At the Kansas City Cloud Intelligence Conference you can attend workshops and technical presentations taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft engineers. You will learn about Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Strategies, Cloud Security, Virtualization, Migration Strategies and Information Architecture as well as all Microsoft Cloud technologies, such as Office 365, SQL & Windows Azure, Hyper-V, App-V, SharePoint, Exchange and System Center.
 
Choose from Multiple Tracks.
Choose one of these four complete learning tracks (each with four sessions) or mix and match sessions based on the content that best meets your organization’s needs:

• Cloud Roadmaps and Overviews for Executives
• Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) 
• Software as a Service (SAAS)
• Platform as a Service (PAAS)

There are sessions for CIOs , Managers, IT Administrators, Software Developers and Information Architects to guarantee that your team walks away with the knowledge you need to leverage Cloud Computing in your technology environment!
 
Why You Can’t Afford to Miss This:

• Sessions are focused on practical techniques and practices to implement today.
• One-day format minimizes your team’s “time out of office”.
• Attend the sessions that work best for you to make it your own event.
• Learn from the brightest minds in the Cloud universe.
• Get answers in the sessions and learn from your peers at breaks, meals and reception.
• Microsoft Field experts and Microsoft Partners will help you apply these technologies.

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• Reduce storage cost and complexity by over 70%
• Improve data protection and recoverability service levels
• Leverage disaster recovery as a utility
• Data Center on demand – for recovery, testing and application development

Valorem Consulting and StorSimple invite you to the next Lunch & Learn meeting of the Kansas City Cloud Computing User Group.

Presenters: Mike Smith and Randy Seamans – StorSimple

As organizations are finding themselves in the middle of a data explosion, the unfortunate reality is that enterprise storage offerings, no matter how good they are, only satisfy part of the overall data needs. Corporate data also must be backed-up, archived, retained and vaulted to an off-site location during its lifecycle. As a result, IT infrastructures have designed and implemented sophisticated backup processes, disk-to-disk backup systems, data de-duplication and compression appliances along with some type of off-site vaulting process to meet these back-up, archival, and data retention requirements. This not only adds significant cost and complexity it also creates silos of hardware and software platforms along with the need for separate tools and unique operational procedures to meet these requirements. This layering of complexity on top of complexity not only comes at a very high price both financially and operationally it also significantly limits a corporation’s overall agility and flexibility in their chosen marketplace.

Learn how Windows Azure cloud storage solutions like Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage from StorSimple can marry the functionality of enterprise storage with the scalability, capability and economics of cloud based storage.

Lunch will be provided. Seating is limited, RSVP today at  https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=159594

As cloud-based productivity solutions like Microsoft Office 365 are becoming more prominent, businesses often struggle to support the explosion in electronic communication with scalable and secure strategies for email archival and storage management. Motions to discover electronic data are commonplace in today’s world of litigation; yet most companies are unprepared to find electronically stored information, especially email and attachments. Discovery costs represent at least 50% of the cost of litigation—most of which relates to the collection and review of email.

Join us to learn how Symantec.cloud solutions can help businesses address security, archiving and basic disaster recovery with a predictable total cost of ownership.

• Compatible with Office 365
• Automated Legal Holds
• Lightning-Fast Search and Retrieval
• Collaborative eDiscovery
• Restore lost or deleted emails
• Folder Synchronization
• Mobile Archive Access  

Seating is limited. Register today! https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=158734

• Leverage Presence and Instant Messaging
  Workers can view the availability status of their colleagues and share their own status so that they may find and communicate with one another efficiently and effectively. 
• Interact from within Microsoft Office
  Presence information is consistently available in Outlook, SharePoint, and other Office applications by default. Hovering over the presence icon displays a menu that can be used for initiating a conversation from the application.
• Communicate Efficiently
  Move easily from an instant messaging conversations into an ad-hoc online meeting that can include audio, video and screen sharing with just a few mouse clicks.
• Build Stronger Connections
  Keep up with your co-workers through the activity feed that shows updates from contacts when they change their personal note, picture, title, or location.
• Collaborate Effectively
  Schedule online meetings and presentations with customers and colleagues directly from within Outlook. Include audio, video, screen sharing and a virtual whiteboard as it suits your meeting needs.
• Reduce Infrastructure Costs
  Lync Online can help you achieve cost reductions in web- and teleconferencing services, IT and telephone engineering workload reductions, and Help desk call volume reductions.

Register online today: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=158091
  

• Perform security and management tasks remotely from a web-based console.
• Help secure PCs from malware and virus threats with endpoint protection.
• Deploy most updates and line of business applications through the cloud.
• Greater performance and security with available Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade.

The Role of the Network in Cloud-based Delivery

Presenter: Bart Rogers, Manager Network Application Engineering, tw telecom

tw telecom will be presenting the role of network in support of cloud-based service delivery.  When deciding to deploy or leverage applications and services via cloud architecture, it is important to understand the business needs and how the network will meet those needs with proper availability and customer experience.  Bart will focus on attributes of public Internet and private network solutions to deliver applications:

• Network Infrastructure beyond the premise
• Access to my business and to the world
• Control and prioritization
• Monitoring
• Security
  

Register Online: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=157233

This Deployment Briefing focuses on how you can leverage the power of your investment in Microsoft Solutions to increase business productivity and operate more efficiently and strategically within existing IT budgets.

On Thursday, September 22 you are invited to engage with deployment experts on Microsoft cloud technologies, including Office 365, Azure, and Private Cloud. We will highlight best practices, pre-requisites and interdependencies, timelines/sequence and common mistakes when deploying these solutions.

Click here to reserve your seat: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032492835&Culture=en-US

- Reduce costs by leveraging shared resources and usage based computing

- Improve business agility with scalable and elastic on-demand capacity provisioning

- Improve control over physical, virtual, and hybrid infrastructure

Learn how with a Microsoft Private Cloud Solution

Speaker: Tim Kremer, TSP – Datacenter Technologies, Microsoft.

Discover how to get many of the benefits of public cloud computing—including self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources.

• Virtualization vs. Private Cloud
• Components of a Cloud
• What’s Possible Today?
• Where are we going in the (very) near future?
 
Lunch will be provided

Register online: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=156816 

• Empower decision makers by putting the right tools and the right information in the right hands.
• Provide a seamless flow between the work you do and the people you need to connect with.
• Make investment decisions between cloud computing and on-premises solutions.

Jump Start your Organization in 2011!
Give your team the tools they need for better productivity.

Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to help save time, money and free up valued resources. Office 365 combines the familiar Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of the next-generation communications and collaboration services: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers more features and options to streamline the way your sales team communicate with customers and collaborate with each other. Now you can deploy on-demand or on-premise!  Plan, implement, and measure more effective marketing campaigns. And so much more!

Space is limited! Register at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=156354

Workplace productivity hinges on your employees’ ability to share business knowledge and make informed decisions across the organization. Cloud solutions like Office 365/BPOS and CRM Online offer the tools that have the potential to take your communication, collaboration, sales and marketing to the next level. Join us for lunch and a roundtable discussion with local businesses about the successes and challenges of taking business to the cloud.

Register Online: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=155143