Your IT Budget is probably already allocated for 2008 but are you investing in innovative technologies that will grow your business or are you spending it to Maintain and Operate your IT Organization, Systems, and Equipment (MOOSE)?

Hear featured guest Evelyn Hubbert, Senior Analyst for Forrester Research discuss the trends in technology, such as Virtualization, VoIP, MPLS, SOA, IPv6, and the changing paradigm to "Service Management".

Now that the Network is viewed as a utility, the pressure is on to effectively manage network infrastructure in order to enable successful deployment of innovative technologies.

Find out how Network Management can “Reduce the Moose” by moving from reactive to proactive predictive management of critical IT resources.

About our Speakers:

Evelyn Hubbert is a Senior Analyst at Forrester, covering IT systems management. Her current research focuses on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), business service management (BSM), and many other aspects of infrastructure system management.

Evelyn helps enterprises to manage their networks and systems, define key projects focusing on IT service management, and bridge IT to the lines of business. Evelyn has more than 20 years of experience and came to Forrester from Hewlett-Packard. Most recently, she was the director of competitive intelligence and value delivery chain program manager in the HP OpenView organization.

Ennio Carboni is a Vice President of Network Management and has been at Ipswitch since 2005. At Ipswitch, Ennio drives the global product and business strategy for the award winning flagship product, WhatsUp Gold