Networking Essentials for VDI: Steps to Accelerating Your Desktop Virtualization

70% of the success of an IT project relies on the effective user adoption of the new tool or solution implemented. Let us introduce HP ART - a solution which changes the way users adopt and learn enterprise software. The webinar includes analyst observations, HP customer use-cases and a highly visual tool demonstration.

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

During this 60 minute webinar we will go over how the BHOLD Suite and the Analytics module can create rules and manage the authorization process. We'll discuss how rule-based testing of access data can be used if organizational policies are being followed, as well as the automated "what if" impact analysis.

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

Join us as top security experts look at some of the latest security challenges and provide strategies for defense, including how to quickly implement a robust solution that provides the protection you need without impacting your network performance or reducing employee productivity. You will learn how to better protect your networks from the inside as well as the outside, with solutions that reduce work for IT and security teams.

You will learn about:
•The malware menace – latest stats and facts
•Third party industry firewall comparison results: which firewall is best for you?
•Best and easiest practices for securing end points
•How a customer implemented a solution—step-by-step
•And much more…

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.