Name: The Software-Defined Data Center Paradox: Why You Need To Put Hardware First
Start: 2022-03-08T14:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-08T14:00:41.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.6

SoftIron® is the world leader in task-specific appliances for scale-out data center solutions. Their superior, purpose-built hardware is designed, developed, and manufactured in-house. They are the only manufacturer to offer auditable provenance through the product lifecycle. SoftIron’s HyperDrive® software-defined enterprise storage portfolio runs at wire-speed and is custom-designed to optimize Ceph. SoftIron simplifies the deployment of open source based architectures by delivering an enterprise class user experience yet free from software and hardware lock-in. For more information, visit www.SoftIron.com

While “Cloud First” architectures and processes have become mainstream in modern enterprises, that doesn’t mean that all workloads are now in the cloud. In fact research suggests around two thirds of organisations still have significant and growing applications and data in their own data centres. So how do you architect the best backup and recovery strategy to efficiently bridge these two worlds?

Join SoftIron’s Danny Abukalam to understand how combining the capability and flexibility of HyperCloud and Veeam can do just that - whether you are an existing Veeam customer looking for cloud native storage, a HyperCloud customer wanting to use your cloud to unify backup and recovery across you entire on-premises infrastructure, or a service provider looking for platform on which to launch a combined HyperCloud/Veeam based Storage and backup as a service offering.

By the end of the webinar you’ll understand:
- The challenges of unifying backup and recovery in a hybrid cloud environment
- How HyperCloud’s unique architecture, partnered with Veeam can unify and simplify your strategy
- Veeam Service Providers can harness the simplest, most efficient and uniquely sovereign way to build out a competitive commercial “as a service” offering.

Unlock new possibilities with HyperCloud + Veeam

Sovereign Clouds are architected and built to deliver “in-region” cloud infrastructure to meet the local requirements of regulated industries and/or local data privacy laws. They’re more in demand than ever due to rapidly changing geopolitical landscapes and new regulations that affect the access and flow of personal data. The need to be able to build and deliver secure, scalable, sovereign clouds is required in both the public and private sector. 

HyperCloud Intelligent Cloud Fabric™ is the world’s first complete technology for building and running clouds. It is a fully turnkey, totally integrated and supported, “intelligent cloud fabric” of hardware and software. Forget what you think you know about cloud. HyperCloud is an entirely new class of technology that enables you to build and deliver secure, scalable, private, hybrid and sovereign clouds - on premise and independent of any public cloud provider - with a fraction of the time and a fraction of the complexity than was previously possible. 

HyperCloud was developed with FISMA High Compliance and FIPS validation in mind from day one, and is already being used to develop and deploy Zero Trust Architectures in high security environments. 

Join us in this webinar to learn more about:
- What factors are driving this surge in demand for cloud sovereignty
- What really makes a cloud ‘sovereign’?
- Typical challenges in building and operating clouds today
- Why traditional approaches to cloud only solve part of the problem, and why we need a new solution
- Sovereign cloud deployment models for internal development as well as a commercial service

Spotlight on Sovereign Cloud: Build, Deliver & Scale with Ease with HyperCloud

Today’s CIO is tasked with an almost impossible balancing act: to grow, scale and innovate, but to do so more efficiently than ever, with skill-strapped teams in a rapidly evolving, complex technology environment. The promise of hybrid-cloud has under-delivered, leaving IT teams grappling with a complex “Frankencloud” of discrete silos of compute, network and storage, with layers of software above and teams of siloed IT specialists needed to thread it all together to make something that’s useful, secure and reliable. 

It’s a complexity brick wall that doesn't serve you, the customer. 

It’s time to forget what you thought you knew about building clouds: HyperCloud is an entirely new class of technology that enables your organisation to build and run private, hybrid and/or sovereign clouds at any scale, allowing you to provide a cloud experience to IT consumers with a fraction of the time and a fraction of the complexity than was previously possible. 

This means that for the first time, CIOs can now dynamically provision cloud services based on parameters including cost, performance, security or regulation, from infrastructure designed for low touch, generalist IT skills, and resilient operation. Independent of any public cloud vendor, it frees you to build the hybrid and/or multi cloud strategy that meets your objectives, with the kind of reliability, availability, elasticity and serviceability previously reserved for hyperscale cloud builders.

