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Upcoming Events
How growing businesses turn data into useful information and valuable insight
Date: Thursday 20 November 2008, 3.00pm GMT - Live Online
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary:
As small or medium-sized businesses start to grow, the range of software applications they use expands, and the volume of data collected increases enormously. Often, the fragmented nature of the IT systems that develop in this way can be a real hindrance to the success of the organisation.
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2008 Archived Events
How to improve business performance with data warehouse technology
Date: Thursday 30 October 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: All organisations are faced with managing rapidly-growing volumes of data
- and more importantly, turning it into meaningful business information.
The pressures on your IT infrastructure are increasing, and delivering
secure, high-performance, high-availability access to critical data is a
key challenge.
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Why Data Security Starts in the Database?
Date: Thursday 23 October 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In all the recent publicity about government and private sector data loss scandals, there has been a common thread – the need to control and audit when, where and how applications, information and databases are accessed, and by whom.
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How storage technologies can make your organisation more competitive
Date: Thursday 9 October 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: For many organisations, the ability to store and use innovative forms of content such as audio-video, photos, imaging, online communities and other emerging information sharing technologies is opening up new business opportunities. But the rapid growth in adoption of such content presents major challenges for IT managers.
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Is your IT department ready for the green red tape?
Date: Tuesday 30 September 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The emergence of increased environmental legislation is set to be one of the defining business issues of the next five years as governments the world over seek to develop the regulatory framework that can underpin the transition to a low carbon economy.
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How Web 2.0 technology can help growing firms to be more competitive
Date: Thursday 25 September 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Many large organisations have invested in Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, RSS and other online community tools to improve information sharing and knowledge management among staff, and to support better collaboration with external partners. But this technology also offers significant opportunities for mid-sized and growing businesses to work more effectively with customers and key suppliers.
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The datacentre challenge: How to cut costs, increase capacity and reduce complexity
Date: Thursday 18 September 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The datacentre is at the heart of successful IT delivery for every organisation - whether your systems occupy a purpose built facility or fit into a quiet corner of the office. But datacentres face a growing set of challenges - costs are spiralling as energy prices rise; complexity is holding back business flexibility and physical space restrictions are hindering growth. IT managers are under increasing pressure to get more from their existing resources.
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What the Business wants from Business Intelligence
Date: Wednesday 27 August 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Implementing business intelligence (BI) tools has been a top priority for IT managers for some time - but many organisations that have introduced such systems are yet to fully realise the potential benefits of their investment.
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Getting more intelligent business intelligence
Date: Thursday 3 July 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Business intelligence (BI) has been deployed at many organisations to ensure employees have access to key corporate data. However, some of the most valuable content within an organisation resides outside the BI system - in spreadsheets, emails and other unstructured data repositories, and some users might prefer to work with these familiar applications, proving a challenge for firms. Also key employees requiring access to this data might not be office-based or desk-bound. So which technology solutions are available to help firms address these issues?
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The data protection challenge: Delivering technology to protect and secure your information
Date: Thursday 19 June 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Privacy and data protection have become increasingly high-profile concerns for IT managers. HSBC has recently joined the likes of Nationwide Building Society, Norwich Union, Marks & Spencer and HM Revenue & Customs in losing customers’ sensitive personal information, and have suffered negative publicity as a result. But such problems are avoidable – and technology is available to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
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How to be more productive and competitive through collaboration technology
Date: Thursday 12 June 2008, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Better collaboration between employees and with external partners such as customers and suppliers can be an important way for mid-sized companies to make better use of resources and expertise from within and outside the firm.
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How to make technology more energy efficient with IT service management
Date: Thursday 15 May 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: IT service management (ITSM) and improving the energy efficiency of technology are two of the highest priorities for IT managers this year. But few organisations realise that these two objectives can be linked together to achieve operational improvements in both.
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Managing risk: The challenges for the public sector
Date: Thursday 17 April 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Managing Risk is programme of content focusing on the increasingly critical discipline of risk management, a topic that is rapidly moving up the priority list for senior IT decision-makers.
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How to build a flexible, high-performance data centre to support changing business requirements
Date: Thursday 10 April 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Technology delivery is central to the success of any organisation. Meeting higher availability and performance demands becomes ever more of a challenge. Adapting to the rapidly changing needs of the business puts further pressure on IT managers to build data centres that are flexible and cost-effective.
