Cloud Computing has emerged out of the hype and skepticism into a way of running virtualized services with rigor, precision and discipline. It is a way to deliver Demand Management by applying a set of engineering and business principles that need to be integrated in in-sourced or outsourced managed services, leveraging enabling technologies.

Questions you may still have include what to use the cloud for and how to start the journey; how do you understand and quantify the benefits for doing that; how do you choose the technology, the service model and possibly the service partners; do you start with public clouds or do you trust public infrastructure.

Our first seminar of the year is designed to look at Cloud Computing as a solution with objectivity. It will be a meeting of the minds of those who understand and work on the space as well as those that are developing the vision.

Suggested Topics:

• Cloud Vision
• SaaS
• Private Clouds vs. Public Infrastructure
• Hosting on Demand
• Email and Utilities Services on the Cloud
• Risk Management, Compliance, Security
• Decision Criteria for Using the Cloud
• Myths vs. Reality
• Implement Without Increasing Complexity
• Understanding and Quantifying the Benefits
• Moving into the Cloud

Agenda and Times are Subject to Change.

8:00 - 8:30 AM Registration and Breakfast

8:30 - 8:35 AM WSTA Introductions

8:35 - 9:20 AM Keynote – "Securing the Cloud"
Pinaki Roy, Managing Director, CIO Advisory Practice, Financial Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Cloud computing is rapidly moving from hype to a must-have service model. The benefits are certainly real, but a business must ensure that the cloud environment is secure enough for its essential data. Chief Information Officers must fully understand the inherent shortcomings and strengths of cloud computing to unlock its full potential and value but a successful implementation requires a new mindset—and new tools—to help ensure that security meets the business needs.
This presentation will address the following:

• What does today's cloud environment offer and who are the main providers?
• How do the cloud service providers mitigate risk?
• What are appropriate applications and data for the cloud?
• How should a business approach overall security in the cloud?

9:20 - 9:45 AM "Next Generation Archiving: Bridging the Gap Between Local and Cloud-based Email Management"
Brian Weiss, VP, Information Governance, Autonomy
Roger Erickson, CTO, Autonomy Zantaz
As organizations strive to outsource processes serviced by in-house software, the questions and rigor around security, performance, availability, loss of business value are frequently overlooked or poorly executed. This seminar on cloud computing will highlight these critical details as well as the tangible ROI and value companies are realizing from shifting to cloud computing for applications such as content archiving, records classification, policy management, and information governance. This session will address timely topics, such as:
· Pan-enterprise policy enforcement: legal hold, content lifecycle and Records Management
· What is a secure Cloud Computing strategy?
· Best practices (and the disasters that created them) in the evolving market
· Advanced technologies for cloud-based services

9:45 - 10:10 AM “Moving to Cloud”
Jayantha Kumar – Practice Head – eBusiness – North America, Business Technology Services,
Wipro Technologies
The IT world is struggling with its current challenges of high cost around critical functions and processes of IT Monitoring/Management, Provisioning, CapEx Chargeback, Resource Utilization, Availability, Elasticity and Scalability and so on. The industry has come up with “Cloud” as a possible solution to mitigate many of these challenges. Different variations of Cloud like Public or External Cloud, Private Cloud (also known as Internal or Enterprise Cloud) and Hybrid Cloud are making ways to meet different business scenarios and challenges. The product companies, SIs and ISVs are working to serve the new set of business opportunities with their innovations of services and products on cloud. This presentation will delve into the possibilities for Enterprises with clouds and services or role that SIs like Wipro would play in this changing economic climate. K. R. Sanjiv will also share his PoV on the various Cloud options, benefits, business context of cloud computing and adoption trend with Enterprise customers.
Takeaways:
· Case study of people who have piloted applications on cloud
· Some key technical and organizational issues to be considered while adopting cloud
· How an SI can be leveraged while adopting cloud.

