Name: Innovation in Retail: Creating the Universal Associate
Start: 2019-05-03T17:00:00Z
End: 2019-05-03T17:00:59.000Z
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This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts in multicloud, featuring GigaOm analyst David Linthicum and special guest from CloudHealth, John McLoughlin. The discussion will focus on how to make multicloud work the first time, and not become a cloud failure statistic.

There is a lot of research indicating how the use of multicloud architectures within enterprises are growing. Indeed, a lot of companies are already multicloud, and this architecture is becoming a deliberate choice. Multicloud is becoming the new normal paradigm for enterprises and is a logical evolution from hybrid workloads, and one that is likely to drive us into the future.

So, what does leveraging multicloud mean exactly? There are many upsides, such as the ability to leverage best-of-breed technologies and reduce risk, but the challenge of multicloud management is maintaining high levels of excellence while combating the rising complexity operating varieties of infrastructures creates. The purpose of this webinar is to explore that concept, including understanding how to make multicloud work the first time. Hopefully, keeping your job in the process.

In this 1-hour webinar, you will discover:

The current adoption patterns of multicloud
Top 5 things that cloud practitioners need to think of now in order to be successful
Key tools that are making a difference
Emerging best and worst practices to multicloud success or failure
If multicloud is in your future and you’re looking for free advice on how to succeed out of the gate, this webinar is a must-attend.

Register now to join GigaOm and CloudHealth for this free expert webinar.

Who Should Attend:

Cloud Architects
CTO and CIO
Cloud Developers
Cloud Security Admins
Cloud Database Admins

How to do Multicloud and Keep Your Job

This free, one-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts in enterprise mobility solutions, featuring GigaOm analyst Mike Jennett as well as Spectralink’s Andrew Duncan, VP, Product Management and Technology Solutions, and VDC Research’s David Krebs, Executive VP, Enterprise Mobility & Connected Devices. These experts will share their knowledge and insights about key factors that should be considered when determining the right mobile solution for your organization, including direct and indirect expenses that can add significantly to your total cost of ownership (TCO).

As more companies turn to mobility to support a growing range of business and strategic goals, many are confronting unexpected costs and challenges, from spiraling device repair and replacement expenses to batteries that don’t support multiple shifts and devices that aren’t durable enough for high-demand working environments. In this webinar, we’ll take an in-depth look at many of these common pitfalls and identify the qualities and capabilities you need to look for to minimize your solution TCO and maximize outcomes and value for your organization.

In this 1-hour webinar, we will:

Discuss key factors that can escalate mobile solution costs
Identify critical mobile solution needs for key verticals
Uncover many of the unexpected challenges organizations confront during solution deployment
Explore the steps needed to maximize success throughout your enterprise mobility journey
Register now to join GigaOm and Spectralink for this free expert webinar.

Who should attend:

CEOs
CIO/CTO
IT Director
Development Manager
DevOps Manager

Do You Know the True Cost of Your Enterprise Mobility Decisions?

Despite the growing awareness of the productivity gains that are possible from automating everyday business processes, the great majority — as much as 68% in recent research — are still manual.

In this free webinar from GigaOm Research, Gigaom analyst Stowe Boyd digs into the barriers that are holding back adoption of process automation in a give-and-take conversation with Terry Simpson, Technical Evangelist at Nintex.

The pair will address the preconception that workflow requires programming, and is therefore costly and time-consuming, and inaccessible to non-techies. Another concern is that integration with existing tools is difficult, and adapting to the specific work patterns in your workplace may not be possible. We’ll dispel those concerns. Perhaps the biggest barrier is the perception that you have to attack all the processes at once, and only critical corporate processes should be automated.

In this 1-hour webinar, you will discover:

Why you don’t have to attack all processes at once.
How to take a stepwise approach to knock down barriers.
How to regain time lost in the labyrinth of manual processes.
Register now to join GigaOm and Nintex for this free expert webinar.

