Registration & Breakfast

Breakfast Sponsored by IBM

Tip Off: Welcome to Sirius Madness

• Keynote

  Sumit Dhawan, SVP & GM, End User Computing, VMware
  Mind Shift: Learning to Thrive Amid Disruption and Digitization
  Abstract: New technologies like mobile devices and the cloud have given businesses the ability to rapidly adopt new business models. With rapid changes in business come rapid changes in the roles of people and technologies. A user’s identity, role and their workplace (location/device) will define their workspace that can consist of both traditional apps or new emerging cloud or mobile apps. Offering multiple services to meet the needs of unique users is a good thing, but delivering different experiences across those services is no longer acceptable. The experience needs to be seamless across scenarios, user groups and devices. This session will discuss the mindset shift that leaders must make in order to thrive within this digital disruption and share best practices that they can implement to ensure a seamless experience within their own businesses.
  

Breakout Session Group A

• VMware Session – NSX – Creating the Hybrid Cloud with IBM and AWS
  Dave Shelton, VMware
  Vmware has had two very significant cloud announcements with IBM and AWS.   Your company can use tools that your team is already using for private cloud to move seamlessly between your data center (private cloud) and the public cloud without changing an IP address.  In addition, your security policy will follow your workload.  The benefits include: using cloud for burst traffic, DR, flexibility, cost optimization and more.  This session includes a high level overview of how all of this is achieved.
• Nutanix Session – Which “Cloud” Strategy Is Right for Your Business: How Nutanix Is delivering the True Enterprise Cloud Platform to Our Customers
  Sunil Potti, Nutanix
  Come hear Nutanix Chief Product and Development Officer, Sunil Potti, speak about how Nutanix is changing the game with their Enterprise Cloud strategy and best of both “public” and “Private” cloud worlds.
• Dell EMC Session – When Is Hyperconverged the Best Option
  Paul DeHann, Dell EMC
  This session will discuss how to enable the future ready enterprise and digital transformation.
• Sirius Session – The State of Serverless Computing
  Thomas Capozza, Sirius
  Serverless architectures are the future, enabling IT organizations to build and deploy applications with infrastructure resources that require almost no administration. In this session, you’ll learn about the concepts and benefits of serverless architectures, highlighting IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk and AWS Lambda technologies.
• Sirius Session – Flash Forward – All-Flash Storage for the Data Center
  David Chandler, Sirius
  Scale-out, scale-up and Hyperconverged: A non-vendor introduction to the architectures, data services, industry trends and financial impact of the all-flash data center. This session will compare both performance and financial components across hybrid and all-flash models, making sense of data services.
• Sirius Session – DevOps Nirvana – What Is it and How Do I Get There?
  Mark Tarmy, Sirius and Rolf Reitzeg, Sirius
  DevOps provides tremendous, competitive advantages to those who have adopted its principles, practices, tools and culture; however, there are varying views of what DevOPs means. This can be frustrating to leaders looking to implement DevOps holistically in their organization. This presentation provides a framework for what an end-state “DevOps Nirvana” looks like, what characteristics, traits and benefits it provides and a roadmap for getting there.
• Cisco Session – Ransomware (Perception vs. Reality)
  David Moore, Cisco
  Security threats are rapidly evolving and have created a $1B industry in ransomware alone. In this session, we’ll help you understand how these attacks occur, learn what steps your organization can take to throw up your shields to prevent these attacks, and how to create a layered defense approach to protect you before, during and after an attack.
  Each attendee will receive a free copy of the new “Ransomware Defense for Dummies” book, by author: Lawrence Miller, CISSP
• Sirius Session – Inside nVidia GRID 2.0 and the vGPU
  Kyle Quinby, Sirius
  This session will pull back the curtains on actually implementing vGPU within a XenDesktop VDI solution. Drawing from our experience in the field, we will break down the infrastructure needed, how to evaluate your current environment and properly choose your license levels, and explore common “gotchas” when implementing nVidia GRID 2.0 solutions. Learn what you need to know to make your own experience with 3D in a VDI solution a pleasant one!
• Sirius Session – What’s New in VMware Horizon Suite
  Greg Streuber, Sirius and Pete Fluty, Sirius
  This presentation is an overview of VMware Horizon and its surrounding suite of supporting products, with a focus on how they can transform your desktop and application virtualization strategies. Topics will include what’s new in Horizon View 7.2, just-In-time delivery with Instant-Clone Technology, application delivery with VMware AppVolumes application layering, VMware User Environment Manager, VMware WorkSpace One and Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Subsidium Session – Is the MPLS WAN Extinct?
  Ed Degenhart, Subsidium and John Bova, Subsidium
  Disruptive innovation in infrastructure is on the rise, and nowhere is that more evident than in the SD-WAN movement. Gartner estimates that SD-WAN has less than 1% market share today, but it predicts that up to 30% of users will be managing their WAN through software within the next three years. Learn more about SD-WAN offerings in the marketplace and how to successfully implement SD-WAN in the enterprise.
• Sirius Session – Leveraging Managed Services to Improve IT’s Contribution to Business Goals
  Brian Reichart, Sirius
  In this session, you’ll learn how managed services can complement and supplement your current IT staff including: eliminating skill gaps and providing true 24/7 coverage by deploying enterprise-wide monitoring, ITSM toolsets, automation and ITIL best practices that improve performance, reduce costs, and allow you and your team to focus on tasks that drive greater business value.
• Sirius Session – Digital Transformation Overview and CXO Panel: Best Practices of a Digital Transformation
  Luke Borgnis, FiveOut – A Sirius Agency
  Join us for a Digital Transformation overview on best practices of Digital Transformaiton. C-Level panel members will lead a discussion on the best approaches for and outcomes of a digital transformation engagement

