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Executive Conferences

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 by InformationWeek Moderator. If you would like further information about these events or are interested in attending, click the event links below.
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IT Security: The Next-Decade
InformationWeek's Dark Reading and Black Hat come together for their first-ever complimentary virtual event, which will explore the most dangerous threats of the next ten years -- and what you can do today to protect your enterprise from them. Register for Free Today!
Platinum Sponsors: Novell, Imperva
Gold Sponsors: Qualys, thawte
Silver Sponsor: AT&T, ArcSight, Blue Coat, Core Security, FireEye, Nitrosecurity, Open Text, Splunk, Sophos

Next-Generation Networks
Access this free virtual event and get up to speed on networking state of the art, while learning about and discussing the technologies that are going to drive network design and implementations today and in the future. You will learn from peers, analysts, and vendors about where the technologies are today and how you can prepare for a network overhaul.ŭŭ Register for Free Today!

Dealing With Data Centers In Tough Times
Whether your company's data center is a couple of servers stashed in a closet or a state-of-the-art climate-controlled facility, this virtual event will show you how to keep the lights on, do more with less, and stay positioned for an economic recovery even in the midst of todayŭs tough IT environment.ŭ Get the details and Register Now.

InformationWeek Virtual Event: The Business Case for Windows 7
The launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system promises to be one of the biggest technology debuts of the year. Attend this virtual event to gain exclusive, complimentary access to the premier one-stop Windows 7 information destination, packed with resourcesŭ to guide you in your decision-making process.

On-Demand: InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event - Navigating the Boardroom
At the annual award-winning virtual event, featuring the US Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, you'll be able to experience both highlights from the live conference as well as exclusive content presented in a unique virtual environment that allows you to personally connect with C-level executives from leading global companies, at absolutely no cost and from the convenience of your desktop.
Platinum Sponsor: Dell
Gold Sponsors: ArcSight, thawte
Silver Sponsors: IBM, SAS, Pitney Bowes, Trend Micro

ON-DEMAND: Global CIO Summit: Driving Business Value and Customer Value in the Global Economy
This exclusive virtual event will bring together CIOs and other business-technology executives from India, China, the U.S., and Europe to share ideas, debate issues, and explore processes that have enabled them to deliver greater business value and customer value in a global economy.
Platinum Sponsors: Workday, PhoneFactor
Gold Sponsors: ArcSight
Silver Sponsors: Zenith InfoTech, thawte

On-Demand: Security Virtual Event: Dealing with Insider Threats
After years of building up their defenses against viruses, hackers, and other external attacks,
many IT and security managers are now worrying about a new set of threats: those that come from inside the company. Is your organization ready to handle insider threats? Do you even know what those threats might be? If you are unsure of your answers, you should attend this important new virtual event, presented by InformationWeek and Dark Reading.
Platinum Sponsor: Imperva
Gold Sponsors: ArcSight, Lumension, Splunk, Websense
Silver Sponsors: Centrify, Fortify Software, Marshal8e6, Proofpoint, thawte

On-Demand: Virtual Interop: Innovation in Action
Experience it all in one place! IT and business leaders attend Interop events around the world to learn about the latest trends and technologies. Now, for the first time, attend the leading business technology conference and expo for free, without leaving your workplace.
Platinum Sponsor: Motorola Air Defense Solutions
Gold Sponsor: ArcSight, Global Knowledge
Silver Sponsor: Eaton, Elastra, thawte

