Name: Adding unique value with a true multi-cloud architecture
Start: 2023-08-01T20:00:00Z
End: 2023-08-01T20:00:42.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Successful digital transformation requires a data-first approach to storing, managing and presenting data. As the pioneer of Multi-Cloud Data Services (MCDS), Faction offers the only data-first architecture for simultaneously presenting a single copy of data to your choice of applications and cloud services in multiple public clouds. Faction’s Multi-Cloud Data Services accelerate business outcomes from third-party services including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Business Intelligence (BI), speeding up time to innovation. Our flagship product, Faction Cloud Control Volumes® (CCV), offers highly scalable, cloud-integrated storage that leverages low-latency, high throughput network connections to multiple clouds via our proprietary network fabric, the Faction Internetwork eXchange™ (FIX). Faction MCDS deliver the agility, performance, scalability, security, and data sovereignty necessary to realize the promise of data-driven transformation. To learn more about Faction, visit www.factioninc.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Multi-cloud spending continues to grow year-over-year—as does its complexity—according to TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group’s 2024 Technology Spending Intentions Study. Reducing cloud costs, maintaining compliance, and multi-cloud management are just some of the top issues organizations are tasked with mitigating. So, where do you start?

Join Faction for an engaging discussion on the key challenges customers face with their multi-cloud strategies, an essential session in Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments Summit. We'll address issues such as the complex architectures needed for cross-cloud data sharing, performance problems with remote data connections, slow governance and security processes, and a general lack of agility that affects your team daily.
 
Finally, our SVP of Revenue, John Drake, and Field CTO, Jon Osborn, will present compelling Faction solutions that can help overcome these obstacles.

How to Resolve the Top 3 Data Challenges for Multi-Cloud Enterprises

Your data is more valuable and critical in the AI era, where tools can unlock more value with less effort. In this informative session, learn how AI is amplifying the value of your data, and why the typical architecture of AI infrastructure and applications creates new data management challenges that impede success. Learn how you can overcome these challenges by establishing a data foundation that accelerates and enhances your AI initiatives.

Building a Data Foundation for the AI Era

Join Faction CTO Matt Wallace to experience how multi-cloud fuels AI superpowers. The battle lines are being drawn with OpenAI and Microsoft squaring off against Google and DeepMind, and Amazon trying to lure customers with Titan models and the Bedrock service. Learn how people are using LLMs, multi-cloud, and understand how prompt chaining tools like LangChain, big foundational models like PaLM and ChatGPT fit into a strategy with fine-tuned open models and other services.

Harness AI Superpowers with Multi-Cloud

In this Faction Fireside Chat, Luke Norris explores:
* the definition of DataOps 
* its relation to DevOps 
* the importance of a data-first approach to multi-cloud
* what business outcomes become possible when you democratize your data

Faction Fireside Chat: DataOps & Multi-Cloud

In this episode, Faction Founder Luke Norris explores:
* What's missing from the supercloud equation 
* How true multi-cloud differs from conventional cloud architecture
* What you can do with your data when all clouds can access the SAME dataset simultaneously

Is Supercloud Really Multi-Cloud?

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

In this fireside chat, industry experts at HPE and Faction discuss data fabric technology, its various approaches, and ideal use cases. Moderated by The CTO Advisor, Keith Townsend.

What you'll learn:
* The purpose and power of data fabric technology
* Key considerations when selecting a data fabric solution
* How to achieve a seamless multi-cloud deployment with a data fabric 
* How data fabrics support AI, Machine Learning, and more

The State of Data Fabrics

Multi-Cloud data services usage is growing and organizations are empowering developers, engaging with partners, saving money, and unlocking innovation. With multiple multi-cloud data services available, Faction and Dell have seen surging interest in multi-cloud object services to empower multi-cloud enabled next-generation applications.
 
We will review the multi-cloud data services architecture with a focus on object, and discuss the major benefits that can be attained and how, and review several real-world examples of customer use cases.

