NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: LINDA LEUNG ON IT EDUCATION AND TRAINING 12/01/04 Today's focus: Hear about which technologies are sure bets for net execs in 2005
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Topics on how ILM impacts your storage strategy, how to migrate to a new tape drive, how to link SAN islands and more are all found in the Research Center. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=89299 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Hear about which technologies are sure bets for net execs in 2005 By Linda Leung Your IT budget is a little looser than it was a few years ago and you want to know which technologies would be wise investments over the coming year. Security is high on your agenda but so is supporting your expanding net of remote workers. And then you'll need better technology to manage your complex network, plus decide whether wireless LANs will really benefit your organization. If those issues are on your plate for 2005, I want to let you know about our IT Roadmap: 2005 Technology Tour that began this week in Boston. The event will travel to San Francisco and Dallas, and will finish in Chicago on Dec.16. The tour is being led by Johna Till Johnson, founder, president and chief research officer at Nemertes Research, and a popular Network World columnist; and John Gallant, Network World president and editorial director. The moderators will discuss where IT is headed in the New Year and the technologies that should be in your strategic plan for 2005 and why. They will explain which technologies you shouldn't bother with, and outline the kinds of solutions you should start implementing now. You will also hear about action-plans for next-generation IT governance. Among the technologies examined will be: * Next generation security - covering VPNs, ��anti-virus/anti-spam, identity management, and ��privacy/compliance. * New data centers and storage - covering information lifecycle ��management, business continuity planning/disaster recover, ��information protection. * WAN/LAN - covering optimized switching, bandwidth and route ��optimization, compression and caching, load-balancing and ��network performance engineering. * Wireless, remote access, IP telephony - covering messaging and ��presence, real-time collaboration, productivity, and secure ��remote-office networking. * Network, data center and application performance management - ��covering monitoring, troubleshooting, event correlation, ��proactive responsiveness. * Business strategies and best practices - covering deployment ��for large and small and midsize businesses; organizational and ��operational best practices; project planning and management; and ��cost justification and ROI development for emerging ��technologies. Johnson and Gallant will be joined on stage by some vendors of the technologies being discussed, including Adtran, Aruba, AT&T, Foundry Networks, Internet Security Systems, Lucent and Peribit. You'll also get to see technologies in action by exhibitors Akonix, Aprisma, Connected, Evolve Technology Group, Finisar, Fluke Networks, IntraSystems, IronPort, Klogix, NetViz, and Secure Computing. The event will cover a lot of ground and the moderators promise that you'll walk away with their perspectives of and forecasts for effective technologies to help you decide what should be on your 2005 IT plan. To find out more about the event and to register, please go to: <http://www.nwfusion.com/events/itroadmap/index.html#overview> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Linda Leung Linda Leung is associate online news editor at Network World and is responsible for editing many of Network World's e-mail newsletters and news stories for Network World Fusion. 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