Meet the fastest minds in the world at Accelerate 2010

Conference Agenda

7:00a - 5:00p	Registration & Info Desk Open
7:00a - 8:00a	Breakfast
8:15a - 8:30a	Welcome: Jerry Kennelly, Chairman and CEO
8:30a - 9:15a	Gartner Keynote - Joe Skorupa, Research VP Catch this year's keynote speaker, Gartner industry analyst Joe Skorupa. Gartner Research VP Skorupa has unrivaled understanding of the IT industry and its community. At Accelerate 2010, Skorupa will discuss the current state of the WAN optimization category as a whole, and its bright future. A must-see!
9:15a - 10:00a	What Do the Next 5 Years Hold in Store for Riverbed: Eric Wolford, Sr VP of Marketing & Business Development
10:00a - 10:30a	Break					Tech Expo and Hands On Lab
10:30a - 11:15a	Special Guest Keynote: Paul Saffo, Professor, Technology and Science ColumnistFuturist Keynote, Paul Saffo Paul Saffo, Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University is a forecaster with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its impact on business and society. Don't miss!
11:15a - 12:00p	Enterprise Keynote: Paul Rizzo, IT Director, Glaxo Smith Kline
12:00p - 1:00p	Lunch					Tech Expo and Hands On Lab
Technical Sessions
1:00p - 1:45p	Industry Panel: Cloud Reality and Hype Accenture, BT, and Glaxo Smith Kline Right now it's hard to tell the difference between marketing and the real benefits of the cloud. Join this panel to hear cloud specialists, enterprises using the cloud, and Riverbed engaged in a heated debate on the reality of cloud today. Topics addressed will include whether cloud is ready for enterprise production networks, cloud performance, and if cloud ROI is really achievable. Don't miss this session - it's the one that your colleagues will ask you about!	Best Practices for Effective Consolidation Consolidation is no easy task. From assessing the situation, managing the process, and ensuring performance, the entire process is risky and challenging. Learn how Riverbed tools can help you plan better, consolidate faster, and ensure performance everywhere in your network. You will walk away from this session with a game plan for consolidation that is fine-tuned for your enterprise.	Managing Steelhead Mobile Deployments Are you considering deploying mobile WAN acceleration in your network? This session will inform you about our best practices and upcoming product additions for effective deployment and management of the Steelhead Mobile product.	How to Improve Network Visibility w/ Cascade You consolidated & accelerated, you are an IT hero. Is your job done? Hardly. Responsibility for application availability and performance never ends. Learn about looking into your network with Riverbed Cascade. This session will give you key insights into how Riverbed Cascade can benefit your IT operations; including use for performance management, consolidation efforts and Steelhead reporting.
1:45p - 2:00p	Cloud Security: What You Need to Know - Scott Chasin, McAfeeAre you concerned about the security of your data in a public cloud? You should be! This is one of the top barriers of adoption of the cloud and needs to be properly addressed before you move confidential information outside the confines of your data center. The good news is you’re not the only one worrying about this, and some of the top security experts in the world of IT have been developing new frameworks and technologies to protect your data in the clouds. This informative session will give you valuable insights on how to adopt industry best practices, avoid pitfalls, and adapt your security model to accommodate public, private, virtual private, or hybrid cloud computing. Not to be missed.
2:00p - 2:15p		How to Achieve Secure WAN Optimization Security is mission critical and increasing in complexity. IT professionals also face a mandate to optimize their IT infrastructure. In this session will discuss security considerations while deploying WAN optimization. In addition, we will cover best practices and deployment examples where security and optimization intersect, including treatment of SSL, authentication and application security.	RSP Basics: What You Need to Know Consolidating IT at the branch? Want to learn more about Riverbed Services Platform? This session will introduce you the basic concepts of RSP, enabling lower IT costs, driving IT consolidation and simplifying your network service management.	Accelerating Virtual Desktop Environments End-user experience and bandwidth utilization are key elements of any virtual desktop deployment strategy. This session will give you key insights into best practices and deployment options for accelerating virtual desktop environments over the WAN.
2:15p - 2:45p	Does the Cloud Have an Edge? So if you’ve adopted cloud computing, what IT infrastructure remains in your offices? Consolidation, virtualization, centralization, and cloud-ification can drastically simplify your hardware footprint, bringing cost savings and other advantages, but some elements of technology by their very nature must remain local to branch offices. Active directory, DNS, DHCP, firewall, and even network routing are all examples of local services that resist easy consolidation. The good news is that with new approaches to building a "branch office box" you can effectively deliver these functions without needing to purchase and support a stack of servers of in every one of your offices. Come learn how!
2:45p - 3:00p	Case Studies in Cloud Computing - Joe Skorupa, Research VPCloud computing continues to gain attention, with vendors promoting an ever-wider variety of service options. When, where and how does cloud computing deliver benefits? What are the barriers and how can enterprises begin to take advantage of the benefits that cloud promises?
