Name: Born in the Cloud: Leveraging Tech M&As for Successful Digital Transformation
Start: 2018-03-06T17:00:00Z
End: 2018-03-06T18:03:42.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Virtualization is no longer a passing trend. Organization deploying it in their servers, desktops, storage and networks are experiencing increased performance and decreased costs, when implemented and managed properly. Join this channel to hear leading experts discuss this maturing technology and how you can create your own software-defined data center.

Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) – Microsoft's desktop as a service (DaaS) -- lets IT administrators set up a full virtual desktop or remote applications for enterprise users. Deployment is not extremely complicated but it takes long and diligent effort. In this video, learn how a properly configured DaaS saves time in troubleshooting and management and also what steps to take employing Azure Resource Manager, which can perform several WVD setup and management tasks.

How to Set Up Windows Virtual Desktop

Containers and VMs each possess unique characteristics and tradeoffs, but there are many dimensions to consider when selecting a virtualization technology. Get a brief overview of VMs and containers and use cases for each.

VMs or Containers –  Or Both?

Software is eating the world. It is the catalyst that is driving disruptive innovation and has led to marketing-ease such as software-defined data centers, software-defined storage, software-defined networks, and software-defined anything.

In this session, we will discuss how IT professionals can successfully add value to the software-defined ecosystem as they continuously integrate and continuously deliver application services that meet and exceed any customer’s expectation.

Join this webinar to discuss:
- What are the key tenets of software-defined constructs?
- How do I apply a foundational set of skills like monitoring as a discipline to guarantee success as a software-defined professional?

Monitor with Discipline: Software-Defined Professionals

Originally restricted to making better use of physical servers, virtualization has grown to power anything and everything in the modern data center. Along with the technology came the luxury to simplify the provisioning of resources as they are needed. 

In this webinar, we will explore how virtualization can be leveraged to quickly and cheaply create servers on-demand and avoid the lengthy delays associated with handling and cabling physical hardware.

Join Petros Koutoupis, Lead Linux Systems Developer for IBM Cloud Object Storage, for a technical deep-dive into Linux operating systems running on virtual machines.

The On-Demand Data Center: Why you Should Consider System Virtualization

There are many types of storage technologies, both in how they are interconnected, consumed and designed. Object storage is no different in that it brings its own set of unique characteristics to the market. In this webinar, storage experts Rick Vanover and Chris Evans will explain:

•What object storage is and what it does 
•How to use object storage
•Essential characteristics of typical consumption
•Why object storage is important to the future of storage and computing technologies

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at https://bit.ly/2xa63fH

Object Storage: What, How and Why

Since the initial publication of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of cloud computing in 2011, international standards development organizations (SDOs) have sought to refine and expand the cloud computing landscape. This webinar will: 

•Identify key published and draft cloud standards
•Discuss their interdependencies
•Highlight their importance
•Identify potential future work. 

In addition, related technologies such as virtualization, federation, and fog/edge computing will be addressed. Lastly, the relevance of the standards will be explored to help organizations understand ways these documents can be exploited.

Cloud Standards: What They Are, Why You Should Care

One of Fibre Channel’s greatest strengths is its ability to scale to thousands and thousands of nodes, while providing predictable performance. So, when we say that Fibre Channel has unmatched scalability, what does that actually mean? And how does it work?

We often hear about “designed from the ground up,” but in this case it’s actually true. From each individual link, to the overall domain architecture, each step along the way is intended to be approached in a scalable fashion. 

In this webinar, we’ll be breaking down the pieces of the puzzle that help give Fibre Channel its robustness when you’re working at fabrics even greater than 10,000 nodes. We’ll be talking about:

•What a deterministic storage network is  
       •Fabric management principles
       •Negotiated credit transfers (buffer-to-buffer credits)
•Network Engineering/Design Principles  
       •Oversubscription and Fan-In Ratios
       •Topologies that help scale
       •Domains and Fabric limits
•Consistency of performance at scale  

Along the way, we’ll be talking about some of the ways that Fibre Channel differs from other popular storage networks as they approach large-scale environments, and how it handles issues that arise in such cases.