10:10 - 10:30 AM Break and Demo Area Visit

10:30 - 10:55 AM "Migrating your Email to the "Cloud": (SaaS) Best Practices"
Greg Olsen, Sendmail SMTP Expert, Sendmail, Inc.
This presentation is geared towards those considering moving some, or all, of their email infrastructure to the cloud. Learn what businesses are doing about migrating their email infrastructure, the latest SaaS trends, and the following:
• Pros and cons of moving email to the cloud
• Security risks of moving email to the cloud
• Functions best suited for the cloud and for on-premises
• Ideal hybrid messaging infrastructure
• Modernized hybrid architecture cost savings

10:55 - 11:20 AM “The Trust Fabric of the Cloud”
Eric Olden, CEO and Founder, Symplified
Organizations are rushing to the cloud. This is creating complex new challenges for managing access, security, and audit. Unlike the past, enterprises that use cloud applications must manage user access to applications that reside on both sides of the firewall. This session will cover the technical and organizational security challenges that must be addressed to maintain cloud control.
Takeaways:

• Learn how cloud applications are disrupting traditional approaches to authentication, authorization, access control (AAA) and audit
• Understand the risk, security and audit challenges created by cloud applications and platforms
• Learn about the roadblocks to integrating existing identity and access management infrastructures with the cloud
• Understand the role of standards in cloud security, including SAML, HTTP, SPML, and SOAP

11:20-11:45 AM “The Missing Link in Cloud Computing - Defining End User Requirements”
Scott Swanburg, Director – Citrix Service Providers, Citrix Systems, Inc.
There has been a plethora of marketing done to date from vendors touting their brand of solution for Cloud Computing. But what of the end user? You know, the guy who actually pays the bill. Somehow he’s been lost in the discussion. Any good CIO knows that designing a system that has no basis in end user reality is doomed for failure. And yet, there are millions of dollars being spent to retrofit data centers for solutions to virtualize everything. It’s time to get back to the basics in designing a system that meets the needs of the masses. In this session you’ll learn about the elements of the system that are often most overlooked, the end user requirements for Cloud Computing.

11:45-12:10PM "Maintaining Control and Compliance in Cloud Computing: Data-centric Information Security"
Russell Dietz, VP & Chief Technology Officer of SafeNet, Inc.
The success of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Cloud-based processes have fast become the next-generation SOA solutions for a number of today’s applications. Corporate acceptances of Cloud-based processes have moved beyond CRMs and Web Portals toward more traditional core business applications.

The introduction of these approaches into the traditional enterprise has definite business advantages, but also some serious governance, compliance and security implications. The "virtual" nature of Cloud removes many of the physical work-flow and control points to contain sensitive information. This session will provide details on the impact of Cloud on information security and the data-centric solutions for specific use-cases.
Takeaway Points:
· What are the information risks in moving to the Cloud?
· How can sensitive information be used within the Cloud?
· What are the data-centric solutions for isolation of information in a Cloud?

12:10 PM Seminar Concludes

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

Pinaki Roy, Managing Director, CIO Advisory Practice, Financial Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Mr. Roy is an IT professional with over 17 years experience in a wide range of technologies spanning from web application development to infrastructure design, implementation and support. He is the Banking segment lead in the CIO Advisory practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he assists clients to facilitate new business opportunities, introduce new technologies, control costs and optimize existing environments.

Mr. Roy has worked with and for a number of top tier financial institutions in both New York and London in senior roles in IT Strategy, Optimization and Program Management. In the past he has led large organization redesign and process streamlining efforts, outsourcing and offshoring initiatives, and global infrastructure standardization and application migration programs.

Prior to joining the commercial sector Mr. Roy was employed by the UK Ministry of Defence in the Procurement Executive and Defence Engineering Service divisions. After that Mr. Roy moved to and worked in the Investment Banking Technology arena for over 11 years with first Merrill Lynch and then later Credit Suisse First Boston. More latterly, before his current role at PwC he led the CIO Advisory practice for the Banking sector at BearingPoint with specific emphasis on Technology Innovation and Adoption and IT Service Management.

