Topic: IT Management

Do you know private cloud?
Private cloud computing is a new and better way to organize and manage information technology resources and services – and a new and better way for a business to consume them and put them to work. What does that mean for a business? In a word, agility. What if you could more rapidly access and analyze information and make decisions? Innovate and launch new business capabilities faster? Scale business operations up or down as needed? Tap into new information and expertise, both inside the company and in the marketplace, on demand? And do all this while safeguarding sensitive information and other business assets? That would add up to genuine business agility. Private cloud can enable all of your company’s technology-dependent business processes to operate more efficiently, with faster cycle time, and at lower cost. Watch this new program and learn more about how your organization can benefit from private cloud computing. Go now.

Sponsor: EMC Corporation
Type: Video (18 minutes)

The Market Responsive CIO: IT's Role in Leading and Accelerating Change
Change represents an opportunity for growth. But you’ve got to be able to recognize this opportunity and you’ve got to be ready to respond. Accurate, timely, and relevant information is the enabler and the CIO is often the driving force to becoming market-responsive. Listen in as Ellen Kitzis, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Phil Parr, President and CEO of Hitachi Consulting Corporation, discuss how CIOs can ensure their competitive advantage by keeping their companies more responsive to market changes. In addition, these experts will break down the role IT plays in transforming companies into market-responsive leaders. Check out this new program now and learn more.

Sponsor: Hitachi Consulting Corporation
Type: Video (17 minutes)

Easy and Cost Effective Disaster Recovery
With ever-evolving business and regulatory mandates, having a disaster recovery plan in place is fast becoming a requirement for every organization. Interest in disaster recovery is on the rise across just about every vertical market and new technologies are making the implementation of appropriate solutions easier and more cost-effective. But companies, like yours, have a lot of questions as they look to implement or upgrade their disaster recovery plans. In this program, John Morency, Research Director at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Eric Burgener, Senior Vice President of Product Management at InMage Systems, will address those questions and look at the disaster recovery challenges and how to address them. Watch this new program now and learn more.

Sponsor: InMage
Type: Video (34 minutes)

Profit from Power Savings: Cut Costs & Green Your IT Operations with PC Power Management
Does your organization have a "green" initiative? If so, then check out this new program and learn how PC power management fits within green IT. Learn about the benefits that PC power management can bring to your organization. Discover the latest PC power management and green IT trends. And hear what the experts think are the requirements of an enterprise-class PC power management solution. In this program, industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Verdiem, offer recommendations for how PC power management can green your IT operations, deliver significant, tangible cost reductions and reduce your PC energy consumption. Watch this new program now and learn how to fit PC power management into your organization without interfering with what you're doing in business operations. Go now.

Sponsor: Verdiem Corporation
Type: Video (21 minutes)

Beyond Bandwidth: Preparing your WAN for Strategic Data Center Initiatives
Data center consolidation, server centralization, desktop virtualization, and disaster recovery all have one thing in common – an increased emphasis on your Wide Area Network (WAN). WAN performance is critical to the success or failure of these strategic projects. And WAN costs are a key factor in determining the return on investment (ROI) associated with these data center initiatives. So how do you ensure you maintain optimal WAN performance to support these emerging enterprise IT initiatives and gain the maximum return on investment? Join two leading industry experts: Joe Skorupa, Research VP at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and David Hughes, CTO and Founder of Silver Peak Systems, Inc., for the answer to that question and more. Watch this new program now.

Sponsor: Silver Peak Systems, Inc.
Type: Audio (25 minutes)

Anatomy of a Breach
Cybercrime attacks are becoming more targeted. Criminals are going after critical business and identity data because that’s where the money is. So how do you effectively protect and manage your enterprise? Enterprises that cannot correctly answer that question face the loss of money, their competitive advantage and the trust of their clients and prospects. But what is the right answer? What best practices should you follow? And where do you turn to find the right security solution to thwart the threats of today and tomorrow? Find out in this new program now.

Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Type: Audio (27 minutes)

Making the Financial Case for PC Refresh Cycle
If your organization is like many, you’ve postponed PC replacement as a means of reducing costs. Check out this new program and hear the experts discuss how applying a total cost of ownership and return on investment framework can reveal the true cost of maintaining older hardware. In this program, the experts will provide a financial framework, share best practices, and help you determine the optimal refresh cycle for your PC hardware. You’ll hear about the rationale for refresh. You’ll get buying advice. And you’ll learn about the impact Microsoft Windows 7 is having. See for yourself. Watch this new program now.

