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Development Options For Mobile Apps
A BYTE Webcast
The sheer volume of apps for iOS and Android is all the more impressive for the fact that it's not easy to write mobile apps. Often you need to work in multiple languages and with unfamiliar development tools. But of course the demand has led tool vendors to expand options for developers. You can write classic native apps, you can write apps in multiple languages, you can use a MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform – ck the acronym) to write one abstracted app that the MEAP delivers for different platforms, and you may be able simply to write a good app in HTML/script/CSS.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Stop, Think and Save up to 50% on applicable IT costs
An InformationWeek Webcast
IT professionals around the world are faced with insatiable demand for new services with flat or even declining budgets. We know Oracle database and middleware clients, including those using Sun or HP servers face many concerns:
When it comes to optimized hardware and software that create these superior economics, Oracle, Sun and HP can't even come close to what IBM® offers. Come see how choosing IBM over Oracle can help you overcome these challenges, as well as save time and money.
Join us for a unique event in which IBM experts and clients will discuss how you can save up to 50% on applicable IT costs by choosing IBM Software and Systems instead.*
* IT cost savings reflect potential overall reductions in software and/or hardware maintenance charges and reduced costs of system and workload management that may be achieved over a period of 3-5 years, when consolidating workloads from other systems to IBM. Software migration is from Oracle database and/or application server to comparable IBM DB2 and IBM WebSphere products. Actual cost savings and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations. Complimentary services, training and education will vary by customer and may not be available in every country. Financing terms and availability vary by country. Contact IBM to see what we can do for you.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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A BYTE Webcast
The sheer volume of apps for iOS and Android is all the more impressive for the fact that it's not easy to write mobile apps. Often you need to work in multiple languages and with unfamiliar development tools. But of course the demand has led tool vendors to expand options for developers. You can write classic native apps, you can write apps in multiple languages, you can use a MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform – ck the acronym) to write one abstracted app that the MEAP delivers for different platforms, and you may be able simply to write a good app in HTML/script/CSS.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Stop, Think and Save up to 50% on applicable IT costs
An InformationWeek Webcast
IT professionals around the world are faced with insatiable demand for new services with flat or even declining budgets. We know Oracle database and middleware clients, including those using Sun or HP servers face many concerns:
- High software maintenance costs.
- Expensive "one-size-fits-all" configurations.
- High maintenance analytics.
- Restrictive agreements that may require buying more than is needed.
- Uncertainty surrounding SPARC and Itanium roadmaps.
When it comes to optimized hardware and software that create these superior economics, Oracle, Sun and HP can't even come close to what IBM® offers. Come see how choosing IBM over Oracle can help you overcome these challenges, as well as save time and money.
Join us for a unique event in which IBM experts and clients will discuss how you can save up to 50% on applicable IT costs by choosing IBM Software and Systems instead.*
* IT cost savings reflect potential overall reductions in software and/or hardware maintenance charges and reduced costs of system and workload management that may be achieved over a period of 3-5 years, when consolidating workloads from other systems to IBM. Software migration is from Oracle database and/or application server to comparable IBM DB2 and IBM WebSphere products. Actual cost savings and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations. Complimentary services, training and education will vary by customer and may not be available in every country. Financing terms and availability vary by country. Contact IBM to see what we can do for you.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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SMB Threat Awareness Survey: Small Businesses are Big Targets for CyberCriminals
A InformationWeek Webcast
Small and medium-sized business are increasingly becoming larger targets for cyber criminals. This is largely due to the fact that many smaller businesses are less protected against cyber threats. It's imperative to not only be aware of the methods that cybercriminals use but to guard your business against the attacks that are becoming more and more common.
Monday, December 19, 2012 -- Time: 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
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Federal Desktop Management Imperatives: The Role of Windows 7 in Supporting Agency Mission Objectives
An Information Week Webcast
Join us for an in-depth look at the state of Windows 7 migration plans in government agencies today, including tips and advice for making the migration a success.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Integrated CRM: Powered by the Cloud
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an in-depth webcast on best practices for developing a cloud-based CRM application and integration strategy that connects business processes and technology to create a nimble, customer-focused, and real time enterprise.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Executive Panel Discussion: Evaluation Guide for Cloud ERP, What Finance and IT Need to Know
An Information Week Webcast
The disruptive power of the cloud has come to ERP. Organizations small to large have deployed, and are deploying it. But is cloud ERP right for your organization, and what do you need to know about selecting the right provider? Beyond functionality, it's important to evaluate any cloud vendor on multiple important criteria.
Hear from an experienced panel of finance and IT executives at companies like yours who've implemented cloud ERP, sharing their experiences on the drivers, evaluation process, deployment and payoff. Get their lessons learnt, and best practices.
- Get the latest analyst data on the move to the cloud to support your business case.
- Learn the key criteria you should rate any cloud ERP vendor on.
- Hear from executives how they planned and executed the move from on-premise to the cloud.
- Find out best practices and key questions you should ask.
Join this webinar to hear from the real experts -- the IT and finance executives who have implemented ERP in the cloud. Learn how they dealt with old systems and challenges, understand their evaluation process and the questions they asked, and hear how their deployments are today.
Sign up today to participate and learn how to start building your RFI to evaluate cloud ERP providers.
Thursday, December 15, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Straight Talk from LiveRail: How to Slay Big Data with Infobright and Hadoop
An Information Week Webcast
LiveRail, provider of the industry-leading online video advertising platform, lives or dies by Big-Data analytics, sitting across 10 billion monthly video ad opportunities. Their platform captures more than a dozen engagement metrics -- collecting approximately 2 billion data points each day -- giving their advertisers greater insight into the performance of their video campaigns. As LiveRail's business has grown, the volume of data they collect has soared, along with their clients' need for near real-time analytic access to this data.
Join Andrei Dunca, co-founder and CTO of LiveRail, and Jeff Kibler, Infobright's community manager, for an in-depth discussion on how LiveRail met this challenge by implementing Infobright and Hadoop:
- Near real-time analysis and reporting -- for both scheduled and ad-hoc analytics
- Simple administration, requiring no indexes or tuning
- 25:1 compression rate, resulting in more data stored on fewer servers
- Easy integration of Infobright and Hadoop
- Lower TCO due to licensing and hardware savings
Register today to attend and you can also receive a free whitepaper, "Emerging Database Landscape: A Users' Guide".
Thursday, December 15, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Performing with Agility: Collaborating and Innovating in the ALM Ensemble
An InformationWeek Webcast
What is the key to true agility? Tools, technology, processes and practices are all essential elements but their use does not guarantee success. Before employing such things we must first harness the diverse talents of highly effective people and guide them with fundamental principles that can be readily applied to any situation. This approach allows agile practitioners in domains such as jazz, basketball, military special operations and software development to forge strategies and execute them with success even when they must deal with a multitude of unexpected challenges. Learn about the importance of performing and how diversity, leading on demand, awareness, transparency, rhythm, health and measured risk-taking can enable agility.
Adrian Cho applies twenty-three years in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual property, to help teams deliver innovative solutions on time. As the Senior Development Manager for IBM's Jazz ALM initiative including the Collaborative Lifecycle Management project, he manages the global development of multiple products. As a jazz musician and Artistic Director of the Ottawa Jazz Orchestra, he has presented thirty major concerts and premiered over ten seminal jazz works in the past seven years. He teaches and speaks to university and business audiences about software development, jazz history, collaboration, innovation and agility. His book, The Jazz Process, has been endorsed by a diverse collection of thought leaders while reviewers have praised it as "a huge payback for the time invested in reading it," "a deep exploration of collaborative know-how," and "a concept of leadership and teamwork that's well suited for the Google-age workplace."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 -- Time: 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
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The Challenges and Opportunities in the Cloud: A New Perspective
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this webcast you'll learn about the latest perspective on Cloud opportunities and challenges today and hear about NetApp IT's approach to secure and exploit them. Explore a high level view of the investments required in core IT capabilities to support Software as a Service (SaaS) and delve into the opportunities of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to support innovation and agility both in IT and the Business.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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How Migration to Windows 7 Supports Priorities for Optimized Performance in Highly Distributed Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an interactive discussion and learn how operational changes in end-computing management affects IT departments and how Windows 7 can help drive efficiency and heighten results to minimize IT staff headaches.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Redesigning Backup and Recovery for Continuity and Efficiency in Virtualized Infrastructures
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us and learn how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage solution, Symantec's Data Protection and Availability solution, along with VMware and the vCenter Site Recovery Manager, can help you to address challenges including:
- Best practices for architecting a virtual environment that is resilient against failure and can quickly recover from disaster
- How to achieve a seamless multi-layer data protection approach to minimize downtime and data loss utilizing the Dell fluid data architecture
- How to ensure the highest levels of availability and fault tolerance while enabling rapid movement and recovery of resource pools
- How you can reduce the cost of complexity and data growth with virtualization and game-changing deduplication, compression and archiving technologies
- Best practices for simplified backup redesign to protect both virtual and physical environments
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - Time: 09:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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2012 To-Do List: Plan Now to Get More from Your Virtual Infrastructure Next Year
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast to learn about the benefits of extending virtualization beyond server consolidation.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Industry Leaders Offer Definitive Solution to PCI Compliance in the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast
HyTrust has joined with VMware to outline, test, and verify a cloud-based reference architecture that provides the necessary guidance to embrace cloud technology, and would help your organization meet the requirements of PCI-DSS 2.0. You are Invited to Hear More about this Collaborative Effort from HyTrust and VMware - Live!
Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Three Reasons Why You Can't Live Without Strong Endpoint Management
Part 3: Help! The Mobile Device Invasion Is Here!
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join Mobile Device Management expert Naveed Makhani to explore these and other topics of interest while gaining insight into:
- Key market developments and the challenges they bring
- Understanding and managing the disruptive paradigm shift from "the power of the IT administrator" to "the user is king"
- Emerging best practices in enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM) and IBM’s unified device management approach
Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Continuous Data Protection: Using Data Virtualization to Reduce Downtime Risk
An InformationWeek Webcast
For modern enterprises, the cost of downtime is simply too great and traditional recovery solutions are no longer adequate.
By delivering an extended recovery layer, data virtualization can prevent millions of dollars in downtime costs Ñ from a single outage incident. Join this webcast to learn more about the continuous data protection benefits of data virtualization and the opportunity for your organization to:
- Expedite RTO through rapid provisioning of multiple firefighting database copies
- Realize significantly better RPO through immediate recovery to any point any time
- Extend current data protection investments to edge cases like logical corruption
Thursday, December 8, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Recovery by Design: A Holistic Look At Data Recovery Planning And Methodology
An InformationWeek Webcast
Protecting critical servers and data can be a complicated affair. While it may be easy to roll out and configure a backup product, integrating backup into a total recovery plan can be a major organizational challenge. Good recovery planning is a multi-disciplinary affair that involves resources at all levels of an organization in order to scope and complete successfully. Not only do you need to choose the right product(s) to protect and store your data, you need to make a determination of what is being backed up, how frequently, how long it's retained and how you will make use of it in a recovery scenario. Further, open communication with other business units is critical to the collaborative recovery planning process. In this webcast, we'll explore a six step backup methodology that will make sure that when things do go south, you're ready with your sun hat on.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Time: 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT
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Successfully Retiring Legacy Applications: A Case Study
A Dark Reading Webcast
Over time, applications can outlast their value to the business, eventually costing more to maintain than they are worth. All too often, though, efforts to retire obsolete, legacy, or redundant applications are stalled before they begin, as organizations fear they may someday need the underlying data. So, how can organizations safely retire these legacy applications, while keeping the historical data accessible for data retention?
Join IBM and Advent Global, as they discuss how their global client successfully divested two legacy applications -- including an AS/400-based legacy application as well as a custom Oracle-based application -- using the InfoSphere Optim Data Growth solution. Learn how this customer was able to successfully divest these applications in three (3) months, create a reporting platform that ensured access to the archived data long-term, and ensure no disruption to their application user community.
Wednesday, December 7 , 2011 -- Time: 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT
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3 Types of Business Decisions You Need to Make Faster for Competitive Advantage An InformationWeek Webcast
During this webcast, we'll describe how organizations like Visa Europe, HealthNow, EMT Telecom, and Swiss Customs are saving money and time, acquiring and retaining more profitable customers, and reducing risk exposure by enabling business users to automate, improve and govern the run-the-business decisions for which they're accountable, in partnership with IT.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Addressing PCI for Databases: Beyond Encryption and Log Management
A Dark Reading Webcast
In this technical webinar, you'll learn how clients of all sizes -- including Dell, McAfee, Washington Metro (WMATA) and a top 5 global bank -- implemented Guardium's scalable, cross-DBMS solution to:
- Easily pass QSA audits with out-of-the-box compliance reports and automated workflows.
- Prevent unauthorized access by continuously monitoring all database activities -- including actions by privileged users such as DBAs, developers and outsourced personnel -- without impacting performance or creating more work for DBAs and security teams
- Find out how database activity monitoring (DAM) can help you.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Rekindling the End User and IT Relationship with Intel Business Technologies
An InformationWeek Webcast
With Intel® VT, everybody can be happy. By creating a separate "section" on the PC or laptop for users, all their day-to-day personal activity is kept securely separate from their business applications and data. Virtual desktops give users the flexibility to run personal applications without compromising mission-critical business applications. IT can only back up business-based data (and not the user's personal data, freeing up valuable storage space) as well as the freedom to securely manage business-critical applications. Both IT and users enjoy full mobility and graphics performance, because virtual machines run locally. Join Intel's Rich Nockels as he shares how Intel innovations like Intel® VT and Intel® vProTM technology can keep your PC users and IT staff happy, productive and secure.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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e-Banking at the Point of Origination: Pushing the boundaries of information capture to improve customer experience and business performance
A Bank Systems & Technology Webcast
Internet banking has evolved significantly from merely providing access to account information to enabling account holders with the capability to transact business on their computers or mobile devices. Banks now have to provide an array of online services to meet increasing customer demand, while leveraging technology to increase efficiency and hold down costs.
At this free, one-hour Webcast, you'll learn how savvy banks are pushing the boundaries of information capture to provide a richer customer experience, improve business performance and reduce costs as they capture information at the point of origination.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Choosing the Right Storage for Microsoft Exchange 2010
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast discussing the considerations when designing a storage architecture for Microsoft Exchange which will lead to a simple to manage and efficient operation.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Platform consolidation and enterprise data management: Why now?
A Wall Street & Technology Webcast
Consolidation of disparate platforms and enterprise data management continue to be key areas of focus as investment managers are under pressure to improve margins and increase efficiency amidst a barrage of regulatory reform.
In this webinar, gain insight on:
- Buy-side technology strategies and investment priorities for the next 18 months. This will include strategies for operations and core platforms.
- The drivers for consolidation and the consequences of not having an enterprise data management strategy.
- The role of enterprise data management in supporting Dodd-Frank reforms for OTC derivatives.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Federal Desktop Management Imperatives: The Role of Windows 7 in Supporting Agency Mission Objectives
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an in-depth look at the state of Windows 7 migration plans in government agencies today, including tips and advice for making the migration a success.
Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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The ROI of Partner Integration: A deeper look at how much you can save
An InformationWeek Webcast
As companies continue to move to outsourced supply chains, it has become increasingly difficult to stay informed and in control of every stage of their supply chains.
Join us in this webcast as we discuss key findings from new Aberdeen research and break down the most common business processes, Procure-to-pay and Order-to-Delivery, and show how Best-in-Class organizations are using B2B to gain competitive advantages.
Attendees will learn:
- Top challenges to expanding B2B usage with trading partners
- What prevents implementing B2B integration with trading partners
- Benefits received from customer collaboration through B2B
- Top 3 strategic actions to take
Hear real world examples of companies that have improved business agility, operational efficiency, and business performance through community integration, business process automation, and visibility
Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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The Future of Mobile Device Security
A BYTE Webcast
Join BYTE for a comprehensive look into the future of mobile security in the enterprise. The webcast will cover Mobile Device Management (MDM) and the different approaches today and down the road.
What to expect:
- Learn about the players in the MDM market and their approaches
- Learn about the strengths and limitations in the MDM approach
- Learn about MDM alternatives, including sandboxes, wrappers, virtual machines and MAM (Mobile Application Management)
- Learn about other potential approaches to security for mobile devices in the enterprise
- Question industry analysts on mobile security issues
Thursday, December 1, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Seven Habits of Highly Successful Wi-Fi Users
An InformationWeek Webcast
As Wi-Fi becomes the ubiquitous network access method of choice, practices that promote secure productive use grow more critical. Wi-Fi’s fuss-free mobility and transparency can be highly appealing, but invisible mistakes can be frustrating, even dangerous. In this webcast, we recommend seven habits that can help enterprise IT maximize Wi-Fi safety while avoiding common pitfalls.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -- Time: 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT
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Accelerate Virtualization Success with Dell EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 5
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast exploring the requirements and challenges of storage in virtualization and how the right storage can helps you achieve optimal performance, improved responsiveness, greater efficiencies and effective business continuity.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Computing Economics: Leveraging the Low Cost of Enterprise Linux on System Z for Collaboration Solutions
An InformationWeek Webcast
Business leaders are looking for ways to deploy enterprise solutions that provide social and collaboration features at a more economic price. Many architects, executives and operations managers neglect to consider platform when reigning in those expenses.
Learn more about IBM's exciting collaboration solutions and how using Enterprise Linux can change the economics of running mission critical collaboration for your organization.
Here's some of what you will learn:
- Insight into what IBM Collaboration Solutions can offer your social, mobile or service portal projects.
- Architecture and platform is rapidly becoming the imperative. How can private cloud make a difference?
- Consolidation planning and why architecture/platform can be a IT force multiplier for your project.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Are your servers ready to deliver improved capabilities and efficiency at lower costs?
An InformationWeek Webcast
Demand for x86 servers in small and midsized businesses is changing, and IBM is changing along with it. In a time where businesses are balancing new workloads and IT demands with decreasing operating budgets, IT decision makers are faced with complex buying choices when evaluating a server’s ability to deliver improved capabilities and efficiency at lower costs.
By focusing on building servers that offer reliable compute capacity, streamlined management, and reduced energy consumption, IBM has positioned its new single-socket System x M4 servers, powered by Intel Xeon processors, in the spotlight as a means for customers to save money without sacrificing performance, flexibility or ease of use.
Learn from an industry perspective how small and midsize enterprises have benefited from IBM System x.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Tackling Top Priorities For IT Infrastructure & Operations Leaders
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join this webinar with Forrester Research Principal Analyst Doug Washburn and ASG's Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Solutions, Ed Hallock, to understand why IT executives are prioritizing these initiatives, the business value they expect to receive, and recommended steps to address them.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am ET / 8 am PT
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CIO Roundtable: Survival Strategies for Managing the "Data Deluge" and Delivering Business Value
An InformationWeek LIVE VIDEO Webcast
Hear first-hand how innovative CIOs from Informatica, Qualcomm and UMass Memorial Healthcare are optimizing the data within their applications to save time, lower costs, and realize a significant ROI. Also learn how Greenplum, a division of EMC, is helping CIOs build predictive analytics into operationalized applications to deliver innovation back to the business.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Development Testing: A New Era in Software Quality
An InformationWeek & Dr. Dobb's Webcast
Did you know that 87% of targeted IT leaders from more than 200 companies believe that development testing is more important than it was 2 years ago, and 97% have plans to increase their investment in development testing?
Join Dave West, a leading Forrester Analyst, for this informative session to gain real-world insight into applying development testing to deliver innovative software faster.
In this webinar you will learn:
- Why it is crucial to test software quality early in the software development lifecycle
- How development testing is changing the relationship between development teams and QA
- Best practices for integrating development testing into your existing development workflow
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Intelligent WAN Optimization: Getting the Most from Your Network
An InformationWeek Webcast
As enterprise WANs grow, so do the expectations: WANs are no longer just for transporting data between locations. In this webinar, you will learn smarter ways to optimize your WAN through analyzing your application needs and improving the efficiency of your WAN.
Takeaways include:
- Determining your current level of WAN optimization
- Real-life network examples
- Improving MPLS efficiency
- Class of Service tools
- Security optimization
After this webinar, you will know how to analyze your network, applications, and users, shape your traffic, place your data strategically and leverage powerful tools to manage your traffic -- giving you the key building blocks for a smarter WAN.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Simplifying Big Data: Using Hadoop to Support Better Decisions
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast on Apache Hadoop, a highly scalable compute and storage platform that can support hundreds to thousands of commodity servers.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Why is Backup Broken?
An InformationWeek Webcast
Backup has become increasingly challenging for IT professionals as new technologies such as virtualization and the cloud emerge, and data continues along a hockey-stick growth trajectory. Meanwhile, IT budgets have remained down or flat. The result: Backup windows keep getting longer and longer, while end users -- who have little or no tolerance for downtime -- are demanding successful, quick restores. Join UBM TechWeb and Syncsort to discuss the results of a new research study on the State of Backup.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Time: 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET
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What You Need to Know to Successfully Manage Electronic Records in High Volume Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast
During this webcast, you'll gain insights into issues that make managing electronic records in high volume environments challenging, why organizations need to gain control of their transactional content, and what to look for in an effective transactional records management solution.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Virtualizing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast to learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Streamlining Access to Test Data for Testers and Developers
A Dark Reading Webcast
As organizations are looking to shorten test cycles and accelerate time to market of applications, testers and developers need to access test data for testing. Organizations are embracing methodologies such as agile development, which relies on agile testing and continuous access to test data to run tests and builds. In this webcast we will discuss challenges in test data management, streamlining test data delivery, establishing a collaborative test data management process while reducing testing time.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Optimizing Content and Records Management Storage in Microsoft SharePoint Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for an interactive webcast on minimizing the cost of protecting and storing SharePoint content, while improving performance and reining in SharePoint server sprawl.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara
November 14-17, 2011 | Santa Clara, CA
Learn how a social strategy can improve business operations across sales, marketing, HR, customer support, product development and procurement.
Register today with code CPHCES07 for a free expo pass or save up to $500 on conference passes.
Virtualization: Starting Out on the Right Foot
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Virtualization can save money and speed processes across your organization. Yet setting up a virtualized environment requires specific expertise and, often, new equipment.
Join us for an interactive webcast to learn what's involved in planning and launching a successful virtualization effort.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Increasing ERP Agility, Elasticity and Cost Efficiency
An InformationWeek Webcast
Has your ERP investment delivered on its promise of huge returns through business process automation? The reality is that over 80% of ERP projects exceed budgets and timelines reducing the payoff. Join this webcast to learn how organizations like Staples, eBay, Procter & Gamble, Stryker, Comcast, Sanofi Aventis and many more are reversing that trend and realizing the benefits through data virtualization.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Migrating from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Confidence
An InformationWeek Webcast
If you are looking for an alternative to HP-UX, this webinar is a must. The world's largest and most successful organizations trust Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And this webinar will show why. Join us to learn more about how you can migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with confidence.
Migration experts will discuss:
- Business benefits of migrating from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Similarities between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP-UX
- Red Hat's broad ecosystem and strong relationship with partners
- High-level migration steps
- How Red Hat can help
- Case studies of companies that have made the move to Red Hat
- Learn about the latest in social business tools, including opportunities to engage in on-site product demos Discover how the correlation of social capabilities with business success is increasingly evident as organizations create value by empowering "people networks", at work and over the web
- Network with other executive peers in the process of building their own social businesses and exchange ideas for institutionalizing these business-transforming processes
- Develop best practices for overcoming obstacles to organization-wide collaboration, including change-management policies, governance, and security enablement
- Discover ways to tap into the intellectual capital of the organization to promote increased business agility, innovation, and growth
- November 9, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA
- November 9, 2011 - Philadelphia, PA
- November 9, 2011 - Detroit, MI
- The driving principles behind the new Oracle Coherence 3.7.1 release
- Major features and functionality
- How this release will affect your existing and future Oracle Coherence deployments
- Gain insight into IBM and Rational's journey towards Agile transformation, including the mistakes that were made, experiments that failed, and how greater agility and customer satisfaction are being achieved.
- Understand how enterprise issues such as physical and psychological barriers must be addressed to facilitate effective Agile adoption, and see approaches that were used to address them.
- Learn how techniques and technologies such as self-documentation, real-time dashboarding, process enforcement, and common definitions of what is "done" can be used to accelerate a team's Agile progress.
- Review real world examples of customers realizing unprecedented value in choosing AMD OpteronTM processors to drive their virtualization environment
- Give you a peek at AMD's next generation "Bulldozer" architecture-based processor, featuring a completely new redesigned core architecture, which demonstrates AMD's commitment to provide market leading performance and value.
- Share specific use cases for Map Intuition in action – like infrastructure upgrades or technology changes arising from acquisition activity
- Show how Contivo "learns and improves how data transformation works, reducing costs and valuable resource time.
- Demonstrate highlights of Map Intuition, and
- Preview Contivo 5.1, due this quarter
- An examination of the Big Data technology-provider landscape
- How new technologies such as columnar databases, NoSQL and Hadoop fit
- Why traditional approaches won't do for most Big Data issues
- Analysis of the costs involved in all options -- and how to avoid the big money sink holes
- How two agencies successfully enhanced service delivery and overall customer experience -- and the challenges they faced on the way
- Strategies for streamlining self-service and ensuring effective customer interactions by phone, email, web, social media and other channels
- Proven processes for meeting mandates such as the Customer Service Executive Order
- How to use tools that allow agencies to respond immediately to legislation and policy changes
- Insightful methods for using innovative technology to improve citizen experiences
- Business benefits of migrating from AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Similarities between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX
- Red Hat's broad ecosystem and strong relationship with partners
- High-level migration steps
- Where to go for help if you need it
- Real examples from several companies that have successfully migrated
- What are the key trends shaping the development of cloud models in the enterprise market?
- How do key trends translate into opportunities or threats for service providers?
- How do hosting providers and telcos weather the storm of competition from incumbent vendors and Internet heavyweight?
- Is there a proven approach that enables providers to mitigate risks while entering the cloud fray?
- Ideas on how to differentiate your business, grow margins, and find customers.
- Do they fuel innovation?
- Are they interconnected and adaptable enough?
- Can you make the right decisions quickly or even automate them?
- Does your infrastructure perform optimally amidst change and uncertainty?
- Can you embrace new application and service delivery models like cloud and mobile?
- Identify users connecting personal devices to the network
- Protect enterprise data through Apple security policies
- Enforce application whitelists/ blacklists on any iOS device
- Dynamic web acceleration
- Streaming media support
- Cross-platform content delivery
- Content security and policy management
- What do clinicians want in their mobile devices?
- What's doable?
- What does the future hold?
- What to look for in mobile device to ensure it meets your organization's needs in terms of features, functionality, security
- What role the device may play in meeting meaningful use requirements
- How hospitals are helping clinicians deploy mobile devices
- What challenges you should expect to encounter and how to tackle these issues
- What makes a cloud different than a virtualized infrastructure
- Why you should start your cloud strategy with a product that is already a cloud
- How to set proper expectations about your private cloud
- How to get the most from your cloud investment
- Discussion of endpoint management challenges faced by public sector organizations
- Brief overview of Tivoli Endpoint Manager
- A presentation by Twin Rivers Schoo District of its endpoint management challenges and how it leveraged Tivoli Endpoint Manager to save $127,000 in application deployment costs, increased patch management compliance, reduced labor costs and improved licensing true-ups
- Steve Demuth, PLM Lead for ILOG (WebSphere) Business Rules
- Steve Lyons, IBM, STSM-Lead Developer WebSphere Business Events
- Jean Pommier, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
- Migrating servers to virtual machines takes too long
- Post-migration performance is not what was expected
- After migration, backup impact limits virtual machine density
- The scope and lifecycle of operational decision making
- Selecting and prioritizing Decision Management capabilities to address customer needs
- IBM's Decision Management offerings and coverage
- Understanding data center sustainability
- Business benefits of sustainable date center
- Implementing sustainable data center practices
- How to jointly define IT and business availability and recovery objectives
- Best practices for aligning information protection approaches with business priorities
- Key performance indicators for measuring success - and how you can establish them
- Industry trends for business resiliency
- Resiliency best practices from financial services & other industries
- How IT organizations are choosing, deploying, managing and securing cloud services.
- The biggest pitfalls early cloud adopters have discovered -- and how to avoid them.
- How Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and private cloud models can each fit into near- and long-term enterprise IT strategies.
- Next steps for moving your organization's cloud strategy forward.
- Superusers sharing administrative DBMS credentials.
- Unpatched or misconfigured databases.
- Unauthorized changes including schema (DDL), data (DML) and privilege changes (DCL).
- Unauthorized or suspicious access to sensitive data (SELECTs).
- End-users bypassing application-layer controls and connecting directly to databases.
- Application IDs for users who perform fraudulent actions (unlike native database logs that only track generic service accounts).
- Entitlements and user rights at a granular level (SYSDBA accounts, object privileges, etc.).
- Replacing existing scripts and manual processes with a single set of automated controls for heterogeneous environments (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, MySQL, ...).
- Implementing fine-grained compliance monitoring without impacting performance or changing database configurations.
- Leveraging a library of 150+ pre-configured policies and reports for SOX, PCI and data privacy regulations.
- Automating the entire compliance workflow, including distributing exception reports to oversight teams and tracking electronic sign-offs, escalations, comments, etc.
- Enforcing separation of duties by providing an audit trail of all database activities that can't be disabled by privileged users (unlike native database logs).
- Masking sensitive production data in test and development environments. Protecting applications from external attack and data breaches/leakage.
- What to look for in an automated tool
- How to leverage it to gain comprehensive visibility into the security posture of assets throughout the infrastructure
- How you can utilize Tivoli Endpoint Manger to achieve real-time visibility and control of all endpoints across its organization
- How to evaluate which mobile devices your company must support
- Key technologies for simplifying mobile infrastructure management
- Simple strategies for keeping your mobile workforce and customer data private and secure
- How to protect mobile devices from loss or theft
- Handling employee requests to use or choose their own devices.