Please join us on November 6th at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET for another educational webinar on Fibre Channel!

Understanding Fibre Channel Scaling

Join this live interactive Q&A session with Sherelle Farrington, Cloud Security Solutions Architect, Fortinet, where we'll be tackling key topics such as:

1. How can we change security from a blocker into a digital innovation enabler?

2. Isn’t a diverse, disparate mix of platforms a security nightmare?

3. Can security even keep up with these dynamic, agile environments?

4. How do we shift towards a more proactive, risk-focused approach?

5. What impact are these evolving technologies having on overall infrastructure design?

Ask the Expert – Can Security be an Innovation Enabler?

As network architectures move to the cloud, knowing how to secure them is vital. 

Join experts in this live video panel as they discuss all things virtual and cloud networking - from security, network virtualisation, and beyond.

Topics include:

- Micro-segmentation and securing your application infrastructure

- Readying today's hybrid and private cloud networks for tomorrow

- SD-WAN, IoT and Edge computing: how they are changing the cloud network landscape

Panellists:
W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technical Evangelist, Druva
Hadar Freehling, Cloud Security Solutions Architect, VMware
Sherelle Farrington, Cloud Security Solutions Architect, Fortinet
Bob Ghaffari, GM, Enterprise & Cloud Networking Division, Intel Corporation

Moderator
David Welch, CTO, House of Brick

Live Video Panel: Securing Your Hybrid and Private Cloud Networks

Join this live interactive Q&A session with W. Curtis Preston, Chief Technologist, Druva where we'll be tackling key questions including;

1. What are the data protection requirements of a hybrid cloud environment?

2. Does a private cloud environment require a different type of data protection system?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of protecting data using the cloud?

4. Isn't it more secure to store your backups on-premises?

5. What about the physics of using the cloud for backup?  How do you backup and restore large amounts of data?

Ask the Expert - How to Secure Your Hybrid and Private Cloud Networks

Software defined storage, or SDS, is growing in popularity in both cloud and enterprise accounts. But what makes it different from traditional storage arrays? Does it really save money? Is it more complicated to support? Is it more scalable or higher-performing? And does it have different networking requirements than traditional storage appliances?
  
Watch this SNIA webcast to learn:
•How software-defined storage differs from integrated storage appliances
•Whether SDS supports block, file, object, or all three types of storage access
•Potential issues or pitfalls with deploying SDS
•How SDS affects storage networking
•Scale-up vs. scale-out vs. hyperconverged vs. cloud

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog http://bit.ly/SDS-Q-A

What Software Defined Storage Means for Storage Networking

What does it mean to be protected and safe? You need the right people and the right technology. This presentation is going to go into the broad introduction of security principles in general. This will include some of the main aspects of security, including defining the terms that you must know, if you hope to have a good grasp of what makes something secure or not.  We’ll be talking about the scope of security, including threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks – and what that means in real storage terms. In this live webcast we will cover: 

•Protecting the data (Keeping “the bad” out)
•Threat landscape, Bad actors/hackers
•Attack vectors, attack surfaces, vulnerabilities
•Physical security issues
•Layers of protection (encryption – last line of defense)
•Remediation after a breach/incident

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: http://bit.ly/2JQ1s5L

Understanding Storage Security and Threats

Join IBM experts for a discussion on how VMware, Veeam, and Skytap work together to optimize your business's workflows and goals in the cloud. 

Listen as our experts discuss the benefits and differences of each solution, then deepen your understanding by engaging with them during our question and answer section.