Sponsor: Intel Corporation
Type: Video (23 minutes)

Managing Enterprise Data with Windows on Itanium-based Systems
Today's data centers are more complex and harder working than ever before. For the mission-critical applications that drive your business, your data center hardware and software must deliver the utmost in capability and reliability. Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Microsoft, Intel, HP and the Itanium Solutions Alliance to review the IT advantages afforded by Microsoft Windows and Intel Itanium-based servers. You'll learn about consolidation strategies, mainframe migration paths, SQL Server scalability and other key benefits enabled by this uniquely powerful hardware-software combination. Go now.

Sponsor: Itanium® Solutions Alliance
Type: Video (16 minutes)

BI and Analytics: Does Excellence Always Equal Expensive?
Business intelligence is one of the most strategic initiatives in your organization. But if your organization is like most others, you're dealing with infrastructures that can't scale to the rising number of users, the ever-growing volume of data, and the increased complexity of analytics needs. Something has to change. Check out this new program and hear industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Sybase Inc., outline how to deliver analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) excellence to your business and how to meet service level agreements, in terms of speed of access to the right information.

Sponsor: Sybase Inc.
Type: Video (21 minutes)

Taking a Strategic Approach to Enterprise Mobility

Join the experts as they discuss the true value of adopting a mobile enterprise application platform. Learn about the mobility trends you need to be tracking. And discover how to take a strategic approach to your mobile deployment. Learn how to deploy a mobility solution that enables your enterprise to manage, analyze, and deliver data to anyone, anytime. Learn how to select a mobility solution that will boost productivity, increase security, and improve the business flow within your enterprise. And learn why it's important to take stock of your existing investments to see which of these investments can be leveraged further, before moving forward.

Sponsor: Sybase Inc.
Type: Video (24 minutes)

Ask The Experts - Data Deduplication
Successful organizations of all sizes and from all around the world are turning to data deduplication to address the ever-growing array of information management headaches, storage concerns and recovery needs. But how should you approach deduplication? Is it just for data protection? And how do you justify the investment in deduplication versus doing nothing at all? Watch this new program and learn about the ways your organization can start quickly with deduplication technology.

Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Type: Video (28 minutes)

The Convergence of Endpoint Security and Management

Many of today's successful organizations are converging their security and operations management to overcome the increasing challenges of the threat landscape. But what efficiencies do these organizations gain by merging these disciplines? Is it right for your organization, and if so, how do you get started? In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Symantec Corporation look at the convergence of security and operations management and discuss why more and more companies are focusing on an integrated approach to reduce costs and manage complexity.

Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Type: Video (18 minutes)

Stop Buying Storage: Key Technologies that will reduce your Storage Costs
Storage capacity continues to grow at 40-50% this year, and will probably grow even faster in 2010. More files mean more storage is needed. Larger files mean more storage is needed. We've gone from creating files to creating pictures, to creating video, to creating high definition video. Watch this new program and let leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Symantec Corporation, show you the key technologies that will reduce your storage costs and delay or eliminate the need to purchase new storage for a year or more.

Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Type: Video (30 minutes)

Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and the IT Service Catalog
Virtualization and Cloud Computing are the two highest-impact, technology issues facing enterprise IT today. These technologies also have important ramifications on the management and operations of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Join the experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from newScale, Inc., as they address these questions, plus show you how an IT service catalog can help you achieve the promised virtualization benefits of cost savings and agility while paving the way for an internal cloud.

Sponsor: newScale, Inc.
Type: Video (33 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)

Reveal the power of information

On average, workers spend one hour per day looking for information. If you add it up, that equates to two weeks per year that an employee spends just looking for the information they need to do their job. Concealed facts can badly affect decision-making. The duplication of knowledge is very expensive. Our digital future needs efficient data management. Watch this new program and learn how enterprise search can increase the return on your information investment.

Sponsor: Mindbreeze
Type: Video (29 minutes)

Lean IT: Innovations in Managing Service Quality
Interested in overcoming the challenges associated with managing transformational technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing? Want to hear expert recommendations on how to manage your complex IT environments? Then join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from CA as they show you how to solve your service assurance challenges with a very modern, very different approach that takes a top-down position to the service assurance problem.

Sponsor: CA
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)

Profit-focused Corporate Performance Management - A 10X Return in 6 Months

Few business leaders today feel they have the luxury of time to develop and put into place an elaborate corporate performance management solution. So how do you achieve quick results, without comprising long-term performance strategies? Join Nigel Rayner, Research Vice President from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he presents today's most advanced thinking on corporate performance management (CPM) and profitability modeling for quick results. Jack Haedicke, President of Arena Consulting Group, and John Hrudicka, Vice President and Controller for Elkay Manufacturing Co., will share practical experiences and real results from the field.

Sponsor: Acorn Systems
Type: Video (33 minutes)

Effective Network Management for Distributed Environments
Does your organization have difficulty managing the quality and reliability of your IT services across your distributed environment? Would you like more information on a new and effective approach to end-to-end network management and IT service quality assurance? If so, then join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Apparent Networks, Inc., and BCS Global, as they look beyond the challenges of distributed environments to reveal the latest technologies and best practices for optimizing the management of your extended network.

Sponsor: Apparent Networks, Inc.
Type: Video (34 minutes)

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

If you're wondering how to move some of your datacenter workload to the cloud with the least amount of risk, effort, cost, and commitment, this program is for you. In this program, two of the leading voices in cloud computing address the logistics and financial considerations of moving from the datacenter to cloud-to-cloud, and back. They discuss flexibility and freedom. And they will show you exactly what to move, and how to do it with no re-engineering or coding to your existing server-based applications.

Sponsor: AppZero
Type: Video (19 minutes)

Out-of-Band Authentication: Using a Separate Authentication Channel for Stronger Online Security

The secret is out. Passwords, knowledge-based questions, and other shared secret security measures are no longer strong enough to protect online transactions. Today's sophisticated attacks often take place without the end user even knowing they've been victimized. And as a result, enterprises don't know when (or if) their networks have been compromised. So how do you ensure the safety of your online transactions? For more and more organizations, the answer is out-of-band authentication. To learn how your company can benefit from out-of-band authentication, watch this new program now.

Sponsor: Authentify
Type: Video (24 minutes)

The Value of Performance Management
Good performance management enhances enterprise-wide compliance, accountability and transparency. And although performance management solutions are affordable, many organizations still rely on collections of disconnected spreadsheets that tend to be labor-intensive, error-prone, and difficult to manage. Do you? Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Envision Credit Union as they explore the use of performance management and spreadsheets.

Sponsor: Cognos Software
Type: Video (32 minutes)

Embrace Fast Process Innovation to Achieve Business Success
In order to survive in the current economic climate, your organization needs to embrace process innovation, react faster, anticipate more effectively and implement change as quickly as possible. Check out this new program to hear leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and process innovation experts from Cordys explore how next generation business management solutions can dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way you innovate your business operations.

Sponsor: Cordys
Type: Video (43 minutes)

Maintenance and Support Best Practices for IT Infrastructure, and Cost Savings Strategies

Outsourcing of IT support is a market reality. According to research provided by Gartner, Inc., external service providers are currently maintaining approximately 25 to 30% of all IT infrastructure. If you are considering or haven't yet considered outsourcing your company's IT infrastructure support, then watch this new program and let the experts provide you with key reasons why you should do so.

Sponsor: Dimension Data
Type: Video (36 minutes)

Key Considerations for Managing your Network in a Downturn
It's important to take advantage of technologies that reduce or contain costs. It's also important to develop alternative business models that improve efficiencies and create new opportunities. But where do you start? Check out this program and hear experts discuss the latest managed network services market trends and the key technologies you should consider to help your organization in these tough economic times.

Sponsor: Dimension Data
Type: Video (31 minutes)

Maximize Your Strategy for Migration, Virtualization, Availability, and Desktop Management

Managing today's complex IT workloads, organizations are looking for better ways to reduce costs and achieve greater economies of scale. Workload management optimization is moving to the forefront as it encompasses the hardware, operating systems, applications and data that are critical to today's data centers. What is workload optimization? How can a workload optimization strategy impact your bottom line? Join the experts as they address those questions and more.

Sponsor: Double-Take Software, Inc.
Type: Video (40 minutes)

IT Asset Disposition: For a Successful Future, Secure Your Past
How do you efficiently dispose of obsolete or retired IT assets? What is the best way to handle the data security on those IT assets? And what is the most ecologically friendly method of dealing with e-scrap? The answer is IT Asset Disposition. IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is a set of processes surrounding the redeployment and disposal of surplus and obsolete assets. To learn more about how your organization can benefit from ITAD, join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from HiTech Assets, Inc., as they offer proven and successful ITAD strategies and outline what to look for in a trustworthy IT end-of-life specialist.

