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E2 Conference
Boston: June 17-19, 2013

The enterprise technology landscape is always changing, and the influx of social, mobile, cloud, big data, and new software architectures are allowing organizations to move quicker and reach new customers faster than ever. The E2 Conference, produced by UBM Tech, is the only event that highlights the new choices and challenges organizations face as a result of these shifts in technology, and the changes in culture, skills, strategy and talent they require. Attend E2 to meet decision makers in IT, marketing and other lines of business and engage in discussions about the future of software and how to mold your strategies for business success.

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Interop
Las Vegas: May 6-10, 2013
New York: September 30-October 1, 2013

Interop, produced by UBM Tech, delivers engaging and informative experiences to the world's IT professionals, helping them leverage technology to power business. For more than 28 years, Interop has provided the global IT community an opportunity to interact with like-minded professionals in an unbiased forum. While Interop's independent and trusted conference and expo series focuses on IT infrastructure and networking technologies, Interop serves as the foundational partner for the forward-looking technology community. Attend Interop for five days of 125+ conference sessions and meet over 300+ exhibitors and see the latest technologies first hand in the Expo.

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Cloud Connect
Silicon Valley: April 2-5, 2013
Chicago: October 21-24, 2013

Cloud Connect, produced by UBM Tech, is the defining event of the cloud computing industry providing high-quality, hands-on, relevant and vendor-neutral information on the future of cloud innovation. Cloud Connect charts the course of cloud computing's development by bringing together the cloud ecosystem and helps enterprise and small- to mid-sized businesses navigate cloud technologies to save on cost and improve efficiency. Attend Cloud Connect for four days of lectures, panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of cloud topics taught by leading industry experts.

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Agile Mobile Development -- faster response time to feedback
An InformationWeek Webinar

Mobile is hot! To succeed in the market, a truly mobile enterprise must respond to feedback quickly, ensuring they maintain customer loyalty and increase their market share as a result of continuous positive feedback. In this webinar we will review the understanding of agile development applied to mobile app development, and how the right approach can deliver on a fundamental need of mobile, faster response time to user feedback.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Intelligent Management of WAS Applications: Reduce Cost, Complexity, and Errors
An InformationWeek Webinar

Applications (and their availability) are the lifeblood of an organization. They can mean the difference between a happy paying customer or an unsatisfied suing customer. You need to ensure that business critical applications are 100% operational, fully secure and delivering service levels to meet your customers' expectations. This webinar will discuss how to markedly improve customer satisfaction and conversion rates by prioritizing business-critical applications and ensuring availability.

Monday, June 17, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Desktop and Application Virtualization Best Practices
An InformationWeek Webinar

Attend this webinar to:

• Learn infrastructure sizing recommendations
• Understand how various worker types impact your Desktop Virtualization project
• Discover how non persistent images can save you significant storage costs
• Determine the best practices you should undertake to have a successful project

Register for this webinar to gain information about the steps you need to insure your desktop virtualization project meets ROI expectations and is successful.

Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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BYOD and Windows 7 Migration are the Questions. Is Desktop as a Service the Answer?
An InformationWeek Webinar

In this webinar Pomeroy's virtualization experts will cut through the hype and myths to clear up the confusion over Desktop as a Service:

• What are the clear advantages and disadvantages of Desktop as a Service? What do you need to know now?
• Why the urgency? How are BYOD and Win 7 Migrations driving cloud-hosted virtual desktops?
• Market leader lessons learned -- what top organizations discovered that changed their thinking about desktop virtualization.

Why participate? This webinar is the perfect opportunity for IT managers to better understand the requirements, use cases, risks and benefits of DaaS to help frame their own decision-making. From the operational to the technical, attendees will develop a clearer understanding how DaaS may make the most business sense for their individual use cases.

Whether your organization is wrestling with BYOD and security, or how to control increasing desktop management complexity and costs, this webcast may be the best one hour of your time you spend this month.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Putting the Mobile Employee to Work
An InformationWeek Webinar

The technology in smartphones and tablets is easier to use and more compelling than ever, so it's no surprise that end users want access to these same tools in the workplace. Ironically, BYOD often becomes a roadblock to productivity when a device crosses the enterprise threshold.

In this webinar, you will discover how mobile device management can make workers more productive, and also learn how to give mobile workers file and print tools on any device.