Breakout Session Group B

• Palo Alto Session – Expanding Data Centers: Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Approach
  Tom Mehok, Palo Alto
  To address the growing data center demands and provide you with the added benefits of agility, scalability and global reach, the traditional data center is transforming into what is commonly referred to as a hybrid data center. This presentation will cover the key benefits of using a hybrid cloud approach and demonstrate how the Palo Alto Networks enterprise security platform enables you to securely deploy a hybrid cloud by protecting your applications and data wherever it resides.
• IBM Session – The Open Storm Is Coming: Find out What Google, Rackspace and Others Are Doing with IBM Power Systems
  Dr. Stephanie Chiras, IBM & Stan Staszak, Sirius
  Learn how IBM Power Systems is a leader in the open compute arena with open source databases like MongoDB, Redis, EDB, Kinetica and more; what the current Open Source Foundation has contributed, and why it’s critical to your business’ success; how you can use IBM Power Systems and open source databases to lower costs, decrease time to market and speed implementation of new applications; and why IBM Power Systems is a leader in helping business implement hybrid cloud and open solutions.
• Sirius Session – Internet of Things – Prepare to Ride the Wave
  Jill Klein, Sirius
  Are you struggling to turn the promise of IoT into financial results for your business? Well, you’re not alone. According to data gathered by ABI Research, approximately 60% of enterprises plan to pursue IoT in the next five years, but only 26% are implementing solutions today. Experts agree that IoT is next revolution in business. So, what’s everyone waiting for? The reality is that not everyone is waiting. Thousands of companies are using IoT right now to transform their businesses and gain a competitive edge. In this session, you’ll learn what it takes to achieve competitive growth for your company with IoT.
• Sirius Session – AWS Quick Wins – Enough Cloud Talk, Time to Walk!
  Martin Valencia, Sirius and Joe Kelly, Sirius
  Public cloud isn’t new, but many clients still find it difficult to identify how it benefits their organization. Join us as we discuss the building blocks of a successful cloud infrastructure foundation, and provide experience-driven tips to help determine which of your workloads can benefit immediately from cloud services. Learn from our tips, tricks, and mistakes to guarantee a successful cloud experience. Understand the how, why, and what when migrating to AWS.
  – How do I get started?
  – Why should I consider migrating?
  – What should I migrate?
• NetApp Session – Nothin’ but Net… NetApp, that is!!
  Andrew Grimes, NetApp
  NetApp and the all-flash data center, it’s not bragging if you can back it up! This presentation will cover NetApp’s All Flash Data Center architecture and design, using hybrid cloud to enable consolidation. Whoop, there it is!
• Citrix Session – NetScaler SD-WAN: What’s New and What’s Next
  Raul Montero, Citrix
  Citrix continues to enhance the NetScaler SD-WAN platform to allow enterprises to do more than virtualize and optimize their WANs. In addition to legacy capabilities, the NetScaler SD-WAN platform now contains a number of new appliance options and features that extend into branch networking simplification, security, and Internet traffic management. Come learn about recent platform enhancements and plans for near-term releases. In this session, you will learn: new routing and security features, new appliance options that are being released and new tools for easy, fast, and secure deployments.
