Informationweek Events: 2008
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How to Manage your Shrinking IT Budget
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Please join Charles Kaplan, Chief Technology Strategist for Mazu Networks, and TechWeb Contributing Editor Wayne Rash, for an important Webcast to help you find the tools you need to gain control of your enterprise while reducing cost, managing staff levels, and improving your operations.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
Building Risk Management Strategies in a Time of Uncertainty
Sponsored by HP
This executive reception and wine tasting, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives involved in risk management, will examine the current market instability and assesses how large organizations can skillfully re-orient their risk management postures to stimulate more tangible business benefits.
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Please join Charles Kaplan, Chief Technology Strategist for Mazu Networks, and TechWeb Contributing Editor Wayne Rash, for an important Webcast to help you find the tools you need to gain control of your enterprise while reducing cost, managing staff levels, and improving your operations.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
Building Risk Management Strategies in a Time of Uncertainty
Sponsored by HP
This executive reception and wine tasting, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives involved in risk management, will examine the current market instability and assesses how large organizations can skillfully re-orient their risk management postures to stimulate more tangible business benefits.
Financial Firms Need to Reduce Application Latency for Increasingly Global Client Base
Sponsored by Akamai and Produced by Wall Street and Technology
Join Wall Street & Technology and Akamai for this exclusive event wehere we will discuss strategies for delivering global Web-based applications. Wall Street & Technology editor Greg MacSweeney will lead a panel of architects from leading firms including Citibank and Goldman Sachs to discuss their approach to delivering global applications and the trade-offs of different delivery strategies.
Getting the Point! Making the Most of MS SharePoint
An InformationWeek WebCast
Join industry leaders from Microsoft, Forrester, and ASG Software Solutions as they discuss the SharePoint phenomenon and identify how your organization can fully leverage the potential throughout the lifecycle of your valuable enterprise content.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 / 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Nagios 3 - Open Source System and Network Monitoring for Large Enterprises
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
With thousands of large enterprise deployments, Nagios is the undisputed leader in open source monitoring, and has established the credibility of open source monitoring in serious business environments, delivering both cost savings and increased flexibility to its users. Nagios 3 improves upon this track record, delivering increased scalability and improved service management for large, complex environments. Meet the Nagios project founder, Ethan Galstad, along with the GroundWork Open Source Team, and learn real-world examples of how Nagios is being used and how the power of Nagios 3 will be incorporated into the next version of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 / 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Transformation Imperative
Sponsored by Satyam
This executive breakfast, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be strategic thinkers in helping them innovate and operate at peak performance - especially in a gloomy economy and a changing global market. In this environment, you can't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the tactics and strategy that will help you be on your best game.
Mitigating Risk of IT & Information Security Breaches
A Dark Reading Live WebCast
The User Centric Secured Dynamic Enterprise
This presentation will cover current trends and market drivers for enhanced and managed security, present true life customer successes with managed security, and provide and overview of Alcatel-Lucent’s user centric security solutions portfolio with a spotlight on market leading products born out of Bell Labs such as the 8550 Web Services Gateway and 3500 NonStop Laptop Guardian.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
How IE7 and the New Extended Validation SSL Certificates Impact Your Site
An InformationWeek WebCast
Join Precise, along with Credit Suisse's VP of IT Service Monitoring Ernie Miller, and learn how Transaction Performance Management gives Credit Suisse the ability to focus on what really matters to their business. Hear Miller discuss how his team uses Precise products to accelerate problem resolution, often before end users are even impacted.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 / 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Aligned Efficiency in the Data Center
An InformationWeek WebCast
Going Green in the data center is more important now than ever! Tough economic conditions have forced growing companies to find new ways of increasing productivity while maintaining an energy efficient enterprise. This is a challenge that can only be won with an understanding of energy fundamentals, efficiency benchmarks, and real solutions that you can implement today to improve data center operative efficiency.
This InformationWeek webcast will discuss how forward-looking companies have been collaborating to improve energy efficiency. Practical, sound advice taken from industry best practices will be covered including cumulative estimated savings across data center facilities and IT infrastructure.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 / 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
Best Practices in Virtualization Management
Sponsored by Novell
Do you have a virtualization strategy to cut costs and increase data center performance? Join us for this executive briefing and learn how high performing businesses are managing virtualization in the data center.
Anatomy of a Web Attack: How Hackers Threaten Your Web Security
A Dark Reading WebCast
A brand new infected webpage is discovered every 5 seconds.
