Virtualization & Beyond
Top IT Infrastructure Trends
Chicago, IL | June 11, 2008
Virtualization, Server consolidation and legacy systems replacement provide opportunity for leveraging reduced budgets and minimizing the total cost of IT Ownership, Improving Service Delivery & Availability, Simplifying and Standardizing your Architecture, Improving your preparedness for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and supporting the Green IT movement.
Join us as we move beyond the standard VM demo and discuss practical strategies for planning and implementing your IT infrastructure strategies. Topics addressed will include:
- Top Strategies in Virtualization and Server Consolidation
- How Virtualization affects the business: The top hidden benefit to virtualization.
- How Top area companies have tackled the shift to Virtualization and the lessons learned while doing so
- Systems Management strategies during a shift towards virtualization
- Top 10 tips for a shift towards virtualization
- How a shift towards virtualization affects your overall Infrastructure, including desktops, servers, application management, storage and systems management.
- The impact of Virtualization on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
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Agenda |
Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
$125 Members
$150 Nonmembers
June 11, 2008
1:00–5:15 PM
Union League Club
Main Lounge
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required |
| 1:30–1:55 |
Strategies & Solutions for the Virtual Environment
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Mark Farrant, Sr. Solutions Consultant, Meridian IT
Mark has over 20 years experience in the IT industry in both the government and private sectors and has provided procedural solution sets for systems management, systems implementation, compliance, governance, business continuity and disaster recovery planning. |
| 1:55–2:20 |
Enterprise Virtualization Management |
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Ben Scheerer, Director of Product Marketing, CA
Ben’s 16 years of industry experience have run the course of sales to pre-sales, consulting and product marketing. Currently, he manages solutions marketing for CA’s Data Center Automation and Virtualization initiatives.
Ben’s experience with enterprise IT management has helped businesses better align their goals of improving service while reducing costs. He is instrumental in driving CA’s positioning on Datacenter Automation as a critical initiative in CA’s overall Enterprise IT Management strategy.
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| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Virtualization & Green IT |
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Richard Rowe, Director Commercial Consulting, Morgan Franklin
Mr. Rowe has over seventeen years of professional experience as a systems architect and project leader with full life cycle experience in the strategy, design, and implementation of enterprise class technical infrastructures. He has a demonstrated ability to guide organizations through business model changes as underpinned by technological innovations and demands resulting from industry best-practice approaches. Recently, he has focused on technology virtualization and next generation data center services |
| 3:10–3:35 |
Preparing for Virtualization and Data Center Changes |
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Kevin Hogan, Systems Sales Engineer, Panduit
With more than 18 years of IT infrastructure management experience, Kevin provides Panduit customers with pre- and post sales technical support. He has managed the worldwide IT network for a major steel manufacturing company, installed email systems (Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange) for Fortune 500 customers, designed IT networks for manufacturing and financial firms, and managed design/build low voltage projects for Chicago-area schools and redundant physical network architecture for a 100,000 sq. ft. data center. |
| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel |
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Moderator: Steve Susina,
Director of Marketing, Laurus Technologies
Steve Susina has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing
experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Previously, he
was Senior Product Manager for UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence
product line, and has also held various sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking experience includes technology
conferences around the world on such topics as IT & business strategy,
optical networking, compliance and identity management and mobile communications. |
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Edward Christensen, Director of Technical Operations, Cars.com
Edward Christensen is the Director of Technical Operations at Cars.com, a division of Classified Ventures, LLC and has been with the company for three years. Prior to joining Cars.com, Ed was the Director of Program Management and Infrastructure at Aquitec Inc., and served as Manager of Electronic Systems at Transamerica Distribution Finance. Ed received his BS in Astrophysics at California State University of Fresno. |
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Paul Ciciora, Director of Object Oriented Infrastructure, Chicago Board Options Exchange
Between 1983 and 1993, Paul was a BAL programmer working on real-time systems. In 1994, he moved into management but remained a developer. Three years later, Paul was retrained in Object Oriented technology, taught Java, and was tasked with leading a multi-million dollar remote development effort to build next-generation middleware for CBOE’s new trading systems. In his 30 years in IT, Paul has experienced development trends from punch cards and paper tape to iterative/agile scrum based approaches. |
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Clark Ardern, Director Technology Infrastructure, CNA
Clark has worked in the IT industry for 12 years as both consultant and internal resource for Fortune 500 companies focusing on infrastructure related services. At CNA, Clark and his team work on a daily basis with CNA’s business leaders and top IT industry solution providers to enable CNA to be a market leader in the Property and Casualty insurance marketplace. In particular he is responsible for the technical architecture, strategy and design of the Server, Storage, Data Protection, Client Computing, Mobility, and Messaging infrastructure services at CNA Insurance. |
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Carl Drisko, Global Strategic Partner Executive / Data Center Evangelist, Novell
Mr. Drisko is responsible for supporting Novell's Global Strategic Partners in delivering Novell DataCenter technology to clients across the globe. Mr. Drisko has spent most his 30 year career building large-scale, highly-available systems for large companies. He has been the CEO, President or Founder of five start-up companies. He also spent 7 years at Computer Sciences Corporation as a Partner, Practice Director and Director of Technology. |
| 4:50-5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
| 5:00–5:45 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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