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Pivotal transforms how enterprises build and run software. Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) unleashes developer’s productivity, driving faster innovation and lower costs. But you need a better way to monitor it all.

Wavefront by VMware is tailor-made to monitor Pivotal and Cloud Foundry environments. Wavefront enables large distributed teams to see all telemetry in one place, from applications, to the PCF platform, and the underlying infrastructure. This unified visibility is essential for collaboration across developer, infrastructure and PCF teams, sharing insights into infrastructure’s and platform’s impact on application performance, and ultimately accelerating MTTR.

If you’re a developer or PCF operator, attend this webinar to learn how to:

•Get full-visibility into application, PCF platform and infrastructure health and KPIs
•Quickly pinpoint problem spots using the correlation between an application and the underlying PCF components and infrastructure
•Trace production issues from application, to the platform and infrastructure layers

Everybody is talking about the promise of Kubernetes, but it takes more than optimism to turn a complex technology into something that can deliver real business results.

Once deployed, Kubernetes presents a litany of operational, management, and cultural challenges for which many users will not have prepared adequately. This webinar will highlight approaches to successfully implementing Kubernetes at enterprise scale and making it an effective facilitator of digital transformation.

Join special guest Dave Bartoletti of Forrester Research in conversation with Chuck Knostman, Vice President IT at T-Mobile, and Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology for Pivotal, as they discuss how companies can get the most value from their Kubernetes deployments, which workloads are best suited for those environments, and the true state of Kubernetes adoption among enterprises.

Speakers:
Chuck Knostman, Vice President IT, T-Mobile
Dave Bartoletti, Vice President, Analyst, Forrester Research
Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology, Pivotal

Recent releases of RabbitMQ have made the most popular open-source message broker even more rock solid. The team has made it easier to deploy and easier to operate from Day 2 on. As a de facto standard for message-based architectures, this is great news for teams building microservices and other distributed applications.

But let’s face it: not everyone is running the latest version and taking advantage of these new stability and operational features. Now the next major version (3.8) is shipping and it has some breakthrough features for reliability and scaling. Are you ready?

Join Pivotal’s Michael Klishin and Karl Nilsson, RabbitMQ Software Engineers, as they share what’s new in RabbitMQ 3.8. You’ll learn:

● How making RabbitMQ persistent and fault tolerant is evolving from mirrored queues to quorum queues
● What mixed-version clusters are and how they simplify upgrades
● How RabbitMQ 3.8 continues to make deploying and operating RabbitMQ easier
● What’s available in terms of OAuth 2.0 support, monitoring improvements, and more
● What features are in development for future versions and minor releases

We look forward to you joining us.

The emergence of cloud-native technologies—and immutable infrastructures more specifically—is changing the security risk landscape and offering a new perspective on security management.

In this talk, we’ll explore the benefits of software architectures based on immutable infrastructures and how mature practices can help reduce the security risk—without spending on additional layers of security solutions.

Specifically, we’ve seen how teams focusing on delivering the “3 Rs” of cloud-native security (repairing, rebuilding, and rotating) in their platform are shifting the needle of vulnerability management. Modern software’s ability for zero-downtime patching, periodical rebuilding, and short-lived secrets provide a massive reduction in security risks, allowing security and resilience practitioners to focus on added-value activities.

As security is now operated throughout the IT organisation rather than in silos, we’ll extend our discussion to see how outcome-driven metrics can help create alignment across teams and be a measure for security management in a collaborative culture environment.

Join us for this webinar to learn:
- The native security benefits of immutable infrastructure
- The 3Rs of cloud-native security: repaving regularly, repairing immediately, and rotating secrets frequently
- Key security metrics to be used in DevOps practices

The cliché we all recite is that technology isn't the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat now smells proper.

Most large organisations struggle to deliver consistent, well-designed software to their customers. The usual schedule and budget delays persist and the resulting software is often lackluster at best. There are all sorts of tools and patterns like DevOps, lean product, and cloud-native that can make software better, but most organisations struggle to change the people side of the software stack.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
• How established organisations can learn to think of deliveries in terms of “products” instead of “projects”
•How DevOps and cloud platforms enable a product mindset
•The tactics and organisational structures that large organisations are using to improve their software

All of this is based on case studies and interviews with the world’s largest organisations over the past five years, with each point grounded in real-world examples and experience.

