Sep 9, 2010

Virtualize More, Monitor Everything

Sponsored by Zenoss

Is your virtualization effort stalled? You're not alone. While enterprises have begun the journey of transitioning to virtualization and cloud computing in order to take advantage of lower costs, improved agility, and increased efficiencies, many organizations have found their virtualization deployments stalled at 30% or less. One of the primary reasons is the inability of legacy management tools to provide critical, unified, real-time awareness and control of the dynamic service in support of more business-critical applications.

Sep 9, 2010

Considering moving to Cloud?Developing strategy, provisioning plan and good SOA governance is a must

Sponsored by IBM

Cloud Computing is rapidly driving real business value. The advancements in IT virtualization, rapid provisioning and hardened security are transforming how businesses derive benefits from IT, driving tangible outcomes in business agility, cost optimization and efficiency. Your strategy and provisioning plan to take advantage of cloud is an important start, but understanding how governance capabilities support cloud computing environments is essential for ensuring value from your cloud investments. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an important element of cloud-based solutions, and strong SOA governance provides both an example for cloud governance and a critical foundation for successful cloud implementations.

Sep 9, 2010

How to Maximize the Efficiency of Offsite Data Replication

Sponsored by Silver Peak

As storage volumes increase and disaster recovery requirements become more stringent, there is a growing demand to protect more data across longer distances. How can this be achieved without sending IT costs through the roof? Join us for this informative eSeminar, where you’ll hear experts from Silver Peak and EMC discuss how leading storage and WAN optimization technologies can make offsite data protection more cost-effective for your own organization. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from a real end-user, Donegal Insurance, which will discuss how it overcame common challenges to improve RPO/RTO while lowering the ongoing cost of data replication.

Sep 9, 2010

VDI Expert Series: Citrix Receiver for iPad and iPhone - How to optimize and deliver enterprise appl

Sponsored by Citrix

With three million iPadsTM sold in the first 80 days and an emerging wave of new tablets and SmartPhones, IT needs to prepare as these devices enter the workplace. Workers want their devices to empower them to do more than just read e-mail and browse the web; they want to edit documents, access applications, and interact with Web apps. Citrix Receiver makes it easy and safe to get on-demand access to enterprise Windows® applications or desktops on any device including iPad, iPhone®, BlackBerry®, AndroidTM, or other Windows mobile devices. With an easy to use interface that is optimized for each device, Receiver lets you work from anywhere - open and review documents, update reports, approve expenses and even join a webinar - right from the palm of your hand.

Sep 13, 2010

Real Time, Consistent Response to Extreme Application Demands

Sponsored by IBM

You need technology that can change as fast as your business -- technology that enables the dramatically increased levels of agility that are necessary in hyper-competitive markets and a tough economy. IBM WebSphere has the industry's most successful track record of delivering applications that drive business processes. Today, IBM WebSphere is amplifying the core with technology that is more dynamic, virtual, and elastic.

Sep 14, 2010

Maximize Business Opportunities Through Information Quality on System z

Sponsored by IBM

Bad data is like a virus for the business. Without a rigorous data quality program in place, bad data can do damage if it spreads across the information supply chain - affecting other data, applications, processes, business subsidiaries, and trading partners as they consume, process, and then spread the "infected" information to others. Along the way, the data will skew metrics, reduce report accuracy, and ultimately affect business decisions and executive confidence in trusting that data. Without a way to deliver trusted information, how effective are your solutions such as packaged applications, transaction systems, departmental systems, master data management systems, data warehouses, or business intelligence systems?

Sep 14, 2010

Virtual Segmentation - Beyond the Firewall

Sponsored by PacketMotion

The key to lowering the total cost of implementing PCI DSS is to limit the number of in-scope systems to the absolute minimum. Limiting can be done by separating these systems from the rest of the network. Internal network segmentation is also needed to separate development teams from production systems, to prevent "leapfrogging" by third-party and internal IT support, and for other applications.

Sep 14, 2010

See What Architectural Flexibility Can Do for Your Data Center

Sponsored by Cisco

Today the data center is at the heart of IT and business innovation. Join us September 14, 2010 for the online event "The Power to Say Yes: How Technology Innovation Promotes Business Value" and learn how Cisco’s new architectural vision for the data center helps companies evolve their data center and cloud computing needs to more easily respond and adapt to the ever-changing needs of the dynamic networked organization.

Sep 16, 2010

Extending the Value of Virtual Infrastructures with Advanced Infrastructure Manager

Sponsored by Dell, Inc.

