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Informationweek Events: 2010

Using Mobile to Engage With Customers: Why Now is the Time to Act
An InformationWeek Webcast

During the last few years, consumers have grown far more sophisticated in the usage of mobile technologies -- and in the process the mobile device has become an integral part of their lives. Today enterprise strategists have an enormous opportunity to reach their end consumers through this fast-evolving channel. Businesses are using mobile to elicit customer responses, present exclusive offers, deliver vital information or enable purchases.

During our upcoming webinar, our expert speakers will identify exactly what this opportunity means to you and why you don't want to ignore it. The program will include discussions on:

• Mobile opportunities and trends for increasing customer engagement and loyalty
• The future of mobile commerce and how it's evolving
• How SMS/text has been used a key engagement tool
• Use cases from some leading U.S. brands
• How mobile engagement impacts customer satisfaction and loyalty

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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Key Data Center Initiatives in 2011
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join industry experts from Forrester (an independent research firm), Avaya, and Silver Peak in this complementary webinar that will discuss:

• An overview of top CIO data center trends
• Descriptive guidance on how to prepare the data center in support of these trends
• Tips and techniques for optimizing network connectivity to the data center
• End user case studies, ROI metrics, and best practice guidelines
• Audience Questions for our speakers during live Q&A

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 -- 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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Oracle WebLogic: Empowering Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Thousands of Datacenters Worldwide
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this webcast to learn how WebLogic empowers Exalogic with highly-tuned performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Gain insight into WebLogic Server's unique capabilities -- on its own, in combination with Exalogic, and forward into the future.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 -- 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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Informix Database: Total Economic Impact and Panther
An InformationWeek Webcast

Few companies have a meaningful way to measure the value of IT and IT projects before making an investment. Technology providers frequently talk about features and functions but sometimes forget to help potential clients understand benefits.

Jon Erickson of Forrester Consulting will present the results of an IBM commissioned study which examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM Informix database software. The study uses a comprehensive methodology to bring third-party, objective ROI analysis to organizations considering the use of Informix.

Richard Wozniak of IBM will also provide a brief overview of the recently released Informix "Panther" which extends the capabilities of Informix with greater simplicity, power and flexibility.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Get Smarter with EDM: Adapting Practices to Virtualization and the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast

Companies of all sizes are in a race to migrate to virtualized platforms and cloud computing. But while the cost and flexibility advantages are compelling, organizations run the risk of carrying over inefficient and expensive enterprise data management (EDM) practices into the new environment. These practices could negate the cost advantages of cloud and virtualization. In this Webcast, you will discover how you can seize opportunities presented by virtualization and cloud computing to dramatically improve your EDM strategies and practices.
Thursday, December 9, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT/ 2:00 pm ET

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What, Exactly, Do You Mean by Business Rules?
An InformationWeek Webcast

James Taylor, a leading expert in decision management, recently blogged that there is “a persistent problem with business rules as the little b****ers get everywhere." The problem he's referring to is understanding how different types of rules should be handled, based on their function and value, in achieving business objectives. Join IBM and James Taylor as they clear up the confusion between rules and decisions, explaining why this distinction is critical if you expect to incorporate improved agility into your organization's ability to respond to market demands, competitive actions and regulatory pressures.

Discussion points include:

• How to differentiate between rules that should be embedded directly within applications and those that should be externalized in order to be used as decision services.
• Examples of how this approach ensures consistent decision-making across channels and processes, providing a point of leverage for analytics, and enforces a single point of control for compliance.
• A demonstration of how business rules and business process management technologies can be flexible solutions with maximum decision agility.

Thursday, December 9, 2010, Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Smarter Business Intelligence: Advanced Analytics In Practice
An InformationWeek Webcast

Plenty of organizations are ready to move beyond rear-view-mirror business intelligence. They want to anticipate rather than react, getting ahead of risk and churn and striking when cross-sell and up-sell opportunities knock. That's the promise of advanced analytics. But is it possible to move to this next level of BI without hiring armies of expensive, PhD-level experts?

In this InformationWeek Editorial Webcast, analyst and expert David Stodder explains how it's possible to get to deeper, more forward-looking insight without breaking the bank. Drawing from case examples and current trends, David will explore various options, including conventional analytics tools, prebuilt models and apps, and ways of embedding analytic insight into dashboards, processes, and mainstream applications.

You'll learn about:

• Differences between simple and advanced analytics
• Benefits and tradeoffs in using prebuilt models and applications
• Ways companies are making the most of scarce analytics expertise
• Best practices in delivering real-time and actionable insight
• Intersections between analytics and other data management initiatives

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Laying the Groundwork for Cloud-based App Delivery
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this InformationWeek Analytics Strategy Session report and Webcast, we will discuss criteria for selecting applications that can benefit from the cloud -- for example, in terms of scaling and efficiency -- and making sure that they can be adequately supported. The key is to lay the groundwork during your data center network infrastructure upgrade cycle, so you are prepared to deliver services flexibly and quickly, as the business requires. In discussing the critical components to prepare for cloud architecture, we'll build on our previous reports and expand on provisioning, profiles, automation and Layer 2 designs.

• You will learn how to lay the groundwork during your data center network infrastructure upgrade cycle, so you are prepared to deliver services flexibly and quickly, as the business requires.
• You will also hear how to create a successful private cloud that results in fully automated and synchronized IT operation and self-service environment for users to spin up compute resources and deploy applications, enabling faster deployment of applications and, a better use of budget for infrastructure and hardware components.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Driving Stronger Business Productivity through Next Generation End User Computing
Sponsored by Dell & Intel

Today's CIOs and senior IT leaders are confronted with fundamental questions about where the IT service enablement function begins and ends. This roundtable will get to the heart of this debate by providing thought leadership on how these trends impact you, your organization and -- most important -- business outcomes. We will explore how forward-looking organizations are harnessing these trends to drive more productivity and efficiency in the workplace.

• San Francisco: Thursday, December 2, 2010
• Chicago: Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Driving Stronger Business Productivity through Next Generation End User Computing
Executive Roundtable Events

Today's IT leaders are confronted with fundamental questions about where the IT service enablement function begins and ends. They are charged with empowering the enterprise to become more productive and enable business innovation. While at it, IT leaders are also confronted by growing technology trends such as Consumerization, Desktop Virtualization that can potentially change the game. This interactive discussion will focus on how these trends impact you, your organization and - most important - business outcomes. Join us as we explore how forward-looking organizations are harnessing these trends to drive more productivity and efficiency in the workplace.
Seating is limited, register today!

• Thursday, December 2, 2010: Cocktail Reception and Executive Roundtable
• Tuesday, December 7th, 2010: Breakfast and Executive Roundtable

For more information contact dwalton@techweb.com.
* Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

The Definitive Data Center Planning Guide for 2011 and Beyond

In this virtual event you'll hear about successful strategies to deliver applications by maximizing efficiencies in networking, storage, and servers. You will also learn methods for data center orchestration such as automating single-click application provisioning and management and much more to assist your organizations data center planning needs.
Platinum Sponsors: Symantec, thawte
Silver Sponsors: OpenText, Webroot, St. Bernard
Bronze Sponsor: Emerson

 

What Happened to the Hardware? The Evolving Enterprise Communications Market
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webcast, we look at enterprise communications' transformation from a hardware-centric industry to one now dominated by software, servers, licenses and applications; and how customers, resellers, and vendors need to evolve to keep up with the changes.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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Conversations in the Cloud -- IT's Involvement with SaaS
An InformationWeek Webcast

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is an established alternative to on-premise applications for the enterprise. In fact, according to the 2010 InformationWeek Analytics survey on SaaS applications, 32% of companies report their organization is embracing a strategic long-term vision to use SaaS applications and 59% say SaaS is an appropriate delivery method for specific application functionality.

In this webcast, Stephanie Stahl will talk with Workday CTO Stan Swete about the conversations that lead up to a SaaS decision. In addition, they will discuss how Workday manages to update their enterprise solutions for all customers three times a year. Finally, McKee Foods, one of Workday's earliest customers, compares their experience with SaaS to that of owning an on-premise ERP solution.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
An InformationWeek Webcast

Learn how Oracle's integrated Business Intelligence solution along with groundbreaking "Action Framework" lets you connect strategy to action. Learn how Oracle's open BI solution empowers organizations of all sizes, across the globe to define strategy, achieve organizational alignment, draw insights and take actions for competitive advantage. Discover why Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the most complete and most integrated solution for all your business analytics needs.

By attending this webcast you will learn:

• Why Oracle Business Intelligence 11g is the most complete and most integrated platform for all your business analytics nee
• About the integrated Scorecard and Strategy Management module for mapping strategies to objectives and tracking performance via real-time KPIs
• About the innovative Action Framework to directly translate insights into business-improving actions
• How Oracle Business Intelligence 11g can make your business more productive, better aligned and more agile

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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Turbulence at the Rack Edge
An InformationWeek Webcast

The Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch plays an increasingly critical role in data center networks as they continue to grow and evolve. Tune in and discover what turbulence is occurring at the rack edge in data centers today, as well as new technologies and solutions that enable greater levels of scalability, integration and VM-awareness in purpose-built data center Top-of-Rack switching platforms.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 -- 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET

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Where is your Data Tonight? A Lesson in Avoiding Headlines, Fines or Worse
An InformationWeek Webcast

Since 2005, 510,545,641 potentially sensitive records have been lost, stolen or mishandled. A slew of regulations now require breach notification, meaning enterprises must practice strong data protection. What role does encryption play in protecting data, and how is hardware-based encrypting different from alternatives? This session will review key concepts of encryption, industry standards from the Trusted Computing Group for hardware-based encryption, and deploying such drives in the enterprise. Experts will advise attendees on results of testing of hardware vs. software encryption and discuss key management and TCO. Bring your questions and learn how to prevent costly and embarrassing data breaches and resulting notification.

Thursday, November 18, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Smarter Customer Service: The Business Case For Text Analytics
An InformationWeek Webcast

It's one thing to know that so many thousand customers had complaints or warranty claims about products X, Y, and Z. But what are customers really saying about your company and products?

Voice-of-the-customer analysis is fast emerging as a cutting-edge approach to efficiently mine actual comments from call center comment fields, e-mail surveys, online feedback forms, and even blog and Twitter posts. Text analytics technologies can be used to troll through tens of thousands of documents and uncover product flaws, gaps in support, poor service providers, and true root causes of product and service complaints. Companies used to employ armies of clerks or high-cost focus group sessions to develop these insights, but text analytics can quickly deliver more detailed, reliable, and consistent insight from unstructured content that's already available within an enterprise.

