Name: How to Resolve the Top 3 Data Challenges for Multi-Cloud Enterprises
Start: 2024-06-04T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-06-04T18:00:23.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

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.

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

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.

Adding unique value with a true multi-cloud architecture

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

Just like a well-constructed burger requires carefully layering the right ingredients, securing multi-cluster deployments demands a thoughtful, layered approach. In this webinar, we'll deconstruct the multi-cluster burger, peeling back each layer to reveal security strategies for the infrastructure, applications, data, networking, observability, and overall security of components.

Key Takeaways
- Clarity on the different components or "layers" that make up a typical multi-cluster architecture.
- Insights into adopting a layered approach to security in multi-cluster and hybrid environments. They'll learn the importance of implementing security controls and best practices at each layer.
- Strategies for enforcing consistent security policies, access controls, and governance across all clusters and components in a multi-cluster setup.
- Need for centralized monitoring, logging, and observability tools to gain end-to-end visibility into the security posture and health of the entire stack.

Unwrapping Multi-Cluster Security: One Layer At A Time

Securely managing petabytes of cloud storage, as part of a hybrid cloud architecture, has never been easier, with the right tools. In this session we will discuss the challenges and solutions for securely managing petabytes of cloud storage, at scale, for enterprise small and large. 

Starting with the right approach, petabytes of cloud storage, shared across an unlimited number of applications, users, and divisions, can be easily monitored, measured, and accounted for. In addition to a simplified approach to management, a defense-in-depth approach to data security can also be implemented and maintained, using the right features. 

What you will learn: 
- Industry challenges for deploying cloud storage at scale as part of a hybrid-cloud architecture 
- Why having the right management tools, and API, makes a difference  
- How to keep data in the cloud secure with a defense-in-depth approach 

Speakers: 
- Drew Schlussel, Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing, Wasabi

Easily and Securely Manage 1 Petabyte of Cloud Storage with One Finger

Today’s cloud environments are intricate, interconnected ecosystems. Identifying and tracking cloud assets are a challenge. Effectively securing them is an even more daunting task.

This webinar will take it from the top to define the problems and present prescriptive recommendations that can be implemented by organizations of all sizes.

You will learn:
- Standard cloud concepts and terminology.
- Strategies for discovering and maintaining a cloud asset inventory.
- Guidance on how to protect, detect, and respond to cloud-based incidents.

Cloudy with a Chance of Breach: Controlling Cloud Chaos and Complexity

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments, now a weapon-of-choice for many companies, are facing increased regulations with their sharp increase in use. To ensure compliance against a range of international requirements, cloud providers are now aiming to establish a joint approach with customers regarding operational resilience requirements.

So, what does this mean for companies? Organizations should ask themselves, as a starter, what their risk appetite is and if they really understand the criticality of their critical cloud services. The next steps are to consider just how they can meet the new compliance regulations for third parties, outsourced operations and cloud providers as well as what level of communications they should establish with them.

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he shares his views on managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, in what until recently had been put into the “secret” file! Yates will explore current challenges and  provide a series of “joined-up” options to consider when managing cloud services. In addition, he will delve into the more recent compliance world, where partnerships may be the answer. Viewers are encouraged to share, in confidence, their major concerns before the presentation, if they wish to gain the most from this session.

By the end of the session, you will learn:
- The challenges you may likely encounter. 
- How to redefine your risk appetite.
- How to be conversant in a joined-up thinking approach with your cloud provider(s).

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: What is the Secret?

The cloud migration is over; now comes the next iteration of the cloud movement: the multi-cloud. But while deploying applications across multiple cloud environments has its advantages, it also creates significant security challenges, particularly around the issues of web application security consistency, centralization, and reporting.

Join this 30-min session to discuss the state of web application security in the multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud, key trends, challenges, and recommendations on how to address those challenges.

In this session you will learn:

• What are the key trends for adoption of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• What are the top security challenges for multi/hybrid cloud environments
• What are the key recommendations for addressing these issues
• How Radware can help you protect web applications deployed across multiple cloud environments in a comprehensive, consistent, and centralized manner

Protecting Against Application Threats in the Multi-Cloud

Advanced cyber threat actors like NOBELIUM and their attack on Microsoft, dubbed "Midnight Blizzard," are increasingly targeting cloud services, putting sensitive data at risk. No cloud provider is 100% safe. Today’s multi-cloud environment expands the attack surface, increasing enterprise vulnerability. The advent of behavioral analytics and new data protection strategies helps you be better prepared for today’s advanced cyber threats. At Thales, we believe cybersecurity starts with data, and we're committed to protecting data and all paths to it, whether on-premises, multi-cloud, or SaaS.
 
This webinar is crucial for companies handling critical data (financial, healthcare, etc.), security teams, IT professionals, cloud architects, and security leaders seeking to strengthen their multi-cloud posture. Join our expert-led webinar to learn how to proactively identify and mitigate these evolving threats, as outlined in the MITRE framework. 

We'll delve into:
 - A deeper understanding of the evolving threat landscape and the tactics used by advanced threat actors
 - Practical guidance on implementing behavioral analytics to detect sophisticated anomalies and reduce false positives
 - Actionable strategies for data protection, including encryption, access controls, and data loss prevention techniques tailored for multi-cloud environments
 
Register now to secure your spot and empower your organization with the knowledge to protect your multi-cloud environment.

Detecting & Protecting Against Cyber Attacks that Beat Perimeter Security

Managing costs are one of the biggest issues within our complex cloud environment. Protecting your money is as important as protecting your data and yet few organisations have effective cloud cost management in place. FinOps has become increasingly prevalent but many of these solutions are yet another cost in themselves, so how do we put effective solutions in place using the people and processes that we already have?

There are some simple solutions that can yield significant benefits without long, involved and expensive projects involved. Join this webinar from industry thought leader Simon Ratcliffe for insight and practical tips on how you can protect your money and keep cloud spending under control, however many clouds you operate and wherever they are located

Wrapping Your Head Around Cloud Costs

Although the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud offer many benefits, they also lead to significant security concerns. Organizations which deploy applications and assets across multiple environments often complain about security efficacy, consistency, and visibility across multiple environments.

Join Simon Ratcliffe and Radware’s Eyal Arazi for a discussion of the advantages and challenges of the multi-cloud, and what are the key best practices for maintaining your application security postures across hybrid environments.

In this session you will learn:

• What are the key drivers and advantages in adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments
• What are the key security challenges when it comes to protecting applications in the multi-cloud
• What are the top best practices for protection web applications in distributed environments
• What are some of the actionable steps that organizations can start taking today to make sure they are protected

Best Practices for Maintaining Security in the Multi-Cloud

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

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.

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