Name: Distributed Cloud Computing: Next Frontier of Hybrid Cloud Landscape
Start: 2022-03-10T11:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-10T11:00:40.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and other recent well-known technology trends in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users.  

This channel features presentations by thought leaders who cover the key topic areas in this increasingly important field.

They hybrid clouds have been the norm for a long time now. We have spent a long time applying consistent tooling across our various clouds but protecting them is still a big challenge. We use public clouds, private clouds and SaaS solutions and yet we don’t have a consistent approach to protecting the data. What happens if your SaaS provider fails? How do you get your data back? When did you last check this?

How well are the cloud systems protected? Where is the demarcation line? Is your business aware of the risks it might be taking? And that’s even before we find those SaaS environments that were bought on a credit card without IT's knowledge.

Securing and protecting these environments is a huge challenge so join this webinar to get a strong checklist of areas to consider and approaches you can take that will protect you, your organisation and the data you own.

Wrapping Your Head Around Your Cloud Environment

Securing the cloud ecosystem goes beyond traditional cybersecurity -- it requires a holistic approach that integrates security, compliance, and financial governance. As organizations expand their cloud footprint, misconfigurations, shadow IT, and uncontrolled costs pose significant risks. This session will explore best practices for securing cloud workloads, enforcing compliance standards, and aligning FinOps strategies with security objectives. 

Tune into this session from TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav as she teaches attendees how to leverage automation, policy-driven controls, and cross-functional collaboration to build a resilient, cost-efficient, and secure cloud environment.

Fortifying the Cloud: Integrating Security, Compliance, and Cost Governance

The move to cloud-native architectures increases the security complexity, demanding more efficient and automated solutions. Manual security processes struggle to keep pace with the dynamic nature of cloud environments. Addressing these concerns requires a tailored approach that leverages advanced technologies.

This webinar presented by industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma will explore how AI can enhance cloud-native security, particularly in hybrid cloud settings. Discover how AI automates policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning, and threat detection, with a focus on open-source tools.

Tune in to learn how to future-proof your cloud security with AI-driven solutions, ensuring your organization stays ahead of emerging threats and maintains a strong security posture.

Transforming Cloud Native Security with AI

Tune into this talk from industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma as he explores how to build a unified observability strategy using open source, cloud native tools like Prometheus, Loki, Jaeger, and Grafana. 

Attendees will learn strategies to implement a multi-cluster observability infrastructure to collect and analyze metrics, logs, and traces across your multi cluster setups. By implementing these tools and best practices, organizations can overcome the challenges of disparate data sources, inconsistent monitoring, siloed operations and get a complete view of their landscape.

Achieving 360-Degree Visibility in Multi-Cloud Setups

The rise of multi-cloud environments presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses to leverage the best features and services from different cloud providers. This talk will explore the multifaceted landscape of multi-cloud networking, highlighting the vast potential it offers for enhanced performance, cost optimization, and operational resilience.

Join us to delve into the strategic considerations and technical solutions that can help your organization navigate the complexities of multi-cloud networking, maximizing its potential while mitigating its challenges.

Key takeaways:
- Opportunities: Multi-cloud strategies enable organizations to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize workloads across different cloud platforms, and enhance service availability. By integrating multiple clouds, businesses can tailor their infrastructure to specific needs, achieving greater agility and scalability. Furthermore, multi-cloud deployments can enhance data sovereignty and compliance by distributing data across various jurisdictions.
- Challenges: Despite its benefits, multi-cloud networking introduces significant complexity. Key challenges include ensuring seamless interoperability between different cloud services, managing increased security risks, and maintaining consistent network performance. 
- Solutions: These include leveraging automation tools for orchestration and management, adopting robust security frameworks, and utilizing unified monitoring platforms to gain comprehensive visibility across all clouds. Additionally, the talk will cover strategies for optimizing network architecture to ensure high performance and reliability, and methods for effective cost control.

