Topic: Servers and Storage
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)
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)
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)
Overcome the Challenges and Complete the Promise of Virtualization
Server virtualization allows you to rethink the ways in which you deploy applications to the business. And while you may have already adopted server virtualization, can you truly say that you’ve maximized the business benefits server virtualization can deliver? So how do you maximize the benefits? In this program, Dave Russell Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Sean Derrington, Director of Storage Management and High Availability, at Symantec Corporation, look at the challenges and benefits of server virtualization, and more importantly, reveal the best practices for data protection, disaster recovery and storage management in virtual server environments.
Sponsor: Symantec Corporation
Type: Video (25 minutes)
Document Driven Process Automation Solutions
Because the demand for document driven process automation is accelerating, we've assembled a team of experts from industry leading Kofax, Inc., and featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., to share their perspectives and help you gain better insight into the business value associated with document driven process automation solutions. Learn how intelligent document recognition, extraction and classification can accelerate your business processes. Discover why these experts think document capture is an on-ramp to business critical process automation. And hear real life examples of successful document and data implementations.
Sponsor: Kofax, Inc.
Type: Video (20 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)
The Right Information Governance Solution Can Make All the Difference
It didn’t take long for litigants and government investigators to realize that digital evidence, such as emails and electronic documents, often contains the most critical information that can make or break a case. Good information governance goes beyond simple archiving. Listen to industry experts from featured analyst firm, Garter, Inc., and opinion leaders from EMC Corporation and Fulbright & Jaworski, as they discuss how you can cut your organization’s eDiscovery costs, storage requirements, and backup windows in half with a flexible portfolio of integrated e-mail management, eDiscovery, and archiving products.
Watch this new program now and learn more.
Sponsor: EMC Corporation
Type: Video (39 minutes)
The Current State of Backup
Traditional backup technologies were not built for the Cloud Computing era or to serve company infrastructures such as remote offices, mobile users and virtual servers. That's why IT leaders, like yourself, must significantly shift backup and recovery strategies. But how? How do you change your backup and recovery strategy to keep pace with your current backup and recovery needs? How do you find the right solution at the right cost to meet your backup and recovery needs? Find out in this new program now.
Sponsor: Asigra Inc.
Type: Video (22 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)
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)
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)
Leveraging Modern Backup Approaches to Improve Data Availability and Eliminate Operational Complexities
Modern backup approaches that employ a unified architecture and innovative disk-based backup methods can deliver dramatic operational efficiencies, simplify recovery and help you control storage costs. Watch this new program now and learn more. Join Dave Russell, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., as he uncovers the benefits of modern backup approaches, discusses their impact on data recovery, and outlines how to leverage a unified architecture to optimize the use of storage to simplify the data capture process. Watch now.
Sponsor: CommVault
Type: Video (13 minutes)
Outsourcing the data centre to a carrier neutral data centre operator in Europe
Does your organisation need to drive down the cost of your IT environment and drive up the reliability and quality of your service? Then watch this new program and learn how to accomplish this by outsourcing your data centre. Choosing the right data center provider to host your mission-critical Web, IT, and Internet infrastructure is crucial. And as your data center needs grow, you need to know that your provider can scale with you. Join the experts as they take a look at how some of today's most successful organizations are wrestling with and overcoming the challenges of an ever-growing array of data management headaches, storage concerns and recovery needs.
Sponsor: TelecityGroup
Type: Video (18 minutes)
Optimize your IT Costs with Automation - A Strategic Outlook
Profitable companies are turning to IT Automation to cut costs, streamline processes, and maintain, or better yet, improve their service levels.
But what is IT Automation? What benefits does it offer? What challenges does it present? And where do you turn to find the right IT automation solution for your needs? To find out the answers to these questions, join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from CA, as they discuss the business advantages that automation can generate.
Sponsor: CA
Type: Audio (46 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)
Transform your Multi-Channel Customer Experience: Advantages of Customer
You're invited to an exclusive, on-demand Webcast presentation "Transform your Multi-Channel Customer Experience: Advantages of Customer Communications Management" available now. Our panel of experts assembled from featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc. and Pitney Bowes Business Insight will examine how an integrated Customer Communications Management strategy and technology solution enables businesses to create, manage and deliver multi-channel communications with greater personalization, control, and efficiency.
Sponsor: Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Type: Video (24 minutes)