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2008 Green Business eSummit: Working Green and the Bottom Line
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Date: April 23, 2008
Discover how to work green while being profitable from the comfort of your office, you can listen to and interact with a roster of experts who have already implemented environmentally sound—and financially savvy—business practices. Don't miss this opportunity to:
- Experience live webinars from around the globe
- Explore how your organization can start working green
- Visit virtual booths and interact real-time with Green experts?
- Create your own summit binder with case studies, white papers, and more.
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Date: April 3, 2008
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. Join this Virtual Tradeshow to learn how to maximize your deployments with tips for migration, management, security and realizing ROI.
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Business Process Management
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Date: March 27, 2008
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.
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Meeting the Demands of the "Anywhere Enterprise"
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Date: March 25, 2008
The dispersed workforce, remote workers, mobile employees – what technology is being effectively deployed by the world’s leading companies to ensure that employees are productive and effective regardless of location. Voice-over-IP provided the initial change to what was possible, and now it is the VoIP-based applications that are driving organizational success. Learn about the latest innovations in IP business communications, pitfalls to avoid, trends, customer results; and the benefits it can provide your dispersed organization.
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Channel: Driving Growth & Driving Revenue
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Date: March 20, 2008
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.
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IBM Virtual Conference Series 2008
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Date: March 6, 2008
You need to make IT decisions that will drive business success. You face management challenges and technological complexity such as space constraints, power and cooling limitations, heterogeneous environments and I/O connectivity issues. You need to make an informed choice. It's IBM BladeCenter. Created to put you in touch with the experts, our Virtual Conferences cover a wide range of topics designed to help you make your choice.
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Date: February 21, 2008
Business and IT teams in regulated environments need to proactively manage processes for retrieving, archiving and destroying e-mail, instant messages and other data. During this half-day event, we will explore the best and most cost-effective approaches to satisfy federal eDiscovery rules.
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Date: February 7, 2008
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? During this one-day event we will explore how to protect sensitive data while keeping it accessible to business users.
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Cruising the Planet in '08
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Date: January 29, 2008
Set your PDA or PC calendar for this unique online experience! This event will take you to exciting new destinations and itineraries offered by leading cruise lines with additional insight from AAA Travel, the largest full service leisure travel agency. Whether you have never cruised before or have seen the world through a porthole, there is something for everyone. You won’t want to miss this!
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Webex Virtual Tradeshow: 2008 eLearning Summit
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Date: January 23, 2008
Join us for the 2008 eLearning Summit, sponsored by Webex, as industry experts examine the latest in online learning. During this day-long, interactive event guest experts will investigate the technologies and trends that are shaping the future of training, effective software rollout training, online training, live and on-demand eLearning solutions and discuss emerging trends in collaborative learning.
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Energy-Efficient IT & the Bottom Line
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Date: January 10, 2008
Eco-friendly policies generate good public relations, but the bottom line is that they can substantially cut energy consumption and infrastructure costs. Virtualization, multi-core processors, 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.” During this complimentary event we will explore policies, practices and technologies to cut costs, reduce power, and use resources more efficiently in the data center and beyond.
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The Next Stage of Information Lifecycle Management
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Date: December 19, 2007
Increasing storage efficiency and data security continue to be high priorities for organizations of all sizes. With storage virtualization, enterprise search and an increased emphasis on business intelligence, IT leaders have greater information lifecycle management (ILM) challenges, as well as more effective tools than ever before. This event will explore the latest trends in storage and ILM hardware and software.
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Inside the Secure Mobile Enterprise
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Date: November 28, 2007
Going mobile used to be about finding a hotspot at the airport. Today, it's just as likely to represent finding a hotspot in the conference room at headquarters. As organizations build out extensive wireless LAN infrastructures, they're creating always-on networked environments that change the way business gets done. At this day-long event, we'll investigate the hardware (both client and infrastructure), software, security and integration best practices surrounding the hottest trend in mobility today.
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Adapt and Evolve: Business Intelligence Gets Even Smarter
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Date: November 14, 2007
Enterprise business intelligence (BI) has been challenged by the explosive growth of unstructured data and the game-changing capabilities of service-oriented architectures. But the need for information and analysis is unrelenting, and many feel that BI tools are on the eve of a revolution … or at least an evolution. Join us for an in-depth look at the trends, challenges and players in the business intelligence market. Find out how organizations are using BI to drive their business processes and profit.
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Storage: Translating Information into Profit
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Date: October 31, 2007
Enterprise data volumes are growing by leaps and bounds, and businesses are turning to channel partners to help store, manage and protect their data. This day-long event will examine the latest trends and opportunities for the channel in storage and data management.
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Opportunity Talks: Unified Communications Comes of Age
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Date: October 10, 2007
Businesses are adopting unified communications systems in increasing numbers, drawn by both cost reductions and increased service options as companies look to do more with their existing networks. These trends are likely to continue as a growing community of vendors creates unified communications applications and as hardware becomes available to an even broader scope of businesses. This event will identify key software and hardware developments, and also will analyze security and bandwidth challenges and solutions.
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BMC Virtual Tradeshow: Demystifying ITIL V3
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Date: October 2, 2007
The most widely deployed IT best-practice framework is the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®). While ITIL V2 outlined what should be done in terms of process improvement, ITIL V3 provides guidelines on how it should be, and promises to be the most complete set of IT principles and disciplines. Attend this symposium to understand how ITIL V3 impacts service support, what it means to your organization and what your next steps should be to get your organization ITIL aligned quickly.