Multi-Cloud Networking: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments, now a weapon-of-choice for many companies, are facing increased regulations with their sharp increase in use. To ensure compliance against a range of international requirements, cloud providers are now aiming to establish a joint approach with customers regarding operational resilience requirements.

So, what does this mean for companies? Organizations should ask themselves, as a starter, what their risk appetite is and if they really understand the criticality of their critical cloud services. The next steps are to consider just how they can meet the new compliance regulations for third parties, outsourced operations and cloud providers as well as what level of communications they should establish with them.

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he shares his views on managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, in what until recently had been put into the “secret” file! Yates will explore current challenges and  provide a series of “joined-up” options to consider when managing cloud services. In addition, he will delve into the more recent compliance world, where partnerships may be the answer. Viewers are encouraged to share, in confidence, their major concerns before the presentation, if they wish to gain the most from this session.

By the end of the session, you will learn:
- The challenges you may likely encounter. 
- How to redefine your risk appetite.
- How to be conversant in a joined-up thinking approach with your cloud provider(s).

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: What is the Secret?

As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enhance agility and scalability, they face mounting challenges in managing complexity and ensuring peak performance. This session presented by KFC's Manager of Business Intelligence Farid Sheikhi will explore practical strategies to optimize your hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems, with a focus on maximizing ROI, enhancing security, and simplifying operations.

Join us to learn how to:
- Navigate the complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud environments with effective governance and automation.
- Enhance security through integrated frameworks and real-time threat detection.
- Leverage innovative tools and best practices to boost performance and drive business outcomes.

Simplifying Complexity: Strategies for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Optimization

We have been hearing that cloud is the answer to digital transformation for many years now and yet research suggests that many organisations still aren’t experiencing the promised benefits. Cloud repatriation is still increasing as organisations pause and take stock of growing costs with limited benefit. So why has cloud not delivered against the promise for so many?

Like many technologies, cloud alone cannot be the answer. How do we maximise on the investment we have made? This webinar from industry thought leader Simon Ratcliffe will take a step back and explore some of the common mistakes and offer pragmatic advice and guidance on how to re-align a strategy that shifts thinking towards maximise the transformational opportunities of the cloud.

About the speaker
Originally a trained psychologist specialising in organisational change, Simon also trained as an accountant and served as a CFO where he specialised in automating financial reporting systems. This led to a career change into technology, first within a training company specialising in developing solutions enabling organisations to extract the maximum benefit from their IT investments.  

Simon has spent the last 15 years specialising in maximising the value from technology investments and creating the organisational and cultural change necessary to maximise these investments. Now working as an independent Management and Technology Consultant, Simon works with a variety of organisations exploring how effective change yields maximum value from technology.

Simon is also a recognised industry speaker, a published author and a leading member of a number of forums, writing and contributing regularly to both the IT and business press as both an author and commentator.

Cloud is the Answer! What is the Question?

Join us for an in-depth webinar where we will explore the transformative power of generative AI in the highly regulated financial services industry. This session will delve into the technical and business aspects of AI and cloud integration, with a focus on compliance, talent development, data quality and accessibility, and practical implementation.

Topics:
1. Integrating GenAI in Financial Services: Understand how generative AI models can enhance financial operations within regulatory frameworks, including detailed use cases and implementation strategies.
2. Developing AI Talent: Explore approaches to building and nurturing AI expertise within your organization to maximize its potential while adhering to industry standards.
3. Data Accessibility and Security: Learn how to manage and secure vast amounts of data in the cloud (private or public), ensuring efficient, compliant, and secure AI implementations.

Key Takeaways:
1. Strategic AI Integration: Gain deep insights into effectively incorporating genAI, enhancing capabilities such as risk assessment and customer service while navigating regulatory challenges.
2. Talent Development: Discover actionable strategies for training and retaining AI talent to drive your organization’s transformation within a regulated environment and ready for the future.
3. Data Management and Security: Learn best practices for managing data in the cloud, ensuring both accessibility for AI applications and stringent security to protect sensitive information and comply with regulations.