The web has become the key vector for online attacks - yet the vast majority of businesses are unprotected against today's modern web-based malware.
Join this live one-hour webcast featuring web security expert Chris McCormack and principal researcher Fraser Howard from Sophos to learn more about today's rapidly evolving web threats, and latest on Hacker tricks and tactics.
November 18, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
The Information-Driven Enterprise: Constructing an Information Agenda for Business Optimization
An InformationWeek WebCast
Today organizations spend lots of time and money on systems and applications that support multiple business processes and transactions and in many cases these investments lead to cost savings, increased productivity, resource efficiencies and other advantages.
In this Webcast, experts discuss how to build an information agenda - a methodology for rapidly leveraging and transforming information into a trusted strategic asset for sustained competitive advantage and business optimization.
November 11, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Solutions
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
If you're in the market for a two-factor authentication solution, don't miss this webcast. Learn how to choose the two-factor solution that is right for your business. During the webcast, we'll discuss the key drivers for a successful two-factor implementation, identify key evaluation criteria, and compare two-factor authentication methods.
November 13, 2008 / 1:00 pm PT / 4:00 pm ET
IT: Your Value Driver in a Turbulent Economy, Using Virtualization to create efficiency and innovation
A Smart Enterprise Online Exchange
You are invited to join an Online Exchange, brought to you by Smart Enterprise, to discuss and debate these critical issues from several perspectives. The exclusive online event is being held for senior IT managers and will examine virtualization in light of current economic trends, the likely impact on IT strategy and how, despite budget cuts, enterprise IT can remain on an innovative footing.
November 5, 2008 / Time: 9 am PT / 12 pm ET
Taking Customer Service to the Next Level with SIP
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Join AudioCodes and Genesys for this informative webinar to learn how your organization can use the latest standards to drive efficiency and effectiveness in your customer service operation.
November 5, 2008 / Time: 9 am PT / 12 pm ET
ERP: Less Risk, More Return
An InformationWeek WebCast
As companies are aggressively pursue their ERP upgrade strategies, what are their expectations -- and what are their challenges?
In this webcast, you'll hear about the importance of ERP systems to optimizing business processes and improving overall business competitiveness -- especially in a tough, fast-changing economy that requires competitiveness, flexibility and adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Thursday, October 30, 2008 / 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Managing Open Source Inside The Datacenter - Integrating open source with traditional system, network and operation management software
An InformationWeek WebCast
Today's datacenter has incorporated several open source components because of low cost, more control and better tool integration. Some components are more readily adopted because they are mature, stable, and cannibalize what proprietary software delivers for very little cost or datacenter management disruption. Hear from experts on how large datacenters are getting the most out of integrating open source with traditional software for better performance at a lower cost.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 9am PT / 12pm ET
Avoiding the Mobile Blind Spot: Enhanced Security for the Wireless Workplace
Sponsored by Sprint and Produced by Bank Systems and Technology and Wall Street and Technology
This Executive Roundtable discussion will learn about technology developments that can help banks reduce the risks of data breaches and improve the ways the define and manage mobile/wireless-related assets.
Scale-Out File Storage Comes of Age
An InformationWeek WebCast
This webinar will focus on the enterprise shift from "scale-up" to "scale-out" storage architectures to address the massive flood of file based data.
Thursday, October 16, 2008 / 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET
Transformation Imperative
Sponsored by Satyam
This executive breakfast, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be strategic thinkers in helping them innovate and operate at peak performance - especially in a gloomy economy and a changing global market. In this environment, you can't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the tactics and strategy that will help you be on your best game.
Making the Case for Unified Communications
Sponsored by Siemens
Join InformationWeek for a seminar where we will discuss unified communications - winning converts from IT departments to lines of business for its ability to enable employees to rapidly and seamlessly share knowledge across multiple communications platforms, such as voice, e-mail, IM, videoconferencing, and telepresence.
Transforming Business Processes and Implementations Leveraging SOA Principles
An InformationWeek WebCast
Agility and flexibility. Those are the keys to business success in today's fast-moving and competitive global marketplace. And that is the promise of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
In this webcast, you'll gain insight into the findings of our exclusive TechWeb research about how SOA can help your IT organization deliver a solid foundation to quickly bring new processes online, as well as modify existing processes to react to evolving needs.
