Name: [Panel] Digital Transformation and the Need for SD-WAN
Start: 2020-05-20T15:00:00Z
End: 2020-05-20T15:00:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Equinix have been at the centre of digital transformation for 20 years. We’ve helped multiple industry ecosystems exchange traffic at scale and are experts at helping companies enable global network and application performance. This channel will feature insightful talks on trending topics from our industry solution experts and 9700+ customers and partners; helping you solve for challenges, create competitive advantage, accelerate growth and gain agility.

As we continue to keep up with transformation in the digital architecture space, interconnected infrastructure with the ability to deploy physical infrastructure at software speed has never been more necessary. Creating a digital advantage for your organisation begins with adopting the best architecture. Customers want speed, interconnection, automation and integration. But how can you leverage this to stay ahead in the race to stay in the competition? 

Organisations accelerating their digital transformation (DX) efforts can find themselves struggling with scalability, security, performance and agility. In an era of immense change, your customers must operate smoothly and securely while prioritising transformation. However, there is no ‘one size fits all’ and each use case and customer are different. Enterprises are at different stages in their cloud journeys, which is why it’s so important to choose the right solution for your organisation.

Join us in this session as we discuss: 
-  Benefits of physical vs virtual deployments 
-  How to advance your architecture to stay competitive
-  Cloud transformers, cloud emigrants and cloud natives and what each is looking for
-  Why IT digitisation is such a priority today
-  Solutions that can solve customer challenges including Metal

Speakers:
Dennis Mulder, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Netherlands 
Bastien Martins Da Torre, Head of DevOps EMEA South, ServiceNow
Alex Hilton, Cloud Industry Forum 
Iiro Stubin, Principal Product Manager, Equinix Metal

Architecture in 2021: Interconnection, Automation and Speed

Hybrid infrastructure is the future, and the sooner that digital leaders embrace the world of hybrid, the better. Infrastructure is forever changing, and hybrid architectures signal the best way to stay on top of a rapidly changing infrastructure landscape, while moving away from traditional legacy IT and moving towards a modern digital infrastructure. But what are the business benefits of going hybrid, and what challenges does hybrid infrastructure solve?

From costly implementations, security, and keeping up with business demands, moving to hybrid infrastructure can solve many business challenges. Afterall, hybrid infrastructure is much more than just hybrid cloud, and learning how to leverage a hybrid digital infrastructure can benefit your organisation from digital transformation (DX) efforts to improve security and risk management, and much more. 

Join experts in the field as they discuss: 
-  The future of IT infrastructure and architecture and the emergence of hybrid models
-  Business benefits of hybrid infrastructure and the benefits it addresses
-  Importance of cloud adjacency in hybrid infrastructure
-  Trends in the hybrid infrastructure space
-  The value of interconnections in enabling hybrid infrastructure

Speakers:
Alex Hilton, Cloud Industry Forum 
Sachin Sony, Digital Business Strategy Lead – Cloud & IT Services, Equinix

A Guide To Hybrid Infrastructure: Setting the Scene

Laura Mian, Open Banking Innovation Driver at ING Wholesale Banking, is discussing about open banking, platform ambitions and how to compete in new environments.

Open Interconnections in Financial Services

Nicolas Kyriazopoulos-Panagiotopoulos, Head of Cloud Advisory and Infrastructure Services at the European Commission is explaining their cloud strategy and how they facilitate the 64 institutions to easily purchase and consume cloud.

Hybrid Multi-Cloud in the European Institutions

In just 5 years, platform or internet businesses have overtaken banks and oil majors as the most valuable companies in the world. We explore how platforms are fundamental to the digital business, how to enable platforms in your enterprise and what Platform 2.0 looks like.

Highlights:

- Emerging innovations and trends fueling the changes in business practices
- How innovative technologies create benefits for the businesses and ecosystems
- How cloud computing and interconnection is helping enterprises adapt to changing workflows
- How industries are adapting to digital challenges and a platform economy

Speakers:

Kaladhar Voruganti, VP Technology Innovation, Equinix, Inc.
Leon Gommans, Science Officer, Air France KLM Group and Professor of Data Exchange Systems, University of Amsterdam

Prepare for The Platform Economy – Nimbus Ninety Webinar

Every business is now a technology business, so goes the axiom, because digital expertise is now the only way they can engage with customers, clients, partners and the rest of the world. But if every business has that, it is by definition not a competitive advantage. What should businesses do now with their digital expertise to break out in front of their ranks? In this video, created in partnership with HotTopics.ht, industry leaders share their views and offer advice on their own digital journeys’ progress.  

