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CorpInfo recently sponsored the following events:
If you are interested in any of the topics listed below, please contact events@corpinfo.com.
Microsoft and CorpInfo Present:
Leverage New Developments in Desktop Virtualization Technology for Windows 7 Deployments
Planning a Windows 7 Deployment or Desktop Refresh?
Let Us Show You Where Virtualization Fits and Why You Need to Evaluate This Technology
Prior to Any Deployment
Join us for an educational event that provides real insight into understanding the concepts of desktop virtualization and which components should be considered in any Windows 7 deployment.
Get Past the Hype and Learn How This Technology Will Impact Your Windows 7 Deployment
This frank discussion is intended to help clarify common misconceptions and explain which components of VDI immediately reduce TCO and improve manageability, without dramatically altering your desktop infrastructure.
New Developments and Matured Technology
Desktop virtualization is not necessarily VDI. There are various approaches and a number of new capabilities that have matured to provide solutions that will bring tangible and immediate value in any environment.
It is Crucial to Understand These Concepts in Advance of Any Windows 7 Project
- Understand recent new developments in virtualization and management technologies
- Clarify common misconceptions
- Evaluate the real costs
- Understand the potential and limitations
- Understand when and how to leverage virtualization
- Learn which components are a must for any desktop strategy
- Learn how to move to a more optimized environment
- Examine various end-user scenarios.
HP and CorpInfo Present:
LeftHand Lunch & Learn Event
Find out more about LeftHand Storage from HP, and what your business considerations should be when determining your storage solution.
HP LeftHand: the power and productivity of storage clustering
- Come hear about what's new in storage technology
- Where data storage is heading in the next 5 years
- Explore the new HP Storage Portfolio covering the new LeftHand Solution
Learn how LeftHand can:
- Scale performance and capacity
- Provide your storage with beyond the box availability
- Reduce cost by increasing capacity utilization
- Advance data protection and decrease recovery time
- Remote copy for disaster recovery.
Microsoft and CorpInfo Present:
New Virtualization and Optimization Developments for Desktop Deployments
Planning a Windows 7 Deployment or Desktop Refresh?
Let us show you where virtualization fits in and help you meet the goal of an optimized desktop.
Join us for an educational event that provides real insight into understanding the concepts of desktop virtualization, and the importance of optimizing the desktop environment, regardless of whether virtualization is leveraged.
Get Past the Hype
This frank discussion is intended to help clarify common misconceptions and provide insight into a general approach for desktop management.
New Developments and Matured Technology
Desktop virtualization is not necessarily VDI. There are various approaches and a number of new capabilities that have matured to provide more options for both virtualizing and optimizing the desktop environment.
Achieve an Optimized Desktop Environment
The goal is to understand which technology to leverage to achieve a better-managed environment that is still flexible enough to meet the needs of diverse end users. A 2008 Gartner study found the direct costs of a well-managed desktop is 15% lower than a poorly managed desktop whether the client is rich or thin.
It is crucial to understanding these concepts in advance of any Windows 7 or desktop refresh project.
- Understand recent new developments in virtualization and optimization technologies
- Clarify common misconceptions
- Evaluate the real costs
- Understand the potential and limitations
- Understand when and how to leverage virtualization
- Learn how to move to a more optimized environment
- Examine various end-user scenarios
Microsoft and CorpInfo Breakfast Seminar
Financial Justification for Cloud Computing
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Find out how Microsoft Cloud Computing lowers costs, increases efficiencies, and immediately improves operational agility.
Understand why leading IT industry analyst say that Microsoft Cloud Computing:
- Results in measurable cost savings
- Optimizes resource utilization
- Streamlines service provisioning
- Improves security and reliability
- Creates efficiencies and simplifies IT management
Learn how to gain the maximum value from your implementation.
- Critical success factors for deployment
- Key factors in integrating cloud technologies with on-premise systems
- Co-existence strategies and phased migrations
- Best practices learned from early adopters
- Deployment planning and migration roadmap
Attendees will have an opportunity to learn about Proof-of-Concept programs for rapid deployment and comprehensive knowledge transfer.
Microsoft Cloud Computing frees organizations from mundane IT management tasks to focus on strategic initiatives.
SharePoint Governance and Rights Management
New Features in 2010 including Virtualization
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Discussion of best practices in SharePoint including enterprise-wide governance and rights management with securely controlled access.
Learn how companies similar to yours are deploying and managing SharePoint with consistent rules and guidelines that provide manageable oversight while giving users flexibility and control for customized, useable solutions.
Applications from various industries will be demonstrated to help you explore how SharePoint can be used in your organization.
