We know that IT professionals are information-rich and time-poor but they are also challenged with keeping their finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest technology announcements, insights, debates, discussions, and more.

We've got you covered! Your time will be well spent watching any of ITPro's sister brand ActualTech Media's (ATM) upcoming webinars. With experts on hand who can talk about opportunities, trends, and challenges backed by experience, you'll emerge from any and all of these webinars with questions answered, solutions to problems, and a greater confidence about the best foot forward.

“These webinars are must-attend events,” said Keith Ward, a moderator and analyst with ATM.

“They cover cutting-edge topics in an entertaining and efficient manner. Whether it’s learning the pros and cons of artificial intelligence, how to stay safe in your data center or in the cloud, or how to use automation to get the most out of your operations, ActualTech Media events are your on-ramp to improving your IT environment.”

Here's an editor-picked list of the best of the best of ATM's upcoming webinar schedule:

• The Modern Security Portfolio: The Toolset Organizations Need Now
  • 13th August, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• The 101 Course: Keeping Data Safe and Recoverable Through Improved Resilience
  • 15th August, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• Securing & Protecting SaaS Applications
  • 27h August, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• Artificial Intelligence Showcase: Looking at Now and Into the Future of AI
  • 4th September, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• Next Level IT: Tools, Products, and Services for Exceptional IT Operations
  • 10h September, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• Discovery Day: Products and Services That Support Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success
  • 17th September, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT
• Enterprise Architecture: The Emerging Leader Landscape
  • 24th September, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT

Security remains a vital concern for businesses of all types, and customers across a range of industries are increasingly relying on managed service providers to be their main defence against a variety of threats.

Keeping up with the ever-changing world of security can sometimes be a challenging prospect for MSPs, however, and it’s important to ensure that they’re equipped with the best possible tools.

MSPs are often expected to act as the security heartbeat of the businesses they serve, and are hit with the dual pressures of operating their own companies and supporting their partners, while also having to keep up with the evolving threat landscape and the challenges that are placed at their doors on a daily basis.

Sophos has a rich history of securing business assets both physical and digital. Datto has a well-established reputation for the security and other services it offers to its partners. Together, they are developing solutions to make security easier, faster and safer for channel companies and their customers.

“From our side, we’ve seen the majority of the endpoints are now really mobile,” says Matt Smith, senior solutions engineer for Datto. “And with a mobile workforce, you’ve no idea what networks they’re joining. Now MSPs are looking at the stack rather than single products. It’s becoming harder for an MSP to manage, and that’s really where an RMM [remote monitoring and management] comes into the game.”

“The perfect opportunity for having this combination of Datto and Sophos is protecting ourselves – protecting the MSP,” says Kyle Torres, security channel account executive for Sophos. “Supply chain attacks were the [most prominent] of the security attacks last year. I don’t think we’re invulnerable to supply chain attacks, and for [many] MSPs they are a vital link in the supply chain for hundreds of users across hundreds of customers.

“It’s not just the customers that we need to think about securing, but we also need to think about how the MSPs are protecting ourselves – with a combination of a good security product to layer on top of a good management product is the best of both.”

Watch our webinar ‘Better together: How Datto and Sophos help automate to accelerate security and success for MSPs’ for a live demonstration of how their software works together, followed by a conversation between Adam Shepherd, community editor for IT Pro, and Smith and Torres about topics including:

• How MSPs can join Datto and Sophos’ partner programmes
• Recent security trends MSPs should be aware of
• The biggest challenges faced by MSPs today
• How MSPs can leverage automation as part of their security offering

Socio Labs, an all-in-one event management solution, provides event planners the ability to host in-person, virtual, or hybrid — a combination of in-person and virtual — events.

The Cisco-Socio Labs deal is aimed at expanding Webex's event management capabilities to include large-scale, multisession hybrid events and conferences. According to Cisco, the acquisition will allow event organizers to deliver the same inclusive experience to attendees whether they attend in-person or virtually for events of all types, sizes, and formats.

“Hybrid events need to serve both in-person and virtual audiences alike, and Socio delivers equally engaging and inclusive experiences to all, said Javed Khan, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Collaboration.

“Event attendees can view sessions, participate in audience engagement and enjoy interactive networking – regardless of how they join an event.”