Virtualization management tools typically provide some form of dynamic resource provisioning, which begs the question: why is another dynamic resource provisioning tool required? The main reason is that most organizations have not yet virtualized 100% of their infrastructure. In many cases, their most critical production systems are still running on physical platforms, which cannot be managed by virtualization management tools. With today’s rapidly changing technical and economic realities, static IT environments result in inefficiencies that can lead to organizational mission failure.

Sep 16, 2010

Optimizing Your Data Protection with a Tightly Integrated Backup and Recovery Platform

Sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

An ongoing data explosion, combined with increased system availability requirements, has resulted in a greater strain on IT organizations to provide the necessary data protection in the face of ever-shrinking backup windows. In many cases, IT organizations have neither the people nor the hardware resources required to manage that data.

Sep 21, 2010

Pricing and Packaging Strategies to TRIPLE Your Monthly Recurring Revenue

Sponsored by Kaseya

Industry expert, Gary Pica, who transformed his small break fix shop into a $6 million managed services powerhouse, and Micah Shanks, Owner of Lifeline Computer Solutions Inc., who TRIPLED his monthly recurring revenues in just 18 months, will share their proven strategies.

Sep 21, 2010

Collaborative e-Care in the Home: Providing a Networked Healthcare Neighborhood

Sponsored by SAP

Chronic health conditions affect the lives of nearly everyone. It is estimated that six out of every ten adults suffer from an illness such as diabetes or obesity and many struggle to stay on their treatment plans. The result: costly ER visits that could have been easily prevented. Some patients continue to struggle even after an acute care episode in the hospital or fail to alert hospitals to potential complications.

Technology advances can support a proactive coordination of care in the community with the patient as an active participant. Patients and families, in partnership with healthcare providers, can improve coordination and monitoring of care in the home. Stakeholders collaborate through online tools, via computers or mobile devices, to proactively support care resulting in reduced costs by taking preventative measures.

Such advancements will also propel accountable care organizations forward under the healthcare reform act to improve the country’s underlying systems of care, support reduction in healthcare costs for self insured companies, and provide a higher degree of interaction between patients and providers for HMOs.

Sep 23, 2010

Hardware On The Go: How to Manage and Secure a Mobile Fleet

Sponsored by Absolute Software

Keeping tabs on hardware for a workforce that’s constantly on the road has its challenges. And where you can’t keep tabs, unauthorized software use, missing devices, theft, and unnecessary costs will undoubtedly result. Yet few mobile devices are used under the watchful eye of IT. So how can you maintain control? Join us for this informative eSeminar, where Richard Evans, IT Manager for building contractor SpawGlass, explains how to get a better grasp on a highly mobile hardware fleet.

Sep 27, 2010

The Critical Path to Cloud Computing

Sponsored by IBM

You need technology that can change as fast as your business -- technology that enables the dramatically increased levels of agility that are necessary in hyper-competitive markets and a tough economy. IBM WebSphere has the industry's most successful track record of delivering applications that drive business processes. Today, IBM WebSphere is amplifying the core with technology that is more dynamic, virtual, and elastic.

Sep 28, 2010

Volume Vs. Vanguards: Heading Off Mass Threats in the Cloud

Sponsored by MessageLabs | Now part of Symantec

Ten years ago, the number of viruses produced in a single year was less than 25,000. This year, that number will exceed 3,000,000. The sheer volume of malware is simply too much for endpoint and network antivirus technologies to bear. Cloud-based scanning of email and Web-based malware threats are more efficient and responsive than on-premise counterparts.

Sep 29, 2010

Automate Virtual Machine Deployment with Self Service Provisioning

Sponsored by Dell, Inc.

The Virtual Integrated System (VIS) brings together an end-to-end solution constituting of state-of-the-art servers, storage, networking, and software tools to work as one dynamically configurable entity that is open and pragmatic. The result is a fast-to-deploy and responsive infrastructure that helps businesses respond to customers’ and employees’ changing needs. Dell’s solution is a distinct alternative to the closed nature of competitors’ proprietary and vertically integrated stack.

Sep 30, 2010

How Smarter Technology Improves the Economics of IT

Sponsored by IBM

The demand for efficient and effective IT services and capabilities is substantially changing the economics of IT. And smarter technology is at the core of this change. Smarter technology is not just an inward-looking set of measures focused on finite components of operating expenses. Rather, it's a broad view that must be at the heart of driving to the new economic demands.

Oct 6, 2010

Optimizing Data Protection, Security, and Compliance for Remote and Branch Offices (ROBO)

Sponsored by Dell Inc. & Blue Coat

Data protection can be challenging for distributed organizations. Exponential data growth complicates demands on already stretched IT resources. Storage consolidation streamlines storage management and simplifies data protection at the edge of your organization. With Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS4000 series storage arrays, you can simplify data protection in a scalable storage solution to meet the demands of your organization.