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InformationWeek 500 Conference & Awards Gala 2010
Plan to arrive on Sunday, September 12th for our Annual Golf Outing and Welcome Reception and depart on Wednesday, September 15th
More details will be coming soon!
For all inquiries please email us at: IW500@techweb.com
Government IT Leadership Forum
Join this exclusive gathering of government technology executives to hear first-hand how they're driving change and innovation in federal IT services and operations. Prominent CIOs from civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies will engage an audience of their peers in an open discussion of intelligence gathering and sharing, cybersecurity, open government, cloud computing, and much more.
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Application Modernization in an Agile Environment
Hosted by: HP & Capgemini
Application modernization in general, and Agile methodologies in particular, holds the promise for making applications more responsive to business need -- that is, for better business agility. As companies streamline their enterprise systems, they're better able to adjust to rapidly changing business processes and market conditions. Join us for an interactive discussion with HP executives, partners and customers on application modernization trends. You'll hear about the challenges and opportunities other organizations are experiencing and get a better understanding of how business success depends on Agile delivery - not just Agile development.
Virtualization for the Next-Generation of the Efficient Data Center
An Executive Breakfast Roundtable
Hosted by: Dell / Intel
As the pressure to reduce IT costs continues unabated, companies are taking a closer look at new ways to streamline the enterprise while still maintaining the agility and innovation the business demands. A careful strategy of standardization, simplification, and automation is helping leading-edge companies improve productivity, reduce operating expenses, and simplify management to focus on new business opportunities.
Demystifying Cloud Computing - Best Practices for Making the Conversion
An Executive Evening Roundtable & Wine Reception
Hosted by: Dell
Cloud computing is redefining how many companies organize, distribute, and manage their data, while enabling them to capitalize on a more efficient computing model to lower IT expenses and create a more agile business. Join us for an interactive Executive Roundtable to discuss the challenges and opportunities of moving to cloud computing services - from the desktop to the data center.
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Strengthening IT Security's Weakest Link: The End User
Every day, the business headlines are filled with news of critical ý yet avoidable ý data breaches and compromises. Lost laptops and portable storage devices. Accidental postings of sensitive business data to public-facing Websites. Users fooled by official-looking phishing messages and other social engineering scams. Hackers harvesting critical information from social networks and "business networking" sites. Cybercriminals exploiting flaws in handheld devices, WiFi networks, and other "road warrior" technologies. When you attend this free virtual event, you will learn how to strengthen IT security's weakest link - the end user ý produced by two of the industry's best-known IT security resources: InformationWeek and Dark Reading.
Gold Sponsor: Fiberlink
Advanced Strategies in Virtualization
Join InformationWeek editors, the InformationWeek Analytics team, and a panel of guest experts and vendors as they take virtualization to the next-level.ý Learn how a top-to-bottom transformation is increasing system availability and ensuring better business continuity.ý ýRegister for Free Today!
Platinum Sponsors: Eaton, NetApp, Red Hat, ýthawte
Gold Sponsor: HP
Silver Sponsor: VMware
Modernizing IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance to Accelerate Flexibility & Visibility
Take steps to repair weakened IT governance practices by attending our upcoming InformationWeek Virtual Event. Our program will offer crucial guidance on both practical tools and strategic insight to enact more formidable governance systems. Register for Free Today!
Platinum Sponsor: thawte
Silver Sponsor: Lumension
Independent Research Partner: Forrester
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.ýý 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 today's tough IT environment.ý 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 resourcesý 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
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DNS DDOS Threats and Corresponding Mitigation Strategies
An InformationWeek Webcast
This webcast will explore the challenges that security professionals must address to successfully mitigate and manage DNS DDOS threats, and identify the most important issues that enterprises must confront to successfully ensure high availability and performance of their websites.
We will also explore how to understand the economics of DNS DDOS mitigation initiatives. Typically, security has been a lot like buying insurance ... it feels like a waste of time and money until you are hit by the need for proper protection. The panelists will explore other cost justification models to determine how business value can be gleaned from effective DNS DDOS attack mitigation measures.
March 23, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Databases at Risk -- and HOWTO Address Them
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast
If your SAP, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft or product design system were breached by cybercriminals with compromised superuser credentials - would you know?ý And could you prove it to your auditors?
A recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey found that nearly 75% of security professionals expect database attacks to increase in the future.
ý Join Jon Oltsik, ESG Principal Analyst, to learn about best practices and what your peers are saying about database security:
Phil Neray, VP of Security Strategy for Guardium, an IBM Company, will present case studies about enterprises that have implemented Guardium's automated, cross-DBMS solution to secure sensitive data and reduce compliance costs.
Check out this educational webcast to learn HOWTO mitigate internal and external database threats.
March 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 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:
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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