Program Description:
This comprehensive 1/2 day seminar covers the increasingly related topics of private/public cloud architecture, security/compliance and storage/backup. There is a VMware keynote, plus expert speakers from Dell, HP, Kaspersky and other top firms - scroll down to see the agenda - who deliver concise, technical, educational and complementary talks. Content is pre-approved by Angelbeat and past attendees to maximize learning; click here to download presentation guidelines that are followed by all speakers. Click here to read NY Times article on Kaspersky uncovering $300 million stolen from banks by hackers.


As one Walmart attendee states, "Of all the seminars I attend, your format is by far the best. Brief informative talks from vendors, followed by one-on-one time at their booth to find out more. I am out of the office for less than a day yet I have access to all the different solutions. This year I will follow up with two vendors." As another IT Director commented, "Thanks for hosting a very informative meeting with vendors that tied in well; it was an integrated picture of technologies that work together to create a complete infrastructure solution for the workplace."

Join your peers from the Church of Latter Day Saints, State of Utah, Intermountain Health, BYU, Questar, Academy Mortgage, AECOM, GE, DISA, Wells Fargo, Prime Insurance, Utah Medical Insurance, Jacobsen Construction, England Logistics, Deseret Management, Deseret Power, Unisys, Medicity, Kirton & McConkie, Snell & Wilmer, City of Salt Lake City, City of Centerville, Salt Lake City Schools, US Air Force and many more organizations who are confirmed attendees.

Every attendee receives meals including a full hot lunch (click here to see the delicious menu), 6 month free subscription to Kaspersky's retail anti-virus software, complimentary self-parking and Wi-Fi, plus 4 CPE credit hours towards your CISSP or other certification. There are drawings for a tablet, gift cards and other prizes at the end. Given the recent Sony and Anthem breaches, you definitely want to attend and learn how to protect your confidential data, stored onsite or in the cloud, accessed via wired or wireless network, from any device, against the latest threats.


7:30 - 8:45: Registration, Breakfast, Exhibit Area Open, Peer Networking, Product Demonstrations

8:45 - 9:00: Top Five Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity with Kaspersky
Corporate cybercrime is usually blamed on outsiders, but sometimes employees can represent the biggest threat to your organization’s IT security. In his presentation, Kaspersky’s Mark Villinski will provide practical advice for educating your employees about cybersecurity, covering topics including:

- How to create efficient and effective security policies
- Overview and statistics of the current threat landscape
- The importance of keeping your employees updated about the latest threats and scams
- Security solutions that can help keep your systems updated and protected

Kaspersky is the world's largest privately held, and among the top four security vendors, operating in 200 countries and protecting 400 million users.

9:00 - 9:20: Top Ten Checklist for Securing Your Network with Accelops:
Anthem, Sony, JP Morgan Chase, Target … Seemingly every day, another large and sophisticated company suffers a major security breach. In this era of DevOps, software-defined everything, and the Internet of Things, current security tools are increasingly vulnerable and (as these examples demonstrate) cannot prevent attacks by sophisticated hackers. There is hope however….. During this session featuring Accelops, organizations of all sizes will learn how to prevent data center attacks and improve overall network/infrastructure performance by:

- Cross-correlating security and performance events
- Using synthetic transactions to proactively monitor business services
- Creating baselines using machine learning to automate remediation
- Using auto-remediation to correct known errors
- Mapping hardware and software to your business services

9:20 - 9:40: Next Generation Identity Management, Two-Factor Authentication, Password-Less Secure Access with Entrust Datacard
Secure identities are critical to all digital transactions. But daily headlines reveal that dated authentication approaches not only fail to protect us -- they also prohibit business growth due to complex management requirements. While some see mobile, cloud and big data as introducing new risk, these actually form the basis for a more secure and convenient "password-less" approach of next generation trusted identities that can lead innovation and business transformation.

In this session Ruben Garcia from Entrust Datacard will cover:
• The growing challenge with identities and impact to the business
• Mobile, cloud and big data influence on identity
• The impact of next generation trusted identities on improving employee and customer-facing business processes and transactions

9:40 - 10:00: Real-Time Endpoint Security, Management and Control with Tanium
Tanium gives organizations of all sizes the unique power to secure, control and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. Serving as the “central nervous system” for enterprises, Tanium empowers security and IT operations teams to ask questions about the state of every endpoint across the enterprise in plain English, retrieve data on their current state and execute change as necessary, all within seconds. With the unprecedented speed, scale and simplicity of Tanium, organizations now have complete and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to more effectively protect against modern day threats and realize new levels of cost efficiency in IT operations.

10:00 - 10:20: HP: Primary Storage Trends, Challenges and Solutions
HP will discuss the exponential growth in primary storage, then offer solutions to address the challenges of cost-effectively satisfying data storage requirements.

