The recent economic downturn has caused enterprises to re-evaluate their approach to mission-critical areas in enterprise IT. While virtualization and data center consolidation promise to help enterprises contain costs and get the most out of their IT infrastructure, many critical decisions remain regarding the appropriate balance between security, network performance, IT governance, application support and regulatory compliance.

This session will focus on some of the "Big Questions" in IT and examine best practices driving IT decisions, such as…

• How to effectively integrate security into the network and application infrastructure
• Why Disaster Recovery is the #1 issue for many organizations, and what they are doing about it
• How to respond to new regulations and laws, interpret their impact on IT systems, and leverage security for better compliance automation
• How to effectively manage risks from data center consolidation and virtualization
• How the distributed enterprise (remote workers, mobility, WAN support) has impacted IT policies and practices