Learn how file virtualization is revolutionizing file management for companies around the world by simplifying the complexity and cost of managing burgeoning file data. You'll get an end-user's perspective from Sean Maisey, Manager, IT Operations and Engineering, who has successfully implemented this technology to help The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation successfully management over 40 terabytes of storage. You also get insights into current and future trends from Dave Russell, Research Vice President at Gartner and learn why so many companies are breaking free from the constraints of today's storage infrastructures by implementing intelligent file virtualization solutions from Acopia Networks, the leading provider of intelligent file virtualization solutions.

Sponsored by: Acopia
Speakers: Dave Russell, Sean Maisey, Kirby Wadsworth
Type: Video (18 minutes)

Hear experts from Gartner and Longview discuss the many advantages Corporate Performance Management (CPM) offers, including: A closed-loop approach to metrics, planning and reporting; Consistency in business processes; Alignment between top-level goals and bottom-level objectives; And a more uniform approach to information gathering and control.

Sponsored by: Longview
Speakers: John Van Decker, John Power, Chris Poinsatte
Type: Video (36 minutes)

Corporations today need to focus early on an overall records and retention management process to remain compliant in their business processes and corporate disclosure practices, as well as to be able to survive possible litigation. In this webcast, thought leaders from Gartner, Protiviti and the law firm O'Melveny & Myers discuss the benefits of a unified approach to records management and the key criteria for selecting a records management system.

Sponsored by: Stellent
Speakers: Kenneth Chin, Victor Owuor, Paul Sachs, Frank Wu, Amy Longo
Type: Video (30 minutes)

Organizations today are struggling with an explosion of information. At the same time, they must deal with increased regulatory oversight and risk of litigation. This raises a difficult question for IT managers: How does one keep information that might be needed to manage risk, while controlling runaway storage and management costs? More and more, the answer to that question is Archiving.

Sponsored by: IBM
Speakers: Carolyn DiCenzo, Laura Sanders, Cindy Grossman, Jon Prial
Type: Video (38 minutes)

Critical business initiatives such as single view of a customer, business intelligence, supply chain management, and Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance require consistent, complete, and trustworthy information. Watch this program now to learn how IBM Information Server helps companies to integrate information in order to deliver business results within these initiatives faster and with higher quality results.

Sponsored by: IBM
Speakers: Ted Friedman, Peter Fiore
Type: Video (17 minutes)

In order to meet the challenges of cost, time, and control, enterprises must implement a compliance methodology that's both unified and integrated into normal IT activities. Discover a solution that simplifies and integrates multiple compliance regimes, provides process-modeling tools that map, document, simulate and improve business processes, offers pre-constructed best practice models, and identifies the value of bringing ISO standards into the mix.

Sponsored by: Casewise
Speakers: French Caldwell, Ray Pearman
Type: Video (23 minutes)

In this webcast, trusted advisors from SurfControl and Gartner will examine the spyware challenges that companies face and, more importantly, solutions for those challenges. You'll see why a multi-pronged solution offers the strongest defense against spyware, and why the best cure is stopping symptoms from being introduced in the first place.

Sponsored by: SurfControl
Speakers: Paul Proctor, Patricia Sueltz
Type: Video (13 minutes)

Every technology license agreement carries risk. What if a software development company defaults on its maintenance and support contract? What leverage does the software licensee have to get the technical assistance it needs, especially if the software performs a mission-critical function? The program you're about to watch examines how and why technology escrow plays a key role on any well-crafted technology license agreement.

Sponsored by: Iron Mountain
Speakers: Jane Disbrow, John Boruvka
Type: Video (27 minutes)

Ensuring continuous end-to-end availability of critical business processes requires many things, including understanding relationships between people and processes, defining and achieving performance metrics, planning and designing for availability, and active lifecycle management of the IT infrastructure. Perhaps that is why few organizations can be considered best-in-class at delivering continuous IT service availability. This webcast discusses the issues, and offers recommendations for moving ahead.

Sponsored by: Stratus
Speakers: Donna Scott, Greg Enriquez, Greg Berman
Type: Video (19 minutes)

Server utilization and reliability are pressing agendas in the industry today. IT departments running enterprise Java applications are embracing server consolidation projects to reduce capital and operational expenses and to drive up server utilization. This webcast looks at the challenges and solutions in this area and presents some best practices for maximizing hardware and software utilization while reducing costs in a J2EE environment.

Sponsored by: Cassatt
Speakers: Rich Green, Yefim Natis, Richard Wirt
Type: Video (28 minutes)

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) reaches right to the heart of what storage is all about - reducing the cost of managing inactive data and making sure you get the data you need when you need it, with no added burden on your IT staff or systems. Watch this webcast and learn about the challenges of ILM and more importantly, the solutions to overcome them.

Sponsored by: Compellent
Speakers: Dave Russell, Bruce Kornfeld
Type: Video (18 minutes)