Best Practice: Optimizing Data Center Efficiency & Sustainability

Automation may offer a wealth of benefits to an organization, but only when approached through a strategic business lens rather than IT initiative.

Every organization has its own goals – Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration, enhancing productivity, deriving greater meaning from more data – and will need to consider these as well as strengths and weaknesses before embarking on its own transformation journey.

Join us to review how to fundamentally rethink the way Intelligent Process Automation can be adopted within working environments and how DevOps will be impacted to create the effective and efficient organization model of the future.

- Just some of what we’ll talk about:
- Automation is definitely HERE
- Integrating Intelligent Process Automation with Strategy
- Much more on DevOps, Continues Transformation

Gail Orenstein is an award winning photojournalist & drone journalist covering humanitarian areas and conflict zones. She is an FAA and CAA licensed commercial UAV pilot and has droned in 21 countries. She is a speaker and educator and a champion of women's issues.

Her work is globally recognised and can be seen on CNN, BBC, Time, Aljazeera and The times of London. Join Gail in this live webinar as she discusses:

- Taking her career from photojournalism to drone journalism and being one of the first females to do so
- The hero of "fake news" and how drone journalism can save news
- Why a female perspective is critically needed in the drone industry

Having a role model and mentor in your career is extremely important, especially for women in hi-tech careers. Hear from leading industry trail blazers and female leaders as they share why this is important and how to be a role model for future women in tech.

Join this live panel discussion with experts from around the world as they discuss their career paths as women in tech, challenges they've faced, and key learnings from their experiences.

About the moderator:

Nadine Thomson, Digital Technology Consultant and Advisor, leads the transformation of businesses through technology change. She has worked internationally across a range of industries including media, retail, travel and financial services. Nadine has a computer science background and couples business knowledge with deep technical understanding to help businesses evolve. Nadine has recently worked as Group CTO Conde Nast International (Vogue, GQ) and Technology Director for Vue Cinema. She is currently consulting for News UK on their digital technology structure and operating model.

Panelists:
Sabah Khan Carter, CIO - Global Operations Centre, News Corp
Judith van de Pas, CIO, Shell Retail Global Marketing & Fleet Solutions
May Yap, Global CIO, Jabil

This webcast will present an overview of scale-out file system architectures. To meet the increasingly higher demand on both capacity and performance in large cluster computing environments, the storage subsystem has evolved toward a modular and scalable design. The scale-out file system is one implementation of the trend, in addition to scale-out object and block storage solutions. This presentation will provide an introduction to scale-out-file systems and cover:

•General principles when architecting a scale-out file system storage solution
•Hardware and software design considerations for different workloads
•Storage challenges when serving a large number of compute nodes, e.g. name space consistency, distributed locking, data replication, etc.
•Use cases for scale-out file systems
•Common benchmark and performance analysis approaches

After you watch the webcast, check-out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2EWqXQO

You need to rethink your WAN to survive the next 5 years. We can help show you how.

Think about it: half of your IT services come from the cloud, from folks such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Office365, and Oracle Cloud. Mixing cloud and internal sources, you serve an increasingly scattered and mobile staff. IoT is turning the physical environment into both a provider and a consumer of IT services.

Is the WAN you built for Client/Server really going to serve?

No. IT needs to rethink its WAN and re-engineer the economics of wide-area networking.

Join Nemertes as we bring our WAN technology research study and freshly updated, one-of-a-kind cost and performance benchmarks to bear on the challenges of remaking your WAN to drive success in the cloud age. We'll discuss:
• SD-WAN and the real benefits it can deliver for performance and cost
• Other cloud-friendly network technologies such as direct-connect and WAN-Cloud Exchanges
• Up-to-date cost and provider performance data for MPLS and Internet services.

FICON (Fibre Channel Connection) is an upper-level protocol supported by mainframe servers and attached enterprise-class storage controllers that utilizes Fibre Channel as the underlying transport.

