Empowered's Events Update, for March 2008!

Forgive us if our website seems a little stale. Our efforts have been focused on a refresh.
Meanwhile, here's some events not to miss, from Empowered and our trusted partners.

• Managing Today’s Critical Web Application will be presented in Toronto, March 20th, at the Hockey Hall of Fame. This session examines how to ensure the performance for .NET and Java Applications and Web Services, and gain deep visibility into all parts of the application infrastructure, with advanced monitoring and predictive analysis. To join us for this free educational seminar, visit www.empowered.ca/Events/Wily.
  

• Data Center Migration: Best Practices for A Calamity Free Deployment, presented Thursday March 13 at 2pm EDT, examines how latency and other impairments can impact application performance, when migrating from one data center to another, adding new data centers, or deploying new service types. Join us at this 40 minute webinar to discuss best practices and recommended methodologies for planning data center migrations.
  To listen in, visit www.empowered.ca/Events/Anue.
  

• Time's running out to join us at SynCan2008, the Canadian Sync Users' Meeting. This year's theme is Peak Performance - what carriers need from their networks to deliver the QoS and QoE that customers demand from Triple-Play Services. Do you have the right stuff? Find out, by joining us May 21-22 at Banff's Buffalo Mountain Lodge. To attend, register now at www.empowered.ca/SynCan2008.

  
  

Some other Updates from our Partners

• Preparing your Network for Synchronous Ethernet, a new application brief from Symmetricom, introduces Synchronous Ethernet (aka. ITU G.8261-G.8263), a means to evolve carrier networks to Ethernet while retaining SONET/SDH's physical layer synchronization. See this and other resources on our Symmetricom partner's page.

• 802.11n...Ready to Replace Ethernet? reviews the state of 802.11n development and deployments, focusing on the latest advancements and strategies. Independent editor / analyst Joanie Wexler, renowned contributor to Network World, Computerworld and other leading IT publications, joins VeriWave CTO Tom Alexander to discuss the likelihood of 802.11n being an alternative to Ethernet as well as its ability to handle triple play applications while delivering superior end-user experience. To listen in, visit www.empowered.ca/Events/VeriWave.
  

• Podcast: Tackling Configuration Management
  AlterPoint CEO Scott Harmon joins Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie to explain how AlterPoint can help network managers automate the manual processes of collecting, comparing and updating configuration data across myriad network and security devices, and move towards implementing network governance policies. Listen in at www.empowered.ca/Events/AlterPoint.

• CA's Resource Center for eHealth and SPECTRUM provides access to a suite of resources around network management. Visit the site to get in on CA's Great Hog Giveaway Sweepstakes with draws for Harley-Davidson® gift certificates, and a Grand Prize of a Harley-Davidson® Dyna® Super Glide® Motorcycle. For full details, contest rules and to register, visit CA's Resource Center.

• Business Continuity and the WAN: A Practical Guide on Deployment, Validation and Troubleshooting was focused on best practices and recommended methodologies for your Business Continuity (BC) and/or Disaster Recovery (DR) planning. To view this 30 minute webinar archive, visit www.empowered.ca/Events/Anue.
  

• Empowered and CA presented CA Capability Solutions Seminars in St.John's and Halifax. The day covered mainframe technologies, and focused sessions on Network and Voice Management, Single Sign-On, and Application Performance Management. If you missed out, please contact us.

• December's highlight was the Data Center Executive Roundtable: Turn your Data Center into a Profit Center. In a live roundtable format recorded Thursday Dec.6th, senior IT executives from E*Trade, General Dynamics and VeriSign shared insights and best practices, and discussed how they automated their data center environments, to turn IT into a profit center. View this archived session now at www.empowered.ca/Events/BladeLogic.
  

  
  

• Empowered's Data Center Compliance Strategies event was very well received. Session notes and related materials from Empowered partners AlterPoint and BladeLogic are now available at www.empowered.ca/Events/Compliance.

• Session Notes for Test & Management 2007
  are now posted. This event had amazing turnout in Ottawa and Toronto. This event focused on testing, and featured two great sessions, on Testing Carrier Ethernet, and Testing QOS with Deep Packet Inspection Realism. To access the session notes, visit www.empowered.ca/TM2007.

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Best Practices for Performance Management
Presented by Empowered's Ron Watt, at the MISA2007 Conference

Performance Management is a key discipline in assuring effective IT Service Delivery. Knowing whether and when bottlenecks occur in your IT infrastructure, and how and where to optimize performance, capacity and spending on your network, are important insights into IT Performance, and satisfying users. This case study examines the benefits MPAC has gained from having effective Performance Management toolset.

