Human communication is at the core of virtually every business transaction, yet most communication technologies are not part of IT business applications or SOA strategies. Software-based communications are bringing these two worlds together to create a unique competitive edge in your business. This session will give you a perspective on service oriented communications, the tools you need, and how you need to think about communications in your business.

NEC’s desktop virtualization solution, Virtual PC Center, provides end users with a familiar Windows-based PC environment, while offering IT the benefits of a centralized computing model through VDI and next-generation thin clients.

• Increase PC data security
• Lower PC support and maintenance costs
• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Lower energy consumption by more than 60%

This session will present the how behind developing a successful desktop virtualization strategy to provide robust PC functionality based on highly reliable servers and multimedia-ready thin clients.

As the use of biometrics becomes commonplace around the world, people with no real knowledge of biometrics will come into daily contact with this technology.A process to educate the benefits and risks of the use of biometrics so that misunderstandings can be avoided.This presentation will review the growth in the use of biometrics, examine misunderstandings related to the benefits and risks and work to improve the general image of biometrics as a useful technology.

This session will explore how you can realize the full potential of your performance management investments. Learn how to:

• Standardize your key performance indicators and data sources and utilize accelerated deployment practices
• Optimize your business processes by integrating BI and EP components for measuring business area performance
• Visualize your organization's potential using best practices and the latest technology for designing and developing performance dashboards and scorecards.

Learn how Niteo leverages our DDMonitor dashboard development methodology to implement verticalized dashboards. Understand the ROI potential of dashboard initiatives and why performance dashboards should be a key component of your PM strategy.

From Plasma, to LCD, and beyond. What new technology trends are on the horizon and how will Digital Signage change because of them.

The business domain is shifting from the core network-dependent to a service-oriented focus.
Profitable, competitive services are needed for new revenue streams to complement voice and short message service (SMS) demand.
In this presentation, we offer ways to address these demands, with IP Multimedia Subsystem-enabled (IMS) services available now which are realized via the Service Convergence Integrated Platform, a carrier-grade converged multimedia and SIP-based network architecture.
NEC's recent acquisition of NetCracker adds a perfect OSS component to an already rich NEC portfolio that will bring about the transformation of services.

While server virtualization has become accepted practice, storage virtualization remains outside the fold, with a wide variety of solutions making claims without clear definition. This session will explore the benefits of storage virtualization achieved by deploying resilient, self-evolving grid storage architecture with one unified dashboard to run a logical pool of capacity.
Considered by many to be the next-generation of storage, grid storage systems offer a natural evolution into a faster, greener, more efficient platform to which new technology nodes can be added with absolutely no forklift upgrades.
With grid storage, organizations can eliminate silo’d islands of data; achieve global deduplication; and enable independent linear scalability with automatic data migration to maximize performance and protect data. So, why should you care about grid storage? Grid storage allows you to break out of confining storage silos and evolve to the next wave of storage beyond virtualization.

In this session, NEC will present the fundamentals of scale out and scale up architectures for virtualization deployments. The session will review the challenges associated with each approach and go onto focus on the advantages of scale out computing for server virtualization.