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

As today’s midmarket organizations start to tackle modernization, it cannot be done in a vacuum. There are many considerations outside of a specific application or workload that impact the data that powers a business. Data no longer lives in one location (data center) as it did in the past, as it’s now in varying clouds, and in some cases like IoT, on the edge close to end users. So it’s critical to take a holistic approach that considers data’s role and flow in and out of each application and workload.

As enterprises continue the steady migration towards the cloud, a new data architecture is gaining popularity that takes advantage of the natural separation of compute and storage the cloud provides. By separating the query engine from the data layer, companies are able to elastically scale each independently and optimize for the lowest cost and highest performance.

The open source Presto project was purpose-built for this and is being used by leading companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Netflix, and LinkedIn to empower analysts and data scientists to run SQL queries on data no matter where it resides, whether that's Hadoop, S3, or a traditional RDBMS.

Join this webcast to learn why companies are changing the very definition of what a "database" is and using Presto to query anything, anywhere.

BI and Big Data veterans Matt Aslett, Research Director at 451 Research and Justin Borgman, CEO at Starburst will deliver this session covering current industry trends, real use case scenarios and answering questions from the audience.

In this webinar you will learn:

- The pros and cons of separating query from storage
- An overview of the open source Presto project
- How to apply the principles of this cloud architecture in both public and private clouds

Providing a superior customer experience is the essential goal for many businesses. For AppNexus, they wanted to thrill their customers with care and attention to detail. In a digital advertising world rich with data and rapid customer interactions, AppNexus improved their customers' experience with the help of Anodot's AI capabilities, delivering more reliable platform services, proactive customer service, and higher revenue.

Traditional monitoring tools are incapable of parsing out the many real-time fluctuations inherent in Appnexus’ business data: seasonality, regular campaign changes, intricate correlations, and measurements across many orders of magnitude.
Learn how autonomous analytics can help you:
1. Discover issues before your customers are impacted
2. Understand your customers’ business and proactively provide care
3. Enable analysts to optimize your business with the power of AI without needing a data scientist

For many companies, their data lake has either dried up, or it’s spilling over. And only a small percentage of businesses can claim victory in managing, analyzing and operationalizing datasets that exist as well as new sources.

Data-driven strategies help organizations better compete in the digital economy, giving them an advantage due to a more responsive business process. In this live discussion, the presenters will share the benefits of a “catalog-first strategy” which delivers a truly functional data marketplace or “data bazaar” as coined by 451 Research. Dr. Ring and Dr. Barth will show attendees the thinking behind the strategy, and how it represents a powerful enabler fueling the adoption of the self-service marketplace, including;
•Data as a Service; the components of a data bazaar/data marketplace
•From data sharing to data monetization
•The movement to cloud
•The Catalog-First strategy; Automated & metadata driven
•Building a Smart Catalog (smart data ingestion – validation/profiling)
•Making data business ready (cleansing, conformed, protected)
•Provisioning for Easy Consumption (browse/search, refresh, publish, access controls)

Enterprises today are relentlessly driving digital innovation, notably focused on adopting cloud computing to enable newer technologies and trends such as microservices, CI/CD, big data solutions, mobile, and IoT. As a result, they’re rethinking their data management strategies to take maximum advantage of public, private, and hybrid clouds deployments.

In this webinar we’ll show you how the Couchbase Data Platform offers customers a common data layer that can span both on-premises and public cloud deployments to enable a truly multi-cloud enterprise.
You’ll learn how the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes enables cloud portability and automates operational best practices for deploying and managing the Couchbase Data Platform.
We’ll also introduce the latest addition to our product family - the Couchbase Managed Cloud and show you how it
•Delivers cloud and database infrastructure management with 24/7/365 support and always-on capabilities
•Provides features like multi-cloud support, end-to-end security, and high performance via co-located applications and databases
•Eliminates the operational burden of deploying and managing your data platform infrastructure in the cloud

This webinar will take a look at new insights into multi-cloud economics. Recently, analyst firm 451 Research highlighted savings gained from using Canonical’s managed private cloud as part of a diverse multi-cloud strategy. At this webinar, we'll be diving into the numbers and answering your questions. Join our webinar to learn...
> How cost can be a major factor in cloud adoption
> Why public cloud isn't always a bargain
> Why partnerships and tools are needed to make private cloud a better deal
> A look at how Foundation Cloud Build and BootStack solves these common pain points

In this webinar, hear about the current boom in Tech M&A spending and what it may mean for the rest of 2018. Spending on tech acquisitions in the first half of this year has surged -- 70% higher than the same period last year. Despite facing sharp competition from non-tech acquirers and private equity buyers, enterprise buyers are back in the game and on pace to do more tech deals this year than any year in history. On top of that, the other exit for startups is busy, too, with the pace of enterprise technology IPOs hitting a post-recession record.

