Name: Global Data Replication for Improved API Performance and Availability
Start: 2022-12-13T21:00:00Z
End: 2022-12-13T21:00:41.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.

Cyber insurance premiums continue to rise, and insurers are increasingly refusing coverage to organizations with weak security postures. In this session, we will explore how Microsegmentation directly influences security readiness, premium costs, and coverage eligibility.

Join this engaging session to delve into:
- Methods of security evaluation by cyber insurers
- The impact of security readiness on insurance premiums and coverage eligibility
- Case study insights on the successful maintenance of insurance terms post a cyber-attack
- Strategies that turned network vulnerabilities into opportunities

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Lower Premiums, Stronger Security: Microsegmentation for Cyber Insurance

In this final If APIs Could Talk session of 2025, we’ll review the most impactful updates to Akamai API Security that improved visibility, control, and usability across the platform. We’ll revisit how APIs from Code expanded discovery into source repositories, the Compliance Dashboard simplified framework alignment, and Automatic Testing for APIs enhanced validation of authentication issues directly from the inventory. We’ll also discuss how GenAI and LLM endpoint tagging helps teams monitor emerging AI-related APIs, and highlight key UI improvements that make investigation and data analysis more efficient. This session is designed for practitioners who want a clear understanding of what has changed, why it matters, and how to maximize the benefits of these capabilities in their day-to-day operations.

Ep. 22 - 2025 Recap: Features That Delivered Real-World Impact

Cybercriminals are on the naughty list this holiday season. From phishing emails to scams exploiting festive goodwill, social engineering is everywhere. Join Tricia Howard and Steve Winterfeld as they explore social engineering for good and evil and count down the “12 Threats of Christmas.”

You’ll discover:
- How social engineering drives attacks — and how it can be used ethically
- Real-world holiday-season scams and exploits
- Practical tips to protect your organisation into the new year

Register now to watch this festive, thought-provoking episode.

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SIG Download: Episode 25 – The 12 Threats of Christmas – Social Engineering for Good and Evil

Smarter, faster-moving cyberthreats, tighter regulations, and rising insurer demands have put network segmentation strategy back in the spotlight, but many enterprises are struggling to keep pace. Enterprise segmentation adoption is high, at a basic level. However, maturity, in the form of microsegmentation, remains low. Why the disconnect?

Independent research commissioned by Akamai reveals a clear gap between segmentation intent and execution, a gap leaving many enterprises exposed. Many enterprises still rely on legacy north–south segmentation approaches, making them vulnerable to growing cyberattacks, including those using generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI).

Join us as we deep dive the data, and learn how early adopters, particularly large organizations with mature security operations, are already realizing multiple advantages:
- Lower insurance premiums
- Faster claims processing
- Stronger audit readiness
- Better ransomware outcomes

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Segmentation Impact Study 2025: Why Microsegmentation Matters Now

AI is redefining both innovation and attack surface. The rise of Agentic AI systems and autonomous AI bots has unleashed a new wave of threats — from intelligent scraping and adaptive fraud to Offensive AI models like FraudGPTand GhostGPT that automate reconnaissance and exploit generation.

This session explores the complex duality of AI as both attacker and target, examining the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and highlighting a commerce-sector case study. Join Ryan Gao who uncovers how threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and model denial-of-service — and how organizations can enhance visibility, safeguard AI-driven traffic, and implement stronger controls to protect their AI environments.

Key Takeaways:
- Uncover AI’s dual risk — attacker and target.
- Understand the mechanics of Offensive and Agentic AI threats.
- See how AI-based bots operate in a real commerce case study.
- Explore the OWASP Top 10 for LLM vulnerabilities.
- Gain practical strategies to strengthen AI resilience.

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The Dual Nature of AI: Understanding AI as Both Target and Threat

DDoS attacks remain a persistent threat to network responsiveness and profitability. But they not only represent risk, they’re also an untapped opportunity.

Join Akamai and Corero Network Security for a 30-minute, informative conversation exploring DDoS challenges, and how they can become growth opportunities. 

You’ll discover:
-Four hidden challenges driving DDoS-related costs in service provider networks
-Why sub-second mitigation, in-network visibility, and distributed protection are essential
-How to create tiered DDoS protection offerings that your customers will pay for

This discussion will give you a framework to turn those DDoS disruption pain points into business advantages.

