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Recent Informationweek Events: 2013

Agile -- Your Software Advantage: Creating Common Development Goals for IT Managers and Agile Teams
An InformationWeek, Dr. Dobb's and IBM Event

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

At this event, which is designed to appeal to both IT managers and their Agile team members, experts will cover the spectrum of the Agile journey, including tips for successful Agile adoption, techniques for extending Agile practices to large and distributed teams, and practical guidance on how to effectively scale Agile to address issues such as regulatory compliance, outsourcing, and complex multi-platform and embedded systems development.

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Collaborative Processes: the New Fuel for Growth Engines
An InformationWeek Webinar

For decades, firms have used ERP, CRM and other applications to automate transactional processes like ordering, payments, and shipping. Now things have changed. Today, you must find your competitive advantage and business growth from other sources.

Experts recognize that collaborative activities like these will be part of the new growth engine:

• Delivering high-quality services
• Identifying and creating new products
• Finding and developing top talent
• Managing risk and compliance
• Anticipating and fixing potential problems

The key is finding the right tools to enable more collaborative processes, and for enterprises like yours, smart process apps can fill that need. This webinar will teach you about smart process apps --- a new category of software that makes collaborative processes more productive. You'll learn how you can use smart process apps can fuel your growth engine by:

• Providing faster answers to customers
• Improving customer satisfaction
• Moving data and work more reliably
• Gaining more flexibility and efficiency
• Enabling collaboration between employees, customers, suppliers, and partners

Sponsored by Lexmark and featuring expert insights from Forrester Research, this educational webinar gives you the answers you need for smarter processes and better results. We've packed the 45-minute program with useful strategic information like:

• How smart process apps improve collaboration across business teams and customers.
• Why traditional transaction-focused tools don't help.
• How to identify the best candidates for smart process apps.
• What results you can expect, including greater customer satisfaction.
• What is driving leading companies to adopt smart process apps.
• A real-world case study of how smart apps can help drive growth.

Attend this webinar to find out how new smart process apps can empower your employees and drive growth. Register today and invite your colleagues to join, too.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 -- Time: 2:00 PM PT / 9:00 AM ET

Available on demand


IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend Report: Data Breach Issues and Solutions
A Dark Reading Webinar

Cyber-attacks continue to grow in volume and sophistication -- relentlessly evolving to bypass traditional IT defenses. At the same time, risks associated with system interconnectedness, poor policy enforcement and human error are also growing as every organization's productivity, revenue, compliance, customer relationships and brand value become more dependent on trusted information.

To defend against this threat landscape, IT security, compliance and data management professionals must continue to ask the hard questions about how to secure an enterprise that is interconnected by means of cloud, mobile, and outsourcing technologies.

Join Robert Freeman of IBM X-Force® Advanced Research as he presents an in-depth analysis of recent public vulnerability disclosures and discusses important lessons learned.

By attending this free, highly informative webinar, you'll discover:

• Five common mistakes IT organizations make when it comes to data security
• Why the cloud makes it more important than ever to understand how users access data
• How to implement evolving best security practices despite limited IT resources

Webinar attendees will receive a complimentary copy of IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend Report.

Thursday, May 9, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00PM ET

Available on demand


Forrester Case Study: Enhanced SAP migration for the Swedish Armed Forces
An InformationWeek Webinar

Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) undertook a major effort to simplify their highly fragmented and complex IT landscape with no central governance, to a defragmented and standardized IT landscape centered on SAP to make their internal IT support systems more flexible and scalable.

The success of this initiative depended on SwAF's ability to reliably deliver high-quality data to feed and inform the new system. Considering the size and complexity of the initiative, there was a risk of failure in employing a traditional implementation approach to migrate data.

Attend this webinar to listen to Forrester Research present the findings of their study on how SwAF transformed their IT landscape around a single SAP ERP environment and achieved total annual estimated benefits of 47 million USD.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Remote Data Replication: Combat Disasters And Optimize Business Operations
An InformationWeek Webinar

Offsite data replication is key to ensuring ongoing business operations, but it can be complex and costly, especially when performed over long distances.

Join this live discussion to discover how you can apply fast, cost effective and reliable remote replication that can:

• Meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) by reducing remote replication times by up to 20X
• Reduce bandwidth costs and extend replication distances
• Lower storage costs while increasing storage flexibility
• Leverage emerging cloud and virtualization technologies for better offsite disaster recovery
• Hear from the experts and users at Dell Compellent, Silver Peak and AlaskaUSA discuss essential data replication strategies and technologies.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Available on demand


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

May 7, 2013

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.

Nashville, TN -- Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum


Supporting your BYOD Program with Mobile Enterprise Services
An InformationWeek Webinar

Have you evaluated the costs and risks of managing your "bring your own device" (BYOD) environment? With employees bringing their own smartphones and tablets to the workplace, managing and securing these devices, and creating a flexible mobile environment can be complex, risky and costly.

Hear guest speakers, Dave Johnson (Forrester Senior Analyst), Michelle Evangelista (Forrester Total Economic Impact Consultant), and Arthur Chiang (IBM Vice President of Mobile Services) discuss some of the benefits of engaging a Mobile Enterprise Services provider.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

Available on demand


DDoS Attacks: 2013 Industry Report On Attacks Released
Hope Is Not a Strategy. Findings from Neustar's 2012 DDoS Attack and Impact Survey
An InformationWeek Webinar

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks today are more sophisticated than ever before. Over 1/3 of attacks last longer than 24 hours, with some costing businesses over $2M a day.

How can you protect your network from a DDoS attack in 2013?

Join us for this live webinar that will review the protections tips and findings from Neustar's recent industry survey on DDoS attacks and impact.

Register for this webinar to:

• Identify best practices for DDoS preparation from an experienced SOC expert
• Assess your DDoS protection costs in comparison to industry averages
• Determine how your organization's experience with DDoS attacks compares to industry averages
• Evaluate how the cost of a DDoS impacts your internal departments compared to reported industry data

Protect your network from DDoS attacks in 2013. Register for this webinar now.

Thursday, May 2, 2013 -- Time 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Available on demand


IT Service Support Management: The Gartner Perspective
An InformationWeek Webinar

If you've implemented IT Service Management or ITSM within your organization, then you already understand the value in a process-based infrastructure that delivers consistent service to employees, customers, and your business.

But the service management space is evolving, expanding beyond the narrow scope of IT to focus on the entire business. Today technicians need to understand the potential impact to all areas of the business and be able to deliver an appropriate solution quickly and efficiently. Many new ITSM technologies have entered the market, delivered via the cloud, on-premise or virtually. So how should you prepare for your future service management needs?

Join Jarod Greene, Senior Research Analyst at Gartner on Wednesday, May 1st for his forward perspective. Jarod is the principal analyst behind the Gartner ITSSM Magic Quadrant and is one of the foremost experts in this field.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Available on demand


Avoiding Downtime: How Virtualization Can Help In Times of Trouble
A Network Computing Webinar

Virtualization is transforming how companies run their data centers to maximize availability and business continuity.

Specifically, server and storage virtualization technologies can help your organization keep systems alive and kicking even in the face of demand spikes, disasters and other troubles.

Attend this webinar to learn how virtualization helps:

• Maximize application availability and avoid expensive downtime
• Create business continuity options for critical customer-facing and employee productivity apps
• Enable development of disaster recovery plans that fully leverage your tech infrastructure

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Available on demand


Mobile DevOps - Handling Platform Sprawl in a Big Data World
An InformationWeek Webinar

The market as a whole is changing from large scale enterprise apps and complex web applications, to much more focused capabilities delivered thru very personal mobile devices. At the same time, businesses have accepted the BYOD (bring your own device) movement, and it has brought them a plethora of target platforms for mobile applications. Businesses have also moved from the monolithic days of the single desktop environment, or the simplicity of a few targeted browsers, to 10's of operating platforms and 100s of screens resolutions.

User expectations are driving businesses away from the safety of mobile web, to hybrid and native applications. Attend this webinar to learn more about the growing platform sprawl. This session will help you see how DevOps practices can be used to help address your mobile lifecycle challenges.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Effective Automation For Your Data Center: Top Five Best Strategies For Building Your Private Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Register for this webcast and learn five of the most important automation strategies to use today in your data center.

• The impact of virtualization, cloud, big data and mobility on the operational priorities for today's enterprise data centers
• How leading IT decision makers expect to use a range of automation and orchestration technologies to streamline operations and improve service levels
• The most important evaluation criteria to consider when investing in data center automation and orchestration solutions
• Five key steps to ensure your organization successfully implements and utilizes data center automation and orchestration technologies across the enterprise

Thursday, April 25, 2013 -- Time: 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

Available on demand


Performance Benchmark: Achieve Breakthrough Scalability for Ruby on Rails with Scale-out SQL
A Dr. Dobb's Journal Webcast

Ruby on Rails with a single MySQL server is one of the fastest ways to create and deploy a world-class web app. Scaling that app is another story. Since you can add web capacity easily, the ability to scale a modern Ruby on Rails application rests solely upon the scalability of the database.

Single instance, scale-up databases simply don't make sense in a Web 2.0 world. And non-relational databases require you to sacrifice too much - transactional integrity, consistency, durability, and security.

In this webinar, learn the results of a performance benchmark that compared the performance of Ruby on Rails using MySQL, and Clustrix, a scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud. You will learn:

• How database performance (measured as transactions per second) is impacted by increasing concurrency (measured by total threads)
• How to quickly and easily achieve breakthrough scalability for Ruby with MySQL
• How to reduce the costs associated with scaling Rails
• How to retain all the powerful functionality of Rails, even while scaling linearly
• As a special bonus, all Webinar attendees will receive the white paper, "Ruby on Rails Database Benchmark."

