Network Infrastructure

Nearly 70 percent of business data contains some level of location information. But business analysts rarely use this data within their BI and analytics workflows.

Location analytics is more than just putting points on a map. It’s part of a much larger picture of using location to provide context in visualizations, reports and analytics. Utilizing geographic data in descriptive and predictive analytics helps companies discover new patterns, identify location-specific opportunities, and get a complete picture before making business decisions.

In this webinar, Esri and SAS discuss the role that location analytics can play in determining practical next steps for your organization. A product demonstration will be shown as well.

We’ll answer:
• How does location analytics add value to BI and analytics initiatives?
• What are the right uses for location analytics?
• What pitfalls should organizations consider as they implement processes and technology for analyzing geographic data?
• Are special skill sets required to use location information?
• How can organizations best develop a strategy for using geographic data?

Carrier Ethernet es el combustible para la economía digital global y la base sobre la cual se construye nuevos servicios dinámicos, seguros y orquestados para el mundo hiper_conectado. Pero la falta de estandarización para interconectar proveedores y operadores de servicios Ethernet es un obstáculo para el crecimiento y la eficiencia del mercado. Actualmente, la mayoría de las interconexiones Ethernet son interconexiones de red a red (NNI) no estándar y personalizadas, lo que impide escalar el mercado. Más de una docena de proveedores de servicios y proveedores de tecnología miembros del MEF han participado en el proyecto MEF para crear Puntos de Interconexión Ethernet (Ethernet Interconnect Points o EIP) aprovechando los estándares existentes para interconexión CE. La primera fase del proyecto EIP involucró la creación de una Directriz de Implementación de Punto de Interconexión Ethernet que recomienda cómo usar las Interfaces Estándar de Red a Red (ENNIs) de forma eficaz. Esta guía inicial se enfoca en la configuración de servicios de acceso Ethernet (E-Access) de una manera simple, y las nuevas directrices avanzarán en complejidad con en el tiempo. Las directrices ayudarán a la industria a escalar rápidamente y reducir complejidad.

Este webinar explorará dónde se dirige el mercado, las expectativas técnicas, los obstáculos operacionales que pueden surgir y la necesidad de que los operadores gestionen eficazmente la transición a medida que el mercado avanza hacia la estandarización. Este seminario apunta a aquellos proveedores de servicios que compran servicios de Ethernet mayoristas de operadorese interconectan sus redes para crear servicios CE minoristas de extremo a extremo pasando por múltiples redes. También se compartirá informaciones que pueden ser importantes para la toma de decisiones mientras desarrolla su estrategia de cómo sacar total provecho de interconexiones Ethernet estandarizadas.

With everything from children’s toys to thermostats connecting to the Internet, it should come as no surprise that the average home has no less than seven IoT devices in use every day. But as pressure grows to release new products faster and faster, we’re all left to wonder: is security really a priority? Needing an answer, WatchGuard’s Threat Lab launched an ongoing project to test some of these connected devices and determine for ourselves how secure they really are.

Join Marc Laliberte, information security threat analyst, and Ben Brobak, technical product manager, on June 29 as they analyze the surprising results of this project and share their best tips for defense.

Malware and spear-phishing continue to cause the most headaches for IT security teams. Over the years, attackers have become more sophisticated and SIEM systems have failed to keep up. Key indicators of emerging threats include lateral movement, where the attacker silently attempts to access multiple servers on the network, and account management, where the attacker escalates privilege or creates new privileged accounts. Detection of advanced threats like these require real time analytics and the ability to find signals within the very noisy security environment. Join Exabeam and (ISC)² on June 29, 2017 at 1:00PM Eastern to learn how user behavior analytics automatically analyzes and scores activity for escalated risk allowing for quick attack detection.

Symantec has just released new advanced threat protection capabilities for Messaging Gateway 10.6 based on integration with Symantec’s Content & Malware Analysis platform. This new advanced threat defense option for Messaging Gateway provides offloading of messages to Content & Malware Analysis for further inspection and comprehensive malware detonation.