Turning Today's DDoS Challenges into Opportunities

Join Tricia Howard and Ryan Barnett for Episode 24 of The SIG Download. Ryan shares findings from his recent Black Hat research on how attackers exploit Unicode and encoding quirks to conceal malicious activity. They also break down the most significant attacks observed over the past 30 days and offer practical guidance on how to defend against them.

In this on-demand session, you’ll learn:
- How seemingly normal text can be weaponized
- The impact of Unicode confusables, casing, and truncation
- Recent real-world attacks and actionable mitigation strategies

Watch now to get the insights you need to strengthen your defenses.

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SIG Download: Episode 24 - Lost in Translation: When Benign Text Turns Malicious

Our latest research reveals how AI-driven bots are reshaping the digital landscape — from content scraping that undermines publishers to commerce surges exceeding 25 billion bot requests in just two months.

Watch this on-demand webinar to explore which regions and industries are seeing the sharpest rise in AI bot traffic, and learn how understanding bot identity and intent can help you distinguish between helpful and harmful automation.

In this session, you’ll learn:
• Why bot identity and intent are critical
• Where AI training bots introduce new challenges
• How OWASP guidance can strengthen fraud defenses while preserving good bot traffic

Speakers:
Moderator: Tricia Howard, Security Intelligence Group, Akamai
Presenters:
• David Sénécal, Director of Engineering – Fraud and Abuse, Akamai
• Tom Emmons, Principal Product Architect, Akamai

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Watch the webinar on demand now and gain insights to help protect your business from the next wave of AI-driven threats.

SOTI Fraud and Abuse Report 2025: Navigating the AI bot surge

Cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated, leaving no industry untouched. As organizations expand digital operations and interconnect systems, the attack surface widens — particularly in high-target sectors like retail. One of the most dangerous tactics used by attackers is lateral movement, allowing them to silently escalate access and compromise critical assets.

When you're under attack, every second counts — and Akamai can help, whether you're a customer or not. From the moment a threat is detected, Akamai provides immediate support to contain and neutralize attacks in progress.

Organizations around the world rely on Akamai Guardicore to stop lateral movement through real-time microsegmentation, minimizing breach impact and securing high-value systems. And with Akamai Hunt’s proactive threat-hunting services, backed by behavioral analysis, anomaly detection, and IOC identification, even stealthy threats can be uncovered and addressed before they cause serious harm.

No matter your size, industry, or existing setup — if you're under attack, Akamai is ready to help.

Join us to learn how to:
- Contain ransomware with microsegmentation that stops lateral movement.
- Detect early-stage attacks using behavioral analysis and IOCs.
- Uncover stealthy threats through proactive threat hunting with Akamai Hunt.
- Implement Zero Trust controls across hybrid and cloud environments.

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Isolating Ransomware Attacks to Block Lateral Movement and Protect Critical Assets

Join host Tricia Howard (appearing as a zombie bot!) and legendary security expert Graham Cluley for a Halloween-themed dive into real-world cybersecurity scares. From insider schemes to AI-driven mischief, discover how human error, greed, and deception continue to haunt even the most secure systems.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How insider threats can manipulate systems for financial gain, including ransom diversions and fraud.
- The rise of AI-driven attacks and blackmail scenarios targeting organisations.
- How crypto-focused malware and hoax incidents highlight the evolving threat landscape.

Catch up on-demand.

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SIG Download: Episode 23 - Night of the Living Threats – A Halloween Cybersecurity Special

Join Akamai's Director of Field Security Technology, Michael Villar, for a live webinar where we break down the microsegmentation playbook—what it is, how it fits into a Zero Trust architecture, and how to deploy it for maximum visibility and control. Whether you're defending your enterprise against lateral movement or isolating critical workloads, microsegmentation is your MVP for reducing risk.

In this session, you'll learn:
- How to tackle lateral movement and insider threats
- Key components of a successful microsegmentation strategy
- Real-world use cases and deployment tips

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Endpoints to End Zone: Build Your Microsegmentation Defense

In this "If APIs Could Talk" episode, we’ll explore the Akamai API Security integration with ServiceNow and how it helps organizations bring visibility and control to API security. APIs are often invisible to traditional asset management and security tools, leaving gaps in governance and response. With this integration, you can automatically push API data into the ServiceNow CMDB, link vulnerabilities to the AVR module, and give IT and security teams shared visibility and workflows for remediation. The session will include a walkthrough of how the integration works, examples of how API findings are surfaced in ServiceNow, and practical tips for streamlining response and closing security gaps more efficiently.

