Data visualization can make complex data easier to grasp. Our expert guest, Pete Koehler, will talk with us about the hows, whys, and whats of bringing the big picture to your enterprise.

Pete Koehler, a 20-year IT veteran, is currently the IT manager for Tecplot Inc., a software company that provides solutions for data visualization and numerical simulation. Koehler has also had the opportunity to work as a systems engineer for a VMware Channel Partner, helping others in the design, deployment, and use of their virtualized environments using the latest technologies. Over the past five years, he has detailed many of his experiences with shared storage, networking, and the VMware portfolio of solutions at vmpete.com, and he continues to take an active role in the virtualization social media community (@vmpete).

Join us to learn about data visualization and the infrastructure to support it -- this will be a great episode.

Innovative CIOs can be tremendous models for their peers, and in this exclusive executive interview, E2 editors will discuss innovation and management with Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix.

Brian Lillie joined Equinix in September 2008, and has been primarily focused on building business value through strategic technology and product initiatives. Examples include the design and build of the Equinix Customer Portal, Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange Portal, and the soon to be launched Equinix Marketplace portal. In addition to product initiatives, Mr. Lillie has driven several internal initiatives to improve internal efficiencies and global scale, including sales force automation, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, and acquisition integration.

Before joining Equinix in 2008, Mr. Lillie held several senior-level executive roles at VeriSign, including Vice President of Information Systems. Prior to VeriSign, Mr. Lillie was Senior Director of Enterprise Applications at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he successfully implemented Oracle ERP globally, including throughout EMEA. Prior to these roles, Lillie held several leadership roles in the US Air Force, where he worked in space research and development, satellite operations, and military computers and communications.

Mr. Lillie holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Golden Gate University, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Montana State University.

The rise of the cloud has forced enterprise IT departments to act more like service providers with an internal market. To help provide executives insight into what it takes to design and engineer services, the editors of E2 bring you an exclusive executive interview with Koos du Preez, Chief Technical Officer of K2.

With nearly two decades of experience in electronics and software design, Koos du Preez serves as CTO of K2 and is also part of its executive leadership team. He is responsible for the entire K2 platform architecture and technical direction, with a focus on scalable-enterprise and process-driven applications.

He started his career in information technology at the age of 17 as a digital electronics systems design engineer and assembler programmer. Throughout his career, he has always been regarded as a technical thought leader with a natural ability for cracking difficult-to-solve problems, making him the go-to person when all other avenues have failed.

Koos has been with K2 since 2005 and assumed the role of CTO in 2006. He still very much enjoys getting involved in all areas of the K2 platform, and he can often be found aiding teams around the world with his deep architectural and code debugging knowledge. Prior to joining K2, he held the position of Chief Software Architect at a California-based high-availability software vendor.

In his spare time, Koos is an avid aquatic explorer and President of the Global Underwater Explorers Seattle, a Seattle-based nonprofit conservational organization. On evenings and weekends, he can be found running around the Pacific Northwest waters with his boat and sonar side scanner or down in 250-foot deep water at the bottom of a bay or lake, breathing helium mixtures while exploring and researching submerged resources of ecological or historical significance.

IT organizations continue to strive for efficiency in their virtual environments. These efforts are often undermined by traditional practices around both infrastructure purchase and deployment, as well as management and utilization practices. Traditional IT deployment practices don’t always maximize existing investments, and can actually create additional complexity in the datacenter.

Moving to an agile, streamlined virtual environment means re-evaluating your platform strategy to consider solutions that are designed with the key tenants of modularity and flexibility at their core. Please join us for this exciting radio show by registering today!

Join us as we sit down for a conversation with John Donnarumma, CIO of GroupM, for what promises to be an informative and entertaining hour of on-air discussion and lively community chat.

GroupM is WPP's consolidated media investment management operation, serving as the parent company to agencies including Maxus, MEC, MediaCom, Mindshare, Catalyst, and Xaxis. According to GroupM's website, "Our primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP's media communications agencies on behalf of our clients, our stakeholders and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions."

John has been CIO of GroupM since late 2005. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing and implementing information technology initiatives. He also provides vision and leadership for all aspects of information technology and systems within GroupM, including infrastructure, applications, and development. Whether licensing or building systems, a primary goal of these areas is to deliver on new ways for employees to improve operational efficiency and user productivity. With the impending change on how media will be delivered and consumed, John is also very involved with senior management at GroupM to ensure that they are well positioned to handle this future shift in the media landscape.

John has been with GroupM for 17 years, holding a variety of senior IT leadership roles in the company or its agencies. He began his career in the media research group at Young & Rubicam in 1993. When Y&R became Mediaedge, he helped consolidate technology and applications for it around the world. In 2000, he became the CIO for Mediaedge:CIA, which was created following a merger with Chris Ingram Associates. He was subsequently appointed CIO for GroupM North America in 2002 and held that position until assuming the global CIO role three years later.

He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Fordham University with a concentration on marketing and computer science. He remains close with his Alma Matter and is a frequent guest teacher for both the undergraduate and graduate schools of business. He is also a member of several industry organizations including the AAAAs, for which he is the Chair of their Technology Committee.

John lives in Lynbrook, New York with his wife Madeline and their two sons, John and Peter. He enjoys many activities including golf and playing a variety of sports with his two boys.

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Sponsored by Dell and Intel

How do you know when you’ve grown out of your private cloud and need to try a hybrid cloud on for size? Maybe your private cloud has simply reached its limits and can’t provide any more efficiency, scalability, or cost savings. Maybe you need to enable BYOD and greater mobility, but a private cloud can’t help you meet those demands.