- Steve Madden, VP Digital Transformation & Segmentation Marketing, Equinix
- Mel Reyes, CIO and Cybersecurity Leader
- Alex Bazin, Vice President Digital Transformation, WNS Global Services
- Nick Rawlings, Head of Transformation, Covea Insurance
- Clare Ward, Digital Strategy and Transformation
- Lea Sellers - moderator

Building Digital Advantage

In last 4 years, Middle-East traffic growth has been faster than elsewhere. This webinar offers a spotlight on Muscat IBX data center (MC1) and Internet Exchange, a joint venture between Equinix and Omantel, are strategically located in the heart of the digital ecosystem connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. This partnership is capitalizing on a unique strategy to extend the reach of the subsea cables landing in Muscat to MC1. This confluence of cable systems with carrier-neutral colocation, interconnection and peering has accelerated the growth of digital corridors linked with Oman, including dynamic markets like Singapore and Pakistan as well as the local market, and this is expected to continue to grow further.

In these 60 minutes, you will hear from Speakers:

Sohail Qadir, Vice President Wholesale, Omantel
Kamel Tawil, Managing Director MENA, Equinix
Martin Atkinson, Senior Manager of Peering and Interconnection EMEA, Equinix
 
And you will learn about:

What the traffic and capacity trends over the previous 4 years in the MENA & Gulf region look like.
How the international submarine cables connect the gulf with the world, accessible from the Muscat Hub.
How Equinix and Omantel are capitalizing on a unique strategy to extend the reach of the subsea cables landing in Muscat to MC1.

Why the Middle East is a Growing Hotspot for Digital Exchange

Die Pandemie hat aufgezeigt, dass auf moderner IT-Infrastruktur und automatisierten Prozessen basierte IT-Aktivitäten sicherer und stabiler sind.

In diesem Webinar diskutieren wir die Ergebnisse einer IDC-Umfrage im Juni 2020, an denen IT- und Geschäftsentscheidungsträger aus 200 Organisationen mit mehr als 100 Mitarbeitern in Deutschland teilgenommen haben. Das Ziel der Untersuchung war es, Einblicke in die aktuellen Implementierungspläne, Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren in Bezug auf Cloud-Lösungen zu gewinnen. Unsere Redner liefern anschließend weitere Beispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen, die sich daraus ergeben.

Die Studien und Diskussionen haben offengelegt, dass Sie mithilfe des unternehmens-, länder- und anbieterübergreifenden Einsatzes von Cloud-Diensten das volle Potenzial von flexiblen Services erschließen und gleichzeitig eine bedarfsgerechte Verteilung von Daten und Anwendungen sicherstellen können. 

Highlights:

- Wertvolle Ratschläge für eine effiziente Nutzung der Cloud in hybriden Umgebungen
- Beispiele zur Vorgehensweise von Unternehmen, die ihre IT mithilfe von Hybrid-Cloud-Lösungen erfolgreich transformiert haben
- Empfehlungen für die Implementierung einer flexiblen und innovativen IT-Infrastruktur

5 Tipps zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung Ihrer Hybrid-Cloud-Strategie

Poznaj globalne trendy transformacji cyfrowej oraz główne zalety Platform Equinix i Equinix Fabric, w celu optymalizacji kosztów i czasu podczas budowania bezpiecznej architektury hybrydowej. Dowiesz się:

• Jakie są główne elementy transformacji cyfrowej
• Jakie są zalety architektury zorientowanej na połączenia (IOA®)
• Jak agregować, optymalizować i zabezpieczać łączność z chmurą
• Jak zarządzać hybrydowymi, zgodnymi i wysokowydajnymi obciążeniami

Bezpieczna łączność z chmurą

‘LA TUA STRATEGIA PER UNA ARCHITETTURA AWS IBRIDA E SICURA’, il Webinar organizzato da Equinix e Storm Reply con Amazon Web Services.