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2007 Digital Channel Summit
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Date: September 27, 2007
The Ziff Davis Enterprise Channel Summit is a one-of-a-kind conference at which solution providers will hear senior IT managers and business executives share their experiences and insights on the technology trends shaping purchasing decisions in 2007. Unlike industry conferences that are limited to industry-insider issues, our branded conference will provide attendees with advice on how to craft solutions that better anticipate the needs of those customers, thereby giving their companies a competitive edge.
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Security Solutions: Anytime, Anywhere: Focus on Data-Centric Security
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Date: September 26, 2007
Sophisticated attackers, mobile workers and rigid compliance requirements are forcing businesses to define a new approach to security. Layered outer defenses remain standard, but beyond that, organizations are searching for sure-fire ways to secure and monitor critical business data under all circumstances. Join us for an exploration of the latest endpoint defenses and the drive to create intrinsically secure data.
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Take Back Control: Managing Server and Storage Virtualization
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Date: September 20, 2007
Virtualization is growing quickly throughout the enterprise as businesses build flexible, efficient pools of server, storage and desktop resources. But as virtualized environments increase, organizations need more powerful tools to manage their increasingly complex deployments. This event will examine the latest strategies for simplifying and managing virtualization in the enterprise, including the latest advances in server and storage hardware and software.
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Taming the Storage Beast: Storage Management in the Enterprise
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Date: August 23, 2007
For IT departments, storage is addictive. You can't get enough, you buy it all the time — and install more and more in data centers, remote offices, and just about everywhere in your infrastructure. The downside is managing this critical system resource, which seems to spiral out of control despite your best efforts to keep it under control.
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How New Architectures Are Shaping Tomorrow's Business
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Date: July 25, 2007
Web services, service-oriented architectures, open source and software-as-a-service are changing the way applications are built and the way businesses are run. Meanwhile, the software industry has gone through consolidation and fragmentation. This event provides an IT roadmap to help build or acquire the applications required to support the business.
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Threat and Response: Viruses, Spam, and the New Rules of Message Security
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Date: June 28, 2007
Malicious, money-motivated attacks targeting employee e-mails and instant messages are rising in frequency and sophistication. The familiar hazards—spam, phishing, and viruses—show no signs of abating. And businesses are facing entirely new messaging security challenges as new communication channels like free instant messaging software open fresh and highly profitable avenues for criminals to exploit. Explore threats, trends, challenges and opportunities in messaging security.
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Products and Services for Small-to-Medium Enterprises |
Date: June 27, 2007
Sophisticated attackers, mobile workers and rigid compliance requirements are forcing businesses to define a new approach to security. Layered outer defenses remain standard, but beyond that, organizations are searching for sure-fire ways to secure and monitor critical business data under all circumstances. Join us for an exploration of the latest endpoint defenses and the drive to create intrinsically secure data.
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Half-Day: Business Unleashed — Driving Productivity in the Mobile Enterprise |
Date: May 31, 2007
As wireless-enabled notebooks and even smaller mobile devices penetrate the enterprise, fewer information workers are connecting to the network by plugging a cable into a wall jack. How can organizations provide the same secure access to mobile workers both inside and outside the enterprise? What infrastructure and strategy changes must IT leaders make to accommodate the increasingly mobile workforce?
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Secure, On-Demand Information for the Bulletproof Business |
Date: May 30, 2007
In the information-driven economy, data is your most valuable asset. Protecting that data is a constant challenge as business information must be simultaneously secure from interlopers and instantly available to authorized users — under any circumstances. Explore the critical space where information security and availability meet in order to protect your data and ensure business continuity.
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Half-Day: CIO Agents — License to Innovate |
Date: May 24, 2007
This online event leverages the face-to-face CIO Summit content to reach a large, qualified audience. Produced by the editors of eWEEK, Baseline and CIO Insight, the Ziff Davis CIO Summit is the only conference devoted to CIO-driven IT innovation. Our exclusive CIO Digital Summit broadcasts, via the web, the keynote sessions and panel discussion highlights from the two-and-a-half-day face-to-face summit on an innovative, interactive platform.
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How IT Can Be Environmentally Responsible and Remain Cost-Efficient |
Date: April 24, 2007
Does your organization shop for hardware that minimizes environmental waste and design energy-efficient data centers? Do you buy PCs that support power management policies and inform employees, "We aren't alone on this planet?" This event highlights ways your enterprise can join the "green IT" movement.
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The Efficiency Challenge: Storing, Managing and Protecting Data |
Date: March 27, 2007
Businesses are generating terabytes of data that they need to store, manage and retrieve. As a result, they're spending billions of dollars every year on storage solutions, a trend with no end in sight. As data volumes grow and storage takes an ever-larger bite out of IT budgets, forward-thinking businesses must develop strategies to build capacity efficiently. Learn how to classify, manage and ensure the integrity of your data to be responsive to evolving business needs.
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Migrating to Managed Services: Is the Channel Ready for the Next Phase of IT Services? |
Date: March 20, 2007
Imigration to managed services is taking the channel by storm, because it offers solution providers a source of recurring revenue and provides more control over customers. Learn how to navigate the changing managed services landscape and become one of the strongest players in the channel.
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Enabling Business Success in the Face of Threats |
Date: February 22, 2007
Today's security strategies are based on the need for carefully developed policies that evolve over time. Get up to speed on best practices in security management and how today's security tools help IT professionals and administrators establish, manage and document those policies.
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