References and examples shared during this session are based on my book Monolithic Transformation (O'Reilly, Feb 2019).

As the adoption of Kubernetes expands rapidly, organisations must get up to speed with a powerful and flexible but complex container orchestration system. Understanding how the configuration of Kubernetes clusters and the configuration of your workloads interact is important when setting up your platform for success.

This webinar will cover what you need to consider to get your different types of workloads up and running.

Join us to learn:
•What you need to think about before you configure your clusters and how Pivotal Container Service (PKS) can help
•How to configure your clusters for different types of workloads
•How to deploy those workloads so that they survive Kubernetes lifecycle events
•How to keep your workloads up and running so they can survive upgrades

We look forward to you joining us.

Organisations adopt a multi-cloud approach for many reasons—regulatory interest, price arbitrage, flexibility, choice, data sovereignty, varying business requirements—the list goes on.

However, from our conversations with several CIOs, we’ve learned that avoiding cloud lock-in is a primary driver behind a multi-cloud strategy. So what is cloud lock-in and what can you do to avoid being locked in?

Attend this webinar as we examine the topic of cloud lock-in and how to operate in multiple clouds, specifically looking at:
- The commercial, technological capability, process, and developer experience aspects of cloud lock-in
- Mitigating approaches for dealing with cloud lock-in
- Four key aspects to effectively executing a multi-cloud strategy
- Common multi-cloud patterns

Ah, the mainframe. Peel back many transactional business applications at any enterprise and you’ll find a mainframe application under there. It’s often where the crown jewels of the business’ data and core transactions are processed. The tooling for these applications is dated and new code is infrequent, but moving off is seen as risky. No one. Wants. To. Touch. Mainframes.

But mainframe applications don’t have to be the electric third rail. Modernizing, even pieces of those mainframe workloads into modern frameworks on modern platforms, has huge payoffs. Developers can gain all the productivity benefits of modern tooling. Not to mention the scaling, security, and cost benefits.

So, how do you get started modernizing applications off a mainframe? Join Rohit Kelapure, Consulting Practice Lead at Pivotal, as he shares lessons from projects with enterprises to move workloads off of mainframes. You’ll learn:

● How to decide what to modernize first by looking at business requirements AND the existing codebase
● How to take a test-driven approach to minimize risks in decomposing the mainframe application
● What to use as a replacement or evolution of mainframe schedulers
● How to include COBOL and other mainframe developers in the process to retain institutional knowledge and defuse project detractors
● How to replatform mainframe applications to the cloud leveraging a spectrum of techniques

We look forward to you joining us.

Pivotal Education enables you to continuously deliver business value in a rapidly evolving market by providing the modern software expertise you need to excel in a cloud-native world.

In this webinar, we will discuss the breadth of training, certification and the Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) options available for Spring and Cloud Foundry developers, architects, and operators.

We'll also show you how Pivotal Education makes it easy create a custom Spring or Cloud Foundry training plan specific to your learning needs and schedule, using in-person and online content and tools.

Kubernetes has exploded in popularity among developers. But as operations teams prepare to support Kubernetes in production, they have more considerations—namely, how to operate a stable platform while maintaining security and compliance. How Kubernetes is configured and deployed has a marked impact on these attributes.

Attend this session with Pivotal’s Vice President of Technology, Cornelia Davis, to learn the following:

● How to isolate tenants in your Kubernetes environment.
● How to make upgrading Kubernetes clusters boring.
● What you should—and shouldn’t—let your developers do.
● What you need around your Kubernetes clusters to keep them safe.

We look forward to you joining us.

The Pivotal Team

Join Dan Baskette and Jared Ruckle for a first look at Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) 2.5 capabilities with demos and expert Q&A. Attend this session and learn how you can:

● Accelerate developer productivity with new capabilities that give you more control over your applications.
● Improve operator efficiency and simplify administration of applications at scale.
● Reduce risk by keeping your your platform in a secure, healthy state.