- Join us for this important talk on the rapidly changing requirements for the mobile workforce.
- Assess and track computer hardware on the network
- Identify distinct software assets
- Determine when hardware or software needs attention
- Improve IT support with an up-to-date PC inventory
- Enhance network security through enforced PC configurations
- Ensure software license compliance
- 802.11 technology fundamentals
- Evolution of Wi-Fi standards to accommodate security, performance, and reliability
- Wi-Fi infrastructure "Best Practices"
- Provide Consistent, Secure Access -- Put secure enterprise information at the fingertips of the workforce via the iPad2, equipped with Autonomy's patented mapped security technology
- Extend the Enterprise -- Keep professionals in touch with the latest business information and enterprise applications
- Enforce Compliance -- Address key challenges of document and email retention for mobile workers
- Enhance Productivity -- Provide iPad2 users with capabilities needed to deliver presentations, collaborate with colleagues, and access important business information
- Connect Experts -- Connect subject matter experts for efficient decision making and growth
- Increase Response Times -- Improve reaction rates with real-time access to fast-changing data
- Gaining Deep Visibility into the End-User Experience
- Deploying Business-Critical Web Applications and Monitoring with a Collaborative Approach
- The Network -- Why the Application Matters
- Monitoring Business-Driven Applications in a Virtualized Environment
- Database Management -- A Key Component of your Application Environment
- COIT at a glance. What devices and services to expect first and their potential rewards and risks.
- See if your IT department should create and manage a deployment and security plan for personal devices; hear about new IT services for managing data in and outside the firewall on personal devices, cloud services, web sharing and social technologies.
- A deep summary of SAML and other security standards for businesses with critical data security needs.
- A lively Q&A and interactive discussion on this white hot topic.
- Latest hacker tricks
- Securing mobile devices from data loss
- Malware, malware, malware
- Future trends for cyber attack
- Discovering, managing and protecting your distributed endpoints?
- A lack of visibility, resources and time?
- Inability to deal with fast-moving threats in real-time?
- Compliance audits, cost reduction pressure and complexity from distributed environments?
- Trends shaping future of enterprise mobility
- Recommended policies for the workforce
- Recommendation on usage of key technologies to enhance productivity and overcome challenges
- Data aggregation options from Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, and others
- When to use the decahose, halfhose or filtered full hose
- Keyword and conceptual filtering technologies and how to cull social media data down
- Dashboards and analytics to display clusters of data, showing trends
- Viewing what is hot today that is related to your customers and brands
- Combining social media analysis with customer data from contact centers and web interactions
- Wednesday, July 20th -- Ritz Carlton, Philadelphia
- Thursday, July 21st -- W Hotel, Buckhead, Atlanta
- Tuesday, July 26th -- The Marquette Hotel, Minneapolis
- Wednesday, July 27th -- Ritz Carlton, Chicago
- Why traditional backup no longer works
- What to look for in a VM backup solution
- How to save money while increasing reliability and recovery speed
- The potential lethal hazards associated with arc flash events in a 400V data center
- The steps that businesses can take to reduce the frequency, severity, and harmfulness of such incidents
- Maximize storage performance, efficiency
- Conserve storage capacity
- Minimize the capacity needed for clones
- Scale up and out on a single model
- Simplify and automate disaster recovery
- Replicate affordably
- Implement true storage virtualization
- How to improve efficiency and quickly gain a return on investment
- How to ease deployment and management of your server infrastructure
- Why there's a cost-benefit for refreshing your servers now
- How to improve virtualization efficiency
- How key vendors stack up in terms of delivery, reliability, support, and overall customer satisfaction.
- The evolving threat landscape
- The Zero Trust Model for better security and compliance
- Implementing the Zero Trust Model
- Success stories on implementing data-centric security solutions
- The Automated System is Waiting For You (perils of pseudo-automation)
- It Only Takes A Night (slow, serialized release processes)
- Scotty's The Build Guy, So Scotty Runs the Build (not abstracting the release environment)
- Everyone Does it Their Way, That Way No One's Happy (confusing uniformity with agreement)
- Grid-based scale-out server architecture, powered by Linux
- The role of virtualized iSCSI SANs to support grid-based scale-out server architecture
- The Dell EqualLogic storage architecture and features that can complement and enhance the value of Linux based implementations
- The new disaster-based challenges and risks in today's global business environment. Disaster-preparedness officers can learn a great deal from recent disasters in Japan, Alabama and elsewhere.
- Why most disaster plans fail to account the human, community, infrastructure, and business issues. And why people remain the most essential component of a disaster preparedness plan.
- Why corporate disaster plans are evolving from reactive IT-centric recovery to proactive business-centric resilience. And how the future belongs to smart business resilience, using predictive engines that not only detect threats, but also preemptively migrate workloads to the cloud.
- Align your information life-cycle management policies with you current data retention practices
- Address archiving for e-mail as well as files
- Automate policies to protect critical message files while satisfying e-discovery requirements
- Ensure data longevity by selecting a storage platform that is right for your business
- Should you deploy physical or virtual workstations? Should we virtualize applications?
- What's the most efficient way to deploy applications or workstations?
- Should you deploy 32 or 64 bit Windows or Office?
- What is your application compatibility challenge?
- Microsoft System Center can increase the efficiency of your IT staff.
- Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager work together to provide real-time monitoring and virtual machine agility.
- Companies are using Orchestrator and Service Manager to automate their datacenter and build private clouds
- Dell's Compellent Storage Center provides the ideal platform for virtualized datacenters
- Virtualizing storage and servers together provides the perfect combination for agile environments
- How you can simplify and automate key disaster recovery workflows
- Best practices for reducing recovery times, risk, complexity and cost of disaster recovery in the fully virtualized data center
- More about the integration of one of the industry's premier virtualized server and virtualized storage platforms
- Integrated tools for managing and improving performance.
- Quick ROI with reduced storage and associated costs.
- All with proven technology that you can trust.
- How exchanges help healthcare providers make better clinical decisions, eliminate unnecessary tests and procedures, and avoid overprescribing.
- How HIEs are simplifying administrative tasks between providers, labs, other testing facilities, and healthcare payers.
- Other ways the collected data is being used to improve care, reporting initiatives, and medical research, as well as cut costs.
- April 12, 2011 - Austin, TX
- April 13, 2011 - Austin, TX
- April 19, 2011 - Chicago, IL
- April 26, 2011 - Arlington, VA
- May 10, 2011 - New York, NY
- May 19, 2011 - Orlando, FL
- June 2, 2011 - Boston, MA
- June 7, 2011 - Long Beach, CA
- Learn about the latest in social business tools, including opportunities to engage in on-site product demos
- Discover how the correlation of social capabilities with business success is increasingly evident as organizations create value by empowering "people networks", at work and over the web
- Network with other executive peers in the process of building their own social businesses and exchange ideas for institutionalizing these business-transforming processes
- Develop best practices for overcoming obstacles to organization-wide collaboration, including change-management policies, governance, and security enablement
- Discover ways to tap into the intellectual capital of the organization to promote increased business agility, innovation, and growth
- The factors to consider and prepare for when implementing a virtualization solution such as resources and costs
- Determining which applications are a good fit for virtualization, as well as setting priorities
- How to budget for a virtualization solution that delivers excellent Disaster Recovery with low TCO
- The components and architecture of a virtualized DR solution -- servers and server memory, storage (EQL) and backup, networking, and software (Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper V)
- How Dell and Microsoft have made virtualized DR technology simpler and easier to deploy than ever before
- Best practices for archiving, database subsetting, data masking and test data generation.
- IDC's latest research on vendor evaluation criteria for archiving and information lifecycle management software.
- How archiving and information lifecycle management software is used to manage the evolution of data from creation to removal from database.
- Manage data growth.
- Improve performance.
- Reduce infrastructure cost.
- Why conventional business process for managing and delivery content have become inadequate.
- How new approaches for corporate content and customer communications enable consistency, reduce costs, and improve your bottom line.
- How to easily locate, deliver, assemble, and use corporate information to support customer communications.
- How new requirements for continuous operations and intelligent backup and archive systems are driving developments in data storage
- The key role automation and integration play in any efficient data storage solution that protects data accessibility
- How one real-world company solved its retention and protection needs
- The three key social shifts your business can't ignore
- The three tenets of being a social business
- How new capabilities such as voice and video collaboration, social listening, and social monitoring tools save money AND improve effectiveness
- The What: The types of decisions to automate and improve first
- The Why: Why it's a good idea to separate your decision management from process management
- The Who: Who's actually doing it now -- Case Study Smackdown
- The How: How to get started -- Decision Automation Checklist
- The Where: Where to go for more information
- Combat today's threats; including: malware, botnets, viruses, spyware, circumvention tools, anonymous browsing, IM, P2P, and inappropriate content
- Lower your TCO and free your IT personnel to focus on other security issues
- Mitigate the risks of legal liability and prevent productivity loss
- Automate authentication
- Benefit from remote filtering enforcement for all on-premises and remote employees
- And so much more
- Maximize and predict database performance
- Drive down IT operational costs through automation
- Ensure service quality with proactive management
- Get the most out of your Oracle Exadata with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
- What Managed File Transfer is and why it's critical to protecting your brand
- Why vanilla or basic FTP isn't enough
- Tips to rapidly solve 60-70% of your compliance and regulatory issues
- How MFT solutions could have prevented data breaches
- Look at your plan administration costs with a fresh lens
- Identify specific areas for cost reduction
- Leverage the right people, processes and technologies to improve administrative efficiencies and results
- The differences between a framed and frameless storage architecture and how to determine which platform is right for you
- How to create and deploy a comprehensive hardware monitoring and management infrastructure utilizing Microsoft System Center with Dell OpenManage on a frameless storage solution
- How this management solution enables IT to get advance notice of component failures and take proactive actions to avoid disaster in the datacenter.
- To rapidly provision and deploy both physical and virtual hardware. The creation of templates, guest OS profiles, and hardware profiles give you the ability to quickly provide service to datacenter end users.
- To deploy a single, common console for daily alerts and management tasks reducing training time and simplifying overall infrastructure management.
- The changes and patterns in user-centric computing we have been seeing with our enterprise clients
- Common pitfalls and failures in the move to Windows 7
- Avanade's approach to move to Windows 7 migration within the broader transition to a user-centric computing model
- Back-in-time network forensic analysis: go back in time to review historical network traffic to investigate security attacks and application performance issues
- Discovering problems before the customer does: automatically pick out problems from Gigabytes worth of data
- Application-centric protocol analysis: get quick answers to application problems without having to decode packets
- How outsourcing SharePoint operations can help maintain overall value of your SharePoint investment
- Why collaboration blurs the lines between applications and infrastructure outsourcing
- Comparative value and tradeoffs of different SharePoint outsourcing models
- What to look for in evaluating potential suppliers
- Engagement models and lessons learned from MOSS and SharePoint outsourcing
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Becoming A Social Business
An IBM and InformationWeek "Master of Collaboration" Event Series
You are invited to join us for this multimedia event extravaganza as IBM and InformationWeek team up to present a series of globally-renowned experts speaking on key issues in their areas of expertise related to perfecting the social business. It all takes place within the framework of the latest in collaborative technologies to connect the experts with both a live audience and a virtual community.
Portions of this interactive event are simulcast live from Los Angeles!
Unbeatable Performance for your Cloud Application Foundation and Oracle Exalogic
An InformationWeek Webcast
The industry-leading Oracle Coherence provides unsurpassed data scalability, performance, reliability, and availability. And the new release offers your business even more advantages such as the capability to help you get to market faster, improved data access performance with the same hardware, and a new platform-independent option for solutions based on Oracle Coherence that facilitates integration. Join us for this complimentary Webcast, and learn about:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Insurance & Technology's 13th Annual Executive SummitThe Leadership Challenge: Driving Growth, Optimizing Resources
Insurance & Technology's 2011 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 6-9, 2011 -- Carefree, Arizona
* Registration is limited to insurance company/carrier executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
Laptop Refresh Strategy: Why "Replace When Broken" is a Recipe for Disaster
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
As decision makers weigh the pros of waiting to refresh (the initial investment of new systems) against the cons (increasing maintenance costs, declining manageability, security risks, and more), many are taking the opportunity to strengthen their IT backbone. Join us for this in-depth webcast on technology options to consider during your next refresh.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Agility@Scale: IBM's Journey of Agile Transformation
An InformationWeek Webcast
Many large organizations desire to adopt Agile development methodologies as a means of delivering software to customers and internal stakeholders more quickly and efficiently in "bite-sized" increments. However, large projects can pose significant challenges to agility. The larger the organization, the more distributed the teams, the more complex the software being developed all make delivering software in an Agile approach hard. A variety of issues including: the psychology of change, effective integration of tools, communication across locations, education and upskilling issues, varying audit requirements, inconsistent processes, and yes, even training the executive mindset are all barriers to successfully transforming your organization if they are left unaddressed in your company's Agile transformation strategy.
IBM Software Group, with almost 30,000 engineers in 84 locations, started their Agile transformation in 2006. While this journey continues today, extensive improvements in quality, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction show that the rewards of Agile adoption far outweigh the obstacles. IBM learned that a haphazard implementation of Agile may result in more frequent development "turns", but can also fail to deliver true business benefits. In effect, the wrong Agile implementation may just mean that bad code is being released to market faster than before.
Attendees of this session will:
Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Advanced Multicore Platforms -- Powering Your Virtual Infrastructure for Efficient Virtualization
An InformationWeek Webcast
Server and virtualization technology continue to evolve at an incredible pace, enabling some of the most demanding, business critical workloads to efficiently run in a virtualized environment. The hardware infrastructure you choose to power your virtualization environment is critical in enabling you to maximize your investment while keeping your power and cooling costs under control.
During this session we'll discuss what these options are and...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Is the Cost of Change Killing You? How High-Impact Data Integration Tooling Can Help
An InformationWeek Webcast
Liaison's Contivo is a proven design-time technology that reduces the risk, time, cost and effort of integration projects. Map Intuition, a feature of Contivo, uses sophisticated machine learning algorithms to accelerate map conversions from existing data flows and data transformations.
In this webcast Walter Lindsay, Liaison Chief Architect of Contivo Products, will share his firsthand observations of some difficult data integration environments. Attendees will learn how tools for data transformation complemented by advanced machine learning can decrease the time and resources invested in these efforts. Walter will:
Thursday, October 27th, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Straight Talk from Cowen on Big Data Challenges
An InformationWeek Webcast
Is your organization challenged by the ongoing explosion of data? A recent research report from Cowen and Company detailed how the rapid explosion of unstructured and machine-generated data has created a new market for capturing and analyzing non-traditional data. Based on a detailed analysis, it also concluded that traditional RDBMS solutions, such as Oracle, don't scale for Big Data challenges -- and can cost up to 9x more than alternatives.
