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Doug Lehman explains it all here in this introductory video.

According to a report by Cisco the average company has over 1100+ Shadow IT applications in use and growing. As the technology and compliance requirements have grown so has the need for companies to understand and map their current cloud state. Join Jeanne Morain as she provides insights and prescriptive guidance for building out a Hybrid Service Management strategy to embrace Shadow IT, manage business expectations, and optimize current service workloads.

Join a group of experts for a panel discussion on all things Disaster Recovery as-a-Service, Business Continuity, Cloud and Virtualization in the finance world. Representatives from iLand, Behind Every Cloud, and more will deep dive into:

- Disaster Recovery: a potted history of the technologies and limitations
- Virtualization Layer Replication: Disaster Recovery Re-invented
- What Next? Changing Finance Requirements and "Cloud"
- DRaaS: Disaster Recovery cost models re-invented
- The "perfect" Finance focused DRaaS model

How do you develop a regulatory reporting and data reconciliation strategy that allows your firm to not only comply but become more efficient?

In the wake of the financial crisis, global regulators have created a conundrum of overlapping regulations with challenging data demands to be delivered in multiple formats. In order to comply with these regulations in time for the tight deadlines, firms often rely on separate tactical solutions, leading to further operational and technical challenges down the line. Firms also have the additional task of integrating data integrity controls to confirm the accuracy information throughout their data workflow.

In this webcast, experts discuss strategies for incorporating optimal regulatory reporting and reconciliation processes.

The 60-minute webinar drills down on:

An overview of current and upcoming reporting regulations
Which data points can provide harmonization
How to create operational efficiency across multiple global reporting regimes.
A regulators view of what reporting best practice looks like

The election of Donald Trump in the US sparked a global bond sell off and significant currency fluctuations, particularly in some emerging markets. During this webcast, Ken Leech, CIO of Western Asset, will discuss the reaction of the markets and the implications for fixed income investing.

From the monetization of big data, adoption of the cloud and explosion of IoT devices, to say the data world has changed over the last few years, is a gross understatement. If you’re struggling with how to better manage the explosion of data, beyond just capacity management, this webinar is for you.

Join Erik Ottem, Director Product Marketing at Western Digital Corporation, as he discusses the management and data integrity limitations of traditional storage architectures (RAID), and introduces a next-generation of object storage for the @scale data center. In this webinar you’ll learn how object storage can deliver better:

•Data Integrity how to protect your most valuable asset @Scale
•Geo-spread of data that is less expensive and more reliable than replication
•Rateless Erasure Coding next generation flexibility and resilience
•Storage Analytics how to manage petabytes of data efficiently and effectively
•Strong Consistency for always-fresh data

Data is growing 50% a year. Are you prepared for the future of data?

How do IT organizations manage data and control costs across paradigms in a way that does not restrict or prohibit portability? How do IT organizations provide consistent core-to-edge insight, capabilities and data services regardless of the location, vendor or platform?
When users put content into the cloud, they lose insight and control. Sure they can see capacity consumed, but what about the data services and performance? Working across clouds or moving from cloud to cloud further perpetuates the existing problems - lack of common tools and potential vendor lock-in.
FreeStor gives customers total choice to build the right destination, on the right storage paradigm for the right price and service level.

During this weekly webinar series, LeClair Group's insurance analyst Margaret Lett, shares tips with insurance advisors on how to navigate LeClair Group's Advisor Advantage website.This week the topic will be the Annuities quote engine that is available to licensed insurance advisors.

Recent growth in ESG indices across regions and strategies illustrates that global investors are exploring ways to integrate ESG factors into their investments – aiming to generate not only positive returns but also positive impact.

Furthermore, investors representing trillions of dollars around the world are asking the SEC to approach corporate reporting on ESG issues as it would any other financial disclosure issue. Investors are also beginning to recognize that companies with strong ESG performance constitute sustainable long-term investments.

Join a group of experts for a webinar on best practice sustainability communications, which will cover areas including:

- Communicating long-term stability – how to take the focus away from short-term fluctuations
- Integrating ESG into established IR programs and coping with the surge in investor interest
- Telling your ESG story – building your knowledge base and responding efficiently to questions
- Applying standard IR disciplines such as investor analysis, targeting and communications to sustainability and corporate governance issues
- Focusing on key issues that are material to the business and have the potential to affect long-term value creation

Speakers include:

- Gregory Elders, senior Bloomberg Intelligence ESG analyst, Bloomberg
- Tim Human, editor, IR Magazine
- Manjit Jus, head of sustainability application & operations, RobecoSAM

Tuesday, November 22, 2016
8.00 am PST / 11.00 am EST / 4.00 pm GMT / 5.00 pm CET
Duration: 30 minutes

Working with QuintilesIMS, we present a digital debate which will offer modellling-based insights into the future of hepatitis C treatment.

Key topics to be discussed include:
– The burden of HCV
– The current market landscape
– The current patient access model and its impact on budget
– Cost efficiencies shown by modelling
– Cure versus lifetime treatment costs

In this new Age of Data, data is growing at an exponential level and is being spread across on premise applications, cloud applications, SaaS applications and BYOD. Protecting this data, regardless of its location, has never been more important. With all of this increased flexibility, data protection can become challenging. See how you can protect your data with a single catalogue – regardless of its location – allowing you to focus on delivering the RTO & RPO being demanded by the business

According to Forrester 80% of security breaches involve the use or abuse of privileged credentials. Whether malicious or accidental under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) organisations will have to notify all stakeholders – including consumers of the breach and its impact on their data within a strict 72 hour timeframe.

The question is – can you afford for this to happen? Not only do breaches impact your brand integrity, but you could be fined up to euro 20M or 4% of your annual global turnover should this happen.

In this webcast Paul Ferron, Digital Identity Strategist from CA Technologies is joined by Global legal expert Giulio Coraggio, Partner and Head of the Italian Technology Sector at DLA Piper to discuss:

-How to minimize impact and also prevent breaches from happening.
-How to put data breach notification into place.

Funding of awarded grants and analyzing mass media mentions - we're pleased to present the latest developments and functionalities within SciVal. You are now able to see which institutions have been warded grants, and by which funding bodies. We have also added Mass Media Mentions which allows you to analyze your institute, and compare the socioeconomic impact of your research with that of other research organizations in your own country.

Attribution is often described as trying to find a single source of truth for the relative impact of every channel on the customer path to conversion.

However, the proliferation of the marketing stack, advertising channels, and user devices has made that search ever more challenging, as have the various schools of thought around the best attribution strategies.

Thus, AdRoll has partnered with Econsultancy to evaluate the state of marketing attribution in the UK, France and Germany. Join Gavin Flood, AdRoll EMEA marketing director, and Jim Clark, Econsultancy research director on November 22nd for a live webinar to make sense of attribution in 2016.

In this webinar you will learn how to tackle numerous attribution challenges:

- Learn why most organisations don’t carry out attribution across the majority of their campaigns and how to remedy this.
- Benchmark your organisation against your peers and find out which methods and technologies they are using.
- Discover the skills and training needed for successful attribution.
- Ask any and all your questions live.