Thursday, June 20, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Data Discovery, Visualization and Apache Hadoop
An InformationWeek Webinar

In this webinar, we will discuss how Apache Hadoop works with your current infrastructure and how you can use data discovery and visualization tools to gain deeper insights from new data types stored in Hadoop and your existing data center investments.

Join Hortonworks, developers of the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop distribution, and Tableau Software, developers of visual analytics software for all business users, and learn how to get started to visualize Hadoop data.

In this webinar, learn:

• How Hadoop fits into the Modern Data Architecture and how it works with your existing data center infrastructure
• How businesses are using Hadoop and typical Hadoop patterns of use
• The importance of data discovery for all business users, not just data scientists and skilled analysts
• How to enable your team to get started with Hadoop and visual analytics software

Thursday, June 20, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Windows Storage Server 2012 on IBM System x
An InformationWeek Webinar

By attending this webinar, you will learn about three deployment scenarios for Windows Storage Server 2012 on IBM System x hardware:

• Branch office file and print server
• Stand-alone unified storage server
• Highly available unified NAS gateway

Learn about key file-server technologies, including:

• Continuous availability for iSCSI, SMB and NFS
• SMB Scale-out application storage for Hyper-V VMs and SQL databases
• Deduplication
• Storage Spaces
• Storage Provisioning and management using Server Manager and PowerShell/li>

Thursday, June 20, 2013 -- Time: 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Accelerate Agility Now: WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5 Overview
An InformationWeek Webinar

Learn more about the benefits of WebSphere Application Server v8.5 and v8.5.5 (WAS) and the impressive set of features and functions available, including what's new in the latest release by attending this webinar.

Monday, June 24, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET

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Insights to Why DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) Matters in your Data Center
An InformationWeek Webinar

With savings of up to 30% and 13% on infrastructure and operational savings respectively, having the right DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) strategy in place is critical to ensuring you are tapping the full business value of your data center. These and other valuable insights into why DCIM matters and how it can ensure your data center performance aligns with your business are presented by Schneider Electric along with Intel in this live webinar.

Tuesday June 25, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Real Time Analytics: A Case Study Webinar
A Dr. Dobbs Webinar

Slow queries. Performance problems. Operational nightmares. Lost sleep... and lost business.

Without the ability to make faster and better business decisions, your company just can't compete.

Join this case-study oriented webinar to learn how one company used true real-time analytics and the power of a scale-out database to take their business to the next level.

The webinar will reveal how you can dramatically reduce the time to get query results and leverage the technology innovations that are powering true real-time analytics.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Meeting the Unilever eScience Challenges: To out-compute is to out-compete
An InformationWeek Webinar

While data volumes grow and applications require more compute power, organizations are pressured to accelerate time-to-results while controlling or reducing costs.

Dr. Massimo Noro from the Strategic Science Group at Unilever will reveal how technical computing is the high performance secret behind transforming information that delivers "outstanding products to the consumer faster than anyone else".

Register for this webinar to see how you can apply the lessons learned by Unilever about leveraging technical computing environments to your own organization and gain an end-to-end, high-performance infrastructure optimized for compute-intensive, big data, cloud and analytics workloads.

Thursday June 27, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Strengthen Organizational Agility with the Latest Advances in Case Management
An InformationWeek Webinar

Join this webinar to hear Keith Swenson, VP of Research and Development for Fujitsu America who will share his learnings on how to apply best practices and new tools that will help increase productivity while improving agility of your entire organization. Attendees will learn:

• How to understand the value of knowledge work
• Ways to identify pitfalls and challenges for your knowledge workers
• Latest advances in the field of Case Management, and how Adaptive and Production Case Management differ
• Best practices and tips for leveraging Case Management

Thursday, June 27, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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These are executive events produced by InformationWeek. These events may vary in subject matter but are designed for executives to network with peers, hear from industry experts and participate in panel and/or open discussion forums led by an InformationWeek Moderator. If you would like further information about these events or are interested in attending, click the event links below.


