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UPCOMING NETSEMINARS

After attending this Everything Channel NetSeminar you will be better positioned to identify Data Management opportunities and deliver the solutions your clients require.

[02:00 PM ET, May 20, 2008]

This NetSeminar will explain why virtualization is such a hot solution for midmarket customers and how Solution Providers can take advantage of the opportunity.

[02:00 PM ET, May 22, 2008]

A growing number of Managed Services Providers (MSPs) have begun to agree that deploying and managing software products on-site with customers defeats the purpose of delivering remote services. Get the details on the scope of this trend and how you can profit from SaaS.

[02:00 PM ET, May 28, 2008]

ON-DEMAND NETSEMINARS

Meeting the system needs of SMBs and mid-market customers means offering a combination of choice, price-for-performance and scalability.

[02:00 PM ET, May 15, 2008]

This NetSeminar will introduce new ways to engage customers with managed services, and help you streamline your sales process in ways that keep money from being left on the table.

[02:00 PM ET, May 13, 2008]

All indicators predict a continued and relentless increase in the number of threats aimed at your customer networks. But stamping out these threats with point products is no longer a cost-effective approach. What's needed is a bundled solution that brings the anti-virus, email protection, anti-spyware and other end-point security tools all under one management framework

[02:00 PM ET, May 08, 2008]

VARs and SMB customers alike should be in the mood for mobility these days as the conditions improve everyday " the need for solutions and the ready availability of better solutions that are more easily deployed.

[02:00 PM ET, May 06, 2008]

Delivering managed services to PCs, servers, storage, and network devices helps ensure account retention and build customer loyalty - so why not take the same approach with printers? Print managed services allow Solution Providers to monitor and manage customer print devices, make sure they work properly, and help customers gain more insight into their printing habits which helps increase efficiency and reduce costs.

[02:00 PM ET, April 29, 2008]

New data from the Solution Provider Channel reveals that the profitability of Managed Security Services increases significantly when delivered through a SaaS model.

[02:00 PM ET, April 17, 2008]

As the managed service market reaches its' tipping point, it becomes more important to differentiate yourself through world class customer service, 7/24 support, proactive IT service delivery and keeping abreast of the latest technological developments.

[02:00 PM ET, April 16, 2008]

A solid PCI compliance offering could help you dramatically grow your business, but in order to formalize this type of service, you need to understand a few things. You need an understanding of the legal requirements, essential assessment processes and key technologies.

[02:00 PM ET, April 15, 2008]

Solution Providers know that their customers can never have too much storage, or be too overly concerned about security.

[02:00 PM ET, April 10, 2008]

The strain of service desk support can sap vital resources which could be better directed at new account development and marketing.

[02:00 PM ET, April 08, 2008]

Power savings in the data center is officially a bottom-line concern for business customers. Learn to take advantage of hardware, power management and virtualization solutions to provide your customers with the energy savings they're increasingly demanding.

[02:00 PM ET, April 03, 2008]

Desktop virtualization promises a new growth opportunity for Solution Providers, bringing lower cost and less complexity to managing multiple systems.

[12:00 PM ET, April 01, 2008]

The challenge of choosing the right vendor partners is formidable for larger companies, but for small and medium size businesses, it's a decision that can literally make or break them.

[02:00 PM ET, March 27, 2008]

VARs looking to become more of a trusted IT advisor to their clients and to find new revenue opportunities, need to ensure they're able to have the conversation around next generation WAN solutions and carrier services.

[02:00 PM ET, March 25, 2008]

With so many ways to build a managed services business, picking the right MSP model and making sure it's profitable is no small task.

[02:00 PM ET, March 20, 2008]

With the many changes happening in the industry with consolidations, what does the future hold for Solution Providers and how can you accelerate growth in this dynamic market?

[02:00 PM ET, March 18, 2008]

Find out how you can profit from the convergence of the booming SMB market, the maturity of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and the ever-increasing need for security.

[02:00 PM ET, March 13, 2008]

Whether you've received an "A" in the past and wish to stay ahead of the class, or want to go back to school to acquire one, this Everything Channel NetSeminar is for you.

