See and hear how to better manage your Cisco environment across networks, VOIP, WAAS and UCS with CA Technologies' world leading Service Management, Service Automation and Service Assurance solutions. Session includes software demonstrations and examples

Peter Waterhouse
Senior Director & Advisor
CA Technologies

Based in the world's most liveable city – Melbourne, Australia – Pete Waterhouse is a Senior Director and Advisor for CA Technologies Global Alliances team. In this role, Pete works closely with strategic partners likes Cisco, helping joint customers achieve maximum business value and quicker returns from investments in Network infrastructure, WAAS, collaboration and unified computing. In a partnership that spans many areas of IT management, Pete also works with Cisco to identify critical joint solution capabilities customers need to address the major challenges they face in their transition through disruptive trends like cloud computing, video adoption, VDI, workforce mobility and IT consumerisation.

With more years' experience in technology than he'd care to admit, Pete has a passion for anything that drives better business outcomes for CA Technologies' and Cisco customers – but especially best practices in application and infrastructure management, process orchestration and converged media management.

Join Peter in the CA Partner theatre session where you will see and hear how to better manage your Cisco environment across networks, VOIP, WAAS and UCS with CA Technologies' world leading Service Management, Service Automation and Service Assurance solutions. Session includes software demonstrations and examples.

Along with the basic building blocks of the typical network environment, the end-user is a constantly moving piece in the overall network management puzzle. The most critical measurement in terms of assessing performance is ultimately the end user experience. But more often than not the network provides context to that performance metric. This session will discuss the concept of Network awareness, that can best be described as a visualization of the living network from the users perspective (i.e. realizing that each component of the network affects every other one), and the central role it plays in Application Performance management.

Mike Hicks
Subject Matter Expert,
Compuware

Mike is the Subject matter expert for Advanced Networking within the Strategy and product management organisation at Compuware. He has enjoyed a successful career providing support to complex corporate networks throughout, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including the Ford Motor Company, Cisco Systems, Singapore Airlines, ANZ Bank, Telstra and the European Space agency. In addition, Mike works closely with many infrastructure vendors in the area of Application profiling, and management. Mike is also the author of Managing Distributed Applications: Trouble shooting in a heterogeneous environment (Prentice Hall 2000) and Optimising Applications on Cisco Networks (Cisco Press 2004); as well as several white papers on the subject of Application delivery and optimisation.

Join our presenter Sam Del Vecchio as he tests your knowledge in CSC's Amazing Race! With BYO devices a hot topic in the workplace, collaboration technology is presenting both opportunities and challenges. Success in attracting and retaining staff, as well as maintaining competitive advantage has never been more important. The race is on to see which companies embrace this technology - is your company ready or will you be left behind?

Sam Del Vecchio
Director, Portfolio Management,
CSC

Sam Del Vecchio is currently the Director of Portfolio Management within CSC's Managed Solution & Services team responsible for executing the Global portfolio of solutions and services across the Australian region. Sam manages a team responsible for the leadership and lifecycle management of CSC's service frameworks covering Cloud Services, End User Services, Network and Security Services, and Application Services with a focus around market analysis, innovation, service offering development, new business services, transformation, architecture, engineering, and operations support. Although the role is specifically focused on the Australian region, Sam is part of a global portfolio team which leverages the experiences and expertise across the broader CSC.

A showcase of next generation solutions for VDC design. The described methods will enable you to eliminate latency incurred in network overhead, reduce application response time to microseconds, improve throughput to over 300 percent as well as reduce your power footprint without changing your application or infrastructure landscape..

Roman Tarnavski
Consulting Solutions Architect Cloud Technology Alliances Australia and New Zealand
EMC

Roman is one of EMC's Technology Consultants for Cloud Computing, Virtualisation and Converged Infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand. This role sees Roman leverage his experience to develop, articulate and demonstrate business-critical solutions for organisations of all sizes. He possesses real-world understanding of the value gained from service and outcome based approaches to IT, as well as the an ability of distilling the benefits and drivers behind transformational-technology to a business as well as technical audiences. Prior to joining EMC, Roman worked as an Analyst followed by at one of the worlds largest IT companies in the roles of Sr. Systems Engineer as well as Virtualisation Lead.

The need for business to function and action things on a now basis, has revolutionised the way we are seeking data and analysis of our workers. We will explore the options open to us in the production of real-time alerting for management as well as the automation of processes for better servicing your customers.

Lee Essex
Director of Alliances – Asia Pacific,
Citigroup

Join Net Optics President and CEO, Bob Shaw for this discussion on how to get the most out of your Cisco network. Bob will discuss key points related to data center operation, interconnections and security.

