Name: BraveIT 2021 Award Nominees
Start: 2021-09-20T14:09:00Z
End: 2021-09-20T14:09:03.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Live and on-demand webinars for IT professionals focused on hybrid IT solutions encompassing cloud, colocation, managed services, DRaaS, IT security, and more.

Why Organizations are Adopting Hybrid Cloud Strategies in 2022 

Cloud computing is solidly mainstream, and enterprises of all sizes are rapidly moving to adopt the public cloud. At a high level there are many reasons why people would move to public cloud including increased reliability, scalability, and easy access to the latest innovations.  However, achieving these things can be difficult.  It requires new skills, new tools, and new processes.  For many businesses, compliance requirements, cost, and complexity have made hybrid cloud the new normal.  Beyond these primary drivers, there are other larger trends that are pushing organizations to adopting and embracing hybrid cloud strategies.

Join us on December 14, 2021 at 12:00PT for a discussion on the trends that are transforming and enabling hybrid cloud strategies.

KEY TOPICS:    
- The increasing importance of cloud at the edge
- Legacy and on-premises systems are not going anywhere
- Increasing flexibility with software-defined connectivity
- Critical workloads that are easy conversions to the cloud

Trends Driving Hybrid Cloud Strategies in 2022

Join us as we review our BraveIT Award nominees and award the nominees with the most votes from our public contest. Voting closes on September 15, 2021.

Each year, TierPoint’s BraveIT Award recognizes industry leaders and organizations that exemplify the unique blend of leadership, innovation, commitment, and courage required to succeed in today’s challenging technology environment. Winners for the BraveIT Awards are chosen based on online voting, promoted via social media and email. For 2021, the organization with the most votes will become our grand prize winner and earn a donation of $10,000. Second and third place winners will each receive $5,000, and all participating nominees will receive an upfront $2,000 donation from TierPoint.

BraveIT 2021 highlights eight deserving nominees across the United States that work with IT leaders and educators making a difference in their communities. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs help innovative minds to create, imagine, and excel - and as the employment landscape evolves, our future workforce is dependent on STEM education. This year’s BraveIT Award initiative shines a light on organizations dedicated to closing the IT skills gap and helping students innovate and create a bright and brave future for generations to come.    

And the nominees are:
1. Aspire2STEAM 
2.	FIRST 
3.	Girls Who Code 
4.	i.c.stars 
5.	The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (TCMU) 
6.	STEM Center of Excellence at Camp Whispering Cedars 
7.	Summer Science Program 
8.	Warrior-Scholar Project 

Vote now through September 15th, 2021.

2021 BraveIT Award Presentation

From small businesses to large multinational enterprises, staying competitive depends on deploying the right mix of technologies from legacy non-cloud systems with public and private clouds to leverage a hybrid IT approach. 

There are measurable benefits of a hybrid IT approach, however, the convergence of multiple technologies and delivery models makes managing hybrid IT environments incredibly complex.  Despite the challenges, a hybrid approach has become the new normal. 

Join us on September 21st at 2:00PM CT for a discussion on the trends that are transforming and enabling hybrid IT.  

KEY TOPICS:
- The increasing importance of cloud at the edge
- Organizations dealing with legacy systems
- Increasing flexibility with software-defined connectivity
- Workload trends that are migrating to the cloud

Why Hybrid IT Environments are a Must in 2022 and Beyond

BraveIT 2021 celebrates the brave stories of a select group of eight nonprofits exemplifying bravery through the utilization of technology for the benefit of others, specifically focusing on charitable organizations dedicated to STEM initiatives in their communities. This video highlights our three finalists, and the grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to one of the finalists on September 23rd 2021 at 12pm CST.

BraveIT 2021 Award Finalists

The human brain is wired for survival – fear helps us determine what’s safe and unsafe. But sometimes, fear can hold us back from making the right decisions, especially as business leaders. In this session, we interview TierPoint’s Chief Security Officer, Paul Mazzucco, to discuss the psychology of fear when it comes to making those business decisions and how you can use that fear to effectively manage security for your organization. TierPoint Security Product Manager, PJ Farmer, moderates. In this session, our speakers discuss:
•	why fear can be a double-edged sword when making security decisions for your environment
•	the biggest factors holding businesses back from making those decisions
•	best practices on how to overcome that fear and create a successful security strategy for your business

Psychology and Fear in Security Decision Making

Cybersecurity threats are on the rise and only getting more dangerous. It seems every day there’s a new headline about another data breach. Meanwhile, most organizations lack the technology, and many struggle to hire and retain qualified security professionals to detect and respond to these threats. The sophistication of today’s threats and many business regulations require organizations of all sizes to collect, correlate, and analyze security information from all IT systems to enable rapid detection and response. Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions, in conjunction with SOC (Security Operations Center) services, enable companies to reduce this cybersecurity risk without increasing their Security personnel headcount.  

Join PJ Farmer, Director of Security Product Management and Tyler Reese, Security Architect at TierPoint for a webinar to discuss the importance of XDR. In this session we’ll address these questions: 
•	What is Extended Detection and Response (XDR)?  
•	How is XDR different from SIEM and other security solutions?  
•	How do these solutions enhance security operations productivity?  
•	What SOC activities can you outsource and what activities should you perform in-house? 
•	How can XDR solutions facilitate improved and proactive threat protection?

Next-Gen Data Breach Prevention: Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

We’ve been existing in the pandemic world for nearly a year and while many businesses survived, pivoted, and even prospered, over the past months, a large majority have struggled to adapt to new realities.

In this webinar, Matt Brickey, senior vice president of TierPoint professional services, chats with Brian Leimbach, CEO of CIO Advise about his experiences when working with organizations and their responses to the pandemic. In his role, Brian works with a variety of small and medium businesses to help them make strategic decisions by using digitally disruptive technologies.

In this session, they will:
- discuss commonalities Brian has seen in both successful and failed responses,
- how organizations are starting to restart business once the work-from-home challenges are settled, and
- the role of the CIO, CTO, and IT as integral change agents in the new normal.

Respond, Restart, Reimagine: 3 phases to building business resiliency

BraveIT 2021 celebrates the brave stories of a select group of eight nonprofits exemplifying bravery through the utilization of technology for the benefit of others, specifically focusing on charitable organizations dedicated to STEM initiatives in their communities. This video highlights the 5 nominees that were not part of the three finalists, and each of these nominees will take home a $2,000 donation to their organization. Tune in on September 23rd at 12pm CST to learn more about our finalists and find out who will take home the grand prize of $10,000.

BraveIT 2021 Award Nominees

BraveIT

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BraveIT 2021 Award Nominees

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