Automating for Agility, Control and Consistency in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Designing and managing complex, specific and even specialist work is no longer only the remit of centralized teams of specialist project managers, analysts and process experts. Companies are looking for looser, more matrixed, decentralized and collaborative forms of organization, they are reconsidering processes, people and technology as part of this shift with a focus increasingly on enabling these types of work to be done by business leaders and their teams.

Unfortunately the traditional mix of collaboration, team, task, project and business process management tools are struggling to deliver the balance of cohesive, flexible and extensible work processes business teams need.

They need a way of building automated processes that span across different systems and applications so that their myriad tactical workflows can be elevated into a strategic mesh of operations, giving them new ways to think about organizational culture, business agility, employee engagement, work throughput and customer satisfaction.

In this webinar Chris Marsh, Director of Workforce Productivity and Compliance at 451 Research and Ryan Duguid, SVP of Technology Strategy at Nintex will discuss the trends, pain points and opportunities around content and workflow automation for the modern workforce.

With the proliferation of data and tooling, it’s becoming harder to make sense of and take action on business-impacting events, yet it is more critical than ever to do so with revenue and brand impact on the line. Teams need to integrate machine data with human intelligence, alongside response best practices to drive action when it matters most. In this webinar you'll learn best practices leveraged by thousands of the most mature operations teams in reducing alert fatigue, improving productivity, and driving an empowered culture.

Cybercrime damages are predicted to cost organizations $6 trillion by the year 2021, doubling from $3 trillion in recent years,1 and some say this astronomical figure may be an underestimation. As more organizations shift their infrastructure to the cloud, the number of attack vectors grows fueling an exponential increase in cybercriminal activity – and it’s not expected to slow down any time soon.

Lack of visibility is one of the greatest vulnerabilities posed by the move away from on-premises, firewall-protected systems and apps to the cloud. Ultimately, it is near impossible to protect what you can’t see, and gaining insight into cloud properties owned and managed by external vendors can be a challenge. Yet, building strong cyber defenses depends on having a view into every corner of your environment to identify single risk factors as well as anomalies across your network.
In this webinar, 451 Research and CensorNet share how organizations can implement a comprehensive security solution that delivers visibility throughout your environment. We’ll cover:

•An overview of the cloud security market and current trends
•The four most common attack vectors and how to secure them
•Why a unified approach to security is imperative to identifying threats
•Why avoiding complex security solutions helps improve visibility
•How to expand your visibility beyond single points of vulnerability to catch cloaked attacks
•And more

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Organizations on the journey to digital transformation are encountering new challenges with managing risk. Not only are complex digital transformation initiatives making it difficult for organizations to fully grasp their entire risk profile but digital transformation is also resulting in new types of risk for the company. Organizations with strong risk aversion are in danger of preventing or stifling innovation and change. How can organizations manage risk and create a strategy that empowers digital transformation? What have organizations learned on the road to digital transformation that can help others early on in the journey?

Your mission-critical datacenter runs on a highly resilient infrastructure: it has N+1, N+2 or better still, 2N mechanical and electrical capacity redundancy for critical components. But does it really? Based on Panoptic’s experience many datacenters carry a variety of lurking issues that might develop into a cascading failure. According to the Uptime Institute, the vast majority of even the world’s most elite datacenters do not operate as designed/installed on day one. This webinar will cover, in case study form, some of the causes underlying poor performance, and how a proactive maintenance program can uncover and help avoid an impact on the availability of services.

Provisioning speed and simplicity are key requirements for organizations looking to build their Next Generation Data Centers. HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) has recently emerged as a key infrastructure building block, delivering scalability and simplified management tools appropriate for generalists. Join us on Thursday, November 9th for a webinar discussing requirements for Next Generation Data Centers and the benefits which can be delivered by HCI.

The scene is changing: classic compromises like stolen data or defaced websites are no longer the only threats to organizations. Hackers are launching high-speed attacks on a global scale, shutting down networks with WannaCry ransomware and targeting IoT devices to disrupt the internet. But attackers are also wreaking havoc in stealthier ways, waiting quietly on networks in order to undermine the very integrity of data.

Today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape demands a fundamentally different approach to cyber defense. To level the playing field, organizations across the globe are turning to self-defending cyber ‘immune systems’ to autonomously respond to in-progress threats, in real time. Leveraging advances in machine learning and AI algorithms, Darktrace Antigena is the only proven solution capable of fighting back against this new era of cyber-threat.

With increased understanding of IoT across many varied enterprise types, challenges arise in how to manage and build distributed architectures. Some situations suit pure device to cloud implementations but many more patterns are now possible. This has implications on the skills needed and for how security is implemented. It also requires flexibility in the tooling and platforms used in order to be implemented and run successfully.

In this webinar Ian Hughes, Senior Analyst IoT at 451 Research and Aaron Allsbrook, CTO, Clearblade discuss Edge and Cloud IoT patterns available and which ones solve industry vertical problems.

We’re past the point of product pushing – that’s actually part of the problem. Selling through the fear, ‘tyranny of the urgent’, or one-off point solutions may close some deals, but it likely won’t turn one-time customers into lasting business relationships. Companies today are looking for well thought out, managed solutions, which will help them minimize cyberattack risks and stay compliant with industry and federal regulations. The question now is, are services that fill those needs worth offering for your organization? In this session we’ll take a look at the following:

- Where are enterprises struggling and what service(s) can you offer to fits their needs
- Services that could be good, but are usually poorly delivered
- Services that use to be strategic but are now just a commodity Services that your company should walk away from immediately (and things your company should quit saying)
- Should your company even be offering Managed Security Services?

