Digital Transformation: How to Reboot IT & Business Collaboration

The data governance landscape is constantly changing as policies and best practices are implemented to ensure data security, but the process of being future-ready in an accessible world poses a challenge. Join Steven Woodward and Kristin Curran during the Designing the Future-Proof Data Center 2021 Summit as they address the topics of data governance and the future in Cloud, geo-jurisdiction, standards, and culture. A relevant focus as the world continues through a global pandemic and privacy concerns due to economic shortcuts are of growing concern. Governance and the Next Generation will cover topics of:
- Understanding the current governance climate in a global capacity, including CDR, GDPR, and the CLOUD act, and GAIA-X
- Hurdles of compliance, and risk assessment across borders
- Tools and the cultural outlook to help organizations get from point A to point B in data security and compliance
Steven’s extensive work with international and regional standards and Kristin’s focus on culture will not only highlight the governance topics of today, but project a look into the future based on experience and research in to current trends and future tools.

The Telecom industry has transformed significantly in the last 20 years. Every transformation has brought new ways of doing things, new services, and new lifestyles. It put a lot of technology in our hands and our life has become driven by devices and technologies. One may have felt, what we have in terms of communication is good enough, and that we don’t need many more changes in communication infrastructure; however, the recent pandemic has changed our perspective and we have started to think about use cases such as telehealth and remote surgery that people were not previously comfortable with. Similarly, the lack of in-person interaction and the onset of remote working and remote education enabled more use cases such as telepresence. A lot of these changes are here to stay. Another trend with FinTech and the desire to have control over our data and privacy is putting new requirements on the network.
With many of these applications requiring low latency, the network edge will be highly decentralized. The cloudification and decentralization will drive many changes in the rest of the network.

Key Takeaways:
• Most of our network and application architectures today are centralized, meaning data is collected and processed in central locations. With edge and decentralization, this will go through a major transformation.
• We talk about the hybrid cloud and disaggregated/peer-to-peer services, but are our mobile network elements built to handle the new services and use cases and network demands?
• Autonomous networks are going to be a table stake in the future of the distributed/disaggregated networks.
• It will be a big mindset change for vendors, Enterprises, CSPs, and consumers in every segment.

The evolution of data storage can be traced back to 1725 with the invention of punch-cards, leading to IBM’s floppy disk which was released in the 1970’s. This was soon replaced in the 1980’s from hard disk drives, upgraded to compact discs (CD’s); as we progressed with flash storage into the 20th century and beyond.
Data storage only got bigger and more complexed with the new emergence of technological offerings from vendors. The Data Storage sector was directly impacted by COVID-19 because of its greater economic reliance. There was positive affect from the pandemic that led to a new paradigm, from outlook to implementation. This new era of storage strategy will not only veer away from being immersed in technology but focus on the business needs to ensure its capacity for future scaling. Storage trends should assess new strategies to optimize performance while balancing costs and not hindering growth.
There are a variety of storage types but not all will continue to develop towards the new era. Organizations must also address their top IT concerns when transitioning to new technology storage. What are these concerns? Which data storage types can manage these concerns effectively?
This webinar will focus on the new era to discuss:
1) What is the new era of data storage strategies?
2) What storage types will continue to develop for consolidation and for best optimization?
3) How to address cost control?
4) What are the best Data Management practices going into this new era of data storage?

Data centers are facing the same challenges as businesses around the world and are continuing to adjust from the implications of Covid-19, accelerated Digital Transformation and the impact of emerging technologies.As a result, in 2021, Gartner predicts that global spending in data center infrastructure is expected to grow 6%.

In this BrightTALK Summit panel, we’re here to discuss what the key trends and changes driving this spend increase are, and what future-focused businesses should be thinking about in their 2021 data center strategies. From a greater emphasis on private clouds to increased sustainability initiatives, join this panel of experts to learn:

- The key data center predictions and trends in 2021
- How the pandemic has driven changes to the data center industry that are still being felt a year on
- How to navigate the changes and trends in 2021
- How increased compliance needs is impacting the data center
- And more

The ‘Data-Centric’ era is pushing change on data center architectures. The intersection of High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications mining big data has defined the 'Data-Centric' era for compute, storage and networking. Transporting and transforming massive amounts of data in real-time requires breakthroughs in computing systems, storage performance and network connectivity. The traditional approach of moving the data to the compute doesn't scale and can't deliver results in a timely manner. New technologies such as RDMA, NVMe and Distributed Computing Hardware using Parallel Software demand low latency and are created to address the need, however these new technologies put additional stress on the data center networks.

Cloud scale high performance computing services are effectively massive supercomputers, connected with a Performance Sensitive Network (PSN) that strives for the lowest possible latency. Latency that approaches the scale of an I/O or memory connected bus. To achieve these low latencies, the PSN needs to define new features for the Ethernet interconnect. Ethernet is the popular choice in computing and storage networks, but it still lags other custom technologies with respect to latency. This presentation will propose a number of new technologies for the Ethernet based Performance Sensitive Network. Many of the ideas are initially introduced here and some of the other ideas have been described by the IEEE 802 “Network Enhancements for the Next Decade” Industry Connections Activity.

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Play in - Paradigm shift with Cloud and 5G - Centralized to Distributed Networks

Many Enterprises have moved from hybrid cloud computing to multi cloud computing. With the rise in media & edge analytics use cases and associated geo distribution of applications, edge computing is becoming a need. Enterprises may need to sign up with multiple edge providers to reach geo distributed population. Due to lack of uniformity among providers can lead to complexity of establishing communications among the applications across edges & clouds and securing the geo distributed workloads.

This talk introduces the needs of geo-distributed applications and then gets into requirements it poses on network connectivity and security. It then scans through the current technologies addressing multi cloud networking & security. Also, it will provide few viewpoints on the next evolution of the networking & security industry. Finally, it introduces some open source projects and how they can be the foundation for next generation networking & security.