Data Center Design - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Overview: Data centers seldom meet the operational and capacity requirements of their initial designs. The principal goals in data center design are flexibility and scalability, which involve site location, building selection, floor layout, electrical system design, mechanical design and modularity. Creating a sound data center design is one of the most critical steps to assure long term goals for sustainability, flexibility and power savings. I will share my knowledge and expertise, gained from working on data center projects around the world, to support a better understanding of the essential subjects for all data center professionals. 

Why should you attend: Selecting the location and designing a datacenter has over 100 crucial elements and decisions that need to be made to ensure successful operation long term. Even if your are thinking of retrofitting an existing data center, these technical best practices will reduce the likelihood of a catastrophic infrastructure outage that could put your company out of business.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Is a data center the right option
• Location
• Planning
• Facilities
• Infrastructure design
• Energy efficiency
• Operations

Who Will Benefit:

• CIO
• CFO
• CSO
  Data center Managers
• Data center Designers
• Data center Operators

Speaker Profile:

Craig Borysowich has over 25 years of Technology Consulting experience with both public and private sector clients, including over ten years in Technical Leadership roles. Craig has extensive background in working with large scale, high-profile systems integration and development projects that span throughout a customer’s organization. He has extensive background in designing robust solutions that bring together multiple platforms from Intel to Unix to Mainframe technologies with the Internet.

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Business-Object Based Applications - Webinar By Brad Friedlander

Overview: This webinar will guide the participant to understand the potential value of using business objects. It will help the participant improve the manner in which they design and architect applications that use business objects. 

Why should you attend: It is "well-known" that applications should be created based on business objects. What is not well-know is what constitutes a good business object and how you should approach the creation and usage of the business object.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Why use business objects?
• What are business objects?
• What is the promise of business objects?
• What constitutes a good business object design?
• What is a good business object architecture?

Who Will Benefit:

• Architects
• Application Designers
• Developers
• Business Analysts

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When and How to Build Private and Hybrid Clouds - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Overview: Many organizations have upward of 75% of their production servers virtualized. The results are easy to see: fewer, better utilized servers and lower data center costs. The next logical evolution for these companies is the private cloud. Private IaaS clouds are highly standardized, automated, virtual pools of compute, storage, and network resources. The virtual resources could be deployed via self-service portals by developers, shared across business units, and metered for pay-per-use chargeback. 

This presentation will show what the requirements are and how to approach a private cloud implementation. We will discuss the essential components of a private cloud: self-service that let’s authorized users select from a number of deployment options, automated provisioning, resource management to control demand and supply, as well as accounting for service consumption. The webinar will then discuss another model that is starting to gain some traction: the hybrid cloud, where a private and a public cloud are combined to meet different application requirements. We will highlight the typical use cases of hybrid clouds and some of the inherent challenges. The presentation closes with a high level cookbook for the selection of a cloud deployment model that fits your organization.

Why Should you Attend: Private cloud is a big ticket item that is on the radar for most Fortune 2000 companies. Its premises are appealing - get the best of both worlds, the flexibility of a public cloud and the control over your own infrastructure. However, Forrester found that most enterprises haven’t matured their cloud management practices to the point where they could fully exploit the private cloud.

There are also significant risk factors: often the implementation costs are under estimated (we already have the hardware, right?) as well as the management complexity of a private cloud, and the in-house staff often does not have the skills to successfully operate the cloud.

While the hybrid cloud sounds good in all the vendor literature, in practice there can be serious roadblocks for an efficient implementation: what latency can you tolerate in a distributed workload, how do you maintain the integrity of a system of record when data gets replicated, to name a few. All these questions require a careful evaluation to determine the best approach for a particular IT organization and application requirements: public, private, hybrid cloud, or no cloud?

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Private cloud: drivers & challenges
• Defining the requirements
• What are the top products to build a private cloud?
• Use cases and limitations of hybrid clouds
• How to select a cloud deployment model

Who Will Benefit:

• Architect
• Enterprise Architect
• Development Manager
• IT Manager
• Director of Technology
• Chief Technology Officer
• Consultant

Contact: 

James Richard

Phone: +1-800-447-9407

Email : webinars@eitaglobal.com/support@eitaglobal.com

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Big Data Roadmap for the Relational Database Professional - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Overview: Big Data is an industry meme that is gaining traction and cannot be ignored if you wish to continue pursuing a data management career. But what is Big Data? Does it differ greatly from Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and other relational database systems? And if so, how? This session will provide a roadmap to Big Data terminology, use cases, and technology. Attend this session to wade through the hype and start your journey toward discovering what Big Data is, and what it can do for you and your company. 