Join Brenon Daly, who leads 451 Research’s M&A practice, and Scott Denne, a senior M&A analyst, for an update on the first half of 2018 and what we expect to shape dealflow for the rest of the year. They’ll highlight trends in deal activity with insight from 451 Research analysts as well as 451 Research’s M&A KnowledgeBase, the industry’s only tech-focused M&A database, and:
•Take a look at trends in both M&A activity and valuations.
•Discuss implications for buyers, sellers and investors.
•Dissect this year’s IPO boom and forecast which startups might be looking to join the parade of new offerings.

There is no predefined roadmap for leaders in the cloud and hosting industry. As enterprises look to cloud and hosting providers to help them accelerate their transformation journey, service providers are undergoing their own rapid changes. This 451 Research webinar sponsored by NetApp will share the deep survey-based insights and trends learned from service providers of all shapes and sizes. Cloud and hosting service providers attending this webinar will take away valuable insights that will help them determine the types of customer-facing services and solutions that will help them drive new revenue opportunities now and into the future.

Hyper-competition and digital-first initiatives are forcing organizations to reconsider how they do business. ‘Digital transformation’ has emerged to engage customers, improve efficiencies, and fend off threats from rivals. It’s driving the need to rethink application design that delivers information in context and automates tasks that must behave consistently across diverse mobile devices and all digital touchpoints. Common approaches include cloud-first and mobile-first strategies that accelerate the use of cloud services but also often forces an unwieldy redistribution of workloads across hybrid IT infrastructure.

APIs have emerged as integration enablers, and API management is now integral to IT and development discipline. But APIs are only part of a broader toolchain needed to deliver web and mobile apps. Emerging cloud-native app platforms for hybrid infrastructure represent the next-generation enabling technology needed by enterprises that seek transformative means to engage customers and craft new competitive advantages.

In this webinar Carl Lehmann, principal analyst at 451 Research and Sumit Sarkar, chief researcher at Progress will discuss the business and technical considerations for API management within a broader context of application strategies and hybrid IT integration by:
• Describing digital transformation and how it is used to create competitive advantage
• Identifying the critical technology enablers needed for execution
• Defining the role of APIs as accelerants to new ways of doing business
* Planning for rapid delivery of new application experiences in response to digital transformation
* Understanding backend requirements for web and mobile app delivery beyond API Management

AppDev, DevOps, integration and API development professionals alike will learn how to reconsider their development strategies and integration toolchains to become core enabling assets for digital transformation.

Public cloud services are turning information security on its head. Traditional approaches to security that worked well in the datacenter are inadequate in public cloud environments. For example, the growing use of built-in platform services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift and computing paradigms such as containers and Azure Functions are creating new challenges for security. The public cloud requires a new born-in-the-cloud approach to security.

In this session, Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst on the Information Security team at 451 Research, and Suda Srinivasan, VP of Marketing at Dome9 Security will discuss new security implications and challenges presented by the public cloud and approaches to establish and maintain security and compliance at scale.

70% of organizations are in the midst of plans to digitally transform the way they conduct business for more process efficiency, reduced cost, optimized customer experience and competitive advantage. Experiences not price or products will be the battleground of the future. But where to begin? Robotic Process Automation promises to automate repetitive, manual tasks normally done by humans. Cognitive Document Automation provides related benefits, but for documents and emails – typically a challenge for RPA. Together, RPA and document automation deliver the one-two punch that organizations need to succeed in their digital transformation initiatives. Join us to understand how RPA and document automation work together to automatically and efficiently acquire, understand and deliver content in critical business processes.

Don’t miss this webinar where we will discuss:
•The state of Leaders and Laggards of Digital Transformation
•Business benefits of RPA and Cognitive Document Automation
•Applying software platforms for common use cases

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Businesses across sectors are adopting a host of new technologies – containers, SDN, IoT and many others -- as digital transformation disrupts practically every industry. The result is a significantly more complex IT environment than ever before. These environments present new challenges for professionals tasked with ensuring applications perform perfectly, leading to a re-examination of a once widely accepted monitoring toolset.

Join as we discuss:
•Why monitoring has become a big data problem
•The morphing monitoring tools landscape
•The value network monitoring tools can bring to APM and security

Digital transformation initiatives such as business intelligence/analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and big data are top priorities for IT organizations in 2018. Toward that end, according to a recent 451 Research survey, a full 60% of more than 1,000 IT leaders surveyed report that they plan to run the majority of their IT off-premises by year-end 2019, including public cloud and SaaS.

At the same time, a number of organizational, cultural, and technology challenges have kept almost two-thirds of IT executives from developing formal digital transformation strategies.

What is the path forward? What does the off-premise landscape look like? What are the key elements of a successful strategy?

Melanie Posey, research vice president and general manager, Voice of the Enterprise at 451 Research will delve into the data and strategies IT organizations are implementing to facilitate this strategic shift and arrive at the point where they can focus on helping differentiate their business, rather than merely keeping the lights on.