'Network Computing Magazine' Launches Network Computing Shoot-out 'High-Availability: Making E-Commerce Work'PRNewswire CMP Media's Network Computing announced today that they are looking forward to launch of their Shoot-out Four-City Tour, entitled, "High-Availability: Making E-Commerce Work" events. Network Computing Shoot-Outs are specialized one-day seminars that provide attendees the unique opportunity to learn about a chosen topic, this one: High Availability, from both the leading technology experts and the top technology vendors. "Network Computing's format of challenging vendors to deliver solutions based on actual real-world situations and RFPs offer attendees the most productive and timely means to compare and contrast products and strategies, and get real answers in real time." said Fritz Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, Network Computing. Attendees of the event will learn:
-- How leading technology vendors measure up as they deliver their
solutions to Network Computing's High Availability Request for
Proposal
-- The results of Network Computing's High Availability research
presented by Fritz Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, Network Computing
-- How a panel of Network Computing readers deal with the challenges of
deploying an E-Commerce site
"Network Computing Shoot-Outs are designed to give technology vendors the most direct and meaningful means to meet with, influence, and sell to the biggest spenders of today's technology, products and services," said Kathryn Dopman, Director of Sales and Marketing/East, she continued, "The seminars' unique format and established reputation for quality and actionable content bring together powerful groups of Network Computing readers. These readers are the Net Generation, who are the enablers of the digital economy -- creating seminar rooms full of tremendous buying power." Alteon Web Systems, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, Foundry Networks and Radware are sponsoring the Network Computing event. Each sponsor will be delivering a twenty-minute presentation, answering questions and distributing literature to attendees. "For customers to be successful, it is essential that they have a clear understanding of the new emerging technologies being used to build industrial-strength Web sites and services," said Selina Lo, Vice President of Product Management at Alteon WebSystems. "Web switching technology is a key element to building next generation eCommerce infrastructures and Network Computing clearly understands the fundamental importance of knowledge transfer in helping readers optimize their infrastructures." "Network Computing Shoot-Outs offer Extreme Networks an ideal opportunity to demonstrate its networking solutions in a very realistic setting to its service provider, e-business and corporate enterprise customers," said George Prodan, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Extreme Networks. "Having sessions dedicated to specific topics, such as High Availability, enables both the networking vendors and the attendees to conduct in-depth discussions on the solutions and challenges." "F5 Networks is excited to participate in this seminar series, particularly because the session focuses on high availability, a key requirement that F5 has always emphasized and a prerequisite for e-Business success," said Marc Goodman, Senior Director of Marketing at F5 Networks. "Foundry Networks understands the importance of creating a high performance, highly available and Internet scale networking infrastructure. Network Computing Shoot Outs are great opportunities for customers to evaluate the choices they have in designing these types of mission critical networks." said Ken Cheng, VP of Marketing for Foundry Networks. "Building high availability sites is crucial to any company that does business over the Internet," said Mike Long, V.P. of Marketing for RADWARE Inc. "This seminar is a must attend for anyone who wants to keep their corporate resources available 7 days a week 24 hours a day." Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com/), published by CMP Media, Manhasset, N.Y., is the only networking publication providing in-depth, comprehensive, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to 220,000 IT Professionals-The Net Generation-biweekly. In addition, Network Computing consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest and the publication was a 1999 Neal Award Finalist. About CMP Media Inc. CMP Media Inc. (http://www.cmp.com), a subsidiary of United News & Media plc (NASDAQ: UNEWY), is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.CMPnet.com. SOURCE: CMP Media Network Computing Contact: Debra Markell of CMP Media Network Computing, 516-562-7885, |