Name: Debunking SD-WAN Myths for Effective Enterprise Network Transformation
Start: 2017-09-28T17:00:00Z
End: 2017-09-28T17:01:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.14

Tata Communications is a digital ecosystem enabler that powers today’s fast-growing digital economy. The company enables the digital transformation of enterprises globally, including 300 of the Fortune 500 – unlocking opportunities for businesses by enabling borderless growth, boosting product innovation and customer experience, improving productivity and efficiency, building agility and managing risk.
With its solutions orientated approach and proven managed service capabilities and cutting-edge infrastructure, Tata Communications drives the next level of intelligence powered by cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), collaboration, security and network services. Tata Communications carries around 30% of the world’s internet routes and connects businesses to 60% of the world’s cloud giants and 4 out of 5 mobile subscribers. The company’s capabilities are underpinned by its global network, the world’s largest wholly-owned subsea fibre backbone and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to more than 200 countries and territories.
Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. www.tatacommunications.com

Cyber risks have graduated to the highest levels of significance and changed the buyer persona for cybersecurity. No longer confined to IT, cybersecurity has become a boardroom concern, evolving to prioritize cyber resilience. Pressures on organizations to adhere to stricter security measures have intensified with various regulations for enhanced cyber resilience.

Join IDC and Tata Communications in this live webinar on the rapidly evolving threat landscape, including ransomware, increased threat sophistication, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and supply chain attacks. Gain insights into the fundamental building blocks of cyber resilience:

· What are the key aspects of operationalizing cybersecurity and cyber resilience?
· How to comply with the fast-changing cybersecurity regulatory requirements while balancing the speed of innovation?
· What are the effective approaches in safeguarding one's operations and critical IT/OT landscape?

This session will be presented by:
Craig Robinson, Research Vice President, Security Services, IDC
Mukul Ahluwalia, Head - Cyber Security Product Marketing, Tata Communications

The Building Blocks of Cyber Resilience

With 50% or more of an organization’s costs directly relating to supply chain, it is no wonder that in today’s dynamic and interconnected world, supply chain management (SCM) has emerged as a critical factor in business success. Today, global supply chains are very complex, involving multiple suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, customers, and international upheavals. However, this complexity can cause the industry to face numerous pain points, from supply chain disruptions and inventory management challenges to cybersecurity threats and the need for increased agility. 

To address these challenges, businesses seek innovative solutions and best practices to optimize their supply chains, drive business growth, increase revenue, and improve innovation. However, these technologies can be complex and expensive to implement and maintain. Additionally, businesses need to ensure that their technologies are compatible with the technologies of their suppliers and customers.

Organizations are turning to vendors for digital fabric enablement -- connecting their supply chains end-to-end, gaining real-time visibility into their operations, and automating processes. This leads to a Hyperconnected Supply Chain, leveraging technology to enhance operational efficiency, optimize decision-making, and drive innovation throughout the supply chain ecosystem to build resilience into supply chains. 

This discussion will bring together experts from industry and academia to explore the evolving landscape of SCM and discuss strategies for overcoming common pain points. The discussion will highlight best practices to showcase how companies leverage technology to deliver seamless and efficient supply chains.

Speakers:
• Senthil Veeraraghavan, The Wharton School  
• Michael Mandel, Mack Institute 
• Hemant Ramaswami, Hanesbrands
• Robert Boland, Haleon
• Chirag Patel, CSL Behring
• Ankur Jindal, Tata Communications

Hyperconnected Supply Chains: Fostering the Technology Driven Efficiency

In today’s hybrid world, communication and collaboration technology play a critical part in ensuring that employee experience is seamless. Are you looking to arm yourself with trending knowledge as you navigate through modern tech and the needs of your distributed workforce, while remaining secure and compliant? Join Sriram Sampath, Gaurav Anand and Annu Alexander in conversation about incorporating cutting edge technology and practices into a global organization's collaboration strategy.

The Future of Communication: Trends and Technologies Shaping UCaaS

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been transforming various aspects of our life and business operations, with generative AI emerging as one of its most promising facets. Generative AI, a disruptive technology that leverages machine learning models to create new content, has been making significant strides in enhancing customer experiences. Generative AI offers a revolutionary approach to customer service, content creation, and business operations by synthesizing human-like responses and personalizing interactions.

The ability of generative AI to provide fast, intelligent, and personalized responses makes it a game-changer for customer service and interactions. Learn from this webinar how businesses can leverage this technology to create top-tier experiences.

