September 19, 2007 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld Sets Agenda for SOA Executive Forum Featuring Keynotes by Pfizer and Lehman Bros.
InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum will take place November 7-8, 2007 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City with a focus on Building a Foundation for Continuous Change
September 19, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT solutions management, today unveiled the agenda for its ninth SOA Executive Forum, taking place November 7th and 8th at New York City's Millennium Broadway Hotel. The executive-level event provides real-world guidance and best practices for dynamically managing the IT environment. November's event – at a new location – will provide fresh insight into building a foundation for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) that scale to meet the needs of dynamic enterprises. From interactive panel discussions to dynamic case studies from industry end users, the event promises to leave attendees with practical strategies to transform their IT infrastructures. Plus, a new tutorial track on Day 2 of the event will offer deep-dive technical sessions to address all of the "how-to" SOA concerns. Passes to attend InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum are priced at $1,295, with credential, subscriber and early registration discounts available. The tutorial track has limited availability and is priced at $895 with early registration discounts available. Members of the press using promotional code SOAPRESS are eligible for complimentary registration to the main forum. For more details and to register, visit: SOAExecForum.com/register.
"This November, on the second day of the show, we're giving attendees the option to dive deeper into SOA - with InfoWorld SOA blogger David Linthicum offering a daylong crash course on key SOA issues and Phillip Windley, a frequent InfoWorld contributor, simultaneously offering an intensive tutorial on SOA governance. Both Dave and Phil are experienced instructors who will provide a unique learning opportunity for registered attendees," said Eric Knorr, InfoWorld's executive editor and content chair for the event. "At the same time, we've pushed the main event to the next level, starting with our customer keynote speakers. Martin Brodbeck of Pfizer will provide a progress report on his company's SOA initiative, with an emphasis on the pharmaceutical giant's data integration efforts. Hari Gopalkrishnan will offer a peek inside Lehman Brother's extensive SOA development, deployment and governance, with a high-energy talk that will be of special interest to other IT managers in the financial services industry."
The SOA Executive Forum agenda features dynamic stories from best-laid SOA plans to successful implementation from end users and leading analysts in the space. Additional presenters and panelists include: Andres Carvallo of Austin Energy, David Chappell of Oracle, Saeed Abu Elnaj of the American Psychological Association, Garry Grandlienard of Railinc Corporation and Randy Heffner of Forrester Research. Plus, InfoWorld's top editors will be on hand to share their expertise. The complete agenda is available online at: SOAExecForum.com.
InfoWorld's SOA Forum continues to attract support from top SOA vendors, including: BEA Systems (Cornerstone sponsor); Oracle Corporation (Diamond-level sponsor); Accenture/Sun Microsystems, IONA Technologies, Progress Software and Software AG (Gold-level sponsors).
About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at www.infoworld.com.
About International Data Group (IDG)
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and gaming worldwide. IDG's lead generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including E for All Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo, DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 850 IDC analysts in 50 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at www.idg.com.
Note: Product names and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Kaitlen Murphy
Content Manager
InfoWorld Media Group
415-978-3251
kaitlen_murphy@InfoWorld.com
Posted by Kaitlen Murphy on September 19, 2007 09:24 AM
September 17, 2007 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld Brings Back Industry Executive to Lead Event Sales Efforts
SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 17, 2007– IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT Solutions Management, today announced that Dave Colford has been hired as Vice President, Business Development, Events. A tech media veteran who had previously been National Advertising Director for InfoWorld before holding senior positions at Primedia, Ziff and CMP, Colford returns to InfoWorld at a time when its events business is growing rapidly.
Working out of the company's New Jersey offices, Colford will work closely with Jill Martay, InfoWorld's vice president of events, and will report directly to Matt Sweeney, president and CEO of InfoWorld and Computerworld. He will oversee event revenue and continue to build on InfoWorld's model of developing integrated packages across face-to-face, online, print and research platforms that focus on a specific theme.
"In the past two years InfoWorld has been able to build an extremely successful events business around a unique model that focuses on emerging technologies like SOA and virtualization," said Sweeney. "With Colford leading the sales efforts for these events, we are positioned for continued success in this area and will be able to build out an events portfolio based on other leading technology categories."
Colford started his career in events at CMP in the mid-1990s. He later headed up the national sales effort at InfoWorld before serving as a group publisher at Primedia and then executive sales director in the custom solutions group at Ziff. In his most recent role as Director of Custom and Branded events at CMP, he was able to drive revenue growth of over 300% for their core events and launched their custom event business, which now represents a substantial portion of the company's event revenue.
"I'm very happy to be returning to InfoWorld and IDG at a time when the company’s events business is seeing unprecedented growth," said Colford. "My years in media have shown me that content is king when building a successful event, and InfoWorld and IDG are leading the way in this regard."
About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for maximum business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, social media, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.
