Name: Embracing multi-cloud management for hybrid service delivery
Start: 2023-08-01T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-08-01T17:00:30.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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

Explore the nuances of Cloud Governance, its relationship with traditional governance [GRC], and the unique challenges faced by organizations in aligning their policies and frameworks to the cloud environment in our live talk, August 3, 2023 at 4:00pm EDT. 

Jonathan Villa, Cloud Security Practice Director with GuidePoint Security will lead a discussion about the importance of a common language and shared understanding between GRC and cloud security teams. Villa will explore the emerging trend of platform teams and how they enable self-service, while establishing architectural and security standards. 

This talk will provide Cloud Security and GRC teams with an understanding of how to establish a strong partnership that ensures the effective implementation of Cloud Governance practices and enhances overall security and compliance in the cloud environment.

BIG G. little g. One Goal. Achieving a Robust Cloud Governance Framework

Cloud storage has a perception problem, one that is easily addressed with the right education. Once you understand how cloud storage can be absolutely secured, it becomes more obvious how you can meet your compliance regulations and mitigate the threats of data loss or malicious alteration. 

What you will learn: 
- The market forces driving the increase in compliance regulations 
- The data security regulations you should know and understand 
- What is “immutability” (aka “object lock”) and how it factors into compliance requirements 

Speakers:  
Drew Schlussel; Sr. Director, Technical Product Marketing; Wasabi Technologies

Critical Compliance Qualifications for Cloud Storage Security

Cloud governance has now become necessary with the increase of businesses choosing to migrate their operations into the cloud environment.  Cloud services has become the key driver for digitalization and resilience, from its acceleration and reliance because of the pandemic. How did cloud services increase in value to become the core of digital disruptions? 

According to studies from Oxford Economics, the outlook of cloud adoption was considered an inflated expectation for future business use. This evolved and paved the way to the realization of cloud implementation. The challenge to be taken is to undergo a “healthy process” to refine and tune its application for business utilization. Cloud services took on a mindset towards a more realistic approach from a strategic perspective in order to execute ways of implementation.

This is why cloud governance plays a significant role in achieving the full potential of cloud technology aligned with business objectives. Tune into this in-depth webinar to discuss:
- What actually is cloud governance and why do businesses need it?
- What is its application to cloud management?
- How did cloud services evolve strategically to necessitate the need for governance and what role does it play in businesses and its value?
- The definition of cloud compliance from a business, cloud services market and various regional government perspectives.

Cloud Governance: What is its business value?

In this webinar you will learn about the latest trends and threats in cloud security based on a survey of nearly 3,000 IT professionals from 18 countries around the world. Topics will include cloud migration trends, top targets in the cloud for hackers, top sources of cloud data breaches, cloud security complexity, and the impacts of sovereignty on cloud migration strategies as well as many more. Following the presentation of key findings, there will be a Q&A with the S&P Global Market Intelligence analysts.

Trends in Cloud Security: Key Findings from the Thales 2023 Cloud Security Study

As organizations increasingly migrate their infrastructure to the cloud, ensuring the performance, availability, and reliability of cloud resources becomes paramount. The cloud environment brings tremendous benefits in terms of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, these benefits come with unique challenges that must be addressed through effective monitoring practices. 

One of the primary goals of infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is to proactively identify and address performance issues before they impact users. By continuously monitoring key metrics such as CPU usage, memory utilization, network latency, and storage capacity, organizations can detect bottlenecks, identify potential failures, and take timely actions to optimize resource allocation.

Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud: Optimizing performance and availability

Everyone wants their applications to be scalable and highly available, and doing so while optimising costs is critical. That's where multi-tenancy comes in. It allows companies to optimise their costs and resources while providing the same level of service to multiple customers. 
 
That is only possible when there's an efficient monitoring and observing system in place. These systems help organisations with enhanced visibility and better issue detection along with better resource utilisation and optimisation.
 
Multi-tenant systems can be hard and complex to manage and hence organisations need to identify the right way to implement observability. Which tools to use, how to configure them, strategies and approaches for centralised monitoring for complete visibility.
 
