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Recent Informationweek Events: 2012

The New IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics
An InformationWeek Webcast

IBM PureData System, the newest member of the IBM PureSystems family of expert integrated systems, is purpose-built for data services. There are two models designed specifically to meet your mission-critical big data, data warehousing and analytics needs: PureData System for Analytics and PureData System for Operational Analytics. PureData System for Analytics is workload-optimized for deep and advanced analytics with big data, while PureData System for Operational Analytics is perfect for operational warehousing and analytics. Both systems deliver the highest possible throughput and performance.

Attendees of this webcast will learn:

• Why a dedicated analytics system is so important in today's competitive business culture
• How traditional IT is constrained by traditional IT offerings
• Why consolidating and optimizing can help improve performance, scalability, and reliability
• How an IBM PureData System offering can be brought online in hours instead of weeks with minimal time, effort and skill
• How the PureData System is designed, integrated and optimized to give you new insights for faster and better decisions.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Learn how to store up to five times more data -- at lower costs
An InformationWeek Webcast

Data isn't just rapidly growing but also evolving, making storage management increasingly complex and costly. The good news is, now you don't have to be an expert in the field to make smarter storage decisions.

IBM® Storwize® V7000 takes the guesswork out when it comes to addressing your storage requirements. Built on functionality previously found only in enterprise-class systems, it allows the flexibility and scalability needed to increase capacity while maintaining performance.

Attend this webcast to find out how you can realize:

• Increased efficiency: Consolidate SAN and NAS workloads into a single system for improved performance.
• Ease of Use: Simplify administration with an interface that's far more intuitive than competitive systems.
• Real-time Compression: Instantly compress primary data by as much as 80% -- with no performance degradation.
• If you are an IT or storage manager in a midsize company, you'll gain insights to maximize efficiency of internal and external storage systems while reducing your overall storage costs

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 -- Time: 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 PM ET

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Taming the Data Explosion for Better Business Insight
An InformationWeek, Dell and VMware Executive Event

Join InformationWeek, Dell and VMware to talk about how to better manage large amounts of data and transform IT into a center of business innovation that easily adapts to change and turns data into real business insights. In this executive event, you'll learn:

• What competitive businesses are doing to make the right information available seamlessly to business decision makers
• How an open storage ecosystem helps companies manage the growth of data across a broad variety of applications and data types
• What it takes to develop an effective Big Data strategy that turns information into business insight
• How Dell's Fluid Data Architecture helps bridge the incompatibilities in existing storage file systems

New York, NY -- December 18, 2012

InterContinental New York Barclay
111 East 48th Street
New York, NY 10017

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Securing Web and Mobile Apps: The Future of Digital Identity
A Dark Reading Webcast

Humans are often the weakest link in the security of web and mobile apps as they struggle to maintain unique passwords across their many devices and services. Enforcing complex, frequently changing passwords only exacerbates the issue. Besides annoying users, this tactic fails to significantly improve identity assurance for secure login practices. Combining that weakness with the hundreds of portals, web and mobile applications hacked monthly, the result is millions of passwords and confidential records that could potentially get into the hands of hackers. How do you keep your app or portal off this list?

Monday, December 17, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Using Big Data to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Disparities among Newborns and Infants
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast

Data-driven healthcare saves lives. Gathering and analyzing streams of physiological information from medical devices can enable early detection of complications and give doctors the ability to plan and begin treatments sooner and improve patient care and outcomes.

Join Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Associate Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), and Annamarie Saarinen, Principal at Ainsley Shea and founder of the Newborn Foundation, to discuss how big data analytics is helping to improve outcomes and reduce morbidity and mortality among critically ill infants and ICU patients.

In this webinar, we will discuss what data-driven healthcare means; not only how new technologies and new ways of managing and analyzing data are changing how we care for patients, but also how advocates of patient health are using data to inform policy and save lives.

Monday, December 17, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Optimize Your VMware Environment and Accelerate Your Cloud with IBM SmartCloud Foundation
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webcast, address the complexities head on by learning to increase your ROI from your current virtualized infrastructure in key problem areas such as Image Lifecycle Management, Capacity Planning, Patch Management and Data Resiliency. In addition, you will learn how you can leverage your existing investment to quickly move beyond compute virtualization to cloud based infrastructure and platform service delivery.

Monday, December 17, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Five Hot Trends Shaping the Future of Business Analytics
An InformationWeek and Information Builders Event

Five 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
• And, learn to leverage powerful hardware from IBM to impact analytics.

Minneapolis, MN -- December 13, 2012

W Minneapolis
821 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55402



Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The (In)Security of Vendor-Supplied Software
A Dark Reading Webcast

What vulnerabilities threaten the integrity of your software supply chain and data? Can your enterprise really influence software vendors to meet your most important security policies and remediate insecure software? Action is needed, and urgently. An alarming 62 percent of all applications fail to reach compliance on their first submission, according to a study recently conducted by Veracode, Enterprise Testing of the Software Supply Chain. While few enterprises now have formal third-party testing programs, those that do find they dramatically improve vendor compliance while meeting industry standards.

Thursday, December 13, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Take Your Deep Analytics Further with Data Replication
An InformationWeek Webcast

IT is struggling to deliver larger datasets in a timelier manner to more geographically dispersed users and systems for both operational and analytic purposes. IT organizations that can do this well will empower the business to make better, faster decisions on a global basis. Those that don't will constantly face problematic trade-offs between speed, concurrency, completeness and cost.

This insight-packed webcast will reveal how the right data replication solution can help you more easily and cost-effectively fulfill a wide range of key objectives—including business continuity, active data warehousing, operational reporting, data synch, ETL, MDM, database/application migrations and data transformation between heterogeneous systems and data models.

Join this webinar to:

• Understand how different data delivery models, including incremental data delivery, can help you achieve many of your most challenging operational and analytic objectives.
• Explore how you can use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication to get more value from IBM InfoSphere Information Server, IBM PureData System for Analytics and other RDBMS's.
• Learn about IBM InfoSphere DataStage Integration Options for IBM PureData System for Analytics (powered by Netezza).

Thursday, December 13, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The Value of Workload-Optimized Systems for Transaction Processing: Introducing the IBM PureData System for Transactions
An InformationWeek Webcast

Given the challenges that clients face today keeping pace with the exponential growth of their transactional data, a new approach to delivering and managing data services is needed. Please join IBM for this webcast on workload-optimized systems and IBM's newest PureSystems family member. Our guest speaker, Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst with Forrester Research, Inc., will discuss the value of workload-optimized systems for transaction processing, and IBM's Rado Nikolov, director of IBM PureData product management, will discuss the benefits provided by the new IBM PureData System for Transactions. This expert integrated system provides a simple, highly scalable and flexible database platform to support the management and growth of your enterprise transactional data. The system will help IT organizations deliver data services more quickly, reduce costs, simplify operations and provide the flexibility needed to address today's data challenges.

Thursday, December 13, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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EMC and CompuCom on Management of Virtualized and Cloud Architectures
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprises, service providers, and government agencies are all moving to virtual data centers, or cloud architectures, or the new Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), to obtain all of the well-documented benefits: agility, efficiency, and cost control. But the move to these dynamic, virtualized, cloud architectures is creating new challenges for the management teams who are responsible for ensuring service availability and performance to the business.

They have lost their ability to see their IT environment, track changes, and identify issues. Applications move, storage is virtualized, and when something goes wrong, it is much more difficult to identify the root cause? And their existing management tools and approaches are no longer sufficient. IT management teams are feeling very exposed! New management technology and capabilities are needed to help them do their jobs.

During this Webcast, you will hear Robert Patrick, CompuCom's Principal Technologist of Cloud and Infrastructure Services, describe his experiences addressing these challenges, and Tom Hayes, EMC Product Director, outline the EMC solution framework. Robert and Tom will cover 3 key capabilities designed to address these new IT environments:

• Virtual Data Center Visibility, to see unparalleled line-of-sight in virtualized IT environments, from VMs to the underlying physical infrastructure. Understand interdependencies, including virtual networks, virtual switches, vMotion activity, VM impacts, and all VMware-attached storage.
• Configuration Management - to see all changes and deviations from approved configurations. Leverage policies to ensure desired configurations automatically remain compliant. Make device updates and corrections faster and easier, and eliminate the possibility of human error creating a service-impacting problem.
• Identify & Act - to identify the root cause of any issue. Quickly separate symptoms from problems so you can address the appropriate issue that's impacting application and service delivery. Determine risk conditions by seeing performance degradations and understanding dependencies-before business impact occurs.

Featured Speakers:

• Eric Bruno, Principal, Allure Technology, Inc.
• Tom Hayes, Director, IT Management Products EMC
• Robert Patrick, Principal Technologist, Cloud and Infrastructure Services Compucom Systems, Inc

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Improve Operational Efficiency and Drive Growth With Smart Workflow Automation
An InformationWeek Webcast

Do barriers to operational efficiency prevent your business from reaching growth targets? Do manual processes create gaps that prevent data from becoming available to users who need it? Every day, missed productivity opportunities add up to steady – and serious – losses in efficiency. When it takes longer to get work done, your business performance suffers.

Smart workflow automation is the answer to regaining everyday productivity. It can compensate for smaller workforces, safeguard against human error, and automate tedious reporting and compliance tasks. Smart, optimized workflow eliminates the common obstacles and frustrating gaps that get in the way of sustained efficiency:

• Manual, paper-based processes drain productivity
• Large amounts of unavailable but necessary information
• Inflexible workflow that is costly and difficult to change

Join the Webcast with respected BPM analyst Sandy Kemsley and industry expert Brian Henderson to learn:

• What are the biggest barriers to operational efficiency
• Why it takes more than just people to improve business performance
• How smart processes reduce time to perform common tasks
• How improve the quality and amount of work that gets done on a daily basis

Register today and join us on December 12 to learn how Smart Workflow and Business Process Automation can free your team to focus on customers, innovation and growing the business.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Reimagining Business Processes for Enterprise Social Networking
An InformationWeek Webcast

Business social networks offer organizations an opportunity to improve the communication between their employees, partners and customers. But for these networks to succeed, they need to become a place where real work gets done instead of just a workplace distraction like Facebook. This means that real business processes need to be moved into the social network and to do this may require a new way of thinking about how we work and adapt to more social business processes.

Attend this live webinar to discover how rapid change and new technology is changing the way we do business, and propose how businesses can start harnessing these changes to work more effectively. We will examine business process examples such as email/task management and customer support services, and how they can be leveraged within the network to take full advantage of the social environment.

• Most companies have barely scratched the surface of the benefits that social networking can deliver to the way they work
• Enterprise social networks should be used for real work, not just discussion between employees
• Enterprise social networks should add transparency and accountability to business processes
• Adapting business processes to a rapidly changing world may require a new way of thinking about how we define business processes
• Social business processes benefit from the extra openness that a social network delivers and the connections that each network member has with their colleagues

Featured Speakers:

• James Hilliard, President at Hilly Productions, Inc.
• Richard Hughes, Director of Social Strategy BroadVision
• Philip Weiss, ZN founder and Chief Hyperthinker

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Why Big Data Doesn't Have to Mean Big Security Challenges
A Dark Reading Webcast

As big data environments ingest more data, organizations will face significant risks and threats to the repositories containing this data. Failure to balance data security and quality reduces confidence in decision making. Hear our guest John Kindervag, Forrester Research. Inc. principal analyst, discuss several requirements security and risk professionals must do to create an awareness and understanding of the associated responsibilities and risks at the highest levels of the organization.

Joe DiPietro, IBM InfoSphere Data Governance Center of Excellence Leader, will discuss how your organization can eliminate costly and high-risk manual and silo approaches to data security and compliance by unifying and automating regulatory compliance tasks, thereby reducing operational costs while reducing security risks. With IBM® InfoSphere® Guardium® v9 data security and privacy solutions, learn how IBM is helping organizations protect their sensitive data in real-time against internal and external threats by continuously monitoring access to heterogeneous databases including data warehouses, big data environments and file shares. Guardium enables organizations to create a single, enterprise-wide view of data security and compliance across the entire data infrastructure.

All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Forrester Research report: "Control and Protect Sensitive Information in the Era of Big Data."

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Who's Watching the Watchers? The Impact of Change and Configuration Management on Security and Compliance
A Dark Reading Webcast

Most enterprises focus their security strategies -- and their security monitoring practices -- on minimizing the risks posed by end users, customers, and/or business partners. But such strategies may overlook one huge source of risk: the IT department itself. Every day, IT staffers make changes to systems access controls, firewall settings, router port configurations, and many other administrative tools that may impact the security and compliance posture of the organization. How can enterprises be certain that these everyday changes don't leave their systems and data open to attack?

In this webcast, a top expert in security research and administration will discuss the common mistakes enterprises make in change and configuration management, and how to ensure that these mistakes don't lead to unexpected security compromises.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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How to Get Started with Your First Big Data Project
An InformationWeek Webcast

Your organization generates HUGE amounts of data and you want to use it to gain a competitive advantage, but you're just not sure how to get out of the gate on your first big data project. What is the right business problem to tackle first? Do you have the right skills? What project will deliver the most immediate ROI? What are the key technology considerations? How can you start employing one type of big data analytics capability and add others down the road?

Get answers to these questions and many more. Learn pragmatic approaches to your first big data project by way of our interactive panel with the authors of the newly published book titled, "Harness the Power of Big Data: The IBM Big Data Platform." The authors will share insights based on IBM's experience with, and lessons learned from, hundreds of real-world customer engagements.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The Myth of Systems of Record vs. Systems of Engagement
An InformationWeek Webcast

Many business people are familiar with Geoffrey Moore's dichotomy of "systems of record" and "systems of engagement." While this construct is a simple, clear way of categorizing software purpose and functionality, it doesn't reflect reality in most organizations. Every day, workers create business records within email, collaboration, and social networking applications. At the same time, they seek to communicate and work with others within the context of work processes supported by their organizations' back-end systems, including those used to manage content.

In this InformationWeek Webcast, Larry Hawes, principal at Dow Brook Advisory Services, will make the case for digital environments that provide the data and content, as well as the communication and collaboration tools, needed to perform specific tasks, while shielding most workers from the complexity associated with the capture and management of legal business records.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Case Study: How AdScience Gained Peak Performance and Linear Scale at a Low TCO
A Dr. Dobb's Journal Webcast

In this Webinar, you'll learn how AdScience:

• Optimized their database design to avoid a show stopping single point of failure
• Found and fixed inefficiencies that threatened to take their database down
• Increase end user history data by five times, while coming in under their processing speed goals
• Overcame their scaling challenge without the pain of sharding
• Assessed NoSQL and NewSQL and selected the best solution to meet their needs - and at a lower TCO

As a special bonus, all attendees will receive the white paper, "Driving the New Wave of High Performance Applications."

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Connecting IT Workload Automation to Business: Collaboration Reaps Big Benefits
An InformationWeek Webcast:

IT workload automation has turned into a team sport. Schedulers can't work alone anymore. They must work collaboratively with a variety of IT professionals such as application developers, database administrators, IT operators and even business users in order for workflows to be properly defined, scheduled and maintained. But how does that collaboration occur today? Traditionally, communication has been disjointed -- a mismatch of phone calls and emails that often add up to inefficient communications. In the end, it often takes a lot of iterative work to get to the finish line. However, it doesn't have to be this way.

In this webcast learn how you can:

• Create a collaborative work environment using BMC Control-M to simplify defining and maintaining workflows.
• Share your workflow definitions with constituents and let them modify or review as needed.
• Build shared knowledge and expertise as teams work together to define how to deliver needed services.
• Share the state and status of workflows with constituents and stakeholders as they execute.

Join BMC Software to see how you can easily streamline your workload automation and deliver IT and business services faster and more cost effectively.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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December 11th: Mobile Health: Opportunities and Obstacles

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

Platinum Sponsor: Thawte

December 11th: Mobile Health: Opportunities and Obstacles

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

Platinum Sponsor: Thawte

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Next Generation e-Commerce Strategies for B2B Sales and Marketing
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webcast to learn:

• How a consistent shopping experience can help boost sales
• To improve your customer's online b-to-b buying experience by offering relevant and personalized products and services
• About the best ways to close more sales using targeted promotions and online product recommendations
• How to increase revenue by extending into new sales channels, accelerating your quote-to-cash cycle, and responding faster to market changes
• To reduce errors and poor customer service by automating how your customers and partners buy from you

Monday, December 10, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Advanced Case Management: Helping Customers Help Themselves
An InformationWeek Webcast

By attending this webcast you will learn:

• About the many case management challenges that companies face today
• Why today's businesses require more insight, responsiveness and collaboration when it comes to handling exceptions than they ever did
• Best practices to help you close cases efficiently and with better results
• Ways that you can extract more value out of case management data to create a better outcome and avoid having the same issues crop up in the future
• How an advanced case management solution can help an organization be more responsive, closing cases faster and with fewer resources.
• How ACM support all information sources to provide a 360-degree view of the case -- while at the same time support consistent, multi-channel output including
correspondence, email, web, call center, text and others as customers demand

Friday, December 7, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Delivering High Quality Applications in WebSphere Environments through Service Virtualization
An InformationWeek Webcast

Companies that deliver mission critical applications on WebSphere are looking for ways to deliver the highest levels of quality while getting new offerings to market quickly. This can be challenging in SOA and composite application environments when critical dependent services are not available to be tested until late in the development cycle.

Many leading companies on the WebSphere middleware platform are turning to Service Virtualization as a way to address application complexity in order to maximize quality, reduce risk, and speed their time to market. Join this session to hear how industry leaders are employing Service Virtualization as an essential part of their quality management strategy.

For WebSphere stack and SOA applications, learn how to use IBM's Test Virtualization solution to realize:

• Better overall quality at lower cost
• On time delivery of software, everytime, with high quality, reducing risks
• Improved productivity with reduced test cycles times

Thursday, December 6, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Compliance: Centralized Controls, Reduced Risk
Integrating Virtual and Physical IT Controls to Support Enterprise Wide Compliance Programs
An InformationWeek Webcast

Diverse IT tools and platforms often result in siloed processes for management and security/compliance. But an emerging class of tools operates across disparate IT infrastructure to feed critical data to a central location, thereby automating governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities from a single dashboard.

Attend this webcast to learn the benefits of a centralized approach to configuration and compliance:

• Ensure better visibility into IT systems
• Exert controls that support cross-enterprise compliance, as opposed to error-prone manual processes and inefficient remediation
• How integration of EMC, RSA and VMware platforms facilitates a unified view of IT GRC

If you're responsible for security, compliance or overall IT strategy, this event will give you the insight you need to build a plan for unifying systems for bulletproof compliance.

Featured Speakers:

• Eric Bruno, Principal, Allure Technology, Inc.
• Becky Smith, Product Line Manager, Enterprise Management, vCM, VMware
• Hoc Phan, Product Management & Marketing, EMC

Thursday, December 6, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Enterprise Apps in the New Age of Mobility
An InformationWeek, SAP, and Dell Executive Event

Leaders from InformationWeek, SAP and Dell will discuss the future key technology and economic trends that will establish the transformational agenda for IT investments. InformationWeek will set the stage with their broad view of the IT landscape and how technologies such as cloud, mobile and social media will ignite new application functionality that can improve customer intimacy and capture important feedback for expanded opportunities and improvement. SAP will enhance the conversation with detailed use cases on its new technologies such in-memory analytics and mobility can work in an expanded enterprise business framework to reach new customers, reshape business processes and evolve to elite levels of business performance. Dell will then provide unique insight on how SAP applications can be transformed with new solutions for cloud computing, embedded analytics, mobility and application integration while reducing costs with solutions such application re-architecture and re-hosting.

New York, NY -- December 6, 2012

W Union Square
201 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003

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Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Business of Government
An IBM Perspective

Join Timothy Paydos, IBM and Jennifer A. Kerber, President, TechAmerica Foundation as they discuss how the government can extract enormous value from big data, for the benefit of all citizens. Discover how to combat the challenge of capturing, managing, and analyzing enormous data streams to extract relevant insights.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Developing a Mobile Nation...And delivering it faster with agile
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Our nation is one of people on the move, people who rely on mobile devices as their main access to the web and to government services. As technology has evolved to an any time, any place, any device value proposition, so have the expectations of citizens. Delivering government experiences over multiple channels requires anend to end approach to managing the complex systems and assuring the quick, comprehensive, and safe delivery of those services. The rapid evolution of new devices and capabilities in the mobile space leaves developers with an ever changing landscape of requirements and challenges, yet the pressure to deliver effective, quality apps quickly is more prevalent than ever. IBM's complete mobile development solution accelerates your time to value and provides development teams a scalable and structured approach to develop signature apps on multiple mobile device platforms, including the integration of legacy system capabilities.

Join this webcast to hear solutions for handling unique aspects of mobile development and delivery from the challenges of fragmentation, security, and the importance of the user experience to meeting requirements for multiple languages and standards, and back end integration of legacy systems. Learn about our new complete mobile development solution combining market leading solutions for multi-platform mobile development and application lifecycle management. IBM can help you take control of the development lifecycle and accelerate the delivery of high-quality mobile applications.

Watch the webcast to learn:

• How to take control of the development lifecycle and accelerate delivery of high quality mobile applications
• Gain a deeper understanding of the challenges of Federal mobile application development and hear solutions to meet requirements for multiple languages and standards, including the integration of back end legacy systems
• Learn about IBM's complete mobile development solution combining market leading solutions for multi-platform mobile development and application lifecycle management

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Time 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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WANs at the Breaking Point: How to Transform Your Network to an Intelligent WAN
A Network Computing Webcast

Today's enterprise networks are at the breaking point. The rising demands of mobility, big data, and the cloud have increased bandwidth demands, application needs and security risks, threatening to push networks to the brink. But strengthening your network for the future calls for moving beyond the traditional mindset of simply adding bandwidth. A truly Intelligent WAN takes a holistic approach: it uses bandwidth efficiently while securing data and providing tools for agile management and monitoring of applications to ensure a consistent and positive experience for end users.

In this Webcast you will learn about the key elements of an Intelligent WAN solution:

• Intelligent network connectivity and traffic routing
• Improved application availability and visibility
• Integrated network security
• Improved network performance

If you are concerned about the future of your network, you won't want to miss this opportunity to re-envision your network as an Intelligent WAN.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Moving application quality from good to great: Achieving competitive advantage through exceptional testing practices
An InformationWeek Webcast

Application complexity has created unprecedented challenges for quality management teams to test these composite applications and manage the sensitivity and proliferation of test data. Without a solid approach for fast, iterative testing, teams often find that this becomes a critical bottleneck that impedes the speed of delivery and overall application quality.

So what is the most efficient way to deliver new capabilities with agility while controlling costs?

In this webcast, you'll learn how test virtualization and test data management provide a powerful combination that accelerates iterative testing cycles by simulating dependent services and enabling the use of right-sized test databases to effectively protect confidential data.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Balancing The Use Of Collected Data With Respecting Privacy
An InformationWeek Webcast

It is a balancing act and your clients expect you to make the correct decision and “do the right thing” 100% of the time regarding their personally identifiable information (PII).

It does not matter how large or well known your company may or may not be. Likewise, it does not matter what products or services you offer. If you are collecting and storing your client or potential client data you will -- like so many others -- be held responsible if you violate their trust.

Please join Adam Sand, Ancestry's Legal Counsel, and Joanne Furtsch, TRUSTe's Director of Product Policy, as they share their expertise, tips and tools on how you can proactively protect your client personal information, build trust among clients, and prevent your organization from data mishaps.

Attend this webcast to learn about best practices and how to incorporate Privacy by Design Principles for building data privacy:

• Collection limitation and use minimization: Assess how much data you really need to collect in order to grow your business and the purposes for collecting it.
• Access and storage: Who should be authorized to access personally identifiable information (PII) and how long should data be retained.
• Onward transfer: Additional legal requirements pertaining to the transferring of data crossing international boundaries and understanding the obligation associated with collected data
• Actual practices: Get the ultimate tips and tools about building a long-term plan on managing sensitive client data and avoid legal mishaps.

