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9.00 | Chair’s Opening Remarks |
| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
9.10 | Utility Computing: A Tool for Effective IT & Business Management - The
Promise and Reality |
| - If you're just looking at the cost are you missing part of the equation?
- How can utility computing be used as a tool to create business value?
- Understand how utility computing can improve business effectiveness and performance |
| | Executive Vice President, Guardian Life, Dennis Callahan |
| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
9.45 | Sourcing: Powering the next transformation wave |
| - Understand the ways in which your organisation can achieve more, even within a constrained budget
- Benefit from the experience of lessons learned. What are the pitfalls to avoid?
- Learn how on demand computing is and sourcing is seen at Deutsche Bank and understand what opportunities are available for your own business units |
| | CIO, Cross Business Technology and Operations, Deutsche Bank, Gopi Chelliah |
10.20
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Coffee
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10.50 | Moving Towards Utility Style Computing |
| - Overcome the hype – understand what the benefits of utility computing will be and the current level of maturity and adoption.
- Understand how utility computing will allow high performance businesses to become far more flexible and agile.
- Learn how to establish an infrastructure transformation plan that will prepare you for a utility style computing model. |
| | Associate Partner, Accenture, Stephen Nunn |
11.25 | Orchestrating I.T. for Business |
| - Understand the next megatrend in enterprise computing: ‘Orchestrated IT’
- Discover how to ensure your IT infrastructure can be dynamically aligned with changing business priorities – on a second by second basis!
- Learn the vital role that the “policy-driven infrastructure orchestrator” product range will play in the IT strategy of the future Click here for fuller abstract |
| | Founder and CTO, Sychron Inc, Dr. Bill McColl |
| | Interactive Discussion Panel |
12.00 | What is the road map for utility computing? What are the key points of difference in the main vendor strategies? |
| - What rules are changing amongst the service provider community and what does this mean for your partner relationships?
- Grasp the radically new economics which underpin utility computing. This in no mere finance deal - do not get burnt!
- What opportunities for growth and increased value provision does the changing environment offer your company? |
| | Draw from the experience and explore the major points of difference between the key utility computing vendors |
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14.00 | Online CRM - A Case Study for Utility Computing |
| - Learn how the adoption of software as a service is growing
- Understand comparisons for vendors who sell and deliver on-premise CRM solutions vs. hosting a CRM solution within an existing utility computing environment.
- Hear how tools and processes are evolving for utility application platforms |
| | Executive Vice President, Tier 1 Research, Chris Hoffmann |
14.35 | Bladed Desktops: The Virtualization of Desktop Computers |
| - Learn how virtualization will provide the foundation for far flung changes in IT costs and business continuity.
- Discover how to drive end-user computing costs down and facilitate business continuity processes
- Benefit from an insight into the medium-term strategic perspective Merrill Lynch holds upon utility computing |
| | Vice-President, Merrill Lynch, David Cohen |
| | Case Study |
15.10 | Grid Computing Strategy at UBS - What is working and what is not? |
| - Is it possible to benefit from all of the cost savings that utility computing brings whilst eliminating all of the risk?
- Understand how UBS see utility computing developing in their operating model
- Learn how to utilise grid computing programs and learn from the experience of a company that has already embarked along an ambitious program |
| | Managing Director, UBS, Jeff Jones |
15.45
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Coffee
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16.15 | A Legal Perspective: Utility Computing Contracts vs Outsourcing Contracts |
| | - What is Utility Computing, legally, and does it differ from traditional outsourcing?
- How do you establish exactly what you want your provider(s) to do?
- How do you pick the right provider(s)?
- How can you tell when the price is right?
- How can you draft a long-term contract when you don't know what you want over the long term?
- How can you get yourself (and your data) out of the relationship? |
| | Attorney, Simmons & Simmons Trenité, Alan Steele-Nicholson |
16.50 | Why will Utility Computing succeed where traditional outsourcing and the ASP models fail? |
| - Understand the ways in which utility computing deals can be structured to favour the user
- Learn the ways in which the on demand computing model can drive customer satisfaction up - internally and externally
- What are the key metrics for judging your IT strategy and how is this changing?
