Cloud Economics: Enabling Efficient & Secure Cloud Infrastructure

Enterprises accumulate new cloud solutions rapidly, but still run 40% of their workloads in their own data centers. Without a plan, the result is an unsupportable mess. Join Nemertes Research as we discuss how to pull all the pieces together to make a coherent hybrid multicloud IT can manage, and use to deliver real business value.

In the world of enterprise cloud, multi-cloud strategies can be sophisticated. This webinar will discuss cost-savings in the cloud utilizing advanced tools for multi-cloud deployment for reducing CapEx and OpEx while streamlining processes and optimizing revenue cycles.

With some calling multi-cloud ‘the new normal’, more and more companies are moving towards a multi-cloud future. The benefits of a multi-cloud strategy - including reducing vendor lock in and capitalizing on different cloud providers’ strengths - however, take some time to become apparent.

This panel takes a closer look at how to make the path to successful multi-cloud management as straightforward and clear as possible. From how to manage conflicting infrastructure and serverless applications, to workflow portability, join cloud experts as they discuss:

- Multi Cloud management myths and reality
- How Kubernetes based tools can smooth over some of the bumps
- Managing native services in a centralized manner

Moderator:
Jeanne Morain - Tech Executive, Founder of iSpeak Cloud

Panellists:
Simon Ratcliffe - Principal Consultant, Ensono
George Hamilton - Senior Product Line Marketing Manager, CloudHealth by VMWare
Nital Gandhi - Founder, BOIT Consulting

The destruction of hard perimeters, the rise of remote work and mobility, and increasingly hybridized infrastructures push identity to the center of enterprise security. Join us as we discuss identity-centric security in a multicloud environment, and concrete steps you can take towards that goal.

As data growth in enterprises continues to skyrocket, datacenter cloud scalability, whether on premises, in hybrid cloud or in multicloud deployments, is key for businesses. So, what are enterprise IT organizations supposed to do, given that 'run anything anywhere' is becoming more important than ever? Customers are finding that hybrid cloud storage solutions better meet their IT and business growth needs, so they can rapidly scale their IT infrastructure and cover a wider array of services. This webcast will help architects and consumers of hybrid cloud storage solutions better understand:
oTrends and benefits of hybrid cloud storage and multicloud deployments
oThe range of technologies and capabilities under development to help enterprise hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) serve IT customers
oHow scalability differs in block vs. file workloads
oThe important requirements to keep in mind when considering a 'run anything anywhere' objective

In the world of enterprise cloud, multi-cloud strategies can be sophisticated. This webinar will discuss cost-savings in the cloud utilizing advanced tools for multi-cloud deployment for reducing CapEx and OpEx while streamlining processes and optimizing revenue cycles.

Technology is disrupting every known way of life, and shaking people
and processes out of their comfort zones. Human Resource management is no exception. However, certain fundamental questions need to be answered.

* Is technology subsuming the HUMAN aspect?
* What is the purpose of this Digital Transformation?
* Is it ‘RESHAPING’ the human aspect or REPLACING it?
* Is the ‘What’ taking precedence over the Why?
* Is Digital transformation possible minus disruption?

Join this session as we discuss:
*The three major theatres of digital disruption in HR
*The trends and technologies that are occupying the space
* The compelling case for embracing Digital Transformation in HR
* How using different methodologies like ‘Design Thinking’ and ‘empathy mapping’ can help retain the HUMAN element in digital transformation
* The impact of technologies in creating positive, enabling and refined experiences for employees

Discover how the themes of computational storage, persistent memory, and solid state come together in a webcast from the new SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative. We’ll explore how expertise in these three areas can help understand storage architectures, common solution areas, and their impacts on storage devices, systems, and software.

