iSpeak Cloud: Fine Tuning Cloud Migration Strategy

2017 was a historic year for women and feminists around the world. With the #metoo and #knowno campaigns, gender gaps and disparities were brought to light in ways they hadn't been before.

Now it's a new year and with it comes new challenges for women in hi-tech careers: whether it be navigating your career through these times, finding or becoming a mentor, building your personal and professional brand as a leader, dealing with office politics or maintaining work-life balance, the challenges and opportunities for women in the workplace are endless.

Join this expert panel with moderator Jeanne Morain and panelists Emerald de Leeuw, Executive Director, EuroComply Data Protection Technology, Jill Donahue, Sr. Director of Marketing, PC Connection, and Andrea Short, Director, Supplier Marketing at Tech Data.

They will share personal stories and experiences, tips and best practices, problems and solutions around these and other topics for women in tech leadership.

Recently in the IT world it has been announced that VMware may make a reverse merger/acquisition of its current parent company Dell. Reverse mergers, especially with companies as large as these, are pretty rare in the tech world and if it goes through, this could be the biggest tech deal yet.

Does this type of reverse model hold water as a successful digital transformation strategy? In regards to process innovation and business model innovation, what does it mean for customer value creation?

Join this expert panel with Jeanne Morain, Digital Catalyst & Cloud Expert, George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, and Simon Kozlowski, Business Model Innovation Specialist at KNect365 Learning, as they discuss:

- Whether or not the reverse acquisition makes a difference for the customer
- How this impacts consolidation of debt for involved companies
- If/how going public again makes a difference both internally and externally
- What can other companies and parent companies learn/take away from this type of deal?

Last week it was uncovered that an intern at Apple leaked some of the iPhone's source code was leaked on GitHub.

The code was for iBoot, a component of the iPhone's OS. While it was an older version of iOS 9 and Apple has declared the leak shouldn't be of concern to the average user, the community has been scratching their heads wondering how sensitive code from a conglomerate like Apple could accidentally be made public.

We hear about data leaks and security breaches almost on a weekly basis now, but when it comes to something so widely used by global consumers, it poses an even bigger concern that human error could potentially have disastrous results.

Join this expert panel with moderator Jeanne Morain, Digital & Cloud Strategist, iSpeak Cloud, and panelists James Jardine, CEO & App Security Consultant, Jardine Software, and Don Cox, Advisory Board Member at Netswitch Technology Management and Virtual Rehab, Inc.

They will discuss and explore the following:

- What are the potential ramifications of such a breach?
- Dark web
- Company costs and impact on brand and PR
- What are action items companies can do to prevent such a breach from happening?

The containers and microservices industry has exploded in recent years. With companies like Docker blazing the trail, we've seen a huge expansion in the application container market with other open source platforms like Red Hat, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, CoreOS... and the list goes on. However, when it comes to major mergers and acquisitions, the containers market hasn't been high on the list of deals.

It was recently publicized that Red Hat is acquiring their fellow open source vendor CoreOS for $250 million. This deal will allow them to expand their share of the Kubernetes market and enhance their Kubernetes software management.

What does this type and size deal mean for such an emerging market? What are the possibilities, potential, and even ramifications for application container, cloud application, and cloud infrastructure providers?

Tune into this expert panel with Jeanne Morain, Digital Transformation & Cloud Expert, iSpeak Cloud, Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst, 451 Research and Chris Haddad, Chief Architect, Karux LLC as they discuss these and other pertinent questions in the tech M&A marketplace.

Though the media spends much more time covering consumer startups like Uber and Twitter, enterprise startups are the ones that have delivered consistent and significant financial returns over the last decade. From companies like Nutanix in infrastructure, Splunk in DevOps and Palo Alto Networks in security, there are many great career opportunities in enterprise tech for women that include but are not limited to engineering.

This special panel will provide insights about careers in enterprise tech from moderator Jeanne Morain, Principal Researcher/Strategist, iSpeak Cloud, and panelists Erye Hernandez, Sr. Malware Researcher, Palo Alto Networks, Tiffany To, Chief Operating Officer of ForAllSecure, and Karla Zarate, Top Engineering Grad.

These panelists will share their own career paths, skill sets required for different enterprise tech career paths and some of the challenges they've faced and how to overcome them from a WIT perspective. Webinar will be live on November 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM PST and available for post recording downloads.

Got DevOps? Whether you are just starting or down that pathway you will inevitably get hit by the Data Dilemma. Although you can spin up a container or VM in minutes the dependent data store could take hours, weeks or even months depending on the process. When 4 out of 5 requests require updates to the dependent data store - your DevOps velocity can slow to a crawl. Join special guests Robert Reeves and host Jeanne Morain as they provide prescriptive guidance for solving the DevOps Data Dilemma.

According to Pulse, over 84% of Digital Transformation efforts are failing. Companies are worried about how they balance legacy systems while keeping pace with new nimble players in the Cloud Era.