Governance
- Creation of policies and best practices to manage and control SharePoint sites while maintaining usability
- Management of content at an enterprise-wide level
- Service delivery via SharePoint as a platform
- Physical topologies
Information Rights Management (IRM)
- Control access and rights
- Safeguard information
- IRM policy implementation and management
SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek
- New features
- Migration planning
Microsoft Online Services Roadshow:
Understanding Cloud Computing's Impact on Your Business
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft. It consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online. These online services are designed to give your business the always up-to-date technologies you need to maximize your valuable IT resources and reduce your need for infrastructure investments.
An Introduction to Microsoft Unified Communications
Benefits of Adoption and Migration Strategies
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Please join us at a special event designed for business decision makers and technology decision makers and professionals.
Learn how you can leverage key technologies of unified communications without impacting your current telecommunications infrastructure. Realize immediate savings and improve productivity by adopting Microsoft Unified Communications technologies such as IM, presence, and teleconferencing.
Discussion Topics Include:
- Streamlined communications with single sign-on and mobile access
- Microsoft UC platforms including Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, Communications Server, Live Meeting, and Communicator
- Savings via lowered travel, training, phone, and conferencing costs
- Improved productivity and collaboration via enterprise IM, presence, conferencing, and document management
- Centralized provisioning and simplified I.T. administration
- Built-in security with high-level encryption and compliance support
- Migration strategies including coexistence and eventual replacement of legacy telephony systems
Security Issues & Rights Management in SharePoint
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Next Generation Enterprise SharePoint Solutions
Use SharePoint to leverage business data, monitor and respond to key performance indicators, all while controlling access securely.
Securely Manage Business Content
- Meet internal & external compliance requirements through SharePoint Information Rights Management
- Protect documents from unauthorized access with access restriction
- Comprehensive management and control of Microsoft Office documents, Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages
Metrics and Reporting, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Reporting business-critical information from various sources in one central location
- Dashboards to monitor performance
- Incorporating interactive spreadsheets that provide access to information while shielding sensitive models or data
- Case studies
Collaboration
- Streamlining document creation to produce better content in less time
- Enable workflows
- Implement security checks & set up e-mail alerts
- Sharing information externally via Groove
- Tracking team member availability
- Drive collaboration efforts and improve productivity with enterprise search
HP, Intel, and CorpInfo Present:
Green IT - Improve Efficiencies & Reduce Costs
Location: Second Story Restaurant, Belamar Hotel, Manhattan Beach, CA
Sponsors: HP, Intel, and CorpInfo
This informational session and open discussion will help you explore green IT solutions and learn how to reduce costs in these troubling economic times.
- Learn how to extend the life of your data center and/or design next-generation data centers
- Explore virtualization and server consolidation to reduce carbon footprint and maximize floor space
- Get more information on HP's energy efficient computing including Energy Star devices
- Hear about HP's power saving innovations such as Dynamic Smart Cooling, which can cut data center cooling cuts significantly
- Learn about Intel's new multi core processors - breakthrough energy-efficient performance built for virtualization and server consolidation
- Hear about Intel's vPro & cPro chips with remote diagnostic and repair capabilities, even when a PC is powered down or an OS is inoperable
Microsoft and CorpInfo Present:
Solving Business Challenges with SharePoint
Location: Microsoft Los Angeles
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
An Educational Seminar: SharePoint's New Features Bring Immediate Value
Learn how companies similar to yours are leveraging SharePoint to gain a competitive advantage. Applications from various industries will be demonstrated to help you explore how SharePoint can be used in your organization.
- Search, Consolidate and Analyze Information
- Live access to business-critical information from disparate sources presented in one central location
- Incorporate interactive spreadsheets that provide access to information while shielding sensitive models or data
- Collect secure information through easy-to-use electronic forms and initiate business processes with out-of-the-box workflows
- Control and Manage Content and Secure Records
- Comprehensively manage and control unstructured content like Microsoft Office documents, Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages
- Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management to determine access rights, specify retention periods and expiration actions, and track usage
- Collaboratively Author, Review, and Publish Documents with the Improved Document Library
- Reduce IT Support Burden
- Out-of-box templates and capabilities provide a cost effective collaboration solution
- Self-serve sites minimize IT support requirements and provide end-users with flexible on-demand capabilities
Microsoft and CorpInfo Present:
System Center 2007 Seminar
Location: Long Beach Marriott
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Come to our free breakfast seminar to find out more about how Microsoft's new System Center 2007 enables proactive, end-to-end management of your IT environment with increased efficiencies.
- System Center 2007 Best Practices
- Leveraging new features of System Center
- Server management, end user management
- Virtualization management
- Data Protection
- System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (replaces SMS 2003)
- Network access protection
- Application and OS deployment
- Patch management
- Compliance management
- Remote access to workstations
- Deployment Strategies
- Demo of new Management Console
Microsoft and CorpInfo Present:
Exchange 2007 Deployments - Best Practices
Location: Microsoft Office, Downtown Los Angeles
Sponsors: Microsoft and CorpInfo
Come to our free seminar to learn about best practices in planning and migrating to Exchange while protecting critical data.
