Name: Building for the Edge
Start: 2020-12-17T18:00:00Z
End: 2020-12-17T18:00:25.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Flexential's consultative approach produces tailored solutions that provide long-term value for IT-intensive businesses. Our highly-connected, national data center platform and full suite of colocation, cloud, data protection, managed and professional services, flex to empower our customers' evolving infrastructure requirements.

The edge has emerged as the next frontier in the enterprise. What started out as a replacement term for remote office/branch office has expanded to encompass a plethora of other needs as well, including IoT strategies, AI initiatives, and much more. In this session Tim Parker, VP of Network Strategy at Flexential, discusses edge computing as the future of IT infrastructure, where edge fits into the improvement of latency for mission critical applications and local edge architecture to support data centric applications.

Enabling Edge Environments

The maintenance and optimization of your IT infrastructure is a complex, never-ending journey. Beyond ensuring the uptime of your business-critical applications and functions, there are also workload placements, security & compliance, and regulatory governance measures to keep up-to-date in a constantly evolving landscape.

In this session, Flexential experts present a real-world customer use case, whiteboard session and Q&A about supporting and protecting a complex hybrid infrastructure.

Whiteboard Happy Hour: Protecting the Crown Jewels of your IT Infrastructure

In this session, Flexential Solutions Architect Derek Siler presents insights into the importance of a diverse cloud infrastructure to successfully support different workloads and the role of a core-to-edge strategy to support a low-latency application environment.

Connecting Cloud Environments

Customers are searching for outcomes, not products, so the integration of solutions to achieve the desired goal wins.

When it comes to hosting the enterprise edge, a multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC), rather than a hyperscale setting, can be a fast and less complex option because connectivity to necessary partners is already in place. Networking with service providers, content delivery networks, and other retail tenants can be established quickly through software-programmable interconnection.

According to 451 Research, the top factors for selecting a geographic location for enterprise datacenters are security, network connectivity and accessibility by IT staff. Latency is a benefit of edge deployments but is not the primary driver.

It is critical to understand the role of the datacenter in the edge ecosystem, which has evolved into a connectivity-rich setting supporting a hybrid approach to compute, storage, security, and services. Without the ability to provide these services near the data users, as well as network transport to the final destination, we cannot efficiently manage, store and analyze our data.

In this session, Tim Parker, SVP of Network Strategy & Jordan Dukes, Director of Interconnection Sales for Flexential and Craig Matsumoto, Senior Analyst at 451 Research cover the technology and business trends fueling the adoption of edge computing. They also discuss why latency is critical for companies that want to deliver next-gen customer experiences.

Hybrid Edge: Data at the Right Time, at the Right Place

Virtualization remains at the forefront of the data center and is extending into the cloud to enable true hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In this session Derek Siler, Solutions Architect at Flexential, discusses the drivers for enterprises to consider where their most critical workloads live and the considerations for determining their hybrid IT infrastructure and supporting their virtualization journey.

Supporting and Extending Virtual Computing

Organizations were recently presented with the unexpected challenge of converting to a fully remote workforce. Many organizations may have assumed that their existing “work-from-home” plan that was in place for normal business operations would suffice in the event of a disaster. The reality is, there are only a handful of companies out there that ever tested their infrastructure’s ability to handle sending their entire workforce home to work for an extended period of time.

This conversation not only shed a whole new light on supporting virtual workforces, but maintaining a secure and compliant environment for their business-critical functions. In this session, Derek Siler will discuss the impact that the shift to “WFH” had on IT infrastructure and security & compliance, how a cloud solution can support this new environment and maintain business continuity, and the keys to pairing your cloud and data protection infrastructure to achieve business success, whether facing the regular or the unexpected.

Protecting Your Remote Workforce

isten in as Michael Silla, SVP DC Design & Construction, and Kelly Wood, Manager of Wholesale Solutions Architects at Flexential, have a quick huddle to chat about one of the key strategies they are using today to rapidly execute data center deployments while maintaining the agility necessary when strategies shift.

15-Minute Tech Talk: Explore One Key Strategy for Agile Data Center Designs

Not All Workloads Are Created Equal: How to Design Your Hybrid IT Environment Based on Your Application Requirements

Today’s modern enterprises understand every application can and should be categorized by priority and level of mission-criticality in order to dictate the IT environment that they adopt, be it local/on-prem, or hosted off-prem via Colocation or Cloud, either Private, Public, DRaaS Cloud or a hybrid mix of any of these.


In this session, Melanie Posey, Research Vice President and General Manager at 451 Research, and Derek Siler, Solution Architect at Flexential discuss designing hybrid IT environments based on application requirements.

Not All Workloads are Created Equal

Hear Flexential's Chief Innovation Officer, Jason Carolan, examine how big shifts in the way we consume information are driving a need for data to be processed closer to users through edge computing.

Building for the Edge

Colocation

Data Processing

Information Security

Data Architecture

Connectivity

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