• Sirius Session – Migrating Analytics Workload to the Cloud
  Companies are tasked with determining where data warehousing, big data, and analytics solutions should reside, creating an integrated data platform strategy with a multimodal approach. Learn about the feasibility of the different use cases and the best practices needed when architecting and migrating solutions to the cloud.
• Sirius Session – Public Cloud vs. On-Premise–Which Is More Secure?
  Jim Rice, Sirius
  Let’s take a look at various security options and best practices. We will then discuss how this compares to on-prem vs. public cloud and talk through the maturity of public cloud security.
• Sirius Session – Surviving the Healthcare Tsunami
  Fred Holston, Sirius
  Today’s healthcare technology leadership is faced with an overwhelming tsunami of technology and business requirements including: bright shinny objects, rapid technology advancements, customer’s digital expectations, healthcare business evolution, consumer generated data, population health, patient centered care, meaningful use, regulatory pressures, cost reduction, security and privacy – just to name a few. That’s enough to stress any organization. Healthcare IT now needs to morph from a technology focus into a business-oriented organization. This session will cover the strategies needed to help IT leaders survive the healthcare tsunami.
• Sirius Session – What’s New in Airwatch 9
  Greg Streuber, Sirius
  AirWatch and Workspace ONE provide customers new ways to manage Windows and benefit from streamlined Android, iOS and macOS deployments. VMware revealed many new updates and features to the AirWatch product in November 2016. Along with an overview of AirWatch 9 and its new features, this session will cover three major updates to AirWatch: AirWatch Unified Endpoint Management, VMware Workspace ONE Mobile Productivity Enhancements and Mobile Device Management Migration Tool & Safe Passage.
• Sirius Session – How to Transform Your Data Center for the Future
  Rob Libbert, Sirius and Roger Laframboise Sirius
  The data center landscape has shifted rapidly over the last few years. You’ve heard “private and public-cloud”, “hybrid-architecture”, “hyper-converged”, and “software defined” but still have a data center to operate. Identifying a strategy direction toward reducing cost and increasing efficiency all-the-while maintaining SLA’s can be a challenge. In this session, you’ll hear from veteran advisors, who have journeyed down the path of datacenter refresh and transformation.
• Sirius Session – Attracting and Retaining Clients: Optimizing Customer Engagement with Digital Strategy and Design
  Will Mondschein, FiveOut – A Sirius Agency & Michael Sieber, Sirius
  Will Mondschein, Director of FiveOut – A Sirius Agency & Michael Sieber, Director of Sirius’ Digital Experience group, discuss aligning your business and technology initiatives, your customer experience needs, your approach to marketing, and your content creation and delivery to elevate your customer’s engagement with your company across channels and to launch a successful digital transformation initiative.

