Cloud Computing: It's What’s Inside that Counts

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

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

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?

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 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Enterprise networking needs are shifting--cloud models and new applications are driving digital transformation, according to this newly released State of the WAN Report.

To better understand networking and application performance challenges, priorities, and plans, Aryaka conducts an annual State of the WAN survey administrated to almost 800 global IT and network practitioners. In this report they discovered that almost 50% have over 100 applications, and because of this increasing complexity, IT professionals are having a hard time provisioning, optimizing, and securing their Cloud and WAN deployments.

Join us for this panel discussion as we reveal findings from the third annual global survey and insights into the State of the WAN in 2019, including:

• The biggest challenges companies are facing with their WAN
• Features IT professionals are looking for in an SD-WAN solution
• Top Applications driving WAN transformation
• Insights into N.America, Europe and APAC trends

We will also be hosting a panel at 14:00 GMT for our European folks. Please visit,
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/17572/365909?utm_source=AryakaEMEA

Enterprise networking needs are shifting--cloud models and new applications are driving digital transformation, according to this newly released State of the WAN Report.

To better understand networking and application performance challenges, priorities, and plans, Aryaka conducts an annual State of the WAN survey administrated to almost 800 global IT and network practitioners. In this report they discovered that almost 50% have over 100 applications, and because of this increasing complexity, IT professionals are having a hard time provisioning, optimizing, and securing their Cloud and WAN deployments.

Join us for this panel discussion as we reveal findings from the third annual global survey and insights into the State of the WAN in 2019, including:

• The biggest challenges companies are facing with their WAN
• Features IT professionals are looking for in an SD-WAN solution
• Top Applications driving WAN transformation
• Insights into N.America, Europe and APAC trends

And so much more...

Kubernetes is great for running stateless workloads, like web servers. It’ll run health checks, restart containers when they crash, and do all sorts of other wonderful things. So, what about stateful workloads?

This webcast will take a look at when it’s appropriate to run a stateful workload in cluster, or out. We’ll discuss the best options for running a workload like a database on the cloud, or in the cluster, and what’s needed to set that up.

We’ll cover:
•Secrets management
•Running a database on a VM and connecting it to Kubernetes as a service
•Running a database in Kubernetes using a `stateful set`
•Running a database in Kubernetes using an Operator
•Running a database on a cloud managed service

After you watch the webcast, check out our Kubernetes Links & Resources blog at http://bit.ly/KubeLinks and our webcast Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/KubeQuestions

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit US Government Solutions Special Interest Group.

Objective: Learn how to leverage the Cloud for realistic Performance Testing.

Cloud Burst, a Micro Focus performance testing solution, is the only product on the market today that can automatically support your scalable performance testing needs in the Government FedRAMP Cloud environments.

See how your testing can be hosted in a Private Secure Gov Cloud environment to automatically execute performance or stress test completely within the Gov Cloud environments, or from various cloud regions around the world, simulating real user’s experience during the performance test.

Watch the live demo running in the FedRAMP Gov Cloud regions to see how easy, quickly and affordably you can plan, design and execute your application performance testing requirements.

This offering with flexible pricing, allows clients to leverage their investment in the Micro Focus ADM software solutions, increasing their ROI, while reducing risk and adding value to their organization’s internal and external users.