Securely Empower Apps, Move Faster, & Save Money with Multi-Cloud Access to Data

Watch the on-demand session from the ActualTech Media EcoCast, Building a Better Multi-Cloud Solution with Faction Sr. Technical Product Manager, Alex Sammer. In this short 20-minute session,

Building a Better Multi-Cloud Solution

Watch the on-demand session from Harnessing the Power of AI/ML to Accelerate Analytics, Business, and IT Operations EcoCast!

Leveraging Multi-Cloud Best Practices to Power AI/ML

Watch our on-demand session from the AcutalTech Media Ransomware: Prevention, Protection, and Recovery Summit!

Ransomware Protection In a Multi-Cloud World

By the end of 2021, ransomware attacks are expected to occur every 11 seconds. Since 86% of breaches are financially motivated, the average recovery cost is $1.85M. It is now more important than ever to ensure your valuable data is protected from modern threats by developing a solid recovery plan in advance. In this webinar, we will explain the strategies to secure and isolate critical data to prevent attacks from destroying your organization.

Watch the on-demand session from CIO’s Future of Edge Computing Summit.

Cyber Recovery at the Edge: How to recover when hackers break through defenses

In this on-demand session from the Best Practices for Cloud Storage, Backup & Recovery Summit, Product Manager for Faction, Mike Phelan talks about real cyber threats and how multi-cloud comes into play.

Multi-Cloud Protection from Ransomware

Every 11 seconds a cyber or ransomware attack occurs, threatening to steal or compromise a businesses’ most critical asset – their data. This can lead to lost revenue, reputational damage, and costly regulatory fines. Protecting your critical data and recovering it with validated data integrity is key to resuming normal business operations post-attack. 

Customers are looking for the cost efficiency and operational flexibility of the cloud without compromising the security, data protection, and data integrity that on-premises offers. Together, Faction and Dell Technologies deliver a secure data vault and intelligent analytics that safeguard your critical data from cyber-attacks, ransomware, and insider threats.

Join Mike Phelan, Product Manager at Faction, and Jim Shook, Dell Technologies Field CTO at 10am MT/12pm ET on August 25 for a webinar on Cyber Resiliency, and how organizations are successfully leveraging Dell Technologies and Faction to isolate critical data in the cloud without compromising data integrity.

During this webinar, our hosts will discuss:
∙ The evolution of cyber threats and the cyber threat actors attacking businesses
∙ The critical steps to creating a cyber-resilient framework
∙ How businesses can protect themselves with Dell EMC PowerProtect, enabled by Faction
∙ How Cyber Recovery provides a secure managed isolated vault across on-premises and cloud deployments
∙ Strategic partnerships with the hyper-scalers and why it is so important to your business
∙ The impact that technology services brings organizations over other disparate solution offerings

Cyber Resiliency - How to recover when hackers break through defenses

In this on-demand session from the VMUG Virtual event, Field CTO of Alliances, Ray Kalmbach investigates a strategy to unlock the power of a “Kubernetes everywhere” architecture.

Kubernetes and Multi-Cloud, How do you Tanzu?

In this 25 minute session, Faction Enterprise Architect, Kim Read covers Cloud Data Warehouse and Analytics evolution, potential challenges you may face, as well as the problem of data gravity, and how multi-cloud can solve it.

Trend Talk: Key Trends and Products to Address Infrastructure Optimization

Watch this on-demand session from the TDWI Virtual Summit, Data and Analytics in the Cloud: Innovative Strategies for Success. During the virtual session, Faction’s VP of Solutions, Jay Cuthrell, covered Cloud Data Warehouse and Analytics evolution, potential challenges you may face, as well as the problem of data gravity, and how multi-cloud can solve it.

TDWI Virtual Summit - Overcome Architectural Challenges With Multi-Cloud

Explore the nuances of Cloud Governance, its relationship with traditional governance [GRC], and the unique challenges faced by organizations in aligning their policies and frameworks to the cloud environment in our live talk, August 3, 2023 at 4:00pm EDT. 

