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A Hybrid Approach To Cloud Computing Delivers Flexibility and Cost Savings
De'Porres Brightful, Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Microsoft Corporation
Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon D
IT budgets are facing enormous scrutiny in today's pressured economy. Now, more than ever, organizations are looking to invest in products and services which offer a tangible competitive advantage and significant cost savings. This session will discuss the Microsoft's vision and philosophy in the area of Software + Services and how this approach gives customers the power of choice to deploy applications in cloud-based Internet services or through on-premises servers, or to combine them in any way that makes the most sense for the needs of their business. It will provide a better understanding of how this approach differs from others in the market place and how customers can realize significant cost savings through a Software + Services approach to IT.

The Forecast is Clearly Cloudy
Mike Culver, Amazon Web Services Evangelist
Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D
Cloud Computing is most definitely a buzz word; however there's a reason why everyone is suddenly using the term. In this talk Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services will take a look at what the characteristics of Cloud Computing are, and the trends that he's seeing in the Real World as organizations implement one or more Cloud services. He'll also provide an update on what Amazon Web Services is up to; and why people are so excited about what most experts agree is a major inflection point in computing.

Amazon.com spent well over a decade and billions of dollars creating an online technology presence of unprecedented scale and reliability. Many of the key learnings and best practices were rolled forward into a new business unit called Amazon Web Services, which delivers these benefits to software developers and IT practitioners as a set of foundational Web Services.

Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D
As open source moves from novelty to mainstream, business and economic issues have become a leading topic for organizations looking to adopt technologies that use or are based on open source. Historically, the subscription agreement has been the dominant contractual model that vendors use to deliver support for enterprise level open source software to their clients. Despite its widespread use, many misconceptions prevail regarding the subscription model, and many organizations do not obtain the value they should from their subscription relationships. In addition, new licensing models are being introduced with their own set of benefits and issues. Many organizations do not fully understand the impact of licensing issues involved with open source software. Our panel will address, from a variety of perspectives, the legal, business and technical issues attendant with software contracts and open source licenses, provide practical advice on the pros and cons of different licensing vehicles and how to leverage these tools to derive maximum value.

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Consumerization of IT: Meeting the Expectations of a New Enterprise Worker
Brian Gentile, Chief Executive Officer, Jaspersoft
Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 3:15pm-4:15pm, Salon D
Simply put, enterprise information systems are beginning to require a simpler, more consumer-oriented approach to appeal to the younger generation of up-and-coming workers. Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile refers to this as the "consumerization of information."

The concept is based on a very real workforce demographic shift that becomes even more pronounced starting in 2009. As the aging workforce in the largest economies continues to retire (in the U.S., it's the baby boomer generation) and more young workers enter and climb higher, we'll see a widening "expectation gap" between the expected behavior of enterprise applications and their actual behavior.

Software vendors that design products that work according to new web principles will fare well with this younger generation of workers. Those software vendors that do not will become less relevant.

Gentile will further define this phenomenon that is currently unfolding, and share with the ETE audience specific examples of what enterprise workers are telling Jaspersoft and its partners, and what a variety of companies are doing to address these new expectations.

Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D
In this dramatic economic climate, emerging technology and life science companies face challenges to their growth and success that are unlike their predecessors. To survive and to thrive, these companies need to address these challenges with creative, nimble, and unique strategies. This panel focuses on these unique challenges and offers insights into successfully navigating these challenges and forging ahead. The panel members represent some of this region?s most successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and advisors who have deep experience and a successful track record advising companies in both good and challenging times. The panel members will offer their insights and perspectives on the current funding climate, on how to set priorities and create strategies that will take companies through the tough times, and on how to set the stage for future growth and success. Whether you are heading an emerging technology or life science company, considering investing in one, or advising such a company, this panel presentation will be for you.

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SOA and Open Source
Debbie Moynihan, Director, FUSE Community, Progress Software
Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:15pm-5:15pm, Salon D
The two biggest trends affecting IT today are SOA and Open Source. Many developers and architects are looking to speed adoption of SOA by leveraging open source. Because both SOA and Open Source offer long-term reductions in cost coupled with an increase in flexibility and innovation, it is natural that SOA and open source are being used as a powerful combination for new IT initiatives. While open source provides many benefits, there are still many scenarios where a combination of open and closed source software are required. This session will provide an overview of open source projects and products for SOA and discuss how to effectively use open and closed source software together.

Realizing Lower TCO with Open Source - Management & Best Practices
Srinivas Polisetty, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon D
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is cited as the top reason for the use of open source in today's enterprise. In practice sponsors or open source projects, IT managers and solution architects are realizing that the cost of integration quickly marginalizes the cost savings that open source brings. Pre-integrated open source stacks for specific applications and markets have emerged as a solution to the integration problem.

This talk will be a discussion on the aspects of open source integration including reference architectures, management of integrated stacks, support and security of integrated stacks and business models surrounding pre-integrated stacks for open source. The talk highlights using a case study, the real TCO that open source provides, with and without the pre-integrated stacks as related to areas of IT infrastructure management using open source.