NPI is known for hosting seminars that feature highly knowledgeable systems engineers from leading vendors. We develop the topics after consulting with our clients and identifying new trends or areas of concern. The format is intensive, interactive and content rich-these are not fluffy sales sessions. Sessions are open to qualified businesses. Registration is required to attend these free sessions. To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800-639-6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
Improved ROI with Network Monitoring & Outsourcing – September 15 – 10am to 11:00am
Join NPI for an informative Webinar discussing how IT Monitoring & Outsourcing can wring the cost from the typical IT budget. Monitoring can help maximize your IT investment and reducing ongoing costs by providing ample warning about pending issues and provide details about resource trends. NPI will discuss the value that IT Monitoring & Outsourcing can provide to the small business including:
- Latest trends in Monitoring & Outsourcing
- How IT monitoring can assure higher availability and the time spent on IT infrastructure
- Cost savings and performance improvement techniques
- How IT outsourcing can produce big dividends by reducing costs and leveling your monthly budget
- How to keep your IT infrastructure in shape on a budget
- How monitoring can help you focus on strategic IT activities rather than fighting fires
- Ways to improve your ROI through use of enterprise-class management tools
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
2011 IT Budget Considerations – September 29 – 10am to 11:00am
Join NPI for an informative Webinar discussing how to get more accomplished with limited resources through better IT budgeting and cost controls:
- Effective IT budgeting techniques
- Squeezing more from your IT resources
- Cost control techniques to manage your IT expenditures
- Determining the value of subscription services
- Contract language and term considerations
- Controlling costs through outsourced resources
- Budget cycles and schedules
- Ongoing IT budget management techniques
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
EAR/ITAR Compliance Strategies – October 13 – 10am to 11:00am
Is your business getting pressure to meet the EAR/ITAR compliance requirements? Are you asked to provide more documentation about restricting access to sensitive data? NPI can help you understand the implications that these regulations have on internal IT resources and help to implement technology solutions to help businesses conform to these important regulations. The session topics include:
- Impacts of EAR & ITAR requirements on computer systems and security
- Data access policies and restrictions
- Data encryption standards and what they mean
- IT compliance applications
- Server audit logging
- Data loss prevention
- Data violation mitigation
- Security marking/classification
- NISPOM compliant data discard/distruction
- Security email
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
Defense-in-Depth Through Encryption – October 27 – 10am to 11:00am
Are you increasingly concerned about lost or stolen computer equipment? Are you asked to provide more assurance that no matter what, company data doesn’t get in the wrong hands? Disk encryption can provide a last line of defense against intrusions and potentially embarrassing data loss. During this session NPI will discuss techniques to encrypt data while moving and at rest. The session topics include:
- Encryption standards and what they mean
- How to configure encryption so it has the least impact on workstations, servers and network
- How to increase flexibility when encrypting data
- The role of encryption key storage and management in your business
- Cost effective ways to encrypt your data
- The latest trends in encryption technology
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
Leveraging the Office 2010 and SharePoint Combination – November 10 – 10am to 11:00am
This webinar offers an in-depth look at the Microsoft Office 2010/SharePoint combination and covers the details of team collaboration tools from the perspective of customer experiences and NPI implementation discoveries. This Webinar will help you determine the best approach to implement a team collaboration environment using the Office 2010/SharePoint combination. The topics we will discuss include:
- The benefits of team collaboration environments
- The connection between Office 2010 and SharePoint
- Social Networking with SharePoint and Office 2010
- Using Office Web Apps to access Office files from your browser
- Leveraging Office Mobile 2010 to work with office files from your smartphone
- Co-authoring – multiple people simultaneously editing files from different locations
- Broadcasting Slide Shows to a remote audience
- MailTips – enhanced messaging with security warnings, retention policies and right management
- Technical requirements for an Office 2010/SharePoint implementation
- Implementation Tips and Techniques
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
Alternatives to Tape Backup – November 24 – 10am to 11:00am
Has backup and offsite data storage become a growing headache? Does your backup frequently fail or take too long? This session covers new backup techniques and technologies that will improve your backup accuracy and speed. We will cover backup approaches ranging from disk-to-disk to USB attached media as well as rapid recovery. The topics we will discuss include:
- Latest trends in backup technology
- Advanced techniques to assure reliable backup and offsite storage of critical data
- Disk-to-Disk, replication and snapshot techniques
- Customizing backup routines to meet special business needs
- Rapid recovery techniques
- Techniques to tune backup routines
- Keeping your backup costs to a minimum
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
High Speed Gig Ethernet Switching Strategies – December 8 – 10am to 11:00am
This important Webinar includes exciting details about new developments in Ethernet switching. We will discuss the latest improvements to high speed Ethernet switches. We will discuss the newest technology to improve switch throughput on switches can take including VoIP, SAN, workstation and server communications. The topics include:
- Latest trends in Ethernet switching
- Picking between Layer 2 vs Layer 3 switches
- Power Over Ethernet options
- Getting the most from Gigabit technology
- Techniques to configure core Ethernet switches
- Techniques to tune high speed switches
- Selecting a SAN switch
- Keeping your switch costs to a minimum
Who should attend: Business Owners, Managers, IT professionals of small to medium sized businesses
Attendance is limited! To make sure you don't miss out, register with NPI by calling us at 800–639–6091 x210, email us at . or use our online registration form
Additional webinars will be announced soon!
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