Panellists:
Jordan H Shamir, Offering Manager - VMware Solutions, IBM Cloud
Lauri McInnis, Technical Sales - SAP Solutions, IBM Cloud
Bob McGinley, Global Sales & Solution Manager, IBM Power Cloud & Skytap

Interactive Panel Discussion: Optimizing the Cloud with VMware, Veeam & Skytap

Learn how to seamlessly move your VMware-based workloads to the Cloud. Achieve the scale, automation, and choice for your VMware SDDC available at 50+ data centres across the globe. 

Keeping your existing tools investments, such as licenses, skills, and home-grown tools, as IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provides you with full root access. 

VMware Solutions on IBM Cloud enables to agility and scale of the cloud while allowing you to maintain your existing VMware investment and skills.

Reducing Headaches - Running your VMware Workloads natively in IBM Cloud

Skytap Cloud environments provide several unique capabilities that cannot be found anywhere else in today's cloud technologies. 

To facilitate a cloud-first development process comprised of the continuous delivery of quality code in small, frequent batches, infrastructure resources must be available on-demand, without the need manual intervention, or a team of scriptwriters.  

Network isolation in Skytap enables development teams to provision multiple replicas of full applications in parallel, removing configuration drift and environmental issues while streamlining development, test and release.

Build your environment, save as a template, provision on-demand, and adopt new tools and processes. Moving to DevOps for traditional applications begins with Skytap.  No other Cloud does it this way, and no other Cloud is as effective in changing the way we view infrastructure.  

Join us as we demonstrate the power of one of IBM's most innovative and successful Cloud products in the App Dev and Test space.

Rethinking AppDev and Testing in the Cloud with IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions

As enterprises build practices and operations around Kubernetes, the cloud is becoming a clear choice for quick access to standardized and scalable infrastructure that can set the foundation of a digital transformation strategy. For a CISO or compliance risk officer, maintaining security posture and governance policies during a digital transformation can prove to be difficult and a serious blocker for an organization. 

Join us as we discuss how the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions can be the optimal platform for enterprises looking to modernize applications and operations around Kubernetes without sacrificing security policies and full-stack control through our lift, shift and transform methodology. 

In this session, we will be discussing how combining VMware and Red Hat OpenShift can pave the way to a cloud-native architecture.

Deploying Kubernetes on VMware in the Cloud with Security and Control

Within the many challenges of modernizing an IT ogranization, modernizing the infrastructure your applications run on can be low-hanging fruit to start realizing performance improvements and total cost of ownership savings. 

The cloud can be the quickest way to get your applications running on the latest and greatest hardware but getting there is the challenge. 

Join us as we discuss how the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions platform is the optimal route to modernizing infrastructure for your VMware workloads and how that translates into savings in the short term. Out with the old and in with the new!

How to Modernize Your VMware-based Infrastructure with the Cloud

In this session, you will learn how to simplify a disaster recovery implementation by using the advanced features in Veeam that include automation based on schedules, automated tests, and automated reports.  

To further accelerate your disaster recovery project, Veeam also features an automated DR plan plus readiness and execution documents.   These rich features are offered as pre-built templates that you can add your customer-specific disaster recovery steps.

Simplifying Disaster Recovery Setup, Testing, & Execution with Veeam

Recently in the IT world it has been announced that VMware may make a reverse merger/acquisition of its current parent company Dell. Reverse mergers, especially with companies as large as these, are pretty rare in the tech world and if it goes through, this could be the biggest tech deal yet.

Does this type of reverse model hold water as a successful digital transformation strategy? In regards to process innovation and business model innovation, what does it mean for customer value creation?

Join this expert panel with Jeanne Morain, Digital Catalyst & Cloud Expert, George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, and Simon Kozlowski, Business Model Innovation Specialist at KNect365 Learning, as they discuss:

- Whether or not the reverse acquisition makes a difference for the customer
- How this impacts consolidation of debt for involved companies
- If/how going public again makes a difference both internally and externally 
- What can other companies and parent companies learn/take away from this type of deal?

Born in the Cloud: Leveraging Tech M&As for Successful Digital Transformation

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