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Feb 8, 2012
Addressing the Challenge of 21st Century Network Performance Management
Today’s IT operations teams are dealing with more complexity than ever before – virtualization, application delivery controllers (ADCs), cloud computing, meshed MPLS networks– the list seems nearly endless.
Many network performance management solutions haven’t done a good job of keeping pace with the myriad of changes. Twenty-first century network performance management solutions need to provide four distinct capabilities.
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Feb 8, 2012
Consolidation without Compromise
Discover how to consolidate your network services with NO loss of performance, isolation or functionality.
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Feb 9, 2012
Are You Ready For The Next Disaster? Backup and Disaster Recovery Must-Haves
There are a number of threats that can prevent a business from continuing normal operations. Whether it comes in the form of a malicious hacking attempt or a catastrophic natural disaster, a disruption of any kind can wreak havoc on an organization’s customer base.
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Feb 9, 2012
Meaningful Use and Data Security: Meeting the Measure
Is your organization adopting Meaningful Use to gain incentive payouts, avoid penalties, or build a stronger security position? You’re not alone. Many healthcare providers plan to either implement electronic health records, or take a closer look at existing systems to apply for compliance in the immediate future.
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Feb 14, 2012
Intelligent Business Intelligence for 2012: Tools You Can Use
The last few years have seen a sea of changes in business intelligence. The overwhelming trend is that data is growing, and more organizations are looking to use that data rather than just collect and store it.
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Feb 15, 2012
Boost Performance, Productivity and Cost Savings with IBM`s latest compilers for zEnterprise
IBM® DB2® 10 is here and while early adopters have already upgraded to the new version and are reaping the business benefits, others are just beginning to think about upgrading with DB2 Version 8 been withdrawn from marketing on April 30th 2012.
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Feb 15, 2012
Physical vs. Virtual Bottlenecks: What You Really Need to Know
Virtual infrastructures have become commonplace over the last few years. The transition by enterprises to private cloud computing extends the benefits of the virtual infrastructure with the intent of reducing costs, consolidating storage and increasing performance. But, how do you really know if performance has improved after moving from a traditional to a virtual infrastructure? Are storage-level diagnostics leaving something out of the equation?
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Feb 15, 2012
Avoiding the 7 Pitfalls of Windows 7 Adoptions: An Expert's Perspective
Windows 7 has certainly been aggressively adopted, with more than 450 millions licenses sold as of September 2011, and studies show there is no slowing of this growth curve.
However, while Windows 7 migration continues to stand out as one of the top IT priorities many companies still do not have a plan in place for migration and management.
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Feb 15, 2012
Make Mobility More Manageable — And Less Maddening
Is it just us, or does it seem like everyone and their great-aunt MilliWith the sheer number of mobile users, devices, and applications growing larger every day, IT experts are feeling the heat to meet performance expectations, maintain security, and manage the experience end-to-end. e has a mobile device or three these days?
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Feb 15, 2012
Virtualized Storage for Cloud Environments: New Solutions from IBM and VMware
Server virtualization poses unique challenges for data storage administrators - not the least of which is tracking the relationships between virtualized servers and storage resources, delivering consistently high service levels that avoid performance hotspots, and offering flexible data protection to reduce risk. Additionally, while all major networked storage protocols work with virtual machines, some are better than others for certain environments.
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Feb 16, 2012
Data Center Colocation: A Smart Choice, Now More Than Ever
Join colocation and managed hosting experts for this live event, as they discuss the latest trends in enterprise colocation, deployments and the future of managed hosting.
Learn why many U.S. companies will increase their level of IT infrastructure outsourcing, colocation, and managed hosting in 2012, and how you can begin to colocate your mission critical IT assets
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Feb 16, 2012
Data Center Optimization Techniques: Stop Wasting Time and Money
Older models of computing and system design are facing an enormous challenge: the exponential growth in data and capacity requirements driven by a more mobile and technologically savvy workforce. This has put a tremendous stress on data centers and server loads and capacities.