[02:00 PM ET, March 11, 2008]

Your larger customers and prospects have the same mobility needs you do. They need to be able to keep working continuously while maintaining mobility AND security.

[02:00 PM ET, March 06, 2008]

Look at how rapidly changing technology and economic conditions are creating a profit rush for Solution Providers, replacing high priced, tough to customize proprietary security solutions with attractively priced, customizable open source software security solutions.

[02:00 PM ET, March 04, 2008]

It's time to explore the fundamentals of MSP pricing, cost control, sales and marketing, by exposing proven, successful pricing and cost strategies while delivering new insight into how to sell Managed Services.

[02:00 PM ET, February 27, 2008]

The time has come for Solution Providers to take ERP to the Small Business market, where Excel and other software no longer substitute for a solid Business Management solution.

[02:00 PM ET, February 26, 2008]

Protecting your SMB client's critical data and systems from security threats, natural disasters, basic human and other uncontrollable variables is essential. Learn how to ensure efficient and timely data and system recovery so your clients business remains up and running after a devastating event.

[02:00 PM ET, February 20, 2008]

Server virtualization is on track to take a major share of the server market in the next few years. And that fast growth means plenty of room for Solution Providers looking for business opportunities in an area where competition is not an issue.

[12:00 PM ET, February 13, 2008]

How Growth of Mobility can be used as a business platform, and how the channel fits in.

[02:00 PM ET, February 12, 2008]

You cannot afford to ignore Dell's pending acquisition of iSCSI vendor EqualLogic. The pending acquisition has thrown the spotlight on just how important iSCSI has become to your customers and vendors.

[02:00 PM ET, February 07, 2008]

New Year means New IT budgets, but although there are new budgets, Solution Providers still need to show that new technology can be designed and deployed in a cost-effective manner.

[02:00 PM ET, February 05, 2008]

The market for Managed Services will continue to grow in 2008 bringing opportunity for Solution Providers who take the MSP plunge. Customers are ready, the technology is there, and now it's your turn.

[02:00 PM ET, January 31, 2008]

Use this opportunity to learn more about how you can communicate to your customers that you have what it takes to help them monitor and protect their critical data " or "crown jewels" - for improved business operations.

[02:00 PM ET, January 24, 2008]

Companies of all types, especially resellers and solution providers, struggle with ways to drive more revenues. With on-demand Customer relationship management (CRM), you can achieve unprecedented levels of success and profitability to your business in days.

[01:00 PM ET, January 17, 2008]

During this CMP Channel NetSeminar, Senior Editor Kevin McLaughlin will look at acceleration of the trend of Solution Providers sharing data with their vendor partners, and how having a central point of contact -- and delivering this consolidated view as a service -- can facilitate partner-vendor communication and improve the efficiency of business processes.

[02:00 PM ET, December 11, 2007]

Join CRN Assistant News Editor Scott Campbell to discuss sales trends for blade servers and why they can be the right solution for your growing customers.

[02:00 PM ET, December 06, 2007]

The rumors you've heard are true. The business strategies, best practices and hardware/software tools are there for VARs who want to start building their managed services profile and begin getting a taste of that sweet, sweet recurring revenue.

[02:00 PM ET, December 04, 2007]

Virtually everybody's talking about server virtualization and about how it will help companies with critical business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, all while maximizing server utilization and minimizing costs

[12:00 PM ET, November 15, 2007]

The true cost impact of an unmanaged print network can be a terrifying discovery, but with the right partner, profitable Managed Print Service solutions for State/Local agencies and Education can be deployed to plug the leaks unmanaged print can easily introduce.

[02:00 PM ET, November 13, 2007]

It's no secret that Solution Providers are challenged to find the right partnerships to support their need to be trusted IT advisors to their mid-market customers and access to the best technology must come through these partnerships.

[02:00 PM ET, November 07, 2007]

It might arguably the talk of the Channel this year and more VARs are venturing in every day. But what's the outlook for the future? Where is the growth? And what does it mean for your business?