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How to improve productivity with business intelligence
Date: Tuesday 8 April 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Business intelligence (BI) has become an established tool for senior executives to manage and monitor their operations. The insight and analysis BI provides has proved a vital corporate asset for early adopters. But just imagine how much more productive your organisation could be if those insights were available to every relevant employee, whenever they need them.
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Managing business performance: How to make IT investment decisions that deliver rapid payback
Date: Thursday 27 March 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: With the Bank of England describing the current economic environment as the most challenging it has seen for a decade, investment decisions will only get harder to justify. But despite the tough times, directors cannot afford to switch off the investment tap entirely – especially when it comes to ensuring business systems remain effective.
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Cutting Costs and Improving Service in the Public Sector Through Virtualisation
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Virtualisation is one of the key tools that can help organisations to reduce their hardware costs; improve flexibility and responsiveness to change; and make employees more productive. A virtualisation strategy that also takes into account related technologies such as blade servers and storage is becoming central to many public sector IT departments' plans. And as green computing also becomes an increasingly important issue, virtualisation offers further benefits in terms of energy efficiency and environmental considerations.
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Managing risk: The challenges for companies
Date: Thursday 13 March 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Managing Risk is programme of content focusing on the increasingly critical discipline of risk management, a topic that is rapidly moving up the priority list for senior IT decision-makers.
The programme is based around two web seminars looking at the challenges facing the private and public sectors.
The programme is based around two web seminars looking at the challenges facing the private and public sectors.
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Do you know where your data is? How IT and legal teams can work together to address the implications of data protection
Date: Wednesday 12 March 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Data protection has long been an important issue for corporate IT and legal teams, but it has become an increasingly high-profile concern following HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million child benefit records, and other similar private sector revelations. Companies are realising that they are being exposed to a higher level of regulatory, legal and market risks from data being spread all across the organisation.
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How to improve business productivity through effective content management
Date: Tuesday 4 March 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The combined knowledge of an organisation is found in an increasingly diverse and complex network of systems and processes. As much as 80 per cent of the information needed for effective decision making is unstructured - such as email, documents, instant messaging, web data, images, video or audio - and the volumes are growing fast.
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Taking back Control
Date: Thursday 28 February 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: A wide variety of computing models beyond traditional rich clients are emerging for IT Managers to choose from. These new models include Virtual Hosted Desktops, OS and/or Application Streaming, Terminal/Presentation Server, Client Virtualization etc. with each one claiming benefits beyond those provided by traditional rich clients. The choice of compute model has implications both for hardware/software acquisition costs as well as on-going ownership costs.
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How business intelligence is changing and its effect on your IT strategy
Date: Thursday 21 February 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Business intelligence (BI) is well established as a priority area for IT decision-makers, and many organisations have invested in tools and technologies to better understand the performance of their operations. But the BI market is changing as mergers and acquisitions among the major suppliers take place in response to a rapidly shifting landscape.
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How to improve business productivity through unified communications
Date: Tuesday 5 February 2008, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Effective communication is at the heart of business - and personal - success. But modern communications are increasingly complex: take your pick from telephone, email, instant messaging, voicemail, fax, videoconferencing, voice over IP or mobile. You may have a favourite, but what does the person at the other end use, and how would you know? For the IT department, the challenge is being able to control all this choice.
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2007 Archived Events
Managing business performance: how to measure the value of IT
Date: Thursday 13 December 2007, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Tech-savvy finance directors expect IT purchases to be well justified by the IT leader and deliver value to the business. But how can that value be established? Traditional metrics such as return on investment have their place, but the true measure of IT is often more intangible.
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How to improve service delivery by managing your IT assets
Date: Thursday 15 November 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: As organisations place ever-greater reliance on technology, the quality of service delivered by the IT department has become a fundamental measure of a well-run unit. Standards such as ITIL are being widely adopted as a way to ensure that IT delivery teams are adopting best practice. But still some important questions remain that many IT managers struggle to answer.
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How to safeguard data in a small business environment
Date: Tuesday 13 November 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Most companies today take reasonable steps to safeguard their business from internet threats, with firewalls, antivirus and anti-phishing measures now commonplace. However, many firms focus on these networked threats while ignoring the risks posed by physical theft of data held on end-user IT devices.
