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May 17 - 21, 2009
Mandalay Bay Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV

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June 8 - 12, 2009
Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center)
Tokyo, Japan

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September 2 - 3, 2009
Transamerica Expo Center
São Paulo, Brazil

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November 16 - 20, 2009
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York, NY

Conference: Networking and Services Track

Track Chair: Jim Metzler
Vice President
Ashton, Metzler & Associates

The Networking and Services track examines the fundamental changes taking place in both the LAN and the WAN. The track also analyzes the emerging role that the network plays in enabling acceptable application performance and discusses the functionality that IT organizations need in order to better control how the network is used. The capstone of this track is a roundtable discussion with senior IT executives on the challenges facing IT in general and IT professionals in particular.

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Wednesday, September 17
2:45 pm–3:45 pm	Conference Sessions IT Roundtable This session will be a roundtable discussion with senior IT professionals on the IT function's current status. During the session, panelists will be asked to discuss how the difficult economic times are impacting their organizations; what progress they have made at breaking down stove pipes within their organization; and how they are establishing sustainable links with the business unit managers that fund IT. They will also be asked to give their opinions on which initiatives and technologies are most important to them over the next year and what type of a business case they need to justify spending. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - David Michael, CIO, UBM Group Speaker - Joanna Young, Chief Information Officer, Corporate Information Systems & Enterprise Services, Liberty Mutual Joanna Young is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Corporate Information Systems & Enterprise Services at Liberty Mutual Group. She is accountable for all of Liberty's corporate and enterprise systems, including Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, Financial, Business-2-Business, and Content Management as well as Liberty's Captive Development Centers. She is an advocate of running the business of IT using analytics, with a strong focus on human capital management and application of quality practices such as Six Sigma. Ms. Young has been with Liberty Mutual since 1988, and had roles in Technical Writing, User Interface Design and Project Management before entering management in the mid-1990s. Before her current role, she was a Vice President in Liberty's IT Infrastructure department, where her responsibilities included personal computing services, enterprise messaging, help desk, and project management office. She also played a primary role in the technical integration of several Liberty acquisitions. Ms. Young has a degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and attended the Insurance Executive Program at the Wharton School. She is active in corporate philanthropy. In her spare time, she enjoys college ice hockey games, running, hiking, and spending time with her two daughters. Speaker - Rowan Snyder, CIO, KPMG Rowan is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational management for the firm's use of information technology. He oversees all strategy, standards, architecture, computing, telecommunications and applications and infrastructure for the US firm. Before joining KPMG in 2003, Rowan was the US and Global Chief Technology Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led the renovation of the IT function from a back room operation to one contributing to client service. He was able to strengthen the executive team and to achieve innovative and award winning accomplishments in collaborative systems, the firm's intranet and its web presence. In rapid succession thereafter, he managed the worldwide merger of PriceWaterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, Y2K and the divestiture of the consulting organization, worldwide. Prior to PwC, Rowan was the CIO of the Nestlé Perrier Group of America, where he pioneered the role of technology in support of customer service and supply chain logistics for the bottled water industry. He was brought to Perrier to modernize the infrastructure while reducing costs and adding customer value. His organization was recognized as the winner of the CIO Magazine Enterprise Value award. Rowan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
4:00 pm–5:00 pm	Conference Sessions Managing Virtualization If you believe all the articles in the trade magazines, it seems like all of the physical components of IT (i.e., desktops, networks, servers, firewalls, storage, application front ends, etc.) are being virtualized. The promised benefits of virtualization are compelling. However, there is just one problem: How can IT organizations that are currently struggling to manage their physical assets start to manage all of those virtual assets? The panelists on this session will detail what capabilities exist today to manage virtualized resources and will identify what new functionality you can expect to see over the next year. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Adam Powers, Chief Technology Officer, Lancope, Inc. As Chief Technology Officer of Lancope, the provider of StealthWatch - the most widely used Network Behavior Analysis system, Adam Powers is a leading innovator in the development of next-generation network behavior anomaly detections solutions. Adam is a significant driver of Lancope's R&D of behavioral algorithms and analysis techniques for the StealthWatch System. With a decade of operational and engineering experience in enterprise IP security technologies, Adam commands considerable expertise in datacenter network design, IP flow analysis techniques, content delivery networks, and enterprise network security planning and management. During his tenure as a Sergeant with the US Marine Corps, Adam managed UNIX and IP networks across 5 operational datacenters and participated in several highly confidential information security initiatives. A recognized network optimization and security expert and prolific author of technical documents, Adam has spoken at numerous industry events, including RSA, Interop and CSI conferences as well as ISSA Chapter meetings throughout the country. He was also selected to participate on Network World's Security Tour, which featured a panel of distinguished industry thought-leaders. Speaker - Jonathan Siegal, Director of Product Marketing, EMC Resource Management Software Jonathan Siegal, Director of Product Marketing EMC Resource Management Software Jonathan Siegal is Director of Product Marketing for EMC Resource Management Software at EMC Corporate. With 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion, and approximately 37,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, at every point in the information lifecycle. Siegal joined EMC in May 2003 and has since led various product marketing groups across the EMC software portfolio. Today he drives product marketing for EMC Resource Management Software, which aims to effectively bridge the management gap between physical and virtual data centers. Prior to joining EMC, Siegal led product marketing at two networked storage start-ups including Cereva Networks and Acopia Networks. He also previously served as a senior product manager at GE. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Vermont. Speaker - Mike Grote, VP Product Management, Dorado Software Mike Grote Vice President, Product Management As VP, Product Management, Mike is responsible for product strategy, definition and positioning for all of Dorado Software's RedcellTM software products. Mike brings over sixteeen years experience in the network & systems management industry and has owned product management and marketing strategy responsibilities for global high tech companies including Sun Microsystems and GlobalSight Corporation. Mike holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Chico and an MBA from San Jose State University.
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Thursday, September 18
10:15 am–11:15 am	Conference Sessions How Networks Can Assist Applications Historically the way that networks have assisted applications was by providing sufficient bandwidth. However, vendors have recently started to integrate functionality such as SSL processing and WAN optimization into network devices. Now we are beginning to see a movement to provide APIs directly to both the switch and router operating systems and to also run portions of an application directly on switches and routers. The panelists on this session will discuss the spectrum of functionality that is being integrated into network devices as well as the pros and cons of doing so. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Scott Hilton, VP Product Line Management, 3Com Scott Hilton Vice President, Enterprise Products Scott Hilton is 3Com's vice president of enterprise products. Scott has more than 15 years of experience in product marketing and management in the IP networking industry. At 3Com, Scott is responsible for product development, management and marketing of the 3Com portfolio of Ethernet switching, routing and wireless systems as well as the company's portfolio of enterprise IP voice products. Prior to 3Com, he was the vice president of product management for IP Services at Lucent Technologies with responsibility for Lucent's Service Provider IP edge strategy and products. He arrived at Lucent through its acquisition of SpringTide Networks, the first true IP services platforms with virtual routing, IP VPN, subscriber management and security services. Speaker - Shashi Kiran, Senior Manager - Network Systems, Cisco Shashi Kiran leads the Access Routing team for the Network Systems group at Cisco. In this capacity, he also builds the vision for the network as a platform focusing on routing, unified communications, security, mobility and WAN optimization. Kiran has 13 years of experience in designing, architecting and building networks for hosted businesses, service providers and enterprise networks. Previously he worked as a Senior Product Line Manager with Nortel focusing on the areas of VPNs, Security services and Metro Ethernet products. He was a founding member of the Network Magazine, Indian edition and a columnist for four years. He was instrumental in launching India's first e-mail based course on Networking in the mid-1990s, which was subsequently syndicated. Shashi Kiran holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and an MBA degree in Strategic marketing. He has been an active contributor to various standards bodies and a speaker at several industry events. Speaker - Tim Richards, Senior Product Manager, WAN Acceleration, Juniper Networks Tim Richards is the Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing for WAN Acceleration products at Juniper Networks, where he defines product features, direction and strategy for the company's application acceleration product portfolio. With more than 15 years of people management, product management and field experience in the networking industry, Richards brings a practical understanding of how technology can solve business problems. Richards joined Juniper Networks as part of the acquisition of Peribit Networks in 2005, where he held a key technical role in the EMEA Sales Operation. Prior to Peribit Networks, Richards held various managerial and senior technical roles at Lucent Technologies, IBM and 3Com. Richards earned a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
