Partner Theatre

Greg Singh - Pre-Sales Engineering Team Leader and Principal Consultant, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Greg Singh is the Pre-Sales Engineering Team Leader and Principal Consultant for RSA. Greg has 20 years experience in IT&T Industries including Technical Team Management & Leadership and Principal Technical Pre & Post Sales functions in the Vendor, Integrator, Telco and End-User spaces. Greg is a Security Specialist and a recognized industry expert in PKI and Identity. Before joining RSA, Greg was a Senior Communications Consultant & Security Subject Matter Expert with Telecom Nez Zealand with a particular focus on technical design of Telco and Integrated solutions involved in building Secure Data, Voice and Convergent Networks. In his spare time, Greg hobbies include percussion, photography & music production. Greg holds several industry certifications from Microsoft, Novell, ISS, Cisco, Critical Path, StoneSoft, RADWare, Siebel, SafeNet and RSA. He earned a B.E. in Engineering from the University of Wollongong and now resides in Sydney.

Vick Vaishnavi - Vice President, BMC Software

Vick Vaishnavi, vice president of Worldwide Marketing for BMC Software, is responsible for driving BMC's global marketing strategy, market development, campaigns, and field operations activities. He has 20 years of experience in enterprise IT software and has held executive and leadership roles in marketing, alliances development, product management, engineering and sales operations at various companies, including BladeLogic, Rishisoft, Opticom, and APRISMA. Before joining BMC, he played a key role in transforming BladeLogic from its start-up stages to its successful acquisition by BMC. He has been awarded six United States and international patents for his work in IT management software systems. He holds a BSEE from IIT India, an MSCE from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA in marketing and finance from Boston University School of Management.

Patrick Attard - Technical Services & Training Manager, Tyco Electronics / AMP NETCONNECT

Patrick graduated in 1972 from the Royal University of Malta after reading a Bachelor of Science (Engineering) in Electronics and Telecommunications.Patrick has been involved in numerous of fields of endeavor in the cabling industry, including cable design (MM CABLES), connecting hardware and structured cabling systems over the last 20 years. Patrick is known around the world through his involvement in various cabling standards committees.Patrick remains as passionate as ever about his role at AMP NETCONNECT and in the last 3 years he has been actively involved in high level technical support through customer presentations, technical documentation, auditing, SCS design and training. Patrick also writes a regular feature article within Cabling Connection Magazine, also titled “Ask Patrick”.

Paul Curtis - Senior Solutions Specialist, NetIQ

Paul Curtis is a Senior Solutions Consultant for NetIQ with over 14 years of IT experience. Paul has engaged with NetIQ and their product sets in many capacities, including an end customer, a partner and an employee offering a truly unique perspective on the range of NetIQ solutions. Paul's industry experience includes implementations for many of the largest enterprises, including several of the world's largest banks, Oil companies and other major verticals on a global basis. Paul has extensive experience in VoIP and Systems Management and has been working with the NetIQ product portfolio for more than 10 years.

Jurrie van den Breekel - Product Marketing Manager,Spirent Communications

Jurrie van den Breekel is a product Marketing Manager at Spirent Communications and serves as market segment lead for the company’s Enterprise and DataCenter switching test solutions. Previously he served as a technical marketing manager where he was responsible for the market development of Spirent’s Performance Analysis Broadband division in the EMEA region. Van den Breekel has been with Spirent since 2000. Prior to this, he sent several years at the Dutch-based

Mick Hicks - Subject Matter Expert-Advanced Networking,Compuware

Mike Hicks is a Subject Matter expert within Compuware's Strategy and Product Line Management organization. Mike has over 20 years experience in advanced networking field, specializing application performance management for the past 10. Mike has written many white papers and is the author of Managing-Distributed Applications-Troubleshooting in a Heterogeneous environment (Prentice hall 2001) and Optimizing Applications on Cisco Networks (Cisco press 2004)

Combating Fraud with Advanced Authentication Techniques
RSA will show you "under the hood" of the their "fit for purpose" adaptive authentication suite and walk through real world scenarios of how seemingly similar actions from different users can invoke different authentication flows. We will then show how this technology is available today for industry leading SSL VPN Solutions. This session promises new thinking in terms of strong authentication and advanced logic that can ensure enterprises are challenging the right people at the right time.

