Webcasts

Optimizing Networks for the Cloud

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."

Sponsor: HP

Apps QuickStart Series Part 2: Designing and Deploying SQL Server on VMware vSphere

Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations

Sponsor: VMware

Apps QuickStart Series Part 1: Designing and Deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere

Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and disaster recovery and support considerations.

Sponsor: VMware

Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware

Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.

Sponsor: VMware

Virtualize Business-Critical Applications with Confidence

Virtualizing business-critical applications has become a key focus for organizations as they move along their virtualization journey. With the launch of VMware vSphere® 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate the deployment of business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP and Oracle.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- New capabilities in vSphere 5 to virtualize business-critical applications
- Customer stories of successful virtualization of Oracle and SQL
- How vSphere 5 provides simplified disaster recovery, efficient automated operations and app security

Sponsor: VMware

Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices

Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Best practices for virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle applications
- Customer case studies that provide insight into industry trends
- Planning your own roadmap to virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle applications

Sponsor: VMware

Discover the Benefits of Virtualization for Federal Applications

Want to say goodbye to missed SLAs? VMware can help you virtualize mission-critical applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange and SharePoint to achieve dramatic improvements in uptime, performance and responsiveness.

In this webcast, we'll discuss the key benefits of virtualizing your agency's most critical applications and Oracle databases as a necessary first step in fulfilling OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud. With VMware, you'll be on the way to quick, effective and full compliance.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware can help you:
- Virtualize your agency's applications and Oracle databases as a first step towards compliance with OMB's mandate to move IT services to the cloud.
- Consolidate your infrastructure by up to 10x and comply with the Presidential mandate to reduce the number of datacenters by 40 percent by 2015.
- Dramatically decrease power and cooling requirements in the datacenter and comply with the Presidential mandate to reduce IT energy consumption by 20 percent.

Sponsor: VMware

Reduce Application Lifecycle Management Costs with VMware ThinApp

Traditional desktop application deployment and management is a time-consuming and costly endeavor for IT. From development to deployment, including help desk support, the entire lifecycle of applications consumes a significant portion of the IT budget. While many tools exist to help with each phase of the application lifecycle, managing desktop applications to production is still a heavy task for administrators.

By enabling enterprises to manage and deliver applications from a central source, VMware ThinApp™ streamlines application security, updates, patches and performance while delivering applications instantly to nearly any device. The result is significantly reduced application management costs of up to 60 percent.

View this webcast to learn how you can:
- Identify at least three areas of savings in the application lifecycle
- Adopt application virtualization with VMware ThinApp without impacting existing infrastructure for additional cost savings
- Quantify potential savings with total cost of ownership (TCO) calculators

Sponsor: VMware

Virtual Desktop Solutions in the Federal Government

Federal IT managers are on the forefront of realizing the benefits that a secure, easy-to-manage virtual desktop environment can provide. The key is how to deliver the end-user experience that is comparable to a physical desktop. This webcast will show how the recently released VMware View 5 environment is being used to deploy virtual desktops to provide mission-critical solutions around Disaster Recover/COOP, telework and secure mobile applications to federal organizations. Hear about the latest developments at the VAAA, Peace Corps and an Indian Health Agency using VMware desktop solutions to:
- Create rapid and scalable classroom and training environments across geographies
- Enable federal employees and contractors to telework efficiently and securely during unplanned and planned outages
- Support doctors at DoD Medical and VA hospitals to access Electronic Health Records (EHR) from home through iPads and other mobile devices
View this webcast and learn:
- How new features and benefits of the VMware View 5 environment meet the needs of Federal customers
- Top challenges of rolling out a VDI in your environment
- How to get virtual desktops on a physical desktop budget

Sponsor: VMware

Introduction to VMware View 5

VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
- Simplify and automate IT management, security and control of desktop services
- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment

Sponsor: VMware

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business

Sponsor: VMware

Reliable Disaster Protection with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