Why should you attend: Big Data and analytics is the current trend in database management systems and data processing. The requirements, methods, and practices for managing big data differ from traditional database management best practices and today's professional can be left in the dust without an understanding and appreciation for the new techniques, methods, and systems being deployed for big data analytics. Although the term Big Data seems straightforward enough it means more than just having a lot of data. You need to know how it contrasts with traditional DBMS. You need to know the use cases for Big Data applications. You need to know the new technology being used to store and manage the data… and to glean insight from the data. And you need to understand how to differentiate the database administration and development practices for relational databases from the NoSQL, Big Data systems that are increasingly being used for Big Data implementations. Failure to keep up with the new can render your skills obsolete in the new age of Big Data.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Gain a working knowledge and definition of Big Data (beyond the simple three V's definition)
• Break down and understand the often confusing terminology within the realm of Big Data (e.g. polyglot persistence)
• Examine the four predominant NoSQL database systems used in Big Data implementations (graph, key/value, column, and document)
• Learn some of the major differences between Big Data/NoSQL implementations vis-a-vis traditional transaction processing
• Discover the primary use cases for Big Data and NoSQL versus relational databases

Who Will Benefit:

• DBA
• DBA Manager
• Programmer/analyst
• IT Architect
• Data analyst

Speaker Profile: Craig Mullins

is president and principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc., a principal with SoftwareOnZ (a mainframe software distributor), and the publisher/editor for TheDatabaseSite.com.

Craig has over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development and has worked with DB2 since V1. You may know Craig from his popular books: "DB2 Developer's Guide, 6th edition," which contains more than 1500 pages of in-depth technical information on DB2 for z/OS and "Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures, 2nd edition," the industry's only comprehensive guide to heterogeneous database administration.

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SharePoint - Not really an IT project - Seminar By Richard Machanoff

6-Hour Virtual Seminar on Creating Hybrid Public - Private Cloud Applications With .NET and Windows Azure Service Bus - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Why should you attend: Public-cloud solutions have demonstrated an ability to cost effectively provide scalable solutions to users of an application without the need for extensive capital investment in hardware. Unfortunately it is often the case that code and data that is written for many business applications is not easily adaptable to moving to the cloud, and it may be that case that it is not possible due to compliance issues or actual laws preventing sensitive data from being stored outside of the corporate firewall. This unfortunately leaves existing service and data assets that would be beneficial to cloud applications left behind the corporate firewall where they are difficult, if not normally possible, to participate in cloud based services. This webinar will demonstrate how you can use the Windows Azure Service Bus, and specifically Service Bus Relay services, to easily and securely integrate data and services behind the corporate firewall to public cloud and mobile applications.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Introduction to Service Bus and hybrid cloud applications
• Overview and installation of tools for service bus development
• Messaging with the Service Bus: Queues, Topics and Relays
• Creating and managing service bus accounts with the management portal
• Creating a .NET application using Service Bus Queues
• Creating a hybrid cloud application with the Service Bus Relay
• Using Service Bus to Enable the Internet of Things
• Mobile connectivity with iOS, Android, HTML and Windows Phone
• Securing access to service bus end points
• Service bus pricing models
• Review and Q&A

Who Will Benefit:

• CTO
• CIO
• IT VP and Development Managers
• Application / Software Architects
• Application / Software Developers and Engineers

Speaker Profile:

Michael Heydt

has a almost 30 years of professional software development experience, where he as focused on Microsoft based technologies across multiple verticals including media, finance, energy and healthcare. He holds a masters degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Drexel University, and a Masters of Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently is focused on creating applications that utilize high concurrency, cloud services, messaging, computer vision, natural user interfaces to provide seamless application access as users move through different environments and geographies. As a teacher and speaker he is a common speaker at .NET users groups and conferences, author of technology papers and books, and is former adjunct faculty for the University of Denver and the University of Phoenix where he taught Computer Information Systems and Telecommunications Technology courses.

