UBM TECH EVENTS

Interop
Las Vegas: March 31-April 4, 2014
New York: September 29-October 3, 2014
Interop is the leading independent technology conference and expo series designed to inform and inspire the IT community. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet program, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. Interop Las Vegas is the flagship event held each spring, with Interop New York held each fall and annual international events in London, Mumbai and Tokyo, all produced by UBM Tech.

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InformationWeek Conference and Elite 100 Awards @ Interop
March 31-April 1, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
InformationWeek Conference is our exclusive conference for CIOs and technology leaders. Please join us in Las Vegas for two packed days of learning, information sharing, professional networking and celebration. Following the conference featuring world-class CIOs and other thought leaders and experts, InformationWeek will honor the nation's leading digital businesses at our InformationWeek Elite 100 Awards Ceremony.

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Cloud Connect Summit @ Interop
March 31-April 1, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
Designed to appeal to both technology stakeholders and business leaders alike, the Cloud Connect Summit is a two-day conference program -- held alongside Interop Las Vegas -- offering a dive deep into the most pressing cloud technology decisions and trends including how cloud services are reshaping business technology. In addition to the Cloud Connect Summit, Interop will feature cloud workshops and an entire conference track filled with sessions programmed by Cloud Connect. The Interop Expo will feature a Cloud & Virtualization Zone with leading exhibitors showcasing the latest cloud technologies.

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Enterprise Connect
March 17-20, 2014 | Orlando, FL
WebRTC, Wireless, Video, Unified Communications, Contact Centers, SIP Trunking, the Cloud -- all of these topics and more make up the focus for Enterprise Connect 2014, the leading conference and expo on enterprise communications and collaboration. Across four days, you’ll meet the industry's thought- and market-leaders get the information you need to implement the right communications and collaboration products, services, software and architecture for your enterprise.

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WEBINARS

Bare Metal to OpenStack: What You Need to Know
Sponsor: AMD
Cloud computing is experiencing an unprecedented wave of innovation that is clouding the decision path to building a scalable, efficient infrastructure for public or private clouds. To bring clarity to the noisy market, you need a solution that is the fastest way to build an efficient and highly scalable cloud.

Register for this webinar to learn how to deal with real-life deployment scenarios and gain the most up-to-date information on how OpenStack can be leveraged in your organization today.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Next-gen Mobility: Will Your Strategy Make the Cut?
Sponsor: IBM
Mobile capabilities are disrupting traditional business models. What used to work is no longer viable as standard solutions do not meet user expectations for a good mobile experience. According to a recent survey on mobility conducted by IBM and IDC, less than half of organizations have comprehensive strategies in place to address mobility implementation challenges.

Attend this webinar to hear Leslie Rosenberg, Research Manager for IDC, and Steve Boyle of IBM discuss how you can:

 - Identify your mobility goals and a migration strategy
 - Evaluate the current mobile options, trends and available solutions
 - Mitigate security and compliance concerns
 - Create a mobile experience that your users will appreciate and use

Register for this webinar to learn how you can tackle the mobility challenges and migrate to a next-generation mobile offering.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Hybrid Cloud Backups: How to Get More for Less
Sponsor: IBM
Abdicating your company’s data protection responsibilities to the first cloud solution provider you encounter is as unwise as doing nothing to leverage the cloud at all. On the other hand, it would be a very wise decision to investigate what results you could achieve by choosing a backup technology that is capable of supporting a hybrid approach covering both on-premises and offsite cloud capabilities.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 - Understand how organizations are managing the data backup process
 - Gain insights into the pros and cons of offsite cloud capabilities
 - Hear the truth why a hybrid approach to a backup architecture would be better
 - Learn what to look for in a Hybrid Backup Solution

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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802.11ac & SDN : The New Enterprise Edge
Sponsor: Meru Networks
2014 will be a year of incredible opportunity in the mobility and wireless LAN market, with the deployment of 802.11ac, or gigabit Wi-Fi, hitting the mainstream. In addition, new developments such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and software-defined networking (SDN) will fundamentally change the way we approach developing and deploying those networks, at the same time transforming how IT is purchased, deployed, integrated and managed.

Attend this webinar to:

 - Hear from a panel of IT leaders on meeting the challenges and avoiding mistakes in the migration to 802.11ac
 - Discover how trends from 802.11ac and IoT will catalyze change in Wi-Fi networks
 - Learn about SDN and its impact to the network

Join Meru’s featured guest Rohit Mehra of IDC and a distinguished panel of IT leaders for an informative, fast-paced exploration of how to ensure a high quality end user experience in the midst of the most important developments in the history of the wireless and wired edge.

Customer Panel:

 - Bellarmine College Preparatory: Chris Carey -- Director of Technology
 - Goffstown New Hampshire School District: Gary Girolimon -- Director of Technology
 - Cornwall Community Hospital: Mario Alibrando - Director of IT

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Secret to Funding Business Innovations through Dramatic Savings in IT
Sponsor: Rimini Street
Want to know how effective CIOs not only deliver ongoing business value by challenging the status quo, but also free up funds for innovation and growth?

Join this educational webinar to hear from Jay Ferro, CIO of the American Cancer Society, as he shares his experience on how to:

 - Identify previously unseen savings opportunities
 - Evaluate new vendor partnerships that can provide the best value at a much better price
 - Cut your Oracle® and SAP® maintenance bills in half and receive premium support
 - Be a catalyst for change… and growth

CIOs and IT Executives don’t have to look far to find hugely beneficial savings but they need to be willing to look in areas they might otherwise be hesitant to explore. This can make a big difference in delivering significant value to the business rather than just playing catch up.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Exclusive Broadcast: Keynote Interview With Box CEO Aaron Levie
Sponsor: Box
Aaron Levie is no stranger to digital disruption.

Join this special broadcast from April’s InformationWeek Conference where Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box, applies his renowned wit and no-holds-barred wisdom to a range of topics, from rogue IT and the bring-your-own-app movement to the state of IT leadership and innovation.

Box, the cloud-based storage provider Aaron co-founded in 2005, has changed the way more than 25 million individuals and 225,000 businesses worldwide not only store but also share their critical information.

Join Rob Preston, InformationWeek’s Editor-In-Chief and Aaron for the keynote Q&A session from the 2014 InformationWeek Conference. Reserve your spot for this video presentation now.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Eliminate Downtime With Effective Application Performance Management
Sponsor: CA Technologies
The operating environment for mission-critical IT systems continues to grow in complexity, but your tolerance for downtime cannot.

Loss of employee productivity and revenue can result from an inability to monitor end-to-end transaction performance and analyze application-related data from across your organization.

Join this webinar we share our analysis of how 230 of your peers are coping with the need to ensure that applications are effectively managed, exhibit acceptable performance, and are cost effective, including how you can:

 - Monitor and manage complex, heterogeneous systems encompassing everything from mainframe-based applications to mobile, cloud, and web apps
 - Leverage analytics to provide advanced warning and diagnosis of problems
 - Use a 360-degree view of application and business service delivery
 - Reduce workload while also enabling IT mitigate a crisis

It’s not too late to get ahead of the mobility curve! Just be ready and be smart about your mobility strategy.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Top Five VDI Project Roadblocks and How To Avoid Them
An InformationWeek Webinar
The promise of VDI is clear: a great user experience with lower costs and better IT control. Unfortunately, many VDI deployments fail due to poor performance, high cost-per-desktop, low reliability, excessive complexity, and limited scalability. There are 5 common issues with VDI deployments that crush user acceptance and kill ROI.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 - Resolve performance issues with high-performance all-flash storage
 - Better than the cost of 15k disk though data reduction and an optimized flash architecture
 - Improve reliability with highly-available resilient storage
 - Reduce complexity and integration - No more LUNs, RAID groups or performance tuning.