On-Demand: Virtualization: Driving Value from the Desktop to the Data Center
InformationWeek editors and virtualization experts come together for a new virtual event designed to help you build (or improve) a structured management plan for a virtualized environment. With our expert guidance, you can insure interoperability with existing systems management tool and take virtualization to the next level.
Platinum Sponsors: rPath, thawte
Gold Sponsors: APC, ASG, Novell
Silver Sponsor: Autovirt, SunMicrosystems, Apani, DataDomain
Smarter PC and Laptop Management with Cloud-Based BI
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
If you are managing PCs, laptops or mobile devices, cloud-based business intelligence services can make your job much easier, not to mention helping you improve data security and reduce management costs.
In this 45-minute webcast, our featured guest, Chris Silva of independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc., will discuss why PC managers and "Mobile Operations Managers" need to increase their ability to monitor what happens on endpoints.
December 15, 2009 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
Clustering Database Applications to Lower Costs
An InformationWeek Webcast
One of the most important lessons resulting from the recent economic meltdown is that corporations can, in fact, find ways to deliver both higher value Analysts are taking note of the growing importance of Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) as customers across all industries cluster their transaction processing and data warehousing applications to deliver a higher quality of service at lower cost.
Join us for a conversation with Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, to learn how clustering database applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft, Siebel, SAP and other applications with Oracle RAC can reduce server and storage costs, and lighten the load for your database administrators.
December 15, 2009 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
Leading Analyst to Present ROI Model of IT and End-User Collaboration
An InformationWeek Webcast
Forrester Researcher, Jon Erickson and General Manager and VP of Actuate Open Source Strategy Group, Rich Guth, will take an in-depth look at how a financial institution achieved tangible economic benefits by providing business users with self-service access to information.
Attend and receive your complimentary copy of Forresterŭs report, "
The Total Economic Impact of Actuate's BIRT Product Line".
December 15, 2009 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
Reducing Operating Costs Through Branch Consolidation
An InformationWeek Webcast
As the weather turns wintry across the country, IT departments are searching for signs of an early thaw to the frozen budgets that have reigned for the past year and more. In the meantime, new strategies for reducing costs continue to occupy the minds of technology professionals, as they stretch resources to the limit to meet the needs of internal and external clients.
Now those barriers to reducing costs and improving branch operations are finally coming down, as companies avail themselves of new technology that streamlines WAN traffic, making it possible to speed up data links between far-flung regional outposts and consolidated IT infrastructure and resources at the home office. This newfound network capacity -- often accomplished without costly bandwidth upgrades -- is already paying dividends. In this live Webcast, youŭll hear how IT organizations are gaining the ability to completely virtualize their branch office operations, achieving a "serverless" state that eliminates redundant hardware and software, while slashing maintenance costs and IT complexity.
December 15, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET
Portability In The Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast
As private, public, and hybrid cloud computing environments emerge, IT pros have many options for applications, platforms, storage, and other infrastructure. It's important that businesses maintain the flexibility to mix and match those elements, to move data and applications from one cloud environment to another, and, if necessary, to switch cloud service providers. Emerging standards address these requirements, while supporting integration with existing IT systems and software. In this webcast, we will explore strategies for developing cloud environments that built with interoperability and portability in mind.
December 16, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET
Application Porting Considerations when Migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
An InformationWeek TechWebcast
December 16, 2009 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
The Total Economic Impact of moving to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: An overview of results from a Forrester Consulting study
An InformationWeek Webcast
Sponsor: Red Hat
Sure, most people realize that open source middleware costs less up front. But how can you model the total financial impact for your organization? Join us to find out, and hear the results of the Forrester Consulting study: The Total Economic Impact of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Forrester's Total Economic Impact (TEI) methodology measures costs and cost reductions, as well as the value of a technology's ability to increase the overall effectiveness of business processes. As part of this study, Forrester interviewed a Red Hat customer and assessed the financial impact of its move to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. What you will learn:
How Forrester's study found an ROI of 63% with a payback period of just 19 months
Details on how the move to JBoss delivered over $2.3M in financial benefits
The methodology of a total economic impact study, how the model was built, and how to apply it to your organization
How to communicate the business case for investing in JBoss Enterprise Middleware
The productivity benefits and overall cost savings associated with migrating to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
This Forrester study can be used to prepare your own economic justification report. Register now and receive your complimentary report after attending the webinar!
December 16, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET
Advanced Customer Insights - Know Your Customer Better
An InformationWeek Webcast
