Serious Business Belongs in the Cloud

The workplace is transforming, and you need a solution that empowers your organization, handle employees' new expectations for technology at work, while keeping ahead of compliance and security needs.

In this session, you learn how why organizations are considering a modern workplace as part of their digital transformation journey and what are the key drivers behind this shift like the arrive of millennials and the rise of cybersecurity.

After watching this webinar, you will get a good understanding of what challenges and best practices when moving to a modern workplace from business and technology perspective, using the Pentagon Framework.

Cloud computing is a disruptive change in the way we organize information technology. Yet, it is the inevitable result of many years of development. The amount of technology that we manage is growing at staggering rates, forcing us to change the way we handle that.

That new way is the true essence of cloud and understanding that will enable you and your team to excel at fast and secure cloud adoption.

Cloud doesn’t just replace existing ways of running IT, but it also facilitates new applications and approaches. The webinar gives some examples.

Finally, you will uncover some learning resources to enable you to drive this change to you own benefit and the benefit of your team.

As customer expectations change and digital becomes more pervasive, companies need to think differently about monetizing their products and services in more innovative ways and establishing new revenue streams.

This webinar provides executives, managers and process/IT architects an understanding of key challenges involved, architecture options and mitigation approaches as they plan their transformation journey.

This will also provide “business capabilities need” in the new world and an architecture roadmap aligned to the business goals.

Containers and cloud-native development impacts security significantly. The mission hasn’t changed – we still need to harden the environment, reduce the attack surface, and find and stop bad guys. But the tactics must change – the old tools don’t work with this new infrastructure, and most importantly the processes have to change to fit the new DevOps world.

Beyond meeting the technical requirements needed to secure the environment, security solutions for cloud-native development must tightly integrate with the ecosystem and workflows of DevOps. Examples of meeting these DevOps needs are tight integration with Kubernetes, leveraging the context available across the declarative info of containers, and tapping into the feedback loop integral to DevOps to enable continuous improvement in security.

During this live panel, experts from Acalvio, Lacework, StackRox and Cavirin will discuss the technical and people aspects of building successful security for containerized apps and cloud-native development.

The customer expects fast, personal and engaging experiences, integrated and aligned across touch points in real time.

The Cloud brings along a paradigm shift in the way customers interact with the businesses and what businesses must be prepared for. Understand what the Modern Customer Experience is and how content and customer analytics are keys to success.

Organizations need to have the right tools to capture feedback and provide needed content at each point in the life cycle.

Learn more from our Panel of experts as they share their experiences, best practices, and lessons from leading Companies.

CIO's are increasingly asked to do more with less resources, create more flexibility among their teams and cost-effectively improve infrastructure.

Join this live webinar for an in-depth look at infrastructure transformation from the CIO's perspective when moving multiple environments to the public or private cloud, and how to balance teams, cost and bandwidth at the same time.

The SNIA Swordfish™ specification helps to provide a unified approach for the management of storage and servers in hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments, making it easier for IT administrators to integrate scalable solutions into their data centers. Swordfish builds on the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF’s) Redfish® specification using the same easy-to-use RESTful methods and lightweight JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatting. Join this session to receive an overview of Swordfish including the new functionality added in version 1.0.6 released in March, 2018.

Enterprise Architecture is dead. Long live Enterprise Architecture!

In the face of DevOps and Agile development methodologies, many enterprises have backed off entirely from the concept of an enterprise architecture. That's a mistake. Enterprise Architecture is needed more urgently than ever before--but not the old, silo-ed, inflexible architecture.

Next-generation Enterprise Architecture needs to be fast, flexible, and as adaptive as next-generation development methodologies. It needs to encompass the radical changes in infrastructure, from virtualization to cloud- and mobile-first.

And it's absolutely essential for enterprises who want to align their technology investments with their fast-moving business goals.

This webinar reviews the fundamentals of enterprise architecture and provides a blueprint for a next-generation EA that encompasses DevOps, cloud, mobility, virtualization, microservices, and more!

Scale-out storage is increasingly popular for cloud, high-performance computing, machine learning, and certain enterprise applications. It offers the ability to grow both capacity and performance at the same time and to distribute I/O workloads across multiple machines.

But unlike traditional local or scale-up storage, scale-out storage imposes different and more intense workloads on the network. Clients often access multiple storage servers simultaneously; data typically replicates or migrates from one storage node to another; and metadata or management servers must stay in sync with each other as well as communicating with clients. Due to these demands, traditional network architectures and speeds may not work well for scale-out storage, especially when it’s based on flash. Join this webinar to learn:

•Scale-out storage solutions and what workloads they can address
•How your network may need to evolve to support scale-out storage
•Network considerations to ensure performance for demanding workloads
•Key considerations for all flash

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: http://bit.ly/scale-out-q-a

Building a cloud storage architecture requires both storage vendors, cloud service providers and large enterprises to consider new technical and economic paradigms in order to enable a flexible and cost efficient architecture.

Economic:
Cloud infrastructure is often procured by service providers and large enterprises in the traditional way – prepay for expected future storage needs and over provision for unexpected changes in demand. This requires large capital expenditures with slow cost recovery based on fluctuating customer adoption. Giving these cloud service providers flexibility in the procurement model for their storage allows them to more closely align the expenditure on infrastructure resources with the cost recovery from customers, optimizing the use of both CapEx and OpEx budgets.

