Name: Cloud Sprawl: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How To Avoid It
Start: 2020-10-27T16:00:00Z
End: 2020-10-27T16:00:11.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Cloudreach is the leading multi-cloud services provider. Our mission is to help companies navigate their unique journeys to the cloud and build new foundations for future growth.
We’re a team of cloud natives with over 800 certifications across AWS, GCP and Azure. We challenge people to do things better, so they can do better things. Businesses that work with Cloudreach adopt cutting edge technologies to solve challenges and create new opportunities. In this way, we deliver unrivalled value for more than 1000 enterprise clients globally. For more information about our services, visit cloudreach.com.

In this particular webinar, we’ll uncover how we helped a major financial services company sustain a competitive edge and unlock new revenue streams from their data.

Big Data Meets BigQuery

The standard deployment model for applications in the cloud is changing dramatically. Gartner research predicts that by 2023, 70% of global organizations will be running more than 2 containerized cloud-based production applications.

Clearly, containers and microservices are the future of cloud development, but how can you ensure adoption of flexible, scalable, and secure solutions that don’t hurt your bottom line? 

Adopting solid development and deployment strategies, while establishing a consistent SDLC, can help make this transition easier. 

In this webinar, you will learn:
-  Practical ways to make the switch and successfully drive change in your organization
-  Top tips and best practices for adopting containers and microservices to realize the increased agility, scalability, and security

Practical Strategies for Migrating to Containers & Microservices on AWS

Episode 1 of the Going Cloud-Native: Fast Tracking Innovation and ROI for Tomorrow’s Customer-Centred Business series 

With Digital Transformation projects well under way in most organizations, and propelled even further ahead by an unprecedented 2020, the technical landscape underpinning and driving businesses has never looked more promising - or complex. A key tenet of this landscape is cloud: elastic, scalable and agile and with the ability to help businesses fastrack innovation and outrun the competition.

Yet with the glittering promise of this technical landscape can come numerous challenges: specifically, what the best cloud infrastructure and development approach is. Join us for episode 1 of Going Cloud-Native: Future-Proofing the Business, where cloud and Kubernetes experts from Cloudreach, Azure argue that a cloud-native approach is the key to business innovation and success, and share the latest insights on how this advice on how to overcome the challenges of going cloud-native so that you can reap the rewards and transform your business. 

Areas of discussion will include:
-        A cloud-native ‘state of the nation’: what the cloud-native landscape looks like in 2020
-        What being truly cloud-native can bring to your business and your customers (real examples)
-        Why a cloud-native application development approach creates a strong DevOps teams

Series Host:
Helen Beal, Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute

Guest Speakers:
Jason Sutherland, Application Development Service Line Leader, Cloudreach
James Dunn, Cloud Adoption Service Line Leader, Cloudreach

[Ep.1] What Does it Mean to Be Cloud-Native in 2020?

In the past 12 months, 46% of security breaches involved insiders or ‘trusted’ third parties. According to a 2020 Forrester State of Data Security and Privacy report, the insurangance of insider threats, credential challenges, and urgency for compliance is leading many organizations to invest in cybersecurity technologies. So how do you protect your systems, data, privacy, and livelihood?

This webinar will walk through the concepts of a comprehensive, focused, and action-based approach to information security by leveraging Google Cloud’s core principles of Security. Using compliance requirements as a driving financial force, organizations can develop a formalized Information Security Program operated by elitely trained information security professionals, centered on Zero Trust, and emerging technologies.

Attendees of this webinar will walk away with:
- An understanding of the cloud responsibility model
- How to establish transparency by reducing the unverifiable trust surface
- Determine the best approach to illuminate visibility, enforce control, and implement detect-to-respond actions for their information security teams

Developing an information security program built on Zero Trust with Google Cloud

There’s a lot of talk in the market about data-driven organizations and a move toward deriving value from machine learning. Although, to be able to analyze data quickly and effectively, you have to start with having the basics right. 

In this webinar, John Loughlin, Chief Technologist at Cloudreach, will uncover how to correctly set up your infrastructure and core capabilities: data ingestion, data pipelines and data persistence, utilizing Google Cloud data services so that you can uncover the most value from your data. 