Thursday, October 9, 2008 / 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET
How to Gain Competitive Advantage From Microsoft Unified Communications Without Overhauling your Network
An InformationWeek WebCast
Join us for a practical and informative session hosted by AudioCodes and Enabling Technologies featuring Microsoft. We'll discuss Unified Communications architecture, implementation best practices, and a customer perspective, as well as planning tools to help simplify the installation process.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
Navigating the New World of Risk on the Street
Sponsored by: SAS
In the wake of the $404 billion-plus in asset write-downs and credit losses that large banks and securities firms have reported in the past year and the collapse of Bear Stearns, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called for “a more robust framework” for the supervision and regulation of Wall Street firms. Firms themselves are much more risk-conscious and risk-averse as a result of the subprime and CDO crises. This roundtable will provide a private, off-the-record opportunity to vent and to share best practices among your risk-management peers.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - New York, NY * Registration not open to Vendors or Consultants, only to senior level executives in the Risk Management space.
Continuing to Innovate in a Difficult Economy
The Boston Smart Enterprise Exchange - held exclusively for the benefit of CIOs from enterprise-level organizations - will examine current economic trends, their likely impact on IT strategy and how IT can remain on an innovative footing.
October 2, 2008 - Boston, MA
IT Monitoring Cost Analysis Challenge - HP Operations vs. GroundWork Open Source
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Attend this informative, factual webcast about how GroundWork Open Source can save up to 87% of your maintenance costs over the next three years by replacing HP Operations Manager (formally OpenView) and Network Node Manager.
Join Tim Clark from FactPoint and David Dennis from GroundWork Open Source share the research and results from switching to an open source alternative.
In a head to head comparison of initial licensing and installation costs plus recurring costs over a three year period for a 3,000 node environment, GroundWork Open Source offers the following advantages when compared to equivalent HP software offerings
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 9am PT / 12pm ET
Analyst Webcast - Achieving IT Project Success: How Effective Resource Management Boosts IT Efficiency
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Join leading PPM analyst and featured guest Lewis Cardin of Forrester Research as he explores best practices in resource management and helps answer the following questions:
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Transformation Imperative
Sponsored by Satyam
This half-day event, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be strategic thinkers in helping them innovate and operate at peak performance - especially in a gloomy economy and a changing global market. In this environment, you can't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the tactics and strategy that will help you be on your best game.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - New York City, NY
Secure and Manage Laptops off the Network: The Grant Thornton Experience
An InformationWeek WebCast
Sponsored by Absolute Software
"By 2009, 70% of knowledge work will occur in locations where workers will depend on a wireless and remote - access infrastructure that is outside the enterprise’s direct control." - Gartner In this Webcast, Dave Johnson from accounting firm Grant Thornton will share his experiences securing and effectively inventorying in-field laptop computers. This will be of interest for asset managers and business leaders concerned about compliance, computer theft and leased computer management.
Tuesday, September 23rd 2008 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Insurance Product Manufacturing - Reality or Myth?
Sponsored by Camilion Solutions & Cognizant
Rapid product development is moving from being a competitive advantage to a competitive necessity. As the availability of more agile technology enables more carriers to adopt revised processes, evidence is mounting that product freshness drives greater portfolio profitability. Join us at this Insurance & Technology Executive Breakfast for an open dialogue on some of the latest issues, trends and newest technologies in insurance product manufacturing.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - New York City, NY
Collaborative BPO: A RoadMap For Success
An InformationWeek Webcast
What are the key success factors for BPO engagements? In this webcast, you'll gain insight into the findings of our exclusive TechWeb research about how business process outsourcing can help you not only decrease costs, but increase profits and transform your business. One key factor: client-service provider partnerships must be truly collaborative.
In this webinar you will learn:
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Mobile Email Primer
An InformationWeek Webcast
Email is one of the most important tools a savvy manager or professional can have in his or her arsenal. Mobilizing email -- allowing that manager or line-of-business worker to have access to their inbox no matter where they are -- makes email even more powerful and can have an immediate impact on your business's bottom line. Not only can salespeople respond to their leads faster, but managers can make decisions faster and reduce the time it takes to close business.
Learn more about Nokia's world-leading mobile devices, smartphones and mobile email solutions, and learn how you can improve the flexibility, responsiveness and profitability of your organization by using mobile email.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
The DEATH Of The Perpetual License and the RISE of SaaS
An InformationWeek Webcast
Featured Speaker: Microsoft's ISV Architect Advisor
According to Gartner, 90% of e-commerce sites will use SaaS by 2013. E-Commerce as an extensible, integrated and interconnected digitally driven way of carrying out business transactions is the single most important change to business process since the assembly line. With today’s dynamic and quickly changing online business environment, companies that employ perpetual e-commerce licenses can be at a decided disadvantage when it comes to achieving their full potential online. Organizations of all kinds must employ e-commerce systems that harness the Internet to reach new markets, generate revenue and improve operational efficiency.
