As part of the rollout of our Service Intelligence offerings, a webinar was presented that showcased our latest solutions - Service Health Reporter and Service Health Optimizer. The webcast included a demo and a discussion on the overall Operations Center portfolio.

Last chance to register for a free webinar on Service Intelligence. We'll show demos of Service Health Optimizer and Service Health Reporter and how they help you get more performance and higher availablity out of your virtualized IT environment.

Register now:

www.hp.com/go/serviceintelligencewebcast

To gain the agility and cost advantages from virtualization and cloud computing, organizations must be able to combine historical and current infrastructure performance data with usage forecasts.  That ability enables IT to visualize, optimize, and plan workload placement and future infrastructure investments. The dynamic relationships in a complex IT environment, however,  means that correlating and mapping physical, virtual, and cloud-based elements is beyond the realm of human judgment and spreadsheets. It requires business service intelligence.

Attend a free webinar on Service Intelligence to see HP's exciting new offerings in this area.

This Wednesday, Beth Pfost of Boeing will will share her best practices for server performance monitoring, including:

• How to achieve better server performance while driving down costs
• How to better manage people and process change
• Best practices for meeting and exceeding SLAs 

I will also discuss how performance management fits with the rest of HP's operations management solution.

Register now for this live webinar on March 9, 2011 at noon Eastern time / 11AM Central time / 10AM Mountain time / 9AM Pacific time.

Join us to hear Beth Pfost of Boeing share best practices for server performance monitoring, including:

• How to achieve better server performance while driving down costs
• How to better manage people and process change
• Best practices for meeting and exceeding SLAs

Hear how the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympics games (VANOC) used HP Business Service Management (BSM) to correlate events across the infrastructure into a single, simple console. Atos Origin Major Events, a key HP systems integration partner, shares how they consolidated server, network, and application events to effectively manage the 43 competition venues and supporting sites at the most recent Winter Games. Register now for this free webinar.

Join HP Software and CTConsultants for a live webinar on:

Service modeling, discovery, and monitoring your VMware environments:
5 tips for optimizing management of your virtual infrastructure.

During this webinar and demo, you will learn:
* best practices for performing event management with VMware
* how customers have deployed HP solutions to effectively solve problems managing virtualized environments
* how to combine agent and agentless technologies to optimize event and performance management
* the importance of service discovery and how to maintain up-to-date service and dependency maps

Register now.
www.hp.com/go/swvirtualizationwebinarseries

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Next week, on Tuesday April 13, I am co-presenting in a webinar on “Service modeling, discovery, and monitoring for VMware environments: 5 tips for optimizing management of your virtual infrastructure”.

My co-presenter, Luigi Tiano of CTC Consultants is offering a free week of virtualization consulting services to one person who attends the webinar and either

1. Tweets this:
   Win a free week of virtualization consulting. Attend best practices webinar. #ctcvm http://ow.ly/1vQVA


2. Or updates your LinkedIn status with this (and check the twitter box next to the “Share” button):
   I have registered for a free webinar on virtualization management and a chance to win a week of consulting services. Learn more at http://ow.ly/1vQVA

All attendees who have either tweeted or updated their LinkedIn profile will be entered into a drawing to win this week of consulting.

You can learn more about this offer here.
http://www.ctcinc.ca/solutions.aspx?show=7

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Join HP Software and Solutions for a live InformationWeek webcast with special guests Maryann Phillip, Director of Service Delivery at Independence Blue Cross (IBC), and Ken Herold, Practice Manager & Principal Architect with Melillo Consulting.

Hear first-hand how IBC is using HP Operations Center products like Operations Manager, Performance Manager, and DDM in addition to agentless and agent-based data collection to:

• achieve profitable growth through enabling technologies


• reduce costs by achieving a competitive cost structure


• manage medical costs better -- through operational stability & improvements

Register today and learn how you can streamline and make YOUR processes more efficient.

HP Software and Solutions recently sponsored a series of virtualization roundtables, run by CIO magazine, where we shared the 2009 study findings on virtualization adoption and challenges.  During these events we heard over 100 IT executives tell us their specific needs around virtualization and their desire to continue with the discussion around key areas of virtualization.

We’re created a series of webinars to help continue the virtualization discussions including:

• April 13 - Optimizing service modeling, discovery, and monitoring for VMware environments
• April 14 - Protecting Virtualized Environments from Disaster with HP Data Protector
• April 21 - Testing Smarter and Faster with Virtualization
• April 22 - Improve customer satisfaction and maintain service levels in virtualized environments
• April 27-  BCBS of Florida builds a foundation for virtualization with HP Asset Manager
• April 29 - Virtualization: Compliance enforcement in a virtualized world

Here are the details for the Optimizing service modeling, discovery, and monitoring for VMware environments webinar I will be presenting on April 13.

In this webinar, Luigi Tiano, Enterprise Management Practice Director at CT Consultants, and Peter Spielvogel, Group Product Marketing Manager at HP, will discuss the challenges of managing virtualized environments. Using examples from several customer deployments, they will detail several proven approaches that show how unified monitoring for physical and virtual infrastructure leads to reduced costs, improved visibility, and higher availability of business services.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• best practices for performing event management with VMware


• how customers have deployed HP solutions to effectively solve problems managing virtualized environments


• how to combine agent and agentless technologies to optimize event and performance management


• the importance of service discovery and how to maintain up-to-date service and dependency map

Register now for one or more of the web events in the April 2010 virtualization series and take the next step in virtualization management.

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As we enter the New Year, many people make resolutions. On the personal side, improving health and finances generally top the list. Fortunately, you can set (and achieve!) similar goals to get your IT infrastructure in shape and on budget.

This upcoming webinar address this topic.

Fulfill your New Year's resolution: Get lean (IT) and prepare for growth in 2010 with your existing resources

Date and time:  Tuesday, January 26, 2010 (1:00 PM Eastern Time / 10:00 AM Pacific Time)
Register here: www.hp.com/go/getleanit2010
Abstract: During this webinar, you will see how virtualization and automation can extend your management tools to enable your IT organization to support your company's 2010 growth plans.
 
Using several HP customer examples and a live demo, you will learn how to:

• Consolidate event management with a single console AND speed your time to problem resolution.


• Prioritize your IT response based on the business value of the affected services.


• Manage physical and virtual servers using the same instrumentation to standardize operations and reduce licensing, maintenance, and training costs.


• Extend your infrastructure coverage using agentless monitoring to speed time to deployment.


• Automate remediation of recurring events to save money and get more out of your existing IT investments.

See a promotional video about the webinar.

 
Register for the free webinar: www.hp.com/go/getleanit2010

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For those readers that like to plan ahead...

Webinar title:  Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management
Webinar date :  Wednesday October 7, 2009 12-1 Eastern time / 9-10 Pacific time

Virtualization is hot!   Even in this tough economy, virtualization was cited as the top spending priority for CIOs in a 2009 CIO Insight survey. Most organizations are seeing real benefits in flexibility and utilization but virtualization also creates some unique management challenges.  

Join HP and VMware, industry leaders in virtualization and infrastructure and application management for this one hour webinar to learn how you can reduce management costs and gain increased visibility and control of your virtual infrastructure.
 
During this webinar, you'll learn:

• How virtualization can introduce new management silos and actually increase the time and cost to detect and resolve issues


• How consolidated event and performance management can reduce costs and regain control


• How new technology from HP and VMware can pinpoint the root cause of system issues and eliminate duplication of effort chasing symptoms

Don't miss this chance to get maximum value from your virtualization investments.

REGISTER NOW

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