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Seminar Schedule - Fall 2008

QTS' Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule provides timely information to our customers and prospective customers on new technology options that can help their businesses.  Please note that these events are open to QTS customers and prospective customers (not consultants or competitive organizations) and some events have restrictions on the number of attendees per organization, the role of attendees, or the size of the organization attending.

CxO Seminar: Virtualization & Storage Management Strategies
Presented by QTS and Network Appliance
 Join QTS and Network Appliance for this informative seminar on how to manage your ever-expanding storage needs and how to better manage servers and applications through virtualization.  This event will explore the benefits of centralized storage using SAN and NAS technologies, including technologies like iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and issues around backup and archiving rapidly growing data.  We will also discuss how virtualization can be used to reduce the physical server footprint in your data center, and explore the different offerings and architectures from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.  Finally, we will discuss Application Virtualization tools from Microsoft and Citrix, allowing for more efficient distribution of software to the desktop.
   NYC: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM (9:00 registration/continental breakfast)
     Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register
   NJ: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register

CxO Seminar: Deploying Windows Server 2008
Presented by QTS, Microsoft and Citrix
Join Microsoft and QTS for this informative seminar on how your organization can take advantage of Windows Server 2008.  Windows Server 2008 offers many benefits around security, performance, scalability and management, adding new virtualization functionality with the Hyper-V hypervisor, while enhancing functionality around Terminal Services, DFS, ADFS and adding new features such as Network Access Control.  Citrix will present on their upcoming enhancements to their new version of XenApp (formerly Presentation Server), which will work with Windows Server 2008, as well as XenDesktop Desktop Virtualization running on HyperV.
   NJ: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
   NYC: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM (9:00 registration/continental breakfast)
     Thursday, October 30th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register

CxO Seminar: Exchange Email Security and Lifecycle Management
Presented by QTS, Microsoft and Symantec
 Email has quickly risen to become the most mission-critical application for most businesses, and presents a series of challenges to network administrators around security, management and archiving/capacity management.  In this seminar, QTS, Microsoft and Symantec will show you how our best practices, combined with products such as Microsoft ForeFront Security products (ISA Server, ForeFront Server Security), Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Symantec Mail Security and Symantec Enterprise Vault can be combined to create a secure, well-managed and highly reliable email environment.  We will also review new features and benefits of Exchange 2007, and solution architectures around these products.
   NJ: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
   NYC: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM (9:00 registration/continental breakfast)
     Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register

CxO Seminar: Systems Management Tools and Approaches for Medium Business Customers
 Presented by QTS and Microsoft
QTS and Microsoft are hosting a half day seminar on how to leverage Microsoft's Systems Center tools and Management methodologies as part of an Infrastructure Optimization initiative.  In this event, QTS will present on how Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager can help reduce management costs and improve the efficiency and available time for your IT staff, while increasing network uptime and proactivity.  We will demonstrate key features of both products, and discuss other products under Microsoft's System Center product family, including future plans.  We will also discuss virtualization as it relates to systems management.
   NJ: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
   NYC: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM (9:00 registration/continental breakfast)
     Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register
 

CxO Seminar: Designing, Deploying and Optimizing SharePoint Solutions
Presented by QTS, Microsoft and Citrix
Join Microsoft, Citrix and QTS at this informative event focused on how to plan for, implement and optimize the performance for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments.  This educational seminar will describe the benefits of SharePoint, and review how to effectively deploy solutions based on this powerful technology. Citrix will present on how Citrix NetScaler and WANScaler can be used to enhance performance of SharePoint environments.
   NJ: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
   NYC: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM (9:00 registration/continental breakfast)
     Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register