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Conference Overview

What happens when you combine the first day of the biggest college basketball tournament, the nearing of St. Patrick’s Day, and the largest technology event a VAR has ever organized?

Madness happens. Varrow Madness.

Thank you to all who attended last year and we hope to see you again this year. 20 breakouts, 2 keynotes, 5 labs and basketball all around……See you on March 15th!

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Agenda

We are still finalizing the agenda. Check back for updates and more details.

8:15 am

9:00 am

9:15 am

10:05 am

REGISTRATION:

Check in, grab some breakfast, visit the booths and get ready for an exciting day!

Tip Off: WELCOME TO VARROW MADNESS

KEYNOTE:

Jeremiah Cook, Varrow

The Cloudy world of Platform as a Service

10:10 am

11:00 am

Breakout Group A

  • EMC Session:EMC Symmetrix VMAX: An Introduction to Enterprise Storage – Brian Boyd, Varrow and Mike Parker, EMC
  • Citrix Session:Cloud Enable Your Data Center - Nelson Esteves, Citrix
  • Cisco Session:Enabling the Public and Private Cloud – Jason Heinrich, Cisco
  • Isilon Session:Big Data & OneFS® Operating System – Greg Pugh, Isilon
  • VMware Session Topic:Discuss/focus on Horizon (single sign on technology) Cisco Lab: UCS Hands-On Lab
  • Cisco Lab:UCS Hands-On Lab
  • vSpecialists and Varrow Labs:10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs (open all day)

11:05 am

11:55 am

Breakout Group B

  • Train Signal Session:Top 3 VMware Certs You Must Get and How to Pass The First Time - David Davis, Train Signal
  • VMware Session Topic:Virtualization Management
  • Varrow Healthcare Panel:
  • Varrow Managed Services Session:Transitioning to the Cloud: What Every Customer Should Know – Matt Livingston, Varrow
  • Trend Micro Session:Consumerization and Cloud Security - Chris Practico, Trend Micro
  • Cisco Lab:UCS Hands-On Lab
  • vSpecialists and Varrow Labs:10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs (open all day)

11:50 am

1:00 pm

1:45 pm

2:10 pm

Lunch and booth time:

TOURNAMENT STARTS

Stop by the booths and fill up your bracket cards for a chance to win tickets to the second and third NCAA Tournament rounds in Greensboro.

Keynote:

Chad Sakac, EMC

Technology and Trends – Where I see customers, EMC and VMware on our shared journey

Booth Time:

Check scores, visit the booths, fill out booth bracket cards for a chance to win NCAA tickets.

2:15 pm

3:00 pm

Breakout Group C

  • EMC Session:BRS Extravaganza! - Eric Harmon, EMC and David Turton, EMC
  • Citrix Session:Delivering the Best Desktop Solution for Each User - Andy Whiteside, Citrix
  • Unidesk Session:Desktop Virtualization: Turn Technology Into Competitive Advantage – A CIO's Perspective – Sean Scott, CIO, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice
  • Varrow Customer Panel:The Road to an Effective DR Plan: A Customers Point of View – Joe Kelly, Varrow, Robbie Hall, CIO, Northern Hospital of Surry County, Ernie Schism, Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure, Cogentrix, and more to come
  • Varrow Session:Charting Your Course to the Private Cloud – Jason Nash, Varrow and Paul Penny, Varrow
  • Cisco Lab:UCS Hands-On Lab
  • vSpecialists and Varrow Labs:10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs (open all day)

3:05 pm

3:50 pm

Breakout Group D

  • EMC Session:VNX FAST and Fast Cache: How to Increase both Efficiency and Performance - David Gadwah, EMC
  • Varrow Session:Disaster Recovery: Business & Technology Both Needed – Andrew Miller, Varrow
  • Imprivata Session:Desktop Virtualization Grows Up for Hospitals - Chris Feeney, Imprivata
  • RSA Session:The Journey To Secure Virtualization - How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Trust the Cloud - Brian Tobia, RSA
  • Veeam Session:
  • Cisco Lab:UCS Hands-On Lab
  • vSpecialists and Varrow Labs:10 Most Popular Hands-On Labs (open all day)

3:55 pm

4:10 pm

4:30 pm

6:00 pm

Snack and booth time:

Grab a snack and a drink, stop by the booths one last time to fill your brackets. Don’t forget to turn them in for the drawing, you could be a lucky winner!

PRIZES AND THANK YOU:

Prizes from booths and drawing for the NCAA tickets are drawn from the completed booth bracket cards that you turn in. You must be present to win.

St. Patty’s day happy hour:

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Sponsors

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VMware

VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes.

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Cisco

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Citrix

Citrix Systems was born from the idea of unlocking applications from data centers, and employees from the office – changing the way IT and people work. Today, this is the promise of virtual computing, and Citrix is at the epicenter.

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hotel

The Westin Charlotte

601 South College Street

Charlotte, NC 28202

704-375-2600

Westin Charlotte

From Charlotte- Douglas International Airport:

Depart the airport via the Billy Graham Parkway South. Merge onto I-77 North and proceed until you reach Exit 9B John Belk Freeway/I-277. Exit College Street and the hotel will be 200 yards on the right.

From I-85:

Merge on I-77 South and proceed until you reach Exit 9B John Belk Freeway/I-277. Exit College Street and the hotel will be 200 yards on the right.

From I-77 North/South:

Take I-277/John Belk Freeway Exit 9B off of I-77. Exit at the College Street exit towards downtown and the hotel will be on the right.

There is also a stop for the Westin on the Lynx Light Rail line

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Contact

Jessica Randels

phone: 919-475-3200

email: jrandels@varrow.com

Lauran Cario

phone: 866-783-8604 ext.170

email: lcario@varrow.com

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