Join Symantec product managers from Messaging Gateway and Content & Malware Analysis to see demos of this integration in action, and learn more about how this solution addresses today’s latest advanced threats through:

•Advanced scanning and sandboxing to detect and block malicious files and URLs
•In-depth threat analysis and summary dashboard-level visibility
•Threat correlation analysis across Symantec Endpoint Protection, Proxy SG and Messaging Gateway

Don't miss this great opportunity to speak with the product experts of this combined solution and get your questions answered!

How can a better storage infrastructure accelerate time to discovery for genomics research?

Join IDC research directors Dr. Alan Louie and Eric Burgener for an informative session as they discuss the life sciences research landscape and its key processes and requirements. They will share information about how today's data-intensive genomics workflows require high throughput and bandwidth to handle massive data sets in near real time. Brian Schwarz from Pure Storage will also share details about how a purpose-built "big data flash" scale-out NAS platform like FlashBlade can help research teams accelerate time to discovery.

Tune into the conversation to learn:

- Why the convergence of data storage and life sciences research go hand-in-hand
- Technologies and best practice methodologies for genomic analysis, including containers and workflows
- How to handle massive big data sets in real time

This series describes a comprehensive “business technical approach” to the justification, definition, design and execution of Threat Intelligence Programs.

What do we mean by “business technical approach’ to Threat Intelligence?

Much in the industry is focused solely on one technical aspect or another of threat intelligence data that indicates information about a specific malware family, a set of indicators that can be used to block malicious sites, campaign information that highlights a threat actors profile, their tactic, techniques and procedures. But much of the technically focused content do not discuss how organizations can gather or construct that information themselves, and even more so, how an organization would organize themselves to respond to such data. Much of the output of the industry is providing the fish to organizations rather than teaching the organizations how to fish themselves.

A ‘business technical approach’ is one where we define an approach focused on the business needs, the organization personnel, organizational roles & responsibilities, team structure and those elements’ interaction with technology to address the challenge of successful threat intelligence operations. Our goal is to help organizations build effective Threat Intelligence programs.

In Part 1 of the CSO Series we introduced the key business and technical requirements of TI programs. In Part 2 webinar we will examine some important definitions to consider in TI and how to start building the program based on the requirements identified in Part 1 of the series. We will introduce to the audience the overall vision of the TI program execution, doing gap analysis on existing security programs and identifying where the TI program can complement and enhance existing investments.

Join our webinar on the capabilities enabled between Microsoft and Red Hat, and how their IT ecosystems support and complement each other.

For years Windows and Linux have been rival development and runtime environments used by two distinct development communities – .Net vs. J2EE. At least that’s what we thought. In fact, they are not rivals at all, really. Rather, they are both commonly used by nearly all enterprises to develop and execute the applications they need to run their businesses.

Today, those applications are being modernized, containerized and redeployed across multiple clouds. Business and IT planners alike are rethinking how to develop new cloud-native applications and the infrastructure needed to deploy them to their best execution venue whether on-premises, in or across private, public or hybrid clouds. They expect the IT vendors and service providers they use to do more than just coexist. They expect partnerships dedicated to customer success – and none more so than among the two leading vendors in each community, Microsoft and Red Hat.

In this webinar 451 Research Principal Analyst Carl Lehmann, Margaret Dawson, Global Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat
and Jose Miguel Parrella,Sr Product Marketing Manager for Open Source at Microsoft will address:
•How to overcome common challenges of application modernization, infrastructure management, and cloud deployment.
•The partnership, and capabilities enabled therein, between Microsoft and Red Hat.
•How Microsoft Azure and Red Hat ecosystems support and complement each other.

Participants will learn how Microsoft and Red Hat build upon each other’s strengths in container-based, cloud-native application development, infrastructure deployment and operations to better serve their mutual customers through joint business practices, technology support, and ecosystem.

SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers will discuss details of the “NotPetya” Ransomware attack. Our experts will discuss this and similar attacks, help organizations explain the importance of avoiding malicious attempts and discuss the value of recommended mitigation tactics.

