Network Infrastructure

The Digital Workplace is quickly becoming a critical initiative for today’s modern enterprise. To keep pace IT and business leaders must not only stay ahead of the competition but must now reassess how their greatest assets - their employees, work and collaborate.

Watch our OnDemand webinar and discover how smart, modern workspaces can bridge the physical and digital environment with actionable intelligence to further improve team productivity and effectiveness while boosting resource efficiency, productivity and reducing costs.

Topics
- Overview of current trends in the workspace
- Challenges faced by employers and employees
- Aruba Intelligent Edge solutions
- Analytics and how to improve workspace utilisation

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Microservices aren’t for every organization, but if you know what to expect and prepare accordingly—and if you pair them with Docker containers—they can bring unprecedented agility and scalability to application development and deployment, especially in large, complex projects where speed is crucial and small errors can be disastrous.

In this high-level presentation geared toward executives and other decision-makers, Parminder Kocher, author of the newly published book, Microservices and Containers, will break down these potentially game-changing technologies. First, are they right for you? Making the switch to microservices is a large undertaking with a steep learning curve, both operationally and culturally, so it's crucial to assess the risks before taking the plunge. Second, what should you expect if and when you decide to move forward with the shift? Kocher draws from his own personal experience to help you with the transition. By the end of the presentation, you should have a good idea how microservices—especially when paired with Docker containers—can bring unprecedented agility and scalability to application development and deployment, especially in large, complex projects where time to market and scalability are paramount.

About the presenter:

As the Engineering Director for the Cisco Networking Academy, Parminder currently leads the team responsible for developing the Academy’s platform, which is accessed by 1.5 million students in 180 countries. In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science, Kocher has an executive MBA from Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, an executive certificate in strategy and innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a certificate in Professional Coaching from iPEC, an International Coach Federation (ICF)-accredited coaching training program. His first book, Microservices and Containers, was published by Addison-Wesley earlier this month.

This webinar demonstrates Verizon Virtual Network Services (VNS) end to end automated provisioning process. Based on a recording conducted in our Tulsa lab environment, two virtual services (routing and security) are provisioned in around five minutes on to a white box uCPE device, giving an overview of the available tools, the user experience, and some highlights and benefits of the VNS product offering.

The SNIA Swordfish™ specification helps to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and servers in hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments, making it easier for IT administrators to integrate scalable solutions into their data centers. Swordfish builds on the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF’s) Redfish® specification using the same easy-to-use RESTful methods and lightweight JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatting. Join this session to receive an overview of Swordfish including the new functionality added in version 1.0.6 released in March, 2018.

As Enterprises transition to online data-driven transactional business models, the need to support more customers and users at scale, typically means massive investments for Oracle database licenses and the supporting data infrastructure. But most enterprise infrastructure is not optimized to maximize the performance of CPUs in their database servers resulting in wasted resources and poor utilization of these expensive Oracle licenses. Are the bottlenecks in their current infrastructure well understood? With a plethora of solid state storage options available, do infrastructure architects know how to effectively evaluate and select the best storage platform to reduce Oracle TCO?

The key to optimizing your Oracle infrastructure spend is the focus of this webinar where Vexata solution architects will address some of the common misconceptions related to scaling Oracle ecosystems using case studies and best practices to deliver massive performance improvements and realize significant cost savings.

You will learn about:
•When and how to tune various infrastructure options available to an Oracle DBA
•How to maximize database performance including how to optimize CPU cores based on deploying solid-state storage systems.
•Best practices for Oracle evaluation and benchmarking tools including SLOB2, IO Calibration, and Orion

Looking for more cost-effective ways to implement fibre channel cabling? Learn why proper cabling is important and how it fits into data center designs. Join this webcast to hear FCIA experts discuss:
- Cable and connector types, cassettes, patch panels and other cabling products
- Variables in Fiber Optic and Copper Cables: Reflectance, Insertion Loss,
Crosstalk, Speed/Length Limitations and more
- Different variations of Structured Cabling in an environment with FC
- Helpful tips when planning and implementing a cabling infrastructure within a SAN

To simplify the development process, microservice development is increasingly being conducted using containers. However, the picture is not always rosy, especially in an enterprise environment where both old and new processes must be managed simultaneously and elegantly in order to avoid chaos.