This webinar is designed for financial professionals, IT leaders, and business strategists eager to leverage AI and cloud technologies within the confines of a regulated industry. Attendees will walk away with actionable insights and practical knowledge to implement AI solutions, ensuring their financial services are at the forefront of innovation while remaining compliant.

Harnessing AI in the Cloud Era: Transforming Finance with Gen AI

Quantum computing stands at the forefront of technological innovation, promising to revolutionize various industries, with financial services being one of the most significant beneficiaries. From automating complex trading strategies to optimizing risk management and portfolio diversification, quantum computing is set to revolutionize financial decision-making processes. Also, by leveraging the power of quantum algorithms, financial institutions can achieve unprecedented computational speeds and accuracy, enabling them to solve problems previously deemed intractable.  

In this session, Youssouf Traore (Deeptech Investor, MARTRAM Ventures) delves into the core principles of quantum computing and its applications within the financial sector. He shares real-world examples and case studies, illustrating how quantum computing is being used to enhance predictive analytics, improve fraud detection, and streamline regulatory compliance.  

Topics for discussion include: 
- The basic principles of quantum computing and how it differs from classical computing. 
- Use cases of quantum computing to transform decision-making in financial services. 
- Insights from case studies demonstrating how quantum algorithms can be leveraged in financial institutions. 
- The advantages of quantum computing in financial services and the technological and operational challenges involved in its adoption. 
- The future of quantum computing in finance and how to prepare for the technological shift. 


About the Speaker
As an early-stage investor in Deep Tech, I am an Adjunct Professor at IE Business School and IE School of Science and Technology, where I lead the "Deep Tech Venturing and Investment" elective course. I also serve as a Leadership Team Member at the Entrepreneurship Forum Spain and Board Member at the MIT Club of Spain, dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Optimize Decision-Making Outcomes in Financial Services with Quantum Computing

The advent of cloud computing has ushered in a new era of financial services, characterized by unprecedented levels of innovation, agility, and scalability. As the finance sector grapples with the dual challenges of increasing regulatory scrutiny and rapidly changing consumer expectations, the cloud emerges as a pivotal force for transformation. This presentation aims to dissect the multifaceted impact of cloud technology on the finance industry, highlighting key strategies for leveraging cloud computing to foster innovation and competitive advantage.

We will delve into the core aspects of cloud-powered financial innovation, beginning with an exploration of how cloud technology is reshaping traditional banking, investment, and insurance models. We will examine case studies of fintech startups and established financial institutions that have successfully harnessed the cloud to launch innovative services, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience.

Furthermore, the presentation will address the critical role of security, compliance, and data governance in cloud-based financial services. With the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber threats, we will discuss best practices for securing sensitive financial data in the cloud, ensuring compliance with global financial regulations, and building trust with customers.

Navigating the Cloud: Driving Financial Innovation for Tomorrow’s Economy

If you work for a financial services firm or as a supplier, it is imminent you are familiar with forthcoming regulations impacting global cloud providers in 2025. These new regulations, based upon operational resilience, help prevent service failures that could lead to a ﬁnancial crisis.  

These new regulations will take effect within the European Union in January 2025 and for the U.K. in March 2025. A long time in the planning, the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the UK Bank of England (BoE) Operational Resilience Policy may introduce stresses for customers and suppliers but in the long-term, offers relievers to help mitigate service disruptions. 

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he shares his views to transform ﬁnance in the cloud era. Yates will explore current global operational resilience regulations, whilst exploring the beneﬁts to cloud users and suppliers such as no need for “lock-in” contracts. In addition, he’ll provide real case studies supporting the need for such changes, and why this compliance is the only way forward. Viewers are encouraged to share, in conﬁdence, their major concerns before the presentation if they wish to gain the most from this session. 

