Regardless of your company's data management needs, the NetApp America's BrightTalk channel has something for everyone. 

Worried about your expanding data storage needs? Not sure how your data is protected? Tired of worrying about scalability? We can help.

Over the last few years, the cloud has been the focus of many digital transformation efforts, but businesses still have some way to go. Determining the total costs and identifying which services best match your needs can be difficult, which is why finding a solution that simplifies the IT infrastructure buying process as well as being cost-effective is crucial. 

Whether you decide to stay on premises or migrate to the cloud, finding a storage service that supports you on your transformation journey, wherever you are, is the priority. So, how can your data storage bring financial flexibility, lower financial risk, and optimize capacity management? How does the TCO change over time when selecting a traditional buying model compared to leveraging the NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription?

Join NetApp and experts in the field, as we discuss: 

-  How the TCO of your service changes over time depending on your buying model
-  The most cost-effective solutions, and how to extract value from your vendor
-  Leveraging financial flexibility, and how this supports your business strategy
-  The TCO of NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription

Data Storage Costs on Your Terms

Adoption of flexible consumption model is not stopping with the storage, Enterprise IT team is looking to not only have storage as-a-service, but how they can get a complete solution in OPEX offering to drive their business outcomes. 

NetApp is partnering with few technology vendors like Equinix and NVIDIA, to provide the complete Infrastructure as-a-Service. NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription along with Equinix offers the customers to consume storage in an Equinix IBX and provide the cloud adjacency with low latency to any hyperscalar services. 

AI and machine learning are relatively new players in the data storage space, but as more businesses realise the transformative potential of data analytics, finding a solution to help drive AI and machine learning initiatives is essential. As AI becomes increasingly popular, now is the time to look for a solution that streamlines the process with efficient data collection, accelerated AI workloads, and smoother cloud integration.

Building on conversations in episode one, we’ll discuss how NetApp are leveraging key partners to extend value to its customers. 

Join us in this session as we discuss: 

-  How to expand the value of your data storage provides with a consumption-based pay-as-you go model
-  How choosing the right data storage solution can help to drive you AI and machine learning initiatives 
-  How to expand the value of your existent data storage solutions

Cloud adjacent Infrastructure as-a-Service

Today, businesses rely on data to make better decisions and optimize customer experience. As leaders struggle to manage ever-growing amounts of data while simultaneously working with multiple data services and cloud providers, looking for a solution that provides financial ease whilst simplifying and streamlining your data storage solutions is key. 

Managing your needs and budget can be difficult when choosing the right storage vendor. However, choosing the right solution for your organization is vital, and can have long-lasting business benefits. For example, 51% of IT organisations who chose consumption-based purchase models report that they were able to accelerate IT initiatives. Join NetApp and guests in this episode as we explore how using NetApp Keystone Flex Subscription can achieve huge business benefits. 

Join us as we discuss: 
-  How to accelerate IT initiatives with a subscription-based data storage service
-  Optimising your hybrid cloud experience
-  How NetApp stacks up against competitive services

NetApp Keystone Leads the Way to Storage as-a-Service

According to a recent ESG survey, 92% of respondents said that a consolidated and simplified approach to a cloud data migration was essential, while 93% of respondents say cloud migration processes at their organizations need to be improved. Too often, cloud migration initiatives are too costly, too complicated, and too rigid. But hybrid-cloud environments are the future, and organizations must learn what is needed to keep up with the pace of change.

To do this, organizations must prioritize consolidation, automation, and optimization to deliver the multi-cloud flexibility that IT organizations require today.