Thursday, April 25, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Achieving Unmatched Value and Performance from Oracle's T5 Servers: The Real Story
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webcast and you will:

• Learn Oracle's strategy to accelerate performance by 2X or greater every 2 years
• Learn how Oracle designs and builds HW to run Oracle SW more securely and efficiently, and how the new T5 and M5 servers deliver unmatched performance and value
• Understand the details of Oracle's 17 world record benchmarks for T5, and how this directly benefits Oracle HW customers
• Understand how Oracle's T5 servers consistently and decisively deliver better performance and value than IBM systems that sell for much higher prices
• Learn how Oracle designs and builds Hardware to run Enterprise Software faster, and how Oracle's new SPARC servers deliver industry leading price performance while simplifying IT.

Thursday, April 25, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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How to Negotiate Maintenance Discounts from Oracle and SAP
New analyst research uncovers the positive pricing impact of third-party maintenance for Oracle and SAP customers
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webinar to hear leading industry analyst Ray Wang, with years of experience helping companies negotiate better deals with Oracle and SAP, detail how many customers are now leveraging a competitive proposal to get the best price and service terms from Oracle or SAP -- or switching to value-based third-party software support for greater savings, innovative features and more responsive service.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Why customers continue to feel locked into their enterprise software contracts
• How third-party maintenance creates counter-balance and choice for Oracle and SAP customers
• How much the average customer can save in maintenance negotiations with Oracle and SAP
• How to leverage a competitive proposal to get your best terms from Oracle and SAP or determine if third-party maintenance is right for you

Thursday, April 25, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Duration: 60 minutes

Available on demand


Build, Run and Manage Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with a Mobile Application Platform in a Big Data World
An InformationWeek Webcast

The explosion of mobile applications provides a unique opportunity to extend your collection of integration services to significant number of possible devices beyond the typical desktop browser. In addition to connecting devices, one must also connect data, systems and technologies to back-end servers and hardware as well as cloud infrastructures and 3^rd party APIs.

This webcast discusses the strategy and implications of connecting and integrating devices, data and systems in a mobile-first environment.

Attend to learn how you can:

• Extend Integration Capabilities
• Connect data, systems and technologies to the back end server

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Optimizing Cloud Computing through Elastic Storage
An InformationWeek Webcast

For optimal agility in cloud compute environments, IBM Enterprise Smarter Storage offers easy scaling, high service levels for dynamic, heterogeneous workloads, and tight integration with hypervisors and, significantly, the OpenStack platform. And with the IBM XIV Storage System, IBM offers a unique architecture providing exceptional elasticity for reaping the benefits of cloud computing.

Come hear hear about XIV cloud elasticity and its beneficial impact on customers' IT operation, and why customers are going on record with statements such as: "XIV is ideal for cloud delivery of services. It's very, very elastic; it's very, very scalable. All of the things that cloud defines in terms of reactivity and responsiveness to requirements."

Storage can -- and should -- be the elastic pillar of your cloud that makes the difference. Join us to find out how.

Tuesday, April 24, 2013 -- Time 10:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Choosing an Approach to Data Integration and Governance in a Big Data World
An InformationWeek Webcast

If you're planning a data integration project, it's important to determine the right data integration style you need to deliver information that is accurate, complete, timely, and in context for your target database or application. It is even more important as data sources continue to increase in number, size, complexity and velocity.

In this session you will hear Gartner analyst, Eric Thoo, describe four different approaches to data integration. Eric Thoo will map the different approaches to five key use cases to help you identify the capabilities you need and provide insights into evolving data integration challenges and the capabilities that are emerging to address them.

David Corrigan from IBM will describe the IBM InfoSphere data integration solutions and relate them to the different critical data integration use cases.

Attend this webcast to develop a framework for approaching data integration in the new era of Big Data.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 -- Time 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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An SAP to Salesforce.com Integration Working Session
An InformationWeek Webcast

Today's business world requires adoption of multiple evolving technologies as well as agility and adaptability. But how do you integrate SAP with Salesforce.com while keeping up with mobile devices and social media?

Attend this interactive webcast to learn more about how SAP, Twilio and other applications can easily be integrated with Salesforce.com, and you'll test it all - live. You'll also have the opportunity to get all of your technical questions answered in great detail.

Topics covered include:

• SAP, Salesforce.com, and Dell Boomi integration fundamentals
• Live Demo: Sales Cloud + SAP + Chatter + SMS (mobile via Twilio)
• Extended technical Q&A session

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

Available on demand


Website Monitoring: Prevent Data Leakage, Optimize Performance, Boost Marketing ROI
An InformationWeek Webcast

Today's Websites are loaded with first and third party tracking codes, making it difficult for site owners to obtain a clear understanding of this activity across their domains. Left unmanaged, tracking codes can cause data leakage, slow load times and expose site owners to unnecessary privacy risks.

Attend this webcast to learn how website monitoring can control data leakage or theft through third-party cookies, prevent revenue loss through unauthorized retargeting and much more. Information security and marketing leaders will gain website monitoring insights to manage risks related to privacy, potential lost revenue and third-party tracking.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Tablets for the Modern Mobile Enterprise: Saving with the Intel Architecture and Windows 8
An InformationWeek and Dell Executive Event

March - April 2013 -- Multi-City (see list below)

Join us for an executive roundtable event where InformationWeek, Dell, and Intel will discuss and demonstrate the recent advancements in mobile technology, including a look at new tablet and notebook designs, discussions about enterprise opportunities for the Windows 8 platform, and an analysis of advanced security and management features in the latest Intel architectures. We'll also discuss strategic issues that affect your business, including the correct BYOD strategy for your company; compliance and policy issues; and how to convert cost savings into new business growth.

Take the opportunity to not only share best practices with industry peers, but also get a hands-on perspective of new tablets from the demo kiosks; learn how IT is tailoring touch-enabled tablets to better meet the unique needs of specific business verticals or departments, including health care, insurance, retail, and more.

You'll also learn:

• How touch-enabled tablets will drive greater mobility for your company
• How Windows 8 fits into your evolving mobile computing strategy and the rest of your enterprise
• Why traditional concerns over security in an expanded mobile environment are mitigated by new Intel processor-based tablets
• How Dell and Intel have collaborated to bring improved, built-in management capabilities through Intel vPro technology
• How to develop a BYOD strategy for your company that assures improved productivity and doesn't turn into a complex management headache

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Too Close for Comfort: What ELSE to do when a similar (or a competing) company gets breached
A Dark Reading Webcast

2011 was supposedly the year of the breach, but the breaches didn't end when 2011 did. Perimeter security and endpoints are logical places to batten down the hatches – but there's more you can do. This webinar discusses unlikely (but possibly business-beneficial) security measures which can help make your organization, employees and customers understand that their identities and data are safe.

Thursday, April 18, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

Available on demand


Forrester Total Economic Impact&tm; of running Analytics workloads on IBM Power Systems
An InformationWeek Webcast

The rise of mobile, social businesses and the exponential growth of data is not simply remaking computing, they are remaking business. Now, organizations can make more insightful decisions faster, deriving more value and innovation from their data using analytics. Choosing the right analytics platform, however, can significantly impact the success of any analytic project. Join Reggie Lau, Forrester Research's Total Economic Impact consultant, as he explains the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact&tm; (TEI) case study and the advantages of running Analytics workloads on IBM Power Systems. In his discussion, Mr. Lau will provide a comprehensive view of the financial and operational impact organizations need to consider for their analytics deployments.

In this webinar you will learn:

• The financial model and framework that helps organizations estimate the Total Economic Impact of running analytics on Power
• How the right platform can help deliver an improved and unique client experience
• Why real-time business insights are a must in today's business world
• How IBM Power Systems is helping IT and the business use data more strategically to drive business insights, optimize revenue and differentiate from competitors

Thursday, April 18, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Protecting Enterprise Data in the Cloud
A Dark Reading Webcast

As enterprises increasingly employ cloud services as a means of storing and sharing information, there is a growing need to develop stronger methods of securing sensitive data in the shared infrastructure.

In this informative webcast, Dark Reading editor Tim Wilson will host the Cloud Security Alliance's John Howie and Vormetric executive CJ Radford in discussing the threats posed to data in the cloud, the various methods available for securing sensitive data in cloud environments, and key strategies for identifying and securing data in cloud services and environments.

Attendees will learn:

• The potential threats posed to stored data in cloud and shared-tenant IT environments
• The chief methods used by attackers to penetrate cloud environments
• Recommendations on securing enterprise data stored in the cloud
• Key tools and services available for encrypting and securing stored data in cloud environments
• Recommendations for building out cloud data security/storage strategies

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Curing Healthcare Mobility Management Ailments: Lessons for IT from HiMSS13
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast

Join us on April 16 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a complimentary webinar exploring IT's role in helping providers unplug, integrate, and find new efficiencies in patient care and management of medical data while ensuring uncompromised security and compliance with HIPAA and HITECH.

Susan Nunziata, Director of Editorial for UBM Tech's EnterpriseEfficiency.com, will discuss what she learned from reporting off the HiMMS floor and how this will translate to new best practices for IT in 2013. Then Mike Jankovic, Healthcare Mobility Specialist for Fiberlink Communications Corp., will close the discussion with real-life lessons he's gathered from enabling tens of thousands of smartphones and tablets at medical institutions across North America.

By the end of this Webcast, you'll learn:

• The latest healthcare mobility trends, including BYOD for professionals and mobile apps for patients.
• The implications of enabling patients to update their mobile healthcare records.
• How to prepare your legacy apps for the mobility future.