Socio personalizes the meeting experience from the get-go with a dynamic ticketing system and 1:1 networking. Following the acquisition, the tool will feature live streaming, sponsorship, advanced analytics, and engagement tracking. It’ll also include existing Webex features like polling, Q&A, chat, and real-time translation.

Furthermore, Socio Labs complements Cisco's recent acquisition of Slido. Slido’s audience interaction platform helps boost participation through easy-to-use Q&As and polls.

“For meeting participants that might be reluctant to ask a question or share their voice, Slido’s ability to display questions anonymously enables a higher degree of participation and feedback,” added Khan.

By integrating features from Socio Labs and Slido, Cisco hopes to make Webex a full-featured, cost-effective event management platform, from registration to post-event analytics.

“With Webex’s cutting-edge meeting innovations like immersive share and real-time translations, Slido’s audience engagement capabilities like polling and Q&A and Socio’s full lifecycle hybrid event management technology, event organizers will be able to plan and execute hybrid events with a unified tech stack from one vendor,” said Khan.

The Cisco-Socio Labs merger is expected to close in the second half of the current fiscal year.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key component of companies’ bids to modernise in recent years.

Organisations have been scrambling to get an advantage over their competitors and see how greater volumes of data insights can give them an edge.

However, introducing AI without having a full understanding of where it will fit in your strategy can mean your investment won’t generate a return. But one thing’s for certain, that once it’s implemented, you need to run with it, as Gartner predicts that by 2024, 75% of organisations will initiate some form of machine learning (ML).

However, data scientists shouldn’t be extracting deep insights from company data unless they’re aligned to a business goal or solving a business problem. This can then indicate how AI and machine learning can be attributed to success.

Sivan Metzger, managing director, MLOps & Governance at DataRobot, has said that we’re now at a point where businesses will finally start to see the benefit of their AI investments, as pressure from CFOs continues to mount.

He goes on to say that data scientists should also begin to see results that can help them to adapt their work to give their company a better advantage.

Previously, this had been an issue, and Metzger credits these issues to a disconnect between the data team, IT operations and stakeholders on the business side (i.e. the potential consumers of data science insights). Data science and IT operations teams have very different considerations and goals – and machine learning is very different from running software. This disconnect is known as the ‘production gap’, and can prevent AI solutions from being properly executed.

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) is a combination of processes, best practices and underpinning technologies which seeks to bridge this gap by increasing collaboration and communication between data scientists and operations staff – and ultimately ensuring that AI is properly deployed and can begin to deliver the ROI promised.

To learn more about how MLOps can improve your returns on AI, watch IT Pro and DataRobot’s webinar ‘The Last Mile to AI ROI’, in which Metzger and data scientist Rajiv Shah discuss topics including:

• How to eliminate AI-related risks by adopting MLOps best practices
• The inherent challenges of production model deployment and how to overcome them
• Model-monitoring best practices
• Production lifecycle management and why it matters

Artificial intelligence has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. From the early Church-Turing thesis on computable functions to John McCarthy coining the term and establishing the first AI research workshop at Dartmouth College in 1956, the technology has made huge strides. No longer the realm of Hollywood blockbusters, AI is now something we all carry around in our pockets and cross paths with in everyday life.

AI is also filtering into the business world, thanks to big data, advanced analytics and machine learning promising new, efficient ways of working and competitive gains to enable growth. You might view AI as the sole pursuit of big tech companies, or something to tackle tomorrow, but dismissing it outright is akin to shrugging off business basics like the internet or email as a valued resource.

But what can AI actually do for your business? Dr Michael Wu, chief AI strategist at PROS, believes this is “the wrong question to ask”. Instead, he believes that question needs to be reframed to consider bringing AI into a larger digital strategy.

“AI can pretty much do anything a human can do providing that you can fully digitise the process. If you can fully digitise the process you will have the data to train the AI to mimic what we do,” said Wu. “The real question that a company should ask is ‘what can you digitise’? This is another argument why you should digitally transform your business, because then you will have the digital data to train your artificial intelligence.”

With the right data in place, AI has the ability to integrate into everything from your cybersecurity setup to ecommerce platforms. Think detecting behavioral anomalies and responding rapidly to threats, or personalising content to increase an online store’s conversion rate.

