Featured sessions

Business continuity and risk management: an integrated approach
Historically, business continuity planning has been treated separately from operational risk management practices, and had its own approach, culture, and plans. This session shows you why integrating business continuity planning and operational risk management practices is a better approach in today's interconnected world—and where to start. You'll learn what questions to ask to help your organization better anticipate business risks; respond expeditiously in an emergency situation; and prepare for end-to-end recovery, including that of your key suppliers.

Networking technology roadmap 2006
Keep up with the latest developments—and plan for future investment—by learning about the new technologies, products and standards that will shape your data center networks in 2006. Major standards efforts are nearing completion in Wireless, 10-gigabit Ethernet, protocol offload technologies, and Storage over Ethernet. New standards for programming interfaces will shape future applications and simplify support for new networking hardware. New products, based on these standards and new infrastructure components and management tools will come to market over the next 18 months. Find out what they are; how to navigate the choices; and how to take advantage of new technologies to reduce cost and complexity in your data center networks.

Spyware, adware, malware, and keyloggers
Protect your organization from the "scum on the shoe of the network!" This session defines the methods used to infect systems, morph themselves, bypass firewalls, and upload personal information, usernames and passwords. You'll examine the trace file of a system infected with browser hijacking adware and get step-by-step instructions on cleaning hosts and preventing future infections.

Security intelligence and the business process
Join Peter Allor, director of intelligence and special assistant to the CEO for Internet Security Systems, as he explores the ways in which intelligence is relevant to the business process. As Internet threats increase in frequency and severity, security and research fall under closer scrutiny. Who is propagating the research permeating the industry? What research is available? How can one establish what is pertinent and credible? Allor answers these questions and examines methods for deriving the context for security products and toward securing networks.

Implementing RFID-based solutions in health care industry
Get an overview of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the health care industry—including the business case for adoption and the ROI that can be achieved. This session includes specific case studies for Patient and Asset tracking in health care environments using RFID technologies. It also describes the overall IT architecture needed to support such implementations.

Advanced Blade deployment tricks and techniques
If you're ready for advanced blade deployment, this session is for you. Topics include: token replacement using SQL table lookups; blade switch comparison and contrast ; DOS tips and tricks (how to get that error level you want); and Automated Boot-from-SAN Failover with EVA and Blades.

Dual-core architectures
What is "dual-core" and what does it mean to you? This session delivers the details on the new industry-standard dual-core architectures that HP will deliver: PA-RISC, Opteron, Montecito, and Xeon. It covers the key differences between the four and provides a detailed review of what these differences mean to you—and to the industry.

64-bit Windows installation on HP Integrity Server
Because the majority of IA64 based servers are shipped headless (without VGA cards), this session opens with a discussion of Windows support for headless servers, including: architectural design; management implications; trade-offs; and WMIC. Next is a walk-through of setup on a new server, including troubleshooting hints. You'll learn about 32-bit vs. 64-bit setup architectural differences and the differences between the SKUs (Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, Microsoft media and vendor restore media). Since some OEMs use WinPE to build their restore media, the session also covers WinPE basics. The management section will cover X86 management tools, local vs. remote management, and the effect of NUMA architecture on management. Also discussed: high availability and disaster recovery.

Backup in a VMware world
Virtualization of servers and storage is a fascinating and rapidly evolving technology and VMware is one of the predominant players. One of the most attractive features of virtualization is the vastly improved utilization of resources. Consequently, however, the excess capacity of stand-alone servers that allowed backups to be run concurrently with normal operations may no longer exist. CPU capacity, memory capacity, network I/O bandwidth, and storage bandwidth are all resources that may have been optimized through virtualization, but also may be resources that will be adversely affected by backup processes. This does not imply that we need to return to a strategy of providing excess capacity to accommodate backups, but it does mean that new strategies and procedures need to be developed and implemented to ensure adequate and timely backups, without impacting operational applications. This presentation will identify the specific issues and challenges and present several techniques to ensure complete, useable, restorable backups, with minimal impact on application performance.

Identity management fundamentals
Identity Management Fundamentals provides an extensive introduction to identity management. It explains the concept of a digital identity and how it can be used in different contexts. The session pays special attention to the identity management components in the data repository, security, lifecycle, consumable value and management areas. It also introduces identity management related standards and examines the solutions HP can offer in this space.

Securing the transition to IPv6
IPv6 represents the next major evolution in networking protocols. The transition will entail many implications for security. For example, the abundance in address space will re-enable end-to-end security models that have been thwarted by NAT. But, every new technology also implies a reassessment of all security threats—and the implementation of security precautions in every new and transitional component. For example, IPv6 requires mandatory IPsec implementation in the stack. What does this mean in practice? There are also questions regarding SSL- VPN and other security mechanisms. This session covers IPsec for machine authentication; the IPv6 security model; vulnerabilities through misconfigured firewalls; Mobile IPv6; and much, much more.

Introduction to network forensics
So you've found a system that you believe has been compromised or contains evidence of foul play. What now? This session provides a list of the steps to take to ensure that you obtain the volatile data immediately, obtain the evidence in a forensically sound manner, maintain the required chain of custody, and know when and how to call in law enforcement to assist in prosecution. In this session, you'll follow a forensic examination on a system that contains suspicious files and files that were intentionally hidden.

Tips for setting up SANs for OpenVMS
Many OpenVMS users are adding new systems with SANs and/or are migrating existing storage to a Fibre Channel configuration. This session looks at SANs from an OpenVMS perspective and provides how-to information regarding the set up of a SAN for OpenVMS systems. Content includes: a brief overview of SAN design for high availability; the use of WWIDMGR to allow the console to access disks; identifiers and their connection types and setup issues; connectivity for management of the controllers; and some setup tips to make troubleshooting easier. Presented by a member of the HP OpenVMS Services team, this presentation is based on real experiences working with OpenVMS customers to set up SANs for their systems.

Real-time enterprise solutions
This session examines case studies in multiple industries where HP NonStop solutions, along with key strategic solution partners are organizations to achieving real-time enterprise business management success. Case studies profile proven ROI achieved in finance, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing implementations.