Server Automation Black Belt Sessions
Network Automation Black Belt Sessions
Process Automation Black Belt Sessions
IT Generalist Sessions
Introductory Sessions
Roadmap Sessions

General Sessions

Visual Application Manager: It's VAM-tastic!
Be the hero at the 2 a.m. application troubleshooting session by brining the awesome power of Visual Application Manager(VAM) to the party. VAM 7 takes a massive leap forward in discovery and dependency analysis. Come learn how to do detailed dependency analysis, find typical configuration problems instantly, compare VAM snapshots, create signatures for both applications and storage volumes, filter results so you're only looking at the relevant items, and much more.

Server Automation System Black Belt Sessions

Introducing Server Automation System 7
Server Automation System 7 breaks new ground in application compliance with the debut of its sister product, Application Storage Automation System 1.0. This session will give you a sneak-peak at the Server Automation System 7 feature set. You’ll see demonstrations of capabilities including Audit & Remediation, Software Management, Scripting, Visual Application Manager, and more!

Look Ma, No Packages: Software and Code Deployment
Tired of trying to talk your development teams into creating packages? Come learn how easy it is to create powerful software policies with custom sequencing, rich object support, and integrated scripting. Get the benefits of packaging (re-use, ordering, relationships) without the overhead of creating packages ...all without resorting to a proprietary packaging format!

Build Your Own Automation with Opsware Platform Extensions
Here is your opportunity to learn new, powerful ways to build customized automation features with the Opsware Server Automation System Platform. The session will introduce Opsware Platform Extensions, which provide a rich, GUI-based extensible platform. You will be taken through the development process for building a complete GUI extension and learn how to apply these concepts to your own IT operational needs.

Managing VMWare with Server Automation System
Have you ever wanted to script VMware configuration together with your Opsware management policies? The Global Shell provides access to powerful virtualization APIs in addition to Opsware's rich Server Automation System data model. The class will take you through developing Global Shell scripts that automate VMware provisioning and configuration.

Supercharge Windows Administration with Server Automation System
Windows users don't have to hang their heads in shame when their UNIX buddies talk about performing powerful server administration tasks in the shell anymore. Microsoft's Powershell brings pipelining, a rich set of built in commands and an object-centric approach that goes above and beyond text-oriented UNIX shells. Come learn how Server Automation System turbo-boosts already powerful Microsoft technology with multi-server script execution, strong security, and instant access to the entire Server Automation System data model.

From the trenches with AMD: Passing Your Server Audits with Server Automation System
Every system administrator deals with audit and compliance headaches at some point – customers, managers, auditors, and government all want you to show that regulations and best practices are being adhered to. Come see how AMD has been using SAS to achieve compliance across hundreds of servers. You will hear the detailed account of getting the job done and learn how to apply Server Automation System compliance capabilities to your servers.

From the trenches with EDS: Enforcing Security in a Multi-Tenancy Environment
How to manage multiple customers, each with unique and proprietary intellectual property and best practices, in a shared IT environment that maximizes your own efficiencies? Server Automation System users have been solving these problems for years. Come see how EDS has been using Server Automation System to manage hundreds of customers in common data centers with thousands of system administrators. You will learn how Server Automation System enables system administrators to get their jobs done quickly without spending all their time worrying about security.

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Network Automation System Black Belt Track

Introducing Network Automation System 7
Networks are larger and more complex than they've ever been and costs keep climbing. Management costs are skyrocketing. Automation is the key to providing the reliable network services your organization demands without breaking the bank. Network Automation System 7 is a major milestone towards the vision of comprehensive network automation. Come and learn about the exciting new capabilities and how you can leverage them to do your job easier, faster and with fewer fire drills.

An Engineer's Guide to Screaming Network Automation Performance Gains
This expert session will demonstrate how to take your NAS deployment to the next level. You will learn techniques for increasing NAS performance and tuning to maximize response time. We'll discuss planning for growth as well as high availability and disaster recovery strategies.

Build Your Own Drivers with The Opsware Network
Do you have dreams of building your own device drivers? Collaborating on a new extension to the Network Automation System Platform? This fun, interactive hands-on lab will explore building your own drivers and sharing content in the Opsware Network. The Opsware Network is not just for Security Alerts anymore!

Managing Network Infrastructure with Automation: SAIC's Perspective
Deploying a new automation system is an exciting journey. Questions abound. "Will the organization embrace it?" "What kind of results will we see immediately?” Learn about SAIC's network automation experience, the issues they encountered, and their success.

Policy Compliance in Network Automation System 7
Is compliance making your life a nightmare? Network Automation System 7 provides innovative new ways to manage policy compliance across your network. This hands-on lab will walk you through the new policy management capabilities in Network Automation System 7. A wealth of sample policies and best practices will be provided.

Evenings and Weekends Off - Lessons Learned from T-Mobile
Tired of getting the 3 a.m. page that the network is causing problems? Looking for ways to improve the stability and predictability of your network and proactively avoid the fingerpointing? Hear how T-Mobile changed the way they manage their network using network automation and the benefits they saw.

