BizAnalyst Network: Solve Distributed Infrastructure Challenges at EMW, Sep 12-14 in Maryland

Friday, June 24, 2005

Solve Distributed Infrastructure Challenges at EMW, Sep 12-14 in Maryland

APPLY FOR REGISTRATION TO ATTEND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT WORLD

As an IT professional in an IT end-user* organization, please accept Computerworld's invitation for you (or one of your direct reports**) to apply for registration to attend Enterprise Management World (EMW), September 12-14, 2005, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in North Bethesda, Maryland.

( Apply for registration at http://www.emwusa.com )

At EMW, you'll learn the latest in how today's organizations are securing and managing their data center assets. Co-owned by Computerworld and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), EMW is the only IT management conference focused on the rapid growth in the implementation of distributed management technologies for the data center and the communications infrastructure. At EMW, you will network with experts, peers, CIOs and technology executives, and you will witness valuable presentations and panels from experts including:

- Jerry Bartlett, Vice President, Application Development, Ameritrade
- Bob Carroll, Chief Information Officer, Apollo Group (The University of Phoenix)
- Michael Crisafulli, Vice President, Core Services, AOL Systems Operations
- Cindy Hughes, Chief Information Officer, Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund
- Jim Hull, Vice President, Engineering Services, MasterCard International
- Jaime Sguerra, Second Vice President & Chief Architect, Guardian Life

General and concurrent sessions at EMW will allow you focused opportunities to:

- Gain first-hand experience for understanding and addressing the critical business challenges for data center and enterprise management
- Hear from users and suppliers of management applications that support secure infrastructures of successful enterprises and organizations (database, Internet, email, applications performance management, ERP and other critical applications)
- Discuss and witness practical strategies for justifying, designing, building, or enhancing their infrastructure of computers, networks (LAN, MAN, WAN), networked storage, and telecommunications
- Understand management standards initiatives such as CIM (Common Information Model), WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management), SMASH (Systems Management Architecture for Service Hardware) Server Management, and Utility Computing
- Learn about other technologies and the latest tools and applications
- Take away actionable information for making better data center and enterprise management decisions with speed and confidence
- Examine the industry's major issues and challenges along with the "Road Map" of the DMTF and Alliance Partners
- Network with other IT executives and budgeted implementors to meet potential partners and converge with the industry-wide analyst and press community
- Plan on attending the IDC Analyst Briefing, Essential IT Strategies For 2005: Setting The Foundation For Maximum Value

For more details, see the up-to-the-minute agenda at:

http://www.emwusa.com

We look forward to seeing you at Enterprise Management World, September 12-14!

Sincerely,

Computerworld
One Speen Street
Framingham, MA 01701

**This application is transferable to another IT end-user within your company. Registration using this offer is strictly limited to IT end-users defined as follows:

*IT END-USERS are defined as those who are attending Enterprise Management World with an intent (and an IT spending budget) to potentially buy/lease hardware/software/services/etc. from our conference sponsors and exhibitors, and are themselves not an industry vendor organization. As such, executives, account representatives, business development personnel, analysts, consultants and anyone else attending who does not have IT purchasing influence within their organization are excluded from the "IT End-User" designation. Interpretation and enforcement of this policy are at the sole discretion of Computerworld.

IT VENDORS are encouraged to participate at Enterprise Management World through sponsorship. (Details are available by calling Ann Harris at 1-508-820-8667.) Alternatively, vendors (including recruiters/search professionals and other non-IT-end-user professionals as defined by Computerworld), may apply for registration at the non-sponsoring vendor rate. Determination of what constitutes a non-sponsoring vendor registration is at the sole discretion of Computerworld. Non-sponsoring vendor registrations will be required to adhere to our non-solicitation policy posted on-site.