Register for this webinar to learn how Pure Storage resolves the five most common VDI issues and how you can rescue your deployment.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Enabling Modern Work Styles With Desktop Virtualization
An InformationWeek Webinar
Are you considering a desktop virtualization deployment on Hyper-V? Now, you can reap the benefits of cloud client computing with a single architecture to deliver VDI (pooled and persistent), remote desktops (Sessions) and Application virtualization.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 - Leverage your IT department’s in-house Microsoft skills.
 - Deploy a desktop virtualization solution with Lync 2013 and Windows 8.1.
 - Choose between Traditional and Converged data center form factors.
 - Support BYOD programs as well as PC or Thin Client endpoints.

Register for this webinar to learn how a single management console allows IT to deliver the right technology to the right set of users, to maximize their user experience reducing the number of vendor components that need to be integrated and limiting the number of consoles required for management to one, in most deployments.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Price of VDI: How to Lower Storage Costs With a Virtual SAN
An InformationWeek Webinar
Storage remains one of the primary challenges to deploying VDI for many organizations.

Centralizing all of the data into the datacenter provides great security benefits, but can also put strain on the fixed storage architecture with I/O requests during peak usage.

A software defined storage architecture will provide some flexibility by abstracting the underlying storage HW with a software layer that can automate the service level agreement for flexibility.

Join this webinar to discover how you can:

 - Accelerate performance with high RPM HDD and SSD read/write caching
 - Gain flexibility using a scale-out design
 - Reduce complexity, and time to deployment by utilizing all internal storage
 - Leverage technologies that can help your organization deploy a scalable, cost effective solution that solves key storage issues
 - Maximize IT staff efficiency with overall ease of management of the virtual environment

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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DevOps on Cloud: Accelerating Software Delivery
Sponsor: IBM
Cloud computing offers significant advantages for developers: instant access to resources, fast on-boarding for collaboration across teams and geographies, and consistent environment provisioning.

With DevOps practices, teams can make even more beneficial use if the cloud through continuous testing, deployment automation and collaborative development.

Join this webinar to discover how you can:

 - Drive benefit from leveraging the cloud to accelerate software delivery
 - Reduce risk, increase quality and governance and speed application development and deployment
 - Innovate ideas through collaborative development and testing
 - Deliver innovation by automating processes and eliminating waste

Monday, Mar 31, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Performance from the User’s Perspective
Sponsor: IBM
Improved platforms, standards, bandwidth rates and data models mean more IT shops are taking a “cloud-first” approach to new services, keeping only select jobs in house. Cost and ROI models support this stance. But what’s often left out of the calculus is the impact on the end user. Will they be more productive? Will it be easier for them to do their jobs, process data, and share information? This webinar takes a step back and looks at the impact on the employee base. We identify 7 major gaps that most organizations ignore in pursuit of the bigger vision.

Attend this webinar and:

 - Learn how to avoid getting a SaaS project dumped on IT
 - Help finance understand cloud CapEx versus OpEx
 - Identify why a SaaS app is underperforming
 - Avoid the pitfalls of cloud apps growing faster than your IT budget
 - Manage the eventual problem of Marketing developing their own SaaS apps

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Friday, March 28, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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BYOD Best Practices Webinar: Enterprise Security Management For Mobile Devices
Sponsor: IBM
Does your company need a robust, simple and secure plan and solution to manage the BYOD era?

Are you doing everything you can to enable your employees to be productive, while ensuring that your corporate data is secure without sacrificing the experience that your employees expect from their mobile devices?

Join this webinar to:

 - Discover best practices to effectively secure and manage all your personally owned and corporate owned mobile devices and endpoints
 - Gain an understanding of how to manage all enterprise endpoints from a unified console
 - Acquire monitoring techniques for compliance and acceptable use of mobile devices and endpoints

This webinar will also explore MaaS360's mobile device, application and content management solutions and how they can help organizations of any size deliver a secure mobile solution.

We will identify and discuss industry best practices that will help you to effectively secure and manage all mobile devices that access your data, network and content.

Thursday, March 27, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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How To Deliver Business Critical Apps to Employees Everywhere
Sponsor: Riverbed
Organizations are expected to provide the best possible experience to end-users regardless of their location, yet they must also manage their IT infrastructure efficiently and securely. So how can you save time and money while improving the end-user experience in a hybrid infrastructure environment?

Join us for this webinar where we reveal ways you can:

 - Speed applications up to 100 times while reducing bandwidth consumption by 65-95%
 - Scale to serve twice as many users with half the number of web servers
 - Accelerate and prioritize mission-critical SaaS and cloud-based applications
 - Monitor applications with end-to-end network and application visibility

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 -- Time: 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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3 Enemies To Application Performance -- And How To Prevent Them
An InformationWeek Webinar
Business continuity. File sharing. Communications.

Regardless of the IT initiative, you need your application to perform its very best any time, and every time. But even applications that are responsive within the office can behave poorly and erratically over wide area networks (WAN). Join us for this educational webinar as we explore the three major performance risks to today’s business applications over distance -- and how you can prevent them from undermining your project.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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How To Meet, Manage, and Monitor Application SLAs in Physical and Virtual Environments
An InformationWeek Webinar
IT organizations insist on receiving an SLA for services delivered by a service provider. In today’s increasingly complex IT environment of mobile applications, virtualization, cloud, and SDN, organizations have been reluctant to offer an SLA internally to their organizations’ business and functional managers.

However, most report that the internal SLAs they offer are relatively weak and do not have the tools to effectively manage them.

Today, most load balancers/application delivery controllers (ADCs) work on a best-effort approach and are shared by several applications. Most importantly there’s no real ability to ensure SLA.

Attend this webinar to learn why managing internal SLAs for one or more business-critical applications is extremely important to your business functions and IT organization and how you can utilize Radware to deliver, monitor, and manage application level SLA and web performance optimization even while under cyber-attack.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Connected Car: Fulfilling the Promise with IBM
Sponsor: IBM
Consumers expect safety, convenience, information, entertainment, and increasingly smartphone apps that allow them to interact with their cars.

Automotive manufacturers need to be looking at how they use data from the Connected Car to drive new revenue generation, cost avoidance, and brand differentiation.

This webinar will show how you can benefit from the Connected Car by working with IBM to:

 - Scale Connected Car solutions without incremental costs
 - Act on insights from vehicles in real time
 - Free data from siloed applications to extract its full potential
 - Develop new services faster to stay ahead in the market
 - Reduce Costs while engaging customers

Attend this webinar to learn more about how IBM’s connected car solution can help your company gain long-term competitive differentiators.

All attendees will also receive the following whitepaper: IBM MessageSight in the automotive industry.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Expert Panel: Continuous Delivery Best Practices Revealed
Sponsor: Perforce
There is a lot of talk about Continuous Delivery as organizations strive to release better products faster. However talk is one thing; action is another. It’s time to listen to the voice of experience.

In this webcast you’ll learn about some of the current thinking on mobility management as it relates to security, identity and resource access. In particular we’ll address:

Register to join Forrester Principal Analyst Kurt Bittner and a panel of Perforce customers—including Procter & Gamble, Intuit, Edmunds.com and Tableau Software—as they discuss their hands-on experiences with Continuous Delivery.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Hybrid Clouds: 5 Gotchas Revealed
Sponsor: IBM
Hybrid clouds, where IT can mix and match on- and off-site infrastructure and applications based on the best fit, are rising in popularity. Among respondents to our 2014 Private Cloud Survey, 72% of those using a private cloud and using or planning to use public cloud services favor a hybrid model. However, hybrid clouds are not without problems.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 - Uncover the best security tricks and tips for hosting a private cloud
 - Avoid common pitfalls of hybrid cloud setups
 - Understand the biggest risk factors when setting up a public cloud infrastructure

Register for this InformationWeek webinar to learn more about the Top 5 gotchas that plague hybrid setups, from standards to security, and best practices to maximize flexibility.

Monday, Mar 21, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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OpenStack Private Cloud: Accelerate Your ROI
Sponsor: AMD
OpenStack Private Clouds promises to deliver the utility of Public Cloud with lower TCO – but implementing production-ready OpenStack is not easy. This webinar will show how you can be successful with OpenStack today and accelerate your time to value.

