Topic: Application Development & Integration
Application Performance Monitoring - What is it? What can it do for IT and the business?
In this webcast, Will Cappelli, Research VP from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Quest Software discuss the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and will provide valuable insight into strategies that will not only help you manage both your virtual and physical infrastructure, but also address the challenges that are plaguing your most critical IT projects. Join your colleagues for an informative and timely discussion.
Sponsor: Quest Software
Type: Video (44 minutes)
Storage Strategies for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
For most organizations, enterprise messaging is a business-critical
application that is central to employee communication, collaboration and
productivity. Not surprisingly, many organizations today are looking to
Microsoft Exchange 2010 for their enterprise messaging and unified
communications needs. To get the most value of their Exchange 2010 enterprise messaging system, organizations need a highly reliable and cost-effective data storage infrastructure. In this webcast, thought leaders from Featured Analyst Firm Gartner Inc., NetApp and Janalent examine key considerations in planning and implementing an efficient and highly available storage infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments.
Sponsor: NetApp
Type: Video (35 minutes)
Suite Rewards: SaaS Becomes Mission-Critical
SaaS has hit its suite spot. We’ve been bombarded by hype and sometimes outlandish claims for Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. But both have steadily worked their way into a mission-critical role in the enterprise. But as SaaS takes on an expanded role, is it ready to be a core part of your enterprise?
In this program, leading experts from Featured Analyst Firm, Gartner Inc. and Aplicor address your key questions, including: Why are more and more organizations entrusting their mission-critical processes to SaaS? Does a suite approach offer an advantage over best-of-breed solutions? And how do you determine the right SaaS solution – and provider – for your organization’s needs?
Sponsor: Aplicor
Type: Audio (23 minutes)
The Unified Storage Advantage for Data Center Modernization
Unified storage is an important tool that can help address many existing data center challenges, including helping you get power, cooling and space utilization under control. If you’re in the midst of redesigning your data center - or establishing a new infrastructure model - unified storage should be a key element of that effort. But what is unified storage exactly? What are the requirements and benefits of a unified storage solution? Find out in this new program now.
Sponsor: NetApp
Type: Video (26 minutes)
Application Management in 2010: How to Manage Your Internal and Cloud Apps
Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from HP Software and Solutions, for an on-demand webcast available now as they share their insight on application performance management (APM) in 2010 and how best to manage your internal and cloud applications. Additionally, Victor Miller, Sr. Manager of Systems Management from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBS FL) will share his APM story, including why they implemented HP’s APM solution, the ROI they’ve achieved and where they’re headed next.
Sponsor: HP Software and Solutions
Type: Audio (42 minutes)
Capture greater success: Unleash the investment potential of your application portfolio
Application sprawl puts a huge strain on budgets, and often there’s not enough information to manage the portfolio effectively. This lack of visibility and control over the application portfolio inhibits your ability to meet internal and external customer needs, and prevents you from investing for the future. So how do gain real visibility and control of your applications? To guide you in your journey towards better management of your applications, we’ve brought together a panel of experts from HP, and Bank of Queensland, as well as opinion leaders from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., to get you thinking about what this could mean for your business. Meet the experts now.
Sponsor: HP
Type: Video (33 minutes)
Drivers and Migration Strategy for High Speed Data Transport
Today’s high performance computing clusters, storage area networks and IO consolidation are experiencing significant growth that require 10 gigabit deployments. And future bandwidth projections indicate there will soon be a market demand for 40 gigabit interfaces. Are you ready to address the new demand for high-speed data transport? Bandwidth requirements for computing and core networking applications are growing at exponential rates and driving the need for next generation technology and virtualization. In fact, Cisco projects that by 2013, 90 percent of all traffic on consumer IP and business networks will be video. Join market leaders in enterprise switching, network adapters, and physical infrastructure, join together to deliver an innovative program, which provides information on data center optimization.
Sponsor: PANDUIT CORP.
Type: Video (40 minutes)
Next generation firewalls deliver significant advances in firewall management, application discovery and threat protection. By using global reputation-based technology, including reputation-based blocking and geo-location, to filter unwanted traffic before it hits the network, next generation firewalls stop attacks before they happen. Next generation firewalls offer visibility, recognition and policy enforcement capability over thousands of Web 2.0 and other network applications that are invisible to current security solutions. In so doing, next generation firewalls provide security administrators with levels of network control dramatically greater than those provided by existing firewalls. But what specific advantages do next-generation firewalls offer over traditional defenses? And how do you determine the right next-generation firewall solution for your security needs? Find out in this new program now.