Businesses have been harnessing the power of technology for decades, and AI represents the next evolutionary step. Implement it correctly and it can interpret data and draw out valuable insight. Even if you are new to AI, it’s worth researching and considering the possible impact it could have in unlocking your organisation’s potential.

To learn more about how AI research is changing the game for businesses, register now for the IT Pro Live webinar taking place on Thursday 25 June. PROS’ Dr Michael Wu will join IT Pro’s Adam Shepherd to discuss topics including:

• Why AI is so disruptive
• What are the different types of AI?
• What can AI do for our businesses?

In the past few weeks, the coronavirus crisis has driven a huge surge in remote working, creating a massive spike in the volume of unstructured data that businesses have to process, including phone calls, emails, instant messages and collaborative files – not to mention the sundry other files and databases that are generated as part of everyday business operations.

The reality of the situation is that nobody knows how long the current global lockdowns are going to continue for. Businesses may well be stuck in this mode of operations for months, and even when the quarantines do eventually lift, now that remote working has been proven as a viable option, many employees will no longer want to go back to their offices. What that means is that this data surge isn’t going to entirely subside when and if things go back to normal - businesses will have to adapt to a new and higher baseline level of data generation.

All of this data needs to be stored somewhere, but manually auditing and transferring it to the relevant storage location is an inefficient and time-consuming process for storage managers. The increased demands from remote workers and higher data volumes are also putting new stresses on infrastructure, which drives up maintenance costs and creates greater possibilities of outages or failures.

Instead, businesses can use modern data management tools to automatically transfer data to a highly scalable and easy-to-manage object storage platform with rules-based policies. This allows storage admins to take advantage of more cost-effective models, using smart algorithms to intelligently move infrequently-accessed data to low-cost archive storage, saving them money and allowing them to focus on mission-critical data instead.

Object storage is also particularly useful for accessing large volumes of unstructured data, which make up the core of big data projects, as it easily scales to support large datasets without requiring complex database schema or tiered folder architecture. Instead, the flat pool created by object storage allows for the sort of deep analysis that’s otherwise impossible with traditional file storage.

Register now to watch this on-demand webinar, brought to you in association with IBM, where you’ll hear from Gajun Ganendran, Asia Pacific CTO for IBM Cloud Platform and Moonwalk founder Michael Harvey, on topics including:

• How object storage can reduce time and cost spent on data backup operations
• Why object storage is best-suited to cloud-native applications
• The security benefits of object storage versus file-based cloud storage platforms

There's a looming problem on the horizon, which is going to cause a lot of headaches for businesses if they're not prepared. The issue in question? Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 7 in January 2020, meaning that businesses have less than a year to prepare their migration strategies for upgrading their business devices to a newer, supported version of Microsoft's OS.

When Windows 7 reaches End-Of-Life, it'll likely affect a lot of businesses. Windows 7 still runs on around a quarter of UK desktop PCs, according to StatCounter. It's unknown how many of those are business machines as opposed to personal devices, but it's likely to be a significant number.

If businesses haven't upgraded to a more recent OS by the time support is withdrawn, they face the prospect of having to pay Microsoft for extended support, which will get more expensive over time. A much more cost-effective solution is to ensure that you've got a strategy in place to migrate your Windows 7 desktops to Windows 10, ensuring that you're future-proofed for as long as possible.

If you want to know more about the best way to ensure a smooth and painless Windows 7 migration, you can catch up with our on-demand webinar on 'The Windows 7 clock is ticking: what should you do next?'

What can you expect?

The webinar explores the practical options available: do you upgrade, replace or virtualise? We'll discuss the security risks of delaying your migration and find out how it's affecting businesses right now.

It also explains how you can migrate to Windows 10 without disrupting your employee's productivity.

The webinar includes input from experts including PC Pro Editor-in-Chief Tim Danton, HP's Michael Pope, Microsoft's Christian Cornazzani, and migration specialist Robert Neuschul.

Watch the webinar online for free here.

As your employees are out and about accessing your network form a range of devices - some of which might not even be owned or controlled by your company, you need to be vigilant. But how can you watch over something you can't see?