Join us in this webinar to learn how you can use HyperCloud to:
- change the rules for building and owning private & hybrid clouds
- change the economics and address the IT skills crisis hampering so many cloud projects today
- change the relationship with public cloud vendors, utilising their utility, but reducing spiralling and unexpected fees
- deliver new levels of simplicity in achieving regulatory compliance, security & data sovereignty
- Seamlessly integrate edge computing projects into your broader IT strategy

Farewell Frankencloud, Hello HyperCloud: A New Class Of Cloud Technology

In the not-too-distant past, software engineering was a relatively straightforward process of writing and shipping code. Today, the processes for developing new software continue to evolve rapidly, and software engineering has become less about just writing standalone code, and is now more about taking lots of existing code and getting it to work amongst other related projects. Most developers need to consume upstream code to do this, and so the more quickly and easily they can do that the better.

To manage the growing complexity and develop higher quality code faster, many development organisations have turned to continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) approaches. Yet in most organisations, progress is significantly impacted by challenges such as process inconsistencies, infrastructure provisioning delays and scalability issues, and inconsistent application development environments. 

It can all add up to less effective testing, lower quality, and development slowdowns that directly impact overall organisational competitiveness.

So where do you begin to resolve these challenges?

Join SoftIron Senior Architect, Anoop Rajendra, as he shares some of the real-life experiences from SoftIron’s own development team using HyperCloud - the world’s first complete technology for building and running clouds - to overcome similar challenges to streamline and accelerate software development cycles. 

In this webinar, Anoop will:
- Explore common development-infrastructure-related challenges
- Examine how the SoftIron development team uses HyperCloud to support team processes
- Provide practical recommendations on how HyperCloud can help your organisation align processes across distributed development teams juggling large numbers of projects

Streamline & Accelerate Software Development Cycles with SoftIron HyperCloud

Cloud infrastructure today is all built by composition. A disparate mix of hardware and software that must be composed into a final solution that is complex to build and costly and fragile to operate. But does it have to be this way?
Join SoftIron CTO Kenny Van Alstyne in this session to explore and understand the transformative technology that underpins SoftIron’s HyperCloud - the world’s first complete technology for building clouds.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discover this groundbreaking new technology. 

Join us in this webinar to learn:
- The drawbacks with how clouds have traditionally been composed
- How rethinking the “silos” of compute network and storage can be transformative
- How the concepts like “state and statelessness” can empower a new cloud architecture 
- How fragmented  lifecycle management can be transformed into holistic fleet management deep in the the fabric of the technology
- How this enables HyperCloud to be deployed in as little as half a rack and half a day, yet to scale to almost infinity with just generalist IT skills, and with a fraction of the management overhead

Not Your Average Cloud: Transforming Cloud Technology With HyperCloud

As building more sustainable and energy-efficient data infrastructure becomes a top priority for leaders, there must also be greater emphasis on measuring success. The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio is commonly utilised to measure energy efficiency in data centres, but by today’s standards it comes up a little short – particularly as it doesn’t facilitate visibility into total reduction of absolute amounts of power consumption, or accomodate the challenge of hybrid or public cloud architectures. 

So what is the best way to define, apply and measure digital sustainability in your organisation?

Join Andrew Moloney, CMO & Sustainability Lead at SoftIron, and guest speaker Mark Butcher, Founder of Posetiv Cloud, as they share insights and best practices on how to rethink - and redefine - sustainability and energy-efficiency in your data infrastructure.

Register for free today and learn:

- What factors are driving the increased focus on sustainability 
- Why new infrastructure models like hybrid-cloud need new efficiency metrics
- Measuring carbon emissions of power usage matters, but what’s missing?
- Practical examples and case studies of embedding sustainability in your IT operating model
- How to define & apply more effective sustainability metrics
- How to measure your success

Rethinking The Metrics of Sustainable & Energy Efficient Data Infrastructure

In this webinar, learn how a combination of open source technologies and the right hardware enables Australia’s preeminent high-performance data, storage and computing facility to evolve its existing infrastructure for efficient, cost-effective and storage-savvy supercomputing for all.

Supercomputing is becoming ever more accessible to enterprises worldwide through the power of open source technologies and the example of organisations like NCI, who are paving the way forwards for HPC-driven research and innovation. Democratising supercomputing will create more opportunities for scientific discovery, expanding the pool of brilliant minds able to contribute insight and solutions to critical global issues, from climate change to virulent disease.