The colocation and managed hosting market in India is expected to hit the $2bn mark in revenue by 2019, up from $1.3bn in 2016. Global hyperscalers and IT services providers looking to tap into India’s potentially lucrative enterprise segment are major driving forces behind the rising demand for multi-tenant datacenter capacity in the country. Geographically speaking, most datacenter investment is currently focused on India’s top-tier cities. In this Q&A discussion, we will highlight key findings on trends, competitive landscape, and operational challenges that help shape the dynamics of the top thee datacenter investment locations - Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore.

Freed from the constraints of storage, network and memory, many big data analytics systems now are routinely revealing themselves to be compute bound. To compensate, big data analytic systems often result in wide horizontal sprawl (300-node Spark or NoSQL clusters are not unusual!)— to bring in enough compute for the task at hand. High system complexity and crushing operational costs often result. As the world shifts from physical to virtual assets and methods of engagement, there is an increasing need for systems of intelligence to deliver contextually relevant systems of engagement, alongside more traditional systems of record. New approaches to data processing are required to support the real-time processing of data required to drive these systems of intelligence.

Join 451 Research and Kinetica to learn:
•An overview of the business and technical trends driving widespread interest in real-time analytics
•Why systems of engagement require systems of intelligence and new approaches to data processing
•How a new class of solution—a GPU-accelerated, scale out, in-memory database–can bring you orders of magnitude more compute power, significantly smaller hardware footprint, and unrivaled analytic capabilities.
•Hear how other companies in a variety of industries, such as financial services, entertainment, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas, benefit from augmenting their legacy systems with a modern analytics database.

The data center of today and tomorrow is required to support all kinds of workloads, spanning mission critical services, hybrid cloud, big data and analytics and IoT. These workloads place ever more challenging requirements on the infrastructure for availability, latency, and efficiency, requiring high uptime, rapid recovery and accurate and continuous tracking and monitoring. In this webinar, we discuss why partial solutions are not enough and why real time management systems are becoming an essential requirement for the datacenter workloads of today and tomorrow.

The colocation and managed hosting market in India is expected to hit the $2bn mark in revenue by 2019, up from $1.3bn in 2016. Global hyperscalers and IT services providers looking to tap into India’s potentially lucrative enterprise segment are major driving forces behind the rising demand for multi-tenant datacenter capacity in the country. Geographically speaking, most datacenter investment is currently focused on India’s top-tier cities. In this Q&A discussion, we will highlight key findings on trends, competitive landscape, and operational challenges that help shape the dynamics of the top thee datacenter investment locations - Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore.

Clearly, the onslaught of data, particularly big data, continues to cause many organizations to look for new ways in which to store, analyze, and manage that data. Cloud computing from public cloud vendors is often one place in which enterprises turn. Traditionally deployed and managed on-premises, databases are the lifeline of many enterprises. And while the cloud is appealing for a number of reasons, there are still questions on the minds of many organizations in choosing the right cloud partner to manage their database in the cloud.

“The traditional mindset of ‘lift & shift’ is sub-optimal. Perimeter security controls don’t need to go away, but organizations need to utilize Cloud-Native controls for micro-segmentation and stronger security of cloud resources” Source: 451 Research

In this webinar, Fernando Montenegro, Information Security Analyst of 451 Research and Richard Eisenberg, VP Client Development of Cloudvisory will outline how companies can successfully transition to optimal Micro-segmentation and Security Orchestration in cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments. Done correctly, this will speed up dev-ops, greatly improve security and lower operational costs.

1. Understand network security concepts in cloud environments, including difference between perimeter and workload controls.
2. Learn the benefits of integration between workload security controls and DevOps processes.
3. See Cloudvisory's approach to workload security with a demo covering key use cases such as discovery, orchestration, micro-segmentation, and auto-remediation.

About Cloudvisory:
Cloudvisory continuously discovers and visualizes multi-cloud infrastructures across providers like AWS, Azure, OpenStack...in real-time. It orchestrates and provisions immutable security policies with 24x7 audit and compliance.

When deployed successfully, managers say that DCIM software has revolutionized their operations. It lowers risk, it makes it easier to push utilization levels higher, and it enables effective capacity provisioning and planning, among other benefits.

For others, however, the software has not achieved the ROI they expected. This is often because DCIM is an enabling technology as much as it is a management approach. To realize DCIM's full value, project leadership, operational process and cross-domain collaboration are essential. This means that the cost – and value – of a DCIM installation goes well beyond the software license; new internal operational, business procedures and workflows are required.

This webinar explores these issues in detail and addresses the key question: "Is there any ‘easy’ button’ for DCIM to be successful?" Tune in to find out!

Against the ever-changing and complex hybrid IT landscape, 451 Research surveyed more than 450 colocation customers globally – to understand the changing facets driving colocation demand and how colocation providers can be positioned for success today, and in the future. This research shows that the role of the colocation provider has never been more important – but the threats and challenges will intensify, and the opportunities will be uneven. Led by 451 Research’s Rhonda Ascierto, Research Director – Data Centers, and hosted by Greg Jones, VP Strategy – Cloud & Service Provider segment, Schneider Electric, this webinar will reveal the findings of this research along with actionable guidance colocation providers can use to plan for the future.