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Webmetrics conducts informative web seminars on an ongoing basis.  See our latest topics below and view today!

• How to Trust the Cloud
• Five Creative Performance Strategies to Keep Your Cloud from Bursting
• Are you Losing Control of your Web Ecosystem
• Get your Website and Applications Ready for the Holidays – Best Practices
• 7 Ways to Improve Your Web Application Performance – On a Budget!
• Reducing Web Infrastructure Outsourcing Risks
• Load Testing Best Practices

How to Trust the Cloud

The idea of moving key parts of your business into the cloud is scary. You lose control, visibility, and a neck to wring when something goes wrong. What does it take to make the leap? More important than the ROI and the many other benefits is the ability to trust the cloud. This presentation focuses on why that is, how to build that trust, and what to look for when moving to the cloud.

Join Neustar Webmetrics expert Lenny Rachitsky, Head of R&D, as he covers:

• The primary challenges in trusting the cloud
• The benefits companies are seeing from the cloud
• A four-step approach to building trust on top of the cloud

Five Creative Performance Strategies to Keep Your Cloud from Bursting

Cloud platforms, SaaS services, and other third party products are becoming staples of modern infrastructure creating a unique ecosystem with multiple participants, integration points and points of failure. Learn how to monitor and manage your holistic ecosystem effectively. We will review the new cloud environment and provide five creative strategies for managing the performance challenges inherent in today’s world.

Join Neustar and NetworkWorld to gain visibility and maintain consistent performance across each participant and integration point to:

• Reduce downtime
• Increase mean time between failure
• Reduce service delivery and customer support costs

Are You Losing Control of Your Web Ecosystem?
How Web Application Interdependencies are Transforming IT

Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Automation and other IT trends are enabling new ways of doing business and creating new process-related interdependencies – i.e. business ecosystems. For you and many of your peers, these ecosystems pose challenges around lack of visibility and control.

Join experts from Enterprise Management Associates and Neustar to learn the key takeaways from our extensive research study: “Thriving in the Ecosystem: How Web Application Interdependencies are Transforming the Business of IT”. We will discuss:

• What are web ecosystems
• Who is affected by them and what are the trends
• How to make Cloud computing more effective
• Why information sharing and collaboration are critical to ecosystem success

Get Your Website & Applications Ready for the Holidays – Best Practices
The holidays are right around the corner. If your company is dependent on its online operations for revenue generation or critical business processes, you have to make sure you’re ready to handle the seasonal rush. Downtime and poor performance are not options.

Join industry experts from Neustar as they share best practices for testing your site and applications and preparing your business for the all-important holiday season. Ian McPherson, Senior Product Manager, and Tyler Fullerton, Senior Sales Engineer, will discuss:

• Load Testing for the holidays:
  • When, how and what to test
  • Plus, collecting, analyzing and acting on test results to make sure your sites and applications are ready to go
• Monitoring for the holidays:
  • When, how and what to monitor
  • Plus, collecting, analyzing and acting on monitoring information to make sure you are prepared for the holiday rush

7 Ways to Improve Your Web Application Performance - On a Budget!
Budgets are tight, yet your customers’ demands for high performance from your online service are growing.  The good news is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money to make your web applications faster…if you know where to look!

Join industry experts from Neustar as they show you seven great tools, techniques and tips that you need to know for any effective performance improvement plan.  Lenny Rachitsky, Neustar Senior Manager of Engineering, will discuss:

• Free tools you can use today to diagnose and optimize performance
• Simple techniques that will help you build faster web pages
• Freely available online services you need to know about when fine-tuning applications
• How to make the most of your existing monitoring tool

Reducing Web Infrastructure Outsourcing Risks
You’re only as reliable as the weakest link in your delivery chain. Join us to learn how to benefit from the advantages of outsourcing, without suffering from lost revenues and customer dissatisfaction due to deteriorated performance.

Peter Kirwan, Vice President of Strategy at Neustar, will discuss:

• Effectively identifying your partner "ecosystem"
• Assessing the risks associated with your ecosystem
• Evaluating options for mitigating your risks
• Identifying the right solution for you
• Ecosystem Management: monitoring, collaboration and security

Load Testing Best Practices
Website downtime is not an option. Load Testing helps prevent disasters but figuring out what and how to test is not simple. Join industry experts from Neustar to learn best practices for load testing.

Joel Weierman, Neustar Manager of Professional Services, will discuss:

• Sizing and determining what to test
• Identifying and analyzing performance indicators
• Key success factors for load testing
• Benefits of a managed solution