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These are executive events produced by InformationWeek. These events may vary in subject matter but are designed for executives to network with peers, hear from industry experts and participate in panel and/or open discussion forums led by an by InformationWeek Moderator. If you would like further information about these events or are interested in attending, click the event links below.

Financial Firms Need to Reduce Application Latency for Increasingly Global Client Base
Sponsored by Akamai and Produced by Wall Street and Technology
Join Wall Street & Technology and Akamai for this exclusive event wehere we will discuss strategies for delivering global Web-based applications. Wall Street & Technology editor Greg MacSweeney will lead a panel of architects from leading firms including Citibank and Goldman Sachs to discuss their approach to delivering global applications and the trade-offs of different delivery strategies.

December 9, 2008 - New York, NY

Building Risk Management Strategies in a Time of Uncertainty
Sponsored by HP
This executive reception and wine tasting, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives involved in risk management, will examine the current market instability and assesses how large organizations can skillfully re-orient their risk management postures to stimulate more tangible business benefits.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - New York, NY

Transformation Imperative
Sponsored by Satyam
This executive breakfast, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be strategic thinkers in helping them innovate and operate at peak performance - especially in a gloomy economy and a changing global market. In this environment, you can't miss this opportunity to gain insight into the tactics and strategy that will help you be on your best game.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - San Francisco, CA

Nagios 3 - Open Source System and Network Monitoring for Large Enterprises
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
With thousands of large enterprise deployments, Nagios is the undisputed leader in open source monitoring, and has established the credibility of open source monitoring in serious business environments, delivering both cost savings and increased flexibility to its users. Nagios 3 improves upon this track record, delivering increased scalability and improved service management for large, complex environments. Meet the Nagios project founder, Ethan Galstad, along with the GroundWork Open Source Team, and learn real-world examples of how Nagios is being used and how the power of Nagios 3 will be incorporated into the next version of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 / 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET

Getting the Point! Making the Most of MS SharePoint
An InformationWeek WebCast
Join industry leaders from Microsoft, Forrester, and ASG Software Solutions as they discuss the SharePoint phenomenon and identify how your organization can fully leverage the potential throughout the lifecycle of your valuable enterprise content.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 / 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

How to Manage your Shrinking IT Budget
An InformationWeek Live WebCast
Please join Charles Kaplan, Chief Technology Strategist for Mazu Networks, and TechWeb Contributing Editor Wayne Rash, for an important Webcast to help you find the tools you need to gain control of your enterprise while reducing cost, managing staff levels, and improving your operations.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 / 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET

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SaaS: A CIO's Best Friend in a Tough Economy
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
In the tough economic environment, forward-looking midsize companies have to find new ways to grow and operate productively while coping with limited resources. Software-as-a-service is a key strategy for improving productivity, managing costs, reducing complexity, and focusing your employees on innovative business growth.
Join InformationWeek and NetSuite for an informative discussion on SaaS. You'll hear from your peers on how SaaS is helping them thrive despite tough economic times.
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Avoiding CMDB pitfalls -- 4 Steps to Ensure a Successful CMDB Implementation
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast
Watch this ASG sponsored webcast featuring Forrester Research and an ASG customer about the evolution of the CMDB and the challenges that can be inhibitors to successful CMDB implementations and more importantly, how to overcome those challenges. We will explore, through a live customer presentation, how to avoid the pitfalls of an unsuccessful CMDB implementation by using a well-defined methodology that can help you achieve quick and repeatable successes.
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Driving data center efficiency through service, software, and process
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives VIDEO Webcast
Given today's economic environment, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to increase computing power, increase efficiency, and address rising power and cooling capacity concerns, all while balancing physical space constraints within your data center. Sounds easy, right? Until you take the first step is planning.
Making your first move towards becoming a more efficient data center is increasingly complex, fortunately APC has the scalable, modular tools and services to help you plan, build and operate the next generation data center.
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Business Process Outsourcing: Moving From A Tactical To A Strategic Approach
An InformationWeek Webcast
Please Join InformationWeek Senior Executive Editor, Chris Murphy, Everest Research Institute Vice President Katrina Menzigian,and Cognizant's Vice-President of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Business Consulting (CBC), Kaushik Bhaumik, for an informative webcast on using BPO to transform processes, not just cut costs. This InformationWeek Webcast will explore business process outsourcing as a vehicle for strategic change. Using recent InformationWeek Analytics research, this event will quantify the extent to which companies take a strategic approach, specific areas they're seeking strategic change, and obstacles to making the leap from a tactical lens (e.g., pure cost cutting) to strategic thinking such as transforming processes or increasing revenue. From there, we'll explore the best practices companies must take to build overcome the concerns that keep companies from getting beyond a cost cutting focus with BPO.
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Minimizing Data Center Power Consumption & Costs Through Efficiency
An InformationWeek Webcast
Simple changes to the way your business approaches energy use can help recoup your losses -- and put those wasted dollars back in your IT budget!
Join us for this InformationWeek Video Webcast where we will explore the causes leading to inefficiencies within the data center, understand current business problems regarding energy efficiency, and learn the difference between being "green" and improving efficiency. Discussions will revolve around physical infrastructure components including the power systems, cooling systems, and rack configurations. By viewing this webcast and putting these solutions in action, you can help minimize your data center power consumption and costs through efficiency!
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Is Your Datacenter Bursting at the Seams? Scale-Out File Storage Comes to the Rescue
The enterprise datacenter is undergoing a rapid transformation and the need to store an increasing amount of file-based digital content is growing.
File storage encompasses a wide range of documents, including Word, Excel, PDFs, PowerPoint, CAD/CAM, source code, video, audio, graphics, and images.
This massive growth of file data is driving the need for scalable file storage options to keep enterprises from bursting at the seams. Data center managers who want to learn about new approaches to storing and managing file-based, rich data can join us for an informative webinar on scaling out your storage architectures.
Sign up for this webcast which will focus on the enterprise shift from "scale-up" to "scale-out" storage architectures to address the massive flood of file based data.
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SaaS Today: A Fresh Perspective
Join Heather Vallis, Managing Editor of InformationWeek Research and Michael Healey CTO of Greenpages and InformationWeek contributor, for this important Webcast. Weıll share the details of our latest survey of IT decision makers on the subject of SaaS and offer insights on how you can leverage the latest software service offerings to deliver value to your company.

This Webcast will include both market research and practical technology advice, giving you a complete picture of the benefits of today's leading SaaS categories.
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Email Risks, Google highlights why what you don't know can cost you
Sponsored by Google
Please join Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Research from Nucleus Research and industry expert on the financial analysis of technology, and Google Security & Compliance Product Marketing Manager, Mark Campbell, to learn about some of the risks and costs of email mismanagement and what to do about it.
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Making Mobile Device Management Work In Your Organization
Sponsored by Nokia
Join InformationWeek writer Eric Zeman for this important webcast, where he will share the details of the latest survey of top CIOs and IT managers on device management. In addition, Zeman will decipher the data and offer tips on how you can leverage the latest MDM technologies.
This Webcast will include both market research and practical technology advice, giving you a complete picture of the benefits of today's leading MDM technologies.
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Understanding ILM and How it Can Benefit Your Company
Sponsored by Oracle
This webcast will explore the major drivers of ILM, describe the processes and policies that must be in place for a successful ILM project, and look at key elements such as the classification and migration technologies that will mark and move data as required by policy. It will also discuss products that can be used in an ILM deployment.
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Poor Performance Is A Silent Killer. Learn How to Improve Your Online Business With Real End User Monitoring
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Symphoniq, along with BuildDirect and Lockheed Federal Credit Union (LFCU) will discuss why itıs critical to monitor performance from an end-user perspective, why they looked beyond their current application monitoring tools, and how they improved their ability to immediately detect and isolate web application performance problems.
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