Attendees of this webinar will learn how Cloudreach experts are using Google Cloud to help organizations of all sizes with data and analytics challenges – including the development of model systems and projections supporting COVID-19 recovery.

How to Build out Core Capabilities Utilizing Google Cloud Data Services

Cloud migration experts Rob Duffy, Lilian Cropper, Christopher Hall, and Kelsea Luce discuss how and why to run a Smart Migration to achieve faster time to value so that your teams can start optimizing, modernizing, and innovating ASAP.
We dig into the Cloudreach approach to rapid, low-cost, enterprise-grade cloud migrations, specifically the toolsets and methodologies that we use to get enterprises up and running in the cloud.

Cloudreach Live! How to Plan and Run a Smart Migration

IT leaders believe large-scale public cloud migrations have been “essential for business survival” following COVID-19, per a recent Cloudreach study. While every organization has their own unique motivations and goals, there are common frameworks and best practices that can help streamline the migration process. 

During this session, we'll uncover the key drivers for cloud adoption and discuss the AWS Migration Acceleration program that's enabling UK customers to take a practical and phased approach to cloud migrations.


Why Attend?

Thought leaders will provide insights on:
1. State of Play: Understanding the need for accelerated business change and cloud adoption within the current global climate
2. AWS Migration Acceleration Program and its benefits 
3. Panel Discussion with IT leaders from Sanne Group, Kurtosys, Avon and AWS; moderated by Dave Chapman, Head of Strategy at Cloudreach

An Analysis of Recent Cloud Migration: Motivations, Goals, Results

In this talk, we’ll cover:
- the skills and competencies needed for data and analytics excellence
- how to select a D&A service provider
- how to engage the provider and scale the value of the relationship
- how to remove blockers and structure your team for success

Ask the Expert: How to Select the Right D&A Organizational Model

The focus of this talk is how to enable retailers to make data driven decisions in response to changing markets.

This session will cover three major points:
• All data should be stored and available in its raw form;
• Data should be cataloged - an inventory of data assets helps break down organizational silos;
• The various forms of analytics - descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive.

We will illustrate each point with examples from engagements Cloudreach has delivered in partnership with Microsoft Azure.

Enabling Agility: How to Make Data-Driven Decisions on Azure

In episode 1 of Cloud-Powered Consolidated Audit Trail Success for Financial Services, Cloudreach and Azure experts discussed why cloud is the best approach for meeting C.A.T requirements. In episode 2, we take a closer look at how cloud can not only enable you to meet C.A.T. requirements, but how implementing and scaling a cloud-first strategy can help you meet your business goals.

Join Cloudreach and guest Azure experts who will be uncovering the cloud readiness challenges organizations need to overcome in their bid to be C.A.T. compliant - including lack of skills alignment, tools and methodologies - and hear how to overcome them so that come December 2021, you’re ready to be rewarded with the benefits of a successful, scalable implementation.

Areas of discussion will include:

- How to ensure you’re looking at the complete, holistic picture of your C.A.T infrastructure requirements
- How to ensure you’re truly set up for security success for C.A.T.
- The ROI of an Azure-driven, cloud-powered C.A.T.

Series Host:
Simon Ratcliffe - Tech Evangelist and Non-Exec Board Advisor

Guest Speakers
Peter Richards - CTO, Cloudreach
Umang Chhibber - Regional Solutions Architect Leader, Cloudreach

[Ep.2] Scaling a Cloud-Powered Consolidated Audit Trail

In this webinar you will learn:

1. How data should be cataloged, the different forms of analytics, and how it maps onto what you want to achieve
2. The areas that need to be considered while performing all stages of ETL processing 
3. How to leverage Cloudreach partner solutions like Snowflake for ETL processing
4. How a robust cloud data platform should be built with reliable pipelines and automated data governance

How to Prepare Your Cloud Infrastructure for the Demands of Big Data, AI, and ML

Cloudreach technologists and consultants Brad Campbell, James Dunn, Tammy Hower, and Christian Nilsson discuss all things DevOps - what it means, how it helps organizations, and what successful adoption looks like.
In this roundtable, we discuss:
* What DevOps means and how it helps organizations
* What a good implementation of DevOps looks like
* What comes after DevOps
* What role partners can play in DevOps adoption

Let's Talk DevOps

The Consolidated Audit Trail (C.A.T.) is the largest and most detailed new regulatory reporting requirement in decades. Requiring high accuracy and clean data, preparing their infrastructure for C.A.T compliance is a significant and complex undertaking for financial services organizations.