Wireless Intrusion Detection and Protection Systems
Presented by Empowered's Luc Samson, for CIPS Toronto

According to Gartner, 70% of successful WLAN attacks will occur because of misconfigured access points or client software. This presentation discusses the risks involved with wireless technologies, the security options that are available, as well as the best solution to address their security needs and enforce their specific IT wireless policies. Delivered at the CIPS IT Management SIG meeting in Toronto, November 13th, 2006.

Testing and Managing Wireless LANs
Ensuring Secure, Consistent, Reliable Performance

Presented by Luc Samson, Director Wireless Solutions, Empowered Networks at Empowered's Test & Management 2006 Solutions Showcase. Wireless LANs are rapidly becoming part of the IT Infrastructure. Security considerations are shifting from show-stopper to a requisite component of the implementation plan. Today's challenges lie in ensuring security concurrently with performance, seamless service to roaming clients, and support for VoIP over Wireless LANs... and managing them to ensure availability and security. For Enterprises to fully adopt Wireless LANs, the challenge is to guarantee secure, consistent, and reliable performance. Security, Testing and Management will be key components of any strategy for success.

IP Telephony Success - Testing What Matters
Presented at the 2005 MISA Ontario Conference, Windor

To ensure success, organizations considering VoIP need to consider testing and management as part of their planning, implementation and sourcing strategies. Several requirements need to be addressed -- pre-deployment 'readiness' testing; verifying interoperability, Quality of Service and support for future requirements; and ongoing troubleshooting and performance management. The right approach in each of these areas depends on who's responsible for the delivery infrastructure, the VoIP service itself, and the service delivered to end users. This session provides an introduction to the testing required to ensure success of your IP Telephony project, who should do it, and how to get it done.

Enabling e-Service Delivery with Effective Network Management Process
2004 MISA Ontario Conference

Presented by: Ron Watt, Empowered Networks Agenda Enabling e-Services with Applications Underlying Technology & its Challenges Models for IT/Network Management Survey Findings: Key Things You Must Do Case Studies from our Customers Making it Happen - Balancing People, Processes & Tools How to get Help

Securing Network Management
2nd Annual MISA IT Security Conference

Presented by: Ron Watt, Empowered Networks Agenda Defining Security, Security Management Security, as part of Network Management Change & Configuration Management Fault & Performance Management Are you Vulnerable? Securing Network Management Systems How to do it, and How we can Help

IP Telephony Success: Testing What Matters
Preparing for Now and Beyond

Presented at GTEC Week by: Ron Watt, Empowered Networks

Identifying and Locating Sources of RF Interference
Test & Management Solutions Showcase 2004

Presented By: Steve Mulroney-Cote, Empowered Networks

Enabling Effective Network Management Processes
The key processes you need to manage your network effectively

Presenters: Doug Vannest - Cisco Systems Ron Watt - Empowered Networks Ray Pramuka - SMARTS

Health Canada: Taking our Network Pulse
Wayne Bower of Health Canada shares his Empowered Assessment success

IMSD’s Mandate Environment at time of Assessment Health Report Empowered’s Application Assessment Results

Automating Technology Management
Seamless. Real time. Out of the box.

Critical skills shortages, budget cutbacks, and more demanding users. The only way to make sense of it all is to automate your technology investment.

Managing the IT Expectation Gap
Engineering the Enterprise for e-Business

IT Management – A Functional Perspective What is the IT Expectation Gap? Strategies for Closing the Gap Empowered Networks’ Approach Case Study

Up, down, and across the stack
The challenge of end-to-end QoS

The challenge is to take QoS end-to-end across your content, application, systems, and network. Find the pain points and see the solutions.

Getting SLAs right
Service Provider SLA basics

Discover the role of SLAs in the service provider universe: Advantages of SLAs SLA target audiences Evolution of SLAs The QoS – SLA distinction SLA implementation challenges Proposed logical architecture

Synchronization Services
Ken Bourne Takes you through Synchronization basics

From synchronization network design and engineering to Audits, project management, and installation. Empowered Networks has synchronization from start to finish.

Making the case with SLAs
Examining Enterprise SLA basics

Discover the role of SLAs in the enterprise universe: Advantages of SLAs to the enterprise SLA target audiences Evolution of SLAs What to ask for today and tomorrow The QoS – SLA distinction SLA implementation challenges The goal

Architecting Systems and Networks for Government On-Line
Empowered Networks helps Government IT staff charged with making Government On-Line a reality

Discover the role of network management in the government universe: Government On-Line IT as a reflection of Government performance IT Critical Success Factors Network Performance Systems Availability Government Success Story

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