09.30 Introduction and welcome
John Kyrillou, Sales Director, Exponential-e
09.35 Customer spotlight: The Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust share their legacy, history and how they have worked with Exponential-e to implement a next generation network
Paul Stafford, Infrastructure Services Manager, Wellcome Trust
09.50 Cloud computing in 2012
- The state of Cloud Computing today
- Challenges businesses face today when adoption cloud computing
Dominic Anschutz, Head of Cloud Operations, Exponential-e
10.00 PowerNGN connectivity: Your route to better ROI
- Benefits of one-hop internet access
- Optimising access to outsourced applications
- Managing the transition from product to service
Dan Young, Senior Consultant Engineer, Exponential-e
10.15 VPLS and VMware: Efficiency gains from a private cloud
- The benefits of a Smart Wires intelligent WAN
- Optimising WAN efficiency with Smart Wires infrastructure
- Best practices of virtualisation management
Adrian Hobbins, Chief Technology Officer, Exponential-e
10.45 Refreshments
11.00 Smart wires for smart solutions: From access to application
- End-to-end SLAs and business criticality
- Generating efficiencies with a service creation platform
- Building a services platform to support your business
Simon Acott, Business & Partner Development Director, Exponential-e
11.15 Unified communications and virtualisation
- Best practice: implementing a unified communications strategy
- Driving new levels of flexibility and cost savings through virtualisation
- Applying performance guarantees within the cloud
John Keegan, CTO, Fujitsu
11.35 Break-out workshops
12.15 Buffet lunch
Break-out workshops
Security and Flexible Working
Discover how to best protect your business and support responsive working with Next Generation Access. This workshop will focus on:
- enhancing the security, resiliency, and reliability of your communications infrastructure
- boosting employee productivity through flexible working, looking at hosted services including telephony, security and virtualisation
- real-life examples of deployed solutions
Business Assurance
Discover best practices for protecting your business from data loss, corruption and deletion. This workshop will focus on:
- strategies for minimising business interruption
- enabling business assurance through offsite backup, data vaulting, collocation services, SSL VPN,Voice & SIP trunking
- increasing the resiliency of your business through the creation of a virtualised private pool of ICT resources