The FCIA FICON 101 webcast (on-demand at http://bit.ly/FICON101) described some of the key characteristics of the mainframe and how FICON satisfies the demands placed on mainframes for reliable and efficient access to data. FCIA experts gave a brief introduction into the layers of architecture (system/device and link) that the FICON protocol bridges. Using the FICON 101 session as a springboard, our experts return for FICON 201 where they will delve deeper into the architectural flow of FICON and how it leverages Fibre Channel to be an optimal mainframe transport.

Join this live FCIA webcast where you’ll learn:

- How FICON (FC-SB-x) maps onto the Fibre Channel FC-2 layer
- The evolution of the FICON protocol optimizations
- How FICON adapts to new technologies

Selecting a vendor partner (or partners) is one of the most critical decisions enterprises will make on their IoT journeys. The right partner makes all the difference: enterprises with top-ranked partners report greater success in generating revenue, cutting costs, and optimizing business processes via IoT.
• Who are the right providers?
• What are the critical factors to consider in selecting one?

This webinar reviews the provider landscape and highlights critical selection factors for companies of all sizes and industries.

“Why can’t I add a 33rd node?”

One of the great advantages of Hyperconvergence infrastructures (also known as “HCI”) is that, relatively speaking, they are extremely easy to set up and manage. In many ways, they’re the “Happy Meals” of infrastructure, because you have compute and storage in the same box. All you need to do is add networking.

In practice, though, many consumers of HCI have found that the “add networking” part isn’t quite as much of a no-brainer as they thought it would be. Because HCI hides a great deal of the “back end” communication, it’s possible to severely underestimate the requirements necessary to run a seamless environment. At some point, “just add more nodes” becomes a more difficult proposition.

In this webinar, we’re going to take a look behind the scenes, peek behind the GUI, so to speak. We’ll be talking about what goes on back there, and shine the light behind the bezels to see:

•The impact of metadata on the network
•What happens as we add additional nodes
•How to right-size the network for growth
•Tricks of the trade from the networking perspective to make your HCI work better
•And more…

Now, not all HCI environments are created equal, so we’ll say in advance that your mileage will necessarily vary. However, understanding some basic concepts of how storage networking impacts HCI performance may be particularly useful when planning your HCI environment, or contemplating whether or not it is appropriate for your situation in the first place.

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2Va4wwH

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

After the hype created by Internet of Things (IOT), digitization of everything has become a norm. Digitization would become a competitive advantage in every aspect of running a successful organization. Be it Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Customer Experience, Supply Chain, Finance & Operations, Human Capital, Strategic sourcing; every single function in an organization is going to undergo this massive change and transformation. Most of us are still trying and struggling to understand how profound this change would be and what will it mean in terms of providing additional business capabilities to companies. The impact of this change on the organizations can be both positive as well as negative.

Join this live Q&A with Ashish Sonkusare, Leader, SAP Digital Transformation at HCL Technologies, and Kelly Harris, Sr. Content Manager at BrightTALK, for an in-depth look at enterprise architecture and infrastructure, and digitizing your supply chain.

"In the age of breaches, enterprises are looking to understand the security and compliance risks associated with data stored in, and accesible from, cloud applications so they can better prepare should the unthinkable happen. With data and workloads moving to the cloud, securing the enterprise is more critical than ever.

Join cloud, security and compliance experts as they discuss:
- How to proactively analyze security risk from the business perspective
- What you need to know about your data, and how to ensure it is compliant when in the cloud
- How to automate security policy changes
- Top challenges for CISOs and CIOs
- Achieving security and compliance across multiple clouds
- Steps to take today"

Presenters
Benny Czarny, CEO and Founder, OPSWAT
Tzach Horowitz, Pre-Sale Director, Cybergym
Ariel Zeitlin, CTO and co-founder, Guardicore
Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO, Microsoft

Everybody knows IoT is the wave of the future. But what are successful organizations doing differently when it comes to their IoT initiatives? Are they saving more? Generating new revenue and lines of business? Or increasing operational efficiency and other metrics?

This webinar unveils the secrets of top-performing companies when it comes to IoT initiatives. You'll learn how they plan for, design, secure, and operate their IoT initiatives--and how they track the benefits.