In this episode of E2 Radio, learn how to stretch the limits of your private cloud, how to recognize when it won’t stretch any further, and how to prepare for the change to a hybrid cloud without jeopardizing security or needlessly complicating management.

Sponsored by Dell and Intel

Smart handheld devices have drastically changed the way people work in today’s business environment. Employees bringing their favorite devices to work have changed the way IT departments purchase hardware. You can use this change to improve the way your IT department – and the entire enterprise – works, or it can be a confusing drag on productivity. This episode of E2 Radio will give you the information you need to make sure that BYOD marks improvement, not a distraction or worse.

Employees who are more connected, more aware, and more demanding can be more agile and much more collaborative, but only if the infrastructure will support them. In this episode, our special guests will help you understand the two sides of BYOD: policy and technology.

Join us as we explore the best policies for BYOD and the technologies that will let your enterprise put those policies into practice. The result can be the sort of transformation that takes an organization to the next, higher level.

Spend an hour with this episode of E2 Radio and you'll learn:

• Which policies are best-practices in BYOD
• How to secure enterprise data when BYOD is in operation
• Why the right management software is critical to BYOD success

Maybe your approach to web application monitoring is out of balance. Often the focus is on synthetics, log monitoring, and even browser instrumentation. However, not enough attention is given to API, REST, and SOAP -- especially as companies expand the web application partner channels and mobile applications.

Join E2 executive editor Curt Franklin and Dell product expert John Spirko in an exclusive interview with Enterprise Efficiency to examine:

• The attributes of a SOAP request/response pair
• The reasons that URL identification isn't enough to pinpoint SOAP API issues
• The two main perspectives to consider for SOAP API monitoring

Want to maximize your website's performance? Listen to this episode of E2 Radio to learn how.

Sponsored by Dell and Microsoft

As datacenters increase in both size and complexity, they're becoming significantly more difficult to manage. Heterogeneous operating systems, hypervisors, multiple management consoles, and equipment across multiple generations add to the problem. Poor datacenter management increases costs in manpower, response time, and power expenses.

By using a common tool –- which you may already have in place -- to effectively and efficiently manage your physical and virtual infrastructure, you'll be able to reduce complexity, automate key functions, and control costs, while maximizing the productivity of your IT resources.

Join us for this radio show on March 21st and you'll learn:

• How to reduce the complexity of your datacenter, leveraging management consoles you may already be using and are familiar with
• Ways to manage your infrastructure using fewer tools than before
• How to implement low-touch processes that automate and streamline your datacenter management needs
• Tips for achieving efficiency and controlling costs
• How the right datacenter management tools can actually empower productivity

When did you start thinking about SSD storage -- three years ago? Five? More?

If your first questions about solid state storage were before the Great Recession, the odds are good that your understanding is out of date: You're basing decisions on myths. In this episode of E2 Radio, we'll look at the questions IT professionals have about solid state storage and separate myth from reality with the help of our expert guests. After listening to the on-air discussion and taking part in the live audience chat, you'll be much better prepared to base your decisions on the information of today, rather than the storage fables of the past.

Join E2 editors and special guests as we look at the major questions around three huge SSD issues: cost, long-term reliability, and managing a mix of solid state and rotating-disk storage. Bring your preconceptions and your implementation questions to the show, and be prepared to find answers that will help you understand how SSD storage can play a role in your IT architecture. After the show, you should have a better idea of:

• What the true ownership costs of SSD storage are.
• The life span of SSD storage compared to rotating disk systems.
• How SSD and rotating disk storage can be combined in an effective storage infrastructure.

Event tickets are big business. Purchased and repurchased as commodities, they're the center of a huge international business. SeatGeek.com is at the heart of that business, and Eric Waller is at the heart of SeatGeek.com

In this episode of E2 Radio, we'll talk with Eric Waller, CTO of SeatGeek.com, about the IT side of this international industry, and about the day-to-day challenges of running the IT side of a rapidly growing, widely distributed business. For IT professionals in companies large and small, it will be a show well worth booking a seat for!

Eric is SeatGeek's CTO. He likes writing code across the entire web stack, from the javascript behind the SeatGeek maps and SeatGeek Spotify App, to the python behind the SeatGeek Platform. The remainder of his time is spent conceptualizing, planning, and attending team events as SeatGeek's Social Chair.

Don't miss this exciting show and the live chat that surrounds it. It could be your ticket to a more productive IT department!

Join us for this exciting show, post a message, and win a Dell Latitude 10 Tablet!

It starts with the first article of the US Constitution. It has led to significant technology development. It's the US Census and the topic for an exciting E2 Radio episode.

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.

With those words in Article 1, Section 4, Clause 3 of the US Constitution, Congress is directed to count the citizens every 10 years. Equal representation is the driver, but the Census Bureau now collects information used to guide thousands of government decisions and business operations.

In this episode of E2 Radio, we'll talk with Terri Ann Lowenthal, an expert on the census, the technology used, and the uses to which the data is employed. Audience members will gain valuable insights on the technology of the census and the ways in which the technology used for enumerating the US population can be used to inform enterprise decisions and business processes.