Come learn about the different ways to successfully implement OpenStack Private Cloud for your business today, and gain insight on how you can minimize risk and accelerate your return on investment.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Website Optimization And How To Boost Performance And Scale
Sponsor: IBM
Performance and scale are critical in the competitive world of modern web commerce. A website that gets bogged down under high volume can result in discouraged customers and lost sales.

Being prepared for peak load is key to ensuring that customers stay happy, stay focused, and keep coming back.

By combining the robust capabilities of innovative IBM technologies, your websites can ensure a consistent and satisfying experience for your customers.

Join this webinar to learn how you can:

 - Reduce average response-times
 - Create less statistical fluctuation in response-time to generate a more consistent user experience
 - Significantly improve time to reach steady-state after full or partial site restart, by 40%
 - Simplify tuning and operational maintenance
 - Apply Elastic Caching to your existing application infrastructure to address scalability issues with database servers

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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5 Big Data Best Practices - And How To Optimize Your Architecture For Them
Sponsor: IBM
The very traits that made conventional relational databases indispensable to enterprises now hinder scalability. At some point in the big data journey, most organizations will need to migrate to a distributed model. But spreading a database across multiple nodes is no easy feat.

In this InformationWeek webcast, we’ll give top signs that it’s time to bite the bullet and move to a distributed architecture. We’ll also arm you with tips and tricks to make the shift as painless and inexpensive as possible.

Join this webinar to:

 - Uncover the four major reasons why large organizations have chosen distributed databases over traditional relational databases;
 - Hear use cases in which you can distribute a relational database;
 - Understand Hadoop and where it fits -- and where it doesn’t -- in a distributed database strategy;
 - Learn how to cut through much of the marketing hype around distributed databases.

Take your organization from relational databases to a distributed architecture with this webinar.

Bonus InformationWeek Report: All attendees will receive a complimentary InformationWeek report on Data Scatter.

Monday, March 19, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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How to Choose an IaaS Partner
Sponsor: IBM
Think all IaaS partners are created equal? Think again. In this InformationWeek webinar, we’ll walk through mapping your needs to key differentiators, such as VMs by API, block storage (including snapshots, restores, detaches and multiple machines connecting to a single volume). We'll also talk shop on object storage, the ability to collocate machines, and configuration management/orchestration.

Attend this webinar to:

 - Learn where Amazon Web Services is the best choice and where it is not;
 - Discover which features you need an IaaS provider to have (that some don’t); and
 - Achieve a successful hybrid cloud strategy.

Register for this webinar and learn about the key differentiators that can mean success for your IaaS project -- or defeat.

Friday, March 14, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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What’s the True ROI of Your Mobile Security Investment?
Sponsor: AT&T
Does investing in mobile security really payoff? What are the benefits you can expect? Some organizations struggle to answer these questions, and as a result, fail to invest in mobile management and security solutions. However, in the world of increasingly mobile workers, a risk-rewards analysis will most likely indicate that mobile security has value.

Attend this webinar to learn:

 - How inefficient mobile security can lead to competitive disadvantage
 - The ROI of investing in security solutions
 - Best practices for implementing mobile security policies

Thursday, March 13, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Forrester Reveals Total Economic Impact of IBM PureApplication System
Sponsor: IBM
The IBM PureApplication System is a cloud application platform specifically designed and tuned for enterprise applications. IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study to try and answer the question of “how much” the PureApplication System impacts and changes the economic value of IT within one customer organization. The research is based on actual customer experience and interviews with the customer about the effects on the complete application lifecycle from design, through development and deployment, into the test and management and maintenance phases.

Join us for this webinar to:

 - Gain an understanding of the generated benefits of PureApplication system
 - Leverage acquired IT flexibility to develop new innovations to address changing business requirements
 - Manage costs through enhanced application lifecycle management
 - Reduce risk to minimize unexpected delays

This webcast will discuss the findings of the study and the built-in expertise that enables PureApplication System to fundamentally change the experience and economics of IT.

Thursday, March 13, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Datavail presents: 5 Reasons to Choose a Managed Services Approach to Database Administration With Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Sponsor: Datavail
In January 2014, Datavail commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the viability of a managed service approach to database administration. With the explosion in the variety, velocity and volume of data and databases, coupled with the scarcity of database administration (DBA) talent, the time is right to consider an alternative approach to managing databases. Forrester Consulting recently conducted a survey of executives in mid to large enterprises who are using managed services to augment their in-house DBA.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 - Dramatically improve your SLAs
 - Obtain consistent 24x7 coverage
 - Gain a deep expertise in areas where in-house staff needed assistance
 - Improve your retention of DBAs

Register for this webinar to join Forrester Analyst Noel Yuhanna, who will share the results of the study, as well as interview a Fortune 1000 executive on the results they achieved.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 -- 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Reduce Transactional System Complexities to Fund Your Next Innovation
Sponsor: IBM
Online transactions are the lifeblood of so many businesses, and even a small hiccup can have an immediate impact on revenue and a far reaching effect on brand reputation.

IBM PureData System for Transactions can deliver high availability transactional data services with radical simplicity.

Join this webinar to discover how you can:

 - Get your system up and running and ready for data within hours
 - Deploy high availability clusters and databases quickly and easily using configuration patterns
 - Apply OS, firmware and capacity upgrades with zero planned downtime
 - Support DB2 applications unchanged and Oracle Database applications with minimal change
 - Achieve predictable Service Level Agreements

Attend the webinar to learn how PureData System for Transactions can save significant time, effort and cost in deploying and managing high availability, high throughput transactional databases and applications.

Mon, Mar 11, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Requirements Checklist for Creating 5-Star Mobile Apps
Sponsor: IBM
4-PART WEBINAR SERIES:
A Best Practices Guide to Building and Running Quality Mobile Applications
This four-part series is designed for those who lead mobile application initiatives for their organizations (e.g., CIOs, Applications VPs, etc. ). The goal of the series is to help you evaluate best practices and solution options for developing consistent, high quality experiences across a diverse set of mobile devices in a way that’s secure, affordable, fast and can scale. It’s for those organizations that are moving from first to second wave mobile applications. And because time is at a premium, each webcast is only 15 minutes in duration.

SIGN UP TODAY FOR PART 4:
Requirements Checklist for Creating 5-Star Mobile Apps


Attend this 15-minute webcast to learn the key capabilities required to support 5-star mobile application development.

Join this webcast so you can:

 - Learn the key capabilities required to support 5-star mobile application development.
 - Know what’s most important to you in a mobile application development platform.
 - Be able to easily compare key mobile application platform capabilities across solutions under consideration.

Complimentary Checklist: After the webcast you can download a checklist of these key requirements to help you test the ability of any mobile application development solution to meet your mobile enterprise needs -- whether you invest in a platform or build your own.

Thursday, March 6, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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6 Key Steps To Justify Business Continuity And Resiliency Investments
Sponsor: IBM
As a business continuity professional, your job is not only continuity and resiliency for your business, but also keeping down costs and trying to, justify investments and maintain readiness for a 'black swan' event.

Join this webinar to hear detailed insights taken from an IBM Global Study on the Economic Impact of IT Risk. Based on a recent survey of over 1,000 business continuity specialists across 37 countries this webinar and related study will help you to learn from your peers to:

 - Better understand the state of business continuity today
 - Develop action plans to help you make the case for business continuity and resiliency spending
 - Understand reputational risk as an area of growing importance

Join this webinar and learn how you can make your own business case for resiliency investment. Register Now!

Free Research Report: Attendees will also receive the research report upon which the webinar is based: Building the business case for continuity and resiliency.

Monday, March 5, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Best Way to Create ROI for Mobile Application Projects
Sponsor: IBM

4-PART WEBINAR SERIES:
A Best Practices Guide to Building and Running Quality Mobile Applications
This four-part series is designed for those who lead mobile application initiatives for their organizations (e.g., CIOs, Applications VPs, etc. ). The goal of the series is to help you evaluate best practices and solution options for developing consistent, high quality experiences across a diverse set of mobile devices in a way that’s secure, affordable, fast and can scale. It’s for those organizations that are moving from first to second wave mobile applications. And because time is at a premium, each webcast is only 15 minutes in duration.

