Name: 5 Must Haves for Azure Cost Optimization
Start: 2023-06-21T15:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-21T15:00:37.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Silk is the leading platform for accelerating the flow of mission-critical data on the cloud. Here you will find talks on running mission-critical applications on the cloud, cloud infrastructure, cloud architecture, supporting high I/O workloads, rightsizing cloud resources, and more.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs data to produce output and learn. And where does this data live? In your relational databases! 

In this webinar, Kellyn Gorman, Director of Technical Advocacy at Silk, will talk about the realities and practicalities of getting started with AI: operationalizing your data, security considerations in public vs. private AI, and of course, performance for high IO workloads.  

Attendees will learn about: 
- Where data is stored today 
- The benefits of relational databases in enabling data standards, access control, and advanced AI and ML features 
- The rise of security and the differences between public and private AI models 
- Building your own private AI models 
- The role of Silk in enabling responsible and high performing AI

AI: He Who Has the Data, Wins

Lessons Learned from Building and Optimizing a High-Performance SaaS Application

Morphing your product into a SaaS offering opens your organization up to a whole new market. But the actual process of becoming a SaaS business is a bit complicated – especially if your applications demand a higher performance than they can achieve on native cloud alone.  

Join us for this insightful webinar on building and optimizing your high-performance SaaS applications, hosted by David Berliner, Senior Director of Product at Silk, and guest speaker Ulrik Elstrup Hansen, Head of SaaS at SimCorp. During the webinar, David and Ulrik will discuss the strategies and decisions that were made during the development process in order to make SimCorp’s SaaS product a success.  

Attendees will: 
- Gain valuable insights and strategies from an industry leader who has successfully launched his own high-performance SaaS application
- Learn how to overcome challenges such as resource management, scaling strategies, and how to streamline cloud operations and keep costs in check 
- Feel empowered to build and optimize their own SaaS offerings

We Turned Our Software into SaaS and You Can Too!

Sizing Oracle for the cloud is a tough exercise. Get it right and you can save millions of dollars in cloud infrastructure and licensing fees. In many cases, the savings will pay for the cloud migration project. 
 
Attend this webinar with Oracle experts -- Silk's Kellyn Gorman and LicenseFortress' Dean Bolton -- for a discussion on how to rightsize Oracle for the win!
 
What's covered:
- Challenges of sizing Oracle for the cloud
- Example scenarios of overprovisioned vs. rightsized workloads
- How to rightsize with the AWR report

Rightsizing Oracle in the Cloud for the Win

Join Silk & SADA for top takeaways from Google Next '23! Silk's Kellyn Gorman, Director of Technical Advocacy, will host Fabian Duarte, Associate CTO at SADA to talk about what's new & noteworthy. On our list? 1) Everyone's working hard to get business-critical applications into the cloud. 2) AI is on the scene. But who's doing it? Who's talking about infrastructure? We’ll discuss the differences between general and internal AI, the role of relational databases in enabling AI, and of course… performance!

Top Takeaways from Google Next '23

Moving mission-critical applications to the cloud isn’t easy, especially when talking about healthcare. But the cloud has a myriad of benefits to offer, making it worth the challenge.
 
In this webinar, Ori Weizman and Luke Yerkovich from Silk will hit on the hard parts of cloud migration and illuminate a best practice path forward for healthcare IT leaders to successfully move systems and operations to the cloud. 
 
Topics to be discussed:  
- Battling the perception that it’s not worth the effort to move healthcare systems into the cloud, i.e. EMR/EHRs
- Gaining consensus to execute large scale healthcare transformation projects, i.e. buy-in and budget from the board, application owners, other key stakeholders
- Examining the potential use cases for AI that become available when migrating into the cloud
- Effectively transforming processes and procedures for managing healthcare data in the cloud

The Future of Healthcare is in the Cloud

Fueled by a need for greater agility, flexibility, and accelerated digital operations, the adoption and usage of multiple public cloud providers continues to increase.

At scale, however, a lack of transparency and predictability into cloud costs often hinders planning and slows down operations, especially when it comes to enterprise applications.