Terri Ann Lowenthal is a consultant specializing in issues related to the census, the federal statistical system, and the use of data for policy purposes. She served from 1981 to 1995 as a congressional staff aide in both the US House of Representatives and US Senate and was staff director of the House Subcommittee on Census and Population for eight years, guiding the panel's oversight of the 1990 census and 2000 census planning process. Current and recent consulting projects include The Census Project, the Leadership Conference Education Fund 2010 Census Public Education Campaign, and the Funders Census Initiative.

Terri Ann organized a coalition of business associations and companies in the late 1990s -- the Coalition to Preserve Census Data -- to advocate (successfully) for continuation of the census long form, which is now the ongoing American Community Survey. She continues to work with business groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce, International Council of Shopping Centers, and Marketing Research Association, to ensure the availability of reliable, timely data from the Census Bureau.

Terri Ann wrote the long-running Census News Briefs and now posts her thoughts on relevant census issues on The Census Project Blog. She was a member of the 2008 Obama Presidential Transition Team with responsibility for the Commerce Department's statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau.

Terri Ann earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. She has been a member of the Cornell University Council and President's Council of Cornell Women, she was a John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Congressional Staff Fellow in the 103rd Congress, and she served on the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. Originally from Stamford, Conn., Terri Ann now lives and works in Ithaca, N.Y. In her "other life," she has been a figure skating coach for 38 years.

Join us for this incredible episode of E2 Radio -- the on-air conversation and the live text chat will each provide information that will help you understand the census and use the technology and data of the once-per-decade counting for your enterprise IT.

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In this very special episode of E2 Radio, we'll hear Dan talk about the infrastructure and strategies he employs to keep thousands of competitors, hundreds of thousands of spectators, and millions of television viewers connected and informed from the first winter rodeos to the massive National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. He'll take your questions and tell the kind of stories that just don't start in your average IT shop. You won't want to miss this exciting episode or the audience chat that will start early and last far longer than eight seconds. (If you don't get that reference, you'll definitely want to stay for the full show.)

Dan is responsible for the PRCA's overall technology strategy and execution of IT initiatives. He is leading a technology transformation that includes the introduction of mobile technology, mobile websites, and applications, as well as the implementation of a new core rodeo system, replacing one that has been in place for more than 30 years.

Before arriving at the PRCA, he worked for Borders Group Inc. (Borders Books and Music), Intellidata, and Owens-Illinois, where he served largely in application development management functions. He is a 10-year veteran of the US Air Force, where he served as a helicopter pilot.

He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and earned a master of science degree from George Washington University. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and their two children.

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Managing the growing number of on-the-go, remote users who work from their laptops, tablets, and smartphones over wireless networks can be an IT manager's biggest headache. From the nightmares that can accompany data security issues to the frantic calls to the help desk when part of the system stops and fails to restart, mobile devices can bring problems that threaten to overwhelm the benefits of a mobile workforce.

In this episode of E2 Radio, E2 editors and our expert guests -- Saranyu Babu, senior product marketing manager at Dell KACE, and Rich Nockels, senior marketing manager at Intel -- will look at the key hurdles standing between an enterprise and mobile success. More than that, we will discuss practical ways to overcome those hurdles -- ways that bring together strategy, practices, and technology to help a workforce become as agile, mobile, and productive as possible.

Join us for an hour of discussion and online chat with Enterprise Efficiency editors and our guests. Your mobile users (and your organization's bean counters) will be glad you did.

When you talk about "The Cloud" there are still many who think that security can't be part of the conversation. The truth is, there are ways to make cloud computing as secure as anything done on a traditional platform, but you have to know the ins and outs of the cloud before you make the move unless you want to open your data to the criminal world. How do you take the first critical steps in the right direction?

This episode of E2 Radio gets serious about cloud security with an acknowledged expert in the field. Rand Wacker is Vice President of Product Management for CloudPassage. He joined CloudPassage from Cisco Systems Security Business Unit, where he led work on products in multiple security markets, including firewall, intrusion prevention, content security, and compliance.

Rand brings many years of security product management experience to CloudPassage, and has been part of several key industry transitions. Before Cisco, Rand led multiple product lines at IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco. He has held engineering, marketing, and strategy roles at Sendmail, Amazon, and Oracle. Rand holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, also at Berkeley.

Compliance is complicated. Failure to comply is expensive. The intersection of those two stark truths is a pain point that CIOs must address. In this episode of E2 radio, learn how to: build an IT environment that requires compliance, create the processes and policies that are essential to compliance, and deploy the tools that simplify the tasks of both maintaining and proving compliance.

End-to-end, cross-platform monitoring keeps tabs on the performance of both the IT environment as a whole and each individual component of that environment. This monitoring can help keep end users happy and productive. Plus, it can reduce costs by enabling CIOs to identify small performance hurdles before they become giant performance roadblocks. In this episode of E2 radio, learn how better monitoring can lead to a better user experience and a more efficient IT ecosystem.

The editors of Enterprise Efficiency will be joined by Steve Fox. Steve Fox is a product manager for Foglight at Dell Software, focusing on the end-user technology suite, as well as the related marketing and sales efforts that bring that technology to market.

Steve has 20 years of experience in the software industry, focused mainly on end-user management technologies, natural language processing, voice recognition, and machine learning applications. Prior to Dell, he worked primarily as a system engineer for numerous companies in the above technology spaces, and as CTO for a company he founded specializing in multimedia self-service software using natural language and voice recognition technology for websites and call centers. Steve is a graduate of the University of Texas, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.

Migrating to a new operating system is a lot more complicated than any other application migration. Before making the big move, you need to take a look at the rest of your IT ecosystem: Make sure you know exactly what is compatible with the new OS, what isn't, and what solutions you need before you migrate.