That's where endpoint security comes in. Endpoints take many forms - from mobile devices and laptops to PCs, printers and everything in between. So the first step towards ensuring endpoint security has to be ensuring you know what endpoints you're dealing with.

Once you understand the landscape, you must then secure it. But that is often easier said than done.

Organisations have long invested in software-based security measures and these have staved off most attacks, leaving firms focused on prevention rather than cure. However, those with malintent are becoming even smarter and using more sophisticated techniques, so organisations must be prepared to up their security game.

The recent LoJax attack, which was perpetrated by Fancy Bear in the real world, shocked many. Mainly because they weren't prepared for something like that to happen. Up until that point, BIOS/UEFI rootkit attacks had been the work of fiction rather than fact.

In another recent example, supporters of PewDiePie put the fear into many suggesting they would hack' their printers if they didn't voice their support for the vlogger too. But was this really a case of the baddies finding a security loophole or just lazy/sloppy admin?

Dealing with such new, emerging and evermore sophisticated threats requires security at the hardware as well as the software level. Organisations must be prepared to secure from the top down and the inside out.

The threat of being hacked or breached in some way is a reality of modern business life. The average financial cost of a cyber security breach for UK organisations is suggested to be anywhere from as little as 1,000 to just shy of 10,000. However, we know such attacks can cost organisations dearly elsewhere, too.

Compounding the scary stats around security generally is the fact the way we work (and live) is changing almost beyond recognition. Experts predict that, by 2020, flexible working will be the norm among businesses. With all the benefits this increased agility and ability to work anywhere and at any time, there are also increased risks.

There's a very fine line between where general best practice/common sense ends and advanced levels of security starts. But whose responsibility is it to ensure both are considered and carried out? The simple answer is everyone. However, IT must lead the charge and bring users along on the journey, ensuring they understand the potential consequences of their actions.

But it's not just about technology in isolation. It's about ensuring people have the right tools to keep the information your organisation holds dear safe without even having to think about it.

Catch up on our webinar, brought to you by HP and Intel in association with IT Pro, which brings together experts in this field to discuss and debate the challenges, debunk myths and help your business make clued-up decisions about how to move forward and be more efficient, effective, productive and, ultimately, successful in a safe and secure manner.

Moderated by B2B editorial director Maggie Holland, the webinar also features the expertise and opinion of Howard Roberts, an HP distinguished technologist, Jeff Kilford, UK Client Compute Group Lead for Intel, and former analyst and current freelance journalist and broadcaster, Rene Millman. During the hour-long discussion, we answer questions such as:

• What is endpoint security?
• What are the different endpoint considerations (from PC and print to everything in between)?
• What are the benefits and key challenges of securing endpoints?
• Can you exist safely without dedicated endpoint security?
• Are self-healing endpoints the answer?
• Do older PCs limit productivity and become a liability?
• How important is multifactor authentication?
• Are printers a weak spot?
• How important is user education when it comes to securing endpoints?
• What should you tell users and what information should you leave out?
• How can you protect your organisation from the most deviant BIOS attacks?
• How can you avoid being the next endpoint security horror story?
• What role does biometrics play?
• What about the IoT - do the risks increase?
• How can we learn from WannaCry et al?

Watch the webinar online for free here.

Digital transformation is big business. That much is a fact. But how to move from theory to reality still poses a massive headache for many organisations, large and small.

But, with disruption happening across all organisations in all sectors, there's never been more of a need to digitally transform to ensure current and future success.

Indeed, research firm IDC predicts that worldwide spending on digital transformation will surpass $1 trillion in 2018 up nearly 17% from last year. But it's about more than just throwing money at the problem. Business and technology professionals need to have a solid strategy in place and ensure they're working with the right partners and using the right tools and technologies.

The HR and finance functions lie at the heart of digital transformation, but with people invested quite literally in legacy solutions, it can be hard to make the transition from A to B.

If you're struggling to join the digital dots or just want reassurance you're on the right path, we're here to help. Join us for a live panel discussion, where we will show you have to truly achieve organisational agility and digital transformation success.

Moderated by Dennis' B2B editorial director Maggie Holland, with input from Dave Sohigian, EMEA CTO at Workday and Steve Brooks, an analyst at Creative Intellect Consulting, the discussion looks set to debate and digest many of the key topics of concern and interest to decision makers today.

