Featured sessions

Business relies more and more on IT, which increasingly represents a competitive advantage in an eWorld. Yet it also seems that IT environments are facing a rapidly-growing number of catastrophic risks such as weather-related disasters including physical, human, economic, and cyber. That’s where HP Business Continuity & Availability solutions can play such a key role. These solutions encompass both technologies and services to holistically deal with operational risk, help ensure availability, and provide regulatory compliance.  Find out how these solutions can help you mitigate risk across the entire IT infrastructure and improve the quality of service IT provides to ensure business availability.    

Sample topics:

• Practical solutions for Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Architectures for High Availability and Disaster Tolerance with HP Serviceguard
• Multi-Site, Disaster Tolerant solutions
• Introduction to Disaster Tolerance
• Virtualization and DR: A Collaborative Approach to the Problem

IT is increasingly measured by the quality of services it offers and the value it can add to the organization. HP Business Management solutions enable IT organizations to manage the business of IT.  Discover the very practical and powerful ways these solutions can help your organization lower IT costs and optimize IT resource allocations, as well as align IT activities and prioritize the distribution of IT resources according to business metrics. 

Sample topics:

• Leveraging the Collaborative Customer Conversation
• Creating your Business “Menu”
• IT Shared Services—Hidden Treasures

Today’s database technologies–utilized at their best–can provide your business with a true competitive edge. Yet as this technology has become more powerful, making sure it delivers the results your business needs within the realities of your environment has become a greater challenge. What is often needed is an approach that consistently optimizes database performance while minimizing costs and risks that can be associated with these tools. Database experts in a range of areas are ready to share their strategies on how to make sure your database technology keeps pace with your organization and the challenges you face.   

Sample topics:

• Optimal HP-UX Management for an Oracle Database Server Environment
• Oracle Database Migration between the HP 9000 and HP Integrity Platforms
• SQL Server 2005 for Windows on Integrity
• HP BladeSystem c-Class—Ideal Platform for Database Grids
• Linear Data Warehouse Scaling with HP Integrity Servers & SQL Server 2005

Your business and markets are evolving quickly. Technology is moving ahead even faster. Find out what lies ahead and how these emerging technologies can make a difference in the way you do business.  Subject matter experts from HP and its partners will provide an overview of key emerging technologies—what they can do—and what they can do for you. 

Sample topics:

• Virtual Client Landscape
• Microsoft Enterprise Technologies Update
• HP Halo Collaboration Studio
• SOA and Web 2.0—Making it Real on HP-UX

These are exciting times for high performance computing. Supercomputing performance is now accessible and affordable to more research teams in more applications areas, and is fostering more, better and faster scientific discovery around the globe. HP is at the forefront of this expansion -- advancing the power of computing with scalable solutions for high performance computation, data management, and visualization. Find out first hand how HP’s solutions deliver innovation, choice and performance to a growing range of HPC users around the world … and exactly what these solutions can do for you.

Sample topics:

• Comparing HP Servers and Processors for HPC applications
• Build HPC clusters with BladeSystem c-Class
• HP's HPC Strategy and Solutions
• HP-MPI: Design Features, Tuning Techniques and Performance Study
• Making Your Mission Critical Applications Grid Enabled

Enterprises worldwide are investing in BTO products to lower costs, improve delivery time and reduce risk for their most strategic business initiatives, including business agility, IT/business alignment , business application deployments and upgrades, compliance, IT automation, and IT centralization and consolidation.  HP Software delivers a complete portfolio of BTO products through a set of nine optimization centers, which make up the industry's most comprehensive suite of IT management software.  This is an excellent chance to find out exactly how the HP approach can help make sure that every dollar invested in IT, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets your business goals. 

Sample topics:

• Creating Business Aligned Change Management
• Business Impact Analysis for Better IT Management
• Extracting Performance data from OV Performance Agent
• Utilizing IT Analytics & Scorecards: the Basis for Continuous Service Improvement
• Systems Performance Analysis & Characterization using HP Management Software—Tips & Techniques
• Service Driven Operations—Improvements with Operations 8 for Windows

For companies seeking the optimal UNIX systems to run their applications, the combination of HP-UX 11i and HP platforms delivers outstanding performance, plus capabilities that can help you achieve application scalability and the highest return on IT investment in the industry for enterprise UNIX. Sessions will focus on how HP-UX 11i can make secured availability, flexible capacity, and simplified management a reality in your environment. You also get a glimpse at how the new HP-UX 11i v3 sizzles with performance that turbo-charges your applications. 

