Name: Software-Defined Infrastructure: From Buzzword to Business Imperative
Start: 2015-07-15T21:05:00Z
End: 2015-07-15T21:05:49.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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We're in an era of unprecedented digital interconnectedness. This new connected landscape has helped governments make major advances in service delivery and constituent experiences; it's also shined light on a clear need for comprehensive cybersecurity preparedness.
According to the latest study from the National Association of State CIOs, 50% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) report outdated technology as their biggest hurdle in addressing cybersecurity concerns. Nearly 70% of state CISOs rate the maturity of their data management governance as in the beginning stages, and over 60% of CISOs report gaps in staff competencies as a major barrier to addressing cybersecurity challenges. These statistics paint a concerning picture, but there are actionable strategies agencies can implement to safeguard against cyber threats and ensure operational continuity.
Join Government Technology and Hitachi for a webinar where our panel of industry experts will discuss proactive steps state and local governments can take towards enhancing operational resilience.

What We'll Discuss:
• Understanding Cyberattack Impact: Learn how cyber threats affect state and local governments and discover critical steps to strengthen defenses.
• Preparing for and Recovering from Cyberattacks: Explore actionable strategies to prepare for and recover from cyber incidents, minimizing disruption to services.
• Assessing Cybersecurity Posture: Gain insights into assessing your organization's cybersecurity, empowering you to mitigate vulnerabilities and enhance resilience

Securing State and Local Governments: Building Cyber Resilience

In our fast-paced world, the ability to anticipate trends, comprehend challenges, and strategically plan for the future is paramount. Today, we embark on a journey into the heart of the digital landscape as we reflect on the major trends that have shaped the year 2023 and gaze forward to unravel the challenges and IT tasks awaiting companies in 2024.

The past year has been a crucible of change, marked by groundbreaking technological advancements and paradigm shifts that have resonated across industries. As we stand at the precipice of a new year, it is imperative to not only understand the trends that have left an indelible mark but also to prepare for the challenges that will shape the narrative of 2024.

Our distinguished guest speaker, a luminary in the field, will guide us through an insightful discussion, offering a comprehensive analysis of the seismic shifts in technology, business, and beyond. Together, we will dissect the major trends that have defined 2023, exploring how they have reshaped the business landscape and paved the way for innovation.

We will illuminate the IT tasks that will be pivotal for organizations striving to stay agile and competitive in the face of rapid technological evolution. Whether it's embracing transformative technologies, fortifying cybersecurity measures, or leveraging data for strategic decision-making, our webinar will equip you with actionable insights to chart your course in 2024.

A Look Back At 2023 & The Top IT Challenges Of 2024

Discover the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud journey for Virtual Machines (VMs) and containers in episode six of our “Beyond Boundaries” webinar series. With the continued push to deliver modern cloud native containerized applications that interact with current IT workloads dominated by VMs, Hitachi Vantara is on a Hybrid Cloud journey with Red Hat to provide a new alternative reality. Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that enables you to run and manage both VM and container workloads side by side. 

Hitachi Vantara delivers a range of reliable integrated systems and storage data services that can run in on-premise and public cloud. In this session, our product leaders will share how Hitachi and Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization solution can enable a scalable application infrastructure across private, hybrid and hyperscaler deployments as you transform your virtualization environment into modern cloud ecosystem.
 
Join this session to:
• Hear the use cases you can target with OpenShift Virtualization stack combined with Hitachi VSP One Storage and/or UCP Integrated Systems.
• Understand the variety of essential data services that we jointly offer to meet the needs of modern application DevOps teams across hybrid cloud.
• Discover how to migrate and transform from your current environment to an OpenShift Virtualization solution.

Beyond Boundaries: Transforming Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Backup and recovery is an outdated approach to ensuring your organization remains operational. There's too much data and complexity to rely solely on the traditional nightly backup-to-tape approach and hope that recovery works because testing your recoverability is difficult. True operational resilience requires a new perspective. One that expands on data protection capabilities and introduces unique attributes like immutable data, AI detection and monitoring, unified management, and rapid (and clean) recovery at scale.

