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

The competitive advantage of MTDC and hosting providers will be determined by their ability to become a provider of services - not just iron. As space and power have been commoditized, being able to differentiate with new business and financial models and new products will mean the difference between success and failure. To succeed in this market, these companies need to provide the right prod-ucts and services to their customers. To compete effectively in today’s hyper-competitive market, they must offer customers new and innovative network connections and connectivity services. To support this strategy the infrastructure management team and network operations managers need to emphasize on standardized infrastructures, efficient change processes and secure maintenance and operation

Serverless is more than just hype; it has the potential to revolutionize the way we develop, build and operate applications in the cloud. Understanding the economics of serverless technology is vital to understanding its role in the world and its longer-term potential to disrupt the industry. In this webinar, we review these economics, pit the TCO of serverless against traditional virtual machines and containers, and compare pricing across the big four providers, namely AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft.

IT security teams are busier than ever, with executives and board members taking a newfound interest thanks to headline-level breaches. With all this scrutiny, validating whether security controls are actually working is key.

Red teams, white-hat external penetration testers, and internal scanners can provide some assurance, but with attacks and successful breaches continuing to increase, IT must find new ways to stay out of the headlines. If current market spend is any indicator, many enterprises are simply throwing more tools at the problem—but that can just add to security complexity, and open gaps in policy.

Automated attack simulations can help IT stay ahead of attackers, and break out of the constant buying cycle, by getting more from existing security controls.

•Extend/enhance red teams and penetration testers
•Reduce exposure time
•Verify that existing tools are working as expected

Join Dan Cummins, Senior Analyst, 451 Research and Chris Webber, Director of Product Marketing, SafeBreach as they explore breach and attack simulation technology.

Computing and applications in IT have shifted over the last decade from a de-centralized to a centralized, cloud-based model. New Internet of Things applications promise to reverse that trend with an emphasis on local edge computing and analytics, and create a continuum of new aggregation points to address the unique needs of each IoT vertical application. This webinar will look at key drivers behind the re-emergence of the edge in IoT analytics and the growing demand for near-edge aggregation models to solve for application latency and cost constraints.

The enterprise is shifting away from on–premise-only IT to a Hybrid IT model that delivers services using internal resources and/or external resources and services, often from multiple providers. While this model of IT can result in cost savings, performance optimization and greater agility, it also significantly increases the complexities of cybersecurity for the enterprise. Enterprises already struggling with cybersecurity will need help to address these concerns – concerns that many enterprises are not aware of or are unable to tackle. The Hybrid IT model does, however, present unique challenges for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), as these providers will be asked to secure environments that span multiple platforms, and in some cases disparate business units. MSSPs are poised to benefit from this shift if they can deliver services to address and mitigate these threats.

The Internet of Things and other emerging edge computing trends will drive more datacenter capacity closer to users and ‘things’. However, latency, data volume and availability requirements will vary, dictating datacenter requirements and their physical placement. Increasingly distributed compute and storage will create new opportunities for colocation and service providers, as well as for datacenter technologies and services suppliers. This webinar reviews how the next generation of edge computing is redefining datacenter infrastructure.

As the virtualization of IT has increased, the traditional role of the channel partner has changed. Much of the physical infrastructure delivered through distribution has become invisible to end-users, while hyper-convergence has narrowed both hardware and software supply requirements further. Despite this, the role of the channel has never been more important in terms of the delivery of services for support, maintenance and consulting. And with the emergence of new kinds of managed services, hardware appliances, and security requirements, the ability to “connect the dots” will become a key differentiator for those with long-term customer relationships. In this session, Rory Duncan, Research Director for Managed Services & Hosting will outline some of the pitfalls as well as the opportunities for IT distribution partners in the era of Cloud.

Join Intel, ScaleMatrix, and 451 Research for an insightful webinar covering the challenges and solutions to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence workloads: Deep Learning, Machine Learning and HPC, in the Cloud. High Performance Computing is a fundamental tool used in analytics and research; and on average, can provide an ROI as high as $515 per $1 of investment. However, HPC could deliver even greater value if we could overcome key technical barriers associated with different workloads driving separate systems with specialized hardware and software for each workload. These challenges lead to increased acquisition and management costs and are often responsible for reducing efficiency.

Learn how ScaleMatrix’ high-density data centers and cloud delivery capabilities along with Intel’s Scalable Systems Framework have overcome these challenges with tight system integration, increased density, and balanced compute, memory, network/fabric and storage in a composable, cloud-delivered architecture, specifically designed to address the various AI and HPC requirements associated with compute intense workloads like Genomic Analytics, Molecular Dynamics, and Machine Learning.

The ScaleMatrix Artificial Intelligence Cloud solution using Intel’s Scalable System Framework employs heterogeneous blocks of compute nodes that can be readjusted to match workload demand. It is easily scaled to meet any size customer need, offers ease of use, faster delivery times, and lower TCO by simplifying and improving core infrastructure. Technologies highlighted include the Intel® Xeon and Xeon Phi processors, Intel® Arria FPGA, Intel® SSD’s, and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture. Whether you’re focused on Image Processing, Convolutional Neural Networks, Alignment Algorithms, or DNA Sequencing, you’ll hear from Intel and ScaleMatrix experts how their joint solution can improve your HPC workload performance in an economical way. Complementary trial details will be presented.

If data is not already the lifeblood of your business, it will soon be a critical competitive imperative. Several major impediments keep most organizations from taking full advantage of their data, but new technology is now making possible the creation of a modern global data fabric that can radically modernize an organization’s data management strategy while also enabling unlocking the business value to directly drive transformation of the business in a more compelling way.

Join us to learn:
•New Challenges around managing distributed data
•Current and Emerging technologies
•Crafting a modern data strategy

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.

How enterprises are choosing and using digitization initiatives for business gain.

Organizations of all sizes and in every sector are busy redefining their IT priorities for a digital future, identifying the goals of enhanced customer experience, operational efficiency, business agility and improved risk management as four key pillars for their digital transformation strategies.

Digital transformation is playing out differently depending on a company’s maturity, the vertical sector in which it operates, its employees, its infrastructure, and its ability to innovate. Knowing where to start, and how to maintain momentum is critical.

Join 451 Research and Centurylink to learn how some global enterprises are making assured first steps, and hear the following:

•Understand how companies with more progressive Digital Transformation strategies are prioritizing their efforts for competitive differentiation, changing the nature of their business with innovative technologies that are becoming more easily accessible with a lower barrier to entry.

•Insights and recommendations from a major survey of enterprises worldwide about IT priorities and how to make service provider choices to accelerate digital transformation mandates such as the role of cloud and other IT infrastructure options that are built for availability, speed, and resilience.

•Identification of key shifts in business context that will continue to shape digitization efforts, and how these need to be reflected in a digital transformation roadmap for IT organizations.