Next Generation Network Management: Process, Prevention, and Peanut Butter
Network Automation System is a great system for tracking, auditing and deploying changes, but what about automating the process behind making changes? How are leading organizations revolutionizing network automation with process automation to move to the next generation of network management? This session will cover how to leverage Opsware to automate common multi-step tasks, perform one-click end to end provisioning and dynamically validate that the changes you deployed had the desired effect. Taking Network Automation System to this next level will dramatically improve how you manage the network today.

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Process Automation System Black Belt Track

Introducing Process Automation System 7.0
Have you read rave reviews of Opsware’s Process Automation System and wondered what the hype is all about? Have you always wondered if Process Automation System could help your organization achieve the benefits that analysts and reviewers have been gushing about? Then this session is for you. We’ll provide you an overview of Process Automation System discuss real-world use case scenarios and show you how customers have benefited from process automation.

Is it as Simple as it Looks? Authoring Workflows with Process Automation Studio
It looks better than Visio and is even simpler to use. But the speed and the utility of the workflows built with Process Automation Studio will knock the socks off your IT ROI! We’ll show you how to navigate the product, re-use the amazing out-of-the-box content, the tips and tricks, and some features that you probably have not yet discovered even if you are a long term user of Process Automation System. Don’t miss this dynamic lab session – and see if you can win our special prize for “Best Authoring Guru”!

Metrics, Dashboards, and Reports
It may be hard to believe, but the dashboards and reports on Process Automation System are as simple to use and as nice looking as Process Automation Studio. We’ll show you why Network Computing declared Process Automation System the up-and-away winner in dashboards and reporting among all IT process automation tools and how you can reap the benefits. Join this fun and exciting lab to learn more about how to create dashboards and reports that are sure to wow the execs and make you an IT hero!

Straight from Real World – A Thomson Financial Case Study
Process and Run Book Automation is sweeping the financial services world by storm, and has broad applications across any large scale data center with complex infrastructure and too many manual processes. How do you optimize and jump start your own Process Automation initiative? Hear it directly from our customers – let Thomson Financial show you how they have implemented Process Automation System, the fact, the fiction, the organizational issues, the use case scenarios and last but not least – the cost savings.

Seamless Network Configuration Management with Opsware Network and Process Automation
So you are a believer when it comes to automated network management. What if you can tie your favorite network management solution seamlessly into your service desk and monitoring tools and streamline the end-to-end process around configuration management? You’ll see how Process Automation System teams up with Network Automation to deliver real-time visibility, automation, and control of your ever-changing network, allowing you to achieve compliance and measurable costs savings. Come see a live demo that clearly shows: NAS + PAS = Marriage Made in IT Heaven!

Do More with Less – How NYK is Running a Global Data Center on Starbucks Coffee and Process Automation
How would you like to rake in $100k+ in operational cost savings per automated workflow? NYK is here to show you exactly how they did that. As the longest running PAS customer, with thousands of servers and devices, hundred of workflows, they have all kinds of tricks up their sleeve for getting the most out of your Run Book Automation solution. Maximize the ROI across all your data center initiatives by tapping into the power of Run Book Automation. Key use cases will be presented with implementation examples and very detailed flow diagrams.

Process Automation System – The Next Generation
Gartner has highlighted Run Book Automation as the technology most likely to gain the highest ROI in IT. Go beyond the hype and see where the product is going in the near future and how it’s going to change the way you manage IT. We’ll share the space-time-bending features our product management team has in store for Process Automation System. We want your feedback and help in making the product even better than it already is.

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IT Generalist Track

Building the ROI for IT Automation
Are you planning to automate your operations and your processes? How do you calculate the ROI of the initiative, and how do you sell the value, bot tangible and in-tangible, to your upper-management and peers? Come and learn how to build and sell the value of your initiative to the organization.

Demystifying ITIL v3: What It Really Means to You
The noise around ITIL v3 is building to a crescendo. Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continual Service Improvement, what does it really mean to you? What’s the difference between the new Service-Driven Lifecycle and the Process-Driven approach in ITIL v2? This session provides a broad overview on everything you need to know about the major changes coming in ITIL V3, as well as cover the important considerations for transitioning existing tools to the new model.

The Opsware Network– Opsware's Live Platform
Data Center Automation solutions have reached an inflection point, experiencing rapid growth due to demands on IT operations to adopt best practices and drastically improve cost and efficiency. How do you get started with Data Center Automation, what’s the best strategy for integrating with existing IT management tools, and what are the common pit falls to avoid? This end-user session comes straight from the experience of other customers just like you, and provides an understanding of how IT organizations are using these new tools and the best practices employed for achieving Data Center Automation success.