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Computing career development web seminar
Date: Wednesday 03 October 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: IT employers agree that finding the right staff is becoming harder than ever, as skills shortages bite and competition for the best talent increases. For any IT professional, you need to have the best tools and knowledge at your disposal to make the decisions that will improve your ability find the job you want.
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Managing data overload - how virtualisation can help
Date: Tuesday 02 October 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Every IT manager knows that the amount of information they have to store is growing faster than ever. But where is all that data — on PC hard drives, servers, standalone storage devices, or all these and more? One of the biggest operational challenges for IT is to control that growth in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
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Going mobile: flexible working for SMEs
Date: Tuesday 25 September 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Organisations of all sizes are benefiting from the growing trend for mobile working. Staff can improve their work/life balance and become more motivated, while employers benefit from their increased productivity. With sales of laptop PCs outstripping desktops for the first time, it is clear that mobility is a high priority for IT decision-makers.
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Tackling the emerging threats in IT security
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The challenge of dealing with IT security threats becomes greater and more complex all the time. As organised crime increasingly targets firms’ technology vulnerabilities, and the threat of hackers and network attacks continues, IT managers need to be more aware than ever of the emerging threats and how to tackle them.
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IT and the environment in action - How to tackle the eWaste problem
Date: Wednesday 18 July 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the fourth and final part of our BusinessGreen web seminar programme, we examine the best practices required to ensure the environmentally friendly recycling and disposal of IT equipment.
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Managing IT in a global organisation
Date: Thursday 28 June 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: This Computing web seminar will examine the best practice in managing a global operation, debating IT and leadership issues such as outsourcing and localisation. Our expert panel will answer your questions and present a real-life case study from a major global organisation.
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IT and the environment in action - how businesses are proving their green credentials
Date: Wednesday 20 June 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: More than 130 organisations have shown their commitment to green IT by signing up to Computing’s seven-step green charter. In this web seminar, hosted by Computing, we discuss the real-life case studies of companies that have put environmental IT into action.
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Making governance and risk management a competitive strength
Date: Thursday 14 June 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: This Computing web seminar, in association with Oracle and Deloitte, will discuss best practices in managing governance, risk and compliance, and highlight how to develop the building blocks to turn theory into corporate best practice. Our panel of experts will address the key points and go on to answer your questions on successful governance.
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IT and the environment - How to build a green IT department
Date: Wednesday 23 May 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The second of our web seminars will discuss the technologies that can help deliver a greener IT department and a greener business.
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IT and the environment - the business case for green computing
Date: Thursday 3 May 2007, 3.00pm BST
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the first of our series of four BusinessGreen web seminars, we will discuss the reasons why the environment has become so important to business, and introduce a seven-step plan to improve your green credentials.
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How IT innovation can accelerate your growth
Date: Thursday 26 April 2007, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In this Computing SMB debate our panel of experts will examine three key aspects of IT innovation and provide their advice on the best practice in making technology work for your business. The panel will also answer your questions on how to grow through the use of technology.
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Improving IT performance for the distributed organisation
Date: Thursday 22 March 2007, 3.00pm GMT
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: This Computing web seminar will examine the challenges of managing networks across geographically distributed organisations, and discuss best practices for delivering optimum performance to all users of critical business applications. Real-life case studies will highlight the benefits of using the latest technology to improve application performance, and delegates will have the chance to question our expert panel about their own IT challenges.
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Going for growth: How SMEs can meet customer demands through IT
Date: Thursday 22 February 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Small and medium sized businesses are facing a growing challenge in storing, accessing and managing the increasingly diverse forms of information essential to their operations.
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The future of business intelligence - delivering the benefits today
Date: Thursday 15 February 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In today's global business environment, communication is central to the success of any organisation. Research suggests that six out of 10 users think email is now more important than the telephone. You need instant access to information, colleagues and partners - whenever and wherever you are - or you risk losing touch and losing customers.
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Developing a secure email and instant messaging strategy to counter emerging threats, today & for tomorrow
Date: Thursday 01 February 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In this Computing web seminar, our panel of experts will highlight the latest tools and technologies and the benefits of a proven process to securely manage your email and instant messaging infrastructure. As hackers, fraudsters and even industrial espionage increasingly target electronic communications, we will discuss the strategies that allow you to protect your organisation today against the threats of tomorrow – and enable you to keep consistently secure and compliant.
Real life case studies will demonstrate how to make your strategy a success. There will also be an opportunity to ask the panel questions.