Unleashing the full power of generative AI for customer interactions

Ready to scale your CX needs? What do an e-Commerce marketplace, online meal delivery service, and ride and vacation rental sharing service have in common? All are bound by stringent data protection, privacy, compliance, and regulatory laws.
Join this webinar and understand how Tata Communications is helping global enterprises navigate the ever-changing, ever-complex compliance and regulatory landscape to scale their CX strategies.
You’ll learn:
1. How to manage complex regulatory compliance issues across countries and continents
2. The crucial components of a CX strategy to seamlessly and securely elevate trusted customer interactions and maintain privacy
3. How to stay compliant while delivering seamless customer and workplace interactions

How to scale your CX strategy while maintaining compliance, trust and privacy

Abstract
In today's fast-paced digital economy, businesses rely heavily on their network infrastructure. With the rapid development of cloud technologies, applications, and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for a high-performance, cost-effective network infrastructure has never been greater.
To meet the challenges of this new era, your network infrastructure needs to be agile, scalable, and capable of addressing network security concerns. However, businesses must also consider the risks of falling behind in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Some organizations are still in the early stages of their digital transformation journey, putting them at risk.
Network transformation or modernization goes beyond technology; it requires a strategic approach to deliver groundbreaking results. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, businesses can implement common aspects in every successful network transformation.
Key Takeaways: 
1) Why network modernisation is no more a choice but a necessity 
2) Top 4 key strategies/best practices you need to keep in mind to successfully transform your network

Innovate or Stagnate: Reinventing Networks for the Modern Era

This webinar discusses the findings from a recent 451 Research Survey report where Manufacturing CXOs from Process, Discrete and Hybrid Manufacturing industries were interviewed, to understand where they stood with respect to their digital readiness. 

This CXO survey was conducted among large global manufacturers. The report findings identify the imperatives and challenges for the Manufacturing CXOs in their digital transformation journey.

Panelist discussed: 
• Digital transformation journey of manufacturers, priorities for success, and new technology imperatives like AI/ML, digital twins, and IoT.
• Extending benefits of workforce communications and connected worker technologies.
• The role of cloud, 5G, and edge networking for production and operational performance improvements.
• The risks and challenges of securing the supply chain, safeguarding data storage and use in the cloud.

Digitization Priorities for Manufacturing Automation

As companies implement a digital-first strategy, the existing definition of “digital transformation” no longer accurately depicts the dynamic needs of a modern, agile workplace. The discussion will revolve around strategies organizations are leveraging to redefine their digital transformation. 

Panelists from leading enterprises will discuss these topics and more: 
• How to leverage the right technologies to bring people, processes, and assets together to drive success from anywhere
• How organizations can deliver value in a secure way as they move to a digital-first model
• Implementing technology that can support a digital-first enterprise
• Hiring and training an adaptable workforce that can drive success in this new reality

Listen to Gaurav Anand, VP Americas and Board Member, Tata Communications and other industry leaders discuss topics that can benefit enterprises as they embark on this transformation journey.

Defining a Path to the Digital Enterprise

View this webinar to hear from Avinash Prasad, Vice President and Business Head,  Managed Security Services at Tata Communications spoke about the various factors that are shaping modern security operations and the way forward to address these challenges with the help of a cloud-delivered security operations center (SOC) model.

Modernising SOC Operations – Next Gen Cyber Defence delivered from the cloud

Microsoft Teams is now the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history and has been adopted by over half a million companies and 145M active users. As organizations adopt hybrid workforce models, how can they ensure everyone can join the same Teams meetings from home and the office? In this video, you’ll learn how Tata Communications and Pexip can help.

With Pexip Cloud Video Interop (CVI), organizations can use traditional video systems (from Cisco, Poly, etc.) to join Teams meetings using their native workflows. Tata Communications brings a long history of delivering Microsoft-powered solutions to customers around the world, and as a Microsoft Gold Partner, Tata was one of the first companies to launch Microsoft Teams Direct Routing – joining Microsoft Teams cloud to its voice communications network covering 200 countries.

Together, Tata Communications and Pexip can help you drive success with hybrid video in your Microsoft Teams environment.

Driving Success with Hybrid Video in Microsoft Teams

View this webinar series to hear from Rahul Mathur, Vice President - Strategy, Customer Service and Business Transformation, Tata Communications & Daniel-Zoe Jimenez, Associate Vice President, Head Digital Transformation CX, Future Enterprise & SMB, IDC on how digital transformation has changed Customer Experience (CX) landscape and how we at Tata Communications are redefining Customer Excellence during this pandemic with our Secure Connected Digital Experience (SCDx) solution.

How digital transformation has changed Customer Experience during the pandemic

During the discussion we explored the key challenges that businesses must overcome, to improve the connectivity within their supply chains.

