Interop Conference Tracks

This presentation will showcase five metrics that meet the relevance and impact criteria and would form the core of an IT performance scorecard:

• Investment alignment to business strategy
• Business value of IT investments
• IT budget balance
• Service level excellence
• Operational excellence

Proper application of Six Sigma principles have been proven to vastly improve infrastructure and application reliability, reduce errors in processing, improve user provisioning processes and drive towards 100% data accuracy. This lecture will cover these principles and demonstrate their bottom line effectiveness and impact on business outcome.

These challenges limit an organization's ability to securely collaborate on projects, reducing project efficiency and document accuracy. This presentation will showcase how your organization can tackle these challenges to increase communication and collaboration with anyone, regardless of location.

Many SaaS firms started as Application Service Providers relegated to niche applications like sales management and payroll, and sold to small businesses unable to run their own infrastructure. Embracing SaaS can be a challenge, depending on privacy and regulatory issues. Reporting and enforcing service levels is difficult and different. Using real-world examples from some of the largest SaaS firms, this presentation will look at the best practices - and common pitfalls of moving significant business processes to a SaaS model.

This presentation will show how to plan for, measure and document success in achieving both utilization and cost objectives of your organization's virtualization initiatives.

There has also been an increase of bandwidth intensive recreational traffic such as IM and Internet Radio that now transits the typical corporate WAN. This session will describe some of the key techniques that IT organizations can use to better manage and control application usage.

Without an effective governance strategy, these organizations have limited-to-no visibility into how their services are working. In this presentation, you will discover ways to effectively optimize the functionality of your SOA through proper SOA runtime governance.

They typically lack the tools necessary to gain insight into the user experience and provide actionable data regarding complex web applications. This track will detail the important requirements for optimizing web application performance management and identify the shortcomings of typical performance monitoring tools.

The technology demands such as virtualization, being “green” and energy efficiency just can’t be ignored. As pressure build to lower costs, one of the largest areas of unnecessary expense is data center operations.

Over the past several years, storage needs and the need to understand how to manage data have grown exponentially. At the same time, though, many small businesses don´t have a focused storage and data management strategy. This can lead to problems with decentralized data, faulty backup routines and much more. In this track experts will discuss the tools small businesses need to get growing archives of data under control.

Many enterprises have already begun to use MPLS services running at Layer 3 and have the option of adopting MPLS services running at Layer 2 or of using Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS). They also have the ability to use a new generation of managed services, some of which claim to make the Internet perform as well as a private WAN. This track will highlight the pros and cons of emerging WAN services to assist you in choosing the services that make the most sense for your environment.

Most enterprises are going down the IP PBX route — either installing the equipment on their own premises or contracting with a managed service from a hosting center. For many SMB firms Unified Communications (UC) is a priority and they are in the process of implementing some element of UC. However, few firms today have enterprise wide strategies for UC; the obstacles they face include cost justification, internal organizational issues and the need to deal with multiple vendors in a complex and constantly changing market. On the same hand, professionals need to get up to speed and develop a strategy for UC, as there is growing evidence that a successful UC deployment can improve a firm's competitive position and its bottom line. This track shall debate and demonstrate current best practices and how a phased implementation plan should be rolled out.

This shift, based on the emerging session initiation protocol (SIP) applications, which deliver multimodal connectivity and incorporate collaboration applications with voice devices. These integrated application clients provide an intuitive desktop that links collaboration applications like instant messaging, email, web conferencing and calendars with communication applications like the telephone.

Corporate demand for VoIP will continue to grow, and increase the pressure for IT and Telecom managers to implement smooth and successful transitions roll out plans to over converged voice and data networks. This track will help IT and Telecom managers identify the skills needed to implement and support IPT and train their IT staffs to understand the organizational gaps that must be prevented, while evaluating roles and responsibilities needed for IPT and equip IT departments to support this transition.

There are important decisions IT managers must make for a successful integration project: What is the goal of your project? What kind of integration do you need — is it a migration or do you need to do extract, transform and load (ETL)? Is it an application integration or B2B? What are the sources of your data and where is it headed? What resources — tools or skill — do you have or need to acquire? Will you build or buy? This track shall highlight the most relevant premises to be considered when searching for answers to remain aligned with the organization´s business goals.