This session will review the top issues that must be addressed when making this transition--including development, operations, and even the finance department--with a focus on microservice development in hybrid cloud environments.

About the presenter:
Robert Starmer is a cloud advisor and the founder of Kumulus Technologies. At Kumulus, Robert and his team provide infrastructure-focused DevOps, systems reliability engineering, and cloud computing consulting, enabling companies at all levels to optimize their cloud usage. He also uses his more than 20 years of experience in cloud, SRE, and DevOps to educate the industry through articles, presentations, and curriculum development. Robert is a Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Your IT department has its hands full keeping your day-to-day operations in check while working on new projects. They don’t have the time or often the expertise to integrate a new acquisition into your current IT environment. Ask yourself – could your company’s IT department completely integrate a new acquisition in less than 30 days?

In this quick 30-minute webinar, you’ll learn Accudata’s proven formula for success – and understand how IT can enable your M&A business goals. We will cover:

• Why IT departments struggle with business acquisitions
• How to prioritize IT integration tasks
• Accudata’s five-step proven process to make M&A less complicated
• Review a customer example that includes integrating 35 new sites and 600+ users into an existing organization in less than 30 days

Technology innovations, the intensifying march of digitization, the laws of accelerating growth are redefining economics across all industries. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT, and 5G hold the key to adapting service provider networks to the digital ecosystem of the future. Creating business value is a key metric to digital transformation strategy and execution.

Join Red Hat and Intel to learn how Communication Service Providers’ are leveraging open source technologies in their open telco transformation journey.

In 1997, the world was introduced to 802.11 “WiFi” and within a couple of years, it became a business networking staple. At the time, few would have foreseen that WiFi would become the dominant way we connect at home, work, and play today. As more of what businesses connect to is in the cloud, and more of what they are connecting is outside the office, 4G LTE is quickly becoming the next wireless revolution for connecting people, places, and things. This time, the revolution is in the WAN.

Just like the evolution of the 802.11 WiFi standard, which is on the cusp of 802.11ax, the world of LTE has evolved significantly since it was first deployed less than a decade ago. Today, cellular providers are already rolling out Gigabit LTE with plans to launch 5G in several other U.S. cities mid-year. Any business contemplating a refresh of their WAN in support of cloud and digital transformation initiatives needs to be thinking about the role of 4G LTE and 5G services. If history is our guide, your future WAN will be wireless.

Challenges driving next-gen WAN requirements:

• Branch continuity as more traffic is cloud and Internet bound

• Combined wired and wireless connectivity to accommodate growing
bandwidth requirements

• Accommodating the growing number of WAN endpoints outside the
branch

• Edge security and overall management implications

Cradlepoint is an industry leader in edge solutions for 4G LTE and 5G enabled networks. With the help of Spiceworks, Cradlepoint conducted a survey of over a hundred enterprise IT decision-makers in North America to assess the pervasiveness of 4G LTE within enterprise WANs today and uncover some misconceptions.

Join Todd Krautkremer, CMO at Cradlepoint, for a live webinar on April 19th, 2018 at 9:00 am PT to learn about how organizations are leveraging 4G LTE within the enterprise, WANs today, and the role advanced 4G and 5G wireless services will play in next-gen, software-defined WAN strategies.

Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice

For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:

- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they need it

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge)

The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature 2 speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SACM Practice and Micro Focus Operations Bridge. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.
Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Bill Curran
Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice: For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:
- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they
need it

Speaker: Kulvinder Singh
Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge): The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

Software drives the technology that enables communication, information, and automation in virtually every part of our personal and professional lives. Software also enables hardware technology companies to adapt their offerings to meet the evolving needs of the digital market.

Being able to offer flexible payment models, manage entitlements, control use, as well as track and aggregate product-usage data are just some of the top software licensing challenges affecting hardware technology companies today.