Real life case studies will demonstrate how to make your strategy a success. There will also be an opportunity to ask the panel questions.
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Planning for data centre growth through improved infrastructure management
Date: Thursday 25 January 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In this Computing web seminar, we will examine the best practice in managing your underlying data centre infrastructure. The event will help
you to answer questions such as: Do I have enough power to support my data
centre growth plans? How do I know if there is enough spare capacity? And how
can I best manage a changing data centre environment?
Our panel of experts will discuss how to control this vital part of your infrastructure, and answer your questions on this important area for data centre managers.
Our panel of experts will discuss how to control this vital part of your infrastructure, and answer your questions on this important area for data centre managers.
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Coding control: how to bring in agility and avoid fragility through software configuration management
Date: Tuesday 16 January 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Outsourcing, remote working and the increasingly global nature of many organisations have combined to make the software development process more complex than ever. Developers working in different time zones, poor visibility of the state of the project, inability to review earlier builds, and general lack of control are common complaints.
In this IT Week web seminar, we look at why many organisations are turning to SCM to help align the software development process with the requirements of the business and the steps IT management should take to implement it effectively.
In this IT Week web seminar, we look at why many organisations are turning to SCM to help align the software development process with the requirements of the business and the steps IT management should take to implement it effectively.
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Relieving the desktop management burden
Date: Wednesday 10 January 2007
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Managing fleets of PCs has never been an easy task, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that have few IT staff. Helpdesk call-outs, software updates and security concerns all contribute to the administration load. Very often, companies can’t even count the number of systems on the network.
However, the good news is that taking a hands-free approach to desktop and laptop manageability is now a realistic option.
However, the good news is that taking a hands-free approach to desktop and laptop manageability is now a realistic option.
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2006 Archived Events
Developing a secure backup and recovery strategy for the rapid growth of unstructured data
Date: Wednesday 13 December 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Small and medium sized businesses are facing a growing challenge in storing, accessing and managing the increasingly diverse forms of information essential to their operations.
In this Computing webseminar, our panel of experts will discuss the trends, tools and technologies required to deliver a successful backup strategy that allows firms to make the most of the wealth of information they hold.
In this Computing webseminar, our panel of experts will discuss the trends, tools and technologies required to deliver a successful backup strategy that allows firms to make the most of the wealth of information they hold.
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Delivering software that meets business needs – aligning requirements with the testing process
Date: Thursday 7 December 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: One of the most common complaints about IT projects is that they don’t deliver what the business wanted. Somewhere between the capturing of requirements and the delivery of software, the necessary alignment between business and IT goes awry. Organisations often know that a gap exists, but do not know how to close it.
In this Computing web seminar, our panel of experts will highlight the benefits of a proven process to consistently deliver quality software that meets business needs, with real life examples to demonstrate its success. There will also be an opportunity to ask the panel your questions.
In this Computing web seminar, our panel of experts will highlight the benefits of a proven process to consistently deliver quality software that meets business needs, with real life examples to demonstrate its success. There will also be an opportunity to ask the panel your questions.
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How to develop a 21st century printer strategy. Without complexity.
Date: Thursday 30 November 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In our 37th Computing webseminar, we look at the issues around developing a printer strategy and purchasing plan that takes into account the latest technology and supports the real needs of the business. Our expert panel will examine the questions that every print buyer should ask, and identify the key areas where savings and improvements can be made.
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Coping with the data explosion – it’s about more than just storage
Date: Thursday 16 November 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: This Computing web seminar will examine the principles and best practice of ILM, looking at the emerging trends and technologies that promise to bring enormous cost benefits to IT operations and ensure optimum use of data throughout the organisation.
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The SMB IT priorities debate
Date: Thursday 19 October 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the latest of our series of Web Seminars, we discuss the key questions facing SMB business and IT decision makers, and answer your questions on successful IT strategies and innovating with IT. A panel of experts will provide market research as well as case studies.
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Virtualisation: how to cut costs and increase IT efficiency
UK Event: Thursday 12 October 2006
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Dutch Event: Thursday 16 November 2006
German Event: Wednesday 15 November 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary:In the latest of our series of web seminars, we examine the tools and technologies needed for IT departments to adopt virtualisation technology in their infrastructure. Our panel of experts will discuss the practical issues around introducing virtualisation, and highlight the key business benefits through real-life user case studies. This event will help IT managers to develop a roadmap to virtualised IT.
