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Seminar Schedule - Winter/Spring 2008

QTS' Winter/Spring 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.

Microsoft Executive Solutions Briefing for Medium Business Customers
 Presented by QTS, Softchoice and Microsoft
QTS, Softchoice and Microsoft are hosting an Executive Solutions Briefing for small and medium business customers (50-2,500 user environments).  Join us for this informative, 4 hour event to learn how your organization can benefit from new Microsoft technologies and solutions, and what tools and resources are available to you from Microsoft.  Microsoft and QTS will also review the benefits of Software Assurance, discuss available promotions that can save you money, and review the roadmap for upcoming product releases and features.  We will also present on key Microsoft product line updates including Windows Vista and Office 2007, System Center management tools, ForeFront security products, Business Intelligence tools and the integration of Microsoft’s Business Solutions offerings.  This event will provide valuable information to any Microsoft customer!  Note that a signed Microsoft Non-Disclosure Agreement is required for attendance at these events.
   9:00 AM-1:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
     Thursday, June 12th, 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 touch on the roadmap and new features in Exchange 2007.
   9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ 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 to implement a Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure.  In this event, QTS will present on how Microsoft Systems Management Server and Microsoft 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, and Microsoft Virtual Server, as it relates to systems management.
   9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ 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 NetScaler can be used to enhance performance of SharePoint environments.
   9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register
     Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register

CxO Seminar: Securing Your Microsoft Medium Business Network
Presented by QTS, Microsoft, Symantec and Citrix
Join Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix and QTS for this informative seminar on how to optimize security for your Microsoft network.  Key topics will include Security Policy and Enforcement, Secure Remote Access, Identity Management, Perimeter and Client Security, Email Architecture and other key elements.  Together, we will review the architecture and best practices for implementing a strong security strategy and architecture.
   9:00 AM-1:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast; lunch provided)
     Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
     Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register
 

CxO Seminar: Disaster Recovery Solutions for Medium Business Customers
Presented by QTS, Citrix, Symantec, VMware, Network Appliance and Microsoft
Join Microsoft, Citrix, Symantec, VMware, Network Appliance and QTS for an informative seminar on how to develop a Disaster Recovery Plan and build a Hot Site Failover Solution for your business leveraging technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, Double-Take, VMware, Network Appliance and/or Symantec technologies, or how to rapidly recover servers and data in Cold/Warm Site configurations with technologies from Symantec and Microsoft.  Businesses are challenged more and more each year with the need to maximize systems up-time and availability, amidst an ever-increasing range of threats.  IT management is often tasked with responsibility for developing and implementing Disaster Recovery Plans to protect the business and ensure continuous access to key business systems.  In this seminar, we’ll discuss how to build the plan and what the key elements are, and discuss the various options for Cold, Warm and Hot Site solutions.  We’ll then drill down into how to cost-effectively build a Hot Site leveraging technologies from Microsoft, VMWare, Network Appliance, Symantec, Double-Take and Citrix to enable access to your applications and data, and conclude with tips and best practices.
   9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register
 

CxO Seminar: Deploying Windows Vista and Office 2007
Presented by QTS and Microsoft
Join Microsoft and QTS for this informative seminar on how your organization can get ready for Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP Professional as the desktop operating system of choice for businesses.  In this seminar, we will discuss some of the features and capabilities planned for Windows Vista, and how your business can benefit from this next release of Windows, as well as the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2007.  We’ll explore how these new products can improve user productivity and collaborative capabilities, as well as how Windows Vista can improve systems’ reliability, security and performance.  We will also discuss how to deploy Windows Vista across your organization, leveraging tools such as Windows Deployment Services, the Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator, and System Center Configuration Manager.  We’ll also discuss best practices in desktop management and patch management.
   9:00 AM-12:00 PM (8:30 registration/continental breakfast)
     Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at Microsoft's Iselin, NJ Office - Click To Register
     Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at Microsoft's NYC Office - Click To Register

CxO Lunch Seminar: Branch Office Optimization Strategies
Presented by QTS, Microsoft and Citrix
Join Microsoft, Citrix and QTS for this informative lunch seminar on how to optimize the architecture and reduce management costs for branch office locations, while providing users with needed capabilities.  Learn about how the DFS functionality in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 can help you replicate branch office data to your data center to eliminate the need for remote backups, and how Microsoft ISA Server can speed up web access for branch office users, and how Citrix WANScaler appliances and Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server can help you to deliver high performance computing for remote users even if there is no branch office server!
   12:00 PM-2:00 PM (11:30 registration)
     Tuesday, May 29th, 2008 at Ruth's Chris, Midtown NYC Office - Click To Register