If your job function is Marketing, Online Marketing, Privacy and/or Risk Management, IT Information Services, or others that are relevant to data collection, this webcast is a must-attend event. You shall learn the key ingredients, enabling you to be more effective in your daily operations.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Curing your Time to Market Blues for Software Delivery
An InformationWeek Webcast

Feel like your software delivery team gets productivity paralysis? Join our support group and hear Carolyn Pampino, a certified "ALMopath" (and IBM IT Software Delivery strategist), share how to recognize the signs and symptoms that your team may be suffering from a treatable "disorder." Learn about the "treatments" available through effective application lifecycle management (ALM). There is hope and we can help!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Measuring Software Quality: Why Your Metrics Don't Make the Grade
An InformationWeek Webcast

The two things companies measure more often than anything else are software quality and customer satisfaction. Unfortunately, many software companies are using the wrong metrics, and potentially missing the point when it comes to ensuring that their software meets the standards that define quality, and result in customer satisfaction.

In this presentation, you'll learn how the measures and metrics commonly utilized by leading software producers are failing to provide practical, meaningful and actionable data for organizations to improve their products and impact customer satisfaction.

In addition, you'll hear how the most successful companies are focusing on two primary metrics that have proven to be the most powerful and effective for quality analysis. Join us and find out how to update and enhance your quality measures and metrics so that defects can be predicted before they occur, identified and measured when they do occur, and ultimately eliminated to push your customer satisfaction to the highest possible levels.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Sophisticated Attacks -- A how to guide for keeping your organization secure
An Dark Reading Webcast

Join us as Phil Kibler, Global Director of Professional Security Services -- IBM Security Services, discusses best practices you can use to deal with sophisticated attacks. As a bonus, attendees to the live event will be sent a complimentary copy of the Forrester Technology Adoption Profile paper "Security Intelligence Can Deliver Value Beyond Expectations And Needs To Be Prioritized."

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Cyber Attacks: Are You Really Safe?
A Dark Reading Webcast

Are you ready for the coming Cyber War? Attacks against financial institutions and other critical commercial institutions are just the beginning. The big question is how are they doing it? These sophisticated cyber attacks are resource-intensive for cyber criminals. So, they are now using advanced evasion techniques (AETs) to protect their investment and stay under the radar. And recent testing has proven that most network security is unable to stop AETs.

Join us for the informative session to learn the following:

• What is an AET attack and how does it differ from advanced persistent threat attacks
• How AETs work against even the best network security.
• What you can do now to add protection to your current security
• See a demonstration of an AET live, bypassing state-of-the-art firewall and IPS technology

All attendees will receive a link to download a free, ready-made evasion test lab to use in their own environments.

About Evasion Techniques: An evasion is an attempt to disguise an attack, in order to avoid detection and blocking by network security systems. Evasions can be used in normal requests, as well as in attacks. An attack consists of a delivery mechanism (e.g. a buffer overflow) and a malicious payload (e.g. code that is executed by the victim computer). An attack is considered successful if the delivery mechanism succeeds in gaining access to the victim computer, regardless of whether the security device detects or responds to the attack.

Monday, December 3, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Understanding IBM's Strategic Direction on B2B and Transformation
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webcast to learn:

• Why B2B integration is evolving from a strategic IT infrastructure to a smarter commerce business innovation enabler
• How to synchronize across trading partners using universal transformation that supports best-of-breed industry standards
• Ways to enable optimized, dynamic, end-to-end information flows by ensuring B2B integration capabilities are well-integrated with enterprise service bus (ESB)
• How to ensure responsiveness to business needs and consistent transformation with Sterling B2B Integrator and WebSphere Transformation Extender
• Ways to connect, automate and collaborate more effectively and synchronize critical information flows throughout your extended business community

Monday, December 3, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile Keeps Getting Better -- Hear about the new Alpha
An InformationWeek Webcast

WebSphere Application Server's Liberty Profile just got better with the V8.5 Alpha released in October this year. In addition to all the features and cool behaviours in version 8.5 -small footprint, simple configuration, fast start time, fit for purpose and highly dynamic runtime -- the new Alpha adds previews of the exciting new capabilities being developed within IBM right now.

This webcast will provide an insight into the function and architecture of the Liberty profile as well as a live demo showing how easy it is to use for application development. Join us and find out how WAS Liberty 8.5 Alpha improves the developer experience and developer productivity.

Monday, December 3, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Servers That Maximize Flexibility, Leverage The Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Listen in to hear about IBM's most recent announcements around IBM PureFlex System and Flex System enhancements and participate in a live Q&A. Deployment and management of servers can be a time-sucking task that paralyzes IT productivity and consumes too much technology budget at the expense of strategic initiatives.

Mid-size businesses need more integrated systems that are easily administered to enable IT to focus on delivering innovative solutions.

Attend this webcast to learn how IBM's PureFlex Systems allow IT to:

• Leverage the cloud for ease of administration and tight cost controls
• Set up, maintain and upgrade servers efficiently
• Gain the power of integrated systems with the simplicity of hardware appliances
• Leveraging this robust technology, alongside IBM's financing options for mid-size companies, can keep IT focused on developing and optimizing systems, rather than maintaining servers.

Friday, November 30, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Preventing Costly Network Outages in Today's Mobile and Cloud World
An InformationWeek Webcast

Do a quick Google search on "network outages" and you'll see how they have affected and continue to affect companies of all shapes and sizes. These stories illustrate how network outages hit the business hard; lost revenue, impacts to brand, customer satisfaction, employee productivity losses…this list goes on.

Why are these network outages happening more frequently?

That answer is rather simple. The world has changed and everyone needs to connect ANY TIME, ANY WHERE, ANY PLACE from ANY DEVICE. Enterprise Networks are no longer static; changing to support cloud, virtualization, mobility, increased data volume, wireless connectivity, video conferencing, VOIP, cameras, and other non-IT devices. This phenomenon is putting great pressure on the network.

So, how do you prevent your network from going down? You must have Visibility, Control and Automation over the network. And how do you do that? Attend this webcast roundtable discussion to learn how.

Friday, November 30, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET

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New Brew -- Model Based Systems Engineering and Agile methodologies at Alenia -- a case study
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

How do you mix Model Based Systems Engineering and Agile? Most aerospace and defense companies are exploring this mix. A&D programs are large and complex--how do you take practices that started with small teams and scale them up? Bruno Di Giandomenico, of Alenia Aeromacchi describes in this webcast the hurdles a project at Alenia faced and the approach they took to overcome them, and how the IBM Solution for Systems and Software Engineering helped the team monitor best practices and automate tasks, allowing them to focus on value added business activities.

In this webcast, you will learn how the team:

• Blended best practices from Harmony SE and IBM Disciplined Agile delivery
• Leveraged agile concepts such as epic and user stories
• Applied principles of dynamic planning, modelling, continuous feedback
• Implemented a collaborative engineering platform based on IBM Rational products(DOORS, Rational Team Concert, Rhapsody, Rational Quality Manager).

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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E-Business Imperatives: Collaboration and Customer Focus Across Channels
An InformationWeek Webcast

Learn about the new strategic imperatives for e-business, and find out leading organizations are encouraging teamwork in order meet future customer expectations—and competitive threats.

You'll learn:

• How the role of e-business leaders is evolving—and why they're essential to the transition to a multichannel, digitally fluent organization
• Why e-business leaders recognize the disruptive force of technology—but don't agree with IT that their organizations are leveraging it effectively
• Ways e-business leaders can educate others in their organization about their vision for a multi-channel customer experience.

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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

• Denver, CO - November 8th
• Minneapolis, MN - November 13th
• Houston, TX - November 15th
• San Francisco, CA - November 29th

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Introducing the next generation tool for managing requirements in complex systems -- IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

The ability to effectively manage requirements is more important than ever.

Product development teams are being asked to deliver solutions that are more complex than ever. The potential upside and downside outcomes at stake for the business are greater than ever, and the tolerance for the inefficient use of limited human resources is lower than ever.

Simply put, product development teams have to manage requirements right every time, all the time.

If you're involved in managing requirements for complex and/or embedded systems, we invite you to join a special webcast about IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation (DOORS NG) -- a new, powerful, unique solution for requirements management, collaboration, planning, reuse, and lifecycle traceability based on the Jazz Collaborative Lifecycle Management platform.

Richard Watson, Senior Product Manager for Requirements Management at IBM, will walk you through DOORS NG's capabilities and clearly explain how it can dramatically enhance your ability to effectively manage requirements for complex systems.

Key takeaway's from this interactive, one hour webcast will include:

• See how DOORS NG optimizes requirements collaboration, planning, reuse and lifecycle traceability
• Discover the value of leveraging the Jazz Collaborative Lifecycle Management platform
• Learn about coexistence and interoperability between DOORS NG and DOORS 9
• Get answers to your personal questions about requirements management best practices and IBM's solutions

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Will Your State Deliver a Modernized Medicaid Program by 2014?
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

By January of 2014 ALL State Medicaid Management Information Systems will be required to meet defined standards and conditions in terms of timeliness, accuracy, efficiency and integrity. States that meet these requirements will qualify for enhanced federal matching rates -- 90% of the development/deployment cost, and 75% of the cost going forward.

As part of this mandate States are required to implement a modular, flexible approach to systems development to ensure they build a seamless customer experience.

Attend this webcast to learn how Deloitte and IBM are partnering to develop a rules-based solution for a New England State to enable them to meet these requirements. As a result, the State will be able to manage their business rules in a natural language format separate from their IT systems, sustaining greater flexibility and responsiveness.

Key topics covered:

• The implications of the mandate on your State’s current system
• How Deloitte and IBM scoped the issues and developed a strategy to solve the problem
• How a flexible decision management solution can be applied in your state to ensure you are ready by 2014

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Meet the Experts in Operational Decision Management
An InformationWeek and IBM Workshop

• November 7th - Chicago, IL
• November 13th - Washington, DC
• November 28th - New York, NY

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The Latest in Advanced Product Personalization
An InformationWeek Webcast

Are you doing product personalization the old way? Many line-of-business users still have to work with multiple applications or systems in order to tailor and deliver products to meet specific customer needs. In doing so, customer experience and speed to market are compromised.

Attend this webcast to learn about the only available product personalization capability that enables business users to leverage a single interface to manage core products with advanced business rules to drive personalization initiatives. IBM experts in Master Data Management and Operational Decision Management will show how you can decrease the number of products managed by up to 90% and drive the personalization of those products to specific customers, markets and channels.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET


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Charting the Course to a Customer-Centric Business
An InformationWeek Webcast

Premier healthcare alliance is at the forefront of efforts to improve the health of populations across the country. Through the people, data and collaborative power among its alliance of more than 2,600 hospitals and 86,000+ other healthcare sites, Premier is connecting healthcare organizations across the country in a meaningful, powerful way. Specifically, Premier has combined the members' data with a powerful platform from IBM that allows members to see insights, mine best practices, collaborate together and transform on an unprecedented scale. Join this webinar featuring Randy Thomas, Vice President Portfolio Strategy and Design, Premier healthcare alliance and you will learn how:

• IBM and Premier are developing a health information platform that integrates clinical, administrative, and financial data for a complete view of the patient
• The first of its kind data-sharing model propels hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare sites in performance improvement and accountable care

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00pm ET


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Bring the power of virtualization to mission critical application delivery
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Every agency is under pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increasing the amount of development. Legal and regulatory changes, mobile directives, enterprise modernization, and technology upgrades have to be implemented to meet end user and constituent needs. Agencies can meet these new challenges with fewer resources if they eliminate the not-so-hidden cost escalators. Correct defects earlier, allow development and testing to work in parallel, get rid of delays and rework caused by components not ready for testing, and lower the cost and labor associated with the development and test environments.

Join us to learn how service virtualization can "bend the cost curve" with more agility and less risk. The power of virtualization has moved from the data center floor to mission delivery with new service virtualization reduce the cost of developing and sustaining the complex, integrated systems that are critical for agency programs and operations.

Monday, November 19, 2012 -- Time 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Extreme Performance in the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webcast to learn how Oracle's next-generation database machine, Oracle Exadata X3, combines massive memory and low-cost disks to deliver the highest performance at the lowest cost, making it the ideal database platform for the varied and unpredictable workloads of cloud computing. Available in multiple expandable configurations, it also allows you to start small and grow your cloud as needed.

Thursday, November 15, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Charting the Course to a Customer-Centric Business
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast reveals the groundbreaking results of a Forrester survey of over 400 business and technology leaders who are succeeding in challenging times. Find out how organizations are making customer focus a strategic imperative by getting ahead of rapidly changing business needs, collaborating across roles, and adopting flexible technology solutions.

Across every industry, customers are changing the dynamics of business--they're demanding more, their demographics are shifting, and they're using technology like never before. Business leaders are also dealing with growing economic uncertainty, tougher competition from emerging markets, increasing costs throughout the supply chain, and inflexible, overloaded IT systems. It's harder than ever to survive -- much less thrive.

Register for this webcast to learn:

• How smarter organizations are measuring and understanding customer interactions, satisfaction, and cross-channel behaviors
• Why successful leaders are promoting collaboration across departments and roles, and how to break down silos in your own business
• How flexibility and adaptability is vital to future success, and how technology can enable a customer-centric approach

Thursday, November 15, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Making Nurses Mobile: Why and How?
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast

Nurses are at the center of a communications hub that includes patients, doctors, family members, pharmacists and more. Those communications are critical to a facility's operations, staff morale and patient outcomes. Empowering nurses with better, timelier information wherever they are delivering care is vital in any kind of healthcare facility.

This Webinar will help IT and medical professionals learn about the reasons healthcare providers (hospitals, assisted living, nursing homes) are deploying nurse mobility solutions from an industry expert, as well as hear a firsthand account from a hospital that has recently reaped the benefits of deploying a nurse mobility solution.

Thursday, November 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Implementing agile methods for safety-critical systems development -- Episode 1: Analysis-oriented practices
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

Agile methods have a reputation for being fast and adaptive and can enhance both quality and team productivity. For these reasons they are attractive to software teams in many different domains—including safety-critical systems development. But how can agile methods be adapted to meet the needs of such a challenging domain?

In this webcast, IBM Rational Chief Evangelist, Bruce Powel Douglass discusses the implementation of analysis-related agile practices to safety-critical development.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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A Tipping Point in the Battle Against Cyber Attacks
A Dark Reading Webcast

Cyber threats are outpacing the expertise of today's IT security experts and the ability of their organizations to launch counter measures against hackers and other cyber criminals. Organizations are lagging behind in their ability to deal with the aggressive and sophisticated tactics of cyber criminals.

This webcast will present the results of the study, 'Cyber Security on the Offense: A Study of IT Security Experts'. As is revealed in the findings, most IT security experts realize their organizations are ill-equipped in dealing with the aggressive and sophisticated tactics of cyber criminals. The data that is evidenced potentially signals a watershed moment in the battle against cyber-attacks.

After viewing this webinar attendees will have:

• Information that can help their organization make the business case for adopting a more proactive approach to the advanced persistent threats facing them
• An understanding of major threats and barriers to achieving a proactive security posture
• Strategic and smart counter techniques critical to meeting challenges of an increasingly risky security terrain

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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IBM WebSphere MQ Fall Update and Technical Panel Q&A
An InformationWeek Webcast

On November 14th you will learn what is new in IBM WebSphere MQ. In this live webcast our panel of experts will answer your questions about the hottest new WebSphere MQ features and enhancements, including mobile, telemetry, security and WebSphere MQ Advanced. Join us for a panel discussion followed by a Q&A session. Topics covered in the webcast will include:

1. Introduction to WebSphere MQ Advanced, announced October 9th
2. Latest news about WebSphere MQ Telemetry, Worklight, UIF and Mobile
3. The value of upgrading and what it means to your business
4. Learn how IBM has simplified securing the messaging layer of IBM WebSphere MQ for administrators and developers
5. Questions submitted by the audience

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Scaling to Olympic Proportions
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Jem Rayfield from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), as he joins MarkLogic's Chief Content Specialist Diane Burley and her colleague Matt Turner, CTO of Media, to talk about what it took to migrate the BBC Future Media department from a relational content model and static publishing framework to a fully dynamic semantic publishing (DSP) architecture. The dynamic semantic publishing architecture underpins the recently re-launched and refreshed BBC Sports site and indeed the BBC's Olympics 2012 online content.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT/ 11:00 AM ET/ 4:00 PM UK

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Deliver Dynamic Efficiency with Power Systems™ Cloud Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast

As enterprises build and implement their cloud strategy, it is critical that their virtualization infrastructure provide the scalability and security needed to support the workloads they want to run in the cloud. It is also critical that they get an easy to use self-service interface that enables them to deliver services to their customers faster and at reduced IT costs.

PowerVM® offers a secure and resilient virtualization environment, built on the advanced RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) features, extreme scalability and leadership performance of the IBM Power Systems™ platform. Couple that with the ease of use of IBM SmartCloud™ Entry for Power Systems and data center managers are able to quickly deploy self-service provisioning of virtualized workloads with a simple interface that provides oversight while increasing IT efficiency and lowering administration costs.

Join us to learn more about the Power Systems™ virtualization and cloud solutions that can help your enterprise reach the clouds.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Abstraction Key to Powerful and Economical Storage
An InformationWeek Webcast

Many IT teams are looking to make like Google and Amazon and imbue commodity hardware with enterprise-grade SAN features. Even better, this architecture allows organizations to pull cloud-based storage services into the mix where they make sense and scale both up and out in a way we never could with monolithic SANs. The sticking point: management. In this InformationWeek Webcast, we'll discuss how to stitch disparate assets into a powerful, unified storage infrastructure.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Data-Centric Security In A Mobile World
An InformationWeek Webcast

Employees will love you for letting them access the enterprise network and data with their personal mobile devices. But putting valuable company data on handheld devices opens up a gaping hole for data loss. In a recent InformationWeek survey, nearly 90% of IT pros said they were concerned about data loss due to lost or stolen phones and tablets.

In this Webcast, consultant Michael Davis will discuss the results of our InformationWeek 2012 Mobile Security Survey and outline the steps necessary to protect data on mobile devices: a unified policy; enforcement of the rules through use of technology such as encryption of sensitive assets; and education of end users and IT pros.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Protecting High-Value Data in a Post-Firewall World
An InformationWeek Webcast

The days of businesses carrying out their operations with relative impunity behind an impregnable network firewall are over -- if they ever really existed at all. Sophisticated cyber attacks such SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) can quickly exploit Web vulnerabilities while Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) can immediately render a Website or network completely unavailable. Traditional network-level defenses at least provided the illusion of security, until very recently. Unfortunately, even that false sense of security has been punctured as many of our nation's most respected private and public institutions -- including a number of the most heavily fortified ".gov" and ".mil" domains -- have suffered massive data breaches.

The question has to be asked: If these blue-chip organizations are unable to defend against today's increasingly sophisticated attacks, what hope is there for smaller companies and organizations that are still relying on conventional network firewalls? The answer lies in an entirely new approach to security in the post-firewall era -- one that relies on protecting our most important data assets "where they live," which is within the specific applications that collect, store, and serve our precious data resources.

In this live webcast, brought to you by InformationWeek and Imperva, you'll hear from world-class experts in the field of cybersecurity, discussing how organizations of all sizes can effectively and affordable protect themselves and their high-value data from constantly-evolving attacks in today's post-firewall world.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Which data compression technology should you choose? An Edison perspective
An InformationWeek Webcast

Addressing the challenges of tremendous data growth is a constant battle for CIOs, data center managers and storage administrators. Data compression technologies can help you leverage your physical storage and manage your storage growth.

Come hear the research findings by Edison Group where they evaluated leading compression technologies involving primary active data in a production environment, as opposed to their applicability for specific, dedicated storage purposes.

You'll also hear how IBM® Real-time Compression™ (RtC) is the industry leader and how RtC works "under the covers" to deliver outstanding storage efficiency to production applications with no performance degradation.

Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the Edison white paper, "Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems"

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Five IT risk management practices of companies with excellent reputations
A Dark Reading Webcast

Learn the best practices of the companies with the best reputations and how security plays a key role. In this webcast you will hear about results from the 2012 IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study and the five key success factors these companies share, which you can reproduce in your organization for better reputational performance. In addition you will hear the IBM point of view on the ten essential practices to ensure your security strategy will support your reputation. To find out what they are, register for and attend this webinar.

Monday, November 12, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Simplifying and Shortening the IT Lifecycle with integrated systems
An InformationWeek Webcast

Historically, both application development and IT operations teams have relied on manual, fragmented management processes and tools that often slow time to market, result in lost revenue and unexpected downtime, and create employee productivity problems. Join Kyle Brown, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Lead PureSystems' Consultant and Mary Johnston Turner, Research Vice President for Enterprise System Management Software at the IDC; as they discuss the market dynamics for integrated systems, the economics of adopting these systems, and why expert integrated systems have the potential to radically simplify the IT lifecycle, improve application performance, and accelerate time to value.

Attend this live webcast to learn what converged or integrated systems are and how they can help address the most pressing needs of IT and the business.

Thursday, November 8, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Best Practices for Optimizing UC&C Strategies
An Information Week Webcast

Implementing a Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) solution can transform the way teams work and help businesses thrive. Recent research suggests that in order to achieve the highest return on this investment, companies must also employ a collaboration strategy that includes integrated solutions, supporting services and best practices. Join SMART Technologies and their featured speakers for this informative webinar to learn more about.

Thursday, November 8, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Delivering Breakthrough Results in Financial Services Using Business Analytics
An InformationWeek and Wipro Executive Dinner

• November 8, 2012 - New York - Le Bernardin

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Insurance & Technology 14th Annual Executive Summit
November 4-7, 2012
Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA

The Age of Consumerization: Competing on Insight, Speed & Trust
Gain insider access to information about the strategies and technologies that will transform insurance as we know it.

At this 14th Annual Executive Summit an exclusive group of senior-level insurance company executives to network, make valuable new contacts, and learn about industry-leading approaches to channel profitability, operational and transaction excellence, and organizational effectiveness.

For more information and to register, click here.

*Registration for this event is open to senior-level IT executives within the insurance industry. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.


There is a Choice for Enterprise Virtualization: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is available today on Dell PowerEdge Servers
An InformationWeek Webcast

In the enterprise virtualization space, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) has emerged as a viable alternative with a new approach to implement and manage virtualization. RHEV is now available on the Dell PowerEdge Server line allowing customers to take control of their virtualization environments. Watch this exclusive webcast and hear why Dell is offering RHEV, and how you can leverage the new capabilities that can deliver improved scalability, performance and cost savings to your business.

In this webcast you'll hear Dell and Red Hat discuss:

• The Benefits of Open Source Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• How the features of Dell's PowerEdge Servers are optimized for RHEV virtualization and the cloud
• The cost savings your business can achieve by considering open source virtualization alternatives
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) features Today (3.0) and Tomorrow (3.1)

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET:
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Optimizing and Securing Mobile Access to Enterprise Services
An InformationWeek and IBM Mobile Access Workshop

• October 30th - Toronto, ON
• November 15th - Boston, MA

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Making Smarter Decisions: Orchestrating Business Insights from Device-Generated Data
An InformationWeek and Wipro Executive Dinner & Wine Pairing

• October 30, 2012 - Santa Clara, CA

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Engagement Banking: Building Relationships Through Online and Mobile
A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast

Consumers are now in control when it comes to their banking services, with the proliferation of touch points that involve their smart phones, apps, social media -- and they demand superior online and mobile banking experiences. An exemplary customer experience goes far beyond a merely pleasant transaction. Today, customers expect their mobile and online banking experiences to be fast, easy and secure -- and to provide experiences that please banking customers is easier said than done.
In this free, 60-minute Webcast, you'll hear about the key trends driving engagement banking, learn the best practices for online and mobile banking and gain insight into the major challenges banks face when upgrading their online and mobile channels. You'll learn about:

• Online and mobile banking strategies focused on user experience.
• Best practices in implementing a new multi-channel system.
• What works and what doesn't work in mobile and online banking.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The Social Enterprise of Yesterday
An InformationWeek Webcast

Over the past five years social media has dominated the enterprise and confronted every department from marketing and IT support to the executive office. This live event will explore how various functional departments in the social enterprise can drive collaboration and customer engagement.