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Building an ILM strategy to enable secure storage and efficient retrieval of business data
Date: Thursday 29 June 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the latest of our series of web seminars, we look at the role of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and its relationship with storage within the mid-market business and public sector environments.
Managing information is a complex and ongoing problem for businesses of all sizes, but particularly the middle market, for which storage and data management has only recently become a major IT consideration.
It is becoming increasingly important to capitalise on business information, extracting useable asset value from electronic and physical data, but at the same time finding ways to sustain compliance and corporate governance while controlling costs and retaining effective management control of the growing data mountain.
Managing information is a complex and ongoing problem for businesses of all sizes, but particularly the middle market, for which storage and data management has only recently become a major IT consideration.
It is becoming increasingly important to capitalise on business information, extracting useable asset value from electronic and physical data, but at the same time finding ways to sustain compliance and corporate governance while controlling costs and retaining effective management control of the growing data mountain.
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Data Security for the modern enterprise
Date: Thursday 07 June 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the latest of our series of web seminars, we look at data security in the enterprise, and how new approaches to IT security can help you meet new compliance and best practice requirements.
With new considerations and accountability for businesses to consider, they must remain aware that the total cost to the business, in financial, productivity and practicality terms, of securing data and systems does not overly outweigh the cost to the business of a security breach.
Increased regulation worldwide has resulted in greater emphasis on the accountability of the board and the IT department, who both must demonstrate that they are protecting corporate information effectively and insulating the company from unnecessary risk and exposure to liability.
With new considerations and accountability for businesses to consider, they must remain aware that the total cost to the business, in financial, productivity and practicality terms, of securing data and systems does not overly outweigh the cost to the business of a security breach.
Increased regulation worldwide has resulted in greater emphasis on the accountability of the board and the IT department, who both must demonstrate that they are protecting corporate information effectively and insulating the company from unnecessary risk and exposure to liability.
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Asset Management: Managing Software Licensing and Cost
Date: Tuesday 23 May 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The potential benefits and importance of managing software as well as hardware assets effectively has been highlighted over recent years as companies have struggled to balance tightening IT budgets with the needs of their users.
Research from Gartner Group has also shown that effective management of software assets and licenses can reduce average IT expenditure by between 10 and 30 percent. Again this is in addition to Hardware asset management.
Further, companies that do not manage their software assets effectively continue to fall foul of the software industry’s attempts to identify and prosecute software pirates.
In the latest of our series of web seminars, we look at the role of asset management to manage software within the enterprise, and how it can serve as a tool to save money and improve IT resource management.
Further, companies that do not manage their software assets effectively continue to fall foul of the software industry’s attempts to identify and prosecute software pirates.
In the latest of our series of web seminars, we look at the role of asset management to manage software within the enterprise, and how it can serve as a tool to save money and improve IT resource management.
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3G - where next? The opportunity for UK business and IT professionals
Date: Thursday 18 May 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: 3G has been available in the UK for more than three years, and its use by both businesses and the public sector is growing steadily as organisations recognise the benefits that mobile working delivers. However, there is still some confusion as to what 3G has to offer, especially as advertising tends to concentrate mostly on consumer applications such as music downloads, video calling and mobile television.
This Computing web seminar will look at the latest 3G trends and technologies, discussing how they relate to IT managers and the benefits they can realise. As wireless networking and mobility become everyday tools for IT users, we examine the future for 3G for business.
This Computing web seminar will look at the latest 3G trends and technologies, discussing how they relate to IT managers and the benefits they can realise. As wireless networking and mobility become everyday tools for IT users, we examine the future for 3G for business.
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Is your backup data going to be there when you need it most?
Date: Wednesday 10 May 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Not a week goes by without news reports of yet another high-profile business losing its critical information via misplaced or stolen backup tapes. Thousands of businesses continue to make significant tape library investments without looking at alternative backup technology. Tape may not always be the right option for some of the more mission-critical information within an organization. Disk-based backup solutions are on the increase – working alongside tape, providing a more robust and compliant backup and archival solution.
This web seminar looks at the backup and archiving technology options available today. And will show you how you can accelerate backup and restores—and ensure the compliant recoverability of your critical business information without further complicating an already complex IT infrastructure.
This web seminar looks at the backup and archiving technology options available today. And will show you how you can accelerate backup and restores—and ensure the compliant recoverability of your critical business information without further complicating an already complex IT infrastructure.
