can leave sensitive information at risk.
11:15-11:40		Avaya Advanced Interoperability: Telephony-Turret Applications Avaya  Avaya.pdf 1.02 MB James McTiernan, R&D Manager, Avaya and Charles Miscampbell, Product Group Manager, Speakerbus Hot technologies break down barriers between platform silos. Deploying common enterprise communications capabilities, features and functionality across both trading turrets and telephone endpoints enables delivery of seamless capabilities regardless of back-office hardware. Advanced unified communications capabilities based on scalable and reliable presence solutions that embrace industry standards, promise to take trading floor communications to the next level.		PAETEC Using Managed Security to Shrink IT Budgets & Optimize Networks Rajiv D. Shetty,National Manager, Data Solutions, PAETEC PAETEC  PAETEC.pdf 894.94 kB Increasing network security for compliance & optimizing disparate networks, while decreasing costs is a challenge for many IT professionals today. How can Managed Security do both for your company? Managed Security can offer various benefits to enterprises today, while increasing employee efficiencies. Attend this seminar to learn how Managed Security can help your company: Manage Compliance to Regulatory Requirements, based on your business requirements Monitor Internal Use Policies, while keeping Hackers out Optimize Voice, Data (MPLS) & Internet networks Utilize Layered Security - Using Managed Security, while maintaining control.

11:45Demo Area Open-Oxford Room

12:00Noon-1:30PM
Member's Only Session and Luncheon-Sponsored by AT&T
(Essex Room, 2nd Floor)

"Virtualization"
Carl Claunch, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research

Gartner

 Gartner.pdf 507.40 kB

Utility Computing

AT&T

 AT&T.pdf 1.19 MB

Amy Anderson, Director of Product Marketing, AT&T
Our clients’ challenges span both business and technology, including:

• Complexity of technology increasing
• Governance and compliance
• Need for improved performance, efficiency and cost control
• Need to delivering new products/services to new and existing markets more quickly
• Asset utilization
• Pace of technology change

But why manage your own infrastructure and worry about supplying and managing the hosting infrastructure that your applications “plug into”? Provisioning, installing, updating, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, backing up, storing, supporting… all burn up resources you could better apply to boosting your business, attracting customers, and serving clients, partners, and employees. This session will cover how a utility option is great for companies with fluctuating or hard-to-predict needs. When traffic spikes on your website, a scalable utility architecture expands the storage, network, and server capacity, then shrinks back to normal when the rush is over, giving you unparalleled flexibility and pay only for the capacity you use, saving money…maintaining smooth interactions with suppliers and customers…and helping employees work without interruption.

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

Carl Claunch: Keynote Presentation BIO
WSTA’s keynote presentation will be given by Carl Claunch from Gartner. Carl is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. He conducts primary research into grid computing, its markets and technologies, as well as cluster computing. Technology trends in the server space are a key focus for him, tracking such shifts as multicore and heterogeneous systems. In addition, Mr. Claunch conducts integrative research across all areas of IT, highlighting significant trends, technologies and directions in presentations and special reports. Carl has 37 years of experience in the high-technology area. Prior to joining Gartner, he spent 18 years working at a major vendor in a variety of marketing, product management and planning roles. He has worked for IT users in fields such as banking, financial services and manufacturing, as well as for vendors and as a consultant.

Alex Henthorn-Iwane, Vice President of Product Marketing, Packet Design, Inc.
Alex Henthorn-Iwane is Vice-President of Product Marketing at Packet Design, Inc., and has 17 years experience in the design, development and deployment of IP network infrastructure, security, policy and network management products and technologies in enterprise, government and Service Provider environments. Henthorn-Iwane has previously been director of product management at CoSine Communications, Inc, Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises/Lucent Technologies; and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America.

Rick Dalmazzi, CEO of VoIPshield Systems, Inc.
Rick is a security industry veteran with over 10 years of experience running software companies. Prior to joining VoIPshield, Rick was President & CEO of Symbium Corp., a company doing pioneering work in applying telecom architectures and principles to IT systems management and security. Before Symbium, Rick was President and CEO of Certicom Corp., a developer of wireless and wireline security technology, headquartered in Silicon Valley during Rick's tenure. Certicom's customers included enterprises, telecomm carriers, telecomm infrastructure vendors, and device manufacturers. Rick holds a Mathematics and Computer Science degree from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Amit Sinha, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, AirDefense, Inc.
Dr. Amit Sinha, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer specializes in wireless communications and network security. Prior to joining AirDefense, he served as Vice President and Chief Technologist at Engim, a company he co-founded. At Engim he designed 802.11 modems and was responsible for the core technology portfolio of the company. Prior to Engim, he held various research positions at MIT, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Intel Corporation and Texas Instruments. Dr. Sinha is an accomplished researcher with more than 25 referred papers published in technical journals and conferences. In addition, he is a contributing author to three published books. He is also the author of 15 patents dealing with different inventions in 802.11 infrastructure and wireless security.