In this Webinar you will learn:
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 9am PT / 12pm ET
Anti-X and the Mob: Addressing Content-Borne Threats with Unified Threat Management
An InformationWeek Webcast
Register for this live webcast to learn more about the anatomy of a modern blended attack and how Unified Threat Management from Juniper Networks can help stop these threats at various points of their progression.
You will hear Mike Fratto from InformationWeek and Juniper Networks representatives Michael Rothschild and Scott Lucas discuss:
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 11am PT / 2pm ET
Smart Enterprise Exchange Event Series
Brought to you by CA
The Chicago Smart Enterprise Exchange - held exclusively for the benefit of CIOs from enterprise-level organizations - will examine the ways in which companies can integrate their customers into their production process and manage their infrastructures to support the transparency, speed and decision-making agility that such integration requires.
September 9, 2008 - Chicago, IL
Managing Risk and Bringing Rigor to Information Security
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast
The good news from the 2008 InformationWeek Strategic Security survey shows is that information security is getting the financial attention it deserves. The bad news? Organizations may be no safer for the spending: 66% of respondents say their vulnerability to breaches and malicious code is either the same as last year (53%) or worse (13%). We are lagging behind in implementing encryption to protect customer and employee data, and since when is “no worse than before” an acceptable return on investment?
There is value in comparing your security position with peers and seeing what others are doing and what they think works. This web cast presents our findings on organizations thoughts on strategic security, what they view as the most likely threats, and where the problems lie in implementing strategic security.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
The Benefits of an Integrated eCommerce System
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
As the e-commerce industry expands and changes at a phenomenal pace, the benefits of integrating your e-commerce solution with a back-office ERP system has become increasingly clear as well. Having a seamless integration between the back-office ERP system and the e-commerce solution will improve efficiency and could ultimately lead to a richer online shopping experience as well as increased customer satisfaction.
In this Webinar you will learn:
How an e-commerce company integrated its software as a service (SaaS) e-commerce platform with Microsoft Dynamics
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET
Budgeting 2009: Make This the Year You Regain Control of Runaway IT Costs
An InformationWeek and bMighty Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Join Kaseya for an informative webcast that will help IT professionals -- just in time for budget season -- put together justifications and the right business case for an IT automation initiative. It’ll include ideas on how to present a case for saving on software licensing and hardware costs; how to optimally reallocate staff to reduce resource expenses; and ways to gain better control of your overall enterprise assets in the coming year.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET
Architecture & Design World 2008
Sponsored by IBM
Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design World is the only independent conference dedicated to software architecture, design, modeling and UML. With more than 70 educational sessions, this conference provides the tools, resources and knowledge needed to effectively implement the latest design techniques into your software development projects.
NAC Three Years Later: InformationWeek’s 3rd Annual NAC Survey results
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast
We asked information professionals about their plans for network access control (NAC); why they were embarking on a NAC project; what they expected to achieve and what their concerns were. We compared these results to past surveys to see what, if anything, has changed.
In this webcast, Mike Fratto presents the results from InformationWeek’s 3rd annual NAC survey and discusses the implications.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT/2:00 PM ET
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Nicholas Buchanan, Flavio de Rezende, and John Tarella co-authored the latest IBM ECM & Storage Redbook and will share their insight into creating an Enterprise Content Management and Storage solution.
Register and attend live to receive the first 3 chapters of the Redbook "IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together"
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11am PST/2pm ET
Breaking down the silos: from change process to release automation
Get tips and enabling solutions from Forrester and HP
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
The complexity of today's IT environment increase the risks inherent with change, not only due to flawed impact assessment, but also due to technology and organizational silos across the change and release process. To reduce these risks and enable success, IT must manage change, configuration and release management together, tying process with automation.