Sample topics:

• HP-UX Operating Environment Futures
• Sizing & Performance with HP-UX Encrypted Volume & File System
• HP-UX Performance Cookbook
• HP-UX Security: Tools, Tips, and Best Practices

Enterprises rarely grow in a controlled fashion. Many also lack defined change, configuration, or asset management processes and inventory-tracking facilities. As a result, they may have little grasp of—or control over—the hundreds of elements that make up their IT infrastructure. IT Consolidation offers a proven approach to remedy that situation by analyzing the current state of an enterprise, producing a business case, and designing a target state to lower costs, increase agility, and improve service delivery. This is a great opportunity to find out about the benefits of IT Consolidation—and how HP’s Management of Change best practices help ensure a smooth transition to the target state environment with minimal risks and maximum results.

Sample topics:

• Why Server Virtualization is cost effective in the Data Center
• IT Consolidation, Virtualization and the Impact on TCO
• Virtual Server Environment Technical Overview
• Migrating a Working Data Center from PA-RISC to Itanium, part 2 of the Mitel Story
• HP’s Next Generation Data Center in Action

HP was the pioneer in imaging and printing technology and remains the #1 imaging and printing manufacturer with over 300 million printers sold worldwide. So it’s no surprise that HP offers the best end-to-end print solutions for your business.  This track will offer sessions that will show you how you can put these solutions to work to help you lower costs, improve IT, and just communicate better and more effectively with all of your target audiences. 

Sample topics:

• Using HP Print Assessment Tools to Optimize Output Infrastructures and Costs
• Streamlining Your Print Strategy with the HP Universal Print Driver
• Securing Your Print Infrastructure
• Web JetAdmin 10.x: The Evolution from Version 8.x and What It Means to IT
• Scalable Print and Edgeline Page-Wide Array Technology: How Do They Work, and Why You Should Care
• The Technical and Business Case for Proactively Managing Print Assets
• Harnessing the Power of HP Document Capture Technology

HP has developed very specific industry solutions such as Public Sector/Government; Communications Media and Entertainment; Financial Services; Manufacturing; and Healthcare. These are the segments and areas that make significant use of IT and rely extensively on IT. HP is committed to serving as a technology partner to these industries and segments. Find out exactly what that commitment can mean as HP presents a series of sessions design to help you get the most from your technology investment.   

Sample topic:

• NonStop Overview, powered by Neoview, for Telco Business Intelligence
• Healthcare and Banking Converge on HP Integrity NonStop Servers
• Risk Intelligence for Financial Services Companies
• Mayo Clinic’s Journey to Interoperability

HP Network, Mobility and Wireless solutions work seamlessly across multiple geographies, providing reliable access to information and applications when and where they are needed.  
Find out how solutions from HP can help your organization deploy, support and manage your global mobility ecosystem, plus create a competitive advantage by enhancing your existing infrastructure and improving the productivity of your workforce. You’ll also learn how HP Network, Mobility and Wireless can help enhance the customer experience by providing rapid access to information at the point of service.

 Sample topics:

• Networking Technology Roadmap
• Troubleshooting the Slow Network
• HP Next Generation Networks – Direction & Analysis
• Convergence & Its Challenges – Extending Beyond Telephony

HP does a lot more than talk about open source. We are a solutions provider, active user, and a longstanding supporter of the community that drives it. Today, more than 2,500 developers across the company are focused on Linux and open source projects. Over 6,500 service professionals worldwide are involved in the implementation and support of Linux and open source projects. And HP has over 200 shipping products with embedded open source software.  The session in this track will focus on how you can capitalize on HP’s expertise and experience in open source to incorporate this technology into your operations and make it a strong contributor to your success. 

Sample topics:

• Configuring a Corporate Linux Desktop
• HP ProLiant/Blade System Linux Strategy
• Deploying & Managing HP Integrity Servers Running Linux
• Virtualization Technologies in Linux : A Survey

For almost 30 years, HP OpenVMS has been the operating system companies have trusted for high availability, top performance, security, and flexibility.  Today more than ever, OpenVMS enables flexible response to changing business demands, while anticipating further developments and tighter integration for the future.  This track focuses on discussions of why OpenVMS is the leading cluster operating system and what its combination of high availability, performance, security, eBusiness and application integration, and comprehensive system management can deliver to enterprises looking for a competitive edge.

