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Meet IBM Cognos Express 

Meet IBM Cognos Express

Only IBM Cognos Express delivers all the essential BI and planning capabilities that midsize companies need. It's purpose-built and priced to let you start small, deliver immediate value and expand as you grow. Find out more about this breakthrough product by watching this webcast replay.

Presenters: Dan Potter, IBM Cognos MidMarket Products Unit and David Pacific, Cognos Express Expert and Lighthouse Consultant 


Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the Cloud: Lower Your Costs, Eliminate Risks 

IAM in the Cloud

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an issue that all business are wrestling with. IAM solutions ensure that the right people have access to the right IT resources by streamlining user authentication and establishing uniform policy mechanisms. Unfortunately, traditional on-premise IAM solutions typically require significant capital outlays and can be difficult to deploy and maintain. Watch this webcast, delivered by the director of Lighthouse Security Group, to learn how you can reap the benefits of industry leading IBM Tivoli IAM software delivered via the cloud.

Presenter: Eric Maass, Enterprise Security Solutions Director, Lighthouse Security Group

 

Keeping Your Applications Secure and Malware Free with IBM Rational AppScan

IBM Rational AppScan

IBM Rational AppScan will help you protect your company against the threat of attacks and data breaches. Designed to provide the most comprehensive approach to detecting vulnerabilities in applications and critical websites, AppScan can be used in all stages of development by testers with or without security experience. Listen to this webcast for a one hour presentation on how AppScan can keep your company's vital data secure by:
• Providing broad application coverage
• Generating advanced remediation capabilities
• Simplifying security testing for non-security personnel
• Featuring 40 out-of-the-box security compliance reports 

Presenter: Shawn Miller, IBM Security Specialist 

Learn How IBM’s New POWER7 Can Fuel Your Most Demanding Applications

IBM POWER7 Highlights

How to Build and Manage a Dynamic Storage Infrastructure with Tivoli Storage Management Solutions

Lighthouse Storage Management

Customer Success Story: Lighthouse Gateway Solution for VantisLife Insurance Company

Vantis Life

   

To meet both security and business challenges, Lighthouse developed its Lighthouse Gateway managed security solution. Lighthouse Gateway is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that delivers all the benefits of a complete Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure, while reducing the risk and expenses associated with in-house operations, staff, acquisitions, maintenance and upgrades. By implementing advanced Web-based SaaS technologies, Lighthouse customer VantisLife is eliminating the cost and burden of purchasing, deploying and maintaining an in-house security infrastructure.
Presenters: Scott Smith, Senior VP & COO, VantisLife and Jim Lovelace, Assistant VP IT, VantisLife 

 

Prevent Data Losses and Breaches with Lighthouse & IBM Internet Security Systems

Lighthouse & IBM Internet Security Services

Data losses or breaches can cripple a company. Lighthouse can help you improve your security posture and control your security spending. Lighthouse provides security hardware, software, and services focused on your security issues.  IBM Internet Security Systems is part of IBM’s robust portfolio of security solutions. Through world-class solutions that address risk across each aspect of your business, IBM ISS can help you build a strong security posture that helps you reduce costs, improve service, and manage risk in your dynamic infrastructure, helping you cost-effectively embrace change and innovation without compromising security.

 

 

Lighthouse-Lotus-NaviSite Webcast on Reducing the Cost & Complexity of Your E-Mail & Collaboration 

Cloud-based IBM E-Mail and Collaboration

 

Listen to this webcast and learn how cloud-based IBM e-mail and collaboration can slash your costs by up to 50%. As we each know, e-mail and collaborative applications have become indispensable business communication tools. However, rapid product life cycles, mergers and competing business priorities have made it difficult for businesses to keep their productivity tools current, compliant and consistent across their organization. New cloud-based offerings from IBM and its partners have enabled businesses of all sizes to realize the benefits of the latest e-mail and collaboration enhancements — at a fraction of the cost associated with a traditional on-premises approach. Listen to this webcast to learn more!

Presenters: Lighthouse VP of Software, Jim Murphy and NaviSite Product Manager of Messaging and Collaboration, Tony Rorai

 

 

Lighthouse-Midax Webcast: A Cost-Effective Approach to PCI Compliance

Cost-Effective PCI Strategies

 

Lighthouse Computer Services presents a free, one-hour discussion on how to achieve cost-effective PCI compliance. PCI compliance can be costly. However, the cost of compliance is only a fraction of the costs a company might incur for not complying with the PCI DSS, not to mention the potential total cost of a data security breach. Join Jerry Hughes, Practice Leader for IT Audit & Compliance to learn tactics and strategies to meet the 12 stringent data protection measures of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).