How do you overcome the traditional silos between IT and the business to achieve success in Digital Transformation? What are the challenges politically, technically, and operationally that need to be overcome to turn your cloud vision into transformation reality?

Join our host Jeanne Morain, Author & Cloud/Digital Strategist and her special guests Aditya Vasudevan, Co-Founder, appOrbit and Chris Orlando, Co-Founder & Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, ScaleMatrix, as they explore the top 5 challenges and solutions both they and/or their customers have faced to achieve success in Digital Transformation, both from an IT and a business management perspective.

Many fortune 200 CEOs are considering a bold move to all "public" cloud or virtual private cloud environment. How do you plan a successful migration to AWS? Join Jeanne Morain with special guest Roger Eisentrager as they way the pros and cons on their cloud migration journey.

Are you at risk of a multi-million lawsuit like Mars Candy, City of Denver or Anheiser Busch? The cloud provides many benefits for the Enterprise but when implemented unchecked could result in millions in fines and risks. Join Paul Doc Burnham from ServiceNow and Jeanne Morain as they provide prescriptive guidance on how to get ahead of your license risks before you migrate.

Security and compliance standards for IOT are top of mind as viruses such as Marai plague unsuspecting devices. Join Jeanne Morain and special guests Christ Armstrong Teknow Consulting as they provide insights and solutions to secure IOT devices on your cloud infrastructure.

There is a lot of hype in the market about how you identify and determine the right mix of service workload to the right environment. Don't waste valuable time and money on solutions that will not solve your migration challenge. Join Jeanne Morain as she provides an overview of simple steps that will save you both time and money when making the leap from Legacy to Cloud.

Mobility connects your most critical assets - your people to your cloud resources. Often times Mobility is an after thought of the bigger Cloud or Transformation strategy versus an integral part. As companies focus on a user in versus a technology approach to transformation - they need to put their mobility cloud strategy at the front and center. Join Jeanne Morain and special guests Jamie MacQuarrie (Founder of Appivo) and Harish Sathisan (Director of Mobility, Technology Solution) for a lively discussion and insight on what a mobile first strategy means. The trio will provide best practices and prescriptive guidance on how mobility will/should affect your transformation efforts. They will give the top challenges and solutions to overcome them in the enterprise.

Containers are being used to revolutionize how software is developed, tested, and delivered from inception to launch. Join Jeanne Morain and special guest Earl Greer from Connection and Rahul Tripathi from HPE. Earl Greer will provide an overview on how containers are transforming DevOps journey. Rahul will discuss the journey that HPE Software is taking to modernize the IT Operations Management portfolio, moving beyond traditional monolithic software delivery to a more agile approach, incorporating microservices and containers. Find out how HPE is progressing on this journey to accelerate IT to run at the speed of DevOps.

Join host Jeanne Morain with special guests VP of Products, Rahul Ravulur and CTO Toddy Mladenov as they provide guidance on best practices for leveraging containers to manage your DevOps Lab Environment. Learn tips, tricks, and real world challenges that containers can address across the DevOps journey.

Privacy Shield has replaced Safe Harbor as the standard for to regulate software when dealing with the European Union. Over 4000 US companies are said to be impacted. Privacy Compliance by Design is at the forefront in assisting companies with rethinking their software strategy to reduce risks to security and compliance. Join special guests Emerald de Leeuw, CEO Eurocomply and Don Cox, former CISO for this update on the latest around Privacy Shield and Implementing policies to enable security and compliance as part of your Cloud Center of Excellence.

According to a report by Cisco the average company has over 1100+ Shadow IT applications in use and growing. As the technology and compliance requirements have grown so has the need for companies to understand and map their current cloud state. Join Jeanne Morain as she provides insights and prescriptive guidance for building out a Hybrid Service Management strategy to embrace Shadow IT, manage business expectations, and optimize current service workloads.

You wouldn't buy groceries without first checking the refrigerator to see what you have. The same should hold true for compute capacity. Most companies are cloud by happenstance because of acquisitions by the business and IT itself working around the Ops team. Join Jeanne Morain and special guest Paul Mansfield, CTO as they provide guidance on best practices principles for determining service workloads and migration strategy.

Some DevOps aficionados will say that they are not as involved in the Cloud or Cloud based initiatives. If your company is undergoing any type of Digital Transformation the cloud is at the epicenter. A critical success factor is creating a cohesive cloud strategy and platform that automates what needs to automated, eliminates what is unnecessary, and focuses on results. Join Jeanne Morain and her special guests as they provide best practices and prescriptive guidance for designing your cloud strategy around your company's strategy not vice versa.

A critical success factor in Digital Transformation is building out a compliance by Design approach that is proactive versus reactive. Join Jeanne Morain and special guests - Malcolm Fry - Industry Luminary for ITIL and Mark Bodman - IT4IT strategist to learn prescriptive guidance on designing in the automation of ITIL and other compliance frameworks into your Digital Transformation Strategy.