 Sample topics:

• OpenVMS Technical Update and Roadmaps
• e-Business and Integration Technologies for OpenVMS
• OpenVMS strategy for the future
• Reuse, Not Replace: How the Dutch Police are Modernizing their Open VMS Applications

The HP Thin Client Series uses streamlined components to reduce hardware and software duplication across your network. Desktop performance with optimal data accessibility and security is now more cost-effective than ever. And both Microsoft® Windows® CE.NET and Windows® XP Embedded operating systems are supported, making it as flexible as it is lean. HP also offers a complete range of personal systems designed to deliver top performance in any environment and for any need.  Get a glimpse of some of the new products and solutions available and hear about strategies to lower costs and enhance productivity with HP products and solutions. 

Sample topics:

• HP Workstations for Digital Media & Entertainment—the Power that Creates
• Thin Clients: Ease of Management
• Introduction to HP Business Desktops with Intel vPro Technology
• HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI)

Explore a complete range of technologies in this varied track. You’ll hear about the latest developments and learn about HP’s plans for the future in each area. 

Sample topics:

• HP RFID Initiatives
• Tru64 UNIX Roadmap & V5. 1B-4 Overview
• Open MPE 2007
• Where Does SOA fit in the Enterprise Architecture?

The number, intensity, and sophistication of security threats are constantly on the increase. That’s why HP has developed its Security Management Program.  The Program is based on a strategy to integrate the people, process, tools and technology which proactively manage information security threats, vulnerabilities and incidents in order to minimize their impact on your business. This track will provide you with more information on the various elements and strategies of the Program and demonstrate how you can minimize downtime caused by Security attacks, and thereby minimizing damage to your business, company brand, customer loyalty, company intellectual property and employee productivity.

 Sample topics:

• HP Strategy: Security Technology
• Introduction to Network Forensics
• Security for the Virtualized Server Environment
• Identity Federation Challenges
• Mobile Device Policy Enforcement

HP continues its leadership in servers worldwide. For example, HP led the worldwide server market in total units shipped, with 31.6 percent share in the fourth quarter of 2006, the 19th consecutive quarter it has held this leadership position. Find out exactly what HP’s leadership can mean for you in terms of unequaled flexibility, power, and capabilities now available in our Integrity and Blade servers.  You’ll also discover how HP is also a leader in addressing the data center thermal issues that can impact businesses as they try to deploy new servers, storage and blades.

Sample topics:

• HP Integrity Servers rx3600 & rx6600: Redefining the Entry Level
• Establishing and Maintaining a Highly Secure HP ProLiant Server Management Environment
• HP Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3
• Server & Data Center Power & Cooling Challenges & Solutions
• Integrated Light-Out 2 for Integrity: New Features & Capabilities

The amount of data that most businesses deal with has grown exponentially in the past few years, as has the need for storage solutions that can deal with this data and quickly make it available whenever it’s needed.  No one can respond to this need better than HP.  Discover how HP’s complete line of StorageWorks products offers storage technologies and solutions to meet a complete range of storage challenges for companies of all sizes and types. Whether you are looking for the best storage technology or an open storage resource management approach for use in heterogeneous environments or managed and capacity-based storage solutions that deliver storage capabilities when and where you need it, you’ll find it all right here.

Sample topics:

• Designing Disk-based Recovery Solutions with HP StorageWorks
• Introduction to the All-in-One Storage Server and iSCSI technology
• Integrating Next Generation EVAs Into a Legacy EVA SAN
• XP Continuous Access XP Journal Update
• Storage Market Trends & Futures for the 24x7 Datacenter
• Bulletproof XP Storage:  The “Next” Generation XP

HP Services is ready to help you move your business ahead with comprehensive solutions that incorporate Microsoft technologies, including the next-generation of Microsoft products such as the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System. Our rich portfolio of services covers the complete lifecycle of solutions based on these new and enhanced Microsoft technologies, so you can reap the extensive benefits it can bring to your business that much sooner. From initial assessment and design through implementation, integration and ongoing management, these services align with and support every phase of HP & Microsoft Solutions for the People-Ready Business. The sessions in this track focus on showing you how to get the most from Microsoft Windows in support of your business goals.