Tune into this session from industry thought leader Atulpriya Sharma to learn more about the points above as well as witness a demo of multi-tenancy monitoring using Prometheus and Thanos receiver.

Monitoring multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments: Challenges and solutions

The Cloud is not a destination any longer.  It’s a journey.  Once companies have completed one phase of cloud implementation there is always a need to do better.

Better at monitoring, better at managing the complexity, and better at managing cost.

Join us as we provide recommendations on how your organization can take full advantage of all that cloud ...and its related tools have to offer. This webinar will include information on these key topics:
• A definition of cloud operations (CloudOps) and how the practice has evolved over time
• Insight into how organizations have started applying an agile methodology to their cloud management so support agility and innovation at the infrastructure layer
• CloudOps best practice and how it can help establish strong processes for workloads, no matter the application or environment 
• Ways that standardization helps streamline deployment, operation, and monitoring of secure workloads in the public cloud. 
• Key security considerations and best practice that you and your teams need to consider as threats continue to evolve
• Client example of cloud management and how it has served as a platform for new solutions while at the same time minimizing downtime

The rest of your cloud journey starts today.

Navigating Cloud Chaos: Strategies for Streamlining Post-Cloud IaaS

Multi-Cloud is not simply about juggling multiple clouds - it's about orchestrating your teams, partners, and most importantly, your data, in a harmonious, integrated ecosystem. In this webinar, we will uncover how achieving true Multi-Cloud can streamline governance, bolster collaboration, and significantly reduce costs. Join Faction CTO, Matt Wallace as he shares insights drawn from myriad successful large enterprise multi-cloud engagements. Discover the strategic edge that comes with a seamlessly interconnected multi-cloud environment, and how it can be the catalyst to unlocking your cloud resources' full potential.

Adding unique value with a true multi-cloud architecture

Industry reports show that organizations waste as much as one-third of their cloud spend. Often, that wasted spend lines up with risky, unmanaged, or unused assets. As cloud usage grows, this problem is only going to get worse: many organizations don’t have a full grasp of all the assets they are running in the cloud and what they are being used for, let alone what they are paying for them. 

In this webinar, we will explore the various strategies and best practices for optimizing cloud costs and reducing cloud waste on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba cloud. We will also demonstrate, in real-time, how the Orca Cloud Security Platform continually detects unused, underutilized, and unattached compute resources to help you reduce unnecessary cloud spend and decommission those risky unused systems.

In this session, you’ll learn:
 • How cloud resources are billed by each provider, and what you may not be aware of.
 • How Orca can alert you to unnecessary cloud resources that can be removed
 • How security can be improved by removing unnecessary assets

Master Cloud Cost Optimization: Improve Security and Reduce Costs

According to Gartner, 90% of organisations will run containerised applications in production by 2026, so they can speed up innovation and improve agility. But how do you ensure that increased speed and agility doesn't result in loss of control?

As you enter the world of containerised applications, where security needs are vastly different, you may find yourself in search of a new approach. In this webinar, we’re talking to Dhanil Parwani, Senior Partner Solutions Architect-Networking at AWS, and Gadi Naor, VP, Software Engineering at Rapid7, to give insights into:

- The unique challenges associated with securing containerized applications
- Adapting your VM program to address containerized workloads
- How the AWS Shared Responsibility Model works, and what it means for your organisation
- The capabilities you need in your security solutions to build safely on AWS

Register for this informative webinar to start innovating with containerized applications — securely and confidently.

Secure Your Containerized Apps With Rapid7 on AWS

Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

Whether your enterprise is cloud native or has evolved into cloud use, you likely are employing a great many clouds in delivering services to end users: dozens of SaaS applications, and two or more IaaS and PaaS providers hosting applications you develop or deploy in-house. This state of affairs has been a decade in the making - no one can claim it snuck up on them! But, all too often, enterprise cloud management has not kept up with the realities of cloud use. The recent pandemic accelerate migration of resources to cloud for many organizations, and the accelerated shift highlighted—and exacerbated—the problems with managing across clouds. 

Join Nemertes for an overview of how to approach bringing order to the chaos, and a method to the madness!

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