By the end of the session, you will be able to understand:
- The scope of the changes being made and benefits they will bring.  
- Operational resilience framework to support business operations.
- How this new regulation aims to create a formal partnership between the customer and supplier.

Transforming Finance in the Cloud Era: What are the Stresses and Relievers?

Video: Navigating the Cloud: Driving Financial Innovation for Tomorrow’s Economy

Some multi-cloud strategies are accidental, for compliance purposes, or arise from M&A activity. But some others are deliberately aimed at driving value. The cost benefits that come with buying the cheapest services from different providers is only a small part of the value creation process. 

This webinar presented by industry thought leader Simon Ratcliffe will examine different ways some organisations have driven exceptional value from a multi-cloud approach, creating investor and shareholder value through the decisions they have made.

Join us to gain a whole new perspective on how multi cloud can not only help reduce operational costs but can shine a value creation light on the tech function.

Creating Value From a Multi-Cloud Approach

In the discussion, Sean Heide, Research Technical Director of Cloud Security Alliance, will cover the last Top Threats to Cloud Computing report by the Cloud Security Alliance. This document, though not a framework in a traditional sense, is a powerful research paper that outlines the cloud's top risk and threat areas as identified by the entire security community. Through extensive research and collaboration, these findings have been stripped down to be able to describe business impacts, mitigations, and lessons learned from use cases. Whether you are a seasoned veteran in this business, or just getting started on your cloud journey, you will be able to use these findings to begin to put the pieces together to enhance your security posture.

Navigating the Top Cloud Threats: A Practical Approach for Risk Identification

Today’s cloud environments are intricate, interconnected ecosystems. Identifying and tracking cloud assets are a challenge. Effectively securing them is an even more daunting task.

This webinar will take it from the top to define the problems and present prescriptive recommendations that can be implemented by organizations of all sizes.

You will learn:
- Standard cloud concepts and terminology.
- Strategies for discovering and maintaining a cloud asset inventory.
- Guidance on how to protect, detect, and respond to cloud-based incidents.

Cloudy with a Chance of Breach: Controlling Cloud Chaos and Complexity

Maintaining a data center orders of magnitude more complex than they used to be. And it's more than just the fact that as applications, infrastructures, and conditions change, the data center must keep pace; it's the fact that the data center itself is changing, from banks of servers all in one place to multiple banks in multiple places to edge deployments that might consist of many components, few of which are servers at all. In this webinar we will look at where the datacenter is going, and how you need to adapt to those changes.

Join Mirantis' Nick Chase, Director of Technical Marketing and Developer Relations.

The Future of the Data Center and DCaaS

As our lives and businesses become increasingly digital, demand generated as a result of this
digital transformation and virtualization will reveal the importance of Data Centers in the
effectiveness and functionality of our world now more than ever. By dramatically increasing
density and scale of workloads in Data Centers we subsequently increase the significances of
potential physical infrastructure failures. The success of every business is ultimately built on the
physical foundation of Data Center Infrastructure, whether that infrastructure is on-premise, off-
premise, or hybrid. Optimization of a Data Center should not by any means compromise physical
& logical security, data availability, operational scalability, agility, innovation and technology
economics among other possible risk. Proactive look at the Data Center Optimization
opportunities, Data Center managers can better enable the organizations they serve to succeed
in an increasingly tech-centric world while they continue to pursue the opportunities offered by
virtualization, the cloud, and software-defined IT infrastructure.

Data Centers Optimization in Rapid Growing Digital Economy & A Virtualized World

In this presentation, we will describe:
SystemReady and its SR and LS bands for data centers
* Specifications and test suite updates
* Open source efforts
* Certification requirements and process
* Major compliance issues and what to do
* Certified systems and what to do

Making Software “Just Work” for the Green Data Center

Sustainably Powering the Data Centre Through Innovative Technologies and Ways of Working

Sustainably Powering the Data Centre Through Innovative Technologies

Modern technology continues to create larger and larger volumes of data.  First we have ever increasing levels of precision in the macro and micro whelms of Scientific Visualization with big decimals and many values before and after the decimal point.  Molecular Biology and genetics are also creating large libraries of genomes, proteins, and pattern matches within DNA and RNA transcripts.

