Mainframe: Legacy or Transformation Opportunity?

Leading managed services provider Ensono talk about delivering on the promise of cloud and how it is a critical element of your modernisation and transformation journey. Listen to Simon Ratcliffe, Sean Roberts and Steve Braden discuss what to do once you’re in the public cloud as well as other important topics such as innovation in the cloud.

Simon, Sean and Steve will cover area such as:

•Once you get to the cloud, what do you do there?
•How do you get more out of the cloud and continue to drive innovation as well as control costs, boost agility etc.
•What does transformation really mean?
•Concept of continuous innovation
•Cloud as a platform for digital transformation (AI, automation, CX, IoT etc)
•Intelligent cloud

If you have further questions for either Simon, Sean or Steve you can email them here.

Simon.ratcliffe@ensono.com
Sean.roberts@ensono.com
Steve.braden@ensono.com

Alternatively you can check out this link: https://info.ensono.com/CNT_ENS_Cloud_Transformation_Integrated_NA_Q219_LP.html

Leading managed services provider Ensono talk about how to develop a cloud strategy and roadmap and how it is a critical element of your modernisation and transformation journey. Listen to Simon Ratcliffe and Sean Roberts discuss the crucial steps when moving applications and workloads to the cloud as well as other important topics.

Simon and Sean will cover area such as:

•IT Cloud Culture – big bang or evolution?
•Steps for moving applications and workloads to the cloud
•Bridging the gap in a hybrid world
•Steps to public cloud migration
•Security in the public cloud
•Budgeting in the cloud – how lots of organisations get this badly wrong and how to budget correctly.

If you have further questions for either Simon or Sean you can email them here.

Simon.ratcliffe@ensono.com
Sean.roberts@ensono.com

Alternatively you can check out this link:
https://info.ensono.com/CNT_ENS_Cloud_Transformation_Integrated_NA_Q219_LP.html

Find out how to use Azure Automation, Microsoft's replacement solution for System Center Orchestrator (SCOrch) to automate workloads in the cloud. Learn about Automation Accounts, Runbooks, and the various ways to trigger them, including Schedules, Webhooks and the built-in Test Pane, to author, modify and execute your PowerShell automation workloads directly in Microsoft Azure. Also learn how you can use Hybrid Workers to extend this functionality to your on-premises environment, and run automation activities orchestrated via Azure, against your on-premises infrastructure.

As the cloud becomes supercharged in 2019 and beyond, so too will your networks. Tune in to hear from leading industry experts for a live discussion on the future of cloud networking in a hybrid world.

Topics to be covered include:
- Securing cloud-managed networks
- Understanding the ins and outs of public, private and hybrid cloud architectures
- Where WAN fits into your hybrid IT strategy

This live panel will be streamed directly from London. Join us from the comfort of your desk and get all your cloud questions answered!

Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Cloud Industry Forum
Justin Day, CEO, Cloud Gateway
David Luke, Enterprise Solutions Architect, NGINX
Panelist to be announced

Knowing how to remain agile, secure and scalable in today's ever-changing IT landscape is more important than ever. Tune in with experts live from the ExcEL, London, to discuss the latest trends, technologies and advancements in Cloud Computing, to 2020 and beyond.

Topics will include:
- DevOps: how-to's and why it's a must
- Next-gen cloud security and data protection
- Cloud and blockchain in the enterprise and what it means for your organization
- Data Centers on-prem vs. in the cloud
- AI and Cloud: is your infrastructure AI-ready?

This live panel will be streamed directly from London. Join us from the comfort of your desk and get all your cloud questions answered!

Moderator: Alex Hilton, CEO, Cloud Industry Forum
Panelists: Sean Roberts, GM - Public Cloud Center of Excellence, Ensono
Sunil Choudrie, Senior Product Marketing, Symantec
Andy Hardy, VP EMEA, Nasuni

When it comes to containers, security can often be an afterthought. As technologies become more advanced and workloads become more automated, so too does the threat of breaches and cyber threats. Join this live panel to discuss trends and best practices around cloud and container security.