Expert IT: Accelerate Big Data and Cloud with Expert IT Integrated Systems
An InformationWeek and IBM Event

May, June 2013 -- Multi-City (see list below)

Join representatives from InformationWeek and IBM to discuss options that enable IT to move beyond the procurement, deployment, management, and support of individual components in the enterprise and toward comprehensive, integrated systems with built-in expertise and cloud-ready architectures that open the way for further business innovation. With the flexibility of general-purpose systems, the elasticity of the cloud, and the simplicity of an appliance tuned to specific workloads, you can scale and optimize your company's Web and database applications to avoid the headaches caused by mismanaged spikes and outages. You'll also learn how to better consolidate IT resources and streamline IT management to decrease operational costs and improve your efficiency.

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Maximize your SAP Investment with Business Process Management
An InformationWeek and IBM Event

May, June 2013 -- Multi-City (see list below)

Join InformationWeek and IBM for a unique experience that demonstrates how BPM can help you unlock the untapped power of SAP. IBM BPM for SAP can transform informal SAP processes into highly optimized, yet flexible workflows. During this half-day workshop, InformationWeek will provide a brief overview of the state-of-the-industry, and IBM experts will conduct a true show-and-tell supported by actual case studies, and give you the tools you need to optimize SAP with IBM.

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The HYPERconnected Enterprise -- Regaining Control in a Mobile World
An InformationWeek, Dr. Dobb's and IBM Special Event

June 2013 -- Multi-City (see list below)

Is trying to manage your rapidly expanding mobile enterprise and all its various devices keeping you up at night? Are the explosion of applications and the incompatibility of platforms threatening the productivity of your business? If so, you'll need an infrastructure that's so expertly streamlined -- with end-to-end, cohesive connectivity of applications, processes, and devices -- that it can support today's Wild West of mobile users as part of a smoothly humming business engine. Welcome to the hyperconnected enterprise. Join InformationWeek, IBM, and your executive peers at this unique event to learn how to meet these challenges. Invite your business colleagues along to share best practices with other IT and business leaders and immerse yourselves in practical solutions for achieving a reliable, always-on mobile environment.

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The Social Business Payoff: Realizing the Value of Collaborative Technologies
An InformationWeek and IBM Executive Event

June 6, 2013

At this event, we'll discuss how social business solutions will enable you and your company to attract top talent and empower teams to do what they do best, connect people and their skills to promote an open culture, inspire teams to work together more nimbly and efficiently through social tools, and simplify communication by integrating the ways people connect across channels and devices.

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InformationWeek Healthcare IT Leadership Forum

June 13, 2013 -- New York, NY

InformationWeek Healthcare's IT Leadership Forum is a day-long event for senior healthcare IT leaders to come together and discuss how they're using technology to drive change. Prominent CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders will engage with an audience of their peers in an open discussion on the challenges and solutions of taking data and turning it into cost-effective patient care.

If you are an IT executive at a hospital, healthcare provider or healthcare-related organization, this event is designed for you. Meet, interact and build relationships with your peers.

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Registration is limited to senior-level healthcare technology executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

February 7: Hackers Unmasked – Detecting, Analyzing, and Taking Action Against Current Threats

In this all-day InformationWeek & Dark Reading Virtual Event, experts and solution providers will offer a detailed look at how enterprises can detect the latest malware, analyze the most current cyber attacks, and even identify and take action against the attackers. Attendees will also get a look at how cybercriminals operate, how they are motivated -- and what your business can do to stop them.

December 11th: Mobile Health: Opportunities and Obstacles

Mobile medical devices and apps are popping up all over. This growth offers opportunities for developers, clinicians and patients alike. But along with those opportunities come several obstacles to contend with. Depending on the type of app, developers will have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get FDA approval. Similarly clinicians sometimes face resistance from IT managers when they want to bring their own devices into the enterprise setting. And patients are faced with a long list of mobile apps, some of which offer more hype than help. Join us for this InformationWeek Healthcare virtual event, where editors and industry experts will sort through these issues and discuss how to best take advantage of all that mobile health has to offer patients, clinicians, and entrepreneurs.

Platinum Sponsor: Thawte

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October 2nd: InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event: Throw Out The Old IT Rulebook

Most CIOs say they understand that the old IT rulebook is obsolete, mostly because customers or colleagues in other departments are making noises about working around their organizations -- or they already are. At this year's InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event, you'll hear CIOs at leading companies discuss how their organizations are rewriting the old IT rulebook and at the same time accelerating business execution and growth.