A simple, cost-effective disaster-recovery solution for virtual environments is high on the agenda for IT organizations as they virtualize more business-critical applications with VMware. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager-the market-leading disaster-recovery product-ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables nondisruptive testing and automates site-failover processes.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager can help you:
- Ensure fast, highly predictable recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) with automated failover that eliminates the risk inherent in manual processes
- Enable frequent, nondisruptive testing of recovery plans to ensure they meet business requirements
- Fulfill compliance requirements with documented recovery plans and test results

Sponsor: VMware

Introduction to VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5

Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth its cost. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market-leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds. It complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager can help you:
- Replicate virtual machines to a secondary site using simple and cost-effective vSphere Replication
- Replace traditional error-prone manual runbooks with automated recovery plans
- Enable frequent non-disruptive testing of recovery plans to ensure they meet their business requirements
- Automate site recovery and migration processes to ensure fast and reliable recovery
- Streamline planned migrations and preventive failovers

Sponsor: VMware

Preventing Unplanned Downtime with Server Virtualization

The benefits of server virtualization extend far beyond infrastructure savings and server consolidation. An emerging technology trend is for IT managers worldwide to deploy virtualization to keep applications online and protect their businesses from unforeseen events.

Attend this webcast to learn how VMware virtualization solutions:
- Enable business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)
- Provide a cost-effective approach to BCDR
- Start you on the path to cloud computing

Sponsor: VMware

Introduction to Virtualization

This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. The session will start with the introduction of the key concepts and technologies of virtualization, introduce the vSphere Hypervisor, and build up to an overview of VMware vSphere® 5, the world's most robust and complete virtualization platform. This session will also discuss new solutions such as the vSphere Storage Appliance and VMware GO that are making it easier than ever before to get started with virtualization.

Attend this video webcast to learn how virtualization from VMware can help you:
- Learn the core technologies and principles of virtualization that lead to business results
- Discover the VMware products and solutions that are right for your business
- Get started today with VMware GO and the vSphere Hypervisor

Sponsor: VMware

The Top Ten Secrets to Avoiding SAN Performance Problems

Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. Learn the most common SAN problems and explore new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Sponsor: Virtual Instruments

De-risk Deploying Business Critical Apps in Your Private Cloud

Architect your private clouds to ensure that application requirements for performance & availability are achieved with minimal risk to the business. Learn best practices to de-risking your virtual and SAN infrastructure before moving mission-critical applications to production in your private cloud.

Sponsor: Virtual Instruments

Banking on the Mainframe

Live Date/Time: February 23, 2012 - 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST

Banking applications continue to stand the test of time -- these applications are typically mainframe-based and many are in excess of 20 years old. Given the ongoing discussions on application replacement, banking transformation, and application re-hosting, we are witnessing key trends in retail/wholesale banking and financial markets in the area of solution design. These trends directly tie to a desire to reuse existing IT assets and to support evolving requirements including mobile, social computing and multichannel solutions. Additionally, we see these trends shaped by emerging regulatory activity (such as Dodd-Frank, Basel III, AML and FATCA) which require solutions that are more manageable and adaptable to the changing and competitive financial services landscape. This presentation will look at these issues and provide examples on how banks and financial market clients are responding to these challenges.

Sponsor: IBM

Banish Poor Application Performance: Eliminate Business Disruptions, Increase End User Productivity

End User Experience, 30-Min Webinar
Wed. Feb. 22nd ~ 11 AM ET

Are you ready to gain the proactive ability to rapidly respond to end user problems (before they call the help desk)? Then you won't want to miss a special webinar that will show you the latest innovation in end user monitoring. Register today for a 30-minute webinar hosted by Aternity - the company that redefines real end user experience management. Aternity will showcase its latest release - Version 5.0 of its Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform - during the webinar.

As a special bonus, all webinar registrants will receive a copy of Aternity's newest whitepaper on Monitoring End User Experience in VDI Environments.

Sponsor: Aternity

Spear Phishing and the Modern Cyber Attack

Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks. Learn how spear phishing works and three recommendations for IT to protect against modern threats.

Sponsor: Bit9

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