SIGN UP TODAY FOR PART 3:
The Best Way to Create ROI for Mobile Application Projects
What return of investment can you expect from your mobile investments?

Attend this 15-minute webcast to hear Jeff Hammond from Forrester discuss what organizations can expect to save by investing in a Mobile Application Platform.

All attendees will also receive the Forrester Consulting report: The Total Economic Impact of IBM’s Worklight Platform.

Monday, March 3, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Mobile App Development: Respond Quickly And Deliver What Matters
Sponsor: IBM
When it comes to mobile apps, having the right tools can make the difference between building an app that captivates the user and poor ratings that ruin an organization’s image.

To build anything the least bit complex requires collaboration across the entire team, integration across the tool chain, and agile team support for rapid response to change.

Join this webinar to learn:

 - The makeup of today’s most successful mobile applications
 - How simplicity in integration and automation support development teams to collaboratively design and build complex mobile apps of the highest quality
 - Real-world examples of successful mobile apps developed with IBM software.

This webcast, the first in a series on DevOps for Mobile, explores the critical role development tooling and automation plays in enabling teams to engage their users and respond rapidly to their feedback as they strive to rapidly deliver the best mobile apps possible.

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Friday, February 28, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Demo: How To Speed, Secure and Simplify Application Development and Deployment
An InformationWeek Webinar
A Best Practices Guide to Building and Running Quality Mobile Applications

This four-part series is designed for those who lead mobile application initiatives for their organizations (e.g., CIOs, Applications VPs, etc. ). The goal of the series is to help you evaluate best practices and solution options for developing consistent, high quality experiences across a diverse set of mobile devices in a way that’s secure, affordable, fast and can scale. It’s for those organizations that are moving from first to second wave mobile applications. And because time is at a premium, each webcast is only 15 minutes in duration.

SIGN UP TODAY FOR PART 2:
Demo: How To Speed, Secure and Simplify Application Development and Deployment

How do you rapidly and affordably develop, test, deploy, secure and govern a portfolio of quality enterprise mobile applications?

Attend this 15-minute demonstration to see how an open, comprehensive application platform can enable your organization to develop, deploy and manage hybrid and native applications across multiple platforms, with a special focus on application testing and governance.

LOOK FOR INFORMATION ON PARTS 3 & 4 COMING SOON:
3/3: The Best Way to Create ROI for Mobile Application Projects
3/6: A Requirements Checklist for Creating 5-Star Mobile Apps

Thursday, February 27, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Independent Research: Top Trends for Private Cloud Computing
An InformationWeek Webinar
Over half of North American and European enterprises are prioritizing building a private cloud in 2014. The private cloud market is rapidly evolving, making it challenging to understand key trends, market adoption, areas where private cloud solutions will develop, and which criteria you should consider when evaluating vendors. Forrester Research recently published a report, The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013, which highlights their investigation in the private cloud landscape.

Register for this webinar featuring our guest, Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson, and learn some of the key findings of the report which include:

 - Key development trends in the private cloud market
 - Market data on private cloud adoption
 - Forrester’s methodology for evaluating private cloud solution providers.

Thursday, February 27, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Eliminate Downtime With Effective Application Performance Management
Sponsor: CA Technologies

The operating environment for mission-critical IT systems continues to grow in complexity, but your tolerance for downtime cannot.

Loss of employee productivity and revenue can result from an inability to monitor end-to-end transaction performance and analyze application-related data from across your organization.

Join this webinar we share our analysis of how 230 of your peers are coping with the need to ensure that applications are effectively managed, exhibit acceptable performance, and are cost effective, including how you can:

 - Monitor and manage complex, heterogeneous systems encompassing everything from mainframe-based applications to mobile, cloud, and web apps
 - Leverage analytics to provide advanced warning and diagnosis of problems
 - Use a 360-degree view of application and business service delivery
 - Reduce workload while also enabling IT mitigate a crisis.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Top Signs Your Apps Were Built for Today - Not Tomorrow
Sponsor: IBM

4-PART WEBINAR SERIES:

A Best Practices Guide to Building and Running Quality Mobile Applications

This four-part series is designed for those who lead mobile application initiatives for their organizations (e.g., CIOs, Applications VPs, etc. ). The goal of the series is to help you evaluate best practices and solution options for developing consistent, high quality experiences across a diverse set of mobile devices in a way that’s secure, affordable, fast and can scale. It’s for those organizations that are moving from first to second wave mobile applications. And because time is at a premium, each webcast is only 15 minutes in duration.

SIGN UP TODAY FOR PART 1:

Whether you’ve built and are running several B2C or B2E apps, or just starting down that path, are you building your mobile apps for today or tomorrow?

Attend this 15-minute webcast to evaluate whether your current mobile application development practices are sustainable. Key takeaways include:

 - Learn the difference between apps built for today versus tomorrow
 - Learn different solution types for building and running quality mobile applications
 - Learn why you may need a comprehensive solution in app platforms and services.

To build and run applications for tomorrow, you need to accelerate integration with backend systems and provide testing and security, all of which will help your business to engage customers in new and secure ways and transform your business processes to create new value.

Attendees will also receive a copy of the complete IBM Institute for Business Value study that highlights the best practices of mobile strategy leaders and how mobility delivers business value.

LOOK FOR INFORMATION ON PARTS 2, 3 & 4 COMING SOON:

2/27: Demo: How To Speed, Secure and Simplify Application Development and Deployment
3/3: The Best Way to Create ROI for Mobile Application Projects
3/6: A Requirements Checklist for Creating 5-Star Mobile Apps

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Eliminate Network Downtime and Achieve Total Availability
An InformationWeek Webinar
With apologies to John Lennon for altering his famous quote, “Life is what happens while you are busy monitoring and resolving your network issues.”

The satisfaction of your customers, the productivity of your employees, and the overall profitability of your business depend on the health of your network—and you simply cannot carry that weight alone.

Time and again you’ve searched for a solution that would allow you to get back those hours of the day (and night) spent worrying about network performance. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Join us for “Eliminate Network Downtime and Achieve Total Availability” a webinar, presented by Pomeroy and InformationWeek, that will show how you can:

 - Reduce downtime by 34% -- and increase network availability by 15%
 - Achieve proactive 24/7 network monitoring at little or no cost
 - Conduct a simple network assessment that identifies critical gaps and needs.

Let it be your 2014 goal to have a network-worry-free 2014, with accurate and continuously updated data on each device in your network, with real-time status reports and with resolutions to issues before you even know you have them.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Taking Storage to the Cloud: A New Approach for Sustainable Enterprise Storage
An InformationWeek Webinar
Easily and affordably scaling your storage infrastructure in an era of unprecedented data growth is an ongoing challenge for most enterprises.

Many see the cloud as a potential solution to the problem, but getting data there and making it accessible to users isn’t easy.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

 - How the separation of storage performance from capacity allows for greater scalability and agility
 - How to easily migrate data between cloud and on-premises storage
 - How to solve the unsustainable growth of unstructured data with pay-as-you-grow solutions using the public cloud
 - As enterprise faces a greater need for performance and capacity, the current method of adding on premises storage proves inadequate. Seamless integration of cloud can bring sustainability to enterprise storage infrastructure.

Register for this webinar to find out how.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Digital Customer Experience: How Insurers Can Drive Growth in 2014
An Insurance & Technology Webinar
Seeking improvements in customer insight, performance and efficiency, insurers have been striving for years to digitize various aspects of their operations.

Now, with the disruptive forces of mobility, big data and analytics, social media, digitization of the insurance business is becoming pervasive and has the potential to help insurers boost revenues, control operational costs and enable improved cross-selling and retention.

Register for this webinar to discover how you can:
 -Reduce time to market for new products and functionality.
 -Provide a consistent and personalized experience across all channels.
 -Improve agent, underwriter and CSR productivity.
-Enhance brand promotion, communications and perception.
 -Increase sales leads and policy renewal.

Join experts from Celent, Insurance & Technology, and HCL, to learn how you can create an end-to-end digital program that can propel growth and improve market leadership.