In this episode of E2 radio, learn about the tools and techniques that can make the migration process smoother and faster by helping you find and mitigate potential problems before they become unpleasant surprises.

Join E2 editors and our guest, Greg Lambert, Product Evangelist for Quest Software, now part of Dell. Greg is a co-founder of ChangeBASE, part of the Dell/Quest Software portfolio. He has considerable experience with application packaging technology and its deployment. Before setting up ChangeBASE, Lambert worked primarily in the financial services sector, delivering application projects for many leading banks and financial institutions.

Your enterprise needs data. More than an asset, it's the lifeblood of the business. This episode of E2 Radio is all about making sure that your enterprise data is safe, secure, and always available to the right users and applications.

We have expert guests on tap for this episode. Executives from Sungard, a leader in business continuity and data backup-and-recovery services, will join Enterprise Efficiency editors to look at the options available for enterprises needing to secure their data, and the strategies necessary for making the right choices when it comes to those options.

Join us as we explore the critical issues in data backup and recovery – and help listeners understand how business recovery can become a business asset rather than just another item on the expense side of the ledger.

Sponsored by Dell

The job of protecting data is getting more difficult every day. The massive data explosion is affecting organizations everywhere. Whether it’s proliferating virtual machines, huge medical imaging files, floods of unstructured social networking data, or some other type of data, your storage and network are under serious pressure. Plus, increasing demands for anytime anywhere access mean you can’t afford down-time. Are your data protection, back-up, and recovery practices equipped to handle all these new challenges? Learn how to overhaul your data protection strategy, and find out what tools and techniques can help you put it into effect.

We are tool-using animals. Busy executives need powerful tools to keep up with their busy schedules, and they need the best tools for the job.

In this episode of E2 Radio, we're going to look at the personal productivity tools that help keep CIOs and other busy executives at the top of their games. These "gadgets" may seem trivial, but they can be the key to making the most out of a hectic schedule. Join the E2 Editors and their special guest, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, as they discuss the best in today's gadgets for busy CIOs, and what the future holds for mobile executives.

The conversation will be great and the chat should be amazing -- don't miss this exciting pre-holiday episode of E2 Radio!

The consumerization of IT, the proliferation of end-point devices, and the blurring of work and home boundaries can be a boon to employee productivity but a nightmare for IT security. This modern, mobile workforce opens more routes to attackers who want to break into your enterprise. IT security departments are already weighed down with operational tasks, compliance burdens, and incident responses. How can they take on anything else, especially with flat or shrinking budgets? What are your options to reduce the gap between demands and the resources that are available to meet those demands? Register now for this episode of E2 Radio and learn:

• How threats have evolved
• How mobile device management tools can protect you from these threats
• What technologies can help you secure your environment
• How to build a mobile security roadmap

Social networks are part of a CIO's life. Every enterprise has an online reputation: The CIO has to make sure it's a good one.

In this episode of E2 Radio we bring you an expert on how to do just that. Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his special guest, Lori Randall Stradtman, author of Online Reputation Management for Dummies, as they discuss what CIOs have to do to make sure that the online reputation their company builds is the best it can be.

Lori Randall Stradtman’s intense interest in social media began in 2005 when she became an early user of Facebook while at the University of Georgia, where she had returned to earn a degree in Communications. In 2008, Lori founded Social Media Design, where she helps small to midsized businesses use social media and blogs to build their markets and increase revenues. Much of her current focus is on helping business owners enhance and protect their online reputations; her clients include entertainers, C-level executives, entrepreneurs, and directors of charitable organizations.

Lori is recognized for her strong understanding of both technology and marketing concepts related to the Web. She blogs regularly at www.social-media-design.com, and has written for top industry sites Social Media Examiner, BlogWorld, and SmartBrief. Lori has also been quoted in the Huffington Post. Lori’s workshops at BlogWorld and other Internet conferences have received enthusiastic reviews, and she recently keynoted at the Wispalooza Wireless ISP conference for network engineers. Lori has also lectured about online reputation management for the University of Georgia Masters of Internet Technology and Public Relations departments.

Lori’s writing projects and consulting work are informed by her previous experience as a publicist, speaker, trainer, coach, and mentor, and as the founder of a successful brick-and-mortar retail business.

Don't miss this important episode of E2 Radio. Your company's online reputation – and your own – will be better for the hour you spend with us.

Consumerization -- bringing consumer devices into the enterprise through IT purchases or BYOD programs -- is changing the way many companies think about the mobile enterprise. Some stories are warnings, but consumerization can make operations smoother and processes better if you get the details right.

In this episode of E2 Radio, join Enterprise Efficiency executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guests as they discuss how to plan and implement a mobile enterprise strategy that reduces enterprise friction while maximizing efficiency and flexibility. You'll want to have your enterprise mobility questions ready as David Williams, vice president of strategy at BMC Software, and Jason Frye, senior director of the Office of the CTO at BMC, will talk about strategies and tactics to minimize friction within the organization through optimal use of consumerized products and services.

David Williams is a vice president of strategy in the Office of the CTO at BMC Software, with particular focus on availability and performance management, application performance management, IT operations automation, and management tools architectures. He has 29 years of experience in IT operations management.

Jason is a senior director in the Office of the CTO with particular emphasis on mobility and cloud computing. Previously, he was responsible for all technical marketing functions across BMC's enterprise service management portfolio. He has served as a senior product manager for BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management solution and BMC's partnership with Cisco for unified computing.

