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Data Center webcasts and technology videos for implementing and optimizing IT strategy, technology products, enterprise solutions, and more.

 
Live Webcasts
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LIVE Jun 20, 2012 01:00 PM ET
Sponsor: Citrix Systems
 
LIVE Jul 17, 2012 02:00 PM ET
Sponsor: Dell
 
Redefine Expectations in the Data Center

Need to do more with less? Watch this video to learn how HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help your business deploy servers three times faster; initiate problem anaysis five times faster; increase administrator productivity three times; and experience storage performance six times faster.

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Sponsor: HP & Intel


 

Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices

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.

Sponsor: Oracle and Intel


 

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.

Sponsor: BMC


 

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

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.

Sponsor: Oracle


 

Playing Defense: Staying on Top of Your Disaster Recovery Game

When it comes to disaster recovery, rapidly growing data volumes, distributed computing models, and new technologies all combine to present an ever-changing playing field. Safe recovery distances can also mean painfully slow replication and backup across the WAN. And then there are costs to consider.

Listen and watch as Nik Rouda, director of product marketing at Riverbed Technology, explains the latest disaster recovery technologies and cost savings strategies. You'll learn how to build a functional disaster recovery plan, how new technologies are changing the game, and how to make your own disaster recovery efforts more efficient.

Technology, explains the latest disaster recovery technologies and cost savings strategies. You'll learn how to build a functional disaster recovery plan, how new technologies are changing the game, and how to make your own disaster recovery efforts more efficient.

Sponsor: Riverbed


 

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. And underlying the right hardware is the right processors.

Sponsor: AMD


 

Which Applications Should You Virtualize First

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

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware


 

Improve Data Center Efficiency through Building-Performance Lighting and an Intelligent Infrastructure

Live Date/Time: May 02, 2012 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
IT managers are under pressure to improve efficiency in their data centers. Please join Redwood Systems, CommScope and MegaWatt Consulting to learn how building-performance lighting and intelligent infrastructure can be key contributors to your data center efficiency.

Sponsor: Redwood Systems