Join this Webcast and you'll learn:

• What are the key business benefits organizations can achieve with text analytics
• How to integrate text analytics with business intelligence
• How to apply text analytics to understand customer sentiment expressed on the Web (as in, sentiment analysis)
• What organizations can learn using text analysis for fraud detection and risk analysis

Thursday, November 18, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Process Excellence: A Route To Better Business
Executive Event Series
Sponsored by IBM

What does it take to run your business efficiently even as workloads and demand levels become more unpredictable? Join us for a process improvement breakfast seminar and walk away with insights and new ideas on how to move toward more agile and efficient processes.

• Wednesday, November 10th - San Francisco
• Thursday, November 18th - Philadelphia




Driving Business Execution in the Cloud
An Executive Roundtable
Hosted by Successfactors

How does a CIO create a competitive advantage in an environment where all companies have access to the same applications? That's what this Roundtable is dedicated to. Helping YOU discover how you can use a widely available SAAS application that helps you expertly manage the single largest expense on your books -- your people -- while driving top and bottom line growth by capitalizing lower costs, accessing all application functionality, and dramatically improving speed to value.


• October 28, 2010: Boston, MA
• November 18, 2010: Washington DC




Unified Threat Management at the Network Level

Network security is changing to match the trends of an increasingly distributed workforce. At the same time, security threats are becoming more pervasive and adaptable to traditional standalone network security devices. An integrated approach is necessary to combine advanced firewall services with content security such as anti-virus and web filtering. These security services need to move to the points of network access for distributed branch offices and small/medium businesses. Enjoy this on-demand webcast.

Original event date: November 17, 2010



Improve Storage Efficiency for Virtualized Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint
A UBM TechWeb Webcast

Please join TechWeb, EMC's Director of Strategic Technology Jonas Irwin, and Vice President James Bond, of virtualization adopter Apptix to understand five ways you can improve efficiency in your virtualized Microsoft application deployments.

With the right approach you can:
• Tune Microsoft SQL to run up to 80 percent faster
• Shrink Exchange Backup Windows from hours to minutes
• Enable faster virtual-machine deployments, clones, snapshots, and migrations
• Failover an entire SharePoint farm across two geographically dispersed sites and bring it back online in minutes
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 minutes

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8 Threats Your Anti-Virus Won't Stop
A Dark Reading Webcast

News headlines are a constant reminder that malware attacks and data leakage are on the rise. Over the past decade, the threat has changed and traditional anti-virus is no longer enough to protect against today's sophisticated and financially motivated cybercriminals. Join this live Webcast and learn about the changes in the threat landscape and the 8 threats your anti-virus won't stop.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 -- 9 AM PT/12:00 PM ET

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Cybercrime Insights: 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon Business & the U.S. Secret Service
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast

The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on a first-of-its kind collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, found that last year's breaches involved more insider threats, greater use of social engineering and the continued strong involvement of organized crime.

Check out this technical webcast to learn about critical trends in data theft and proven strategies for safeguarding your company's sensitive data from cybercriminals and rogue insiders.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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Avoiding Costly Wage and Hour Litigation
An InformationWeek Webcast

Wage and hour litigation is on the rise across the financial services industry, with fast-growing lawsuits that can cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and lead to reputation-damaging, negative press attention. In 2009 alone, the 10 largest class-action wage and hour settlements amounted to $364 million, a 44% increase over the previous year.

Join industry experts from Jackson Lewis LLP, Bank Systems & Technology, and Kronos as we examine the state of wage and hour practices in the financial services industry, looking at how litigation could affect you and the important role workforce management can play in your overall risk management strategy.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 -- 9 AM PT/12:00 PM ET

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Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara, Nov. 8-11
Business Powered by Collaboration

See the latest collaboration tools and technologies, while gaining thought leadership to support a variety of critical functions-including HR, Sales/Marketing and Community Managemet-to increase productivity, drive revenue and improve collaboration. InformationWeek readers can register for a FREE Expo Pass with priority code CNUCES82





>Learn How to Transition to Mobile Devices Without Raising Complexity or Risk

The trend towards mobile devices is good news for your business. This on-demand webcast will show you how Dell solutions, based on Intel technologies, can help you implement secure and manageable mobile solutions today. Join InformationWeek to discover how mobile devices can be a seamless and secure part of your overall infrastructure.

Original event date: November 9, 2010





Insurance & Technology's 12th Annual Executive Summit
Gearing Up for Growth
Insurance & Technology's 2010 Executive Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event for senior-level insurance company/carrier executives who have technology decision-making and buying responsibilities. At this year's Summit you'll gain access to the resources and intellectual capital you need to help lead your organization into a new era of growth.

For more information, email insuranceandtech@techweb.com

November 7-10, 2010 - Carefree, Arizona


* Registration is limited to insurance company/carrier executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.




Are You Exceeding Your Customers Expectations?
Executive Forum Event Series
Sponsored by Pegasystems

In today's business climate there is more pressure than ever to differentiate your business from the competition. By Increasing Automation and Delivering a Personalized Customer Experience you ensure increased productivity, eliminate errors, deliver the right resolution on the first attempt and most importantly add value to customers, prospects and your bottom line. Pegasystems and InformationWeek invite you to join industry peers, thought leaders and strategic alliance partners for a morning of interactive discussions on the challenge of differentiating your business at a cost that is right for your bottom-line and the benefits that can be realized by applying today's agile technologies.

Seating is limited, register today!
• October 14, NYC: InterContinental Barclay
• October 20, San Francisco: Westin St. Fran.
• October 26, DC Area: W Hotel Washington
• November 3, Chicago: InterContinental
• November 4, Toronto: Fairmont Royal York
For more information contact dwalton@techweb.com.

* Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
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Oracle's Strategy for Datacenter Optimization
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will explain how Oracle's new SPARC T3 servers can help your data center managers eliminate major headaches through their unmatched scalability, security and integration. Learn how Oracle is driving innovation across the entire data center - from end users to system administrators - by integrating its next-generation SPARC servers and the world's most trusted operating system, Oracle Solaris, with the industry's most proven and popular middleware, database and enterprise applications.

Thursday, November 4, 2010 -- 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET

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Enterprise Clouds: Application Management Considerations for Internal, External & Hybrid Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast

This session is for professionals:
• Responsible for the performance and availability of shared service, cloud or hybrid environments and the applications that run on them.
• Application and business line owners considering cloud solutions for their applications.

In this session you will learn:
• Best practices and trends with on-premise shared service models.
• What applications are moving to the external cloud and what is staying on premise.
• Things to consider before moving an application off site.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 -- 8:00 am PT / 11:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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Revolutionary Banking: Solutions to 10 Common Problems in Banking IT Systems Management
An InformationWeek Financial Services WebCast

Today's finance & banking IT systems management doesn't have to be thankless. Nor does it have to be painful or require tons of overtime. In this webinar gain valuable management insights from the IT Directors at Home Bank of Louisiana, hear their discussion of common IT systems management problems, and learn how these leaders revolutionized their banks using IT automation technology.

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET

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Smarter Information Management: From Cleaner Data To Reliable, Actionable Insight
An InformationWeek Webcast

The sales department retains one view of customers and products while customer service maintains yet another. And then there's the view from global divisions and companies recently acquired. Is it any wonder that so many enterprises are struggling with redundant, conflicting, and overlapping information?

Master data management and data governance initiatives are finally taking these problems head on. The idea is to cleanse and de-dupe data and maintain one set of data on dimensions such as customers, products, locations, assets and so on. For those who make the commitment, the rewards go well beyond more efficient and reliable sales, marketing, and customer support initiatives. Trusted information delivers reliable insight and better decisions from operations all the way up to the strategic level.

Join this one hour webcast to learn:
• How to reduce business costs and increase agility through MDM
• How to increase the power and accuracy of business intelligence with MDM
• Why MDM and data governance are essential to regulatory compliance
• How to increase support and sponsorship of MDM in your organization
• How to evaluate whether multi-domain MDM solutions are right for you

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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HOWTO Secure Your SAP Data and Eliminate Last-Minute Audit Scrambles
Dark Reading & InformationWeek Webcast

Attend and uncover how you can safeguard your organization's most sensitive data and avoid last-minute heroics, fines, audit retests and loss of auditor confidence from being unprepared for your SAP audit.

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes

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NEW! Register Now: Dr. Dobb's SD 2.0 Virtual Event: The World of Software Development
October 27, 2010
10:00 am ET - 6:00 pm ET
The first Dr. Dobb's SD 2.0 virtual event spans the globe, reaching more developers than ever before. Developers who depend on the expertise of their peers when creating applications from the iPhone to Cloud -- on time and under budget. Software that works the way it is supposed to work.
Platinum Sponsors: Electric Cloud, Infragistics, Intel, Perforce
Gold Sponsora: Klockwork, thawte








InformationWeekSMB On Location Makeover: Torelli Races for the Finish Line with New ERP System
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast

In this live webcast, you will learn how this sweeping technology makeover is helping Torelli rev up its revenue, reduce costs and streamline operations across the board. Find out first-hand how small businesses around the country and around the world are applying proven ERP best practices to beat the odds and achieve success, despite today's tough economic environment.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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The Value of Authentication on the Internet
A Dark Reading Webcast

The Internet today is an irreplaceable facet of our lives that continues to evolve and grow. From the early days of using email to communicate with colleagues and friends, to social networks that harbor countless amounts of personal information about us all, to online banking and commerce being a part of our everyday lives, the World Wide Web has become a preferred standard for how consumers want to transact.

Because of this, it becomes increasingly more important to ensure that you are talking to a trusted, legitimate company, and not an imposter trying to take you for the proverbial ride. We are all familiar with the gold padlock showing us that a site is secure, but what does that lock icon really mean? What else can we do as online businesses to ensure visitors to our sites that we're the good guys?

In this webcast, we'll address the role that authentication plays for both businesses and online users alike, and take a closer look at how trust plays such an important role in consumer behavior. Some of the topics we'll discuss are:
• A brief history of securing the Internet
• Types of visual cues and what consumers best respond to
• Simple changes you can make today to inspire confidence and trust

Register today for this free webcast, sponsored by VeriSign Authentication Services, a Symantec company.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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State of the Industry: B2B, Enterprise Application Integration, and Managed File Transfer
An InformationWeek Webcast

With the convergence of B2B, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and Managed File Transfer (MFT), companies are changing the ways they think about:

• How people share information internally and externally
• The governance implications of sharing information
• The role of SaaS in B2B, EAI, and MFT
Join us for a look at the "State of the Industry: B2B, EAI, and MFT" with Frank Kenney, former Research Director at Gartner and current VP of Global Strategy at Ipswitch. During this webcast, Frank will discuss the convergence of the B2B, EAI, and MFT markets; the new opportunities for technology providers in the evolving MFT space; and a reforecast of the market definitions provided by experts in this space.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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NEW! Register Now: Extending the Value of Virtualization: The Road to the Private Cloud
October 20, 2010
10:00 am ET - 6:00 pm ET
This virtual event will explore the technologies and operational practices required for a viable public cloud, and discuss potential speed bumps and roadblocks that can impede the journey.
Platinum Sponsors: Eaton, HP & AMD, Zenoss
Gold Sponsor: thawte
Silver Sponsor: Webroot
Independant Research Partner: Forrester








InfoSphere Warehouse Packs: Delivering Immediate Business Insight
An InformationWeek Webcast

Have you ever found yourself searching for answers to common business problems such as "Who are my most profitable customers?"..."How successful are my new marketing campaigns?" and perhaps..."How are my vendor returns affecting my bottom line?" These are just a few of the questions that successful and competitive organizations ask themselves on a daily basis -- and the exact same questions that IBM is helping businesses answer today -- all while significantly compressing project time and risk of the underlying data warehouse projects through our InfoSphere Warehouse Packs.