During this session, you will learn about:

1. The top 5 public social tools, examining real life examples of organizations using these tools for IT support
2. The technologies that have divided knowledge workers into a parallel universe of introverted, digital, frictionless sharing
3. The shift from social media 2007 to social media 2012 and the way forward

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

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Getting Started With Big Data
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Act on Big Data. In this webcast, InformationWeek Government will help government IT professionals understand the steps required to support data volumes that are a thousand times bigger than yesterday's databases, and to apply that data to improve government operations and offer new public services.

Agencies must develop a strategy, and put the appropriate systems and processes into place, to fully exploit the Big Data opportunity. Register Now to reserve a seat!

Thursday, October 25, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Smarter Enterprises Need Smarter Storage
An InformationWeek Webcast

This session presents a brief overview of IBM Smarter Storage for the enterprise with a focus on new high-end disk and Virtual Tape solutions.

It will take you through the recent enhancements announced earlier this month, highlighting how the new capabilities can address the requirements of your mission-critical applications, as well as your evolving business analytics, and cloud initiatives. Register now.

All live attendees will get the independent Clipper Group Report "When Infrastructure Really Matters -- A Focus on High-End Storage" free! Reserve your seat today!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Confessions of a CTO: 7 Dos and Don'ts for Bringing Your Enterprise Apps to the iPad
An InformationWeek Webcast

Your employees have their own iPads -- now they want to access enterprise applications. How should IT help? Despite obvious positives, there are some big gotchas to overcome to make enterprise mobility a reality -- security, cost, and performance to name a few.

Attend this live webcast to hear straight talk from IT veteran Stephen Vilke, a current CTO and former CIO, on decisions that IT must make today on mobile device and data security, cost-effective application delivery, and trade-offs around user experience. Hear how to implement a BYOD strategy and handle the rapid pace of change in mobile adoption, while avoiding the big mistakes.

Stephen will offer no-holds-barred commentary about the dos and don'ts of bringing your existing applications to tablets like the iPad. This webcast will outline why saying "yes" to tablet usage is not simple, but very possible with the right set of strategic choices. Some of the issues Stephen will cover include:

• How to use the lessons enterprises learned (good and bad) from managing laptops for mobility
• How mobile user experience, if done right, can drastically decrease support costs
• How perfect is the enemy of done, and what to do about it when mobilizing enterprise applications
• What is the "killer app" for enterprise mobility, and how can IT deliver it?

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Intelligent Capture: Better Service Starts with a Better Process
An InformationWeek Webcast

The numbers speak for themselves. Fifteen petabytes of new information generated every day, much of it originating on paper. More than 80 percent of data in the average enterprise is "unstructured," meaning it doesn't move easily into business systems and workflow applications. Every business knows the feeling of being trapped in a holding pattern until critical information that exists on paper or as email, fax, or PDF, can be extracted and delivered into their enterprise information systems, such as an ERP or ECM. That holding pattern can feel like an eternity given the long journey from remote offices to central imaging centers, and the laborious process of manually keying critical data from documents into business applications.

A new breed of distributed document capture software has arrived that can put an end to these problems. At the same time it resolves a number of other issues -- such as document loss, privacy leaks and unnecessary expense -- that arise from shipping documents from distributed locations to a central processing center. In this webinar hosted by Lexmark International's Keith Jones, vice president of worldwide product marketing, and InformationWeek Contributing Editor Jennifer Zaino, you'll discover how data-driven business processes are accelerated by capturing documents at the point of service, and immediately transforming data into actionable information with intelligent capture technology.

Join us for this webinar to discuss:

• Why quality of indexing remains an issue with the central capture model.
• How most businesses already have in place the foundation technology for beginning a distributed capture initiative across their locations.
• What you must do to move beyond automated scanning and routing of documents to automatically processing them.
• The impact of Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture solutions on a wide range of processes, from accounts payable to loans and claim processing to employee onboarding.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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SAP Financial Services Forum North America
A SAP Financial Services Forum North America, Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, and Insurance & Technology Forum

At the SAP Financial Services Forum North America, Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, and Insurance & Technology will be hosting three Breakout Sessions in Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. Attendees will discuss the hottest issues in each industry, as well as innovation case studies, presented by the financial services executives who made them happen. These sessions will provide a cohesive outline of trends and resources that can ensure the future success of your company.

Attend for an opportunity to network with your peers, industry experts, and technology gurus, and gain actionable insight into: The mobile and social revolutions that are enabling entirely new financial services product categories and revenue streams The rapid customer service innovations and new business models occurring in the world's emerging financial markets and their applicability to your business.

The characteristics of a next-gen Financial Institution and what it will take to become one Harnessing real-time Big Data in ways that will enable you to anticipate risks and seize opportunities before your competition.

• Wednesday, October 23, 2012
  Ritz-Carlton Battery Park
  2 West Street
  New York City, NY 10004
  
  

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Exposing the Money Behind Malware
A Dark Reading Webcast

Today's cybercriminals are driven by one thing -- money. They use many techniques to sell products, steal login details, install ransomware and more to monetize their activity. The bad guys must take many steps for the entire process to work and every step along the way is another opportunity for us to break the chain.

Join Chet Wisniewski, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos to learn about latest threats and how these criminals are making money by compromising your computer and data. He'll discuss:

• How cybercrime works
• The money behind the malware
• The cybercriminals network
• Threat protection strategies

Register today and be prepared for tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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No more juggling: Build your security strategy on the data-centric approach
An InformationWeek Webcast

Do you find it increasingly difficult to secure the sensitive, valuable data within your enterprise, especially with the rise of new technologies such as cloud and mobility? Is your current strategy to reducing risk and meeting compliance requirements too much to juggle?

The good news is you can regain control over this ineffective, juggling act. A unified strategy that protects the most sensitive asset you have, your data, can reduce your risk, and improve how your business performs.

In this webinar, we will discuss why a data-centric security approach should be the foundation of your security strategy, and what you need to streamline your data security approach.

You will hear experts discuss:

• The top challenges facing enterprises in securing data in today's highly fluid and interconnected world
• How perimeter-based defenses leave security gaps as data travels through your organization, across different systems, applications, devices and users
• How a data-centric approach to security offers the most effective way to protect your corporate and customer data
• Case studies of enterprises who have implemented data-centric security and the results they have enjoyed

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Maximizing Value Through Enterprise Architecture
A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast

Post financial crisis, financial institutions have to focus more intensely than ever on holding down costs and return on investment. It's never been more critical for banks to optimize their business processes and gain efficiencies wherever possible. However, many banking organizations still struggle to gain an enterprise-wide view of customers, channels and risks. This not only hampers IT strategy, it also creates significant obstacles toward achieving regulatory compliance and providing a quality customer experience.

To be able to complete effectively, to leverage existing IT investments, and to make the most of human and financial resources, financial institutions must develop flexible enterprise architectures that facilitate efficiency and responsiveness, and also provide the foundation for a more effective, strategic use of integrated information assets.

In this free, one-hour Webcast presented by Bank Systems & Technology and sponsored by Wipro, you'll learn about the benefits of designing an agile enterprise, get valuable recommendations on how banks can leverage their enterprise architectures to innovate, to optimize assets and processes, and transform their IT organizations.

You will gain insights into:

• Key business drivers for transformation in banking.
• Banking platform of the future.
• Transfer to transformation architecture as the enterprise architecture function as a key element of change in banking.

Thursday, October 18, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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The VOIP Impact: Get Your Business Cloud-Ready!
An InformationWeek and MetTel Executive Panel and Simulcast

Convergence is a hot topic for good reasons. As companies continue to virtualize more of their data centers, convergence offers a path to better performance and faster responses to business needs via a simplified, automated environment.

Yet the decisions organizations make about how to pursue convergence can have short and long-term effects on budgets and the ability of the infrastructure to adapt to changing requirements in the years to come. Join us for an in-depth exploration of tips and techniques for taking advantage of convergence's promise today while building in flexibility for the future.

You'll learn:

• What common pressures convergence addresses
• How a converged data center can reduce costs, complexity and labor-intensive manual tasks
• Key technology components of a converged data center
• The importance of an open, modular approach to building a converged data center

• Tuesday, October 18, 2012
  Empire Hotel
  44 West 63rd Street
  New York, NY 10023
  212-265-7400
  
  

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InformationWeek GovCloud 2012
Building Secure, On-Demand Clouds for Government

GovCloud 2012 is a one-day event that will bring together IT professionals in federal, state, and local government to discuss, explore and develop a deeper understanding of the options available today. IT leaders in government and other experts will share best practices and their advice on how to make the right choices. Join us for this insightful gathering of government IT executives to hear first-hand about the challenges and opportunities of cloud computing.

For more information and to register, click here.
October 17, 2012 -- Washington, DC

*Registration is limited to government technology executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.


Delivering Mobile Applications Faster with Agile
An InformationWeek Webcast

With the explosion in mobile, businesses are embracing mobile applications as a strategic initiative. At the same time, the mobile space is moving quickly with new devices and capabilities being introduced at rapid pace. Development organizations face the twin challenges of fast time-to-market requirements and at the same time delivering apps that delight users and meet business objectives.

This session will discuss the special characteristics of the mobile application development lifecycle and the challenges that they introduce, such as fragmentation, security concerns and importance of great user-experience. Then we will explore the best practices and capabilities from IBM that address these challenges. We will also introduce the "5 ALM Imperatives" that are crucial for you to take control of your development process and accelerate delivery of high quality mobile applications.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 -- Time: 11:00am PT/ 2:00pm ET

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Solvency at Risk: Outdated technology failing the buy-side
A Wall Street & Technology Webcast

What does your firm own? What are your portfolios worth? How big is your exposure? Answers to these questions are key to managing your firm's solvency. However when 56% of the North American buy-side lack confidence in their current accounting systems; 30% admit it would take days or weeks to calculate exposure across all holdings; 40% concede investments decisions are made using poor quality data; it's time to ask if outdated technology is failing the buy-side.

Join us for this 60 minute webinar and gain insight on:

• The impact of decentralized position-keeping on a firm's solvency
• Regulatory pressure mandating changes on data accessibility and reporting
• What constitutes best-in-class technology to manage solvency
• The business case for centralizing position-keeping in your firms' accounting system

Thursday, October 11, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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Big Data in the Automotive Industry: Driving New Ideas from Information
A Wipro and InformationWeek Executive Roundtable and High-Performance Professional Driving Experience

In this executive roundtable, which will be followed by an adrenaline-pumping professional driving class featuring high-performance cars, join InformationWeek and Wipro to discuss:

• How to gain better traction in the creation, management, and analysis of both structured and unstructured corporate data
• Leveraging cloud computing and virtualization to maximize both existing investments in enterprise systems and new data sources
• Gaining a competitive advantage with better visibility across your entire enterprise and throughout your supply chain
• A better understanding of the business benefits of analyzing Big Data
• What's needed to ensure security and trust in the access and retrieval of valuable customer information

• Thursday, October 11, 2012
  Michigan International Speedway
  12626 U.S. Highway 12
  Brooklyn, MI 49230-9068
  (517) 592-6666
  
  

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DataPower Customer Success Stories From Cognizant's Center of Excellence
An InformationWeek Webcast

Mobile and cloud integration are key to reaching new markets and customers.
Attend this webcast as Cognizant shares DataPower customer-success stories highlighting cost-effective initiatives.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Strategies for Achieving Application Availability in the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

As the Internet and computing have become ubiquitous over the past 25 years, there is an expectation by customers of always-on service. Businesses compete based on meeting and exceeding customer expectations, and if those expectations are shattered, customers may choose to do business with the competition, affecting revenue and corporate profit as well as incurring unnecessary costs such as regulatory fines or lawsuits. As a result, the heart of most businesses -- the most critical business processes such as those that deal with customers and fulfillment -- are often expected to be available 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Join us as Donna Scott, Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, presents best practices in achieving multi-site application availability, while offering guidance on data center and hosting strategies in the age of cloud computing. Hugh Scott, CIO of Energy Plus, will also discuss how SunGard's Cloud keeps his firm's web-based enrollment engine running.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Steps To Turn Vulnerability Management Into An Effective Part of Your Security Process
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webcast, Skybox Security will explore the factors that differentiate an effective Vulnerability Management program from one that will merely waste your time and money. They will discuss new strategies to ensure that vulnerability data is current and accurate with fewer headaches and disruptions, develop a remediation strategy that works, and make vulnerability management an essential part of daily change management processes.

Attendees of this webcast will learn how to:

• Link vulnerability discovery, risk-based prioritization, and remediation activities to effectively mitigate risks before exploitation.
• Build a remediation strategy that addresses unpatchable' systems
• Minimize change management headaches by anticipating unintended impacts due to system and application interdependencies.
• Use metrics and key performance indicators (KPI's) like remediation latency to track effectiveness of the vulnerability management program.

Thursday, October 4, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Bank Systems & Technology 7th Annual Executive Summit
September 30 - October 3, 2012
Phoenix, Arizona

Banking Redefined: Capitalizing on data, Channels & Customer-Centricity
Gain insider access to information about the strategies and technologies that will transform banking as we know it.

At this 7th Annual Executive Summit an exclusive group of senior-level banking executives will gather to network, make valuable new contacts, and learn about industry-leading approaches to channel profitability, operational and transaction excellence, and organizational effectiveness.

For more information and to register, click here.

* Registration for this event is open to senior-level IT executives within the banking industry. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party. For more information, email banksystemsandtech@techweb.com


Dramatically Improve the Way Work Gets Done through Collaboration
An InformationWeek Webcast

Technology -- driven largely by social technologies, rapidly adopted by consumers -- has shaped the way people interact and engage. However, the level of sophistication around socially aware technologies for the enterprise lags far behind those for consumers.

Attend this webinar to learn how IBM is bringing the sophisticated understanding of collaboration and connections into Business Process Management software -- providing greater visibility into business operations and enabling organizations to streamline and optimize their processes to work more efficiently.

IBM is changing the game when it comes to process and we will highlight new capabilities that foster greater collaboration and deeper business user engagement, including:

• Identify and contact a subject matter expert in real-time
• Anytime collaboration to validate process requirements
• New Process Portal to streamline work activities

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The IBM End-to-End Mainframe Security Solution Overview
A Dark Reading Webcast

When many people think about mainframes today, they imagine an out-dated and little-used enterprise infrastructure. But the reality is that about 65 percent of all worldwide business data and 90 percent of all mission critical business applications still resides on the mainframe.

In the past, mainframes tended to be used within a very secure, isolated environment. Today, in the era of open networks, the mainframe cannot really trust the user who typically accesses the application through a web browser. Mainframes are now high profile targets for professional hackers because they contain valuable data and these attacks are getting more and more sophisticated. Beyond just hackers, organized crime is now out to steal information rather than merely sabotage with denial of service attacks.

Criminals could access the mainframe through a protocol like an FTP or HTTP, inject a malicious SQL command, and the mainframes have limited defense capabilities. This live webcast will review IBM's best practices to apply defense in depth to address these security problems facing mainframes organizations.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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

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

Gold Sponsor: IBM

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Accelerate Product and Service Innovation with a Business-Ready Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join our panel of experts for a roundtable discussion focused on:

• Evolving virtualization to cloud with simple, scalable solutions
• Increasing business agility and accelerate application deployment with workload optimized cloud
• Maximizing ROI with proven end-to-end service management

Friday, September 28, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Unified Communications: Learn how Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, guarantees the quality of Microsoft Lync through Ipanema
An InformationWeek Webcast

If you want to use UC as much as you want to improve your productivity while saving $30 per user and per month, join us on September 27, 2012 to learn more about the following UC challenges:

• Do you know how to guarantee UC application performance in order to yield a good ROI and deliver a superior user experience?
• Do you know how to avoid UC applications' impact on the performance of other business critical applications during times of peak demand?
• Do you know how to manage complex traffic situations and secure business application performance anytime?

Discover during this live business case session how Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, guarantees the quality of Microsoft Lync thanks to Ipanema's solution while protecting the performance of other business critical applications.

Thursday, September 27, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 am PST/ 12:00 pm EST / 18:00 pm CET

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Delivering Optimized Outcomes With Advanced Case Management At Union Bank
An InformationWeek Webcast

How labor and document intensive are your organization's back office processes? Banks have embarked on initiatives to automate and streamline these processes. Some operations, however, have inherent complexities that require new approaches. After struggling with custom applications to support its personal and corporate customers, Union Bank found itself buried in paper for multiple processes, backoffice rework, branch bags, and unable to track work being completed. These challenges led to extensive rework, manual tracking, and compliance risks.

Join Albert Pena and Maureen Kennedy of Union Bank as they share leading practices from deploying applications with advanced case management. Learn how advanced case management can help reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and improve visibility into operations.

Thursday, September 27, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Selecting the Right Database for the Right Problem: A User's Guide to Row, Columnar, NewSQL and NoSQL
An Information Week Webcast

As big data gets bigger-especially machine-generated data such as web data, network logs and telecom records-IT and business users alike are finding that traditional database analytics can't cope with the volume, causing slow reports or the need to analyze less data at any one time. Columnar, NoSQL, NewSQL and Hadoop are the hot new technologies that are helping companies manage their big data challenges. This webinar will demystify this world, outlining the analytics challenges posed by machine-generated data and giving an overview of the best use cases for these new technologies.

Thursday, September 27, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Tips and Techniques for Building a Converged Data Center
A Dell, Intel, and InformationWeek Event

At this executive event, you'll exchange valuable best practices and challenges with peers to help develop a better data center transformation for your own company. Speakers from Dell and Intel will provide expert insight and customer perspectives for getting to the next level of efficiency in the data center. You'll hear about important steps that must be part of every data center modernization strategy, including planning and management, platform optimization and virtualization, data management, facilities modernization and efficiency, and disaster recovery.

You'll also learn:

• How best practices for data center design, including energy efficiency and cooling, are changing the way IT and the business are approaching high-performance computing
• How advances in virtualization and associated tools are improving the visibility, stability, recoverability, and interoperability of virtual environments in the data center
• How server consolidation can help reduce operating costs in the data center
• Why a carefully crafted services strategy is critical to ensuring the desired ROI of any data center modernization effort
• Where to look for additional operational efficiencies, including stretching the capabilities of standard airflow cooling technologies

• Tuesday, September 25, 2012
  Westin O'Hare
  6100 North River Road
  Rosemont, IL 600183
  
  
• Wednesday, September 26, 2012
  Ruth's Chris
  220 North Gulph Road
  King of Prussia, PA 19406
  
  
• Thursday, September 27, 2012
  InterContinental Times Square
  300 West 44th St
  New York, NY 10036
  
  

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Top Cost Reduction Strategies for Oracle and SAP Software
Analyst Advice for Taking Back Control of your IT Budget -- And How Third-Party Support Can Help
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Constellation's Principal Analyst & CEO, R "Ray" Wang and Rimini Street's President Sebastian Grady as they explore key strategies and techniques for addressing the huge enterprise software cost burden. Also included is a brief review of third-party support, a cost reduction strategy which can help you cut your total cost of maintenance for Oracle and SAP by up to 90%.

In this webinar you will learn:

• What running Oracle and SAP means for your IT budget
• How to calculate your total cost of maintenance
• How to evaluate the ROI of a potential upgrade
• How a "cartel" of industry players creates systemic pressure to force change in your systems
• How third-party support can reduce your total cost of maintenance

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Strong Security for Remote Workers Is Just a Phone Call Away
A Dark Reading Webcast

With the number of remote workers and remote access points growing exponentially, so are the challenges associated with securing access to your corporate network from outside the office walls. That's why companies are turning to phone-based authentication to meet the needs of today's mobile workers while also protecting against today's threats.

Attend this webcast and learn how phone-based authentication is helping companies tackle complex authentication challenges. Steve Dispensa, PhoneFactor Chief Technology Officer, and Sarah Fender, PhoneFactor Vice President of Marketing & Product Management will explore:

• Why multi-factor authentication is more critical than ever before
• Tips to conquer some of the common pitfalls in authenticating remote users
• How a simple phone call can provide strong security for remote logins without burdening your IT department or your end users

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Strengthening Security Protocols for Teleworking Employees
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) reports federal agencies are seeing strategic value from telework, including contributions to ensure continuity of operations, reduce management costs and improve the ability of the federal workforce to balance work and life commitments. "Overall, the use of telework is improving in the federal government. Telework can make employees more efficient, more accountable, and more resilient in emergency conditions, and this report shows signs that we are achieving those results," said OPM Director Berry.

OPM's 2012 Telework Report underscores the importance of strengthening security protocols for teleworking employees. Mitigating security issues is fundamental to effective telework.

Join us for an overview of best practices for telework security featuring former federal CTO and current editor of CTOvision.com, Bob Gourley. In this fast-paced/action-oriented webinar we will provide policy suggestions, best practices and solutions checklists designed to optimize the application of security to federal telework solutions.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 -- Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET

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Unleash the Power of DBaaS in Private Cloud Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast

Today, most forward looking enterprises are using cloud environments to achieve faster time to value, elastic scalability, and improved agility, automation and efficiency. These benefits can be especially attractive when it comes to managing the ever increasing volume of enterprise data. Database as a Service (DBaaS) capabilities can dramatically simplify database deployment and management. With the IBM solution, you have the additional capability of using patterns. Patterns provide a way to capture and re-use industry best practices as well as your own in-house best practices in a repeatable, deployable form. This enables you to provide a consistent, automated and consolidated self-service database environment. Running in the IBM PureApplication System or coupled with the IBM Workload Deployer, the combination of Database as a Service and database patterns enables you to free up valuable resources, reduce costs as well as accelerate time to value for database deployment in private cloud environments.

Come to this session to learn more about these powerful capabilities and to find out how to get started today with a complimentary trial.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 -- Time: 9:00am PT/ 12:00pm ET

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Optimize Your Data Center's Power and Efficiency
A Dell, Intel, and InformationWeek Event

At this executive event, you'll exchange valuable best practices and challenges with peers to help develop a better data center transformation for your own company. Speakers from Dell and Intel will provide expert insight and customer perspectives for getting to the next level of efficiency in the data center. You'll hear about important steps that must be part of every data center modernization strategy, including planning and management, platform optimization and virtualization, data management, facilities modernization and efficiency, and disaster recovery.

You'll also learn:

• How best practices for data center design, including energy efficiency and cooling, are changing the way IT and the business are approaching high-performance computing
• How advances in virtualization and associated tools are improving the visibility, stability, recoverability, and interoperability of virtual environments in the data center
• How server consolidation can help reduce operating costs in the data center
• Why a carefully crafted services strategy is critical to ensuring the desired ROI of any data center modernization effort
• Where to look for additional operational efficiencies, including stretching the capabilities of standard airflow cooling technologies

• Tuesday, September 18, 2012
  Fairmont San Jose
  170 South Market Street
  San Jose, CA 95113
  
  
• Thursday, September 20, 2012
  InterContinental Los Angeles
  2151 Avenue of the Stars,
  Los Angeles, CA
  Grand Chateau Room
  
  
• Wednesday, September 26, 2012
  Westin Book Cadillac
  1114 Washington Blvd.
  Detroit, MI 48226
  
  

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Apple Device Users -- It's About People, Not Technology
An InformationWeek Webcast

BYOD, BYOC, COPE... plenty of acronyms to describe a fairly simple concept: Employees choosing the device they use at work (regardless of who owns it). And when employees are provided with a choice, Apple devices are at the top of the list. The result has been an unprecedented expansion of the typical IT deployment to extend beyond a single set of form factors. And since many organizations put the device before the strategy, IT is scrambling to build infrastructure to support this new reality, one where a conventional PC management approach will not work.

