Calendar of Events
Network Computing Shoot Out - Building a Fault Tolerant Storage Environment
Dates/Locations:
October 16, 2001 -- New York Marriott East Side, New York, N.Y.
October 18, 2001 -- Hyatt Sainte Claire, San Jose, Ca.
October 29, 2001 -- Hotel Inter-Continental, Dallas, Texas
November 8, 2001 -- Fairview Park Marriott, Falls Church, Va.
Access to and the ability to effectively manage a company's information is essential in today's business environment. Whether the end goal is to centralize data for the sake of backup, disaster recovery or to minimize total cost of ownership, designing, deploying and operating enterprise-class solutions has become more complex. Issues such as cross-platform support, performance, scalability, ease of management and high availability for the benefit of supporting critical business functions has become paramount.
A fundamental, emerging question has now arisen: "Build vs. Buy"? Should an organization build their own fault tolerant storage environment with Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, or turn to a Storage Service Provider (SSP) that can manage this solution for them. Whichever option an organization chooses, the end result is the same: building a fault tolerant storage environment is essential in today's business environment.
Network Computing Shoot Out - Accelerating your eBusiness Customer Experience
Dates/Locations:
October 16, 2001 -- Hotel Inter-Continental, Chicago, Ill.
October 18, 2001 -- Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles, Ca.
October 23, 2001 -- Hilton Dallas Park Cities, Dallas, Texas
October 25, 2001 -- Marriott East Side, New York, N.Y.
As the ability to electronically deliver critical business information to customers has become mandatory, the importance of a reliable, compatible and scalable Web presence to deliver this information has become the focus of nearly all business ventures new and old. Success is always a challenge, since the performance of a Web site can often make or break a customer relationship -- the Web site serves as the primary and often initial customer-facing system. With the increasing demands on Web site performance and the increasing number of potential customers accessing a site, it is vital that their experience is a good one. If they do not get the information they are looking for, a prospective client will leave a Web site in 8 seconds or less.
A fundamental, emerging question has now arisen: "Build vs. Buy"? Should an organization build their own high performance solution with Caching devices, or turn to a Content Distribution Network provider that can manage this process for them. Whichever solution an organization chooses, the end result is the same: delivering the most mission-critical content to their customers, the people who matter most.
Network Computing Shoot Out - Providing Wireless Access in the Campus Environment
Dates/Locations:
November 28, 2001 -- Four Seasons Hotel, Houston, Texas
November 30, 2001 -- Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca.
December 4, 2001 -- Marriott Financial Center, New York, N.Y.
December 6, 2001 -- Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia
Wireless network access offers tremendous value to today's enterprise campus environments. Once relegated to niche vertical implementations, standards-based wireless local area network (LAN) and fixed-access wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) technologies can offer flexible, high-performance services that integrate with, and sometimes replace, traditional wired infrastructure. The forces driving adoption of these solutions into the enterprise include rapidly decreasing cost, more sophisticated management capabilities and enhanced wireless security frameworks. Perhaps most important, wireless networks are an enabler of pervasive computing--the technology easily scales from the home to a telecommuting environment to the enterprise campus, while leveraging the same untethered client interface and resources. Providing mobility and untethered access to critical business resources has never been easier but understanding the technology, implementation, and support issues are critical to a successful deployment.
For more information, please e-mail your request to nwcevents@cmp.com.
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