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Lunch Sponsored by Dell EMC

Keynote

Jim Simpson – President of Strategic Initiatives, Sirius

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Breakout Session Group C

• Dell EMC Session – Customer Defined Data Protection
  Emmett Kaczmarek, Dell EMC
  This session will discuss how to enable the future ready enterprise and digital transformation.
• Buy Less Nutanix: How Nutanix Is Delivering the TCO/ROI Business Leaders Are Looking For
  Steve Kaplan, Nutanix
  Come hear Nutanix VP of Strategic Sales, Steve Kaplan, speak to the many underlying benefits of how Nutanix can produce compelling and game changing ROI for every organization.
• Sirius Session – Why Hyperconverged and Why Now?
  Jason Girard, Sirius
  Hyperconverged is making a huge splash. Why? This session covers considerations for Nutanix, VxRail and Hyperflex. You’ll also hear where industry leaders have seen successful with hyperconverged solutions and discover potential pitfalls of workloads that are not sized appropriately.
• Splunk Session – Is Your Data Working for You?
  Wayne Carter, Splunk
  You see servers and devices, apps and logs, traffic and clouds. Splunk sees data – everywhere! There are no limits to the value you can derive from your data, whether it’s to improve your organization’s security posture, to automate compliance, enhance IT operations, optimize application delivery, or drive better insights through business analytics. Attend this session to learn how Splunk helps customers turn machine data into actionable insights.
• Sirius Session – Five Keys to Cloud Migration
  Bill Gurling, Sirius & Rocky Giglio, Sirius
  What’s your approach to migrating? Are you bi-modal, hybrid? We will discuss the keys to consider for cloud migrations that factor in on-premise, private colo, hybrid, and public cloud challenges.
• Sirius Session – Keeping the Lights on: Maintaining a Citrix Environment
  Ryan Revord, Sirius
  Attendees of this session will get tips, tricks, and strategies for keeping Citrix/EUC environments happy and healthy.
• Sirius Session – Security Panel
  Jeff Comer, Sirius
  Malicious actors are more organized and better funded than ever. Evasive techniques and new strategies to do harm are constantly evolving and improving; however, security tools are also evolving. When implemented correctly, these tools provide great value in improving our defenses. To do our best, the good guys need to be organized as well. This security panel will be led by industry leaders across a variety of verticals to discuss new threats that are emerging, new tactics that have been discovered by malicious actors, process procedures and solutions that have been implemented to successfully deter the onslaught of threats. The moderator and panel will lead the discussion, but attendee participation is welcome and appreciated.
• Citrix Session – XenDesktop and XenApp on Azure: Integration Is the Key
  Raul Montero, Citrix
  The power and flexibility of Microsoft Azure makes it an ideal platform for hosting Citrix solutions, and Citrix Cloud allows you to easily combine on-premises with cloud for a true hybrid experience. This session will dive into simple turnkey solutions for XenApp and XenDesktop environments as well as best practices for workload management, sizing, connectivity and provisioning using Citrix Cloud. We will address performance and scalability on various Azure instances, cost-per-user modeling and much more.
• Sirius Session – AWS Connectivity Options – Connecting your On-Premises Datacenter to the AWS Cloud
  Josh Coen, Sirius
  In this session we will discuss the different connectivity options that are available for connecting your on-premises datacenter, to the AWS Cloud. We’ll do a brief overview of each, and then get into the knitty griddy details for each option
• Cyber Ark Session – The Most Travelled Cyber Attack Route – Securing the Privileged Pathway
  Chris Maroun, CyberArk
  Traditionally, much of the focus of a corporation’s InfoSec efforts have been placed on ensuring that the perimeter is secure. Recent attacks have shown an alarming shift from perimeter-based attacks to ones that originate inside the corporate network using privileged accounts. During this session CyberArk will discuss growing trends in regards to attacks and what Security Leaders are doing to protect their organizations from these advanced attacks. CyberArk will also walk through a typical attack that utilizes privileged accounts and how passwords may not even be necessary to break down the front door.
• Sirius Session – Attracting and Retaining Clients: Monetizing Customer Engagement using the Adobe Marketing Cloud
  Nick Bleibtrey, Sirius & David Privet, Sirius
  This presentation discusses ways to drive business outcomes through use of a marketing platform. You’ll be able to leverage data and analytics to continually surprise clients with a rich blended digital experience. In this session, you will learn how to measure brand loyalty through continual Innovation of personalized campaigns/offerings.
• Veritas Session – IT Resiliency: Way more than just technology!
  Cliff Barcliff, Veritas
  All too often, I am told, “we replicate, we use virtualization, we cluster important stuff, we successfully test each quarter,” when I ask about how they manage IT Resiliency.  I consider that money and resources wasted.  In this informative and entertaining session, you will see why these ideas were never sound, what should be done, and what your peers are doing today to provide measureable value to corporate bottom line.