Enterprise CIOs who figure out how to harness the power of consumer devices in the workplace –- instead of trying to buck the trend -- will realize increased employee productivity and uncover new, innovative ideas for improving workplace efficiency. Join E2 Radio host Curtis Franklin and guests on Wednesday, October 17, at 2pm ET and you'll discover:

• The four critical areas you need to cover as you embrace BYOD
• How to support and manage the wave of new devices introduced each quarter
• Best practices for securing corporate data in a multi-device environment
• How a BYOD business model impacts your entire enterprise

Joining Curtis for this exciting show will be:
John Lyons, End User Computing Field Marketing Manager, Dell Inc.
John’s bio - John is an End User Computing Field Marketing Manager with Dell. In this position, he is responsible for driving end-user solutions marketing activities to help promote Dell’s world class delivery of solutions and services. He partners closely with sales teams, customers, Dell solutions teams, business intelligence and marketing teams. John has over 15 years of experience with corporate technology holding various positions in sales management and marketing. John is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he also served as a Captain in the US Army.

Rick Nockels, Marketing Manager, Intel Inc.
Rich, after having graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mechanical Engineering in 1989, has spent his career with both Motorola and Intel. In his 13 years at Intel, he has focused primarily on marketing efforts around the business PC segment. These efforts include the creation of marketing messages for Intel’s vPro technology and client virtualization strategies, supporting end customer sales engagements, and training field sales teams on the wide variety of Intel’s client computing product lines.

Enterprise CIOs who figure out how to harness the power of consumer devices in the workplace –- instead of trying to buck the trend -- will realize increased employee productivity and uncover new, innovative ideas for improving workplace efficiency. Join E2 Radio host Curtis Franklin and guests on Wednesday, October 17, at 2pm ET and you'll discover:

• The four critical areas you need to cover as you embrace BYOD
• How to support and manage the wave of new devices introduced each quarter
• Best practices for securing corporate data in a multi-device environment
• How a BYOD business model impacts your entire enterprise

Joining Curtis for this exciting show will be:
John Lyons, End User Computing Field Marketing Manager, Dell Inc.
John’s bio - John is an End User Computing Field Marketing Manager with Dell. In this position, he is responsible for driving end-user solutions marketing activities to help promote Dell’s world class delivery of solutions and services. He partners closely with sales teams, customers, Dell solutions teams, business intelligence and marketing teams. John has over 15 years of experience with corporate technology holding various positions in sales management and marketing. John is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he also served as a Captain in the US Army.

Rick Nockels, Marketing Manager, Intel Inc.
Rich, after having graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mechanical Engineering in 1989, has spent his career with both Motorola and Intel. In his 13 years at Intel, he has focused primarily on marketing efforts around the business PC segment. These efforts include the creation of marketing messages for Intel’s vPro technology and client virtualization strategies, supporting end customer sales engagements, and training field sales teams on the wide variety of Intel’s client computing product lines.

Sponsored by Dell

The job of protecting data is getting more difficult every day. The massive data explosion is affecting organizations everywhere. Whether it's proliferating virtual machines, huge medical imaging files, floods of unstructured social networking data, or some other type of data, your storage and network are under serious pressure. Plus, increasing demands for anytime, anywhere access mean you can't afford downtime. Are your data protection, back-up, and recovery practices equipped to handle all these new challenges? Learn how to overhaul your data protection strategy, and find out what tools and techniques can help you put it into effect.

Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guests, Dell storage enterprise technologist Bob Schaar and Dell marketing enterprise strategist Thomas Stow, as they discuss the critical tools and techniques of data protection and how to employ them to best effect for your enterprise.

Bob Schaar is a Dell storage enterprise technologist supporting our large enterprise/corporate accounts for our Western region. Before joining Dell two years ago, he worked for NetApp as a senior systems engineer. Before that, worked for EMC, where he trained and mentored presales engineers for top resellers in southern California.

Thomas Stow is a Dell marketing enterprise strategist for large enterprise accounts. Thomas has been with Dell for more than eight years and has worked in many roles and in many capacities from inside sales, outside sales, and sales management to systems, software, and storage.

Migrating to a more efficient, more agile, more state-of-the-art IT architecture is always the goal. But how can you affordably get there without undue risk?

Join E2 executive editor Curt Franklin and Tony Logan, a senior strategist in Dell's Global Solutions Marketing organization, for this exciting episode of E2 Radio. Learn how to simplify the transition by connecting information, moving and re-hosting applications, and stitching it all together. The result is faster, more reliable, less costly convergence and cloud computing.

Tony Logan is in his seventeenth year at Dell, and is a Sr. Strategist in the Global Solutions Marketing organization. Prior to joining marketing he spent fourteen years in sales and management of primarily enterprise storage solutions. Tony holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Missouri.

Sponsored by Dell

Attackers are always looking for cracks in your defenses, but maintaining a strong defense seems to get harder all the time. Increased use of cloud computing and mobile devices makes it harder to keep track of where your IT assets are and who’s in charge of them. If you don’t know these basic facts about your IT environment, then how can you thoroughly apply security measures, prove security compliance, and keep your organization safe? In this episode of E2 radio, learn how attackers are capitalizing on these trends and how you can you stay ahead of them.

Join executive editor Curt Franklin and his guest, Michele Kopp, security marketing strategist for Dell, as they discuss strategies and tactics for using all the tools of today's distributed data infrastructure to protect the infrastructure and data of the modern enterprise.