Discussion points will include:

• Why cloud-based technologies are the right platform for digital transformation.
• How to get buy-in from key stakeholders needed in the change process.
• How large businesses can be as agile as smaller players and how small firms can scale and grow without constraint.
• How to marry your business vision with your employee and customer expectations.
• How improved data flow and insight can help you make better decisions much more quickly and deliver greater market understanding.
• How to avoid common digital transformation and cloud migration pitfalls.

You can sign up for the webinar here.

Finance and HR data form the beating heart of any organisation. They tell you what resources you have and help you better understand what motivates and empowers employees to be their best.

While a little progress has been made to move some transactional systems to more of a cloud-based approach, it's just the tip of the iceberg. By focusing on true SaaS - systems built with the cloud in mind rather than as an afterthought - the path to digital transformation and future success becomes clearer.

Once you've recognised the value of true cloud and how it relates to your finance and human capital management data, it becomes a case of selecting the right solution and partner to help turn your vision from theory to reality.

This on-demand webinar, brought to you by IT Pro, in association with Workday, is designed to help transform your organisation from where it is today to a business fit for the future. Download it now to catch the full discussion in your own time.

The business landscape for IT services companies has changed almost beyond recognition in recent years. The emergence and adoption of cloud computing has given organisations the ability to transact and make decisions faster and with greater accuracy than ever before.

Other shifts, such as the increasing focus on e-commerce and the immediacy of social and mobile are also piling on the pressure.

ITSM firms must adapt or risk becoming extinct. But it's not enough to just acknowledge a need to change you need to know when and how to do it.

If you're a large firm, you need to think and act as agile as a start-up. While, if you're a newbie, you'll need to quickly gain the credibility and scale of the more established players, getting to market rapidly and expanding internationally.

"All ITSM companies whether VARs or MSPs etc. are having to restructure their businesses in the face of changing demand. They're shifting from a pure focus on just products or services to offering a mix of products, services and subscription based business models," said David Turner, Senior Director, EMEA for Oracle NetSuite.

"Shrinking margins are having a real impact on their business as they try to juggle the need for higher volumes while keeping costs down and being much more efficient. Some firms are facing the need to increase volumes by 3-400% a year just to stand still. Automation is one answer and is a way of being able to do more."

Existing business models are being challenged and, to remain relevant, organisations are having to reinvent who they are and what they do, according to Turner. But, he added, the cloud offers much potential for support in these endeavours.

Even for businesses that are standing still, automation can help free up valuable resources rather than simply being used as a cost-cutting measure, added Steve Brooks, principal analyst at Creative Intellect Consulting.

"A finance team could spend days working on month-end close. With automation, it can be measured in hours".

Brooks added: "The market is evolving and changing. At the same time, opportunities are both shrinking and growing. ITSM companies need to keep aware of the future market and understand what is adding value. They need to get close to customers. Vendors cannot have 1:1 relationships with every customer it just doesn't scale".

"Change needs to be addressed in three ways 1) Operationally and through automation. 2) Business models need to be reassessed and 3) Through routes to market

If you would like to learn more about how you can position your business for change, join us for a live panel discussion on 22 November. For more information and to register, please click here.

Are you really prepared for what the future of the office will look like? Thankfully, cognitive technologies such as IBM's Watson are.

There's good news too. You're not alone in this new dawn of doing business and being productive, so it's important to reflect on and respond to what assistive technologies are out there. After all, when you're equipped with the right tools and technologies, your time can be freed up for other value-added tasks. You'll find yourself in the fortunate position of not having to choose between keeping the lights on an innovating...

In our exclusive webcast, we discuss the role of cognitive and the office of the future and how the two can be combined to drive business success.

The webcast is moderated by IT Pro contributing editor Stephen Pritchard, who is joined by Quocirca founder and principal analyst Clive Longbottom and Stuart McRae, an executive collaboration evangelist at IBM.

