EMA Announces IT Management Webinars for February
Topics include CMDB, change management and systems management
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 5, 2008 - Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host three free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of February, 2008.
The EMA(TM) Webinars set for February include:
Thurs., Feb. 7, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
CMDB Progress Involves Risks: What You Can Do Today to Avoid Pitfalls and Achieve Success
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=CMDBwebws0208&bs=CMDBweb0208
Enterprise Management Associates' continuing Webinar series on CMDB provides a glimpse into the trends and new directions of this technology. Undoubtedly, 2008 will be a pivotal year for CMDB implementations, with many failing to deliver the promised return on investment (ROI) or overrunning total cost of ownership (TCO) calculations. EMA consulting director Chris Matney will outline:
o The latest trends and best practices in CMDB
o How to accurately estimate ROI and TCO for CMDB projects
o Ways to reduce project risk based on real-world customer examples and the firm's unique consulting offerings
Tues., Feb. 12, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
EMA(TM) All-Stars(TM) in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=smwebpr0208&bs=smweb0208
EMA recently announced its choices for the very best vendors in 18 distinct enterprise systems management disciplines, including virtualization, data center automation, change management, systems configuration management and many more. In this event, EMA research director Andi Mann will share highlights from this informative report and share tips for evaluating systems management solutions.
Wed., Feb. 27, 2008 - 2 p.m. Eastern
Improving Change Management through Pre-deployment Testing Management for 2008
http://www.emausa.com/ema_lead.php?ls=stacksafewebws0208&bs=stacksafeweb0208
As software infrastructures become increasingly business and revenue critical, the rate of change across IT continues to escalate. Often, IT operations teams have no way to predict the impact of such changes pre-deployment, and lack confidence that changes can be deployed without adverse impact to production systems. This trend is more challenging than ever before, with IT operations groups under tremendous pressure to maintain nearly 100 percent application availability.
During this Webinar, EMA senior analyst Julie Craig and StackSafe senior product manager Dennis Powell will discuss how IT operations can simplify the task of predicting the impact of changes to the software infrastructure. Topics covered include:
o How testing of changes fits into the ITIL V2 and V3 frameworks
o The impact of increased distributed applications, such as SOA, on changes and testing
o How virtualization technologies are being implemented to improve staging and testing solutions for IT operations teams
For more information, contact Guy Murrel at gmurrel@catapultpr-ir.com or 303-581-7760 x17
About Enterprise Management Associates
Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts. For more information on the firm's extensive library of IT management research, free online IT Management Solutions Center and IT consulting offerings, visit www.enterprisemanagement.com.