Join us for a discussion with one of the authors of the study, Cowen senior analyst Peter Golmacher, on how to navigate the challenges of the new data landscape and what to expect next, including:
Register today to attend and you can also receive a free copy of this comprehensive 75-page report.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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GovCloud 2011Building Secure, On-Demand Clouds for Government
GovCloud 2011 is a day-long event where IT professionals in federal, state, and local government will develop a deeper understanding of the options available. Early adopters and other experts will share their experiences and strategies for making the most of cloud services in government IT environments. Topics will include public cloud services, private clouds, hybrid clouds, and shared clouds, and how to use those platforms in a way that minimizes risks and satisfies FISMA and other requirements. Join us for this insightful gathering of government IT executives to hear first-hand about the challenges and opportunities of cloud computing.
For more information and to register, click here.
October 25, 2011 -- Washington, DC
* Registration to this event is granted by the InformationWeek Government Event team. The organizer reserves the right to qualify and deny any registrant.
Building Data Center Infrastructure for the Future
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join two Eaton executives -- Rob Agar, Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Mission Critical Facilities (and program lead for the construction of our two new, state-of-the-art data centers), and John Collins, Global Segment Director - Data Centers -- for a look at the latest techniques available for designing and building data centers, including many of today's best practices in the mission-critical facility space.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Datacenter Transformation with SPARC T4 Servers and SPARC SuperClusters
An InformationWeek Webcast
Learn how the new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 engineered system combines SPARC T4-4 servers, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic and ZFS Storage Appliance hardware and software to deliver world record levels of performance at a fraction of the time and cost of competing systems.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Best Practices in Customer Service: Giving Citizens the Service They Expect
An InformationWeek Government Webcast
Government agencies are facing increasing demand for citizen services across multiple channels (including self-service) while budget pressures are limiting their resources. Adding to the challenge are citizen service mandates such as the recent executive order to streamline service delivery.
Join us for this interactive webcast that explores emerging best practices for delivering timely, efficient and lower cost citizen services. In this hour-long session, you'll learn:
A great customer service experience is the product of a well-researched, well prepared, and well executed plan that puts the customer first in every aspect of your agency's culture and operations. Register today to secure your place in this revealing discussion of how to improve and streamline citizen service delivery.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Broken State of Backup
An InformationWeek Webcast
Data protection industry analysts agree that "backup is broken." They identify key areas where current backup models are failing. Join us on this webinar to find out what those areas are and learn how NetApp and Syncsort have joined together to deliver a simple, integrated and proven data protection solution that resolves all of the issues highlighted by key industry observers.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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GTEC Ottawa, October 17-20, 2011Connected Government -- Working Together to Better Serve Canadians
GTEC brings together leading public and private sector experts to collaborate on serving citizens better through innovation and technology. Our conference, exhibition and Distinction Awards program celebrate the best of breed technology, and best practice leadership in Canadian and international government.
Register today.
Migrating from AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Confidence
An InformationWeek Webcast
Are you considering migrating from your IBM AIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux? This webcast is intended to help you make the decision to migrate with more confidence. Topics covered in this webcast include:
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Advanced Trading's Buy-Side Trading Summit 2011The Evolving Buy-Side Trader: New Skills, Technology & Knowledge
The Buy-Side Trading Summit 2011 is an invitation-only event for senior-level buy-side traders and executives. Each year Advanced Trading brings together the industry's leading executives for an exclusive conference at one of the nation's top resorts. Advanced Trading's Buy-Side Trading Summit has a program with some of the industry's most authoritative speakers who will discuss some of the most relevant topics of the day, including the expanding role of high-frequency trading, the use of dark pools, new technology for the trading desk, transaction cost analysis, risk management and the changing skill set of leading traders.
For more information, email advancedtrading@techweb.com
October 16-18, 2011 -- Amelia Island, Florida
*The Summit is open to buy-side executives only.
Chasing the Cloud -- The Service Provider Success Guid<
An InformationWeek Webcast
The cloud computing competitive landscape is evolving fast, with a growing number of providers coming into play from every corner of the globe. Although the notion of delivering IT as a service is well received in the enterprise market, it takes more than aspiration to deliver on the promise. And more importantly, how does your business survive the feeding frenzy and thrive in this turbulent time?
In this webinar, we will explore the following topics:
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Maximize the Power of Business Agility to Innovate, Transform and Grow Your Business
An InformationWeek Webcast
Rising change and complexity are the new normal. Uncertainty from marketplace shifts and surprise disruptions is part of our business life. To manage this new reality, successful companies are turning to the power of business agility to drive the transformation and growth they are seeking.
Think about the processes that make your business run.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Rules for Modernizing Legacy Systems
An InformationWeek Webcast
Organizations seeking to modernize or replace legacy applications must do so in a cost effective, non-disruptive manner. For many, this has meant leaving legacy systems on mainframes and AS/400s in place and integrating them with new .NET applications.
Hosted by InRule Technology and MPS Partners, this webcast will provide guidance on how organizations have addressed tactical problems while moving toward a strategic enterprise architecture vision that could also include Cloud-based and mobile applications.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 / Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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A Live Cybercrime Simulator
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
At this webcast, Dell will take you through a live "cybercrime simulator" to review how cyber criminals have used the Pay-Per-Install (PPI) model to build a flourishing illegal business in the underground community where they have access to millions of compromised computers for significant financial gain. We'll also discuss what the market for intellectual property looks like, and how the enterprising international syndicate crime rings behind the market continue to make it so lucrative.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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How to Talk to Decision Makers about Security
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
In this day and age, it can be very difficult to "sell" internally the need for any new line item to an already exhausted budget. But what about when it comes to IT security?
This presentation will discuss how to take what is often considered by executives and board members as just another discussion on the bits and bytes of technology, to a meaningful discussion about lessening business risk and the positive impact a strong security posture can have on an organization.
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Protect the Enterprise in Your Pocket | Managing Mobility with iPhone/ iPad Security
An InformationWeek Webcast
Your end users are connecting their personal devices, including iPhones & iPads, onto the enterprise network using unsecure networks, from coffee shops to airports, basically everywhere. That’s why we consider the enterprise to now be in the pocket of your employees, anywhere they use mobile devices.
Your challenge? When those users send sensitive or confidential documents through those unsecure networks, or use open cloud storage services, or even download unapproved enterprise apps, your enterprise is open to potential breaches. That’s where Zenprise offers the most robust and proven MDM solutions.
IT Security Professionals or Mobile Administrators should attend this LIVE webcast to learn how to:
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Interop New YorkOctober 3-7, 2011 | New York, NY
See all the latest IT solutions at the leading business technology event including cloud, mobility, virtualization, security, networking and more.
Register today with code CPFHNY63 for a free expo pass ($50 value) or save up to $500 on conference passes.
Bank Systems & Technology Executive Summit 2011New Strategies for New Business Models: Driving Growth in a Changing Industry
At this 6th 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 banksystemsandtech@techweb.com
October 2-5, 2011 -- Phoenix, AZ
*Registration is limited to executives from banks/financial institutions. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
Collaborative Development & Planning for Automated Deployment of Applications to the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast
DevOps is a word being used more and more in today's IT industry. The coordination of activities between development teams and operations teams is a real challenge. Many enterprises find it difficult to integrate their development, test, and IT deployment lifecycles. As organizations embark on the promises and opportunities of cloud, these pains are brought to the forefront by the teams working together to determine their common objectives and goals. In this presentation, we will provide insights for planning and automating the deployment of applications to cloud infrastructures and highlight some of the key techniques and best practices developed by IBM to address these challenges.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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3 Ways to Extend Active Directory to All Your SaaS/Cloud Apps
An InformationWeek Webcast
As organizations adopt more cloud applications (Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Netsuite, Concur, etc.), extending Active Directory to the cloud is becoming increasingly important. Integrating Active Directory enables IT to increase control of its cloud applications by providing single sign-on with delegated authentication and automated account provisioning/de-provisioning by security group. This webinar covers the merits of and provides starting points for the three ways cloud applications can be integrated with Active Directory: leveraging Active Directory Federation Services leveraging each app's APIs using a new breed of identity and access management solutions.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Scale, Software, & Security -- Solving Web and App Management Issues through Infrastructure Outsourcing
An InformationWeek Webcast
This webinar will examine the benefits of Infrastructure as a Service in the areas of web and app performance, software agility, and online security management. Join us to learn about solutions to some of the most common problems facing resource-constrained IT departments today, including:
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Part 4 - Demo: "Architectural Differences and Similarities Between Rules and Events"
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this final session, you'll experience an Operational Decision Management application that brings together Business Events and Business Rules technologies to enable intelligent, responsive decision automation. After seeing these technologies used in a business scenario, the demonstration will look at the underlying design of the application and explore several architectural and integration aspects of the runtime system. We'll also look back at key issues covered in this webinar series.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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The Mobile Point of Care: Making the Right Choices
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
InformationWeek Healthcare's webcast on Mobile Point Of Care will discuss 3 main issues:
What attendees will learn:
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Hardening Private Keys with Less Hassle, Less Cost and More Security: A Case Study in Authentication
An InformationWeek Webcast
Strong authentication cannot be emphasized enough today as a key element in enterprise security. As the attacks mount, options for truly secure, low-hassle authentication have shrunk. Tokens no longer represent the only approach and have many drawbacks including ongoing TCO and possible hacks. Learn more about other potential solutions to authentication.
In this webcast presented by InformationWeek and moderated by PwC, a large global consulting firm and Softex, Inc., an experienced provider of security software anchored with multi-factor authentication, attendees will learn how to leverage existing industry solutions and industry standards in deploying a low-cost solution for authentication.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Getting the Enterprise Cloud Right
An InformationWeek Webcast
Forrester Research shows that more than 25% of large enterprises claim to be building private clouds today but sadly many are putting the cart before the horse and won't see the benefits they are seeking from these efforts. Why? James Staten, Forrester's lead analyst on cloud computing says you first have to truly understand what makes a private cloud different than a virtualization environment and then set realistic expectations for what you will gain from the new environment.
If you don't want to make the mistakes that will cost others time and money, come to this webinar to learn the best practices for enterprise private cloud planning and deployment.
Join cloud solution leader Abiquo and Forrester for this important webinar to learn:
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Virtualizing Disaster Recovery: Greater Agility with Lower TCO
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an important interactive webcast and learn why IDC predicts that the next phase of virtualization will focus on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Experts from Dell and Microsoft will discuss how virtual machines running on industry-standard platforms can deliver the efficiency, portability, hardware independence and provisioning speed to deliver robust disaster recovery.
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Requirements Quality and Test Management Solutions from IBM - What's in it for me?
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this webcast brought to you by IBM, learn how IBM Software's Requirements, Quality and Test Management solutions from Rational® can assist your business objectives.
You can successfully address the needs of the market while confidently delivering quality systems and software with an increased level of control, improved visibility, and at a reduced cost.
When you consider that 44 percent of projects still do not deliver the required functionality, 26 percent are cancelled or never used, and 60 to 80 percent of development cost is associated to development rework, there seems to be substantial opportunity for improvement.
Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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How to Manage Enterprise Content to Meet Corporate Policies and Government Regulations
An InformationWeek Webcast
During this webcast, you'll gain insights into the challenges many regulated organizations grapple with in managing and integrating enterprise content, using multiple enterprise content management systems, gathering intelligence from transactional records and archiving documents for long-term storage. We'll also map these challenges to enterprise-wide content management solutions and best practices.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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How to Avoid "Drowning in Data": New Strategies to Reign in IT Costs, Improve Enterprise Application Performance and Reacquire Operational ROI
An InformationWeek LIVE VIDEO Webcast
Please join InformationWeek, Ovum and Informatica for an exclusive live video webcast to explore the root causes of the menacing global epidemic faced by enterprise applications, and discover a clear course of action to tame data and make it work for your organization, rather than against it. The long-term health of your enterprise may depend on it.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Public Sector Organizations Can Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiencies Through Effective Endpoint Management
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
Are you spending too much time, money and resources managing your servers, workstations and laptops? Would you like to save money by automating endpoint patch, configuration, security and compliance management, as well as reducing power usage by implementing Green IT?
Join Twin Rivers School District and IBM, for a lively discussion about these challenges and to learn cost-effective strategies for addressing them while using Tivoli Endpoint Manager.
This session will address:
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Part 3 - Expert Panel: "Best Practices for Designing Decision Management Architectures"
An InformationWeek Webcast
This expert panel features different perspectives in Decision Management best practices, from those developing technologies, those using technologies to achieve business objectives, to those who are ensuring successful implementations in the field. Through a moderated Q&A format, the experts will share how Decision Management technologies and methodologies have been utilized to automate transaction and process-driven decisions, and the lessons learned in getting the most value from Decision Management technology investments.
Featured Speakers:
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Managing Security and Compliance in the Advent of New & Emerging Technologies
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Cybercrime is a rapidly evolving, and very profitable, phenomenon with multiple layers of sophistication. With the advent of stricter compliance and regulatory laws affecting industries significantly, managing cyber risk to any organization is becoming more and more critical. This presentation explores the evolution of cybercrime from meddling teenagers earning their "hacker stripes," to full blown cyber gangs and the enterprising international syndicate crime rings they have built for a better understanding of why cybercrime is everyone’s concern.
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Changing Times, Changing Threats
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
The explosive popularity of virtualization, cloud computing and social networking technologies has created a rich foundation for new and successful cyber attacks. Organizations are rapidly adopting the use of these technologies to save money, increase efficiency, and in the case of social networking, build corporate brands. This presentation explores the threats towards virtualization, cloud computing and social networking technologies and why cybercriminals are targeting these technologies.
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011 - Time:11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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10 Minute P2V Migration
An InformationWeek Webcast
Server virtualization has become one of the most vital technologies in IT departments today, but the path to server virtualization is not always smooth. Many organizations face challenges, including:
Join Syncsort for this instructive webinar that will look at why migration problems exist and how NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup can reduce physical-to-virtual migration to as little as ten minutes, while ensuring good performance and successful, low-impact data protection.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Optimizing Backup and Disaster Recovery for your VMware Environment
An InformationWeek Webcast
Organizations need a way to improve the reliability of backups and the recoverability of virtual machines. Supporting data growth, integrating with existing processes and protecting virtualized applications are all key components of an optimal storage solution for virtual infrastructures.
Together, NETGEAR and Veeam provide integrated backup and data protection, efficient storage and simple offsite disaster recovery (DR) solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional big IT vendors.
To learn more, join us for a live demonstration and presentation with industry experts from NETGEAR and Veeam.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Enable Your Cloud with EMC Unified Storage and Cisco Unified Fabric
An InformationWeek Webcast
EMC Unified Storage and Cisco Unified Fabric solutions are industry leading technologies that unify storage and data networking to deliver a seamless converged, scalable, and intelligent data center environment that will help customers accelerate adoption of virtualization and cloud technologies. Learn how EMC and Cisco enable customers to easily plan, deploy and manage their network storage infrastructure while achieving lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced resiliency, and greater agility.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Part 2 - Business Process Optimization (BPO):
"Achieve Better Outcomes with BPM and Decision Management" An InformationWeek Webcast
This session introduces a decision management framework that brings together a unique set of technologies, including predictive analytics, business intelligence, business rules, complex-event processing and collaboration systems, to help companies optimize and automate costly operations, attract and retain highly profitable customers, innovate and capture market segments for competitive advantage.
