Topic: Application Development & Integration

De-risking Applications in your Virtualized Infrastructure

De-risking critical applications, especially in a virtualized data center, is now a top priority for most enterprise IT departments. Nearly all Global 200 enterprise data centers rely on fiber channel SANs for their storage infrastructure. The move to 8-gigabit and eventually 16-gigabit fiber channel networks results in faster throughput but also less resiliency than 2 and 4-gigabit. This can easily impact service levels. Outages and slowdowns need to be quickly resolved or, better still, avoided altogether. So how do you ensure performance and uptime while increasing the use of new, faster technologies, together with server and storage virtualization? How do you proactively monitor your SAN traffic to be able to see that all is well or is potentially about to negatively affect your users? In this webcast, Gartner storage management expert Valdis Filks and Virtual Instruments’ Vice President of Solutions Consulting, John Gentry, discuss how real-time I/O monitoring solutions are required to guarantee application performance and availability SLAs

Sponsor: Virtual Instruments.

Type: Audio (23 minutes)

The Emerging Identity Infrastructure

It used to be so much simpler to control access to your systems and applications. But now you have to factor in partners, contractors, customers, and more. All of whom are requesting access from a growing number of places and devices. So why is the traditional identity management architecture less able to meet these changing demands? What danger does this pose for your enterprise? What steps can you take to mitigate this danger? And why are more organizations looking to identity and context virtualization as the answer? Find out in this new program.

Sponsor: Radiant Logic, Inc.

Type: Audio (52 minutes)

Shared Success: The Competitive Advantage of Social Software in Business

Learning and development are becoming more dynamic, more diverse, and above all, more collaborative. After all, our research shows that up to 80% of employees' most valuable learning occurs informally, through team interactions and just-in-time access to subject matter expertise. So if you want to truly improve competency and make learning more efficient and pervasive across your business, now is the time to get started. Join experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and leaders from Mzinga, Inc., as they examine the five major trends that are impacting workforce and talent development, the role that social software is playing in these efforts, and how you can use these solutions to gain your own competitive advantage and make productivity across your business soar.

Sponsor: Mzinga, Inc.

Type: Audio (46 minutes)

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)