Gold Sponsor: IBM

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Proven Tips for High Volume Sending
An InformationWeek Webinar

Issues with messaging deliverability can be dramatically compounded when sending in large volumes. Learn how to overcome these obstacles as we chat with Jill Resnick, a Postmaster who previously worked at Macy's and American Cancer Society, and Mike Hillyer, Global Solutions Consultant from Message Systems. They'll share their best practices on reducing deliverability issues, traffic shaping and other tips! Join us in this webinar, and learn proven techniques.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Secure Cloud: Taking Advantage of the Intelligent WAN
A Network Computing webinar

Are you caught between a desire for the benefits of the cloud and concerns about security and control? Then you should attend this insight-packed webinar to learn how private data networking technologies like MPLS IP-VPNs can address your concerns and allow you to safely and intelligently reap the savings, agility and other benefits associated with cloud computing.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How private data networking enables safer, more efficient use of cloud resources
• How network-based security complements your overall cloud strategy
• How to increase IT productivity and cost-efficiency by getting smarter about how you leverage the cloud

Join us to hear top industry experts discuss the private data network technologies that are best suited for enterprise cloud access requirements. You won't want to miss this opportunity to learn how your organization can best mitigate risk while reaping the full potential benefits of the cloud.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT - 2:00 PM ET

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Why is Information Governance So Important for Modern Analytics?
A Dark Reading Webinar

The data that feeds your analytics solutions can include everything from customer details to financial records to employee data. The impact of this data getting into the wrong hands either internally or externally can have a major impact on the organizations success and can cost many millions of dollars, which brings information governance and analytics to the forefront for many organizations. Register for this teleconference to learn how to:

• Reduce business risks and costs
• Deliver the business insights your users need to drive optimal business performance
• Decrease the opportunity for critical data to be exposed and put at risk

Join this teleconference and learn how the combination of IBM information governance offerings and analytic solutions on the z Enterprise platform can help you to enhance information integrity, availability and quality.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Use Process Analytics to Drive Better Business Performance

A UBM Tech Webinar


Join this UBM Tech webinar to find out how process analytics can change your business. Brad Power, noted process innovation consultant and researcher, joins Danny Cates, process evangelist in Lexmark's Perceptive Software division, to dissect case studies of process improvement success. Brad takes the 50,000 feet view, while Danny gets down into the nuts and bolts of business process magic.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Get Actionable Insight with Security Intelligence for Mainframe Environments
A Dark Reading Webinar

For the last 50 years the IBM Mainframe has been the most secure computing platform to run critical applications and host essential business data. Customer's business requirements are constantly changing to support new growth opportunities, which in turn affects Mainframe security risks. The resulting security requirements include:

• Access to applications and data by Customers and Business Partners outside the traditional enterprise.
• End user deployment of more vulnerable mobile endpoints (BYOD) to access applications and data.
• Utilization of Mainframe to consolidate workloads providing a virtualization platform for Cloud.
• Need to address worldwide security regulations and industry standards for enterprise security audits and compliance.

Mainframe customers must ask themselves several questions:

• Are mainframe security capabilities aligned to business requirements?
• What are you doing to secure this new interconnectedness?
• Can unauthorized users get to your mainframe data?
• Can authorized users be monitored to detect privileged user abuse?
• Can you automate enterprise event analysis and alerts to react quickly?
• How do you detect risky security configuration settings and changes?
• Can you consolidate security operations and reduce costs?

IBM recommends that customer's employ multiple layers of defense to protect their mainframe assets. These layers of defense address four security domains: People, Data, Application, and Infrastructure. This webinar describes IBM's integrated solution to protecting the mainframe assets, addressing compliance, and reducing costs.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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View Now: Enterprise Client Management Best Practices
An InformationWeek On-Demand Webinar

As people-centric resources such as PCs, tablets and mobile devices deteriorate in performance and become vulnerable to security threats over time; IT must look for new ways of staying ahead of the curve. This webinar examines the best practices in Enterprise Client Management to help you achieve true end-to-end visibility and control.

Sign up to view the webinar right now or any time later and get the answers to the following questions:

• How are the top organizations managing their client desktops?
• What impediments are stalling progress in this area?
• What value can IT personnel gain from Enterprise Client Management products?

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