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Why We Do Backups and Do We Even Know How to Use Them? |
Your computer |
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Everyone understands the importance of backups to protect your organizations data in the event of data loss through system failure or human error however many companies perform basic system level backups and have never tried to actually use their backup nor understand the correct process. In this session we explore the importance of application-aware backup capabilities which enable very granular levels of restoration but also best practices around when to backup, what to backup, how restore processes work for many different scenarios and how we should be testing them regularly. We will look at some organizations recovery stories and exactly how they achieved rapid restores with no data loss. ( Topic: Backup & Recovery/High Availability ) |
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The Increasing Threat of Financially Motivated Data Theft |
Your computer |
Feb 11, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
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It seems like computer security used to be about fighting teenagers trying to get bragging rights by vandalizing your website or combating nihilistic virus creators bent on wreaking havoc just because they can. That’s all changed in recent years as news report after news report bears out the fact that the bad guys we are up against today are much more sophisticated and motivated by money. For instance, if you read between the lines of many software security advisories, you see that companies are being individually targeted by purpose-built malware. In this one-hour Web seminar, Randy Franklin Smith will explore the increasing threat of financially motivated data theft, examine examples in the media and discuss how this trend should affects your security practices and countermeasures especially in terms of endpoint, data and document security. This informative event will help you hone your defenses against the latest threats. ( Topic: Security ) |
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Protecting SQL Server Data |
Your computer |
Feb 17, 2010 |
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How protected is your mission-critical data? Are you ready for any kind of outage? If not, what will the cost be to your business, and can your business (and your resume) afford it? Join SQL Server expert, consultant, and author Michael K. Campbell for an independent overview of key considerations for protecting SQL Server data within your organization. By attending this web seminar you'll gain quick insights and understanding of the key problems and challenges associated with protecting your data. You'll also gain an understanding of better ways to make your data highly available while also learning about core considerations for creating and successfully implementing disaster recovery plans. ( Topic: SQL Server & Database Administration ) |
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Delivering Self-Service BI with SQL Server |
Your computer |
Feb 18, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
SQL Server Magazine |
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In this Webcast, you will learn how to:
• Provide business users at every level the information they need to make better decisions
• Enable a new world of discovery and insights for your organization powered by visual analytics
• Easily build and share dashboards without programmers or consultants required
• Rapidly configure and deploy a live connection to your SQL Server database for analytics ( Topic: SQL Server & Database Administration ) |
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How to Achieve Flexible Desktop Lockdown |
Your computer |
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Companies take the matter of protecting and securing their laptop and desktop environment quite seriously. However, most compliance approaches require the OS to be completely locked down. This approach limits an end-user’s full desktop experience and can prove to be unproductive. Darren Mar-Elia, who has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and software development, will explore the various methods you should consider to protect and control your desktops while also understanding the impact on the end user community.
Next, Alex Shoykhet, Viewfinity’s Director of Product Management, will discuss a flexible approach designed by Viewfinity that addresses the entire scope of how you can lock down your environment without creating unnecessary restrictions on the end user. Through the use of automated policy settings, lockdown policies can be applied for multiple dimensions of configurable, logical groupings: departments, applications, end users, connectivity status, time of day and more. Alex will demonstrate the following Viewfinity features:
• Privilege Elevation and Management
• Whitelisting
• Application Blocking
• Configurable Compliance Policy management ( Topic: Windows OSs ) |
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[On-Demand Events] |
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New Year Savings Plan: How to get more out of your backup with new technologies like data deduplication, server virtualization and others |
Your computer |
Jan 28, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
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Attend this discussion to learn how the following features may help you in 2010:
• Data Deduplication - How can I utilize dedupe in my current storage environment?
• Server Virtualization – How can I achieve the costs savings without ending up with a management headache?
• Reporting – How can I use my backup product for reporting to achieve Proactive Problem Avoidance?
• Snapshot Backup – Can I actually reduce my backup window?
• Bare Metal Restore - How can I quickly recover a crashed server?
• Upcoming technologies:
o Infinite incremental backup, what’s this and how does it help me?
o Others? ( Topic: Backup & Recovery/High Availability ) |
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Top 5 Key Technologies Changing The Face of Exchange and Data Protection |
Your computer |
Jan 27, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
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Data protection is critical to messaging and collaboration systems. As the backbone of your company’s messaging environment, your Exchange data needs to be protected against loss or damage—but what’s the best way to do so? This webcast will identify the overall needs and challenges in Exchange data protection, talk about key technologies that help you protect your data, examine how Exchange 2010 is changing the way we design and implement Exchange data protection, and identify what these products and technologies don’t do so that you’ll know how to ensure that your data’s protected. ( Topic: Exchange & Outlook ) |
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Reduce Fax Costs by Virtualization |
Your computer |
Jan 19, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
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Presented by Instant InfoSystems and Dialogic
The goal of this webinar is to discover the benefits of Fax over IP. The webinar will review why, how and when an organization should consider virtualizing their network and who can benefit from making the migration.
Register Today! ( Topic: Windows OSs ) |
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Database Schemas: Getting It Right the First Time |
Your computer |
Jan 6, 2010 |
Web Seminar |
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Data quality suffers in many organizations because of
• Lack of formalized standards
• Lack of organization
• Lack of repeatable processes
In the world of databases, “getting it right” is a phrase filled with ambiguity, for who can say what “right” truly is? Frankly, it’s a lot easier to spot “bad” or “not right” database schemas than it is to confirm that a database schema is “right.” While schema design is the foundation of a well-performing database, you're missing opportunities if schema design doesn’t also take database performance, administration, and backup/recovery into consideration.
Database modeling and design is at the core of a healthy database management and performance foundation. Getting it right the first time will enhance the bottom line in a variety of ways.
Join Industry Expert Michelle Poolet, a regular contributor to SQL Server Magazine and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Denver, in an informative webcast discussion. You'll learn how to:
• Eliminate haphazard approaches to maintaining data
• Minimize maintenance and upkeep of the database schema
• Optimize data retrieval for graphs and reports
• Ensure data accuracy and reliability
• Support corporate goals and evolving business initiatives, allowing the company to respond more quickly and precisely to new business opportunities and competitive threats ( Topic: SQL Server & Database Administration ) |
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Real World Applications of Storage Strategy |
Your computer |
Dec 17, 2009 |
Web Seminar |
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Specifically, attendees at this interactive discussion will learn about:
• The definition of a disruptive event
• The disrupted services impact to business, including data loss/corruption and what data protection measures should be available to mitigate the disruption
• How to restore data to tape from a DR test, and how to test your DR configuration on a regular basis without impacting production
• What are the benefits of a 3-tier architecture in my BC plan?
• If I have multiple sites to protect, how do I best do that to maximize my current investment?
• I’d like a view into all of the sites, and an easy report that I can show my management on how our BC plan is running – how can I accomplish this reporting in a simple/easy way? ( Topic: Backup & Recovery/High Availability ) |
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