10:20 - 10:40: Dell Backup/DR/Data Protection for Physical, Virtual, Cloud Platforms, with Sanity Solutions
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity is vitally important in today's always-on world. But when data can be at rest, in use or in motion - and stored on physical, virtual and/or private/public/hybrid clouds - a cost-effective and manageable solution can be very challenging.

Dell will discuss how organizations of all sizes can meet this challenge, through its broad portfolio of scalable solutions that protect data and deliver rapid recoverability across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its automated processes for validating and verifying the integrity of data helps ensure the success of every recovery. They will also cover:
- Trends in data protection/DR/backup and how cloud, offsite hosting, big data, security/compliance requirements and an increasingly mobile workforce affects business continuity plans
- The value of a common data protection/DR/backup platform that seamlessly and consistently covers legacy physical servers plus data stored on virtual/cloud platforms

Coffee/Refreshment Break, Product Demonstrations, Exhibit Area Open, Peer Interaction

11:15 - 11:35: Backup/Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity for VMware and Hyper-V with Veeam
Today's IT requirements have changed and “3C” legacy backup problems—high costs, increased complexity and missing capabilities—are no longer acceptable for any organization. Veeam provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable backup, recovery and replication solutions that are Built for Virtualization™ and the Cloud, work on both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, and are a perfect fit for the modern data center.

Their solution helps organizations meet RPOs and RTOs, save time, eliminate risks and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Built-in advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities help organizations of all sizes increase administrator productivity and mitigate daily management risks, plus its Management Pack™ (MP) extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft.

11:35 - 11:55: ROI of Performance Management with Network Instruments
Network downtime and delay can cause companies to lose billions of dollars every year. According to an Aberdeen Group Report, the average downtime cost per hour in 2012 was over $150,000. Application challenges wreak havoc with their complex and highly distributed nature. When something goes wrong, it is often difficult and time-consuming to find the root of the problem. Technologies like cloud and virtualization can compound these issues by reducing visibility even further, making it critical for companies to take a proactive role in their network monitoring solutions.

In this session, you'll learn monitoring strategies for a variety of technologies, how to utilize reports and views associated with Performance Management solutions, troubleshooting workflows and perhaps most importantly, building an irrefutable business case for better Performance Management in your organization.

11:55 - 12:15: IT ReDefined from ClearCenter
Learn from Utah-based ClearCenter about how it's redefining the way IT is delivered by helping to intelligently integrate open and closed technologies for IT environments.

ClearCenter provides award-winning products and solutions built for ClearOS & ClearVM consisting of applications, services, support, hardware, and virtualization, many delivered by a next generation marketplace built for ClearOS. ClearOS is deployed in 300,000+ locations around the globe in 150+ Countries. ClearCenter has offices in New Zealand, Canada, India and locally in Salt Lake City.

12:15 - 12:45: VMware Software Defined Data Center, Evolution to a Software Defined Enterprise
With VMware's Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), IT organizations can achieve critical results, or outcomes, with unique capabilities that help them respond to business requests quickly and cost-effectively, without compromising security, control or choice. Learn from VMware how your organization can take its virtualized platform to the next level, achieve the following high-value outcomes, and continue on the road to a completely Software Defined Enterprise (SDE).

Data center virtualization, standardization and consolidation: Dramatically reduce capital and operational expenditures while bringing hardware choice, flexibility and extensibility to the hybrid cloud. Support traditional and new application types such as big data and mobile. Extend to the hybrid cloud, with unit costs equal to or lower than public cloud, so capital expenses can be reduced up to 70 percent.

Streamlined and automated data center operations: Increase operational control while optimizing and improving infrastructure performance, capacity, health and costs. Leverage third-party data integration, proactive analysis and smart alerts to monitor performance plus improve insight and response. Extend its intelligent operations management console across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, covering vSphere, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services and physical hardware. Leverage predictive analytics to correlate data from applications to storage, leading to policy-based automation and improved data center performance, health and capacity management.

Security controls native to infrastructure. Tie network and security services to specific workloads, since SDDC is based on virtualization of layers 2 to 7. Enable micro-segmentation and more granular control of security settings at the infrastructure level.

Hardware and hypervisor agnostic network virtualization. Provide maximum flexibility to capitalize on existing network infrastructure investments and improve the ratio of security to level of effort.

High availability and resilient infrastructure. Protect all data and apps, across the data center and any platform, to guarantee business continuity and ensure regulatory compliance, through a hardware-agnostic platform. Automate application recovery through flexible policy enforcement to achieve high availability locally and disaster recovery across sites or to the hybrid cloud. Extend protection to all virtualized apps in the data center.

Application and infrastructure delivery automation Deliver infrastructure, plus traditional and new applications, in minutes across private and public infrastructures, while being hardware, hypervisor and cloud platform agnostic. Build a true self-service hybrid cloud that instantly scales up or down based on business needs.

Full Hot Lunch (click here to see the delicious menu), Exhibit Area Open, Peer Networking, Product Demonstrations

End of Event, Raffle Prize Drawings for Gift Cards and other great items!

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