Who Should Attend:

Business Analysts
Sr. Business Analysts
IT Managers
VP of IT
Enterprise Application Managers

The Five Barriers To Automating Manual Business Processes

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts in automated cloud deployment at scale, featuring GigaOm analyst David Linthicum and a special guest from Packet, My Truong. The discussion will focus on why things are changing, and how you should approach cloud requirements, and the need for customized solutions.

Moving to the cloud? We all are. However, as enterprises move existing and net new systems into the cloud, they are hitting a larger issue: they must adapt to the cloud, the cloud does not adapt to them.

What this means is that most enterprises have custom requirements to specifically meet the needs of the business. Public cloud providers are really utility providers that attempt to fit your square workloads in their round holes. While a few will fit, the applications that require specialized, local and remote infrastructure are far more than we think.

In this 1-hour webinar, you will discover:

Why the way that we are consuming cloud is changing.
Alternatives that you may not understand.
Specific solutions that leverage the advantages of cloud, but without limitations.
Best practices, and processes you can follow.
Most of those attending this Webinar will understand that workloads often have requirements that may require or benefit from customized infrastructure.

Register now to join GigaOm and Packet for this free expert webinar.

Who Should Attend:

CIOs
CTOs
Cloud Project Leaders
DevOps Engineers
CloudOps Pros

How to Adapt to Cloud and Align Infrastructure to Key Business Objectives

In the last few years, there’s been abundant industry discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology. But it’s time we take a step back, get out of the weeds of tactical ML/AI and look more closely at the human aspects.

How is AI impacting humans, in their jobs, and how should it? Can AI be responsible, transparent and trustworthy? What’s the best way to monitor and mitigate bias in AI models? And what impact will automated machine learning (AutoML) have on these questions, and on the role of Data Scientists?

Join us for a discussion of these issues and more, in this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research. The webinar features GigaOm analyst Andrew Brust and special guest, Triveni Gandhi from Dataiku, focused on ML, AI, and their social and societal components.

In this 1-hour webinar, we will explore:

Ways AI can automate tedium, and uplift workers to higher-valued tasks
Approaches to transparency, and remediating bias, in machine learning models
How data analyst and data scientist roles will converge, and transform
Register now to join GigaOm and Dataiku for this free expert webinar.

Who Should Attend:

CIOs
Chief Data Officers
Data scientists
Data analysts
Human Capital Management professionals

Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence: What and Why?

This free 1-hour webinar explores how to take advantage of data management to improve value of data and how to reuse it efficiently across the organization, and features data storage GigaOm analyst Enrico Signoretti and special guest from Aparavi, Jonathan Calmes. Every organization is creating and storing vast amounts of data, most of which has a short lifespan but needs to be conserved for a long time. Compliance, regulations, never-delete policies and so on, lead us to store and conserve data for longer and longer. Even cloud is not a solution to overcome the increasing infrastructure costs at this point, but what happens if we can create more value out of it?

Data stored in our systems can be considered a liability or become the most powerful asset for the organization, and any digital transformation initiative can benefit from it.

This 1-hour webinar explores:

Understanding data growth and diversity
Transforming a liability into an asset with classification and search
How to build efficient intelligent archives for data reusability
Applications that can benefit from data reusability
Sign up for this webinar to learn how the right data management practices and intelligent archives can boost the value of data and make it reusable for new applications, becoming a tool to improve and simplify the digital transformation journey of your organization.

Register now to join GigaOm and Aparavi for this free expert webinar.

Who Should Attend:

CxOs
Project Managers
Decision makers
IT professionals

Empowering Digital Transformation with Data Management

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts in DevOps and Hybrid Cloud, featuring GigaOm Jon Collins and special guests from NetApp, Ingo Fuchs, Chief Technologist, Cloud and DevOps, and Chris Merz, Principal Technologist, DevOps. The discussion will focus on delivering DevOps and the challenges faced when adopting this culture. 

Not only do organizations find it challenging to scale DevOps practices across the business, it’s also hard to keep pace with the fast, real-time needs of application development. As companies face the reality of the pace required for software development, they’re simultaneously challenged to balance quality and security, governance and management, complexity and collaboration, and they require an agile storage strategy to allow them to pivot as needs change. 

