The Next Generation of Application Performance for the Cloud

The second LIVE RTI Q&A with Rebecca Benneyworth, this session will focus on the non standard situations and how to handle them. Rebecca Benneyworth MBE trained in London with Kidsons and was chief accountant of a manufacturing company. She has her own small practice and lectures extensively for a range of professional bodies, accountancy firms. & HMRC. Robert Lovell is deputy editor on AccountingWEB and has several years’ online editorial experience working across a variety of sectors in business and finance B2B publishing. Grounded in project finance, PPP/PFI and transport, in recent years he has built up specialist knowledge in accounting, tax and writing for online communities . Alison Ball is Head of Accountant Programmes at Intuit UK. A former accountant herself, Alison understands the issues and challenges that practicing accountants and bookkeepers face daily. She works hard to create solutions and programmes that help practitioners save time and grow their practices.

More and more organizations are exploring the ramifications of Big Data on their enterprises. Deployments of Smart Meters to better manage the electric grid, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) across a variety of sectors, and the promise of always on and always connected systems are pushing organizations to gather more data than previously imagined. What are the implications from a privacy and intellectual property perspective and how can we as security professionals provide a level of control and risk management over the coming wave of The Internet of Things? Join (ISC)2 and Capella University on May 23, 2013 at 1:00pm Eastern for a discussion on these important concerns.

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.

BYOD is inevitable and unstoppable. Maybe even uncontrollable and unmanageable. But is it the real issue? We seem to be very interested in mobile device management and security risks and data breaches, as, of course, we should be. But, isn’t the real issue the fact that traditional IT is fast becoming irrelevant. Nearly all of us use our personal devices for work and have multiple personal clouds full of data – personal and business. Today’s users believe that they need traditional IT less than before. Crowdsourcing is replacing the Service Desk while Web self-service is replacing live people. But, there’s more to running IT than mobile device buzz words and doom & gloom blogs and tweets. Check out this webinar with CA Technologies & Pink Elephant to find out what’s really happening and what IT can do to embrace this new world. 1 PriSM CPD.

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.

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.

Over the years true MSPs have had to work diligently to differentiate themselves from companies that are at best, not true MSPs and at worst, are shady fly-by-night operators. This is where the Unified Certification Standard or (UCS) for Cloud & Managed Service Providers comes in.

The UCS was created by a team of dedicated MSPs to address the shortfalls of existing standards like ISO 27001, ITIL, CoBIT, SSAE 16, which were never intended for managed services organizations and offered little in the way of consumer protection.

CASE IN POINT: Many MSPs do NOT fail because of technical deficiencies, but due to financial risk. Because of this, customers have very little insight into the service provider's business practices and financial strengths and capabilities.

Attend this webcast and you will hear from real MSP executives on how the UCS certification and audit has helped them to:

- Win new business
- Provide needed transparency to customers
- Achieve compliance objectives
- Quickly develop trust with customers and prospects
- Provide documentation on how those MSPs deliver their services
- And much more...

Both Cloud and Managed Service Providers should attend this webcast and at least begin to follow the standards necessary to achieve managed services and cloud computing excellence.

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.

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.