WEBCASTS - CLOUD COMPUTING
Source: HP
Cloud computing and virtualization trends are expected to change the face of the enterprise network in the next decade. Upgrading or redesigning traditional network infrastructures to take full advantage of the cloud and support enhanced automation, orchestration and provisioning can be challenging and costly. Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance. You'll also hear from Ahmad Zamer, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with HP, who will discuss how to architect your network to meet the stringent performance, security and agility demands of cloud computing while reducing network complexity.
Register now and get the white paper "Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks."
Source: VMware
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to:
- Control database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement
- Accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management
- Increase datacenter efficiency by extending the benefits of virtual infrastructure to the database tier
The first database to be supported is vFabric Postgres, based on PostgreSQL, with others to follow.
Attend this webcast to learn:
- How VMware vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter
- The vision behind vFabric Data Director and its core capabilities
Source: Intel
InfoWorld contributing editor and consultant David Linthicum offers expert advice about choosing services to outsource to the public cloud providers, cloud data security and identity, integrating public cloud services, and how to avoid provider lock-in.
Source: Microsoft
Date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Time: 9:00am PST
You can't wait any longer. Consumerization of IT; new devices; social media; and technologies like virtualization and cloud computing have raised the stakes for desktop computing. Workers today expect to work anywhere with a rich, personalized experience online and offline. That's why the time is now for your organization to move to modern desktop environment.
In this exclusive Virtual Briefing Center session from Microsoft and IDG, you'll discover how deploying Windows 7 Enterprise now will help you take advantage of this new environment. Learn through a series of videos, audio webinars and rich downloadable resources how to power today's flexible workstyles with Windows 7 Enterprise.
Source: Accenture
Cloud deployments are playing a critical role in propelling innovation for many companies. At the same time security has become the #1 one of the top concerns for IT and business leaders as they migrate into the cloud. In this webinar, learn from Accenture discusses how to recast the cloud as a "fresh chance to rethink your approach to security."