Durante l’evento avrai la possibilità di scoprire la soluzione congiunta Equinix, Storm Reply e Amazon Web Services che consente alla tua azienda di: implementare e rafforzare la Cloud Strategy, migliorare la Business Continuity, migrare in modo sicuro i Carichi di lavoro.

Non perdere l'occasione di ascoltare gli interventi dei nostri speaker: Marco Zacchello, Global Principal, Equinix; Stefano Bussolino, Associate Partner, Storm Reply; Enrico Brambilla, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

LA TUA STRATEGIA PER UNA ARCHITETTURA AWS IBRIDA E SICURA

Choose METAL: Enjoy the flexibility of the cloud with the advantages of colocation - In this Tech Talk,  Mohamed Sahnine, Senior Solutions Architect at Equinix, discuss:

- How Equinix Metal™ can help you effectively and successfully deploy your business' applications.
- How you can gain agility through automating the deployment of your services with Platform Equinix™
- How you can reduce costs and reach end-users with low latency in your business

Webinar Equinix Metal

Digital transformation was gathering pace long before the unprecedented disruption of the last 12 months. However COVID has accelerated that roadmap across all industries, including sectors that were behind that early curve . It has quickly became a reality that agile digital infrastructure is now a necessity to support increasing digital business needs. From physical and virtual infrastructure, to the delivery of edge services – now is the time for businesses to repurpose their IT footprint and interconnect their supply chains.In this session we will review case studies of how leading companies assessed and delivered their future digital business needs. You will learn how to:

·       Navigate common pain points and the challenges of moving to a more digitally enabled business model
·       Operate in a digital environment by building the right digital infrastructure foundations
·       Navigate the relationship between the core and the edge

Creating and Enabling Digital Advantage

Aim to help you understand the major new capabilities that 5G brings to mobile networks and the new things that those capabilities enables enterprises to do. 
We will discuss what 5G  can do, how it is already being applied by forward looking enterprises and how the scope and scale of those applications is set to develop over the next 2 years.  As well as review how network architecture, resource location and ecosystem access will play a crucial role.

IDC & Equinix: 5G Waves of Opportunity For Enterprise Applications

Digital infrastructure is no longer visionary, but mandatory. Learn what it takes to thrive from digital leaders across all industries who balance efficiency and cost management with edge-to-cloud capabilities and enable their business to operate at software speed.

Learn How Leaders are Deploying  Digital Infrastructure at Software Speed

5G technology is rapidly taking its place at the heart of our digital economy. With the promise of greater speed, lower latency and many more connected devices, business and technology leaders are working to see how 5G can help their business and give them the edge.

Hear from the panelists from Three, Dublin City Council and Edge Automation as we take a deeper dive into the real-world 5G use cases and see what technology infrastructure is required to power current and future applications.
Speakers include:
•Brenden Rawle, Director of Interconnection, Equinix (Moderator)
•Karim Benabdallah, Head of End-to-End Strategy and Development, Three
•Jamie Cudden, Smart City Program Manager, Dublin City Council
•Stephen Soraghan, Managing Director, Edge Automation

Equinix Roundtable Making 5G Work – Exploring Current and Future Opportunities f

An Equinix Global Solutions Architect will discuss:
Challenges surrounding disaster recovery during digital transformation
Cutting DR costs and optimising and shortening exercises
Relationship between application and Infrastructure interdependencies

Build a Cost Effective DR Strategy with Equinix Fabric

To compete in today's digital economy, it's essential that businesses make branch offices an integral part of the network. Cloud-based applications - including global collaboration ones whose use has skyrocketed due to COVID-19 - require bandwidth that is robust and highly scalable, and with data centers becoming more virtualized and distributed than ever, MPLS can no longer cut it.
 
With SD-WAN a key part of the puzzle piece of successful Digital Transformation, it’s crucial that business looking to adopt SD-WAN as part of their DX strategy have all bases covered, namely:
 
- Ensuring they have a dynamic SD-WAN that recognizes and supports business-critical applications
- Making sure the have the ability to modify WAN policies to cater for application criticality, performance needs and security requirements
- Establishing an SD-WAN strategy in the age of the Edge that understands the need for centralized visibility spans the distributed network 
 
But how do businesses ensure that their SD-WAN strategy and toolkit address the above? Join this panel of experts as they explore the key points of a winning SD network, and help drive your business to Digital Transformation success.

[Panel] Digital Transformation and the Need for SD-WAN

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