5 Steps to Optimising and Transforming the data centre

Computer Weekly’s editor in chief, Bryan Glick sits down with experts from Microsoft and Ensono to discuss moving SAP environments to the public cloud. They discuss compelling findings from a recent survey of 100 SAP decision makers and address key questions that organisations have around making their move to the cloud.

Watch this webinar discussion to gain insights that provide practical steps and industry expert viewpoints on;
• The challenges your industry peers are experiencing and how to address them
• Key drivers for migrating SAP applications
• How to successfully move SAP to the cloud

Many organisations are now operating with multiple clouds. Whether we use Public Cloud, Private Cloud or Software as a Service, we have multiple environments to operate and manage effectively.

We have to apply governance, security and cost management whilst constantly looking for new and innovative ways of working and keeping an eye on all the other non-IT functions that are also experimenting with different technologies and clouds. Juggling all of these demands while trying to develop and execute a coherent strategy can be challenging with the result that the strategy can become derailed in the face of daily operational demands.

This discussion will explore how to build an effective governance model that is fit for modern day IT and examines the people, process and technologies that can allow you to focus on your strategy safe in the knowledge that the operational systems are performing well.

SAP migrations can be complex. Watch how this Ensono SAP on Azure Quick Start ‘art of the possible’ assessment reveals the potential benefits, business case and roadmap for success. So you can know before you go.

The need for IT organizations to partner with business stakeholders to meet new requirements - including business innovation, delivering new apps to market and transforming customer experience - has never been more pressing. As the beating heart of IT Infrastructure and as the digital economy becomes a reality, how is the data center meeting the demands of 2020?

Join this expert panel to see how data centers are modernizing to keep pace with the highly competitive, fast-paced world of 2020. Topics of discussion will include:

- Why the modern data center needs to be software‐defined, highly virtualized and automated
- How to overcome the challenge of managing both private and public clouds
- What you must consider to ensure your data center is secure and compliance
- How to support both cloud-native and traditional applications
- Why your data center needs to be able to deliver infrastructure as code

Panel moderated by:
Simon Ratcliffe, Technology Evangelist, Ensono
Panelists include:
Chris Gatch, Chief Technology Officer, DC BLOX
Brad King, Co-Founder and Field CTO, Scality
Dan Pitt, President, Palo Alto Innovation Advisors; Senior VP (retired), MEF Forum

As organizations are making plans to extend working from home through next summer, what are some things employees and IT teams can do to better protect their devices and networks? Learn more about how endpoint security can be implemented and improved to protect your organization from breaches.

Join this interactive keynote panel with security experts and industry leaders to learn more about:
- COVID-19’s impact on home network security
- Why attackers are targeting the endpoint
- Why your connected devices may be at risk and what to do about it
- How to seamlessly integrate your endpoint security with existing solutions
- Identifying threats, solutions and breach prevention best practices

Get technical - Join the fourth instalment of Ensono’s ‘Simplify your SAP to Azure Transformation’ webinar series to find out how you can ensure your SAP to Azure project runs smoothly and maximises the benefits.

Ensono and Microsoft experts will provide you with the technical aspects of moving SAP technology to Azure, covering:

• How SAP architecture changes on Azure
• Different migration techniques and which ones best suit your business requirements
• How to plan your SAP journey using Ensono’s SAP Transform Framework
• How to optimise costs and security e.g. Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server

Join Ensono and Microsoft in this next instalment of the webinar series ‘Simplify your SAP to Azure Transformation’ to explore the various approaches to moving SAP to Azure.

Drawing upon the presenter’s experience, we will cover initial discovery all the way through to migration, this includes:

• Discussing the various options for assessing your existing estate
• Identifying the main approaches to migrating SAP to the Cloud
• Highlighting key considerations and potential pitfalls that many customers can easily fall into
• Deeper insights into which approach is best suited to your business needs

In this instalment of the webinar series ‘Simplify your SAP to Azure Transformation’ we will explore ‘Mission Critical’ systems and how that relates to your SAP to Azure migration journey.

Examining what really defines mission critical, why these systems are a priority and establish some basic principles for de-risking transformational activities that affect these systems

Join Ensono and Microsoft in this next instalment of the webinar series ‘Simplify your SAP to Azure Transformation’ to explore the various approaches to moving SAP to Azure.

Drawing upon the presenter’s experience, we will cover initial discovery all the way through to migration, this includes:

• Discussing the various options for assessing your existing estate
• Identifying the main approaches to migrating SAP to the Cloud
• Highlighting key considerations and potential pitfalls that many customers can easily fall into
• Deeper insights into which approach is best suited to your business needs

Join Ensono and Microsoft for the first in the Ensono webinar series ‘Simplify your SAP to Azure Transformation’ exploring best practices, industry challenges and various approaches to migrating SAP to Azure.
In this webinar, you will gain insights into;
•Building a successful business case for SAP migration to Azure
•Business benefits of moving SAP to Azure, drawing on real client experiences
•Avoiding the pitfalls of ERP migration and mitigating risks that can cause business issues

Effective acquisitions are invariably those that achieve rapid inter-business collaboration, define a combined technology roadmap, assess and optimise the skills and capabilities of the IT teams and establish the proposed common technology landscape and operating model.
Next in the Emerging stronger from a crisis webinar series we delve into ‘The M&A Technology Landscape’.

Attend to find out more and hear from industry expert, Simon Ratcliffe, Principal Consultant, Advisory Services at Ensono.