And much more.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Develop and Integrate Mobile Apps to Drive ROI
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will show developers how to build Mobile Apps with the Worklight Platform. Attend and learn how to build Mobile Apps that target multiple Mobile platforms. You will learn how to build secure Hybrid applications that can make use of device features, handle different form factors, and provide back-end integration. You will also learn how to use toolkits like the Dojo Mobile to provide a Native look and feel. Available on demand and be on your way to building and deploying mobile web, hybrid, and native applications while securely connecting to backend systems and data.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Get Ahead of "Mobile First": Strategy and architecture for the enterprise application development you should be doing today
An InformationWeek Webcast

The biggest change in application development in a generation is here. Everything going on in the enterprise must now focus on application delivery to mobile devices. But how should app dev organizations make sure they are thinking a step ahead and still deliver applications "mobile first"? How can they handle the costs and trade-offs of developing for iPads and other tablets while preparing for dramatic shifts from users and in the applications themselves? What smart architectural concepts should organizations be using right now to deliver amazing and effective business applications on iPads and other tablets?

Join Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Framehawk CEO and co-founder Peter Badger for a webcast discussing the drastic wave of changes underway because of enterprise mobility, and what you can do today to navigate through them successfully.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Fixed Mobile Convergence -- Are You Ready to Transform Your Business?
An InformationWeek Webcast

The complexity and competitiveness of the financial services industry demands a robust sales enablement capability. The type of system that enables a true 360 degree view of the customer by integrating and correlating all relevant data and content. Does your firm empower its sales executives and services reps with everything they need to drive acquisition, retention, and cross selling? Join industry experts Julio Gomez and Jim Dickie as they highlight the evolution of sales enablement and unveil the next generation approach that will quickly become a requirement in today's fiercely competitive landscape.

During this webcast, attendees will learn how leading financial institutions are leveraging technology to drive sales enablement and create competitive advantage. In addition, the co-presenters will answer the following questions:

• What does the next generation sales agent desktop look like?
• Why will new technology be the difference between success and failure for customer facing teams?
• Which specific components are at the core of a dynamic sales enablement process?

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Top Business Process Misconceptions: What you need to know
An InformationWeek Webcast

Smart processes become more critical for information workers -- sometimes called iworkers -- every day. In fact, processes matter as much if not more than strategies and metrics that are often tracked by Wall Street. When discounted, a lack of process actually makes executing strategies more difficult. However, when processes and strategy intersect, everyone wins.

For instance, research firm Gallup recently analyzed nearly 200 studies spanning 152 organizations and 44 industries in 26 countries. The results showed an uplift of every business performance number if people felt engaged through good processes. Profitability was up 16%, productivity was up 18%, quality was up 60%, and customer loyalty rose 12%, among other findings.

It's very clear from this research that when solid workflows are in place, organizations can accelerate results and focus on what matters, becoming faster, more fluid, and nimble. Yet, according to best-selling author of Social Era Rules Nilofer Merchant, there are several misconceptions that are holding most businesses back -- some of which are still taught by top business schools and managers. In this webinar, corporate strategist Merchant will discuss what those myths are and how organizations can improve processes to bust out of them, resulting in increased employee satisfaction and a reduction in customer attrition. These processes can also lead to better strategies, results, and trust.

Attend this webinar to learn:

• How to close the proverbial strategy/execution gap, or as Merchant calls it, the Air Sandwich
• Why and how to lead when you're not in charge
• How empowering employees and customers translates into higher profits
• What a healthy culture has to consist of and how to build it using smarter and better business processes

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

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Data Virtualization: A Win-Win for Business & IT
An InformationWeek Webcast

With the emergence of big data, the variety, velocity, and volume of data are constantly increasing but IT budgets and resources are not. Is there a happy medium that gives the business the trusted information it needs without draining IT dollars and effort? Join this webcast to listen to a conversation on how data virtualization not only dramatically increases data accessibility and availability for the business, but also simplifies IT maintenance while reducing costs. Don't miss the webcast – find out how a happy medium is possible after all!

Thursday, April 11, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Unlock the Value of Your Enterprise Apps with Smart Process Apps
An InformationWeek Webcast

Business and government organizations have invested billions of dollars into enterprise applications like ERP and CRM systems to streamline business operations by automating core business processes. But to achieve the real break-through results today, organizations need a new generation of flexible and agile apps that address the unpredictable and collaborative activities central to the success of any business. They need Smart Process Apps that are designed specifically to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change. Industry analyst firm Forrester Research predicts that Smart Process Apps will grow by 18% CAGR through 2015, reaching $34 Billion.*

In this Webcast you will learn how Smart Process Apps can make a difference in your organization and how to best leverage them to unlock the value of your investments in traditional enterprise apps. Join our guest speaker, Forrester Research Analyst Andrew Bartels, and Fujitsu Chief Architect Keith Swenson as they discuss how Smart Process Apps can transform your business.

Topics will include:

• Unlocking the Value of Enterprise Apps
• The Smart Process Apps Market and Predictions
• Why Smart Process Apps are Compelling
• Proven Best Practices for Unlocking and Extending Your Enterprise Apps

* Smart Process Apps: To Combine Social And Dynamic Case Management, Forrester Research, Inc., January 24, 2013.

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

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Cloud Integration -- Ensuring Success with Oracle SOA Suite
An InformationWeek Webcast

As the number of connections to disparate SaaS providers grows, so does the importance of ensuring your application infrastructure avoids the Accidental Cloud Architecture of increasing complex disparate connectivity. Join this webcast to learn about cloud integration with Oracle SOA Suite, how connectivity is an important first step, and what additional aspects are key to ensuring you avoid cloud integration headaches down the road.

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

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Transforming IT Availability: How to provide always-on services at less cost, risk
An InformationWeek Webcast

Explosive data growth and the demand for uninterrupted access mean organizations like yours must re-examine information availability capabilities. Can you deliver always-on services while reducing cost and risk? It's time for a new approach to availability, disaster recovery, and service delivery.

Please join us to hear what EMC is doing to lead companies through a transformation of their IT availability capabilities while helping them build trust in this new world.

Learn how you can:

• Significantly reduce downtime, risk, and cost with off-the-shelf technologies like EMC VPLEX
• Streamline management, save on resources, and simplify virtual and physical server environments
• Realize significant reductions in CapEx and OpEx--with solutions that fund themselves

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

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Capacity Management Evolved: How to Optimize VM Placement to Mitigate Risk, Right-Size Infrastructure and Cut Software Costs in Half
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

Many IT shops are still relying on outdated capacity management approaches that have not been designed to deal with the high-density, highly-automated, demand-driven virtual and cloud environments of today. As such. they are struggling with solutions that were designed for a bygone physical era when environments were static and planning was less frequent – solutions that are simply not useful in today's modern world. Cloud and virtual infrastructures demand more sophisticated methods, while infrequent management approaches must give way to more continuous control and modern capacity control systems need to determine where to place workloads and how to size infrastructure in order to minimize operational risks and significantly reduce key costs.

The optimal balance of efficiency and risk can only be achieved by taking a data-driven, policy-centric approach that emphasizes strategic VM placements, application-aware allocations, catalog-based infrastructure sizing, forward-looking capacity reservations, and tunable policies that govern workloads, systems and entire environments. Using this approach allows density to be safely increased, unlocking tremendous savings in the areas of server hardware, storage and software licensing.

Join CiRBA for a live webcast to learn more about best practices for capacity planning and management in modern infrastructure. In this webinar you will hear about how to:

• Optimize workload placements to safely reduce hardware and software license costs by 40-70%
• Accurately forecast infrastructure requirements using capacity reservations fed by release management as well as self-service demand portals
• Cut performance risk with policies that accommodate all technical constraints, business requirements and operational goals
• Intelligently automate VM placement and sizing decisions

Thursday, April 4, 2013 -- Time: 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

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Ease into the Cloud with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from autoscaling to lower costs -- and it's all just a few clicks away. So the big question isn't "Why cloud?" It's "How cloud?"

No one understands the cloud better than Red Hat. We have been helping customers leverage the cloud longer than anyone. And we understand that your application platforms need to support your entire range of provisioning options -- including your existing on-premise infrastructure, your new private cloud environments, and any public cloud services you adopt in the future.

The best minds in the JBoss Community have already been working for years on this challenge of a single platform for all of your provisioning choices. The result is JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, the latest update to the industry's leading Java platform -- and the ideal platform for easing your journey into the cloud.

By attending this highly informative webinar, you'll learn:

• How JBoss EAP 6 builds on the highly successful JBoss Application Server 7.1 and the latest Java EE6 standards
• How the Red Hat subscription licensing model perfectly complements your migration to cloud-based application provisioning
• How JBoss EAP 6 improves your team's productivity across the entire application lifecycle, from development through operations

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Top 5 Best Practices to Harness the Power of Your Data
An InformationWeek Webcast

Companies and organizations of all sizes have asked themselves the same question: How can I maximize my data for better decision making? This burden has blurred departmental lines within an organization and everyone is being challenged to make data driven decisions. But with applications, data, and content stored in different places, formats, and systems, accessing and combining the different data types can be a daunting challenge.

Through measured research, we have found the 5 best practices that can dramatically help your business intelligence efforts and create measurable metrics and actionable reporting. In this session, we will discuss those best practices and cover:

• The Right Resources Needed to Execute
• Database Software
• Data access and integration
• Data Warehousing and Solutions
• Reporting

Working together, Dell and Microsoft developed an integrated, turnkey solution that brings the 5 best practices of getting the most out of your data to reality. If you are considering ways to harness the power of your data, then this is a webinar you cannot afford to miss.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Safe and Secure Cloud Computing: Is there such a thing?
An InformationWeek Webcast

For some companies, security concerns are an inhibitor to their fully embracing this new computing paradigm. Where exactly is my data? Can the "Cloud" crash? Can the cloud meet my compliance requirements? Cloud computing is the rage in IT circles these days. The promise of more flexible IT, reduced computing costs, and innovative business models has a strong allure but need to be balanced with prudent risk decisions. Join this free informational IBM webcast to help you identify and navigate through the decisions you need to make as you plan for your IT future.

