Full Agenda

08.30 Registration and breakfast
09.00 Chairperson's opening remarks: Rob Daly, Editor, DEALING WITH TECHNOLOGY
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 Iran Hutchinson, Product Manager, INTERSYSTEMS CORPORATION Michael Ryan, Director, Senior Architect, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
10.40 Morning break

11.10 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
11.50 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? Moderator: Michael Ryan, Director, Senior Architect, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH Uche Abalogu, Chief Technology Officer, HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS Mohammad Ayach, Information Technology Officer, ORBIMED ADVISORS LLC Michael Salvador, Data Center Manager, DRW HOLDINGS
12.40 Lunch break
13.40 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 Panel discussion Smarter spending: Where to invest in the next two years • The IT level: virtualization, grid, 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, Former IT Manager, formerly of SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT Thomas M. Brander, Executive Director, Regional Data Centers, NOMURA AMERICAS SERVICES Gregg Dudzinski, Vice President, Trading Technology & Operations, HUDSON SECURITIES Elven Riley, Director and Professor, STILLMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Antonio Zurlo, Technical SP, MICROSOFT, DEUTSCHE BANK
15.10 Afternoon break

15.40 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

16.20 Panel discussion Innovations in power management and hardware optimization • 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? • Arithmetic acceleration in hardware • Layers you can add to existing technology to get more out of it • Automated design systems: a vision for 2010 and beyond Moderator: Mark Ameres, Former IT Manager, formerly of SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT Uche Abalogu, Chief Technology Officer, HARBINGER CAPITAL PARTNERS Brad Spiers, SVP, COE Workstreams for High Performance Computing BANK OF AMERICA Barry Novick, Global Data Center Manager, BLACKROCK Thomas M. Brander, Executive Director, Regional Data Centers, NOMURA AMERICAS SERVICES

17.10 Chairperson's closing remarks - End of the conference