Should such organizations just go back to waterfall models and single-server, three-layer architectures? Of course not. The right approach allows them to pick and choose the right infrastructure, whether it be in the cloud, or on-premises, to deliver the right solutions for their business needs - all without affecting their developer experience. In this webinar, we talk to NetApp, itself a large enterprise using both DevOps and hybrid multi-cloud strategy, about lessons learned from helping customers towards this goal. 

In this 1-hour webinar, attendees will discover: 

• The challenges faced by organizations looking to adopt DevOps 
• What this means in terms of symptoms, costs, efficiency and effectiveness impacts 
• Best practices for supporting software development 
•What tools, technologies, and processes enable DevOps to exist, no matter your storage strategy 
•How to choose the right infrastructure for your strategy

Perfect Partners: DevOps and Hybrid Cloud

When it comes to changes to anticipate in 2019, containers are front and center. While this technology was once promoted as the savior for portability and ease-of-development, enterprises now face real choices and real obstacles when it comes to running containers in production. 

Join GigaOm Analyst David Linthicum and Andrew Hillier, CTO of Densify for this free one-hour GigaOm webinar exploring the modern notion of what containers are, what problems they solve, the challenges that arise when they are deployed in scale, and how to achieve high levels of automation and operational efficiency.

In this webinar, you will learn:

The state of container adoption in the IT industry and the relationship to virtualization
The challenges and limitations of containers specific to utilization, sizing, workload management, etc.
Best practices for solving these challenges in containerized environments
Practical strategies for automating container management and optimization
Integrating these strategies into DevOps and CI/CD workflows

Best Practices to Drive Automation and Efficiency in Containerized Environments

Digital transformation investment is growing at a staggering rate. By 2021, global spending on digital transformation initiatives will exceed $2 trillion annually. IT organizations must change the way they operate to become the innovation leaders their companies need in order to address the exponential opportunities–and challenges–that digital transformation brings to today’s organizations.

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research, GigaOm Analyst, Stowe Boyd and special guests from Workfront, Sr. Product Manager, Chris O’Neal, and ADP Principal Technology Solutions Consultant, Josh Blackwood discuss the benefits of modernizing the enterprise and how to recognize the signs of a digital crisis in your organization.

In this webinar, we will explore the 5 warning signs of a digital work crisis, and the steps to take to counter them:

Zero visibility into work and activity
Late over budget projects
Meetings and email consuming your day
Disconnected systems causing data silos
Workflows and processes do not scale.
Companies that fail to embrace digital transformation are being left behind.

Digital Transformation: 5 Signs You’re Facing an Organizational Crisis

With organizations increasingly adopting microservices, practitioners must be prepared to manage an ever-increasing multitude of services and APIs. Making matters more challenging, organizations and development teams within them vary widely in the protocols, methods, authorization, authentication, and usage patterns that they use in critical production services. Not only do organizations depend on these services and need to ensure their proper management, they also need practically limitless scale-out potential for large scale deployments, high-throughput performance with 100% response rates and 24/7/365 availability.

This free 1-hour webinar, led by GigaOm contributor Jake Dolezal, and co-presented with GigaOm Analyst William McKnight and Mike Bilodeau from Product Marketing at Kong, focuses on the results of a performance benchmark completed with two popular API management solutions: Kong Enterprise and Apigee. These two players have surfaced as leaders within the critical vertical of API and microservice management. The webinar will highlight performance differences between Apigee and Kong Enterprise across commonly-used enterprise feature sets and discuss the critical factors to consider when selecting a high-performance API management platform.

