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| 08.30 – 09.20 | Registration & Welcome Tea and Coffee |
| 09.20 – 09.40 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 09.40 – 10.10 | KEYNOTE - Simplify IT |
| Organisations struggle with the complexity of technology. Dell is forging a path to Simplify IT by building a low-touch uniform infrastructure which spans the desktop to the datacentre. Learn how this helps to reduce cost and complexity, enabling you to reclaim the time, money, and personnel needed to make innovation a daily business practice. |
| 10.10 – 10.15 | Session Changeover |
| TRACK 1: Realise your workforce potential |
TRACK 2: Reveal your hidden datacentre |
| Users are becoming increasingly mobile, demanding for more flexibility and the boundaries between work and personal live are blurring, but how can IT support this without losing control? By attending the sessions in this content track, you will learn how to achieve this and find out how to fully realise your workforce potential. | You are running out of space, and your utility bills are skyrocketing, but your customers’ demands only continue to grow – faster than your IT budget. Learn how to drive cost and complexity out of the datacentre to deliver more compute capacity for less than you’re probably spending right now. It’s like having a hidden datacentre, right inside your current one. |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | MOBILITY Protect, Connect, Anywhere, Anytime |
DATA CONSOLIDATION & MANAGEMENT Change the economics of storage |
| As your workforce becomes more mobile, their needs increase as well. Productivity relies on their notebook’s connectivity, battery life, and durability. They need solutions that can go with them into a wide range of non-traditional and challenging environments. And as mobility enables a greater level of collaboration, users require new levels of support to fully engage with each other. Dell not only delivers mobile solutions to meet these evolving needs, but we also provide tools which simplify the deployment, management, and security of your clients. These solutions hold fast to our philosophies of commonality and long product lifecycles to keep your TCO in check. | Data growth is out of control, and some of that data can be stranded, hard to find, or isolated from your consolidated storage. In order to make storage consolidation available to everyone, Dell is leading the iSCSI revolution. Whether you use Fibre Channel or cope with servers on your Ethernet, our iSCSI solutions provide the perfect complement. Learn about our storage solutions and how they can help to change the economics of storage. |
| 10.45 – 10.50 | Session Changeover |
| 10.50 – 11.20 | FLEXIBLE COMPUTING Achieve IT control & end-user flexibility |
VIRTUALIZATION Bringing logic to the virtual world |
| End-users want to be able to work where they want, when they want, and on a wide range of devices. This has fueled increased concern for IT around data security, manageability, and compliance. Dell understands these challenges, and in response has developed an array of flexible computing solutions aimed at giving IT centralised control of all end-user data and images. This provides better security, easier manageability, and reliable accessibility, while still letting end-users work anywhere, anytime, and eventually on any device. This session provides an overview of Dell’s Flexible Computing vision, introducing the virtualization and network-based solutions which will enable this centralised control for IT. | Costly, unplanned server and storage sprawl wastes money, time, and space. Virtualization promises to help, but you want to make an informed decision. Dell is leading the industry in making virtualization a standardised, mainstream architecture. Virtualization with Dell is simple, logical and pervasive so it´s better, faster, with no lock-in agenda. This session covers how Dell helps simplify virtualization deployment and ongoing management with optimised systems, fast-start services, and an open approach to management. Our virtualization solutions provide an efficient and agile foundation that can easily scale in-step with your organisation. |
| 11.20 – 12.20 | Coffee Break/Exhibition |
| 11.45 – 12.15 BREAKOUT: Workstation special |
11.30 – 12.20 BREAKOUT: Blades deep-dive |
| This session reveals some exciting new usage models and solutions enabled by rack-based workstations and Dell’s new remote access capabilities, plus there’s the new mobile workstations with mobile computing performance you wouldn’t believe possible. Miss it and your competitors will have the advantage! | Experience the PowerEdge blade server revolution. Learn about Dell’s unique approach to applying blade technology to combat datacentre complexity, so you can get IT faster, run IT better, and grow IT smarter. |
