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The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without
At every IT site, efficiency is vital to both performance and economy. Diskeeper 2011 technology provides the automatic performance management which helps reduce energy consumption and extends the life of every system it is on. Click here to learn more

Sponsored By Diskeeper

The Stand: Cybersecurity
Cyberwar, advanced persistent threats and Stuxnet-like attacks are new elements that have become a part of the attack lexicon. See what the nature of today’s cybersecurity realities are and what government should be doing about them.Click here to learn more

Sponsored By Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics C4S, Lockheed Martin

Streamlining Freedom of Information Act Requests
Read this case study to learn how the FOIA team improved response times by 50 percent and reduced its FOIA backlog by 80 percent while handling over 16,000 new FOIA requests each year. “Clearwell has made our existing FOIA resources more efficient. Using Clearwell, we can meet our FOIA obligations more effectively, and personnel can focus on other priorities such as achieving [the Department’s] mission,” said the Department’s Chief FOIA Officer. Click here to learn more about how government agencies handle FOIA requests? Click here to download

Sponsored By Clearwell Systems

Transforming Government: A 21st Century Email Solution
Because Google develops new features, using its 100s of millions of Gmail users worldwide for rapid testing and feedback, government users receive a constant stream of immediately useful new features and tools, with minimal training required. Click here to learn more

Sponsored By Google

Mergers and Acquisitions: Impacts on AD and Exchange Infrastructures
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Time: 8am PT / 11am ET
Speaker: Nelson Ruest, Resolutions Enterprises

Dear Jorge:

After a merger or acquisition, IT is faced with the significant challenge of deciding what Active Directory (AD) and Exchange infrastructure to put in place for the new, combined entity.

There are three basic approaches to this:

• Continue maintaining two separate infrastructures
• Dump one system and consolidate everything into the other system
• Go with a completely new structure

Join us in a complimentary webcast where we will cover the most important considerations to take into account when analyzing and selecting the best integration strategy for your organization.  These techniques can help avoid irrevocable decisions and reduce the risks that an AD/Exchange restructuring will become a failure.

Learn how to develop a sure-fire restructuring strategy. Register today!

Sponsored by Quest Software

Please join Defense Systems and Flexera Software for this free webcast to learn how your organization can achieve significant IT cost reductions in your datacenter environments.

Software represents one third of the typical IT budget and datacenter applications are usually the most expensive component of software spend. That’s why datacenter license and maintenance fees offer the greatest potential for cost-savings in the software portfolio. Decreasing ongoing costs of multi-million dollar applications in the datacenter is a fundamental component of overall IT spend reduction.

Webcast: Optimized License Management For The Data Center
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 11:00am Eastern / 8:00 am Pacific
Speaker: Cyndi Tackett, Sr. Manager of Sales Engineering, Flexera Software
Moderartor: Steve Lesueur, Contributing Editor, 1105 Government Information Group

During this webcast you will learn how to meet these datacenter license management challenges:

• Heterogeneous / Multi-platform environments (Windows Server, UNIX, Linux);
• Complex License Models;
• Virtualization; and
• Complex License Entitlements.

And how to reduce datacenter software costs by:

• Applying product use rights to minimize license consumption
• Reducing ongoing maintenance costs
• Reducing the cost and risk of software audits by maintaining license compliance

.REGISTER NOW

This Defense Systems exclusive webcast is sponsored by Flexera Software

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online and Okta present:
Cloud First IT: Managing a Growing Network

SaaS applications enable companies to rapidly deploy powerful capabilities to a broad set of users at very low costs, but this very accessibility introduces a new set of organizational and technical challenges. Providing secure single sign-on (SSO) across applications becomes a real challenge when users can get access from any browser, at any time, from any place.

Read this white paper to learn about the challenges IT organizations face and how to manage them, including:

• Automating user and account provisioning and de-provisioning
• Integrating with on premise infrastructure like Active Directory
• Tracking and reporting on who has access to which application and with what permissions.

Download it now!

Virtualization Review and VMware present:

VMware View Optimization Guide for Windows 7
Many organizations have aggressive upgrade plans for their desktop operating systems but face a number of migration challenges, and are adopting VMware View and VMware ThinApp to cut the time and cost of Windows 7 migration by 50 percent, and to modernize their desktop infrastructures.

This optimization guide for Windows 7 provides desktop administrators with:

• Detailed recommendations for configuring standard Windows 7 images to be used within a VMware View environment
• Best practices for provisioning Windows 7 on virtual machines
• Step-by-step proceduress for virtualizing existing Windows 7 PCs already in use

Read it today!

Also this available this month from VMware:

• Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View
• The VMware Reference Architecture for Stateless Virtual Desktops with VMware View 4.5
• 50,000 Seat VMware View Deployment
• A Guide for Enterprise VMware ThinApp Deployments
• The Virtualization Imperative for Client Operating Systems Migration

Dear Jorge,

Did you know that giving your employees unrestricted Web access opens up your organization to significant damages from loss of employee productivity, decreased network bandwidth for business use, legal liability issues, and unintentional downloads of viruses and other malware?

Join us in this live webcast to learn how you can oversee employee Web usage and protect your organization from various Web-based threats.

Title: Web Monitoring - Drive Productivity and Secure Employees' Browsing
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Time: 11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern
Speaker: Michael Osterman, President, Osterman Research

We will address important issues such as:

• Productivity loss and security risks of personal Web surfing.
• Legal liabilities from offensive content or illegal music downloads.
• Improvement in behavior when employees know that Web surfing habits are being monitored.
• Web monitoring as an integral part of a Web usage feedback loop.
• Reduction in corporate risk, network bandwidth costs and wasted productivity with a granular, real-time Web monitoring solution.

Sign up today!

Sponsored by GFI Software

Dear Jorge,

Having a good software asset management strategy enables organizations to keep track of where and how its software licenses are being used. The result is reduced risk from licensing audits, better insight into usage, reduced cost of management, and more efficient allocation of licenses.

Learn more in this best practices webcast on software asset management.

Title: How Better Software License Management Can Drive Down Your Cost and Risk
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Time: 11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern
Speaker: Michael Osterman, President, Osterman Research

We will address important issues such as:

• How to identify all of the software on your network and create a software repository.
• How to tie your software repository into your software licensing contracts and purchase order process.
• How to drive down your software licensing costs through better identification and management of all of your software assets.
• How to lock down local administrators’ privileges in order to prevent unwanted software from being introduced into the network.
• How to reduce the probability of an audit and mitigate the risk of fines resulting from violation of software licensing agreements.

Sign up today!

Sponsored by ScriptLogic