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9:00 am - 9:30 am
 | Jeffrey BirnbaumManaging Director and Chief Technology Architect, Merrill Lynch.
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As businesses become more reliant on huge compute footprints to enable growth, the total cost of compute must become scalable and approach zero marginal cost above capital expense. To achieve this goal, the 1980's PC style of systems management and architecture must be abandoned in favor of a stateless approach where a computer is just CPU and memory attached to a network without any state associated with it. The talk will differentiate Stateless Computing from Cloud Computing and explain the role of virtualization to further reduce costs. In addition, the discussion will focus on new highly efficient data center designs that can be achieved when a Stateless Computing Architecture is adopted.
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9:30 am - 10:00 am
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Today's healthcare environment is highly regulated, intensely competitive and resource-strained. To survive and thrive, hospitals are increasingly implementing a broad range of clinical information solutions designed to help caregivers provide the safest and highest quality care possible. For a healthcare IT solution to be viable, it needs to provide rock-solid reliability, responsiveness, flexibility and of course, cost-effectiveness. McKesson, the nation's largest healthcare IT company, deploys arrays of Intel®-based servers running the open-source Linux operating system to meet those requirements. The Linux and Intel platform delivers McKesson's hospital customers significant capital cost savings and mission-critical reliability for both the application layer of McKesson's proprietary Horizon Architecture, as well as the hospital's database layer. Broader, faster, more reliable access to clinical data means better patient care, particularly in the life or death situations experienced everyday in America's hospitals. Spratt will draw on real-world experience, actual product deployments, and case studies of hospitals adopting these technologies to illustrate the challenges and the benefits of implementing this strategy.
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| | Tuesday, August 5, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
As data centers evolve to be more services and collaboration oriented, the network plays an increasingly important role in consolidating, virtualizing and automating your data center. You will hear about how the network infrastructure is evolving and converging in the data center to help you drive down your capex and opex costs, how the network can help you implement and drive more value from your virtualized environment and how it can help you secure it.
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| | Wednesday, August 6, 2008
9:00 am - 10:00 am
 | |  | Mark SundayChief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Oracle Corporation.
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As the volume of information and transactions in data centers continues to grow exponentially, IT professionals are faced with myriad challenges - increased hardware, energy and cooling costs; real estate facility and space expansion costs; labor productivity issues; resource underutilization; and scalability, reliability and availability issues. Meanwhile, business demands seamless integration of mergers and acquisitions, increased service levels and lower cost of operations.
In this keynote, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven will share best practices for leveraging technologies such as virtualization, Linux, system life cycle management, service level management, and grid computing for the next generation data center. They will explore how Linux and virtualization offer the agility to be proactive in enabling growing business needs and performance demands for the data center.
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| | Wednesday, August 6, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
While the Free and Open Source movement is several decades old, IBM is now only finishing its first decade of involvement and business development in the area. Nevertheless, we've learned many lessons about how to work collaboratively with the communities and how to transform our business models. In this talk I'll review some what we've learned but also share what we see when we stare into our crystal ball in regard to Linux, software, hardware, services, open standards, intellectual property, and free and open source in general.
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| | Thursday, August 7, 2008
9:00 am - 10:00 am
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The growing need to transform static datacenters into dynamic delivery centers is moving many IT organizations to take a closer look at enabling technologies and processes. Data centers have historically been static warehouses of applications and data, oriented more toward long-term production projects than highly-responsive, on-demand service delivery. Unfortunately, this outdated model makes it extremely difficult to keep pace with today's fast-paced business environment where companies must contend with a constant barrage of new applications, new devices, new competitive pressures and an increasingly mobile workforce. In an era where businesses run on applications, the ability to deliver applications and desktops to any user, anytime, anywhere from a secure central location is rapidly becoming a core focus for most IT organizations. This keynote will discuss how cloud computing, virtualization and SaaS can delivery revolutionary change and efficiency to the data center.
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| | Thursday, August 7, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
What do Iron Man, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars the Force Unleashed, Transformers, and Star Wars the Clone Wars have in common? These spectacles and many others have all been made possible in large part due to the incredible computing, network and storage infrastructure that powers Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts and Lucasfilm Animation. Join Lucasfilm Director of IT, Kevin Clark, as he takes you on a behind-the-scenes look at the technology behind the magic blending technical information with incredible visuals from the creation of the company’s most recent work. You will learn about computing at the cutting edge and hear Kevin answer the most frequent question asked: "how did you land this incredible job?!"
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