Your key takeaways: 
- Ensure operational resilience for your mission critical applications 
- Make your data protection copies safe from malware 
- Use AI to look for malware and anomalous activity

Evolving from Backup and Recovery to Cyber and Operational Resilience

Some have called the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence the most revolutionary technology seen in four decades, placing it on par with such disruptive technology as the graphical user interface publicly introduced in the 1981, the mobile phone in 1983, and the internet publicly available in 1993.  In our fifth episode of our series, “Beyond Boundaries,” our speakers will discuss how a branch of AI called Generative AI is being deployed today, how this innovation is being leveraged as a competitive advantage, and what are some of the guiding principles to consider when implementing your Generative AI solution.  
 
Attendees will learn: 
• Who are the major players in the Generative AI market landscape, and what it means to organizations that adopt AI driven business strategies.
• What are the common barriers and pitfalls to AI success to be aware of when implementing your solution.
• How to jumpstart your AI initiative and what are the top considerations for your initial investment.

Beyond Boundaries: Generative AI and Machine Learning with Hitachi Hybrid Cloud

Podczas spotkania zastanowimy się nad tym:
 
- Jak bardzo organizacje są odporne na ataki cybernetyczne – w oparciu o zestaw wybranych analiz i raportów; 
- Czy cyberodporność ma jakiś związek z cyberbezpieczeństwem;
- Jaka jest strategia Hitachi oraz jakie są jej najważniejsze filary w zakresie budowania i wzmacniania cyberodporności

Wzmacnianie Cyberodporności & Strategie Ochrony Danych

In our increasingly interconnected world, the proliferation of edge devices and rapid data generation at the edge pose formidable challenges for establishing a cyber-resilient infrastructure. This webinar, "Elevate Your Cyber Defense: Fortifying Edge Infrastructure for Resilience
," features Greg van der Gaast, former Hacker, FBI & DoD Operative, Author, Advisor, CISO, and current Chief Technologist, Security for CDW; Aron Brand, CTO, CTERA; and Douglas Wilson, Content Portfolio File Product Manager, Hitachi Vantara, delves into the complexities of safeguarding data integrity, privacy, and security within a decentralized data landscape.

Experts will share insights and strategies to fortify cyber resilience at the network's periphery, focusing on the unique considerations and innovative approaches required to protect data generated at the edge. Attendees will gain valuable perspectives on proactive measures to mitigate risks and enhance resilience in the evolving data paradigm, empowering them to navigate the future of data-driven technology securely and effectively.

Elevate Your Cyber Defense: Fortifying Edge Infrastructure for Resilience

In this webinar, we invite IT security, risk, compliance and audit professionals to explore the critical landscape of operational resilience in banking and financial services. Amidst the global deluge of incoming requirements, evolving challenges, and dynamic risks facing our industry, it is imperative to establish robust frameworks that ensure sustained operational continuity.

This session is designed to provide actionable steps for enhancing adaptability and preparedness, empowering financial organizations to not only weather uncertainties but also thrive in a landscape of perpetual change. 

Learning Objectives:

•Uncover Regulatory Accountability: Explore the distinct challenges in the highly regulated financial sector, where internal auditors hold personal accountability for regulatory outcomes.

•Compliance in a Changing Landscape: Learn about a multi-layered technological approach for issue resolution and compliance with regulations such as NIST and DORA.

•Cyber Resilience Unveiled: Delve into specialized cyber resilience, readiness, and recovery strategies, highlighting the pivotal role of technology for operational resilience.

•Financial Application Realities: Examine operational nuances in financial applications, emphasizing the severe consequences of downtime and service failures, including material losses and trust erosion.

•Human Element in Focus: Delve into the critical role of internal auditors in maintaining a zero-tolerance approach for failure and personal responsibility in regulatory compliance.

•Trust meets Technology: Connect trust and technology solutions, emphasizing tangible impacts on customer experience and business.

Orchestrating Operational Resilience in Financial Services

Cybercrime is a growing problem and all organizations, regardless of industry, are at risk of being hit by an attack. Solutions that help ensure availability of data and IT systems has never been more important and Hitachi has a unique solution for VMware based environments on Hitachi VSP storage. 