In this webcast we will discuss:
• History and timeline of this attack and how it began
• What is this ransomware, how is it different from others and how it operates
• Why this is not Petya or Goldeneye
• How to be vigilant of misinformation
• SecureWorks recommended actions to protect yourself
• Interactive Q&A session

Laut einer aktuellen Umfrage von Gartner haben 42% der CEOs mit der digitalen Transformation ihres Unternehmens begonnen *. Nach dem Thema Wachstum folgen IT-Themen auf Platz 2 der meist genannten Prioritäten. Damit ist klar, welchen Stellenwert die IT einnimmt, noch vor klassischen Themen wie Produktverbesserung oder Kundenservice. Für diese Transformation benötigen Unternehmen gut funktionierende IT-Organisationen und leistungsfähige IT-Infrastrukturen. Dafür bedarf es eines modernen IT Operations Management, das einfach, schnell und transformativ ist.

In dieser kostenfreien Webinar-Reihe erörtern unsere Experten gemeinsam mit Ihnen, wie ein erfolgreiches IT Operations Management heute möglich ist und stellen Ihnen Lösungen von Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software vor, mit denen Sie den Übergang gestalten können.

Webinar 5: IT Service Management Automation
Auch vor dem Service Management macht die Digitalisierung nicht Halt. Die Interaktion zwischen dem Endanwender und dem Help Desk soll möglichst modern, interaktiv, transparent und mobil sein. Statt vieler unterschiedlicher Systeme und Kataloge wünschen sich die Anwender ein zentrales, interaktives Portal, über das man alle Anfragen einsteuern kann.

Informieren Sie sich in diesem Webinar über die IT Service Management Automation Suite, die ein zeitgemäßes Service Lifecycle Management auf der Basis von ITIL Best Practices bietet. Ein besonderer Fokus wird auf der intuitiven Benutzerführung über das Service Portal liegen. Darüber hinaus werden wir zeigen, wie durch die intelligente Nutzung von Big Data Prozessabläufe verschlankt und beschleunigt werden können. Schließlich werden wir ein Augenmerk auf die chatbasierte Interaktion der Service Desk-Mitarbeiter mit der dahinterliegenden IT-Infrastruktur (ChatOps) richten.

Enterprises can simplify the move to a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure with SD-WAN, building a secure, unified connectivity over any transport with simplified operations, centralised management, policy control and application visibility across the enterprise.

Internet is a convenient, cost-efficient means to connect your branch offices and to access public cloud applications. It is also an integral part of any enterprise’s hybrid WAN architecture. However, its unreliable and unpredictable performance may hamper employee productivity.

Join us in this webinar to learn about:
• Some of the challenges enterprises face with Internet connectivity
• How Internet connectivity can be optimised to improve branch offices’ connectivity and to access cloud applications

So, think small, because a branch office could bring you closer to market domination when it is well connected to the rest of the world by reliable, business-grade Internet.

Laut einer aktuellen Umfrage von Gartner haben 42% der CEOs mit der digitalen Transformation ihres Unternehmens begonnen *. Nach dem Thema Wachstum folgen IT-Themen auf Platz 2 der meist genannten Prioritäten. Damit ist klar, welchen Stellenwert die IT einnimmt, noch vor klassischen Themen wie Produktverbesserung oder Kundenservice. Für diese Transformation benötigen Unternehmen gut funktionierende IT-Organisationen und leistungsfähige IT-Infrastrukturen. Dafür bedarf es eines modernen IT Operations Management, das einfach, schnell und transformativ ist.

In dieser kostenfreien Webinar-Reihe erörtern unsere Experten gemeinsam mit Ihnen, wie ein erfolgreiches IT Operations Management heute möglich ist und stellen Ihnen Lösungen von Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software vor, mit denen Sie den Übergang gestalten können.

Webinar 6: Hybrid Cloud Management
Eine zentrale Rolle bei der Digitalisierung spielt natürlich das Thema Cloud. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Management-Plattformen, die vorgeben, die damit einhergehende Komplexität zu beherrschen und die Transparenz zu erhöhen. Sie tun dies aber immer nur für die Cloud-Umgebung.