Breakout Session Group D

• Sirius Session – SDN Wars
  Nathan Johnson, Sirius, Chris Wham, Sirius and Jeremy Waldrop, Sirius
  Cisco ACi and VMware NSX are two platforms that many of our customers are considering to help them leverage SDN and gain associated efficiencies. We see high value in both solutions, but there is usually a best fit that may differ per customer. In this session we discuss the drivers that will help to determine best fit.
• Dell EMC Session – Modular Infrastructure as Foundation of the Software-Defined Data Center
  Mathew Kennedy, Dell EMC
  This session will discuss how to enable the future ready enterprise and digital transformation.
• Cisco Session – ASAP – Analyze, Simplify, Automate, Protect
  Chris McHenry, Cisco
  Join this session to understand how Cisco is revolutionizing the next-gen Data Center! Learn about Cisco’s Data Center vision around ASAP and what it means for you as a customer. Cisco’s solution for the Data Center will allow you to launch applications anywhere, scale from thousands to millions in seconds, launch new business models, automate regardless of your environment and secure the entire Data Center.
• Sirius Session – Stop the IT Employee Revolving Door in Your Organization
  Ben Hoch, Sirius
  Do any of these reasons employees pursue other opportunities sound familiar: more challenge, career growth, flexible work schedule or higher compensation? Those are reasons they’re willing to share during the exit interview, but what is really on their minds? The IT industry has begun a dramatic shift toward the cloud and it’s even more critical to find, retain and most importantly, develop top talent to help lead your team through this shift. During this session, you will learn about the different types of engineers, how to recruit them, and strategies to keep them engaged. These tips will help your organization build long-term loyalty.
• Sirius Session – Got Cloud Strategy?
  John Bridgeman, Sirius and Mark Tarmy, Sirius
  57 % of organizations don’t have a cloud strategy. It’s time to dust off the traditional IT strategy and take a hard look at the next three years. Nobody says it’s necessary to go all-in on the public cloud, but it certainly is time to at least consider public cloud as part of future of business and IT. We will discuss various cloud strategies, and how companies are modifying their plans to adopt more public cloud and incorporate this into their overall business strategy.
• Sirius Session – IT Service Management – How to Improve Your IT Customer Satisfaction Scores
  Kathy Cluff, Sirius and Mike Todd, Sirius
  IT Service Management (ITSM) is growing at a rate of 150% a year and is targeted to be a $6B business. This session will cover an overview of ITSM, how your company can benefit from implementing ITSM, establishing ITSM governance and supporting your business. You’ll also get a demo of Application Performance Management (APM).
• Sirius Session – Digital Workspace – Transforming the Employee Experience
  Steven Phillips, Sirius and Chris Edden, Sirius
