Sunday - Thursday, May 6-10, 2012

Learn about the latest innovations at the Interop Conference—including virtualization, mobility, cloud computing and data center advances—and get up to speed on how to leverage new technologies to increase productivity and improve collaboration in your enterprise.

Tuesday, May 8

The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Network
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Unified Communications Interoperability
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
What’s Next in Data Centers
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Wireless and Mobile 2012 – and Beyond
10:15 AM–12:30 PM
Cloud Crash Course
10:15 AM–12:30 PM
Server and Desktop Virtualization Crash Course
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Alternatives to the Spanning Tree Protocol
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Integrating Communications with Office and Business Process Applications
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Securing Social Media in the Enterprise
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Tablets: Where Do We Go From Here?
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
The Final Cloud Frontier: Driving Cloud Adoption for Mission Critical Apps
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
What’s Next in Storage
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Capacity Planning 101
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
IT Everywhere: Building and Managing Apps
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Is this the End of Physical Appliances?
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Modern Two-Factor Authentication: Defending Against Today's User-Targeted Attacks
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Optimizing Storage for Server and Desktop Virtualization
2:30 PM–3:30 PM
Session Management: The New Communications Paradigm?
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Breakthroughs in Network and Application Optimization
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Building VMware Private Clouds
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Completing the Mobile Vision: Mobile Unified Communications
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Great Debate: Cloud Storage Is Dead On Arrival
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Point of Entry: How Browser Attacks have Marginalized Internet Security
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
The Great Debate: Companies That Don't Embrace Big Data are Doomed
3:45 PM–4:45 PM
Unified Networking: Marketing Hype, or Core Trend?

Wednesday, May 9
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Changing the Mindset: Key Considerations When Creating a Risk Aware and Security Conscious Culture
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Desktop Virtualization - The Highs and Lows from the Field
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Enabling Endpoints for Collaboration: Hardphones, Softphones, Mobiles
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
How to Redesign Your WAN
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Wi-Fi –The Innovations Continue
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Does it Make Sense to Converge Networking, Storage and Servers?
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Handsets: Trends and Technologies
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Hybrid Cloud Integration
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
IT Blind Side
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
The Future of the "Desktop or the "Desktop" of the Future
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Video in the Cloud, Video Everywhere
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Avoiding the Dark Side of the Cloud - Real World Implementation Lessons
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Do you know your enemy? Incorporating Security Intelligence and Adversary Centric Analysis Into Information Risk Management
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Mobility and the Cloud: Making the Marriage Work
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
OpenFlow and Software Defined Networks: What are they and why do you care?
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
The Value of Video in Collaboration
2:00 PM–3:00 PM
What you Don’t Know could Kill your Desktop Virtualization Project
2:00 PM–3:30 PM
Scalable DCI Networks: Visibility & Control for Enterprise Customer SLAs
3:15 PM–4:15 PM
Beyond MDM: Enterprise Mobility Management
3:15 PM–4:15 PM
Big Data? No. Big Decisions Are What You Want
3:15 PM–4:15 PM
LTE Update
3:15 PM–4:15 PM
Software Security Risk Rises Along with Android
3:15 PM–4:15 PM
What Does it take in the Network to Support the Creation and Migration of VMs?

Thursday, May 10
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Application Layer DDoS Attacks: Motives, Mechanisms, and Mitigation
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Integrating Social Software into Contact Centers and Elsewhere in Enterprise Communities
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
User Experience: Monitor the network or monitor the application?
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Virtualization + Management & Automation = Private Cloud?
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Wireless Security: Solutions, or Just More Problems?
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Best Practices: The Road From Server Virtualization/Consolidation to Private Cloud
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
How can you Manage and Optimize Cloud Computing?
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Making Mobility Work: Notes from the Field
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, or Oracle: Which (if any) Should Be the Foundation of Your Social Business Strategy?
10:15 AM–11:15 AM
Security Automation: Connecting Your Silos
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Do Mobile Operating Systems Still Matter?
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
How BYOD is Driving Change in the Campus Network
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Less is More: Why SSL VPN is NOT What You Think It Is
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Living With (And Prospering From) BYOD
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Virtualization Security Best Practices

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