In this webcast you will learn how the InfoSphere Warehouse Packs answer your most pressing business problems -- and also how the Packs handle the local data warehousing ecosystem around them.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Interop New York, Oct. 18-22
The Leading Business Technology Event

See all the latest IT solutions and learn about innovations-including virtualization, cloud computing, networking, mobility and security-that will increase productivity and cut costs. InformationWeek readers can register for a FREE Expo Pass to meet 150+ leading vendors including AT&T, Cisco, Dell, HP and Microsoft and attend 40+ free sessions with priority code CNRXNY55

*Proof of current IT industry involvement is required to attend.







Advanced Trading's Buy-Side Trading Summit 2010
The Trading Desk of the Future

The Buy-Side Trading Summit is an invitation-only event for traders and IT executives at a buy-side firms. This year's event focuses on the future of the trading desk-covering topics including emerging technologies, optimizing your EMS or OMS, taking control of risk management, the future of dark pools, achieving transparency through advanced TCA tools and reacting to changes from regulation.

For more information, email advancedtrading@techweb.com


October 17-19, 2010 - Naples, Florida
* The Summit is open to buy-side executives only.




Data Center Reality: One Size Does Not Fit All
An InformationWeek WebCast

The architecture of a data center varies considerably depending on the applications that it is designed to serve. Explore three distinct types of data center architectures -- Enterprise data centers, Hosting or IaaS data centers, and Portal or Web 2.0 data centers -- each of which is designed to support a specific business model and has its own operational goals and challenges.

Thursday, October 14, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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Business Agility: What CEOs Demand From Their CIOs
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for this Webcast, as leading Business Process Management (BPM) author and strategist Peter Fingar and IBM vice president of Marketing Nancy Pearson meet to discuss the issues driving the need for business agility and the latest advancements in BPM that are facilitating growth and innovation. Attendees of this video webcast are invited to collaborate with the expert presenters to gain further insight into the critical issues impacting the business agility mandate.

Thursday, October 14, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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The Efficient Enterprise: Data Center Optimization Strategies
Executive Roundtable
Sponsored by Dell / Intel

With continued pressure to reduce operating and maintenance costs in the data center, companies are taking a closer look at new ways to improve footprint efficiency, reduce costly power consumption, and optimize manageability. In this InformationWeek executive roundtable, you'll exchange valuable best-practices and challenges with peers to help develop a better data-center transformation for your own company. You'll hear about five key steps that must be part of every data center modernization strategy: planning and management, platform optimization and virtualization, data management, facilities modernization and efficiency, and disaster recovery.

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September 30, 2010 - San Diego, CA
October 7, 2010 - Charlotte, NC
October 12, 2010 - Austin, TX

For more information contact dwalton@techweb.com

* Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.



Evaluating Private Clouds for Federal Agencies
An Executive Roundtable Series
Sponsored by HP & Intel

Commercial cloud services are one way to cut costs, gain efficiencies and introduce new capabilities to federal employees and the public. Government IT managers are concerned about security, privacy protection, service reliability, data storage, and data ownership in the public cloud.. Join your federal government peers at this executive roundtable to explore both the opportunities and challenges of creating private clouds in government data centers.

Seating is Limited. RSVP Today!

* This complimentary event is open to federal government executives only. Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Arlington VA: Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Washington DC: Wednesday, October 6, 2010





Networking for Virtualization
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us for a presentation that will explore the network pitfalls of unplanned, uncoordinated VM expansion and some solutions to help users successfully scale their networks as they scale their VM server infrastructure.

This webcast will also discuss how to further cut costs and actually improve performance, both hardware and administrative, by consolidating data and storage networks used in virtual environments.

Join this webcast to learn more about:
• Simplifying your network, both logically and physically
• What users are looking for in VM management features
• How increased VM consolidation ratios and scaling exacerbate the problems
• New network technologies and industry standards addressing the problems
• Integrating VM and network infrastructure and management -- the path forward

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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The Fallacy of On-Premise Security Appliances
A Dark Reading Webcast

When you consider the endless updates, patches, and upgrades-along with multiple locations, new hardware purchases, and mobile users-you can see how appliances make managing security more difficult instead of easier. No wonder organizations are rapidly adopting SaaS solutions.

Join Webroot for a special presentation as we discuss all those things on-premise security appliance vendors don't want you to know-and show you how SaaS-based security can prevent disaster from striking.

We'll discuss:
• The true cost advantages of SaaS versus on-premise
• The myth that on-premise is more secure
• Why appliances can't keep up with rapidly evolving malware threats
• Deployment and maintainability comparison
• How much easier it is to protect mobile users with SaaS

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET

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Bank Systems & Technology Executive Summit 2010
New Beginnings
At this 5th Annual Executive Summit, an exclusive group of senior-level banking executives will gather to network, learn and share the best practices and strategies that industry leaders are embracing to help their organizations transform in order to seize new growth opportunities.

For more information, email banktech@techweb.com

October 3-6, 2010 - San Diego, CA


*Registration is limited to executives from banks/financial institutions. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.




Beyond Database Monitoring: Enforcing Access & Change Controls for Heterogeneous Environments
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this Webcast to learn HOWTO:
• Continuously monitor all database activities in real-time -- including activities by privileged users such as DBAs, outsourcers and developers -- on a broad range of platforms including Linux/Unix, Windows and System z.
• Move beyond simple monitoring to policy-based blocking and access control -- in order to positively stop unauthorized activities before they occur - using cross-platform policies (Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, etc.) that don't require root access or risky changes to databases.
• Rapidly identify end-user fraud by monitoring enterprise applications such as SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft.
• Monitor non-DBMS systems where sensitive data is also stored, from a single integrated console.
• Deploy hundreds of automated tests to quickly identify database vulnerabilities such as missing patches, default passwords and misconfigured permissions, using industry standards such CIS and DoD STIG.
• Easily pass compliance audits and avoid last-minute audit scrambles with automated compliance workflows that automatically document both policy exceptions and follow-up actions by your oversight team, with pre-configured reports for SOX, PCI-DSS and data privacy laws.

Register Now!
Thursday, September 30, 2010 -- 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes



Protecting the User Experience: Assuring the Delivery of End to-End Applications and Services
An InformationWeek Webcast

What good is having the most advanced applications and services if they are not delivered reliably and efficiently?

This webcast will explore best practices for gaining a truly unified view of the service delivery environment. This session will outline a unified framework from which to construct a dynamic, scalable and sustainable approach to service delivery management that helps align IT with business objectives while improving service quality and reliability.

You will learn how to:
• Optimize IT Service Delivery environments
• Improve your visibility into complex virtual and cloud delivery environments
• Predict and prevent performance issues before users are effected
• Gain new visibility into potential threats and risks to service delivery
• Simplify the complexity of managing campus, multi-location and remote environments

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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When "Free" Isn't Always Affordable
Comparing Commercial Business Rule Software With Open-Source Alternatives An InformationWeek Webcast

Comparing Proprietary Business Rule Software with Open Source Alternatives Get the facts on open source. This webcast examines a recent comparative study between the WebSphere ILOG JRules business rule management system (BRMS) and JBoss Drools, an open source business rule management product.

Discussion points include:
• Value proposition and key business objectives of a BRMS
• How each offering meets BRMS key objectives
• How the study determined total cost of ownership for each offering

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



Enhancing Quality of SAP Deployments through Effective SAP Testing
An InformationWeek Webcast

Many organizations today run some of their most critical business processes on SAP. Given the size and complexity of SAP solutions, as well as the increased demands for shorter implementation cycles, comprehensive testing of SAP implementations is necessary to ensure customer business goals for deploying SAP are met in a time and cost effective manner. Each SAP solution that is implemented supports processes unique to a customer's business. To this extent, SAP functional testing is required to verify that your business and business processes are optimally supported by SAP.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 -- 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes



Tapping Into Commercial Clouds
An Executive Roundtable
Sponsored by RightNow

Where do commercial cloud services fit into agency IT planning? Which cloud models, and which types of cloud applications, are of greatest interest? Join your federal government peers at this executive roundtable to explore both the opportunities and challenges that public clouds present to government agencies.

Seating is Limited. RSVP Today!

* This complimentary event is open to federal government executives only. Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Washington DC: Tuesday, September 21, 2010




Government IT Priorities: Bridging The Policy Gap
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Join us for this editorial webcast where experts will present the findings of InformationWeek Government's exclusive research and analyze where agency IT practices are aligned with administration policy and where they are not.

This webcast will:
• Provide an overview of our research into open government, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and other key IT initiatives
• Explore areas of disconnect between OMB policy and agency IT priorities, and what can be done to bridge the gaps
• Share best practices in how federal IT pros are meeting administration IT strategy objectives

Thursday, September 16, 2010 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Content Assessment: The Critical First Steps to Gaining Control
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will provide attendees with an overview of new dynamic analysis technologies that aggregate, correlate visualize and explore unstructured content and records. Content Assessment is the first critical step to alleviate the pain of the information explosion by evaluating whether it's necessary or unnecessary to the business and enable informed decisions about business value, relevance, and disposition.
Using Content Assessment enables companies to:

• Safely decommission unneeded systems while preserving access to the required content and records
• Determine which content to manage, archive, trust and leverage
• Collect valued or high-risk content from key sources for early case assessment, audits or investigations based on a unified and common practice across multiple content sources

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010-Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET



Content Assessment: The Critical First Steps to Gaining Control
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will provide attendees with an overview of new dynamic analysis technologies that aggregate, correlate visualize and explore unstructured content and records. Content Assessment is the first critical step to alleviate the pain of the information explosion by evaluating whether it's necessary or unnecessary to the business and enable informed decisions about business value, relevance, and disposition.
Using Content Assessment enables companies to:

• Safely decommission unneeded systems while preserving access to the required content and records
• Determine which content to manage, archive, trust and leverage
• Collect valued or high-risk content from key sources for early case assessment, audits or investigations based on a unified and common practice across multiple content sources

Register Now!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010-Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET



Bringing Data Governance Benefits to the Masses
An InformationWeek Webcast

Business glossaries, for example, provide a solid foundation to drive business and IT collaboration when implementing your data governance strategies, but there are several must-haves for glossaries to be effective. One of the most important is ensuring that governed terminology can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of everyone across the organization in the appropriate context -- not simply a select pocket of users using a one-size-fits-all approach.