Whether you're struggling to build out a secure and well-monitored network to meet Service Level Agreements, or diving into the complexities of; Cisco MACSec, Nexus 1000v Visibility, OpenFlow vs. OpenSwitch, and NetFlow Analysis, you'll be sure to find a hidden gem during this event.

Bob Shaw
President and CEO,
Net Optics

As President and CEO of Net Optics since 2001, Bob Shaw conceives and implements corporate vision and strategy, positioning Net Optics as the leading provider of intelligent access and monitoring architecture solutions in both the physical and virtual environments. Under Shaw's guidance, Net Optics has achieved consistent double-digit growth, launched more than 35 new products, acquired over 8000 customers, and expanded its presence in over 81 countries. Shaw's experience spans startups to Fortune 200 organisations, where he held Senior Vice Presidential positions. Shaw earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Geneva College in Pennsylvania.

Nimsoft: Nimsoft Hints and Tips for Monitoring Cisco UCS

Overwhelmed tracking the performance of your Cisco UCS, Vblock, or Flexpod deployment? Spend 30 minutes with Nimsoft to learn how you can eliminate the overhead and expense of manual monitoring configuration and deployment. This presentation will cover best practices for monitoring Cisco UCS and demonstrate Nimsoft Monitor, which provides:

• A comprehensive view into the status and operation of physical elements, including fan modules, power supply units, fabric interconnects, IO modules, blade interfaces, processors and memory arrays
• Real-time views of your virtual environment, ESX host and VM guest availability
• Pre-configured alarm and alert settings, report metrics, dashboards and more

Steven Perich
Technical Sales Consultant,
Nimsoft

Steve is a Sales Engineer with Nimsoft, the provider of monitoring solutions for modern IT business applications that run on a complex mix of physical, virtual, on-premise and on-demand infrastructures. Since joining Nimsoft, he has primarily focussed on enabling enterprise customers and Managed Service Providers to increase the visibility of their complex IT infrastructures in ways that reflect the health of business applications. Prior to Nimsoft, Steve has built his career for over a decade in Presales including many years at Cisco within Unified Communications and Collaboration. In earlier days he also spent time "in the trenches" as a network engineer at multiple telecommunications companies across the Tasman. He holds a Certificate in Business Computing from Auckland University of Technology.

Presentation will cover:
- Key trends emerging in Australian Businesses around the influence of mobility and rising demands for business mobile applications;
- What drives success and how to avoid some of the pitfalls when transforming your organisation through mobile application development
- A practical demonstration of how Mobile Applications can assist your organisation

Philip Parker
General Manager – Product Marketing, Mobility and Convergence
Optus

My role is to help customers understand mobility trends and how they can leverage these trends to achieve the best outcomes.

As Optus General Manager, Product Marketing, Mobility and Convergence, Philip Parker knows how mobile applications can deliver huge productivity and efficiency gains to Australian businesses.

There are new technologies becoming available that make mobile video a genuine business tool, Philip says. Also, tablets and other mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular, which makes video collaboration on a mobile network a more interesting proposition for many customers.

Businesses could also provide field force workers or sales representatives with mobile access to customer histories, allowing them to conduct research and update records without returning to the office.

The advances in mobile devices – and the improved speed and performance of networks – also enables businesses to market products and services in different ways.

By optimising web-based applications and other applications for mobile devices, businesses are making themselves more relevant and accessible to younger consumers, Philip says. They are also gaining an edge over less progressive competitors.

Not only that, but talented people are going to be more interested in working for businesses that embrace rather than ignore the future of work.

Powerful. Extensible. Scalable. Easy–to–use. Affordable. What IT professional wouldn’t want all of these characteristics in their IT management toolbox? Unfortunately, these are not typically words that come to mind when thinking about the bevy of enterprise-class or open-source IT management solutions in the market. Join SolarWinds as they show you how to remove the complexity while still maintaining the power and flexibility at a cost that any size business can afford with their portfolio of IT management products.

Doug Hibberd
SVP Engineering, GM APAC,
Solarwinds

Mr. Hibberd has served as our Senior Vice President, Engineering since January 2009 and General Manager of Asia-Pacific Operations since October 2010. Mr. Hibberd served as our Vice President, Product Development from August 2006 until January 2009. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Mr. Hibberd was Vice President, Engineering at RealVue Simulation Technologies, Inc., a provider of custom simulation software to the commercial, industrial and manufacturing sectors, from September 2004 until May 2006. Mr. Hibberd was Vice President, Engineering at ForwardVue Technologies Inc., a provider of supply chain risk management software and services, from November 2001 until September 2004. He holds a degree as a technician in mechanical engineering from Sydney Technical College and has received fundamentals of engineering certification from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering.

