Virtualization

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

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.

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.

Many organizations have been taking advantage of virtualization and cloud technologies to reduce server counts, and gain operational advantages. When it comes to business critical workloads such as those running Oracle, migration to virtualization and the cloud has encountered more resistance, and roadblocks.

This presentation will examine industry trends in virtualization and cloud computing for enterprise workloads, such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, MS SQL Server, etc. Case studies will be presented that explore the advantages of a cloud strategy for mission-critical applications. Strategies for minimizing risk, and maximizing benefits will be provided.

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.

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.

Data Centre Transformation, is often accompanied by a change in sourcing, where there is a need to rapidly understand what is in the existing Data Centres and an ongoing need to manage those assets.

If you are asking yourself the questions below then join this webinar to learn the following:

·I am planning on consolidating, migrating or moving our data center. How can I automate this?
·I need to understand what I have in order to plan for our DCT, how do I do this?
·How will I know our DCT achieved the desired results?
·I need to ensure we understand the post DCT consolidation IT infrastructure and dependencies so I can manage it, how?

Bring your own data center questions and interact with our expert presenter.

Social business represents a new transformational opportunity for organizations. After initial forays into external social media, many companies are now discovering the value of applying social approaches, internally as well as externally. Social business can create valued customer experiences, increase workforce productivity and effectiveness and accelerate innovation. But many companies still wrestle with the organisational and cultural challenges posed by these new ways of work.

Join this webinar to hear the proven results from easily integrating social into your everyday tools to improve your business.

About the speaker:
Chris Moore is a Social Business Specialist for IBM Collaboration Solutions. He has 7 years experience and knowledge of Collaboration and Exceptional Web Experience technologies; including IBM Notes, Domino, Sametime, Connections, Docs and Web Experience Suites.

Leveraging a cloud infrastructure for many companies is very appealing, however, once the team starts investigating disaster recovery solutions, things start to sound complicated. Zerto Virtual Replication provides a robust, yet simple BC/DR platform for the private, public, and hybrid cloud.

Hear from Steve Schoener, VP of Technology at Eze Castle Integration and Jennifer Gill, Director, Product Marketing at Zerto as they discuss trends in DR and the cloud. Real customer use cases will be outlined to help you choose the right fit for your organization. Learn how different DR approaches can help you:
- Reduce hardware and networking costs
- Increase the benefits of virtualization
- Support aggressive service levels with RPOs of seconds and RTOs of minutes
- Leverage a simple product or a simple service for simple disaster recovery

Virtualization technology continues to improve and become a central part of business’ data centers and clouds. These changes in virtualization sometimes require changes to IT operations overall. Learn from Red Hat and GroundWork experts on how to efficiently and easily take advantage of the best new capabilities out there.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- How virtualization and operations can mesh well... or not
- How to use the best new capabilities in virtualization in 2013
- How to avoid common errors when architecting your overall virtualization solution