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Ep. 20 From Discovery to Remediation:  Managing API Security with Akamai and ServiceNow

Security buyers face endless claims about protection efficacy — but how do you separate marketing from measurable reality?

In this session, SecureIQLab and Akamai break down the results of the industry’s only recurring, standards-based comparative WAAP test. Join Cameron Camp, Analyst Security Researcher and Akamai’s Brent Maynard, to learn how independent testing is conducted, why resiliency and false-positive avoidance matter as much as detection rates, and where most vendors still fall short.

We’ll share Akamai’s top-performing results, key market learnings, and the practical questions every security leader should ask when evaluating a WAF or WAAP. Walk away with actionable insights to validate your current defenses and strengthen your buying decisions.

Want to learn more? Compare WAAP vendor efficacy data in this 2025 report: https://www.akamai.com/lp/report/2025-waf-comparison-report

Additional Resources:

-On-Demand Webinar: Extend WAF Protections: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13169/646081
-Webinar: Adaptive Security Engine: Next-Gen WAAP: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13169/651706

Independent Testing, Real Results:  How Secure Is Your WAAP?

LLMs are becoming high-value attack surfaces — vulnerable to prompt injection, data exfiltration, AI-specific DoS, and output manipulation. Traditional security stacks have to evolve to see, understand, or stop these threats.

In this episode, we’ll take you under the hood of Akamai’s Firewall for AI — a purpose-built solution designed to protect generative AI and LLM applications from real-time exploitation. We’ll walk through the system’s architecture, policy models, and detection capabilities — and showcase a live demo of how it stops AI-layer threats otherwise missed.

You’ll learn:
- How Firewall for AI enforces security policies against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and abuse
- How configurable context-aware detections protect AI APIs and chat interfaces
- How organizations can monitor, control, and secure LLMs without disrupting performance or innovation

Whether you're deploying third-party models, fine-tuned internal copilots, or exposing AI via APIs — this session shows how to make AI defenses operational, scalable, and resilient by design.

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Firewall for AI: The Next Gen-AI Protection is Here

As AI continues to accelerate software development, new risks are emerging faster than most security teams can respond. Developers are building faster with AI-generated code, giving rise to “Shadow AI”: unsanctioned tools, agents, and automations that operate beyond the reach of visibility and governance. Every one of these AI workflows depends on APIs, and every hidden API represents potential exposure.

In this next session of Akamai’s “APIs in the Age of AI” series, experts from Akamai and Snyk unpack how to bring security back into focus. You’ll learn how AI is changing the way applications are built, why visibility into API schemas is the foundation of control, and how organizations can close the gap between AI-driven development and traditional AppSec.

What you’ll learn:

•How “Shadow AI” emerges across enterprises—and why APIs are at the center of it
•The risks of AI-generated code and agent-to-agent communication
•How visibility and schema discovery can eliminate blind spots in your API landscape
•Practical steps to integrate continuous API testing and runtime protection
•How Akamai and Snyk’s joint approach helps secure both the APIs and the AI systems they power
 
Join us to explore how to go from Shadow AI to Secure APIs—and how to safely accelerate innovation in an AI-powered world.

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APIs in the Age of AI: From Shadow AI to Secure APIs

As enterprises rapidly adopt AI, the digital fabric enabling these experiences is powered by APIs. Every interaction, every data exchange, and every AI model call depends on APIs to connect and perform. Yet that same connectivity introduces new vulnerabilities that can expose data, models, and business logic to risk.

In this session, Akamai security leaders explore why securing APIs is the foundation of securing AI itself. You’ll gain insights into emerging attack vectors targeting AI-powered applications, learn how attackers exploit API blind spots, and discover strategies to enable AI innovation without compromising security.

What you’ll learn:

•How APIs fuel modern AI applications—and where they introduce risk
•Real-world examples of API-based AI breaches and lessons learned
•Practical steps to strengthen API security without slowing AI initiatives
•Why “Securing AI starts with Securing APIs” is becoming the new security imperative
 
Join us for this episode in Akamai’s APIs in the Age of AI series and learn how to protect the intelligence—and the infrastructure—driving your digital future.