Join David Johnson, Senior Analyst at Forrester, on Tuesday, September 25 for a look forward into the post-BYOD world. David will provide insight and guidance to help organizations build useful infrastructure that will support the needs of the user and their Apple device of choice. Attend this 45-minute webinar and learn about:

• Typical Apple device user behavior and why this matters
• Specialized management tools
• Removing OS dependencies from enterprise applications over time

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 45 Minutes

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Apple Device Users -- It's About People, Not Technology
An InformationWeek Webcast

BYOD, BYOC, COPE... plenty of acronyms to describe a fairly simple concept: Employees choosing the device they use at work (regardless of who owns it). And when employees are provided with a choice, Apple devices are at the top of the list. The result has been an unprecedented expansion of the typical IT deployment to extend beyond a single set of form factors. And since many organizations put the device before the strategy, IT is scrambling to build infrastructure to support this new reality, one where a conventional PC management approach will not work.

Join David Johnson, Senior Analyst at Forrester, on Tuesday, September 25 for a look forward into the post-BYOD world. David will provide insight and guidance to help organizations build useful infrastructure that will support the needs of the user and their Apple device of choice. Attend this 45-minute webinar and learn about:

• Typical Apple device user behavior and why this matters
• Specialized management tools
• Removing OS dependencies from enterprise applications over time

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 45 Minutes

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Can Your Endpoints Help You Manage Your Organization's Network?
An InformationWeek Webcast

Today, many industries rely on wireless networks, the endpoint devices accessing those networks, and access to cloud resources from those devices. But what happens when something goes wrong? When a nurse in a hospital relies on a tablet to access patient data or drug interaction information and the network goes down? What if a group of mobile checkout devices at a restaurant or retail store appears to be working fine, but can no longer access the network to reach the private cloud transaction-processing application? In these examples, availability, troubleshooting, and problem resolution time are highly critical and span the boundary of networks and endpoints.

A cost-effective and simple solution is to make the wireless endpoints themselves active participants in network management. When the device functions as a sensor to transmit connectivity and performance information back to the data center, IT administrators can use that information to identify, analyze and resolve connectivity problems. Organization's users and devices can then achieve the reliable connections and nonstop access they need. Join this panel of experts to explore how IBM is helping clients achieve improved wireless connectivity, reliability and availability through endpoint management.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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See Into the Future of Managed File Transfer
An InformationWeek Webcast

More people are using more types of information across more areas of your organization. How much control and visibility do you have over this explosion of digital data? How can you make sure that files move fast enough to keep up with the speed of today's real-time business processes?

Join this webcast with experts from IBM to get a Managed File Transfer strategy update, and learn about IBM's vision for ensuring end-to-end visibility, universal connectivity, and dynamic communities.

Monday, September 24, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Website Monitoring: Managing the modern website and protecting your online experience
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us on September 24 to hear Jason Priebe, Technical Director, CBC New Media Group, discuss how he uses Neustar Web Performance Management to paint a more complete picture of a site's performance. He will discuss how to:

• Gather HAR data from real browser engines
• Monitor availability
• Track performance over time
• Manage bandwidth
• Approximate the average user experience, and
• Track the behavior of non-deterministic ad networks, which have a big impact on user perception

Jason manages WRAL.com as part of the CBC New Media Group portfolio. WRAL.com gets approximately 1M visitors weekly with 30M page views weekly. With over 50% market penetration, he knows the importance of delivering a superb online experience. If that's your mission too, don't miss this Neustar webinar.

Monday, September 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Top 7 Tips for Delivering Exceptional Online Experiences
An InformationWeek and The Brainyard Webcast

In this session, we will share our top tips for delivering exceptional online experiences -- gleaned from thousands of customer engagements. We will also share a few stories of customers that are delivering exceptional online experiences, leading to increased customer satisfaction and improved brand loyalty.

Friday, September 21, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Reputational Risk and the Security Connection
A Dark Reading Webcast

Attend this Dark Reading webcast to hear insights gained from a recent global survey on reputational risk and security intelligence conducted by IBM and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Learn key points to justifying your IT budget, including:

• How to show increased ROI on your IT spend for security
• Why 64% of global respondents say they spend more on reputational risk now than they did 5 years ago
• Why 70% are confident that they can manage threats from breaches and cybercrime, while on 32% have access to security intelligence

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- Time: 12:00 PM EST / 9:00 AM PST

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New application development game changers for AIX development on Power
An InformationWeek Webcast

No one else has the application development game changers that Rational Developer for Power for AIX development provides. We will demonstrate the new features including the performance and porting wizards that will support your multi-core and multi-thread application requirements to exploit your POWER hardware.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Port your C/C++ code to Power with Migration Assistant
• Manage work on different platforms with Multi-context Development
• Improve your testing with Code Coverage
• Make your C/C++ program faster with Performance Advisor
• Solve problems in deployed applications with Production Debug

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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On Cloud, on Premise or a Hybrid Solution? IBM's B2B and MFT Architects Weigh In
An InformationWeek Webcast

There are numerous factors to be considered when it comes to the different deployment options for B2B and managed file transfer solutions. Cloud-based solutions promise greater agility, lower costs, and increased collaboration, but many organizations face technology barriers that keep them from realizing the full potential of the cloud. On-premise solutions can offer advantages when it comes to connecting with strategic business partners and integrating with complex internal processes. So what's the best approach? Join this webcast with a panel of B2B and MFT architects from IBM for an in-depth discussion to help you explore the challenges of finding the right integration strategy for your business.

You will learn about:

• Key trends IBM experts believe are currently impacting businesses
• How these trends are impacting IT departments and their integration strategies
• Considerations IT departments should make when evaluating deployment options for their integration solutions

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Growth Imperatives Focus The Business On Point-Of-Service Workers
An InformationWeek Webcast

Register for this Webcast today to learn about the latest research in point-of-service trends and gain key insight on the solutions that can help deliver the critical content your frontline and back office workers are seeking to keep your business on top.

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Privacy-by-Design: Tips for Building and Implementing a Holistic Approach
An InformationWeek Webcast

In the past few years, the concept of "privacy-by-design" has created a buzz among large and small companies alike. Essentially, it is a concept that provides companies a proactive method to building privacy into the product life-cycle of all initiatives across an organization -- operations, online business, corporate policies, and other cross-functional business units.

Join TRUSTe for this exclusive webcasts as our Privacy Expert, Joanne Furtsch, and Tony Berman, Product Manager, share their insights and provide you with helpful tips to begin developing a strategy as well as avoiding pitfalls when implementing.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Bring Order Into Chaos With Remote Monitoring & Management For Direct Bottom Line Impact
An InformationWeek WebCast

Unfortunately too many organizations are unaware of the tangible and immediate value a disciplined RMM process can bring. Any company including those hampered by legacy IT systems and underutilized and under-supported assets is a perfect candidate for RMM. You will hear real-life examples and learn that, when deployed and integrated effectively in data center operations, RMM impacts an organization's bottom line in measurable terms from ROI and reduced operating costs, to improvements in resource utilization, end-user satisfaction and revenue growth.

In this webinar you will learn how Remote Monitoring & Management will:

• Improve both ROI and IT resource optimization, even in the face of rising volumes
• Present new and actionable insights using the rigor of 24/7/365 scrutiny of activity
• Remove the barriers of status quo thinking

Why Participate? This webinar is the perfect place to learn how to optimize your Data Center with Remote Monitoring & Management. RMM should be an integral part of your operation, whether you are in financial services, retail, healthcare, manufacturing or the public sector. This cost of this event is only your time but the benefit could be invaluable.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Harnessing Analytics for Customer Loyalty and Retention
An InformationWeek WebCast

The most successful customer-centric organizations are on a never-ending quest to better understand their customers' behavior. Increasingly, these organizations are turning to large-scale data analytics to capture insights and identify trends, fueling proactive strategies and for increasing loyalty and retaining valuable customers that might otherwise be lost to the competition.

Join InformationWeek and IBM to hear exclusive new research findings on the State of Customer Loyalty and Retention Strategies. You will learn about key actions and best practices other leading organizations are using for customer loyalty and retention strategies -- plus the role social media and analytics play in these strategies.

You'll also hear how customer analytics techniques can help:

• Reduce customer churn by proactively presenting valuable offers to existing customers
• Identify the warning signs of customer defections
• Identify who your high value brand influencers are on social media
• Identify high value customers and target those that are likely to respond
• Personalize each interaction with your customers

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

Register today and learn new strategies to identify and keep your most valued customers!


Realize increased productivity when you move from ADTS to Rational Developer for Power for IBM i
An InformationWeek Webcast

When you move from ADTS (Application Development Toolset) to Rational Developer for Power for RPG and COBOL for IBM i a whole new world of functionality opens up to you. We will demonstrate some of the top features to show how Rational Developer for Power can provide you with double digit increases in productivity.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

• Edit multiple members simultaneously, and cut & paste between them
• Debug using simultaneous views for source code, including managing breakpoints, displaying variable contents
• Use Screen Designer, the WYSIWYG editor for designing display file screens
• Use Object and Member filtering to help with finding frequently referenced objects or members
• Use color tokenizing of source code, RPGLE Outline View, and RPGLE Content Assist

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes

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IBM's Linear Tape File System: Here's What All the Excitement is About
An InformationWeek Webcast

IBM's new Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is a revolutionary way to integrate tape into storage solutions, by enabling direct access to IBM tape drives and libraries. This session will discuss the history of LTFS, provide examples of early adopters, and describe the potential for LTFS to enable an open, highly scalable, cost-effective archive solution. Register and attend this live InformationWeek webcast to learn:

• Mission Critical Back-up and Recovery Options for your Data Center
• Most economical backup practices you can adopt
• How to best manage off-line data using state of the art capabilities

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

Available on demand


Process Innovation: Synchronize Business Operations. Outperform Competitors
An IBM and InformationWeek Workshop

Attend this complimentary half-day workshop to explore what it takes to go from competence to excellence in managing your business operations. Guided by IBM experts, see how you can use new business focused and "socially aware" technologies that have been incorporated into BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management and Analytics to increase enterprise-wide visibility and manage cross-functional outcomes.

What we'll cover:

• Process Innovation: What It Is and How to Achieve It
• How to Synchronize Business Operations to Outperform Competitors
• Demo: New "Social" Tools for Managing Processes and Rules
• What Others Are Doing: Three Companies That Have Achieved Process Innovation

• Wednesday, September 5, 2012 -- New York
  The Westin Times Square
  270 West 43rd Street
  New York, NY 10036
  
  
• Thursday, September 6, 2012 --Boston
  The Westin Copley Place
  10 Huntington Avenue
  Boston, MA 02116
  
  
• Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Portland
  Ruth's Chris
  850 SW Broadway
  Portland, OR 97205
  Room: Taylor Room
  
  
• Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Philadelphia
  The Capital Grille
  1338 Chestnut St.
  Philadelphia, PA 19107
  Room: Chestnut Room
  
  
• Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Troy
  The Capital Grille
  2800 West Big Beaver Road
  Troy, MI 48084
  Room: Presidents' Room
  
  
• Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Boise
  Angells Bar & Grill
  999 Main Street
  Boise, Idaho 83702
  Room: Banquet Room
  
  
• Thursday, September 18, 2012 -- Baltimore
  Royal Sonesta Harbor Court
  550 Light Street
  Baltimore, MD 21202
  
  

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Smarter Commerce: The Midmarket Solution for a Customer-Centric World
An InformationWeek Webcast

Commerce for small and midsized businesses is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Yesterday's simple buyer-seller relationships are being quickly replaced by today's complex interactions and relationships. Customers are being empowered by technology and transparency. They expect to engage with companies when and how they want, through physical, digital and mobile means. They want a consistent experience between all buying channels. They compare notes and instantly share. And they can champion a brand -- or sully a reputation -- with the click of a mouse.

Join this InformationWeek webcast to learn:

• How today's connected customers are interacting with the small and midsized companies in new ways -- and what that means for the companies they buy from
• What small and midsized companies need to do to transform themselves for this new, customer-centric world
• How smarter commerce enables companies to synchronize interactions across the value chain needed to deliver their product or service.
• Are you ready to dramatically improve the way you interact with and sell to today's connected consumers?

Monday, September 17, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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From Liking to Leading: Success of Your Business is Social
An InformationWeek and IBM Leadership Summit

Join IBM and InformationWeek at this live event with portions being broadcast live from New York City as we explore the changing face of business at an exclusive leadership summit. Learn from market-leading organizations who are already seeing the benefits of being social today... and discover how to enable more employees to be innovators and more customers to be advocates. This executive-level symposium in Atlanta, Dallas and Toronto will feature global business leaders who are defining what it means to be a social business and is designed for senior business leaders and executives who believe the key to success is creative leadership and won't settle for the status quo.

• September 13, 2012 -- Atlanta
  W Atlanta - Buckhead
  3377 Peachtree Road NE
  Atlanta, GA 30326
  
  
• September 13, 2012 -- Dallas
  W Dallas - Victory Hotel
  2440 Victory Park Lane
  Dallas, TX 75219
  
  
• September 13, 2012 -- Toronto
  The Fairmont Royal York
  100 Front Street
  Toronto, ON M5J 1E3
  
  

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Think Big -- Big Data & MDM
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webinar, IBM Master Data Management (MDM) experts will discuss how master data and big data fit together -- what they have in common, in what ways they are dissimilar, and how they can be used together. We will also discuss the ways in which different types of big data, such as social media, streaming data, or unstructured content, can compliment MDM in different ways. The presentation will include examples of the types of business benefits organizations can realize by using MDM and big data together for meaningful impact.

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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High Performance Incident Response: How quickly can you detect threats to your endpoints?
A Dark Reading Webcast

IT security teams must develop new, more adaptable approaches to protecting critical assets. One approach is to move anti-malware signatures from the desktop to the 'cloud' to benefit from reputation-based protections and ensure coverage for roaming and mobile endpoints. While this is admittedly an improvement in security, is this enough? Moving to a high performance Incident Response program sets organizations up for success. But what does high performance entail?

In this Dark Reading webcast we'll define a High Performance Incident Response program, discuss common challenges and how to address them, as well as best practices, benchmarks, and case studies. Attendees will walk away with specific techniques to prepare for a new decade in information security.

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Gaining Insight and Visibility with Next-Generation SIEM: An End User Perspective
A Dark Reading Webcast

In response to the increasing volume and variety of cyber-attacks, businesses are looking to harness their volumes of security-relevant information to gain actionable and easy-to-understand information about threats.

To achieve this, many organizations are adopting a proactive Security Intelligence strategy based on next-generation SIEM. This integrated approach analyzes information about users, data access, application activity, and infrastructure and security events to deliver real-time insights previously unavailable. At the same time, it simplifies security operations by automating tasks and enabling fast forensic analysis and reporting on the items that really matter.

Join Richard Webster, Senior Manager of Security at Sanofi and Michael Applebaum, Director of Product Marketing at Q1 Labs, an IBM company, to learn real-world lessons about applying Security Intelligence and next-generation SIEM for threat protection, forensics and network visibility. With expert insights from IBM and end user experiences, this webcast is a can't-miss event for those seeking to enhance their firm's security posture and about the practice of Security Intelligence.

What you will learn in this Webcast:

• Latest trends in the threat landscape
• How SIEM and Security Intelligence deliver new insight and visibility
• End user perspective on SIEM best practices
• Key requirements for SIEM success

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Business Networks: Reduce the Cost of B2B Integration and Information Exchange
An Information Week Webcast

An expanding network can be good for business. But at roughly $10,000 each, building point-to-point software connections to enable trade with business partners can be expensive. There's a more cost effective way to connect your business network -- the cloud-based SAP Information Interchange OnDemand solution.

Join SAP's Frank Ruland for an insightful Webcast to learn about:

• The role of Business Networks in reducing the cost of B2B connectivity
• What Business Networks are and how companies can use them
• How using SAP Information Interchange OnDemand saves your company money
• How SAP Information Interchange OnDemand can help manage your B2B complexity and change
• IT takeaways and recommendation for making IT an invaluable partner in B2B transactional environments for the line of business executives

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET / 16:00 BST
Duration: 60 Minutes

Available on demand


Fast and Furious Analytics for Everyone
An InformationWeek Webcast

Even with all the excitement around big data, the vast majority of midsize businesses, as well as departments in large organizations, tend to operate data warehouses of 5-10 terabytes or less. For these implementations, the small footprint data warehouse appliance fits the need.

In this Webcast, International Technology Group will discuss their recently published cost/benefit case study for small footprint data warehouse appliances. One vendor stands above the rest by offering a superior software stack, lower price point, and overall stronger value proposition.

Join the Webcast to find out which vendor and which solution delivers the best cost/benefit scenario.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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The Business Value of Data Quality -- Getting the Most out of Your Investments in Data Analytics
An InformationWeek Webcast

While the business value of data analytics is generally understood, what is often less obvious is the business value of maintaining high quality data that analytics rely upon. With today's massive data volumes, manual checking and cleansing data is a practical impossibility. Automated systems that can identify quality issues, fix them, and monitor on-going quality are essential. Using real world examples, Jon Erickson of Forrester Consulting will lay out in pragmatic, business terms the value of automated data quality systems.

Registrants will receive access to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Measuring The Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server.

Thursday, September 6, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Transforming the Energy and Utility Industry with Big Data from Smart Grids
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join this webinar featuring Dr. Ronald Melton, Project Director, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project to: Understand how Battelle will use IBM's Smarter Analytics software, hardware, and consulting expertise to build a scalable solution to process and analyze the high volume of technical data coming from this smart grid research activity. Learn real benefits of smart grid solutions, including how they enable utilities to avoid a peak demand charges and manage loads such as home water heaters during peak periods.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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The Evolution of Mobile App Development
An InformationWeek Webcast

As the final installment in our "Labs Comes To You" mobile webinar series, we'll take a look at how mobile apps are set to evolve over the next few years. Join Forrester Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond and IBM's top subject matter experts as they examine the importance of mobile context, design evolution from mobile apps to multi-channel systems, and how the balance between native, hybrid, and web apps will shift as new web APIs, browsers, devices and updated mobile platforms come online.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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A Risked Based Approach to Data Security
A Dark Reading Webcast

Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by the coordination of resources to minimize, monitor, and control risks. The end goal is to minimize the probability or impact of unfortunate events such as data breaches, data loss or exposure of sensitive information. From a database perspective, risk can come from many sources including: database vulnerabilities, privileged user abuse, human error, malicious attacks such as SQL injection, stolen credentials, unauthorized database changes and much more. How can organizations quantify and minimize this risk? During this webcast, we will discuss how to quantify database security risks and remediate these risks by monitoring and blocking database access, mitigating database vulnerabilities, eliminating threats and establishing centralized database security controls.

What you will learn?
1. How to evaluate risk in terms of the cost of a data breach
2. How delivery of real time database security controls mitigates database risk
3. How to demonstrate and prove databases are secure

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Business Beyond the Perimeter: Maintaining Endpoint Security in the Cloud Era
A Dark Reading Webcast

The traditional approach to maintaining ironclad security in the enterprise has been to shelter sensitive data and resources behind a closed "perimeter wall" designed to keep good data in and the bad guys out. Then came the Cloud. Today's globally connected economy, powered by ubiquitous broadband and the ability to leverage offsite Cloud computing environments on-demand, means that more and more of your biggest customers and partners -- even your employees -- will be connecting remotely to your corporate LAN from outside your perimeter wall. This proliferation of remote users and machines connecting across the Cloud presents a major potential security problem: Although they are physically outside of your perimeter, they often require full access and privileges to some of your most sensitive onsite data, making them a huge risk from a security standpoint.

In this exclusive Webcast, experts will offer detailed insight on how to conduct business beyond a perimeter wall, including how to monitor remote resources with Cloud-based access to your secure IT environment, to make sure they are not only functioning properly, but remain free from malware or vulnerabilities that could invite attack.

Thursday, August 30, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Is that a Laptop in Your Pocket? Security and Privacy in the Age of Mobility
An InformationWeek Webcast

We'll explore the mobile threat landscape, offer prescriptive guidance on mobile security, and discuss how IBM securely enables mobile technologies to expand employee productivity. What policies need to change? What automation options are available today for managing and securing these devices? How do you deal with a blend of OS platforms, uses, and employee-owned vs. company owned devices? Join us for a lively conversation on how IBM is helping its customers answer these questions and achieve their mobile enablement goals securely.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Agile Development in a Software and Firmware Co-Development
A Dr. Dobbs Webcast

Although popularized by teams developing IT systems, Agile practices can apply equally well to systems development projects, such as electronic products and devices. Known as embedded device development (software and firmware), this discipline differs from IT application development.

In this webcast you will learn:

• how Continuous Integration (CI) can be employed in the context of embedded software development
• how the efficiencies CI provides can improve a business's bottom line

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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IBM Tivoli Storage -- Next Generation Storage Management
An InformationWeek Webcast Series

Upgrading to Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 -- This webcast is intended to educate existing Tivoli Storage Manager customers on the benefits and options for upgrading from older versions (v5.5 and below) to the current release (v6.3). For customers running more than 1 backup application in their environment, TSM is a platform optimized for consolidating those operations. For those running other backup applications and not Tivoli Storage Manager; register to learn more about this simplified and customizable storage solution.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 -- Time: 9:00am PT / 12pm ET

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.1 -- Storage Management for the Cloud -- Learn about the new features and functions delivered with IBM's next generation storage resource management application -- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center v5.1 (TPC) and how they can help you manage complex storage environments including Network Attached Storage devices, SAN attached devices, and virtualized storage. Additionally learn how TPC can improve virtualized storage utilization and performance and how TPC enables the creation of a Storage Service Catalog based on storage class definitions set by policy.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 -- Time: 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

Duration: 60 minutes each

Register now for one webcast or both!


Exploring Successful Approaches to Test Data Management by Bloor Research International
An InformationWeek Webcast

Philip Howard, Research Director and Practice Leader for Information Management at Bloor Research, will present his research on test data management including requirements, challenges and best practices. With the emergence of new software development models, organizations need data to be as agile as the development processes that use that data. Unfortunately many testing teams struggle to create and maintain the required test data and lack confidence about test data preparation and data usage within the testing discipline. Test data management addresses these concerns and provides a process for governing test data. A successful approach integrates into the software development lifecycle; ensures accurate, referentially intact and agile test data; all while protecting sensitive data and ensuring compliance.

In this webcast, Philip Howard will discuss how to design a test data management approach to address three key questions:

1. How representative is the test data?
2. How agile is the test data?
3. How easy and comprehensive is the data masking?

All webcast attendees will receive the whitepaper titled "Exploring Successful Approaches to Test Data Management" written by Philip Howard.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Security Intelligence In Your Organization -- Learn how it delivers
A Dark Reading Webcast

Attend this webcast to hear guest speakers Andy Rose, Principal Analyst for Forrester's Security & Risk group, and David Puzas, Global Marketing Executive for IBM's Enterprise & Workplace Services group, as they discuss insights gained from a recently conducted global survey.

Thursday, August 23, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Business Networks: Better Manage Costs, Complexity and Change in B2B Integration
An Information Week Webcast

Your business is evolving fast and so is the B2B landscape around it. In an environment that was once dominated by integrating business partners one at a time through point-to-point connections, many companies are starting to realize that implementing a Business Network is the only way to stay competitive in this rapidly changing business environment.

Join SAP's Frank Ruland for an insightful Webcast to learn about:

• What Business Networks are and how companies can use them
• The role of business networks in driving B2B connectivity between business partners
• How SAP Information Interchange OnDemand is integral in implementing your Business Network strategy
• How SAP Information Interchange OnDemand can help manage your B2B costs, complexity and change
• IT takeaways and recommendation for making IT an invaluable partner in B2B transactional environments and its transformation

Featured Speaker:
Frank Ruland, Head of Solution Management, LoB Business Networks and B2B, LOB Solutions, SAP AG

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of Virtualized Storage
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Jon Erickson from Forrester Research, who will review the findings from IBM SAN Volume Control (SVC) users, studied as part of the recently completed Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. Joining Jon will be Chris Saul, IBM Storage Virtualization Manager, who will explain how SVC can:

• manage heterogeneous disk from a single point of control
• autonomously manage tiered disk storage
• store up to five times as much data on your existing disk using IBM Real-time Compression!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

Register Now for Virtualized Storage Secrets!