Customers are becoming more fragmented due to changing demographics and systems. Due to this, organizations are seeking more effective ways to interact with customers, develop appropriate relationships, and establish long-term sustainable profitability. Capabilities such as profitability analysis, predictive analytics, complete customer view, and event based customer management will enable advanced customer insights that will sustain competitive advantage through revenue growth and reduced expenses.
Join us for a webcast during which we will explore how Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) can help you meet the challenges you face.
December 17, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET
Smarter, Easier, Adaptive MDM
An InformationWeek Webcast
IBM is taking master data management to the next level of smart. Join the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management team to learn about the newest capabilities, including custom-built data domains and enhanced user interface, which meet key business needs and enable faster time to value.
Experts will discuss key product features and use cases that enable flexibility and choice in InfoSphere Master Data Management implementations. Industry specific requirements and benefits will also be highlighted including Financial Services, Telco, Retail and Government.
December 17, 2009 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
Boost Customer Satisfaction with Microsoft OCS in Your Contact Center
An InformationWeek Webcast
Customer retention is more important than ever in today's economy. Some revealing statistics show why:
It costs 8x-10x as much to sign on a new customer than it does to keep your existing customers.
80% of customers quit doing business after a negative experience - 20% of them never return
On average, each unhappy customer tells 9 other people about their experience
Companies with high customer satisfaction ratings generate much higher Average Revenue per User (ARPU) than those who don't. So every interaction you have with your existing customers is crucial to improving satisfaction and maintaining or increasing revenue.
Increasing your customer satisfaction ratings is easy when you enable your contact center agents to provide the right answers and the best solutions to the customer when they need it most - on the first call.
Join Microsoft and Interactive Intelligence and lean how integrating OCS into the contact center can make all the difference in increasing first call resolution rates, improving customer satisfaction, and raising revenues for your business.
December 17, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET
Extreme Manageability with Oracle Database 11g
An InformationWeek Webcast
Today, IT organizations are facing extreme pressures. Pressures to reduce costs, to deliver service levels 24 x 7, and pressures to do more while IT resources remain flat.
Join us and learn how Oracle gives you extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g. See how you can save time and lower your database management costs to overcome these extreme pressures.
Watch the Oracle Webcast and learn how to:
Deliver the best database performance for any situation;
Create IT agility with timesaving risk-free testing and change management;
Lower your IT costs with Oracle Databaseŭs unique self-managing capabilities.
During this presentation, you will see how IT organizations can benefit from Oracleŭs industry leading database automation and self-managing capabilitiesŭgiving customers superior performance and higher service reliability. See first-hand how Oracle offers timesaving and risk-free testing and change management solutions, enabling you to deliver faster IT agility at a fraction of the time and money.
Register now for the Webcast, and learn more about Oracleŭs extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g.
January 21, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
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Surviving & Thriving in 2009: Gaining Control of Your Applications for Optimized Business Value
An
InformationWeek On-Demand Webcast
Join InformationWeek, Sony Electronics, and Wipro for an insightful discussion aimed to provide practical guidance for establishing a proactive application management solution. Attendees will hear first-hand from Drew Martin how Sony Electonics is managing applications for an enhanced end-user experience. Our panel discussion will also focus on how to seamlessly align applications with business processes to give companies greater visibility into the customer experience and changing market conditions.
We hope you can join us for this one-hour webcast and have your questions answered LIVE during our interactive Q&A session!
Sponsored by: Wipro
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Maximize Your Data Center Today With Targeted Planning, Projects and Upgrades
An
InformationWeek On-Demand WebCast
Let's face it, in today's economy, we are all being forced to do more with less. Wouldn't it be great to get more space, more efficiency and lower opex on your existing data center? With targeted planning, projects and selective upgrades, you can see a quick return on investment and decrease overall operating expenses. Whether the issue is out-of-control cabling, increased densities or lack of floor space, APC and Cisco can help you by offering a clear planning methodology, project implementation experience and recommendations for targeted upgrades to extend the life of your existing data center. Join us for an informative webcast where attendees will learn:
Tips and tricks to maximize space and increase efficiency
How to plan a data center upgrade to minimize hot spots
How to standardize solutions across the data center
How to simplify and speed up project execution
Sponsored by: Cisco
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SaaS: A CIO's Best Friend in a Tough Economy
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
In the tough economic environment, forward-looking midsize companies have to find new ways to grow and operate productively while coping with limited resources. Software-as-a-service is a key strategy for improving productivity, managing costs, reducing complexity, and focusing your employees on innovative business growth.
Join InformationWeek and NetSuite for an informative discussion on SaaS. You'll hear from your peers on how SaaS is helping them thrive despite tough economic times.
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Avoiding CMDB pitfalls -- 4 Steps to Ensure a Successful CMDB Implementation
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