In this 1-hour webinar, you will discover:

The Evolution and Need of Enterprise Microservices and API Management
Today’s API Management Landscape
Assessing High Performance Platforms: Our API Management Benchmark
Considerations When Selecting the Right Platform

Selecting the Best in Enterprise Microservices and API Management

Today’s enterprises are using more data than ever before, from a large and growing variety of sources.  Even smaller organizations that don’t explicitly administer conventional databases do, in fact, have numerous repositories, often with high volumes of data, on-premises and in the cloud. Such data must be actively managed and governed; regulatory compliance demands it.  Beyond compliance, data is a competitive asset whose active management is just good business.

A modern data catalog platform is the key to establishing management and governance of your data. A data catalog can offer you connectivity to a variety of data sources; artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistance; the ability to identify and tag sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII); and even support for cataloging data embedded in visualizations. With all that power, a great data catalog platform can help inventory and master an entire data estate, even for organizations new to data management.

Join GigaOm for this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research to learn about data catalogs, governance and their tie-ins to other components in the data landscape. The Webinar features GigaOm Analyst Andrew Brust and Andy Sheldon, VP of Marketing, at Unifi Software, a leader in data catalogs and data preparation.

This 1-hour webinar explores:

Why data governance is germane to everyone, from individual business units, to SMBs, all the way to large Enterprise IT organizations
How to establish standards for trusted data, and attain them across the business
The keys to combining data cataloging and data preparation synergistically

Data Catalogs: Versatile, Accessible and Essential for Data Governance

This free 1-hour webinar from Gigaom Research brings together leading minds in mobile security, including Gigaom senior analysts Bob Egan and Larry Walsh, joined by Samsung thought leaders in a roundtable discussion on how businesses can employ best-in-class strategies to mitigate mobile security risks across the organization. 

As mobility in all its forms, including Internet of Things (IoT), continues to pervade our homes and businesses, it’s no wonder why companies report a 47% increase in mobile threats. In fact, by some estimates, upwards of 60% of companies report some sort of hack owed to unsecure mobile apps and mobile data leakage. 

One in five employees store company documents in third-party cloud services. Think they’re all doing so securely and with IT approval? The modern day worker will get his or her job done using whatever tools are needed, whether those tools are IT approved or not. Simply managing employee BYOD devices does not make sense for every organization but securing devices and their app and cloud ecosystem is critical by utilizing a mobile defense initiative. 

We’ll share stories and lessons learned about shadow IT as we discuss how to safely support employees who don’t always seek IT guidance. 

During this webinar, experts will address the key issues: 

1. How is the mobile security threat evolving? 
2. What are the core tenants of a mobile defense initiative? 
3. How do you secure your organization at scale today, for tomorrow?

Mobile Security Futures: Building Scale and Diversity for Tomorrow, Today.

The question of whether data lakes or data warehouses provide more efficacy is now almost cliché. In the classic version of the story, business users suffer collateral damage as these two conflicting models duke it out, and one or the other wins. In the alternate ending, the two models are unified, each leveraged for its relative strength, leaving business users to benefit greatly. 
Both of these endings involve a little wishful thinking, frankly. Can business users really do without the flexibility and agility of a data lake, or can they dispense with the rigor and governance of a data warehouse? And, conversely, can they really have it both ways, without a monumental data modeling and ETL burden? 

When at an impasse in data management, applying data-driven thinking can often help. What if a virtual data layer could be formed over warehouse and lake, and what if the ETL and modeling burden to build that layer were automated, through the use of machine learning? Now the warehouse and lake can exist separately, unified virtually, and interfaced autonomously. 
Can this really be done? Can performance be acceptable? Join us for this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research. The webinar features GigaOm analyst Andrew Brust and special guest, Roi Avinoam, Co-founder and CTO from Panoply, a company specializing in smart data warehouse technology. 

In this 1-hour webinar, you will discover: 

- How warehouse and lake can be unified virtually while developing separately 
- How and when data in the lake can “graduate” to become part of the warehouse. 
- How existing database technologies like views and caching can be applied in new ways to address the new requirements of data-driven organizations

Data Warehouse + Data Lake: Get the Synergy, Ditch the Complexity

Today’s data technology stack can be a hodgepodge. You may have one set of technologies for operational databases; another for a caching layer; still more tech for analytics and AI; and additional platforms for processing data on edge and mobile devices. Each of these workloads seems to demand a specialized platform. And the resulting complexity is formidable.