Attendees will learn:

• Cloud Security issues and trends
• Steps you can take to become more confident about the cloud
• Risk Management while deploying cloud

Thursday, March 28, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Maximize Your Information Capital

Effective Information Capital Management can significantly improve a company's competitive leadership and tremendously increase its shareholder wealth. An effective ICM strategy must complement your overall corporate strategy, and include continuous interaction and close coordination between each departmental and functional level. Business analytics software aides this communication and effectively unleashes critical decision making for all employees. Everyone makes decisions and when you give information to operational employees, partners, suppliers, and customers you change behavior and transform business, thus maximizing information capital.

Technology waves are converging to transform the way critical business decisions are made, and opening opportunities for new services, new revenue, and new positioning. We'll explore how to modernize and future-proof your information strategy by incorporating:

• Big data analytics, to improve insight from structured and unstructured data
• Cloud, to access and share more information sources
• Social media analytics, to better understand sentiment and behavior
• Predictive analytics, to get a clear picture of what's most likely to happen next
• Mobile, to have presence anywhere business gets done
• Learn to leverage powerful hardware from IBM to impact analytics

Demos and case studies will be presented.

Sponsored by: Information Builders

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High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Virtual Environments without Compromising VMware Tools
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this informative free webinar to learn:

• The new -- and often misunderstood -- risks that virtualization poses to business continuity
• The importance of unifying protection of physical and virtual infrastructure
• How to best automate failover capabilities into your VMware environment

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Six Secrets to Successful Sending
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join David Daniels -- CEO of The Relevancy Group, and formerly Vice President and Principal Analyst of Forrester Research -- and Mike Hillyer, Senior Director of Global Solution Consulting at Message Systems to discover the best practices and techniques of the highest performing email senders. Learn:

• Why deliverability matters
• How to increase deliverability by 30% and drive more revenue from each email
• Key factors driving your sender reputation and why your "score" matters
• Why HTML code may be more important than content when getting into the inbox
• How a high performance infrastructure can make all the difference

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Extend and Secure Your Business While Optimizing for New Types of Workloads

February 20, 2013 -- Chicago, IL
February 27, 2013 -- San Francisco, CA
March 27, 2013 -- Raleigh, NC

In this complimentary workshop, InformationWeek and IBM examine the challenges and architectural considerations for establishing an integrated approach to enterprise platforms, and securing, integrating, and scaling mobile access to enterprise services. In an interactive format, we'll explore solutions in this space such as IBM's WebSphere DataPower appliances and pull it all together with a compelling customer case study that puts these capabilities into practice.




Seven Steps to Successful Business Process Automation
An InformationWeek Webcast

Poor processes are holding organizations back, according to researchers. Studies show that information workers waste a significant amount of time dealing with document workflow challenges. Lack of automation in paper-based processes especially can really slow a business down. After all, an organization is only as efficient and secure as its weakest workflow.

That said, with strategic, well-planned process automation, businesses can:

• Reduce costs and free funds for other initiatives
• Accelerate business processes, deliver more competitive service and drive revenue
• Minimize risk through better control of information

Join Melissa Webster, IDC Program Vice President of Content and Digital Media Technologies, to learn more about business process automation and seven crucial steps that businesses can take to streamline and automate manual business processes. In this webinar you will learn:
• Where to start and which processes can be improved
• About the changes organizations can expect and what the true ROI of process automation is
• Which components are needed for process automation
• How to find a trusted partner for your business process automation journey
• What the best ways are to sell a business process project to the organization
• Which are the key integration considerations and what comes after today's improvements

In addition, Lexmark's Brian Henderson, Worldwide Product Marketing Director, will discuss how to best use your output infrastructure to close the content-to-process gap. When your output infrastructure is part of your process automation strategy, you gain productivity tools that are surprisingly easy to deploy, use and manage. Capture, imaging, and document generation are critical for automating your paper-intensive workflow. Learn from case studies and expert insights what you need to know about going from output fleet to process automation.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Integrating Data in a Big Data Environment
An InformationWeek Webcast

Ensuring good data quality and timely data integration in a big data environment is a significant challenge facing many organizations. Numerous data sources, multiple data formats, and increasing data velocity combine to create a highly uncertain and volatile situation for any organization that needs to process all of that data in near real time, or in batch.

Jay Yusko, Vice President for Technology Research at Symphony-IRI Group will discuss how his organization tackled this problem, and the business benefits they achieved as a result.

Thursday, March 21, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Flash Optimization for a Smarter Storage Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Webcast

As the amount of storage for enterprises continues to grow, there is a related need for storage performance.

Flash storage technology is fundamentally changing the paradigm for IT systems. Flash can enhance the performance, efficiency, reliability and design of essential enterprise applications and solutions. IDC estimates the amount of solid-state drives storage solutions being shipped into the enterprise will grow significantly, reaching nearly 3 exabytes by 2016.

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) RamSan® solid-state disks are The World's Fastest Storage, outperforming even the fastest conventional disk drives for enterprise applications. RamSan® solid-state disks offer an unbeatable combination of audited performance and value.

This webcast will discuss the recent acquisition of Texas Memory Systems by IBM and how TMS products will complement and enhance the performance, efficiency, and design of a wide spectrum of IBM solutions and affirms IBM's commitment to its customers with best in class Flash technology.

Thursday, March 21, 2013 -- Time 11:00 PT / 1:00pm ET

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Protecting Enterprise Data From Endpoint Threats
A Dark Reading Webcast

In this special webcast, experienced security professionals will discuss best practices for setting and enforcing Web usage policies at the end user level – and offer recommendations on how your enterprise can build stronger defenses against Web-borne threats that may affect your end users.

Thursday, March 21, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Enterprise Connect 2013
Orlando: March 18-21

The Enterprise Connect conference program covers the full range of platforms, services and applications that comprise modern communications and collaboration systems. Hear case studies from senior enterprise executives, as well as from the leaders of major industry players like Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya, Google and more.

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Innovate to Accelerate Your Business

March 13, 2013 -- New York, NY
March 19, 2013 -- Chicago, IL
March 21, 2013 -- Atlanta, GA

At this exclusive event, you'll hear from InformationWeek, business innovators, and IBM representatives who will explain how a streamlined and more powerful IT architecture has the potential to differentiate you from your competitors, help you gain more meaningful insights for your business, and enable IT to incorporate cloud technologies so you can do more with less.




The Intelligent WAN: How to Keep Your Network from Becoming the New Weak Link
A Network Computing Webcast

IT is facing exponential growth in data volume, application diversity, user expectations and the speed with which it must respond to changing business requirements. Unfortunately, the role of networks in addressing these challenges is often overlooked as technology leaders focus on server virtualization, the cloud and other systems infrastructure issues. But as a recent Juniper Networks-sponsored survey from Forrester Consulting revealed, 86% of companies are unable to provision new services or support business demands with sufficient agility because their networks aren't up to the task. IT must address the current limitations of their networks if they are going to maintain operational excellence in the coming era of unprecedented IT complexity and relentless change.

Join this webcast to better understand how new approaches to network design, infrastructure and management can transform your network into an Intelligent WAN that will help ensure your ability to meet the challenges you face now and in the future.

You will learn:
• How to adaptively and cost-effectively scale WAN capacity where and when you need it
• How to ensure network agility by minimizing the need for manual interventions
• Why your survival depends on simplifying both your infrastructure and your processes

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Independent Analyst Webcast: Achieving innovation and faster time to market with effective ALM
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's marketplace effective Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) is more critical than ever in achieving business innovation, faster time to market and higher quality products and services. Join this Webcast for an in-depth examination of the findings of an insightful new report about ALM, The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-cycle Management, Q4 2012, with guest Forrester Research, Inc. senior analyst Tom Grant. The report, which evaluated ALM vendors, including IBM, against 116 criteria, focuses on extending lifecycles to include delivery, managing software that gets deployed everywhere, integrating teams processes and capabilities across various tools, using reports and dashboards as instruments of change, and more! Carolyn Pampnino, Strategy and Product Delivery, IBM, will discuss the IBM capabilities evaluated in the report and share five imperatives for achieving effective ALM.

Attend this webcast to learn:
• The value of ALM to drive innovation and a faster time to market allowing a competitive advantage
• How effective ALM requires certain capabilities so you can evaluate what is needed to extend the value of your current ALM environment to be even more effective
• Details on how the vendors, including IBM, evaluated in the report performed against the criteria so you know who has the ALM capabilities you need to adopt to be more competitive in the marketplace
• Five imperatives for effective ALM to help create and adoption roadmap based on the capabilities needed most

Wedsneday, March 20, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET

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Consumerization of IT -- Self Service Leads the Way
An InformationWeek Webcast

Whether you call it consumerization of IT or the IT-erization of the consumer, the reality is business users want -- and are finding ways -- to be empowered. They are using technology to stay informed and maintain visibility into their business processing with much greater control than they have ever had and are also performing basic tasks that enable on-time and high quality service.

Unum, a global provider of financial benefits, is a good example of this self-service paradigm. The Fortune 500 company turned to BMC Software's Control-M Self Service so its internal users now monitor their jobs and business processes, in real time. This allowed them to resolve problems independently as well as schedule IT-enabled jobs, services, and reports. With Control-M Self Service in place, Unum created a culture of empowerment among its users and reduced the operational cost of managing high-priority requests.