The solution is based on a combination of CyberVR and Hitachi Ops Center Protector. High level, the solution offers two things: 
• Quick recovery of large amounts of servers and data after an incident 
• Thin Digital Twins   

Quick recovery 
Recovery from traditional backups after a major incident involving many systems and large amounts of data normally takes days, if not weeks. With CyberVR it can be done in hours, even for large environments. Recovery is automated and orchestrated, to ensure dependencies between systems, and to ensure that they come up in the right order.   

Thin Digital Twins 
Thin digital twins are exact copies of the production environment running in air gapped environments that are isolated and protected, without risk of contact with other systems or the Internet. These digital twin environments can be used for a number of things. They are perfect for any kind of testing, for cleaning and hardening of systems, for forensics and triage after an incident, for training of personnel, for application validation, for running full-scale disaster test scenarios etc.

Ransomware Recovery with Hitachi Vantara

A strong multifaceted ransomware protection and recovery approach incorporates a robust security framework, organizational readiness, and modern data protection techniques.

Join us for valuable insights into defense in depth with a layered approach, from edge to core to hybrid cloud. Learn how to navigate the evolving data protection landscape and safeguard your critical assets with unwavering cyber resilience. 

- Discover how to bolster your data protection strategy for unparalleled cyber resilience. 
- Explore innovative approaches to improve RTO, RPO, and TCO. 
- Understand the latest trends and challenges in data protection.

Revamp Your Backup Strategy for Better RTO/RPO, TCO and Cyber Resilience

Join our fourth episode of "Beyond Boundaries" to learn why global customers trust our hybrid cloud platform with their critical applications and data. Powered by Hitachi and Cisco, Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure is a natural choice to accelerate application performance, deliver unparalleled data availability, and exceed sustainability goals.

Dive into this session now to learn how to:
- Design a scalable hybrid cloud that scales to support future growth
- Unify the management of day 0-2 cloud operations
- Deliver on sustainability goals without compromising on performance, scale, or security

Beyond Boundaries: Next-Level Hybrid Cloud - More Workloads, Less Infrastructure

With the scare of a Silicon Valley Bank-led financial contagion averted, operational risk has returned to the forefront of chief risk officer (CRO) and risk management priorities.

Regulatory focus on operational resilience is highlighting the need for decisive, coordinated responses to new threats that are executed quickly across the organization. Firms are focused on next-generation data management techniques to support artificial intelligence (AI) enablement in risk. Financial crime compliance—anti-money laundering and know your customer (KYC)—is being transformed through the broad adoption of machine learning and early use cases for generative AI.

All this is making digitizing the risk back office a continuing priority and a central driver for risk technology investment through 2023 and beyond.

In this webinar, Ian Watson (global head of risk, Celent); Neil Katkov (director, risk, Celent); and Jeff Lundberg (Principal Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Vantara) explore the critical technology priorities and investment areas that will shape the future of risk and compliance in financial services.

Key takeaways:
- When it comes to risk and compliance, what are the biggest priorities for CROs and what does this mean for their technology strategy?
- Looking to the future: How will technology alter the risk landscape for financial institutions? How will the risk landscape alter technology priorities for the next 3-5 years?
- Which risk and compliance technologies and product areas top the agenda for investment in 2023-24?

Digitizing the Risk Back Office: Key Priorities for Banking & Financial Services

Wussten Sie, dass die IT-Industrie mehr Kohlendioxid produziert als die gesamte Luftfahrt? Im Webinar erklären Experten, wie Sie den CO2-Footprint Ihres Unternehmens reduzieren und gleichzeitig Kosten sparen.

Zwischen 2 und 4 % der weltweiten Kohlendioxid-Emissionen und 7 % des weltweiten Stromverbrauchs gehen heute auf das Konto der IT-Branche. Rechenzentren sind besonders energieintensiv, einige verbrauchen über 100 Megawatt Strom – genug um 80.000 Haushalte zu versorgen.