In the past few weeks IT departments have been performing minor miracles to ensure staff can work remotely and effectively. Now, out of the chaos of implementing remote working has emerged a calm and an adjustment to the new normality.

Is there perhaps a temptation to pause, take stock and consider how we apply normal IT operating guidelines to ensure our new environment is resilient, secure and stable?

“Emerging Stronger from a Crisis” is the first in a series of webinars exploring how you can:

• Kick start your transformational journey
• Emerge as stronger and fitter businesses
• Consider finding new markets, new supply chains and new ways of
working

Organisations that take the opportunity to continue change at pace will spring out from this crisis stronger and more effectively than they entered it. Register to find out more.

With Coronavirus having infected 785,000 people worldwide at the time of writing, many companies are enforcing a remote working rule to protect its workforce and minimize the threat of the virus. As such, there will be increased use of online conferencing tools and monitoring tools to remotely manage IT workloads and continue business as usual.

Data center operators are taking steps to ensure continued operations, and also to provide mission-critical technology to support first responders, hospitals and public agencies reacting to COVID19’s impact.

But how do data center operators ensure their digital infrastructure can handle this much use? Join this panel of experts as they discuss:

- Preparing for the increase of hospitals’ use of data centers for data and image storage and transmission
- Ensuring business as usual for companies’ sudden switch to a temporarily remote workforce
- How to ensure your investments in maintaining continued operations during this period last beyond the threat of Coronavirus

Moderator: Elisabeth Thomas, Launch Product Marketing
Panellists: Jeanne Morina - Founder, iSpeak; Simon Ratcliffe - Principal Consultant, Ensono

IT professionals are under tremendous pressure to ensure IT Resilience and that business technology services are protected and available 24/7, regardless of risk. Lost or corrupted data can cause the customer experience to suffer enormously and balloon into business liabilities.

Having the right tools in place to simplify and deliver on IT resilience is therefore essential in today’s world of risk, whether planned or unplanned.

Join this session to discover:
- The biggest challenges that are overlooked when protecting your organizations from Ransomware
- How to solve Ransomware recovery challenges
- What is the level of complexity in installation and management of recovery

The estimated cost of ransomware for 2019 is $11.5bn, more than many global industries and markets. Think about that, the total cost of ransomware for this year will be more than many Fortune 1000 organizations make in revenue.

The cost of ransomware isn’t simply the requested ransom, something most will recommend you don’t pay. It’s the cost of recovery, the cost of data loss, the loss in productivity, the intangible damage to your reputation and the most direct cost: a disruption of your services. With the prevalence and also ingenuity behind Ransomware attacks prevention isn’t the answer.

Organizations have never had success stopping attacks. To survive, they need to build a strong internal security culture that mitigates risk. Surviving the accident is what’s important, not preventing it in the first place.

Panel moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Technology Evangelist, Ensono
Panelists: Steve Blow, UK Systems Engineering Manager, Zerto
Bill Mew, CEO & Founder, Crisis Team
Chani Simms, Managing Director, Meta Defence Labs

Due to the fast pace of cloud adoption, enterprises worldwide are looking to employ cloud security solutions to safeguard their data and workloads. Join industry experts as they discuss and debate the best strategies for breach prevention and how to make sure your practicing cyber hygiene in a world of multi-cloud computing.

Topics for discussion will include:

- How to adopt a multi-cloud security strategy
- Addressing your cyber risks and challenges
- Managing vulnerabilities, detecting breaches and responding to incidents
- Recommendations for improving enterprise cloud security
- Why prevention has failed insider threat


Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Technology Evangelist, Ensono
Panelists:
Martin McCloskey, Senior Security Operations Analyst, Octopus Labs
Kevin Bailey, Managing Director & Principal - Security Research, Omnisperience

This webinar will examine Edge Computing across a variety of environments and discuss how to build a stable, secure and manageable Edge environment that can form the foundation for transformational change within organisations. Edge is not a new idea but exploiting the Edge effectively does require some new thinking some of which is counter-intuitive in the modern cloud centric world in which we operate. 5G is going to unleash a whole new wave of possibilities around remote devices and as IT functions we are going to be under more and more pressure to deliver on the promise so we need to get our houses in order and build a platform that will act as a springboard and not pitch us flat on our faces.

Gartner predicts that APM will be deployed to 20% of all enterprise applications by 2021.

Digital customer experience (CX) expectations continue to grow, while the modern applications and infrastructures that support them increase in complexity. This represents a constant challenge for both applications and infrastructure teams, who need to work even more closely to meet the business demand for high performance reliable applications. Traditional methods of managing application performance are struggling to keep up in a multi-cloud, multi-stack world.

Hear from leading managed service provider, Ensono and APM software market leader, AppDynamics (a Cisco company) who have developed a solution for enterprise organizations; APM as a managed service.

Learn about the problems that APM has solved for real world clients and the benefits delivered to business, application and infrastructure leaders.

The tried-and-true mainframe is still alive and kicking in data centres across the world, just as it has been for decades. The difference is that in today’s technology landscape mainframes have new integral functions as key components within hybrid cloud architectures, and even as new foundations for mainframe as-a-service delivery models.

Suffice it to say, mainframes are here for the long term, and they’re continuing to evolve.

Tune into this webcast to hear ComputerWeekly’s editor-in-chief Bryan Glick curate a discussion between leading mainframe experts from Ensono and IBM about the role of mainframes in today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape – and hear their predictions about the evolution of mainframes beyond 2020.