Join BMC and contributors from the Unum team to learn more about the Unum Self Service environment and how you can create a similar experience inside your own organization. In this webinar you will learn:
• How Control-M Self Service enables business users to perform business processing more quickly and inexpensively and with greater ease
• What variables and metrics to consider when implementing a self-service model
• How to plan a successful roll-out of self service with business users
• What results you may see -- both good and bad -- during a self-service implementation
• About Unum's recommendations for a self-service based on the company's own experience

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Taking Business Rules to the Next Level with IBM Operational Decision Manager
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for this demonstration of the next generation business rule management software – IBM Operational Decision Manager. Learn how you can drive better automated decisions that improve the day-to-day interactions with your customers, partners, suppliers and employees.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Next-Gen Firewall Management -- Take advantage of advanced threat protection with IPS
An InformationWeek Webcast

Next-generation firewalls offer robust protection against complex attacks by integrating firewalls with intrusion-prevention systems (IPS). In a recent survey, nearly 95 percent of respondents said embedded threat-protection was among their top reasons for moving to a next-generaton firewall platform. Are you ready to protect your enterprise with the next generation of firewalls and intrusion prevention?

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

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Trends in Enterprise Cellular Data Usage -- What You Need to Know to Avoid the Common Challenges
An InformationWeek Webcast

95% of enterprises say that cellular data deployments are either important or very important to their organizations day-to-day operations. According to the recent 2012 survey "Trends in Enterprise Cellular Network Data Usage", cellular data deployments are seen as essential to business success but there are challenges with the monitoring and measuring how this critical data service is performing. As mobile technology increases year over year, organizations need to find a way to manage cellular networks efficiently and keep mobile workers connected and productive.

Join wireless industry expert Peter Rysavy, of Rysavy Research LLC and Andy Willett, Senior Vice President of NetMotion Wireless, as they share the results of this important survey, outline the challenges your peers are facing, and present solutions that allow organizations to maximize their investment in mobile technologies.

During the webinar you will learn:
• The top concerns organizations face in their cellular data deployments
• What tools organizations are using to troubleshoot and manage their data deployments
• How organizations are tracking their deployed devices and data usage
• What criteria organizations are using to select their cellular carrier

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00PM ET

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Finding the One: Combatting 2013's Most Dangerous Attacks
A Dark Reading Webcast

During this webcast, we will discuss:
• Typical attacker tactics that are involved in creating targeted and sophisticated attacks
• Findings from recent research conducted by Proofpoint that involve Big Data analysis of millions of enterprise messages
• General observations from enterprises that have faced such threats
• The goal for this webcast is to provide real-world insights into highly evasive and sophisticated spear-phishing attacks. We will also provide insight into Proofpoint technologies that are being used by enterprises that have faced such issues.

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

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Serving Two Masters: The Secret to Successful Identity and Access Management Deployment
A Dark Reading Webcast

It's been said that you can't succeed if you serve two masters. In the technology field, Identity and Access Management (IAM) may be the exception. The need for IAM is driven by two equal forces in the enterprise: The requirement for data security to defend against intrusion and theft, and the need for governance and compliance in a regulated or highly structured industry. Both forces involve mitigating against significant risks that can put an enterprise in peril, and potentially devastate the complex ecosystem of employees, partners, investors and customers that every enterprise supports.

In this live webcast from Dark Reading and NetIQ, you'll learn how to avoid these costly mistakes, and how to focus on proven best practices and best-in-class technology to ensure that both masters -- security and compliance -- get exactly what each requires from your IAM environment.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Agile -- Your Software Advantage: Creating Common Development Goals for IT Managers and Agile Teams

March 5, 2013 -- Atlanta, GA
March 19, 2013 -- San Francisco, CA

At this event, which is designed to appeal to both IT managers and their Agile team members, experts will cover the spectrum of the Agile journey, including tips for successful Agile adoption, techniques for extending Agile practices to large and distributed teams, and practical guidance on how to effectively scale Agile to address issues such as regulatory compliance, outsourcing, and complex multi-platform and embedded systems development.




Building an application-ready enterprise PaaS with expert integrated systems
An InformationWeek Webcast

IT leaders are looking to build private clouds that enable them to drive down costs, adaptively allocate resources and accelerate application delivery. But with so many different ways of building an enterprise cloud, what's the smartest way to move forward?

This highly informative webinar will explain how you can take advantage of expert integrated systems to create your own enterprise-friendly Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment.

Monday, March 18, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Has Anyone Ever Returned an Unused Software License?
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this Webcast an analyst from Frost and Sullivan will go over the results of a recently published white paper on this topic and Deloitte & Touche will discuss the benefits their customers have gained in automating their license management processes.

Join this Webcast to learn how you can:

• Reclaim licenses
• Avoid unnecessary license costs
• Achieve continuous compliance
• Improve risk management

Monday, March 18, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Data Replication Best Practices in Mission Critical Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast

Replication has become an indispensable storage tool with uses from testing and development to operational and disaster recovery. Snaps and clones are commonplace in today's datacenter, but what about new options like continuous data protection? Join this webcast to learn about the latest solutions for replicating mission critical applications like Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP.

Watch this webcast to learn how:
• Local and remote replication can help protect mission critical applications in physical and virtual environments
• Replication management tools create efficiency in your data center
• Continuous Data Protection provides new operational recovery options
• To choose from the latest replication technologies to meet your needs
• How to combine local and remote to maximize availability

Thursday, March 14, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 AM ET

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Understanding What Data Masking Approach is Right For You
A Dark Reading Webcast

Join us for an interactive session with Kimberly Madia, WW Product Marketing Manager from IBM, and Adrian Lane, Analyst and CTO from Securosis where we will:
• Review industry analysis about which data masking techniques are appropriate for different requirements
• Discuss fundamental data masking requirements such as data type preservation, semantic integrity, referential integrity and uniqueness.
• Explore how to apply these principals in both a static and dynamic environment.
Compare different architectural approaches such as single server, distributed, and proxy.

Thursday, March 14, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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SSDs and New Storage Options in the Data Center
A Network Computing Webcast

Solid state is showing up at every level of the storage stack -- as a memory cache, an auxiliary storage tier for hot data that's automatically shuttled between flash and mechanical disk, even as dedicated primary storage, so-called Tier 0. But if funds are limited, where should you use solid state to get the best bang for the buck? In this Network Computing webcast, we'll discuss various deployment options.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Beyond Agile -- 5 Secrets to Building Engaging Customer Apps
An InformationWeek and Dr. Dobb's Webcast

A recent New York Times article found that people will visit a competitor's site if it is only 250 milliseconds faster than their favorite site's loading time, something that should come as no surprise to most CIOs, IT managers and developers. In fact, it's been well-documented that poorly designed apps, Web sites and other digital engagements can result in lost sales, dwindling customer satisfaction, siloed applications, and unproductive employees. A recent IDG study shows that only 15% of organizations feel they are equipped to design and develop apps to avoid these pitfalls. However, it is possible to create enterprise-quality, high-value, engaging apps and do it quickly, too.

Attend this webinar to learn how our featured speakers employ these five development principles to create a holistic engagement platform including:

• Models for close Synchronous collaboration
• Messaging considerations for mobile apps
• Synchronizing device data across engagement channels
• Securing mobile access to back-end Systems of Record
• Avoiding the pitfalls of creating and managing Web APIs

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Practical Tips to Successfully Test Complex Applications from the authors of "Service Virtualization for Dummies"
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's competitive environment, the application is king. The speed at which a company can deliver valuable, high quality applications to market will often determine industry leadership or obscurity. At the same time, many development and IT teams struggle to maintain a high level of quality in the face of unprecedented application complexity as they struggle to test composite application environments when critical dependent services are not available to be tested until late in the development cycle. That is why leading organizations are leveraging Service Virtualization technology to help them manage this complexity by simulating the performance and behavior of unavailable services, interfaces and systems. But is it right for your organization?

Join industry veterans Judith Hurwitz and Peter Klenk, authors of the upcoming "Service Virtualization For Dummies" book, as they discuss how organizations are successfully testing complex applications leveraging Service Virtualization and how it can apply to your environment, including:
• What kinds of services can be virtualized
• Identifying where to start virtualizing to derive the most value
• Mechanics of virtualizing a service
• Expected benefits / ROI from service virtualization

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

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Practical Tips to Successfully Test Complex Applications from the authors of Service Virtualization for Dummies
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's competitive environment, the application is king. The speed at which a company can deliver valuable, high quality applications to market will often determine industry leadership or obscurity.

At the same time, many development and IT teams struggle to maintain a high level of quality in the face of unprecedented application complexity. How can we test composite application environments when critical dependent services are not available to be tested until late in the development cycle?

Service Virtualization technology promises to help companies manage this complexity by simulating the performance and behavior of unavailable systems. But is it right for your organization?

Attendees will hear from industry veterans Judith Hurwitz and Peter Klenk, authors of IBM's "Service Virtualization for Dummies" book, about practical approaches to evaluate the value that Service Virtualization can have in your environment, including:

• What kinds of services can be virtualized
• Identifying where to start virtualizing to derive the most value
• Mechanics of virtualizing a service
• Expected benefits / ROI from service virtualization

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Data Protection Management for Enterprises and Service Providers: Faster, Smarter and More Automated
An InformationWeek Webcast

There isn't an enterprise or service provider out there that isn't struggling to overcome the challenges of exponential data growth, the siloing of protection, and virtualization. Doing so, especially as part of a broader IT-as-a-Service deployment, is key to guarantee service levels and regulatory compliance.

In this Webcast, we will explore the many challenges associated with multi-platform data protection environments and discuss how enterprise IT and service providers can gain the visibility and insight needed to reduce operational expenses and improve protection confidence. One part of a larger strategy: Taking a holistic approach to monitoring across multiple backup applications and infrastructure components using EMC's Data Protection Advisor, which addresses these challenges and delivers faster, smarter and even more automated data protection management. Data Protection Advisor provides unified, end-to-end views, real-time cross-domain event correlation analysis, and self-service protection verification. Join us for this session to learn how Data Protection Advisor provides confidence and proof that mission-critical applications are protected. You will also learn:

• How a holistic view can help IT understand what's working -- and what's not
• Where the most common inefficiencies and bottlenecks lie
• About the best ways to verify and demonstrate proof-of-compliance to internal stakeholders and regulatory agencies
• Why monitoring, alerting, and reporting can help save time, ease troubleshooting, and help IT identify and mitigate data protection risks
• Why service-level monitoring of data protection is the best option for many organizations

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Cloud Perception vs. Reality -- It's not TCO or TCA, it's the cost of information that really counts An InformationWeek Webcast

To compete in today's business environment, most IT departments know that the question is not if they will adopt cloud technology but rather when and how. The benefits of cloud solutions include elastic scalability, better availability, faster time to market and attractive "pay-as-you-go" pricing. But how much will it cost?