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Delivering IT Services for the Business with Confidence and Control Utilizing SLM and Catalog Management
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join us for this live Webcast as we discover why understanding the complexities of Service Management is fundamental in delivering IT Services with control and confidence. This webcast will help you define SLM and Catalog Management, understand the business challenges that it can address for your organization, as well as the value it can provide. Additionally it will address the role of ITIL and CMDB, and how to get started.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET
Cisco and IBM Storage Area Networks Made Affordable and Easy for Businesses of Any Size
An InformationWeek and Byte & Switch Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Learn how Cisco and IBM Storage Area Network solutions provide a building block approach to growing your IT infrastructure without complexity. Products include Cisco MDS 9124 fibre channel switches, and IBM DS3400/DS4700 disk and LTO tape. Find out how these solutions can provide affordable storage consolidation and business continuity for any company.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 9am PT/12pm ET
Making the Case for Unified Communications
Sponsored by Siemens
Join InformationWeek for a seminar on Thursday, June 26th in McLean, VA where we will discuss unified communications - winning converts from IT departments to lines of business for its ability to enable employees to rapidly and seamlessly share knowledge across multiple communications platforms, such as voice, e-mail, IM, videoconferencing, and telepresence.
Manage Clients for Improved Security
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
In a time when viruses and worms dominate the security threatscape, why are security operations groups handcuffed by problems they can tactically solve in a streamlined, systematic and automated manner?
Join HP Software featuring Natalie Lambert from Forrester Research for key considerations to help you overcome obstacles and advance management to improve client security.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
IT Automation: A Path To Business Innovation
A TechWeb Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Business innovation, especially in tightening economic conditions, has become a corporate-wide imperative. IT departments are being asked to promote business innovation while still overseeing important system maintenance tasks, which leads to the quandary of deciding where to place precious resources.
Join Kaseya and Techweb for an informative webcast and learn how your company can carry out the balancing act of innovating while increasing efficiency and opening up new opportunities to drive profit.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
The New Software Mindset
A TechWeb Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast
InformationWeek set out to determine the relative satisfaction with classic enterprise applications and found that only a minority of users found those products affordable (23%) and easily customized (23%), and yet an even smaller minority (18%) believe they can easily switch to another vendor. Join Mary Hayes Weier, Editor At Large of InformationWeek, for this important webcast. Along with perceptions of classic software options, Mary will discuss survey findings and offer insights into the perceived strengths and weaknesses of each of these approaches to enterprise applications.
This webcast will include both market research and practical advice, giving you a complete picture of the perceptions of IT decision makers toward their options for enterprise applications.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Why Virtualize?
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join InformationWeek and Synnex on Wednesday, June 25th, for an informative webcast to hear IBM’s VMware Certified Professional, Eric Hardcastle, discuss the steps you can take within your organization towards Virtualization. During the presentation you will learn how VMware’s virtualization and IBM’s state-of-the-art hardware solves today’s top IT challenges.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Using the ITIL Framework for Windows Vista Deployments
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join us for this live Webcast as we discover why ITIL is crucial to your organization and how you can use the ITIL framework to optimize your IT processes. Next, learn how you can apply this best practice framework to your enterprise-wide Windows Vista deployment process, and how CA IT Client Management solutions can help automate the entire process, from planning and implementation, to process management and support.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET
File Shares and Automated Classification - be better organized by taking decisions AWAY from your employees
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
To address compliance and eDiscovery needs - or just run your business effectively - you need to be able to find your information quickly and easily. Having a system for categorizing your content, and for keeping it categorized, is essential. And freeing up employees from organizing the content manually means they can spend more time on key business issues.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 1pm PT/4pm ET
Enterprise Content Management without Compromise
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Join us for this TechWebCast as we explore the challenges that organizations face adopting new technologies and see how customers are leveraging social work models without forcing any compromise between the user empowerment and IT control
Making Security Management Easier
Executive Roundtable & Wine Tasting Reception
Sponsored by Symantec
Recent studies have pointed to a clear trend within today's IT organizations – the capacity to hire, train and retain employees with deep security expertise is becoming increasingly challenging. While companies battle to find and keep qualified staff, they also face evolving Web-based threats, data loss risks and compliance mandates that require constant attention.
Vice Presidents and other senior level executives who are establishing and/or maintaining a reliable security framework should plan to attend this Roundtable event which will provide a rare opportunity to tackle the issues of security management through an interactive, peer-driven dialog.
