n3k Annual Symposium 2005

March 9, 2005 .. The latest Annual Symposium which took place in London, was heralded a great success by attendees representing a high proportion of Times 100 UK businesses

Ralph Droms, father of DHCP, presented the Keynote Speech detailing the background to the original development of the DHCP protocol and an in depth view of issues current and future.

Don Smith of Lucent technologies covered the issues, developments, challenges and requirements to be expected in IP Services and Address Management while Justin Clark and Guy Megson covered measuring and managing application performance end to end through the corporate network.

Jim McDonald of SysDM covered the complexities of the environment and management challenges posed in the modern heterogeneous world of backup management while JP Jauvin of NetPro showcased the need for and solutions to Active Directory monitoring and auditing tools - all increasingly essential to enabling and ensuring compliance with the evolving regulatory frameworks against which public corporations are being measured.

n3k consultants, Paul Roberts and Graham Lockwood, addressed the use of DNS in mitigating the volume of SPAM thereby conserving valuable and expensive bandwidth, and the issues involved in best practice implementations combining Active Directory with DNS