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Feb 16, 2012
Big Data Online Forum – Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know
Join us for the Big Data Online Forum to learn the essentials of big data – from the technology underlying it to real-world use cases. Oracle Senior Technical Architect Tom Kyte, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and other industry thought leaders will be on hand to explain how big data can deliver revolutionary insight and competitive advantage.
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Feb 17, 2012
Software Asset Management- Program Considerations to Help in Reducing Risk and Lowering Costs
Software asset management (SAM) has become a “must have” for organizations that want to reduce IT costs, and limit the business and legal risk related to software ownership and usage.
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Feb 21, 2012
The value of IBM Cognos Mobile: a customer`s perspective
Ogilvy & Mather is one of the largest and most organizationally complex ad agencies in the world. Join us for this TechTalk Webinar and hear Tom Hannigan, Jr., Ogilvy’s VP and Senior Director of CRM Strategy, and Dale Forman, Americas Architect, IBM Business Analytics Lab, discuss how IBM Cognos Mobile:
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Feb 22, 2012
Providing 360 Degree Security To Your Clients In A Dangerous Cyber World
Organizations are operating in an increasingly dangerous world. As technology advances, so do security threats. The mobile revolution and the migration to cloud computing services has opened the door for malicious hackers, spammers, worms and viruses to penetrate IT security barriers and gain access to confidential information. As fast as technology and security solutions move, it seems that cyber criminals are always one step ahead.
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Feb 23, 2012
Enabling Next-Generation Storage Consolidation
Delivering IT services to remote and branch offices is vital to the success of any business seeking to expand globally and enter emerging markets. However, it is not without its challenges. Deploying applications and storage regionally maximizes productivity, but increases costs and introduces risk to data managed outside the data center.
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Feb 23, 2012
Data Loss Prevention: *Batteries Not Included
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions were supposed to solve IT information security problems. On the box, it said that DLP would take care of all of an organization’s sensitive data. However, the reality was a different story. After making a considerable investment, many enterprises realized that it’s not working as well as expected! The problem? A key component to power a DLP implementation – data classification – may be missing.
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Feb 23, 2012
Leveraging the Cloud for Data Protection
Businesses need a solid onsite system and data protection and recovery solution for day-to-day outages, but with unexpected man-made and natural disasters, it’s more important than ever to implement a complementary offsite disaster recovery (DR) and data protection solution. But many IT organizations just don’t have the time, budget, knowledge and resources to set up their own DR site and solution, especially small and mid-sized businesses and non-profits.
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Feb 23, 2012
Smarter Networking for Smarter Data Centers and Cloud Solutions
IBM delivers innovative networking technologies that position the organization as a leader in building Cloud solutions integrated with IBM's strong server and storage offerings. A recent edition of The Lippis Report highlighted IBM's reemergence as a networking leader, 'IBM System Networking will coalesce its networking investments around virtualized network infrastructure and software-defined networking, renewing its place as a thought leader in the networking industry.'
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Feb 27, 2012
Next Generation of IT - Converging Infrastructure in Your Business
In today’s business world the expectation for IT’s strategic contribution to the business remains high, even at times of economic hardship the demand to do more with less is ever-present. However, traditional silo oriented and application specific systems are the single most substantial barrier to making the transition to this new world IT reality. This critical eSeminar will examine the key issues that may impact your plans and process for moving to a more converged infrastructure.
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Feb 29, 2012
Meet Customer Requirements using Cloud-Based B2B Integration
Businesses are increasingly using the cloud to reduce time to market and deliver innovation faster, because customers, suppliers and partners can engage with each other quickly by collaborating in the cloud. Watch this webcast with experts from IBM and Gartner Research and find out how third-party logistics company Gist Limited was able to respond to changing market dynamics faster by using the cloud to analyze data from multiple sources, in real time, gaining deeper insights into customer behavior.