Ubiquitous availability to governed business term definitions and context throughout the organization is a significant step towards organization-wide alignment. Easy access to business terms, regardless of the userÕs environment is critical. If you thought this was just a dream for the knowledge worker? Think again.

Join Scott McCurdy, Sr. VP of Business Solutions at ASG and guest speaker Rob Karel, Principal Analyst at independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc. to learn about the steps you can take to build a successful data governance program for your organization.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET



Software Asset Management for the CxO
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webinar tackles the value proposition for Software Asset Management (SAM), balancing risks and costs with the benefits of a well-governed SAM program. Attendees will receive clear, practical guidance on how to assess their software environments and address software management issues with realistic, effective and efficient solutions leveraging technology, processes, people and governance

Register Now!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- 8:00 AM PT / 11 AM ET






NEW! Register Now: InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event: Navigating the Boardroom - The Growth Imperative
October 13, 2010
10:00 am ET - 6:00 pm ET
At the award-winning InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event, you'll have an opportunity to experience both highlights from the live conference as well as exclusive content presented in a unique virtual environment that allows you to personally connect with C-level executives from leading global companies. Speakers will discuss how they're delivering on the most critical business priorities of the day and meeting The Growth Imperative.
Platinum Sponsors: Eaton
Gold Sponsors: IBM












InformationWeek 500 Conference & Awards Gala 2010
Join us for the year's premier gathering of the InformationWeek community. It's where you can meet, get advice from, and share experiences with the most innovative business technology executives working today. Plan to arrive on Sunday, September 12th for our Annual Golf Outing and Welcome Reception and depart on Wednesday, September 15th. InformationWeek 500 is proud to present; Nicholas Carr, author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.

Visit us online: www.informationWeekconference.com

For all inquiries please email us at: IW500@techweb.com




Innovation in Business Intelligence -- How New Capabilities are Driving User Adoption
An InformationWeek Webcast

Business success today relies on intelligent use of information – not just by a small number of data analysts but by executives, managers and frontline personnel throughout your organization. Historically, it's been difficult to extend business intelligence (BI) out to all users who need it. But not anymore: Technology innovations in BI are enabling companies overcome user adoption barriers and realize the benefits of secure, high-quality, timely and actionable information. Find out how Oracle Business Intelligence 11g -- the most complete and integrated BI solution available today -- can provide the innovative technology you need to turn BI into a competitive advantage.

In this session, you will learn how to:

• Apply guided BI and analytics to improve user self-service
• Turn "canned" user interfaces into highly visual and interactive dashboards
• Expand BI horizons with search, geo-spatial mapping and charting tools
• Capitalize on BI platform innovations for extended querying, reporting and publishing
25 Attendees will win an 8GB USB drive

Register Now!
Thursday, September 9, 2010 -- 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST



Oracle BPM Suite 11g: The Unified, Complete, and Social Solution to Tactical & Strategic Business Challenge
An InformationWeek Webcast

Managing change is at the heart of many business challenges. The requirements of change come in many flavors but there is usually a clear line between tactical and strategic change, or is there? Attend this informative webinar to hear Dan Tortorici, Director of Oracle Business Process Management Solutions discuss how the latest release of Oracle BPM Suite 11g can help you address both tactical and strategic business change. You will hear how customers have used BPM to solve both the urgent pressing problems of the day and those that redefine the company's business.

Register now.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Time: 10 am PT/ 1pm ET -- Duration: One Hour



Practical guidance for moving business critical applications from Unix to Linux
An InformationWeek Webcast

In a recent study, Harvard Research Group (HRG) examined the real-world customer experiences of migrating IT infrastructure from proprietary UNIX hardware and software-based environments to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Architecture. In this information webcast co-hosted by InformationWeek, HRG and Red Hat will present the findings from this study, including:
• Key business drivers and compelling events that drove customer migration decisions
• The business and technical advantage that Red Hat's enterprise customers gained from their migrations
• Migration TCO and ROI benefits based on the HRG study's findings
• Use cases for virtualization and server consolidation HRG will also present insights on which application workloads have predominantly been migrated, which ones remain as UNIX "holdouts" and why.
This discussion will also include a comparison of proprietary and legacy systems vs. Linux on Intel, looking at issues of performance, uptime and system scalability.

The webcast will conclude with perspectives on virtualization and consolidation strategies and recommendations, including cloud computing strategies with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platforms.

Register NOW:
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



A Brief History of Malware
A Dark Reading Webcast

Just when you thought it was safe to rely on the Internet again, attackers have unleashed a new set of exploits. Today's malware now hides not only in blacklisted websites and email attachments - it may emanate from the Web's most popular sites, from "friends" on popular social networking sites, or from bots that reside on your own corporate network.

In this special presentation Dr. Thomas Chimento, Director of Product Management for Webroot's Web Security Service will discuss the current and future trends in malware development from an evolutionary perspective, with specific emphasis on the directions that malware is likely to take over the next few years. He'll also examine:

• Why the current signature-based anti-malware tools are reaching the end of their useful life
• Behavior-based indicators that could and should be incorporated into the next generation of anti-malware applications
• What today's current malware looks like and how is it delivered
• Most of all, what steps can you take to prevent it from infecting your users' systems

Register Now

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET


Maximize Database Availability and Performance
An InformationWeek Webcast

When your database applications are hit with hardware problems, unexpected downtime, or poor performance, your business can quickly grind to a halt. Downtime and poor performance results in lost revenue and damages the confidence that customers, investors, and employees have in your business.

So why take the risk? Join us for our upcoming live webcast to find out how to make better use of your IT resources, improve performance, and reduce downtime using Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle Golden Gate.

Join Oracle's Joe Meeks, Director of High Availability Product Management, to learn about Oracle's best practices for maximizing availability in your organization.

Register now for our FREE Webcast.

Thursday, August 19, 2010 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: One Hour



Security In The Cloud: Challenges & Trends
An InformationWeek Webcast

In today's changing economic, business and technical environments, businesses continue to expand their use of cloud computing as a scalable and cost effective solution.

While cloud computing technology provides a number of benefits, including increased operational performance and efficiencies, it also introduces several challenges related to securing cloud-based recourses, transactions and information. These challenges can make businesses reluctant to migrate mission-critical applications and data to the cloud. This FREE webcast will help you understand and protect your company from threats related to cloud-to-client and within-the-cloud connections and interactions.

This webcast will help your company transform the cloud from a vague security threat to a clear and secure competitive advantage. You won't want to miss it!

Register now.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET



Choosing the Right UPS Service Plan
An InformationWeek Webcast

UPS buyers should carefully consider their needs and options before selecting a service plan by answering the eight basic questions that we will highlight in our presentation.

With this informative webcast, you'll be equipped with the information you need to identify the right UPS service plan and provider that will protect your UPS investment and minimize the costly downtime.

Attend the live webcast for a chance to win a one-time car detailing service package up to $200

Register Now!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET



Chaos to Control: Proving the ROI in Data Center Infrastructure Management
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join our panel of experts to peel back the onion on DCIM. Understand the methodology, best practices, and solutions that make up DCIM. Learn how the largest data centers are building the case for projects that speak directly to the business executives. Hear first-hand how the fifth largest bank in the US is using DCIM solutions today to solve their biggest data center challenges and proving a substantial and measureable return in energy costs and other operational expenses as well as extending the life of their data centers.

2 attendees of the live webcast will win a 16GB iPod nano with video

Register Now!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 -- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET



Oracle on Red Hat: Secrets to Unmatched Scalability and Performance Revealed
An InformationWeek Government Webcast

Does your Oracle installation support mission-critical business functions? Can you meet your performance goals and stay on-budget?

Register now for "Red Hat: Secrets to Unmatched Scalability and Performance Revealed," a webcast that reveals how Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers your mission a strategic advantage over proprietary UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

If you're still running your applications on proprietary systems, you're tied to a less flexible, more costly deployment.

Learn how you can improve your reliability, performance, and infrastructure cost efficiency by signing up for this webcast today.

Thursday, August 12, 2010 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET -- Duration: One Hour






Register Now: HACKING 2010: Understanding the New Wave of Cyberattacks
August 11, 2010
10:00 am ET - 6:00 pm ET
Security experts agree: In the past year, we've seen more new and sophisticated cyberattacks -- spreading at a faster, more widespread rate -- than the industry has ever seen before. Hackers are getting better at their jobs every day. If the flood of new vulnerabilities, attacks, and exploits seems too overwhelming to navigate, then attend this all-day virtual event that combines the in-depth expertise of two of the industry's best-known securityresources -- InformationWeek and Dark Reading -- with insights from some of the industry's most respected security researchers and experts.
Platinum Sponsors: ArcSight, Blue Coat, Thawte, Symantec, Webroot
Silver Sponsors: Lumension, Websense








Regaining Trust, Driving Profitability: Optimizing the Value in the Banking Workforce
Tools and strategies to increase employee retention, improve customer satisfaction, and boost profitability
An Executive Forum
Sponsored by KRONOS

On Wednesday, August 11th at the St. Regis in New York City top financial services insiders will provide insights and resources that can help you compete more effectively and profitably. Learn how to really optimize your organization's most vital asset - its people - at this timely half-day forum. Once qualified, there is no cost to attend.

Seating is Limited. RSVP Today!

* This event is an exclusive, invitation-only event for senior level financial services executives. It is a complimentary event for qualified executives. Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

New York, NY : Wednesday, August 11, 2010




Recovery without Compromise
InformationWeek Government Webcast
Sponsored by: Syncsort

This informative webcast will identify the challenges facing government IT managers in establishing effective data recovery, and outline how to accelerate the flow of critical data to break through previously accepted bottlenecks. It will demonstrate best practice methods to avoid compromising your data protection and increase your recovery success rates. You'll learn how to implement efficient backup and recovery in virtual and physical environments.