Im Webinar erfahren Sie, wie Sie Ihr Rechenzentrum nachhaltig, sicher und kostengünstig mit Hitachi Vantara und Cisco gestalten.  Verbessern Sie in einem Schritt die Customer Experience, reduzieren Sie Ausfallzeiten und verringern Sie Ihren CO2-Footprint.

Wollen auch Sie Ihre Geschäftsziele erreichen und gleichzeitig die Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt so gering wie möglich halten? 

Highlights der Agenda:
- Konvergente Infrastruktur optimiert Computer, Storage und Network.
- Reibungslose Prozesse für ein nachhaltiges Business.

Ihr Rechenzentrum der Zukunft: Nachhaltig, sicher, bezahlbar.

Discover how Hitachi's Unified Compute Platform accelerates hybrid cloud benefits with VMWare integration in our presentation, "Modern Hybrid Cloud Solutions with VMWare Integration". Learn about the scalability, simplicity, and reliability of modernizing data centers and edge computing. Explore the UCP HC series for streamlined hybrid cloud and the UCP CI series for automated data center setup and reduced time-to-value with flexible converged infrastructure.

Modern Hybrid Cloud Solutions with VMWare Integrations

Catch up on the missed action at VMware Explore Barcelona 2023 as we delve into Automations capabilities with Hitachi’s UCP solutions.  In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, the demand for streamlined operations, enhanced efficiency, and reduced manual intervention is more crucial than ever.
We look into how Hitachi’s Integration and Automation capabilities empowers system administrators leveraging VMware plugins and automation tools like Hitachi UCP Advisor to optimize virtual infrastructure management.

Do More with VMWare Integrations

In-depth roundtable discussion for banking and financial services leaders, exploring critical challenges and risks regarding operational resilience and business continuity. We’ll examine real-world case studies and share insights on how to fortify your institution against disruptions, including cybersecurity threats, while meeting stringent regulatory requirements. Participants will learn proven, actionable strategies to enhance adaptability and preparedness. To not only weather uncertainties, but to thrive in a landscape of perpetual change. Topics covered will include the crucial role of internal auditors, who bear responsibility for regulatory outcomes, the severe consequences of downtime and service failures, including material loss, poor customer experience and erosion of trust and much more.

Crack the Code to Operational Resilience in Banking & Financial Services

Dive into the realm of Multicloud in the third Beyond Boundaries Hybrid Cloud Webinar. Hybrid Multicloud architecture - spanning across data centers, edge, and public clouds - enables customers to optimize IT costs and service levels. Best-fit architectures are suited to address both edge location-specific workloads and public cloud workloads, with access to specific cloud services. In addition to this, the desire is a simple consistent operational experience across automation, policies, data services and security across that hybrid cloud architecture. Join this session to learn how to harness and combine the power of resources and data services with Hitachi and hyperscalers Microsoft Azure and Google Distributed Cloud while delivering that consistent operational experience.

Beyond Boundaries: Simplifying Hybrid Multicloud for Flexibility and Security

DORA (Digitális Operatív Ellenállóképességi Törvény) rendeletek megismerése kulcsfontosságú a pénzügyi intézmények számára, mivel ez biztosítja az Európai Unió szigorú kiberbiztonsági és digitális ellenállóképességi előírásainak való megfelelést. Ez alapvető a pénzügyi szektor védelme érdekében, ezáltal megőrizve a pénzügyi rendszerek stabilitását és integritását. Ezenfelül a DORA megértése segít az intézményeknek elkerülni a nem megfelelésből adódó lehetséges jogi és pénzügyi büntetéseket, miközben növeli hírnevüket a biztonság és megbízhatóság terén a digitális térben.

Kihívások és lehetőségek, DORA alkalmazása hazai pénzintézeteknél

Go behind the buzzwords to learn how to focus software-defined planning efforts that will be relevant to your applications. Get insight into where a software-defined infrastructure can add maximum value to your operations by providing a better way to support new and legacy workloads. Learn how a software-defined infrastructure simplifies operations through automation, enables deeper insight via greater access to all types of data and provides greater agility by abstracting complex infrastructure components.

Software-Defined Infrastructure: From Buzzword to Business Imperative

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