Talking points include:

• What working life will be like in 2017 and beyond and how technologies, in particular cognitive, will help rather than hinder in this new world.
• The role of intuitive IT and digital assistants that aim to become more intelligent by learning from the user rather than the other way round
• How advancements in already sophisticated technologies in the AI and cognitive space are driving new ways of working and delivering real value across the workplace.
• What Watson is and what it is not and how this sophisticated technology can play a very valid role in your business today and tomorrow.
• The fact that email is not dead, but there is a need to change the way we view email and related tools. It's about finding better ways to extract value from emails so they become a business enabler rather than a burden.
• The way cognitive is changing how enterprises work and the importance of employee engagement. The result being more engaged/happier employees and better business results.
• The role of apps in the future. With Bluemix, anyone can be a developer, so how do you channel the positives of shadow IT without the negatives and ensure app development is targeted and fit for purpose without the IT department becoming a bottleneck?
• The role social and cloud will play in these new ways of working and how to avoid the pitfalls that may lie ahead.
• Countering adoption negativity and cultural change.
• How to marry technology and culture to deliver the best results for a range of users and use cases.

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The culture of work is changing. Tech-savvy and always-connected people want faster, more intuitive technology, uninterrupted services, and the freedom to work anywhere, anytime, on a variety of devices.

What's more, they want to do more than just read email and view documents via mobile devices. They want to access business-critical applications and act on key corporate data in real-time.

As such, IT departments under increasing pressure to deliver the utmost flexibility for users while at the same time ensuring security and management of data.

Date: Wednesday 16 January

Time: 09:00 EST (2pm GMT)

By taking part in this webcast, you'll learn more about:

*How IT can accommodate the new, flexible work styles, delivering on the dual demands of bring your own device and anywhere, anytime access to data.

*How to create an intelligent datacentre and network infrastructure that can handle today's mobile, BYOD work styles.

*The greatest security challenges ahead and how you can overcome them with the right datacentre management tools.

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The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is putting unprecedented pressure on datacentres, and introducing a whole host of new security concerns to CIOs.

To ensure your organisation can cope with these challenges, register to secure your place in this discussion, where you will learn:

*The role cloud can play in helping your company achieve its BYOD goals;

*How you can prepare your datacentre infrastructure to handle the vast amounts of data created by a growing array of endpoints;

*How to manage and secure a datacentre without affecting employee productivity.

Date: Wednesday 12 December

Time: 2pm, UK time

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Network security is of utmost concern to all enterprise IT decision makers, but legacy products can seriously impact on network performance and affect employee productivity.

This webcast will explain why network security does not have to come at the expense of performance, and how next-generation firewalls are helping CIOs to balance both with ease.

Register today to secure your place in this discussion.

Date: Tuesday 4 December

Time: 9:00 a.m EST

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Private clouds can bring unprecedented agility and efficiency. But the process of building them can be fraught with delays and risks.

What's more, if IT staff have to spend their time racking, stacking and cabling on the way, they're not available for more strategic business initiatives.

Join us this webcast discussion on private cloud options that shorten and simplify the setup process.

During the session, you'll learn:

*How to overcome key challenges that slow virtualisation and private cloud efforts.

*How pre-built, pre-engineered solutions speed the process of setting up a services-ready infrastructure.

*How standardised infrastructure can allow you to focus on adding value and meeting initiatives.

Register today to secure your place in this interactive discussion of getting value from virtualisation and private cloud initiatives faster.

Date:Thursday, June 21, 2012

Time: 14:00 BST

Duration: 60 Minutes

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It's been a generation since the first workers to grow up with personal computers at home entered the workforce. Two decades ago, this new generation of workers helped fuel the massive expansion of business computer use and the productivity gains that ensued.

History is almost repeating itself. The first new knowledge workers raised with the internet are starting to graduate from college and entering the workforce. When these workers learned to read, the World Wide Web and email were in a period of mass expansion and commercialisation. They were in elementary school when the dot-com boom peaked, and in college as social media and smartphone use exploded.

Already, the expectations of a new generation of workers are resetting and refocusing the CIO agenda. As social media becomes a foundational component of work life and corporate collaboration, as new mobile devices and application platforms proliferate, and as more employees work from home, traditional corporate policies on personal computer usage, data security, and application usage are quickly becoming antiquated.

What's more, the rise of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system has become an interesting trigger point for CIOs to take a deep re-look at the applications in their environment.