Key Takeaways:
• Identify options for data recovery at each layer of the enterprise -- file storage, application servers, client and desktop applications.
• Assure System availability and meet Continuity of Operations (COOP) Initiatives
• Achieve zero-impact virtual server backup
• Five minute return to operations
• Get critical data to stakeholders when it is needed
• Increase your return from existing resource investments
• Test data recovery systems and train staff for multiple contingencies
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Manage More Data With Less Infrastructure
A Network Computing Webcast

One of the primary IT-related solutions that companies are investing in today is technology that will help them survive the tidal wave of data growth, most importantly those solutions that help reduce the overall data storage footprint. IBM is uniquely positioned to help our customers meet this challenge with a holistic approach to data reduction that addresses the major cause of data proliferation, as well as providing meaningful solutions that optimize storage. These solutions help to reduce capital and administrative costs, while improving service levels. This session will review an effective, four-step process to reduce your data storage footprint, and will cover techniques such as incremental backup, data categorization, space management, compression and data deduplication.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010/ 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET




HOWTO Secure Mainframe PII Data & Pass Compliance Audits Faster
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this Webcast to learn HOWTO:
• Capture a fine-grained audit trail of all user activities (who, what, when, where, how) with minimal impact on performance.
• Offload audit data processing from the mainframe to separate, hardened appliances.
• Monitor all privileged user activities, including SELECTS, DML, DDL and access grants and revokes.
• Report on all activity for specific DB2 objects, such as read, change and z/OS utility access.
• Track authorization and connection failures, DB2 utility execution and application activity.
• Create a single unified view and secure audit trail of all database activities -- across both mainframes and distributed systems (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Teradata, etc.) -- for enterprise-wide compliance reporting, analytics and forensics.
• Reduce manual efforts and last-minute audit scrambles with continuous, automated controls, including policy-based exception reporting and automated oversight processes such as electronic sign-offs and escalations.
Thursday, July 27, 2010/ Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



Internet Security -- Real Threats & Realistic Approaches for Managing Security
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this session with Internet pioneer and security expert Rodney Joffe. Mr. Joffe has exclusive access to Internet resources and partners with Internet Security and other criminal investigative entities to help determine real Internet threats and identify real offenders. As the Director of the Conficker working group, Mr. Joffe is a known and respected Internet Security expert.

Mr. Joffe will explore the following Internet security topics:
• Current real threats and trends in Internet security.
• Realistic approaches and options for managing security.
• Criteria for considering outsourcing Internet security operations.
Join us to find out how real the threat may be to your organization and gain some insights to selecting and deploying a plan to address Internet security issues.

Thursday, July 22, 2010/ Time: 1:00 pm PT / 4:00 pm ET



The Evolution from Traditional Application Performance Management to End User Service Assurance
An InformationWeek Webcast

The increasing complexity of IT makes complete end user visibility more challenging than ever for IT practitioners and decision makers. The performance of your IT applications is more and more the foundation of your entire business.

Traditional performance and availability monitoring tools are not integrated and the end user visibility gap is increasing. User service alignment ensures that your IT organization is proactively monitoring the availability and performance of your end user experience across the entire IT enterprise. IT organizations are increasingly expected to meet higher service delivery levels to the business, proactively identify and resolve issues anywhere in the enterprise and to accomplish the task with a reduced set of resources.

Join ASG Senior Director of Solutions Management, Ed Hallock and featured guest, Forrester Senior Analyst, Evelyn Hubbert for this one-hour webcast to learn:
• Key performance and availability trends in today's challenging marketplace
• Moving from today's disparate set of APM products towards a true user service aligned solution across the enterprise
• User Service Alignment as an imperative to align IT with the business
• How to ensure best-practice delivery of application services across multi-platform, virtualized and increasingly distributed enterprise applications
• The benefits of a scalable IT solution that ties user service alignment with application performance management across the entire enterprise
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET






REGISTER NOW: Smarter Security, Stronger Protection
July 15, 2010
11:00 am ET - 4:00 pm ET

Join InformationWeek and Symantec -- two of the industry's leading information sources on data and security -- along with top security experts and analysts as they offer an in-depth look at the current threats to sensitive customer data, the best practices, strategies and technologies for protecting it.






Grid Consolidation on Private Clouds
An InformationWeek Webcast
Sponsored by Oracle

Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Grid Infrastructure enable consolidation of multiple applications on clustered server and storage Grids-providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability. Hear from Oracle experts how these technologies can now be used to consolidate your databases to a private cloud, where you can realize the efficiencies of multi-tenancy, rapid provisioning, and pay-for-use infrastructure. And learn how Oracle delivers key cloud capabilities, providing elastic database services that can be quickly provisioned on demand

Join this webcast to learn about:
• Using a private cloud to increase IT flexibility
• Benefits of consolidating your databases to a private cloud
• Oracle's private cloud solution
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET



Open Minds 2010: Best Practices in Enterprise Communications
An Executive Forum
Hosted by: Siemens Enterprise Communications & Enterasys Networks

Join Siemens Enterprise Communications, Enterasys Networks, InformationWeek and Frost & Sullivan for an interactive forum that brings together subject-matter experts and industry peers to discuss the challenges and opportunities with deploying and managing a unified communications platform. You'll hear how today's best-in-class enterprises use next generation communication technologies to improve processes, lower costs, protect business continuity, collaborate efficiently and grow their businesses.

Bay Area (Redwood City, CA) - May 11, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA - May 18, 2010
Philadelphia, PA - May 20, 2010
Tysons Corner, VA - May 25, 2010
Atlanta, GA - June 8, 2010
Dallas, TX - June 10, 2010
Boston, MA - June 15, 2010
New York, NY - June 17, 2010
St. Louis, MO - June 22, 2010
Chicago, IL - June 24, 2010
Phoenix, AZ - June 29, 2010
Los Angeles, CA - June 30, 2010




Virtual Reality: The Mandate for Creating a More Efficient Enterprise
An Executive Roundtable
Hosted by: Dell and VMware

In this executive roundtable, you'll get a chance to meet with IT industry peers who are in the process of converting their desktop and server architectures and exchange ideas for maximizing the power of the new platform and streamlining the migration. We will discuss the critical steps from implementation to testing to post-migration support that every customer needs to follow.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 30th




A Unique Approach to Program Portfolio Management: PPM Informed by Product Data
An InformationWeek Webcast

This webcast will discuss how product companies can enable visibility to all aspects of product design, manufacturing, supply chain and resource requirements to aggregate and consolidate information from multiple tools and decision-making processes. Using a consistent decision-making framework, companies are able to formulate a comprehensive approach to program portfolio management, ensuring consistency of optimized decisions at all levels, resulting in faster time to market, improved quality, and optimal resource allocation.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET



Business-Driven Application Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Oracle and InformationWeek to explore the new capabilities that enable IT to manage applications from a business perspective and provide them deep visibility into business transactions. These capabilities can help IT deliver greater business value and be more responsive to business priorities while significantly enhancing the experience of business users and customers.

Learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g can help your organization:
• Deliver greater business value
• Improve application user productivity and enhance business service availability
• Reduce IT management complexity
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET



10 Database Activities You Should Monitor to Prevent Data Breaches, featuring Gartner
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this live webcast featuring Gartner Research Director, Jeffrey Wheatman, as he discusses key findings from "Ten Database Activities Enterprises Need to Monitor," a newly-released Gartner Report, which details the latest security threats, reveals best practices for securing sensitive data and explains how to evaluate database activity monitoring (DAM) and fraud detection technologies.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 8:00 am PT / 11:00 pm ET



Designing Tomorrow's Data Center Today
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this webcast, you'll learn how top IT executives are teaming with leading edge technology providers to map the hyper-efficient, scalable and highly available enterprise IT infrastructure of tomorrow. In addition, you'll hear about key enabling technologies, such as the latest application acceleration and WAN optimization offerings from Riverbed, which can provide the underpinnings of this new era in enterprise computing -- an era in which high performance, high availability, and high efficiency go hand-in-hand.

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET



Business Intelligence for the Midsize Business
An InformationWeek & Intelligent Enterprise Webcast

Join Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen as he shares insight on the latest trends in BI as well as in-depth research on priorities within midsize companies. You'll also hear from IBM about IBM Cognos Express and other BI and information management capabilities that are purpose built for needs and constraints of midsize enterprises.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET



Optimizing Your Windows 7 Migration With Cloud Computing
An Executive Roundtable
Hosted by: Dell

Join us for an interactive Executive Roundtable, "Optimizing Your Windows 7 Migration With Cloud Computing," to discuss the challenges and opportunities of moving to cloud computing services -- from the desktop to the data center -- and how you can leverage the cloud in your migration to Windows 7. Exchange ideas with peers and other industry experts on best practices for making the conversion and understanding all the advantages of cloud computing.

Boston, MA: Wednesday, June 23, 2010




Recharge Your End User Computer Environment with Windows 7 and Virtualization
An Executive Roundtable
Hosted by: Dell

Join us for an interactive roundtable to discuss the challenges and opportunities of recharging your end user computing environment with Windows 7 and desktop virtualization, and exchange ideas with peers and executives from Dell about how your company can optimize this workforce transformation.

Dallas, TX: Tuesday, June 29th







REGISTER NOW: Protect and Deduplicate Everywhere

Symantec is leading the charge to help IT professionals eliminate multiple instances of files and streamline their storage environment using a combination of data deduplication, intelligent archiving and fast -- and secure -- backup. Join Symantec and leading experts from InformationWeek online on June 24, 2010 to learn how you how you can reduce and eliminate multiple instances of data in your enterprise, and make the most of the storage you've got.









REGISTER NOW: Creating and Leveraging the Private Cloud

Join us for this virtual event, as InformationWeek editors gather the leading thinkers on the topic of private cloud computing to answer your questions and provide expert insight in creating and leveraging the private cloud.






IBM WebSphere Application Infrastructure Summit Webcast Series
InformationWeek Webcast Series

Get the latest on the IBM^® WebSphere^® Application Infrastructure portfolio of solutions straight from the top -- the product Chief Architects.

WebSphere chief architects are participating in this five-part Webcast series on how the IBM WebSphere Application Infrastructure portfolio of solutions can help you deploy and manage applications and SOA services to increase agility and reduce IT costs. Don't miss the live Q&A portion where you can ask our chief architects how IBM WebSphere Application Infrastructure can help deliver on your business needs.



Part 1: WebSphere as a Foundation for SOA
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

Part 2: WebSphere in a Virtualized World
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

Part 3: Application Server Innovations
Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

Part 4: Extreme Transaction Processing
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

Part 5: WebSphere, Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



Visit the series registration page for more information on all 5 parts and register now!



Performance & Value: Virtualizing with the Dell PowerEdge R815 Server
InformationWeek Webcast

Join Dell, AMD and VMware for an interactive webcast on how to optimize your virtualized infrastructure, streamline management, improve availability and cut costs in the data center.