Dr. Sinha received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude.

Dennis Boas, Security Solutions, Enterasys Networks
Dennis has over 35 years of experience working in the computer and networking security environments. Starting with the ARPANET in the early 70’s, his experience includes network management, network design, network security design, security analysis, security product management and training.

He has written technical papers, articles and training courses in a wide variety of data and network security areas and has been a speaker and session chair for industry conferences. Dennis has recently been a speaker at the Indiana Higher Education Technology Summit, Alabama College System Information Services Association, Georgia Association of Managers of Educational Information Systems and the IDEA Information Security Summit.

In addition to Enterasys, Dennis has worked with Lucent Technologies, Xedia, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Wellfleet, Digital Equipment Corporation, Military Intelligence, the Army Security Agency, and the National Security Agency.

Jonathan Gohstand, Vice President of Marketing, PacketMotion
Jonathan Gohstand has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years. Before joining PacketMotion, Jonathan worked for Cisco Systems, serving as director of marketing for the security technology group, where he managed marketing for the IOS-based security business that grew more than 400 percent during his tenure. He has also held international positions with Chevron Oil and FORE Systems in addition to serving in consulting and channel roles.Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and he earned an M.B.A. from St. Mary’s College of California.

Rajiv D. Shetty, National Manager, Data Solutions,PAETEC
Rajiv D. Shetty is responsible for driving business & sales data product strategy for PAETEC. Mr. Shetty has a concentrated focus on VoIP solutions with over ten years of industry experience, previously with NTT/Verio. Responsibilities include large-scale & highly-complex strategic customer migrations to data solutions, managing interoperability programs with customers & manufacturers, training of sales channels, creating & revising business processes, with an overall goal of increasing customer satisfaction & retention.
Jim McTiernan, Technology Architect, Avaya
Jim McTiernanis an architect within Avaya’s CTO organization. Jim’s primary responsibilities include the evaluation of emerging technologies and forward-looking architectural planning. Additionally, Jim is the lead technical resource for turret integration at Avaya. Previous to his current position, Jim served as a solutions engineer for Avaya supporting a major Fortune 500 financial services account.

Charles Miscampbell, Product Group Manager, Speakerbus
Charles Miscampbell is a Product Group Manager at Speakerbus headquartered in Hoddesdon, UK and New York City, NY. Charles’ responsibilities include product development, deployment and support of standards based trader voice solutions. Charles has global experience in product definition, design and implementation and has recently introduced a SIP turret enabling a new level of interoperability between trader voice solutions and commercial SIP-enabled IP-PBXs. Speakerbus is a market leader in delivering integrated Trader Voice solutions.

Hadley Reynolds, Vice President and Director, Centre for Search Innovation, FAST, a Microsoft company.

Hadley Reynolds is Vice President and Director of the Centre for Search Innovation at FAST, a Microsoft company. He has been an industry thought leader in search, content, and knowledge management for over a decade, researching, speaking, and writing on emerging trends in these technologies and their impact on business practice. At FAST, he publishes the company’s FAST Innovation Journal, manages the popular FASTforward blog, and provides opportunities for dialog between industry thought leaders, FAST R&D, and pioneer customers worldwide. Prior to FAST, he was Director of Research at industry analyst Delphi Group, where he led the firm’s coverage of the business impacts of search and other technologies for managing unstructured information.

Amy Lyn Anderson
Associate Product Director, AT&T Enterprise Hosting Services
Amy Lyn has been with AT&T’s Enterprise Hosting Business since 2000. She is currently responsible for the creation of emerging services (virtual and utility computing). Prior, she led teams responsible for operational process and service delivery. During her tenure with the hosting business, AT&T has risen from a niche hosting player to the Leader’s spot in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Amy joined AT&T as an Electronics technician in 1988. Since then she has held various positions and managed technical teams in Global ITS and Network Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Amy graduated from High Point College with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education – Recreation.

Amy and her husband Doug, reside in Basking Ridge, NJ with their three children and their three dogs.

AirDefense, Inc., Avaya, AT&T (member's luncheon sponsor), Enterasys Secure Networks,
PACKETMotion, FAST, PAETEC, MOBOTIX, Packet Design and VoIPshield Systems