Name: Converged vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure - Meeting the Demands of the New Era
Start: 2021-07-27T13:00:00Z
End: 2021-07-27T13:00:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions (HCI), making computing invisible anywhere. Nutanix solutions offer a complete, 100% software-defined stack that integrates compute, virtualisation, storage, networking, and security. The power and simplicity of Nutanix solutions enable organisations around the world to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments – modernising datacenters and enabling IT to deliver applications, multi-cloud architectures and data to power their businesses.

Nutanix, the undisputed leader in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), has developed a unique software platform solution that simplifies the management of all your databases, optimises workload performance, provides integrated security and availability across the entire database estate, while driving operational efficiency up (improving productivity) and driving costs of operations down.

The secret sauce is in the blending of our innovative HCI software platform that not only virtualizes but also consolidates your databases into a single, easy to manage plane. Then add our automated database services, with one-click operations that enable databases to be provisioned in minutes, patches to be completed during your lunch hour (not your weekend!), and copy/paste cloning capabilities that use zero bytes - saving you plenty in storage costs.

Join us to find out more.

In this webinar, you’ll discover:

● Linear scaling with zero forklift upgrades, zero downtime
● One-click DB management that can provision, clone, patch, refresh, and backup in just a few minutes
● Built-in DB automation, including provisioning, CDM, patching & upgrading
● Non-disruptive IT operations with self-healing architecture that recovers proactively

Transform Your Database into an Engine of Innovation

Feeling a bit like the cloud has suddenly become less of a nice-to-have and a suddenly critical element to your business continuity? You aren’t alone. In this session of Nutanix Connect we are calling on global experts and our guest presenter Professor Herman Singh to help get to the bottom of what your cloud strategy suddenly looks like.

In this discussion, our global experts will touch on:

• How did cloud get here and where is it heading to?
• Why has this become important recently
• What are the risks of not pivoting?
• What should you consider in your plans?

Topics that will be addressed include:

1. What the various architectures that enterprises can chose for their cloud strategy look like.
2. Is it all or nothing when approaching the cloud?
3. What is the safest cloud strategy for an enterprise today?

Pose your own questions to the panel and gain insights into what the leaders of the pack are doing in this new world, as well as what you should stop, start or continue.


Who is Professor Herman Singh?

Professor Herman Singh is the CEO of Future Advisory, an international firm specialising in digital transformation projects in corporates, and startup acceleration. Herman graduated from Wits at the age of 19 with a four-year Engineering degree and holds two postgrad qualifications. He was appointed managing director at a Barlows factory at the age of 28 and served as a managing director of Siemens’ Industry Division. He later joined Standard Bank as the director of e-commerce and online services, before being appointed director of IT planning and CEO of the bank's Innovation Hub Beyond Payments. In 2013 he joined MTN as managing executive of m-Commerce and until recently held the role of CDO.

Where does this leave your cloud strategy? Scaling up, scaling down, scaling out

Disruptive technology such as hyper-converged infrastructure tends to significantly complicate the buying decision. It forces new operational procedures and can impact IT governance, security, and compliance. But even a strong financial justification might not be enough to alter the ingrained processes, interests, and cultural norms surrounding the legacy environment. In many cases, it takes an ROI story.

This webinar will assist anyone interested in how to use financial analysis as a framework to optimise strategic decision-making.

The ROI Story - Identifying and Justifying Disruptive Technology

In this session we’ll be discussing and showing you all things AHV. If you’re thinking about deploying AHV, or already using it and want to know more then this session is for you.
In this live webinar we’ll explore the way AHV integrates with Prism, some of the under the cover improvements and the new capabilities that the latest version provides.
Content to be covered will include:
 
Architecture
Why AHV
Performance
Migration
Data Protection

AHV- The Nutanix Hypervisor

End User Computing (EUC) has emerged as a crucial enabling technology for remote work, as it allows employees to work anywhere, anytime, and from any device. But many are still seeking straight answers about the risks and rewards of this approach, as well as practical advice on how to get started.

In Part 3 we'll be showing you how it is all about the end users. 

How can they work quickly and efficiently without the need for intervention from IT? In this last section we tie together all the building blocks and show the benefits of how to operate an enterprise class environment.

The Future of Work Part 3 - Application Catalogues and User Access

End User Computing (EUC) has emerged as a crucial enabling technology for remote work, as it allows employees to work anywhere, anytime, and from any device. But many are still seeking straight answers about the risks and rewards of this approach, as well as practical advice on how to get started.

