Name: From chaos to clarity: How open source observability transforms IT reliability
Start: 2023-04-26T10:00:00Z
End: 2023-04-26T10:00:25.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.8

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

What if you could combine the ease and efficiency of Kubernetes architecture with the high performance and low latency of Redis? Our Tech Talk shows you how to do just that. In this session, you learn how Redis Enterprise on Kubernetes delivers benefits like automatic scalability, persistent storage, simplified database endpoint management, zero downtime upgrades, and more.

Getting Started Series: Make Kubernetes Even More Efficient

Kubernetes security is crucial in ensuring the safety and integrity of your organization's data and systems. However, keeping up with the latest security threats and vulnerabilities can be a daunting task. This is where Kubernetes Goat comes in - a "vulnerable by design" Kubernetes Cluster environment that allows you to practice and learn Kubernetes security in a hands-on way.

In this webinar, Pragmatic Security Leader Madhu Akula presents the latest version of Kubernetes Goat and demonstrates how to use it to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in Kubernetes and containerized environments. He will cover various attack scenarios and real-world vulnerabilities and show how Kubernetes Goat scenarios can be mapped with them. The session will also explore open-source security tools that can be used to write secure code and deploy secure containers in production.

Key Takeaways:
- Gain practical, hands-on experience with Kubernetes security through 25+ offensive and defensive scenarios.
- Learn about the latest security threats and vulnerabilities in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments.
- Access detailed documentation, labs, and other resources to continue your learning and development in Kubernetes security.
- And more...

Mastering Kubernetes Security with Kubernetes Goat

We're told that a "DevOps culture" involves developers fully embracing operations, and understanding how their applications are deployed and maintained. In the cloud, however, anyone who has looked at the CNCF landscape recently will probably have given themselves a headache! 

The number of technologies available to solve cloud native application deployment problems is as dazzling as the number of problems is terrifying. How can a development team be product-centric and work on improving their applications all the time whilst still keeping a DevOps mindset and maintaining a secure, cost-effective cloud native platform?

The answer is in creating a platform to assist them. But platform engineering as a discipline has been around a long time, and has so far not succeeded in freeing up development teams. Why is this? What needs to change? I'll discuss the concept of product-centric teams and the developer platform, and go through a few major and important points to consider when setting up a platform of your own.

Key takeaways:
- The cloud native landscape is too complex for developer teams to fully understand and also be productive to their business area.
- There must be a platform team to support them.
- The platform team must be agile and must be customer-centric.

Platforms for product-centric teams

The cloud native development ecosystem is expanding at an unprecedented and chaotic pace. With access to increasingly powerful technologies, developers should be well-positioned to drive innovation forward and work more creatively than ever. However, the problems they are attempting to solve have become more complex than ever, creating friction in the innovation process and limiting developers' ability to deliver.

In this session, Suzanne Daniels shares her insights on how organizations can overcome these challenges and improve developer velocity. She will discuss three key solutions that organizations can use to help their developers be more productive and explains how to combine them using an internal developer portal.

Topics for discussion include:
- Why platform engineering is not just "the new DevOps," and why it's essential to improving developer velocity.
- How to improve collaboration between developers and other teams to streamline software development and speed up innovation.
- How a developer portal can help organizations embrace chaos, foster collaboration, and integrate solutions for greater productivity.

Designing an internal portal to supercharge developer velocity

The Global Cloud-native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Market size is expected to reach $21.2 billion by 2028, rising at a market growth of 18.6% CAGR. Adopting cloud-native architectures can significantly reduce IT costs, improve operational efficiency, and increase development speed and agility—although, they also introduce security risks, such as vulnerabilities in containers, microservices, and APIs. 

Implementing the proper security measures in this context requires a cloud-native security approach, in which solutions are purpose-built for cloud environments and can leverage automation and machine learning to detect and respond to security threats in real-time. 

Watch this exclusive Fireside Chat with experts from Cisco and BrightTALK to discover the key to unlocking cloud-native application modernization in today’s sprawling environments, alongside a discussion on how to formulate a cloud-native app security protection plan.

Unlocking Business Potential with Cloud-Native Application Modernization

DataStax and Temporal are on a mission to help developers build durable, resilient apps that never fail, no matter how fast they scale or how demanding the business. But building reliable apps can be complex, creating obstacles and delays for developers working under intense pressure. 

Temporal and DataStax are delivering a new programming model for developers: cloud-native, invincible apps, without the burden of complexity, helping you focus on what you do best: building great software, fast.  Join us and hear:

- Temporal’s durable execution paradigm provides extreme reliability, and makes it trivial or unnecessary to implement distributed systems patterns like event-driven architecture, task queues, sagas, circuit breakers, and transactional outboxes.
- DataStax’s Astra platform provides the tools to build out real-time systems.
- Temporal and DataStax together provide a robust platform on which to build scalable, fault-tolerant applications.

We’ll also explore why Temporal chose Cassandra as the highly-reliable, scalable database for their own platform. And how this combination can deliver invincible apps for your business as well.

Building Invincible Applications with Temporal & Astra DB

As organizations continue to evolve and innovate, the need for agile integration solutions becomes increasingly important. In this webinar, Digibee’s CTO and Co-founder, Peter Kreslins, and Head of Market Strategy, Matt Durham, will share insights on modern integration architecture and its role in driving organizational agility.
Attendees will learn about the five key principles of modern integration architecture: decentralization, empowerment and enablement, low code, ecosystem-driven, and continuous activity. The session will also cover the importance of democratizing technology and empowering citizen developers while maintaining governance and guardrails.

To wrap up the conversation, Digibee leadership will delve into how an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) can help organizations achieve modern integration architecture and improve their agility.

Modern integration architecture: A new approach to unlock organizational agility

In today's fast-paced business environment, cloud computing has become a critical component for many organizations. As companies embrace the cloud, it's important to understand the various cloud architecture frameworks available and choose the one that best fits your business needs. Using the right cloud architecture framework can help you achieve greater scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. 

The public cloud offers so many services and features that it can be overwhelming to navigate. From microservices and event-driven architecture to serverless, containers, and modern compute, choosing the best tools for your needs is by no means easy. 

In this session, join Marius Zaharia (Cloud Solutions Architect & Principal Engineer at Societe Generale) to get insights into the Modern Architecture and explore the factors you should consider when deciding what cloud architecture framework is best for your business needs.  

Topics for discussion include: 

- The fundamentals of Modern Architecture and how it can help you make sense of the modern cloud landscape. 
- How to evaluate and choose the best approach for your needs, from microservices to serverless to containers and beyond. 
- Best practices for designing and implementing cloud architecture.

Navigating modern cloud architectures in 2023

Cloud-Native Modernization

In the digital era of business, IT infrastructure and reliability are critical to success. However, with increasingly complex and dynamic environments to grapple with, maintaining IT reliability in enterprises is challenging.  

As the rate of innovation continues to speed up, open-source observability tools are transforming IT operations, creating clarity from chaos, by providing insights into potential issues before they become problems. 

In this session, Atulpriya Sharma (CNCF Ambassador) shares insights and best practices for leveraging open-source observability tools to optimize IT operations in modern enterprises. 

Join this session to:
- Explore the role of observability in driving IT reliability
- Understand the four pillars of observability and explore popular open-source observability tools
- Hear case studies, demonstrating the real-world impact of open-source observability on IT reliability and
- Discover how to leverage community-driven advancements in open-source observability to optimize enterprise IT operations
- And more...

From chaos to clarity: How open source observability transforms IT reliability

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