But an enlightened architecture can consolidate your data stack, bringing efficiency and consistency. Unifying approaches, to both systems of engagement and systems of record, will get you a long way. So too will a revamped perspective on storage, leveraging RAM and other memory technologies, to maximum effect. The combination of strong consistency and high-performance in one database platform can close the deal.Want to learn how you can streamline your manifest of deployed data technologies? Join us for this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research. The webinar features GigaOm analyst Andrew Brust with Srini V Srinivasan, Co-founder of Aerospike, a leader in enterprise-grade, real-time database technology, deployable across tiers and workloads.

In this 1-hour webinar, we will explore:
• How a single database architecture can work across transactional, analytics and edge scenarios
• Why combining RAM and flash storage can accelerate performance and reduce your infrastructure profiles
• Examples of streamlined data stack deployment, across industries and use cases

Unifying the Data Tech Stack: Across the Edge, Analytics and Operational Tiers

Hyperconvergence is now adopted by an ever-growing number of enterprises because of its simplicity, but others don’t like it because of its lack of efficiency, or because they do not find it flexible enough to answer to all of their workload needs.

Yet, it is not always possible to get everything you want. However, technology and products are quickly maturing, and now enterprises can ask for much more.

Attend this free GigaOm webinar featuring experts in enterprise data storage and IT infrastructure, including GigaOm Analyst, Enrico Signoretti and DataCore’s Sr. Product Manager, Manish Chacko, discussing innovative solutions for infrastructure strategies.

Attendees will learn innovative infrastructure strategies and explore solutions from both technical and business perspectives, including:

The good, the bad and the ugly of hyper-convergence
Trade-offs of hyper-convergence
Evolution of hyper-convergence and benefits for the end users
New options that allow a smoother migration path to hyper-convergence
The next major features to expect from an HCI platform

Hybrid-Converged Infrastructure: Deploying HCI 2.0 with Existing SANs

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts on Composable Infrastructure, featuring GigaOm Analysts Ray Lucchesi, Steve Ginsberg, and Philip Sellers. The discussion will focus on how Composable Infrastructure can improve data center resource utilization for mixed application workloads.

Ever since the emergence of high-end X86 servers, IT has been burdened with the concern of underutilized data center assets. With virtualization, admins could take advantage of increases in computation to apply excess CPU cycles for use by other applications or users. However, similar concerns have surfaced for high-speed storage, networking, and other resources.

Where virtualization solved compute over capacity, data centers are now left with NVMe SSD storage, proliferating GPU cores, and fast networking that no single application could effectively use. Yes, NVMeoF can help share high-performance NVMe storage and network virtualization and other solutions can help better utilize abundant networking capacity, but these are point solutions for specific components. A more general solution is needed, one that spans all data center resources. That is, a single system, which can disaggregate data center resources from servers and compose a “logical” server consisting of one or more of those resources to run an application and when that completes, move them on to the next. With composable infrastructure, IT customers have a single solution that covers all server resources.

In this webinar, attendees will come away with an enriched understanding of composable infrastructure solutions and how to employ them to better utilize the abundant compute, storage and networking resources that are now available.

Employing Composable Infrastructure to Improve Data Center Resource Utilization

Retail brick and mortar storefronts are under siege from online surrogates like Amazon. One thing remains constant: Customers yearn for interpersonal services. For retailers great customer experiences are the difference between winning and losing. What is evident is that customer experience lives and dies in the hands of the associate. 

Creating the universal associate to drive a creative shopping experience that is intelligent, practical and personal for customers is imperative for survival. Leading retailers acknowledge the urgency of leveraging advances in mobility and IoT to bring the new effective retail aspirations to fruition. During this webinar we will discuss three key issues: 

1.      How can leading retailers modernize the shopping experience? 

2.      What are the key technologies and how are they evolving? 

3.      What best practices are emerging and what you should consider?

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