Selling the Cloud: Five Best Practices for MSP

Data centers that use hyperscale architectures face a unique challenge. They have to respond to an ever widening variety of I/O requests from an ever increasing number of users, while at the same time providing a cost competitive service. A solid state only approach addresses the performance problem and significantly reduces operating cost but threatens cost competitiveness.

In this webinar George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland and Esther Spanjer, Director, SSD Technical Marketing at SMART Storage Systems will discuss why hyperscale data center managers should consider an all-flash design and more importantly how they can afford it.

All pre-registrants to the webinar will receive an advanced copy of Storage Switzerland's latest report "High Performance Storage For Hyperscale Data Centers".

How do you monitor and assess performance in the cloud? Do you need more visibility and control over your managed cloud environments? Learn how HOSTING 360° Report™ delivers a level of visibility to cloud performance that has historically been unavailable to cloud customers. Aggregating key performance and operational data in a concise and usable format provides full visibility into the availability, performance, recovery, security and capacity (AppRisk™) of HOSTING’s cloud services.

The explosion of social media in recent years means that there are millions of users or ‘fans’ to reach and add to your customer base. While there are clear benefits to end-users and the organizations that accept their social identities for account creation and authentication, there are important risk factors that have to be considered as well.

Please join CA and ISACA for this webinar, where we will review the pros and cons of social media login and Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI), and provide guidance and best practices based on real use cases to help guide organizations to a model that meets their risk profile.

For the IT employer utilizing contingent or contract worker(s) services there are best practices and considerations that need to be made in order to protect yourself and your employees.

- Do you know how to discuss pay rates, increases or bonuses?
- Do you know how to deal with full-time employment queries, how to properly deal with timecards or forms?
- How do you deal with punctuality, attendance, dress code etc?
- What do you do when you want to terminate or suspend a contingent worker?

These are the common questions we receive and we will provide tangible tools and information that can help protect you as an employer.

Campus Solution Overview Demo

Content Direct video from Juniper Networks.

Doug Turner, CEO of Mantis Technology Group, talks about how his team built Pulse Analytics, a sentiment analysis solution using text analytics tool running on SAP HANA One. Hear how his team strengthened the capabilities of this solution while simplifying their data architecture by replacing 20 servers with only 1 SAP HANA One instance.

Most SMB's use a single point product for each of the different perceived security threats. This has worked in the past, but a far better approach is layering multiple products in a stouter defense.

Get a leg up on intermittent problems, watch this webinar to learn how OptiView XG v10 can inject test traffic to measure network performance, examine the traffic's impact on infrastructure, spot ongoing problems, expose intermittent issues, and map out exactly where problems are located.

Ever feel like you spend more time converting security information from one format to another, than actually connecting the dots hidden within it? The Collective Intelligence Framework (CIF) is a data processor for pulling in and normalizing out all these threat intel sources into a single combined dataset.

Learn how to...
Get CIF up and running
Connect intelligence sources to CIF
Leverage CIF with your existing security controls
Host: Conrad Constantine, Community Manager, AlienVault
Guest: Todd Leetham, Visiting Scientist, RSA I The Security Division of EMC
Event Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 11am PDT