In diesem Webinar stellen wir Ihnen die Hybrid Cloud Management-Lösung von HPE Software vor – unsere Cloud-Management-Plattform, über die traditionelle, Hybrid Cloud-, Open Source- und Cloud-native Liefermodelle in einer Vielzahl von Infrastrukturumgebungen bereitgestellt und verwaltet werden können. Wir greifen u.a. folgende Themen auf: welche Cloud für welche Anforderungen; Cloud-agnostische Service Designs; nativer Container Support; Kontrolle und Orchestrierung; Vorteile und Ausbaustufen der Lösung.

ADCs have largely become commoditized, and the services they provide are fairly indistinguishable from the sea of competitors on the market today. With many data center architects faced with modernizing their infrastructure, what are the considerations when transitioning applications to new automation frameworks and topologies in the cloud?
This webinar will focus on key challenges faced by the enterprise when transitioning their load balancers to the cloud.

What you will learn:

•The shift to cloud native, software and service-based offerings
•Support for new application architectures
•Operational complexities and scale at production
•Flexibility and support for hybrid topologies in transition

Many organisations would like more complete and accurate IT systems documentation, but cannot find a way around their current methods such as multiple isolated spreadsheets and diagrams. Our webinar will cover techniques to reduce workload and improve consistency for IT infrastructure technologies such as networks, servers, applications, data centres, cabling, etc. The larger the infrastructure the greater the benefits of our

Are your bandwidth demands growing faster than your telecom budget? Are you one of the 51% of enterprises looking at Hybrid WAN technology to reduce network costs? Is your communication increasingly digital as your business grows more distributed? Is the use of cloud and SaaS application changing your usual network traffic and putting more importance on last mile connectivity?

If so, you are probably considering SD-WAN, a new network technology that is changing how companies approach wide area networks and cloud access networks. In fact, Gartner expects 30% of all enterprises to deploy SD-WAN by 2019 as it can help your network cope with many of the stresses that are common today, from increased security concerns to the demands of mobile workers to the spike in bandwidth demand from video.

But as you look at SD-WAN, there might be more to the technology than is first apparent. It¹s no longer just about making Hybrid WANs enterprise class and lowering telecom spend. The SD-WAN technology has evolved and you might be surprised at how it can help your network.

Join Citrix as we present some interesting use cases of SD-WAN and explore how some of our customers have used Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN to solve their network challenges. After attending this webinar, you¹ll understand how SD-WAN can:

• Simplify your network and help reduce appliance bloat
• Improve your security profile and help with risk and compliance
• Extend visibility to the cloud while improving the user experience with SaaS application

Digital transformation in the enterprise began with the rise of BYOD, mobility and work shifting. In recent years, a new focus on building direct to consumer apps to increase revenue has placed greater pressure on traditional IT operations to support aggressive release cycles. Developers are emerging as IT’s most demanding internal customers, and IT needs to adapt to be in alignment with the business’ objectives. 

Join this webinar to understand how you can leverage your existing knowledge, infrastructure and skill sets to enable IT transformation in the digital enterprise.

• Key tenants of agile development practices and objectives
• Leveraging services delivered by Citrix NetScaler for developers
• Self-service administration for configuring NetScaler policies with NetScaler MAS
• How NetScaler services can be integrated with common automation and orchestration frameworks like Mesos and Marathon

In this, the sixth entry in the “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask,” popular webcast series we look into some of the nitties and the gritties of storage details that are often assumed.

When looking at data from the lens of an application, host, or operating system, it’s easy to forget that there are several layers of abstraction underneath before the actual placement of data occurs. In this webcast we are going to scratch beyond the first layer to understand some of the basic taxonomies of these layers.

In this webcast we will show you more about the following:

•Storage APIs and POSIX
•Block, File, and Object storage
•Byte Addressable and Logical Block Addressing
•Log Structures and Journaling Systems

It’s an ambitious project, but these terms and concepts are at the heart of where compute, networking and storage intersect. Having a good grasp of these concepts ties in with which type of storage networking to use, and how data is actually stored behind the scenes.

