Webinars

The data center can be fully virtualized, and the future of software-defined data centers (SDDC) is coming faster than you think. The Software-Defined Data Center is a unified data center platform that will help you transform the way you deliver IT with unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency.

Join our expert panelists while they examine the industry evolution of software-defined data centers and learn how to best identify the needed set of features and understand the concepts that make a software-defined data center truly revolutionary.

Cloud services are provided across the web in a fast and streamlined manner. But that's not a lot of help if the IT staff have to arrange them by phone calls or complex manual interaction. To get the full benefit of cloud services, they should be available through an automatic broker which can ensure that contracts are legal requirements are adhered to, while the actual work done on the cloud can be distributed to multiple service providers.

That needs powerful standards, which will be developed in this panel session.

In this thought-provoking panel session, 4 leading security experts will discuss what they think is the greatest challenge in data security for 2013.

Panelists include:
Peter Judge, UK editor for TechWeekEurope (moderator)
Sarb Sembhi, Director of security consultancy Incoming Thought
Stilianos Vidalis, Lecturer in digital forensics and cyber security at Staffordshire University
David Willson, Attorney at law and owner of Titan Info Sec Group

Following a 40min discussion, the panelists will answer your questions during a live Q&A.

In this insightful webinar the expert panelists will discuss the following topics:
How is the cloud (i.e. weather) impacting your data center?
How is cloud infrastructure impacting your data center?
Where is your data stored now?
Tips on how to protect and manage your data moving forward

Peter Judge, Editor at TechWeek Europe will be moderating this panel session along with:
- Mark Thiele, EVP, Switch
- Gary Thornton, Technical Director, CNet Training
- Edward Haletky, The Virtualization Practice

The Tech Success Awards, running for the first time this year, are celebrating tech creativity in Britain and honouring the IT projects which bring new ideas into the workplace. The finalists will be unveiled in this web event presented by TechWeekEurope Editor, Peter Judge, along with a panel of judges including Ian Osborne from Intellect, Clive Longbottom from Quocirca and Liam Newcombe from Romonet.

Virtualization has created obvious benefits for organizations deploying it. But why stop there? Taking your virtualization projects and expanding them to include a private cloud deployment will result in even greater benefits: scalability, security, agility and more. Join this panel of experts as they discuss common obstacles in moving to a private cloud, how it affects the services you provide and how you can get there in your own infrastructure.

As cloud computing is achieving increased popularity, concerns are being voiced about the security issues introduced through adoption of this new model. The effectiveness and efficiency of traditional protection mechanisms are being reconsidered as the characteristics of this innovative deployment model can differ widely from those of traditional architectures.

Are companies lacking risk awareness? Does sensitive information need safer storage? Are internal clouds inherently secure? Are authentication and authorization robust enough?Join our expert panelists in this live session as they disscuss wich are the security-related issues with cloud computing that are critical to the success and security of a cloud-based project and learn from their experience as they share advice on how to adress them.

BrightTALK’s second annual Cloud Week will cover topics from cloud infrastructure and operations to security, cloud services, governance and compliance. Industry experts will be presenting the latest cloud initiatives and sharing real world case studies. Attendees can expect a mixture of practical content, strategic overview and analysing the most innovative cloud trends.

With all of the hype surrounding "big data," some forget that these large sets of structure and unstructured data sets come with big obstacles. Challenges such as storage, search, sharing and analysis are only a few of the issues that need to be addressed before an organization can truly tap into big data's potential. What is the best approach to store these data sets? Which characteristics should be considered when analyzing? These questions and more will be answered by this panel of experts as they discuss how big data may provide real value or if it all is just a bunch of hype.

Energy efficiency is one of the biggest issues facing a data center industry which is still in its infancy. If you are an enterprise or a medium size businesses, how should you go about eliminating costly waste from your data center - or would it save energy and effort to outsource it to the cloud?

This panel looks at ways to tackle energy management, IT architecture, and the all important people issue.