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APIs in the Age of AI: Why Securing APIs Means Securing AI

Companies are spending billions in AI, building apps like customer service chatbots and decision tools to help customers select the best products. And there is much riding on these apps – organizations expect these big investments to create revenue, streamline operations, and reduce costs. Unfortunately, along with the new opportunities come new threats.

AI-driven applications are non-deterministic, giving different results every time even when given the same input. And because of this, bad actors can manipulate and attack these apps in unique ways. These attacks often go unseen and undetected, so you could suffer significant damage before you realize what happened. In this talk, we’ll show you how you can protect yourself from these new dangers.

Find out: 
- The most misunderstood risks of AI apps
- The most common attacks and how they hurt companies’ top and bottom lines
- How security teams and business leaders can partner successfully to get the most ROI from AI apps
- Questions to ask when evaluating AI Security solutions

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Securing AI‑Driven Apps: Stopping Attacks Before They Stop You

In this episode of If Your APIs Could Talk, we’ll dive into a new integration that brings together Akamai’s enterprise-grade API discovery with Snyk’s developer-focused DAST engine. One of the biggest blockers to effective API security testing is the lack of accurate, up-to-date API specifications, especially in large, distributed environments. That’s where this integration comes in.
 
You’ll learn how joint customers can now automatically feed APIs discovered by Akamai from traffic, code, and infrastructure into Snyk for rapid testing and remediation, all without manual schema uploads. We’ll show how this streamlines workflows, increases coverage, and helps both security and development teams reduce risk earlier in the lifecycle.
 
Whether you’re trying to shift API security left, boost test automation, or get more value from your existing tools, this session will walk you through how Akamai and Snyk are solving application security challenges together.

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Ep 19 - Akamai API Security + Snyk Integration Deep Dive

Is your team developing AI solutions at pace with business demand? Modern cloud architectures have enabled a scale and flexibility for production AI not possible less than a decade ago. However, data science teams are seeing increased demand for new models often exceeding their capacity. 

In this session, we'll share why Agile AI is necessary for modern data science teams and practical learnings on how to leverage the cloud to:
- Increase time to value
- Decrease time to production
- Ensure the success of your models over the long term

Plus, we'll share multiple DataRobot customer stories and examples of Agile AI across the AI lifecycle.

Leveraging the Cloud for Agile AI Development

As a Service models have gained significant traction across businesses of all sizes and industries. Leaders are seeking solutions that accelerate cloud adoption and support agility while also allowing transformation at whatever pace works best. Many business leaders don’t want to change the way they operate, they just want to consume differently. They want to pay only for what they use – running applications and the business without worrying about how or where everything is being hosted.

As a Service is not a lease, capital purchase or cloud contract. It’s a way to use the latest technologies, with expert management, to the extent and capacity required.

Join Insight’s Kent Christensen as he unpacks the top benefits of as a service, from the financial to operational – and how to determine the right use cases for your business. Discover a new way to consume on-premises infrastructure that’s like the public cloud; a best-of-both worlds offering that will accelerate cloud adoption and drive impact across your organization.

Accelerating Cloud Transformation with As a Service

From the digital core to the data fabric, the data landscape has evolved dramatically over the past decades. We have witnessed the rise in complex data-driven applications, providing solutions to challenges which were previously thought to be unsolvable. Data fabrics will accelerate the development of these type of solutions, to create a seamless experience across disparate data technologies and their varied connection mechanisms. Most importantly, data fabrics will provide the protective umbrella-like cover for effective data management across an organization and when done right, simplify data partnerships across multiple organizations.
 
Join Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak for this data management-focused session to:
1. Define Data Fabric. 
2. Understand its critical role in the data management ecosystem.
3. Gain insight into how it enables data-driven solutions.

Data Fabric 101

The impact of the business need for faster cycles and increasing flexibility is driving DevOps and Cloud ideas throughout the IT value stream.  This has significant meaning for the compute side of the world.  We will explore the  “Environments on Demand” and how it impacts the IT Value Stream.  We will examine key elements of DevOps and cloud that help address the new world and optimize the investment.