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Virtual Seminar on ECM Integration with Microsoft PowerShell By EITAGlobal

Instructor :  Dave Kinchlea

Product Id :  300108

Overview: ECM suites often provide the ability to direct address and solve many business problems directly, however there are many more problems that cannot be directly solved by an ECM suite and, instead, require some 3rd party solution. 

When native or reasonably inexpensive integrations between these solutions and the ECM repositories where the content should reside do not exist, then there are only a few options available:

• Do nothing and leave the content unmanaged, unknown, and at risk.
• Create bespoke integration solutions writing whatever modules, functions or code is required to accomplish the required integration. This option is almost always the most expensive, usually exceeding any existing 3rd party solution. It means long-term development, support, maintenance, and training. While this approach can lead to a superior solution, it is one that will almost always take longer than expected and be over budget.
• Work locally and force the users to change the way they work, manually storing and retrieving the content from the ECM system using other tools like, for instance, WebDav or Windows Explorer. For some problems, this is the ideal solution when there are only a few users requiring the integration. However there is on-going training required to assure the integration over the long-term and there is a real risk that the ECM system may not get used 100% of the time.
• Work locally and use scheduled tasks to synchronize content between local storage and ECM solutions. This loose integration approach requires almost zero training, limited development and long-term support and is easily maintained over time. The difficulty is in creating the synchronization solution; it too can often turn into a full-blown be-spoke application.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Problem space - a discussion as to where CLI and scripting fit within an enterprise
• Powershell description - a look into relevant portions of powershell
• ECM Integration - the meaning of; the choices available along with the tradeoffs associated with each type of integration
• MS Integration - the meaning of; some examples of
• File System Archiving / Synchronization example Integration Solution
• Workflow Word Robot example Integration Solution
• ECM content migration (ETL) example Integration Solution - SharePoint to Content Server
• Automation / Task scheduling
• Powershell / ECM Error Handling, Pitfalls and Gotchas

Who Will Benefit:

• Enterprise Solution Architects
• Application Integrators
• System Administrators of all levels
• Application & desktop support (site administrators)

Speaker Profile: Dave Kinchlea

 is a 25 year veteran in managing the growing content problem. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario where he also worked in the core Information Technology administrative department. Being part of the team that brought the Internet to Canada, Dave has had an interest in content management for longer than the discipline has existed. Dave spent nearly 12 years, from 1998 through to 2009, working with Open Text Corporation defining and building out Enterprise Content Management tools and expertise. He is recognized around the world for his technological expertise in respects to ECM deployments having designed and helped organizations maintain some of the largest and most complex ECM systems in existence. 

Effective Portfolio Management - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Instructor :  Fabienne Fayad

Product Id :  300084

Overview: This webinar is about Effective Portfolio Management. The objective is to help insure that you prioritize and select the right project for your strategic objective so you can manage this portfolio with agility and flexibility in order to adapt to "real life" while delivering the results as required. Are you funding the right projects? Is your staff working on the right task? Are you getting maximum value with the investments you have? Effective Portfolio Management is about getting the highest value of your investments while delivering the best value in accordance with the vision, principles and organization priorities. 

What is portfolio management?
Portfolio Management is the art and science of making decisions about investment mix and policy, matching investments to objectives, asset allocation for individuals and institutions, and balancing risk against performance. Portfolio management is all about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the choice and management of projects. The end objective is to maximize return on investment (qualitative and quantitative) at a given level of risk. An IT Project Portfolio is a collection of IT projects, both proposed and in progress which include some deployed systems (already in production) within your organization. Effective Portfolio Management addresses the decision process, in order to show how it is possible to minimize the risks and how to focus on the right project that addresses the right priorities of the organization Your IT portfolio should be a diversified mix of high risk/high reward and low risk/low reward elements. Just like a personal investment portfolio, you should look at it in terms of return on investment and addressing the right objectives. 

Portfolio creation:

• How and where to start?
• How to do a Yearly Planning?
• How to select projects according to vision and business priorities?
• Why you should develop project filtering and ranking criteria?
• How to insure that projects will address real business needs and priorities?
• How to prepare requirements in order to get project proposals?
• How to request for an internal project proposal?
• How to work with project managers on preparing a Business Case to present the project in a proposal?
• How to evaluate the financials?
• How to evaluate the project proposed and provide an independent opinion?

