As the saying goes ‘I love it when a plan comes together’ and we are now at the point where our agenda is really taking shape and we are down to the last few t’s to cross and i’s to dot.
I am happy to report that our platinum sponsor line up now includes Dell, Fujitsu and IBM who have recently confirmed their participation, joining EMC, Huawei Symantec, HP, Oracle and Symantec, as our highest-level partners for 2010.
Altogether we have 46 confirmed sponsors so far and expect to see that number continue to rise well above the 50-mark as we move towards the end of the summer and companies firm up their plans for the second half of the year.
What is even more encouraging is that our delegate registration numbers are also up on this time last year, so we are confident that we will have more attendees than in 2009, which itself was a record. So if you are reading this and have yet to sign up for the 2010 edition, watch out for the special offers for free advance registration in your inbox or in one of your favourite publications very soon.
My featured keynote presentation for this edition of the blog is ‘Enabling the Information-Centric Enterprise’ that will be delivered by Sean Derrington, Director of Enterprise Product Management at Symantec. In this talk Sean will discuss the shift from physical to virtual that continues to alter the IT landscape. Sean points to the fact that as IT organisations undertake new and innovative ways to deliver elastic, dynamic, and highly-available applications, they require an information-centric approach, and ultimately the device and system become irrelevant. This session promises to help delegates understand best practices and the implications that cloud computing has on security, data protection, and storage management strategies. This 40-minute keynote will run on Tuesday 26th October at 09:50.
Finally for this edition we are delighted this year to have a representative of Google on our agenda, with Philipp Karmires, Manager of Enterprise Accounts, presenting ‘The Future is (in) the Cloud at 10:55 on Tuesday 26th October in the cloud technologies track that will also feature these presentations
- SNIA - The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI): The Storage Standard’
- 3PAR – What's Wrong with All-in-One? Why Best-of-Breed is Best for the Cloud
- Acronis – Cloud Based Data Protection for SMBs
- HDS – Best Practices for Moving into the Cloud
- HP – Build a Mission Critical Cloud!?
- Trend Micro - Cloud Security Caution: Risks your provider covers, ignores & introduces - what you can do about it!
That is it for this time - check back again for more news and updates as the full agenda goes live very soon.
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