3:00p - 3:15p		Break
3:15p - 3:30p	Break
3:30p - 4:00p	Desktop Virtualization Are you deploying Desktop Virtualization today or considering it as a means of reducing enterprise desktop costs? Learn how Riverbed can help address the performance aspects of deploying the various solutions available today including VMware View, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and Citrix ICA.	Practical Advice for Accelerating Disaster Recovery This session will give you practical advice on key technologies and techniques for adding acceleration of Disaster Recovery (DR) into your network. Topics include integration points, accelerating storage data flows and scaling your acceleration capabilities as the amount of data increases.	QoS with Steelhead: A How-To Session Confused about QoS? This popular session covers Riverbed Steelhead QoS capabilities in detail, including configuration examples, best-practice recommendations and an overview of the advantages of deploying Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC).	Scaling Riverbed Deployments Want to learn how Steelheads interact with your network? This session will cover the fundamentals of auto-discovery, asymmetric traffic handling, and the many options you have for deploying Steelheads.	Monitoring Your Private Cloud with Cascade Once you've built a private cloud, how do you ensure that you are meeting your Service Level Objectives? Learn how Cascade can give you the details you need on application performance, bandwidth utilization, and resource contention. You will take away strategies on better IT performance management and best practices on responding to IT emergencies.
4:00p - 4:30p	Data Protection Protecting critical data is an important goal for every global enterprise. Learn how Riverbed solutions work with the industry’s leading storage solutions from EMC, NetApp, Double-Take, Dell- EqualLogic, HP, HDS and more to develop a complete data protection strategy.
4:30p - 5:00p	Branch Office Solutions Remote branch office workers now expect the same level of access to corporate and external services as their counterparts in HQ. We will discuss the evolution of the branch office and how to address the new demands and challenges by implementing video streaming, print services, security and many more applications in one combined appliance.	Simplifying Steelhead Management Do you have more Steelhead appliances than fingers on your hand? This session will dive deep on how to effectively manage Steelhead deployments with the Riverbed Central Management Controller (CMC), best practices for deploying and managing Steelhead appliances, and give you a preview of the new features that are planned.	QoS with Steelhead: A How-To Session Confused about QoS? This popular session covers Riverbed Steelhead QoS capabilities in detail, including configuration examples, best-practice recommendations and an overview of the advantages of deploying Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC).	Integrating WAN Optimization Into Your NetworkWant to learn how the Steelhead interacts with your network? This session will cover the fundamentals of auto-discovery, asymmetric traffic handling, and the many options you have for deploying Steelhead appliances. Hands-on networking experience recommended.	Building the Branch Office Box w/RSP At this session you will learn about partners that enable the Riverbed Services Platform to build a complete branch office. The solutions covered will include security/threat management, firewalls and other network services.
5:00p - 5:30p	Application Acceleration Applications such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint/ Windows Server 2008R2 / Exchange, AutoCAD, Microsoft and others are the critical engines for driving your business, and yet can be very slow over the WAN, thus impacting your costs and productivity. Learn how Riverbed has accelerated these and many more applications to deliver amazing end-user experience! We will share the performance results of the major applications and the benefits for our customers.
5:30p - 6:30p	Reception in Tech Expo
7:00p - 10:00p	Special Evening Event at Moon Nightclub

Training Schedule

1:00p - 3:00p	* RCSP/RCSA Certification Testing (RCSA is partners only)	RCSP/RCSA Certification Exam Prep	Support Tools (1:00pm-5:30pm)
3:00p - 6:00p	* RCSP/RCSA Certification Testing (RCSA is partners only)

*Requires additional registration fee. Also offered on May 19 and May 21.

Cloud Sessions

Is there a reality behind all the cloud computing hype? And what can cloud do for you? Get the facts by attending our special cloud-computing track. Explore the potential that cloud holds. Learn about the barriers that must be overcome before widespread adoption can occur. Discover how companies are already deploying various
cloud models.

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Tech Expo

Whether you're looking to solve a specific IT performance issue or you just want to see what's new in 2010, you can find it all at our Tech Expo. It's our largest partner exhibition featuring a broad sampling of technology leaders. Come see how Riverbed and its valued partners deliver the most complete WAN optimization solution.

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Technical Training

Want to roll up your sleeves and deepen your knowledge of the revolutionary technology that makes WAN optimization possible? Attend our ever-popular Technical Training sessions to get the latest from our leading experts including the Hands On Lab. You'll be glad you did.

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