The result is the rapid consumerisation of IT, resulting in new opportunities and challenges to the organisation. Join this webcast, brought to you in association with Dell, to learn about:

*The trends shaping the future of enterprise mobility;

*Recommended policies for the workforce;

*Recommended use of key technologies to enhance productivity and overcome challenges;

*Migrating to Windows 7 to gain a strategic view of the business;

Date:Monday, April 30, 2012

Time:14:00 CEST (08:00 am EST)

Duration:60 Minutes

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Many firms have piloted desktop virtualisation, but few have progressed to the production phase.

In some cases, this is because the pilots have not been designed correctly and are not giving users the results they expect.

We have identified eight key reasons why these projects fail, which we will reveal in this webcast with Travis Brown, senior solutions manager for desktop virtualization from Dell, and Rich Nockels, marketing manager and desktop virtualization lead from Intel.

Date: Thursday 26 April 2012

Time: 13:00 BST

Duration: 60 minutes

Join this webcast and you will learn the:

Eight key reasons for desktop virtualisation project failures

Critical need to segment users before you proceed with the pilot

Importance of identifying user needs and acting on them

Elements to watch out for

Best practices in desktop virtualisation services

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When IT systems go down, losses go up, regardless of the reason for the outage. Hardware failure or reduced application availability can cost enterprises millions in productivity as IT staff try to shift the workload to backup equipment and end users lose access to critical information.

As a result, IT efforts are intensifying to protect against sudden disruption or downtime in mission-critical applications such as email, web presence, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions across heterogeneous systems and hypervisors.

To find out more, and listen to experts talk about to ensure you don't let your customers, partners or suppliers down if your business network goes down, join our interactive discussion taking place on 6 March at 12pm GMT.

In this webcast, you'll learn how to take more about the best approaches to using virtualisation to provide availability across both local and remote datacentres to keep your business up and running and your customers happy.

When:Tuesday 6 March 2012

Time: UK: 12:00 GMT / France/Germany: 13:00 CET

Duration: 60 Minutes

Key discussion points will include:

Why multi-hypervisor environments are increasingly popular, cost-effective options in virtualised datacentres.

The key benefits virtualisation brings to high availability and DR initiatives.

Which roadblocks to cost-effective virtualisation-based DR businesses typically encounter.

Why non-virtualised applications are sometimes overlooked in virtualised DR planning.

How emerging technology solutions address these challenges to simplify and improve HA and DR and lower your RTO (Recovery Time Objective).

Register today to secure your place in this up-close view of network challenges and emerging solutions.

In addition to gaining valuable business and technical insight on real-world challenges and how to overcome them, by registering and attending this webcast, you'll have the chance of winning one of 75 8GB Flash drives. Terms and conditions here.

If you missed our live webcast on 14 July, don't worry - it's now available on demand.

The webcast is especially for business or IT managers worried about the state of their organisation's storage and, crucially, backup.

If you're concerned about your data storage, management and backup strategy, this webcast will be essential viewing.

Industry expert Nigel Green and PC Pro deputy editor David Fearon are joined by experts from Microsoft and EMC, to look at ways of taking control of your business's data and maintaining that control as it expands.

Together the panel discuss the whole gamut of data storage topics, with a particular emphasis on backup. Topics they discuss include:

How to move toward the ideal of centrally managed, secure storage

How to expand your storage capacity in a cohesive manner

Keeping your overnight backups from spilling into the next working day

The best way to plan for the future in the face of exploding volumes of data

Achieving the right balance between a safe backup regime and one that's simple to manage

Avoiding unnecessary data duplication

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Available now for on-demand playback, the IT PRO Unified Communications web seminar takes a first-hand, interactive look at unified communications and how convergence can benefit business.

This web seminar examines the role of unified communications and how it can help the human network connect with people and business, wherever they are and whenever they want, and how new approaches to networking and new technologies have broken down the traditional barriers of time, distance, security and geographical boundaries.

Our expert panel of speakers includes Richard Osborne, a consulting systems engineer with Cisco, Simon Furber, network manager with Brunel University , who will be talking about his experiences using and deploying a unified comms solution as a business user, plus independent industry commentator, writer and analyst Ian Murphy.

The web seminar also features a question and answer session, allowing you to pose questions directly to our expert panel. Even though the live event has now passed, you can still pose questions to the panel as you watch, and we will aim to get all questions answered by email.

Click here to register for and access the web seminar.