Software Defined Storage: Bringing Remote and Branch Offices Together

How We Improved the #1 Scale-Out NAS Platform

Dell EMC Isilon, the #1 Scale-Out NAS platform, continues to transform the way organizations are deploying, protecting and managing their fast growing unstructured data. Dell EMC will introduce attendees to the new generation of Isilon Scale-Out NAS family. Also covered will be a deep dive into the new Isilon architecture and a closer look at the six new Isilon systems – powered by the new OneFS 8.1 – which were announced at Dell EMC World in May. Attend this session to learn how Isilon’s latest enhancements can revolutionize your business.

Are you confident that your All-Flash Array is designed for resiliency and availability? Discover why implementing Flash Arrays improves service levels and lowers TCO for your business critical applications such as Oracle, SAP and VMware. In this webcast, we’ll dive into how Dell EMC VMAX All Flash provides unparalleled availability with an architecture designed for your most demanding environments.

Cloud, Cloud, Cloud..so many choices, so many decisions to make, where do you even begin? Private, Public, Hybrid, Multi… how do you implement the right cloud strategy and approach that works for both IT and the Business?

This month on Tech food fight we will be discussing how to choose a cloud operating model based on a set of simple guiding principles to help you make the correct decision. The right operating approach can drive organisations to become more competitive and user centric in everyday business.

Join Alan and Paul with special guest Joe Baguley, CTO VMware EMEA, in the next Tech Food Fight show, as they discuss this topic with a healthy mix of business and IT points of view coming together.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law effective on 25th May 2018 that establishes a single set of rules for every European Union (EU) Member State to protect personal data of an EU subject. Join our live webinar to learn how Dell EMC can help support our customers get ready for their GDPR compliance initiatives, including a broad portfolio of Dell EMC products, solutions and services.

Today enterprises manage hundreds of virtual machines that need to be protected. With Dell EMC Avamar Dynamic Policies you can easily keep up with the growth of your VMware environments and ensure the appropriate policies are automatically assigned to any VM with certain attributes or tags. Join our live webinar presented by Daniel Olkowski, Solution Engineer Dell EMC Data Protection Solutions to learn how to make your life easier with fully automated VM’s backup.

According to the Global Data Protection Index Survey, more than 51% of the organizations are not fully confident their data stored in the cloud is protected against deletion and corruption.

Storing backup data in the cloud may also generate multiple hidden fees as well as raise concerns regarding service levels, availability, and control.

Join our webinar to learn how Dell EMC is helping organizations to build a cost-effective data protection strategy for the cloud environments, including:
· Highly efficient and secure backups to and within the cloud
· Cost-effective data protection of enterprise applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
· Natively tiered de-duplicated data sent directly to the cloud platforms, providing significantly lower TCO

The video surveillance market continues to see robust growth, with organizations and governments requiring to deter, protect, prosecute and predict with their CCTV systems.

Body cameras, as an example are starting to be widely implemented, from places of work with signs ‘it is against the law to insult a staff member’ to police officers roaming the street. Independent studies prove that body worn cameras will reduce complaints, reduce the need for the use of force, and provide incontrovertible evidentiary video - Cameras change behaviour.

Pelco & Dell EMCs skill-set and qualifications are helping many customers in the Video Surveillance space, centralize data from hundreds to thousands of cameras, static, body-worn or vehicle mounted.   

Join the webcast to learn;
- Video Surveillance Market
- Customer concerns with technology migration
- How Pelco & Dell EMC solutions are solving Customer requirements
- Customer Success Stories

Gain the ability to simply Store, Manage, Protect & Analysis petabytes of CCTV data

Welcome to the first session in our Tech food fight (TFF) webcast series on Convergence and Hyper-convergence. TFF is a short 20-30min webcast series suitable both for Audio and Video format for you as a participant. The goal with the series is to explore different areas of the Converged and Hyper-converged universe and the key “Food for Thought” to consider for you as a customer.

In the first session we will cover 3 questions within Technology trends
1. Tech trends – What are we seeing out there, what are the analysts talking about and what’s happening in the industry in general
2. This month’s tech food fight is one of the big ones out there – aligned to industry tech trends – Hyper-converged infrastructure
3. How to get started – what steps should you take if you are considering this month’s tech food fight!

Speaker Bios:

Alan Butler is a business technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in B2B Technology driven business. Understanding how technology connects consumers to business experiences that deliver new digital opportunities and create new business models that add value to the consumer. Alan has worked for many leading global technology companies such as Computer Associates, Cisco, Juniper Networks, VCE, DELL EMC and technology media companies IDG and VNU. You can follow Alan on twitter @NextGenCloudIT

Paul Mackay is a technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in Technology driven environments. He has a passion for technology that simplifies the build to buy IT environments, embracing of new thinking and design to validate IT leadership. Paul has run his own vitualisation consultancy practice giving him a unique insight into the build IT rather than buy approach many organisations find themselves in today. Paul has also been a VMware delivery consultant, with many years spent designing and delivering complex virtualisation platforms. You can follow Paul on twitter @phmackay

IT is undergoing rapid transformation and its expected contributions to the organization’s strategy are ever-increasing. In order to provide the foundation needed to enable these changes, you must modernize your infrastructure. But where to start?