In this session, we will discuss: 

1. Accelerating Change – Driving Forces (eg. Change Drivers, Industry Impact)
2. DevOps and Cloud – The Foundation (eg. Continuous Flow, Pipeline, Cloud Services)
3. Environments on Demand – Key Elements (eg. Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Automation, Integration & Ephemeral)
4. Environments on Demand – Real World Scenarios

Presented by: 
Terry Brennan, Managing Director, Orasi

DevOps and Cloud: Driving Environments On Demand and Optimizing Investments

AI brings unprecedented opportunities to businesses, but also incredible responsibility. Its direct impact on people’s lives has raised considerable questions around AI ethics, data governance, trust and legality. In fact, Accenture’s 2022 Tech Vision research found that only 35% of global consumers trust how AI is being implemented by organizations. And 77% think organizations must be held accountable for their misuse of AI.  

As machine learning and AI become more ubiquitous, businesses will need to find ways of overcoming these questions, deploying AI systems that empower employees and fairly impact customers and society.   

Join Monark Vyas (Managing Director – Applied Intelligence, Accenture) to explore how to leverage Responsible AI practices to design and deploy AI systems that engender trust and allow your business to flourish.    

Topics for discussion include:  
- Why AI and Machine Learning systems need to be built responsibly  
- The principles of responsible AI   
- How to put them into practice  
- And more...

Responsible AI: Scaling AI with Confidence

Today’s cloud teams have a lot on their hands. Some are working to modernize and migrate legacy applications to the cloud, others are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of change with cloud resources and services, all while managing a multi-cloud world, with workloads spanning on-prem data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. 

Join us for an introduction to VMware AriaTM, a new multi-cloud management solution, and a deep dive into cloud cost optimization. 

 Learn how VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (formerly CloudHealth):
• Gives business visibility into multi-cloud usage and costs
• Delivers recommendations for cost and usage optimization
• Governs your multi-cloud environment with policy-based alerts and automation
• Helps businesses implement FinOps best practices

Cost Optimization in a Multi-Cloud World: Drive Accountability with FinOps

Cloud technology has experienced massive growth, driven by the explosion of remote and hybrid workforces. Cloud computing provides a myriad of benefits for companies like increased growth, improved efficiency and faster workflows. But with this technology rapidly evolving, it is essential to stay on top of the new trends to ensure your company is gaining the most leverage from its cloud use and practicing a forward-thinking approach.

Tune into this panel discussion to hear top experts in the field discuss the key cloud computing trends to keep an eye on for this coming year and suggest how companies can practically apply these technologies while avoiding the trap of immediately jumping on a new cloud technology simply because it's another buzzword. 

Key discussion points:
- The multi-cloud strategy and its many benefits.
- The growing role AI and machine learning capabilities in cloud services.
- The increased adoption of cloud-native apps and how companies can best leverage them.
- The green cloud computing frameworks and how it emphasizes the environmental sustainability of cloud computing.

Moderated by: Simon Ratcliffe, Mentor and Adviser, Ensono
Alicia Howard, Product Manager, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth

What's on the cloud's horizon for 2023?

This fireside chat provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Arsenal Football Club is leveraging a cloud solution to create a single namespace interface, collaborate on media assets regardless of where they are stored, and improve overall workflows, all while maintaining a high level of confidence that critical security and access measures are not compromised.

Fireside chat with Arsenal Football Club: Winning with the Cloud

Using cloud and cloud-migration to accelerate business growth and explore new ways to innovate and quickly implement new services emphasizes the need to adopt the mindset of security-by-design and zero trust. Without a solid foundation of cyberprotection, businesses open a gateway for cyberattacks and cybercriminals to cause severe and irreparable damage. 

The core and foundation of true cybersecurity is validated digital identities (eID): The prerequisite of all other cybersecurity measures. Validated digital identities must be the one and only authorized way to identify and gain access across all user groups, services, and devices. 

For more than 15 years, Denmark has provided public access to the eID-solution MitID. 3rd. generation is now available delivering one unified system giving both citizens, employees, public authorities, and businesses easy access to validated digital identities. Bjarke Alling has been closely involved in the development of the solution and will share insights into how it is used and how validated digital identities can be implemented. 

Takeaways: 
1.) How the Danish solution for validated digital identities works 
2.) What the Danish solution for validates identities gives access to 
3.) How to adopt validated digital identities as the foundation of a truly cybersecure cloud infrastructure 

About the speaker:
Bjarke Alling is co-founder and acting Group Managing Director of cybersecurity company Liga. He is a current member and prior co-chair of the National Danish Cyber Security Council, former chair of their IT-security committee, member of the board at The Danish ICT Industry Association (ITB), and member of the board of D-Mærket (D-Seal)

Building a Cybersecure Cloud Infrastructure with Validated Digital Identities

Whether they know it or not, most companies' IT infrastructure is multi-cloud. Even when using a single cloud strategy to drive digital transformation, companies have workloads hosted in AWS, Office365 for the desktops, Salesforce for CRM, SAP Concur for travel and expenses. It doesn’t get more multi-cloud than that. 

