SPRING 2008 CURRICULUM SKETCH
Topics We'll Cover
The
topics and sessions listed below represent examples of content we've run or are
planning to cover at the Spring event. This sampling will provide context for
the kinds of attendees who should come the event, the exhibitors who would like
to reach those attendees and the speakers who are able to lend their expertise
to others as a member of the ISPCON conference faculty . If these topics matter
to you, your business, clients and customers - you need to be part of
ISPCON!
Spring 2008 Conference
Tracks:
The
Spring 2008 Conference Program will consist of four tracks over three days.
Tracks currently in development include:
Wireless ...and More
Wireless
Not
one, but two tracks of Wireless this Spring. From several angles and approaches,
market sizes, business issues, opportunities, technologies, topologies, tactics
and trends, we'll address your needs and then some.
Web Services, Apps &
Hosting
Datacenters,
Web Services, Applications, SaaS, Power, Storage, Virtualization, Grid Computing
and Hosted Services.
Business, Finance and
Marketing
Every element of success required to build, buy or
manage a profitable service business in today's market. From finance, capital
and exit strategies to marketing, sales and management tactics, capex management
skills, asset protection tips and smart legal pointers for dealing with
liabilities in a digital age with challenging regulatory
conditions.
Examples of
Content, Sessions and Conference Programming in the works for the next
event.
MANAGED SERVICES
- KSFs of Providing Managed Security Services
- Case Studies of Mid-market Managed IP Network
Services
- Trends in Remote Access, Teleworker and Tech
Support Services
MANAGED HOSTING AND DATACENTER SERVICES
- Controlling Datacenter Power and Cooling
Costs
- Planning for Scale, Building for Business
- Financing for Growth in Uncertain Times
- Virtualization Trends and Technologies
- Clustering in the Petabyte Age: Can you
Compete?
- Systemic Services: Automating for Scale,
Provisioning for Profit
- The Long Tail of Hosting: Making the Niche
Matter
- Exploiting the Boom in Low End Commodity
Hosting from The Big Boys
- Why Shared is Scared and Dediated is
Dead
MESSAGING AND COLLABORATION SERVICES
- Pricing, Margins and Customer Adoption Trends
in Messaging Solutions
- Securing Today's Enterprise Messaging
Platforms for Tomorrow's Threats
- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Delivering Reliable
Collaboration Services
- Realities of Unified Messaging: Do SIP and
VoIP belong in the Inbox? (and who's using it?)
- Putting a Shine to the MTA: Where
Integration, Applications and Advanced Services Drive Value into Mail
- Realities of Presence and Mobility Solutions,
What Carriers Can't/Won't Provide
- The Truth of Practice of Managed Compliance
Services
- Partnering with an ESP: Email Marketing
Services and Solutions that Sell, Integrate Well and Keep Customers off
Blacklists
- Considerations for Selecting Email
Outsourcing and Private Label Messaging Services Vendors<
BUSINESS/FINANCE/REGULATORY ISSUES
- Justifying the Move to CLEC Status
- Top 10 Regulatory Concerns You Can't Ignore
- Maximizing Your Financial Options with
Creative Financing, New Leasing Options and Capex Management Solutions
IT SERVICES
- Selling to Businesses: Making friends from IT
Foes
- Point Solutions that Sell, Making Outsourcing
Bite-sized and Low-risk for the Customer
- Gateways to Gold: Smart Boxes for Remote
Monitoring and Proactive Solution Provisioning
- Moving from VAR to STAR, How Leading VARs are
Setting the Pace in IT Services
- Don’t Get in the Way: Strategies for
Integration at the Edge to Open Paths to Profit
- Profit from Pain Points: Where Value Peaks
and Solutions Speak
- When Remote is Right and Onsite is Alright,
Optimizing the Needs, Opportunities and Expenses for You and Your Customers
- Expectation Management: Dealing with Downtime
and Building Customer Confidence
- The Portfolio Development and Marketing
Process: Services that Cross-sell, Integrate Well and Migrate Customers to
Maximum Adoption and ARPU
- Cutting free of the Commodity: Leading
High-value Services that You'd be Stupid to Pass Up
- Inside the Mind of the Customer: Addressing
What Matters Most with Purpose-built Point Solutions
- Secrets of the 10 Fastest Growing
Providers
VOICE SERVICES
- Strategies and Trends in Managed Voice
Services
- Open Source VoIP Gets Real
- Making VoIP Reliable and Profitable
APPLICATION SERVICES
- SaaS Strategies, Realities and Experiences
from the Field
- Relative Reliability: Managing the Varied
Demands of Differing Applications to Meet Customer Needs
- Best Practices in Moving Traditional
Applications to Multi-tenant Solutions for SaaS Success
WEB SERVICES
- Bridging the API Security Gap: Connecting
Disparate Apps in a Distributed Environment
- What Web 2.0 Means to You
- How SOA, bITa and ITIL can Differentiate Your
Services and Bring Unique Value to the Table
CONTENT AND DEVELOPMENT
- Leading with CMS and Blogging Systems to
Drive Adoption
- Outsourcing Essentials for Offshore
Development, Support and BPO Services
- Rich Media Services Trends and Opportunities
for Developers, CDNs and You<
NETWORK SERVICES
- Making GigE a RealitE
- Making Wireless Links for Business a Reliable
and Profitable Reality
- Developing a Scalable, Manageable Network
Monitoring Solution
WIRELESS SERVICES
- Applications and Services that Maximize
Wiress ROI (Surveillence, Public Svc, Muni, MTU/MDU, VoIP, Distance Learning)
- Unwiring the Enterprise with Secure and
Reliable Managed Wireless Networks
- Using Ubiquitous WiFi to Your Advantage:
Hotspots and Muni Wifi Security Services
VERTICAL MARKETS
- Pricing and Provisioning Grid and Utility
Services
- Zero Down: Making Storage and Backup Services
Count
- Exploiting the Sweet Spots of SME Services
- Mission Critical: When and Where Customers
Will Pay Most for Reliability
- E-commerce Gets Easy, Moving Upstream with
Advanced Services and Integration
- Designing and Building a Powerful
Reseller/Channel/WOM/Referral/Program