Name: 5 Things Every Retail CIO’s Team Should Do This Year
Start: 2024-03-26T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-03-26T18:00:44.000Z
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.

In this webinar, we will use an example database environment setup to evaluate the DBaaS options from Silk, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. The example database setup will be a Microsoft SQL Server environment that we would like to move from on-premises to the cloud in a managed capacity. Using this example environment, we will compare features like flexibility, data management, DBA support, and cost efficiency.
 
This webinar is Part 2 in a series on DBaaS. Other topics in this series include a checklist of considerations for adopting DBaaS for databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, and exploring the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of DBaaS with Silk.

Exploring DBaaS Options for Microsoft SQL Server

This webinar will walk through the main factors that you need to consider when adopting a Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution for your databases. The checklist includes: Your cloud goals, application development model, workload requirements, resiliency requirements, data usage architecture, and future plans for innovation.  
 
This webinar is Part 1 in a series of webinars on DBaaS. Other topics covered in this series include exploring your DBaaS provider options for databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, calculating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of DBaaS with Silk, and more.

Preparing for Database as a Service (DBaaS): Considerations to Make it a Success

Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to manage their data. But it’s not just about moving data, it’s about leveraging the cloud’s potential to enhance the most vital and sensitive parts of your IT infrastructure.  

In this webinar, we will discuss the process of sizing, migrating, and modernizing Oracle workloads for the public cloud. Special attention is given to provisioning cloud resources, understanding Oracle’s licensing model, and re-architecting for the cloud. 

The speaker is Kellyn Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, who previously worked at Microsoft as lead subject matter expert on complex Oracle migrations to Azure cloud.

Best Practices for Running Oracle Workloads on the Public Cloud

Silk now offers three deployment options: Silk on IaaS, Managed Silk, and Silk Cloud Database as a Service.

In this webinar, you will learn more about our new offering: Silk Cloud Database as a Service.

With this new deployment option, Silk offers a fully managed cloud database service for any major database platform. Learn how customers get maximum flexibility, with the ability to choose cloud VM instance types and supported database versions. Silk manages the full database stack and employs a full-service DBA team available 24/7/365.

The intended audience for this webinar:
- Your current cloud DBaaS or PaaS solutions do not meet your needs, particularly as it relates to performance, data management, and flexibility, or
- You are on cloud IaaS and want to reduce day-to-day management of your databases, or
- You are managing on-prem solutions that you want to move to the cloud in a managed capacity.

Learn more getting started with DBaaS on the Silk website and request a demo: https://silk.us/request-a-demo/

Introduction: Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Controlling costs and increasing data velocity for Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) is top of mind for healthcare organizations as they continually look for ways to improve cost efficiency while enhancing patient care. In this webinar, we will discuss how to use Silk’s thin snapshots in the cloud to maximize what can be done with EHR data and gain operational efficiencies for healthcare IT teams.
 
What will be discussed: 
• The EHR dataflow and different uses of sub-production environments
• How snapshots work natively in the cloud vs. how snapshots work in the cloud with Silk
• The business value of taking more snapshots faster, including:
- Controlling costs associated with EHR implementation and ongoing management
- Making EHR data available to analysts faster for decision-making, improving patient outcomes, and optimizing healthcare operations
- Freeing up your IT team with faster Extract, transform, and load (ETL) cycles

Control Costs and Increase Data Velocity for EHR Using Silk Snapshots

Silk now offers three deployment options: Silk on IaaS, Managed Silk, and Silk Cloud Database as a Service.  

In this webinar, you will learn more about our new offering: Silk Cloud Database as a Service. 

With this new deployment option, Silk offers a fully managed cloud database service for any major database platform. Learn how customers get maximum flexibility, with the ability to choose cloud VM instance types and supported database versions. Silk manages the full database stack and employs a full-service DBA team available 24/7/365. 

The intended audience for this webinar: 
- Your current cloud DBaaS or PaaS solutions do not meet your needs, particularly as it relates to performance, data management, and flexibility, or
- You are on cloud IaaS and want to reduce day-to-day management of your databases, or 
- You are managing on-prem solutions that you want to move to the cloud in a managed capacity.

Learn more getting started with DBaaS on the Silk website and request a demo: https://silk.us/request-a-demo/

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

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

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

Silk hosts  Simon Palmer, a leading retail CIO with 25 years of experience in IT transformation and data strategy, most recently heading up the IT and Data teams at Frasers Group, a high-end UK retailer. We asked Simon to discuss in-depth the top 5 things retail CIOs and their teams should take on this year to adapt and thrive in this exciting new world of omnichannel retail. 

Simon will go all-in on his top list of priorities and provide actionable advice for IT leaders on the following: 

- Leveraging technology as a competitive differentiator 
- Get your customer buying habits, inventory, and seasonality data in order  
- Balance engineering resources across operations and innovation 
- Adopt sustainable automation for more impactful teams and efficiency gains 
- Leverage AI to deliver frictionless, fun, simple and relevant shopping experiences 

Hear from a retail industry leader on how to drive organizational success through transformative initiatives.

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