Three Proven Ways to Cut Time, Money, and Complexity in YOUR Application Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Webcast Series

Saving Way 1: Using the new Liberty profile at Cerner
Saving Way 2: Using IBM Workload Deployer at Rational to gain efficiency
Saving Way 3: Caching to save time and money at Sprint

See how three very different customers used technology to cut time, money and complexity. You can too!

Tuesday, August 7; August 14; and August 21, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 30 minutes each

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August 16: Detecting & Stopping Next-Generation Threats

In this all-day InformationWeek & Dark Reading Virtual Event, experts and solution providers will offer a detailed look at some of the newest categories of online threats -- how they work, who develops them, and what damage they can cause. More importantly, they will provide strategies for defense, including how to detect these increasingly evasive attacks, how to mitigate them, and how to prevent them from infecting your enterprise -- and your critical data -- in the future.

Platinum Sponsors: Q1 Labs, thawte
Gold Sponsor: RedSeal Networks

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Worklight as the foundation for Designing Mobile Solution Architectures
An InformationWeek Webcast

This expert session will drill down into IBM's recently acquired mobile technology, Worklight. Greg Truty, the Chief Architect on IBM's Mobile Platform, will highlight some of the strengths of the latest release of Worklight for building and managing Mobile applications, and then Dustin Amrhein will demonstrate how to build hybrid apps that run on multiple devices from one code base. After the live demo, the speakers will take your questions on building, connecting and deploying mobile apps.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Can You Hear Me Now? Implementing conferencing that's reliable, secure and usable
An InformationWeek Webcast

Web and audio conferences that combine audio, slides and more are a common feature of business life these days, from planning calls to sales presentations to training and other uses. A variety of services are available to provide the voice and Web components, freeing IT from having to develop and deploy an in-house system. But that doesn't mean IT's off the hook for security and administration. It's also critical to have criteria for judging a service's reliability and quality.

Our Editorial Webcast will provide guidance on identifying core requirements and evaluating the options on the market. We'll also look at how these systems can and can't integrate with a Unified Communications platform.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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PaaS Facts & Fictions -- How to Succeed with the Next Generation of Middleware
An InformationWeek Webcast

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is the least understood layer of Cloud-based technologies today. But it holds the key to fully realizing the value of Cloud computing by enabling enterprises to achieve new level of competitive advantage through greater agility and rapid innovation.

Join us for this live webcast featuring lead IDC analyst Maureen Fleming and Fujitsu Vice President of Research and Development Keith Swenson, to gain a better understanding of what PaaS is (and what it isn't). You will learn how PaaS can make a difference to your organization and how to deploy it successfully.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Hackers' Favorite Methods for Attacking Web Users
A Dark Reading Webcast

The Web browser has become one of cybercrime's most popular -- and most effective -- methods of attack. From drive-by downloads of malware to fake antivirus offerings, today's attacks are geared to trap the untrained and unsuspecting Web surfer. What are the chief methods that hackers use to crack Web users? What tools do they use, and what are the major trends in Web-borne attacks? Most importantly, what can enterprises do to detect these attacks and prevent their end users from being infected? In this one-hour webinar, a leading security expert will discuss cybercriminals' most favored methods for rooking Web users -- and what steps you can take to prevent your users from becoming the next victims.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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DDoS Results: Learning from the IT pros on what's at stake when a DDoS attack hits
An InformationWeek Webcast

Neustar asked 1000 IT pros about their experiences with DDoS attacks. Attend this timely webinar and join Neustar experts as they share the insights of network services managers, systems engineers and IT directors. Learn about:

• Who has been attacked and who hasn't?
• How much do DDoS outages cost?
• What's the single biggest fear about DDoS attacks?
• What type of DDoS protection are people using?

Perhaps most disturbingly, learn the overall state of unreadiness and how long attacks are lasting. Sign up for this webinar today so you can be better prepared.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 -- Time: 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET

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IBM Mobile Platform
An InformationWeek Webcast

This session introduces the IBM Mobile platform that brings together a unique set of technologies, including development solutions to build and connect mobile apps, as well as a focus on managing and securing the apps and the devices they run on, all the way back through the back end servers to which they may be connected.

In this session you'll learn about:

• The scope and lifecycle of Mobile interfaces
• Ways to evolve traditional development tools/approaches towards mobile development in order to reuse current investments
• Selecting and prioritizing mobile capabilities to address customer needs
• Securing and managing the wide and varied mobile eco-structure
• IBM's Mobile Enterprise offerings and coverage

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Introduction to Hybrid Cloud File Sharing
An InformationWeek Webcast

Public Cloud solutions are good for consumers but do they adequately address enterprise needs? There are important issues around latency, offline access, compliance, and the administrative and control requirements for IT. Industry pundits, analysts and enterprises acknowledge that the Hybrid Cloud approach is best at addressing these issues, but not everyone understands the benefits it can offer, nor how you can integrate it into your existing file sharing strategy.

Experts Terri McClure, Sr. Analyst at ESG, Jeff Pistor, Project Manager, Balfour Beatty and Rajesh Ram, VP Products of Egnyte will help you understand the landscape and effective strategies for implementing a Hybrid Cloud solution.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Is Your Finance, Risk and Regulatory Strategy Fractured?
Providing Value by Converging Finance, Risk and Compliance Information
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

Financial services firms are reshaping how their finance, risk, compliance and treasury department processes, information and infrastructures are aligned. External mandates have established the requirements, and business pressures have forced reaction:

• Does your firm understand the impacts of its financial and treasury decisions related to customers, transactions, or asset investments?
• Are conventional accounting (ledger), financing (capital), and treasury (cash/liquidity) practices yielding the desired outcomes while minimizing your firm's risk exposure?

These decisions are determining the course and success of strategies. Be it banking, capital markets or insurance, all financial firms will need to rely on their best information to make the best decision.

Topics discussed in this webinar include:

• Trends in converging finance, risk and compliance strategies
• Understanding why these intersections are needed
• How firms can begin to develop a cohesive information strategy for success

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Malware from B to Z: Inside the threat from Blackhole to ZeroAccess
A Dark Reading Webcast

Drive-by downloads on the web are nothing new--these attacks exploit a user's browser to distribute malware and steal data. The most popular drive-by malware we've seen recently is called Blackhole. It's a crimeware kit that allows cybercriminals to deliver malicious code and carry out sophisticated attacks like the ZeroAccess threat--a kernel-mode rootkit. Join Richard Wang, Director of Threat Research at SophosLabs to learn how hackers are using Blackhole and ZeroAccess together to compromise your security.

Thursday, July 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Onboarding in Retail: Lots of paperwork -- but lots of potential, too.
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webinar hosted by Lexmark International's Matt Dollus, director of solutions integration, and InformationWeek contributing editor Karen J. Bannan, you will find out why distributed, intelligent systems are more effective than centralized ones for getting new hires into your HRIS system and productive as quickly as possible, while freeing your hiring managers for more meaningful work.

Thursday, July 26, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Discover Why Migrating to Oracle Database 11g Can Lower IT Costs and Improve Service Levels
An InformationWeek Webcast

If you are struggling to balance IT budgets with business users' database performance and availability service level expectations, then look to Oracle. Why settle for less when you can run your business applications on the world's #1 database, and we have the tools and services to help you quickly migrate to Oracle Database 11g.

Join Oracle's Lance Knowlton, David Swanger, and Scott McNeil in this live webcast and learn how Oracle can help you:

• Perform administrative tasks up to 71% faster than other databases
• Successfully migrate legacy databases to Oracle Database 11g
• Improve the performance and data availability of OLTP and data warehousing applications
• Increase productivity and save your business up to $85,200 per year per administrator

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Modernizing Vintage Data Centers
An InformationWeek Webcast

Many companies looking to make the most of previous investments choose to modernize their existing facilities. Upgrades can often be completed more cost-effectively than the other options and they usually yield significant improvements in reliability, efficiency, and operational effectiveness.

Join the panel of Eaton experts to learn:

• How aging MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) infrastructure components can affect older data centers
• Suggestions for a series of beneficial upgrades
• Best practices for successfully planning, implementing and testing renovations

Thursday, July 19, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Endpoint Insecurity: How to Close Ranks Among Your Employees -- And Close The Gaps For Device-Related Data Breaches
A Dark Reading Webcast

Between their browsers, mobile and removable devices, your own employees may be the weakest link in your security plan. With a single mistake or momentary lapse of judgment, they can open the door to targeted, sophisticated attacks that cause mayhem in your business.

In this exclusive live webcast, join industry experts and Dark Reading editors as they share the latest industrywide data and best practices on endpoint security, with actionable information on how to plug holes in your security plan before they spring a leak.

Thursday, July 19, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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SaaS vs. On-Premise: A Black and White Comparison
An SaaS In The Enterprise Webcast

Join us for a live webcast as experts answer questions on the reality of moving to SaaS.

• How is a SaaS deployment different, how long does it take, and what is IT's involvement?
• How is speed of innovation different, and why does it matter to your organization?
• What's the difference between SaaS updates and on-premise upgrades?
• How secure is SaaS versus on-premise?
• How does SaaS help your organization be more social, more mobile, and more collaborative?

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -- Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11 AM PT

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What Enterprise Modernization Means to Your Agency
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Agencies of the US government are under a mandate to modernize, rationalize, simplify and reduce redundancy in their enterprise computing environments. This means that agencies must upgrade their data systems and their enterprise software while reducing costs. In many cases this means combining data centers, acquiring state-of-the-art equipment, software and best practices with the long term goal of reducing the cost of government IT while making it more effective, responsive and efficient. The only way to be successful in an enterprise modernization project in the government at any level is to plan and to find a partner with deep experience in your specific agency's operations. This webcast will help illustrate how to make that happen.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Engaging Enterprise
An InformationWeek Webcast

Ten years from now, we will look back upon today as the beginning of the Engaging Enterprise era. Similar to the way e-Business was formed by the advent of the Web, the Engaging Enterprise is being formed by the convergence of Mobile, Software-as-a-Service, Social Networking and Big Data. These technologies allow businesses to extend their reach to customers in real-time, where and when they are ready to do business. Combined with IBMs Smarter Planet idea, this enables businesses to acquire data from connected devices to expand insights into new opportunities and new business models. Also, bold businesses are gaining an economic advantage by off-loading IT capabilities to public services providers, allowing them to focus their efforts on innovation that matters. Join Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP, WebSphere Chief Technology Officer, as he outlines an emerging design pattern for an Engaging Enterprise.

In this webcast, you will learn:

• The competitive advantages of taking a strategic mobile solution management approach
• The key technologies and the different roles they play in creating business value
• The explosion of mobile, social and cloud applications to manage the new demands on enterprise middleware infrastructures
• The rapid app development and delivery cycles for integrated and automated development and operations lifecycles
• A push to "externalize the enterprise" through APIs, mobile, and social apps drives new management and control requirements

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Remove Administrator Rights Without Disrupting End User Productivity
An InformationWeek Webcast

IT professionals agree that removing admin rights is a smart practice for reducing security risks, and yet they know there has got to be a better way to deal with the productivity disruptions. The last thing they need is to implement a policy that creates more IT help desk tickets! We've drastically improved our product to take the burden off you by automating the steps to setup policies to manage privileges -- all done behind the scenes without interrupting end users.

Viewfinity Privilege Management provides a new, automated approach for managing rights and privileges on Windows endpoints and servers. Viewfinity's intelligent automation identifies commonly needed privileges across the entire user base and automatically aggregates privilege needs, then creates a single policy for a collective group of users. This containment of policy proliferation results in enormous savings.

Attend this webinar to learn how our user-friendly Windows Outlook style folders organize and manage policies that:

• Reduce # of policies: Automatically detect similar privilege needs across-the-organization and create aggregated policies
• Block: applications and toolbars
• Elevate: Allow users to self-elevate privileges on demand
• Data: Elevate or reduce privileges/permissions on folders, files and shares
• End User Experience: Custom configure your security messages to end users
• UAC: Manage, customize and/or suppress UAC prompts and dialog box.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Adoption in the Trenches
An InformationWeek Webcast

Mainstream agile methods suggest that agile projects have small, collocated, and self-sufficient teams. However, research shows that in reality, agile teams seldom work in such idealistic circumstances. This webcast features a light-hearted look at the agile rhetoric versus reality. Need to know how to be agile in a world of program management offices, database groups, maintenance groups, development/operations, distributed, offshore, and other things not covered by the 16-page scrum guide? In this session, see concrete examples of organizational and cultural challenges from experiences with large-scale agile adoption and how these barriers were overcome. Learn how IBM's disciplined agile delivery (DAD) process framework takes mainstream agile methods to the next level and provides guidance for effectively being agile in enterprise environments.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Publish Compelling APIs with IBM
An InformationWeek Webcast

Customer interactions and business transactions that can happen anywhere over a myriad of connected devices are, at the same time, becoming more personal and contextual. Innovative ideas are coming forward from communities inside and outside of the business. To keep pace with this change, organizations are enabling organic innovation across their ecosystems -- from employees to partners to consumers of their products and services. They are moving from the traditional "My Website Only" approach to opening up new essential channels, devices, and endpoints for interaction and communication.

In this Webcast you will learn how IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Live Web API Services can empower your organization to capitalize on new customers and routes to market by providing data and services through successful API and Cloud integration strategies.

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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June 28: Big Data Analytics: Deriving Business Value From Massive Data Sets

At this interactive InformationWeek Virtual Event, experts and solution providers will offer detailed insight into how to put big data to use in ad hoc analyses, what-if scenario planning, customer sentiment analysis, and the building of highly accurate data models to drive better predictions about fraud, risk, and customer behavior. When you register, you will gain access to live webcast presentations and virtual booths packed with free resources.

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Big Data for Little Dollars
An InformationWeek Webcast

Big Data Analytics do not have to cost Big Money despite what many traditional vendors would like you to believe. Join Fred Gallagher, General Manager of Actian Vectorwise for this informative webinar as he discusses the cost factors that drive Big Data Analytics and how the Vectorwise architecture takes advantage of the untapped performance of modern chips to deliver blazing Big Data Analytics performance without incurring a Big Money cost. The webinar will feature case-studies of Vectorwise customers running multi-Terabyte analytic workloads on cost-effective, easily managed industry standard servers.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Strategies for Managing Distributed IT Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast

No matter how the IT landscape changes, protecting your network architecture continues to be extremely critical and unpredictable. Distributed networking and computing spaces often times go unmanaged despite their importance.

Are you responsible for branch IT environments? Are you challenged with maintaining access for remote users? Are you deploying IT equipment in the cloud or at a co-location facility? Join us as we discuss the importance of managing these distributed IT spaces including strategies for maintaining availability, energy cost savings opportunities and dealing with a lack of onsite technical resources.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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High performance. Low cost. No longer an either/or decision for your database.
An InformationWeek Webcast

Performance and cost are often the two most important and frequently cited factors in database purchasing decisions. Often, these factors are mutually exclusive. In the advent of growing data volume and diversity, you need solutions that provide both high performance and lower costs. DB2 10, the latest database release from IBM, helps to resolve the dilemma - so you no longer have to make a tradeoff.

Look like a hero and get in front of the data curve by learning about the latest features from DB2 that can help you gain performance and lower initial and ongoing operational costs.

Tuesday, June 27, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The 'Legendary' Retail Associate
An InformationWeek Webcast

This combination -- empowering employees and motivating them to succeed -- is a smart combination for retail growth. According to a recent Harvard Business Review study, store retailers that spend the most time and money on compensation, training and onboarding report more sales per employee and per square foot than their competitors.

In this webinar you will learn how Schurman Retail Group uses well-trained, well-compensated retail employees to support its growth objectives.

Tuesday, June 27, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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How Barclays Built a File Transfer Service that's Easy, Secure and Cost-Effective
An InformationWeek Webcast

Barclays, a multinational banking and financial services provider, realized they huge file transfer problem -- one that was making their internal teams and partners (not to mention their customers and auditors) very unhappy. Every project the managed file transfer team delivered was custom-built to exacting requirements. Sending data outside the bank was a costly proposition involving hours of red tape and taking up to 12 weeks. The solution was to fundamentally shift the way their organization worked. The goal? To make file transfer as easy as sending a letter (but much more secure.)

Watch this webcast to learn how Barclays leveraged IBM Sterling Integrator, IBM Sterling File Gateway and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy in order to develop the Data Transmission Utility (DTU), their own enterprise file transfer hub. See how this unique solution helped Barclays overcome their complex file transfer challenges in order to create connections across over 100 customers and business partners that are both cost-effective and secure.

Thursday, June 21, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Gain control over exponential data growth with agile and efficient future-proof deduplication technology
An InformationWeek Live WebCast

Due to explosive data growth, data centers and remote office environments require scalable backup and disaster recovery that expands across the needs of the enterprise, while reducing management overhead and cutting costs. Today's IT organization requires an affordable, automated, scalable and consolidated disk-based data protection with a future-ready design that delivers high capacity and performance. HP StoreOnce backup is a modular deduplication algorithm that is portable and interchangeable -- whether deployed in HP hardware or software -- that can drive greater efficiency and agility for IT organizations of all sizes.

Attend this webinar to hear more on:

• Achieving backup SLAs
• Meeting DR requirements
• Cost effectively protect ROBOs
• Instant data recovery
• Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries

Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Solution -- Helping You Transition to a Virtualized Storage Environment
An InformationWeek Webcast

You may have been hearing a lot of talk recently about the IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center. Join this webcast to learn more about how this solution can help you transition traditional storage into a virtual environment, thus making a real, tangible impact on storage costs, while dramatically improving flexibility. SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center offers not only the virtualization platform but also comprehensive management capabilities for seamless control over storage provisioning and utilization, and application-integrated data protection that provides online, near-instant snapshot backup and restore.

Thursday, June 21, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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First Look: The Most Consumable Business Rule Management System Ever
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join IBM Executive, Phil Gilbert, and product expert, Jared Michalec, as they demonstrate the new "social" features and functions and show the business value of enabling line-of-business to confidently manage changes to the operational decisions for which they're accountable.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT /2:00 pm ET

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Smarter Commerce: The Midmarket Solution for a Customer-Centric World
An InformationWeek Webcast

Customer expectation is soaring at the same time that global supply chains have become increasingly interconnected and complex. Small and medium businesses have never had to work harder to keep those customers happy. Make the shift into today's customer-centric world!.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT /2:00 pm ET

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Driving ROI and Enhanced Collaboration -- Making UC Managed Services Work For You
An InformationWeek Webcast

Paul Korzeniowski, contributing editor at infoWeek and George Humphrey, Director, Global Strategy and Product Line Management for Avaya's Managed Service business will discuss how to realize the full potential of your unified communications investment with a managed solution as well as how to apply the five traits of a world class managed service provider so you select the right management partner for your company.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT /2:00 pm ET

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Enhance Business Performance and Data Quality With Process Oriented Master Data Stewardship and Governance
An InformationWeek Webcast

A recent survey showed the #1 driver for master data management (MDM) is business process improvement. By taking advantage of new business process management (BPM) capabilities in InfoSphere Master Data Management v10, organizations can deliver data stewardship and data governance applications that enhance the quality of master data. Learn how to improve data steward effectiveness and enforce master data quality policies though process implementation, increase productivity through workflow-based assignments, and improve visibility through reporting and dashboards.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Introducing WAS v8.Next - Enhanced WAS ND: A huge step forward!
An InformationWeek Webcast

Announcing WAS v8.Next - Enhanced WAS ND: A huge step forward! The bar is set higher for app server resiliency and robustness. WAS ND v8.5 sets itself even further apart from the industry and now includes virtualization, improved availability, health monitoring, Java batch processing and more.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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NAS Solutions Explained: Reduce Cost and Improve Manageability
An InformationWeek Webcast

Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances are growing at 20% a year and the world is preparing to consume thousands of petabytes in the next few years.

This webcast presents a comparison between Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 (WSS) on IBM DS3500 Storage Systems, and other pricier NAS solutions. Register today for an in-depth look at how Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 delivers superior performance, reliability, application compatibility and ease of use.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Virtualization: Reduce Risk and Improve Business Productivity
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's business climate, organizations are looking to drive greater efficiency, productivity, competitiveness, and profitability from operations. New technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing enable companies to achieve these results. While virtualization offers an opportunity for greater IT efficiency, traditional security measures can weigh down the infrastructure and potentially impede return-on-investment.

At the same time that virtualization is becoming a standard practice, the security of those virtualized environments is lagging behind. In fact, security threats, particularly from malware, are greater than ever before. Many businesses undercut the inherent benefits of virtualization when they fail to properly implement anti-malware solutions to protect from data loss and cybercrime. Attend this webinar, and learn about:

• Delivering a comprehensive, unified management platform for both physical and virtual computing environments
• Implementing an agentless system that delivers anti-malware protection without draining resources
• Harnessing the benefits of virtualization

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Powering your Business with IBM's New 2s General Purpose Servers!
An InformationWeek Webcast

Demand for x86 servers in small and midsized businesses is changing, and IBM is changing along with it. In a time where businesses are balancing new workloads and IT demands with decreasing operating budgets, IT decision makers are faced with complex buying choices when evaluating a server's ability to deliver improved capabilities and efficiency at lower costs. By focusing on building servers that offer reliable compute capacity, streamlined management, and reduced energy consumption, IBM has positioned several new general purpose two-socket System x M4 rack and blade servers in the spotlight as a means for customers to save money without sacrificing performance, flexibility or ease of use.

In this informative June 14th webcast, IBM will highlight the key needs of today's SMBs and demonstrate how their new servers, powered by new Intel Xeon^® E5-2400 processors, are designed to meet them. SMBs will better understand how IBM's new two-socket general purpose M4 rack and blade servers align with their business needs. IBM will present how their new servers deliver unprecedented affordability and are easy to deploy, manage and maintain -- and build on IBM's reputation for quality, value and performance.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Best Practices for Improving Database Testing: Upgrades, migrations, business growth and more -- ensuring you can handle the workload!
An InformationWeek Webcast

If your organization is like most, then you struggle to ensure that systems will scale to meet the increased demands of lifecycle projects such application or database upgrades, consolidations and/or platform changes. Though carefully planned, these projects can often have unintended consequences on your production systems. During this session, we will explore best practices for database testing which help minimize risk to your production systems.

What you will learn:

• How more realistic testing can benefit your organization and lifecycle projects
• How you can gain deeper insight into production workloads
• Solutions and techniques to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your database testing

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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The Business Case for Replacing Legacy Accounting Systems
A Wall Street & Technology Webcast

30% of buy-side respondents state it will take days or weeks to generate a report calculating their firm's exposure across all holdings. 56% admit they are not confident in the accuracy of their accounting systems.

Why do these statistics matter?

If investment managers are unable to calculate their exposure in real-time, how will they mitigate losses in the event of a default such as in the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers? Additionally, if the buy-side has zero confidence in the accuracy of their accounting systems how can they ensure correct valuations and accurate stakeholder reports? How can investment managers inspire investor confidence if their book of business is administered on out-of-date systems?

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Multi-channel Communications for the New Era of Policy, Billing and Claims Administration Systems
An Insurance & Technology Webcast

Proliferating channels have made it more challenging than ever for insurance organizations to provide a consistent experience for all customer and agent touch points. Furthermore, legacy systems can hamper insurers from providing multi-channel communications that meet customer expectations. Modern services-oriented technologies that address data, content, and business logic can go a long way in enabling insurers to meet customer communications challenges -- while also increasing competitive advantage through operational efficiencies, faster speed to market and a better customer experience.

Join us for this free one-hour Webcast that discusses the factors leading to core system replacement and details the benefits to replacing legacy environments and streamlining and centralizing core business functions, like improvements in time to market and operational efficiency.

