6 Real Sci-Fi Gadgets: The Future...Today!

Learn how to achieve this when you join EMA Research Director, Charles Betz, Kaseya Director, Gerald Beaulieu, and Enterprise Elementary School District Technology Director, Eric Zane, for a timely and informative discussion.

This whitepaper aims to identify those users, the reasons they exist and to outline what your organization can do about them.

A patchwork of job schedulers can cause many inefficiencies, hindering IT's ability to serve the business. An enterprise approach solves these issues and adds new value. Five steps can take you from a costly mishmash to benefits like increased productivity, lower costs, and better service.

What is workload automation, and how does it compare to traditional job scheduling? IDC tackles these questions and more in a new white paper.
You'll read about:

* Key factors increasing IT complexity - and how to manage them

* Building an automation strategy

* Definition and components of today's workload automation software

IT organizations of all sizes are looking for ways to reduce cost in their data center. While larger enterprises can more easily muster the necessary skills and resources in pursuit of this goal, mid-sized organizations typically have limited time and funds they can denote.

This IDC white paper presents a proactive approach to data protection, discusses the growing threats to business information, and the impact government regulations have on requiring additional data protections.

Business users increasingly demand 24x7 availability of their data while IT departments face the challenge of ensuring maximum availability while operating with limited budgets.

Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT

IT security faces challenges as never before. At one end of the spectrum, industrialized exploits hammer organizations with a volume and frequency of attacks that only a few short years ago would have been unimaginable.

Learn how to get the most from your cloud investment in our on-demand webinar from BMC and InformationWeek. You'll hear how integrating the cloud into your production workload brings critical business benefits.

Date: May 31, 2012
Time: 1 PM EST

Organizations are reaping the benefits of simplifying IT, lowering costs and dramatically improving transactional throughput by deploying optimized application-to-disk solutions. These pre-tuned, tested solutions encompass a wide variety of applications and use cases. Hear from industry experts, and IT executives, how these full-stack solutions can achieve three times faster deployment times and up to 75% reductions in acquisition and operational costs.

Find out when you join EMA Senior Analyst, Torsten Volk, for a discussion on the 2012 trends in workload automation and how these trends contribute to better connecting workload automation to business processes. These trends are derived from EMA's empirical research work conducted for the 2012 Workload Automation Radar Report.

What if you could run financial and operational planning cycles 10 times faster? Or monitor and adjust marketing campaigns in real time? What if you could instantly visualize how a price change would impact the profitability of thousands of products?