Sample topics:

• Windows Server Virtualization
• Tips, Tricks and Tools for Troubleshooting Windows Clusters
• Windows Server codename “Longhorn”
• Windows Debugging
• Windows Vista Capabilities and the Road Ahead

Improving communications and teamwork is critical to your business.  E-mail has become the leading tool for business communication.  Making that communication reliable and secure provides organizations with enormous productivity gains.  That’s a job that HP Messaging and Collaboration Solutions do very well.  The sessions in this track will help you find out more about how HP Messaging and Collaboration solutions can reduce complexity by standardizing and automating IT processes, rapidly introduce and manage technologies to support changing business needs, and improve end-user satisfaction and increase productivity while controlling costs

Sample topics:

• Email: Policies, Privacy, and Best Practices
• Email Sender Authentication Techniques
• An Update on Securing Instant Messaging in the Enterprise
• Microsoft Unified Communications solutions

Migrating to a new computing platform or a new version of an operating system or application offers many advantages. But is it worth the risk and disruption that such an initiative can cause? 
The answer is easy if you use HP Migration Services. These services help streamline your transition, save time and costs associated, minimize risk, and let you implement key IT upgrades with complete confidence. HP Migration Services are total, end-to-end solutions that include migration planning and execution, post-migration activities, detailed reporting, and testing.

Sample topics:

• HP's Unix Patch Strategy:  Moving from Tru64 to HP-UX
• System Migration in the New World
• Mainframe and AS400 Alternative Solutions

Enterprise customers all over the world are discovering they need new levels of availability and integration in real time. HP Integrity NonStop servers, as part of the HP server family, proudly offer the highest levels of service of any platform in their class. Find out why only HP Integrity NonStop servers give you superior choice to meet the highest service levels, focused innovation for added customer value, and world-class experience for a complete solution. Sessions will also cover the complete line of HP NonStop S-Series servers—from entry-level to the top-of-the-line S-88000.  Learn how these servers can be the power that drives your competitive advantage.       

Sample topics:

• Active/Active Strategies for the Real World
• Sixty Thousand TPS—Living on the Edge
• An Introduction to SOA and the NonStop Server Environment
• Itanium Migration—How Barclays did it.
• Update from the HP ESS Security Office: What’s Here, What’s Now & What’s Coming

ILM links people, processes, and technology to control how information is captured, managed, retained and delivered. As a result, information is maintained and available when and how a company needs it. An ILM strategy helps manage growing volumes of information and meet increasing compliance demands and ever more stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It can also reduce and control costs, as well as protect information assets and reduce risk. Find out exactly what it could do for you from experts who have used ILM to achieve great results.

Sample topics:

• Medical Archive Solution Configuration Workshop
• HP Medical Archive Solution: Providing intelligent long-term archival for medical fixed content
• Migrating Data from NAS/SAN/DAS devices to HP ILM/Storage Solutions

IT departments are looking for ways to meet the challenges of constantly-increasing change and complexity by implementing cost-effective, repeatable, compliant, and sustainable processes. Many have found that the ITIL framework is a valuable resource in helping them implement best practices for IT Service Management (ITSM). HP Software solutions allow customers to automate IT processes for cost-effective and repeatable business outcomes; use SLAs to align IT efforts with business goals; gain visibility and control of IT services and their infrastructure; manage aggregated demand across the lifecycle and reduce business risk. These sessions will highlight best practices related to ITIL initiatives and customer success.

Sample topics:

• Six sensible steps towards implementing ITIL Capacity Management
• Network Configuration Management for HP Services: a case study
• The Real Value of ITIL: Why ROI is Not Everything

Enterprises today are adopting IT service management (ITSM) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes to help mitigate IT business risk from negatively impacting business outcomes. ITIL is a widely accepted approach that provides an integrated framework of industry best practices for ITSM. To meet service level agreements between IT and business, the IT team must manage every event that occurs, whether planned or unplanned. Management focus must span from initial acquisition and deployment through upgrade and maintenance activity, to the point where components of the IT estate  no longer add value to the business and must be replaced. HP Service Management Center helps customers meet this challenge. Find out how HP Software can help automate the lifecycle of IT service and asset management processes.

Sample topics:

• ITSM Tools Blueprint … Where to Start?
• Turning a Glorified Switchboard into a True Service Desk
• Success for the Mobile IT Workforce