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SMEs & the Future of IT
Date: Wednesday 03 May 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the latest of our Computing Web Seminars we look at SMEs & the Future of IT: How IT can improve the performance of small to medium sized enterprises in order to assist them in achieving their objective.
We will have a panel of industry experts including Jim Norton and Doug Richard and a case study that will reveal current trends/attitudes in the UK Plc, whilst looking forward to how technology and business will further adapt. You will also have the chance to ask our panel of experts your questions. So the question is, can you afford not to join?
We will have a panel of industry experts including Jim Norton and Doug Richard and a case study that will reveal current trends/attitudes in the UK Plc, whilst looking forward to how technology and business will further adapt. You will also have the chance to ask our panel of experts your questions. So the question is, can you afford not to join?
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How much learning can you have in an online learning environment?
Date: Wednesday 12 April 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: The popularity of Online Higher Education is increasing as many professionals, struggling with ever-more-demanding lifestyles, see it is a valid alternative to on-campus study. This web seminar will examine how online education providers have learned from their early efforts. They’ve realised that some of the core aspects in delivering successful online programmes include a high level of interaction, support, and content that evolves.
Join a panel of experts at this IT Week web seminar to determine the state of online education today.
Join a panel of experts at this IT Week web seminar to determine the state of online education today.
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Virtualisation for the datacentre: Maximising value from your enterprise IT
Date: Wednesday 29 March 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: In the latest of our series of web seminars, sponsored by Dell, we look at the role of virtualisation in the data centre, and how virtual servers can be an important tool in improving IT efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
The data centre has become critical to the effective operation of most larger organisations, but with more mission-critical back-office applications demanding, often unnecessarily, dedicated resources in order to operate, IT departments face the genuine problem of the data centre filling up with a multitude of under-utilised server hardware and a glut of storage.
Who should log-in and listen? Anyone with a responsibility for the management of mission-critical IT, and those responsible for IT budget management and IT investment within the organisation.
The data centre has become critical to the effective operation of most larger organisations, but with more mission-critical back-office applications demanding, often unnecessarily, dedicated resources in order to operate, IT departments face the genuine problem of the data centre filling up with a multitude of under-utilised server hardware and a glut of storage.
Who should log-in and listen? Anyone with a responsibility for the management of mission-critical IT, and those responsible for IT budget management and IT investment within the organisation.
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IT Governance: Driving business value
Date: Thursday 23 March 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Balancing business requirements with scarce IT resources is one of the biggest challenges for CIOs. Managing your portfolio of projects to deliver real value and return on investment requires effective control of people, processes and technology.
The emerging field of IT governance offers a potential solution, providing a set of tools and techniques that can help CIOs achieve better visibility of the critical activities for which they are responsible, while making best use of available resources.
This Computing web seminar will examine the best practice in aligning IT with organisational needs to deliver measurable business benefits, with advice from industry experts and case studies on effective IT governance.
The emerging field of IT governance offers a potential solution, providing a set of tools and techniques that can help CIOs achieve better visibility of the critical activities for which they are responsible, while making best use of available resources.
This Computing web seminar will examine the best practice in aligning IT with organisational needs to deliver measurable business benefits, with advice from industry experts and case studies on effective IT governance.
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Using grid computing to create the sustainable data centre
Date: Wednesday 25 January 2006
Duration: One Hour
Event Summary: Are emerging technologies giving you a new set of data management challenges? Is your data centre facing overload, thanks to ebusiness, RFID, voIP and mobile working? Do you need greater flexibility? Are you under pressure to minimise environmental impact? This web seminar will examine how grid computing can help IT Directors to meet the rapidly changing needs of the data centre with real-life examples of how grid systems are working.
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WEB SEMINARS FAQ
What's a web seminar?
An online video or audio event providing critical information to IT and business professionals.
What are the benefits?
You can access the event from your office or home. No travelling time or expenses: just one hour out of your busy working day.
What subjects are covered?
Incisive editors moderate the webcasts to deliver only relevant and independent information. Subjects include hot topics, key issues, new technologies and VIP interviews.
Are the events live?
Yes. Many of the Incisive Web Seminars offer the opportunity to interact with the speakers, participate in polls or submit questions - all in real time.
How do I participate?
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What technology do I need?
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What other information is available?
Each webcast offers case studies, research reports, white papers and speaker biographies.
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