Gemalto took a closer look at how companies are or have integrated a software monetization strategy into their business processes. Using data we gathered from surveying 300 business decision makers in hardware technology companies, across five major global markets to highlight global trends and regional differences. In this webinar we share our findings.

SD-WAN is all the rage in enterprise networking these days. IT teams are excited about the opportunities SD-WAN creates to transform their WAN to become simple and agile, while improving security, and reducing costs.

As you review and look at your WAN challenges, we would like to share insights and takeaways, following hundreds of SD-WAN customer deployments worldwide, to better aid and inform your enterprise network decisions.

Form3 Chief Platform Architect, Edward Wilde, shares his experience of building a pure microservices architecture for real-time payment processing. Architecture includes Terraform, Docker, Vault, Consul, Linkerd and AWS: SQS, SNS, EC2, RDS.

Essentially these technologies enable high levels of availability, processing performance and continuous product deployment, all at a fraction of the cost of legacy software deployed in proprietary data centers. Even the most sophisticated challenger bank and Fintech’s have said this is a technology stack that they really want to have in the future!

About the presenter:

Edward Wilde is the Platform Architect at Form3, leading the development of a novel distributed payment system allowing connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services for a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks and fintechs.

This is a CPE credit session in partnership with ITSPmagazine and (ISC)². Tune in for an in-depth look into the evolving cyber threat landscape with CISOs and top security experts. The panel will examine the latest cyber attack trends and provide recommendations for defending enterprises and SMBs.

Join top cyber security experts for an interactive Q&A roundtable discussion on the biggest threats targeting organizations in 2018:
- Lessons from recent cyber attacks and breaches
- What keeps CISOs up at night
- Biggest cyber security challenges and how to overcome them

Speakers:
- Chris Roberts, Chief Security Architect, Acalvio
- Nick Bilogorskiy, Cybersecurity Strategist, Juniper Networks
- Dan Lohrmann, Chief Strategist & Chief Security Officer, Security Mentor
- Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist, Thycotic

The session is being brought to you in partnership with ITSPmagazine and will be streamed LIVE from San Francisco during RSAC week.

In today's landscape, it seems businesses of every size and stripe are at risk of becoming targets of cyberattacks. From government agencies to hospitals, these businesses are increasingly victimized by ransomware attacks and data breaches. So, how do you defend yourself? What do you do when your IT staff lacks the expertise to investigate growing security threats and respond to them in a timely manner? How do you get help from security experts to prevent suffering a future breach?

Join the City of Sparks (NV) IT decision maker, Steve Davidek, to discover the security challenges faced by most governments and business organizations. Learn how an industry-leading security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service–the AWN CyberSOC–helped the City of Sparks vastly improve its threat detection and response.

In this webinar, we will explore:

- Key security challenges that plagued the City of Sparks
- Reasons why Sparks’ IT team chose our SOC-as-a-service solution instead of building one in-house
- How AWN CyberSOC™ with Hybrid AI improved Sparks’ threat detection and response by 10X

Don’t let your organization become a prime target. Register today!

About our key speaker:

Steve Davidek has worked in the IT division at the City of Sparks starting as a Computer Operator in 1984 and working in IT Operations for the next 30 years. He was appointed IT Manager in March of 2014.

Steve’s division is responsible for all Technology projects and budgeting. His team of 8 manages everything from Desktop support, Server Management, Networking, Security, and Systems. Development and Management for all departments at the city including Police, Fire, Public Works, Finance, Planning, City Management, Municipal Court and Recreation.

Great microservices applications are backed by strong APIs. But APIs are complex, and management solutions are expensive.

Here’s what you really need to know about routing microservices traffic, including:

-What is an API gateway?
-Where does your API management tool live in your stack?
-What new security concerns are being introduced by APIs and microservices?
-What problems can an API gateway solve on your journey from monolith to microservices?

Join this webcast with Charles Pretzer, Technical Architect, and Floyd Smith, Director of Content Marketing at NGINX as they answer these questions and more for migrating to a microservices architecture.