In addition, Guidewire and Thunderhead.com will share their market perspective on best practices relating to enterprise Policy, Billing and Claims System replacement, reviewing recent product innovations geared to enhancing organizational agility increase control, and significantly reducing implementation times.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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The Role of SharePoint in Enterprise Social Networking
A BYTE Webcast

Enterprise social is a move towards leveraging externally available concepts and ideas that improve collaboration for business benefit. These benefits include more effective teaming, better corporate transparency, faster sharing of information and gathering of knowledge. Though many people today are stuck mentally on the term 'social' and can't get past the term to realize the benefit, the organizations that get it are quickly moving ahead of their competition.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Cloud or Premise Based Contact Center -- Which is Right [for YOU\?
An InformationWeek Webcast

When it comes to implementing or upgrading a contact center, companies are faced with more deployment choices than ever. Should you use a CPE (premise-based) solution? Should you move your infrastructure into the cloud? Should you maintain it yourself or subscribe to a cloud-based service? Which is the best choice? Or more to the point, "Which is the best choice for YOU?" because everything depends on your particular business needs and environment. No model is one-size-fits-all, so this webcast will analyze the different deployment options -- from premises to cloud and in-between -- to help you identify which technology makes the most sense for your needs.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Moving to the Cloud: Three Key Decision Factors for Mid-Market Companies
An InformationWeek Webcast

Industry veteran Alistair Croll will look at the opportunity that on-demand computing presents to mid-market companies, and offer a clear-cut, pragmatic approach to planning out your cloud strategy. He'll debunk a few myths. And he'll reveal three key parameters--capacity, cost and compliance--that should be the basis for mid-market IT roadmaps.

Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Big Data at High Speed: Complex Event Processing at 10x
An InformationWeek Webcast

Complex Event Processing. Stream Processing. Stream Computing. Event Stream Processing. Whatever it's called, you're receiving messages, events and records from so many systems, in such a short time window, it's impossible to look at them all. And while historic forensic analysis is wonderful, you need the ability to parse all the messages in real time, perform real time correlations to more quickly predict trends and take action before disasters occur. IBM InfoSphere Streams can easily handle millions of events per second, and perform complex correlations, making it even easier to perform predictive analytics.

Come learn about the Streams Log Analysis Benchmark from IBM, which offers the tools to help you get started with real time analytic processing of log messages.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Unlock the Value of Your Business Data: IBM's Integration Solution for .NET Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webinar and find out how to run your .NET assemblies natively inside WMB to provide fast access to your data and broker facilities in any of the languages supported by the V4 CLR (e.g. C#, VB.NET, F#). See how easy it can be to build transformation nodes in Microsoft Visual Studio and integrate Microsoft or custom .NET applications directly from within your message flow.

Come learn about the Streams Log Analysis Benchmark from IBM, which offers the tools to help you get started with real time analytic processing of log messages.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Securing the Cloud: Extend the Benefits of Traditional IT Environments to Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

The cloud seems to be on everyone's mind these days. If you've been considering how to make the leap to cloud computing, you've also had to start thinking about how to extend security to this new technology environment. Despite potential savings, concerns about security are one barrier to implementing cloud initiatives for many companies. Security challenges are familiar concerns to any IT manager -- loss of data, threats to the infrastructure, and compliance risk. What's new is the way these types of threats play out in a cloud environment. At IBM, we strive to implement security controls that provide a wide range of protections while still enabling business operations.

In this Webinar we will focus on IBM SmartCloud for Social Business cloud services -- an integrated suite of collaboration tools that combines your business social network with web conferencing and collaboration capabilities, like email, file storing and sharing, instant messaging and activity management. Learn about the SmartCloud for Social Business security architecture and philosophy, and the administrative and collaboration security features that support it.

Come learn about how control and oversight works within your company in the cloud, and how social business collaboration is supported across that boundary. Hear from our security experts on how to leverage IBM's unique position as a world-renowned security leader and trusted partner.

Thursday, June 7, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Data Protection and Microsoft Office 365: How Proofpoint Addresses Concerns of the Distributed Enterprise
An InformationWeek Webcast

Like many Senior IT Executives, you are exploring new technologies that help you to manage and reduce IT cost. Many organizations have moved -- or are considering moving -- their email infrastructure to Microsoft's Office 365 platform. However, given the realities of today's Distributed Enterprise, you need to consider exposure to ever-evolving data protection risks and preparedness for more frequent and severe legal discovery and regulatory inquiries.

Join us on June 7th at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET) for the live webinar, Data Protection and Microsoft Office 365: How Proofpoint Addresses Concerns of the Distributed Enterprise to explore whether Office 365 can sufficiently address the security, data privacy, and information governance needs of organizations such as yours.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• The unique data security and privacy risks created within the Distributed Enterprise
• Proofpoint's capabilities to respond to legal discovery, regulatory inquiries, and emerging threats
• How Proofpoint complements Office 365 investments for those considering on-premise, cloud, or mixed technology architectures
• Real-life case studies of how enterprises are working with Proofpoint to ensure their Microsoft Office 365 deployment meet their compliance

Thursday, June 7, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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High-Frequency Trading: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast

There is no topic more controversial in today's marketplace than high-frequency trading. Regulators are still wrestling with how to officially define the practice, let alone police it. And in the two years that have elapsed since the flash crash of 2010, market participants of all stripes remain divided on the issue. Firms with longer-term, low-turnover strategies remain suspicious of high-frequency traders, while others hold the view that if it weren't for HFTs, there'd be no liquidity. Join this Advanced Trading Editorial webcast to hear experts from both sides of the issue debate whether HFT is good or bad for the market, and to hear a proposal on how to fix our market's structure for the better.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 -- Time 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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The Business Value of Data Quality -- Getting the Most out of Your Investments in Data Warehousing and Data Analytics
An InformationWeek Webcast

While the business value of data warehouses and data analytics is generally understood, what is often less obvious is the business value of maintaining high quality data that these solutions rely upon. With today's massive data volumes, manual checking and cleansing data is a practical impossibility. Automated systems that can identify quality issues, fix them, and monitor on-going quality are essential. Using real world examples, Philip Howard of Bloor Research will lay out in pragmatic, business terms the value of automated data quality systems.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -- Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

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CTO to CTO: Scott Davis, VMware, and Jim Davies, Mitel, Give Voice to the Virtual Desktop
An InformationWeek Webcast

As the market for virtual desktops continues to expand, one of the biggest challenges is handling real-time voice communications. Scott and Jim will talk about how they leveraged VMware and Mitel's strong partnership, years of industry leadership and extensive work in their laboratories to find a truly innovative and effective solution to this challenge. In this InformationWeek webcast, you will:

• Find out how you can leverage VMware View and Mitel Virtual Solutions to work, communicate and collaborate from anywhere, on any device.
• Learn how Mitel Unified Communications joins other mission-critical applications on users' VMware View-based desktops.
• Discover the significant benefits of running Mitel voice over IP technology on VMware View

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 -- Time: 11:30 AM PT / 2:30 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Top 10 Reasons to Put Your Phone System in the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

We'd like to invite you to join us for a free webinar about the top 10 reasons to put your phone system in the cloud. Here are a few:

• Mobility -- People just don't work the way they used to. Office phones must be smart enough to connect you with co-workers, prospects and customers no matter where you (or they) happen to be.
• Disaster Recovery -- You likely have a disaster recovery plan for your data systems, but do you have one for your phones? Redundancy with on premise systems is complicated and expensive, so a lot of companies just don't do it and learn to regret it after disaster strikes.
• Intelligence -- Do you know how often a client or prospect calls you, but it unable to reach a "real" person? With the right tools, you can tell exactly how many calls reach a person, regardless of which line is called or how many auto-attendants are used to direct the call.
• Integration -- Integrating popular business information systems like Salesforce.com or Netsuite, provides your business with the ability to manage client relationships, maximize resource utilization and improve operational efficiency.

Even if you aren't looking for a phone system today, please join us to get a new prospective on what's possible and what's coming next.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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May 24: Next Steps in Cybersecurity

Government agencies are under pressure to batten down their computing environments and networks from malware, zero-day exploits, insider threats, cyber espionage, and other risks. In this virtual event, experts assess the state of cybersecurity in government and present the latest strategies for creating a more secure, attack-proof IT infrastructure. This event will help CISOs and other information assurance professionals in federal, state, and local government stay on top of the latest developments in the field.

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Creating a Culture Conducive to Continuous Process Innovation
An InformationWeek Webcast

Should you put your customer, employee or "shareholder" first?

Elevations Credit Union put process excellence first and went from having zero processes documented to winning the Colorado Performance Excellence award in only 18 months! In this free, one hour webcast hear about how the journey transformed their culture and helped in achieving process excellence.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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The IBM X-Force 2011 Trend Report: Combat data security threats
A Dark Reading Webcast

Join Tom Cross, threat intelligence manager for IBM X-Force^®, as he discusses the latest results from the "IBM X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report", an in-depth analysis of public vulnerability disclosures findings from more than 4,000 clients, and the monitoring and analysis of an average of 13 billion events daily in 2011.

"X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report" shows surprising improvements in several areas of Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam. However, sophisticated threats facing IT security professionals are increasing in frequency and complexity. Attackers constantly adapt their techniques to evade new security measures, easily bypassing traditional perimeter defenses such as firewalls, IDS/IPS and anti-virus systems to get to your organization's sensitive data.

In this comprehensive webcast, you'll learn about increases in key areas of attack activity and how to combat them, including:

• Cybercriminal activity: Financially-motivated cybercriminals, state-sponsored espionage groups, hacktivists and insiders will continue to become more savvy and opportunistic.
• SQL injection: Continues to be a favorite attack vector among malicious groups.
IT loophole attacks: Attackers are bypassing existing security methods to gain access given the interconnected nature of the Internet and information systems as well as enterprise ERP, CRM, and custom business applications.
• Attacks targeting shell command injection vulnerabilities more than doubled in 2011. These vulnerabilities allow the attacker to execute commands directly on a web server.
• Spike in automated password guessing: Poor passwords and password policies have played a role in a number of high-profile breaches during 2011.
• Attacks on emerging technologies: With the evolution of cloud computing social networks and mobile devices, attackers found new opportunities to hone their skills and extend their exploits to take advantage of these new technologies.
• What countermeasures can be used? Database protection mandates and compliance requirements including implementing specific controls and tighter business processes are required by organizations to address risk and help ensure security.

Eric Naiburg, Program Director, Information Governance Solutions Product Marketing Strategy, will present case studies and product demo examples showing how enterprises have implemented IBM InfoSphere Guardium data security solutions to help secure sensitive databases and reduce compliance costs.

All attendees will receive a complimentary report.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Future Proofing your Video Communication Strategy
An InformationWeek Webcast

It is no question that there has been a significant increase in the usage of video conferencing in enterprise businesses. It is predicted that in 2012 nearly 75% of companies will integrate video conferencing solutions. So as you start to deploy your video communication strategy or reassess your current one, it is important to understand a few key factors that will help you "future proof" your plan.

Historically, video communication has been viewed as a painful and expensive initiative. IT leaders are now being asked to provide a video conferencing solution that has the ability to scale and grow with the business instead of prohibiting it. As businesses become more global, workers begin to telecommute, and BYOD is the new standard, these solutions no longer meet the demands of the business. The need for interoperability is more vital than ever before. The recent advancements in consumer, desktop, and enterprise collaboration tools force us to connect multiple devices at any given time.

In this webinar, Blue Jeans Network Chief Commercial Officer Stu Aaron will explore:

• What is interoperability and how has it changed the game for video conferencing?
• How BYOD and the increase in video conferencing on desktops will affect your capacity and bandwidth.
• Benefits of using a SaaS based cloud solution to bridge your current video conferencing devices.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Engaging Online Financial Services Customers -- Best practices in implementing online chat
An InformationWeek Webcast

With the advent of Internet banking, financial institutions actively moved their customers online -- a powerful change, but one that rendered them anonymous. The loss of personal relationships weakened customer retention, and as a result, institutions now strive to restore a human element online. In this webcast we will discuss the challenges inherent in online service and the opportunities to leverage technology to rebuild relationships with online customers. Online chat -- particularly site-based video chat -- offers an opportunity to engage customers at key service points, provide face-to-face service to high-touch accounts, and differentiate your online financial services.

Join Bank Systems & Technology, Netop, and Forrester Research for a free one-hour webcast that explores how banks and credit unions are using online chat to improve conversions and online banking satisfaction. We will be discussing:

• Trends in online customer retention rates
• The benefits of proactive chat for customer acquisition
• Successful deployments of video chat by banks and credit unions

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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How to Build a Next-Generation Big Data Architecture
An InformationWeek Webcast

You may have heard enough about big data to know what it is, but what does a big data solution architecture really look like? In this webcast we will take a closer look at a real big data use case and examine the architecture, data sources and various software components required to actually implement the solution. We'll show you what your infrastructure needs to look like to acquire, organize and analyze big data, so that you can make business decisions that maximize the value of big data.

Thursday, May 24, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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The view is better up here: breaking through barriers to Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Ask three people what Cloud is, and you will likely get three different answers. Between the hype, misunderstanding and the level of technical sophistication it can involve, this is not entirely surprising. Cloud is a new IT delivery model which is built leveraging existing infrastructure elements that have not fundamentally changed in years. In Cloud services however, these elements are fused together in a new way that truly re-imagines what an IT operation can be. As is true of any disruptive event, there are benefits as well as challenges. Benefits include new business opportunities, boosts to productivity and new process efficiencies. Challenges include control, security and governance, migration costs, and changes to business processes.

In this webcast, you will learn how to think about the real and perceived barriers to the cloud, with considerations including:

• appropriate applications to move to the cloud
• approach for migrating to a cloud
• regulatory and compliance consideration

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Does America's Next "Road to Prosperity" lie in Rural Sourcing?
An InformationWeek Webcast

For all of its benefits, the fact remains that the global economy has driven business out of America. In small towns, this tends to be a matter of life or death for their internal economy. At the same time, companies are finding that the quality of outsourcing their IT and development to other countries is lacking. A solution has emerged that solves both issues, rural sourcing. Liaison Technologies' VP of Managed Services, Peter Rodenhauser, will discuss this trend and how it benefits the individual, America and businesses.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Total Economic Impact of Migrating From a Proprietary Server Environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webinar, Forrester Research will present the results of a recently completed study that examines the economic impact on a large auto parts retailer which migrated its core application infrastructure from a proprietary legacy server environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will describe the company's application infrastructure and the challenges it presented prior to migration, its desired end-state after adopting to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits associated with the migration.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Supporting an Enterprise-wide Data Archive and Retention Strategy
An InformationWeek Webcast

Today's organizations depend on business-critical enterprise applications to drive results and meet the challenges of daily operations. However, as these applications and databases collect growing amounts of business information, these organizations face significant information management challenges. Without a repeatable and established process, spiraling data growth can negatively impact enterprise application responsiveness, hinder data recovery and legal hold needs, and increase storage and operational costs.

Join us as we discuss the best practices for controlling this expanding data growth through an effective data archiving strategy, significantly improving application performance, mitigating the risks associated with data retention needs, and reducing the costs of managing storage. Gain insight on the crucial areas for building a successful data archiving, retention and disposal strategy, including support for legal hold requirements. And learn what key requirements to consider when evaluating solutions to support a strong data archive strategy that spans the enterprise.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Understanding and Prioritizing Emerging and Advanced Threats in the Enterprise
A Dark Reading Webcast

Every day, enterprise IT and security administrators are faced with a wide array of newly-detected threats, newly-discovered vulnerabilities, and security warnings/patches issued by vendors. All of these threats seem potentially dangerous, but most enterprises don't have the resources to respond to all of them at once. How do they know which threats should get top priority?

In this special webcast, featuring Senior Security Analyst Andrew Hay, experts in security intelligence will discuss how organizations can collect and analyze information about new threats and develop a customized strategy for prioritizing and responding to them.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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May 17: Enterprise Mobility -- New Devices, Applications, Platforms, and Priorities

Mobile industry innovation presents us with multiple smartphone and tablet platforms, myriad development and middleware environments, and countless new applications. Throw in the need for mobile device management and security, and it's no wonder many IT pros are overwhelmed. Join us at this Enterprise Mobility virtual event to bring some order to the chaos.

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B2B Integration on the Cloud Webcast -- Real World Solutions and Technology Advances
An InformationWeek Webcast

The latest advances in networking protocols, messaging standards and computing technologies have had a huge impact on how companies synchronize their value chains. Companies are connecting with their business communities on the cloud and with good reason -- it's a powerful hub for data and file transfers, transactions and transaction management, as well as process orchestration and collaboration.

Watch this webcast with experts from IBM to learn about the rapidly advancing capabilities and strategic direction for B2B Integration on Cloud.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Critical Success Factors Defining Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast

Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) has recently emerged as a new approach for organizations to provide higher levels of resiliency without increasing their spend. These services, however, depend on the availability of high-quality, affordable network connectivity. Attendees of this webinar will hear guest speaker Rachel Dines, a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research Inc., discuss her March, 2012 report, "An Infrastructure & Operator Pro's Guide to Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services." Following the results presentation, learn how organizations like yours are working with SunGard and Comcast Business Services to implement modern RaaS solutions.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear the latest trends in RaaS to modernize your recovery plan by leveraging modern high-speed, low-cost networks combined with fully-managed recovery automation for your critical application environments.

This webinar is suitable for any individual who is responsible for helping to plan or manage disaster recovery and availability solutions for their organization. Attendees will get answers to common questions like these:

• What is RaaS and what benefits should you expect to get from it?
• How do modern networks secure data while moving it quickly and efficiently to recovery site facilities?
• How can I improve my organization's Recovery Point Objectives through modern data replication over high-speed networks?
• How can flexible platforms -- including cloud, virtual, and hybrid platforms – optimize recovery times and minimize budget expense?

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Self-Encrypting Drives: The Evolution of Encryption
An InformationWeek Webcast

Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) have garnered little attention from those outside the information security industry. Although SEDs solve many problems, such as data loss and performance issues, relatively few businesses use or even understand the technology. However this is about to change as computer manufacturers are now shipping devices with SEDs.

Attend this webinar and learn more about SEDs and supporting technology which allows IT administrators to:

• Replace software-based encryption which is expensive and negatively impacts device performance
• Easily manage and control authorized users and authentication methods
• Significantly reduce the time IT spends on configuration, maintenance, and encryption key management

As you embark on hardware refresh cycles, many of your new devices will include SEDs. You need to understand how best to manage SEDs to ensure corporate regulations and security policies are properly supported and in place.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Total Economic Impact of Migrating from Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webcast, Forrester Research will present the results of a recently completed study that examines the economic impact on a financial services firm which migrated its core application infrastructure from proprietary Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

We will present how this company operated the following;

• its IT organization,
• its reasons for migrating,
• the costs of the migration and running Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
• and the qualitative and quantitative benefits it received.

Register now for this information and interactive session.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Interop
May 6-10, 2012
Las Vegas, Nevada

See the future of business technology at Interop, the most comprehensive IT conference and expo available. Featuring more than 350 top vendors, Interop is the best place to learn how cloud computing, mobile, video, virtualization and other key technologies work together to drive business.

Register today with priority code IWEEK to get a your free Expo Pass or to save $100 on conference passes.



InformationWeek Government IT Leadership Forum 2012
May 3, 2012
Washington, DC

Government IT Leadership Forum is a day-long venue where senior IT leaders in government come together to discuss how they're using technology to drive change in federal departments and agencies.

For more information and to register, click here
Registration is limited to government technology executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.


Technology Marketing Best Practices: CreateYourNextCustomer.com
The State of Community Management in Social Business
An InformationWeek and The BrainYard Webcast

In this webcast hear from IBM's VP of Social Business & Evangelism Sandy Carter and co-founder of The Community Roundtable, Rachel Happe, as they discuss the state of community management and the impact the emerging role is having on today's social business. You'll learn about:

• the power of community for your organization
• the role of community manager for your organization and the impact it can have on your business
• How community leaders can help their organizations evolve into a social business
• what skills are needed to be an effective community manager
• where/how to find qualified community managers
• case study examples of organizations who have added the role of community manager to their social business

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Virtualize More While Improving Your Risk Posture -- The 4 "Must Haves" of Virtualization Security An InformationWeek Webcast

This is the first in a three-part series discussing the "4 Must Haves" in virtualization security designed to help large organizations understand the challenges of securing virtualized environments while positioning themselves to take advantage of future virtualization opportunities.

Join experts from HyTrust, customers, and partners in this interactive web event, hear straight from converged infrastructure architects, compliance guideline authors, as well as from HyTrust, the leader in virtualization security and compliance management.

Register today for this must-attend webinar with live Q&A for those responsible for advancing virtualization and/or security in their organizations.

Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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How to Build a Smarter Enterprise WAN: Application Performance Management
An InformationWeek Webcast

The demands on today's enterprise WAN are unrelenting: networks must support numerous complex applications while delivering performance and cost-efficiency. How can enterprises manage these challenges? Enterprises are optimizing their WAN infrastructure with the help of application performance management solutions—tools for managing and monitoring applications across the WAN. A key component of WAN optimization, these tools provide comprehensive, visual representations of network activity and trends, offering the analysis needed to take action and make informed decisions.

In this webcast you will learn:

• How application performance management delves into applications and validates ROI for WAN expenditures
• Why it's important to identify top apps, rogue apps and monitor end to end performance
• How to look at VoIP performance in the context of your entire WAN
• What to look for in an enterprise-grade application performance management solution
• How application performance management is essential for capacity planning and your future optimized WAN expansion strategy

After attending this webinar, you will understand how application performance management gives you the intelligence to make smarter WAN decisions and helps you achieve an optimized WAN.

Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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3 Steps to Securing Private Data in the Public Cloud
A Dark Reading Webcast

It's estimated that more than 50 million people have used public cloud storage services such as Dropbox to share and exchange files. These services make it easy to share and store data but they also create a new security challenge that often clash with existing IT data policies.

Join Sophos for this live Webcast to learn how IT managers can help their users manage access to the public cloud without placing your data or business at risk. We'll discuss:

• The security challenges of storing data in the cloud
• Limitations of a digital "do-it-yourself" approach
• Three simple steps to protecting data in the cloud
• Register today and be prepared for tomorrow.

Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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A Smarter Approach to Database Storage Management
An InformationWeek Webcast

If you are challenged by the impact of data growth in your database environment, then this Webcast is for you. Join Oracle experts Kevin Jernigan and Gregg Christman to learn how a clearly defined Information Lifecycle Management strategy can help you achieve cost-effective database storage management, while ensuring service level agreements are continuously met and compliance is maintained.

You'll learn how to:

• Use tiered storage to more cost effectively manage your data
• Improve application performance without adding more hardware
• Adapt quickly to regulatory requirements without impacting existing applications

Wednesday, April 26, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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April 26: Social Business -- Marshaling Expertise, Engaging Customers, Building Brands

IT's challenge in dealing with social networks comes on two fronts -- 1.) how to interact with would-be customers on big social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and 2.) internally companies must decide how their own collaboration efforts should draw on the tactics of those big, public social networks. This virtual event will help IT leaders sort through those strategic choices.

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Look to the Cloud for Scalable, Secure File Transfer Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast

Billions of dollars worth of critical business processes occur every day in the form of valuable data file transfer. Whether it's electronic funds transfer in banking, collaborative product design in manufacturing, digital media exchange in entertainment, or clinical trial data in pharmaceuticals, the volume of files—and their value for business—is on the rise. Watch this webcast with experts from IBM and IDC to get an in-depth look into the current trends and future opportunities in B2B file transfer in the cloud, and find out how to use the cloud to transform your file transfer processes in order to gain a strategic advantage.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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What Apps Belong on Smartphones and Tablets vs. Desktop/Notebook PCs?
A BYTE Webcast

Not every application is a good "app". Working with large graphics, for example, is impossible on a phone-size screen and at least a challenge on a tablet. What works where and what doesn't?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Externalizing Services; Build, Connect and Maximize your Mobile, Web & Hybrid Applications
An InformationWeek Webcast

Customer interactions and business transactions that can happen anywhere over a myriad of connected devices are, at the same time, becoming more personal and contextual. Innovative ideas are coming forward from communities inside and outside of the business. To keep pace with this change, organizations are enabling organic innovation across their ecosystems -- from employees to partners to consumers of their products and services. They are moving from the traditional "My Website Only" approach to opening up new essential channels, devices, and endpoints for interaction and communication. Learn how IBM can empower your organization to capitalize on new customers and routes to market by providing data and services through successful API and Cloud integration strategies.