Shifting Perimeter Security to SaaS
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast
Join Webroot and InformationWeek for this exclusive webcast, as we learn how savvy CIOs and IT leaders are leveraging software as a service (SaaS) to enforce desktop and perimeter security, mitigate corporate risk and strengthen business continuity.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
Predicting the Future: Designing an Energy Efficient, Low Cost Data Center
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Video TechWebCast
Join us for this informative webcast on data center planning, and learn how to intelligently predict your company's future data center costs. No one individual should have to bear the burden of making these decisions blind and without practical guidance. Fortunately, a new family of highly interactive tools allow users to input possible data center densities, loads, and efficiencies to generate "what if" costs. These costs include estimations of capital costs, energy costs, carbon footprint, and space and cooling costs. As the science of data center design becomes more complex, trade off tools become indispensable to the simplification of the entire process.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Why Visibility Is Critical in an SOA Environment
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast
You're not done being the hero once you've retooled the enterprise; how you manage its performance will demonstrate your true mettle...
Whether you’re considering migrating to a service-oriented architecture or have already made the leap, you know that SOA environments enable business units to rapidly respond to changing market and business conditions to gain competitive advantage, improve service levels and customer satisfaction, reduce cost, and realize greater operational efficiency.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 - Time: 11am PT/2pm ET
Next Generation Data Center Trends: Virtualization, Blades, Power and Cooling
Sponsored by APC
Today's IT professionals are expected to respond immediately to the changing needs of business; but is the design of your datacenter really capable of keeping up with the pace? Innovations in multi-core processors, blade systems and server virtualization technology offer an amazing amount of efficiency and flexibility, while at the same time creating a whole new set of challenges for IT and Facility managers. The growing trend towards high-density rack configurations reduce floor space requirements but concentrate power needs and heat generation into much smaller areas; which may result in hot-spots that can even move throughout the day as workloads change.
An Evening in the Cloud
Sponsored by Amazon, BungeeLabs
The organizers of Enterprise 2.0 invite you to join them for a one-of-a-kind evening during which Amazon and other purveyors of cloud-based computing will publicly pitch you and your peers on the idea of running all of your IT -- yes all of it -- in the cloud. Are you open to such a move? Is it even possible? Please join us for some vibrant discussion, intimate networking, and a drink or two on the eve of our industry's most forward looking event for enterprise IT, Enterprise 2.0. This evening event is free to attend.
IT Asset Management: Exercising Cost Leadership in a Difficult Economy
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Today's enterprise expects IT to run like a business, and a business is expected to manage its assets. In this TechWebCast, learn how to gain the insight you need to manage your most important IT initiatives and build an accurate fact base to run the business of IT.
Wednesday, June 5, 2008 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
State of the Middleware Market - is open source ready for the enterprise?
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Discover how to identify opportunities where open source middleware should be considered. Join Chris Haddad, Vice President and Analyst from the Burton Group, and Aaron Darcy, Product Line Director for the JBossEnterprise Application Platform, in a Red Hat sponsored webinar to discuss:
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
Service Dependency Mapping: Automating the Discovery of the Relationships from Business Services to Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join ASG and EMA for an informative webcast on Thursday, May 29th and hear experts discuss how you can face managing your companies complex environment. The ability to automatically discover configuration information -- including packaged applications, business processes, and even custom applications -- and populate CMDBs, dramatically increases an organization’s productivity.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM PT/11:00 AM ET
Leading Analyst Research on Managing Your IT Portfolio in Challenging Times
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join us for this live Webcast as we discover with challenging economic times upon us, effectively managing an integrated IT portfolio process is now a critical success factor for your IT organization. Hear first-hand from Craig Symons of Forrester Research practical ways to ensure that your portfolio is balanced between risk and return as well as optimize your portfolio for maximum value.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET
Making Virtualization A Reality In The Next Generation Data Center
Sponsored by Novell
Virtualization can help IT Executives cut costs and improve productivity and flexibility in their data centers. In this seminar with InformationWeek, Novell and Accenture, we will hear from leading experts from IDC on how to improve services and build the next generation data centers with virtualization technologies. We'll describe its impact and what you need to know before making any new hardware purchases, and how to make use of open systems to further cut the costs of these improvements.
The Application Modernization Imperative: A Strategic Discussion on Leveraging Existing Core Applications in a Web-enabled and SOA Environment
Sponsored by Software AG
Join your executive peers for a moderated discussion led by Contributing Editor, Lane Cooper. Over the course of two hours Lane will lead the group in an interactive conversation that outlines the best practices and key steps that organizations can take to implement effective application modernization strategies.