The second area of growth and complexity includes proliferation of devices from IoT and sensors, to phones and tablets, to data centers, cloud, and hybrid environments.  As technology continues to evolve, we can expect these interactions to increase exponentially and the number of devices continues to grow.  These devices often need to work together in complex coordinated ways to process data into information for presentation to systems and users that consume them

A third trend that is ever present is increased volumes of Network Traffic.  Web sites continue to grow in length and complexity with larger footprint in terms of number of pages, and pages themselves growing larger every day.  Increased analytics also contribute as businesses want to know where there traffic is being directed, and consumer trends that indicate buying activities.

These and other trends are driving the need for Next Generation Storage Strategies to overcome challenges in a fast paced Digital world.

Summary
• Increasing Volumes of Data and Precision
• Proliferation of Devices and Data Sources
• Complex Environments – Network Traffic

Data, Data Everywhere

Imagine the possibilities if you could power all your workloads all the way from archive to high-performance data analytics to artificial intelligence, with one single all-flash cloud. In this talk, we introduce a new disaggregated architecture that, for the first time, makes it possible to realize the vision of a multiprotocol, all-flash data lake that combats data sprawl, data silos, and lowers the TCO by over 50%. Ultimately organizations unlock real-time performance, exabyte scale, and the assurance that their infrastructure will adapt as the applications evolve.

Unlock All-Flash Data Lakes At Archive Economics

The implicit assumption in today’s data center is that if your solution is software defined, then the hardware doesn’t matter. In SoftIron’s view, nothing could be further from the truth. 

Hardware has been commoditised in the data center to the point of oblivion. We’ve been led to believe that whatever your infrastructure model, you have to choose between performance, efficiency, and cost - or at best, two out of the three. But what if we turned this thinking around and put the hardware back in the spotlight, re-engineering it from the ground up, to deliver it all? 

SoftIron believes that there is an infrastructure strategy solution that takes full advantage of emerging technologies in order to sustainably maximize efficiency and manage costs, while integrating on-premise, colocation, cloud and edge delivery options. 

In this webinar, you will:
- Get an introduction to the 4 key approaches to delivering a software-defined data center 
- Understand why not all hardware is equal, and why it’s critical to a successful software-defined storage strategy, and how it impacts performance, resilience, efficiency, security, and costs
- What to look for in a hardware vendor 
- Learn how others are already harnessing this approach to deliver success

The Software-Defined Data Center Paradox: Why You Need To Put Hardware First

Data Center Transformation in 2022

The demand for storage, and cloud storage in particular is exploding. Everything is generating more data: surveillance, genomics, media and entertainment, medical imaging, and IoT. The emergence of 5G and its bandwidth advances are creating use cases that are colliding with the first major evolution of the cloud. More data will be generated and collected causing storage users to rethink their cloud strategies. 

This session will look at how cloud infrastructure is becoming more diverse with more choices and alternatives to the hyperscalers. We will discuss:
- What’s driving the growth of cloud storage?
- How organizations are rebelling against lock-in, complexity in pricing, and unpredictable fees charged by cloud providers
- Learn how the new generation of cloud object storage addresses the challenges of managing explosive growth in data
- Learn why best-of-breed cloud services are driving the trend toward “multi-cloud”

Next Generation Storage Is Changing How Organizations Use The Cloud

In this webinar, we take a deep dive and discuss some of the fundamental aspects of distributed cloud computing, in detail. You’ll learn:
• Mechanics of distributed cloud computing
• Benefits and opportunities of distributed cloud
• Challenges and open questions related to distributed cloud model
• Considerations for the technology leaders from the standpoint of strategy, architecture and best practices of distributed cloud computing

Distributed Cloud Computing: Next Frontier of Hybrid Cloud Landscape

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