Part 2, covers what to do once you’ve created your EUC remote environment, and the need to secure and manage it effectively. There are several key questions to consider when implementing remote work globally and at scale: 

•  How do we keep our data safe? 
•  How do we centralize management operations? 
•  Should the end user be able to access data on the local device? 
•  What operations models do you need to consider when designing an EUC solution?

Join us to hear from Principal Technical Engineer, Brian Suhr on best practices and keeping your environment safe.  Tune in for Part 3:

Tune in for Part 2.

The Future of Work Part 2: Working from Home - Keeping the Bad Guys Out

End User Computing (EUC) has emerged as a crucial enabling technology for remote work, as it allows employees to work anywhere, anytime, and from any device. But many are still seeking straight answers about the risks and rewards of this approach, as well as practical advice on how to get started.

There are many questions that need to be answered before getting started, such as, What will the environment look like? How many desktops? What applications and what types of users? Will the environment be persistent or non-persistent? 

Answering these questions provides a solid foundation that will save you time later.

Tune in for Part 2.

The Future of Work Part 1 - Setting up EUC & Enabling User Access

“I love my slow, badly sized, poorly managed and insecure virtual desktop solution,” said no one, ever.

Join CMSWire, Rody Kossen (IT consultant at PQR) and Ruben Spruijt ( Sr. Technologist at Nutanix) — two leading End User Computing geeks and community experts — to learn about the most common VDI and DaaS mistakes and how to avoid them.

If you actively work with Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix, or VMware VDI andDaaS solutions, you won’t want to miss this session. We'll dig into essential topics, and provide technical details, examples, and best practices to help you deliver a successful VDI and DaaS deployment.

This webinar covers:
•  How to right size and optimize your virtual desktops and applications - How do you determine how much CPU, RAM, GPU, and storage you need?
•  Why Windows 10 multi-session is NOT the future - the pros and cons of single-user and multi-user on-premises and in public clouds
•  The right data locality strategy for virtual desktops and applications
•  The advantages and limits of on-premises and public clouds for VDI and DaaS
•  How much bandwidth you need to deliver a great user experience for your VDI and DaaS solution

Top 5 VDI/DaaS Mistakes — and How to Avoid Them

Fuelled by the pandemic and accelerated Digital Transformation initiatives,  cloud adoption is at an all-time high - and so is cloud-native DevOps. With the cloud granting enhanced agility, flexibility and scalability, pairing cloud-native application development with DevOps seems win-win.

In this episode of ‘Day-to-Day DevOps’ Helen Beal and guests are looking at the role of cloud-native DevOps in the increasingly digital-first world and sharing tips, tricks and stories from the field on how to make cloud-native DevOps work for you.

Join us to hear:

- Why DevOps should be a center point around which cloud-powered Digital Transformation projects are built 
- The practical role of cloud-native DevOps in DX journeys
- Best practices for implementing DevOps into the containers and Kubernetes environments
- What cloud-native DevOps looks like at different stages of maturity
- And more

Cloud-Native DevOps in the Digital Transformation Era

In this Nutanix Connect session we are partnering with Professor Herman Singh to help unpack the current crisis that is redefining almost all aspects of our lives and calling into question many of the choices we have already made. 

The bottom-line. Firms with large headquarters could be left with white elephants and even the way that visitors are managed could make face to face encounters impractical. In this Nutanix Connect session, we will explore how to think about these questions and brace for impact.

1.What does the workspace of the future look like? Are cubicles back? 
2. What is the future of headquarters? How do we handle visitors and elevators?
3.What should be done with collaborative work?
4. What should we be doing at our home office? 

Our panel will further share their experiences and provide advice on how you can approach restructuring your workspace in a safe, financially viable and functional way.

Is the office dead?

The pandemic has made it clear that innovation cannot be stalled but doing so with an ever-shrinking budget isn’t the easiest task. Learn how to establish IT as a business partner rather than a support role by cutting the costs of keeping the lights on and shifting those investments to high-value transformation projects. 
In this session, hear perspectives and practical strategies to address the new economic, technological and business challenges, stemming from digital and pandemic trends; from Cheryl Rodenfels, former CIO at Presence Health and current Nutanix CTO, Jon Cosson, Head of IT & CISO at JM Finn and Gautam Roy, CTO at Unum in a conversation moderated by Monica Kumar, SVP Nutanix Marketing.