By minimising the expenditure required to establish, manage and maintain a solution, and choosing a mixture of hardware storage tiers to optimise for density and scale, the age of supercomputing for all is closer than ever.

About NCI:
NCI brings the Australian Government and the Australian research sector together through a broad collaboration involving the largest national science agencies, universities, industry and the Australian Research Council. 

Their mission? To radically enhance the high-performance computational methods and capabilities available to Australian researchers.

They’re achieving this aim through providing data services and supercomputing expertise to thousands of researchers every year, enabling high-impact research and innovation that would be otherwise impossible to undertake. NCI are custodians of the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, its highest performance research cloud, some of its fastest filesystems, its largest national research data repository, and its leading data services stack.

Supercomputing For All: How HPC Leader, NCI, Harness Open Source and SoftIron

Today's businesses have embraced cloud computing, migrating workloads, adopting SaaS applications, implementing DevOps initiatives and facilitating hybrid work. Cloud growth is expected to continue as businesses turn from pandemic survival mode to a more holistic approach. According Gartner, global spending on cloud services is predicted to reach more than $482 billion in 2022, up from $313 billion in 2020. How can organizations shift from a jumble of cloud applications to a methodology that takes advantage of cloud's full potential.
 
Our panel of experts explores the next iteration of cloud and the steps IT and business leaders must take to achieve true business differentiation through cloud computing by enabling new services, products and business models.
 
Join us to learn:
--How to identify areas of cloud opportunity and create a holistic plan
--How cloud integration can advance corporate initiatives like sustainability and diversity
--Why business executives are crucial to cloud success
--The benefits of launching a cloud center of expertise
--How to start with a pilot program and grow

Moderated by: 
Josh Rubens, Director, Cloud Solutions Group
 
Panelists:
--Tom Leydon, CIO, Woods Bagot
--Andrew Moloney, Chief Marketing Officer, SoftIron

The Need for a New Cloud Operating Model

According to IDC* the majority (over 80%) of enterprises in Asia/Pacific are operating in a hybrid and/or multi-cloud environment, with a mix of private and public infrastructures. Half of these organizations require workloads and data interoperability between the different types of cloud. Most of the interoperability happens with private cloud, which aligns with the preference for a public cloud stack on private cloud infrastructure solutions (local cloud as a service) for ease of management and workload portability. 
 
End-to-end infrastructure systems that are purposefully designed to seamlessly support this interoperability are critical for enterprise success.
 
What are the implications for the APAC enterprise when it comes to making decisions about future-proofing your data infrastructure? And, what decisions do you need to make today to ensure an agile, scalable and flexible future for your organisation?
 
Join SoftIron + and Servers Australia in this webinar to:
- Discover the driving forces that are shaping hybrid-cloud infrastructure developments in APAC
- Learn more about the critical role of platforms optimised for open-source software in software-defined storage strategy. 
- Hear from Australian cloud service provider, Servers Australia and how they are enabling new service delivery opportunities by consolidating multiple services using SoftIron’s HyperDrive scalable and flexible architecture. 
- Servers Australia are a locally grown and operated hosting provider located on the NSW Central Coast. Founded in 2006, their original mission was to combat the lack of quality in the local web hosting market and solve the many challenges of businesses around IaaS and DRaaS. Fast forward 14 years later, their business has grown substantially but their focus still remains on our customers, offering hosting solutions that solve real business challenges.
 
*2020 Cloud Pulse 2020 Survey.

Designed, Not Assembled: the critical role of end-to-end systems in hybrid-cloud

In this webinar, learn how you can significantly reduce the power consumption in your data centre and dramatically contribute to your sustainability goals. 

The data center industry is responsible for approx 1-3% of the total electricity consumed around the world, with no sign of abating. And, while the amount of power per processing unit has been reducing, in reality, the real, actual amount of power has been increasing in line with total processing demands. 

External and internal pressures for transparency in sustainability practices are increasing, forcing organizations to declare their intentions and demonstrate the practical steps they are taking to make change. The data center is a natural place for organizations to start, and making fundamental, positive change is more achievable than ever before. 

The way that IT infrastructure is changing at the moment is more of it is going to be built in smaller, more distributed “edge” locations - locations that still pose very practical constraints when it comes to space, accessibility, power and cooling.  