Brian Weiss, VP, Information Governance, Autonomy
As the Vice President for Product marketing solutions with the Autonomy Brian Weiss serves as a subject matter expert for Information Governance and eDiscovery, consulting with Autonomy’s diverse client base as they manage the challenges associated with preservation, collection and analysis of electronically stored information (ESI). Brian’s particular focus in the Autonomy portfolio is on the evolving impact of advanced search processing, on Early Case Assessment, Legal hold, and the best practices for governing information and risk, as well as the absorption of new technology by the legal community. Brian is actively involved in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) forum, speaks at industry events on technology trends and practices on of Autonomy’s most innovative clients.

Roger Erickson, CTO, Autonomy Zantaz
Roger Erickson is Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions and Services. In this capacity, he oversees the Autonomy Zantaz’s full range of activities related to meeting customers' archiving, audit and regulatory needs through Autonomy Zantaz Compliance Technology Solutions. Prior to joining Autonomy ZANTAZ, Roger was CEO of Altris Software Inc., an international provider of enterprise knowledge management software systems. At Altris, Roger also served in other senior management positions, including VP of Engineering, VP of Sales and Marketing, and VP of Operations. Roger has helped to lead the successful turn-around of two companies, and has played significant roles in managing major acquisitions and corporate financings. Roger holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of CA, Santa Barbara.

Jayantha Kumar – Practice Head – eBusiness – North America, Business Technology Services,
Wipro Technologies

Jayantha Kumar heads BTS-eBusiness (Business Technology Services) Practice for Wipro covering Financial Services in North America. BTS delivers superior business outcomes for customers through industry and technology expertise empowering enterprises with business process innovation, enterprise agility, collaboration across the ecosystem and utilization of information as a strategic asset. The group provides consulting, business process and technology solutions and accelerators in solution design, development, integration and delivery in areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Portals and Content Management, Business Intelligence and Information Management, Enterprise Business Integration, Enterprise Security and Enterprise Mobility. Jayantha Kumar has over 17 years of experience in enterprise IT including consulting, application and technology development that spans multiple industry segments and diverse technology areas. Jayantha has been involved in managing large scale programs for Wipro covering eBusiness technologies. He has spearheaded business development strategy for North American geo and has been instrumental in winning large scale transformational e-Business programs amongst Wipro's Financial Services clientele. Since joining Wipro in 2002, Jayantha has been instrumental in building a a successful practice at Wipro focused on delivering complete business solutions to enterprises covering Custom Application Development and EAI technologies to customers in Asia Pacific & India Region. Prior to Joining Wipro, he has incubated a successful eBusiness practice at Digital GlobalSoft Ltd. and has architected e-business solutions Oracle Consulting Services.

Jayantha hold’s a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering.

Greg Olsen, Sendmail SMTP Expert, Sendmail
Greg Olsen has more than 20 years of experience as an IT professional and has been designing, deploying, and managing SMTP email infrastructures for the past 17 years. He has broad industry experience across financial services, high-tech, higher education, and government industries. In his current role at Sendmail, Inc., he manages the third-party technology partnerships, and the open source initiative of Sendmail.

Eric Olden, CEO & Founder, Symplified
Mr. Olden is an expert in identity and access management and holds US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for Web identity. In 2000, he co-authored the AuthXML specification, which served as the foundation of SAML identity federation standard. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of federation. Before Symplified, Mr. Olden was co-founder and CTO of pioneering web access management vendor Securant Technologies. He was the architect behind the ClearTrust product, until its acquisition by RSA Security.

Scott Swanburg, Director – Citrix Service Providers, Citrix Systems, Inc.
Mr. Swanburg is a 30-year veteran of technology who has held management positions at Nortel Networks, Cingular Wireless and AT&T where he led the efforts for next generation application and service delivery. Recently he has been involved with the implementation of virtual application delivery and cloud computing at Citrix Systems leading the Citrix Service Provider Program. He has been a guest speaker at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Industry events around the world. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering emphasis, with honors.

Russell Dietz, VP & Chief Technology Officer, SafeNet, Inc.
Russell Dietz brings more than 20 years of technology experience in the data management, security, embedded and distributed systems industries to his role as Chief Technology Officer at SafeNet, Inc. Mr. Dietz is an active member of the Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, and Optical Internetworking Forum. Mr. Dietz has 10 patents issued in the application and network performance areas.