Join Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and NetApp hybrid cloud industry experts as we discuss:

-  The current state of cloud adoption
-  Cloud migration challenges, and how to overcome them
-  The changes IT buyers are making to address the needs of multi-cloud
-  What IT buyers should be looking for


Speakers include:
- Ricky Martin, Director Of Market Strategy at NetApp
- Darrin Keller, Business Management Lead at NetApp
- Yossi Weihs, Cloud Insights Product Management Leader at NetApp
- Scott Sinclair, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group
- Mark Peters, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group

Consolidate, Automate, Optimize: How To Achieve Multi-Cloud Flexibility

If managing Kubernetes and stateful storage requirements is giving you trouble, reach for the stars and try NetApp’s Project Astra.  
We’re bringing you a beta opp and a webinar. 
•The webinar led by Nigel Poulton (yes, THAT Nigel Poulton) is called “Project Astra and the Art of Kubernetes Data Lifecycle Management.” Nigel will open with his thoughts on how to conquer stateful storage issues in Kubernetes. We’ll then follow with all things Project Astra and a demo. 
•The beta opportunity is interesting, but is it interesting to you? If so, try Project Astra for application and data management for Kubernetes and tell us what you think. The beta is free, leading edge and cool.  
Why do you need Project Astra? The net net is you can simplify your operations with:   
•Automatic provisioning of application-aware storage and data services  
•Seamless application and data portability across Kubernetes clusters in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud  
Consistent data management across a variety of workloads

K8s, Data and The Big Bang

Kubernetes has come a long way in a few short years.  More and more financial service companies are using Kubernetes for automating next generation application deployments.   We especially see it used for applications with stateless data.  But what about stateful applications?  In this webinar, learn not only how financial services companies are using Kubernetes today, but how they can also use Kubernetes to move stateful applications across private and public clouds, achieving true application portability.

NetApp Demystifying Kubernetes

The “new normal.” We know it means that the need for secure remote access has exploded, with your entire workforce expecting it. It’s a matter of survival, and your role in IT is at the center of it all. It’s time to start putting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to work for you and your organization.

We will demonstrate how to deploy a powerful VDI environment or to modernize an existing one, on premises and in the cloud. See how VDI offers:

· Fast deployment. Learn how to securely and confidently deploy workspaces in hours, not days.
· Hybrid cloud advantage. See how to control multiple tenants with resources across your data center and the public cloud by using a single GUI.
· Global file sharing. See real-time global file sharing for your distributed workforce in action, with no change in applications, workflow, or user experience.

Proven VDI Best Practices in a Hybrid World

Customers want to consume and manage their data differently, more cloud-like. They want to pay only for what they need, when they need it. And, they want to free up IT to focus more on innovation and business priorities and less on typical storage tasks. Basically, they are looking to bring the cloud to their data center, aligning economics to their business priorities. Come join us to learn more about Keystone Flex Subscription and how you can consume storage on-prem with a cloud-like experience.

NetApp Keystone: Cloud-Like Experience On-Premises

As we all work to understand what the post-pandemic world looks like, massive changes are apparent. At-home work has moved from niche idea to business as usual. Digital transformation — and digital customer experiences — have evolved from an imperative to a mandate. The risk of cybercrime has increased exponentially. And behind it all, there’s opportunity: new market demand. New collaboration opportunities. New value ecosystems.

Join NetApp® Senior Vice President and General Manager Kim Stevenson as she discusses resilience and navigating recovery while transforming.

· Vigilance: how to be prepared for the next disruption by focusing on security and disaster recovery
· Diligence: how to equip an elastic workforce for success and optimize your IT infrastructure
· Resilience: how to take advantage of opportunity by creating agility and transforming the customer experience

Vigilance, Diligence, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World

As applications rapidly migrate to public and private clouds, application developers need and are expecting more from traditional, enterprise infrastructure teams.  Simply providing servers and storage in a corporate data center, even in a cost-effective way, is no longer enough.  To stay relevant, IT Infrastructure organizations need to provide highly automated, self-service, cloud-based application development platforms which provide rapid onboarding and delivery, integrated software development pipelines, and new application run-time environments (e.g. containers). Learn how NetApp IT implemented a greenfield DevOps platform called CloudOne that provides all the cloud services, automation, and CI/CD release models application development teams need to build cloud native applications using micro-services architectures running in containers.
 
Agenda:
Introduction to CloudOne, the DevOps platform inside NetApp
Why DevOps in the enterprise
CloudOne vision & goals
CloudOne technology architecture
How NetApp IT got started
Demos: onboarding apps & CI/CD process

The DevOps Cloud Platform - The Future of IT Infrastructure

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