Topic: Emerging Trends and Technologies
Data Center Infrastructure Management - IT planning today for the future
With the continuing evolution and growing adoptions rates of new business-critical tactics such as cloud, virtualization, and other high density computing initiatives, executive leadership is looking to the enterprise infrastructure, as a whole, not only to deftly adapt to market changes, but aggressively add value, as well. Data Center Infrastructure Management, or DCIM, is the prevailing strategy being considered by data center and facilities managers to meet these new expectations.
Sponsor: Emerson Network Power
Type: Video (24 minutes)
Revealing the benefits of Platform-as-a-Service
This webcast examines the possibilities and benefits of Platform-as-a-Service. Listen as featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc. analyst Daryl Plummer and Phil Goldie, Director of Server and Tools for Microsoft Australia provide an overview of platform as a service, why platform as a service is important to CIO’s and IT Decisions makers and the benefits of building applications on Platform as a Service. You’ll also discover the capabilities that Microsoft is introducing into the Windows Azure platform. Learn how Platform as a Service can help your organization remove many of the headaches associated with IT management, and how Microsoft’s Windows Azure can help customers harness the power of cloud computing. Discover what types of companies are adopting Platform as a Service and whether you should be considering it as part of your IT strategy.
Sponsor: Microsoft
Type: Video (31 minutes)
Strategies for Managing Consumer Owned Smartphones & Tablets
The usage of personal devices within the enterprise is no longer relegated to one or two individuals. Their usage is pervasive and the ability for employees to use personal devices at work presents new management, security and compliance concerns for IT administrators. Can you safeguard corporate assets when more employees are connecting their personal devices to the network for email, calendars, contacts and access to other enterprise applications and data? The key is to balance employee choice and company policy when incorporating employee-liable devices into the organization. In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc. and Zenprise practical advice on how to make the influx of consumer owned devices less chaotic to your enterprise.
Sponsor: Zenprise
Type: Video (65 minutes)
Security Intelligence In a Post Perimeter World - What is it and how does it enable your business?
As insider thefts like the WikiLeaks debacle grow in magnitude, cyber attacks proliferate, advanced persistent threats persist, and targeted attacks increase, our approach to securing the enterprise must evolve. It’s not enough to set up a strong firewall and watch who or what is coming or going. You must have total visibility into what is happening across your enterprise and beyond as cloud services become operational. Traditional security measures are not enough. In this program, leading experts from Gartner and Q1 Labs explore how your enterprise can leverage security intelligence. They’ll look at how security intelligence addresses compliance, growing cyber attacks and insider threats, and why your strategy must look at the entire security intelligence lifecycle, before, during and after exploits.
Sponsor: Q1 Labs
Type: Video (35 minutes)
Ingenious Mobile Solutions - Modular Devices Minimize Total Cost of Ownership
In today’s unrelenting pursuit to reduce costs, increase revenues, organizations of all sizes are investing in ruggedized handhelds to help their mobile employees make smarter, faster decisions driving greater operational efficiencies and improving business performance. With the growing choice of mobile devices, increasingly companies are struggling with their ruggedized mobile handheld decisions, as they strive to balance today’s needs to meet tomorrow’s changing demands, and how to address the key challenges and considerations for their ruggedized handheld devices.
Sponsor: Psion
Type: Video (18 minutes)
The Evolution of Workload Automation
Learn how Workload Automation leverages Virtualization and Cloud Computing to help increase IT productivity while reducing costs. Please join VP Milind Govekar from featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc and CA Technologies VP of Product Management Jim Anderson to discuss how job scheduling has evolved into Workload Automation and what it means for your organization.
Type: Video (43 minutes)
Optimizing Business Innovation for Success
Even in challenging economic times, or maybe especially so, innovation around products and services remains a top strategic priority for increasing profitability, competitive differentiation, and shareholder value. Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from CA, as they discuss why deploying Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is a fundamental first step for any CIO looking to maximize the return on their innovation investment, accelerate time to value, efficiently allocate resources and reduce new product development costs.
Sponsor: CA
Type: Video (20 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)
Secure Web Gateways: Best Practice Security for the Social Web and Modern Malware
Web destinations like facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Salesforce.com can provide your organization with new opportunities, but they can also bring new risks as traditional antivirus and URL filtering technologies are rendered ineffective. Zero-day malware, inappropriate content, data loss, and compliance, all pose unique challenges in these environments. To address these challenges, many successful organizations are turning to Secure Web Gateways. What advantages does a secure Web gateway offer, and is it the right solution for your organization? Find out in this new program.
Sponsor: Websense, Inc.
Type: Video (29 minutes)
How to ensure immediate and long-term success with HR Outsourcing
HR functions are continuously impacted by change: changes in staff, changing regulations, changing technologies, and changing expectations. Increasingly, companies are asking how HR outsourcing provides value while managing through change. How can HR outsourcing reduce costs or mitigate risks? And how can you ensure immediate and long-term success, and gain a competitive advantage, through HR outsourcing? Watch this new program and let two leading experts in the industry: Robert Brown, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Greg Secord, President of ADP Canada, provide you with answers to those questions and more.
Sponsor: ADP
Type: Video (22 minutes)
Hangzhou, An ideal Outsourcing Destination from China
Every year, Gartner selects the top 30 countries for outsourcing. China has been one of those top 30 countries for the last 5 years. And more specifically, in Gartner’s top 30 list, China is the only country that has been able to rival India in terms of scale of labor pool and price points. Check out this new program and hear about the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threat) that featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., recently published about China. Learn about the top five strengths associated with Hangzhou, China’s outsourcing market, namely: Hangzhou’s competitive cost structures, the scale of Hangzhou’s labor pool, Hangzhou’s strong infrastructure, Hangzhou’s government support, and Hangzhou’s large domestic market and high growth rates.
Sponsor: Hangzhou
Type: Video (24 minutes)