Sponsor: McAfee, Inc.
Type: Audio (37 minutes)
Migrating Your Applications To Windows 7 – Best Practices To Get You There Faster.
Join Michael Silver, a foremost expert on Microsoft migrations, and a VP Distinguished Analyst at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he presents best practices to help you migrate your applications to Windows 7 faster. In this Webcast you’ll also hear Mike Welling, CEO of App-DNA, a leading global provider of enterprise application-compatibility management solutions, reveal a pre-migration testing solution that can enable your enterprise to cut time, cost and risk. Plus, you’ll learn how to quickly incorporate new technologies to the end-user community and automatically test all of your applications. The result? By removing the old manual process of testing applications and automating it, you may be able to achieve a 300% to 500% return on investment on your migration projects.
Sponsor: App-DNA
Type: Video (14 minutes)
eProcurement Demystified: Top 10 Questions for Evaluating eProcurement
Tough economic times require organizations to actively cut costs and optimize efficiencies and one of the ways they’re accomplishing these goals is by utilizing a software application that assists non-professional procurement individuals (i.e. controllers, engineers, accountants) to place orders for goods and services otherwise known as eProcurement. Still, many organizations are treading cautiously. They want the benefits, but they also want answers to some major questions. In this on demand program “eProcurement Demystified: Top 10 Questions for evaluating eProcurement” leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc, and PROACTIS Group Limited answer those questions.
Sponsor: PROACTIS Group Limited
Type: Video (29 minutes)
Opportunity Versus Risk: What is the Right Balance When Adopting Virtualization
For all the potential benefits virtualization offers, only 19% of the eligible workloads are being virtualized. Why? What challenges are holding virtualization back? What steps can you take to better manage and expand your virtual environment? And how do you best secure your virtual environment while not adding new risk to your physical security? Join Neil MacDonald, Vice President and Research Fellow at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he looks at the opportunities and associated risks – both for security and service – in adopting virtualization. Then, Gijo Mathew, Vice President of Security Management at CA, reveals how effective management approaches can provide a catalyst to achieving IT’s business and strategic goals by effectively harnessing these pervasive technologies.
Sponsor: CA
Type: Video (30 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.
Sponsor: Riverbed Technology
Type: Audio (24 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.
Sponsor: dataguise
Type: Video (24 minutes)
Preemptive Strike: Take the Offensive with Application Security Testing
Even if you have strong security for your networks and your data center, it doesn’t mean that what runs on that network or accesses that data center is secure. More and more companies these days are realizing the need for application security. And these same companies are finding that a key element of successful application security is application security testing. But where do you turn to find the right application security testing tools for your company? What is dynamic testing versus static testing? And where is this market headed? To get the answers to these questions, and more, watch this new program now.
Sponsor: Ounce Labs, an IBM Company
Type: Audio (49 minutes)
Managed File Transfer: Moving Your Business Forward
Globalization, increased competition and compliance demands are creating new challenges for global enterprises. To meet these challenges and gain competitive advantage, today’s enterprise must be collaborative, responsive and agile. This requires secure, reliable and integrated communication among the people, systems and applications that enterprises rely on to create, use and move business-critical, sensitive or regulated information. Join Frank Kenney, Research Director at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Kim Addington, Chief Marketing Officer, nuBridges, as they discuss how companies are handling the challenge of handling large amounts of data going to more people in more places with more rules to adhere too. Many organizations are turning to Managed File Transfer solutions to handle their needs both today and going forward but not all Managed File Transfer solutions are created alike.
Sponsor: nuBridges
Type: Audio (31 minutes)
Leveraging Identity and Access Management Governance to Manage Business Risk
Identity and Access Management (IAM) governance enables you to converge the investments you’ve made in your identity and access management infrastructure with your business lines of applications, so that you can look at them consistently and holistically, in order to manage enterprise risk. IAM governance provides an end-to-end view of the individuals in your organization, as well as the roles and the responsibilities they have. IAM governance provides the compliance and audit mechanisms to create transparency to your organization and your auditors, to ensure that the assets that are under their control are being managed judiciously and effectively. Check out this new program and hear leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from IBM, reveal the principal elements of IAM governance and the best practices to help you be successful in your IAM governance deployment. Learn more in now.
