Webcasts

Techworld is pleased to host a series of FREE-to-view webcasts dealing with the latest advances in the technological world, with expert guests from some of the world's largest technology companies. By attending a webcast, either live or on-demand, you can hear our panel debate the issues and learn how these advances can impact you life and your business.

Security - Sourcefire

Wednesday 6th December, 3pm (GMT)

The firewall is dead. The modern organisation is under threat from increasingly sophisticated attacks and to deal with this, security professionals have had to install a new generation of intrusion prevention systems, protecting not just the perimeter but the internal network itself. Does this mean that today's network should be constructed differently? How should an IT manager handle his or her own users? And how should today's IT manager react to this new degree of sophistication?"

This webcast looks at modern IPS products and how they should be deployed. This is your opportunity to ask the experts about the best way to improve your own network.

Mobility Matters - How the Modern Enterprise is Shaping Up

It used to be simple: businesses had data networks, they had their voice systems and (in the last decade or so, they've had mobile communications). One of the real challenges for IT managers in the past few years has been bringing these different systems together,the integration of fixed-line telephony and data proved to be a tough nut to crack but adding mobility to the mix has been tougher. This webcast explains what the new world of communications is going to look like, how it can be achieved, what difficulties may be encountered and what benefits can be reaped.

Availability Management: Building A Strong Foundation for ITIL

ITIL is the only consistent and comprehensive documentation of best practice for IT Service Management. First developed by the British Government, ITIL is now used by many organizations across the world.

Join these speakers at a live audio webcast as they discuss ways to optimise your organisations own readiness for ITIL by concentrating on the Availability Management aspect:

• Aidan Lawes, Analyst, itSMF Limited
• Paul Arthur, Business Solutions Director in UK, BMC UK
• Richard Huntley Enterprise Systems Manager for Centrica

VoIP and Mobility: Finding your voice

The growing interest in Voice over IP means it is inevitable that the move from TDM-based telecoms systems to IP-based ones will happen and will transform the enterprise, bringing a new generation of feature-rich services.

The truly advanced business will give the user access to the same set of features whether at their desk or on the move, and the combination of VoIP and Voice over WLAN could prove to be unbeatable as businesses seek to give themselves an added edge.

In this FREE webcast we discuss the impact that VoIP will have in the business market and the best strategies for employing the technology within your business. We will look at how to access your applications from a variety of devices and how to combine the power of business telephony and the flexibility of mobile technology.

Mobile Security: How Secure is Your Business

Today's workforce is more mobile than ever before, but this mobility introduces problems – it takes only one mobile device to break a business' secure environment. Therefore no business can ignore the security of mobile access:

• The difficulties of examining mobile devices on a network
• The growing rise of mobile viruses and Trojans
• The problem that wireless devices, by their very nature, are used outside a company’s own firewall-protected security zone.

This FREE webcast, moderated by Techworld editor Maxwell Cooter, will examine these issues in depth and present you with options for better security management. David Taylor of Nokia, Ken Munro of SecureTest Ltd and Rob Bamforth of QuoCirca offer their expert analysis, insight and research into mobile security for you and your business in this event that you simply cannot afford not to see!

How will you do mobile email – and why?

Email is a tool that makes things happen: mobile email makes them happen faster.

Choosing how to do mobile email can be difficult as it is not a stand alone solution – it has to fit in with handsets and central IT systems. There is no one-size-fits-all mobile email solution, but users need a system that will:

• operate under IT control
• fit with the company’s firewalls and security policies
• be able to expand to meet future needs
• meet cost requirements.

In this FREE event you will hear from Glenn Dale of Nokia, Rob Bamfoth of QuoCirca and Peter Judge, the Wireless and Mobility Editor of Techworld, who have all worked through these issues. By tuning into this webcast you will be getting a head start in examining the case for mobile email, and building it into your business, your way.

New devices for new markets – selecting the right storage technologies

For OEMS, systems builders and integrators, a whole new range of opportunities are emerging as new markets develop for PDAs, MP3 players, USB storage, digital video recorders and mobile phones. Storage is a key component in all of them but integrating and supporting the new storage technologies that are now being developed for these devices, presents a number of challenges.

Hosted by Simon Meredith, this FREE audio webcast features John Fox of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Steve Jackson of Access Devices Digital Limited and John Binks of GfK giving their views on the potential of these new markets. The panel explain how the new storage technologies can best be integrated within solutions to effectively address the needs of businesses and consumers. Listen now.