SoftIron’s unique, task-specific data center infrastructure solutions can help by drawing up to 80% less power than comparable alternatives.  In fact, for every 10PB of storage run on HyperDrive vs. comparable alternatives, an estimated 6,656 tonnes of CO₂ are saved by reduced energy consumption alone over its lifespan. That’s the equivalent of taking nearly 1,500 cars off the road for a year.

Power at the Edge: the role of the data centre in sustainability

Data Protection lies at the heart of any successful backup strategy and choosing the right storage architecture that underpins it is as important as your choice of backup and replication software. 

In this webinar, jointly presented by SoftIron and Veeam, you will learn:
- The key technical considerations in building a performant, resilient and future proofed - yet cost effective - backup storage architecture
- How a combination of the Veeam platform with SoftIron’s award-winning HyperDrive storage solution delivers a simple, flexible, reliable and powerful solution for embracing object storage based backups with consistent, predictable outcomes
- The ways in which superior data protection from threats such as ransomware can be achieved through techniques such as object immutability
- How the combined but different needs of the backup administrator, the storage architect and the end user can all be met - fully and cost effectively - by this compelling solution

Architecting the Perfect Backup Storage Strategy with SoftIron & Veeam

Designed to simplify the overheads of managing your storage software and hardware, SoftIron's HyperDrive Storage Manager is a unique, intuitive, and unified management tool for Ceph software-defined storage and HyperDrive appliances.

In this full demonstration video, we highlight the key features and benefits of the management tool, including an interface overview, setup and auto-discovery, monitoring, and hardware & software management capabilities.

SoftIron's commitment to simplifying and enabling open source, software-defined storage for the enterprise is embodied in this groundbreaking management tool. Because we've purpose-built HyperDrive hardware to optimize Ceph, we can achieve granular levels of control that have never been available to storage admins before, until now.

Reduce complexity, save time and money, and collaborate with teams like never before with SoftIron's HyperDrive Storage Manager. 

For more information on HyperDrive Storage Manager, visit softiron.com/storage/storagemanager/ or email info@softiron.com

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SoftIron HyperDrive Storage Manager - Full Feature Demo

Practical Recommendations for Planning, Implementation & Success

Two major shifts within the world of enterprise data storage are converging, leading organizations to radically rethink how they plan for - and implement - a resilient, future proofed data storage strategy. First, the rise of “edge infrastructure”, and second, the dawning realisation that the public cloud might not be fulfilling everything it once promised. In this talk, SoftIron shines a spotlight on the “power struggle” between public cloud vendors and their customers and how this is impacting the demands and developments on edge infrastructure. Craig Chadwell, VP Product at SoftIron, explains the unique characteristics of today’s ‘edge environment’, and offers practical recommendations for planning and implementing resilient, software-defined storage infrastructure at the edge.

Building Resilient, Software-Defined Storage  Infrastructure at The Edge

Maintaining a data center orders of magnitude more complex than they used to be. And it's more than just the fact that as applications, infrastructures, and conditions change, the data center must keep pace; it's the fact that the data center itself is changing, from banks of servers all in one place to multiple banks in multiple places to edge deployments that might consist of many components, few of which are servers at all. In this webinar we will look at where the datacenter is going, and how you need to adapt to those changes.

Join Mirantis' Nick Chase, Director of Technical Marketing and Developer Relations.

The Future of the Data Center and DCaaS

As our lives and businesses become increasingly digital, demand generated as a result of this
digital transformation and virtualization will reveal the importance of Data Centers in the
effectiveness and functionality of our world now more than ever. By dramatically increasing
density and scale of workloads in Data Centers we subsequently increase the significances of
potential physical infrastructure failures. The success of every business is ultimately built on the
physical foundation of Data Center Infrastructure, whether that infrastructure is on-premise, off-
premise, or hybrid. Optimization of a Data Center should not by any means compromise physical
& logical security, data availability, operational scalability, agility, innovation and technology
economics among other possible risk. Proactive look at the Data Center Optimization
opportunities, Data Center managers can better enable the organizations they serve to succeed
in an increasingly tech-centric world while they continue to pursue the opportunities offered by
virtualization, the cloud, and software-defined IT infrastructure.