Technical:
Clouds inherently require often unpredictable scalability – both up and down. Building a storage architecture with the ability to rapidly allocate resources for a specific customer need and reallocate resources based on changing customer requirements allows the cloud service provider to optimize storage capacity and performance pools in their data center without compromising the responsiveness to the change in needs. Such architecture should also align to the datacenter level orchestration system to allow for even higher level of resource optimization and flexibility.

In this webcast, you will learn:
•How modern storage technology allows you to build this infrastructure
•The role of software defined storage
•Accounting principles
•How to model cloud costs of new applications and or re-engineering existing applications
•Performance considerations

Being deemed as the "most significant tech acquisition of 2018," IBM's purchase of Red Hat for $34 billion is not your average M&A. Apparently the cloud computing industry is in for another major disruption as a purchase of this size could change the market forever.

The biggest issue being addressed with this deal is the ability to easily move data around and between platforms, and ultimately expanding upon hybrid cloud offerings. Join this live expert panel discussion with cloud industry visionaries as they discuss the following:

- What this means for IBM and Red Hat's competitors
- Who is it relevant to and why?
- Is this is an indication of other big cloud computing deals to come and if so, how should enterprises prepare when selecting their technology providers?
- What does this mean for hybrid cloud and containers?
- Will this acquisition be different from HP's acquisition of Compaq? Of others in the Cloud market?

Moderator: Mark Thiele, Director of Engineering - Edge Computing, Ericsson
Panelists: Rob Hirschfeld, Founder/CEO, RackN and Ian Smith, CEO, Gospel Technology

Cloud Transformation has gained greater traction in the recent years. However, to propel your business to achieve the cloud profitability that you deserve, there are three core concepts that need to be understood.

Opportunity, Knowledge, and Actions

It works like this:

1. Your business realizes that there’s an opportunity to solve a problem or add value to the lives of many customers and make a recurring revenue from it.
2. You and your team acquire the knowledge that you need to take advantage of the cloud opportunity.
3. You and your team will execute actions based on the knowledge obtained, and your profit will be directly proportionate to how many customers you empower with Cloud technologies.

In this webinar, we will share the secret formula for you to lead the transformation:
1. Establishing cloud transformation principles
2. How to develop a strategic business case & roadmap
3. Get access to best practices & Case Studies
4. Learn about our special offer to get you started at (no cost)
5. Learn how to assess Cloud Hyperscalers such as Microsoft, AWS, Google in the market

Join us in making you and your business cloud ready company. We look forward to collaborating with you.

Tune into this live webcam panel moderated by Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor & Founding Partner, Kumulus Technologies for a discussion around benefits of and best practices for cloud-native architectures.

An open cloud-native architecture extends beyond containers and microservices, and also includes creating a culture of DevOps and NetOps and increasing developer efficiency.

Moderator: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor & Founding Partner, Kumulus Technologies
Panelists: Kingston Smiler, Co-Founder, PALC Networks

CEOs and boards are demanding their IT departments pursue a cloud-first, or all-in cloud, strategy, but not all clouds are created equal. A multi-cloud strategy is most prudent for enterprise businesses but to do so different business, system, application and cost drivers must be considered. In this presentation we will help you create a strategic buying framework for pursuing a multi-cloud strategy that pulls in both public cloud and private cloud services.

About the speaker:

In her role as Vice President of Cloud Services, Meg Ramsey sets the cloud strategy and vision for Sungard AS. Leading a team of product managers dedicated to delivering cloud infrastructure services for enterprise clients, she focuses on delivering application recovery and interoperability across all cloud platforms. Her efforts directly support Sungard AS’ strategic growth initiatives and include building partnerships with AWS and VMware to expand Sungard AS’ modern service offerings. Ramsey brings extensive consulting and strategy experience within the cloud, IT infrastructure and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining Sungard AS, Ramsey held positions at Accenture and Internap. She received her BS from Georgia Institute of Technology and a MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cloud computing has become synonymous with the digital agenda. Looking across the 2018 IT estate, cloud is no longer conspicuous by its presence but by its absence. Gartner projects the market size and growth of the cloud service industry at nearly three times the growth of the overall IT services industry through 2022. Cloud is agnostic of industry sector, having already established a material foothold in banks, schools, governments and healthcare.

In this webinar, we will explore what a cloud-first policy means for you no matter where you are on your cloud journey, with a focus on both where your remaining on-premise IT estate sits and how this fits into a cloud-first world.

About the speaker:
Mike is a TOGAF and SAFe certified architect specialising in the strategic enterprise and solutions architecture space, with a solid background in integration, application, infrastructure and data architecture.

He has a proven track record of delivering strategic business goals through business transformation programmes (up to £30M+) with complex interdependencies across the enterprise. Mike has extensive sector experience having worked in financial services, retail banking, digital eCommerce, not for profit, utilities and FMCG organisations.

He has a comprehensive background of technology leadership and transformation, business process re-engineering and systems integration over a wide range of heterogeneous technology environments, from hybrid cloud solutions to physical on-premise estates.