We'll discuss:
• How you can tap into Dell's virtualization expertise, innovative tools and automated analysis to help you quickly analyze and deploy a virtualized infrastructure that's effective for your environment.
• The innovative, energy-efficient design features that reduce power and cooling expenses while helping to meet the performance and budget goals your infrastructure requires
• How embedded systems management enables faster provisioning, quick updates and system diagnostics
• How the new Dell^TM PowerEdge^TM R815 4-socket, 2U rack server delivers the processor density, redundancy and value required by next generation data centers
• The new virtualization and memory innovations of the AMD Opteron 6000 Series Platform, offering the industry's first 12-Core x86 processor that is revolutionizing server price and performance
• The tight integration between AMD Virtualization^TM (AMD-V^TM) Technology and VMware vSphere^TM and how they enable virtualized environments to run resource-intensive applications, support more users, and handle more transactions while reducing power consumption
• Why PowerEdge R815 servers running VMware software can help you deliver a robust desktop virtualization environment that streamlines desktop management, speeds application deployment, and improves security and licensing compliance.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to tackle IT sprawl and take virtualization to the next level without expensive capital investments.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 11:00 am-12:00 pm PT / 2:00-3:00 pm ET




Government IT Leadership Forum
Join this exclusive gathering of government technology executives to hear first-hand how they're driving change and innovation in federal IT services and operations. Prominent CIOs from civilian, defense, and intelligence agencies will engage an audience of their peers in an open discussion of intelligence gathering and sharing, cybersecurity, open government, cloud computing, and much more.

Washington, DC - June 15, 2010





Optimizing Power Distribution for High-Density Computing
An InformationWeek Webcast

In this informative webcast, Eaton's Chris Loeffler will introduce you to the optimal strategy for tackling high-density computing challenges. Specifically, you'll see why:

• 30 amp (30A) three-phase PDUs offer a better mix of capacity and load segmentation than 20A and 50A alternatives.
• 30A three-phase power circuits do a better job than 20A and 50A equivalents of efficiently utilizing a standard panel board's power and breaker capacity.
• Unlike 20A and 50A products, 30A three-phase PDUs and power circuits will position you to handle tomorrow's even higher server rack power needs without having to "rip and replace" the power distribution equipment you use now.
Attend the live webcast for a chance to win a 16GB Apple iPad!

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET



The Connected Business: Achieving Greater Collaboration and Productivity Through Unified Communications
An Executive Roundtable
Sponsored by: Aspect and Microsoft

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the opportunities and challenges associated with the move to next-generation communications. We will touch on Real-world studies, current business trends, cost cutting and various initiatives like virtualization, workforce mobility and green computing.

New York, NY: Tuesday, June 8th
Toronto, CA: Tuesday, June 15th
Mountain View, CA: Thursday, June 17th



Predictive Analytics for the Capital Markets
Sponsored by: HP & Sybase

Wall Street traders have been using advanced analytics to power trading strategies for some time, but with regulators' and investors' concern about risk management there is a growing need for better analysis of funding and capital levels.

Join a small group of your capital markets peers to discuss how you can manage and harness all of your firm's available data to analyze liquidity risk and compile data to meet compliance demands.

Boston, MA: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Chicago, IL: Thursday, June 10, 2010

For more information and to register, click here.



Making the Private Cloud Real A half-day forum
Sponsored by: HP & Intel
Hosted by:InformationWeek Government

Federal IT managers discuss how they're moving from the general concept of a dynamic, on-demand IT environment to actual implementation. Join us at this upcoming forum to exchange ideas and strategies for creating an internal cloud.

*Event producer/sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Washington, DC - Wednesday, June 9, 2010




Taming the Windows 7 Giant: How to Simplify Migration
An Executive Roundtable
Hosted by: Novell

In this executive roundtable, you'll get a chance to meet with IT industry peers who are in the process of converting their desktop and server architectures and exchange ideas for maximizing the power of the new platform and streamlining the migration. We will discuss the critical steps from implementation to testing to post-migration support that every customer needs to follow.

Boston, MA: Wednesday, May 26th
Los Angeles, CA: Tuesday, June 8th




Business Integrity Strategy: The ROI of Trust
An InformationWeek Webcast

Implementing a proactive approach to building trust can result in everything from improved customer leads to higher sales to larger Revenue per Visit (RPV). Learn how the TRUSTe solution can help you align trust, credibility and privacy processes in your organization-and your company's broader ecosystem-into a Business Integrity Strategy.


What you will learn:
• The ROI on building trust in your companies ecosystem
• The opportunity costs of low trust organizations
• Tactical benefits of high trust -- from improved customer leads to higher sales to larger Revenue per Visit (RPV)
• How you can align trust, credibility and privacy processes in your organization and your company's broader ecosystem
• What Business Integrity is and the tenets to building a comprehensive strategy around it.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 10:00-11:00am PT / 1:00-2:00pm ET



Managing the Dynamic Datacenter with "Business-to-Blade^TM" Service Monitoring
An InformationWeek Webcast

Assuring the service delivery to key business applications and IT services in a heterogeneous real-time infrastructure consisting of multiple virtual and physical layers is challenging. Legacy processes and tools were not designed to deal with the heuristics of the dynamic datacenter. Virtualization has changed everything. Virtualization forces the dynamic convergence of configuration, performance and availability management and makes it difficult to understand the various cross-domain interdependencies of service at any point in time.

This webinar will focus on these challenges and address how Zenoss "Business-to-Blade^TM" service monitoring can help you manage the complex and evolving dynamic datacenter.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET



Making Converged IT Infrastructure A Practical Reality
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join Jim Frey, research director at EMA, a leading IT analyst group, for an information-packed webinar to learn how this new generation of tightly integrated, stateless converged infrastructure solutions are delivering compelling capital and operational cost advantages today.

After this webinar, you'll walk away knowing:
• Why Converged Infrastructure is essential to improving your data center operations
• The difference between Converged Infrastructure and traditional automation management tools
• Why Converged Management is the key to unlocking Converged Infrastructure's potential
• How to evaluate Converged Management solutions in production today
• Real-world examples of how these technologies are making a difference

Live attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the white paper: "Making Converged IT Infrastructure A Practical Reality -- Egenera's PAN Manager Software Solution"

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET



The Hacker's Roadmap: HOWTO Safeguard Against Constantly Evolving Threats
An InformationWeek & Dark Reading Webcast

Phil Neray, VP of Security Strategy for Guardium, an IBM Company, will present case studies and product demo examples showing how enterprises have implemented Guardium's automated, cross-DBMS solution to secure sensitive databases and reduce compliance costs.

Come see how the enemy targets your critical systems and gain a better understanding of the latest countermeasures being used by top organizations to repel these constant attacks.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET






REGISTER NOW: Infrastructure 2.0: Optimizing Your Infrastructure for the New Era of Cloud Computing and Virtualization

In this virtual event you'll hear about the latest innovations to help you address the challenges virtualization places on your infrastructure now and prepare for cloud computing in the future. Learn how a top-to-bottom transformation is increasing system availability and ensuring better business continuity to transform workflow and improve business agility.
Platinum Sponsors: Alcatel-Lucent, Eaton, thawte, Splunk
Silver Sponsor: Infoblox







Virtualize without Compromise
An InformationWeek Webcast

Attend this one-hour webcast, sponsored by Syncsort, to learn how to:
• Understand the pitfalls of traditional storage and data protection models and how they impact costs
• Deliver previously unattainable value to the bottom line results of your business through increased hardware and operational efficiencies
• Increase productivity of a limited workforce, while reducing capital expenditures, through an integrated approach to storage and data protection


Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET



WebSphere ILOG Business Rules Webcast Series
Three Operational Decisions You May Need to Make Faster in 2010
A Three-part Webcast Series

During this three-part series, you will learn from the success of others:
• How to automate highly variable, context-specific decisions
• How to enable business users who own and manage decisions to make decision changes, the only way to gain agility
• How to deploy scalable, reliable and safe operational decision services that can be reused across systems, processes and applications
• How to increase visibility and understanding of how and why decisions are made in order to correct bad, or repeat good, decision-making


Part 3: Best Service
In Part 3 of the series, we focus on those small decisions that can have a big impact on customer satisfaction and how to ensure that they are made consistently across channels so that customers get the same service from counter to call center. Learn how to create engaging self-service as the best service instead of forcing a costly relationship before the client is ready.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET



<Do you treat your Business Intelligence as a corporate asset?
An InformationWeek Webcast

If data is to be treated as a corporate asset it needs to be cared for in a similar way just as an asset management system cares for equipment and raw materials. Consolidated Business Intelligence (CBI) allows businesses to:

• Effectively inventory, locate, secure and share business data assets such as reports, scorecards, dashboards and data lists
• Use a cost-effective solution that provides true business value through a single, easy-to-access portal
• Improve and accelerate decision-making processes by making the company's data assets accessible.

In this webcast, we'll review some of the business scenarios where CBI has proven advantageous and demonstrate the power of having a consolidated repository to manage your business data assets. We'll also discuss the long term benefits of a CBI environment in BI planning, acquisitions and mergers and in IT cost reduction strategies.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET



<Cut Communications Costs, Not Innovation, with Managed Services
An InformationWeek Webcast

Join us on May 6th, 2010 for a free, one-hour Webinar with thought leaders from InformationWeek, IBM and Avaya.

In this session, you will hear how IBM and Avaya provide an alternative path to competitive advantage, network innovation and lower TCO through the use of managed services as an operational expense. You can improve the performance of your existing communications applications and infrastructure and reap the benefits of unified communications, contact center and video applications, while saving money. These applications, coupled with managed network services, can streamline business processes, lower TCO, and directly translate into business improvements for your organization. Industry experts will cover key questions such as:
• How do I mitigate risk?
• How do I reduce TCO?
• What is the best way to simplify and still take advantage of the new technologies needed to grow?

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET



Demystifying Cloud Computing - Best Practices for Making the Conversion
An Executive Evening Roundtable & Wine Reception
Hosted by: Dell
Cloud computing is redefining how many companies organize, distribute, and manage their data, while enabling them to capitalize on a more efficient computing model to lower IT expenses and create a more agile business. Join us for an interactive Executive Roundtable to discuss the challenges and opportunities of moving to cloud computing services - from the desktop to the data center.

New York: April 29, 2010





Virtualization for the Next-Generation of the Efficient Data Center
An Executive Breakfast Roundtable
Hosted by: Dell / Intel
As the pressure to reduce IT costs continues unabated, companies are taking a closer look at new ways to streamline the enterprise while still maintaining the agility and innovation the business demands. A careful strategy of standardization, simplification, and automation is helping leading-edge companies improve productivity, reduce operating expenses, and simplify management to focus on new business opportunities.

