January 10
Full Day |
Energy-Efficient IT & the Bottom Line |
Eco-friendly policies generate good public relations, but the bottom line is that they can sub¬stantially cut energy consumption and infrastructure costs. Virtualization, multi-core proces¬sors, and software for monitoring and managing power consumption, ILM and remote work policies are just a few of the many options for enterprises seeking to “go green.” Explore policies, practices and technologies to cut costs, reduce power, and use resources more efficiently in the data center and beyond. |
February 7
Full Day |
Data Protection |
How should your organization secure data versus systems or hardware? How can you implement a comprehensive program that lets business users safely access sensitive data? How can you improve policies and processes? What’s the best approach to securing data using technology? This event explores how to protect sensitive data while keeping it accessible to business users. |
February 21
Half Day |
eDiscovery & eHold |
Business and IT teams in regulated environments need to proactively manage processes for archiving and destroying e-mail, instant messages and other data. Explore the best and most cost-effective approaches to facilitating eDiscovery & eHold requirements to maintain compliance with federal rules and corporate policies. |
March 20
Full Day |
Channel: Driving Growth & Driving Revenue |
The channel faces a unique set of challenges in growing business. Not only must the solution provider have strong relationships with its customers, it must also have strong relationships with its vendor partners. This daylong event focuses on the issues surrounding the channel and how solution providers and vendors can work together to benefit the customer. |
March 27
Full Day |
Business Process Management |
Business process management (BPM) tools can turn business processes into assets that save money and time while adding value. How do you ensure that your BPM initiatives have the biggest impact on business operations? Learn how to navigate the roadblocks to a successful BPM implementation, including alignment of business and IT goals, needs assessment, vendor selection, staffing and identifying opportunities for quick wins to extend adoption across the enterprise. |
April 3
Full Day |
Managing Virtualization |
More companies are deploying server virtualization software, and virtualization of applications, desktops and hardware is also on the rise. Benefits include reduced power and cooling costs in data centers, lower costs for hardware, a smaller “footprint” in the data center and faster application deployment. Learn how to maximize your deployments with tips for migration, management, security and realizing ROI. |
May 22
Half Day |
Digital CIO Summit: The CIO Balancing Act – Manage Costs, Grow Business, Leverage Information, Lead People |
A turbulent global economy has ratcheted up the pressure on CIOs to manage more with less. Today’s global CIO is judged against performance standards that have direct influence on business success. As a result, CIOs continue to walk a delicate line and must have fundamental awareness of how their strategic leadership succeeds in four key performance areas: managing costs, growing business, leveraging information, and leading people. Our Digital CIO Summit will explore the interweaving nature of these four imperatives by getting first-hand insights on how CIOs are managing to balance responsibilities that at times may conflict, change from business unit to business unit, or become politicized. |
June 24
Full Day |
Information Security Priorities for SMEs |
SMEs lack the information security budgets of larger firms, but face the same onslaught of viruses, Trojans, worms and hackers. To help level the playing field, savvy spending strategies, effective privacy protection policies and compliance practices are critical. This event provides expert insight to help SMEs effectively allocate limited resources and to avoid wasting time and money on initiatives with minimal impact. |
July 10
Full Day |
Software-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & Web Services |
Does your software engineering framework adapt to changing business needs? More businesses are looking to SOA to increase agility, reduce complexity and efficiently reuse software assets. However, putting SOA into action can be challenging. Learn how to overcome strategic, technical, operational and policy challenges to keep your SOA and Web services initiatives on track. |
July 30
Full Day |
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity |
It’s not a question of if, but when, your systems are going down. Is your enterprise prepared? When a failure occurs, will your backup systems restore critical applications fast enough to keep the business running and minimize lost revenue, unhappy customers and brand damage? Learn how to determine the right level of protection, explore best practices to meet your recovery time objectives and get up to speed on the latest backup technologies. |
August 21
Full Day |
SME: Storage Virtualization Strategies |
Are SMEs missing out on storage virtualization? Not all of them. In fact, half of the enterprises polled recently by Forrester Research expect to adopt storage virtualization by 2009, with larger enterprises leading the way. Benefits include centralized management of storage devices, better utilization of storage, faster deployment and less downtime. But without a well-thought-out plan, productivity gains and cost savings can be elusive for SMEs. |
September 17
Full Day |
Security Solutions |
As enterprises enable remote workers, promote — or tolerate — collaborative tools and increase interdependence on global business partners, security challenges grow more complex. Get up to speed on effective strategies, processes, best practices and tools to keep data, clients, servers and mobile devices safe from both internal and external threats. |
