What is an IT-as-a-Service Catalog and Why is it a Necessity?

We’re all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We’re also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required?

In this webcast, we’ll explore concepts like consistency, idempotency, 2 phase commit, and systems built on ACID databases stored on CRUD storage; and why in the age of distributed systems, we need to update our thinking to include eventual consistency, understand new theories such as the CAP Theorem and RESTfulness, and undertake transactional work in the face of unreliable and physically dispersed systems. We’ll then explain how all this can be accomplished with new application techniques built on modern storage systems.

And yes, we’ll explain all the acronyms and nomenclature too.

You will learn:

•A brief history of transactional systems from banking to Facebook
•How the Internet and distributed systems have changed and how we view transactions
•An explanation of the terminology, from ACID to CAP and beyond
•How applications, networks & particularly storage have changed to meet these demands

The rapid adoption of enterprise cloud-based solutions brings data integration as one of the greatest challenges. The challenge grows on increasingly numerous SaaS applications with heterogeneous exclusive connectors for the lack of generic approach. Join this webinar led by Primitive Logic team to see how data integration can be simplified for your cloud. This talk introduces the generic declarative zero-coding approach across any SaaS applications and illustrates its practical features, as well as best practices and hidden gems.

Moderator: Jill Reber, CEO, Primitive Logic
Panelists: JayJay Zheng, Technical Director & Eric Greenfeder, Chief Architect, Primitive Logic

What's next in the minds of organizations today after embarking on the Cloud hype?

Join this webinar to learn about Cloud Integration core concepts, strategies, evolution and adoption. We will review software-defined functional architecture, what's available in the marketplace, considerations, and where to start.

Cloud Integration is the process of configuring multiple cloud applications in a network enterprise and third party software. Adoption of such integrations have become critical in defining the success of organizations of all shapes and types.

Adoption to Cloud Integration allows businesses to unify functions in building unique understandings and capabilities creating opportunities in realizing value. Cloud Integration that’s offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) model is a thriving marketplace with connectors for APIs, data, security, monitoring, performance and business process management functions to name a few.

This presentation reviews core concepts around integration, Strategies, the iPaaS (integration platform as a service) buzz, how evolution of adoption is mashed by marketplace and provide an approach to defining value of integration for efficiency and business alignments.

The “cloudification” or the “softwareization” of Telco networks are revolutionizing the products & solutions in more ways than we could have ever planned for. The impending arrival of IoT with its reliance on the cloud further exacerbates these challenges. With it come increasing opportunities not only for products but services.

Data centers got virtualized with Compute virtualization by way of hypervisors, Storage by way of Software Defined Storage & network by way of Software Defined Networking. Telco networks are following suit with the advent of NFV but the professional services associated with it remain manual & labour intensive. The services ecosystem need to go through a disruptive innovation as well, leveraging on aspects such as automate & reuse (adopt design ONCE deploy MANY times paradigm)
This notion of treating Professional Services (PS) as an entity which can be built once, refined many times & can be shared across projects as though they were “code” is what we are calling as Programmable Professional Services or Software Defined Services.

This webinar focusses on the following aspects:
- Outline the challenges faced by external customers and internal organization in the realm of Telco & Converged Cloud Data Centers
- Provide an overview of our new Data Center services portfolio driven by centralized tools and automation, catering to all phases during the lifespan of Telco data centers such as design, build, operate, optimize & maintain
- Provide an overview of a new way of adopting the DevOps methodology in the professional services realm to provide industrialized service development and delivery by way of templatization of work packages, automating the execution of these templates on Telco data center components.

As the Enterprise makes its big push to Public Cloud, it is quickly realized that the current state of legacy ITIL processes simply can't keep up. To ensure your hybrid cloud solution is maintained within the defined boundaries of compliance and security, a combination of continuous monitoring and an action driven compliance engine is required. Optimization can be obtained through similar tools and methodologies... Join this webcast to find out how!

About the Speaker:
Thomas is a 20 year veteran CIO and technology leader of the General Electric Company. Most recently Thomas was the Head of Application Transformation tasked with moving 9000 legacy workloads to public and private cloud infrastructure. Thomas tackled widely diverse and complex workload requirements across different GE business units. He worked closely with leading public and private cloud providers to identify and implement transformational strategies, methods and tools to achieve cloud adoption goals. Thomas has been a leading evaluator, adopter and advocate of innovative tools and emerging technology that drive effective operation of cloud infrastructure at scale.

Since leaving GE in 2017, Thomas has dedicated his efforts to helping companies and technologists by sharing his in-depth expertise and insights related to large scale enterprise adoption, application migration and management of cloud technologies.

The use of cloud object storage is ramping up sharply, especially in the public cloud, to reduce capital budgets and operating expenses. However, enterprises are challenged with legacy applications that do not support standard protocols to move data to and from the cloud.

Enterprises have developed strategies specific to the public cloud for Data Protection, Archive, Application development, DevOps, Big Data Analytics and Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. However, these same organizations have legacy applications and infrastructure that are not cloud friendly.

Object storage is a secure, simple, scalable, and cost-effective means of managing the explosive growth of unstructured data enterprises generate every day. Gateways enable SMB and NFS data transfers to be converted to Amazon’s S3 protocol while optimizing data with deduplication and providing QoS efficiency on the data path to the cloud.

This webcast will highlight the market trends toward the adoption of object storage and the use of gateways to execute a cloud strategy, the benefits of object storage when gateways are deployed, and the use cases that are best suited to leverage this solution.

Join this webcast to learn:
•The benefits of object storage when gateways are deployed
•Primary use cases for using object storage and gateways in private, public or hybrid cloud
•How gateways can help achieve the goals of your cloud strategy without
retooling your on-premise infrastructure and applications

The hyperscale public cloud providers dominate the conversation when it comes to the enterprise journey to the cloud, but the regional and specialized providers are not going away.

•What happens when Microsoft Azure Stack becomes GA?
•How will tier 2 and tier 3 providers differentiate?
•Which managed services are most desirable according to enterprises?
•Are there other providers that will join the Azure, Google and AWS hyperscale party?

A provocative panel of industry insiders will debate these and other questions in a can’t-miss session.

Leadership Panel Session Featuring:
•Mark Thiele, CIO & CSO, Apcera
•Lance Crosby, Founder and CEO, StackPath