Name: Connecting Cloud Environments
Start: 2021-01-14T18:00:00Z
End: 2021-01-14T18:00:23.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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

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

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

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

In a rapidly evolving IT environment, a flexible and hybrid approach to IT has become commonplace and futureproofing requirements remains a key challenge. This debate explores next-gen development delving into challenges and discussing best practice.

Is a rigid process critical to efficiently developing purpose-built facilities? What role should flexibility and collaboration play in building your next gen data center? We will address these and other key questions around developing next gen data centers with a focus on speed to market, cost and flexibility.

This debate will discuss:

- Who are the right players to include in the design process?
- What are the considerations for an assembly line approach to data center construction?
- How does modularizing electrical and mechanical equipment provide efficiencies?
- Which best practices are used in managing the entitlement process?

The latest findings in next-gen data center development

In 2019, ransomware attacks reportedly cost the United States $7.5 billion, and the average recovery time for each incident was 287 days. The incidents were not simply expensive inconveniences; the disruption they caused put people’s health, safety and lives at risk. It’s clear that ransomware is a serious threat, and it’s only becoming more advanced and harder to defend against. Only a proactive strategy and robust recovery plan can minimize your vulnerability and prepare your organization to effectively defend against these threats.

During this webinar, you will learn the ransomware landscape and 2020 trends, who is most vulnerable to attacks and why, best practices to assess your IT environment and prevent attacks and real-world use cases for successful defense against and recovery from ransomware.

Ransomware Readiness: Prepare your defense against the threat

Tim Parker, Flexential’s Vice President of Network Strategy, will expound on his PTC'20 Panel discussion. Tim covers how businesses are taking data to the edge, why data collected at the edge needs to connect to compute and the cloud to be analyzed and useful, as well as how data collected at the edge is powering tomorrow’s technology.

Taking Data to the Edge, Why Interconnection is Key

Businesses today are aware of the everyday threats to their mission-critical infrastructure and most have implemented some form of back up or disaster recovery to protect their data. However, how often does that plan get tested? Can it handle the possibility of both short term and long term disruptions? Is it ready to keep your business running as usual in the face of any disaster?

Join Steve Hasselbach, Manager of Solutions Architecture at Flexential as he discusses today’s BCDR landscape, including:

Common threats to business infrastructure and mission-critical applications
The new threats to workloads presented by COVID-19
How to prepare for unexpected disruptions
How to build a resilient strategy to overcome the unpredictable

Disaster Recovery: Are you prepared for any threat?

Join Craig Cook, Flexential’s Senior Vice President of Solutions Architecture & Engineering, as he presents valuable information in this 20-minute webinar, Optimizing Your Virtual Infrastructure. 

Hear what he has to say around how environments are being augmented by new technologies, including:

- Containers
- Software-defined storage
- Networking
- And other capabilities around optimizing virtual environments

How to Optimize Your Virtual Infrastructure

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 webinar you'll learn: 
- How businesses are taking data to the edge
- Why data collected at the edge needs to connect to compute and the cloud to be analyzed and useful
- How data collected at the edge is powering tomorrow's technology 
- How interconnection will accelerate adoption

The State of the Edge

For infrastructure leaders tasked with bolstering workload resilience, the pendulum is swinging back from housing data in ‘the cloud’ to housing data in a self-owned facility. As enterprises scale, they can often become ‘too big for the cloud’ in their efforts to lower storage costs. However, cloud service providers are keenly aware of the dense compute, storage and software-laden networking required by enterprises of the future and are adapting their cost models to match changing expectations. We ask our panelists how their cloud providers are faring in the face of increased infrastructure complexities. How vital are ‘favourable’ cost models to the ultimate location of workloads, storage and networking infrastructure?

Is there such thing as too big for the cloud?

Despite best efforts, 70% of Digital Transformation projects fail according to research by McKinsey. What happens when your project is one of the 70%? 

Join episode 8 of Digital Transformation in Action, where host Alex Hilton and guest experts give guidance on what to do next - and what to do to ensure you don't find yourself there in the first place. 

Topics of discussion will include:

- How leaders can effectively communicate their goals, strategy, purpose and outlook for failed and future DX projects to employees
- Why companies need to prioritise data transformation in their Digital Transformation initiatives 
- Understanding that with Digital Transformation, it's crucial that business practices and operations receive the same focus as technological advancements

Moderator: Alex Hilton - CEO, Cloud Industry Forum
Panellists: Mike Kiersey - CTO, Dell Boomi EMEA | Jason Carolan - Chief Innovation Officer, Flexential | Rory Choudhuri - Solutions Marketing Director, VMWare EMEA

When Digital Transformation Projects Fail: What Next?

Stephen Myers, CIO at Pharmerica; and Will Bass,Senior Solutions Architect for Professional Services at Flexential discussed how PharMerica successfully navigated the complexities of implementing a BCDR solution by developing a unique IT and business strategy and why partnering with the right provider is critical.

The business challenges of today’s data resiliency landscape
The migration methodology and design for a disaster recovery solution
The business applications of disaster recovery
Roles and Responsibilities – Partnership for Success

Simplifying Data Resiliency for Today's Business

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

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure

Digital Transformation

Cloud Adoption

Edge

Multi Cloud

Cloud Architecture

Application Management

Data Storage

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