InfoWorld is a business unit of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment, and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at idg.com. Note: All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Posted by InfoWorld Marketing on September 17, 2007 09:32 AM
September 12, 2007 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld’s Virtualization Executive Forum Kicks Off September 24th
InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum returns to New York September 24-25, 2007 with a focus on Mastering Virtualization from the Datacenter to the Desktop
September 12, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT solutions management, opens its fourth Virtualization Executive Forum September 24-25, 2007 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The executive-level conference offers real-world guidance for implementing an enterprise-wide virtualization strategy. Chris Wolf of Burton Group and Toby Ford of USinternetworking, an AT&T company, will keynote the two days of interactive case studies and technical track discussions on mastering virtualization technologies across the Server, Storage, Desktop, File and Application.
September's agenda features strong end user voices throughout the Case Studies Track where IT experts representing AT&T, Merrill Lynch, City of Richmond, Time Warner, Credit Suisse, Lessard Group, Apache Corp., US Foodservice, Clarian Health Partners and Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General will share their virtualization experiences, challenges and results. Plus, the deep-dive Technical Track will detail all you need to know to build a strategy, migrate to virtual systems, monitor VMs and scale a virtual infrastructure. The full lineup of topics and participants can be found at: http://VirtExecForum.com.
Passes to attend the Virtualization Executive Forum are priced at $1,295, with credential and early registration discounts available. Members of the press using promotional code VIRTPRESS are eligible for complimentary registration. For more details and to register, visit: http://VirtExecForum.com.
Sponsors for the fourth Virtualization event include: VMware (Diamond sponsor); PlateSpin (Platinum sponsor); 3Leaf Systems, DataSynapse, Egenera, Novell and Microsoft Corp., and Sentillion (Gold sponsors); Altiris and Red Hat (Silver sponsor) and Neoware (Associate sponsor).
About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for maximum business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, social media, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.
About International Data Group (IDG)
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com.
All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Kaitlen Murphy
Content Manager, Events
InfoWorld Media Group
415-978-3251
kaitlen_murphy@infoworld.com
Posted by Kaitlen Murphy on September 12, 2007 10:21 AM
September 10, 2007 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Press Release 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IDG’s InfoWorld Names the Winners of the Best of Open Source Software for 2007
InfoWorld’s Bossies recognize the Best of Open Source Software for business
San Francisco, CA – Sept 10, 2007 -- IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT Solutions Management, today announced the winners of the Bossie Awards, an innovative recognition program focused on the best of open source software. Full results are available at http://www.infoworld.com/bossies
The InfoWorld Test Center’s central mission has always been to identify the most promising and cost-effective solutions available to IT organizations. Increasingly, those solutions come from the open source camp. The time has come to formally acknowledge this fact, and to give credit to the developers and community that made it happen. InfoWorld selected those businesses that exemplified innovation, functionality, ease of use, implementation, and a proven track record in serving the needs of today’s businesses.
“Open Source Software has moved into the mainstream,” said Steve Fox, Editor in Chief at InfoWorld. “InfoWorld's inaugural Bossie Award winners represent mature, flexible, and reliable solutions that increasingly define the segment.”
This Year’s InfoWorld Bossie Award Recipients (listed alphabetically) include:
Best of open source applications
Alfresco Community Release, Content management
Jabber, IM server
Liferay Portal, Enterprise portal
Openbravo, Enterprise resource planning
Scalix Community Edition, Mail and collaboration
Sugar Community Edition, Customer relationship management
Best of open source platforms and middleware
Apache, Web server
CentOS, Server operating system
JBoss Seam, Application server
Mule, Enterprise service bus
MySQL, Database
Ubuntu Desktop Edition, Client operating system
Xen, Server virtualization
Best of open source in software development
Cruise Control, Continuous integration
JBoss Drools, Business rule management system
NetBeans, Enterprise IDE
OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet application framework
Tibco General Interface, Ajax toolkit
Best of open source in networking
Asterisk, VoIP telephony
Azureus Vuze, Streaming media
Kismet, Wireless network sniffer
Open Directory, Directory server
Wireshark, Network protocol analyzer
Best of open source in storage
AoE, SAN transport protocol
FreeNAS, NAS server
Iometer, Block I/O benchmarking
Iozone, File I/O benchmarking
ZFS, File system
Best of open source in security
ClamAV, Anti-virus
IPCop, Firewall
Nessus, Network vulnerability scanner
Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual, Security testing best practices
OpenVPN, SSL VPN
SELinux, Application firewall
Snort, Network intrusion prevention
Spamassassin, Anti-spam
About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT solutions management choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for maximum business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, social media, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.
About International Data Group (IDG)
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.
IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.
Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com.
All product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Paul Calento
SVP/Strategic Development
InfoWorld Media Group
415-978-3212
paul_calento@infoworld.com
Posted by Kaila Bongiovanni on September 10, 2007 09:44 AM
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