Virtualization

ICT Enterprise architecture is the backbone of corporate IT systems, the question is are they or can they be sustainable?

Join the MD of Carbon 3IT and Vice chair of the BCS Green IT SG John Booth and his guests Alex Bardell of Deloitte, Richard Lanyon Hogg of IBM, Bob Crookes from DEFRA and Chair of the BCS Green IT SG and IT4s Consultant Gary Thornton as they answer the core questions for sustainable enterprise architecture:
- What is sustainable enterprise architecture?
- Will it require additional skills or money to achieve?
- Will enterprise architecture be superseded by cloud technologies?

The best infrastructure for an app or a service increasingly requires both public and private cloud environments. As enterprise IT teams build private clouds behind their firewall to deploy hybrid IT and leverage the capabilities of elastic public clouds, they will have to contend with profound changes to the network. Innovations promise to make the modern network more automated and dynamic to provide connectivity on-demand in a highly secure fashion.

Today organizations require a flexible IT infrastructure that can spin up resources on demand and securely segment traffic. Virtual private clouds (VPC) allow you to provision a logically isolated section of the public cloud where you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. The VPC feature set also allows you to easily customize the configuration.

Join Cloudscaling and Juniper to learn from their first hand experience with enterprise customers deploying network virtualization to speed time to market for new apps and services by automating the creation of virtual networks that interconnect private, hybrid and public clouds. They will demonstrate the integrated Cloudscaling OCS and OpenContrail solution that offers a simple to deploy and agile platform based on open source technologies. These experts will also provide insight into:

- Why OpenStack is becoming the de facto cloud open source software for building private and public clouds.
- The importance of orchestration and APIs in the software defined data center
- How virtual networks can seamlessly integrate with physical networks
- How to ease the transition to the private cloud by using service chaining to virtually insert services into the flow of network traffic

Register today and start moving your network into the modern, cloud era.

When service degradation impacts the bottom line, every application is mission-critical. As a network administrator, it’s your job to find the problem and fix it fast. But how? “Cut Troubleshooting Time in Half,” is designed to help busy network professionals reduce the time it takes to resolve service complaints. The 45 minute webinar features key strategies for overcoming common challenges and choosing the right application monitoring solution, as well as workflow demonstrations, and successful real-world examples. Find out what top teams already know and which solutions get to the source of application problems faster, and more efficiently.

For the last several years, enterprise companies have embarked on a mission to virtualize their data centers, starting with their legacy sever and storage solutions. But one key aspect of the IT infrastructure has been missing from that storyline: the networking layer (that is, until now). In this presentation, you’ll gain valuable insight into the latest strategies such as the “Ethernet Fabric” and “Effortless Network,” and how solutions from Brocade can position your organization to take the datacenter where it has never gone before, which is a fully and completely virtualized environment.

Over the last few years the issues with cybersecurity have created this impression that cyber is a virtual world that has no end to it. What people fail to realize is that there is still a physical computer network and automation infrastructure under this virtual world. It is the security of this infrastructure that provides for secure transaction of the financial data, sharing of sensitive data, and mission critical information.

One of the best approaches to securing the cyber domain in addition to training people and establishing policies is the security of the cyber domain through the implementation of an enterprise asset management discipline. Knowing what assets the enterprise has and what it is being used for provides a high level of situational awareness that is needed to protect the cyber domain.

Join cyberscurity veteran Zal Azmi for this interactive presentation, with decades of experience as CIO of the United States Attorney and the FBI, there's not a lot he doesn't know about your infrastructure.

Connectivity requirements of the latest LAN/SAN devices are forcing changes in the way physical infrastructure is designed and implemented from traditional structured cabling. New technologies such as PON, TORS, pre-term and modular systems are giving data center and network managers new flexibility in the way they plan and deploy the physical layer.

Join David Cuthbertson and Bob Camerino for this webinar where they will cover these new developments and their impact on network infrastructure planning and management.

Regardless of if yours is a cloud, virtual or physical data infrastructure environment, your server and storage need to network with each other. Granted this can range from local dedicated direct attached storage (DAS) to remote wide area and cloud storage with various types of block, file and object access using different shared or networked approaches. Which is right for your different needs will depend on many factors, as one size does not fit all scenarios. This is why there are many different types of server and storage I/O access and interface options that will be covered in this webinar. In addition to what are your options, we will also look at what to use when, where, why along with the tradeoffs for networking your servers with storage.

Key themes:
•Fast servers need fast storage that rely on fast networks
•There is more to storage networking than FC, iSCSI and NAS
•Role of PCIe, SAS/SATA, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, InfiniBand, Ethernet, IP, SAN, NAS, DAS and object
•What are your various options for shared local and remote storage access
•The argument should not be block vs. file vs. object rather how they complement each other
•What to use when, where, why and how for different scenarios
•Server and Storage I/O networking metrics that matter
•How will you move or access your data locally and in the cloud
•Cloud, virtual and physical environments for big and little data

Physicians and Healthcare providers can have access to vital information, anytime and anywhere - helping save lives and improve quality of care all while increasing the security of patient information and reducing IT costs.

Daily interactions with various devices to access medical applications that are on point-of-care desktops can be a challenge with compliance requirements that stipulate that users provide login credentials for each application and log off the system when finished.

Hear how North Kansas City Hospital successfully implemented a VDI solution that increased clinician productivity and improved their ability to secure their environment with VMware® Horizon View™, PCoIP® Zero Clients, and Imprivata No-Click Access™.

Europe's biggest and best attended cloud event is just around the corner so join some of Cloud Expo Europe's top speakers and organisers as they discuss:
Cloud Security
Privacy post Prism,
The emergence of the cloud broker,
The implications of the Internet of Things,
Interoperability and standards,
The 'imminent' price war and other hot Cloud topics.

Discover some of the innovations due to be showcased at Cloud Expo Europe on the 26th and 27th of February at London Excel. There will be an overview of some of the 300 world class speakers presenting at the event, as well as a look at some of the 200 suppliers from across the world attending.

Reducing your backup windows and recovery times is essential for the enterprise to be able to get back on its feet, as well as store its information fast and effectively. But this is easier said than done.

Join Kevin Rasdale as he shows you how to run fast backups and near-instant recovery, while still protecting your virtual, physical and cloud environments. Discover how to use backups to create a standby virtual machine and reduce your storage footprint at the same time in this interactive webinar.