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n·fluence 2008 Agenda: At-a-Glance

Thursday October 9: General Conference

8:30am - 9:00am 

Welcome and Introductions 

Gary Read, CEO Nimsoft

9:00am - 10:00am

Keynote Speaker 

Ray Paquet, Gartner:
Maximizing IT Operations

10:00am - 10:20am 

Break 

10:20am  - 11:20am 

+ Nimsoft Technology Vision

John Smith, Anders Grindland & Mark Rivington, Nimsoft:
In this session you’ll learn about where Nimsoft’s underlying technology is headed and what new capabilities and integrations are planned. Wondering about Nimsoft’s product roadmap? This is one of the sessions you won’t want to miss as we dive into what new capabilities are just around the corner and those that are further off.

11:20am - Noon 

+ Optimizing the Data Center: FusionStorm

Vince Conroy, Fusion Storm
Conroy will share how NimBUS can be used to help optimize the Data Center by providing top-to-bottom service level monitoring of key subsystems including networks, physical and virtual servers, storage systems, storage networks, databases and applications. Conroy will also share how NimBUS can play a role in helping to build more energy-efficient "Green" data centers.

12:00pm - 1:10pm 

Birds of a Feather Luncheon 

Tabletop Topics

1:10pm - 1:50pm 

+ Customer "Best Practices" Presentation: Blackhawk Networks

John Paradise, Blackhawk Networks
Paradise will present how Blackhawk uses Nimsoft to monitor its complex environment and provide role based visualizations into its performance.

1:50pm - 3:10pm

+ New Product Overview and Demonstrations

Ken Vanderweel, Nimsoft
Intrigued by Real User Monitoring (RUM)? The new web-based Service Delivery Portal? Join us to learn what new products are available, what they do and why you might want to take a closer look at them. Live demonstrations will be included and everything you see will be available for more detailed demonstrations at our demo kiosks throughout the conference.

3:10pm - 3:30pm 

Break 

3:30pm - 4:10pm 

+ Customer "Best Practices" Presentation: Trillion

"Optimizing Service Levels"
Neal Timm, Trillion
Trillion is the largest national service provider of fixed wireless and fiber wide area networks for K-12 school districts in the country. Using NimBUS, Trillion demonstrates it meets or exceeds the service level requirements for over 200,000 miles of networks that provide services to over 1,000 schools and 500,000 students across the United States.  Learn how Trillion has configured NimBUS to effectively communicate SLAs that show the high quality of services it provides.

4:10pm - 4:50pm

+ Customer "Best Practices" Presentation: TD AMERITRADE

"The End User’s Perspective"
Chuck Price, TD AMERITRADE
TD AMERITRADE Trust Company uses NimBUS to deliver on strict audit requirements and prove compliance with FDIC, SOX, and other regulatory bodies. 8 IT groups use NimBUS to monitor several internal and consumer facing applications.  Learn how monitoring these applications from the end users’ perspective along with the underlying infrastructure that spans two datacenters and over 500 servers provides the information necessary to support the business.

4:50pm - 5:15pm 

Wrap Up 

 

6:30pm - 10:00pm

Networking Social Event.

 

 

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