Top 10 Myths About Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications

Join SAP and VMware for this live webinar to learn how you can increase IT agility, simplify management and lower total cost of ownership when you virtualize your SAP HANA ® environment with VMware. We will discuss the new deployment options that are now available, enabling you to run your SAP HANA onsite, offsite or both – without compromise. Also, you will learn best practices for configuring and deploying SAP HANA in a virtual shared storage environment and how you can create, manage and automate new SAP HANA-based capacity on demand, enabling seamless workload mobility for your data center.

During this live webinar, we will discuss:
- Market trends and how SAP customers are transforming they way they run their workloads and data centers
- The new deployment choices for your virtualized SAP HANA environment, on vCloud Suite or newly announced vCloud® Hybrid Service™, and the benefits you can achieve from each option
- Best practices for configuring and deploying SAP HANA on VMware cloud infrastructure
- Getting started: how VMware and SAP together are helping SAP customers assess, create and adopt virtualization strategies for their SAP HANA environments
- Answers to your questions during live Q&A

Register today to learn how you can benefit from virtualizing your SAP HANA environment with VMware and transform your business.

About the presenters:
Kevin Knieriem, Vice President, Innovation Solutions, SAP, Inc.
Dominic Uliano, Virtualization and Cloud Management Practice Lead, North America, SAP, America, Inc.
Ray Blanchard, Sr. Director, Strategic ISV Alliances, VMware, Inc.
Bob Goldsand, Global Alliance Partner Architect, VMware, Inc.

Virtualization, cloud computing, hybrid environments and BYOD are here to stay. When implemented successfully, these solutions can transform the way businesses operate and lower the OPEX and CAPEX costs of IT departments. However, these major IT trends cannot be considered separately: virtualization and cloud are often linked, and needs for anytime anywhere connectivity and mobile workforce enablement won't wait. This is why it's essential to have a holistic approach and address the business, technology and financial implications of today for tomorrow's needs.


Dell has quickly become one of the largest and fastest growing networking providers in the world by leveraging its extensive expertise in the data center to build a complete portfolio of switches that are designed to be open, flexible, powerful and economical.

The Lazy Attacker: Defending Against Broad-based Cyber Attacks with Unified & Collaborative Defenses

Advanced Persistent Attacks (APTs) get most of the attention from the cyber security community because, as defenders, we want to be vigilant against the most insidious techniques. However, this unilateral mindset ignores a much less interesting reality. Generally, cyber criminals are as lazy as criminals in the “real world.” What do we mean by lazy? Attackers will use the “lowest common denominator” method against the widest range of IP addresses from the same source set of IP addresses - which means that sharing information about their methods with others, and implementing simple defenses are best practices.

Adjusting your focus from the “shiny object” of APTs to those broad-based threats can help prioritize your own defenses and optimize your incident response program. Attend this webinar to hear directly from Jaime Blasco, Director of AlienVault Labs, on how you can:

* Understand the common exploit methods of the “lazy attacker”
* Review the benefits of a collaborative approach to threat intelligence
* Prioritize defensive tactics and remediation activities
* Implement a unified, simplified approach to threat management

Jan Teichmann, our SAP HANA Mobility expert, will present how you can develop mobile applications in the cloud with SAP HANA One in only 20 minutes. Learn from our expert and be ready to build your own mobile SAP HANA apps by the end of this session.

Teichman's blog on mobile development with the Android SDK and SAP HANA received 55k hits in the first week it was published. Join our session and see:
- How to deploy the Android SDK on SAP HANA One
- Actual code samples and step by step instructions for building mobile SAP HANA apps
- How HANA One will simplify your environment creating one place where you can easily build and run your mobile app in the cloud

Did you know that the majority of all web attacks occur at the website or web application layer? Can you see attackers threatening your public web applications right now?
Join Juniper security experts, Pete McMullen & Keir Asher for a 60 minute Junos WebApp Secure (JWAS) overview and live demo to learn how Juniper can protect your web assets from the largest Internet security threats known!

Software Defined Storage. Is it just another buzzword or can the concept bring meaningful change to the way storage is acquired, implemented and used? As vendors race to jump on the "software defined" bandwagon, Storage Switzerland set out to explain the term, provide users with an understanding of how software defined storage can solve many of their current storage challenges and provide a way to decide which vendors are really delivering a software defined storage future.

Software Defined Storage. Is it just another buzzword or can the concept bring meaningful change to the way storage is acquired, implemented and used? As vendors race to jump on the "software defined" bandwagon, Storage Switzerland set out to explain the term, provide users with an understanding of how software defined storage can solve many of their current storage challenges and provide a way to decide which vendors are really delivering a software defined storage future.

One of the key benefits of running IT as a business is your ability to provide your users with choices. When it comes to storage, you often face both exploding user demand and low utilization rates.

This session will discuss the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework, which provides you with a mechanism to understand your storage consumption patterns and fully burdened costs, benchmark your storage costs against your peers, and communicate the value of storage to your users to drive accountability.

You will walk away with a crisp understanding of how you can improve return on storage assets and make informed decisions to balance storage utilization, demand, and cost.

When an organization has a distributed or mobile workforce or requires executives or key personnel to work from home, the issue of securing the business critical data becomes especially problematic. In most cases today, responsibility for the security of the file data is the left up to the individual end user. Theft or even the borrowing of the mobile device leaves critical file data exposed.

The rapid growth of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) brings cost savings and efficiency for organizations but also a greater risk of security breaches. Today, no control or reporting of use of critical data on mobile devices is possible and this creates regulatory problems.

Join your fellow professionals to understand the storage implications for storing file data in a distributed world and best practices on file data security.

Is your organization trying to contain costs as Big Data and other initiatives increase the demand for more storage? As the volumes of data continue to increase, so does the need for organizations to cost-effectively manage all their storage assets. In this webinar we will cover multiple options for managing storage. You will learn about discovery of storage assets across SAN, NAS, and multi-vendor platforms. We will discuss practical ways to use trending analysis, forecasting and optimization to cost-effectively address current and future growth requirements. Our discussion will also include an explanation of how integration with other solutions can lead to greater efficiencies through runbook automation as well as incident and configuration management.

Nick has 22 years of enterprise storage experience. He has worked with many global enterprises and has years of direct experience helping organizations evaluate and deploy storage systems and management software. Prior to working as a consultant, Nick was an operations software specialist for HP Global Accounts.