Portfolio Management:

• How to continuously monitor the results and take the appropriate action.
• How to manage change without impacting the project.
• How to adapt the portfolio to the needs without changing all the time. How to put in place the right level of management required for a specific project size and importance.

How to avoid an "unhealthy" portfolio like these:

• Projects undertaken are not aligned with the organization strategic direction.
• Decisions are based on uncertain, evolving, conflicting and incomplete information without having first built contingency or analyzed the risks.
• Project Portfolio is generally developed on uncertain and changing information; however there is a way to improve the decision making and to plan for success.

Why should you attend: You should attend this Webinar if you are a manager, a project manager or an IT internal client; if you are currently managing a project or you are managing the money invested in a project and you would like to improve your portfolio decision process and also improve the return made on investments (time, money and resources invested in projects).

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Why do organizations need Portfolio Management?
• How to improve your Portfolio Management?
• How to create a Portfolio - minded culture?
• How to select and implement appropriate Tools and Practices?
• Overview of the process of:
  • Yearly Planning
  • Portfolio monitoring and adjustment
• Some examples and best practices

Who Will Benefit:

• Business Manager
• Project Managers
• IT Directors
• Project Sponsors
• IT Executives

Speaker Profile: 

Fabienne Fayad

has over 25 years of experience in the field of IT, including 18 years in management consulting and project management. She possesses degrees both in engineering and in executive management. Over the years, she has gained experience at many international consulting firms: CGI, Deloitte, LGS/IBM, and Systemhouse. Today, Fabienne Fayad is a partner at EDGN CONSULTANTS INC., offering strategic consulting services and training. 

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Internal or External? Cloud Service Brokerage Fundamentals - Virtual seminar By Kevin L Jackson

Instructor : Kevin L Jackson

Overview: Across all industry verticals, cloud computing has become a strategic imperative for IT organizations by redefining the standards for cost effectiveness, scalability and speed to market. As cloud computing becomes mainstream, these organizations are now struggling with the task of managing multiple cloud services providers. This task, referred to as Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB), manages the consumption and maintenance of cloud services and deployments that span multiple Cloud Services Providers (CSPs). To keep up with the explosive growth of cloud services, IT departments now need to either build cloud service brokerage expertise in-house (Internal CSB) or partner with an external brokerage service provider (External CSB).

According to the National Institute of Standards a cloud service broker "provides a cloud-user a unified and enhanced management interface to multiple cloud-providers." The institute also identifies the essential features of a CSB as a unified interface, federated cloud-subscriber credentials for multiple cloud-providers, and federated access to multiple cloud-provider programming interfaces. A CSB can make cloud services more valuable because they work closely with cloud providers to get price breaks or access to more information about how a service works. In addition, they have more experience working with multiple providers and across many consumer scenarios. Instead of spending time and money to address these problems internally, consumers can leverage solutions offered by CSBs that allow organizations to focus on other pressing business needs instead. A viable CSB provider can make it less expensive, easier, safer and more productive for companies to navigate, integrate, consume and extend cloud services, particularly when they span multiple, diverse cloud services providers.

The State of Texas Department of Information Resources has used a CSB for over four years. Among the lessons learned, this multi-year project showed that the use of a cloud broker can:

• Help organizations screen their applications for cloud feasibility and prioritizing cloud migrations accordingly;
• Address the challenges of cloud model comparisons due to the variables in product offerings, including the business models, service levels, and package inclusions;
• Translate capacity requirements into provider line items, thus allowing for accurate estimation of cloud cost;
• Provide a cloud service order review or approval workflow facility, a function not normally provided by cloud service providers; and
• Provide a means to regulate payment across the different organizational entities.

Why should you attend: In a cloud computing world, IT is locked into a real-time operational linkage to the delivery of products and services. Operational requirements now include:

• Tracking and management of shadow IT activities
• Reducing cloud and cloud service sprawl
• Coordination of multiple cloud management tools
• Extension of IT governance to multiple external cloud service providers
• Rapid acceleration and distribution of application development and deployment activities
• Integration of cloud services with existing management processes

Be it internally or externally based, the lack of a cloud service brokerage strategy will exacerbate all of these functions leading to revenue loss or mission failure.

