360°IT TechLabs 1 & 2

Identify best in class technologies and see real solutions in action!

Test drive solutions you are currently considering, gain valuable insights and keep up-to-date with current technical innovations, from those at the front-line of research and development!

Technologies and solutions covered:

Cloud Computing & SaaS
Virtualisation
Data Centres

Security
Enterprise 2.0
Storage

Networks & Communications
Information Management
Business Continuity
Risk & Compliance

Bridging the IP & the Virtual Management Worlds seminar

IT NOTIFICATION - Software-as-a-Service and a Standardized Integration Platform: The Case for Modern Visionary Enterprise Messaging seminar

Cut Your Costs & Provide Future Growth With Tiering - Software.Hardware.Complete. seminar

Manage Your Information - Don't Let It Manage You seminar

Meeting The Demands For Firewall Performance & Compliance In A Cost-Conscious Economy seminar

The Future of IT is Social: How Spiceworks is Revolutionizing the Way IT Works seminar

XIV Storage Array Live GUI And Data Migration Demonstration seminar

Managing Your Converged Infrastructure seminar

NetApp Storage Efficiency Solutions seminar

Protecting Your New Generation Infrastructure With The CA ARCserve Family of Solutions seminar

From Efficiency to Effectiveness - How to Fuel Business Innovation & Growth While Protecting Your Existing Investments seminar

Application Extensions - How To Make Customisation & Integration Successful & Lower The Costs Of Upgrades seminar

Application Delivery Assurance: Ensuring that Business-Critical Transactions Do Not Fail seminar

Ahead In The Cloud: Hands On With Amazon Web Services seminar

Wednesday 22 Sep 2010

10:00 - 11:00		Bridging the IP & the Virtual Management Worlds This session gives a timely update on techniques and products for monitoring and troubleshooting performance in hybrid physical and virtual network environments. Speaker/s Mr Greg Dumas, Director, Xangati Inc. Mr Richard Cull, Technical Director, Phoenix Datacom Tech Lab 2



10:00 - 11:00		IT NOTIFICATION - Software-as-a-Service and a Standardized Integration Platform: The Case for Modern Visionary Enterprise Messaging Speaker/s Mr Lance Stange, Senior Sales Engineer, MIR3 Mr Rene Grossrieder, Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, MIR3 Tech Lab 1



11:30 - 12:30		Cut Your Costs & Provide Future Growth With Tiering - Software.Hardware.Complete. Speaker/s Mr John Abel, Chief Technology Architect, EMEA Server and Storage, Oracle Mr Scott Wilson, Chief Architect, EMEA Solutions, Oracle Tech Lab 1



11:30 - 12:30		Manage Your Information - Don't Let It Manage You Download the presentation (PDF) Speaker/s Mr. Andrew Grimbleby, Technical Product Specialist, Symantec Mr. David Huskisson, Technical Product Manager, Symantec Mr. Lorenzo Galelli, Technical Product Manager, Symantec Tech Lab 2



13:00 - 14:00		Meeting The Demands For Firewall Performance & Compliance In A Cost-Conscious Economy Download the presentation (PDF) Speaker/s Mr John Colbourne, Strategic Business Manager, Redstone Managed Solutions Tech Lab 2



13:00 - 14:00		The Future of IT is Social: How Spiceworks is Revolutionizing the Way IT Works A new software generation is upon us with the emergence of Social Business Applications such as Spiceworks that are transforming work as we know it for the IT industry. Whether you're in IT or you sell IT the nature of what you do is changing as these new applications begin to embed social interactions and information directly into the user's daily workflow. Whether technology is on premise or in the cloud the ways in which it is bought, sold and managed will never be the same. Speaker/s Mr Jay Hallberg, Co-Founder and VP Marketing, Spiceworks Tech Lab 1



14:30 - 15:30		XIV Storage Array Live GUI And Data Migration Demonstration Speaker/s Mr. David Denny, Storage Platform Architect , IBM Mr. Peter Frankcam, XIV Technical Specialist, IBM Tech Lab 2



14:30 - 15:15		Managing Your Converged Infrastructure Technical hands on overview of the software and tools used to manage a Converged Infrastructure. From systems management, application provisioning, power management, capacity planning and charge back. Speaker/s Mr Adam Richardson, ISS Pre-Sales Consultant, Hewlett Packard Tech Lab 1



Thursday 23 Sep 2010

10:00 - 11:00		NetApp Storage Efficiency Solutions Download the presentation (PDF) Speaker/s Mr Mike Walters, Consultant Systems Engineer, NetApp UK Tech Lab 2



11:30 - 12:30		Protecting Your New Generation Infrastructure With The CA ARCserve Family of Solutions Download the presentation (PDF) Speaker/s Mr Carl Green, Principal Consultant, CA Mr Charlie Smith, Senior Principal Consultant, CA Tech Lab 1



11:30 - 12:30		From Efficiency to Effectiveness - How to Fuel Business Innovation & Growth While Protecting Your Existing Investments This session will help you apply technology to efficiently manage and operate your data centre, and in the process free up 50% of your IT budget. Speaker/s Mrs Alex Sizeland, Enterprise Technologist, Systems Management, Dell Tech Lab 2



13:00 - 14:00		Application Extensions - How To Make Customisation & Integration Successful & Lower The Costs Of Upgrades Speaker/s Mr Carl Thomas, Customer Solutions Manager, Oracle Mr Matthew Ware, Fusion Middleware (SOA) Sales Consultant, Oracle Mr Roy Mahase, Principal Sales Consultant, Oracle Tech Lab 1



13:00 - 14:00		Application Delivery Assurance: Ensuring that Business-Critical Transactions Do Not Fail In this session, ExtraHop Networks explores new advances in real-time analysis technology for accelerated troubleshooting and proactive early warning of problems right across the multi-tiered IT infrastructure - network, servers, database, and storage. Speaker/s Mr Raja Mukerji, Co-Founder and President, ExtraHop Networks Inc. Mr Richard Cull, Technical Director, Phoenix Datacom Tech Lab 2



14:30 - 15:30		Ahead In The Cloud: Hands On With Amazon Web Services Download the presentation (PDF) Speaker/s Dr Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Tech Lab 1