| 12.30 – 12.50 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATION Remove barriers to communications |
POWER & COOLING Compute more, consume less |
| Teamwork is key to your success, but it´s hard to collaborate when everyone is “on the go”. Phone and video conferencing, email, and messaging all help, but can you really afford the digital age? Unified Communications (UC) simplifies communications by connecting your messaging tools and displaying the real-time availability of everyone in your organisation. Learn how to develop a streamlined roadmap for the implementation of UC. | Dell understands that limited space, power, and cooling capacity—coupled with rising energy costs—make it difficult for your company to keep up with explosive data growth and increasing performance requirements. The market is increasingly focused on environmental responsibility, but you can´t sacrifice service levels. Learn how you can increase datacentre performance by up to 97% with zero increase in energy consumption through a combination of energy optimised technologies, virtualization, and best practices. Find out more about Dell’s comprehensive, energy-efficient suite of solutions including Energy Smart servers, blade servers, virtualization, and advanced cooling technologies which help you compute more while consuming less. |
| 12.50 – 12.55 | Session Changeover |
| 12.55 – 13.25 | SERVICES (GICS) Reclaim your IT resources |
SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Reclaim your IT resources |
| Technology powers every part of your organisation, but every part of your organisation has different – and growing – needs. Meanwhile, your users and legacy systems must be supported, and with ever more aggressive service-level requirements – with a limited budget and fixed resources. Learn how Dell´s broad range of Service and Support offerings can help you reclaim your IT resources to what really matters: Your organisation. | In most organisations, administration expenses are outpacing new technology spend. In this session, learn how Dell’s approach to systems management can help simplify, streamline, and scale your IT operations more efficiently. |
| 13.25 – 14.15 | Lunch/Exhibition/Prize Draw |
SMB Track
| 10.15 – 11.10 | RELIABILITY 3 ways to ensure your technology just works |
| Maximise your organisation’s uptime with reliable products, a secure environment and services so you can focus on growing your organisation and delighting your customers. Uptime and system availability 24/7 are critical for your organisation. You do not have spare computers to use in case of system failure. In the event that a system goes down you need a quick fix to keep your organisation running. Uptime can be influenced by a wide range of factors. In this session, we will discuss: How to ensure that you are running your organisation on reliable products, how to keep out things like viruses that can take your systems down and how to outsource services so you can focus on your organisation while someone else takes care of your systems. |
| 11.10 - 11.40 | Coffee Break/Exhibition |
| 11.40 - 12.35 | DATA MANAGEMENT Manage your data, before it manages you |
| Ensure your company will be around for years to come. Learn simple strategies to begin managing and protecting your most valuable asset, your data. Happy customers. A motivated and productive staff. Black ink on the bottom line. That’s the dream of most small organisations, and it typically takes years to realise it. Yet, when a small organisation fails to adequately protect one of its most critical assets – its information – that dream can turn into a nightmare in a hurry. We will teach you simple strategies to begin protecting your most valuable asset, your data. The idea is to start small but start smart. During this session we will discuss: Simple strategies to begin storing your data in 2 places, potential problems with portable media, the benefits of a server, and various data storage solutions available for small organisations. |
| 12.35 - 13.30 | MOBILE SECURITY Protecting your notebook and data from thieves |
| According to statistics, 80% of organisations will lose or have their notebooks stolen at some point. Learn simple strategies to work securely on WIFI, how to use fingerprint readers and much more. Not only do you lose productivity from not having a notebook to work on, you could also spend time working with police officials to recover the notebook. And if it’s a worst case scenario, and you haven’t backed up the files on your notebook, you could lose months of work, critical business or client files, or secure or private data like customer contacts or employee profiles. During this session will we discuss: best practices to help prevent notebook theft, best practices to prevent data theft and what to do if your notebook is lost or stolen. |
| 13.30 – 14.15 | Lunch/Exhibition/Prize Draw |