Thursday, January 23, 2014 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 Minutes
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Beyond Fairy Dust & The No Police: How Cloud Computing Makes Government Better
An InformationWeek Webinar
From the outside, government cloud computing seems to fall into one of two camps: Either the cloud is magic and fixes everything, or the cloud will be Armageddon for the government. Truly, the answer is neither fairy dust nor everything the No Police would like you to believe. In this webinar, Jonathan Feldman, CIO for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, will lay out several scenarios (smugly called "use cases" by the fairy dust clouderati) where using software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) has helped government agencies deal with the ever-tightening noose of fewer resources and more responsibilities. Join us for a practical cloud computing brainstorm session that is light on the buzzwords and loaded with real world scenarios you can borrow for your own agency.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Common Core & Online Testing: Top Challenges Solved
An InformationWeek Webinar
Common Core legislation is creating challenges for schools. Adjusting to the new curriculum can be challenging in and of itself, but many schools have been looking at particular issues with online testing such as security, management, and providing a consistently clean system.

Register for this webinar to learn about how Dell and Citrix can solve your school’s online testing challenges.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Skirting the Big Data Worker Shortage
An InformationWeek Webinar
There is a growing shortage of trained and experienced big data workers, particularly in the data scientist field. Federal departments and agencies, however, have embraced big data in a big way. How are they getting around the problem of not enough workers? What tools do they use to make big data easier for the uninitiated? Does the lack of specific big data trained employees pose an increased security risk? We'll get answers to those questions.

Attend this webinar to:

 -Find out just how big a problem the worker shortage is
 -Learn what tools could help make most IT workers data analysts
 -Discover the effect the shortage could have of government programs

Register for this webinar to hear from Michael A. Davis, who has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading authorities on information technology. The list of organizations that rely on his council includes AT&T, Sears, Exelon, the US Department of Defense, and Discover Financial. Davis is President of External IT, a national managed IT services, cloud services, and IT security provider that focuses on unifying the business IT experience.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Gartner’s Take on Enterprise Mobility: Technology Gatekeepers or Business Enablers?
An InformationWeek Webinar
With the introduction of employee choice, BYOD environments, and the ever-expanding list of form factors and operating systems, IT leaders are expected to turn mobility challenges into organizational productivity. But along with business efficiencies, mobility can introduce new risks to an organization, with unprecedented challenges to corporate data, networks, and employees. So how does IT transform from a technology gatekeeper to a key business enabler?

Register for this webinar to join Terry Cosgrove, Research Director at Gartner, for a look to the future, including the potential impact of the mobility challenges we face today.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Fax in the Cloud: Join The Webinar
An InformationWeek Webinar
Fax is something most enterprises cannot do without, but it is very costly in terms of time spent waiting at traditional fax machines and maintaining necessary infrastructure.

Cloud fax services help - freeing both fax users and IT personnel to focus on more strategic enterprise tasks.

Register for "Too Many Fax Machines, Not Enough Time," a webinar that will show how the cloud can optimize fax operations including:

 -Streamling and centralizing enterprise fax assets
 -Reducing expenditure in fax hardware such as machines and expensive on-premises solutions
 -Freeing IT from unnecessary troubleshooting, giving them time to drive more value added projects
 -Improving productivity by allowing users to fax directly from the applications they use the most



Tuesday, January 21, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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The Time to Deploy 802.11ac is Now: Strategies for implementing enterprise-wide Gigabit Wi-Fi
An InformationWeek Webinar
Whether IT managers are evaluating initial 802.11ac deployments for high-capacity, high-density locations, or for the broad replacement of 802.11n and earlier Wi-Fi technologies; waiting is not an option. 802.11ac is here and it offers unprecedented levels of throughput and capacity.

Join this webinar to:

 -Review the key technology advances in 802.11ac
 -Discuss how to overcome common barriers to adoption
 -Evaluate readiness for 802.11ac, and examine the future of Enterprise Wi-Fi



Join industry-expert Craig Mathias of Farpoint Group and Gregory Martin, Director of IT Operations of Royal Caribbean Cruises as they discuss why migrating to 802.11ac for best-in-class organizations is important today and how to address emerging coverage, capacity and deployment options with Gigabit Wi-Fi.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
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Beyond Log Management: How Evolving SIEM Defends against Advanced Persistent Threats
An InformationWeek Webinar
The threat landscape is constantly evolving, with Advanced Persistent Threats and zero-day exploits challenging our best abilities to keep systems and data safe and secure. As a result the way we monitor and manage security events is also evolving – and SIEM, which used to be synonymous with log management has evolved to meet today’s threats and prepare for tomorrow’s as well. Join our complimentary webinar sponsored by Dark Reading and HP to hear from Forrester security expert Edward Ferrara who will discuss how SIEM is evolving and how to best take advantage of the new security tools that puts at your disposal.

Attend this event to learn: How SIEM is evolving in conjunction with the threat landscape:

 - Ways application monitoring impacts security management
 - The role of Big Data in correlating security events
 - What do to now to be prepared for the evolution of SIEM

Register now for this important event and bring your questions for our panel of experts to address during the live Q&A following the presentation.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Cyber Security Standards for Major Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Government Webinar
It is now simply a given fact that the critical infrastructure technology of the United States ¬government and the supporting private contractors that serve it and its citizens is vulnerable to cyber-attacks from both criminals and state-backed operators. Given this disturbing reality, the federal government established an executive order that directed the various federal agencies and departments to improve the state of cyber-security in the face of inevitable, well-organized attacks.

Attend this webinar to:

 - Learn what the government defines as critical infrastructure
 - Discover how far toward a final framework the government is
 - Find out what new standards and procedures are already being used

Register for this webinar to learn how far along in development the framework is, and just how far there is left to go.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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Intrusion Prevention Systems: What to Look for in a Solution
An InformationWeek Webinar
Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 -Define Deeper Network Security
 -Choose a new IPS or NGFW
 -Discover how cyber criminals attempt to evade IPS detection

Register for this webinar to learn what to look for in order to make the right choice when selecting an intrusion prevention system.

Thursday, January 9, 2014 -- 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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Why Netezza Technology is a Game Changer For Analytics
An InformationWeek Webinar
Speed-of-thought analytics is created on a sound architecture.

Loading up data and formulating it for analysts is relatively easy, compared to making it an ongoing, operational and durable environment.

Join this webinar to learn how you can:

 -Forsake application-centric, tightly coupled front-end/back-end BI implementations
 -Embrace a decoupled-but-harnessed back-end/front-end architectural approach, preserving integrity but increasing volume and velocity
 -Empower the architects to easily extend functionality and maintain performance without disrupting the user experience
 -Isolate the end-users with a self-contained, stable and durable experience, achieving the elusive self-service-BI dream

You can now enable broad functionalities and scale to stratospheric volumes with little additional effort.

Discover IBM PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza technology, that changes the game and the rules-of-play, providing the power, simplicity and agility required for effective analytics development and refactoring, as well as automating the analytics for operationally-enabled mass consumption.

Register for this webinar now.

Thursday, December 19, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Cloud Shift: Object Storage Services
An InformationWeek Webinar
Developments in object storage technology have made integrating inexpensive, flexible cloud storage solutions easy for organizations of all sizes. As new solutions pour into the space, Increasing product maturity and brand trust have garnered improvements in performance, security, availability and compliance. Yet in this increasingly competitive market, only good planning and careful implementation will yield a strong ROI. Join us while we discuss how to achieve maximum benefit and cost savings from object storage.

Thursday, December 19, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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The Real Cost of Healthcare Data Breaches
An InformationWeek Webinar
In this presentation, IT security veteran, Mac McMillan will analyze the security costs associated with a healthcare data breach and describe its impacts on a healthcare organization’s top-line revenue. McMillan will also provide guidance on determining the appropriate approach to security and the formula for identifying the financial costs associated with security incidents, which is invaluable to IT professional tasked with protecting sensitive data.