When evaluating platform choices for your cloud strategy, you likely consider such factors as TCO (total cost of ownership) or TCA (total cost of acquisition). But are you looking at the total cost of information (TCI)? By understanding the true cost of information when you choose your cloud platform, you can preserve your organization's ability to fully leverage the benefits of cloud computing.

In this webcast, you'll hear from industry leaders and forward thinking analysts on the following topics:
• Trends and what's new in cloud computing
• Factors that contribute to the cost of information to your business
• Why your platform choice can affect the amount of business benefits your organization will experience when adopting a cloud strategy
• Cloud platform comparisons including cost, security and manageability

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Capitalize on the Power of Big Data to Transform Marketing
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join this dynamic panel discussion as we discuss how and why the enormous volume, variety, velocity and veracity of "big data" holds tremendous potential for marketers. If they can successfully aggregate and analyze data at lightning speeds, they will extract valuable insights into their customers to better understand them as individuals.

Monday, March 11, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT/ 12:00 PM ET

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Agile for Safety Critical Systems: Quality Assurance Practices
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

Agile methods have become increasingly popular because they empower organizations to more quickly address emerging opportunities, to better ensure accurate fulfillment of functional requirements and to significantly enhance team productivity. Many organizations, however, are leery about employing agile methods for their safety-critical systems -- since they have serious concerns about compromising those systems and thereby exposing themselves to completely unacceptable consequences.

In this webcast, IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass explains how proven QA best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while still maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems.

By attending this webcast, you will learn:
• The special role of Test-Driven Development in safety-critical systems QA
• How Continuous Execution and Continuous Integration help QA teams mitigate risk
• Best practices for Work Product Review and Task Audits in safety-critical QA
• Keys to effective Incremental Development in agile teams

Thursday, March 7, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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How to Build Data Security into Big Data Environments
A Dark Reading Webcast

To be competitive, organizations are taking advantage of today's data explosion to grow business while controlling costs and reducing risks. At the same time, organizations must come to terms with the security challenges they introduce. Big data environments allow organizations to aggregate and share more and more data -- much of which is financial, personal, intellectual property or other types of sensitive data.

The good news: You don't have to feel overwhelmed when it comes to securing big data environments. Find out how you can apply the same fundamentals of securing databases, data warehouses and file share systems for securing Hadoop-based environments to prevent data leaks, ensure the integrity of information and automate compliance controls.

You will learn more about:

• Unique challenges of big data environments
• How to prioritize data security for Hadoop environments
• Three tips to improve security in big data environments
• IBM InfoSphere® Guardium® data security and privacy solutions for big data

Attendees of this webcast will receive a complementary download of the eBook: "Top tips for securing big data environments: Why big data doesn't have to mean big security challenges."

Thursday, March 7, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Mobile Enterprise

March 3, 2013 -- Boston, MA
March 7, 2013 -- Chicago, IL

Transactions begin at the moment of awareness. The most forward-thinking companies will activate mobile technology at all points of awareness, initiating better quality interactions that, over time, will lead to an increase in more meaningful transactions. Attend an IBM Mobile Enterprise roadshow and learn how IBM® enables the mobile enterprise.




Meet the Experts in Operational Decision Management: Experience the "next generation of business rules" -- up close and personal

February 20, 2013 -- Columbus, OH
March 5, 2013 -- San Francisco, CA
March 7, 2013 -- Dallas, TX

In this executive program, attendees will learn, through demos and client examples, how to use Operational Decision Management (ODM) and Business Process Manager (BPM) to make your business operations better.




Safe and Secure: Compliant Colocation Meets the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Colocation is a solid choice for a growing number of companies. Being able to use a reliable provider's network, servers, and storage equipment can help reduce costs and complexity. However, scalability can sometimes be an issue. Today, many companies are embracing the ease and flexibility of the cloud, using it to augment their colocation infrastructure whenever capacity exceeds demand. However, there are many businesses and industries that are required to meet strict security standards that have been extremely cautious about utilizing cloud-based services. They worry about data protection and about ever-growing compliance regulations that industry-specific or board-driven. Complex and compliant managed hosting provider Carpathia Hosting has introduced a solution for this rapidly growing segment of businesses. The company's IBX Vault data center -- a 64,000 square foot, 7.3-megawatt facility located in the Washington D.C. area – has a secure, private-fiber connection, providing direct access to 200-plus networks, carriers, and ISPs with armed on-site security guards 24x7. There is finally an option for those who may need colocation services as well as cloud options that meet strict security and compliance requirements.

Join our featured speaker as they explain how the colocation and cloud market is changing, and how to choose the best service provider for your needs. In this webinar you will learn:
• What a hybrid solution is and what it affords companies
• Why hosting augmented with cloud bursting options can help companies manage capacity
• About the many compliant managed hosting, cloud and colocation services that are available via Carpathia
• How Carpathia solutions meet PCI, SOX, and HIPAA/HITECH commercial regulations

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Expert IT: Accelerate Big Data and Cloud with Expert Integrated Systems

February 21, 2013 -- Atlanta, GA
February 26, 2013 -- Charlotte, NC
March 6, 2013 -- New York, NY

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.




"Becoming a Social Business"
An IBM and InformationWeek "Master of Collaboration" Event Series

March 5, 2013 -- Washington D.C., Denver, Seattle

The Smarter Workforce seminar will address the business benefits of creating a smarter workforce; address the integrated capabilities needed to meet the evolving social and collaborative business needs; and share examples of what leading companies are doing today. IBM and industry leaders will demonstrate ways to attract top talent, develop the right skills and empower high performance. Attendees will learn how to build an environment where employees drive innovation to bring products and services to market faster, resolve problems before they arise to improve customer service, and increase sales by building new skills.

This seminar is designed to reach business leaders and functional managers across all disciplines of business, including human resource professionals, hiring managers, sales leaders, offering development and operations professionals.

Locations:


Washington DC:
515 15th Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20004


Denver:
Grand Hyatt Denver
1750 Welton Street,
Denver, Colorado, 80202


Seattle:
Hyatt at Olive 8
1635 8th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101


Register Today!



What Every Industry Can Learn From Banking When it Comes to Reputational Risk and IT
An InformationWeek Webcast

The recent global Reputational Risk and IT for Banking research report commissioned by IBM and in collaboration with the Economist Intelligence Unit noted that 92% of banks include IT risk management as part of reputational risk management; this was higher than all the other industries. The banking industry is highly competitive and heavily charged with compliance and regulations, and unhappy customers can switch banks easily. This is driving a shift towards greater focus on customer engagement and customer satisfaction in managing reputational risk exposures.

Attend this webcast to learn insights gained from real-world experiences and interactions with clients.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Interconnected Enterprise -- A VIP Look Inside IBM's Software Lab

February 19, 2013 -- San Diego
February 28, 2013 -- Cincinnati

Join us for this exclusive access into IBM's WebSphere application integration product roadmap for 2013, and learn practical insights from an InformationWeek Research report presented by Contributing Editor Eric Bruno to solidify your role in championing application integration. A Forrester analyst will also be on hand to add their own vision of the interconnected enterprise and how better integration of applications ensures a smoother path to business growth and innovation.



MPS 2.0: From Managed Print Services to Better Business Processes
An InformationWeek Webcast

Managed Print Services (MPS) has been successful at helping organizations reduce cost and improve operational efficiency. Now "MPS 2.0" offers a foundation for a broader solutions-based strategy to drive process efficiency and fuel growth in a changing IT world. This solutions-based approach goes beyond typical click-based MPS offerings that focus on devices.

This next-generation model combines intelligent devices with smart process applications customized to specific industries. MPS 2.0 bridges the gap between your business systems and the content, processes and assets that remain locked out of the workflow. MPS 2.0 also addresses the new IT platforms of cloud, mobility, and social business.

Knowledge to Benefit Your Business
Attend this webinar to discover how MPS 2.0 can take you from cost reduction to business optimization and future flexibility. You'll learn how MPS 2.0:

• Goes beyond cost reduction and device consolidation to better manage information across your organization.
• Provides a foundation for continued productivity improvements and process optimization.
• Helps employees get work done with fewer bottlenecks and gain more time for customers and business.
• Turns fleets of hardcopy devices, tablets and smartphones into productivity tools for better information access and more productive processes
• Scales with software, not by adding people

Thursday, February 28, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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How To Prepare For Sophisticated IT Attacks
A Dark Reading Webcast

Register for and attend this live Dark Reading webcast to hear guest speaker Jack Danahy, Director for North American Security Consulting and Delivery at IBM, discuss sophisticated attacks and the changing security landscape.

Learn more about 4 proactive steps that you can take immediately to help keep your organization safe:
Thursday, February 28, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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IT and LOB Win When Your Business Adopts Flexible Social Cloud Collaboration Tools
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's dynamic and competitive global environment, organizations are facing a multitude of complex challenges.

• How do you reach new markets and retain existing customers while reducing costs?
• How can you speed time to market and deliver differentiated products without exceeding your budget?
• How do you stay current with changing technologies and the mobile capabilities your employees demand and need for success?
• How do you connect your geographically dispersed employees and work closely with external partners and suppliers?