11:30 am–12:30 pm	Conference Sessions Implementing Policy and Control There is general agreement that IT organizations need to implement control functions in the IT infrastructure in order to improve application performance, as well as to provide enhanced security. There is also general agreement that IT organizations require the capability to set policy in an automated fashion. However, there is a wide disagreement as to what type of control functions need to be implemented, where they need to be implemented, and just how automated and granular the policy capabilities need to be. This session will explore those issues and position the attendees to develop an effective strategy for implementing policy and control. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Dave Ewart, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Blue Coat Dave Ewart is responsible for Product Marketing at Blue Coat in EMEA. Before joining Packeteer in 2006, Dave led Product Management at VoIP infrastructure vendor, Brooktrout/Dialogic and prior to that held leading roles at the Santa Cruz Operation, driving marketing for their Tarantella product line and laterally their flagship UnixWare NonStop Clusters OS server platform. A native of Scotland, Dave studied telecommunications and electronics at Glasgow's Stow College. Speaker - Michelle McLean, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, ConSentry Networks Michelle McLean is senior director of product marketing and is responsible for market strategy, positioning and solutions marketing. Prior to ConSentry she held director of product marketing positions at Peribit Networks and Trapeze Networks, and prior to that, she was director of strategic marketing at Pluris. She previously served as program director at the research firm META Group, providing technology and strategy direction to global 2000 enterprise clients. Before that, she tracked technical developments, networking trends, and vendor strategies as a journalist for two leading networking publications, LAN Times and LAN Magazine. She earned her BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley. Speaker - Steve Mullaney, VP of Marketing, Palo Alto Networks Steve Mullaney is vice president of marketing for Palo Alto Networks, and has more than 22 years of marketing, product management and engineering experience in networking and information security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Steve was vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems where he helped grow the company from $40m to $250m annual run rate. Steve was also the vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco), and ShoreTel. Prior to that, Steve spent ten years at SynOptics and Bay Networks in various marketing, product management, and engineering roles, and was most recently vice president of enterprise marketing responsible for products contributing over $2B annual revenue. Before SynOptics, he held various design engineering positions at GTE Government Systems.
3:15 pm–4:15 pm	Conference Sessions Is There Anything New to Say About the WAN? In the 1980s, IT organizations began to deploy TDM-based WANs. In the 1990s, many IT organizations migrated their WANs - first to Frame Relay and then to ATM. In this decade, many IT organizations have migrated to MPLS based networks. However, there is very little buzz in the industry about a technology that is the successor to MPLS. In this session the panelists will address the question of whether or not there are any fundamental changes coming to WAN services. Are today's MPLS services the end of the line for at least the foreseeable future? Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Arnaud Messager, Business Development Director Americas, Orange Business Services Mr. Messager is director of business development for the Network Solutions Business Unit at Orange Business Services. He is responsible for the Orange network portfolio in the Americas marketplace. Arnaud has worked closely with large enterprise and service providers over the years in defining the next generation enterprise network and the importance of security and application delivery to the enterprise network. Mr. Messager brings to his position more than 12 years of diverse experience in IP & security product management & development, business support, and financial analysis. Speaker - Dr. Shankar Narayanaswamy, Vice President, Network Architecture, Reliance Globalcom Dr. Shankar Narayanaswamy, Vice President, Network Architecture Dr. Shankar Narayanaswamy joined the Company in May 2007 with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing new products and services. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Narayanaswamy held several technical management positions in network engineering and architecture, including the leadership of Covad Communications' network engineering and architecture group. He also served as director of network systems at Sapias, Inc. Dr. Narayanaswamy was founder and CTO of Telemesis, which delivered end-to-end services for wireless remote access and management. Prior to that, he spent five years at Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent). Dr. Narayanaswamy has published numerous papers and holds nine patents. He holds a BSEE, an MSEE, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Speaker - Neil Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Akamai Neil Cohen is the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai's Application Performance Services, an evolving line of Web and IP-based application acceleration services for enterprise users. In this role, Neil sets the marketing strategy for penetrating this emerging line of business into traditional and new industry segments. Prior to joining Akamai, Neil worked at Mindspeed Technologies where he was the Director of Marketing specializing in internet infrastructure chipsets and software used in routers, VoIP gateways, wireless basestations and broadband access equipment. Neil has also held a variety of senior marketing roles at Conexant Systems and Maker Communications. Early in his career, Neil was a Principal Engineer at Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corporation where he developed high-performance semiconductor process technologies and logic designs for their microprocessor division. He holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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Friday, September 19
9:00 am–10:00 am	Conference Sessions Do Applications Require a Next Generation LAN Design? As recently as a decade ago, the majority of LANs were based on shared media. Today, they are based on switching and are designed for two key parameters: speed and availability. However, there is a growing interest in implementing more services, such as security, in LAN switches. This session will help IT organizations determine what functionality belongs in each class of LAN switch. To achieve that goal, this session will look at how the functionality that gets deployed in access and backbone switches either enables or inhibits IT organizations from being able to easily support key initiatives, such as mobility and unified communications. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Speaker - Jas Tremblay, Director, Enterprise and SMB , LSI Corporation Speaker - Manfred Arndt, HP Distinguished Technologist - Convergence, HP ProCurve Manfred Arndt is the Convergence Solutions Architect and HP Distinguished Technologist for ProCurve Networking. He is responsible for architecting IP telephony and multimedia capabilities in HP ProCurve's networking products. He also participates in several TIA and IEEE subcommittees, helping defining networking and telecommunications standards and is a co-author of the ANSI/TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) standard. Arndt has over 20 years experience with several networking startups and the high-tech industry. Prior to joining HP ProCurve, he led the development of a pre-standard WiMAX broadband wireless access system, which included advanced QoS and scheduling algorithms to support business grade VoIP and video conferencing. Arndt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also holds three networking patents. Speaker - Trenton Waterhouse, VP of Marketing, Enterasys Networks As Vice President of Marketing for Enterasys Secure Networks, Trent Waterhouse is responsible for all of the Enterasys worldwide demand-generation and customer communications activities. He joined Enterasys in May 2006 with more than 15 years of high-tech hardware and software marketing experience. Most recently, Waterhouse was vice president corporate strategy for CA's Enterprise Systems Management business unit where he was responsible for defining market strategy and technology architecture while also evangelizing future product direction to customers, prospects, industry analysts and trade media. Previously, Waterhouse was vice president of marketing for Aprisma Management Technologies where he drove demand generation through industry tradeshows and customer face-to-face events which resulted in 95 percent software revenue growth. Aprisma began as a unit of Enterasys' predecessor, Cabletron Systems, which Waterhouse joined in 1992. Aprisma was purchased in 2002 by The Gores Group, LLC, a leader in the private investment group that acquired Enterasys in 2006. At Cabletron, Waterhouse worked in the federal sales division and subsequently held the position of senior architect where he was responsible for building and maintaining market leadership in the multi-billion dollar LAN switching business. Later, he co-founded the company's product marketing organization, developing and executing a variety of high-profile marketing campaigns. Prior to Cabletron, Waterhouse was a systems engineer with NYNEX Corporation (now Verizon), where he was responsible for the planning, design, implementation, management and application needs analysis of microcomputer-based local area networks. Waterhouse holds a bachelor's degree in international management and marketing from Georgetown University and is listed in the millennium edition of Who's Who in The World. Speaker - William Choe, Director of Product Management, ESTG, Cisco William Choe is a Director of Product Management with the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco. William is responsible for product planning and marketing for the Catalyst fixed configuration switches, Catalyst 3750/3560. Prior to ESTG, William was with the Optical Networking group responsible for the ONS 15454 product managment and held various engineering roles prior to ONG. William joined Cisco in 1995 with the Grand Junction Networks acquisition.
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