War On Cost 2011

Introduction

After the massive success of last years event at the Churchill War Rooms in London, Inframon, the leading UK specialist in the Microsoft System Center suite bring you The War on Cost III, 2011– System Center 2012 Roadshow, an exclusive free event,

that brings together some the worlds leading experts in Microsoft Systems Management Technologies, to show you how you can help your organisation successfully fight the ongoing War on Cost.

Speakers

Inframon bring you once more, a lineup of some of the biggest names in the System Center space, including key Microsoft Product Managers, MVP's, ISV's and UK industry leaders, bringing you a wide range of both techincal and business expertise,

to allow you to make informed decisions about where you can effectively save your organisation money whilst increasing efficiency

Sponsors

Inframon have partnered with key System Center ISV's to enable you with the knowledge you need to extend your investment in System Center beyond the Microsoft stack.

Our sponsors have been carefully selected to add real world value to the event taking part in key presentations as well as showcasing their solutions on of our System Center partner pavillion..

Event Schedule

Inframon, the UK's leading specialist in the Microsoft System Center Suite present " The War on Cost III – System Center 2012 Roadshow.", a very exclusive event which will be taking place in the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London.

This year Inframon will be holding the event in conjunction with Microsoft UK’s System Center 2012 Roadshow, with the aim of showing you even more effective ways of fighting the War on Cost in your organisation with an even more effective suite of tools set to be delivered next year by Microsoft’s System Center Team.
System Center 2012 Roadshow will provide the best possible opportunity for you to learn about the latest System Center 2012 suite of infrastructure management products for helping IT organisations benefit from self-managing, user-centric, dynamic systems. System Center solutions capture and aggregate knowledge about the infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices so that you can optimise IT structures to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

The aim of this event is to give you valuable information on how you can help your organisation drive down the cost of managing your Windows and Non-Windows based infrastructure using the Microsoft System Center Suite of products.
Featuring two dynamic tracks aimed at both Business and Technical decision makers, to give you the knowledge you need to make a difference in your organisation.

Adgenda

• TIME	SESSION
  09:30-10:15	KEYNOTE: System Center – Dynamic Infrastructure Management From The Private To The Public Cloud
  10:15-10:45	Real-Life Customer Example
  10:45-11:00	BREAK
  11:00-11:30	Delivering System Center Deployments with our Partners
  11:30-12:30	Service-Centric Management and Self-Service with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
  12:30-13:15	LUNCH
  13:15-14:15	Application and Network Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2012
  14:15-15:15	Intelligent Application Protection and Disaster Recovery with System Center Data Protection Manager 2012
  15:15-15:30	BREAK
  15:30-16:30	Automation for Cross-Platform Environments with System Center Orchestrator 2012 and System Center Service Manager 2012
  16:30-17:00	The Future of Private and Public Cloud Management with System Center App Controller 2012

War On Cost 2010

"War On Cost 2010", was another very exclusive event which took place in the Cabinet War Rooms in the heart of London, an historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War.

The aim of this event was to give attendees valuable information on how they could once again help theirr organisation drive down the cost of managing your Windows and Non-Windows based infrastructure using the Microsoft System Center Suite of products.

It Fetaured two dynamic tracks aimed at both Business and Technical decision makers, aimed at giving attendees the knowledge they needed to make a difference in their organisation's

Agenda

08:30 - 09:00 REGISTRATION

Registration and Coffee

09:00 - 09:30 INFRAMON KEYNOTE

Introductory keynote from Gordon McKenna, CEO at Inframon setting the scene for our theme "The War on Cost"

ROOM 1: 09:30 -10:30 MICROSOFT KEYNOTE - RYAN OHARA: DATACENTER TO THE CLOUD

Join us in the main auditorium for a first keynote from Microsoft's Senior Director of System Center Product Marketing, Ryan O'Hara who will be giving us an insight on how Microsoft's Datacenter and Cloud strategy can help you in the battle your organisation faces around reducing the cost of managing your IT infrastructure whilst trying to increase efficiency. Learn also how System Center can be a key business enabler in both on-premise and off-premise scenarios.

ROOM 1: 10:50 -11:50 MICROSOFTKEYNOTE - ANDREW CONWAY: DESKTOP AND SECURITY CONVERGENCE

With end users increasingly mobile, consumerization impacting IT,  and security and compliance needs converging on the business you are likely considering options for desktop virtualization, endpoint protection, cloud management and application delivery. IT has an opportunity to simplify their investments, tools and processes in order to be ever more responsive to the changing face of their customer.  In this session, we’ll focus on effective solutions that will help you in the War on Cost – we’ll do this and take a forward look at upcoming System Center and Forefront technologies.

ROOM 2: 10:50 -11:50 BREAKOUT - SEAN ROBERTS\SIMON SKINNER INFRAMON: MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD STORY

Join Sean Roberts and Simon Skinner of Inframon for a walk through Microsoft's new private cloud story. Learn how to build your own, internal private cloud solution with Microsoft Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager and the new Self Service Portal 3.0. See how you can drive more efficient use of your IT infrstructure using batch processing and chargeback reporting putting you back in control of your costs.