 - Learn how prevalent breaches are in the healthcare industry and why most security and privacy programs aren't enough
 - Identify that total financial costs associated with an incident
 - Understand the costs of security viruses

Thursday, December 19, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Mobile Business Mindset
An InformationWeek Webinar
Mobile devices have changed how we communicate, read, shop and entertain ourselves -- and they're changing the way we do business. Tablets and smartphones with slick apps tapping into backend cloud services make existing business processes more efficient while enabling brand new ones. But mobile apps are a different breed -- you can't just reformat a desktop client for a phone or expect developers to jump from a client-server project one week to a mobile app project the next. The differences between mobile apps and conventional Windows clients, or even web applications, are far more than skin deep. Yes, the touch-versus-keyboard interface, APIs, and programming languages are new, but that's small potatoes. In this webinar, we'll outline the attributes of mobile app functionality and development that distinguish it from traditional PC or even browser applications and what's necessary to make a business mobile ready.

Thursday, December 18, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Transforming Operations - Part 1: Managing Outsourced Development in Telecommunications
An InformationWeek Webinar
Communications Service Providers are large users of outsourcing to help them in their software development efforts - and this trend is continuing, especially with the availability of lower-cost, overseas software development firms and crowd-sourcing.

But how do you ensure requirements are met and the software is delivered in a timely matter with the expected quality? Join us to learn how properly outsourced telecommunications can cut cost and expedite growth.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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The Epidemic of Healthcare Analytics: How IT Can Cure
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webinar
In this webinar we will identify some of the key principles, concepts and barriers to successful data collection, analysis and program improvement, including how to:

 - Set core strategic objectives and establish control over your data;
 - Identify key metrics, and lay the groundwork for collection of usable, useful and actionable data; and
 - Anticipate trends in data collection and analysis, particularly always-on patient-facing mobile data collection.

It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with it - and making sure that what you do have is what you actually need. As the flood of data rises higher, we’ll help make sure it lifts your boat instead of swamping it.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM PM ET -- 60 minutes
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IT Budget: Getting A Seat At The Table
An InformationWeek Webinar
Nobody denies that there's serious technology spending happening outside of central IT. 37% of respondents from a recent InformationWeek budgeting survey say that this spending is on the rise, and 25% say that IT only gets involved when invited by business units to do so. And, in an era where the integration of technology into all aspects of business is seriously on the rise, 14% say that IT spending is on the decline. What can IT leaders do to ensure that they are at the table when key budgeting decisions are made? It's about the carrot, not the stick, and focusing on business units' self interest. We'll review several key activities that IT can engage in to boost their chances of project success via a more healthy budget process. Our guest, who has worked at the world’s second largest asset manager, will share insights about budgeting status quo both as internal IT and a consultant.

 - Learn useful industry metrics that allow you to better present your case to management
 - Review key IT pro activities that make IT top-of-mind during executive budget deliberations
 - Gain insight about how traditional budgeting can impact business project agility and cost



Tuesday, December 17, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The Automation Games: Why Your Cloud Vendors are Holding You Back
An InformationWeek Webinar
Too many enterprises embrace cloud computing just to avoid having to allocate virtual machines manually, and then they call it a day. Once the server is the launched, it still requires human intervention to install and configure software and get the machine running properly -- and then more human intervention every time the operating system or software needs an upgrade. Sometimes the site even needs to go down to apply a new service patch. What is this-1995?

Vendors want you to believe they're going to save you but they're the biggest problem -- their technology still lives in the data-center virtualization world of the past decade, and they're just trying to stay afloat -- they're not interested in helping companies implement good cloud automation strategies. This webinar will walk through what is possible today in cloud automation, and outline how you can get there, with or without your vendors.

You will learn:

 - The three levels of cloud automation, from virtualization to orchestration;
 - The tools that you can use to orchestrate your cloud; and
 - Questions you can ask your vendors to assess their ability to help you.



Tuesday, December 17, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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Mobile Content Management: What You Really Need to Know
An InformationWeek Webinar
How effective is your mobile business environment? Interacting with content via a mobile device is the expected user paradigm; employees want to use a smartphone or tablet to interact with business content from where ever they are. But how can users access the information that they need without putting your content assets at risk? Does your business have a policy regarding the use of consumer-based fileshare services? If your business systems don't support it, your employees may be putting your assets on third-party fileshares which can cause significant risk.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 -Integrate your applications to a mobile work environment
 -Keep your data safe and well-managed, regardless of where the content is created
 -Support multiple business uses and content sources

Join us for a conversation around mobile enterprise content management, featuring Social Content Management experts from IBM and guest Forrester Research Analyst, Rob Koplowitz. We will discuss best practices for allowing employees working remotely to access their data while maintaining security and governance. You will also hear the results of the latest Forrester Research survey around mobile content management.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Data-Driven Insights Help Healthcare Organizations Achieve Outcomes that Matter
An InformationWeek Healthcare Webinar
Join InformationWeek Contributing Editor Karen Bannan and Sri Srinivasan, Global Industry Leader, Big Data & Analytics, IBM to learn how healthcare organizations are addressing these issues, the benefits patients are seeing, and how big data and analytics brings about knowledge, innovation, and - in some cases - improved quality of life and care.

You will learn:

 - Which forces are creating the greatest need for change
 - Perspectives on how healthcare organizations need to transform to survive
 - What types of analytics will make a difference in the business
 - How to get there, delivering value now and establishing the foundation for a long term strategy
 - Examples of how healthcare organizations are charting their analytics journey


Register today to attend this December 16th webinar. Or, if you can't make it on 12/16, register today for on-demand access.

Monday, December 16, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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The future of BYOD: Securing The Mobile Enterprise
An InformationWeek Webinar
Mobile device platforms continue to infiltrate the enterprise and users are clamoring for deeper and broader access. Anytime anywhere work possibilities are multiplying and controlling access is getting more challenging. BYOD devices are directly connecting to email, associating with corporate wireless networks, and downloading files from cloud data stores on a regular basis. Beware the risks that uncontrolled mobility places on your data and your organization’s reputation...

In this webcast you’ll learn about some of the current thinking on mobility management as it relates to security, identity and resource access. In particular we’ll address:

 - What type of mobile management is appropriate for my organization
 - How can I enhance the existing network infrastructure to support mobility initiatives
 - Ways for making BYOD a success while adequately protecting corporate data

It’s not too late to get ahead of the mobility curve! Just be ready and be smart about your mobility strategy.

Monday, December 16, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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8 Ways Enterprises Screw Up Cloud Deployments (or Architectures)
An InformationWeek Webinar
Most companies cite business agility as the most important reason for moving to the cloud. But as companies migrate more and more services to the cloud (public, private, hybrid), they are failing to realize the enormous benefits of the cloud because they’re just forklifting existing applications from on-premises servers to “the cloud”. It’s like running a mainframe terminal session on an iPad – you’re missing out on key benefits of the iPad. In this webcast, we’ll talk about the 8 most common ways that Enterprises fail to realize the benefits of a cloud deployment, and explain how you can avoid them.

You will learn:

 -How hardware and software failure can be your friend
 -hy you should never again pay a sysadmin to "stand up a server"
 -The new paradigm: Servers are software

Register today to attend this December 16th webinar. Or, if you can't make it on 12/16, register today for on-demand access.

Monday, December 16, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
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Agile Desktop Infrastructures: You CAN Have It All
An InformationWeek Webinar
Technology experts agree: to achieve an optimal desktop environment – and still deliver the very best end-user experience - your transformation must begin now. While no single point solution is likely to address all of your desktop management needs, don’t lose hope. With the Agile Desktop Infrastructure, you CAN have it all - physical, virtual and desktop-as-a-service.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 -Approach the management of multi-device environments, applications and content
 -Secure IP and data and ensure compliance
 -Improve cost management
 -Avoid the most common mistakes organizations make

Register for this webinar to learn how to significantly impact desktop management in your organization in 2014. Don’t miss out.

Thursday, December 12, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Why Adopt DevOps? Top Reasons Revealed
An InformationWeek Webinar
Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 -Apply DevOps lean and agile principles across your entire software delivery life cycle.
 -Use “application development as a service” to help your organization.
 -Power greater collaboration between software delivery teams with cloud-based services.
 -Drive greater innovation by utilizing DevOps and cloud services.

