EMC FORUM 2012
Get ready for EMC Forum 2012: the one-day conference that aims to transform the way you see the future of business, IT – and yourself.
EMC Forum is a unique opportunity to connect and network with your peers in the region. You’ll hear local and international insights from high calibre keynote speakers and presenters, and case studies featuring the latest integrated solutions from EMC and our partners. To complete the package, a hand-picked selection of our partners will be exhibiting their products, and our VLab will offer technical training from EMC engineers.
Don’t miss this essential event. Register now to join EMC and our partners at EMC Forum 2012.
Month 1, 2012
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Cisco is the worldwide networking leader, providing the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice, and video around the world. This tradition of leadership continues as Cisco offers the Unified Computing System, a complete portfolio of servers powered by intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors. Cisco and EMC offer three paths to the cloud:
Talk with us about how we can accelerate your transition to a virtualized, automated and service-oriented datacentre architecture.
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. This vision is realized through the Brocade One™ strategy, which is designed to deliver key business benefits such as unmatched simplicity, non-stop networking, application optimization, and investment protection.
Innovative Ethernet and storage networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility.
To help ensure a complete solution, Brocade partners with world-class IT companies and provides comprehensive education, support, and professional services offerings.
Intelligent storage is more important than ever, and Intel provides the foundation for industry-leading storage solutions, engineered for energy-efficient performance, reliable data protection, and scalability. Intel is committed to quality and technology innovation, enabling businesses of all sizes to deploy the capabilities needed to manage the explosion of data, improve data center efficiency, and prepare for emerging usage models to solve today’s and tomorrow’s storage challenges.
As a leading system integrator in Israel and an emerging player in the international arena, Bynet Data Communications has been providing comprehensive and complete solutions to meet the ICT and telecom needs of organizations for over 35 years.
As a member of the renowned RAD-Bynet Group, a consortium of more than 20 high-tech companies with combined annual revenues of over $800 million, Bynet’s unique access to the full spectrum of IT infrastructure and telecom network requirements allows us to address the needs of a wide range of vertical markets with complete solutions. This, paired with our strong relationships with many of the world’s best-of-breed vendors ensures you always get the optimal solution.
Malam-Team, one of Israel's largest systems integration group has been EMC partner for almost two decades. Today, Malam-Team is an EMC "Signature" level partner with an advanced EMC Solutions Center that is capable of demonstrating modern, virtualized solutions. Being Israel's most diversified IT solutions provider, Malam-Team resells a majority of the EMC product line including VMAX based systems and provides large multi-disciplinary development and outsourcing solutions such as the Government of Israel Customs and Foreign Trade system, a country-wide traffic enforcement system and a central system for The Israel Nature and Parks Authority. All of these solutions contains central EMC storage.
Taldor communications GlassHouse is a leading system integrator from Taldor Group. We provide Full Data Center solutions to our customers.
We hold the a widest range of solutions and services including networking, unified collaboration solutions, end to end security solutions and IT infrastructures meaning that customers receive the full one stop shop value with the most professional capabilities in the market.
Taldor communications GlassHouse is known for its technical expertise and business partnerships with world leading technology vendors
TeraSky expertise is in the sphere of the Storage, Backup, Virtualization and Cloud based Data Protection solutions for IT industry.
TeraSky has assembled a unique team of EMC and VMware certified experts accustomed to total success in most advanced and complicated projects featuring storage & data protection solutions and private & hybrid cloud solutions.
Experience and quality of support inherited from the MBI history inspires TeraSky team to custom-design, architect, implement and support state-of-the-art solutions for diverse customers.
APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data centre and factory floor applications. APC solutions include UPS, precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruxure® architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution.
Bezeq International Ltd., (BI), Israel’s leading internet and international telecommunications provider, was founded in 1996 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bezeq. The Israeli Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. , and is part of the country’s largest and leading telecom group. BI is the leading company in all its main areas of activity, providing comprehensive communications solutions in Internet, Telephony (International, Domestic and Intra-Organizational), IT and Cloud Computing Services, Hosting, Data Communications and Information Security Solutions.
Comprehensive integration and infrastructure solutions for any organization, of any size and any place!
We use the most innovative technologies, while minimizing the risks and assuring ROI. Our customers benefit from a variety of solutions and services under one roof, which include virtualization, cloud computing, storage, backup, business continuity, communication and networks, DRP, data security and outsourcing.