In this session you'll learn about:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Bringing Sustainability to the Data Center
An InformationWeek Webcast
A variety of practical and financial reasons, many companies find achieving sustainability in their data centers challenging. In this webcast we will explore the benefits of operating a sustainable data center and then discuss concrete strategies that IT and facilities managers can use to save water, energy and natural resources, reduce environmental impact and improve indoor air quality.
Join Eaton and InformationWeek for this webcast and learn:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Part 1 - Introduction - "What Do We Mean by Decision Management & What Does It Mean for Business?"
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this opening session, which features an analyst and customer, you'll learn how and why successful organizations are shifting from the "art of the decision" to the "science of the decision," using technology to provide greater support of decision making as a management science.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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The Brave New World of Resiliency: An Integrated, Cohesive Approach to Integrating Business and IT Continuity
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join this InformationWeek webcast to learn how both line-of-business and IT managers can establish a common approach to business resiliency.
Here's some of what you will learn:
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Mobility, SaaS, and the Consumerization of ITSM
A InformationWeek Webcast
The IT cloud should reach everyone, not just staff at office desks. Communications need to be as social as Google+ and Twitter. And business apps must always be at your fingertips. But how do you tie it all together? How do you transform your business to meet employeesÕ evolving demands? Come and hear industry experts and BMC executives explain how mobility, SaaS and social media help you tackle the consumerization trend in enterprise IT and turn it into the next big business advantage.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Application Acceleration
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this webcast you will learn how IBM WebSphere Application Acceleration solutions can enhance applications performance and how to accelerate your applications across the Internet, while providing consistent end user response. You can improve your enterprise application security, improve availability, and better utilize all of the server resources. If you are exploring or are using Software as a Service applications via Cloud connectivity, learn how IBM's acceleration solutions can improve performance, simplify cloud connectivity, and secure these external connections.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Smart Metering Solutions Gain Competitive Edge
A Network Computing Webcast
Join this Network Computing webcast to learn:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Beyond SOA: How Can IT Architecture Be More Responsive to Business Needs?
An InformationWeek Webcast
LEAP-FROG THE LIMITATIONS OF SOA
When it came to delivering world-class IT agility, first-generation SOA promised your IT organization the world. Unfortunately, it delivered far less.
Discover how your IT organization can infuse new vitality into your SOA–and keep pace with ever-changing business demands–when you attend the eye-opening FREE webinar, Beyond SOA: How Can IT Architecture Be More Responsive to Business Needs?
Learn how Progress Software's comprehensive enterprise integration solutions can help your IT organization leap-frog the fundamental limitations of SOA and build a more agile IT infrastructure that enables your business to respond faster to ever-changing business demands.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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The End User Experience: The Metric that Matters
An InformationWeek Webcast
Most IT organizations have a number of tools that monitor the performance of the network, the virtual layer or the underlying databases. Yet many organizations lack the most important perspective: that of their customer, the real end user. Without visibility into the end-user experience, IT teams are powerless to deliver web application performance that satisfies the goals of the business. Don't miss this informative webcast, sponsored by Quest Software, exploring the value of monitoring web application performance from the user perspective.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Compliance Best Practices for Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft & SAP
A Dark Reading Webcast
Auditors often focus on Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, SAP and other enterprise applications because they contain sensitive data for SOX, PCI, HIPAA/HITECH, FISMA2 and other regulations. Register for this Webcast to learn HOWTO pass audits faster and with less effort, via automated compliance monitoring and reporting for common policy violations such as:
You'll also learn HOWTO easily identify:
Find out HOWTO simplify security and compliance by:
Thursday, August 25, 2011 -- Time: 2 PM EDT / 11 AM PDT
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Maintain Continuous Endpoint Compliance with Less Complexity And Fewer Costs
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
Today, organizations are tasked with managing thousands of endpoints, both physical and virtual, regardless of location, connection type or status. To manage all these endpoints, organizations must identify security exposures and be agile enough to quickly remediate problems, ensuring continuous compliance.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology provides continuous compliance for endpoints, while simplifying the security management process and reducing costs around these tasks.
Join GameStop and IBM for a discussion on:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Best SMB Practices for Building a Reliable, Durable Mobile Infrastructure
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join this in-depth discussion on how to build a cost-effective mobility infrastructure that maximizes productivity and minimizes complexity and security challenges. You'll learn:
Thursday, August 18, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Building an Enterprisewide Data Archiving Strategy
A Dark Reading Webcast
Today's organizations depend on business-critical enterprise applications to drive results and meet the challenges of daily operations. However, as these applications and databases collect and accumulate a wealth of business information, these organizations face significant information management challenges. Without a repeatable and established process, spiraling data growth can negatively impact enterprise application responsiveness, hinder data recovery initiatives and significantly increase storage and resource costs.
Join Forrester Research analyst, Noel Yuhanna, as he discusses the best practices for controlling this expanding data growth through effective data archiving strategy, significantly improving application performance, mitigating the risks associated with growing data volumes, and reducing the cost of servers and storage. Gain insight on the crucial areas for building a successful data archiving strategy. And learn what key requirements to consider when evaluating third-party archiving solutions to support a strong enterprisewide strategy.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Effective IT Inventory and Asset Management: From Quagmire to Quick Fix
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Accurate hardware and software inventory and effective asset management processes are no longer nice to haves, they are must haves. Now there are new ways to streamline these tasks using solutions and best practices that are not just for larger businesses.
Learn how you'll quickly be able to:
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Outsourcing Security: What Every Potential Cloud Security Customer Should Know
A Dark Reading Webcast
Many security providers today are touting new "security as a service" offerings, or delivering security features from the cloud. What should your organization know before it jumps into these new cloud-based security services? In this unique Dark Reading webinar, a top expert on cloud security services will discuss the benefits of using SaaS vendors for security, the kinds of services that are most appropriate for externalizing, the benefits of a "cloud" implementations of these services, and some of the questions that enterprises should ask of a security service provider before they sign a deal. Attendees will also hear from Dark Reading editors, who will offer a look at recent news in cloud security, and they will also get insights on the capabilities of cloud offerings from one of the top providers of cloud security services.
Thursday, August 16, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Server Virtualization Gets Relief From Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast
There is no question that server virtualization has been a boon to the businesses that have embraced it, but it is also causing huge headaches for storage administrators.
Join IBM industry leaders for this live, interactive event, as they introduce the newest addition to the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) family that was built to provide advanced data protection and fast, flexible recovery of your VMware environments.
This online-only event allows you to hear from experts as they review TSM for Virtual Environments and demonstrate how it can help you reduce costs while meeting service level requirements. This event will include a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 20 minute live demo of the actual product.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Building Efficient Storage Solutions for Small/Medium Enterprises
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
Information is being generated at a staggering pace. Managing this data growth continues to be a challenge for small/medium enterprises. Your ability to securely store and access data, meet regulatory and compliance requirements, and transform your data into a strategic business asset can provide the edge that puts you ahead of your competitors.
In this exclusive webcast, Joe Clabby of Clabby Analytics will provide an overview of the buying criteria small/medium enterprises should consider when making storage hardware acquisitions. Wayne Foreman, IBM Midrange Storage Brand Sales Manager, will cover IBM's industry-leading storage efficiency solutions that can help you capitalize on the growing volume, variety and velocity of data -- without adding complexity.
Register today to secure your place in this detailed exploration of how to build efficient storage solutions for small/medium enterprises.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Reduce Your Storage Footprint with Data Reduction Solution
An InformationWeek Webcast
With the continued fast pace of data growth year over year, IT Organizations of all sizes are struggling with backup and recovery operations. Many organizations are finding that more than half of their data is redundant and traditional backup methods just can't keep pace. With such growth organizations are faced with vastly expanded backup windows, missed SLAs, poor network performance and data recovery issues as well as higher capital and operational expenditures. Data reduction solutions are one of the most popular and non-intrusive offerings customers are turning to today because they offer immediate value to the overall backup storage infrastructure.
This educational webcast will introduce you to IBM's holistic approach to backup and recovery featuring ProtecTIER® & Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM). Learn how you can harness the power of these industry-leading solutions to dramatically improve your backup and recovery operations, reduce your data storage footprint, cost-effectively replicate data off-site and lower cost and complexity. These powerful solutions from IBM enable you to Protect More. Store Less.®
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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High Capacity Wi-Fi for Federal Enterprise & Training Centers
An InformationWeek Government Webcast
High Capacity Wi-Fi for the Federal Enterprise and Training Centers: Supporting the Explosion of Wireless Devices
Wi-Fi is becoming the preferred method of accessing the network caused by the desire for secure mobility and the influx of wireless only devices such as laptops, iPads, tablets, and smartphones. Most existing wireless networks were designed with coverage in mind. Coverage, although important, is not the only piece of the puzzle to support the growing demand ubiquitous secure mobile access.
This Xirrus educational webinar will focus on the keys for successful Wi-Fi deployments to stay ahead of the exponential increase in demand for the Wireless Edge. We will share our lessons learned from thousands of successful high capacity Wi-Fi deployments. This Webinar will explore the issues and differences that are encountered when deploying wireless for use in Federal Government and DoD environments and how to future proof your wireless network to support larger numbers of users and devices. You will explore how to boost wireless performance, capacity, and reliability of your network. Attend this free, one-hour webcast when experts reveal:
Thursday, August 4, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Extending the Walls of the Enterprise to the iPad2
An InformationWeek Webcast
Autonomy extends the enterprise to the iPad2, Blackberry, and smart mobile devices, enabling businesses to leverage all data sources across multiple channels for convenient, secure, mobile computing. Autonomy's meaning-based innovations offer new interfaces and analytic capabilities that provide more answers, not just more data, while maximizing the ever-expanding volume of human-friendly information.
Attend this webcast to learn how Autonomy extends the walls of the enterprise to the iPad2, enabling businesses to:
Wednesday, August 4, 2011 Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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The Essential Elements for Simplifying Application Performance Monitoring
An InformationWeek Webcast:
Join Quest Vice President and General Manager, Virtualization and Monitoring, Carl Eberling, for a webcast that will kick off a five-part series focused on the essential elements of an effective management strategy for your IT environment from application to infrastructure. He will draw on his experience as an IT executive at such companies as Kaiser Permanente and Verizon Wireless.
Carl will discuss recent industry trends and provide useful insight into why the market is seeing an IT management shift due to today's complex deployment environments. The five part series will include the following topics:
Register today to learn how Quest Foglight can help you simplify the challenges associated with monitoring the performance of today's dynamic IT infrastructures.
Tuesday, August 3, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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On the Consumerization of IT.
What IT Pros Need to Know to Make All the Right Decisions.
A BYTE Webcast:
Consumerization of IT (COIT) is everywhere. Personal devices, cloud services and web accounts abound, are putting serious data-management and personnel challenges right at your shop's doorstep. What definitive steps can IT pros take to protect company data and users in the face of the unstoppable and ever-increasing COIT wave? Find out in this fast-paced and advice-packed BYTE-produced webinar. From the range and risks of personal devices and services you're likely to face -- to specific measures you can take to ensure data security.
What to Expect:
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
BYTE is back!
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The Security Threat Report: The Threats to Watch
A Dark Reading Webcast
With over 95,000 pieces of malware analyzed by SophosLabs every day, it's clear the threat isn't going away. Fake AV continues infect computers at alarming rates and cybercriminals still rely on the web and social networks to deliver malware and steal your data.
Join Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, for a live Webcast to learn about what makes the latest security threats tick.
Chester will discuss:
Thursday, July 28th, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Providing Shark Cage Protection for All Your Endpoints
An InformationWeek Live Webcast
When it comes to endpoint management does your organization struggle with...
Organizations of all sizes, including IBM, have chosen Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix Technology, for real-time visibility and control to discover, manage and protect their distributed endpoints, including fixed as well as roaming laptops and mobile devices.
Hear how IBM expects to save money and resources by deploying Tivoli® Endpoint Manager on endpoints around the world to automate security compliance on over 450,000 workstations. Tivoli Endpoint Manager will allow IBM to automatically patch and remediate thousands of end user workstations in a fraction of the time previously required, yielding increased security, control and compliance at a fraction of the cost.
By implementing Tivoli Endpoint Manager, IBM projects workstation support and remediation costs to decrease by at least 50% in the first year alone!
Attend this webcast and learn out how you can reduce IT costs for your organization and safely swim with the sharks!
Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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CIO Strategies for Consumerization: The Future of Enterprise Mobile Computing
A BYTE Webcast
Already, the expectations of a new generation of workers are resetting the CIO agenda. With the explosion of social media, new mobile devices, application platforms, and employees working from home, traditional corporate policies on personal computer usage, data security, and application usage are quickly becoming antiquated. The result is the rapid consumerization of IT, resulting in newer opportunities and challenges to the organization.
Join this CIO insider webcast to learn about:
Featured Speakers:
John Lyons, Field Marketing Manager, End User Computing, Dell Large Enterprise
Ed Jimison, IT Principal Engineer, Intel
Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Drinking From the Social Media Fire Hose
An InformationWeek Webcast
Social media can transform your understanding of and engagement with customers and prospects. With nearly one billion messages created weekly, the challenge is to analyze only relevant data from the social media fire hose to uncover new market opportunities and potential revenue. During this webinar, Drinking from the Social Media Fire Hose, we will explore new approaches that empower marketers, customer experience managers, business analysts, public relations, investor relations, and compliance officers to analyze and act on valuable insights contained within social media.
Attend this webcast to learn about:
Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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A Complete Windows 7 Migration in Less Than An Hour
Demonstration/Cocktail Reception Event Series
Windows 7 is the largest OS migration in history, prompting tens of millions of desktop and laptop migrations in the last 12 months alone. Global IT organizations are wrestling with how to meet strict migration timelines even as budgets are shrinking, service levels have to be maintained, and workforces cannot tolerate any additional downtime. If you're considering a Windows 7 migration, this highly interactive and intimate session led by technology experts will prepare you for every challenge and will highlight every business benefit. You'll witness a Windows 7 migration from a bare-metal, XP platform to finished deployment -- in less than 60 minutes. Afterward, join us for cocktails to meet peer IT professionals and share your experiences.
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Virtualize without Compromise: Understanding VM Backup and Recovery
An InformationWeek Webcast
Data protection is crucial to your virtualization strategy, but traditional backup tools often fail in virtual environments. Join NetApp and Syncsort for this webcast to learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of virtual machine data protection and how you can prepare yourself for a successful virtualization project.
With NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup you can:
Yes, it's possible to achieve all your data protection goals without compromising on virtual machine performance or project costs. NetApp and Syncsort can help you to virtualize without compromise.
Thursday, July 26, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Arc Flash Safety in 400V Data Centers
An InformationWeek Webcast
Tight budgets and rising interest in energy efficiency have many U.S. companies looking to switch from 120V power to 400V power in their data centers. However, while operating a data center at 400V significantly decreases energy waste, it also dramatically increases the magnitude and impact of arc flash events. Indeed, while arc flashes in a 120V data center generally produce minor, temporary wounds, comparable incidents in a 400V data center can easily result in permanently disabling and disfiguring injuries or even death.