Plus so much more!

Register now and be the first to get your eyes on PCF 2.5!

Digital transformation includes replatforming applications to streamline release cycles, improve availability, and manage apps and services at scale. But many enterprises are afraid to take the first step because they don’t know where to start. In this webinar, Rohit will provide a step-by-step guide that covers:

● How to find high-value modernization projects within your application portfolio
● Easy tools and techniques to minimally change applications in preparation for replatforming
● How to choose the platform with the right level of abstraction for your app
● Examples that show how Java EE Websphere applications can be deployed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry

We look forward to you joining us.

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Migrating your applications to the cloud can be a harrowing journey, one fraught with complexity and uncertainty. What’s required to succeed, above and beyond the right platform, are the right set of people, equipped with modern practices, to build and run cloud native applications with confidence.

Join Allison and Tom, from Pivotal's Application Transformation (AppTx) team, as they discuss what common problems arise when teams try to get their apps on the platform and the AppTx team approach to solving them.

Whether you have purchased PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) or are of a mind to move your legacy applications to the cloud this webinar will help you understand:

● Why it’s imperative to have a small team dedicated to the application portfolio
● When to re-platform, modernize or rewrite an application
● Strategies to address the most common issues we see

We look forward to you joining us.

Organisations face an array of challenges when they venture into the world of cloud-native applications and microservices. Many struggle with which container technologies to choose, how to best leverage them, and their implications for the business. Then there’s the question of what cloud to run it on—and if you even need to make that decision at the outset. Finally, what skills do your developers and operations teams need to succeed in this new world?

Join us for this webinar as we demystify the complexities associated with effectively leveraging Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative, as well as the platform required to enable you to run and manage containers at scale.

Key highlights:
- Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
- How PCF can simplify your technology toolbox
- Use cases with PCF (e.g. Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes)

Speed to value is critical for businesses to outpace their competition. Learn how your team or organization can leverage proven, modern product development best practices to win in today’s market.

Join Lauren Gilchrist and Paul Choi to gain insights on how to deliver more value to customers and better partner with your IT organization. We’ll share software development best practices and methodologies that have been used to help organizations adapt and thrive in today's digital markets.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:
● How Fortune 2000 companies can compete with startups and build more desirable and usable products
● How to realize value faster and more sustainably
● How to decrease risk and reduce waste in building your application

One of the trickiest problems with microservices is dealing with data as it becomes spread across many different bounded contexts. An event architecture and event-streaming platform like Kafka provide a respite to this problem. Event-first thinking has a plethora of other advantages too, pulling in concepts from event sourcing, stream processing, and domain-driven design.

In this talk, Ben and Cornelia will tackle how to do the following:

● Transform the data monolith to microservices
● Manage bounded contexts for data fields that overlap
● Use event architectures that apply streaming technologies like Kafka to address the challenges of distributed data

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Serverless computing has become a hot topic in developer communities. The use of ephemeral containers eliminates the need for always-on infrastructure. But the real payoff for serverless is greater code simplicity and developer efficiency. Sounds great! Except the open-source serverless framework space is crowded and complex. Each unique offering approaches functions differently, with varying methods for triggering, scaling, and event formatting. How is that efficient?

One thing that most everybody can agree on is to build on top of Kubernetes. With that as the only common ground though, there is still too much fragmentation for developers to wade through when deciding on the right open source serverless solution.

That's where Knative comes in. An open-source project from Google, Pivotal, and other industry leaders, Knative provides a set of common tooling on top of Kubernetes to help developers build serverless applications. It extends Kubernetes by combining Istio with Custom Resource Definitions to enable a higher-level of abstraction for developers. This brings support for source-to-container builds, autoscaling, routing, and event sourcing. Join this session with Brian McClain and Bryan Friedman to see a complete working demo of Knative and learn:

● What are the components of Knative and how do they work together
● What are the different ways to deploy serverless applications and functions on Knative
● How and when to use Knative’s build features, such as Buildpacks
● What is Knative’s eventing model and how are event sources used to trigger functions
● How Project riff compliments development on top of Knative