Super Sessions

Tuesday, June 12 and Wednesday, June 13
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Cloud Client Computing: Cisco VXI Meets the Clouds – Tales from the Real World.  We Did It.  Here’s How, and What We Learned

Presented by: Wyse

Join a panel of C-level executives from leading private and public sector organizations that implemented the latest Wyse cloud client computing solutions paired with Cisco’s VXI innovations. Learn about virtual desktops in stationary and mobile scenarios moving their users to private, public, or government clouds.  Learn how they did it, issues they faced, and lessons they learned.  Learn what worked, what didn’t, and what vendors and products to avoid at all costs.

Network and Application Performance Management: Intersection and Innovation

Presented by: OPNET

Application Performance Management (APM) is now a key IT discipline, ensuring that performance and availability of applications remain at the highest level. With the emerging prominence of cloud computing, mobile, and virtualization, the application is growing more susceptible to network performance issues. The application’s performance is only as reliable as the network that forms its backplane. Historically, managing application performance problems has fallen to the networking team by default. Now, they are more likely to assume the lead for APM by design. Organizations want network and application performance management solutions that work together seamlessly, presenting a unified view of the application and service delivery ecosystem. Important new and emerging technologies include run” time application dependency mapping, transaction tracing and modeling, federated analytics, and correlation across massive amounts of data. This presentation addresses these trends, drivers, and implications for the IT organization and in particular the networking team.

Speaker:

PJ Malloy is Chief Architect of Application Performance Management Solutions and Senior Vice President of R&D at OPNET Technologies, a leading provider for managing applications and networks. He is an expert in application performance analysis with more than a decade of experience. He previously worked at Los Alamos National Lab. He holds a degree in physics from Harvard University and has a number of patents related to application performance management.

New Ways to Architect Network and Application Visibility for Business Profitability

Presented by: Net Optics

Awareness of user experience is key to understanding the quality of application delivery from an end-user perspective, which is a potential proxy for understanding the health of your business. In this session Bob Shaw, Chairman and CEO of Net Optics Inc., and Sharon Besser, VP Technologies, will expose the top five secrets to architecting network and application monitoring for APM, security monitoring, and network performance monitoring in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.  These secrets are new ways to achieve total visibility of your entire network.

The Next Generation of Application Performance for the Cloud? Don’t Lose Visibility or Control of your Applications

Presented by: Visual Network Systems

The cloud frees your company from the burdens of building IT infrastructure but not from the responsibility of ensuring it all works.  You will still get the call when customers can’t buy products off your website or finance can’t close the quarter in your ERP system. What will you do next?

For years enterprises have worked with network providers based on clear physical demarcation points, segmenting responsibility.  That is no longer possible in today’s virtual world.  We need Virtual Demarcations and the Enterprise needs a toolset to provide overall performance visibility.

During our Supersession noted industry analyst Dr. Jim Metzler will review current industry trends and best practices in managing application and network performance in a Cloud or Virtualized environments. Our Visual Network Systems experts will share the newest technologies that provide visibility that reaches across groups and various network infrastructure components allowing for increased IT efficiency.

Speakers:

• Dr. Jim Metzler, Industry Analyst with Ashton, Metzler and Assoc.
• Doug Roberts, Managing Director Product Strategy, Visual Network Systems.