New York: April 27, 2010






Building the Business Case for Metadata Management:
How to Justify Your Metadata Management Initiatives
An InformationWeek Webcast

Like it or not, your business leaders often must support most metadata management efforts, but in most cases don't truly understand or recognize the value of metadata. Therefore, building a compelling case for metadata management requires catching the imagination of decision makers by sharing compelling stories of key metadata use cases in a non-technical business context. At their core, these use cases must outline how optimized metadata management can improve operational efficiencies, enable cost savings or reduce business risk – with a relatable “human interest” element to bait the hook.
Join Ian Rowlands, Sr. Director of Strategy at ASG and guest speaker Rob Karel, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. for this webcast as they share ideas and stories that highlight the business drivers and cost justification for metadata management projects including:

• Top line impact to the business
• Managing governance and compliance issues
• Direct cost savings
• Opportunity cost of alternatives
  
  April 27, 2010 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  

  
  REGISTER NOW: The Anatomy of the Cloud: A Look Ahead
  
  In this groundbreaking day-long virtual event, InformationWeek editors and Cloud Connect conference leaders join with internationally recognized experts and top IT practitioners from the public and private sector to dial back the hype surrounding cloud computing and demystify it once and for all.
  Platinum Sponsors: Plateau, thawte, Workday, Zenoss
  Silver Sponsor: Webroot
  Independant Research Partner: Forrester
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  Out-of-control, expensive storage sprawl?
  There's a solution for that.
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Data is growing at 50 percent year over year. IT storage complexity is spiraling out of control. Existing storage capacity is underutilized.
  Join Mark Peters, senior analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group, and Nimish Shelat, product marketing manager at HP, for a webcast on optimizing storage usage and reigning in storage investments. You will learn about:
  
• Trends and challenges facing IT storage managers today
• Solutions for managing and optimizing storage usage to contain costs
• Making the most of your investment in storage infrastructure, including HP EVA arrays and XP arrays
• Best practices for managing storage in a virtual environment
• Lessons learned from a real-world case study
  
  April 20, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Application Modernization in an Agile Environment
  Hosted by: HP & Capgemini
  Application modernization in general, and Agile methodologies in particular, holds the promise for making applications more responsive to business need -- that is, for better business agility. As companies streamline their enterprise systems, they're better able to adjust to rapidly changing business processes and market conditions. Join us for an interactive discussion with HP executives, partners and customers on application modernization trends. You'll hear about the challenges and opportunities other organizations are experiencing and get a better understanding of how business success depends on Agile delivery - not just Agile development.
  
  Boston, MA: March 25, 2010
  Dallas, TX: March 30, 2010
  Tysons Corner, VA (DC): April 13, 2010
  Los Angeles, CA: April 15, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A New Way of Working: Insights from Global Leaders
  New Study Findings from the Institute for Business Value
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  What can nearly 300 senior executives teach you about the work practices that separate outperforming organizations from their peers? Exciting new research reveals distinct differences in priorities, behaviors, gaps, and supporting technologies. At this webcast, we will discuss this study that is packed with facts from the front lines of innovation and rich evidence pointing to the emergence of a smarter way of working built on greater agility among people and the processes that guide their work.
  
  April 14, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Implementing Smart Compliance
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Join the thought leaders from Novell and Infosys to learn how to:
  
• Adopt integrated controls that enables organizations have a clear, unified view of who is accessing what
• Leverage a proven methodology to ensure a successful implementation of access governance suite
• Implement preventative, detective and corrective controls for managing user life-cycle as per compliance and security requirements
• Automate audit activities and lower business risk to provide a consolidated view of user entitlements and periodic certification
  Also, register today to explore how you can leverage assessment programs from Infosys-Novell to jump-start your compliance and security initiatives.
  
  April 8, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Practical Management of Network Security For Mid-Size Enterprises
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Mid-size enterprises face the same threats as large organizations, but without the same budget or resources.
  This Webcast will look at practical ways for mid-size enterprises to address security issues around the network, PCs and laptops, and the Web. We'll examine current trends such as multi-function security appliances, virtual security appliances, managed services and cloud-based offerings.
  You'll also get real-world input from Randy George, senior systems analyst and network engineer for a major-league baseball team and leading contributor to InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing. Randy is responsible for designing and implementing the organization's security infrastructure, as well as ensuring the organization complies with state and federal privacy regulations. Randy also regularly tests security and network products for InformationWeek and Network Computing.
  
  March 31, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Save Resources and Reduce Costs by Simplifying 5 Critical IT Workflows in 2010
  An InformationWeek SMB (formerly bMighty) Webcast
  
  Managing desktops, laptops, netbooks, or handhelds? Cloud-based business intelligence services can simplify operations, improve data security, and reduce costs.
  This 30-minute webcast, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session featuring Chris Corbet and Jonathan Dale of MaaS360, will focus on the top 5 critical IT tasks that can be simplified in 2010. Individuals responsible for IT functions like Desktop Management, Governance Risk and Compliance, Mobile Operations and Helpdesk Services will find this information immediately beneficial.
  
  March 31, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Identity-Enabled Network: Securing Who, What, When, Where and How
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Most enterprise networks today are anonymous. Not knowing who is attempting to access their network, its stored data and applications is a very real issue for enterprises and can lead to severe security problems and breaches. Information from a number of existing network access and security sources must be extracted and integrated to attain and use enablement. Attend this webcast, "Identity-Enabled Network: Securing Who, What, When, Where and How" and learn how to address identity-enabled network security and access, how standards enable network device and information integration, and how to address internal, politically charged questions.
  
  March 30, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Databases at Risk -- and HOWTO Address Them
  A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast
  
  If your SAP, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft or product design system were breached by cybercriminals with compromised superuser credentials - would you know?  And could you prove it to your auditors?
  A recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey found that nearly 75% of security professionals expect database attacks to increase in the future.
    Join Jon Oltsik, ESG Principal Analyst, to learn about best practices and what your peers are saying about database security:
  
• Security professionals' top 2 concerns are (1) attacks by privileged users with root access, and (2) attacks on Web-facing applications connected to databases.
• In most organizations (63%), database security depends primarily on manual or ad hoc processes -- which are no match for well-organized cybercriminals, malicious insiders and accidental changes.
• No one group "owns" database security, which weakens security due to lack of accountability.
  
  Phil Neray, VP of Security Strategy for Guardium, an IBM Company, will present case studies about enterprises that have implemented Guardium's automated, cross-DBMS solution to secure sensitive data and reduce compliance costs.
  Check out this educational webcast to learn HOWTO mitigate internal and external database threats.
  
  March 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  MDM for Product Bundling
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Join Karen Leightell, Product Marketing, IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management, to hear how IBM Master Data Management solutions are helping banks, telecommunications, retailers and insurers address the business requirements around this emerging strategic trend.
  You will learn about:
  
• Evolving trends in master data management around Product Bundling
• Keys to maximizing business effectiveness through a single view
• Proven methods for applying MDM to improve operations, cut costs, grow revenues and improve service and client satisfaction.
  
  March 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  

  
  Strengthening IT Security's Weakest Link: The End User
  Every day, the business headlines are filled with news of critical Ð yet avoidable Ð data breaches and compromises. Lost laptops and portable storage devices. Accidental postings of sensitive business data to public-facing Websites. Users fooled by official-looking phishing messages and other social engineering scams. Hackers harvesting critical information from social networks and "business networking" sites. Cybercriminals exploiting flaws in handheld devices, WiFi networks, and other "road warrior" technologies. When you attend this free virtual event, you will learn how to strengthen IT security's weakest link - the end user Ð produced by two of the industry's best-known IT security resources: InformationWeek and Dark Reading.
  Gold Sponsor: Fiberlink
  
  

  
  
  
  
  DNS DDOS Threats and Corresponding Mitigation Strategies
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  This webcast will explore the challenges that security professionals must address to successfully mitigate and manage DNS DDOS threats, and identify the most important issues that enterprises must confront to successfully ensure high availability and performance of their websites.
  We will also explore how to understand the economics of DNS DDOS mitigation initiatives. Typically, security has been a lot like buying insurance ... it feels like a waste of time and money until you are hit by the need for proper protection. The panelists will explore other cost justification models to determine how business value can be gleaned from effective DNS DDOS attack mitigation measures.
  
  March 23, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  Spoofing Server-to-Server Communication: How You Can Prevent It
  A Dark Reading Webcast
  
  ***All live Attendees will receive 'Spoofing Server-to-Server Communication: How You Can Prevent It'. Paper***
  
  Attend our free webcast to learn about how to prevent a new attack, SSLStrip, that exploits weaknesses of generic SSL to compromise server-server communication.  This webcast is a must for CIOs, CSOs, Network/System Administrators and Compliance Officers.  By attending the webcast you will learn valuable lessons from our presenter, Security Analyst, Larry Seltzer, about how you can prevent high-profile compromises of enterprise networks and breaches of data security.
  As thank you for attending, during the presentation we will provide you with a link to  Larry's recent paper, 'Spoofing Server - to - Server Communication: How You Can Prevent It'.
  From this webinar you will learn:
  
• What the SSL weaknesses are in practice
• What SSLStrip is and how it works
• What you can do to help avoid SSLStrip attacks We hope you can join us!!
  
  March 11, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Strategic Approach to Power Monitoring
  An extra umbrella of protection for your IT infrastructure
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Have you ever...
  
• Been worried that your data center circuits were nearing capacity?
• Been asked to prepare a business continuity plan?
• Been worried whether your facility will be able to support a growing business?
• Had to achieve governmental or agency compliance by documenting your power infrastructure resiliency?
• Dreamt of sending a smaller check to your local energy company at the end of the month?
• Thought about your electricity as a key raw material of the service you provide to your internal and external customer?
  
  If you answered yes to any of these questions...then your organization surely needs logical, intelligent and complete power monitoring!
  Join us in our one hour interactive webcast on strategic approach to power monitoring.
  
  March 9, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  

  
  Advanced Strategies in Virtualization
  Join InformationWeek editors, the InformationWeek Analytics team, and a panel of guest experts and vendors as they take virtualization to the next-level.Ê Learn how a top-to-bottom transformation is increasing system availability and ensuring better business continuity.Ê ÊRegister for Free Today!
  Platinum Sponsors: Eaton, NetApp, Red Hat, Êthawte
  Gold Sponsor: HP
  Silver Sponsor: VMware
  
  

  
  
  
  Working Smarter in Healthcare
  An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
  
  people live, work and seek care in new ways in an increasingly interconnected world. New players are entering the healthcare market to meet the changing needs of patients and communities. Healthcare organizations know they need to become more 'connected', yet organizational silos continue to slow progress.
  The question is, how will organizations optimize both patient care and performance in this environment? They must redefine the way they work to meet new demands to:
  
• Deliver collaborative care by connecting patients, care teams and information
• Achieve better quality and outcomes by adapting and responding dynamically
• Improve operational effectiveness by enabling IT to meet organizational needs more quickly Working smarter in healthcare means creating an agile and collaborative organization that empowers people and embraces change. It means leveraging the combined power of people, processes and information with flexible technology in a smarter planet context.
  Are you ready to start working smarter? Register Today!
  