- What is the best way to align your business and utility computing strategies? |
| | Principal, Industry Insights, Leif Eriksen |
17.20 | Close |
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| Day 2- 24th March |
9.00 | Chair’s Opening Remarks |
| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
9.05 | Utility Computing at Capital One: Understanding how to attain the business benefits - today! |
| - Discover the impact utility computing is making upon the business strategy at Capital One
- Key business performance metrics - what are investors looking for?
- Learn what the vendors must do in order to develop a winning partnership offering in the next 12 months |
| | Chief Technology Officer, Capital One, Roy Lowrance |
| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
9.40 | Qwest: The role of Utility Computing in Cross-Enterprise Transactions |
| - Understand what Qwest sees as the key ways to maximise the potential of variable computing
- Learn from a company to whom variable 'on demand' billing is second nature, the optimum ways to deal with 'on demand' pricing models
- Benefit from the lessons being learned at Qwest. What works and what does not? |
| | Executive Vice President, Qwest, Al Noor-Ramji |
| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
10.15 | Making the Most of a Utility Computing investment |
| - Develop a practical checklist of things to consider when embarking on their utility computing initiative
- Attain a broader & more detailed understanding of the role various technologies play in utility computing
- Understand exactly how to best quantify the ROI of a utility computing investment and implement a plan to automate their data center environment |
| | CTO and co-founder, Opsware, Dr. Tim Howes |
10.50
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Coffee
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| | Keynote Case Study & open perspective |
11.20 | Mips in the wall: On Demand Computing as the basis for a flexible strategy |
| - How to build all the essentials for a flexible enterprise
- ready to take advantage of growth opportunities in all circumstances.
- Learn step-by-step methods that avoid wasting time and money on ineffective strategies
- Identify the ways in which your company can increase it's flexibility - both at a business and an infrastructure level |
| | CIO, New York Police Department, James Onalfo |
11.55 | USA TODAY: Boosting flexibility and cost control - how can migration to a utility computing model help? |
| - Learn how utility computing can be best implemented in an highly varied and data intense business
- Discover what USA Today sees as the essential questions you must ask when judging when to migrate to an on demand model - and in which areas of your business
- What every executive needs to know to boost the bottom line when operating in a environment of multiple business units |
| | Vice President, USA Today, Adriaan Bouten |
12.30 | Discussion & Survey Feedback:
On Demand rewriting the enterprise landscape? |
| | Lead by Leif Eriksen, with additional representation from Computility (CTO, Brian Donaghy) |
13.00
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Lunch
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| Workshop 1: Transforming the Data Center |
| In theory, utility computing in the datacenter is simple and over 60% of Fortune 500 companies are now evaluating it. Most corporations live with a costly and ineffective 10% datacenter usage rate; by implementing on demand pricing and adaptive infrastructure models, utility computing is meant to change all that. The reality is more challenging, although the prize is being achieved by some. In this extremely practical and realistic workshop you will discover:
- The best way to adopt utility computing, for your particular environment: green field, evolution or outsourcing?
- How to both structure your datacenter partnerships correctly at the outset and how to mould existing arrangements so that the business results are protected
- What is the true state of readiness of the utility computing datacenter solutions being offered by the major datacenter vendors? Which smaller vendors should be explored and who should not?
- What is the roadmap for the utility computing datacenter? |
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Coffee
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16.00 | Workshop 2: How does on demand computing rewrite the rules for CRM? |
| As on demand computing models change the ways in which companies are able to interact with their customers, what techniques can companies employ to cement their relationships further? In this highly interactive and practical workshop you will learn about:
- When as well as how to build on demand CRM capabilities and how to choose the right ones for your customer base and sales-force.
- What are the opportunities and pitfalls of on demand CRM models? How to take advantage of the benefits and how to safeguard your company from the concerns.
- Gain expert insight into the most effective mix of traditional customer touch activities and the emerging utility computing strategies.
- How to re-model your sales strategy and lead follow-up activities
- Learning how to ensure the implementation of these models is a smooth process |
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