2012 promises to be a year of innovation for the IT industry, much of it brought to bear by products from Intel. Come and hear the latest developments in server and client technology from one of the companies at the foundation of the industry.

Matthew Taylor
World Wide Cisco Sales Development Manager
Intel

Matthew Taylor has Director of Sales Development – Intel Corporation Matt Taylor is responsible for the worldwide Cisco relationship at Intel. In this role, Matt drives the joint Intel + Cisco long-term technology roadmap and works with customers to articulate how Intel and Cisco's products are solving today's IT challenges. Prior to his current role, Matt managed the Intel team that co-developed the Cisco Unified Computing System server product line with Cisco.

The distributed nature of virtualisation and Cisco UCS environment along with the dependency on a set of core technologies working in symphony, make visibility into the underlying components a critical part of ensuring quality of service. Splunk provides reports, dashboards and correlations make it simple to analyse your deployment from the UCS blades, to the hypervisor all the way down to the attached storage and the applications being delivered. In this session we will review how Splunk can be used to monitor and manage the most mission critical applications and services in your organisation.

Will Hayes
Director of Technical Business Development
Splunk

Will Hayes Will Hayes is a Director of Business Development at Splunk, Inc. Will has been intimately involved in defining and categorising operational intelligence as well as the development of Splunk's key differentiating feature set. At Splunk, Will has been working with a number of partners, managed service providers, system integrators and resellers to build services, appliances and applications powered by Splunk. He is also involved in building out Splunk as a platform which is opening the door to companies and developers who are creating the next killer app on top of the Splunk IT Search platform.

Arbor: DDoS Attacks and the Ostrich Mentality, how to avoid having a very large egg on your face.

DDoS attack? It'll Never Happen to Me Looking at the Internet Threat Landscape

Ostrich Mentality : 'When an ostrich is afraid, it will bury its head in the ground, assuming that because it cannot see, it cannot be seen.'

Historically, the attitude to DDoS as a Service Availability Threat has been similar. But this is changing because of :

AWARENESS : Massive mainstream press around Anonymous, Lulzsec, Sony, etc..
RISK : More businesses are reliant on Internet Services for their business continuity.
MOTIVATIONS : Wider spread of attack motivations, broader target set.
EXPERIENCE : Larger, more frequent, more complex attacks.

DDoS, when it happens, how is the business impact of DDoS attacks. Share the statistics and data of the recent Arbor 2010 Infrastructure Securityreport. Costs are spread between customer impact, productivity, lost revenue and brand image.

Nick Race
ANZ Country Manager

Nick is seasoned professional with a solid business background in ICT industry and has 20+ years experience in account management, marketing and business development covering the global telecommunications industry. He has been ANZ Country Manager for Arbor Networks for the last 5 years and has been involved in all the emerging internet security threats and counter-measure best practices during this time.

MobileIron: BYOD for smart phones and tablets; how to provide business applications in a Borderless world.

New mobile devices are appearing in Enterprise each day, and while some of those devices are corporate owned a large number are consumer devices brought into the organisation by employees. In this review of what's possible in a BYOD world of iPhones, iPads, Android tablets, and icy desserts Stephen will talk about the policies, user agreements and infrastructure required for a successful BYOD programme. Stephen will also demonstrate registration, deployment and retirement of devices from the MobileIron mobile device management (MDM) platform.

Stephen Gillies
Sales Engineer,
MobileIron Australia and New Zealand

Over the last 18 years Stephen has held senior IT positions in the publishing, ISP, vendor technology and finance industries. Cutting his security teeth in telecommunications in the mid 1990s, he has worked within highly secure corporate and federal government environments deploying simple, manageable and repeatable solutions. At MobileIron he evangelises Mobile Device Management for Enterprise and engages with Systems Integrator partners to deliver business applications to todays broad range of smart phones, tablets and mobile devices. Stephen is the National President of the System Administrators Guild of Australia, is a founding member of the Internet Society of Australia, and member of the IEEE. He has dabbled in freelance security industry journalism, contributes to industry response papers and if often found in large hotels presenting on mobility, content data security, next-generation borderless Internet infrastructure and behaviour based Reputational Security concepts. Stephen is based in Sydney, but spends most of his time online. Recently searching the Internet for himself he found seven embarrassing photos, over 300 references to his occasionally updated blog and 20 references to Internet forum posts from the early '90s he'd rather forget. People who know Stephen call him Max, a nickname he picked up in high school.

Cisco Physical Security: Video Surveillance on UCS

Please join Cisco session for an overview of Cisco new architectures, tools, and solutions for how to virtualise video surveillance solutions on the network using Cisco Unified Computing System platforms with Matt Graham, Cisco technical lead and manager for Cisco Physical Security solutions.

Matt Graham
Business Development Manager