Evolution in the Data Centre
In many ways, Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) represents an evolutionary change for the traditional data centre. UCS promises to unite compute, network, storage access and virtualisation resources into a single, energy-efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity - but how will this affect your data centre strategy? During this 30 minute, highly-interactive presentation Dimension Data's Enterprise Architect Jon Farrell will discuss not only what changes you can expect to the data centre, but also what stays the same. It's a great opportunity to get real insight into the impact of UCS on the IT enterprise.

Automating the Virtual DataCentre
One of the most disruptive and highly anticipated technologies to hit datacenters this year is Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS).The Cisco UCS, with dynamic provisioning enabled by BMC, dramatically reduces the time required to deliver new virtualized services, simply, reliably, and securely. A fully integrated turnkey solution that's pre-built, tested and serviced as an integrated product for the virtualized data center addresses the complexity and operational constraints data centers face today. Anticipating the Management issues of virtualization and traditional Data Center silos, Cisco developed a unified approach that simplifies the architecture and enables ease of management from a single management domain and console, including the automated provisioning and re-provisioning of the hardware, and software resources. This presentation will explore the power of the Cisco UCS and how purpose-built virtualization-enabling hardware, software, and management tools are taking virtual data centers to the next level and improving IT's ability to support the business. Hear how the integration of network, compute, and virtualization radically reduces the number of devices requiring setup, management, cabling, power and cooling to reduce site costs by up to 20%, platform costs by 15% and, with the inclusion of BMC's BladeLogic, organizational costs by as much as 35%.

EMI and Layer 1 in Data Centres - Best Practices for maximum performance!
The introduction of copper-based infrastructure supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet in Data Centres has picked up pace in the last 12 months. Much has been discussed regarding the merits of copper media types suitable for such applications. Copper media are also under consideration for the next killer application - 40G/100G Ethernet! Convergence of different application fabrics in SANS has also been a driver for copper media and their suitability over the medium to long term. A most important issue for consideration in copper media in the data centre environment is Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI). The data centre is a harsh EMI environment and the most suitable copper medium is one that provides protection from EMI under all operational conditions and enhances the efficiency of the data centre through reduction of energy consumption, space minimization and reduced downtime. Making the right decision about the physical layer is crucial for achieving the data centre operational objectives.

Getting visibility and proactively monitoring your Cisco CallManager© environment
Whether you are currently deploying Cisco CallManager© or already have it deployed, you can help ensure a successful implementation with NetIQ's Proactive VoIP/UC monitoring Solution.In this session; Hear about 2 local case studies and how these organisations utilized the NetIQ solution to ensure successful implementations for their clients and deliver against stringent Client SLA Agreements. Understand the techniques for monitoring IPT components - from CallManager servers to voice gateways, The network, phones and other applications. Get insights into factors that impact call quality and which IPT metrics to track, ensuring voice traffic gets the preferential treatment it requires.

Testing Data Center Virtualization and Convergence
Many enterprises and over-the-top content providers are investing in new data centers and working to increase the utilisation of exixting ones. See how testing is quickly becoming best practice for such projects, as testing ensures that new or upgraded data centers work flawlessly, saves money and meets customer satisfaction targets.

Application Delivery Assurance
This session will discuss the integration of relevant network metrics from infrastructure component(s) into the Compuware Vantage platform to enable visibility into end-to-end network performance. This visibility provides information helping to understand the network service quality, how the business is impacted when performance degrades, how the network is used by specific applications, and where infrastructure enhancements may be required.