Leveraging capabilities in your existing Cisco network to effectively manage application performance from data center to WAN
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join Cisco, Nemertes and Fluke Networks for this unique, round-table format webcast. The panelists will discuss how to leverage your infrastructure's existing capabilities and data sources such as Cisco IOS, IP SLAs and NetFlow to manage application performance from the data center to the LAN and WAN.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:00 AM
An Evening of Mobility Networking Reception
Sponsored by Nokia
Join InformationWeek's Mobility Blogger, Eric Zeman for a networking cocktail reception hosted by Nokia. Join us in this casual setting where you can have intimate or group discussions among your peers, colleagues and industry experts on your mobile device management strategy.
The Enterprise Meets Web 2.0: Optimizing Your IT Infrastructure
Sponsored by Force 10
Join experts from InformationWeek, Gartner, Pando Networks and Force10 Networks for this exclusive morning seminar in the heart of Manhattan. You’ll have the opportunity to learn how you can safely design and deploy Web 2.0-like services throughout your datacenters, across your wiring closets and out to your user base.
The Intelligent Low-Latency Trading Imperative
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Wall Street & Technology
Executing a trade faster than a competitor, while important, is only half of the battle. Drive in the financial markets has been focused on pure speed and low latency, however, forward looking firms are quickly adding intelligence to their latency- sensitive trading applications. Join your industry peers at this Wall Street & Technology Executive Breakfast for an open dialogue on some of the latest industry low-latency trends, trading strategies and newest technology.
Accelerating Innovation Through BPM: How Leading Organizations Are Aligning IT with Business and Getting Spectacular Results
Sponsored by Software AG
Join us for this InformationWeek Executive breakfast event. Joe Panettieri, InformationWeek's contributing editor as well as other industry experts will share the secrets to keeping your IT systems aligned with your business. During this invitation only event, you'll learn how some of the world's most efficient companies leverage Business Process Management (BPM) to drive ever-increasing process efficiency, innovation and growth.
IT Asset Management: Exercising Cost Leadership in a Difficult Economy
Sponsored by BDNA
In a down economy, when every dollar counts, can you account for the dollars that you're investing? A .5% error in accounting for your software assets could be politically unacceptable to your management. In a recession asset management equates to job security. Join InformationWeek and Gartner Analyst, Jack Heine for this complimentary senior level executive event!
Rules for Effective IT/Business Collaboration
How Business Rule Technology Bridges the Gap from IT Coding Business Logic to User-Driven Dynamic Decisioning
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Business rule technology bridges the gap from IT coding logic to dynamic decisioning. One firm used rules to help reduce maintenance requests by 70%! Bill Leannah, West Bend Mutual Insurance shares his practical rules experience. Thought Leaders Panel with analysts from Forrester & OMG answers your questions.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET
New Age Of Innovation
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast
InformationWeek Executive Editor John Soat will lead a discussion with C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan, authors of New Age Of Innovation, querying them on the specifics of their new paradigm, their formulas for innovation, what it all means for old-line companies as well as new, entrepreneurial startups, and how it will affect the use of information technology in the future.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
Delivering on the Needs of Your Mobile Workforce: Corporate Mobility Policy and Device Management
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Today, mobility is no longer just about providing executives with mobile email. As your workforce becomes increasingly mobile, they are looking to you for the appropriate technologies to deliver mobile applications in a safe, secure, and cost effective way. In this webinar, you will hear how you can meet your users’ mobile needs without compromising the high level of visibility and control you desire. You will also learn how to develop a corporate mobility policy and how to use the appropriate device management tools to enforce it.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Don't let laptop users compromise your network security
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Sponsored by Google
This webinar will discuss the changing web threat landscape and how Google Web Security for Enterprise can ensure safe and productive web use for all your users, even those working remotely, at hotels, at coffee shops or even on guest networks.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
Data Warehousing and Operational BI: A Brave New World
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast
Sponsored by Oracle
This WebCast will examine the brave new world of "operational" BI and how it is changing the demands on the information infrastructure of database and data warehousing systems. Operational BI is about providing timely data access and analysis for daily decision-making by a wider group of users than traditional BI systems have served. The Webinar will discuss how trends in operational BI make it imperative for organizations to take advantage of new technology options in database systems to support dynamic changes in BI and data warehousing.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
InformationWeek Over Air Mobility Forum
Platinum Sponsor: Sybase
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY
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Endoint Security and NAC
Join us online this Tuesday, April 22nd for a deep dive into the decisions and issues you’ll face deploying Endpoint Security and Network Access Control across your organization. NAC technology is in flux and growing fast—to encompass not only who has access to the network but also the enforcement of security policies and best practices across all networked users.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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Virtualization Management: Delivering ROI Through a Lifecycle Perspective
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
April 17, 2008
Beyond Basic BU...Disaster Recovery Continuum
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
April 17, 2008
Database Scalability: How to Plan for the Long Haul
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
April 8, 2008
Impact 2008 Conference
Sponsored by IBM
Time is Running Out....Join IBM at the IMPACT 2008 Conference
Stop Talking and Start Doing. Register now for the Defining SOA Event.