Sometimes trying to solve these problems can put IT and LOB at odds. LOB wants something they can implement quickly and easily; IT needs to ensure the organization's network and data are protected. How can you enable line of business to solve their specific business problems using cloud based, flexible collaboration and social business tools, while ensuring IT feels confident that security and reliability objectives are met?

In this webinar, you will learn how social cloud technologies like real-time online document editing, community based blogs and wikis, and file sharing can meet the needs of both IT and LOB and how incorporating these technologies into your business processes can help you cut costs, improve communication and make your workforce more productive.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Creating Value with Social Collaboration Platforms
An InformationWeek and BrainYard Webcast

In this interactive webinar, panelists from Gartner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Jive Software will discuss the latest research, market trends, and proven tactics from the trenches for driving value with social business technology.

Join us online to learn:
• About the evolution of social business technology, from general collaboration to driving specific business results
• How to roll out social business technology to yield measurable gains, like improved productivity
• How organizational dynamics impact social business initiatives
• How to find specific examples where social business drives measurable business results

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Managed Services: How to Reduce Costs and Free Up IT Resources to Focus on Innovation
An InformationWeek Webcast Sponsored by IBM

Learn more about how managed services can help you reduce IT costs. Have greater flexibility to focus on core business and pursue the innovation you need to help your company!

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Solving the Patch Compliance Challenge
A Dark Reading Webcast

Join this webcast to learn how organizations are:

• Automatically managing patches for multiple operating systems and applications
• Supporting thousands of endpoints -- regardless of location, connection type or status
• Reducing security and compliance risk by slashing remediation cycles from weeks to hours
• Gaining visibility into patch compliance with flexible, real-time monitoring and reporting
• Patching online and offline virtual machines to improve security in virtual environments

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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"Modernizing Your Software -- New Approaches to Application Lifecycle Management
An InformationWeek and CA Technologies Roundtable Event

February 26, 2013 -- 8:30am – 11:30am ET -- Washington D.C.

With businesses now fully embracing cloud and virtualization, perfecting application lifecycle management is one of the utmost priorities of IT executives. As more of the IT budget gets siphoned for opex expenses to manage cloud-based applications, fewer dollars are being allocated for homegrown applications, so your application development and lifecycle management must be accelerated and quality must be perfected. Join InformationWeek and CA Technologies for a roundtable event where you will learn the latest advancements in application development methodologies, including Agile, that will allow you to put your development team on a path for improving overall software quality while meeting budget requirements. Topics discussed at the event will include:
• How companies are leveraging their experiences with cloud and virtualization to improve resource planning, requirements management, and software quality assurance
• Steps for automating quality controls such as service virtualization and testing
• How improvements in application lifecycle monitoring are leading to fewer patches and shrinking the overall development cycle
• Ways in which your company can improve its software provisioning strategy to speed delivery and lower management costs
• Strategies to better manage sunsetting of applications for improved cost savings

Location:
Mandarin Oriental Washington D.C.
1330 Maryland Avenue Southwest
Washington, DC 20024



The Executive Guide to Optimization
An InformationWeek Webcast

Watch this webcast and learn how to efficiently reallocate your resources and make time-sensitive, complex decisions that drive up market share and profitability. This discussion is based on The Optimization Edge, the first step-by-step guide to optimization for business executives. Author Steve Sashihara shares real-life examples drawn from some of the most successful corporations -- and optimizers -- in the world.

Thursday, February 21, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Secure Access: Next Steps In Identity Management
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Identity management and credential technologies in government environments aim to provide fast and secure access to information, systems, and physical locations. But the seeming simplicity of single sign-on and smart cards requires well-conceived architectures and effective technology implementations on backend systems. Government IT teams have begun to implement ID management, but they still have a long way to go.

In this interactive editorial webcast for government IT pros, InformationWeek Government will provide an update on the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management initiative, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, and other programs, and on agency efforts to meet those objectives. Our expert speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of ID management and strategies for successful projects.

Thursday, February 21, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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What Does Big Data Mean to Your Business?
An InformationWeek Webcast

The onslaught of data growth is challenging CIOs to look for new ways to manage and scale their IT infrastructure. Other trends such as virtualization, cloud computing, and big data are also driving the need for modern storage architecture. Yet many IT departments are forced to deal with managing separate business data silos brought on by traditional storage.

In this live Webcast, we'll discuss key storage challenges, the requirements of a modern IT infrastructure, and the targeted next steps IT leaders must take in order to provide value to the business.

Thursday, February 21, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Getting Grounded in Cloud Storage
An InformationWeek Webcast

SmartCloud Storage helps manage cloud storage in a down-to-earth manner.

As organizations work to keep up with exponential storage growth and managing IT budgets and resources, many are turning to storage clouds or private "Storage-as-a-Service" to help control costs and provide agility and productivity.

IBM Storage Cloud offerings, including the IBM cloud storage self-service portal, allow organizations to build a private storage cloud quickly and to begin enjoying the benefits of a storage cloud.

Come hear the latest IBM announcements on SmartCloud Storage and hear about easy to deploy, simple to use solutions which feature a self-service portal for rapid storage provisioning, monitoring and reporting.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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IBM Patterns of Expertise Streamline Application Deployment for an Enhanced IT Lifecycle
An InformationWeek Webcast

One of the biggest time sinks for IT departments is configuring and sizing software, middleware, and virtual system resources to run the applications that business units need to be productive and profitable. But deployment doesn't have to be a case of constant reinvention of the wheel. With IBM's proven pattern deployment capability, you can deploy software, middleware and virtual system resources into an integrated infrastructure, your current infrastructure, or a public cloud environment faster than you may have thought possible.

Attend this live webcast to learn how IBM's patterns of expertise can transform your IT lifecycle through simplifying the software process from development, through deployment, and to management of your applications.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Manage and Secure BYOD while Achieving Data Separation? You can do it!
An InformationWeek Webcast

New devices, empowered employees, savvy consumers -- all motivating enterprises to aggressively pursue mobile initiatives. As these initiatives become more mainstream, a better understanding of the security and management requirements are attained. Next organizations need to make selections and decisions on the mobile security solutions they deploy. Gaining a better understanding of the solutions landscape and identifying the key facilities that make deployments successful and effective are important to grasp.

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

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Realizing agility with discipline: Addressing the needs of agile adoption in a government environment
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Many agencies are adopting, or want to adopt Agile practices to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and improved collaboration. Government agencies spend billions per year on IT investment and often projects run over budget, over time, out of scope and do not deliver the required outcomes. An iterative approach to software delivery allows for a more collaborative and constant evolution of requirements, informing team direction and driving refinements more frequently and earlier in the development process, ensuring relevant and timely delivery of critical software. Despite the benefits, agencies have adoption challenges that are unique to the government environment.

This webcast features IBM Rational Software's Vice President of Strategy and Delivery, Michael O'Rourke, as he share insights about IBM's own agile transformation to streamline software development and delivery, while addressing the need for disciplined governance and overcoming difficult and unique challenges. IBM Rational's Chief Agile Methodologist, Richard Knaster, will discuss the most relevant agile practices for government projects and will leave you with strategies your organization can leverage to start adopting agile methods today.

In this webcast you will:
• Hear insights on the challenges experienced 1st hand in a large scale agile transformation
• Understand the benefits of moving to an iterative approach to software delivery
• Learn agile tips for overcoming even the most difficult challenges in the Government environment

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Do Your Mobile Management and Security Requirements Match Your Business Imperatives?
An InformationWeek Webcast

The first phase of adoption is usually when executives start using personal mobile devices followed by a democratization of the mobile workforce. More and more employees, especially those who are customer and partner-facing, are using mobile devices in the workplace. And more recently, organizations are beginning to recognize the benefits of mobile use and actvitely pursuing it. They are building enterprise mobile applications and are looking at how mobile can transform certain business processes.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Building a Successful Enterprise Mobility Roadmap
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprise Mobility is not a new concept, but these days it is having a disruptive impact on many organizations. Many IT departments feel unable to respond effectively due to the influx of new devices and the growing internal demand for app development. When trying to deal with these challenges, the result is often the sacrifice of long-term effectiveness to meet short-term goals.

Now is the time to actively create a roadmap to guide your organization's mobility efforts, especially if Gartner's predictions prove accurate -- that within 2 to 3 years, 40% of the workforce will be mobile and 70% of customers will interact with you via mobile device.

Whether you are initiating or expanding a mobility program, if your organization lacks or is struggling with the process, resources and vision necessary to fully embrace the new mobile paradigm of business, this webcast is for you.

• What you should do now to manage BYOD and before you develop an app
• The 4 Crippling Mistakes companies make
• The 5 "Must-haves" in a mobility strategy
• What two companies discovered that completely changed -- almost everything
• How a two-week assessment protects against risky assumptions, hasty decision-making and suboptimal results.

Why Participate? This Webcast illustrates step by step what must be done when initiating or expanding a mobility program. This may be your best-ever opportunity to take an objective, holistic view of enterprise mobility -- the strategy, capabilities, infrastructure requirements and internal collaboration crucial to success -- but which too often get lost in the rush to deploy tactical level mobility.

Take advantage of this Webcast opportunity to hear a holistic view of enterprise mobility, and get a jumpstart on creating your mobility roadmap.

Monday, February 11, 2013 -- Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

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Agile Development for Safety-Critical Systems: Design Practices
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

Agile methods have become increasingly popular because they empower organizations to more quickly address emerging opportunities, to better ensure accurate fulfillment of functional requirements and to significantly enhance team productivity. Many organizations, however, are leery about employing agile methods for their safety-critical systems—since they have serious concerns about compromising those systems and thereby exposing themselves to completely unacceptable consequences.

In this webcast, IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass explains how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while still maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems.

