Mobile Virtualization Best Practices

Milliseconds can mean millions of dollars made or lost but if you have to pay millions of dollars for it in the first place, is it really worth it? Loading up servers with flash or buying the most expensive storage systems on the planet have been the only way to achieve the lowest possible latency for virtualized SQL apps that require HA. Join George Wagner, Sr. Product Marketing Manager from NexGen Storage to discuss how new value-driven data management capabilities can deliver extreme low latency to the data that needs it without breaking the bank.

Scaling multiple databases with a single legacy storage system works well from a cost perspective, but workload conflicts and hardware contention make these solutions an unattractive choice for anything but low-performance applications.

Attend the webinar to learn about:
- How SolidFire’s all-flash storage system provides high performance at massive scale for mixed workload processing while simultaneously controlling costs and guaranteeing performance
- How to deploy four or more database copies using SolidFire’s Oracle Validated Configuration, at a price point at or below the cost of traditional storage systems
- SolidFire’s Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee; every copy receives dedicated all-flash performance, so IT admins can deliver solutions with confidence and maximize business efficiency

Desktop computers have been in existence for over 30 years, but the innovation in the last 10 years has fundamentally transformed the way we use them. The desktop is now increasingly found in the cloud, thanks to the technological advancements leading to the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). While VDI has been in existence for the past 8 years or so, it has become more relevant in the banking and insurance industries in recent years. Insurance agents and Wealth Managers work in a heavily regulated industry. While adhering to heavy regulations, the Insurance Agents and Wealth Managers have a critical need to access important information in real time to better serve their clients.

Now with VDI they’re able to break free from the limitations of the traditional infrastructure, being able to access real time information any time anywhere, enabling them to focus on their clients’ needs. Join us in this session to learn from Craig Beattie from Celent and Muthu Somasundaram from VMware, how VDI has helped accelerate the pace of innovation in the Insurance and Wealth management industry, while maintaining compliance with all regulations.

Configuring a VDI image is a complex task for the systems engineer. This session will help prepare the engineer for creating an image as well as vetting and troubleshooting it before it gets to production. Topics include:

- Image Creation Best Practices (Scripts, What-to-dos, What not-to-dos)
- Image Testing (Tools free and not)
- Troubleshooting (How to find out what’s wrong when it goes wrong)
- VDI Deployments (Why?)
- User Experience Monitoring (You need it, but how?)

Join Roni Putra and Robert Bassett -masterminds behind the origins of storage virtualization- and hear their personal opinions on Virtual SAN, where storage technology is today and the future of data storage in general. This is an incredibly candid session about the ever changing storage landscape by two people responsible in large part for the changes now happening.

Converged systems offer the potential for greater efficiency in operations. Existing policies, procedures and organizational structures can limit enterprise returns and may require organizations to change in order to deliver the goods. Risk reduction for application deployment, faster provisioning times and greater service efficiency are big drivers for organizations to look at adopting the many types of integrated platforms that are available. They can increase storage flexibility and tackle scaling concerns. They can also create challenges in breaking through technology silos and department boundaries. This presentation will look at the options that are available and strategies to make these investments worthwhile.

As data becomes more precious and valuable, but at the same time more difficult to contain and manage effectively, there are new levels of demand for highly skilled, all data managers.

Join Matthew Fordham and learn how to become an elite data manager as he shows you how to manage data virtually and effectively and how a virtual storage center can be the fastest track!

As your virtual estate grows and you add critical applications to the environment, a ‘one size fits all’ approach to vm protection is no longer an option. Core applications need to be treated differently to tier 2 or 3 systems, and simple manual tasks in a modest environment become impossible to manage in a growing virtual estate. Automation is also a key component if you are planning to move to a private cloud model.