Why ITIL Projects Fail
Best-practices standards, such as ITIL, enable organizations to build a foundation for lasting service excellence while meeting their budget and regulatory requirements. However when companies head down the path of implementation, they are often frustrated with organizational resistance, slow adoption rates and inability to demonstrate results. Learn about how to avoid the common pitfalls in ITIL implementation projects and make ITIL work for you!

Real-Time Compliance & Lockdown
Virtualization, compliance and data center consolidation are some of the key trends driving IT spending today. This session discusses each of these key trends and the unique management challenges posed by them. Through case studies and examples, you’ll learn how automation solutions can be leveraged to ensure long term success in each of these key IT initiatives.

Business Service Automation – A Definition
As broad automation initiatives begin to emerge, cutting across traditional technology silos, businesses are starting to look at the next step after Infrastructure Automation. In order to position IT as the engine that drives business growth and innovation, tomorrow’s IT leaders need to morph today’s infrastructure specific IT processes toward more business service and application centric processes. This session will explore how automation can be applied towards enabling business services like end-to-end provisioning, holistic incident management and look to the future towards technologies like Business Self-Service Portals. It’s time to unlock the power of technology to drive true alignment between business and IT.

Exploit the Value of Next Generation Data Center using SOA
Accenture will explore the Next Generation Data Center by presenting an approach to the architecture and design of applied data center technologies including service oriented architecture (SOA) technologies and how they can be implemented in an enterprise using Linux. Specifically the area of application migration and how it can fully exploit next generation data center using SOA will be covered.

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Introductory Sessions

Automate Your Server Management
To meet the ever-increasing business demands on IT, a new approach to managing servers must be implemented. Server management needs to evolve from standalone provisioning and patching to heterogeneous support of all major operating systems and applications running on physical and virtual machines, providing one unified view of the environment. System administrators need to share best practices, application packages, OS builds, and configurations across teams and locations, minimizing rework and enforcing standards. Come see how Server Automation System can help you get your job done and give you the tools necessary to move ahead.

Automate Your Network Management
Are you interested in network management automation and would like to learn more? This educational session covers fundamental concepts of the Network Automation System. You will take away a firm understanding of the features and functions of the Network Automation system. Come join us and learn how to provide the reliable network services your organization demands without breaking the bank.

Automate Your Process Management
Today's complex technology environments and demanding business requirements drive IT organizations to do more with less. Amidst the challenges of managing an ever increasingly complex environment, how do you maximize service levels while controlling cost, proactively manage configuration changes in a large scale environment while meeting security and compliance requirements, fix issues before customers are impacted, and come out a winner?

The good news is, the rules have changed in IT Operations and new IT Process Automation solutions have emerged to help you meet these challenges head-on. Join us for this exciting discussion around the current and future state of Enterprise IT Operations.

Automate Your Storage Management
Learn how server administrators and storage administrators can live in harmony with the integrated server-storage views in Server Automation System and Application Storage Automation System. See the industry-first visibility storage administrators will have into the server environment and server administrators will have into their storage environment. It's a magical land of shared visibility and no pointing fingers: time to hold hands and sing "kumbaya".

Introduction to Business Technology Optimization (BTO)
If you’re wondering what HP’s pending acquisition of Opsware means to you, then attend this session. In this session, HP will introduce the concept of business technology optimization (BTO), HP Software’s approach focusing IT efforts on business outcomes. You’ll hear how BTO can reduce costs and produce business outcomes by helping you allocate IT spend and resources based on business priorities, automate key processes across IT strategy, applications and operations, and measure IT effectiveness and effi ciency from a business perspective. And you’ll see how HP Software and Opsware can help you make sure that every dollar spent, every resource allocated and every application deployed contributes to business results.

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Roadmap Sessions

What's Next? System Automation System Roadmap
IT management is an ever-changing job for systems administrators and policy setters. New application and computing solutions must be rapidly and effectively deployed to keep pace with your business’ needs. This session will explain Opsware’s vision for managing server and application infrastructure, and we will preview upcoming Server Automation product releases. Come see the key features being planned and how Server Automation will more deeply integrate with other Opsware products.

What's Next? Network Automation System Roadmap
Wondering what's coming in the near future in Opsware Network Automation System? This information packed session provides attendees with a look under the covers at the exciting new features coming in the future versions of the Network Automation System. Come join us and learn where the Network Automation System is going to continue to solve your network management problems.

What’s Next? Process Automation System Roadmap
Ride the next wave in Data Center automation, join this exciting discussion about the future of Process Automation. We’ll talk about the Run Book Automation vision and what industry trends are driving this market; key themes that sum up the coming releases with a detailed roadmap.

World-class applications: HP Business Technology Optimization and Opsware Data Center Automation
The integration of the HP Software and Opsware product lines won’t start from square one. Opsware is already an HP partner. Attend this session to learn about the integrations between Opsware’s Data Center Automation Solution and HP’s business service management and IT service management offerings. You’ll see how the combined power of these industry-leading components makes a whole solution that is more than the sum of its parts.