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Storage Economics
Today’s economic pressures require a conscientious effort on the part of IT executives to look at all areas of the storage infrastructure for potential efficiency improvements and cost reductions. However, storage volumes are growing at phenomenal rates, yet IT organizations cannot always justify ballooning storage budgets. Furthermore, there are many challenges associated in managing the rapid growth of data while keeping it secure, protected, compliant and resilient that is subject to a complex set of changing user priorities, SLA requirements and regulatory directives. Add in the budget and staff restrictions that are now commonly seen and the scale of the challenge are even greater. Faced with these restrictions, many customers can no longer buy storage capacity "by the yard" in order to meet the company's growing demands.
When considering the total cost of storage ownership, the combined impact of this diverse and sometimes interrelated set of operational costs typically far outweighs the initial purchase price. In order to make a successful application for investment funding, an IT executives will increasingly be required to submit an objective and detailed analysis of the projected return on the investment, taking into consideration both initial capital outlay and a comprehensive view of the life-cycle operational costs.
In this roundtable discuss with your executive peers:
- How applying an financial analytic approach of combining Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI), you can assess the financial value of a storage investment
- How to obtain a deeper understanding of the operational expenses in your storage infrastructure and establish a roadmap for future cost reductions
- Best practices associated in identifying where hidden, storage-related OPEX costs reside, how much potential cost savings are buried within the storage infrastructure, and the successful methods and activities used by IT departments around the world to ”harvest” these savings
Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator
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Brian Shield
Chief Information Officer
The Weather Channel
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Friday, December 4, 2009 |
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7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
7:30am -8:30am: Gourmet Buffet Breakfast
8:30am -10:00am: Interactive meeting |
Location: | The Georgian Club
100 Galleria Parkway Suite 1700 (17th Floor)
Atlanta, GA 30339
Complimentary self parking is available onsite. |
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Application Security's Role in FISMA Compliance
Over the last decade, federal agencies have aggressively adapted and
migrated paper-based processes to Internet service models. As a result,
virtually all federal information activity is controlled by software and
universally accessible via web applications. Not surprisingly, attacks
are now focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in these applications,
with the National Vulnerability Database reporting over 7,000 new
software vulnerabilities disclosed in 2007 alone. In order to achieve
FISMA compliance, federal agencies must ensure that software
applications have been tested for vulnerabilities that may compromise
their systems. Organizations that have met the challenges of FISMA have
learned that the mandate often requires greater business and cultural
shifts than technical ones.
Still, for organizations tasked with complying with FISMA, there are
many challenges. As some agencies have learned, putting NIST's
800-Series guidelines into effect requires more than simple security
scans or adherence to a schedule of periodic audit and reporting cycles.
Successfully meeting its requirements requires fundamental
cross-organizational changes and often intra-agency procedures that
often are challenging to affect.
At this executive roundtable the following will be discussed:
- How to employ proven security strategies such as Software
Security Assurance that provide federal organizations with a blueprint
for minimizing risks associated with exploitation of vulnerabilities in
software assets.
- Methods of ensuring stakeholder buy-in from program inception
to delivery
- How to identify the gaps that remain in the drivers for
federal government implementation of effective application security
programs and provide recommendations on how to close the gap.
- How to make application security initiatives a business
imperative a your organization
Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator
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Jerry L. Davis, CISSP, PMP
Deputy Chief Information Officer for IT Security
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ISE North America Government Executive of the Year 2009 Winner
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 |
Time: |
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Dinner and Roundtable Discussions |
Location: | INOX Restaurant
1800 Tysons Blvd., Suite 70
McLean, Virginia 22102
Complimentary valet and self parking available |
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ITs' Top Concern Still a Top Concern – Who Now Has Access To My Data
Despite economic pressures and reduced budgets, data security and managing who is accessing multiple systems remain top priorities for IT executives as more and more valuable and sensitive information is shared with employees, partners, contractors and outside entities. As a result, IT organizations are being pushed more than ever to look for more innovative ways to control costs and secure data while at the same time, improving their users’ experience.
While all organizations are feeling the pressure from top down, nowhere is the scrutiny by top executives seen more than in the healthcare environment which houses some of the most sensitive data anywhere. As healthcare organizations continue to expand their online collaboration with the spectrum of healthcare workers, providers, payors, and outside entities, their challenge continues to be focused on managing the access of information to only authorized users in order to not only comply with their own risk mitigation policies, but also with government mandates such as HIPAA.
With over $17 billion in federal government investment planned for healthcare IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, understanding who is accessing confidential information now leaps to the forefront as a critical success factor.
In this roundtable discuss with your peers:
- New challenges that IT executives are discovering in managing access by continuing to open up their systems to a collaborative environment
- Impact of the proliferation of endpoints and mobile devices on managing access
- Trends that will impact tomorrow’s environment of collaboration and who gains access to sensitive data
- Successes in improving the users’ experience in providing authorized access to multiple online environments and data sources
- Innovations in delivering a lower total cost of ownership in managing access to information
- Examples of how the healthcare industry is realigning to enable transparency in their supply chain to drive down costs
- Best practices planned for 2010 for strengthening security around system access and improving compliance
Guest Host Executive Roundtable Moderator
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Rafael Rodriguez
Associate CIO- Academic & Infrastructure
Duke Health
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
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3:30 PM - 7:00 PM
3:30pm – 5:30pm Interactive Discussion
5:30pm- 7:00pm Reception |
Location: |
The Umstead Hotel
100 Woodland Pond
Cary, North Carolina 27513
919-447-4000
Complimentary Valet Parking will be provided |
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