We can help you move to the cloud, make collaboration a key part of your culture, consolidate your IT, transform your customer service and simplify your network. And we’ll do all this with security built-in, not bolted on.

We can help you balance the right combination of public cloud, IT or application requirements for your business. We’ll connect your sites, people and customers to secure, scalable cloud services that provide a great experience for everyone who relies on them, while protecting the data that flows around your business with a private cloud.

•	We offer private cloud services that cover everything from co-location to storage. We do this through our 48 state-of-the-art data centres 
•	We provide public cloud services through our global partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon and support these with our managed services
•	And, in the last four years, we’ve won 16 industry awards for our innovation in cloud services.

Find out more at www.bt.com/globalservices

No-one could have predicted how quickly you’ve had to re-think the way your teams connect and collaborate. But now you have the infrastructure in place for flexible working, what happens next? If you’re to succeed and create greater resiliency for the future, you’ll need complete visibility and control of how users are consuming applications in order to ensure the best, most secure experiences.

In our virtual roundtable, together with Riverbed we’ll explore:
•why visibility of end user experience is so critical right now
•the limitations of traditional network and application performance management
•how visibility and acceleration can be used to help achieve business goals. 

Speakers:
•Joe Bombagi, Director, Solutions engineering, Riverbed
•Mark Burton, Senior technical alliance manager, Riverbed
•Adrian Comley, Senior manager, Managed network services, BT 
•Lotie Parker, Senior consultant, BT Consulting

Create consistent user experiences to get your business thriving again

Moving to private cloud as part of your hybrid cloud strategy is the first step in your journey to experiencing the agility of cloud without losing the strict security and governance you’ve been used to. But why is it so important and what’s the best practice for making the move? And how do you make sure you’re getting the most from your Managed Service Provider as you navigate the change?

Join experts from BT and VMware for a virtual webinar that is designed to help you develop a best practice approach to private cloud.

Speakers:
- Dave Funnell, Senior manager, Cloud provider business, VMware 
- David Simpkins, Senior manager, Hybrid cloud managed services, BT
- Maurice Nettesheim, Head of cloud compute and shared service portfolio, BT
- Sujoy Mukherjee, Head of portfolio, Private compute, BT (host)

The journey to private cloud: a best practice approach

Is your office ready for the future? As the new workplace emerges, you’ll need to combine more agile remote and home working with a safer approach for those returning to the corporate space. All with inherent flexibility to deal with whatever happens next. Join BT and Cisco to explore how you can make this happen:
- connecting your teams, no matter where they are working 
- creating resilience through a more responsive infrastructure 
- securing your new world approach
- the questions you need to be asking to ensure you’re making the right infrastructure choices to support this.

Speakers:
- Dr Nicola Millard, Principal innovation partner at BT
- Dom Elliot, Segment leader service provider EMEAR at Cisco
- Rehana Smith, Senior manager, Edge Solutions at BT

How to create a connected, secure office, ready for your return

Are you in the process of moving to multi-cloud?
It’s vital you don’t waste time or money on the wrong decisions. To help you plan your strategy, you need to understand the real-world challenges and opportunities that multi-cloud presents, so that your whole business can move forward with confidence.

In our virtual roundtable, together with Dell Technologies, we’ll explore:
•	the true reality of multi-cloud: not just the theory
•	what you need to consider when designing your strategy end-to-end
•	what hurdles to expect, and how to overcome them
•	what outcomes you could expect as a result.

Speakers:
•	David Simpkins, Senior manager, Hybrid cloud managed services, BT 
•	Sujoy Mukherjee, Product manager, Private cloud, BT 
•	Ian Heath, Director, EMEA service providers, Dell Technologies

The multi-cloud imperative: a best practice approach

With legacy infrastructure approaching end-of-life, and predictions that 80% of enterprises will migrate entirely away from on-premises data centres by 2025, you’re most likely already starting to put in place the steps to ensure a smooth transition.
But what’s the best approach to moving to a virtualised data centre, and how can interconnectivity help make this journey simpler for you?

In our webinar, together with Equinix, we explore the big questions: 
•	How do I approach the challenge of legacy infrastructure?
•	How can interconnectivity help me as I migrate to the cloud, and why is it so important?
•	How do I ensure security, compliance, and governance in my new environment?
•	What will my business be able to do differently, or even better as a result, and what can I learn from other companies who have already made the move?

Speakers:
•	Adrian Comley, Senior Manager, Managed Network Services, BT
•	Simon Walker, Senior Manager, Cloud Networking Solutions, BT 
•	Angie Jackson, Senior Manager DYNS Technical and Service Design, BT
•	Brenden Rawle, Director of Interconnection, EMEA, Equinix

Is the clock ticking for you to move to a virtualised data centre?

The decisions you take now about your cloud strategy will undoubtably impact your business in the future. So, how do you know you’re making the best choices? It all starts with picking the right managed service provider.

In our webinar, together with VMware, we explore: 
•	the value of a managed service provider in delivering a hybrid cloud strategy
•	the top 5 most important considerations when working with a managed service provider
•	the criteria you need to make a fair evaluation.

Join us and partner VMWare to learn how we are using our experience and expertise to get it right for customers. Reshape your infrastructure today.

Speakers:
•	Dave Funnell, Senior manager, Cloud provider business, VMware 
•	David Simpkins, General manager, managed services and public cloud, BT 
•	Sujoy Mukherjee, Product manager, Private cloud, BT
•	Maurice Nettesheim, Head of cloud compute and shared service portfolio, BT

5 key considerations when choosing a cloud managed service provider

Great cloud experiences can be yours if you get the building blocks of your infrastructure, SD-WAN and security right. We’d like to share with you how we’ve done it. Spend some time with us as we examine each of these key pillars in our webinar. We’ll be looking at different types of internet connectivity, the role of cloud gateways and the importance of SASE to your solution. 

Scott Cowling, who leads our Global infrastructure portfolio will be joined by Sanjay Uppal (SVP & GM VMWare and founder of VeloCloud), Anne-Gaelle Santos (Head of BTs SD-WAN portfolio), and Paul Graham (Head of infrastructure, BT’s CTO team). Together we’ll share insight on how to choose the right core components and make those choices work for your business.

Why SD-WAN is crucial to realising the benefits of cloud

The new normal has accelerated the pace of change. Digital transformation means that your existing data centre needs to deliver more.

In the next webinar of our 'Shape the future of infrastructure' series, we’ll explore:
•how to implement new technology in private data centres
•how to get cloud-like agility within your data centre
•the features of Cisco ACI and what it delivers.

Our data centre optimisation portfolio expert, Charles Greenaway, will be joined by Louise O’Neil, head of new customer sales and Gareth Furse, an account manager in solutions SP sales from Cisco to offer their views on the options available to you.

Speakers:
•Jonathan Sumner, Head of marketing, Network, Cloud & Consultancy, BT
•Louise O’Neill, Director, Banking & Financial Services, BT
•Charles Greenaway, Customer CTO, BT
•Gareth Furse, Service creation & portfolio manager, Enterprise networking, Cisco

How to shape your data centre for the new normal

As cloud computing has become mainstream, organisations are finding their traditional management infrastructure and capabilities may not be fit for purpose. Businesses are looking to outsource the management of cloud services.

Alibaba our latest cloud partner will help global MNC customers expand their operations into China, and also assist our Chinese customers expand their operations across the globe.

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