Topics include:
- Securing your container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
- How to put security at the forefront of your cloud native journey
- Where the biggest risks lie in containerized applications

Discussion moderated by:
Simon Ratcliffe, Cloud Industry Forum

Confirmed panelists:
Pablo Martinez, Cloud Security and Compliance Specialist, Symantec
Mark Kropf, CTO, Financial Services, Pivotal
Further panelist to be announced

Leading managed services provider Ensono talks about putting the mainframe at the heart of your digital transformation and how it can be a critical element of your modernisation and transformation journey. Listen to Simon Ratcliffe and guest speaker Paul Knight from TES discuss how the mainframe has been used traditionally and how it is still an important modern development platform today.

Simon and Paul will cover areas such as:

•The issues with running an ageing platform
•Mainframe as a modern development platform
•Is there a skills gap?
•The IT economics of the mainframe

If you have further questions for either Simon or Paul you can email them here.

Simon.ratcliffe@ensono.com
Paul.knight@tes-es.com

Alternatively you can check out this link:
https://info.ensono.com/MainframeOptimisationEURQ219_LP.html

What is PowerShell DSC and how can I use it alongside Azure Automation to configure and manage my infrastructure in the Cloud using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)? Join this session to see how you can make use of Azure Automation's Serverless design to quickly and easily deploy, configure and manage resources, both virtual and physical, on either Windows or Linux, in the cloud or on-premises.

Leading managed services provider Ensono talk about restructuring your IT team and how it is a critical element of your modernisation and transformation journey. Listen to Simon Ratcliffe and guest speaker Hutton Henry discuss the mix of knowledge, behaviours and other important aspects of restructuring your IT team successfully.
Simon and Hutton will cover area such as:

•IT Culture
•Recruiting and filling the gaps
•Building cohesive IT teams across locations

If you have further questions for either Simon or Hutton you can email them here.

Simon.ratcliffe@ensono.com
hutton@beyond-ma.com

Alternatively you can check out this link:
https://info.ensono.com/CNT_ENS_Cloud_Transformation_Integrated_NA_Q219_LP.html

Do you want the unlimited elastic scale, smart security and intelligence of the cloud but don’t know where to start? Does the cloud feel out of reach because of your legacy infrastructure, servers and storage devices? You could lift and shift everything but that means you don’t get the full benefits of the cloud.

Or you could build from scratch in the cloud but that takes time and costs a lot of money. Another option is re-platforming. It combines the ease of lift-and-shift with the benefits of building directly in the cloud.

Replace all your old hardware built to peak demand and get all the scalable, smart and secure benefits of the cloud. Re-platforming lifts-and-shifts just the app code and user data, leaving behind your outdated OS and physical disk volumes. This allows you to turn up and down your services based on real-time customer demand.

Leading managed services provider and Data center transformation expert Ensono talk about cloud modernization and leveraging the Well Architected framework to review and improve your cloud-based architectures and better understand the business impact of your design decisions. Learn how Ensono combine years of operational excellence, AWS Well-Architected best practices and general design principles with the five pillars of
•Operational Excellence
•Security
•Reliability
•Performance Efficiency
•Cost Optimization

Leading managed services provider Ensono talk about optimising and modernising the data centre, and the key steps to take when starting this journey. Listen to Simon Ratcliffe and Olly Presland discuss what drives these IT transformations and the risks associated with them.

The 5 steps to optimising and modernising the data centre are:

•Step 1 – Create a strategy
•Step 2 – Embrace new delivery models
•Step 3 – Understand the risks
•Step 4 – Integrating public cloud
•Step 5 – Implementing the plan

If you have further questions for either Simon or Olly you can email them here.
Simon.ratcliffe@ensono.com
Oliver.presland@ensono.com

Alternatively you can check out this link:
https://info.ensono.com/2019_Taking_your_first_steps_Ensono.html

IT Transformation projects are usually driven by the need to reduce complexity, improve
agility, simplify systems, contain costs, manage ever-growing data and provide more efficient
operational management. Arguably, for seasoned IT professionals, there is nothing new
about the drivers for transformational change; it’s the velocity and scale of transformation
today that’s the big challenge.