Join us on July 6th for this session. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join IDC Research Directors Dr. Alan Louie and Eric Burgener for an informative session as they discuss the life sciences research landscape and its key processes and requirements.
They will share information about how today's data-intensive genomics workflows require high throughput and bandwidth to handle massive data sets in near real-time. Joined by Brian Schwarz from Pure Storage, he will take a technical deep dive into how a purpose-built "big data flash" scale-out NAS (network attached storage) platform like FlashBlade can help research teams accelerate time to discovery.

Join us for this informative session where health IT, life sciences research, biotech, data and storage interest at the IT crossroad.

Continuous delivery of application is the new norm. Businesses recognize that applications are a competitive differentiator so they are creating and pushing them out at a lightning pace, thus putting a lot of pressure on development and security teams. HPE Enterprise Security, together with Mainstay Partners, studied data collected from a broad set of Fortify customers to quantify the business value they are experiencing by building security into each phase of development.

Join HPE and (ISC)² on July 12 (Wed) at 13:00 (Singapore time) to learn about the key findings from the research. Discover the ROI of application security practices for your organization to scale confidently for business growth.

IT environments are becoming larger and more complex through organic growth as well as acquisition. Accompanying initiatives—like datacenter migrations, for example—are expensive. Done well, these moves cost $1,200 to $6,000 per server. But when things go wrong? A poorly optimized load balancer could mean downtime for critical application servers – a price that could skyrocket to more than $25,000 per server.

What if IT teams could be guided through the process? What if they had a way to map the plan and troubleshoot issues before they became outages?

In this webinar, we'll share a story from an ExtraHop customer who underwent a large datacenter migration after it acquired a new business. Not only did their IT team undergo a successful migration, they also decreased troubleshooting time and cost to the company by 85 percent – freeing them to move beyond reactive firefighting to proactive solution building for the business.

Join us to learn how they did it.

This series describes a comprehensive “business technical approach” to the justification, definition, design and execution of Threat Intelligence Programs.

What do we mean by “business technical approach’ to Threat Intelligence?

Much in the industry is focused solely on one technical aspect or another of threat intelligence data that indicates information about a specific malware family, a set of indicators that can be used to block malicious sites, campaign information that highlights a threat actors profile, their tactic, techniques and procedures. But much of the technically focused content do not discuss how organizations can gather or construct that information themselves, and even more so, how an organization would organize themselves to respond to such data. Much of the output of the industry is providing the fish to organizations rather than teaching the organizations how to fish themselves.

A ‘business technical approach’ is one where we define an approach focused on the business needs, the organization personnel, organizational roles & responsibilities, team structure and those elements’ interaction with technology to address the challenge of successful threat intelligence operations. Our goal is to help organizations build effective Threat Intelligence programs.

With Part 2, we introduced the overall vision of a successful TI Program. In this webinar, we dig into the key elements of the TI program with concrete examples, and key components of the program that must exist including the right team, process, tools, metrics and connections.

You are probably using NSX for its micro-segmentation and network virtualization features, but did you know that NSX also includes an extremely robust and flexible load balancer that’s perfect for use in your software-defined data center (SDDC)? In this master class, we will review load balancing and provide demonstrations and ideas to help you get started with the NSX Load Balancer.

We will cover:
- Use cases for load balancing
- Layer 4 and Layer 7
- Encryption
- Management and operations of the NSX Load Balancer
- How NSX Load Balancer fits into the larger ecosystem of partners

Demonstrations include:
- Setting up Layer 4 or network load balancing
- Setting up Layer 7 or application load balancing
- Dealing with encryption

Deploying vNF’s in a controlled environment can be simple and without downtime. Moving it towards a Distributed NFV environment in a real deployment scenario can be potentially a challenge on how to manage the actual rollout for vCPE’s and SD-WAN solution. We will look on how this can be addressed.