Why Attending Angelbeat Helps Your Career and Benefits Your Employer

Angelbeat staff who plan agendas/content and/or recruit attendees are very sensitive to the time demands placed on IT professionals. “Doing more with less” is a common theme heard at every seminar. So why should you attend Angelbeat versus other shows, and how can Angelbeat help with your own career and your employers’ profitability? The agenda at each show is always world-class, ...

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Customer Facing Web Apps With Peak Demands: Sweet Spot for Cloud Deployment

Every IT executives is looking at cloud solutions; the challenge is where to start. Well here is my suggestion. Identify customer facing web applications that have sharp variations in demand. Some notable examples are Domino’s Pizza and NFL.com on Super Bowl Sunday, IRS.gov around April 15th, online retailers right after Thanksgiving, etc. In the past IT professionals might have configured ...

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Prediction from Angelbeat 2012: Telephone/Handset Sales Will Drop Sharply by 2020, driven by BYOD

It seems clear that bring-your-own-device (byod) initiatives are being rapidly embraced by IT executives, who will increasingly spend money on thin client/VDI solutions and middleware software platforms to support consumer devices in the enterprise. Good news if you sell these solutions, potentially tricky for Microsoft and Intel who have grown accustomed to the 3-4 PC refresh over the past ten ...

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Lessons from Angelbeat 2012: Would You Buy A Server If Starting From Scratch

The first ten Angelbeat events in 2012 were absolutely fantastic and it gave me the chance to interact with over 1,000 senior IT executives throughout the southeast. At the end of each seminar, I asked the attendees “Let’s say you were building your IT infrastructure from scratch. Would you ever buy another server or storage hardware platform, or just go ...

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Cloud 2012 vs Broadband/Fiber 2000 Investments: Is Another Crash Looming, I Don’t Think So

The telecommunications sector suffered a major crash in 2000 as multi-billion investments in fiber optic infrastructure went unused. Take a look at the sharp decline in Corning’s stock price back then (Corning is among the world’s largest manufacturer of fiber optic cabling). It has only been in the last few years that much of this so-called dark fiber has been ...

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IT Insights from my 25th Harvard Business School Reunion

I recently attended my 25th Harvard Business School reunion and came away with three important insights: Professors now ask students/alumni to follow them on twitter and do not actively promote/release their email address. Big change from my 20th reunion just 5 years ago. Obviously they still use e-mail, which is not going away as a communication method. But this is a ...

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Angelbeat 2012 Podcast: What’s New, Why Attend

Thank you very much for visiting Angelbeat.com and considering attending a seminar in your hometown. This short podcast by CEO Ron Gerber highlights new features for 2012 – integrating virtualization and cloud strategies, supporting byod initiatives and Apple in the enterprise – while maintaining the proven Angelbeat methodology of concise, technical talks on related, complementary fields by industry leaders. We ...

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About CEO – Ron Gerber

Ronald J. Gerber is the CEO of Angelbeat, Founder of Gerber & Company, and serves on the Board of Directors and is a former President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York. Angelbeat has held over 350 technology symposiums on throughout North America since its founding in 1999. Angelbeat is the largest technology event company in North ...

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Angelbeat Events Each seminar helps you understand the changes within and interdependency between data center, server, storage and security, network, mobility issues. Hear Angelbeat CEO’s Ron Gerber podcast on why you should attend. CPE/CISSP credits are provided. Topics covered include: 1. Extend Your Virtual Infrastructure to the Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud 2. Secure Web 2.0 Applications, Protect Confidential Data from Malware Attacks 3. BYOD: Support Consumer Tablets/Smartphones on Enterprise Networks Get ...

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Network Director, Broughton Hospital

“Kathy and I enjoy the event yesterday. Not only was the presentations informative and full of information that we can utilize while planning future projects the venue selection was superb.” – Network Director, Broughton Hospital

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CIO, Family Dollar Stores

“It was nice to meet you yesterday at the seminar. It was very helpful and the timing could not have been better.” – CIO, Family Dollar Stores

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CIO, City of Gastonia

“Thank you for the invitation to the recent Angelbeat Mobility Forum. This is the second one that I have been to and I found them both informative and definitely worth the time to go.” – CIO, City of Gastonia

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