DATA CENTER EVOLUTION

Registration and breakfast

Chairman’s opening remarks
Phil Albinus, Editor, WATERS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Jeffrey Birnbaum, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH

Plenary Address by Sybase
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development for Financial Services Industry, SYBASE, INC.

Plenary panel discussion:
A silver lining for cloud computing

• Getting management buy-in for cloud computing
• Using cloud, virtualization and HPC to support low-latency trading environments
• Security implications: Ensuring data protection within the cloud
• Evaluating the most effective application of grid and cloud computing

Moderator: Frank Greco, Independent Analyst
Geoff Guerdat, High Performance Computing Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH
Tsvi Gal, General Partner, Exigen Capital Private Equity
David Warm, Chief Technology Officer, Financial Services, PLATFORM COMPUTING
Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO, GRID DYNAMICS
Jeffrey Birnbaum, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development for Financial Services Industry, SYBASE, INC.

Morning break and opportunity to visit the exhibition

Chairperson's opening remarks:
Barry Novick, Global Data Center Manager, BLACKROCK

Presentation
Examining the case for remote data centers

• Onsite vs. remote data centers: which model suits your business?
• What is the most viable option for you? relocation; reinstalling, or reproducing?
• How cost-effective and secure are remote data centers?
• Managing the latency challenges in remote data centers
• Working with third party providers vs. in-house development
• Ensuring reliability in offsite data centers

Michael Salvador, Associate Director – Data Center and Computing Infrastructure, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE

Panel Discussion
Building the 21st century data center

• Which technologies are at the forefront for maximising data center efficiency and performance
• What are the best optimization tools to enhance data center performance?
• Implementing low-latency data architecture
• The importance of developing appropriate SLA’s
• Managing your data center: ensuring reliability and implementing failover systems with minimum recovery times
• Maintaining the integrity of the data center environment

Moderator: Kevin McPartland, Senior Analyst, TABB GROUP
Barry Novick, Global Data Center Manager, BLACK ROCK
Phil LoPresti, Independent Analyst & Former North East Data Facilities Manager, LEGG MASON
Madge Meyer, Executive Vice President of Global Infrastructure Services, STATE STREET CORPORATION
John Panzica, Vice President, Financial Services Practice, SWITCH AND DATA
Dileep Bhandarkar, GM & Distinguished Engineer for Global Foundation Services, MICROSOFT

Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition

Presentation
Using a configuration Management System (CMS) to improve data center management

• Growth of new servers unrelated to current server utilization
• Visibility of infrastructure life cycles
• Forecasting growth related to power, space and need

Jeff Rohr, Executive Director, Infrastructure Tools Platform Manager, UBS
Porter Sherman, Director, Services & Processes Improvement Manager, UBS

Panel Discussion
Capacity planning: accommodating the expected and unexpected

• Managing the exponential growth in data
• Future proofing: developing a data center infrastructure capable of meeting your future business demands
• The incremental cost-benefit relationship of new technologies
• Ensuring sufficient power and cooling requirements are provisioned for future generation technology
• Solutions to enable more IT per square metre
• Stress-testing your data center
• Responding to the demand for zero-latency
• The benefits of an ergonomic data center

Moderator: Emily Fraser, News Editor, WATERS
Venkat Raju, EVP, Strategy & Advanced Technology, ADAPTIVITY INC
Michael Salvador, Associate Director – Data Center and Computing Infrastructure, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
Thomas M. Brander, Vice President, Data Center Workstream, LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDING, INC
Keith Knuckey, Executive Director, Global Head of Data Center Strategy, UBS

Afternoon break and an opportunity to visit the exhibition

Presentation
Bleeding-edge data center solutions: blade servers and high density computing

• Evaluating the use of blade servers: what are appropriate workloads for use on blades? Generic compute farm vs. specialized applications
• Energy and space savings: high density blade vs. standard footprint servers
• Frequency of updating blade servers
• Development servers on demand: a proposal for using virtual servers on blades to create a self-service provisioning portal

Howard Halberstein, Vice President Sales & Trading UNIX, DEUTSCHE BANK

Plenary panel discussion:
Virtual reality: optimizing storage, application and network virtualization

• Analyzing emerging virtualization technologies and trends
• Benefits of virtualization; maximising your IT investment and efficiency
• Virtualization as a solution to enhance space availability
• Securing your virtual data center
• Virtualization management software
• Overcoming performance degradation whilst taking advantage of the benefits of the convergence of grid and virtualization

Moderator: Howard Halberstein, Vice President Sales & Trading UNIX, DEUTSCHE BANK
Joe Kennedy, Vice President of Architecture User-Experience Performance Measurement, STATE STREET CORPORATION
Ryan Bagnulo, Independent Consultant and former Head of Architecture and Innovation, WACHOVIA
Geoff Guerdat, High Performance Computing Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH

Chairman's closing remarks
Phil Albinus, Editor, WATERS