  The diversity of employee workplace platforms drives IT organizations to proactively develop strategies and priorities to meet information consumption needs. Technologies for BYOD, VDI, IM and other services that focus on enhancing employee access and flexibility in execution of their role, demand a proactive framework for IT to recognize, engage and deliver interface methods for the new millennial worker. Emerging workers are more social networking capable, use a myriad of device platforms, and are most effective when these services can be delivered with a personalization bias. This session will cover the key to IT providing a palate of services that have strong and flexible security mechanisms, audit and governance policies, and an efficient and scalable delivery infrastructure.
• Sirius Session – A Sirius Perspective: The What and How of Unidesk
  Pete Fluty, Sirius
  Unidesk layering has steadily gained popularity over the past few years. Since its acquisition by Citrix, demand for Unidesk and the layering story is at an all-time high. In this session, you’ll explore Unidesk and its impact on your current and future initiatives with certified Unidesk expert, Pete Fluty.
• VMWare Session – Jumpball: Conformity vs. Digital Transformation: How VMware Workspace One Is a Slam Dunk for Productivity and Security
  Carla Blickensderfer, VMware
  Executives and IT leaders worldwide are under pressure to enable the mobile enterprise. Enterprise Mobility is the trend nobody can ignore. Mobile devices are entering corporate networks unchecked, customers are demanding faster services, employees want to be more productive and securing corporate data across all devices, apps and data repositories has become increasing complex, costly and critical. VMware’s Digital Transformation platform helps you gain control over your mobile deployments, secure sensitive data and applications while maximizing employee productivity and collaboration with single sign-on. With over 17,000 customers worldwide and analyst reports that place VMware in the leadership position, VMware has the proven and trusted solution that deliver results.
• Recovery Point Session – Mind the Gap! As the Enterprise Adopts Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Are Gaps Created in the Company’s Overall Recovery Posture?
  Marc Langer, President of Recovery Point
  According to Gartner: By 2018, the number of organizations using disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will exceed the number of organizations using traditional, syndicated recovery services. By 2018, 20% of enterprises with a minimum of 5,000 employees will be failing over the operation of one or more production applications to DRaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or cloud-enabled managed hosting. This session will examine the risks and benefits of DRaaS adoption in the enterprise, and the critical capabilities required when selecting a vendor.
• IBM Session – IBM Flash Storage Solutions – Accelerate Your Business Insights
  Eric Herzog, IBM
  Businesses are moving to all-flash systems to boost critical application performance, gain efficiency, and strategically deploy resources for data management. IBM leads the industry in flash storage and software. Join Eric Herzog, IBM VP of Storage Systems, to learn more about the most comprehensive flash portfolio in the market today that will help your business compete, innovate and grow.
• F5 Session – Being Vigilant in the Evolving Security Landscape
  Orlando Santiago, F5 and Patrick Osewalt, F5
  This presentation will provide an overview of how F5 has evolved in the security landscape. During this presentation, Patrick and Orlando will discuss the Evolving Threat landscape, Recent SSL trends, recent Distributed Denial of Service trends and mitigation techniques.

