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Featured Articles » The Cloud is Becoming Pervasive in Help Desk and ITSM Markets » The Increasing Importance of DNS as an Attack Vector: How Middle East Businesses Can Keep it Secure » Calling All IT Directors: The Future Is Now, Argue ITEXPO Panelists » The Cost of Monitoring (but Not Automating) » Detection-Based Security Fails at Preventing Web Browser Malware According to Ponemon Institute   Sponsored by: SafeNet WEBINAR: Getting from $20M to $400M: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth Thursday March 12, 2015 TIME: 11:30am EDT/ 8:30am PDT As businesses grow, executive priorities change as their companies evolve from initial start-up to the strategic growth phase of much larger corporations.  These areas of focus shift from just building new products and sales engines for revenue growth to solving growing pains with infrastructure and systems that can drive operational efficiency and earnings growth.  Understanding executive priorities at every stage is important if you want to get the CEO's ear and best position your software licensing strategies to support your company's growth. What Attendees will learn: What the stages of company growth are, from initial startup to the strategic growth phase Why executive priorities shift during each stage of growth How and when to sell your software licensing strategies to the executive team Who should attend: CEO, VP ,Directors and Product Managers, Product Management, Operations Managers/Directors REGISTER   Top Stories » Campaign for Clear Licensing Sets its Sights on IBM, SAP » Mitigating Homeland Cybersecurity with Software Licensing Optimization » IBM and eBay Enterprise to Improve Magento's Global Presence » FireEye Integrates Adallom into Threat Analytics Platform   From The Expert Corner February 03, 2015 How to Avoid These 5 Key Solution Outages By Pat Patterson Global Services Marketing Leader, Avaya The New Year brings new opportunities to look back, and–more importantly–look forward. In 2015, many IT managers will resolve to keep their systems up and running 24/7 without fail. And no wonder: An average service outage can result in $385,000 in related revenue loss. The costs are significant, but the five causes of communications outages are relatively simple. According to an analysis of our customers in a recently published white paper, the top five causes of communications outages—and the percentage of those outages that could potentially have been prevented had best practices been followed—are: Power outage: 81 percent Lack of routine maintenance: 78 percent Hardware failure: 52 percent Software bug or corruption: 34 percent Network issue or outage: 27 percent "Nearly two-thirds of outages resulting from the top five causes, and more than a third of all outages, could have been avoided by using industry-leading outage prevention practices," writes Joey Fister, Senior Director of Emergency Recovery and CALA Technical Support Services. In this white paper, Avoiding Outages: Preventive Steps to Avert Five Key Causes, Fister's insights can help companies avoid revenue loss...Read More    Featured Videos Erik Linask speaks with Terry Bradwell, the EVP & CIO of AARP about his Keynote at ITEXPO Las Vegas 2014    Featured Resources » Next-Generation Service Assurance in Network Of Clouds » Neustar Delivers with Information, Analytics » Taking Your Organization to the Next Level: Contact Center Performance Management » The Data Lake: Ready To Take The Plunge   Featured Channels » Application Deployment » Hosted PBX » IP Communications   InfoTechSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest IT News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit IT Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here    |    Request a Media Kit   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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