Data Center Management

Virtual environments are excellent at providing an elastic, scalable environment for a myriad of workloads to thrive. Unfortunately, it's often too easy to over-provision resources or leave discarded and unwanted workloads, fostering a constrained environment due to virtual sprawl. However, did you know that this can also negatively impact the performance and growth of your critical workloads? In this session, you will learn to:

- Identify virtual sprawl using advanced technical methods
- Dig into performance related issues that can be caused by imbalanced or top heavy provisioning
- Understand how to translate real world sprawl data into a solid business case for change
- Exercise recommended practices to avoid falling deeper into the virtual sprawl trap

On Premise? Outsourced? Dedicated? Cloud? Harness the Power of "Hybrid" for a True "All-of-the-Above" Approach to IT Infrastructure.

With so much focus on – and hype around – the cloud, we seem to have forgotten that for most businesses IT infrastructure remains a mix of on-premise, outsourced, physical and virtual components that must be optimized into a seamless hybrid environment. Featuring IaaS experts from Latisys and HP, we'll look at how CIOs and CTOs are allocating workloads, applications and data across a diverse infrastructure today – using every tool in their arsenal in an effort to maximize legacy assets, optimize limited IT budgets and leverage technology advancements to make their business more effective and responsive.

With easy access to public cloud resources like Amazon EC2, end users are completely sidestepping corporate IT and spinning up their own mini-datacenters with only a credit card in hand. This grass roots migration is gaining speed, and industry experts predict 35% of enterprise IT expenditures will go to shadow IT services like AWS in under 3 years.

If you are in Corporate IT, join this webinar to learn more about:
- Strategies other IT teams are pursuing regarding public cloud services, both pro and con
- Management options for IT shops who want to embrace AWS, whether a little or a lot
- Easy ways for corporate IT to add value to the business units and engineering teams already using Amazon EC2
- Practical techniques for assuming a public cloud leadership role, even when resources are non-existent

About the Presenters:
Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink Corporation, has over 25 years of enterprise software and technology experience at both Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups. Prior to founding HotLink, Ms. LeBlanc was founder and CEO of FastScale Technology, an enterprise software company acquired by VMware, Inc.

Oded Haner, CTO at HotLink Corporation, is an accomplished, strategic, collaborative technology leader with extensive experience in developing and implementing innovative IT technologies. Most recently, Mr. Haner was CIO at Monster Cable where he developed and deployed a multi-year roadmap to overhaul corporate architecture towards virtualization, private cloud and SaaS based technologies. As a direct result of his vision, Monster Cable became an early adopter and internal service provider using both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure.

Automating your data center is the easiest way to free up your IT department's time to work on more strategic projects. Tune in to this webinar as Jeff Hart from M2 Technology discusses how automation can be the key to increase efficiency while reducing your IT costs.

Zac Streelman, Manager, Information Technology at Leupold and Stevens was looking for a disaster recovery (DR) solution that would extend the flexibility of virtualization to his DR environment. The solution had to deliver enterprise-class support for his mission critical applications: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint and various CAD programs. The board of directors was specifically asking what the current solution was and what service levels could the infrastructure deliver.
Zerto Virtual Replication installed seamlessly into their existing infrastructure, did not require any data center updates and is fully integrated into VMware vCenter.

With Zerto Virtual Replication he was able to:
- Realize very aggressive service levels – recovery point objectives of seconds and recovery time objectives of minutes
- Deliver a better ROI with a DR solution that is hardware agnostic
- Increase team productivity with a very simple solution
- Quickly cross-train additional staff on DR processes and procedures
- Optimize flexibility as changes to the environment required changes to the DR strategy
- Test and validate the DR failover process without taking primary production systems offline

Join Zac Streelman, Manager, Information Technology at Leupold and Stevens and Jennifer Gill, Director of Product Marketing at Zerto, to hear from your peers and learn about Zerto Virtual Replication.

As data continues to grow at an alarming rate, IT will need to be smarter on how they store their data as much as how much storage they purchase. In this panel, experts from HGST and Code42 will discuss how data growth is affecting the storage industry in regards to cold storage, HDDs, back up and archiving and best practices to developing a comprehensive storage strategy.

The data center is changing in an era of applications and automation, but how do you get there? OST, an expert in crafting automation for large-scale public clouds and developing new provisioning models for enterprise technology and in-application development, has experience in bringing data centers into the 21st century.

Register for this webinar to learn:
•How to develop core disciplines of application development and automation in the IT department
•How to provide business-responsive services without compromising quality
•How to prepare your data center for the future

In this session learn about a transformational shift in data center architecture, the software-defined data center. You learn about what an SDDC is, how it can benefits businesses by providing unparalleled levels of efficiency, agility, control and choice, and finally how you can make it real in your businesses with VMware vCloud suite.

A shift is taking place in the data center, one that accelerates applications by eliminating storage performance tuning. Properly designed Flash arrays facilitate fast data creation and consumption. Moving away from performance tuning increases focus on application functionality, shortens QA cycles and reduces deployment time. Learn how to turn your data center into utopia as Maxwell Riggsbee and Matthew Goldensohn discuss how Flash is accelerating applications and business.

Are you still rolling with the changes? Virtualization has made a huge impact on the way we deploy our computer workloads, and with that it has also changed the ways in which we protect them. The business continuity plans in place for IT even just five years ago look very different than what many companies have in place today. Keeping on top of these changes will help you understand your recovery capabilities, and your limitations as well. Join this session to make sure you're keeping your IT business continuity plans spicy and fresh!

About the Presenter:
Josh Mazgelis has been working in the storage and disaster recovery industries for close to two decades and brings a wide array of knowledge and insight to any technology conversation. He is currently working as a senior product marketing manager for Neverfail Group. Prior to joining Neverfail, Josh worked as a product manager and senior support engineer at Computer Associates. Before working at CA, he was a senior systems engineer at technology companies such as XOsoft, Netflix, and Quantum Corporation. Josh graduated from Plymouth State University with a bachelor’s degree in applied computer science and enjoys working with virtualization and disaster recovery.