Information Protection: Architecting for a Data-Centric Future
Application Security: Process, Tools, and Architecture
Provisioning and Beyond: Maximizing Your Investment in Provisioning Technologies
SharePoint 2007: The Current Governance Nightmare—and Will It Get Better?
Notes from the Field: Social Networking in Action
Advanced Server Virtualization
Developing a Strategy for Enterprise Roles
REST Easy
Data Center Network Architecture
Active Directory Bridge Products: Getting More Value from the Windows Infrastructure
Advanced Network Security: Trends, Architecture, and Innovation
Building Applications for Deployment in the Cloud
Data Center Economics
Presenters: Nik Simpson, Drue Reeves, Richard Jones, and Jack Santos
Description: This workshop examines some of the key aspects in reducing costs in the data center. Data center consolidation, efficient power and cooling designs, data center staffing and planning are addressed. Reducing costs in the data center requires looking at all... more
Information Protection: Architecting for a Data-Centric Future
Presenters: Trent Henry, and Dan Blum
Description:
Network, host, and application controls will always be essential to an enterprise, but data protection is hitting a fever pitch of importance across the industry and will be a critical element of future security architecture. Information-centric ... more
(3 credits)
Application Security: Process, Tools, and Architecture
Presenters: Ramon Krikken, and Dave Muelhling
Description:
Attackers go for low-hanging fruit, which means they now often focus on applications instead of infrastructure. Risks include vulnerabilities allowing unauthorized database access, exploitation of design errors to manipulate business logic, and attacks on end-users via cross-site scripting.
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(3 credits)
Building Applications for Deployment in the Cloud
Presenter: Chris Haddad, and Richard Watson
Description: The Cloud promises to bring infinite scalability, unlimited availability, and increased responsiveness. Can applications realize cloud benefits through a simple off-premise server migration? Does Cloud require developers to re-write applications or port applications to proprietary Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments? This workshop will detail cloud application architecture patterns, ... more
Provisioning and Beyond: Maximizing Your Investment in Provisioning Technologies
Presenters: Lori Rowland, and Alice Wang
Description: Today’s volatile economy and budget restraints have forced organizations to consider how they can do more with existing technologies. Provisioning technologies, which were originally architected for basic user account management, are being extended to do password management, access approvals... more
SharePoint 2007: The Current Governance Nightmare—and Will It Get Better?
Presenters: Craig Roth, and Guy Creese
Description: SharePoint 2007 has been a runaway success, offering Office-centricity and ease-of-use to workers interested in storing and sharing information. However, its ease-of-use is also a snare and a delusion, in many cases fostering uncontrolled proliferation of thousands of SharePoint sites that have different navigation, taxonomy, and security models... more
Notes from the Field: Social Networking in Action
Presenter: Mike Gotta
Description: Enterprises are asking themselves: do social networks offer real value or are they just an excuse for workers to waste time? To cut through the hype, Burton Group conducted an extensive study to discover how organizations are addressing social networking, listening to 21 organization tell their stories in over 30 interviews involving around 65 people from business and IT departments... more
Advanced Server Virtualization
Presenters: Chris Wolf, and Richard Jones
Description: This workshop examines advanced server virtualization topics, delving into the technical and organizational elements that drive successful virtualization deployments. Key planning and migration challenges are addressed, with insights and examples regarding how to overcome the most difficult planning and deployment challenges. Organizations are faced with numerous virtualization planning considerations... more
Improving the Software Development Process
Presenter: Kirk Knoernschild
Description: Once upon a time, you could create software with nothing more than a text editor, file management commands, and a compiler. Not so any longer. Software development has become a very complex process. A little investment in development infrastructure can automate complex processes, reduce time-to-delivery, improve development outcomes, and help avoid the following situations... more
Developing a Strategy for Enterprise Roles
Presenters: Dave Muelhling, and Anthony Randall
Description: This workshop will cover how to develop roles for access control and how to evaluate role discovery and role management products. Roles will be examined from an IT perspective, focusing on the use of roles, rules, and policy to manage access rights. The course includes a discussion on experiences, results, and lessons learned from enterprises that have conducted role definition efforts. The workshop will ... more
REST Easy
Presenters: Anne Thomas Manes, and Richard Watson
Description: REST (Representational State Transfer) is gaining traction, but misunderstandings abound. REST is an architectural style, not a specific technology or protocol (e.g., HTTP or “Plain Old XML”). Renowned for its simplicity and elegance, REST defines a resource-oriented model that enables massive scalability and easy access to networked applications... more
Data Center Network Architecture
Presenter: Jack Stackhouse
Description: Looking three to five years out, data centers will experience rapid evolution to accommodate new technologies and requirements. Data and storage area networks will converge onto the same switch offering a la carte services that combine services (e.g., iSCSI and LAN traffic over the wire), or allow them to remain separate as ships in the night (FCOE)... more
Active Directory Bridge Products: Getting More Value from the Windows Infrastructure
Presenter: Mark Diodati
Description: Enterprises are deploying Active Directory (AD) bridge products, which have emerged as an effective tool for deriving more value from their AD infrastructure. These products (from Quest, Centrify, Likewise, and Symark) reduce costs by providing centralized identity management... more
Advanced Network Security: Trends, Architecture, and Innovation
Presenter: Phil Schacter, and Eric Maiwald
Description:
Security defenses must evolve as enterprise networks, business practices, threats, and compliance requirements change. Coarse-grained network controls such as centralized firewalls are becoming less effective. While firewalls will remain important, network security in general will place greater... more(3 credits)