In this webcast, you will learn:
Thursday, July 21, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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7 Storage Technologies To Optimize Your Virtual Environment
See How Smart Storage Makes All The Difference
An InformationWeek Government and Healthcare Webcast
Attend this webcast and learn how Dell Fluid Data™technology is designed to help you:
Thursday, July 21, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Smarter Computing: Server Innovation for Midsize Businesses
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join IBM and InformationWeek for a one-hour webcast discussion on the priorities and challenges of midsize businesses and how new server technologies can improve performance and reduce administration expenses. You will learn:
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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From Big Data to Actionable Insight: The Road to Superpower BI
An InformationWeek Webcast
Advanced analytics goes beyond basic operational reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards, enabling companies to convert vast amounts of data into actionable insight. Learn how innovators are now integrating analytics directly into business processes to inform and enable frontline workers, mid-level decision makers, executives, and even consumers.
Join industry analyst Seth Grimes and Sybase to learn how to capitalize on Big Data opportunities and to broadly integrate the power of advanced analytics safely into business processes. WeÕll discuss common approaches to Big Data BI, and how to evaluate and compare various approaches to performance acceleration, scalability, and workload optimization.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Eight Critical Steps ISVs Should Take to Secure their SaaS Applications in the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast
Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions have gained acceptance among organizations of all sizes. While SaaS providers carefully weigh the considerable cost and management benefits of moving to cloud computing, the critical topic of complying with IT security requirements becomes a significant issue.
In a cloud-based environment, the traditional rules of security design and development are dramatically altered -- and new planning and development methodologies, and validation tests must be applied.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Ensuring Cloud Service Performance
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join Forrester and OpTier to learn how to ensure your services are cloud ready and not cloud risky. Not every application or service is ready for the cloud. Sometimes one part of an application or service is cloud-ready while other components are not. How can you tell if a service is really Cloud ready? How can you tell how robust the service is -- such that benefits will outweigh the risks? As you plan your private or hybrid cloud strategy, it's critical to know how Cloud ready your applications and services are and have a plan to manage service levels.
In this webinar, we'll show you how to identify services that are ready for the cloud and stand to benefit the most from the flexibility that the cloud offers. We'll also show you how to manage service levels and identify issues such as "chattiness" that are amplified in the cloud and can undermine the success of a cloud deployment. Join us to understand how you can get the visibility and control you need to manage service performance in private and hybrid cloud environments.
Thursday, July 20, 2011 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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When Technology IS the Business, Effective IT Management is Critical
An InformationWeek Financial Services Webcast
Without the ability to run an integrated and cost effective IT organization, CIOs risk not being able to respond to business goals and provide technology support to the portions of the enterprise that drive business. In this InformationWeek Financial Services webcast, hear how firms are finding better ways to manage information technology across the enterprise and hear how one bank has improved its own IT management capabilities.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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InformationWeek Healthcare IT Leadership ForumInformationWeek Healthcare's IT Leadership Forum is a day-long event where senior IT executives will come together to discuss how they're advancing state-of-the-art healthcare. Prominent CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders will engage with an audience of their peers in an open discussion of EHR implementation challenges, decision support initiatives, the latest in mobility and cloud computing, and much more.
For more information, visit www.informationweek.com/healthcare/forum
July 12, 2011 - New York, NY
Registration is limited to senior-level healthcare technology executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
Ideas @ Work: The Business Value of Social Software
An InformationWeek and The BrainYard Webcast
Most companies are at least beginning to investigate how the use of social tools might impact their business. Due to the popular commercial use of these tools, it is often difficult to understand how what some consider a "diversion" can actually be a great benefit to their corporate business.
During this session, we'll discuss a number of customer-identified business pains and the associated social tools that can help address them. This won't be a session about the technology involved and "how" this can be done -- rather we'll spend this time uncovering the "why", the business perspective and what this means to the end user as well as the increased innovation for the larger organization.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 -- Time: 9:00AM PT / 12:00PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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The Zero Trust Model: Putting Data Protection First
A Dark Reading Webcast:
Combating threats to your critical organizational data is more challenging than ever. Join us for a free webcast with John Kindervag, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and Renee Bradshaw, Senior Product Marketing Manager at NetIQ Corporation, as they explore:
Find out how adopting the Zero Trust Model can improve the security and compliance of your organization.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Seven Things to Let Go of Before You Release
A Dr. Dobb's Webcast
What's the essence of release management? Deliberate, methodical, organized software production processes designed to "turn the crank" as quickly and as efficiently as possible. This presentation is a survey of the seven most common antipatterns we've seen that plague release teams. They include:
For each of the seven, we'll explore how they grew from simple, well-intentioned shortcuts into serious process bottlenecks that gate growth and productivity.
We'll discuss why they are so dangerous, and most importantly, what you can do to eliminate them, at process, team, and tool levels.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: One Hour
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The Return on Investment Benefits of Migrating to DB2
An InformationWeek Webcast
Jon Erickson of Forrester Consulting will present the results of an IBM-commissioned study that examines the Total Economic Impact® and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by migrating their SAP and non-SAP application environments to IBM's DB2 database platform. The study is based on aggregated findings of customers who migrated to DB2 from a variety of legacy database platforms.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Flexible, Scale-Out Storage for High-Performance Linux Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast:
Dell™ EqualLogic™ virtualized iSCSI SANs deliver compelling benefits to high-performance Linux deployments. Attend this informative Webcast to learn about:
Thursday, June 23, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Is Untested Third-Party Code Threatening Your Business?
An InformationWeek & Dr. Dobb's Webcast
The recently released Forrester Consulting Software Integrity Risk Report reveals that 56% of third-party code is untested for quality and security in development -- an alarming statistic given that over 90% of you are using third party code.
Join this live webcast presented by Chenxi Wang from Forrester Research who will reveal the key findings of the study and specific steps you can take to reduce the risk of these threats to your business.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Disaster Recovery: Learning from the Past to Safeguard Your Enterprise Against Unexpected Catastrophe
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join this InformationWeek webcast to learn:
Ready to dramatically improve the way you protect your people and most valuable data?
Thursday, June 23, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 AM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Enterprise 2.0 Boston, June 20-23, 2011
Building Social Business
Attend Enterprise 2.0 Boston to learn about the latest social business tools and technologies. Bring the power of collaboration to your organization in the leading conference and expo, June 20-23, 2011. Topics include unified communications, social tools, mobile, video, architecture, community management and much more with special programs dedicated to sales and HR departments.
Register Today with Code CPBDEB02 and for a free expo pass or save up to $500 on conference.
Enterprise Security on an SMB Budget
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast:
Join us for this interactive webcast to learn how to get 24x7x365 protection for networks, end-points, applications and data, while minimizing compliance burdens and avoiding the unnecessary costs of security breaches, infections and IT downtime.
Wednesday June 22, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Mitigate Risk and Preserve Data with an E-mail Archiving Solution
An InformationWeek Webcast:
Join us to learn how a scalable, leading-edge solution for e-mail archiving can help you to:
Tuesday June 21, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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The ABC's of Cloud Computing in the Midmarket
An InformationWeek Webcast
With today's higher-speed Internet connections, better applications and easy-to-use tools, a lot of midsize businesses are considering moving to cloud computing. However, many are hesitant simply because they're not fully aware of the facts and potential surrounding cloud.
To learn more about how to get started with cloud computing, watch the webcast "ABCs of Cloud computing in the Midmarket." Come join us on June 21st, 10am Eastern, as James Governor, from Redmond answers your questions and helps you prepare for important IT decisions ahead as your company moves towards the cloud.
You can discover what the cloud can do for your business through white papers, case studies and ROI tools at our one-stop resource and information center.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 -- Time: 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET -- Duration: 35 minutes
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How the Cloud Impacts the Role of the CIO
An InformationWeek Webcast
CIOs are refocusing their organizations to support growth and competitive advantage while remaining vigilant on cost and operational efficiencies. Cloud applications can play a critical role in this strategy and help liberate IT to focus on their strategic projects. Growing interest in cloud computing has prompted almost every enterprise software vendor to claim it's "in the cloud." However, in the industry's rush to fulfill demand, some vendors may skip requirements that are critical to delivering the true benefits of cloud applications.
Join InformationWeek, Workday, and the industry's leading IT analysts as we dive deep and tackle the importance of each requirement in delivering the true benefits of SaaS.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Use Real Data to Enable Smart Desktop Platform Decisions
An InformationWeek Webcast:
Organizations are making decisions about their desktop platform without the data to back it up.
Join this live webcast in which Avanade will share their approach to answer these questions and use them as inputs to your decision making processes.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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One Place to Rule them All: Unified Data Center Management Part 2
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast:
Join this session to learn how:
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Wednesday June 15, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Protecting the Efficient Enterprise with Dell EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 4.1
An InformationWeek Webcast:
Attend this seminar to learn:
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Any Device, Anywhere, Anytime -- Supporting the Mobile Workforce the Way they Want to Work
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for this interactive webcast to learn how to build a mobile infrastructure that's flexible enough to support workers no matter where (or on which device) they're working. This webcast explores how to build a cost-effective mobility infrastructure that maximizes productivity and minimizes complexity and security challenges.
Tuesday June 14, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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New Enhancements in Backup and Recovery
An InformationWeek Webcast
It's not the same old backup anymore. Data protection technologies have advanced considerably from file-backup-to-tape or -disk, yet that remains the most widely used method. It worked for years (more or less), but the explosion of digital data combined with the move to virtual servers has overwhelmed it. The current state-of-the-art moves away from file backup to block-level backup, incremental-forever schemes, data deduplication, snapshot-based data recovery and more.
Join us in this webcast to learn about the new enhancements that are making backups faster with less impact, restores nearly instant, and all while driving down costs.
Thursday, June 9, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Building the Right Mobility Infrastructure
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
In this hour-long, interactive session, you'll learn how you can build an proactive management infrastructure that gives the mobile workforce what they need, without sacrificing your remote management capabilities and controls.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Managing The User Experience of Cloud Applications
An InformationWeek Webcast
Many enterprises have developed sophisticated application performance management capabilities only to find that many of the techniques that work in the data center won't work in the cloud. With traditional monitoring techniques, corrective-action capabilities are lacking, and organizations will struggle, possibly getting just identification and notification alerts.The cloud turns the idea of locating and predicting performance problems across cloud applications on its head. Service modeling, a goal for many organizations seeking to measure service quality and report on compliance with service-level agreements is very different in the cloud where the burden is shifted to the provider.
In this webcast, we'll examine why often used performance management techniques won't work and describe new methods for monitoring and managing the end user experience in the cloud.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Driving More Value with Cost Effective Data Technologies
A Network Computing webcast
Join Janet Oswald and Tom Klein in this free, one hour Network Computing webcast to learn how you can create an integrated environment that enables you to cost-effectively manage data throughout its life-cycle.
The presentation will cover:
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Health Information Exchanges: Beyond Data Sharing
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
This InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast will feature real-world HIE practitioners and provide insight into:
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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Virtualizing Disaster Recovery: Greater Agility with Lower TCO
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an important interactive webcast and learn why IDC predicts that the next phase of virtualization will focus on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Experts from Dell and Microsoft will discuss how virtual machines running on industry-standard platforms can deliver the efficiency, portability, hardware independence and provisioning speed that defines a robust disaster recovery you and, ultimately, your customers can depend on.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Putting Content to Work
IBM ECM UserNet Series
Whether you're an IT professional, business executive, compliance officer or legal eagle, PUTTING CONTENT TO WORK: ECM UserNet 2011 is the premier Enterprise Content Management event for generating better business decisions. It promises to be the biggest IBM ECM knowledge exchange yet, and is backed by 25 years of User Group history.
This event is being hosted in 7 Cities:
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GTEC DC, June 1-3, 2011Technology for 21st Century Government
GTEC (Government Technology Expo + Conference) provides the perfect opportunity to connect with and learn from thousands of peers, colleagues and industry experts focused on driving government efficiency through the latest technology services and products. Join us in Washington DC from June 1-3, 2011.
Register using the code IWEEK and save 15% on any Conference Pass or get a free Expo Hall Pass.
Becoming A Social Business
An IBM and InformationWeek "Master of Collaboration" Event Series
You are invited to join us for this multimedia event extravaganza as IBM and InformationWeek team up to present a series of globally-renowned experts speaking on key issues in their areas of expertise related to perfecting the social business. It all takes place within the framework of the latest in collaborative technologies to connect the experts with both a live audience and a virtual community.
More cities to be announced
Virtualizing Disaster Recovery: Greater Agility with Lower TCO
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join this webcast to learn about:
Be sure not to miss this opportunity to learn how virtualized Disaster Recovery solutions can create new efficiencies for your company that translate into bottom line savings and less worry.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Simplified Storage Virtualization: Best Practices for Growing Companies
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join us for an in-depth discussion of how to make the right storage decisions to support virtualization efforts, including what key automation features to look for to make storage management easier and to boost reliability and availability of your most important data.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Intelligent Medicine From Administration To Clinical Care And Diagnostics
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
Join InformationWeek executive editor Doug Henschen, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center CIO Mark Hulse, and St. Joseph Health System CIO Larry Stofko in a discussion of the real-world issues facing healthcare providers as they implement BI and analytics. They’ll examine the importance of underlying data quality, consistency, and integration, as well as how BI tools can help organizations provide timely, quality information to caregivers and operational managers. Sean Hogan, IBM VP of Healthcare Delivery Systems, will also discuss his experience working with customers on healthcare analytics efforts.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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Best Practices in Database Archiving and Information Lifecycle
A Dark Reading Webcast
Archiving, subsetting, masking and test data generation are proven best practices that have helped IT organizations worldwide improve performance, control costs and automate data retention for enterprise applications. But the path to a successful information lifecycle project can be littered with roadblocks, including resource limitations, data loss and budget constraints. How do organizations successfully navigate this path? What are the major components of a successful information lifecycle and archiving project?
Join this webcast featuring Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment at IDC to learn about:
You will also discover how you can:
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am EDT / 8:00 am PDT
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Leveraging Document Output Management to Support Customer Communications
An InformationWeek Webcast
During this webcast, we will discuss technical and business approaches directed toward the elimination of challenges and limitations imposed by technological disparity, enabling you to easily locate, deliver, assemble, and use corporate information to support customer communications.
What You Will Learn:
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Boosting Productivity and Manageability
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Join this interactive session to discover how SMBs are using VDI to enjoy enterprise-level productivity boosts, flexibility gains, and simplified desktop management.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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The Data Protection and Retention Mandate: Keep it Close, Keep it Safe and Secure, Keep Costs Low
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for a 60-minute, in-depth update on the state of data protection and retention today. You'll learn:
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
Register today to secure your place in this detailed exploration of data storage challenges and solutions.
Honing Your Social Antenna: Improve Effectiveness and Reduce Costs by Becoming a More Social Business
An InformationWeek and BrainYard Webcast
Join Caleb Barlow, Director for IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration, for a discussion on how savvy businesses are honing their social "antenna" in order to better see, hear, and sense changing market conditions. Learn how to act more quickly on that knowledge by collaborating effortlessly with peers, customers and business partners.