In honor of International Internal Audit Awareness Month (May 2020), come hear from Greg Jordan, Nationwide's Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive, Pat Shanahan, AVP Information Technology Audit Office, Internal Audit and Emigdio Zambada, Nationwide's IA Data Analytics Director, discuss how their department expanded the use of data & analytics by building a continuous auditing program in the cloud. Partnering with Covail, they leveraged advanced analytics like AI and have provided education and resources to all of their auditors to enhance their data analytics skill set.

SNIA Swordfish is an extension of the DMTF Redfish specification to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and services in converged, hyperconverged, hyperscale, and cloud infrastructure environments. Swordfish uses a client-centric approach to develop the dynamic resource models as part of the specification, which describes client needs, management requirements, and use cases.

NVMe-oF currently support fabric transports like RDMA (iWarp, RoCE, IB), TCP, and FC. NVMe / NVMe-oF currently lacks efficient remote configuration and provisioning management mechanisms to enable NVMe-oF scaling to large converged infrastructures – something Redfish and Swordfish can provide.

The SNIA Swordfish specification is currently growing to include full NVMe and NVMe-oF enablement and alignment across DMTF, NVMe, and SNIA for NVMe and NVMe-oF use cases. SNIA members are contributing to specification development and helping to shape the ecosystem. This presentation will provide an overview of the work in progress to map these standards together to ensure NVMe and NVMe-oF environments can be represented entirely in Swordfish and Redfish environments.

Join us! We welcome your feedback, and encourage participation.

In this webcast, we will explore why your storage may be acting strangely now that it’s been subjected to the whims of data scientists. We’ll look at how and why the I/O patterns have changed, where this will lead, and some of the tactics and strategies you can deploy now to prevent impact from this new movement of storage saboteurs! We’ll discuss:

•Why are data scientists here? (the benefits a data scientist brings to the organisation)
•How to spot a data scientist in the wild (data patterns to look out for)
•Feeding and watering your data scientist (what they need and how to provide it)
•Planning for more data scientists (how to make your infrastructure data scientist ready)
•How does data flow through an AI/ML system?
•Is the data packaged in unusual or specific ways?
•What stresses does it place on the storage system? Capacity? Performance? Or both?

Explore the reality and the hype of digital transformation. We’ll trace the origins and evolution of digital transformation from automated looms in Victorian England through the application of today’s cutting edge artificial intelligence. On our journey we’ll see where companies are finding the true value of digital transformation … and how to avoid the buzzwords.

Classic debates about whether to use public cloud or private cloud are waning as public clouds companies invest a lot in research and keep the innovation bar high. Does that mean all the enterprise functions should choose to become public cloud native? More than technology choice, is there a clear ROI?

Hybrid clouds technologies are born out of this vacuum and both industry vendors and consumers is clearly making all the effort to bury the hard-drawn line of public vs private cloud debate - Their strategy is not distinguish boundaries stronger rather make it look weaker. Hybrid Cloud expands characteristics of Network, Compute, Storage, Services and Hardware to support modern IT ecosystem.

Industry’s leading technology companies are investing and delivering innovating technologies to be part customer’s hybrid cloud ecosystem.

This talk will cover:

- Defining Hybrid Cloud
- Traditional enablers and barriers for public vs private cloud, vacuum filled by Hybrid Cloud
- Building Blocks of Hybrid Cloud
- Pillars for Hybrid cloud innovation:
- Networking
- Compute
- Storage
- Hardware
- Security

Next-Generation Networking Series [Ep.3]: New Normal - The Case for SD-WAN in 2020

SD-WAN is rapidly becoming the new normal in enterprise WANs - this session will explore why and how, and do a deeper dive into adoption, deployment, and operations data from Nemertes' 2020-2021 Next Generation Networking Research Study.

The modern approach to delivering IT solutions for an enterprise starts with a hybrid cloud, security centric approach. Everything IT is being becoming software-defined, a.k.a. “IT-as-Code”. This requires enterprise security and ops teams to know how to connect together APIs, deploy cloud infrastructure, use automation tools, and adopt DevSecOps methodologies for delivering modern IT solutions to their stakeholders. Finding nirvana in the modern enterprise world requires this missing link: repeatable, secure IT-as-Code solution blueprints that can be agile, iterated on, and adapted to ongoing business and compliance requirements.

