Conference Keynote Presentation

Microsoft MVP J. Peter Bruzzese will deliver the  Conference Keynote presentation "Office 365: The Good, Bad and Ugly."  Join J. Peter for his insightful overview that avoids the hype and explains what you should realistically expect - whether you are migrating or already administering Office 365 for your organization - including the aspects that are good, bad and ugly!

Getting Your Users to Office 365 and Keeping Them Happy

Have you been tasked with migrating your organization to Office 365? Do you need to deploy a hybrid environment to support coexistence? Are you concerned about how you’ll support your users in a world where Microsoft controls the servers and the information about them?  Join Exchange MVPs Paul Robichaux and Michael Van Horenbeeck as they share valuable tips that will accelerate your migration to Office 365 and help you effectively support your users after the migration. 

Reselling O365: Be a Great CSP or Choose a Great CSP

Staying relevant to the SMB means offering Office 365 to your customers. Period. But should you try to become a Microsoft CSP? If not, what should you look for in one. AppRiver was an original Office 365 reseller that helped prove out the two-tier sales model. Join Scott Paul, senior director, Microsoft Alliance, as he explains the pros and cons of the CSP program and offers some helpful tips to make sure you choose wisely.

Four Things to Consider When Evaluating an Exchange Online Hybrid Deployment

Are you considering setting up a hybrid environment or removing your existing hybrid configuration? If so, there are four key factors that should be evaluated. A hybrid deployment may check off many boxes that allow a level of automation and rich coexistence to be achieved. This session will provide you answers to questions such as does every migration warrant a hybrid deployment or what is the administration story if a hybrid infrastructure is not configured? Using a hands-on approach, PowerPoint slides will be thrown out and industry veterans Gary Steere & Justin Harris will bring clarity to the four key factors to consider when reviewing your Office 365 deployment options!

A New Era - Securing Email and File Sharing in the Cloud

The world of email is changing. Organizations are moving email to the cloud either all at once,  maintaining temporary hybrid environments, or living indefinitely in an on-premises/cloud world. Phishing attacks are on the rise and using malware embedded in common office files and not detected by traditional techniques. Plus, users now email links to files in the cloud instead of as attachments. In this new cloud email era how do you keep your organization secure, compliant, and protect your critical data assets? Join Michael Osterman from Osterman Research and TrendMicro's Chris Taylor for this informative session on securing data in the era of the cloud.

Discover an Easier Way to do eDiscovery

Is your organization regulated or at risk to litigation? Then get ready for a compliance audit or eDiscovery if you haven’t experienced it already.  Are you prepared? This question is increasingly on the mind of CEOs, Compliance Officers and Chief Information Officers.  Will you be up to the challenge if your only tools are the built-in capabilities of Office 365 Legal Hold and Discovery Center? Understanding what these Microsoft “built – in” technologies really do – or don’t do - is key to making plans that best fit your organization. Attend this presentation with Marty Jost to learn the key reasons why customers continue to rely on Veritas archiving and eDiscovery solutions to manage information retention, compliance, supervision and eDiscovery requirements.  

Planning for Data Loss in Office 365

As you investigate your move to Office 365, you'll find that moving users and their data to the cloud is easier than you thought. But have you considered what you will do if you experience a data loss event, like a cyberattack or malicious insider activity? In this session with EMC's Gina Rosenthal, learn what Microsoft does to protect your data, the gaps in Microsoft's data protection that make it possible for your to lose data from your tenant, and what you can do to keep your organization protected and productive.

The Right Tools to Diagnose Office 365 Network Latency

With Office 365, a business-critical part of your IT is outsourced and lives independently from the rest of your IT environment and processes. Managing network connectivity in addition to the entire infrastructure becomes challenging with additional KPIs to be defined and monitored. GSX Solutions' Tim Book and Olivier Raynaut will explore how you can  actively manage your Cloud deployments, detect end-user performance latency, and troubleshoot problems. They'll also review what information is critical to track, as well as when and how to figure out all of this using tools available to any Office 365 administrator, either built-in with Office 365 or delivered as free Microsoft standalone tools

Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) makes business email and data safer for 16,200 customers and millions of employees worldwide. Founded in 2003, the Company's next-generation cloud-based security, archiving and continuity services protect email and deliver comprehensive email risk management.

ENow is a Microsoft Silver Independent Software Vendor focused on helping organizations implement the latest Microsoft technologies. Our systems management software provides monitoring and reporting features for all key components of your Microsoft infrastructure, including Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory, SharePoint, and Lync - all delivered in our award winning dashboards. 

AppRiver is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider offering email and Web security solutions to businesses of all sizes. AppRiver provides affordable subscription-based solutions, including spam & virus protection, email encryption and Web protection as well as complete managed services for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. Since its inception, AppRiver has sustained a 93% customer retention rate while protecting 10 million mailboxes for more than 47,000 companies worldwide. AppRiver’s corporate headquarters is in Gulf Breeze, Florida and its EMEA headquarters is in Lupfig, Switzerland. The company also has offices in Austin, Atlanta and Barcelona. 

Binary Tree is a singularly focused global provider of migration software and solutions for Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Windows Server environments. Since 1993, Binary Tree has enabled more than 6,000 customers to migrate more than 30 million email users, and facilitated some of the most complex migrations on the planet. Binary Tree is a Microsoft Gold Messaging Partner, an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and is one of Microsoft’s preferred vendors for migrating to Microsoft Office 365. 

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in security software, strives to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Built on 26 years of experience, our solutions for consumers, businesses and governments provide layered data security to protect information on mobile devices, endpoints, gateways, servers and the cloud. Trend Micro enables the smart protection of information, with innovative security technology that is simple to deploy and manage, and fits an evolving ecosystem.

Veritas Technologies enables organizations to harness the power of their information, with information management solutions serving the world’s largest and most complex environments. Veritas works with organizations of all sizes, including 86 percent of global Fortune 500 companies, improving data availability and revealing insights to drive competitive advantage

Spanning, an EMC company and a leading provider of backup and recovery for SaaS applications, helps organizations to protect and manage their information in the cloud. The company provides powerful, enterprise-class data protection for Google Apps, Salesforce, and Office 365. Spanning Backup is the most trusted cloud-to-cloud backup solution for thousands of companies and millions of users around the world.

GSX Solutions is the global leader in non-intrusive, agentless analysis and management of consolidated enterprise collaboration, messaging environments including infrastructure, cloud, networks, database, mobility, operating systems — all from a single platform. Whether for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments, GSX’s solutions are designed to not only assess the performance of applications themselves, but to monitor all components that might impact the quality of performance.