Join us as we help you to understand where your organization falls on the IT Transformation Maturity Index. Discover the 3-phase transformation process of your IT and understand why the IT transformation journey begins with a modern data center, made up of Flash storage, the fastest, most assured way to modernize your infrastructure.

Join us for a webcast to learn why scale-out is critical to growing businesses, get a technical overview of the Isilon Express Scale-out NAS platform, and discuss top use cases.

Get all benefits of Isilon – at the size and price that works for you:

•Simple – Deploys and scales in minutes, with automated management

•Flexible – Multi-protocol, tiers to public clouds, works with hundreds of ISV integrations

•Easy to Manage – Single file system, single volume, global namespace

•Start Small – Entry-level configurations starting at just 33TB

•Expand Easily - Grow up to 68PB in a single cluster without ever overprovisioning

Analyst research reveals significant gains from server upgrade. A recent IDC study shows that by neglecting to upgrade server infrastructure regularly, IT organizations can lose up to 39% of peak performance, add up to 40% in application management costs, and incur up to 148% in server administration costs. Join to boost cost savings, productivity, and innovation.

Mirantis & Dell EMC have proven & tested solutions for web-scale OpenStack based clouds, readily deployable and manageable at enterprise customers.

The webcast will cover;
- Key trends in the market.
- Why are Software Defined Storage & OpenStack gaining traction?
- Openstack implementation & Cloud Storage Solutions
- Customer Success Stories
- Q & A

We will demonstrate how you can build a relatively low cost, high performance, geo-distributed infrastructure with enterprise features and functionalities for your OpenStack Cloud.

Over the last decade we have experienced IT stack shift from HW centric to SW centric viewpoint, beginning with server to networking to now Storage. In this session we’ll explain the key characteristics of the SDS technologies in the market today and we will explore the where and how ScaleIO fits in. We will discuss some key ScaleIO technological concepts and explore the benefits ScaleIO for storage lifecycle simplification and overall TCO benefits. We will also go through a live demo to show some of these features in action.

Hyper converged infrastructure is starting to become the new norm in the IT space as customers are seeking for a solution which will help them solve the three main challenges; cost reduction, providing agility to the business and simplify datacenter operations.

As we all know, technology alone cannot provide the full solution to the problem, that is why a new mode of operations is the key to maximize the full potential of a technology like; Hyper Converge.

In our session, we will discuss:
1. The new mode of operations?
2. What are the main benefits while adopting new team structures and new processes
3. Where to start

Leveraging Big Data and Analytics to create actionable insights.

Splunk & Dell EMC will share insights into the challenges & opportunities customers are seeing in the market – with the ‘needs to’; reduce costs and improve efficiency within IT (operational analytics), improve Compliance (security analytics) & implement Shadow IT due to the business not receiving the right service from IT. CIO Priority is keeping the lights on and so on…

Dell EMC & Splunk combined strengths are helping numerous organizations to ‘leverage Big Data and Analytics to create actionable insights’.

Tired of the challenges associated with running a data center using traditional infrastructure?

Dell EMC ScaleIO software-defined block storage on standard server hardware delivers extreme performance, massive scale and superior elasticity.

Choose from 3 options available to you;
1. Complete flexibility - ScaleIO on your choice of server, switch & rack
2. Pre-validated ScaleIO with powerful Dell PowerEdge servers
3. Turnkey Fully Engineered Solution from VCE

Now you can meet your business objectives while greatly simplifying the process of procuring and deploying a server SAN

The technology landscape is moving at a fast pace and organisations are struggling to keep up and need to think of new ways of processing, analysing and getting value from the vast array of data sources now available.

Tune in to listen to a conversation between two technology experts who discuss the current challenges experienced in the big data industry and what tools and infrastructure are being deployed including Spark, Hadoop, Splunk etc. to get value from the massive amounts of data flowing around the globe!

As businesses undertake digital transformation to say relevant in software defined world, underlying storage infrastructure technologies are evolving.

This session discusses how and why organisations are moving to next generation Object Storage, the pros and cons of on and off premise, use cases including leveraging Hadoop integration, and what this mean to your business.

A lot of the focus with DevOps is on using new software development technics to develop, build, deploy and run the cloud native applications of the future in an agile way.This will be very important in the next years, but what should companies do with their legacy applications?

In this talk we will discuss how DevOps concepts and technology can be used for existing applications to simplify and accelerate build, deploy and run.