Michele Kopp is a Security Marketing Strategist for Dell, Inc., who is passionate about helping fit customers with the right security solutions for their business needs. Technology is just technology until it's accurately mapped to a specific customer challenge; at that point it becomes the power to do more.

Join us on this special day and time to get ahead of today's security issues before you find that you're dangerously behind the curve.

Every organization knows it must be more innovative -- but how, and at what cost? Innovation requires agility, and you can create agile, efficient IT by using simplified virtualization, convergence, and cloud computing.

Join E2 executive editor Curt Franklin and Jim Wescott, a senior strategist in Dell’s Global Server Solutions Marketing Group, for this exciting episode of E2 Radio. Learn how strategic use of these technologies can not only help create mission-critical innovations, but also improve IT performance and simplify management.

Jim Wescott is a Senior Strategist in Dell’s Global Server Solutions Marketing Group focused on Data Center efficiency, transformation and convergence. Jim has a 13 year career with Dell. His previous roles include services field marketing manager, complex solutions manager, systems consultant and systems engineer. He holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an A.A.S. in Biomedical Engineering.

• Simplify remote management
• Maximize control over all devices
• Secure assets both inside and outside the firewall
• Make it easier and more cost-effective to deliver the mobility that the organization needs

Sponsored By Dell and Intel

Converged datacenters -- with compute capabilities, storage, networking, and management brought together in a single facility -- have made enterprise IT more effective and more efficient. The question for many CIOs has been whether this convergence can work for smaller organizations or in parts of the datacenter beyond the basic infrastructure. In this episode of E2 Radio, we'll look at how converged datacenters are working inside enterprise infrastructures and how new technologies are allowing more functions to be incorporated into the converged whole.

Join us as our expert guests look at the new technologies coming into the converged datacenter and how companies are using them to boost employee productivity and the corporate bottom line. We'll also discuss examples of the companies that are succeeding with the new convergence and the lessons other companies can learn from the "how" and "why" of their experience.

Sponsored by Dell and Intel

Where are you in your push toward cloud computing? Here's another question: Why are you thinking about the cloud at all? Understanding your organization’s cloud goals can make the journey to the cloud a much smoother and more successful one. Once you know where you're going, you can make the decisions that will get you to your destination faster, without adding risk to the process. Join us for an E2 Radio episode that will help you understand how companies are gaining efficiency and agility by taking the right steps into the cloud.

Join the editors of Enterprise Efficiency and their guests as they discuss these critical issues, and plan to be active in the live text chat that will bring the experience and wisdom of the E2 Community alongside the expert voices on the radio. It's an opportunity to learn from the best – an opportunity that you shouldn't miss!

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"The cloud" is hard to talk about without getting into arguments that have nothing to do with simple costs and benefits. For many executives, the cloud is either where all computing should already be happening or a scary cyber wild-west with no security and no reliability. Cloud conversations must move past vague impressions (both the hobgoblins and the pixie dust) in order for organizations to develop a reasonable approach to using a cloud strategy to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT operations.

This episode of E2 Radio will bring experts together to talk about how to separate fact from fiction in the discussion of cloud computing, and how to clearly define cloud justification and goals in language that executives will understand. We’ll talk about how to assess whether a public, private, or hybrid cloud makes the most sense for your strategic goals; how to balance business requirements against cloud costs and risk; and how to leverage your existing tech investments along the way. Master these topics, and you'll be on your way to leading your organization to a successful cloud strategy. Join E2 editors and their expert guests for an episode that will have you and your fellow executives talking (profitably) for months to come.

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Global military operations require global reach, and today that requires robust IT capabilities. From gathering information and intelligence to enabling the rapid and agile communications required in today's operational environment. The technology that makes all this possible isn't the laptop or the mobile device. It's the datacenter. Join us for a program to discuss these challenges with two of Dell's mobile datacenter experts. Learn how containerized datacenter solutions assist the warfighter in bringing mission-critical IT support systems to the battlespace in a timely and efficient manner.

Our guests are experts in making mobility work in government and large enterprise environments. Scott Radcliffe brings high-impact, strategic-level communications experience to AxiCom's clients. A captain in the US Army and veteran of multiple high-level political campaigns, Scott knows how to break down tough issues and communicate through a crisis. He led communications efforts during the implementation of the "surge" strategy in Iraq, helping to change public perception of the strategy the world over, and he developed communications strategies for some the country's highest-level decision makers.

Prior to joining AxiCom, Scott was a public relations consultant for the regional public relations firm anthonyBarnum, and a political consultant for multiple campaigns in both Ohio and Texas. As a captain in the US Army, Scott was speechwriter for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commander and current Multi-National Forces-Iraq Commander General Ray Odierno. Scott was deployed to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and to Baghdad as a scout platoon leader prior to his time on General Odierno's personal staff.

Scott earned a bachelor of science in business management from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a member of the football and rugby teams. Scott is active with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, as well as the local chapter of the West Point Society.

In his current role as the rugged mobility and digital forensics marketing manager at Dell, Joe Trickey is responsible for the product planning, launches, and marketing activities for North America. Joe has been in the IT industry for more than 21 years and at Dell for more than 12 years in a number of roles, including sales, product development, product testing, and marketing. Joe also served 10 years as an armor officer in the Army National Guard and holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Power and environmental controls are rarely seen as sexy, but few things have greater impacts on the efficiency and cost of a datacenter. Getting a handle on these basic costs can radically reshape the economics of an IT department. How do you manage the highly dense racks that are now standard equipment in datacenters? You begin by accurately measuring, monitoring, and controlling power use. This E2 Radio episode will walk listeners through the critical issues of power and environmental monitoring and explore how accurate data becomes a successful datacenter management tool.