April 6 - 11 Las Vegas, Nevada
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Email Risks, Google highlights why what you don't know can cost you
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 27, 2008
Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 27, 2008
Mobile Security In The Age of Intrusion
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebCast
March 20, 2008
Deploying Windows Vista in Your Enterprise? CA Can Help…
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 18, 2008
Innovation@Google: A Day In The Life
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 13, 2008
Enabling Enterprise Agility through Data Center Automation
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 12, 2008
The All-Wireless Workplace
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives Webcast
March 12, 2008
APC Blade Ready™ Event
This event will help IT and Facility Managers assess, design, procure, stage, implement and interconnect their blade solution while maintaining an Efficient Enterprise™.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - New York, NY
Ensure Successful End-user Experiences with CA Wily Customer Experience Manager
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
March 5, 2008
Enterprise FMC: Linking enterprise and cellular communications today
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives Webcast
February 26, 2008
Poor Performance Is A Silent Killer. Learn How to Improve Your Online Business With Real End User Monitoring
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
February 26, 2008
Don't Forklift into Unified Communications
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives Webcast
This webcast will define the common elements of Unified Communications and how the piece parts can be implemented with the least disruption to the enterprise's existing IT structure. Please join Gary Audin, an expert lecturer and writer in IP Telephony, and AVST for this informative presentation.
February 21, 2008
Building an adaptive infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange 2007
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
E-mail volumes are growing at an unprecedented rate as are the servers and storage required to support messaging infrastructures. Operating costs are increasing with each new server you have to maintain. And day by day your environment is growing more complex. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was built with these challenges in mind. It provides a comprehensive messaging environment designed to better protect your business, keep your e-mail systems running at a lower cost, and provide your employees with easier access to e-mail, voicemail and calendars.
February 20, 2008
Deploying 802.11n: The High-Speed Cruising Experience
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives Webcast
February 14, 2008
Change the Rules without Changing your Business Processes: Using Business Rules Management to Turbo-Charge your BPM Solution
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
February 12, 2008
Improve Your Customer Experience with Better Call Center Integration of Communications and Information
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
February 7, 2008
Proven Methodologies to Ensure Web 2.0 Application Scalability
Attend this Webinar and get real-world insight into how to deliver enterprise-scale performance. Hear one of HP Software’s top performance validation experts talk about his experiences performance testing Web 2.0 at client sites.
January 24, 2008
E-Mail As a Service: Time for Another Look?
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Join InformationWeek and Google for a look at how SaaS is upending the belief that organizations must manage their own e-mail infrastructure. This webcast will examine the benefits and drawbacks of SaaS services, and feature real-world insights from a Google customer. An audience-driven live Q&A session is also included.
January 24, 2008
Operational Excellence and Recommendations for Best Practices in 2008
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
This is a must-see webcast for Branch Office Executives, Branch Managers, Director of IT and Security, Line-of- Business Managers, and others who need to leverage enterprise reporting infrastructure to support corporate objectives.
January 23, 2008
Successfully Managing Virtual Servers: Lessons from the Real World
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives WebCast
As IT organizations move forward with their implementation of VMware and/or other server virtualization technologies, they are encountering a variety of new data center management challenges. IT organizations are looking for ways to better manage data centers in which a growing percentage of servers are virtualized.
January 22, 2008
Leveraging Capabilities in Your Existing Cisco Network for Optimized Performance and Troubleshooting
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Join Cisco, Yankee Group and Fluke Networks for this unique, round-table format webinar. Representatives from Cisco and Yankee Group, an analyst firm, will provide their perspectives on trends, issues and products for managing and optimizing network performance with existing resources.
January 17, 2008
Best Practices for Data Center Consolidation
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
This webinar will focus on best practices in data center consolidation, touching on all the things you must consider and plan for in order to avoid your own sirens and maximize the benefits of your data center consolidation initiative.
January 16, 2008
Best Practices for Business Service Management with HP
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives WebCast
January 9, 2008
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