The challenges are many:
·       How does a company manage all these different SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments?
·       How do they keep security guardrails consistent?
·       What about keeping track of cloud native innovations?
·       And, most of all, how do they control costs?

In this session, join Jeroen Mulder (Principal Consultant at Fujitsu) as he discusses the principle of the single pane of glass view in managing business environments across cloud propositions, from security and cost management perspective. Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of how to keep their company safe and financially sound on the road to digital transformation.

Containing Cloud Costs

The decentralized cloud (dcloud) is emerging as a cost-effective alternative to conventional public cloud services. 

Research universities, for example, love the convenience of cloud services, but find it hard to afford to store all the data they have to collect and maintain. 

As storage and compute become less tightly coupled, price-sensitive, early adopter customers have been storing their big data via services that harness the power and cost advantages of the dcloud: newly capable peer-to-peer data networks such as the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and the cloud-friendly infrastructure that’s already being built on top.

Other early adopter organizations such as the Chrome development unit of Alphabet, Netflix and Opera have been using IPFS-based storage as a simpler, cheaper and in some other ways more suitable alternative for certain classes of data storage. Tape and other “cold storage” methods are under replacement threat as a result. 
 
This talk will provide an overview of dcloud (a.k.a., services that use the dgraph/dweb/web3)  or P2P data network cloud storage alternatives for enterprise, what the pros and cons are of these new services, and how they promise to expand the storage options available to mainstream companies.

Speaker bio:
Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.

The Rise of Decentralized Cloud Storage

There’s a reason only 32% of global data is currently being put to work. Though projections expect 180 zettabytes of data will be created by 2025, these deep troves of information are often locked up, behind skills gaps, data gravity problems, and incomplete hybrid architectures. Even when the data is accessible, diverse teams struggle to collaborate to create, refine, understand, govern, and innovate with their data. Meanwhile, costs are always a factor. Amidst all these challenges — is there a better way?

In this session, Faction CTO Matt Wallace will explore:

 - How a multi-cloud approach solves data gravity and skills gravity
 - How multi-cloud creates huge cost and innovation advantages over “multiple clouds”
 - What the future of data warehouses, data lakes, and innovation looks like
 - How a fluid, hybrid multi-cloud approach can give you the best of all worlds - and what pitfalls to avoid that drive up cost and complexity

Unleash Innovation with Multi-Cloud

Microservices architectures can be a game-changer for business agility and incremental application modernization. 

Join the session to discover the following key takeaways:

- Learn best practices for building microservices leveraging a real-time data layer
- How DevOps teams can easily manage, administer and deploy Redis clusters on Kubernetes
- The key capabilities of cloud-native Redis Enterprise that make it the ideal data platform for real-time microservices-based applications

Overcoming the Challenges of Deploying a Microservices Data Layer on Kubernetes

Today there is a large gap in quality and access to pediatric healthcare between major cities in rich countries and rural areas in those same countries as well as the entire developing world. We have the power to help repair those gaps and raise the standards of children’s healthcare across the globe, through the development and deployment of pediatric cardiology, orthopedic, neurology, oncology and radiology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. 

Born out of his early commercial work in cloud computing and inspired by a student in his Stanford cloud computing class, Timothy Chou formed BevelCloud to transform children’s healthcare globally by creating privacy-preserving real-time pediatric applications based on access to 1,000,000 healthcare machines in all 500 children’s hospitals in the world. 

In this talk, Timothy Chou describes how his team have constructed a widely distributed, privacy-preserving edge cloud service that optimizes communication and collaboration in pediatric healthcare to drive better outcomes for patients across the globe. He’ll discuss the benefits and challenges of using central architectures for AI in medicine and highlight real-time collaboration and privacy-preserving federated learning applications.  

Join the session to discover: 
- How software can do good in the world and transform children’s healthcare globally. 
- The challenges central architectures have to advance AI in pediatric medicine. 
- An introduction to a new edge cloud service.