[02:00 PM ET, November 06, 2007]

You don't have to be a full-time Government Integrator to make hay in the rapidly growing market for Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) systems. With ample market opportunity for all, new technologies enable Solution Providers to deploy and service PPM products that dramatically improve IT governance through improved IT-business engagement and better IT efficiency.

[02:00 PM ET, November 01, 2007]

While the extra headroom 10Gb Ethernet delivers has been available for quite some time, the applications that really depend such high-speed connectivity have been pulling up the rear.

[02:00 PM ET, October 25, 2007]

You are cordially invited to join Steven Burke, Editor/News, CMP Channel and Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid Systems for a live webcast on Tuesday, October 23rd @ 2:00 ET/ 11:00 PT.

[02:00 PM ET, October 23, 2007]

Unified Communications is being hailed by business leaders as a high ROI path to services-rich, multi-vendor solutions that satisfy customers, are you ready to capitalize on these gains by providing unified communications to your clients?

[02:00 PM ET, October 18, 2007]

Security remains the top predicted spend for companies of all sizes, and so the opportunties for VARs have to provide products and services continue to rise.

[12:00 PM ET, October 17, 2007]

Corporate IT managers are under pressure to maintain water-tight security measures as threats to infiltrate corporate data networks become more sophisticated and gain complexity. VARs who service corporate customers recognize this need to survive and say they are looking for solutions that solve the entire range of their customers' security needs.

[02:00 PM ET, October 16, 2007]

Register now and tune in from the comfort of your computer LIVE on Thursday, October 11th at 11:00 am PT/2:00pm ET.

[02:00 PM ET, October 11, 2007]

Server consolidation and virtualization have been the two hottest business drivers for Solution Provider in 2007.

[02:00 PM ET, October 09, 2007]

Enterprise storage security and key management is driving the next step in data classification best practices. Find out why you should get involved now.

[02:00 PM ET, October 02, 2007]

Learn more about the opportunities for Solution Providers in moving customers to a mobile workforce, and how that can produce healthy-sized revenue chunks.

[02:00 PM ET, September 27, 2007]

There's a revolution in technology collaboration taking place that Solution Providers should embrace, and CMP Channel Senior Editor Kevin McLaughlin can show you how to profit from it in this FREE online NetSeminar.

[02:00 PM ET, September 26, 2007]

CMP Channel's Associate Editor Damon Poeter shows you how to maximize processing power and fuel upgrades to tomorrow's technology TODAY.

[02:00 PM ET, September 25, 2007]

CRN Assistant News Editor Scott Campbell and a panel of industry experts take a look back at SMB and analyze how VARs used the right blend of technology and services to increase sales and drive profits.

[02:00 PM ET, September 20, 2007]

Security and compliance are big concerns for today's enterprises-whether spurred by growth, threats or ongoing regulatory pressure

[12:00 PM ET, September 12, 2007]

Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 2 pm ET/11 am PT. A growing number of Solution Providers are helping businesses discover that systems resource management (SRM) software can help them overcome

[02:00 PM ET, September 05, 2007]

Join CMP Channel Senior Technology Analyst Frank J. Ohlhorst as he spearheads this insightful new NetSeminar where you'll learn to build tomorrow's systems today with technologies that future-proof upgrades.

[02:00 PM ET, August 14, 2007]

Small and medium VARs may not tout the revenues of the large systems integrators, but what they offer instead is deep technology knowledge, technical support and delivery speed, which all contributes to trusted advisor relationships with the customers. Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 2 pm ET/11 am PT

[02:00 PM ET, August 09, 2007]

Dont's miss this rare opportunity to take part in an interactive discussion between a group of leading product and services vendors who'll explain how the components of a successful MSP business can come together quickly, improving the customer experience and speeding time to ROI.

[02:00 PM ET, August 07, 2007]

On the Tuesday, July 31, 2007 NetSeminar, CMP Channel Senior Technology Analyst Frank J. Ohlhorst takes you through the ins and outs of how you can build your applications in the same way these web stalwarts have " combining the principles of scalability, SOA and other cutting-edge ideas, and how you can apply these ideas to non-Web apps, such as transaction processing and analytics.