Jonathan Villa, Cloud Security Practice Director with GuidePoint Security will lead a discussion about the importance of a common language and shared understanding between GRC and cloud security teams. Villa will explore the emerging trend of platform teams and how they enable self-service, while establishing architectural and security standards. 

This talk will provide Cloud Security and GRC teams with an understanding of how to establish a strong partnership that ensures the effective implementation of Cloud Governance practices and enhances overall security and compliance in the cloud environment.

BIG G. little g. One Goal. Achieving a Robust Cloud Governance Framework

Cloud storage has a perception problem, one that is easily addressed with the right education. Once you understand how cloud storage can be absolutely secured, it becomes more obvious how you can meet your compliance regulations and mitigate the threats of data loss or malicious alteration. 

What you will learn: 
- The market forces driving the increase in compliance regulations 
- The data security regulations you should know and understand 
- What is “immutability” (aka “object lock”) and how it factors into compliance requirements 

Speakers:  
Drew Schlussel; Sr. Director, Technical Product Marketing; Wasabi Technologies

Critical Compliance Qualifications for Cloud Storage Security

Cloud governance has now become necessary with the increase of businesses choosing to migrate their operations into the cloud environment.  Cloud services has become the key driver for digitalization and resilience, from its acceleration and reliance because of the pandemic. How did cloud services increase in value to become the core of digital disruptions? 

According to studies from Oxford Economics, the outlook of cloud adoption was considered an inflated expectation for future business use. This evolved and paved the way to the realization of cloud implementation. The challenge to be taken is to undergo a “healthy process” to refine and tune its application for business utilization. Cloud services took on a mindset towards a more realistic approach from a strategic perspective in order to execute ways of implementation.

This is why cloud governance plays a significant role in achieving the full potential of cloud technology aligned with business objectives. Tune into this in-depth webinar to discuss:
- What actually is cloud governance and why do businesses need it?
- What is its application to cloud management?
- How did cloud services evolve strategically to necessitate the need for governance and what role does it play in businesses and its value?
- The definition of cloud compliance from a business, cloud services market and various regional government perspectives.

Cloud Governance: What is its business value?

In this webinar you will learn about the latest trends and threats in cloud security based on a survey of nearly 3,000 IT professionals from 18 countries around the world. Topics will include cloud migration trends, top targets in the cloud for hackers, top sources of cloud data breaches, cloud security complexity, and the impacts of sovereignty on cloud migration strategies as well as many more. Following the presentation of key findings, there will be a Q&A with the S&P Global Market Intelligence analysts.

Trends in Cloud Security: Key Findings from the Thales 2023 Cloud Security Study

As organizations increasingly migrate their infrastructure to the cloud, ensuring the performance, availability, and reliability of cloud resources becomes paramount. The cloud environment brings tremendous benefits in terms of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, these benefits come with unique challenges that must be addressed through effective monitoring practices. 

One of the primary goals of infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is to proactively identify and address performance issues before they impact users. By continuously monitoring key metrics such as CPU usage, memory utilization, network latency, and storage capacity, organizations can detect bottlenecks, identify potential failures, and take timely actions to optimize resource allocation.

Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud: Optimizing performance and availability

Everyone wants their applications to be scalable and highly available, and doing so while optimising costs is critical. That's where multi-tenancy comes in. It allows companies to optimise their costs and resources while providing the same level of service to multiple customers. 
 
That is only possible when there's an efficient monitoring and observing system in place. These systems help organisations with enhanced visibility and better issue detection along with better resource utilisation and optimisation.
 
Multi-tenant systems can be hard and complex to manage and hence organisations need to identify the right way to implement observability. Which tools to use, how to configure them, strategies and approaches for centralised monitoring for complete visibility.
 
Tune into this session from industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma to learn more about the points above as well as witness a demo of multi-tenancy monitoring using Prometheus and Thanos receiver.