Omnitech ranks among the experienced and leading companies comprising Israel's Computer and Technology Market. The Company, founded in 1979, is, stands out in its ability to respond to the multihued range of technological demands and to supply preferred technology solutions to organizations of all sizes and to all sectors of activity.
One1 is one of Israel's top three IT companies. It is a publicly listed company on the Israeli Stock Exchange.One1 provides a complete array of computing services, and is the Home for IT - with over 1,500 clients across a variety of industries, including: Telecom, High tech, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Retail, trade and more. The company has a clear customer focused strategy, and provides a variety of computing services including; infrastructure hardware and advanced storage facilities as well as complex software projects and solutions. One1 employs more than 2,500 employees located in Israel and abroad.
Techlease = Leasing Solutions for IT Equipment
Techlease is a veteran financing firm focusing on diverse financing solutions for the purchasing of IT systems.
The correct and most effective way to purchase IT equipment with maximum versatility: you choose the equipment and Techlease takes care of the financing and carries out the transaction.

Brian Gallagher is President, Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group within EMC Information Infrastructure Products. With 2009 revenues of $14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
Gallagher leads the Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group, which is responsible for the architecture, design, development, and support of all Symmetrix and storage virtualization platforms and software applications. EMC Symmetrix is the market-leading, high-end storage array, and has held that position for well more than a decade. Gallagher oversaw the development of the EMC Virtual Matrix Architecture and the EMC V-Max system, EMC’s most significant and advanced new storage architecture since the company first introduced the Symmetrix 19 years ago and created the high-end storage industry. He reports directly to Pat Gelsinger, President, EMC Information Infrastructure Products.
Immediately prior to this role, Gallagher lead the Symmetrix Product Group, with responsibility for the hardware, software, quality assurance, and e-Lab organizations, including the development of mainframe and open systems host applications. He was named Vice President, Symmetrix Hardware Engineering in 1997 and promoted to Senior Vice President in 2000. Gallagher has been with EMC for more than 25 years and has been designing and developing advanced information storage products for even longer. Prior to joining EMC in 1985, he developed disk and tape storage products for Wang Laboratories’ VS Systems.
Gallagher received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 1982 and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1990. He holds 13 U.S. patents and has 10 patents pending.
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration | ||||
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
Welcome & Opening Danny Neuberger, Israel Country Manager, EMC Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division, EMC Chad Sakac, Senior Vice President, Systems Engineering, EMC |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:30 - 14:00 | 5 Parallel Sessions | ||||
| Session | Transform IT - Cloud | Transform IT - Storage | Transform IT – Backup & Protect | Transform IT – Management | Transforming Business |
Presentation 1 |
Building an Efficient and Flexible Virtual Infrastructure Cloud computing transforms IT, delivering dramatically higher IT efficiency and agility. An automated private cloud is the first step – creating a dynamic pool of compute, network and storage resources Virtualization is the foundation to this dynamic pool leading up to a private cloud. Choosing the right infrastructure that is scalable, flexible and efficient is critical to a successful virtualization environment.Presenter: |
Transforming Storage: Presenter: |
Transforming Backup and Recovery By transforming your backup, recovery & archive strategy you can manage unrelenting data growth and your virtualization journey. In this session we will detail important market trends and describe how to accelerate your backup and archive transformation.Presenter: |
Getting Ready for Cloud Services? Transform your IT Management! Presenter: |
Big Data Transforms Business Businesses that can exploit Big Data to improve their strategy and execution will distance themselves from competitors. However, Big Data cannot be handled by traditional IT infrastructures due to its petabyte scale, multi-source and real-time characteristics. A new approach is needed. Attend this session and learn the new approach to Big Data enabling you to gain insights and transform into a predictive enterprise.Presenter: |
| Presentation 2 12:15 - 13:00 |
VMW 2012 Updates Presenter: |
FLASH 1st - The Storage Strategy for the Next Decade This session discusses the FLASH 1st storage strategy and how FLASH is the first line of defense of a modern, dynamic storage hierarchy. We further explore new FLASH deployment models like host based PCIe FLASH and all FLASH arrays. This session also discusses a business driven sizing model that enables you to quickly and precisely estimate just how much FLASH, 15K HDD and NL HDD is needed for the optimal FLASH 1st strategy.Presenter: |