This session will show you how to:
· Meet Protection/Recovery SLA’s with Automation

· Leverage automation to control vm sprawl

· Improve RPO/RTO with VM & App aware snapshots

· Effectively protect high workload VM’s

Virtualization has come a long way since just being able to offer more efficient resources and improved HA. You’ve already invested heavily in VMware technology, but are you really getting the most from what they have to offer? Naturally you can’t be experts in everything, so join this session with Rackspace, the VMware specialists, as Lindsay shows you how to fully benefit from the latest developments and enable you to offer IT as a more cloud-like experience, without having to re-write any of your applications.

o Understand the benefits of an Outsource model v’s On-Premise

o Critical Success Factors to consider when outsourcing IT to managed hosting or the cloud

o How to start your journey to the Managed Infrastructure Services

o DR-to the-Cloud: Best Practices

o VMware Dedicated vCenter, Server Virtualization and Dedicated VMware vCloud offerings

Server virtualization has become ubiquitous as a means to drive IT efficiency. But as you move more workloads to a virtualized environment, chances are your legacy storage system is struggling to keep up. Flash-based storage arrays can help solve the performance problem, but flash can be expensive and the performance and functionality they provide can vary widely.

Join us and learn:
How flash can help neutralized the I/O blender effect that occurs in virtual environments
The pros and cons for both all-flash and hybrid systems
What to consider before you purchase a flash-based storage array
How real-life organizations used flash to overcome inefficiencies and significantly reduce IT costs

Today’s modern storage solutions follow the old fashioned rule of three. Dominated by three words: Software-Defined Storage.

Learn about the trifecta of benefits from efficiency to flexibility to financial responsibility by joining Rolf Versluis, CTO at Adcap, a leading reseller in the SouthEast and Michael Letschin, Director of Products at Nexenta as they discuss the trends and use cases for Software-Defined storage and their play with the major virtualization vendors.

Attend to learn more about:
- What is the rule of three?
- Defining the world of SDx - software only, hyper-converged or traditional
- What are the business advantages of SDS
- How SDS can be integrated in your virtual environment
- Deployment options
- Examples of SDS deployment architectures

2014 was a year of industry hypes and a lack of clarity around a lot of new topics like Cloud, Convergence, VDI, BYOD, Big Data and more.

Software-defined storage and networks have the potential to go the way of ill-understood and difficult to explain as they being to sit at the top of the CIO's agenda.

So join Ossama El Samadoni as he looks at the reality behind software defined technologies and helps you to clear up the chaos!

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) have seen significant growth in 2013.
As a result, business of all sizes are looking to their MSSPs to provide the appropriate service to anticipate and mitigate the risk.

But providing an efficient and cost effective Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) managed service is more than just adding a Sandbox to the MSSPs offerings.

In this webinar we will try to look at the MSSP’s services and ecosystem via an APT prism and understand how this type of threat can help MSSPs create new revenue generating services and increase competitive advantage in the market place.

At the moment, “Storage Virtualization” and “Software Defined Storage” are marketing-led storage buzzwords—but do they represent technologies that have been around for years?
In this presentation, we will cover:
- The real definitions behind the technologies
- Their relationships to one another
- Product offerings for both areas
- Value delivered by the solutions

Today’s IT environment has seen an accelerated pace of change and complexity—all increasing demands on IT. Tens, hundreds and even thousands of changes per day should not be done manually.

Join us for a discussion of effective solutions for automating changes in the network, modifying security controls, resolving routing dilemmas and compliance rule conflicts. This session will provide insights gained through years of experience in the network security arena, and share with you how network changes can done securely, accurately and quickly.

Virtualization has enabled consolidation of hardware, greater application efficiency and availability, and scalability. It is the foundation for private cloud and the bridge to public cloud, which establishes the hybrid cloud ecosystem. As companies deploy, update, and maintain their virtualized applications across multiple platforms, they will need a single point of truth to optimize cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Virtualization management needs to be the single point of truth for IT managers. The truth starts with visibility via monitoring, pivots into business continuity and optimization with troubleshooting, and provides reporting capabilities for baselines, efficacies, and data-driven decisions.

Every day hundreds of Public Administration organizations roll out hundreds and thousands of new virtual desktops. Centrally managing desktops rather than hundreds of devices is appealing but the costs associated with data storage devices with enough horsepower to handle boot storms and virus scans can kill projects before they even get off the ground. Join Vince LaPaglia, Technical Marketing Engineer and VMware Certified Professional from NexGen to discuss new value-driven data management capabilities required to roll out cost effective VDI projects that deliver a superior end user experience.