In this session you will learn how to build a secure IT solution blueprint using AWS and Azure cloud native templates (IaaS & PaaS) combined with Red Hat Ansible for configuration management (Legacy apps & SaaS), and how to tie into external APIs.

We will then discuss best practices for applying cloud security controls with every cloud service, automation task and API integration. We will discuss using open source security tools, e.g. Chef Inspec for automating compliance requirements and security remediation.

To wrap up the session, we will go over the entire lifecycle of solution delivery adding in to the blueprints, with cloud services and other API integrations connect everything together to show own to intelligently deliver end-to-end solution blueprints and how to manage the configuration of the state of the environment over time.

Despite the complexity of microservices, their impact on software application architecture has been phenomenal - shorter time to production and an ability to innovate substantially faster among them.

To make the most of this impact, companies need microservices and APIs to work together to minimise this complexity and optimize enterprise agility. Join this panel discussion where leading experts share how to master the management of microservices and APIs to

- Build an API strategy that enables microservices to exist with legacy systems
- Enable discovery of data sources, services and applications
- Create an API economy that benefits the business

Simon Ratcliffe, Technology Evangelist, Ensono
Allan Wintersieck, CTO, Devetry
Harriet Jamieson, Content Manager, BrightTALK

Leveraging CI / CD pipelines with existing DevSecOps tools in a multi-cloud approach is challenging. This requires some understanding of the difference between each cloud provider's services, and also understanding cloud specific technology. The key is to know how to create Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) pipelines that are cloud specific and the rest of your automation for configuration, security that you would apply to the IaC pipelines.

This session will cover:

- Explain what is DevSecOps
- Explain CI / CD pipelines
- CI / CD Pipelines for DevSecOps: How it works
- Why multi-cloud CI / CD pipelines are required for Enterprise
- Real-world use cases of Multi-Cloud CI / CD Pipelines for DevSecOps

About the speaker:
Michael Fraser is currently Co-Founder | CEO | Chief Architect at Refactr, Inc, a firm he co-founded in 2017. Michael also worked at Optiv as a Cloud Security Solutions Architect for many Fortune 100 companies. Starting his career in the United States Air Force in cybersecurity, Michael left after 9 years to become an expert in DevSecOps and security automation. Michael has published many feature articles including in Redmond Channel Partners, featured on the cover of Channel Pro Magazine and has presented at numerous industry events, including: CRN, various Microsoft events, RedHat AnsibleFest, DevOps Days, and All Day DevOps .
Academically, Michael earned a Master of Computer Science at Seattle University in June 2019 and is also an adjunct professor at Seattle Central College, teaching courses in Cloud, Cybersecurity and DevOps. Michael is an avid snowboarder and loves Crossfit. Finally, Michael aspires to be the world’s coolest dad for his 5 year old autistic daughter, and in his spare time creating an Augmented Reality app to help autistic children communicate better in social situations.

Learn how to master multi-cloud and power your modern architecture.

The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019, according to Gartner, Inc. Research from Flexera tells us that 84 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, with respondents to the Flexera research running applications in a combination of 3.4 public and private clouds and experimenting with 1.5 more for a total of 4.9 clouds.

Join this panel where industry experts will discuss:

- Aligning your multi cloud strategy to your organizational strategy
- Determining internal cloud competency to enable your organization to deploy multi cloud environments
- Designing complexity into your strategy
- Factoring in appropriate security to the equation
- Creating a blueprint to determine which workloads belong in which cloud
- Controlling scope and growth

Moderator:
Jo Peterson, Vice President, Cloud & Security Services, Clarify360

Panelists:
Álvaro González, AVP of Partner Strategy and Enablement, TierPoint
Matt Wallace, CTO, Faction