In this webcast you will learn:
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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TiVo's Cloud Powered Databases Keep Pace with Speed of Business
An InformationWeek Webcast
Today's businesses must evolve to stay competitive. TiVo recently shifted from a direct provider of DVRs to an OEM business model. This shift in business strategy drove significant changes to key applications, triggering complex development and testing efforts that required multiple database environments. TiVo IT faced a key challenge: balancing application changes while operating within limited budgets and maintaining existing systems. As they considered cloud and virtualization solutions, they turned to Delphix, the database virtualization software company. Delphix enables instant provisioning, refresh, and rollback of virtual databases that operate in 1/10th the space, with improved agility and manageability.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Capital Markets Cloud SymposiumSecurity, Portability and Breakthrough Economics
The industry's top business technologists come together for this one day event to discuss the realities, capabilities and expectations surrounding cloud-based applications and architectures and how they will drastically change the technology strategies for Wall Street firms.
For more information and to register, click here
May 17, 2011 - New York, NY
Please note: Event producer reserves the right to qualify any interested parties.
IBM Good Decision! Webcast Series
Five Jobs You Can Do Better with Intelligent Decision Automation
How automating and improving your most routine operational decisions can help you process more business with less effort and higher quality
During each 30-minute webcast you'll learn:
Job 1: Claims processing
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET - 30 minutes
Learn how to fast-track the good claims and catch the bad ones, faster.
Job 2: Determining eligibility and risk
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET - 30 minutes
Learn how to process more applications in less time by capturing changes in regulations and corporate policies in real time.
Job 3: Delivering best-fit and next best offers (or actions)
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET - 30 minutes
Learn how to implement automated offer decisions across the enterprise in a way that is easy, safe and predictable.
Job 4: Managing pricing, promotion and loyalty programs
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET - 30 minutes
Learn how to shorten the time to value for launching new promotions that work.
Job 5: Handling customer problems and service
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET - 30 minutes
Learn how to give time back to you and your customers by automating only those decisions that can empower you to deliver better customer service
Register Now for any or all of these webcasts.
How to Stay One Step Ahead of Today's Evolving Threat Landscape
An InformationWeek & Dark Reading Webcast
Attend this webcast and learn how to:
Thursday, May 12, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
Learn how to deploy the EdgeWave iPrism Web Security to benefit from InformationWeek
Managing Oracle Exadata with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
An InformationWeek Webcast
Register today and unlock the potential of Oracle Exadata for your enterprise:
All Webcast attendees will receive a complimentary copy of IDC's, "Exadata Exceeds Expectations" report.
Please join us for an interactive Webcast where you can ask our Oracle experts questions and learn firsthand how to efficiently manage all stages of Oracle Exadata's lifecycle, from testing to deployment.
You'll learn how to:
Thursday, May 12, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Catching Data Breaches Before They Happen
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for a webcast with Ipswitch to learn more about Managed File Transfer (MFT) and why it's now an executive-level discussion. Ipswitch's Frank Kenney will explain why MFT solutions should be a critical part of your IT infrastructure, and give you peace of mind and fast time-to-value for quick ROI.
Attendees will learn:
Thursday, May 12, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Interop, May 8-12, 2011
The Leading Business Technology Event
See all the latest IT solutions and learn about the most important innovations--including virtualization, cloud computing, networking, mobility and security—to drive business value, increase productivity and cut costs.
InformationWeek readers can register for a FREE Expo Pass to meet 350+ leading technology companies or save up to $500 on conference passes with priority code CNYMNL03
*Proof of current IT industry involvement is required to attend.
Find an Assured Unix Platform For Oracle Applications with SPARC and Solaris
An InformationWeek Webcast
This webcast will examine how Oracle SPARC servers and Oracle Solaris are engineered to provide optimal performance for Oracle software and why they offer an attractive alternative to other Unix platforms. Learn about Oracle's 4 year roadmap for SPARC servers and how Oracle's clear strategy can help you simplify your IT infrastructure and deliver better support for most important business applications.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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InformationWeek Government IT Leadership Forum 2011The CIOs and Strategies Transforming the Federal Sector
Government IT Leadership Forum is a day-long venue where senior IT leaders in government come together to discuss how they're using technology to drive change in federal departments and agencies. We will also be hosting an awards luncheon for the InformationWeek Government 50, featuring leading CIOs in local, state, and federal government.
For more information and to register, click here
May 5, 2011 – Washington, DC
*Registration is limited to government technology executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
s Three-Step Approach to Making Healthcare Reform a Cost-Effective Benefit
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
Register today for this webcast in which Doug Sherlock of Sherlock Company, and TriZetto's Mike Jenner will help you find the hidden cost-savings opportunities in your operations, and build a plan for leveraging them today to gain the sweet benefits of healthcare reform tomorrow. They'll help you:
Please join Mr. Sherlock and Mr. Jenner for this fresh look at the financial impact healthcare reform is driving, and the recipe for turning mandated lemons into payer lemonade.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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One Place to Rule them All: Unified Data Center Management
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
In this webcast you'll learn:
Thursday, April 28, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Register today to secure your place in this interactive session.
Is your Windows 7 migration approach painting you into a corner? There's still time to correct course.
An InformationWeek Webcast
During this webinar you will learn about:
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Application Troubleshooting Simplified
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join Fluke Networks for a webcast on troubleshooting application performance issues. In this webcast you will learn about:
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 -- Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
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Automate to Win: The Business Case for Standards-based Security
An InformationWeek Webcast
Information security specialists increasingly feel the pressure to "do more with less". Attacks are always increasing but budgets never keep pace. What's the answer? Longer hours? Some magic product? No. The answer is to use the products we already have in a more intelligent, automated way.
Please join us for a webinar about the TNC network security architecture, open standards created by the Trusted Computing Group, and the products that have implemented those standards. Hear customers talk about how they're using products based on these standards to deliver stronger security at lower cost, integrating existing products and automating routine tasks.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Private Clouds For Development: Exposing and Solving the Self Service Gap
An InformationWeek Webcast
Cloud computing is happening in a big way. No wonder: infrastructure-as-a-service, resource elasticity, and user self-service promises huge returns.
This webinar will present a blueprint for creating private development clouds that enables IT to provide infrastructure as a service to developers. With an emphasis on build-test-deploy tasks, we will show how task and workflow automation, resource management, and tool integrations allow development teams to effectively use a private cloud infrastructure and run these tasks in a shared environment. We will also discuss how IT organizations at leading enterprises have leveraged Electric Cloud solutions to transform generic grid and VM infrastructure into private development clouds tailored to their development teams.
We hope to see you there!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Mission-Critical Apps: The No-Fear Virtualization Plan
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
Forget everything you think you know about why mission-critical apps can’t be virtualized. The old concerns about reliability and uptime are now out of date. Yet many organizations still hesitate to move truly mission-critical applications to a virtualized environment, despite the cost savings and flexibility benefits virtualization can provide. Join us for an interactive, 60-minute webcast to explore the myths and realities of virtualizing mission-critical applications.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Content Silos: Their Pitfalls -- and Integrating Business Content
An InformationWeek Webcast
For most organizations, user-generated and business application-driven content is a critical competitive asset. The content is typically scattered across the globe in disparate repositories, on different platforms, and in many different formats. As a result, content resides in silos, cut-off from parts of the company. So what happens when business content, such as documents, reports, invoices, receipts, records, etc., are not integrated?
During this webcast you will learn the pitfalls from not managing and integrating business content, the effect it can have on your organization and what steps you can take to begin integrating and turning your business content into actionable information.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Combining OLTP and Extreme Data Warehouse Performance
An InformationWeek Webcast
Data warehouses are growing rapidly, with vast amounts of data, greater numbers of users, increased query complexity, and user demands for "real-time" analytics. Organizations are focused on cost control as they consider how to optimize their data warehouse environment within their larger information management infrastructure.
This live webcast will discuss market trends that are driving new technological solutions for managing data warehouse growth. It will provide insight into different approaches for achieving cost-effective warehouse scalability and performance. Finally, it will present the newest IBM Informix warehouse acceleration technology that optimizes demanding workloads and query performance, enabling the cost-effective combination of OLTP and warehouse workloads on a single platform for extreme performance.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Outsourcing SharePoint Operations: Maximize Your Collaboration Investment
An InformationWeek Webcast
Forrester and Avanade® will cover the following:
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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iPrism Web Security Product Demo
An InformationWeek & Dark Reading Webcast
Don't miss this live, online product demonstration of EdgeWave iPrism Web Security, winner of 5 stars across the board in SC Magazines 2011 Group Test of Web Content Management solutions and their recommended product.
During this demonstration, conducted by an experienced iPrism Engineer, you will learn how easy it is to deploy and manage iPrism's self-contained, appliance-based Web Security. In an independent study, iPrism was proven to have the lowest total cost of ownership compared with other industry leaders.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Integrating the Cloud
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this InformationWeek webcast, we will explore some of the obstacles around cloud integration, cloud broker technology and strategies to create an IT environment that can leverage all data regardless of the location. We will also learn how one company, the Advisory Board Company implemented cloud integration as a foundation architecture.
The audience can expect to learn:
- Challenges with the enterprise data model and how to overcome in the cloud
- How to connect their current and future cloud to on-premise applications
- How to leverage cloud integration pay-as-you-go model as a more cost effective, more functional and rapid implementation
Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Using mobile computing to increase your workforce productivity
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
In this webinar you will learn:
- The business benefits of a mobile workforce
- How to build a strong mobile solution infrastructure for a small business:
- Security -- How to keep your data safe and protected
- Connectivity -- How to keep your workforce connected anywhere, anytime
- Productivity -- What is the right device for your needs (Notebooks, tablets vs. smartphones)
- Manageability -- How to effectively manage your mobility infrastructure
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Mitigate Risk and Preserve Data with a Comprehensive E-mail Archive Solution for Government Organizations
An InformationWeek Government Webcast:
Join this webcast to learn how a scalable, state of the art solution for e-mail archiving can help you to:
- Align your information life-cycle management policies with your current data retention practices
- Address archiving for e-mail as well as files
- Automate policies to protect critical message files while satisfying e-discovery requirements
- Ensure data longevity by selecting a storage platform that is right for your business
- Optimize the e-mail environment by archiving messages off the primary data store
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Application Development: In the Cloud, It's Not The Same
An InformationWeek & Dr. Dobb's Webcast
The large scale enterprise application has provided a poor model for the scale-out, cloud application. Have you gone to the wrong school Netflix, among others, decided it had with its large Java/Oracle application. Now it's moving to a distributed, cloud architecture. And that architecture looks different from what came before.
- This Webcast will tell you what's different about cloud apps.
- Even if you're not developing cloud apps today, you'll want to learn how to design for long term, distributed, scale-out principles
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Healthcare Workforce Management That Works
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast
In this InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast, workforce management experts from KLAS will explore the products and technology available to help healthcare providers deal with staffing challenges and more effectively manage their clinical workforces. KLAS is a preeminent research firm specializing in independently monitoring and reporting on the performance of healthcare vendors. This Webcast will help healthcare IT pros:
- Understand the workforce management challenges that hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers face today
- Examine current technology trends that are addressing these challenges
- Size up staff scheduling and time and attendance products available in this market and assess their performance
- Assess how vendors stack up
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Building a Future-Ready IT Infrastructure
Executive Roundtable
Sponsored by NetApp
The new global economy and increased business competitiveness is forcing companies to rethink their approach to IT and search for more economical and agile ways to deploy and use technology. Virtual models like cloud computing, software as a service, and infrastructure as a service are enabling IT leaders to create more agile and efficient methods for deploying and using technology. Shared infrastructure is providing future-thinking businesses with the ability to support multiple workloads and customer groups from a single environment. Share your thoughts and learn what your peers and experts have to say at this informative roundtable event.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
8:00am - 11:00am
Century Plaza Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles
Big-Time Security on a Small-Business Budget
An InformationWeek SMB Webcast
In this webinar you will learn from industry experts:
- What kind of threats you should be protecting against & why
- Where your network is most vulnerable
- What are the most cost-efficient ways of increasing network and end-user security
- Best practice solutions
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Look Beyond Native Database Auditing to Improve Security, Audit Visibility Compliance and Real-time Protection, featuring a Forrester Consulting Study
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast
Sponsored by IBM InfoSphere Guardium
Today, attacks on enterprise databases are more sophisticated than ever, and they occur so fast that it's often difficult to stop them in real time. Despite significant effort to protect enterprise databases, the number of records breached has grown each year -- due to all types of internal and external attacks and violations of corporate policy. In addition, broader regulatory compliance mandate such as HITECH, PCI DSS, GLBA, SOX, EU and state privacy laws are further pressuring organizations to take stronger security measures across the entire organization.
All webcast attendees will receive a complimentary copy of "Look Beyond Native Database Auditing to Improve Security, Audit Visibility Compliance, and Real-time Protection", a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by IBM
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -- Time: 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
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Application Integration in the Cloud: What is the Responsibility of Your Software Vendor?
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this webcast, you will:
- Hear perspectives on integration from a real world IT executive, industry analyst, and software vendor
- Understand the requirements for integrating applications in the Cloud
- Discover how SaaS vendors are raising the bar when it comes to providing more integration solutions to customers
- Learn how SaaS solutions can simplify and accelerate application integration while reducing your cost and risk
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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The Cloud Imperative
An InformationWeek Forum
The hype surrounding cloud computing promises to simplify IT's job, making systems and processes more nimble, flexible and accountable to the business. The reality is that moving to cloud computing is a complex process that smart IT managers will analyze and plan out, starting with preparing their own infrastructure while carefully adopting external services as it makes sense for the business.
Join this exclusive gathering of over 100 of your business technology peers, build relationships and join the conversation about adopting and implementing cloud computing initiatives.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
8:00am - 4:00pm
Grand Hyatt, New York
Comprehensive Management for Your Enterprise Linux Servers
An InformationWeek Webcast
Reduce your effort and ensure consistent server performance with the systems management solution built for Linux -- SUSE Manager.
Join us for a technical discussion about SUSE Manager. You will learn how SUSE Manager can help you:
- Comprehensively manage your Linux servers across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
- Optimize the deployment of workloads based on cost, performance, and availability without losing control
- Improve the efficiency of your data center
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Stretching Your Security Budget: How to More Efficiently Combat the Risk of Unauthorized System Access
An InformationWeek Webcast:
You face a wide range of significant security and compliance challenges. These challenges include protecting sensitive information from external intruders, ensuring that internal users only access data for which they are appropriately authorized and tracking data use for forensic and compliance reporting purposes.
This webcast will address this central security and compliance challenge by providing:
- Insight into how security and compliance are being funded
- Proven best practices for security resource allocation
- An in-depth interview with an IT security manager who has taken practical steps to optimize security resource allocation
- Review of technology tools that improve both the effectiveness and resource-efficiency of IT security teams
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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Do You Really Know Your Customers? Leveraging Customer Insight for Advanced Business Performance
An InformationWeek Webcast
In today's financially tight economy, every sale counts -- and so does every customer. So what do you really know about your current customer base? Are they happy? Are they loyal? Will they respond to your marketing promotions and buy again? Which customers are most profitable; which are least profitable? Many organizations struggle to answer these questions, but they shouldn't.