By attending this webcast, you will learn:
• The special role of High-Fidelity Model-Based Engineering in safety-critical systems design
• The five key views of architecture that agile developers must keep in sight
• How to integrate Defensive Design into your agile processes
• Best practices for Continuous Safety Assessment across agile development lifecycles

Thursday, February 7, 2013 -- Time 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Available on demand



Building a Successful Enterprise Mobility Roadmap
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprise Mobility is not a new concept, but these days it is having a disruptive impact on many organizations. Many IT departments feel unable to respond effectively due to the influx of new devices and the growing internal demand for app development. When trying to deal with these challenges, the result is often the sacrifice of long-term effectiveness to meet short-term goals.

Now is the time to actively create a roadmap to guide your organization's mobility efforts, especially if Gartner's predictions prove accurate -- that within 2 to 3 years, 40% of the workforce will be mobile and 70% of customers will interact with you via mobile device.

Whether you are initiating or expanding a mobility program, if your organization lacks or is struggling with the process, resources and vision necessary to fully embrace the new mobile paradigm of business, this webcast is for you.

• What you should do now to manage BYOD and before you develop an app
• The 4 Crippling Mistakes companies make
• The 5 "Must-haves" in a mobility strategy
• What two companies discovered that completely changed -- almost everything
• How a two-week assessment protects against risky assumptions, hasty decision-making and suboptimal results.

Why Participate? This Webcast illustrates step by step what must be done when initiating or expanding a mobility program. This may be your best-ever opportunity to take an objective, holistic view of enterprise mobility -- the strategy, capabilities, infrastructure requirements and internal collaboration crucial to success -- but which too often get lost in the rush to deploy tactical level mobility.

Take advantage of this Webcast opportunity to hear a holistic view of enterprise mobility, and get a jumpstart on creating your mobility roadmap.

Monday, February 11, 2013 -- Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

Available on demand



Agile Development for Safety-Critical Systems: Design Practices
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

Agile methods have become increasingly popular because they empower organizations to more quickly address emerging opportunities, to better ensure accurate fulfillment of functional requirements and to significantly enhance team productivity. Many organizations, however, are leery about employing agile methods for their safety-critical systems—since they have serious concerns about compromising those systems and thereby exposing themselves to completely unacceptable consequences.

In this webcast, IBM Rational Chief Evangelist Bruce Powel Douglass explains how proven design best practices can enable organizations to reap the vital benefits of agile development while still maintaining the rigorous standards essential for the successful delivery of safety-critical systems.

By attending this webcast, you will learn:
• The special role of High-Fidelity Model-Based Engineering in safety-critical systems design
• The five key views of architecture that agile developers must keep in sight
• How to integrate Defensive Design into your agile processes
• Best practices for Continuous Safety Assessment across agile development lifecycles

Thursday, February 7, 2013 -- Time 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Available on demand



Mobile Security = (Mobile Access Security + Mobile Device Security + Mobile App Security) + Mobile Security Intelligence. No calculator required.
An InformationWeek Webcast

Managing and Securing the mobile enterprise requires taking a holistic approach to defending the end-to-end scope of each mobile engagement. Security and management are highly intertwined and prerequisites to one another. After all, it's hard to secure something that isn't managed and to manage something that isn't secured.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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How SMBs Can Avoid the Storage Gap Trap
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webinar, George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland, and Al Watson, Consulting IT Specialist with IBM's Storage Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) team will:
• Provide an overview of how to successfully cross the gap between starter SANs and full enterprise systems.
• Review the requirements of "large" SMBs and what capabilities they should be looking for.
• Provide an overview of the IBM® Storwize® V3700, a system designed specifically for the sub-1,000 employee SMB to fill the storage gap they face.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Leveraging Customer Insight for Business Growth
A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast

Retail banking is facing many challenges as technology allows customers to choose from diverse banking options, from branch banking to smart phones. Banks have also extended their reach from local to national and global markets. Without the consistent customer engagement models that were successful in the past, how can financial institutions measure and monitor success with a whole new set of engagement models?

Given the shrinking of marketing budgets, the emergence of nontraditional players and marketing channels, a holistic approach to Customer Insight is the key to business growth. This webcast will discuss how, in a competitive environment, Customer Insight can enable sustained business growth by providing unified access to all data and information required to generate a consolidated view of customers and products across multiple touch points. Learn how you can apply these in your marketing and sales activity to increase marketing efficiency and a return on investment.

Thursday, January 30, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT

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Reducing Software Licensing Costs in Virtual & Cloud Infrastructure with Smarter VM Placements
A Financial Services Webcast

Most organizations that license software such as Windows, SQL Server and Oracle on a per processor or per host basis are spending far more than is required on licensing. Because VM placements are typically driven by basic utilization criteria, and not more sophisticated business or technical policies, these software components tend to spread randomly across physical servers, necessitating a large licensing footprint. This creates an opportunity to save in excess of 50% of existing costs, but achieving this requires a fundamental shift in how VM placements are managed within virtual environments. Join CiRBA CTO & co-founder Andrew Hillier to learn how to contain licenses and control costs with predictive analytics that profile workloads to optimize placements.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Collaborative Processes: the New Fuel for Growth Engines
An InformationWeek Webcast

Sponsored by Lexmark and featuring expert insights from Forrester Research, this educational webinar gives you the answers you need for smarter processes and better results. We've packed the 45-minute program with useful strategic information like:
• How smart process apps improve collaboration across business teams and customers
• Why traditional transaction-focused tools don't help
• How to identify the best candidates for smart process apps
• What results you can expect, including greater customer satisfaction
• What is driving leading companies to adopt smart process apps
• A real-world case study of how smart apps can help drive growth

Attend this webinar to find out how new smart process apps can empower your employees and drive growth.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 2:00pm ET

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Big Data Analytics - Is Your Elephant Enterprise Ready?
An InformationWeek Webcast

Hadoop's cost effective scalability and flexibility to analyze all data types is driving organizations everywhere to embrace big data analytics. From proof of concept to deployment across the enterprise, join Datameer and Hortonworks as we answer the 'now what?' when rolling out your Hadoop big data analytics project. This webinar will address critical project components such as data security, data privacy, high availability, user training and use case development. Leave this webinar with:

• A checklist for successful enterprise analytics deployments
• How best to take your project into production
• Use cases that optimize Hadoop technology
• Common pitfalls to avoid

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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How to Avoid Data Leakage from Mobile Enterprise Applications: Use The Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this live webcast to learn how to use cloud computing as a surprisingly effective technique to solve the security, performance, user experience, and cost issues plaguing enterprises in providing mobile access to enterprise applications today.

You know the conventional wisdom: if you're using mobile devices, the best way to secure enterprise application data is some combination of locked-down devices and strong data security measures. However, both IT and users know the truth: these approaches ratchet up hidden costs while killing user experience and productivity, all in the name of avoiding data leakage.

In the webcast, we'll show how IT can enable both secure application data and a UX that employees rave about through the use of a cloud-based architecture.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Is Your Network Ready for BYOD?
A Dark Reading Webcast

Simply preventing personal devices from accessing your network might not be the best option for your business. A well thought out BYOD policy and the proper wireless security strategy can empower your employees, save costs, and increase productivity while maintaining security and control.

Join Bill Prout, network security specialist at Sophos, to find out what you need to consider when implementing a BYOD policy. He'll cover:


• The security implications of BYOD
• Steps to prepare your network for BYOD
• Strategies for managing remote users, branch offices and wireless access
• And more

Register today and be prepared for tomorrow.

Thursday, January 24, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Agile Development: Three Pillars of Success
An InformationWeek Webcast

At the heart of a successful agile development team is a skilled group of developers. Agile software professionals continuously deliver on their objectives, but they need robust development tools and practices to maximize their productivity.

Attend this webcast to find out three pillars of success for Agile development success:
• Resilient architecture
• Collaborative dev tools
• Automated processes

If you're a software developer or solution architect, this interactive discussion will help you gain the insights you need to ensure your team has the right tools and practices to maximize your effectiveness in agile development.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 -- 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Building an Effective Identity Management Strategy
A Dark Reading Webcast

In this webcast, top experts on identity and access management Adrian Lane, CTO and analyst at Securosis, and Rick Wagner, Director of Product Management at NetIQ, will discuss the key elements of building a strong identity management strategy, the key practices behind those strategies, and the tools required.

Attendees will come away with some essential tips for building a strong identity management program and the technologies and practices needed to enforce it.

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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IT Strategies for High-Performing Government Buildings
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

In this editorial webcast, InformationWeek Government will identify steps that federal IT teams can take to convert their data centers, office space, and other facilities into high-performing, energy-efficient buildings. The opportunities include heating, cooling, and lighting systems, new approaches to energy management, and software for building maintenance and operations. Government IT professionals are invited to join us and participate in this interactive online event.

Tuesday, January 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Unleashing the Power of PaaS to Harness the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) should be seen as a platform for innovation, agility, flexibility and leverage, rather than merely for application development.

In this Webcast you will learn how PaaS can make a difference in your organization and how to best leverage its capabilities. Join Saugatuck Technology Distinguished Analyst Mike West and Fujitsu Chief Architect Keith Swenson as they discuss how PaaS will form the foundation for today's new loosely-coupled business services. Topics will include:
• Harnessing the Cloud with PaaS
• What is and is not PaaS
• PaaS and the future of Clouds
• Proven best practices for deploying PaaS solution

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Deepen Customer Satisfaction and Brand Affinity with Impactful Web Content and Microsites
An InformationWeek and The Brainyard Webcast

The challenges of effectively creating, managing, and deploying impactful content across many web properties and audiences are significant. This session will address how a manufacturing company successfully created a centralized and effective content authoring, management, and deployment solution which empowered its marketing team, reduced demands on IT, and increased reusability and ROI from existing content investments. Other customer examples will also be shared.

Thursday, January 10, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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