Now more than ever, your job depends on delivering ever-higher levels of performance, uptime and security for a variety of users in the office, at home and on the road. Today, users want more than just pictures or text on static Web sites. They expect audio and video served up dynamically to match their stage in the sales cycle, the speed of their connection or their choice of handheld device. Remember when assuring application performance meant just tweaking the servers and network switches within your own firewall? Today, your servers and switches could be located in the office, in another city or state or somewhere in the Web “cloud”.
To help you decipher the best strategies and practices to deliver enterprise applications in this new world, Computerworld invites you to interact with industry leaders and your peers at our IT Management Summit as we discuss the latest strategies for leveraging the cloud to optimize enterprise application and website delivery. Our tightly focused sessions and case studies will help you understand the latest strategies and tools for cost-effectively optimizing Web content and application delivery worldwide. Between sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to network and focus on areas of interest with both the experts and your peers.
Why You Should Attend
You’ll learn from expertly delivered presentations and case studies. In one focused morning, you’ll rapidly gather answers to the most critical questions IT executives have about maximizing web performance.
Agenda
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration and Networking Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Derek Hulitzky, Vice President, Content Development, Computerworld & IDG Enterprise |
| 8:45 - 9:30 a.m. |
So You Think You Have an Application Delivery Strategy? The Impact of the Internet and Cloud Computing
What makes application delivery challenging, and how can IT organizations implement a framework to overcome these challenges? What are the related opportunities and concerns introduced by the promise of cloud computing? How can you optimize application performance with various approaches involving WAN optimization controllers, application delivery controllers, and Internet‐based application delivery services? Find out this and more in this informative presentation from a recognized expert in the field.
Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler and Associates
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| 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. |
Reaping the Benefits of Web Application Optimization
Find out how a Fortune 100 electronics retailer has optimized their online portal and, in the process, is realizing ongoing benefits including an improved customer experience, increased functionality and more control over costs related to infrastructure and growth.
David Sanda, Client Executive Manager, Verizon Application Management Service Delivery
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| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Managed Internet Application Delivery Services
IT executives are increasingly being asked to evaluate the cloud to improve business agility while lowering operating costs. Whether it is for a corporate website, web‐enabled business processes, SaaS, SOA, cloud‐computing — everyone is talking about how the Internet cloud presents new opportunities for delivering enterprise applications and services. Yet very little is known about the cloud itself. How does it work? How does it already play a role today? What new challenges are introduced in terms of application performance, scale, availability and security? During this presentation, you’ll learn more about the cloud, the state of the Internet and how it impacts your enterprise applications and website.
Neil Cohen, Director, Application Performance Solutions, Akamai
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| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. |
Networking Break
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| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. |
Improving Agility While Containing Costs with Application Acceleration Services
For many application and web intensive environments, finding agility with existing infrastructure can be a daily challenge. At the same time, customers and users place demands on the business that have traditionally forced the need for increased investment. In this case study, find out how one company found agility while containing costs by implementing application acceleration services.
Richard Wehrle, Vice President, Analytics and Product Development, DirectEmployers Association
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| 11:30 - 12:15 p.m. |
Best Practices in Enterprise Application and Website Delivery
Moderated Panel Discussion
In this highly interactive session, we’ll pose critical questions to our expert panel. Audience participation will be encouraged.
Moderator:
- Derek Hulitzky, Vice President, Content Development, Computerworld and IDG Enterprise
Panelists:
- Neil Cohen, Director, Application Performance Solutions, Akamai
- Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler and Associates
- David Sanda, Client Executive Manager, Verizon Application Management Service Delivery
- Richard Wehrle, Vice President, Analytics and Product Development, DirectEmployers Association
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Register now for this IT Management Summit.
Complimentary registration is restricted to qualified IT end-user managers and executives only. |
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