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October 20: Grid Computing and Hosting Please tell us what you would like to see covered in our Webinars. We want to help you to manage your IBM eServers more effectively. Everyone at Key and on our INsights newsletter team is here to support you. Here's to your success in 2005! Pete Elliot Carol Woodbury: iSeries Security & Compliance Key's February Webinar featured Carol Woodbury, co-founder of SkyView Partners. Woodbury addressed critical issues in i5/iSeries and AS/400 security and how they can affect compliance with new regulatory requirements. During this Web-based seminar, Woodbury and Jason Rubenstein of LifeCare Assurance Company discussed how to assess security and compliance risks and how to put proper controls in place to ensure a robust security environment that meets compliance regulations. Woodbury presented material on how to make the decision on whether to fix security and compliance exposures now, accept the risk, or plan for later remediation. Throughout, guidance on proactively preparing for compliance with HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GBLA, SB-1386, Visa CISP and other regulations was emphasized. To see the rest of this article on Key's February 24 Webinar, click here. Server Consolidation on xSeries with Blades Key's March Webinar featured Steve Wada, western region technical sales executive for blades at IBM. Wada discussed how to best accomplish server consolidation using IBM's xSeries servers with IBM blade servers. Key designed this Webinar to demystify blade server technology -- the latest stage in server evolution. Dramatic cost savings, saving critical data center space, boosting reliability and simplifying systems management can be achieved with IBM's blade server technology, called BladeCenters. This Webinar was developed for those responsible for the management of server configurations, including CIOs, IT directors/managers, ops managers, and managers of Win/Tel environments. You should review the archived version of this KEY Webinar if you have interest in the following:
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Carol Woodbury's Lessons on Compliance With all the laws, regulations and standards facing businesses today, a key question becomes, What does this mean for my iSeries system under OS400? Carol Woodbury, former IBM chief security architect, iSeries security expert, and a founder of SkyView Partners, tackles compliance issues for iSeries users in a series of lessons on Compliance to appear in INsights. The first lesson is titled "What is Compliance" and can be accessed at the following link: carol woodbury's compliance series. Look for additional lessons on compliance for iSeries users in future issues of this newsletter. News at Key :. Pete Elliot on What's Hot Having just been the month that another seer warned Julius Caesar on his way to the Forum (Beware the Ides of March!), we decided to interview Pete Elliot on March 15th about his prophetic views of the IT industry. INsights: What
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