  February 25, 2010 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Consolidate for Business Advantage: From Storage to Scorecard
  An InformationWeek Custom Editorial Webcast
  Sponsor: Oracle
  
  With insights into enterprise-wide information, companies can support a broad range of strategic, financial, and operational processes that meet their extreme performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership requirements. But getting actionable and timely information in the hands of the right decision makers can be tricky, especially when you must consolidate data from disparate systems throughout the enterprise.
  As the market leader in data warehousing, enterprise performance management, and business intelligence, Oracle combines best-in-class capabilities to provide a complete, open, and integrated solution from storage to scorecard. Register for this webcast to learn how to:
  
  • Drive pervasive insights and decision-making with Oracle Business Intelligence
  • Unify enterprise information at low cost with Oracle Data Integration Suite
  • Get extreme performance and manage data growth with Oracle data warehousing
    
    
  February 25, 2010 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Virtualizing your critical Windows and Linux infrastructure using KVM
  An InformationWeek Government  Custom Editorial Webcast
  Sponsor: Carasoft/Redhat
  
  It's no secret that virtualization provides many benefits and although many organizations realize the advantages, virtualization currently represents only about 20 percent of enterprise workloads. Windows servers may be part of your physical server landscape, but may not be the best choice for your core virtualization platform.
  This webcast will talk about the overall factors organizations should consider when starting or expanding their virtualization initiatives, including hypervisor selection, management tools, and expansion planning. We'll specifically review the new developments from open source market leader Red Hat.
  
  February 25, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Conquering the Challenges of Virtualization Management
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Virtualized environments are taking IT data centers by storm. However, as data center virtualization continues to exponentially increase, virtualization introduces several new management challenges that can disrupt your data center environment and give you headaches.
  Join Olivier Thierry, Chief Marketing Officer, and Kent Erickson, VP of Product Management at Zenoss, as they discuss how you can meet virtualization management challenges and minimize data center disruptions.
  
  February 18, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Competitive Advantage in 2010:  Efficient Enterprise
  Hosted by: Dell Inc.
  Businesses that expect to survive in a new economy with ever-present pressure to keep costs down must embrace an Efficient Enterprise infrastructure that promotes business agility and innovation. The only way to do this is to reduce the number of wasteful IT assets, increase productivity, and improve the customer experience. Dell's CIO, Robin Johnson, will lead a rousing interactive discussion with an intimate group of IT executive peers, describing how all companies can benefit from the approach that Dell took by standardizing on the x86 platform; using virtualization to simplify application usage and reducing redundancy and sprawl; and automating provisioning across disparate global environments.
  
  New York: February 18
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Four Secrets to Innovating with Packaged Applications
  An InformationWeek Custom Editorial Webcast
  Sponsor: Oracle
  
  Thousands of Oracle Applications customers have appropriated significantly more value out of their packaged applications investments by innovating on the industry-leading Oracle SOA Suite. Based on these customer successes, Oracle has identified four innovation secrets that every applications customer ought to know about. This session analyzes these secrets and shares insights into why each of them dramatically improves investment returns.
  By attending this session, you will learn:
  
  • The four key innovation strategies for packaged applications
  • The expected ROI by implementing these strategies
  • Customer success stories of innovation with the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel
  February 18, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  
  The Evolving Malware Threat: Is Your Organization Protected from All Angles?
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  In 2010, we can expect to witness a battle as mobile devices, laptops, netbooks and PCs compete to gain a prominent share of the technological market. This battle for dominance will also take place elsewhere -- amongst cybercriminals. They will compete to deliver the fastest, strongest, most widespread and financially rewarding threat. And, in 2010, this means taking advantage of our reliance on email and the Web.
  The hybrid threat is complex and sophisticated -- an email which delivers a Web-based threat. This type of attack is increasing dramatically as we use our Web-browser as an imperative tool to work, live and play. We access our emails and the Web online, from wherever we happen to be. It is clear that as these attacks continue to evolve and become increasingly complex and sophisticated, an organization's defenses also need to evolve. Please join us for an informative webcast to learn how you can better prepare for the complex threat environment of 2010.
  Learn first-hand from a panel of experts -- who you will be able to quiz in a live Q&A session -- about the trends in malware attacks and what you can do to better prepare your network to counter the new 2010 threat environment.
  
  February 17, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Collaboration:  Boosting Operational Efficiency & Employee Productivity
  Hosted by: Wipro
  In this roundtable exchange, IT executives will meet to discuss ways in which businesses are improving productivity and performance by sharing ideas, tasks, and information. They'll address how to eliminate the difficulty in coordinating initiatives across the enterprise due to complex command and control organization models, and also share best practices in how to meet compliance requirements in a collaborative environment and protect workers' privacy.
  
  Short Hills, NJ: February 17
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Notify, Respond, Collaborate
  Mass Notifications Systems - Uses and Consideration
  An InformationWeek Custom Editorial Webcast
  Sponsor: Avaya
  
  Pipelines burst, government officials resign, blackouts darken hospitals, or a supply chain comes to a screeching halt. When these events occur, organizations require the tools to instantly notify employees and organizational stakeholders about situational status and what action individuals need to take. Whether it is a safety issue or your company's bottom line, for such systems to work successfully, notification solutions should be centralized, easy to deploy and able to transmit messages in real-time.
  Join InformationWeek and Avaya for a discussion on this critical issue, by learning about next-generation tools available to enterprises requiring instant, enterprise-wide communication.
  
  February 11, 2010 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  
  5 Keys to Driving Down Data Protection Costs While Increasing IT Service Levels: Smart Moves You Can Make Now
  A Network Computing WebCast
  Sponsor: ExaGrid/Symantec
  
  Everyone is talking about controlling costs and improving productivity. In tough markets, optimizing your operations is a proven way to help weather the storm. Emerging technologies like disk backup with data deduplication are changing the way IT organizations protect critical data and IT assets, all while lowering costs and increasing IT service levels. Backup experts from ExaGrid Systems and Symantec NetBackup will uncover how these hot technologies can better protect your data, while bolstering your IT environment and your organization's overall bottom line.
  Join us for a live, interactive 45-minute discussion to learn how other IT organizations are using the powerful combination of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and NetBackup software to dramatically improve backups and restores at a significantly lower cost.
  
  February 11, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  

  
  Modernizing IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance to Accelerate Flexibility & Visibility
  Take steps to repair weakened IT governance practices by attending our upcoming InformationWeek Virtual Event. Our program will offer crucial guidance on both practical tools and strategic insight to enact more formidable governance systems. Register for Free Today!
  Platinum Sponsor: thawte
  Silver Sponsor: Lumension
  Independent Research Partner: Forrester
  
  

  
  
  
  Modernizing Application Quality Management for Greater Business Value
  Hosted by: HP
  In this executive roundtable we will discuss ways in which businesses are improving productivity and performance by sharing ideas, tasks, and information. We'll address successes in maximizing ROI, various approaches to application lifecycle management, their experiences in prioritizing efforts to increase the ratio for spending and how best to redirect savings to innovative projects that ultimately help position the company for long term success.
  
  San Francisco: January 26
  Chicago: February 4
  
  
  
  
  
  Optimize Your Data Center Operations and Harvest Savings
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  During this webcast, the speakers will share with you tips and techniques to maximize returns and improve service maturity from your DCO engagement. Through this Webinar, you will also learn how to:
  • Enhance efficiency of DCO and reduce total cost of ownership
  • Improve business availability through an SLA-based engagement model
  • Leverage an ITIL-based framework for reliable & predictable IT operations
  February 3, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Unified Enterprise Network Management: Best Practices in Building Solutions for the Evolving Network Architecture
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Join us for an exciting webinar where Craig Mathias, Principal at Farpoint Group, and Bryan Wargo, GM at Aruba Networks will discuss the next generation of enterprise network management and the impact mobility will play in the coming decade.
  During this presentation you will explore solutions to the most demanding mobility-management challenges, including:
  • Supporting multiple vendors and multiple wireless architectures
  • Unifying management of your wired and wireless network
  • Extending management control down to mobile devices
  • Creating unique solutions and interfaces for the different constituents within the IT department
  January 28, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
  
  
  
  Creating a Database Security Plan -- Why Basic Database Security is No Longer Sufficient
  A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast
  
  SQL injection attacks and internal data thefts are on the rise -- but DBAs spend less than 5% of their time on database security.
  
  Join Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst and database security expert at Forrester Research, and Phil Neray, VP of Security Strategy at Guardium, to learn about:
  • Why AAA and basic security are no longer sufficient.
  • The 3 key pillars of a database security plan (foundation, preventive, detection).
  • Why 60% of internal database threats go undetected.
  • Why privileged user monitoring and role separation are important (and how to implement them).
  Check out this educational webcast to learn about the critical trends in data theft and proven strategies for increasing your company's data-level security against modern cybercriminals!
  
  January 26, 2010 Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
  
  
  
  Getting Started with Governance-Centric MDM -- Practical and Tactical Recommendations
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  
  Attend this Web seminar to learn why featured guest Forrester Research "continues to witness growing enthusiasm for MDM initiatives across all industries".  Register now to join information management experts John Evans of Kalido and featured guest Rob Karel of Forrester Research and as they provide field-proven recommendations for effectively evangelizing enterprise data governance programs and scoping MDM implementations that deliver near-term ROI to your business.
  
  January 26, 2010 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
  
  
  
  Becoming the Enterprise Single Sign-on IT Hero: A Case Study
  An InformationWeek Webcast
  If your end users must remember 5 or more passwords and are inundating the help desk with password-reset calls, you have a costly but avoidable problem. Fix the problem and you'll be revered as an IT hero. Let us show you how.
  Attend this free Web seminar to learn how deploying an enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution from Novell can help you deliver a quick win with a near-immediate return on investment. The result? End users and IT staff can focus on conducting business instead of remembering or resetting passwords; senior management can redirect the money you help the company save to other, more strategic areas; and you come out the hero.
  
  January 21, 2010 - 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
  



Extreme Manageability with Oracle Database 11g
An InformationWeek Webcast
Today, IT organizations are facing extreme pressures. Pressures to reduce costs, to deliver service levels 24 x 7, and pressures to do more while IT resources remain flat.
Join us and learn how Oracle gives you extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g. See how you can save time and lower your database management costs to overcome these extreme pressures.

Watch the Oracle Webcast and learn how to:

• Deliver the best database performance for any situation;
• Create IT agility with timesaving risk-free testing and change management;
• Lower your IT costs with Oracle Database's unique self-managing capabilities.
  
  During this presentation, you will see how IT organizations can benefit from Oracle's industry leading database automation and self-managing capabilities—giving customers superior performance and higher service reliability. See first-hand how Oracle offers timesaving and risk-free testing and change management solutions, enabling you to deliver faster IT agility at a fraction of the time and money.
  Register now for the Webcast, and learn more about Oracle's extreme manageability with Oracle Database 11g.
  
  January 21, 2010 - 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET