Organizing for the Cloud: New Skills, Ops and Finances of the Cloud

Standards organizations like SNIA are in the vanguard of describing cloud concepts and usage, and (as you might expect) are leading on how and where security fits in this new world of dispersed and publicly stored and managed data. In this webcast, SNIA experts Eric Hibbard and Mark Carlson will take us through a discussion of existing cloud and emerging technologies (such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Analytics & Big Data, and so on) – and explain how we’re describing and solving the significant security concerns these technologies are creating. They will discuss emerging ISO/IEC standards, SLA frameworks and security and privacy certifications. This webcast will be of interest to managers and acquirers of cloud storage (whether internal or external), and developers of private and public cloud solutions who want to know more about security and privacy in the cloud.

Topics covered will include:

Summary of the standards developing organization (SDO) activities:
- Work on cloud concepts, CDMI, an SLA framework, and cloud security & privacy
Securing the Cloud Supply Chain:
- Outsourcing and cloud security; Cloud Certifications (FedRAMP, CSA STAR)
Emerging & Related Technologies:
- Virtualization/Containers, Federation, Big Data/Analytics in the Cloud, IoT and the Cloud

Radiant is a robust tool for business analytics and running sophisticated models without any need for code development. It leverages the functions and tools in R and at the same time provides a user-friendly interface. With Radiant, you can manipulate and visualize your data, run different models from simple OLS to decision trees (CART) and neural networks, and evaluate your results.

The application is based on the Shiny package and can be run locally or on a server. Radiant was developed by Vicent Nijs. In this webinar, we review the tools available in Radiant and explain how easily you can use this tool without any setup or installation on your system.

Radiant key features:

• Explore: Quickly and easily summarize, visualize, and analyze your data
• Run different models: OLS, GLM, Neural Networks, Naïve Bayes and CART.
• Cross-platform: It runs in a browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Reproducible: Recreate results and share work with others as a state-file or an Rmarkdown report
• Programming: Integrate Radiant's analysis functions with your own R-code
• Context: Data and examples focus on business applications

After this webinar you will learn:

• Data manipulation and running different models
• How to run advanced analytics in a browser on any device even in your tablet or iPad.


Presenter bio:

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.

Logistic regressions are the basic of machine learning. In this webinar, we discuss binomial and multinomial logistic regressions, how we implement them in R and test their performance. We will also review few examples of their usage in industry. In addition, you will learn how to use R-Brain advanced IDE when implementing the model.

- Logistic regressions fundamentals and how to interpret estimates
- Binomial and Multinomial logistic regressions
- Implement logistic regressions in R
- Performance measurement in logistic regressions
- Generating and understanding ROC curve
- Building confusion metrics and understanding its elements
- Examples of model application in industry
- Learn about new advanced IDE

Presenter bio:

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.

Octane I/O provides an enterprise grade, near real time integration of HPE ALM or HPE Octane with four popular Agile development tools (Atlassian JIRA, Microsoft TFS, CA Agile Central/Rally and VersionOne). This webinar will provide:

•High level introduction to the new synchronization offering
•Sampling of integration use cases between HPE tools and 3rd party Agile tools
•Technical demo of HPE ALM Octane I/O
•Details for accessing your licenses
•Where to get more information

You'll have everything you need to quickly get HPE ALM or Octane connected to your Agile tools.

Cohesity is one of the rising stars in the world of data management. They have flipped the data protection market on its ear. In this CEO Series webcast, Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of Taneja Group will interview Mohit Aron, CEO of Cohesity, to understand the concept of Hyperconverged Secondary Storage and why it matters to the industry. We will explore the advantages it provides for your data protection, test/dev, and data analytics workloads and how Cohesity is different from other solutions on the market. It is time to say goodbye to the old, staid methods of protecting data. The traditional methods simply don’t make sense in the new world of Big Data, Multi and Hybrid cloud and web-scale applications. Join the webcast for a whirlwind tour of new ideas and methods in this space.

Speakers:
Arun Taneja, Founder & Consulting Analyst, Taneja Group
Mohit Aron, Founder & CEO, Cohesity

As businesses become increasingly dependent on SAP HANA for real-time decisions, the demands of the infrastructure continue to grow. A more efficient and modern infrastructure is required to meet the demands of these global always on real-time environments. Storage plays a crucial role in maintaining high service levels and guarding against costly downtime. The right storage for SAP HANA is all flash.
Join us as Jeff Kato, Senior Analyst and Consultant from Taneja Group describes why all flash is the best choice for HANA. Jeff will also provide a comparison of the leading all flash solutions in the market and illustrate where 3PAR All Flash leads the competition in critical storage efficiency metrics. Stephen Carpenter, Master Technologist from HPE’s Storage Business Unit, will share some key insights that distinguishes 3PAR StoreServ architecturally for HANA workloads. Additionally, Hasmig Samurkashian, Product Manager from the HPE Storage team will share actual customer deployment examples.

Presenters:
Jeff Kato, Senior Analyst & Consultant, Taneja Group
Stephen Carpenter, Master Technologist, Advanced Technology Center, HPE Storage
Hasmig Samurkashian, WW Solutions Product Manager, HPE Storage

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of IT at the present time. IoT involves the linking of physical entities (“things”) with IT systems that derive information about or from those things which can be used to drive a wide variety of applications and services. IoT covers a very wide spectrum of applications, spanning enterprises, governments and consumers and represents the integration of systems from traditionally different communities: Information Technology and Operational Technology. As a result, it is important for IoT systems to have architectures, systems principles, and operations that can accommodate the interesting scale, safety, reliability, and privacy requirements. Attend this webinar to hear best practices for supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud computing.

Security and compliance standards for IOT are top of mind as viruses such as Marai plague unsuspecting devices. Join Jeanne Morain and special guests Christ Armstrong Teknow Consulting as they provide insights and solutions to secure IOT devices on your cloud infrastructure.

This exciting panel explores the kinds of storage that IoT solutions demand. We talk about what’s different about data storage for IoT compared to existing enterprise applications, what capabilities are required to support massive, distributed IoT networks, and how and why existing storage solutions may or may not be the best IoT application storage. Plan on getting into unique IoT data protection concerns, real-time data pipelines, machine learning, data accessibility, distributed processing, and of course, what’s actually practical for the IoT already emerging in today’s data center.

Panel:
Cloudera: Dave Shuman, Industry Lead for IoT & Manufacturing
Qumulo: Joel Groen, Senior Product Manager
Red Hat: Ishu Verma, IoT Technical Evangelist

Learn how to securely configure host settings and Docker Engine.

Docker allows teams to increase the speed and scale that they can deliver software. As a result, adoption rates for docker are accelerating as more organizations are looking for ways to innovate faster.

As you move down the path to containers, it is important to note that an out-of-the box installation of just about any Linux distribution is capable of running the Docker daemon and Docker containers, but it will leave your host exposed to many security and performance concerns if not configured properly.

Join us for this webinar to learn how to:
- Configure host settings to harden and protect it from unauthorized access
- Install and configure a Docker Engine with minimal attack surface
- Ensure that the host has the necessary integration with existing enterprise systems like SIEM and enterprise directories

Join us to learn about JupyterLab, the new open source computational environment for Jupyter. Increase the performance of your data science projects by working in an integrated environment for your notebooks, editor, terminal and console. We will also discuss R-Brain cloud platform and its new R Python Cloud IDE which is built on JupyterLab.

Every IT organisation is under pressure to deliver services as efficiently as possible, utilising infrastructure and services that may have a significant impact on the financial position and results of the organisation

Historically, cloud technology has made reference to the potential benefits of transferring costs from the balance sheet (capex) to the income statement (opex). However, an unintended consequence has been that few, if any, cloud related costs could be capitalised. This may not be the desired outcome for all organisations and the capitalisation of certain types of cloud technology maybe preferred, or even required by accounting standards. This session explores this area and what key considerations can be given to the capitalisation of cloud.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview John Abel, the Head of Technology and Cloud for UK, Ireland and Israel at Oracle, is discussing the latest innovations in the cloud and how these impact the modern business environment.

Among topics discussed:

- Cloud in 2020
- Extreme innovations in the cloud
- Challenges with cloud adoption today
- Legacy organisations and digital transformation in the cloud
- "What does lobsters have to do with innovation"
- Top 3 pieces of advice for aspiring technology leaders

About the Speaker:
John Abel has worked with Oracle for over 20 years and during this time he has worked in Support, Applications, Technology and Consulting.

More recently John has been in Oracle Systems for four years. John's main focus now is Engineered Systems and Oracle Database Cloud (Database as a Service) across Europe, Middle East and Africa and he often uses his prior experience to explain all aspects of technology to customers. In his presentations, John relates to actual customer experience and provides real world answers to real world problems. John is also a successful Oracle Press Author and using his experience of over 300+ customer engagements has produced publications explaining the Oracle Technology and Applications.

Interview in partnership with BrightTALK, The Stack and Cloud Industry Forum
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In this interview, Sandra Bell, Head of BC & ISDG Consulting (Europe), Sungard, will share with us how tech innovations impact the moderb BCDR strategies.

Topics up for discussion:

- Innovations in the cloud and BCDR
- Critical things to know when creating a BCDR strategy
- Latest trends in disaster recovery
- Business continuity and digital transformation
- Technology recovery solutions and local resilience strategies
- And others

About the Speaker:
Sandra is a seasoned risk and business continuity professional with over 25 years’ experience of the design and management of strategic, business friendly risk, continuity and security solutions in public and private sectors. Experience ranges from: the management of risk and the protection of data within the UK’s main business process outsourcer to the financial and government sectors; to the protection of the largest part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

Today's IT is struggling with trying to keep the lights on for sometimes 100s or 1000s of applications built on legacy architectures while also attempting to turn on a dime in an era when business expects "just in time" IT. What strategies can you employ to help bridge the gap from yesterday to today and tomorrow? Where do you need to look for change (technologies, service providers, organizational) and what is possible through that change? Finally, what assumptions about what's possible for you to have to break through with yourself, your management and your customers?

What does it mean to achieve true agility, visibility, and security in your cloud and DevOps environment?

With Agility enable successful cloud deployments to meet the demands of scale.
With visibility drive reducing MTBF(mean-time-between-failures) and MTTR (mean-time-to-resolve).
With security ensure your Cloud environments are secure.

Join Syamla Bandla, VP of Global Cloud Operations and DevOps at Qualys and recipient of the Top Women in Cloud Award 2016, for a technical deep-dive into cloud applications and operations in the 21st century.

About the presenter:

Syamla has over 18 years building, scaling and transforming high-performance operations and engineering teams in the US, Europe and Asia. She has taken multiple organizations through various phases of organization building and transformation, transformed technology organizations from the ground up and taken multiple Cloud and SaaS products to market.

At RMS, Syamla was responsible for hybrid cloud engineering and operations, platform services, devops, and database operations & engineering, operational intelligence, monitoring and service Level management functions for all client facing cloud based products and services.

Prior to RMS, she was Head of SaaS Production Engineering and Operations team at Dell. Responsible for end to end service delivery of SaaS Products to production and managed Global Production Engineering and Operations teams across Europe, Asia and North America.

Syamla came to Dell as part of the start-up acquisition of “Everdream Corp” which built a Systems Management SaaS product. After the acquisition her responsibilities grew to integrating and building Global Production Engineering and Operations teams for four additional SaaS products.

Syamla Joined Dell from Fidelity Investments in Boston where she worked as Lead Network Engineer. In that role, she supported the critical infrastructure and network for mission critical trading floor applications and services.

The application lifecycle is fundamentally changing at a greater rate and amplitude. Accordingly, cloud services are integral to the application architecture and implementation. A key challenge to overcome is how to monitor with discipline these applications that are driving disruptive innovation in their respective industries.

In this session, we will discuss how to monitor cloud applications with discipline in order to ensure seamless application integration and delivery.
- What defines successful cloud applications?
- How do I apply a foundational set of skills like monitoring as a discipline to guarantee successful cloud outcomes?

Kong Yang is a Head Geek at SolarWinds with over 20 years of IT experience specializing in virtualization and cloud management. He is a US Patent holder, VMware vExpert™, Cisco® Champion, and active contributing thought leader within the virtualization community.

Cloud adoption is booming, with the major providers likely to top $100 billion in revenue by 2020. As enterprise IT organizations place a larger proportion of their application portfolios in cloud environments, they face a choice: manage those applications with the native tools offered by the cloud providers, or use third-party tools. This presentation examines the tradeoffs IT organizations face when deciding on which approach to use, along with the pros and cons of each approach. Specific topics addressed include:

- Technical approaches to managing cloud-based applications
- Tradeoffs in using cloud provider or third-party management solutions
- The challenge of innovation: managing applications that use higher-level cloud services
- How business value changes the cloud management decision
- The unaddressed cloud management challenge: economics

The webinar presenter has worked in cloud computing for over a decade, including at two cloud management software companies. He was also named by Wired.com as one of the ten most influential persons in cloud computing. Be sure to attend this webinar to learn from his experiences — good and bad — in this field!

Continuous Testing enables delivery of applications with greater speed and agility, without compromising quality. However, this places a demand on the application team to ensure complete coverage of the test cases, multiplied by the clients and devices that most accurately represent our users. The answer lies in the public cloud, but this isn’t without risks and complexity.

In this webinar, HPE will discuss the benefits and issues teams encounter when building a Continuous Testing pipeline using a public or private cloud infrastructure, and how to ensure the highest application quality, at the speed of your business.

In this webinar we will explore:

What tests to run and when
Environment coverage
Optimizing your execution costs
Exploratory testing to fill the gaps