Watch this ASG sponsored webcast featuring Forrester Research and an ASG customer about the evolution of the CMDB and the challenges that can be inhibitors to successful CMDB implementations and more importantly, how to overcome those challenges. We will explore, through a live customer presentation, how to avoid the pitfalls of an unsuccessful CMDB implementation by using a well-defined methodology that can help you achieve quick and repeatable successes.
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Driving data center efficiency through service, software, and process
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives VIDEO Webcast
Given today's economic environment, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to increase computing power, increase efficiency, and address rising power and cooling capacity concerns, all while balancing physical space constraints within your data center. Sounds easy, right? Until you take the first step is planning.
Making your first move towards becoming a more efficient data center is increasingly complex, fortunately APC has the scalable, modular tools and services to help you plan, build and operate the next generation data center.
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Business Process Outsourcing: Moving From A Tactical To A Strategic Approach
An InformationWeek Webcast
Please Join InformationWeek Senior Executive Editor, Chris Murphy, Everest Research Institute Vice President Katrina Menzigian,and Cognizant's Vice-President of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Business Consulting (CBC), Kaushik Bhaumik, for an informative webcast on using BPO to transform processes, not just cut costs. This InformationWeek Webcast will explore business process outsourcing as a vehicle for strategic change. Using recent InformationWeek Analytics research, this event will quantify the extent to which companies take a strategic approach, specific areas they're seeking strategic change, and obstacles to making the leap from a tactical lens (e.g., pure cost cutting) to strategic thinking such as transforming processes or increasing revenue. From there, we'll explore the best practices companies must take to build overcome the concerns that keep companies from getting beyond a cost cutting focus with BPO.
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Minimizing Data Center Power Consumption & Costs Through Efficiency
An InformationWeek Webcast
Simple changes to the way your business approaches energy use can help recoup your losses -- and put those wasted dollars back in your IT budget!
Join us for this InformationWeek Video Webcast where we will explore the causes leading to inefficiencies within the data center, understand current business problems regarding energy efficiency, and learn the difference between being "green" and improving efficiency. Discussions will revolve around physical infrastructure components including the power systems, cooling systems, and rack configurations. By viewing this webcast and putting these solutions in action, you can help minimize your data center power consumption and costs through efficiency!
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Is Your Datacenter Bursting at the Seams? Scale-Out File Storage Comes to the Rescue
The enterprise datacenter is undergoing a rapid transformation and the need to store an increasing amount of file-based digital content is growing.
File storage encompasses a wide range of documents, including Word, Excel, PDFs, PowerPoint, CAD/CAM, source code, video, audio, graphics, and images.
This massive growth of file data is driving the need for scalable file storage options to keep enterprises from bursting at the seams. Data center managers who want to learn about new approaches to storing and managing file-based, rich data can join us for an informative webinar on scaling out your storage architectures.
Sign up for this webcast which will focus on the enterprise shift from "scale-up" to "scale-out" storage architectures to address the massive flood of file based data.
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SaaS Today: A Fresh Perspective
Join Heather Vallis, Managing Editor of InformationWeek Research and Michael Healey CTO of Greenpages and InformationWeek contributor, for this important Webcast. We'll share the details of our latest survey of IT decision makers on the subject of SaaS and offer insights on how you can leverage the latest software service offerings to deliver value to your company.
This Webcast will include both market research and practical technology advice, giving you a complete picture of the benefits of today's leading SaaS categories.
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Email Risks, Google highlights why what you don't know can cost you
Sponsored by Google
Please join Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Research from Nucleus Research and industry expert on the financial analysis of technology, and Google Security & Compliance Product Marketing Manager, Mark Campbell, to learn about some of the risks and costs of email mismanagement and what to do about it.
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Making Mobile Device Management Work In Your Organization
Sponsored by Nokia
Join InformationWeek writer Eric Zeman for this important webcast, where he will share the details of the latest survey of top CIOs and IT managers on device management. In addition, Zeman will decipher the data and offer tips on how you can leverage the latest MDM technologies.
This Webcast will include both market research and practical technology advice, giving you a complete picture of the benefits of today's leading MDM technologies.
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Understanding ILM and How it Can Benefit Your Company
Sponsored by Oracle
This webcast will explore the major drivers of ILM, describe the processes and policies that must be in place for a successful ILM project, and look at key elements such as the classification and migration technologies that will mark and move data as required by policy. It will also discuss products that can be used in an ILM deployment.
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Poor Performance Is A Silent Killer. Learn How to Improve Your Online Business With Real End User Monitoring
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Symphoniq, along with BuildDirect and Lockheed Federal Credit Union (LFCU) will discuss why it's critical to monitor performance from an end-user perspective, why they looked beyond their current application monitoring tools, and how they improved their ability to immediately detect and isolate web application performance problems.
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