In episode 1 of Cloud-Powered Consolidated Audit Trail Success for Financial Services, Cloudreach and Azure experts come together to share insights and strategies for how businesses can be C.A.T. ready with a secure, cost-effective and scalable cloud infrastructure.

Topics of discussion will include:
- The requirements of C.A.T. and how they will fuel a transformation of your infrastructure 
- Why cloud is the best approach to C.A.T. compliance
- How to meet the requirements of C.A.T. by getting started on a cloud-readiness strategy 
- The business benefits of rapid infrastructure transformation and a proactive governance approach

Series Host:
Simon Ratcliffe - Tech Evangelist and Non-Exec Board Advisor

Guest Speakers
Peter Richards - CTO, Cloudreach
Umang Chhibber - Regional Solutions Architect Leader, Cloudreach
Michael Hobbs - Founder, Reputable.Ventures

[Ep.1] State of the Nation: CAT, Cloud and Compliance

2020 saw an acceleration of cloud driven transformation as organizations were forced to react, pivot, and adapt to the significant disruption caused by the global pandemic.
 
As we look into 2021 and beyond, IDC predicts enterprises will commit to modernizing over half of their existing applications by 2022 in order to increase business agility.
 
In this webinar, Dave Chapman, Head of Strategy and Professional Services at Cloudreach, is joined by Frank Della Rosa, Research Director SaaS and Cloud Software at IDC, as they unpack expected cloud trends for 2021, discuss why cloud-native organizations are inherently more resilient, and outline what organizations must do to accelerate their journey to cloud native.

Transformation in Action: Advanced Cloud Strategies for 2021

Our customer was one of the largest cities in the world with a mandate of defending and safeguarding the city, and its systems and data, from cyberattacks and other online threats. Watch as Cloud Architect, Andrew Teall, shares how Google Cloud and Cloudreach created an innovative approach to achieve security at scale.

Helping the world’s largest cities stay secure from cyber-threats

The most successful businesses are the ones that go cloud-native. In episodes 1 and 2 of Going Cloud-Native: Fast Tracking Innovation and ROI for Tomorrow’s Customer-Centred Business, we discussed why this is, asking experts what it means to be cloud-native and sharing insights and tips on how to successfully leverage cloud-native infrastructure for next-level ROI.

In the final episode of the series, it’s time to discuss the business benefits and tangible results of an AWS-driven, cloud-first strategy. Namely, what business potential cloud-native unlocks, how it can set your business on a winning path that puts you ahead of your competitors and in front of happy customers, and the substantial results you can expect.

We’ll be discussing:
- The tangible results cloud-native helps businesses realise
- Why modernizing strategic assets by going cloud-native unlocks for the future of your business- and what this looks like
- The benefits resulting from cloud-driven continuous innovation, agility and reduced risk
- Real-word success stories from the field of businesses who have gone cloud-native
- And more  

- Hosted by Helen Beal - Chief Ambassador, DevOps Institute
- Brad Campbell, Chief Technologist, Cloudreach 
- Jason Sutherland, Application Development Service Line Leader, Cloudreach

[Ep.3] Unlocking Tangible Results and Business Potential with Cloud-Native

How do you mitigate the risks threatening cloud excellence? In this webinar, Cloudreach Migrations Service Line Lead Rob Duffy, dives into the concept of "cloud sprawl." Throughout this short presentation, we'll present you with three cloud migration scenarios and steps to avoid cloud sprawl before it brings your cloud journey to a halt.

Cloud Sprawl: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How To Avoid It

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