During this webcast, we will take a look at what information you should know about your customers, how to effectively manage that information, and how to use it to drive additional revenue and profit. We will also review viable deployment mechanisms for advanced customer analytics, and how a pre-built data model and sample report packages can greatly accelerate time-to-value - enabling you to focus on better understanding your customer base to optimize your business outcomes.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Fear and Loathing in Data Storage: How to diagnose and cure what ails your storage infrastructure
An InformationWeek Webcast:
In this webcast, Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, and Tony Pearson, Master Inventor and Senior Managing Consultant for the IBM Software and Systems Group, will take turns assessing the challenges and suggesting real-world solutions to the many issues that confound storage efficiency in contemporary IT. Integrating real world case studies and technology insights, our storage experts will deliver a must-see webcast that sets down a strategy for fixing storage...before it fixes you.
Don't miss this event, unless you like the stress of knowing that your next disaster may be a data disaster.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, March 28-31, 2011
Unlock the Digital Economy
Now in its fifth year, Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next-generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and business strategists. We feature not only innovations and inspirations but also practical ideas that smart companies can use to succeed today. At our spring show, we'll reveal the key pieces of the digital economy and the ways you can leverage important ideas for your own success. We'll apply the economic filter to data collection, social connections, social media platforms, browser successes, old media in new channels, global commerce, and much more.
Register now to save on our early prices
Managing Unstructured Data: Challenges and Opportunities
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us for a Webcast where we'll share exclusive results from our Enterprise Data Management survey of 479 IT professionals. We'll also review best practices for managing unstructured data, discuss tools and techniques that can be applied to data management, and examine potential security and compliance issues.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Beyond Jeopardy!: The Business Implications of IBM Watson
An InformationWeek Webcast
IBM Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, was built by a team of IBM scientists who set out to accomplish a grand challenge -- build a computing system that rivals a human's ability to answer questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence. IBM Watson passed its first test on Jeopardy! in February 2011, but the real test will be in applying the underlying systems, data management and analytics technology in business and across different industries.
Moderated by Stephen Baker, author of Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, and featuring a panel of IBM business and research executives, this webcast will delve into the present and future business implications of the DeepQA technology behind Watson.
Topics include:
- Overview of IBM Watson, Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge, and DeepQA technology
- Business implications of Watson in the areas of
- Industry transformation, including healthcare
- Data management and analytics
- Workload optimized systems
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Becoming A Social Business Event Series
Every few years, advancements in technology and the evolution of business meet at the nexus of a cultural shift that fundamentally changes how business gets done. One of those moments is happening now -- businesses are deploying exciting new collaborative tools to enable a more dynamic, increasingly mobile, and idea-laden workforce to create the new “social business.” In this multimedia event extravaganza, IBM and InformationWeek team up to present a series of globally-renowned experts speaking on key issues in their areas of expertise related to perfecting the social business. It all takes place within the framework of the latest in collaborative technologies to connect the experts with both a live audience and a virtual community. Register to attend this complimentary interactive event.
Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.
Healing Eight Power Management Pain Points
An InformationWeek Webcast
Please join us for this complimentary, one-hour webcast, which will discuss eight of today's most common power management pain points, and will show how a new generation of intelligent, logical and complete power management solutions can help you conquer them all, effectively and efficiently.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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iPrism Web Security Product Demo
An InformationWeek & Dark Reading Webcast
Don't miss this live, online product demonstration of EdgeWave iPrism Web Security, winner of 5 stars across the board in SC Magazines 2011 Group Test of Web Content Management solutions and their recommended product. During this demonstration, conducted by an experienced iPrism Engineer, you will learn how easy it is to deploy and manage iPrism's self-contained, appliance-based Web Security. In an independent study, iPrism was proven to have the lowest total cost of ownership compared with other industry leaders.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Critical Condition: SAP meets Storage Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Webcast:
In this webcast, you will hear from Graybar -- a leading components distributor and supply chain services company -- who will lay out the challenges that confront their SAP environment and what they are doing about them…with the help of IBM System Storage solutions. From lowering total cost of ownership and reigning in storage capacity growth, to ensuring storage infrastructure performance to keep pace with increasing workload demands, to leveraging cloud resources, IBM supports its SAP users with innovative technologies and affordable services to stabilize what ails SAP today and to develop workable strategies for ensuring the health of these critical applications and databases into the future.
This webcast, which will feature Graybar’s Randy Miller and IBM’s own SAP guru, Markus Fehling, is a must-attend event for anyone who is working to build the infrastructure and the management approach that will see their firms into the next decade.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Live Webcast: Go Ahead, Virtualize Microsoft Exchange!
An InformationWeek Webcast
Please join us for a complementary web-based presentation from Dell in which we'll explore the topic of virtualizing Microsoft Exchange. During this session you will learn about:
- Benefits of virtualizing Exchange
- Best practices for sizing and deployment of Exchange in a virtual environment
- Configuring Database Availability Groups in a SAN
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Is Your Storage Infrastructure Ready For Potential Disasters?
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join this webcast to learn how Oracle's Sun Unified Storage solutions can help you better address backup and disaster recovery needs for Oracle database and application environments. In this session, Oracle's storage experts Dave Krenik and Bob Murphy will provide an overview of implementation examples for Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, and Exadata environments, share some real-world case studies, and detail some of the unique features in Oracle's Unified Storage platform that can help you lower your storage TCO and simplify your disaster recovery procedures.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Optimizing Data Protection, Security & Compliance for Remote and Branch Offices (ROBO)
An InformationWeek Webcast
View this webcast to learn how to:
- Simplify your IT environment by eliminating unnecessary complexity at remote sites
- Standardize platforms to drive efficiencies and regain control of your data protection, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance
- Automate your IT management and virtualizes to achieve low TCO
- Avoid costly bandwidth investments with deduplication, compression, and network optimization
Thursday, March 10, 2011 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Cloud Connect, March 7-10, 2011
Accelerate Your Cloud Strategy
Cloud Connect is the defining cloud computing event where customers and operators see the latest technologies and platforms and identify opportunities in the cloud. Learn from experts who are actually living this disruptive transformation every day.
Register today for a free expo pass or save up to $500 with code CNXACC03
Managing Content in SharePoint Online (part of Office365)
An InformationWeek Webcast
This live webcast will:
- Discuss key components for a successful migration plan
- Share best practices for incorporating the power of cloud computing into existing SharePoint infrastructures
- Show how to setup and run migration projects, including the tools and techniques necessary for a smooth implementation
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Next Generation Infrastructure Monitoring -- 5 Key Considerations When Investing in a New Solution
An InformationWeek Webcast
The last five years have seen a revolutionary shift in operating technology infrastructure. Thanks to new technologies and market factors, the IT organization is now responsible for driving innovative change while offering more and more services at the upmost level of reliability.
Now more than ever, a new approach is required to effectively and efficiently tackle the challenges of a dynamic infrastructure. Legacy management approaches won't work when constant change is the norm. Join Josh Duncan and Floyd Strimling from Zenoss for a lively discussion on the future of monitoring the datacenter -- from the physical, to the virtual, to the Cloud.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Enterprise Connect, Feb 28-Mar 3, 2011
Communications Transforming Business
Get the most in-depth, technically rich and market-savvy information available in the world of enterprise communications, while looking at the larger technology trends shaping communications.
Register early for the best rates or sign up for a FREE Expo Plus pass with code CNWTVR12
HOWTO Assess Database Vulnerabilities and Protect Your Most Sensitive Data
A Dark Reading and InformationWeek Webcast
Attend this exclusive technical webcast, HOWTO Assess Database Vulnerabilities and Protect Your Most Sensitive Data, to learn how to address today's most critical database security challenges and HOWTO:
- Harden database infrastructures by detecting configuration issues with security implications, and suggesting remediation actions.
- Eliminate security risks by removing features you don't need and securely configuring databases using industry best practices and benchmarks such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks and the DoD's Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG).
- Use an automated vulnerability assessment (VA) tool to check for software vulnerabilities such as missing patches, misconfigurations and misuse of the database such as the sharing of privileged credentials and excessive after-hours logins.
And much more...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 -- Time: 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET
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Developing a Continuous Monitoring Action Plan
An InformationWeek Government Webcast
In this editorial Webcast, cybersecurity experts will help discuss the tools and processes involved in moving from a traditional security environment to one designed around continuous monitoring. This Webcast will help government IT pros:
- Understand the objectives of continuous monitoring, such as reduced threat exposure through real time risk assessment and response.
- Identify the steps involved, including determining the security impact of changes to IT systems and producing assessment reports.
- Assess system requirements in areas such as malware detection and event and incident management.
- Determine the need for upgrades and investment in new technologies.
Featured Speakers:
- John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek Government
- John Streufert, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Information Assurance, United States Department of State, Bureau of Information Resource Management
- Steve Johnston, CISSP, ITIL, Lead Federal Systems Engineer, Tripwire, Inc.
Monday, February 14, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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WikiLeaks' Operation Payback and the Breakdown of Perimeter Defenses
An InformationWeek Webcast
Recently, supporters of WikiLeaks launched "Operation Payback", a decentralized "cyber-retaliation" against numerous payment card brands (such as Mastercard) and government sites (such as the Swedish Prosecutors office). The attacks were perpetrated in retaliation for compliance of these organizations with US government pressure to block assistance and funding to the WikiLeaks.
Leveraging these lessons, this webcast session will break down what we know about the attack so far, and detail how our DefensePro integrated set of technologies (DoS, NBA, and IPS) proved to be vitally necessary in various stages of repelling these attacks.
Thursday, February 10, 2011 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Tape Storage: Data Center Dinosaur or Dynamo?
An InformationWeek Webcast
In this webcast, Oracle storage executive Gary Francis discusses many of the misconceptions around tape storage, and presents some compelling reasons -- including cost savings, capacity, and reliability advantages -- for why enterprises investing in long term storage needs should consider tape. Also covered will be a look at some of the newest innovations in the tape market, and how these technological advancements are helping enterprise customers get more business value from their storage.
Thursday, February 10, 2011 /Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Tips and Tricks on Memory Management in Virtualized Environments
An InformationWeek Webcast
Being exceptionally dynamic, managing memory consumption alongside capacity is a task that's not for the faint of heart, no matter which hypervisor is being used.
Join this informative webcast to learn:
- How to recognize where memory constraints are impacting performance.
- The differences between memory over commitment and memory over-utilization -- and what each means for your environment.
- What VM performance metrics matter to find memory issues, and how they should be properly used.
- How memory ballooning and swapping may impact the performance of your virtualized applications.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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Web Security Services Put to the Test
A Dark Reading Webcast
Join us for this complimentary one-hour webcast with Andrew Conry-Murray, Editor of InformationWeek and Network Computing, and Randy George, Senior Systems Analyst for the Boston Red Sox, as they discuss the results of a test of 5 SaaS Web security service providers to see if they can live up to several major promises. They will also talk about how they tested the providers, and will examine whether and where the SaaS model makes sense as part of your overall security strategy. Ease of deployment and low capital costs are a real plus for SaaS, but are these new services ready to operate at the front lines of IT security? Join us to find out!
Thursday, February 3, 2011 -- 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Risk, Compliance, and Next-Generation Threats
Executive Security Seminar Series
Sponsored by Novell and Webroot
Hackers are getting better at their jobs every day. How do you know which new threats pose the greatest dangers? How can you find out what the latest attacks look like and how they might affect your enterprise? How can you begin to build up your defenses? Join us for this executive breakfast and walk away with insights and new ideas on how to protect against the latest wave of cyber attacks and prioritize your security efforts.
Thursday, January 27th - San Francisco
The Security Threat Report: A look at the latest malware and attack vectors
A Dark Reading Webcast
Join Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, for a live Webcast to learn about the latest security threats and trends in malware. Armed with the latest threat data, Graham will discuss the tactics the bad guys are using to infect your systems and steal your data.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- 9 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
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Business Insights Webcast: Computing Cost Savings with Automated Compliance
An InformationWeek Webcast
All registrants who attend and participate in the live event will receive a complimentary copy of the commissioned report Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Analytics.
Oracle is proud to present a live, complimentary webcast that will outline a roadmap to improve your company's compliance readiness while reducing costs.
Hear how organizations like yours have already realized over $1 M in benefits and over 60% return-on-investment. Join industry expert and Forrester analyst, Andras Cser, as he walks through detailed return-on-investment calculations for compliance automation based on real customers' data. Learn first-hand the industry best practices and implementation guidelines that will allow you to drastically cut compliance and IT administration expenditures and prove compliance.
Don't miss this opportunity to get your questions answered live by industry experts. You will also receive a complimentary copy of the commissioned report "Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Analytics".
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 -- 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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Security Decisions -- Weighing SaaS Against Security Applicances
A Dark Reading Webcast
Join this special presentation featuring Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research, Inc. as he discusses:
- The changing nature of security threats, and current and possibly expected, near-term threats
- Review a high level comparison of cloud vs. appliance solutions for security
- Compare cloud based security vs. appliances with a specific emphasis on cost of ownership (comparison of labor costs, CAPEX vs. OPEX, and predictability of costs)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 -- 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Accelerate Modern Application Delivery for Better Business Results
Hosted by: HP
As IT organizations embrace distributed global teams, iterative methodologies, composite applications and Web 2.0 technologies, new challenges for managing the application lifecycle emerge. Join HP Software to learn how you can help ensure that IT initiatives yield positive business outcomes by addressing some of the most common application delivery challenges like:
- Predictability, especially with distributed teams
- Increasing quality, particularly with modern applications
- Improving responsiveness to business change
- Philadelphia, PA: January 11, 2011
- New York City, NY: January 12, 2011
- Washington, DC: January 13, 2011
- Toronto, Canada: January 19, 2011
- Chicago, IL: January 20, 2011
- Phoenix, Arizona: January 25, 2011
App Development for the Cloud Generation
An InformationWeek Webcast
Please join InformationWeek Editor-At-Large and author Charles Babcock, and Zend Technologies CEO and Co-founder Andi Gutmans, as they discuss:
- Open source and platform-based development to play key roles
- Barriers moved aside when dev environment is also used for deployment
- Multiple clouds may be targeted in the development phase
- Not every application is suitable for cloud deployment
- Hybrid operation -- data center and cloud -- is the ultimate goal
Thursday, January 20, 2011 -- 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 Minutes
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The Enterprise Desktop -- A New Approach
An InformationWeek Webcast
This webinar will:
- Examine Windows 7 from the unique perspective of the enterprise
- Discuss new and important desktop virtualization technologies
- Cover a recommended strategy for aligning platforms and applications to worker segments and business requirements
Thursday, January 13, 2011 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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Clinical Archiving Made Simple: Compliance, Protection, And Unified Availability That Scales
An InformationWeek Webcast
Join us and learn how to:
- Improve care provider access to clinical information
- Integrate your medical files with EMRs and HIEs
- Avoid future costs of PACS 1.0 to PACS 2.0 data migrations
- Improve your bottom-line storage economics over the long term
Thursday, January 13, 2011 -- 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
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