Topic: Emerging Trends and Technologies

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)

Secrets to Successful Sourcing Partnerships

Join leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from Dimension Data as they break down the key stumbling blocks that companies and service providers encounter when negotiating and executing managed services deals. More importantly, they’ll reveal the tactics to mitigate or avoid those stumbling blocks.

Sponsor: Dimension Data
Type: Audio (30 minutes)

Cloud Computing benefits for mid-size enterprises
Cloud computing is the mother of all buzzwords today. You need to understand what it is, what it means, and how it affects your business. Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from IBM, as they share their unique perspective on how mid-size enterprises, like yours, can benefit from cloud computing. In this program you’ll hear David Cearley, VP & Gartner Fellow discuss how cloud computing changes the way enterprises approach technology. With cloud computing, you don’t have to focus on buying and installing hardware and software. Instead, you can offload some of that responsibility to a provider that deals with all the details behind the scenes.

Sponsor: IBM
Type: Vidio (22 minutes)

The Next-Generation Firewall
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)

Managing Service Delivery in Cloud and Virtualised Environments
What management disciplines and capabilities do you need to ensure highly virtualised environments, both on and off premise? How can you deliver cost savings and more agile service, while managing business risk? How do you automate both business process and resource tasks? And how can you optimise IT and non-IT assets in real-time for greater energy efficiency? To find out the answers to these questions, and more, join leading industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from IBM Tivoli Service Management, in this new program now.

Sponsor: IBM
Type: Video (22 minutes)

CRM as an enabler to building a customer-centric enterprise
Twitter… Facebook… Dynamic trends in society and new advancements in technology are empowering your customers to access a greater amount of information and formulate and share their opinions faster. As a result, your relationship with your customers largely depends on your ability to create customer-centric strategies that give your customers a greater voice. Watch this new program and learn how to adapt your CRM approach to address today's social customer. Go now.

Sponsor: SAP
Type: Video (19 minutes)

Your Domain is Your Business Identity – Protect It!
A reliable and accurate Domain Name System (DNS) is critical in today’s online environment. While organizations spend vast sums of money to make sure their data centers are always accessible by deploying redundant networks and ensuring high availability for their servers and storage, little attention is given to a company’s DNS because its importance is often overlooked. Moreover, a DNS problem is more than an IT problem; it quickly becomes a business problem. Watch this exclusive, on-demand presentation now.

Sponsor: Nominum
Type: Audio (25 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)