Monitoring multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments: Challenges and solutions

The Cloud is not a destination any longer.  It’s a journey.  Once companies have completed one phase of cloud implementation there is always a need to do better.

Better at monitoring, better at managing the complexity, and better at managing cost.

Join us as we provide recommendations on how your organization can take full advantage of all that cloud ...and its related tools have to offer. This webinar will include information on these key topics:
• A definition of cloud operations (CloudOps) and how the practice has evolved over time
• Insight into how organizations have started applying an agile methodology to their cloud management so support agility and innovation at the infrastructure layer
• CloudOps best practice and how it can help establish strong processes for workloads, no matter the application or environment 
• Ways that standardization helps streamline deployment, operation, and monitoring of secure workloads in the public cloud. 
• Key security considerations and best practice that you and your teams need to consider as threats continue to evolve
• Client example of cloud management and how it has served as a platform for new solutions while at the same time minimizing downtime

The rest of your cloud journey starts today.

Navigating Cloud Chaos: Strategies for Streamlining Post-Cloud IaaS

Industry reports show that organizations waste as much as one-third of their cloud spend. Often, that wasted spend lines up with risky, unmanaged, or unused assets. As cloud usage grows, this problem is only going to get worse: many organizations don’t have a full grasp of all the assets they are running in the cloud and what they are being used for, let alone what they are paying for them. 

In this webinar, we will explore the various strategies and best practices for optimizing cloud costs and reducing cloud waste on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba cloud. We will also demonstrate, in real-time, how the Orca Cloud Security Platform continually detects unused, underutilized, and unattached compute resources to help you reduce unnecessary cloud spend and decommission those risky unused systems.

In this session, you’ll learn:
 • How cloud resources are billed by each provider, and what you may not be aware of.
 • How Orca can alert you to unnecessary cloud resources that can be removed
 • How security can be improved by removing unnecessary assets

Master Cloud Cost Optimization: Improve Security and Reduce Costs

Whether your enterprise is cloud native or has evolved into cloud use, you likely are employing a great many clouds in delivering services to end users: dozens of SaaS applications, and two or more IaaS and PaaS providers hosting applications you develop or deploy in-house. This state of affairs has been a decade in the making - no one can claim it snuck up on them! But, all too often, enterprise cloud management has not kept up with the realities of cloud use. The recent pandemic accelerate migration of resources to cloud for many organizations, and the accelerated shift highlighted—and exacerbated—the problems with managing across clouds. 

Join Nemertes for an overview of how to approach bringing order to the chaos, and a method to the madness!

Embracing multi-cloud management for hybrid service delivery

According to Gartner, 90% of organisations will run containerised applications in production by 2026, so they can speed up innovation and improve agility. But how do you ensure that increased speed and agility doesn't result in loss of control?

As you enter the world of containerised applications, where security needs are vastly different, you may find yourself in search of a new approach. In this webinar, we’re talking to Dhanil Parwani, Senior Partner Solutions Architect-Networking at AWS, and Gadi Naor, VP, Software Engineering at Rapid7, to give insights into:

- The unique challenges associated with securing containerized applications
- Adapting your VM program to address containerized workloads
- How the AWS Shared Responsibility Model works, and what it means for your organisation
- The capabilities you need in your security solutions to build safely on AWS

Register for this informative webinar to start innovating with containerized applications — securely and confidently.

Secure Your Containerized Apps With Rapid7 on AWS

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

Multi-Cloud is not simply about juggling multiple clouds - it's about orchestrating your teams, partners, and most importantly, your data, in a harmonious, integrated ecosystem. In this webinar, we will uncover how achieving true Multi-Cloud can streamline governance, bolster collaboration, and significantly reduce costs. Join Faction CTO, Matt Wallace as he shares insights drawn from myriad successful large enterprise multi-cloud engagements. Discover the strategic edge that comes with a seamlessly interconnected multi-cloud environment, and how it can be the catalyst to unlocking your cloud resources' full potential.

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