[02:00 PM ET, July 31, 2007]

On Thursday, July 26th at 11 am pt/2 pm et, VARBusiness Senior Editor Shelley Solheim and Symantec Global Product Marketing Manager Michael Parker will host a live NetSeminar exploring different strategies around backup and recovery for SMBs.

[02:00 PM ET, July 26, 2007]

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time: 2 pm ET/11 am PT
Title: The New Challenge in IT: Power and Cooling for SMBs Solutions designed for traditional low-density and less-than-critical equipment are giving way to innovative new ways to ensure flexibility, availability, and a low total cost of ownership.

[12:00 AM ET, July 25, 2007]

Day: Tuesday; Date: July 17, 2007; Time: 2 pm ET/11 am PT
Pulling Profit Out of Thin Air: Overcoming those all-too-common wireless limitations present a significant opportunity for Solutions Providers as businesses rely more and more on un-tethered connectivity.

[02:00 PM ET, July 17, 2007]

Pulling Profit Out of Thin Air Overcoming those all-too-common wireless limitations present a significant opportunity for Solutions Providers as businesses rely more and more on un-tethered connectivity.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 2p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT

[02:00 PM ET, July 17, 2007]

Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Time: 12 pm ET/9 am PT
Title: Reduce Power Consumption While Driving Greater Computing Performance in the Data Center

[12:00 PM ET, July 11, 2007]

Hear about new target markets for rugged technology and understand why the market is so ripe.

[02:00 PM ET, June 28, 2007]

This interactive NetSeminar featuring CRN MSP expert Dan Neel, Clinton Gatewood, VP Corporate Development, Zenith InfoTech and special guest Adam Eiseman, CEO of The Lloyd Group, will pinpoint new ways to increase profit margins using managed services, and shed light on how your MSP business can stay ahead of looming MSP commoditization.

[11:00 AM ET, June 27, 2007]

In this VARBusiness NetSeminar, editor Lawrence M. Walsh will provide a managed services market overview and several formulas for evaluating and comparing managed services to installed products, giving Solution Providers a guide to dramatically demonstrating their services value to their prospects and customers.

[12:00 AM ET, June 21, 2007]

Get the low down on storage innovations and raise your storage scoring potential.

[12:00 AM ET, June 19, 2007]

This can't-miss event will feature a panel of industry experts in hot debate about the future of the outsourced IT marketplace:

[02:00 PM ET, June 14, 2007]

Learn how to harness the capabilities of your existing management tools.

[11:00 AM ET, June 13, 2007]

This interactive learning event will examine the changing role of the IP network (particularly the WAN portion) in every company's communications strategy, especially midmarket and enterprise accounts, and how VARs and network integrators can be involved in all facets of the discussion.

[12:00 AM ET, June 12, 2007]

Matching Security to The Threat: a VARBusiness NetSeminar sponsored by Websense.

[12:00 AM ET, June 07, 2007]

Learn to sell networking solutions, and not technology, to small business owners.

[12:00 AM ET, June 05, 2007]

Join CRN's Senior Technology Analyst Frank J. Ohlhorst as he shows how to move new storage technologies from commodity status into must-have specialized solutions that fuel business continuity, compliance, virtualization and growth solutions.

[02:00 PM ET, May 30, 2007]

Success in managed services requires more than just plugging into an IT infrastructure and performing remote monitoring and maintenance.

[02:00 PM ET, May 17, 2007]

Virtualization has reached the mainstream with a proven ability to deliver significant cost savings while enhancing IT's ability to contribute to business results.

[12:00 PM ET, May 16, 2007]

You may think you've got storage down pat, but are you ignoring up sell - in all forms? CRN News Editor Steve Burke navigates what he calls "the Midmarket Storage Mess" and begins sorting things out for you and your Solution Provider practice.

[02:00 PM ET, May 15, 2007]

A policy for continuous data protection is a great idea for your clients that helps them make better use of their valuable corporate information.

[12:00 AM ET, May 08, 2007]

VARs pushing Vista will face many challenges, but with a plan and the right tools it will be a profitable endeavor.

[12:00 AM ET, May 01, 2007]