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Sponsorship of the ISACA Summit, March 2009
Starcom will be sponsoring the ISACA Seminar Day "Thriving in Tough Economic Times", featuring keynote speaker Bill Evans, Managing Director Economics, Westpac Banking Corporation.
To be held on Tuesday March 31st at Hilton Sydney, the summit will focus on economic and employment forecasts and strategies, for how we can respond as individuals and in our companies. The summit will examine how the world reached this point through the failure of discipline, governance, and control frameworks. Attendees will learn strategies for themselves and their organisations to thrive in 2009.
For further enquiries please call Jayne McIntosh at Starcom, on 02 9151 4547, or Email: innovation@starcom.com.au
IT Service Management using SaaS. Service-now.com, March 2009
Starcom are delivering a breakfast session relevant to anyone who is looking to reduce their spend on IT Service Management technology. If you are preparing for a major ITSM technology upgrade and/or wish to create a more agile operation through the use of Software as a Service (SaaS), you need to register for this event. You will gain valuable insights about one of the most significant shifts in IT Service Management history, how the rules have changed dramatically, and why Gartner sees Service-now.com in the visionary category of their Magic Quadrant (1).
Note the top 5 things about Service Now that are relevant to your business:
- IT Service Management software is offered on demand as a service via the internet
- Fully ITIL compliant
- Licenses on a subscription basis (no more purchasing of licenses)
- Hosted in a fully secure Data Centre (no hardware, no software upgrades, no worries about DR or BC)
- All modules available, i.e. don't have to separately buy workflow or reporting modules.
Date: Wednesday March 11th
Time: 8 - 9.30am
Location: Starcom Office - level 39, 100 Miller Street North Sydney
Registration closes Monday March 2nd. To register for this event, call Jayne McIntosh - 02 9151 4547, or Email: innovation@starcom.com.au
Starcom to be a sponsor at AISA Sydney Annual Seminar, December 2008.
Starcom will play a key sponsorship role at the AISA (Australia Information Security Association) Annual Seminar Day on Thursday 4th December 2008. This once-a-year event will take place at the CBA Lightwell Auditorium with this year's theme being "Need to Know - 2009". Last year's Annual Seminar Day, which Starcom attended, attracted over 200 of Sydney's top security and risk professionals. The day is comprised of a number of presentations from recognised speakers, lunch, cocktail drinks social hour, and the annual dinner.
AISA has more than 400 members in Sydney, ranging from company directors and risk professionals, to highly skilled technical security specialists. Almost every major corporate in Sydney is represented, as well as security consultancies and government agencies.
Pisces Group and Symantec Executive Forum Series - 26th November 2008, 18th Feb, 20th May, 19th Aug 2009
Starcom Group Ltd together with Symantec Australia Pty Ltd will host a quarterly Executive Forum series aimed at senior executives, CIO's, Risk Officers, and Compliance Officers. The series will be chaired by Dr John Hewson, Pisces Chairman and Craig Scroggie, Vice President and Managing Director Symantec Pacific. Each quarterly event will have a guest speaker who will act as the expert on the chosen topic for the respective quarter. The Guest speaker for the first event will be Malcolm Crompton, previously Federal Privacy Commissioner. Proposed schedule:
- Nov 26th 2008 - Your obligations under the proposed amendments to the Privacy Act 1998 including data breach disclosure laws
- March 18th 2009 - Going Green - Meeting requirements of the Garnaut Report
- May 20th 2009 - The Impact of International Legislation on Australian Companies
- Aug 19 2009 - The Rise and Fall of Australian Empires
For further information regarding this event or attendance, please do not hesitate to contact Starcom
Starcom attends VMWare Partner Exchange, Sydney, 14th October 2008.
Starcom attended VMware's premier partner event held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia on 14 Oct 2008. The event is held in conjunction with VMware Virtualisation Forum - the annual large scale customer virtualization event. VMware Partner Exchange is a dedicated event for its VIP, OEM, SI and Alliance partners.
The event provided an excellent learning venue where Starcom participated in a number of technical and sales tracks throughout the day. Starcom continues to expand its virtualization offerings leveraging the VMWare suite of products. Starcom will focus on key areas within its virtualization go to market model that enable customers to do more with less, reduce their carbon footprint and extend virtualization to the desktop where the objective is to provision people rather than devices.
Starcom participates in Symantec Vision + Manage Fusion Event, August 2008.
Starcom was a sponsor of Symantec Vision + ManageFusion 2008, an event showcasing best practices in storage, security, infrastructure operations, business continuity and information risk and compliance. Over 1,200 customers, partners and industry experts attended the annual user conference where IT professionals learned how to leverage technologies to reduce exposure to risk, cut down on complexity, and align IT objectives with business priorities.
Not only did Starcom play a key sponsorship role showcasing its Symantec and related security product and service capabilities but its case studies were used during keynotes as a best in class example on how to get the best out of Symantec's Control and Compliance suite of solutions.
Starcom attends Microsoft Partner Conference, Port Douglas, August 2008.
The 2008 Microsoft Australian Partner Conference is the largest in the event's 16 year history, with over 640 delegates in attendance representing more than 300 businesses from across the nation. The Microsoft Australian Partner Conference provides Microsoft's partner community with the knowledge, tools and resources to help them expand their business and support their customers. Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Australian Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft.
Starcom participates at AusCERT, May 2008.
Starcom attended the AusCERT 2008 conference which has so often proved to be the premier IT security event for IT security professionals and anyone with an interest in IT security. This year was no exception being the seventh year for the conference with interest in the conference from delegates, speakers and sponsors growing significantly.
The primary themes of this year's conference were security; privacy and the concept of the 'internet citizen'. According to Graham Ingram, general manager at AusCERT, "The theme this year really is a reflection of something we've noticed in the past few years. The change in the environment of attacks, they are not going for the servers, they're going for users and applications," he said. Internet citizens are people who are using the Internet to conduct daily business, government duties and banking. "So, how do we protect them?" Ingram asked. "People turn to us to answer these questions but at the moment we don't fully have the answers,".
Starcom provides security capabilities across all its IT solutions. Its participation at AusCERT provided Starcom with further validation of its focus on security as a key solution required by its customers.
Pisces Group appoints John Hewson Chairman, April 2008.
The Pisces Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. John Hewson as Chairman. John brings a wealth of experience in the financial industry with previous roles such as founding director of Macquarie and Chairman of ABN Amro.