Data Centers Optimization in Rapid Growing Digital Economy & A Virtualized World

In this presentation, we will describe:
SystemReady and its SR and LS bands for data centers
* Specifications and test suite updates
* Open source efforts
* Certification requirements and process
* Major compliance issues and what to do
* Certified systems and what to do

Making Software “Just Work” for the Green Data Center

Sustainably Powering the Data Centre Through Innovative Technologies and Ways of Working

Sustainably Powering the Data Centre Through Innovative Technologies

Modern technology continues to create larger and larger volumes of data.  First we have ever increasing levels of precision in the macro and micro whelms of Scientific Visualization with big decimals and many values before and after the decimal point.  Molecular Biology and genetics are also creating large libraries of genomes, proteins, and pattern matches within DNA and RNA transcripts.

The second area of growth and complexity includes proliferation of devices from IoT and sensors, to phones and tablets, to data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments.  As technology continues to evolve, we can expect these interactions to increase exponentially and the number of devices continues to grow.  These devices often need to work together in complex coordinated ways to process data into information for presentation to systems and users that consume them

A third trend that is ever present is increased volumes of Network Traffic.  Web sites continue to grow in length and complexity with larger footprint in terms of number of pages, and pages themselves growing larger every day.  Increased analytics also contribute as businesses want to know where there traffic is being directed, and consumer trends that indicate buying activities.

These and other trends are driving the need for Next Generation Storage Strategies to overcome challenges in a fast paced Digital world.

Summary
• Increasing Volumes of Data and Precision
• Proliferation of Devices and Data Sources
• Complex Environments – Network Traffic

Data, Data Everywhere

Imagine the possibilities if you could power all your workloads all the way from archive to high-performance data analytics to artificial intelligence, with one single all-flash cloud. In this talk, we introduce a new disaggregated architecture that, for the first time, makes it possible to realize the vision of a multiprotocol, all-flash data lake that combats data sprawl, data silos, and lowers the TCO by over 50%. Ultimately organizations unlock real-time performance, exabyte scale, and the assurance that their infrastructure will adapt as the applications evolve.

Unlock All-Flash Data Lakes At Archive Economics

Data Center Transformation in 2022

The demand for storage, and cloud storage in particular is exploding. Everything is generating more data: surveillance, genomics, media and entertainment, medical imaging, and IoT. The emergence of 5G and its bandwidth advances are creating use cases that are colliding with the first major evolution of the cloud. More data will be generated and collected causing storage users to rethink their cloud strategies. 

This session will look at how cloud infrastructure is becoming more diverse with more choices and alternatives to the hyperscalers. We will discuss:
- What’s driving the growth of cloud storage?
- How organizations are rebelling against lock-in, complexity in pricing, and unpredictable fees charged by cloud providers
- Learn how the new generation of cloud object storage addresses the challenges of managing explosive growth in data
- Learn why best-of-breed cloud services are driving the trend toward “multi-cloud”

Next Generation Storage Is Changing How Organizations Use The Cloud

In this webinar, we take a deep dive and discuss some of the fundamental aspects of distributed cloud computing, in detail. You’ll learn:
• Mechanics of distributed cloud computing
• Benefits and opportunities of distributed cloud
• Challenges and open questions related to distributed cloud model
• Considerations for the technology leaders from the standpoint of strategy, architecture and best practices of distributed cloud computing

Distributed Cloud Computing: Next Frontier of Hybrid Cloud Landscape

The implicit assumption in today’s data center is that if your solution is software defined, then the hardware doesn’t matter. In SoftIron’s view, nothing could be further from the truth. 

Hardware has been commoditised in the data center to the point of oblivion. We’ve been led to believe that whatever your infrastructure model, you have to choose between performance, efficiency, and cost - or at best, two out of the three. But what if we turned this thinking around and put the hardware back in the spotlight, re-engineering it from the ground up, to deliver it all? 

SoftIron believes that there is an infrastructure strategy solution that takes full advantage of emerging technologies in order to sustainably maximize efficiency and manage costs, while integrating on-premise, colocation, cloud and edge delivery options. 

In this webinar, you will:
- Get an introduction to the 4 key approaches to delivering a software-defined data center 
- Understand why not all hardware is equal, and why it’s critical to a successful software-defined storage strategy, and how it impacts performance, resilience, efficiency, security, and costs
- What to look for in a hardware vendor 
- Learn how others are already harnessing this approach to deliver success

The Software-Defined Data Center Paradox: Why You Need To Put Hardware First

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