Today, to effectively accelerate business innovation, successful IT leaders are building
infrastructure that focuses on automation and flexibility, supporting agile application
development and helping deliver world-class customer experience. Of course, IT teams are
still under pressure to deliver legacy, mission-critical applications but they also need to
support a seemingly constant flow of emerging business opportunities. ​They’re also tasked
to lower costs, reduce Capex, while helping to drive revenue growth. That’s a lot of drivers
and this complex juggling act often requires modernising infrastructure. An almost inevitable
result of this is that the mix of platforms they adopt will include public cloud.

So, does that signal the end of the corporate data centre as we know it? Well, as is so often
the answer – yes and no. ‘Yes’ because there is no doubt that the complexity and cost of
building and managing on-premise infrastructures is becoming increasingly unsustainable for
many businesses. And ‘no’ because business continuity and stability of legacy applications
are still, quite rightly, primary drivers today.

A 2018 survey of Enterprise organisations by Ensono and the Cloud Industry Forum showed that 89% of the 500 participants surveyed indicated that legacy technology within their businesses were preventing or hampering their ability to execute effective digital transformation.

Perhaps the greatest legacy within many organisations is the mainframe estate that brings the challenges of punitive vendor commercials, risks with maintaining on-going skills, lifecycle planning issues and the sheer volume of residual workload that remains within these estates. With increasing pressure to modernise the applications, methodologies and tooling surrounding these legacy environments, the mainframe is often seen as holding businesses back but does this need to be the case?

This webinar will explore different approaches to enabling these legacy systems to be part of the transformational journey rather than a blocker and examine how organisations can re-define the legacy blockers as positive rather than negative attributes.

Join this live panel discussion with experts at IP Expo Europe 2018 as they discuss the evolution of serverless architectures and what to expect for the next generation of cloud.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned Cloud, IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture leaders while they discuss the following:

- What exactly is a serverless architecture?
- How can your IT architecture be serverless and what does this mean for your tech teams?
- The shift towards Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) as the next compute service

This live panel will be streamed directly from IP Expo Europe at Excel London! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Moderator:
Simon Ratcliffe, Cloud Industry Forum
Dave Stow, Lead Enterprise Architect, Ordnance Survey
Dr. Richard Sykes, Chairman, Cloud Industry Forum

Join this Ask the Expert session with Citrix's EMEA Director of Product Management, Imran Shaikh.

Interviewer:
Simon Ratcliffe, CIO Advisor & Mentor, Ensono & Cloud Industry Forum

Join this Ask the Expert interview with Fortinet's Patrick Grillo.

Moderated by Simon Ratcliffe, CIO Advisor & Mentor, Ensono & Cloud Industry Forum

Join this Ask the Expert interview with LogRhythm's Jonathan Zulberg.

Moderated by Simon Ratcliffe, CIO Advisor & Mentor, Ensono & Cloud Industry Forum

Jonathan Zulberg
As Senior Sales Engineer at LogRhythm, Jonathan assists organizations with designing and implementing solutions that reduce their threat landscape and enable early detection of malicious behaviour with LogRhythm solutions. I lead threat modeling workshops, as well as threat analysis sessions, to assist organizations in maturing their current security posture.

Join this live panel discussion with experts at IP Expo Europe 2018 for a deep dive into best practices for powering and securing today's digital enterprise.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned IT, Security, and Business leaders while they discuss the following:

- What it means to become a digital enterprise and notes from the field
- How to develop a successful digital strategy, including moving your enterprise to containers, backup and reovery, storage and more
- The key role of security and data protection when it comes to digital transformation

This live panel will be streamed directly from IP Expo Europe at Excel London! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Simon Ratcliffe (CIO Advisor & Mentor, Ensono & Cloud Industry Forum & Moderator)
Ben Carmi, Senior Vice President Product Management, Cyren
Adrian Louth, Enhanced Technology Specialist, Fortinet
Jonathan Zulberg, Senior Sales Engineer, LogRhythm
Andrew Scott, Systems Engineering Manager, UK & Ireland Citrix