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Defining Your Workspace—How to Conquer IT Challenges to Mobile Freedom
Employees, contractors, and guests want to connect their personal tablet computers and smartphones to your organization’s Wi-Fi networks. Can you handle the wave of personal devices without being overwhelmed by users and traffic? View this two-part webinar series to discover a way to support greater device freedom while ensuring your networks’ performance and security. In Part 1, we outline the challenges of bringing these devices onto the network and how you can turn this challenge into an opportunity to make your users more connected and more productive. While leveraging the 8X performance improvement of the new 802.11n standard is a great first step, Cisco has gone further and added a series of mobility services to their wireless networks. View Part 2 to discover how Cisco’s mobility services handle client demand and create consistent and resilient mobile experiences for your most bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive traffic. Presented in Partnership with Cisco

Windows Server 2012: Go Beyond Virtualization—Cloud Optimize Your IT
Windows Server 2012 has hundreds of new features and enhancements—spanning virtualization, networking, storage, user experience, cloud computing, automation, and more—as well as new licensing options. In this webinar, our team of PC Connection Microsoft experts guides you through the intricacies of Microsoft’s latest Server OS, from the most relevant new features and benefits through licensing changes you need to know about. View this webinar and learn: The new features and benefits of Windows Server 2012 What these changes mean for your business Your choices when it comes to editions How licensing has changed and migration paths We wrap up with a quick overview of IT services and on-staff expertise available from the PC Connection family of companies to help you optimize your software licensing and achieve your organization’s virtualization objectives. Presented in partnership with Microsoft

Tips and Techniques for Building a Converged Data Center
As organizations continue to virtualize their data centers, convergence can offer a path to better performance and faster response via a simplified, automated environment. What’s more, the decisions you make about how to pursue convergence can have short- and long-term effects on budgets and the ability of your infrastructure to adapt to changing requirements in the years to come. Join us for an in-depth exploration of tips and techniques that can help you take advantage of convergence's promise today, while building in flexibility for the future. View this webinar and learn: • The common pressures that convergence addresses • How a converged data center can reduce costs, complexity, and labor-intensive manual tasks • The key technology components of a converged data center • The benefits of Dell’s open approach to convergence We wrap up with a quick overview of IT services and on-staff expertise available from the PC Connection family of companies to help you achieve greater productivity, manageability, and scalability in your data center. Presented in partnership with Dell

Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud
Want to increase your data center’s performance, agility, and scalability? View this webinar to discover how VSPEX solutions—developed by industry leaders EMC, Cisco, and VMware—can help you: • Simplify Your Infrastructure—VSPEX will help you transform from a physical and dedicated environment to a shared virtualized infrastructure • Speed Deployment—Rapidly deploy virtual machines and application servers in minutes with VMware’s vMotion and vSphere High-Availability • Boost Performance—Maximize performance with Cisco Nexus networking and Cisco UCS integrated with EMC storage and backup • Reduce Costs—Lower capital expenses by 20–40% and operating expenses by up to 40% with Cisco UCS We wrap up with a quick overview of the IT services and on-staff expertise available from the PC Connection family of companies. Learn how we can help you meet your organization’s virtualization objectives. Presented in partnership with Cisco, EMC, and VMware

The Cisco BYOD Smart Solution: Support Device Freedom Without Compromising Network Security
Many organizations would like to offer employees the option to work using their own computing devices, but security remains a top concern. View this two-part webinar series to discover a way to support greater device freedom without compromising your network’s security. In Part 1, you’ll learn about networking, security, and management technologies that create a reliable and highly secure solution for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). You’ll learn how you can: • Detect devices and users and automate adding new devices to the network • Enforce policy across all devices • Manage wired, wireless, VPN, and security with a “single pane of glass” Then join us for an exciting demo. View Part 2 to see the ins and outs of deploying a validated, low-risk, end-to-end BYOD solution that avoids unnecessary network upgrades and deploys rapidly. Presented in partnership with Cisco

Q&A Roundtable with the Pros: Deploying Mac® in a Windows Environment
Join us for a roundtable discussion with our on-staff Apple® technology experts. They will answer your most frequently asked questions about deploying Mac in a Windows environment. Attend this presentation to learn about the tools and options you have to: Integrate Mac into your network and your Active Directory environment Ensure that all systems are tied to the policies governed by your directory services Manage and secure Mac systems Train and support your Mac users Audit and confirm compliance Register today, and let’s get started. Apple, the Apple logo, and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the US and other countries.