Modernizing Your Way to Innovation

One of the biggest mistakes CIOs make when it comes to defining a cloud strategy is buying into the myths that it is too late, that a cloud strategy will be a huge undertaking, or that it will require a complete IT overhaul. Don’t let these myths deter you from taking the time to thoughtfully develop a cloud strategy. The truth is, regardless of where you are in your IT transformation journey, a clearly articulated cloud strategy strengthens your organization’s ability to adapt to a changing technology and business landscape.

In our upcoming webinar, “Why Every CIO Should Define a Cloud Strategy Now,” you’ll hear how Rackspace customers approached defining their cloud strategies.

Join us to learn:

• How you know you need a cloud strategy – HINT: You do!
• Why it’s never too late to define your cloud strategy
• How to head off common roadblocks and challenges

According to RightScale, 94% of respondents to their 2019 State of the Cloud Survey reported that they’re already using the cloud. With so many organizations seeking to embrace the cloud to drive their business goals, it’s more important than ever to ensure your cloud strategy is built on a solid foundation.

A well-defined cloud strategy not only supports the organization’s long-term business strategy, it also fosters differentiation across the entire business, helping to drive innovation, growth and profitability.

Join our panel of technology leaders for our upcoming webinar, “Defining a Future-Proof Cloud Strategy”, where they will discuss:

• What a cloud strategy is and how it fits into overall business strategy
• Common misconceptions around defining a cloud strategy
• Necessary steps for defining your cloud strategy
• How a cloud strategy can promote innovation, enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth

When businesses want to modernize their legacy applications, they look to the cloud. But they’re also looking to technologies like containers — which make it possible to run applications across computing environments.

As a result, containers are becoming a integral part of today’s hybrid cloud deployments. But many businesses lack the expertise to take full advantage of these technologies.

Join us for our upcoming webinar, “Launch Your Hybrid Cloud Journey with AWS Container Services,” where our AWS experts will discuss:

•AWS Containers + Hybrid Cloud: Why is this a golden combination?
•How to deploy and manage portable, agile and scalable applications leveraging AWS container services
•Best practices for monitoring and optimizing a hybrid container environment

As cloud adoption continues to boom, more businesses are looking to hybrid architectures to modernize their legacy IT. With a hybrid cloud, you can take advantage of the scalable, flexible nature of a public cloud while maintaining the control and security of a private cloud.

But the hybrid cloud also comes with increased complexity — such as maintaining security requirements, implementing an integration strategy and managing cloud-native applications across various platforms.

You can overcome these challenges, though, and experience a successful hybrid cloud implementation. Our experts will show you how in our webinar, “How to Set Yourself Up for Success on Hybrid Cloud.” Join us to discuss:

•Integrating your data and applications
•Achieving hybrid cloud security
•Leveraging cloud-native technologies
•Developing your cloud strategy

Today’s retail market is more competitive than ever.
With the rise in online and mobile shopping, increased competition, and heightened customer service expectations, retailers need to be more flexible not only in their offerings to customers, but also in their uses of technology. As a result, IT teams are looking to leverage the latest in infrastructure and management practices, including infrastructure-as-code models.

In this webinar, you’ll hear about a retail customer who has been working through this modernization process over the past 18 months. During this conversation, we’ll discuss how this retailer was able to meet the operational demands of keeping POS systems available around-the-clock while pivoting to a new hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Google Cloud Platform and VMware. You’ll also learn how the customer settled on Google Cloud Platform as the right fit for their workloads.

Join us for an insightful conversation as we explore this customer’s experience. You'll learn:
-- Why retailers need to modernize their infrastructure to meet the demands of their marketing teams and sales
-- Why not all applications are created equal and why the solution may require multiple types of infrastructure and a hybrid cloud
-- Why transformations like this take time and resources, and how having a partner can help offset the burden on internal teams and reduce risk

Digital transformation means different things to different businesses. For some, it can mean moving certain workloads to the cloud. For others, it can mean leaving their corporate data centers completely. And there are many ways to reach these destinations.

Despite the ambiguity, one thing is clear: The world isn’t waiting on us. It is changing and we need to change with it.

In our innovator panel, “Channeling Change: How to Drive Growth in a World of Evolving IT,” we will bring thought leaders together from across industries to discuss embracing digital transformation in an ever-changing IT landscape. You’ll discover:

1. What digital transformation really means — and what it really takes

2. How the role of IT has changed for organizations in the past 5 years and the impact those changes have on CIOs and IT leaders

3. How to align your transformation approach to your business goals (incremental improvements vs. dramatic transformation)

Discover How Your Peers Drive Innovation
What does it look like to be a digital innovator in 2019 and beyond? And does it require adopting the latest “cool” technology, or can you use your current technology in an innovative way?
Find out directly from your peers, Jeffrey Gill - SVP, Synchronoss, Patrick Kemble - CTO, Samba Safety and Bret Piatt - CEO, Jungle Disk, in our webinar, Fueling Innovation and Improving Customer Outcomes.

You’ll hear about:

•The challenges they faced
•The innovations they implemented
•The impact the changes had on customer experience and business outcomes
•Advice to other organizations undertaking IT transformation projects

Discover best practices for modernizing your IT.

To drive business growth, increase efficiency and improve team productivity, organizations are investing in innovative technologies — such as AI, blockchain, enhanced data analytics and edge computing.

But modern technologies require a modern IT strategy. And that means more than just migrating legacy systems. It involves adding new skills and workforce capabilities, modernizing current technology infrastructures and changing organizational thinking.

In our webinar, Modernizing Your Way to Innovation, you’ll learn:

1. Where to start and what to consider when modernizing IT

2. How to modernize IT with a digital foundation that leads to continued innovation

3. Best practices to help manage the complexity and risk that comes with the increased focus of multiple clouds, migration of apps and data, tools and processes