Sponsor: IBM
Type: Video (29 minutes)
Accelerating Business Applications with Solid-State Storage
Hard disk storage is no longer feasible in today’s demanding business climate. Further, where once solid-state storage was not an option for enterprises because of cost concerns, solid-state storage technology, which is based on NAND flash, closes the gap between processing power and traditional storage, delivering a new type of application centric storage for database, application and system administrators. The result is a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications. Join the experts as they discuss the wide range of benefits that solid-state storage solutions can yield for your enterprise and, most importantly, how to determine the right solid-state storage solution for your business-critical needs.
Sponsor: Fusion-io
Type: Video (28 minutes)
Delivering Effective IT Service Management
IT Service Management (ITSM) provides visibility into processes, assets and their relationships; provides control to better manage processes, risk and compliance; and provides automation so that your business can be agile and respond faster to competitive threats and market demands. In short, ITSM allows you to free up your resources while not compromising user satisfaction or operational controls. Watch this new program now and learn more about how your organization can benefit from ITSM.
Sponsor: IBM
Type: Video (22 minutes)
The Value of Application Delivery Controllers
The latest advanced platform Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) allow IT organizations to balance the growth of data, the growth of user access, and the growth of new technologies with the pressing need to reduce costs and create an environmentally friendly data center. Check out this new program and hear leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Citrix Systems, Inc., outline the benefits ADCs can bring to your organization.
Sponsor: Citrix Systems, Inc.
Type: Video (24 minutes)
Software Development: A Cost Conscious Way to Outmaneuver the Competition
In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Cincom Systems, Inc., reveal a solution that features a new and very rare Web-based integrated development environment that provides immediate feedback. With this solution much of the Web development awkwardness is removed, affording easier Web development that feels like regular programming. So watch this new program now and find out why more and more companies are turning to Smalltalk to realize their business goals. Go now.
Sponsor: Cincom Systems, Inc.
Type: Video (13 minutes)
Application Performance Management: Optimizing the Economics of Web Transactions
Application Performance Management Success Rule #8 - Provide a unique view of the information to every stakeholder. Want to learn the other seven Application Performance Management rules of success? Then check out this new program and learn how to achieve true performance and availability management for your mission critical, revenue-generating applications.
Sponsor: CA
Type: Video (34 minutes)
Giving the Data Center flexibility without complexity
The data center landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. New technologies are emerging in all facets of data center technology areas, enabling increasingly complex application environments. Growing pressure to optimize investments and a fundamental shift in utility cost structures is driving CTOs and data center managers to explore and adopt technologies like virtualization, data center convergence, and blade systems to help manage their risk and maintain business expectations. Join the experts as they discuss how organizations can grow their business, manage costs and mitigate risks through adaptive enterprise solutions that reduce network complexity through resilient core-to-edge connectivity and automated provisioning technologies.
Sponsor: HP
Type: Video (31 minutes)
Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
Server virtualization is widely accepted as one of the fastest ways to lower costs. But many adopters are discovering that newfound agility also enables real business breakthroughs. Choosing the right storage solution is essential to maximize cost savings and provide the most flexibility to your virtualized environment. In this program, you'll hear industry experts offer their insights on the server and storage market, both what's required today, and where things are headed.
Sponsor: NetApp
Type: Video (33 minutes)
Is Your Security Effective? The Value of Application Security Testing Tools
More and more organizations are implementing security at the application level but, it's one thing to build in security; it's another to make sure it's effective. As a result, extra attention is now being placed on application security testing tools. But what exactly do these security testing tools do? Why is the focus on these tools intensifying? And how do you select the right application security testing tools for your organization's needs? To find out these answers to these questions, and more, join two leading experts in this field, Neil MacDonald, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Jack Danahy, CTO and Founder of Ounce Labs, Inc., an IBM Company.
Sponsor: Ounce Labs, Inc., an IBM Company
Type: Audio (48 minutes)
MPLS Virtual Private Networks: All Traffic Is Not Created Equal
In the strictest sense, MPLS stands for multi-protocol label switching. But for a growing number of organizations, it stands for an efficient, cost-effective approach to the wide area network. So what's driving the adoption of MPLS? How can you get the most out of your MPLS implementation? And where do you turn to find the right solution? Join two leading experts on MPLS as they answer those questions and more, in this new program.
Sponsor: Verizon
Type: Audio (26 minutes)