Additionally, we deliberated on how to maximize the power of their data (and in combination a real connectivity), to drive towards a model that delivers visibility, flexibility and efficiency across their operations

Supply Chain Connectivity: Real-Time Data Collection and Analysis

View this webinar to hear from Sridhar S, Vice President - Cloud and Managed Security Services, Tata Communications on how a secured, complaint and agile community cloud
can create a modernisation charter for BFSI industry.

Unlocking the "Moment of Yes" in the BFSI industry

As businesses adjust to working in dispersed workplaces, technology is a key driver in bringing people closer–to each other and to the processes and information they require to be productive. But for organizations operating at scale, creating a holistic, secure, enterprise-wide collaborative workspace comes with unique requirements and challenges.
Explore how Microsoft Teams powered by Tata Communications can build a global collaborative ecosystem to ensure that your business remains productive and agile in an ever-changing business landscape. 
Listen to how your organization can unlock the full range of benefits from Microsoft Teams powered by Tata Communications.
Key Highlights:
 * Rapidly deploy an end-to-end cloud-based collaboration suite for messaging, video, voice, and conferencing
* Deliver flawless video conferencing with exceptional voice quality to key stakeholders–both internally and externally–to unify a globally dispersed audience 
* Consolidate discussions and extend voice conversations across domestic and international locations on a single platform
* Rapidly spin up international dial in numbers, consolidated under one contract with robust SLAs while integrating with existing vendors
* Ensure a reliable and high-quality collaborative employee experience through the seamless integration of calling in Office 365
* Enable large file transfers while conforming to your organization’s data security and compliance policies

Strengthen an Organization’s Collaboration Power with your Microsoft Investment

With the shift to a remote working environment, organizations and individuals alike are struggling to stay connected and focused. Things that were taken for granted in an office environment, like secure access to applications and resources, as well as reliable internet speed, are now causing issues that challenge productivity and increase frustration. While companies try to determine which cloud-based apps and digital platforms will work best moving forward, employees struggle with a lack of unification and continuity on how and where they should work – in a completely secure way.

Now is the time to start planning for what’s next. In the near future, the average worker will be splitting their time between remote and office work. It’s imperative that businesses start formulating a continuity plan that makes the transition between environments as efficient as possible. With a truly agile foundation, companies will be able to bridge the gap between an entirely remote environment and an eventual transition to a hybrid working model.

Security, connectivity, and productivity don’t have to be complicated in a digital environment. With the right approach, companies can improve the experience of remote employees and customers without compromising business as usual. Our conversation will focus on how to create a safe and efficient workplace by embracing agile approaches that are sustainable in an in-person, hybrid, or digital environment.

 Discussion Topics
•	Leveraging the advantages of a remote work environment to increase employee productivity
•	The importance of a zero-trust, SASE approach to securing the extended Edge 
•	Increasing accessibility to cloud technologies to enable a secure, connected workplace
•	Implementing scalable security and IT solutions such as SIGS and VDI networks
•	Digitizing all aspects of the business to allow for increased collaboration via remote channels
•	Creating an omnichannel customer experience with a focus on personalized content

Rethinking Remote: Security, Connectivity, and Agility for the Digital Workforce

Many enterprises are currently on a trajectory for virtualizing their network services. There is a clear evolution path emerging - one that is taking customers from their legacy IP and Ethernet VPNs towards Hybrid VPNs - whereby the Internet is increasingly taking traffic loads and must be business-grade, and then towards SDN/NFV. 

The next phase of the customer WAN journey is already underway for many enterprises. SD-WAN services are now available from a large variety of suppliers including telcos, systems integrators, platform developers, hardware vendors, cloud providers and software developers. The SD-WAN term has become a huge buzzword gleefully bandied about by many in technology, but what are the real underlying issues that enterprises must consider? How can enterprises guarantee a consistent customer experience for application and network performance across the distributed WAN locations?

Join Joel Stradling - Global Data’s Research Director for Global Managed and Hosted IT Services, and Peter Juffernholz – Senior Network Executive from Tata Communications in a live webinar. Joel and Peter will examine the SD-WAN transformation customer journey to provide insights about what might be the right fit for your enterprise and to de-bunk marketing myths.

Takeaways from this webcast:
-Key reasons why enterprises are deploying SD-WAN
-Debunking SD-WAN myths with our feet-on-the-ground reality check
-How do you determine which SD-WAN model is right for your enterprise?
-Technical and business considerations while evaluating managed SD-WAN providers 
-Deploying an SD-WAN in phases

Debunking SD-WAN Myths for Effective Enterprise Network Transformation

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