During this webinar on May 17th, ESG analyst, Scott Sinclair, will be chatting with Ori Weizman, Technology Solutions Lead at Silk, about the cost-efficient scaling of cloud operations.

Attend this webinar to learn about:
- The state of mission-critical systems on the cloud
- What to expect in terms of normal operations and event-driven costs - when does spending cross the line into unreasonable?
- The practice of scaling up, but also down, for mature cost-efficiency practices
- Achieving the ultimate goal of cost-efficiency vs. cost-savings for mission-critical systems

Best Practices for Cost Efficient Scaling of Mission-Critical Cloud Workloads

Snapshots are point-in-time replicas of a database used for data protection and backup, as well as for activities related to development, testing, reporting, and analytics.

But did you know there are key differences to be aware of when taking snapshots in the cloud compared to on-prem? Namely, that instantaneous, zero-footprint snapshots are not a cloud native capability. Without a platform like Silk, snapshots in the cloud are generally full copies that can take significant time to deploy, consume costly resources, and degrade performance. Without the right tool for the job, you can end up with workflows that are much slower and more expensive to complete than on-prem.

In this webinar, we will talk about taking snapshots in the cloud, including common use cases and challenges, and how Silk customers are using snapshots effectively to add business value. 

What will be covered:
- What cloud snapshots are and how they are used
- Snapshot workflows in the cloud and how they differ from on-prem
- Three interesting and effective customer examples in retail, healthcare, and finance industries
- Demos of Silk snapshots, including: 
  - How to take a snapshot 
  - How to refresh an environment for dev/test, a common use case
  - APIs for scripting and automation (VSS, Ansible, Terraform, Powershell, etc.)
  - An example of refreshing 500 TB of data in 10 milliseconds to show the speed at which snapshots are taken and data 
    is restored with Silk

Cloud Snapshots: Use Cases, Challenges, and How To Use Them Effectively

According to Gartner, 85% of today’s core IT applications were not built for the cloud. And, if you are looking to move business-critical applications to the public cloud and find refactoring is not an option, you are not alone. Seemingly “untouchable” workloads that run in on-prem data centers, are typically 5+ TB in size, and are latency-sensitive require special attention when migrating to the cloud. You might need more performance than what the public cloud can provide natively today.

In this webinar, we discuss the top 3 factors delaying cloud migration of business-critical applications: 

1.   Reaching the cloud performance your business requires
2.   Building the resilient cloud infrastructure with high availability
3.   Scaling resource capacity efficiently without overprovisioning

Learn the latest best practices to lift, shift, and modernize business-critical applications on the cloud.

Top 3 Factors Delaying Cloud Migration and How to Address Them

This 20-minute webinar brings together two Oracle and Azure gurus:
Kellyn Gorman, the foremost expert at Microsoft on bringing complex Oracle workloads into Azure. Her specialty is getting Oracle workloads off Oracle Exadata and onto Azure.
Tanel Poder, the co-author of Expert Oracle Exadata, a well-known blogger and consultant on Oracle database performance.

They discuss:
Best practices for moving Oracle workloads from on-prem to Azure
Overcoming the technical challenges of Oracle Exadata, Oracle RAC, performance, and licensing costs
The features/functionality needed to move Oracle workloads to Azure successfully

Lift, Shift and Evolve: Moving Oracle Workloads onto Azure

With interest rates rising and the economy slowing, businesses need to adapt to survive (and potentially thrive). Moving to the cloud can enable a number of benefits for an organization during an economic downturn, providing agility, resilience, and price performance value.

On this webinar, we explore the cost-efficiency for target performance, operational improvements, and growth flexibility that moving to the cloud can offer in a tumultuous economy.

Special guest speaker, Mike Fay (former Wayfair, CGI, Verizon), shares his experiences working through an imminent data center closure and the biggest challenges and benefits of moving to the cloud.

How to Navigate the Value of Cloud Adoption in Uncertain Economic Times

During Black Friday and Cyber Week, online retailers can see a 10x spike in traffic. This shopping period represents 20% of holiday sales. But website and database performance issues can cut into revenue dramatically — abandoned carts, lost sales, and a drop in customer loyalty.

