October 12th 2011
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 370 King Street, Toronto, ON.
You are invited to the 2011 Scalar Summit:
The Next-Generation Data Centre.
This free half-day conference will bring together Scalar's experts and our technology partners to present on best practice considerations, real life examples of NGDC implementation, and new technologies that impact the data centre. Attend the Scalar Summit to learn how to build a flexible, cost-effective and resilient data centre, built on the best technologies in the industry.
| AGENDA: |
| 8:00am |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 8:30am – 8:45am |
Introduction to the Next-Generation Data Centre |
| 8:45am – 9:15am |
Keynote: David Senf, Research Director, Infrastructure Solutions, IDC Canada |
| 9:15am |
Break |
| 9:30am – 12 noon |
Breakouts: Track 1 or Track 2 or Track 3 |
Track 1
Big Data |
| Big Data is big business, and it's allowing companies of all types and sizes to find new opportunities. Social media, weblogs, images, videos, maps, web search caches, geo-location tracking, RFID data, real-time transactions - these are just some of the many big data information stores available for organizations looking at driving intelligence out of their data in support of business decisions. Solutions which are optimized for performance, versatility, and managing big data volumes are key to delivering on this business driver. Attend this track to learn how to harness big data, deliver critical insight, and find new opportunities that give you the competitive advantage.
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Track 2
Virtualizing Everything |
| Workload mobility, process automation, and securing your cloud and virtualized infrastructures are the key data points being covered by our Virtualizing Everything track. Whether you're just starting down the virtualization path or you're well on your way to the cloud, these sessions will shed light on current and future trends in the compute and storage spaces.
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Track 3
The Network is the Computer |
| As organizations strive to get the most out of existing data centre assets, and as virtualization is deployed throughout the data centre, the network associated with it grows increasingly important. Attend this track to learn how next-generation networking and security enable data centre transformation.
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TRACK 1: AGENDA
9:30am – 10:00am
Big Data keynote: Michael Traves, Scalar Decisions
10:00am – 10:45am
Oracle Exadata
10:45am – 11:00am
Break
11:00am – 11:45am
EMC Greenplum and Isilon
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TRACK 2: AGENDA
9:30am – 10:00am
Virtualizing Everything keynote: David Briand, Scalar Decisions
10:00am – 10:45am
Vmware vCloud
10:45am – 11:00am
Break
11:00am – 11:45am
Flexpod
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TRACK 3: AGENDA
9:30am – 10:00am
The Network is the Computer keynote: Robin Mordasiewicz, Scalar Decisions
10:00am – 10:45am
IPv6 – Infoblox
10:45am – 11:00am
Break
11:00am – 11:45am
Next-Generation Firewalls – Palo Alto Networks
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