Full Agenda

08.30 Registration and breakfast

09.00 Chairperson's opening remarks

09.10 Keynote address by Subhra Bose
Chief Technology Officer, CREDIT SUISSE ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

9.50 Plenary panel discussion
Wrapped in cotton wool: how safe is your cloud?

Addressing the increased need for security and governance in your cloud
Ensuring you gain maximum benefit from your investment: evaluating the best technologies and providers
Understanding the total cost of owernership implications of moving to cloud computing
Evaluating the security in internal vs. external clouds
What applications and workload are suitable for cloud computing?

Moderator: Tsvi Gal, General Partner, EXIGEN CAPITAL PRIVATE EQUITY
Peter Ahrens, Managing Director, CTO of Global Technology Infrastructure, JPMORGAN CHASE
Raman Kannan, CTO, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES INC
Vijay Luthra, Head of Infrastructure, ARTIO GLOBAL INVESTORS

10.40 Morning break

11.10 Stream 1
Chairperson's opening remarks

11.10 Stream 2
Chairperson's opening remarks

11.20 Presentation
Managing your data center in a virtual world

Why is data center management software necessary?
What should be monitored and controlled?
Centralized NOC management or silo’s of discipline management?
What features in a data center management software suite are important?
Why is asset management important?

Michael Salvador, Data Center Manager, DRW HOLDINGS

11.20 Presentation
Six dimensions of infrastructure innovation & transformation

Three key areas of management focus: business, technology and people
Providing staff with tools, techniques and principles
Pursuit of excellence, flawless execution and zero defect delivery of IT infrastructure solutions
Applying key measures across the global platforms, disciplines, functions and locations

Madge Meyer, EVP Global Infrastructure Services, STATE STREET CORPORATION

11.50 Panel discussion
The 'virtual data center': How close are we?

The benefits and budget savings of going virtual
'Must have' components of a virtual data center
Data center in a pod: a viable solution for financial services firms? Examining the popularity vs. practicality
Disaster recovery: an easier task?

Uche Abalogu, Chief Technology Officer, HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS
Mohammad Ayach, Information Technology Officer, ORBIMED ADVISORS LLC
Michael Salvador, Data Center Manager, DRW HOLDINGS

11.50 Panel discussion
Technical implications of creating the 'perfect cloud'

Cloud enabling technology
How to make the cloud 'application aware' and challenges of migrating applications to your cloud
Implications of SOA and total reliance on your virtual storage
Flexibility in your disaster recovery strategy for interconnectivity issues

Raman Kannan, CTO, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES INC
Michael Ryan, Senior Architect & Director, BANK OF AMERICA

12.40 Lunch break

13.40 Panel discussion
Smarter spending: Where to invest in the next two years

The IT level: virtualization, grid and cloud - which developments are destined to drive future data centers?
The infrastructure and design level: in-aisle, row, overhead or free air cooling?
Modular data centers
Assessing the advantages of investing in virtual capacity vs. physical capacity

Moderator: Mark Ameres, Enterprise Architect, CITIZENS BANK
Thomas M. Brander, Head of Data Centers, Lehman Brothers Holdings
Gregg Dudzinski, Vice President, Trading Technology & Operations, HUDSON SECURITIES]
Elven Riley, Director and Professor, Stillman School of Business, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY

13.40 Panel discussion
Desktop virtualization

Will Windows 7 fuel desktop virtualization adoption?
The ROI of implementing VDI vs. the potential costs and risks
Application behavior, performance and consolidation levels, and hardware support models
Network infrastructure and Hypervisor innovations that enable dynamic allocation of resources

Neil Allen, Executive Director, Global Head of Windows Infrastructure, MORGAN STANLEY

14.30 Presentation
Data center eco-efficiency

Environmental / ecological context for data center eco-efficiency
Introducing a framework for data center eco-efficiency
Implementation experiences in existing data centers
Implementation experiences for new data centers

Andrew Stokes, Chief Infrastructure Architect, DEUTSCHE BANK

14.30 Presentation
Drivers and dynamics of desktop virtualization

Flexibility and agility opportunities
Windows 7 and application virtualization drivers
Proximity and latency considerations
User experience challenges

Neil Allen, Executive Director, Global Head of Windows Infrastructure, MORGAN STANLEY

15.00 Afternoon break

15.30 Plenary panel discussion
Innovations in power management

The case for using 400v instead of 200v
Reviewing the most efficient and cost-effective power management strategies
Analyzing the cost and power savings of virtualizing systems
The role of resource allocation in power management
The emergence of internal and external tradeable markets for compute power: how viable?

Thomas M. Brander, Head of Data Centers, Lehman Brothers Holdings
Barry Novick, Global Data Center Manager, BLACKROCK

16.20 Plenary panel discussion
Hardware optimization: gaining a competitive advantage

Battle of the acceleration solutions: GPU vs. Multicore
Arithmetic acceleration in hardware
layers you can add to existing technology to get more out of it
Automated design systems: a vision for 2010 an beyond

Uche Abalogu, Chief Technology Officer, HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS
Brad Spiers, SVP, COE Workstreams for High Performance Computing, BANK OF AMERICA

17.10 Chairperson's closing remarks

17.20 Cocktail reception