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Panel 6110: Security: From the Inside Out and the Outside In!

Moderator: Amrit Williams, Featured Research Director, Security, Gartner

Rapid technology advances and emerging business initiatives such as web-based services and service oriented architectures are placing new demands on enterprises to securely support a diverse, mobile and wireless, global workforce.

Converged wired and wireless networks, sophisticated mobile devices, ecommerce with its sometimes opaque perimeters and a loss of visibility and control over devices accessing the network, are sending IT departments in search of new technologies and processes that address an increasingly complex, hostile and vulnerable digital environment.  How can the virtualization of Security Capabilities become reality?

This panel will explore strategies for improving organizational security,  network access control, mobile device protection and intricate network management for organizations and their mobile, wireless workers around the globe.

Panel 6120: Storage Networking - Information Accessibility 

Moderator: Brian Babineau, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

Information Accessibility:  Distributing Data to the Right People, At the Right Time, At the Right Cost
Today, large enterprises spend billions of dollars on storing and managing information.  It is the CIO’s  job to ensure that this data is available to all corporate users and that back- up is guaranteed in case of corruption or disaster.  As more corporate employees work from the road, remote or home offices around the globe, enterprises need to give access and distribute centralized corporate information to these individuals.

Remote employees also create vast amounts of corporate intellectual property on cell phones, PDAs and laptops.Their data must be also protected, secured and shared – just like data generated by centralized business applications.

Executives from the storage and information management industry will discuss today’s challenges storing, protecting and sharing data, how they have overcome them, where the bottlenecks are and what technologies will be needed in the future to distribute data to the right people, at the right time, at the right cost. 

Panel 6150: Enterprise Wireless in the Converged World

Moderator: Allyn Hall, Director Wireless Research Group, In-Stat

A major issue facing 21st century enterprises concerns the deployment of next generation mobile information technology.  Emerging wireless communications offerings, such as fixed mobile convergence (FMC), IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), SmartPhones and other PDA-like devices, along with the ubiquitous deployment of wireless broadband networks, present the CIO with a game-changing productivity opportunity.  Alas, as with most such opportunities, these new offerings also engender a host of dilemmas and challenges.

The opportunity is to transform the enterprise into an on-demand business through instant access to relevant information, collaboration across geographies, and the security and reliability of an always-on and ubiquitous communication infrastructure.  Also, over the past few years, system and telecom costs have fallen dramatically, and IT software solutions are abound.

Challenges arise from both the uncertainty of the technologies and from the nature of wireless connectivity and portable devices.  Exacerbating an already complex situation are the dilemmas posed by lack of standards and plethora of choices.  

The opportunity and challenge for the carriers, and their equipment providers, is to offer services that address the concerns of the CIO, while providing the productivity advances demanded by the 21st century enterprise.  Enterprise mobility continues the information revolution which began with the PC and modern software; as before the prize will belong not to the best technologies, but to those offerings which provide practical solutions and measurable competitive advantages.

Vendors of enterprise and carrier equipment, access devices, and one carrier will explore and debate important issues and suggest ways for the  next generation mobile enterprise: 

What is the best way to achieve mobility of employees without compromising security? How best to transform voice and data networks into a single, converged IP network? When to incorporate service provider-based virtual private networking services with internal systems?  As the corporation learns to depend on mobile services, how to specify and ensure the quality of service and network performance required by these new services?