WEBCASTS - TECHNOLOGY TOPICS

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

Source: AMD

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform. And underlying the right hardware is the right processors.

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Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices

Source: Oracle and Intel

Simplify Database Management with Oracle Database Appliance Deployment Scenarios

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

By deploying Oracle Database Appliance organizations can benefit from a reliable system that significantly reduces the time spent on routine system administration and maintenance, lowering operational costs, and allowing IT personnel to focus on higher value activities. Using proven deployment best practices, midsize customers and enterprise departments alike can quickly integrate Oracle Database Appliance into their backup, test, development, and production environments. And since Oracle Database Appliance is based on Intel® Xeon® processors, organizations can ensure a high level of performance and scalability.

Join Oracle Database Appliance experts Tammy Bednar, David Swanger, and Intel expert Fabrizio Giamello for this live Webcast and learn how to:

* Achieve a high quality of service at the lowest cost
* Reduce up-front investment in hardware and software
* Implement best practices across a multitude of deployment scenarios

Register today and get answers to your questions live from the experts.

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Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation

Source: BMC

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.

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Best Practices to Optimize Your Data Center at Every Layer of the Stack

Source: Oracle

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.

Customers are rapidly realizing the benefits of integrated, application-to-disk solutions that are fully optimized, pre-tuned and tested. Join this virtual event to hear:

* Gartner research highlights how pre-tested solutions are important to today's data centers
* How Oracle Software Runs Best on Oracle Hardware: Application-to-Disk Use Cases from Oracle experts

Your data center can be fast, highly productive and very economical. Register today and find out how.

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Workload Automation Trends and Best Practices in 2012

Source: EMA & ORSYP

Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT / 12:00 p.m. EDT

Workload Automation has been a much overlooked discipline, but is finally taking center stage in the data center. Regarding workload automation software as a commodity means turning a blind eye to an important aspect of IT service delivery. Whether or not SLAs are met, depends as much on the successful and timely completion of background processing as it does on the actual health and responsiveness of enterprise applications. How can you make sure your workloads are optimized and in compliance with your business requirements?

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. Jordi Serras Marques, from IT Operations Management specialists ORSYP, will join the conversation to demonstrate 10 practical tips of how workload can be better managed. Jordi will focus on showing these 10 life saving tips through concrete use case examples.

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Analytics at the Speed of Thought

Source: Oracle

Join this on demand webcast and learn how you can manage your business smarter and faster with the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine - an industry first. In this exclusive briefing, you'll find out how organizations like yours are embracing Oracle Exalytics to plan, monitor, and make decisions at unprecedented speed.

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Virtualization 101: Launching into Cloud Computing for SMBs

Source: HP, Intel, VMware

As the foundation of Cloud Computing, The Big "V" is one of the big buzzwords in technology, and with a dizzying array of choices it's important to have guidance on how to provide fast, efficient and reliable protection of your applications to ensure your users have access when they need it.

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Which Applications Should You Virtualize First

Source: HP, Intel, VMware

As you consider your cloud and virtualization options, the question that resonates above all else is: Where do I start?

The second of a three part eSeminar series sponsored by VMware and HP, this event is for organizations in the beginning stages of virtualizing application servers for both routine and mission-critical applications.

In this presentation industry leaders will help you to prepare for private, public or hybrid cloud deployment, as well as discuss the cost saving and performance-enhancing capabilities available in The Cloud. Experts will offer guidance and share best practices for undertaking a cloud computing project including:

-What's in an app: Which applications are easier to virtualize
-Database Strategies: Best practices for virtualizing database driven applications
-Web and Messaging: Internet-facing applications and virtualization approaches
-How to approach virtualizing your homegrown code
-The virtualization pitfalls to avoid when planning your cloud strategy

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Optimizing the world of IT for end-users: Balancing freedom and choice with security and compliance to meet business

Source: HP, Intel, VMware

While most of the focus on cloud computing and virtualization centers on its impact on servers, there is another large aspect that is often overlooked when planning a cloud strategy, client virtualization. Where server virtualization offers the benefits of flexibility, speed and good ROI; client virtualization can reach into every corner of your enterprise, and bring mission-critical applications to users, devices and locations that were previously impractical or impossible to serve.

Download this eSeminar to hear from experts Ziff Davis Enterprise, VMware and HP and learn how client-side virtualization can improve your organization's performance, while reducing the IT burden of managing and maintaining an increasingly diverse client universe.

Attendees will learn:

-different methods for client virtualization.
-how to extend the life of client desktop and laptops regardless of their OS.
-what tools are at your disposal to ease your cloud computing transition.
-how to calculate the ROI of client virtualization.

Will virtualization extend the life of your PCs past their planned refresh? Download this complimentary eSeminar and find out!

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How To Build A World Class Records Management System With SharePoint Records Center

Source: Recommind

Many organizations are using SharePoint Records Center as their records solution, but with minor tweaks it can be turned into a world class records management system.
Join this webinar and learn:

-How SharePoint can be used for effective records management
-The limitations of basic SharePoint Records Management
-How to work around the limitations effectively
-How a federal agency deployed SharePoint Records management to manage its records

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The Enterprise Data Center Recipe

80% of the IT budget is consumed by mundane keeping the lights on activities. This tech dossier examines the components of a truly efficient data center with expert guidance on how to standardize, simplify and automate. Learn how you can free more budget for innovation and strategic projects.

Sponsored by Dell  Read More »

 

Improve Service Levels while Cutting Costs

Identification of underperforming processes for databases, operations, systems, storage and capacity management is the first step to service optimization. But where do you start? This paper will help you identify the areas for improvement and explains how IT workload automation can significantly reduce complexity and IT staff inefficiencies.

Sponsored by BMC  Read this White Paper »

 

Reduce Windows 7 Costs by 60%

Getting ready for a Windows 7 upgrade requires careful planning. To start, youll need to ensure application and hardware compatibility, give careful consideration to VDI and learn the advantages of new tools to automate the migration process. This tech dossier provides expert advice on deployment best practices and highlights experiences of early adopters.

Sponsored by Dell  Read this White Paper »

Emerging Technologies 3

The future of archiving.  Read More »

 

Think Globally and Locally

Jeff Joerres, CEO of worldwide, multibillion-dollar staffing company Manpower, talks with CIO Executive Editor Christopher Koch on creating the delicate balance between global IT efficiencies and the power of local ownership. (15:38)  Read More »

 

Surviving IT Worst Case Scenarios

Could you support yourself for 48 hours in the event of a disaster? How would you deal with a hurricane that broadsided your corporate offices--in Pittsburgh? Top IT leaders discuss their answers to tough continuity questions  Read More »

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.  View Now »

 

Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices

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

 

Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation

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.  View Now »

 
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