Join the editors of Enterprise Efficiency and their guests as they discuss these critical issues, and plan to be active in the live text chat that will bring the experience and wisdom of the E2 Community alongside the expert voices on the radio. It's an opportunity to learn from the best – an opportunity that you shouldn't miss!

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It seems that everyone is talking about the cloud – but is anyone doing anything about it? Every organization has its own timetable (and often its own definition) for the cloud, so it can be hard to know where your enterprise is in the cloud adoption process compared to the competition. In this episode of E2 Radio, our expert guests will start by giving us a "State of the Cloud" update to set the stage for the important discussion to come: What have we learned so far? And how can your organization apply that knowledge to make its own path to the cloud smoother and more efficient?

The pioneers in cloud have collected their arrows, and now it's time for the real cloud migration to begin. Our guests for this episode have worked with scores of companies on moving parts of their architectures to the cloud, and they will bring stories from those early adopters to the E2 audience for both encouragement and warning. Members of the audience can take in those lessons and participate in the live text chat to learn the technologies, strategies, and procedures that will help them design a cloud architecture that will meet their enterprise needs both today and in the long term.

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Transforming your legacy datacenter architecture to incorporate Web, virtual, cloud, and mobile systems can pay dividends far beyond the IT department, in terms of performance, availability, resiliency, and productivity. Yet supporting these new computing paradigms requires an efficient, cost-effective approach to infrastructure refreshes. This episode of E2 Radio will look at the leadership, processes, and tools required to successfully transform your IT operation from a silicon dinosaur into a sleek, sophisticated vehicle for successful enterprise performance in today's hyper-speed markets.

Join the editors of Enterprise Efficiency and their guests as they discuss these critical issues, and plan to be active in the live text chat that will bring the experience and wisdom of the E2 Community alongside the expert voices on the radio. It's an opportunity to learn from the best – an opportunity that you shouldn't miss!

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Network Attached Storage is a shared storage repository for your file data. Traditional NAS solutions are easy to deploy and provide great benefit. They are designed to support enterprise storage needs and serve up standards-based services for Windows or Linux.

A couple of challenges start to arise as NAS storage becomes more widely used. Traditional NAS systems don’t scale beyond fixed limits. Proliferation of NAS systems leads to management challenges. Many organizations also use traditional block-based SAN solutions for transactional systems like databases and email. Having separate block and file storage also adds to management challenges.

During this radio show we’ll explore the evolution of NAS storage and talk about some of the options on the market that address the challenges seen with growing data volumes.

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There are hundreds of options for employees to bring their own devices into the enterprise, and at least as many ways to make those consumer-oriented devices successful. Unfortunately, there are just as many ways for BYOD to be a disaster. One of the keys to success is planning for BYOD from the core of enterprise IT all the way out to the edge and beyond. A single, unified strategy for end-point computing can set the stage for successful enterprise IT, regardless of who's supplying the individual pieces.

In this E2 Radio episode, E2 editors and their expert guests, Michael Kimble and Christian Childs of Dell, will look at the key pieces of the IT puzzle -- the strategies, policies, and technologies -- that will make BYOD a success. Traditional infrastructure, virtualization, and the cloud can all play critical roles in IT success if the proper strategies and policies are put into place before the devices hit the network. Join us as we discuss the ideas behind the practice and real-world examples of how those ideas have been put into practice. You and your users will be able to accomplish more, thanks to the information you take back to your organization from this important episode of E2 Radio.

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With myriad challenges facing even the most successful IT organizations, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the art in building and managing winning datacenters. How can you recognize an IT operation that's one unexpected demand surge or new business requirement away from failing to meet the organization’s needs? More important, what can you do to turn that operation into an efficient, effective asset for the enterprise? This episode will identify and explore the keys to unlocking the potential of your datacenter, simplifying operations, reducing complexity, and creating an environment that is automated, flexible, and open.

Join the editors of Enterprise Efficiency and their guests as they discuss these critical issues, and plan to be active in the live text chat that will bring the experience and wisdom of the E2 Community alongside the expert voices on the radio. It's an opportunity to learn from the best – an opportunity that you shouldn't miss!

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Virtualization, cloud, and mobility are changing the expectations around datacenter performance, efficiency, and functions. Users want access to information and applications, whenever and wherever they want it. Business leaders expect the datacenter to provide it -- without raising costs. Datacenter convergence can radically reshape the efficiency of your enterprise if planned and executed correctly, but you need to know the best strategies and practices to make it succeed. In this important episode of E2 Radio, you'll hear IT experts talk about maximizing emerging datacenter convergences. You'll learn how to plan the process of bringing compute, network, and storage components into an easily managed resource pool. You'll also see how the right physical components can make the process of bringing the logical components together much easier, both at the project's beginning and in the long run. Finally, we'll talk about the point of the whole exercise: how convergence can use greater orchestration and automation to reduce ongoing costs and quickly provide new features and capabilities for users. Join us for this E2 Radio show and its interactive discussion of this new datacenter trend. Your executive team and user community will both be glad you did.

