New York Programme
DAY ONE
MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2008
09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:30 BEST PRACTICE TO MANAGING THE GRID
- Challenges to managing large distributed environments
- Need for new management techniques and tools for grids
- Management’s rule in evolving grid to enterprise utility
- Self healing grids: reflexive vs. cognitive management
- Management ensures business SLAs and usage
- How to get there
Michael Di Stefano, Founder, Partner, INTEGRASOFTWARE
11:00 MORNING BREAK
11:30 GROWING THE GRID – EFFECTIVE CAPACITY PLANNING
- Aligning IT with business demands
- Monitoring IT activity and allocation
- Looking at hybrid models that utilize cloud computing
- How to align architecture to the next cost model
- Deliver next generation application services, e.g. SOA, Web 2.0, etc.
Ivan Casanova, VP, Product Marketing, DATASYNAPSE
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 DATA STRATEGIES- FROM CACHING TO DATA GRIDS
- The low latency challenge- how to avoid data starvation in your application
- Boosting performance
- Ensure synchronization
- Strategies for scaling out the application tier
- Going beyond caching to data grids, what’s the difference?
- Common features of a data grid
- Optimizing data grids
- Managing data in a distributed environment
Bjorn Boe, Regional Specialist, Oracle Coherence, ORACLE
15:30 AFTERNOON BREAK
16:00 INFRASTRUCTURAL CHALLENGES TO BUILDING A DATA GRID
- How do you utilize resources in a more effective way
- Implementation challenges of event processing
- Creating real-time infrastructure
- Data centre requirements to meet growth in grids
- Utility computing – performance and efficiency
Mike Wiener, Capacity Planning Engineer, BANK OF AMERICA
17:30 END OF DAY ONE
DAY TWO
TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2008
09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:30 INTEGRATION WITH GRID COMPUTING
- Addressing the problem of new applications and business services take too
long in the “queue”
- Data center evolution
- Today’s challenges include little or no prioritization – cannot dynamically
align resources based on business policies or demand
- Grid computing delivers high performance and enables extreme SOA
- Virtualization creates additional resource supply
- Must meet more applications, more users, and more demand
Ivan Casanova, VP, Product Marketing, DATASYNAPSE
11:00 MORNING BREAK
11:30 HARNESSING IDLE COMPUTE CAPACITY
- Workstation idle capacity
- Server idle capacity – an alternative to consolidation
- Platform dependency issues
- Performance statistics and tuning recommendations
- The Credit Suisse implementation
Philipp Molzer, AVP, Derivatives IT, CREDIT SUISSE
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 DESIGNING LOW LATENCY NETWORKS TO SPEED IO BOUND GRID WORKLOADS
- Bandwidth versus latency
- Unique requirements for extreme transaction processing systems
- Calculating traffic that is being encountered on the grid
- Emerging next generation network technologies
- Planning with network engineering, application developers and business
analysts
Ryan Bagnulo, CEO, Bagnulo LLC, INNOVATION CONSULTANT & IT ARCHITECT
15:30 AFTERNOON BREAK
16:00 ADDRESSING SECURITY ISSUES ON THE GLOBAL GRID
- New security challenges when the storage tier is a virtualised data grid
that is loosely coupled from the compute grid
- Emerging security technologies that integrate using open standards such as
XACML and 802.1Q VLAN tags
- Identity management and entitlement management
- Authentication, authorisation and audit logging for all grid workloads
- Creating network layer trust domains to simplify security policies
- Implementing an integration service bus for rapid secure trust domains
between various application in the grid
- Certification authorities & encryption technology multi-factor trends
for confidentiality, integrity and availability
Ryan Bagnulo, CEO, Bagnulo LLC, INNOVATION CONSULTANT & IT ARCHITECT
17:30 END OF COURSE
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