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Retain Customers, Increase Revenues, Reduce Costs: Learn How to Maximize Your "Return on Data" Investment
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for an exclusive live video webcast from InformationWeek and Informatica to learn how leading IT executives are implementing comprehensive data management solutions that produce measurable returns on their data investments. Join IT industry thought leaders from Cisco, Station Casinos, and Informatica, in a frank discussion of how to solve data challenges and provide game-changing results for the enterprise.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Privilege Creep -- How Can You Be Certain Your Environment is Still Locked Down?
An InformationWeek Webcast

In the fight against security breaches, removing administrator rights from users has proven to be a well-accepted strategy. In fact, most organizations have already taken the step of removing administrative privileges throughout their IT infrastructure. However, this fundamental action is soon followed by the IT staff "temporarily" granting rights to users who need them in order to meet a specific business need. Over time, this uncontrolled privilege creep makes it difficult to keep track of where and why administrator rights have been applied and left open, leaving the organization at risk of misuse and abuse of these privileges.

Managing administrative rights is not a set-it-and-forget activity. At a minimum, the use of these higher-level privileges should always be proactively managed and routinely audited. Privileges should be handled very judiciously and granted at a granular level based on the specific business need. For example, it's almost always overkill to grant a user full admin rights to the entire system just so they can access a web application outside of the SSL-VPN.

IT security and operations managers will find that this webinar presents a set of best practice methods which allows them to quickly and easily manage and mitigate privilege creep. Some of the topics to be discussed are:

1. Risk exposure as a result of privilege creep
2. Top offenders of privilege creep
3. Most common rights policy issues
4. Track and report on how privileges are used
5. Demonstration of fine-grained control for administrative rights

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Leading the transformation to high-quality, cost-effective care through Healthcare Data Models
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast

Healthcare providers are under competitive and legislative pressures to lower the cost of delivering care while also improving patient care and resource utilization. This market demand to prove value means that providers have an unprecedented need to translate data into actionable information that can be used across the continuum of care. Making this happen will require a culture shift, from focusing on patient encounters to embracing accountability for the health status of a defined population. All stakeholders -- people and providers -- need access to information at the right time in the right context to drive changes in behavior and outcomes.

Join us for this live webcast in which you'll hear Jonathan Jackson, an executive architect supporting Premier's analytical platform, discuss the factors driving this transformation, his vision of where the industry is going and Premier's partnership with IBM. He will also discuss applications Premier uses on IBM Netezza and the central role of healthcare data models in establishing the foundation for this analytical platform transformation at Premier.

We hope that you can join us!

Thursday, March 29th 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Maximizing performance, ease of use, and high-availability for your Microsoft Environment
An InformationWeek Webcast

A surging number of businesses today are struggling to deal with the explosive growth of file content. Unstructured data can result in increased costs and lower availability. With budget and staffing constraints, your storage solutions must be easy to install and manage, while also contributing savings to the bottom line.

Thursday, March 29, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Selecting the Right Solutions for Big Data Analytics
An InformationWeek Webcast

Studies confirm analytics-driven organizations significantly outperform their industry peers. These forward-thinking organizations are uncovering richer and newer insights, keeping them a step ahead of their competition. How are they doing this?

Join us on March 29th to learn what analytics-driven organizations are doing with their IT infrastructure to maximize their information, their use of software and systems to increase efficiency and cut costs, and what they are doing to tap into the massive variety, velocity and volume of big data available to create a competitive advantage.

During this session you will learn:

• The basic components of a big data analytics platform
• The benefits of Hadoop, MapReduce, and Data Streaming technologies
• How to integrate these technologies into your existing data warehouse and analytics investments
• How IBM solutions compare to other vendor solutions

Come learn how IBM is helping clients systematically transform their IT in order to dramatically increase efficiency, and harness new insights from big data.

Thursday, March 29, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Decision Management: Dynamically changing the behavior of mainframe applications
An InformationWeek Webcast

Are you being asked to make your business policies more transparent? Would you like to make your mainframe more relevant to your organization without giving up control? Process-related decisions are made repeatedly, and they determine the appropriate course of action for each customer, partner and internal interaction. When you let lines-of-business define their policies and automate decisions in a form that is both understandable to the non-technical user and consumable by the systems that will use them, you're opening up clear communication between the policy managers defining the requirements and the developers implementing the business system solution. By automating these intelligent decisions, you can also improve the quality of each transaction and reduce the amount of time to implement changes.

Implementing decision logic using IBM WebSphere^® Operational Decision Management enables a giant leap forward in bridging the gap between business people and IT. Join us for this complimentary webcast, presented by IBM and SHARE, and learn how the adoption of decision management can address these issues while facilitating flexibility throughout the entire enterprise. Application owners want better visibility of the logic that drives their systems, along with the ability to quickly make changes. Business rules and events drive these critical applications that run on your mainframe. You'll see how, by combining the management and execution of business rules and business events, you can achieve better agility, traceability, and full life cycle support of existing mainframe applications.

We'll discuss how the IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management solution helps you with the tools to:

• Adapt to a rapidly changing business environment with speed and agility
• Align rules and events across multiple business departments and lines-of-business, and between business and IT
• Act in real time with precision and reliability
• Reduce execution costs through co-location with your existing batch and CICS^® COBOL applications.

Join Julie Reese, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Software Group, as she discusses these strategies.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Today's Database Archiving Market: What You Should Know and Why You Should Care
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprise application data continues to grow exponentially. The potential consequences of uncontrolled data growth can affect all areas of the enterprise, making it difficult for organizations to complete business processes and meet business objectives. As an effective strategy for managing application data, organizations are looking to database archiving solutions to control storage costs, improve application performance, and minimize risks associated with data retention and compliance.

In this webcast you will:

• Learn the pitfalls many organizations experience when they leverage a "storage is cheap" strategy for managing data growth.
• Understand the high costs associated with managing legacy and redundant applications that should be retired.
• Gain insight on how to select an effective database archiving solution for your organization.

Join Gartner Research Director, Sheila Childs, as she discusses today's market for these technologies.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Oracle Exalogic: A Simpler, Faster Platform for Your Critical Applications
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Douglas Phillips, Director of Product Management at Oracle, for this informative session where you'll learn how to:

• Consolidate your business applications infrastructure onto a reliable platform and save yourself the integration headaches
• Achieve extreme performance for your Oracle and non-Oracle applications
• Build a flexible, expandable private cloud infrastructure faster than you ever thought you could

Register now and discover why organizations around the world have chosen Oracle Exalogic to simplify their IT operations and deliver extreme performance to the business.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Truth About Agile Solution Delivery in Government: 10 Myths Debunked
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Join this InformationWeek webcast to hear Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile debunk the top 10 myths of agile transformation and share tips on how Government organizations can get started today.

From this expert advice and insight you will:

1. Learn best practices of successful agile development in a complex environment.
2. Gain insight into common failures in agile solution delivery
3. Understand the facts around percieved barriers to agile software delivery

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Do BYOD the Right Way
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprises are adopting mobile, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives to reduce costs and increase employee satisfaction. However, shifting mobile computing to an individual accountability model doesn't mean that companies are off the hook for security, stability, and productivity. All organizations must find their own balance when it comes to adopting BYOD, particularly organizations in regulated industries. This webcast, supported by InformationWeek research, will discuss which internal stakeholders are essential to bring to the table when devising a BYOD model, common characteristics of successful mobility policies, how to support mobility management technologies, and how IT leaders can frame the discussion in terms that make sense for the business, individual employees, and IT.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Time: 10 AM PT / 1pm ET

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The Cloud is Real: Are You Ready? Learn how to choose the right cloud solution for your business An InformationWeek Webcast

Cloud Computing is real. Long promised as the technology that would change the way organizations conducted business; "the cloud" has arrived and is delivering on that promise. Research conducted by AMD found that 37% of organizations today already use the cloud.1 As well, a separate study conducted by Market Research showed the five-year growth outlook for cloud to be five times that of traditional IT.2

However, along with the reality of Cloud Computing comes confusion. That very study conducted by AMD1 also showed that IT organizations currently investigating in cloud solutions were not confident in their ability to deploy and manage those solutions, and in fact, only 25% felt they had the necessary resources and skills to support a cloud deployment.

As companies begin to investigate and deploy cloud solutions, it would not be uncommon to walk away with more questions than answers. Where does an organization start in their move to the cloud? What applications and services are prime candidates? What about public vs private? What does a hybrid cloud look like? How is this technology different from virtualization? What are the different components of a "cloud stack"? And given the lack of knowledge in the cloud space -- where does an organization go for help?

Join the discussion with AMD and HP as they address and tackle some of the very questions IT decision makers and technologist grapple with as they look to this new technology frontier. Attending this webinar should provide additional insights into cloud computing, including:

• Build vs Buy or Private vs Public
• Key considerations in building a cloud stack and solution
• What to look for in public cloud services
• Cloud appliances vs custom built solutions
• Determining cloud readiness of applications and services
• Preparing your organization for the move to the cloud

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Enterprise Connect
March 26-29, 2012
Orlando, Florida

Plan Your Migration to Next-Gen Communications & Collaboration. Learn about the full range of platforms, services and applications that comprise modern communications and collaboration systems. Hear case studies from senior enterprise execs and major players like Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya, Siemens Enterprise Communications, HP, ShoreTel, NEC, LifeSize, Verizon, IBM and more!

Register today with code CPJCVR01 to save $100 or get a FREE Expo Pass.


Exceed Customer Expectations With B2B Integration on Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Businesses are increasingly using the cloud to reduce time to market and deliver innovation faster, because customers, suppliers and partners can engage with each other quickly by collaborating in the cloud. Watch this webcast with experts from IBM and Gartner Research and find out how third-party logistics company Gist Limited was able to respond to changing market dynamics faster by using the cloud to analyze data from multiple sources, in real time, gaining deeper insights into customer behavior.

Attendees will learn:

• Why leading-edge companies are looking at integration platform as a service (iPaaS) models as alternatives to traditional platforms
• Ways this innovative approach is evolving, what the adoption trends mean, and how it will impact your business
• Key strategies for gaining a competitive advantage by moving B2B integration to the cloud -- and why it may be dangerous to wait

Join Benoit Lheureux, VP, Agenda Manager, Application Infrastructure Group, Gartner Research and John Mesberg, VP of B2B and Commerce Solutions, IBM as they discuss today's market for these strategies.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Self-Service without the Chaos
An InformationWeek Webcast

Enterprises are conflicted about their cloud strategies and it has to do with perception. You might be sold on the benefits of cloud, but there are a few perceived showstoppers. Primarily, IT operations is afraid that allowing self-service will create the kind of chaos they have been trying to avoid since...well, always. IT operations were created to control and maintain the resources, so allowing users access goes against every instinct. However, the point of self-service is that it cannot exist without the strictest IT controls.

In this informative webinar with William Fellows of the 451 Research, we will explore how to ensure you can create self-service without the chaos to ensure you achieve the full benefits of cloud computing.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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The Future of Enterprise Video Conferencing Is Now
An InformationWeek Webcast

Research has proven that 60% of communication is non-verbal, but many organizations are still lost in the fog of email and teleconferencing.

Join renowned analyst Henry Dewing of Forrest Research to learn how crystal clear communication and speedy decision making are now possible thanks to breakthroughs in video conferencing that allow workers to connect face-to-face from anywhere on almost any device.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM GMT

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Network Management in Today's Mobile and Cloud World
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join this panel of IBM experts for this live, interactive roundtable discussion.

Delivering IT as cloud-based services has the potential for IT to support business innovation while lowering the cost of IT. Cloud service delivery is a natural progression for IT departments who have consolidated and virtualized their infrastructure. But in the race to the cloud has the network (and integrated network management) been overlooked? And once the service is delivered -- how can IT meet the user's ongoing demands for service quality using this shared virtualized infrastructure? IBM recommends that enterprises that are building a cloud service delivery platform look beyond server virtualization to take a more holistic approach that integrates network management as part of the process.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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BPM Bootcamp, Part 1: Understanding Your Processes
An InformationWeek Webcast

With practical examples grounded in years of experience and countless of client engagements, this webcast will illustrate how BPM can put your organization back in shape when it comes to everything from hiring practices to building the capability to innovate.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Open Source - A Tale of Two Cities in the Mobile Enterprise
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webinar will highlight some of the biggest challenges and opportunities, for both end user organizations and providers, in the fast-changing world of open source and mobile software, devices and support. The webinar discussion will also focus on how coinciding trends, such as devops -- the blending of application development with IT operations -- and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) are helping to address some of the management and support challenges of the new mobile enterprise.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- Time: 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET

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Maximize the Effectiveness of Real-Time and Social Marketing Campaigns with IBM^™ InfoSphere^® Master Data Management
An InformationWeek Webcast

Successful real-time and social marketing campaigns depend upon presenting customers with the right offers at the right time. Enterprise marketing campaign and offer management systems, such as Unica, help marketing organizations streamline their marketing operations and move campaign activities from batch to real-time. But the effectiveness of the campaigns and offers is limited by the quality and completeness of the underlying customer, prospect, and product information available. IBM^™ InfoSphere^® Master Data Management (MDM) provides that complete, high-quality, and trusted view of customers, prospects, and product information upon which successful marketing campaigns can be built.

Using IBM InfoSphere MDM Capgemini has created a unified, business driven approach to MDM and campaign management to drive increased campaign effectiveness. The approach addresses:

• How to create more effective customer segmentation analysis strategies
• How to identify customers accurately across channels, and position relevant cross- and up-sell offers
• How to start with location-based campaigns
• How to engage customers through social media as an integrated marketing channel

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

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Closing the Data Privacy Gap: How Safe is Your Data?
A Dark Reading Webcast

According to recent articles published in NetworkWorld, "the cost of achieving regulatory security compliance is on average $3.5 million each year" and "one out of every two IT security professionals spends 50% of the work week on regulatory compliance initiatives." PCI DSS, HIPAA HITECH, FISMA, and SOX are among the most stressful. Ignoring the requirements proves disastrous both in terms of fines and failed audits and in terms of data breaches. So how can InfoSphere Optim help?

InfoSphere Optim can help organizations think holistically about data security and privacy by implementing protection strategies in non-production environments which are often overlooked. Bridging this "privacy gap" helps organizations establish a 360 degree data protection approach.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• The business and technical issues that drive privacy protection requirements.
• How to safeguard data -- and what is often overlooked.
• Strategies that can be deployed in the testing environment to support compliance initiatives while lowing costs.
• How to leverage data masking techniques as part of an overall information integration and governance strategy.
• Real-world examples and lessons learned from organizations who utilized a data masking solution.

Join IBM and Forbes for a discussion about how savvy business managers are leveraging technology to chart a path for growth, partnering with their IT departments to deliver value, and creating an unprecedented advantage over the competition.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- 11:00 AM PT / Time: 2:00 PM ET

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Evolving Your Current Processes and Infrastructure to Fulfill the Requirements of ISO 26262
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

The topics of this webcast will include describing a requirements driven process, lifecycle traceability, how to effectively manage product development in the context of ISO 26262. The webinar will also describe how the IBM Rational's solution for Automotive can help organizations comply with the requirements in ISO 26262 by managing the activities and artifacts throughout the safety lifecycle. The focus will be on integrating new practices into your existing processes in an evolutionary, not revolutionary, manner to help achieve compliance in a cost effective manner.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Cross Discipline Collaboration For Hybrid Design Featuring Rhapsody and Simulink
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

Embedded device development often requires diverse teams from different disciplines such as architectural design, closed loop control design, or signal processing to bring together their parallel development tasks to produce an integrated working design. Design information is often shared using manual paper based methods and tedious manual review processes which slows development and inhibits the ability to properly integrate designs and ensure the right product is built. Rational solutions for collaborative design, built on the Jazz platform, enable diverse teams to collaborate, share, review, analyze and trace designs built in IBM Rational Rhapsody and The Mathworks Simulink. Teams gain understanding of the designs from across the larger team and can contribute their points of view into these designs. More, Rhapsody and Simulink elements can be linked to other design elements or development lifecycle artifacts, such as requirements or test cases, leading to greater visibility of the relationships they have and how the designs will be impacted by any change. Learn how IBM is enabling teams to link designs from these powerful development environments and allowing designers and other project stakeholders to collaborate more fully on embedded systems design.

Thursday, March 15, 201 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Advanced Attacks Evolve Webcast
A Dark Reading Webcast

The impact of advanced threats has figured prominently in tech and main stream media over the past two years. Advanced targeted attacks are responsible for a large portion of the estimated $44 billion dollars which computer compromises cost the global economy in 2011. Sophisticated, targeted attacks are one of the most insidious threats that we have seen to computer networks in history. While prolific in nature, these advanced attacks remain poorly understood by those responsible for defending computer networks against them.

This webinar will cover not just the how, but the why and the who; drawing a clear line in the sand between the mundane and the truly sophisticated. What are the threat actors trying to accomplish? Who is funding their work? Why isn't the government doing more to prevent the attacks? What can you do to prevent an attack on your networks and sensitive information? All of these topics will be addressed and bring a new clarity of thought, in an otherwise murky world of cyber crime, state sponsors and opportunistic hacktivists.

Thursday, March 15, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Using System z for Predictive Led Business Analytics Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast

Traditionally many organizations are delivering against their strategic objectives for business analytics on a department by department basis. As long as goals are reached, there is little focus on commonality of business and delivery patterns. This decentralized approach is posing challenges for organizations to meet their objectives.

Key topics include:

• Customer analytics: analyzing customer behavior to help improve interactions and make them more profitable
• Operation: analyzing 'things' -- assets -- to optimize internal processes and minimize costs
• Threat and Risk: identify suspicious behavior or events to reduce risk and minimize the impact

Join IBM Marketing Manager, Alan Meyer, as he discusses the importance of these practices.

Thursday, March 15, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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3 Keys to Improving Traceability And Impact Analysis With IBM Rational
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

In this webcast you will learn:

• How the appropriate requirements structure and requirements attributes can improve traceability
• How effective requirements and design processes can improve traceability
• How automation and a linked data approach can significantly enhance your ability to do impact analysis

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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What Impact Will Windows 8 Have on the Tablet Market?
A BYTE Webcast

Windows is currently a nobody in the tablet market. All that could change late this year with the release of Windows 8, the first version designed specifically for touchscreens and the tablet form factor. With the new Metro user interface, Microsoft will try to serve both tablet and desktop markets. Can they succeed? Will they?

What to Expect:

• Hear about the major players in the market currently
• Learn about the characteristics of Windows 8 relevant to the market
• Hear discussions of business and technical comparisons of Windows 8 to its competitors
• Ask the speakers questions relevant to you

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Enterprise Architecture and Project Portfolio Management -- Different sides of the same coin?
An InformationWeek Webcast

Hear from IBM about a revolutionary shift in enterprise architecture (EA) and project portfolio management (PPM). For IT Decision Makers, it is crucial to understand how to overcome challenges in each area. Will closer collaboration and possibly convergence between the two provide increased levels of management insight?

Do not miss out on this insider discussion for your organization's sake!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Demo Series: Best Practices for Implementing Operational Decision Management Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast Series

This Implementation Best Practices webcast series brings the expert ODM practitioners from IBM to demonstrate the practical aspects of creating and maintaining solutions using WebSphere Operational Decision Management. By attending these sessions you will:

• understand how to accelerate solution development
• enable easy and reliable change management
• ensure high performance across all your environments

Dates: March 13, March 20 and April 4, 2012
Times: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes each

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Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth with IBM
An InformationWeek Webcast

IBM and its Business Partners have the proven credentials to meet the most demanding situations and we can meet your needs as well. Listen to real world examples of how midmarket companies are going to the cloud and connecting every day.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Why Smart Banks are Shifting from Products to People
The Future of the Financial Industry: Banking on Customer Engagement An InformationWeek Webcast

Small corner banks and large multinational institutions alike are facing a rapidly changing environment. Recent regulations are requiring more carefully managed risk, and banks are under increasing pressure to find new sources of revenue. And customers are more empowered -- they're demanding a more personalized experience. Watch this webcast with experts from IBM and Frost & Sullivan to find out how banks can put the customer at the center of their business in order to enhance collaboration, improve efficiency, and most importantly, grow the value of each customer relationship.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Enabling Real Time Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Using DataReplication
An InformationWeek Webcast

Operational BI is about supporting and improving the decision-making process at the operational management level of an organization by using the most up-to-date version of the data. Most current business intelligence systems are not designed to support this. Extending these existing systems with operational BI is not just a matter of adding another reporting tool. It involves replication technology and it requires a closer link between the production and the data warehouse environment.

Join Rick van der Lans of R20/Consultancy for an overview of the business potential of operational BI and the role of replication technology in extending existing business intelligence systems to enable operational BI.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Overcoming Piecemeal PCI Compliance: Integrating Technologies and Processes
An Dark Reading Webcast

Despite defensive mechanisms, such as encryption, content monitoring and DLP solutions, payment card information can still find its way onto unsecure segments of your network or be stolen by hackers. Most companies discover they've been compromised by accident, because they lack an integrated information security infrastructure, and the prohibitive costs of large-scale auditing services prevent many from taking a proactive approach to detection. According to studies merchants undergoing annual compliance audits pay an average of $250,000 each year, while 10% of these pay $500,000 or more annually.

Most organizations use a potpourri of point solutions to protect this sensitive information, often focusing on prevention at the expense of an integrated detection, analysis and remediation capability. This webinar will explain how you can transition out of this reactionary posture and integrate in-house data auditing, network forensics and host forensics to take a 360-degree approach to PCI compliance. Attendees will learn about the following.

• Eliminating annual audit fees while increasing visibility into the data living on your network
• Catching what DLPs miss
• Integrated root cause analysis
• Facilitating the maintenance of firewall configuration and ensuring encryption
• Monitoring access to all network assets, as well as removable device usage
• Leveraging batch remediation
• Managing PCI operations in house

Thursday, March 8, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Finding The Right Strategy For Web-Based Encryption
A Dark Reading Webcast

Consumers and business users agree that they would do much more commerce over the Web if there were a way to make it safer. While encryption technologies such as SSL have made e-commerce safer, recently-exposed vulnerabilities have called the basic concept of Internet-based encryption into question. How will SSL evolve to become a more effective means of protecting Web-based transactions? What other methods of encryption and certification are available to Internet businesses and their customers? What's the most effective way to implement SSL in a Web commerce business to protect both corporate data and the end user's personal information? In this in-depth webcast, experts in SSL and encryption discuss methods for implementing Web-based strategies that work -- no matter what users and data are involved.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Collaborative Software Design -- Get the input you need when you need it!
An InformationWeek Webcast

Complexity is the biggest challenge faced by companies looking to deliver innovative applications and systems. To address this challenge, teams need to take a collaborative approach to software architecture and design; an approach that improves quality, reduces design time, and allows teams to become more agile. This webcast will explore IBM Rational's collaborative software design solution ranging from Agile sketching, UML modeling, SOA modeling, and deployment planning. This solution allows all types of software designs to be integrated with other lifecycle resources such as requirements, change request, and test artifacts and allows software architects, developers, and deployment planners to collaborate with peers, subject matter experts, clients, and other stakeholders from across the organization in the design process.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Exploiting Mobility in the Enterprise
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this one hour presentation, we will cover the ways that IBM is enabling its customers to build, run, and manage mobile applications, while securely connecting to back-end infrastructures. We will also present a demonstration of some of the exciting new technologies we are working on in the IBM Labs.

Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Social Analytics -- Putting the Science into Social Business
An InformationWeek and The BrainYard Webcast

In this session we will discuss how social analytics can be applied to a variety of functions such as human capital management, sales force automation, and enterprise marketing management and the impact that social analytics is having on social channel interactions and traditional business processes.

Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Crossing the Next Frontier of Business Process Management: Introducing Process Intelligence
An InformationWeek Webcast

To be successful in today's increasingly competitive and uncertain business world, best-in-class organizations focus on increasing productivity, lowering costs, improving customer experience, and gaining a competitive advantage. Until now, these initiatives have required considerable manual effort for process investigation, and companies have been unable to effectively visualize key processes across the enterprise silos. Overcoming these challenges requires powerful data collection and analytical tools to gain insight into business processes, systems and data, and incorporate that insight into improving business performance.

Combining automated process mining and discovery with process analytics delivers the next generation of Process Intelligence necessary to achieve this break-through business performance. Join us for this interactive webcast where BPM industry experts will present the following topics:

• Benefits of combining process discovery with analytics
• How automated process discovery is different from traditional approaches
• Why it's critical to visualize end-to-end processes, modeled or not
• How process discovery and analytics deliver more intelligent processes
• Advantages of new generation of Process Intelligence in achieving optimized business performance

If you are a business process, financial, healthcare, operations, or IT professional concerned about achieving real business results through process improvement, you won't want to miss this informative and timely event.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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What's new with Tivoli Storage Management on System z: Save money and time by enhancing your storage capabilities
An InformationWeek Webcast

The focus of this webcast is all of the new capabilities in the Tivoli System z Storage Portfolio. Integrated z/OS storage management capabilities provide visibility, control, and automation for the storage administrator. The solutions can be expanded to provide z/OS storage management awareness into application and workload management.

Attend to reduce cost and foster efficiency in problem identification/resolution.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Unified Management for Your Virtualized Storage Infrastructures
An InformationWeek Webcast

IT managers are broadly exploiting virtual server infrastructures -- hypervisors -- to improve efficiency, provide for transparent mobility, and give common manageability and capabilities regardless of type of server hardware being used. These same robust benefits are now available for virtual storage infrastructures with the IBM storage hypervisor (System Storage SAN Volume Controller and its management console the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center).

Attend this webcast to understand how the IBM storage hypervisor can be a complimentary next step in the overall IT environment virtualization process.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

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Now Everything You Have Ever Wanted in Business Intelligence is Possible
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will present examples of real world solutions that could not exist without this software-only technology. You'll hear how Informix Warehouse Accelerator leverages a columnar approach to accelerate warehouse queries up to 100 times or more, including:

• How one European government agency reduced its complex query times from 90 minutes to just 67 seconds
• How one large U.S. retailer reduced query times from 20 minutes to just four seconds. That's over 300 times faster
• Design and deployment details will also be discussed, demonstrating just how simple it is to create these solutions

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Embracing the Management of Change: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity
An InformationWeek Webcast

Every day brings business a new set of rules, challenges and opportunities. New possibilities and competitors arise. Technologies advance. Processes and systems change constantly. New social media sites, channels and cutting-edge applications emerge.

In 2011, which companies have been the most dynamic and effective in handling the complexity of the global economy, battling competition and evolving with technology? How have they developed the flexibility needed to embrace change and thrive?

In this webcast you will learn:

• The Top Five Management Skills for Business Leaders for 2012
• The Five New Management Metrics You Need to Know
• Three ideas that will save your company money and also boost productivity and help the business grow
• The strategies leading companies are using to promote business and technology alignment to produce ROI

Join IBM and Forbes for a discussion about how savvy business managers are leveraging technology to chart a path for growth, partnering with their IT departments to deliver value, and creating an unprecedented advantage over the competition.

Thursday, February 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Embracing the Management of Change: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity
An InformationWeek Webcast

Every day brings business a new set of rules, challenges and opportunities. New possibilities and competitors arise. Technologies advance. Processes and systems change constantly. New social media sites, channels and cutting-edge applications emerge. In 2011, which companies have been the most dynamic and effective in handling the complexity of the global economy, battling competition and evolving with technology? How have they developed the flexibility needed to embrace change and thrive?

In this webcast you will learn:

• The Top Five Management Skills for Business Leaders for 2012
• Three ideas that will save your company money and also boost productivity and help the business grow
• The strategies leading companies are using to promote business and technology alignment to produce ROI
• The Five New Management Metrics You Need to Know

Join IBM and Forbes for a discussion about how savvy business managers are leveraging technology to chart a path for growth, partnering with their IT departments to deliver value, and creating an unprecedented advantage over the competition.

Thursday, February 23, 2012 -- Time: 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET

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Bango Meets Their Big Data Challenge: Improving Mobile Analytics and Driving Online Business
An InformationWeek Webcast

The global mobile marketing and advertising market is growing at a CAGR of 37 percent (according to analyst firm Berg Insight), as consumers increasingly use mobile devices to purchase apps, pay bills and search the web -- and the trend is only going to steepen.

As a leading provider of online payment and analytics technology, Bango needed to provide the fast, flexible analytics performance their customers required in the face of dramatically increased data volumes. Join Tim Moss, Bango's chief data officer, as he discusses how Bango, with tens of millions of records coming every day (and growing), met their Big Data challenge with Infobright, enabling Bango's customers to make better, faster market responses.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Don't Get Hooked by the Latest Phishing Attacks
A Dark Reading Webcast

Attend this live webinar, "Don't Get Hooked by the Latest Phishing Attacks," to learn about the latest trends in phishing attacks and how you can keep your organization safe.

During this session, you will learn:

• Why it's more difficult to detect and defend against today's low-volume and highly-targeted phishing attacks
• The data privacy and data loss risks posed by new phishing attacks
• Techniques for detecting and blocking phishing emails
• Addressing threats using a full lifecycle approach

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Competition in the Tablet Market
A BYTE Webcast

Today the tablet market is utterly dominated by the Apple iPad. The most noteworthy competitors in the offing are pure consumer plays like the Amazon Kindle Fire. But within the next year we may see growing competition in this market as new tablets running Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") proliferate, just as Android phones did. 2012 may also see the release of Windows 8 on tablets. What would these competitors look like and how would they compare to iOS? What to Expect:

• Hear discussions of current market conditions and forecasts of future trends
• Hear about hardware trends and what they portend for the market
• Learn about operating system developments from companies other than Apple and how they will affect the tablet market

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Agile vs. Traditional Business Intelligence: A Hands on Approach
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast

This fast-paced webinar will show the critical differences between traditional and next-generation BI -- and provide real-world examples demonstrating how next-gen BI can be integrated into corporate apps quickly and inexpensively.

You will learn:

• Why traditional BI approaches no longer make sense
• What traits define whether self-service BI is truly agile
• How to implement interactive dashboards, customized views, and more in days rather than months
• How to embed BI functionality within existing apps
• How implementing BI can reduce user demand for development of custom data-analysis and reporting applications
• How agile BI technology can help bridge the gap between user expectations and development realities

Check out this educational webcast to learn more!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Application Consolidation and Retirement Best Practices
An InformationWeek Webcast

At some point, every organization needs to migrate from a legacy application to one with up-to-date capabilities. Consolidating data from multiple application instances into a single instance is also an activity where you don't need to blaze a new trail. You can save time and reduce risk by taking advantage of tried-and-true practices for application migration, consolidation and retirement -- making sure you integrate and maintain the best data as you move forward and safely archive data from applications being consolidated or retired while keeping the data accessible for historical and compliance needs.

Join this webcast to learn about best practices associated with:

• Understanding your data retention policies and determining what to retire
• Understanding the structure of your current content and the nature of the content sources
• Consolidating, integrating, testing and securing your best data
• Storing data in its original business context through archiving
• Ensuring application-independent access to the archived data

You will also learn about solutions from the IBM InfoSphere portfolio that can help you reduce costs and increase value during the application consolidation, migration and retirement process.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

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Technology Trends Around Cloud, Mobile, and Business Process Management Solutions from IBM
An InformationWeek Webcast

Are you interested in technology trends which influence IBM's product strategy that will help you deliver innovative solutions faster and reach customers in new ways in order to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and build competitive advantage?

Would you like to understand how emerging technologies, including cloud computing, mobile computing, and agile management have the potential to transform the delivery of IT services, driving innovations across your business?

In this webcast you will learn top technology trends, including:

• The quickly emerging influence of mobile technology and capability on your enterprise, and requirements to support it
• Forward-looking development options in a cloud environments, including how to improve software delivery in virtualized environments and how to consolidate, automate, and harden the Development and Operations required to develop solutions from design, through test and into production
• Support and focus on analytic systems which give a real-time and clear view into your operations to help you make informed decisions
• The critical view of performance in support of new business challenges for cloud deployment, social business, and internet scale
• Management and governance of business APIs providing flexibility to consume a variety of services and solutions in support of your enterprise

Join IBM for a discussion about how savvy IT Professionals can leverage these new technology trends for greater business value and agility.

Thursday, Febuary 16, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Battle-Tested Cloud, Mobile, and Business Process Management Solutions from IBM
An InformationWeek Webcast

As an IT Professional...

Are you interested in tools and methodologies that will help you deliver innovative solutions faster and reach customers in new ways in order to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and build competitive advantage?

Would you like to understand how emerging technologies, including Cloud Computing, mobile computing, and agile management have the potential to transform and deliver IT services, driving innovations across the business?

In this webcast you will learn about:

• Software and solutions that provide a secure, reliable and scalable way to connect within and beyond your business and into the Cloud.
• Proven IT strategies that you can apply right away and build on in the future to overcome your most critical IT challenges.
• Forward-looking development options in a cloud computing environment, including how to improve software delivery in virtualized environments.
• Technology that enables process improvement, visibility and automation, to help companies get started on projects for specific initiatives or adopt broader Business Process and Decision Management programs for wider transformation.

Join IBM for a discussion about how savvy IT Professionals are leveraging the investment in IT for greater business value and agility.

Thursday, February 16, 2012 -- Time: 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET

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Database Security and Privacy: A key component to passing your compliance audit
A Dark Reading Webcast

It seems as if every time we turn around these days, we are welcomed with new regulations and auditing requirements, but how can we be prepared before the auditor comes knocking? At the same time, according to a January 31, 2011 NetworkWorld article, "the cost of achieving regulatory security compliance is on average $3.5 million each year".

So, how does database security and privacy fit in?

Compliance starts with having the information that auditors require at your fingertips and ensuring the process is in place to make it repeatable. Many of these regulations including HIPAA, PCI, SOX, EU Protection Directive and others require organizations to protect data and produce regular reports. While protecting the integrity of data, standardized processes and automated controls can give the auditors what they need. For example, many regulations require you to document data access and database changes.

In this presentation, we will discuss how securing your databases and protecting your sensitive data can help you pass your compliance audits. By continuously monitoring database activity, you will have the reports you need to validate compliance. The discussion will include:

• Understanding where your data resides
• Monitoring database activity
• Assessing database vulnerabilities
• Protecting data at rest and in motion
• Protecting non-production data

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 -- Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

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Red Hat Presents Your Strategic Alternative to VMware
An InformationWeek Webcast

Are you considering virtualization technologies as a means to leverage your IT resources more efficiently or to achieve your datacenter consolidation goals?

For many government agencies, the answer is yes. However, a single vendor has dominated server virtualization technology for several years, leading to the attendant issues associated with a single-vendor market: rising costs, fewer standard features, lock-in, and so on. Fortunately, an open source virtualization solution is available that will make implementing virtualized servers easier, more cost-effective and more compatible with long-term strategies.

During this webinar, you'll learn the details behind why customers are choosing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

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

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Cloud Connect
Santa Clara, February 13-16, 2012

Accelerate Your Cloud Strategy. Cloud Connect is the defining conference and expo for IT professionals, developers and cloud providers. See 50+ leading companies showcase the latest cloud platforms, technologies and services, and hear from thought leaders in keynotes and in-depth conference sessions.

Register now with priority code IWEEK to save $100 on conference passes or get a FREE expo pass.


Independent Research Finds Total Economic Impact Of Mitel's Virtualized Voice and UC Applications
An InformationWeek Webcast

Our guest speaker, Forrester Consulting's Michelle Bishop, will present the results of Forrester's Total Economic Impact Study of Mitel's Virtual Solutions.

Forrester conducted a study, commissioned by Mitel, of the total cost of ownership, Return on Investment (ROI), and overall benefits of virtualizing voice applications. The study found:

• A three-year, risk-adjusted Return-On-Investment (ROI) of 84 percent
• A total payback period of 7.8 months.

Joining Ms. Bishop is Alan Zurakowski, Mitel's Head of Business Development and Strategic Alliances. Mr. Zurakowski will provide an overview of Mitel's Virtual Solutions for the data center and introduce you to the next wave in virtualization: unified communications at the virtual desktop.

Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Oracle SOA Suite Customer Experiences and Product Overview
An InformationWeek Webcast

Have you ever wanted to see real-world customer examples of SOA benefits such as agility, faster time-to-market, service re-use, and lower TCO? If the answer is yes, then join this webcast to learn how customers have justified the migration to Oracle SOA, quantified the benefits, and developed the competitive advantage for their company.

Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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The Empowered Customer: Deliver What They Want, When They Want It and Profit Big
An InformationWeek Webcast

Mobile. Social. Brick and Mortar. Click and Mortar. Flash Sales. Deal-a-Day. Today's consumers are surrounded by opportunities to engage, purchase and develop relationships with brands now more than ever before. Smart companies get this, and are optimizing their commerce lifecycle -- how they buy, market, sell and service their products and offerings -- to convert every customer touch point into a positive experience that builds loyalty and profit.
Join us for this webcast as Craig Hayman, General Manager, IBM Software Industry Solutions and Charles Qian, Director eCommerce Systems, Technology Services, Cengage Learning illustrate how IBM's Smarter Commerce optimizes the entire value chain around the customer by:

• Turning analytics into insight that drive real-time decisions
• Surrounding your customers wherever they are to deliver a consistent, differentiated and easy commerce experience
• Increasing value and margins by delivering exactly what the empowered customer wants, when they want it
• Improving the efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability of your supply chain to drive top-line growth and positive word-of-mouth

Happy customers are loyal customers, and Smarter Commerce empowers your business to keep them coming back again and again. Your business can't afford to miss it.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Time: 1:00pm PT / 4:00pm ET

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System x^®Driving Business Results Where the Sum is Greater than the Parts
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this InformationWeek Webcast, Technology Business Research (TBR) will highlight the key needs of today's mid-market buyers, and IBM will demonstrate the benefits of an IBM portfolio supporting IBM System x^®, virtualization and cloud. TBR will point to its ongoing Syndicated Cloud Adoption studies to illustrate how the current demand on mid-market IT buyers -- do more with less for the lines of business -- connects to a holistic roadmap for sourcing IT components. IBM will present the case for how System x hardware, IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud and IBM SmartCloud Entry Software provide three easy step functions for establishing a high-performing cloud infrastructure.

Through the webcast, mid-market buyers will learn:

• How IBM's System x^®, virtualization and cloud management portfolio align with the needs unique to increasingly larger and more complex firms
• The net benefit from purchasing integrated and engineered solutions far outweighs the higher price of components
• Investments made at each step from hardware to the cloud result in a system that is greater than the sum of its parts

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Online Marketing Summit
San Diego, February 6-10, 2012

Boost Your Best Practices in Digital Marketing. Online Marketing Summit is the premier global educational event for marketing professionals. Join over 1,500 of your marketing peers as they share ideas, hear from expert practitioners, and learn best practices in the areas of: Social Media, Demand Generation, Search, Email Marketing, Web Analytics, Mobile Marketing, and more.

Register now with priority code CPPRMS02 to save $100 on conference passes or get a FREE expo pass.


Hadoop Performance Best Practices
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for an interactive discussion of proven Hadoop methods and real-world successes. You'll learn:

• Battle-tested techniques and tools to detect and resolve operational issues with Hadoop workloads involving text and log file analytics
• Compression techniques for optimizing performance
• Methods for detecting "hotspots" in the cluster with open source monitoring and performance analysis tools

Register today to learn how to get the most from Hadoop implementations.

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - Time: 09:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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"Gamification" -- Why Shouldn't Enterprise Apps Be Fun?
A BYTE Webcast

One lesser-known trend of the consumerization of IT is gamification, which is the use of techniques from games in conventional business software. It's pronounced with a hard 'a' as in game. The goal is to induce people to use the apps and learn new features by making them fun and providing rewards for doing so. The technique can encourage users to perform tasks they otherwise wouldn't bother with. The techniques include badges for achievement, levels of mastery, leader boards, virtual currency, and challenges between users.

What to Expect:

• Learn how gamification can increase user engagement
• Learn about the major players in the gamification market
• See examples of gamified apps
• Learn when gamification does and doesn't make sense

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Revealed: Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance
An Information Week Webcast

Looking to improve your digital performance, social media results, or ecommerce sales while dealing with high volume data? Semphonic is a leading full-service web analytics consultancy working to improve their clients' online results since 1997.

Register now for Revealed: Big Data Management Best Practices That Boost Online Performance, to join Gary Angel, president and CTO of Semphonic, as he details how you can identify the real factors driving online performance and determine the best way to improve results -- with robust, fast data analysis.

The webcast will uncover:

• key audience segmentation strategies
• critical advertising inventory optimization techniques
• essential mobile measurement best practices for 2012

Also included in the webcast is a practical discussion on Big Data and how Infobright can manage high data volumes to deliver near-real time analytics and ad hoc reporting -- at a lower TCO than traditional approaches.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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WAN Security: Making the Right Choices for an Optimized WAN
An InformationWeek Webcast

Security is a crucial component of WAN optimization. But the best way to implement a solid WAN security plan is not always clear. Choices abound, including the decision between a premise-based versus a network-based security strategy for your WAN.

In this webinar you will learn about recent trends in WAN security, new enterprise threats, and the best security options for enterprise-wide WAN optimization, as well as how to:

• Develop security rules for your network while maintaining control of security policies across your enterprise WAN
• Identify and block Internet-based attacks and mitigate the risk of hackers and malware
• Block employee access and harmful downloads while providing secure access to company intranets
• Reduce capital outlays and operating expenses with cloud-based WAN security
• Utilize reporting for quicker response to attacks and analysis of event and incident details

After attending this webinar, you will have a clear understanding of today's WAN security challenges and you will know the best practices for making well-informed WAN security decisions for your enterprise.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Maximize ROI with Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
An InformationWeek Webcast

Database consolidation onto the right private cloud architecture can alleviate the challenges caused by traditional, inefficient environments. Its benefits include higher quality of service, lower costs and reduced complexity. Join Oracle experts Willie Hardie and Mark Townsend as they explain the business case for a private database cloud and describe the architectures that best suit your business and IT requirements. This is your opportunity to ask questions and learn about consolidation best practices onto private clouds.

You will learn how database consolidation onto private clouds can help you:

• Achieve greater consolidation for higher return on investment
• Reduce complexity with standardization and fewer configurations
• Increase quality of service and lower IT costs

Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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What Happens When Users Have Admin Rights? Stop the Risks Now!
An InformationWeek Webcast

To more effectively combat security breaches, removing administrative rights from users is a well-accepted strategy. In fact, for most of you, your IT staff has already done so only to turn around and "temporarily" grant rights to users who end up needing them for a specific usage. The number of users creeps up and up, until you no longer can keep track of who you gave rights to. So what are top 5 risks this opens your company up to?

Attend this webinar and learn more about understanding the risks your environment is exposed to, such as:

• Exploiting administrative rights on laptops and desktops, and through that path, get into a position to infiltrate servers
• Keylogging
• Unauthorized management of administrative credentials (such as UAC password access)
• Adding unauthorized users to the admin group
• Installation of unauthorized devices

We'll teach you how to find local admin user accounts that are not being audited by your IT department, and how to create an audit trail of activities conducted after non-admin users enter the password on the UAC prompt. At the conclusion of this webcast you'll be able to get a handle on who has administrator rights and remove the rights without disrupting productivity or increasing calls to your help desk. Takeaway: you will learn methods allowing you to stop giving users admin rights!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Security In The Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

If cloud computing is the most talked about topic in IT, security in the cloud is a close second. As Enterprises consider Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as part of their overall IT strategy, questions around compliance, security, and management data within the cloud infrastructure are of critical importance. Join this session to learn about security within IaaS and what to look for in a cloud provider to ensure that your requirements are met.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Going Beyond eMLC: The Expanding Role SSDs in the Enterprise:
How to Solve the eMLC Endurance Dilemma to Deliver 2X Life
An InformationWeek Webcast

It may seem that eMLC flash memory could be used to produce enterprise-grade SSDs, but a more detailed analysis proves that looks can be deceiving. eMLC flash is created by slowing down consumer MLC flash, resulting in marginally higher endurance. While these processes do result in marginally higher endurance, the extra life does not meet enterprise needs.

The solution to this dilemma rests within the SSD controller (not the NAND), and when designed and implemented correctly, such as with STEC's SSD Controller featuring CellCare, can provide IT managers with cost-effective enterprise endurance that meets or exceeds the 5 year expectation at full performance capability.

Check out this educational webcast to learn more!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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IT Trends: Better Servers, Not More
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast

Join us for an in-depth webcast that explains how Dell's PowerEdge servers fit into this trend. You'll learn:

• How Dell and Intel technology combine to performance and manageability
• How Dell's servers “future-proof” your technology investment
• The key benefits advanced server and processor technology bring to support virtualization
• A better understanding into how Virtualization drives trends in server Engineering and Design

Register today to secure your place in this interactive session.

Thursday, January 19, 2012 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Optimize Your IT: Lower Cost, Improve Utilization, Run Your Business Efficiently
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast

Join us for an hour-long discussion of smarter strategies for optimizing IT. You'll learn:

• How IT optimization lowers both CAPEX and OPEX while keeping head count low
• Strategies for increasing collaboration, flexibility, business intelligence, unified messaging, disaster recovery and high availability through IT optimization
• The benefits of modern server hardware and software in terms of virtualization, efficiency, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and disk capacity
• Where to turn for help in optimizing IT

Register today to secure your place in this interactive session.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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How CIO's are Cutting Oracle and SAP Maintenance Costs by 50% with Third-Party Support
An InformationWeek Webcast

CIOs spend up to 80 percent of their IT budgets just to maintain current operations, including the cost of Oracle and SAP maintenance. Yet despite the extreme cost, vendor support is outdated and not relevant for today's mature enterprise software applications.

Renowned analyst Ray Wang of Constellation Research and Rimini Street president and COO Sebastian Grady will discuss how leading companies are leveraging third-party support to take back control of their enterprise applications and reduce costs, lower risk and fund innovation without disruption.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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The Keys to the Cloud: Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation
An InformationWeek Webcast

CIOs named cloud computing as their primary IT strategy for delivering business value in 2011, according to Gartner. That means 2012 will be the make-or-break year for proving that investments in cloud infrastructure enabled new business growth and made a positive contribution to the bottom line.

Join Robby Dick and Lilac Schoenbeck from BMC Software as they discuss how integrating the cloud into your production workload can provide the key to capitalizing on your cloud investments in 2012. Register now to learn more.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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Choosing the Right Storage for Microsoft Exchange 2010
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for an interactive discussion of the considerations when designing a storage architecture for Microsoft Exchange which will lead to a simple to manage and efficient operation.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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The Rise of Social Networks in the Enterprise
A BYTE Webcast

A new software industry is growing to bring the popular features of social networks into enterprise software. There is a broad consensus that these features can bring improvements in productivity by channeling knowledge in the enterprise more efficiently towards business goals. Some analysts go further, predicting revolutions in business methods and democratization of the workplace. Facilitated by other trends, like mobility and cloud computing, it seems that social networking is coming to an enterprise near you, maybe even your own.

Thursday, January 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

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Optimizing SharePoint Collaboration: Efficient Content and Records Management Strategies
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for a detailed discussion about minimizing the cost of protecting and storing SharePoint content, while improving performance and reining in SharePoint server sprawl.

You'll learn:

• Dramatic results of recent tests on content management in terms of primary storage requirements and backup and recovery
• Real-world examples of companies that have maximized their SharePoint investments
• How Dell consulting services is applying its Intelligent Data Management strategy to SharePoint infrastructure requirements.

Thursday, January 5, 2012 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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