Register for this webinar to learn how DevOps can help you provide a highly differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve much quicker time to value, and dramatically boost innovation.

Tuesday December 10, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Catch the Security Breach Before It’s Out of Reach
A Dr. Dobbs Webinar
Software security breaches can happen in many places, including at the source code level. Opportunities for vulnerable code breaches are often created innocently enough, sometimes because we don't know what to look for.

Join us for this interactive webinar to uncover techniques to recognize and assess potential problems in source code, identify potential application security problems in your code and understand how data breaches occur in web, desktop and mobile applications.

Tuesday December 10, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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The Only Alignment Plan You’ll Ever Need
An InformationWeek Webinar
In this webcast, Michael A. Davis, trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CIOs, will provide a battle-tested, simple to execute, step-by-step plan to align IT goals with business and customer objectives and, critically, measure and monitor progress to ensure you stay on track.
This interactive webinar provides attendees with:

 - A step-by-step plan to align IT goals with business and customer objectives
 - The 5 Metrics you need to stay aligned
 - Real world success and failure case studies in aligning IT goals

Monday, December 9, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- 60 minutes
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Social Anxiety: Why 2014 Will Make Or Break Collaboration
An InformationWeek Webinar
2013 saw another year of rapid growth in social collaboration redefining our relationships with friends, customers, and employees. We’ll discuss the major trends going into 2014 and touch on the most critical components for success including:

 - Learn why CIOs need a more complete digital strategy
 - Discussing the shifting role of email
 - What you need to understand about the rise of social monitoring
 - Learn the best ways to manage your security concerns

Monday, December 9, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET -- 60 minutes
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Measuring And Reporting On Your Organization’s Security Posture
A Dark Reading Webinar
How safe is our enterprise? Unfortunately, answering that question is no simple task.

Join this webinar to see how you can:

 - Develop a baseline set of metrics to benchmark your enterprise’s security posture
 - Implement practical methods for reporting changes in security risk
 - Create benchmarks for accurately measuring the performance of your IT security team
 - Understand how new threat intelligence data may help you measure security posture
 - Improve your ability to harvest data from security systems and mine it for security posture reporting
 - Create methods for measuring security risks and performance that non-IT executives can understand

Gain the best methods for measuring security risk and benchmarking security performance over time.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Architecting Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Best Practices Revealed
An InformationWeek Webinar
Successful cloud implementations not only require the best solutions, they also necessitate proper execution to realize your business objectives and yield the greatest results. Join this session to hear IBM Distinguished Engineers describe the key considerations and guidelines for architecting private and hybrid clouds.

Attend this webinar to:

 -Hear experienced cloud experts architect innovative private and hybrid cloud solutions to realize client requirements and business outcomes
 -Discover how to securely orchestrate the development, deployment, and management of your private and hybrid clouds
 -Gain knowledge of how you can create, deploy, manage and monitor applications in the model of “Everything-as-a-Service” (EaaS)
 -Find out how cloud computing implementations realize savings, streamline business processes and improve business results

Register for this webinar to learn how to design, build and implement your cloud infrastructure using proven cloud technologies.

Tuesday, December 6, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
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Client Windows Migration: Expert Tips for Application Readiness
An Enterprise Efficiency Webinar
With the looming April 8th 2014 end-of-support date for Windows XP, IT departments are working to wrap up the move to Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Yet at many organizations, lingering concerns about application compatibility are impeding the process. Join us for a detailed, interactive webinar to hear expert advice on how to address application-related issues in your OS migration.

Thursday, December 5, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Real results: Speeding quality application delivery with DevOps [in financial services]
A Banking Systems & Technology Webcast
Financial services companies must deploy – update – and redeploy new services faster. How can you respond when new solutions require a combination of mobile apps, mainframe systems and external interfaces – each offering a unique set of roadblocks? Attend this Webinar to see examples of how financial institutions are speeding "time to feedback" while maintaining quality, compliance and costs with a DevOps approach and tools.

Thursday, December 5, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET -- Duration: 60 minutes
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Why You Need Social Cloud Collaboration Tools
An InformationWeek Webinar
In today’s dynamic and competitive global environment, you’re facing a multitude of complex challenges. Sometimes trying to solve these problems can put IT and LOB at odds. LOB wants something they can implement quickly and easily; IT needs to ensure the organization's network and data are protected. How can you enable line of business to solve their specific business problems using cloud based, flexible collaboration and social business tools, while ensuring IT feels confident that security and reliability objectives are met?

Register for this webinar to learn how social cloud technologies like real-time online document editing, community based blogs and wikis, and file sharing can meet the needs of both IT and LOB to help you cut costs, improve communication and make your workforce more productive.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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How to Protect Your Content and Improve Security with Cloud Client Computing and Thin/Zero Clients
An InformationWeek Webinar
Protecting your organization’s data is critical to your success since the loss or compromise of that data could be catastrophic. As more data is being created than ever and at a faster rate, with much of it starting its life on individual devices, having any of it residing on users’ computer hard drives can be particularly dangerous.

A strong cloud client computing strategy that leverages desktop virtualization and thin or zero clients can offer immediate and vast improvements in protecting your digital assets by virtually eliminating most of the risks that currently confront your data. Join us for this informative webinar to learn how cloud client computing and thin/zero clients can vastly improve your data security.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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The Economics of Cyber Crime
A Dark Reading Webinar
In this one-hour webinar, you will learn:

 -Which industries are most at risk
 -How long it takes to respond to an attack
 -How to fully neutralize an attack
 -How to take proactive action with advanced security intelligence solutions
 -What governance practices should be implemented

Design and execute a successful OpenStack cloud.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
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Deeper Network Security: Protection Tips Revealed
An InformationWeek Webinar
Modern attacks employ several complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak quietly into corporate networks to steal intellectual property.

Attend this interactive discussion that reveals:

 -The state of the current threat landscape
 -Next-Gen Firewalls
 -SSL decryption & inspection as part of a security strategy
 -The importance of IPS with anti-evasion
 -Workings of network-based malware protection

Join Dell SonicWALL to learn how advanced attacks work and what you can do to keep your organization safe.

Register now and you will also receive a whitepaper that describes how you can use next gen firewalls to achieve greater security in your organization.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Quality Enablement Webinar: Test Plans That Reduce Risk
A Dr. Dobb's Webinar
Join this webinar to discover how you can:

 -Develop test plans that focus the development effort and reduce risk
 -Find regressions with fewer, more reliable tests
 -Reduce mean time to detect regressions using defense in depth
 -Find high-quality bugs using streamlined exploratory testing

Join Dell SonicWALL to learn how advanced attacks work and what you can do to keep your organization safe.

To remain competitive organizations must develop extremely efficient Test organizations that focus the development effort on delivering maximum customer value.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 -- Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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WinXP at the 11th Hour: Deploying an effective Win OS Migration Strategy
An InformationWeek Webinar
either start or complete the migration to Windows 7. Given the security and compliance risks facing them come April, 2014, the question is, why? Here's why. These organizations fall into two camps: those who have tried and failed, and those who are simply waiting it out. Fear, frustration, project complexity and lack of resources are the common showstoppers -- but they need not be. This Pomeroy-InformationWeek webcast tells you what you must know to make an effective 11th hour migration.

 -What preparation and steps do you need to take now? How should you prioritize?
 -What are the 5 most common mistakes and how do you avoid them?
 -Can you do this yourself with internal resources and available tools?
 -Your pilot failed -- what do you do right now to get back on track?
 -Is your budget adequate -- what should you expect it to cost?

Why participate? The webcast will be facilitated by hands-on migration experts with one goal -- to help you know exactly what to do for an orderly transition by next April -- and how to go about it. They have been on-site with companies of all sizes, at all stages of migration -- they will answer your questions live.

Whatever your stage of migration -- from initial discussion to a stalled pilot -- this webcast is likely to be the most important 50 minutes you spend online this year.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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How to Break the I/O Bottleneck
A Network Computing Webinar
Register to learn how to:

 -Improve performance of existing workloads
 -Increase workload density by leveraging improved bandwidth
 -Improve security all the way down to the chip with new features
 -Reduce power consumption while delivering enterprise performance.