A Moon-Shot Mission: Transforming Pediatric Healthcare with AI

With concerns about the environment constantly on the forefront, businesses should seek to do their part and reduce waste while maintaining efficiency and optimizing costs. The green cloud covers the many environmental benefits provided by cloud use such as reduced data center carbon footprint. Green cloud computing can even reduce costs when properly applied, making it a no-brainer for cloud-invested companies to explore. Tune into this panel discussion to hear experts in the field discuss some practical, real-life tips to making your cloud infrastructure more environmentally friendly:

• How to select a green cloud service provider.
• The action steps to help “green” your data center such as optimizing infrastructure and tracking usage.
• The newer technologies like machine learning that can replace the older more wasteful ones.
• How the green cloud can ultimately speed up digital transformation efforts.

Enhance sustainability and reduce costs with green cloud computing

Cloud infrastructure today is all built by composition. A disparate mix of hardware and software that must be composed into a final solution that is complex to build and costly and fragile to operate. But does it have to be this way?
Join SoftIron CTO Kenny Van Alstyne in this session to explore and understand the transformative technology that underpins SoftIron’s HyperCloud - the world’s first complete technology for building clouds.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discover this groundbreaking new technology. 

Join us in this webinar to learn:
- The drawbacks with how clouds have traditionally been composed
- How rethinking the “silos” of compute network and storage can be transformative
- How the concepts like “state and statelessness” can empower a new cloud architecture 
- How fragmented  lifecycle management can be transformed into holistic fleet management deep in the the fabric of the technology
- How this enables HyperCloud to be deployed in as little as half a rack and half a day, yet to scale to almost infinity with just generalist IT skills, and with a fraction of the management overhead

Not Your Average Cloud: Transforming Cloud Technology With HyperCloud

Cloud is quickly becoming the tech enabler of choice to disrupt markets and sectors with differentiated products and services. Savvy business leaders are waking up to the Cloud arms race and utilising its innovative power to re-shape operations and gain competitive edge whilst at the same time harnessing opportunities to embed long term sustainability.

We’re no longer in the decade of lift and shift. If businesses aren’t using Cloud to innovate and drive sustainable outcomes in the next, they’ll simply be left behind. Cloud coupled with industry leading knowledge and insight holds real potential for businesses to be successful in both strategy and ambition whilst future-proofing at speed and scale.

In this session, Bijit Sikdar, Klairi Liis and Jason Sutherland explore the Current state of cloud Adoption & Maturity, Challenges & Mitigation approaches, the industry-centric thinking and trends driving accelerated adoption to the Cloud; with innovation, global issues and emerging challenges such as sustainability management at the heart of shaping solutions using Cloud products and services.

Meet our Panel of experts in the field:

Jason Sutherland (Director - Cloud CoE: Innovation & Strategy Lead, PwC)
Bijit Sikdar (Director - Cloud CoE: Multi Cloud Pre-Sales Architect, PwC)
Klairi Liis (Director - Consulting: Cloud Transformation and Sustainability Tooling, PwC)

Cloud Revolution: Accelerating Innovation to Future-Proof Business and Society

When we speak of innovation we invariably default to conversations about technology and how and where it can change our organisations, but true innovation requires creative, original thinking to create the innovative ideas in the first place. It is said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process and expecting a different result. The same applies to how we think. We need a different approach to enable innovation.

Join us in this webinar to explore how different approaches to organisational thinking can unlock potential within your organisation and release the potential for greater innovation.

The Future of Innovation: Changing the Mindset

Organizations are looking for new ways to accommodate accelerating cloud growth and edicts. Business agility, competitive differentiation, and the desire to grow overall are the driving factors for cloud adoption. Cloud approaches are necessary in order for the business to evolve, but the transition isn’t easy. Many CIOs are tasked with adopting a cloud strategy but are equally challenged with keeping core business operations going. This puts a tremendous burden on IT as well as lines of business. In this keynote session, ESG Senior Analyst Paul Nashawaty will discuss the skill gaps that make it difficult for organizations to tackle cloud projects, how most organizations are adopting a distributed approach to cloud adoption, why application portability is important, and how the market is evolving to adapt to this new way of doing business.

Overcoming Obstacles to Cloud Innovation

Accelerating Cloud Innovation in 2023

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Global Data Replication for Improved API Performance and Availability

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Global Data Replication for Improved API Performance and Availability

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