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Editorial Calendar


Deadlines, Themes & Suggested Content

Each issue of the Ticker is available for exclusive sponsorship and includes an educational article, full-page ad, technology showcase listing and logo/sponsorship credit on cover. Limited to one sponsor per issue.

Issues for 2008:

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2008 Ticker Editorial Calendar

January/February:

Threat Management/Information Security
Issue Sponsor: AT&T

Articles Due: Nov. 19, 2007
Ad Close Date: Dec. 19, 2007
Artwork Due: Jan. 7, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • Identity Theft, Data privacy
  • Tools and Approaches for Monitoring
  • Identity Management
  • Enterprise Vulnerability Management
  • Information Stewardship
  • Event Aggregation
  • Transition from Blacklisting to Whitelisting
  • Mobile Security
  • NAC/NAP
  • Voice Security
  • BCP/DR

March/April:

Next Generation WANS
Issue Sponsorship Available
Articles Due: Jan. 14, 2008
Ad Close Date: February 11, 2008
Artwork Due: February 18, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • Wide Area File Sharing
  • Content Distribution
  • Application Acceleration
  • Next-Gen Wireless
  • Mobile/Virtual Workforce
  • Managing the Branch
  • Broadband over Powerlines
  • Rich Media
  • QoS
  • MPLS

May/June:

Unified Communications
Issue Sponsor: IPC
Articles Due: Mar. 21, 2008
Ad Close Date: April 7, 2008
Artwork Due: April 14, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • VoIP
  • Unified Messaging
  • RFID
  • Communications/BPM
  • Application Development/Middleware Challenges
  • Video
  • Wikis
  • Blogs
  • IM
  • Presence
  • RSS
  • Tele-Presence
  • Content Management
  • Document Management
  • SIP

July/August:

Data Trends, Challenges and Solutions
Issue Sponsorship Available
Articles Due: May 12, 2008
Ad Close Date: June 23, 2008
Artwork Due: June 30, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • Storage and Data Utilization
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Data Structures
  • Data Management Dashboards
  • MDM (master data management)
  • EDM (enterprise data management)
  • Information Stewardship
  • Data Lifecycle Management
  • DML (data modeling)
  • Desktops as a Service
  • Content Management
  • Document Management
  • Corporate Data Management
  • Cooling
  • Power
  • Back-racking (desktop virtualization)
  • Capacity Management

September/October:

Hot Emerging Technologies
Issue Sponsorship Available
Articles Due: July 21, 2008
Ad Close Date: Aug. 25, 2008
Artwork Due: Sept. 3, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • What's Beyond 10GB Ethernet
  • Beyond MPLS
  • VPLS
  • Broadband over Power
  • Beyond aes256/SHAI
  • Cutting Wireless Technology
  • Enterprise Management Tools
  • Software Appliances/Saas
  • Security Applicance/Anomaly Based
  • Enterprise Rights Management/DRM
  • Event/Log/Action Collaboration & Consolidation
  • Quantum Encryption/Quantum Computing
  • Mash-Ups
  • Enterprise Stream Processing
  • Data Center Water Cooling Technologies
  • Open Source Integration
  • XML Accelerators
  • Grid
  • Blade
  • Desktop Virtualization

November/December:

IT Operational Excellence
Issue Sponsorship Available
Articles Due: Sept. 15, 2008
Ad Close Date: Oct. 13, 2008
Artwork Due: Oct. 20, 2008
Suggested Topics

  • Server (virtualization, rack, grid)
  • On-demand Computing
  • Clustering
  • ITIL
  • Automation and Monitoring Tools
  • SLA/Performance Metrics/Operational Metrics/Analytics
  • Asset Mangaement/Discovery/RFID
  • Green Technologies
  • BCP/DR
  • Virtualization
  • Water-cooling
  • Virtualization Redundancy/Availability