Setting Virtual Priorities: Which Applications Should You Virtualize First

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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

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.

Companies are eager to adopt infrastructure-as-a-service services in both public providers and private datacenters because of the business agility that IaaS enables. Full IT automation, self-service provisioning, and metered usage billing helps companies accelerate the development of their products and services, and improves organizational efficiency. Unfortunately, many companies are struggling to accelerate the most important parts of their business due to the challenges of securing these highly dynamic environments. In this talk Rand Wacker, VP of Products for CloudPassage will describe the challenges of security and compliance in a truly automated cloud and critical topics that you need to be aware of when planning to adopt cloud services in either public or private environments.

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.

How to keep your head (and your job) when the worse case scenario happens.

Due to the increasing frequency of security breaches, defining an action plan is critical for every security practitioner. Getting breached doesn’t determine whether or not you’ve got a good security program in place – but how you respond to one does.

Join security expert Conrad Constantine of AlienVault, for an in-depth discussion on things you and your team should do today to prepare for information security breaches. You’ll get practical, lessons learned advice on:

-The inevitability of security breaches
-Preparing to survive security breaches
-Threat identification and containment
-Handling the aftermath so it’s not worse than the breach itself

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.