IT Briefing Center is an exciting resource for IT professionals and business decision makers that brings together industry experts from featured analyst firm Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders at top IT vendors. You'll find an incredible collection of on-demand rich media programs delivering best practices, winning strategies and in-depth insights. Watch now so you can put these strategies to work in your enterprise.
Featured programs:


Should Third-Party Maintainers Be Your First Choice?

Why are more and more large and medium sized companies turning to third-party maintenance providers these days to support their IT equipment? What benefits can a third-party provider offer? Can third party maintenance organizations provide high quality service and save your company a significant amount of money? Is third-party maintenance (TPM) right for your organization? And if so, how do you find the right third-party provider? Find out in this new program now.

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Sponsor: Signature Technology Group
Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Length: 48 minutes

 


Discover and Protect Sensitive Data: Key Benefits of Data Masking

Too often traditional approaches to securing sensitive data begin and end with firewalls and encryption. While these techniques are useful they do not address two fundamental challenges - the challenge of knowing where all sensitive data resides and the reality that encrypted data must at some point be unencrypted. For anyone concerned with application security the use of next generation masking technology for non-production data must be considered. Additionally in a business environment of increasing regulation regarding personal data protection, organizations are in need of solutions that provide efficiency and consistency in securing sensitive data throughout the entire enterprise. This Webcast discussion covers what data masking is and the factors driving its adoption. Also included is what every security or compliance professional needs to understand in order to efficiently find, discover and mask information in structured databases across the enterprise.

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Sponsor: dataguise
Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Length: 24 minutes

 


From Systems to Solutions: Leveraging the social Web to achieve online success

With the evolution of the social Web, your online strategy needs to move beyond basic information delivery. You need to provide your Web audience with an opportunity to interact, an opportunity to communicate, and an opportunity to engage in dialogue. In short, you need to create a real-time relationship with your Web audience that allows them to learn, communicate, and share information. So how do you do this? Take the first step and watch this new program now. In this program industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NASDAQ OMX, and Ektron, Inc., discuss how organizations of all sizes are rethinking their overall online strategy to leverage today's Web to meet and exceed the needs, wants, and demands of their site visitors. Go now.

 

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Sponsor: Ektron, Inc.
Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Length: 26 minutes

 


WAN Optimization: Speed, Efficiency & Security for All

Government agencies around the world face a unique set of challenges as they depend on wide area networks (WANs) infrastructure, often in areas where bandwidth isn’t always readily available, to improve data security, improve application performance, deliver optimized throughput, and ensure the complete rollout of key applications. In addition, they need ways to optimize their bandwidth to avoid a WAN upgrade or get more data through their current WAN infrastructure. Watch “WAN Optimization: Speed, Efficiency & Security for All”, an on-demand webcast available now and learn how organizations around the world are reducing costs and improving productivity across a variety of network environments.

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Sponsor: Riverbed Technology
Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Length: 24 minutes