10/21/2009

This week I would like to share a few seminars & webinars that we are sponsoring. 

 

LOCAL EVENTS

 

iSCSI Storage in Virtual Environments Happy Hour Registration Link

Del Frisco’s – 8100 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village

Thursday, October 29^th from 4:00pm –6:00pm

Sponsored by Lewan IT Group & HP LeftHand Storage

 

Please join Lewan and HP for a brief informational update on the impact of iSCSI storage platforms within today’s virtualized IT environments. Enjoy appetizers and cocktails in a relaxed setting to further discuss your IT initiatives and plans with local Lewan account managers and experts from Lewan and HP.  This seminar is ideal for all technical support roles.

 

Lower Costs & Risks with Datacenter Optimization & Consolidation Registration Link

Denver Aquarium – 700 Water St, Denver

Wednesday, November 4^th from 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Sponsored by Lewan IT Group, Avnet & HP ProCurve Networking

 

Two presentations from industry experts Abner Germanow (Director of IDC’s Enterprise Communications Infrastructure Services) and Lin Nease (Director of Emerging Technologies HP Procurve Networking) about the current strategies for automation in the data center to reduce operating expenses.  This seminar is ideal for technical executives & managers.

 

 

WEBINARS

 

Application Availability for Critical Workloads Live Webinar Registration Link

Wednesday October 28^th, 2009 from 9:00am to 10:00am

Sponsored by DoubleTake

  

Unplanned disasters and downtime cause disruption and loss of productivity for employees as well as tedious and time-consuming processes for IT managers. In the event of an outage, make sure you are prepared to be back up and running before the business notices.

 

Five Tips to Achieving Storage Infrastructure Efficiency Link to On-demand Webinar

65 Minutes

Sponsored by Compellent

 

ESG Analyst Mark Peters examines the ongoing challenge of managing data growth while containing costs. Discover how efficient storage technologies enabled CIO Brian Trudeau of Amerex Brokers to keep pace with data growth and reduce the overall cost of doing business.  This webinar is ideal for decision makers & managers.

8/31/2009

We have a number of great events coming your way in September, so please join us for them all.  A big THANK YOU to our partners Compellent, Cisco, HP, Latistys and Symantec for making these events possible.

 September 4th – GAMER Movie Premier – Regal Continental Theater

We truly appreciate your business and would like to to join us for a fun premier of the movie GAMER.  This takes place on the Friday before Labor Day, so I’m thinking it will be a great way to start the weekend.

 September 16th – Virtualization Customer Council Event – Del Frisco’s

Please join us for an educational lunch seminar designed to help you with your virtualization strategy.  These are the latest conversations in the virtualization space and these technologies will significantly impact our IT environments in the future.

Join Lewan & Associates, HP ProCurve and LeftHand for this Virtualization Customer Council Event

You’ve embarked on the journey. But do you know where you’re headed? This event will be exploring real world examples of how advanced storage and networking are driving inventive and creative ways of improving efficiency beyond server virtualization.  Optimizing resilience, performance and security for IP storage and IP networking will be discussed as a complement to optimizing iSCSI SAN environments.  Unique features from HP LeftHand P4000 SAN/IQ and HP ProCurve will be shared to future proof and prepare for next generation 10 Gig-E iSCSI SANs. We Invite you to join us for the Virtualization event with emphasis on “Customer Councils” sharing best practices between customers. Provision storage resources dynamically and intelligently Reduce the impact on application performance Scale for growth and adapt rapidly to changes in business requirements Manage your entire storage infrastructure through a single console Agenda 11:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.   Welcome and Introduction HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions 11:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.   HP ProCurve Networking Lunch is Served 12:15 p.m. 1:00 p.m.   Q & A Open Discussion Adjourn Sign up today and see for yourself how you can break the barriers to performance and manageability in a virtualized environment. >” src=”http://www.event-mgt.com/eblasts/2009/virtualization/invite_workshop_03_09/register_today.gif” width=75 height=20>

When and where     Wed September 16th, 2009 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Del Frisco’s 8100 E Orchard Rd Denver, CO 80111 Register today.

September 17th – Cisco Solutions Update – Cisco Customer Briefing Center – Invite Included

Would you like to learn about and see the latest offerings from Cisco, including:

• Data Center
• VMware partnership
• Security
• Wireless
• Unified Communications

If so, come to this impressive facility in Englewood that features many of the most advanced technologies in the world.

 September 23rd – Controlling Storage and E-discovery Costs – Maggiano’s Are you spending too much upgrading your storage?  Are you lacking useful tools to manage your unstructured data?  Users complaining about email space limits?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, join us to learn about the industries most advanced email and data management solution, Enterprise Vault.  

	Do you feel as if you’re spending more time, energy, and budget on data center and legal processes that aren’t getting any more efficient? You’re not alone. Many organizations—small to large enterprise—are feeling the pressures to do more today but with the same or fewer resources than they had last year. Join us to discuss how archiving enables you to regain control and reduce costs associated with storing, managing, and discovering email and other unstructured information. Symantec Enterprise Vault is the key to your storage optimization strategy: • Control email storage growth and give users virtually unlimited inboxes without adding storage • De Duplicate across archived Email, Instant Messages, SharePoint, File Servers, and more • Archive, block or automatically delete files based on corporate policy to control file server growth • Discover and place legal holds instantly on information relevant to an internal or legal search request