Attend this webinar to explore how to streamline and improve high-density workload performance, save energy and improve your security posture just by buying a new rack of servers.

Thursday, November 7, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Business Drivers for Adopting the Next Generation of Wi-Fi: Why 802.11ac Now
An InformationWeek Webinar
Billions of devices and millions of apps are driving the growth for a new generation of wireless networks that are mobile, open and with high capacity. Enterprises and organizations such as education, hospitality and healthcare are at the forefront in experiencing this change.

Register for "Business Drivers for Adopting the Next Generation of Wi-Fi", and join guest Andre Kindness from Forrester Research and Meru Networks to explore the results of new research on the benefits and challenges associated with the business reasons for adopting the new wireless standard 802.11ac.

Our experts will examine:

 -How the wireless landscape has changed
 -How enterprise networks must change to support these new challenges
 -Why 802.11ac should be considered today.

Join us to discuss how leading organizations are preparing for the migration to the new standard for greater mobility, speed and capacity. Don't be left behind.

Thursday, November 7, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM ET
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Improve the Economics of IT: Best Practices Revealed
An InformationWeek Webinar
In today's environment, you need to keep IT costs under control while still supporting a more robust, flexible infrastructure to extract more value and insights from data. Integrating, automating, and simplifying your IT infrastructure can result in breakthrough economics. Attend this webinar to:

 -Hear how to optimize your workloads to better manage, retrieve, and analyze your data for better business insights
 -Learn about the importance of integrated systems and how it can improve your IT efficiency
 -Reduce the cost of delivering workloads that run your business

Register for this webinar to explore how your business can leverage smarter computing technologies to gain valuable insights faster and more economically than ever before.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Gain Control of IBM i Application Lifecycles: Stop Risking Business-Critical Systems
A Dr. Dobb's Webinar
Attend to learn how organizations using IBM i as one of their platforms can learn how to:

 -Improve visibility, coordination, and control over your multi-platform development environments
 -Enable development, operations, release and IT management to coordinate and synchronize legacy systems with today’s development environments
 -Meet your audit requirements so you can stay compliant
 -Align with DevOps processes and best practices

Register for this webinar to hear how to enable development, operations and IT management to coordinate and synchronize legacy systems with today’s development environments, while managing releases in a compliant manner.

Wed, Nov 13, 2013 -- Time 02:00 PM EST
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How to Defend Your Network from Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)s
A Dark Reading Webinar
Register for this webinar to learn:

 -Why and how malicious actors are targeting your endpoints
 -Strategies for integrated detection and defense that leverage next-generation firewalls and malware detonation technologies
 -How organizations like yours have deployed a unified solution to prioritize alerts, accelerate incident response, and drive down operational costs

Attend this webinar with Ruby Sharma, Technical Alliances at FireEye, and Michael Bilancieri, Director of Product Management at Bit9, to get the latest intelligence on advanced attack scenarios and how FireEye and Bit9 are working together to deliver an integrated malware defense platform.

Date Thu, Nov 14, 2013 -- Time 01:00 PM EST
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IBM Content Analytics adds real business value to Cognos
An InformationWeek Webinar
Register for this webinar to learn:

Content Analytics and Cognos® have nuanced ways of loading vast amounts of real business value into a single solution. To start with, Content Analytics sifts through the 80 percent of your information that is unstructured and uses the Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine to extract what is most helpful.

Join us on November 14th to learn how to deliver technical value and significantly speed the development cycle with Content Analytics - saving you money and delivering faster business results.

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -- Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
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Top Business Continuity And Resiliency Learnings
An InformationWeek Webinar
A strong resiliency program requires constant evolution to keep up with a changing risk landscape. Building such a program requires resiliency for everything from disruptions caused by natural events to risks resulting from strategic growth initiatives. Register for this interactive discussion to discover how you can:

 -Expand resiliency planning beyond disruption mitigation
 -Realize real benefits from good planning and execution of resiliency strategy
 -Obtain techniques for how you can implement a more business-centric approach to business continuity management and help reduce risk
 -Engage your C-suite executive in your business continuity budgeting & planning efforts

Interact with Paige Poore, Director of Business Continuity for IBM Global Technology Services, as she discusses key considerations for resiliency planning that you may overlook - and how you can build C-suite buy-in for improvements to your resiliency roadmap. Please remember to share this information with your colleagues who may also be interested in business continuity best practices.

Date Tuesday, November 19, 2013 -- Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
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Accelerate Cloud Computing Success with an Open Standard
An InformationWeek Webinar
Attend this webinar to learn how to:

 -Reduce the risk of vendor lock-in with cloud standards and open source
 -Ensure an interoperable cloud with open source and open standards
 -Lower IT integration and switching costs

Register for this webinar to learn real-world examples of how open source can impact the design and implementation of your public, private, and/or hybrid cloud.

Date Monday, December 2, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET
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Space Ships to Heart Monitors: Find out why leading companies use IBM Rational DOORS for requirements management
IBM Rational DOORS, has a solid history as the leading requirements engineering tool for decades. DOORS continues to be used by organizations across industries for managing their requirements. By providing rich requirements management capabilities, DOORS helps to increase the quality of systems engineering, safety, business or mission critical systems and software development projects by improving requirements communication and collaboration. In this webcast, Dr. Jeremy Dick, Principal Analyst at Integrate Systems Engineering Ltd and a long term DOORS user, walks you through how DOORS enhances product and systems quality by increasing the visibility of business objectives, customer needs, technical specifications and regulations. This webinar will show how you can:

 -Find out what return on investment you can realize by using DOORS
 -Discover how IBM Rational DOORS can improve your requirements management process in complex systems and IT projects
 -Learn how IBM continues to lead the next generation of requirements management

IBM Rational DOORS is a proven requirements management application for optimizing requirements communication, collaboration and verification throughout the organization and supply chain. It is a scalable solution to help meet business goals by managing project scope and cost. Rational DOORS lets you capture, trace, analyze and manage changes to information while maintaining compliance to regulations and standards.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 -- Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET
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INFORMATIONWEEK FORUMS

These are executive events produced by InformationWeek.com.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.

Standardizing and Automating Your Infrastructure: The Path to Productivity
An InformationWeek and Wipro Executive Dinner Event
September 24, 2013
New York City

At this executive-level roundtable event, hosted by Wipro, you'll have a chance to exchange ideas about your approach to global infrastructure services and how your company deals with variability in business needs and IT performance. Representatives from Wipro and InformationWeek will be on hand to provide expert insight into the issues that challenge IT pros on this important topic. We'll discuss:

 -Exploring alternate computing architectures and service models for your IT infrastructure
 -Centralizing and automating the management of your infrastructure to maximize efficiency
 -Ensuring performance objectives in a high-speed, global environment
 -Mapping the right technologies and services to your business processes for optimal productivity gains

This event will feature an elegantly prepared sit-down dinner. The Lambs Club offers Chef Geoffrey Zakarian's casual and modern approach to American cuisine. Chef Zakarian has been a lead judge on Food Network's Chopped for nine seasons and was the winner of Food Network's The Next Iron Chef, Super Chefs, Season 4.

Date & Location
September 24, 2013
The Lambs Club
132 West 44th Street
(Between 6th Ave and Broadway)
New York, NY 10036
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INFORMATIONWEEK VIRTUAL EVENTS

February 7: Hackers Unmasked – Detecting, Analyzing, and Taking Action Against Current Threats

In this all-day InformationWeek & Dark Reading Virtual Event, experts and solution providers will offer a detailed look at how enterprises can detect the latest malware, analyze the most current cyber attacks, and even identify and take action against the attackers. Attendees will also get a look at how cybercriminals operate, how they are motivated -- and what your business can do to stop them.

December 11th: Mobile Health: Opportunities and Obstacles

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

Platinum Sponsor: Thawte

Available on demand

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

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

Gold Sponsor: IBM

Available on demand

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