Presenter: Lighthouse IT Audit & Compliance Practice Leader, Jerry Hughes 

 

 

 

Lighthouse-Webcast Tivoli Storage Manager v6 Enterprise Edition

TSM Webcast

 

Learn more about IBM’s newly-introduced Tivoli® Monitoring through Tivoli Storage Manager v6 Enterprise Edition in this webinar sponsored by Lighthouse Computer Services. Successfully controlling and managing the information tidal wave alone is not enough. Many other issues exist. One of these issues is the ability to do business around the clock and anywhere in the world. For enterprise IT departments, this can translate to increasingly stringent recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives, and drive the need for more effective business continuity, planning, and execution.
Presenters: IBM Tivoli consultant Angelo Deangelis and Lighthouse Tivoli consultant Cyrus Cama

                                 

Lighthouse-IBM Webcast for Storage Professionals: IBM XIV®: Storage Re-Invented 

XIV Webcast

 

Lighthouse Computer Services is pleased to present a free, one-hour webcast showcasing the revolutionary new storage solution: IBM XIV®. As one of the few Authorized Partners for the IBM XIV Storage System in the Northeast, Lighthouse is uniquely qualified to help you upgrade your storage system to the premier grid architecture solution that is re-inventing storage as you know it.

Presenter: Mike Adams,  Storage Practice Leader, Lighthouse Computer Services

 

 

Enterprise Grid Medical Storage Virtualization of Patient Data

Virtualization of Patient Data

The data explosion in healthcare has created an enormous challenge for IT professionals. Driven by medical imaging, the digitization of film, the increasing data size of image studies, the increasing number of studies and compliance rules which require long-term storage of modalities, the healthcare industry produces more fixed content data than any other industry.
Presenter: Tom Rose is the Manager of IBM's Healthcare Information Solutions for North America, with responsibility for all of IBM's medical image archive and clinical repository solutions sold to hospitals and imaging centers.

 

PCI (Payment Card Industry) DDS & Compensating Controls

PCI DSS & Compensating Controls Webcast

The Lighthouse IT Compliance Group is certified with the PCI (Payment Card Industry) Security Council to offer scanning and auditing services to any firm that transmits, stores or processes credit card information. Compensating controls may be considered for all PCI DSS requirements except 3.2 when an entity cannot meet a requirement explicitly as stated, due to legitimate technical or documented business constraints, but has sufficiently mitigated the risk associated with the requirement through implementation of other, or compensating, controls.

Presenter: Bill Franklin, Senior IT Auditor, Lighthouse IT Compliance Group

 

 

Recent VMware Videos

VMware® vSphere™ 4

VMware® vSphere™ 4

VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of cloud computing to their IT infrastructures. Building on the power of VMware® Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware.

 

Inside 'Smart Work'
Internet Evolution explores what IBM's Smart Work initiative is all about, how it benefits corporations, what technologies are involved, and how to get started. We talked to the CIO of Mobitel, the CIO of Miami Dade County, and IBM executives.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=179200

How Software Can Drive Sustainability Energy Reduction
Recent news has focused on the data center and how cutting back server and data equipment power makes us better green citizens. But software can also play an important role. We investigate how with IBM's David Barnes.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=172558

Cloud Computing
IBM's chairman emeritus for the Academy of Technology, Irving Wladawsky-Berger talks about what cloud computing really is and why it's so vital today.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=163365

The Information Agenda: Unlocking Data
IBM's Ambuj Goyal talks about how companies are data rich and information poor, and the approaches, processes and tools necessary to leverage that data and unlock business value. Goyal also talks about some companies that have done this successfully.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=168856

Recent BM Business Resilience Webcast Series

The IBM Business Resilience Webcast series is where you will find some of IBM’s strategic leaders and best practices join forces with the leading analysts in this space, Forrester, to provide you with the definitive view of what business resilience can mean to your business

Webcast #1: All-risk overview
Mitigating IT Risks using IBM technology and services
Presenter: Rich Cocchiarra, Chief Technical Officer, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, Distinguished Engineer
Risks to your business come in various types including business driven risks, event driven risk, covering more than just catastrophic disasters, and also risks to your data. In this webcast we will discuss these various types of risks and how to mitigate them with an enterprise-wide resiliency strategy.

