Mobile Virtualization Best Practices

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Hybrid Cloud is all about augmenting your existing, on-premises datacenter with elastic capacity-on-demand securely provided by public and hosted clouds. However, managing Hybrid Clouds can be painful, as it often involves using separate management tools for each platform. Attend this session to learn about the key Hybrid Cloud scenarios that other organizations are implementing to manage across private, public and hosted clouds with a consistent management experience using System Center 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services.

At the end of this session, you will also receive a FREE eBook on Hybrid Cloud Management to help you get started in your own organization.

As we move into the software-defined age, more and more of us are transforming the enterprise with private clouds, virtualization and hybrid IT. Yet prioritizing services to improve is a challenge and enacting any innovations can put additional strain on your data center, potentially taking you further away from your goals

Delivering and managing applications is key to maintaining an agile business and can take valuable resource away from your already overloaded data center so that you can focus on the innovations that will prepare and define your organization for the future.

So take Special Delivery of this interactive discussion with Application Expert Neil Abogado as he discusses your IT priorities and the critical importance of application delivery controllers (ADC) to the infrastructure. Attend now and discover more about:

•Mega-trends and priorities that are top-of-mind for CIOs
•The value of a software-defined application delivery environment
•What automation and agility can mean for your organization
•The intangible benefits of network services in a cloud environment

The practice of securing the data center is changing almost as fast as the technology in them. Historically protection of data center assets – physical and virtual – has been siloed. Increased physical terrorism and cyber terrorism are forging a new thinking about how to protect data centers. The requirements for securing the data center are becoming holistic with physical and cyber security integrated into a single discipline.

So join Jerry L. Bowman, President of Square Mile Systems and Data Center industry veteran as he highlights ways to effectively deal with cyber security and discusses the 4 trends in Data Center security that could change everything:

- The New Cyber Security – the new expectations of cyber security, including new framework like the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and other important standards and best practices from organizations like ISACA, ISO, TIA and BICSI.

- Public and Private Clouds – Public and private clouds bring new levels of risk as the emphasis on infrastructure security for data in motion becomes key. This trend is driving new levels of focus on the availability of data across a broader infrastructure.

- Accreditation – More and more data center professionals are looking for accreditation of their facilities and networks against standards and best practices. The future of accreditation against standards is discussed and the role of the security professional.

- Shadow IT – The most secure data center in the world isn’t going to provide any protection if IT services are sought by Shadow IT organizations. The increasing tolerance of BYOD (bring your own device) along with the use of often unapproved IT software and services could become the nemesis of cyber security.

DCEP in the US has passed House of Representatives, NABERS in Australia is required for all Federal facilities, there is the impending CCA for data centres in the UK (possibly going to be required for all UK Government outsourced deals) in addition to EU Code of Conduct.

With so much going on in regulation it can be hard to stay ahead, so join this expert Data Center panel, chaired by industry veteran and consultant Gary Thornton, as they discuss regulation, data centers and ask:

-Is legislation just a matter of time?
-What does it all mean for you?
-How will it affect the future data centre landscape?

Transformation in data centers is actually just a part of a wider business and political transformation. In fact CIOs and IT departments who have the skills to meet the existing demands may not have the skills for the future.

Join Data Center Industry veteran and consultant Gary Thornton as he discusses some major changes facing data center and IT teams and suggests how you can meet any new challenges head on

In today's data centers, the need for flexibility and agility is undeniable. As businesses continue to grow and leverage technology to remain competitive, they require a new way of simplified IT. IT organizations can no longer deal with complex, cumbersome legacy infrastructure that can't keep at the pace of the business.

In this webinar, discover:
- What is hyper convergence
- The benefits of converged infrastructure
- Best practices and use cases for leveraging hyper converged architectures

Complex IT infrastructure interdependencies and an incomplete inventory of IT assets and their relationships to business applications can hinder a successful transformation.

So how do you obtain the accurate, reliable, and timely information you need to make optimal business decisions throughout your data center transformation? How can you plan your transformation initiatives in confidence while minimizing risk and ensuring IT service ability?

Attend this session to learn how an automated approach to blueprinting can provide the foundation you need to embark on your data center transformation.

In the 1970s and 1980s the Swiss watchmaking industry went almost extinct as Asian companies such as Seiko moved to factory mass manufacturing of the new, cheaper and more accurate quartz watch movement. The Swiss industry shrunk rapidly, most of the brands went under or were sold and had to find a new way to survive. The Swiss survived, at much smaller volume, by producing high cost mechanical watches which were expensively marketed as luxury items, a type of positional good (a good whose value is determined by its desirability to others) and creating an artificial scarcity.

We have a similar economic event happening in the data center market today. The design, construction and operation of a data center to the minimum TCO has become commoditised, suppliers and operators no longer have any “secret sauce” or knowledge that enables them to substantially outperform the market, at the same time cloud technologies are driving down the market price at a huge rate thanks to the uber operators such as Google and Amazon.

The questions this raises are;
1. Which of the current types of data center or equipment supplier will survive?

2. Will the whole market go to cloud services purchased by the hour and eliminate data center demand entirely?

3. Will the modular, factory built, data centers become the Quartz watch and virtually eliminate legacy custom design and ‘stick build’?

4. Are the modular vendors offering real TCO value for money or are they the new luxury brands selling only perceived value and marketing?

5. What happens to the value of existing data centers for enterprise owner operators and data center businesses?

A number of companies are helping to build the green Internet by committing to power their operations with 100 percent renewable energy. Find out who is doing it and how they are doing it, in this talk from Greenpeace’s, Head of Technology, Andrew Hatton

- Cloud Energy Snapshot
A quick look at the different energy sources powering the internet today across the globe

- Your Roadmap to a Green Internet
The IT sector has made substantial progress in driving innovation in data centre and server energy efficiency design in the past 5-plus years, yet there is more to do.

Here we look at the key ingredients for any company which wants to build their part of the internet with renewable energy.

- Your own online world: Green in Real Life or #Dirty
From social media to music, streaming video, we are increasingly moving much of our lives online. That means a lot of new data to store. But where is that databeing stored, which companies are storing it, and what kind of energy are they using?

- Green Internet leaders and best practice
Find out which companies have committed to a goal of powering data centres with 100 % renewable energy. Find out which organisations are providing the early signs of the promise and potential impact of a renewably powered internet.