ROOM 1: 11:50 - 12:50 BREAKOUT - JUSTIN INCARNATO\DANIEL SAVAGE MICROSOFT: OPERATIONS MANAGER R2 AND V.NEXT

This session will cover updates to Operation Manager 2007 since the release of R2, including the latest new features included in R2 CU3. We will also go over the next major release of Operations Manager including the vision and product demonstrations. This will be a demo packed session with plenty of time to interact and ask questions

ROOM 2: 11:50 - 12:20 BREAKOUT - ODYSSEY SOFTWARE: ATTACK THE COSTS AND COMPLEXITY OF MANAGING MOBILE DEVICES IN YOUR ENTERPRISE WITH ATHENA TM DEVICE MANAGEMENT EXTENSIONS FOR SYSTEM CENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 2007

In this session we will demonstrate how to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing deployments of Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Windows CE, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad, Android and Symbian devices through comprehensive, centralized management of these devices utilizing Odyssey Software’s AthenaTM device management extensions for System Center Configuration Manager 2007.

ROOM 2: 12:20 - 12:50 BREAKOUT - BRIDGEWAYS SOFTWARE: HETEREOGENEOUS MANAGEMENT WITH OPERATIONS MANAGER 2007

Learn how you can extend your Operations Manager 2007 platform beyond the Windows stack with Bridgewys cross-platform extensions and connectors, allowing you to manage platforms such as VMWare and Oracle from the same familiar console as the rest of your devices allowing you to consolidate your management tools, driving down your infrastructure costs.

12:50 - 13:50 LUNCH

Join us for lunch in our partner pavillion, where you can network with other delegates and meet our ISV partners and speakers

ROOM1: 13:50 - 14:50 BREAKOUT - JEFF WETTLAUFER MICROSOFT: SYSTEM CENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER V.NEXT HIGHLIGHTS

The next generation of the world’s leading systems management technology is now in Beta!  As we enter a new era of work styles, with people working in new ways from new locations on new devices, the System Center flagship product is evolving.  In this session we present a demo rich technical highlight of the next release of ConfigMgr.  We will focus on our continued vision of User Centric client management, highlight new improvements to core capability, infrastructure simplification and more.

ROOM 2: 13:50 - 14:50 BREAKOUT - SEAN CHRISTENSEN MICROSOFT: SERVICE MANAGER THE BETTER TOGETHER STORY

Breakout two, takes us on a journey into the world of IT service management with one of the newest members of the System Center family, Service Manager. Learn how you can pull together your IT resources with industry standard best practices, bringing disciplines like incident and problem and change and release management to your organisation allowing you to drive more efficient working processes across your organisation.

ROOM 1: 15:10 - 16:10 BREAKOUT - JASON BUFFINGTON MICROSOFT: INTELLIGENT DATACENTER APPLICATION PROTECTION

This session will focus on leveraging Data Protection Manager’s protection and recovery capabilities in large datacenters.  We will look at how Data Protection Manager protects and recovers critical application workloads such as SQL, Exchange and SharePoint – as well as virtual machines within Hyper-V.  The session is full of demonstrations, including the new self-service restore capability for database administrators.  We will also look at combining on-premise and off-premise protection using both Data Protection Manager’s built-in replication mechanisms as well as cloud-based Data Protection Manager-partner repositories.

ROOM 2: 15:10 - 16:10 BREAKOUT - ADAM HALL\GREG CHARMAN MICROSOFT: DATACENTER IT PROCESS AUTOMATION

In one of the final sessions of the day we bring you the one solution that will probably give you the biggest set of tools in fighting the War on Cost. Microsoft's newest addition to the System Center suite is Opalis, a robust and multi functional IT orchestration toolkit that can help drive incredible efficiencies in your organisation by automating many of your time consuming, day to day IT processes. This is not a session to be missed.

16:10 - 16:30 CLOSING KEYNOTE

Proceedings end with a closing keynote from Inframon CEO Gordon McKenna.

16:30 - 17:00 TOUR OF VENUE

War On Cost 2009

"009 saw the first "War on Cost" event, a very exclusive event which took place on the World War 2 battle cruiser HMS Belfast on the River Thames by Tower Bridge in London. The aim of this event was to show how companies can drive down the cost of managing a Windows and Non-Windows based infrastructure using the Microsoft System Center Suite of products and featured three dynamic System Center focused tracks featuring product overviews and technical deep dives on the System Center Suite directly from the Microsoft Product Management team and key industry experts, including:

Ryan O'Hara

Senior Director System Center Marketing - Microsoft Corporation

Nigel Cain

Senior Program Manager Virtualisation & Datacenter Management - Microsoft Corporation

Sacha Dawes

Senior Product Manager System Center Marketing - Microsoft Corporation

Jason Buffington

Senior Product Manager System Center Essentials & Data Protection Manager - Microsoft Corporation

Wally Mead

Senior Product Manager System Center Configuration Manager - Microsoft Corporation

Matt McSpirit

Partner Technology Advisor - Microsoft UK

Gordon McKenna

System Center Operations Manager MVP - Inframon Ltd

Michael Guthrie

Senior Program Manager - Bridgeways

Martin Sajkowski

Vice President Worldwide Sales - Secure Vantage

Antonio Mikulandra

Senior Sales Director - Hermes Softlab

With presentations covering apsects of Windows Management including:

Microsoft Systems Management Strategy

The event was one of the only System Center focused events to take place in the UK that year. The event was timed to coincide with the launch of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The Venue was carefully chosen to fit with the theme of the battle many companies are facing in driving down the cost of implementing and maintaining their Windows and Non-Windows based infrastructure.

The Venue “The HMS Belfast” is one of the most historic landmarks in London. The HMS Belfast saw active service in the second and has since been preserved as a floating museum.

The event was sold out three weeks leading upto the event, and was attended by a combination of business and technical decision makers from some of the leading companies in the UK.