Webcast #2: Business-driven risks
Global Delivery: IBM Business Continuity & Resiliency - Helping business stay in business—worldwide
Presenter: Donna Livingston, Director, Global Business Continuity and Resilience Services Delivery
A vendor's delivery capability is one of the most important factors when it comes to your experience and success in achieving Business Resilience. Learn how IBM has unmatched capability here both in its global reach and the level of service and excellence that the delivery team provides on a daily basis. Before you decide on your next vendor solution you should listen to this webcast to understand the importance of delivery excellence.

Webcast #3: Event-driven risks, in depth
The human side of business continuity planning
Presenters: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Nan Abelson, Consulting Business Development Manager, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services
Even if an organization has saved all its data during a crisis, what happens if employees cannot continue to work? This Webcast examines the critical human-element issues that need to be considered in any comprehensive, effective business resiliency and continuity plan.

Webcast #4: Business-driven risks, in depth
Seven hurdles to IT infrastructure and risk management for banks: implementing Basel II
Presenter: Brian Barnier, Global Consulting, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services
Compliance is a key element in any good business resilience strategy. In the banking industry, it is absolutely essential. This Webcast looks at the key issues raised in the banking industry by compliance — in particular, Basel II implementation)

Webcast #5: Event-driven risks
Disaster Recovery Challenges, Myths, and Pitfalls - and How to address them.
Presenter: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Forrester Reseach principal analyst, Stephanie Balaouras, discusses the challenges, myths, and pitfalls around disaster recovery and provides her recommendations on how to address them. The webinar also features the IBM speaker, Patrick Corcoran, discussing how IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency, can help clients solve their disaster recovery challenges across the enterprise.

Webcast #6: Data-driven risks
Solving Information Protection Challenges
Presenter: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Forrester Reseach principal analyst, Stephanie Balaouras, discusses the challenges and best practices around data protection and the critical success factors of selecting a provider of back up software-as-a-service. The webinar also features the IBM speaker, Brian Reagan, discussing how IBM Information Protection Services, based on the recent acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions, can help clients solve their data protection challenges across the enterprise.

Webcast #1: All-risk overview
Mitigating IT Risks using IBM technology and services
Presenter: Rich Cocchiarra, Chief Technical Officer, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services, Distinguished Engineer
Risks to your business come in various types including business driven risks, event driven risk, covering more than just catastrophic disasters, and also risks to your data. In this webcast we will discuss these various types of risks and how to mitigate them with an enterprise-wide resiliency strategy.

Webcast #2: Business-driven risks
Global Delivery: IBM Business Continuity & Resiliency - Helping business stay in business—worldwide
Presenter: Donna Livingston, Director, Global Business Continuity and Resilience Services Delivery
A vendor's delivery capability is one of the most important factors when it comes to your experience and success in achieving Business Resilience. Learn how IBM has unmatched capability here both in its global reach and the level of service and excellence that the delivery team provides on a daily basis. Before you decide on your next vendor solution you should listen to this webcast to understand the importance of delivery excellence.

Webcast #3: Event-driven risks, in depth
The human side of business continuity planning
Presenters: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Nan Abelson, Consulting Business Development Manager, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services
Even if an organization has saved all its data during a crisis, what happens if employees cannot continue to work? This Webcast examines the critical human-element issues that need to be considered in any comprehensive, effective business resiliency and continuity plan.

Webcast #4: Business-driven risks, in depth
Seven hurdles to IT infrastructure and risk management for banks: implementing Basel II
Presenter: Brian Barnier, Global Consulting, Business Continuity and Resiliency Services
Compliance is a key element in any good business resilience strategy. In the banking industry, it is absolutely essential. This Webcast looks at the key issues raised in the banking industry by compliance — in particular, Basel II implementation)

Webcast #5: Event-driven risks
Disaster Recovery Challenges, Myths, and Pitfalls - and How to address them.
Presenter: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Forrester Reseach principal analyst, Stephanie Balaouras, discusses the challenges, myths, and pitfalls around disaster recovery and provides her recommendations on how to address them. The webinar also features the IBM speaker, Patrick Corcoran, discussing how IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency, can help clients solve their disaster recovery challenges across the enterprise.

Webcast #6: Data-driven risks
Solving Information Protection Challenges
Presenter: Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Forrester Reseach principal analyst, Stephanie Balaouras, discusses the challenges and best practices around data protection and the critical success factors of selecting a provider of back up software-as-a-service. The webinar also features the IBM speaker, Brian Reagan, discussing how IBM Information Protection Services, based on the recent acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions, can help clients solve their data protection challenges across the enterprise.