Sponsor: HiTech Assets, Inc.
Type: Video (31 minutes)

Industrial Strength Processes in the Modern Age

What's the price tag for innovation? Well, that depends on the servers you choose. And regardless of whether its distributed or mainframe technology, you have to look beyond the purchase price to the total cost of ownership and throughput. Do your servers give you muscle and security, or does adding new capabilities chip away at your capacity and increase risk? If server migration is on your to-do list, there's an easy and cost-effective way to swap chaos and complexity for flexibility and control.

Sponsor: IBM
Type: Video (46 minutes)

Reducing costs and improving service with Business Service Management

Leading companies have discovered that the secret to better IT is to have a business perspective. More and more companies are turning to business aligned IT, also known as Business Service Management, or BSM, to gain operational efficiencies and increase business service availability. Join Debra Curtis, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Lloyd Hopkins, CEO of Interlink Software, as they look at how business service management can help your company reduce IT outages, minimize the risks associated with IT changes, lower your overall IT costs, and improve service availability and quality.

Sponsor: Interlink Software
Type: Video (19 minutes)

IT Process Integration: Business Benefits
Companies are looking to streamline operational efficiencies and improve competitiveness and they're relying on technology to lead the way. One such efficiency organizations are having tremendous success with is IT process automation, otherwise known as Run Book Automation. Run Book Automation (RBA) is the ability to create programmed responses to events that occur in enterprise IT environments. Join the experts as they address common questions facing companies looking to implement Run Book Automation and the payback your organization can achieve.

Sponsor: iWave Software
Type: Video (20 minutes)

Driving SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Enterprises

For many businesses, collaboration is the key to enabling people to work more effectively while reducing the time, cost, and effort spent working together. But how can you drive mainstream user adoption of Microsoft SharePoint when your users are locked into using IBM Lotus Notes? Join the experts as they discuss strategies for promoting SharePoint adoption among mainstream IT users; reveal how to measure the impact that email integration with SharePoint has on user adoption; and review IT options available to IBM customers that want to integrate email with SharePoint - including migration and software coexistence strategies.

Sponsor: Mainsoft Corporation
Type: Audio (18 minutes)

Delivering rapid ROI through an enterprise class Business Process Management Suite

Join the experts as they show you how to manage your IT strategy so that you're able to meet the short term pressures of today and are in an optimum position once an upturn in the economy arrives. These experts will also discuss the technologies and approaches that provide the best return on investment. And they will outline what Gartner believes are the key drivers in the Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) market today, and what the key drivers are going to be as the market evolves over time and reaches a level of maturity.

Sponsor: Microgen
Type: Video (22 minutes)

Do more with less with an adaptive SOA strategy: increasing efficiency through process flexibility

Leading companies are gaining operational efficiencies and business agility through adaptable, reusable business processes and services built on a truly flexible service-oriented architecture foundation. These companies demand solutions that allow them to build, deploy, and manage SOA with a comprehensive and pre-integrated SOA platform, closed loop governance, extreme performance and scalability, and integrated security. Check out this program and hear experts examine the drivers for SOA adoption and the best practices for finding the right solution and gaining the full benefits of SOA.

Sponsor: Oracle
Type: Video (40 minutes)

Using Next Generation Firewalls to Regain Application Visibility and Control

It's time to fix your firewall. Next-generation firewalls provide a better look at - and greater control of - applications, users and content. By using three unique identification technologies (app-ID, user-ID, and content-ID), these new firewalls allow you to create business relevant security policies that will enable you to safely adopt new applications. To learn more about how your organization can benefit from next generation firewalls, check out this new program now.

Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks
Type: Video (31 minutes)

Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
Experts agree that cloud computing is the second-hottest trend in IT, right behind virtualization. There is huge potential in cloud computing, but there is also much confusion in the market. While it's clear that clouds promise to deliver a new lower cost model, many offerings ignore the security, application compatibility and reliability required to serve the needs of enterprises. Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and VMware, Inc., as they explore this new market of cloud computing and introduce the concept of an enterprise-ready private cloud.

Sponsor: VMware, Inc.
Type: Video (17 minutes)