Don’t let that happen!

In this webinar, we share 5 of the most pressing customer-facing issues slowing down retail websites and  impacting sales during the holidays. We talk about how retailers are under pressure to deliver the best omnichannel experiences while balancing the need for greater performance with costs.

Slow is the New Down: Is Your Database Prepared for the Holidays?

Hosting mission-critical SQL databases in the cloud is a key step in a company’s cloud transformation, yet often comes with significant sticker shock. However, it is possible to scale your cloud without scaling your cost. On this webinar, Silk’s Sr. Director of Product, David Berliner, and Principal Architect, Jack Vaughan, break down the drivers of cost in a cloud SQL setup and how to reduce waste and gain economies of scale in the cloud.

You will learn:
The elements of cloud cost analysis, including storage, compute, and licenses
How Silk eliminates over-provisioning, enables shared architecture for economies of scale, and reduces data footprint
Two case studies – the first of an online travel company saving 45% on cloud costs, and the second of a large retailer getting faster than on-prem performance at 1/3 of the cost

The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Hosting SQL Databases in the Cloud

While many companies are adopting the cloud, there are some workloads that are considered too large, too complex, and require too much performance to make the jump. These workloads – which are often databases like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database – are considered “untouchable” and are often the only thing keeping a company on-premises. In this webinar, we talk about bringing these “untouchable” SQL workloads successfully to Azure while getting fast performance they need and de-risking the cloud migration process.

This webinar discusses:
What characterizes untouchable SQL workloads
What this means for the cloud providers
Examples of customers who have successfully adopted the cloud for SQL workloads
How Silk can help your organization get these workloads into Azure

Bring Untouchable SQL Workloads into Azure

What is all of this buzz about “Headless Commerce” and what does a retailer’s IT team need to know?

Ori Weizman, Senior Solutions Architect at Silk, and Keith Lyon, Senior Solutions Engineer at Blue Triangle, define Headless Commerce and discuss how retailers are delivering content and products across channels to reach customers where they are.

Watch this webinar to learn:
What is Headless Commerce
The architecture of Headless Commerce
Increasing speed to innovation with Headless Commerce
Future-proofing the data layer for increased demand

Trends in Retail: Headless Commerce, Metaverse, Slow is the New Down… oh my!

This conversation brings together:
Matthew Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect at Sentara Healthcare, an organization named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” in 2021, bringing 25 years of experience managing large-scale networks and enterprise applications
Derek Swanson, CTO at Silk, with 25 years of experience as a technology evangelist, systems architect, and data systems engineer

They discuss:
Best practices for moving EHR (EPIC Systems) to the cloud
How Sentara moved its EPIC environment to Microsoft Azure
Overcoming performance and on-prem tech stack limitations to enable cloud migration

How Sentara Healthcare Moved EPIC EHR Workloads to Microsoft Azure

Technology is greatly improving the way that the healthcare industry provides care for patients. But in order to take advantage of these trends, industry players need to adopt the cloud – a very scary feat, especially for their most mission-critical information.

This 25-minute webinar covers:
Why it’s a challenge to move large healthcare applications, like electronic healthcare records (EHR), to the cloud
The technology advances available today that make the cloud a viable option for healthcare organizations
What leading healthcare organizations are doing on the cloud today to modernize systems and deliver a better patient experience

Cloud Technology Trends in the Healthcare Industry

In this webinar, Silk CTO, Tom O’Neill, chats with Mark Cooper, an Azure cost optimization expert.  
 
Mark has been working with Sentara Health over the last four years to migrate and modernize applications into Azure, including exciting projects related to electronic health records (EHR) provider platforms and core administration (CAPS) payer platforms. Mark will share Sentara Health’s cloud migration story and the practices in place saving millions of dollars each year. He will conclude by highlighting 5 must haves for Azure cost optimization drawing from his experiences with multiple large-scale enterprise cloud migrations.

5 Must Haves for Azure Cost Optimization

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