Access Anywhere Protect Everywhere – Application Availability and Recovery in Private Cloud environments Understand how EMC VPLEX and EMC RecoverPoint can be used to enable continuous storage availability, continuous application availability and granular corruption protection across multi-site private cloud environments.Presenter: |
Cisco, EMC and Intel Leading Innovation in the Data Center Presenter: |
Introduction to Big Data Analytics Presenter: |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 - 16:15 | 5 Parallel Sessions | ||||
| Presentation 3 14:00 - 14:45 |
Running IT-As-A-Service Many organizations have highly virtualized IT but have yet to re-architect processes to efficiently deliver IT-As-A-Service. This discussion addresses the changes necessary to move to a new model – one which requires IT to transform to an internal service provider, shifting focus from infrastructure cost to business agility.Presenter: |
Transforming Midrange Storage: VNX and VNXe EMC VNXe and VNX have brought customers unprecedented CapEx/OpEx savings, while winning more than a dozen product-of-the-year awards. Learn about upcoming VNX Family enhancements that will transform how unified storage is deployed, managed, and integrated into VMware environments. With just a little Flash, you can transform your enterprise.Presenter: |
Backup Built for Your Virtual Environment Don't let traditional backup become the bottleneck to your virtualization strategy. Learn how EMC's backup and recovery solutions can transformation backup and recovery in your VMware and Hyper-V environments.Presenter: |
SRM Suite Cost effective service levels by optimized storage Virtualization enables businesses of all sizes to simplify management, control costs and guarantee uptime. However, virtualized environments also add layers of complexity to the IT infrastructure that reduce visibility and can complicate the management of storage resources. The SRM Suite attacks these layers — simply — by providing visibility into the physical and virtual relationships, which are essential to ensure consistent service levels. As customers build out their cloud infrastructurePresenter: |
Introduction to Greenplum Database and HD (Hadoop) Presenter: |
| Presentation 4 14:45 - 15:30 |
TALDOR COMMUNICATIONS GLASSHOUSE Presenter: |
EMC Isilon Scale-out Storage is Ready to Transform Business A torrent of unstructured data demands innovative ways for enterprises to manage, protect, store and extract value from their endlessly growing information. Come see EMC Isilon’s industry-leading scale-out storage technology and how it enables enterprises to scale their storage environments simply, efficiently, and cost-effectively to meet the most demanding growth curves and business needs.Presenter: |
May the cloud be with you - The force behind Data Center Network Transformation! Presenter: |
Delivering Storage as a Service EMC ISM technology enables the first step in the IT as a service model, allowing the automation of routine storage administrative tasks, enables IT to provide Storage as a Service to the entire business by reducing storage provisioning, remediation and reclamation from days/weeks to minutes.Presenter: |
Big Analytics for Big Data - High Performance Analytics. Presenter: |
| Presentation 5 15:30 - 16:15 |
Managing and Securing Your Cloud Infrastructure Cloud architectures offer the promise of agility and efficiency, but to harness the full power of these new technologies, you need to manage and secure resources differently. Learn more about the best practices and solutions for automating and standardizing infrastructure management and security across compute, network, and storage in your data center.Presenter: |
Accelerating Storage Transformation: VMAX and VPLEX CIOs are increasingly embracing the Hybrid Cloud as the opportunity to run their businesses smarter and more efficiently. To help them meet the many challenges they’ll face in moving to the Cloud, EMC is defining and delivering products and technologies to enable this transformative journey. Come see EMC’s pace-setting products—VMAX, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint—and how they work together to accelerate transformation to the Hybrid Cloud.Presenter: |
Take Application Backup to a New Level with EMC Purpose Built Backup Appliances IDC research shows the market is aggressively moving away from tape-based backup and recovery processes. Demand is exploding for purpose built backup alliance (PBBA) and EMC is leading the way. This session covers best practices and customer examples to mange an ever-widening set of application backup workloads.Presenter: |
Virtual Data Center Visibility Unified management of physical and virtual IT environments, a key enabler for cloud computing. With VDC Visibility, you gain the management insight and understanding necessary to allow your organization to leverage the full value, power, and flexibility of a virtualized environment, and not let operational management of the virtualized environment become an impediment to delivering service assurance”Presenter: |
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