CIO Perspectives: Shift Investments to Fund Innovation and Speed Time to Market

Traditional approaches to storing databases are becoming costly, complex to manage and less responsive as a paradigm shift occurs in the application landscape. If databases are emerging as a new bottleneck in your organization, it is time to transform them and align it with your cloud-first, API-first and application-first approach to innovation.

Presenters:
Mayur Shah | GM & Global Practice Head, Wipro

Balla Kuchibhotla | VP & GM, Nutanix Era and Business Critical Apps

Archana Venkatraman | Associate Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC Europe

Cloud Database Services: The Problems they Solve and How They Accelerate Digital

The role of DevOps has become quite critical in a multi-cloud world. Without strong DevOps practices, it is hard for Cloud admins and architects to ensure they are getting the full benefits out of a multi-cloud architecture.

In this webinar session, we will take an in-depth look into the automation policies and DevOps best practices that cloud admins need to implement, especially from the perspective of controlling runaway cloud spend, across both public and private clouds.
Join this webinar to learn the best practices for:
• Dynamic workload placement recommendations
•	Automated migration to Spot instances
•	Intelligent on/off scheduling policies

DevOps Automation: Cutting Multicloud Costs in Half

As business leaders pivot to meet the unique challenges of an extraordinary 2020, a new normal is emerging: organisations are increasingly tasking IT to find and deliver rapid new business value through increased efficiency, enhanced automation, accelerated time to market, sharp innovation, and rock-solid cost savings. 

For these organisations, it’s time to reach a new economic advantage.   

Join us on 5 May, to learn how you can save your valuable budget, time, and manpower and redistribute resources toward more high-value initiatives.  During this webinar, we will address top concerns such as:

• Working together for rapid transformation 
•	Cutting costs and shifting savings to innovation
•	Accelerating time to market 
•	Innovating with automation
•	Driving workplace efficiency

Plus, our new Nutanix CEO, Rajiv Ramaswami, will be sharing the Nutanix perspective and will be joined by Steve Kaplan, Vice President of Customer Success.

Understanding Cloud Decisions to Maximise Efficiency and Productivity

Join Joe and Seb, as they catch up over a spot of lunch and bite into why Nutanix is brilliant for any EUC Strategy…

Joe is well known globally for his love of hybrid cloud infrastructure, so we asked him to interview our techies to see what makes a ‘world-class’ end-user computing strategy. 

In this episode, he interviews Systems Engineer Manager, Seb Hakiel to find out more. Why Nutanix? Why don’t you watch to find out! Joe has this question covered.

Why Nutanix is the best partner for a world class EUC strategy

Join Joe and Grant as both of his birthday wishes come true; secure desktops and applications that are accessible from anywhere and, a police strippergram… 

Joe is well known for his love of desktop transformation, so we asked him to interview some of out techies to find out what makes a ‘world-class’ end user computing strategy. 

In this episode he interviews Cloud Architect, Grant Friend to find out more. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows you to spin up desktops quickly then manage them from pretty much everywhere (including Havant). Just ask Joe Wilkinson how VDI can make workforces agile.

End User Computing strategy with Joe Wilkinson

Joe Wilkinson finds out how to simplify your EUC strategy and to make it ‘not boring’, performs a little levitation…We’ll see how that goes…

Joe’s true passion is Desktops as a Service, DaaS, so we tasked him with interviewing some of our techies to find out what makes a ‘world-class’ EUC strategy. 

In this episode, he interviews Senior Systems Engineer, Tom Robinson to find out more. EUC doesn’t have to be complicated. Reduce the number of moving parts and start small, then just add additional nodes. So simple it can be done with your eyes closed!

Joe Wilkinson learns how simple an End User Computing strategy can be

Converged infrastructure is several steps up from legacy infrastructure, it loses out when it comes to the cost-saving, application-securing, VM-moving power of hyperconvergence.

Join us for this webinar where Steve Carter, Senior Product Marketing – Nutanix, will take you through how you can simplify your IT infrastructure.

In this webinar you will learn:
•  What are the primary benefits of HCI compared to Converged Infrastructure?
•  How WebScale IT infrastructure innovations make HCI possible
•  How HCI enables IT to be agile and cost conscious in the face of business uncertainty

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