With all the different storage arrays and connectivity protocols available today, knowing the best practices can help improve operational efficiency and ensure resilient operations. VMware’s storage global service has reported many of the common service calls they receive. In this webcast, we will share those insights and lessons learned by discussing:
- Common mistakes when setting up storage arrays
- Why iSCSI is the number one storage configuration problem
- Configuring adapters for iSCSI or iSER
- How to verify your PSP matches your array requirements
- NFS best practices
- How to maximize the value of your array and virtualization
- Troubleshooting recommendations

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog at http://bit.ly/2WjmFJW

Machine learning, or AI, may be considered as sophisticated technology which can only be understood by crazy nerds, or some dangerous technology can destroy human beings one day. As a machine learning data scientist, Joanna wants to tell you that machine learning is not either. It is very fun, can be learnt and mastered, and do more benefits than harm to the human beings. More important, it is a very suitable career for women.

In this presentation, Joanna will use a few use cases to represent its values and its technology (including deep learning), etc. I will also talk about the skill sets needed for machine learning.


Join this live webinar with Joanna Hu, Principal Data Scientist at Exabeam and recent nominee for Data Leader of the Year for Silicon Valley's Women in IT Award. Joanna will discuss:

- The data science behind the 2016 US presidential election
- What is machine learning / artificial intelligence?
- Use cases of machine learning: cyber security, shopping, search
- Skills and mindset needed for machine learning and why it's very suitable for women

Discover what's trending in the Enterprise Architecture community on BrightTALK and how you can leverage these insights to drive growth for your company. Learn which topics and technologies are currently top of mind for Data Privacy and Information Management professionals and decision makers.

Tune in with Jill Reber, CEO of Primitive Logic and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager for EA at BrightTALK, to discover the latest trends in data privacy, the reasons behind them and what to look out for in Q1 2019 and beyond.

- Top trending topics in Q4 2018 and why, including new GDPR and data privacy regulations
- Key events in the community
- Content that data privacy and information management professionals care about
- What's coming up in Q1 2019

Audience members are encouraged to ask questions during the Live Q&A.

Everyone talks about IoT, and many organizations are implementing it and reaping the business benefits. But even those who have had IoT projects deployed for years may not have a comprehensive architecture and framework in place to help guide technology decisions and streamline operations.

Join Nemertes CEO Johna Till Johnson as she reviews the IoT architecture and framework and shares guidance gleaned from leading-edge clients and research study participants.

Fibre Channel’s speed roadmap defines a well-understood technological trend: the need to double the bit rate in the channel without doubling the required bandwidth.

In order to do this, PAM4 (pulse-amplitude modulation, with four levels of pulse modulation), enters the Fibre Channel physical layer picture. With the use of four signal levels instead of two, and with each signal level corresponding to a two-bit symbol, the standards define 64GFC operation while maintaining backward compatibility with 32GFC and 16GFC.

This advanced technical session will cover the T11 standards which define 64GFC serial Fibre Channel, backwards speed auto-negotiation compatibility, and compatible form factors:

•New physical layer and specification challenges for PAM4, which includes eye openings, crosstalk sensitivity, and new test methodologies and parameters
•Transceivers, their form factors, and how 64GFC maintains backward compatibility with multi-mode fibre cable deployments in the data center, including distance specifications
•Discussion of protocol changes, and an overview of backward-compatible link speed and forward error correction (FEC) negotiation
•The FCIA’s Fibre Channel speed roadmap and evolution, and new technologies under consideration

After you watch the webcast, check out the FCIA Q&A blog: https://fibrechannel.org/64gfc-faq/

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Service monetization is sometimes a competitive differentiator or an answer to disruptive competitors. Irrespective of the reason for transformation, service monetization provides a great platform to model business models to improve customer retention and increase revenue in the longer term.

This session will provide participants with an understanding of service monetization challenges and how companies can transform their overall business process and quote to revenue in particular.

Join Arun Trivedi, Partner, Wipro Technologies and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager, BrightTALK for a live discussion on service monetization and revenue streams from XaaS.