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Solving the Storage Capacity Crisis - Webcast in September
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Sorry folks. Due to scheduling conflict, today's Webcast "Solving the Storage Capacity Crisis -- Tools and Practices for Effective Management" has been postponed to September. The new date is set for September 25. Here is the new [Registration Page]. Even if you were registered for the original one, you will need to register for this one.
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Next Week - IT Infrastructure for Midsize Businesses
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Next week we have two events related to Infrastructure for midsize businesses!
On Monday, August 6th, 1pm EDT, we have a TweetChat to cover "IT Infrastructure Improvements for Midsize Businesses." You can join at [htt
On Tuesday, August 7th, 12pm EDT, IBM's Midsize Insider is hosting me as a speaker for a Webcast: [Storage Management with IBM]. Midsize Insider is a valuable repository of expert content tailored for small-to-midsized business owners and IT decision makers. To sign up for this event, go to the [IBM WebCast Registration Page]!
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Midsize Insider hosting my WebCast on Storage Management
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Mark your calendars! Next month, IBM's Midsize Insider is hosting me as a speaker for a Webcast: [Storage Management with IBM], on August 7th, 12pm EDT. Midsize Insider is a valuable repository of expert content tailored for small-to-midsized business owners and IT decision makers. The problems that used to keep storage managers awake at night -- power, cooling and physical footprint -- are being successfully addressed by technology, but a more vexing issue still remains: How to get more out of the limited supply of skilled storage management professionals. Demand for storage capacity continues to grow far faster than the pool of people to manage it. With no end in sight to data growth, businesses need to apply technology and practices that distribute management responsibility to the people who need storage, and multiply the volumes of storage that skilled professionals can handle. In this presentation, in this session, I will cover best practices and new tools that are enabling leaps in productivity, in three main areas:
To sign up for this event, go to the [IBM WebCast Registration Page]! Update: This event has been re-scheduled to September 25, 2012. Here is the [Registration Page] |
IBM March 23 Webcast - Surveys and Recap
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Last's weeks webcast [How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure] drew 208 attendees! 
Before we started, we asked the first survey question: "How is storage planning conducted in your shop?" Of the various responses, nearly four out of ten responded "Part of an overall IT infrastructure strategy". Jon Toigo went first, and spent 20 minutes or so laying out the problem as he sees it. Jon travels all over visiting customers struggling with their storage infrastructures, so he gets to hear a lot of this first hand. I then spent 20 minutes or so presenting IBM's vision, strategy and offerings to help solve these problems. I could speak for hours on this topic, but we kept it short for this one-hour webcast. To learn more, request a visit to the Tucson Executive Briefing Center. At the end of my talk, we put out the second survey, asking the audience "What is your number one priority with respect to storage operations today?" Over one fourth of the attendees were focused on reducing storage infrastructure cost of ownership by any means possible. 
I am glad we saved the last 15 minutes for Q&A, as there were a lot of questions. The replay is now available. If you attended the event and want to hear it again, or want to share it with your colleagues, or you missed it and want to hear it, then [Register for the Replay].
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Webcast: How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure
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Webcast: How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM PDT / 11:00 AM Arizona MST / 2:00 PM EDT Storage is the most poorly utilized infrastructure element -- and the most costly part of hardware budgets -- in most IT shops today. And it’s getting worse. Storage management typically involves nightmarish mash-up of tools for capacity management, performance management and data protection management unique to each array deployed in heterogeneous fabrics. Server and desktop virtualization seem to have made management issues worse, and coming on the heels of changing workloads and data proliferation is the requirement to add data management to the set of responsibilities shouldered by fewer and fewer storage professionals. Forecast for Storage in 2012: more pain as long delayed storage infrastructure refresh becomes mandatory. In this webcast, fellow blogger Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, of [DrunkenData] fame, and I will take turns assessing the challenges and suggesting real-world solutions to the many issues that confound storage efficiency in contemporary IT. Integrating real world case studies and technology insights, our storage experts will deliver a must see webcast that sets down a strategy for fixing storage...before it fixes you. Don't miss this event, unless you like the stress of knowing that your next disaster may be a data disaster. Register for this webcast to come hear me and Jon Toigo talk!
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