Breakout Session Group E

• IBM Session – SIEM Strategies and Patterns for the Security Immune System
  Steve Lay, Sirius
  SIEM platforms are being widely adopted by organizations, but many organizations struggle with utilizing SIEMs to their fullest potential due to a variety of factors: overburdened analysts, limited budget to hire deep skills, high ‘signal to noise’ ratio, gaps in visibility, perceived or real tool complexity, and more. Participate in a discussion, led by a national subject matter expert that will cover the latest patterns and approaches to achieve actionable visibility and how Sirius can help you.
• Sirius Session – Disaster Recovery as a Service & Cloud Solutions
  Jerry Barfield, Sirius
  With the evolution of cloud offerings, business continuity plans can now include cloud technologies to protect applications or data from outages. Come learn our how organizations can meet their SLA’s by leveraging cloud ecosystem Disaster recovery as a Services (DraaS) offerings.
• RES Session – Accelerating Your Time to Productivity – How PeoplesBank Plans to Securely Automate the End User Lifecycle Using RES
  Thomas Brown, RES Software
  In this session, we will discuss how it is possible to automate the end user lifecycle which increases productivity, reduces cost and increases security. In addition to seeing a live demo of the solution, we will also hear from PeoplesBank on why they decided to purchase RES and what real world benefits they will gain.
• Sirius Session – Demonstrate the Business Value of Cisco HyperFlex VDI for Citrix
  Miquel Medina, Sirius and Dwayne Hamilton, Sirius
  This presentation is focused on demonstrating the business value of Cisco HyperFlex VDI for Citrix. Cisco HyperFlex VDI for Citrix is a new and proven technology solution that provides digital transformational capability across the data center, the way that IT is managed, and the way that IT services are consumed and used by the business.
• Sirius Session – ITSM after Incident, Problem and Change – Now What
  Mike Todd, Sirius
  Using ServiceNow as an example, lets look at the next steps that your organization needs to take to get full value from the product. In this session, we’ll review ServiceNow’s goals and how that will affect your organization. We will look at some of trouble areas in ITIL deployments, including Service Catalogs and everyone’s favorite, the CMDB and its requirements. While this presentation will use ServiceNow for the examples, the topics will apply to any product offering. Lastly, we will look at what is beyond ITIL—into using the platform as a complete IT Business Process Management (BPM) platform.
• Sirius Session – The Cloud Evolution – Where Are You in the Journey?
  Mark Tarmy, Sirius and Kevin Rota Sirius
  Are you being asked why you’re not using the public cloud for your infrastructure services? Have you begun utilizing public cloud and find yourself struggling with costs, security, governance and policies? In this session, we will cover these topics and more to help you get started.
• Commvault Session – Cloud, Ransomware, Scale-Out/Up/Beyond, Copy Data – Let Commvault help you see through the noise
  Matt Tyrer, Commvault
  There are a lot of “hot topics” in the market today. This session will walk through key strategies and technology to help you better understand these issues, why they are important, and how Commvault can assist you in building a proper solution to manage and protect your most important assets: Your data. We will touch on the following areas:
  – Working with the Cloud: Why Just “Getting There” isn’t Enough
  – Ransomware: How to Protect your Protectors
  – WebScale: How the Playing Field is Changing
  – Copy Data Management: Accelerate your Time to Revenue with Automation and On-Demand Operation
• Sirius Session – Puppet and Docker: Configuration Management and Containerization in the Software-Defined Data Center – Sirius
  Rob Libbert, Sirius and Scott Hillberg, Sirius
  Two technologies have become important foundational components of the software-defined data center: Configuration Management (Puppet) and Containerization (Docker).  By the end of this session, you will understand the basics of each, where the two overlap, and how they complement each other.
• Sirius Session – Data Breach: Managing the Incident to Reduce Your Impact
  Ernie Gubbels, Sirius and Tom Bang-Knudsen, Sirius
  Some 6,000 data breaches have been made public since 2005, and these numbers are rising. Today’s enterprises must ensure they are prepared for breach, and have a plan to sustain infrastructure resiliency. Appropriate supervision of a breach response can diminish your organizational costs and aid in reputational losses. The session will give you the tools to strategically prepare and handle an organizational breach.
• Sirius Session – Reducing Security Complexity using the NIST Cyber Defense Matrix – Sirius
  Rob Hoisington, Sirius and Rich Dowey, Sirius
  Managing enterprise security and compliance can be overwhelming. How much security is enough or too much? What controls do you need? Ultimately, the organizations that have the most success at right-sizing their security environments are those that employ a systematic approach. Come hear about one such approach as Sirius Security Consultants present the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in a way you may not have seen before – the NIST Cyber Defense Matrix.
• Sirius Session – How to Handle Maintenance Madness
  Doug Potts, Sirius and Rob Klein, Sirius
  Most clients today are faced with the tremendous burden of keeping their hardware and software up and running. Let Sirius show you how we handle maintenance from a multi-manufacturer perspective, making life easier for our clients.
• Sirius Session – Cloud First Mobile First – Future of Collaboration with Office 365
  Matt Clippinger, Sirius
  The traditional hierarchy of a workforce with teams is giving way to an on-demand responsive network of global talent pools. The shift to dynamic teams is requiring a shift in collaboration strategies. Dynamic teams need to be able to experiment, learn and respond quickly and effectively. This session will explore how collaboration needs and expectations in today’s world are evolving and how this is affecting the direction of the Office 365’s suite of collaboration and social tools, in the context of Microsoft’s Cloud First Mobile First strategy.

Prizes and Thank You

St. Patricks Day Happy Hour Sponsored by Gigamon.