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Do you ever get the feeling that you're managing more source code than most software companies even though you're not in the code business? If your application portfolio is hampering your agility, it's time to assess exactly which applications are delivering value and which can be jettisoned. Tune in to E2 radio to explore best-practices in application modernization, including how to determine who uses the applications and what data they access. You'll also hear advice on how to develop an application overhaul strategy that balances business rationale with technical goals.

Planning is personal. It seems that every organization has its own system for planning future activities. Because there are so many possible tools to use and strategies to guide their use, the planning process is all too often fraught with uncertainty and resulting anxiety.

This episode of E2 Radio is all about adopting strategies and processes that remove uncertainty from the planning process. Our guest, Charles Seybold, CEO and co-founder of LiquidPlanner, is an expert in planning and gifted at sharing his expertise. Join us for an hour of tips and techniques that will have you and your enterprise moving forward with greater confidence in your planning process and procedures.

For over 25 years, Seybold has been building software tools in one form or another. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a front-line software engineer for over 10 years before moving into program management, and later executive management. He gained his Internet experience as part of the core Expedia development team as the company grew from startup to e-commerce giant. Watching some of the smartest people in the world struggle with managing process and projects led him to the realization that dramatically better tools were needed to address today’s project realities.

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No matter how big or small your enterprise, you can learn valuable lessons from Web companies that live or die by the efficiency of their datacenters and IT environments. This E2 Radio episode looks at the approach these companies take to ensure scalability, resiliency, and availability while at the same time allowing for innovation -- and how you can look to apply similar techniques to your infrastructure.

Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guest, Barton George, cloud computing group evangelist at Dell Inc., as they discuss the most effective ways to apply lessons from the largest Web providers to your enterprise datacenter.

Barton George is the director of marketing for Dell's Web vertical. Barton has been at Dell for two years and previous to his current role, he served as Dell's cloud evangelist. Before Dell, Barton spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of roles, last of which was open-source evangelist and driver of Sun's Linux strategy. Barton began his professional career with a four-year stint in Tokyo at Sony working with ISVs for their UNIX-based "NEWS" workstation. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, he headed east for higher education and attended Williams College and Harvard Business School.

Sponsored by Dell and VMWare

Everyone is talking about cloud computing, but what does it really mean to your business? How do you begin to move beyond the "cloud" buzzword and develop a roadmap and find solutions that deliver on the many benefits of cloud computing? With solutions such as desktop virtualization, benefits include greater agility and connectivity to run applications and access data from any device securely, as well as the ability to manage big-data (both structured and unstructured) securely and simply.

Many companies have started to leverage the cloud but often lack the in-house expertise to build and leverage cloud computing. This episode can help you understand what you need, and what you're lacking. From planning and solution implementation to managing your virtual desktop environment, this episode of E2 Radio will offer expertise and solutions to make your transition into the cloud simple, secure, and affordable.

Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guests, Travis Brown, Senior Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization Solutions, Dell Inc., and Dan Kingslien, Senior Technical Lead, Desktop Virtualization Solutions, VMware Inc., as they dive deeply into this important topic for today's enterprise IT.

Traditional server-centric applications, heavily virtualized applications, applications in a private cloud, and applications from the public cloud must live together in the modern enterprise. The question for IT is how to make sure those applications, and the data that feeds them, are there whenever the business requires. This episode of E2 Radio dives deeply into the world of business continuity and how to keep the hybrid datacenter available, no matter what the world throws at it.

Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guests Kevin Smith, marketing director for enterprise private cloud at Dell Inc., and Gerard Svartz, senior solution marketing manager at Dell, as they discuss this critically important topic.

Smith is responsible for providing field marketing direction and go-to-market execution of programs for Dell's Virtual Integrated System Software. He has more than 15 years of experience in technology sales and marketing. He was an enterprise technology sales professional before taking a number of progressively important marketing positions, including enterprise brand manager for Dell Canada.

Svartz has been involved in all aspects of storage marketing over the last 10 years, both at Dell and at several independent storage companies. Overall, he has more than 20 years of high-tech marketing and sales experience.

Everyone wants their datacenter to be as efficient as possible. It's natural: Datacenters are now among the largest consumers of electric power in most states. Managing the load and its optimal balance is part of maintaining peak efficiency, but understanding how best to do that can be complicated, and implementing the best solutions can be expensive.

Join executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guest, Jeff Klaus, Director, Intel Data Center Manager (DCM) Solutions, as they discuss what it takes to make a datacenter more efficient, the tools to implement the plans, and the best-practices for using the tools.

This important episode of E2 Radio will help you understand the major issues in datacenter efficiency and the benefits to be gained from working through the issues. You won't want to miss the radio show, or the interactive text chat that goes along with the program!

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In today’s volatile weather environment, protecting patient’s information is critical for maintaining quality patient care and complying with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA. Many institutions do not have disaster recovery (DR) plans in place, making it difficult if not impossible to restore or recapture this information easily. In addition, often this information is stored on media such as magnetic tape that can easily be corrupted.

DR is defined as the processes, policies, and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business after a natural or human induced disaster and in the event of a system downtime: as an example switching PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System). The plan should include a cost-effective way to balance Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives and ensure minimal disruption to clinical workflows. This radio show will discuss scenarios and case studies to show how customers have implemented a reliable, compliant and cost-effective DR solution using a combination of On-premises and Cloud based archiving services.

Join Enterprise Efficiency executive editor Curtis Franklin and his guests, Robert Slocum, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Storage & Security at Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Dan Trott, Worldwide Strategy and Business Development Executive, Dell Unified Clinical Archive Solution, as they explore the tools and practices for protecting critical patient information.