A defined CSB can make cloud services more valuable because it helps the organization work well with cloud providers in order to get price breaks or access to more information about how a service works. In addition, they gain experience working with multiple providers and across many consumer scenarios. Instead of spending time and money to repeating mistakes, organizations can leverage the skills and expertise of their CSB. Internally or externally based, a viable CSB can make it less expensive, easier, safer and more productive for companies to navigate, integrate, consume and extend cloud services, particularly when they span multiple, diverse cloud services providers.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Improving cloud service efficiency
• Tracking and management of shadow IT activities
• Reducing cloud and cloud service sprawl
• Coordination of multiple cloud management tools
• Extension of IT governance to multiple external cloud service providers
• Rapid acceleration and distribution of application development and deployment activities
• Integration of cloud services with existing management processes
• Avoiding consistent budget overruns
• Establishing a secure self-service IT model
• Create a unified cost model across all computing sources
• Incorporate cloud services into capacity planning models

Who Will Benefit:

• CEO
• CIO
• CFO
• CTO
• Chief Innovation Officer
• Head of Research & Development

Kevin L. Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in solutions that meet critical commercial and government operational requirements. Currently working as an independent consultant, prior positions include VP & General Manager Cloud Services NJVC, VP Federal Systems at Sirius Computer Solutions, Worldwide Sales Executive at IBM, Vice President Global IT Project Office at JP Morgan Chase, and CTO at SENTEL Corporation. Through his “Cloud Musings” blog, Mr. Jackson has been recognized as one of Cloud Computing Journal “World’s 30 Most Influential Cloud Bloggers” (2009, 2010), a Huffington Post Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter (2013) and the author of a FedTech Magazine “Must Read Federal IT Blog” (2012, 2013). In 2012, he was also named a “Cyber Security Visionary” by U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.

Kevin is also the founder and editor of Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer electronic magazine. His first book, GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government was published by Government Training Inc. and released in March 2011. His second book, released in 2012 by the same publisher, is titled “GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services”. He is also a co-author of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance whitepaper “Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community”. Kevin L. Jackson has been deeply involved in the broad collaborative effort between industry and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology on the federal government’s adoption of cloud computing technologies. He is the Rapid Deployment Executive for the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium and also serves and the consortium’s Cloud Computing Working Group Chairman. His formal education includes a Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering); a Master of Arts degree in National Security & Strategic Studies; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. Mr. Jackson is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Information Technology at the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering.

Getting Your Business Started with Open Source - Webinar By EITAGlobal

Overview: This session will serve as a primer for individuals and organizations interested in open source software, and its ability to meet their business needs. Attendees will gain a better understanding of what open source software is, how it is developed, its characteristics that may be beneficial to their organization, and considerations for successful adoption. 

Non-technical managers will enhance their ability to work with and support their technical staff in planning and implementation. This session is delivered in non-technical language with an emphasis on helping you determine the business case for your organization. The session will also provide a basic framework for planning. Materials include resources for further investigation.

Why should you attend: If your organization isn't levering open source software to improve its operational efficiencies and maximize its investments in technology, you need to ask yourself why. Open source is enterprise ready and likely already used by your peers and competitors alike. But where do you start, or how do you build on what open source you may already have deployed? What are the pitfalls? Where are the easy wins? Getting Your Business Started with Open Source is a practical primer that will send you back to your organization ready to develop your own approach to adopting or improving your open source capabilities

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Open source software defined
• Why businesses are turning to open source
• Open source licenses in a nutshell
• How open source software is developed
• Open source business models in a nutshell
• Where support comes from when the software is free
• Participating in open source communities
• Where to start (if you haven't already)
• How to evaluate a solution for your organization
• Organizational readiness and staff skill set
• Example Open Source alternatives for a range of enterprise needs

Who Will Benefit:

• CIOs
• IT directors and managers
• Operations Managers
• Business Managers
• Contract and Acquisition Managers
• Business Analysts with a responsibility for recommending technology solutions
• Technical Writers with a desire to add to their general knowledge base

Speaker Profile:Deborah Bryant

 is a seasoned technology business professional with a special focus on open source software and the ecosystem that supports it. Her background includes senior management experience in the high-tech sector; program management at a leading university open source lab; senior management in state government with oversight responsibilities for design and implementation of the state’s first eGovernment program. In addition to P&L responsibilities for an internet subsidiary of a publicly traded company, she has served as a universal translator and shuttle diplomat for executive management and investors, engineering staff and product development, policy makers and program directors. 

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