Planning Considerations for Exchange 2007 migrations:
- Organizational Readiness
- Configuration Guidelines
- Path to Exchange 2007 - Transition or Migration
- Data Migration Strategies
- Understanding new Server Roles and impact on Design decisions
- Evaluate Storage solutions in light of the new 64-bit Architecture
- Leveraging Local Continuous Replication to minimize downtime, alleviates challenges associated with corrupt information stores and improve data backup
- Utilizing CCR for improved Geographic Clustering and Multi-site Failover
- Data Management and Backup Strategies
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Tames Your Messaging Challenges
Protection, Access, Compliance and Efficiency with Exchange 2007
Location: Long Beach Marriott, 4700 Airport Plaza Drive Long Beach, CA 90815
Sponsors: CorpInfo, Microsoft and HP
Come to our free breakfast seminar where you will find out more about how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 delivers the advanced protection your company demands, the anywhere access your users want, and the operational efficiency you need.
Optimize Your Desktops!
CorpInfo and Microsoft SoftGrid Seminar and Continental Breakfast
Location: Long Beach Marriott, 4700 Airport Plaza Drive Long Beach, CA 90815
Sponsors: CorpInfo and Microsoft
Please join us for a complimentary breakfast seminar where you can find out more about SoftGrid, a new integral tool in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for SA customers.
SoftGrid dramatically streamlines the deployment and management of enterprise-wide desktops. As a core component of the Desktop Optimization Pack, it is designed to increase desktop manageability and decrease application TCO.
Lunch & Learn: The Adaptive Datacenter in a 17” Box - Consolidate and Simplify your Infrastructure with HP BladeSystem
Sponsors: CorpInfo and HP
Location: McCormick & Schmick's
This informational session and open discussion will help you determine if blade technology is right for your organization.
Lunch & Learn: Securing Your IT Environment
Techniques & Tips for Increasing the Value of Your Desktop Infrastructure Investments
Sponsors: CorpInfo and Microsoft
Are you tired of constantly worrying about the security of your IT environment? Join Microsoft & CorpInfo for an informative session and open discussion on security. We will highlight Microsoft’s newest security initiatives, and provide you with tools and products to improve the security, scalability, efficiency and productivity of your environment. Topics to be covered include: Microsoft security initiatives, Industry response times, Future of product updating, Guidance and tools. There will be a short demo of the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT).
Driving Desktop Deployments
Techniques & Tips for Increasing the Value of Your Desktop Infrastructure Investments
Sponsors: CorpInfo and Microsoft
Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) provides guidance for deploying desktops without touching target PCs and can assist organizations with managing distributed PC environments. Come and learn about innovative tools and techniques for a zero touch desktop deployment and refresh of your organization that can help you realize a quick return on investment. Join the BDD professionals from Microsoft and CorpInfo for an informative 2 hour session that will provide you with the tools to reduce costs for your organization while setting new standards for reliability, performance, security and ease of use.
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Improving Productivity by Connecting People, Teams, Information, and Applications
Sponsors: CorpInfo, Microsoft and QuickStart
Zero Touch Deployments: Strategies, Tools and Best Practices:
End-to-end guidance for planning and building faster upgrades and refreshes
Sponsors: CorpInfo, QuickStart, and Microsoft
Education for Executives: What Every CIO Should Know About Protecting Your Exchange Environment: Strategies and Solutions for Your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements
Sponsors: CorpInfo, EMC Legato, Microsoft
Microsoft, EMC Legato and CorpInfo have developed an educational seminar to provide senior IT executives with an overview of Microsoft Exchange 2003, and will provide various solutions to meet your high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements for your messaging environment.
Architecting an Enterprise Backup Solution
Sponsors: HP, VERITAS and CorpInfo
Description: This is an educational event on data protection that will assist you in doing more with less.
Education for Executives: What Every CIO Should Know About Leveraging SMS for Software Distribution, Metering, Patch Management and more..
Sponsors: CorpInfo and Microsoft
Systems Management. As operating systems and applications continue to grow in sophistication, the complexity and cost of systems management increases. Enterprises require assistance to control this complexity and reduce support costs while improving service levels for end-users.
Microsoft SMS is an advanced systems management tool which automates numerous tasks allowing support teams to be more efficient. The cost savings and ROI achieved by implementing SMS are quickly apparent. In addition to hard-dollar savings, several intangibles, such as less downtime and increased user productivity, minimize a firm’s overall “soft” costs.
Best Practices for SMS Deployment
Education for Executives: What Every CIO Should Know About Microsoft Security Threats, Strategies, and Best Practices
Sponsors: CorpInfo and Microsoft
Description: *This event, specifically designed for IT Executives is offered by invitation only.
Malicious infiltration, email hijacking, server compromises … The list of security vulnerabilities increases on a daily basis. At this training event you will discover what Microsoft offers as a foundation for a secure infrastructure and be provided with practical solutions to secure your environment.