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9.00 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
9.10 |
Can
Utility Computing change the way you do businss?
Utility Computing for Royalties |
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- If you’re just looking at the cost
are you missing part of the equation?
- Discover how major players in utility computing
go far beyond mere cost saving and actually
envisage new business models
- Find out how early adopters have actually
seen extracted value go up as costs have gone
down |
9.45 |
Virtualisation at Cigna: Balancing Tactical
I.T. Goals with Business Strategy
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- Do more with less? Discover the ways in
which you can save money through their shift
to an on demand strategy
- Understand how utility computing can improve
IT effectiveness and therefore business performance
- 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? |
10.20 |
Coffee
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10.50 |
Unbound Compute: Delivering on the on-demand
promise – now |
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- Understand the revolutionary concept of
“Network Attached Processing”
- Discover how to reduce cost and complexity
in data center management yet simultanesoly
deliver unlimited processing power on demand
- Learn exactly why most existing models on
the market require significant change or a
shift to an outsoured model |
11.25 |
Moving Towards Utility Style Computing |
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- 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. - Set
your business plan within an appropriate time-frame.
Understand when to move - and in which direction. |
12.00 |
Interactive Panel Session:
What are the key points of difference in the
main supplier strategies for Utility Computing? |
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Finding a leading IT supplier with an on demand
strategy is not difficult; discerning the
reality behind the PR and understanding the
difference between offerings is far harder.
In this no-nonsense panel debate, representatives
from the leading IT firms are asked to outline
how they see their strategy as distinct in
a crowded market.
This session will make sure you understand
where the leading suppliers compete and where
they co-operate. You will have the chance
to interact and question the assumptions they
make about what clients want.
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Lunch
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14.05 |
Sun and EDS: Changing the Conversation
- Partnering for a Truly Agile Utility Computing
Strategy |
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- Find out the motivations behind customers'
needs and how do they see utility computing
as an answer to their problems.
- Traditional value propositions in IT Services
won't achieve sustained business results -
see how Sun and EDS are changing the conversation
about utility computing to drive greater business
agility. |
14.40 |
Online CRM - A Case Study for Utility Computing |
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- Online CRM has recieved widespread PR but
how much difference does it actually make
to the bottom line?
- Which of the many online CRM providers should
you shortlist? Which ones should you take
a meeting with tomorrow? Benefit from the
expertise of an analyst assesement
- Learn what the suppliers don't tell you
- what are the typical end-user concerns? |
15.15 |
Coffee
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15.50 |
Utility computing: what’s at stake for
business and IT. Does I.T. still matter? |
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Is it possible to benefit from all of the
cost savings that utility computing brings
whilst eliminating all of the risk?
- Understand what the key players in the market
are doing to ensure utility computing security.
Have they gone far enough?
- How to calculate precisely the risk to your
business of embracing or ignoring utility
computing |
16.25 |
How to mass-deploy Utility Computing |
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- Benefit from the case study experience
of one company's deployment of utility computing
to over 6 million users
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Understand exactly how close we are to cost-effective
"anytime, anywhere" computing
- Learn how utlilty computing can be deployed
to dramatically reduce software licensing
fees
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17.00 |
Close
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Day 2 - 14th Oct |
9.00 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
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Case Study
Shifting to a utility pricing model at Motorola |
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- Why do we need to shift to a utility pricing
model?
- What are the metrics in place?
- What are the results so far?
- What does the future hold and how will the
project develop exponential benefits? |
| 9.45 |
Case Study
5 Years Experience paying off: The Power of
Grid Computing at GlaxoSmithKline |
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- How does grid computing drive your business
results in the long term
- Understand how to benefit from the lessons
learned
- It's about so much more than computing power:
it's about business results. Understand how
the detail of how to achieve them |
| 10.20 |
Coffee
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| 10.50 |
A Legal Perspective: Software-as-Service and
Utility Computing vs. Outsourcing Contracts |
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- Understand the ways in which the utility
computing trend is impacting outsourcing
contracts.
- Learn how to structure your deals in this
new environment - do not get burnt!
- Make sure you can protect your data in
the event of a supplier change. New trends
mean new pitfalls to be aware of!
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Delivering Efficient Computing |
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- Discover how you can optimise the efficiency
of your IT resources and simplify grid computing
- What is a realistic time-frame for developing
an adaptive IT infrastructure that infuses
your enterprise with competitive advantage?
- Which of the utility computing claims should
you ignore for the next 12 months and which
are valid?
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| 12.00 |
Interactive Panel Session:
Why will Utility Computing succeed where traditional
outsourcing and the ASP models fail? |
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- What are the key differences between Utility
computing, the ASP model and traditional outsourcing?
- Is it all hype or is anything changing?
The answers reveal more than you think about
the true nature of I.T. today
Listen and interact as a panel of industry
experts thrash out a consensus on the correct
road map to follow for a successful utility
computing strategy. |
13.00 |
Lunch
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14.30
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Interactive Sessions |
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Workshop 1: Transforming the Data Center
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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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Workshop 2: How does on demand computing
rewrite the rules for CRM? |
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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 |
17.00 |
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