Best Practice: Optimizing Data Center Efficiency & Sustainability

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep. 2]: Mastering Multicloud - Architectures, Organizations, Building Blocks

In 2019 the balance tipped, and for the first time the majority of enterprise IT workloads are running in the cloud, not in a data center.

Enterprise IT staff need to stop thinking of cloud solutions as islands of function and special cases and begin to think of pulling it all together into a cohesive multicloud. We'll lay out the major categories of tools and systems and how they fit together, and at the organizational structures and operational practices needed to support multicloud operations.

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries. Later episodes will discuss cloud organizations and operational practices, and success metrics and best practices for cloud organizations.

Join this live webcam panel moderated by Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot Research for a technical deep-dive into enterprise DevOps and cloud-native applications.

Topics covered will include:
- Cloud-native and container-based applications
- Container security and governance in microservices
- Enterprise DevOps and how it can enable the journey to becoming cloud-native

Speakers:
- Krishnan Subramanian, Founder and Chief Research Advisor, Rishidot Research, LCC (moderator)
- Matthias Haeussler, Managing Consultant, NovaTec
- Jim Bugwadia, Founder, Nirmata Inc.

Enterprise networking needs are shifting--cloud models and new applications are driving digital transformation, according to this newly released State of the WAN Report.

To better understand networking and application performance challenges, priorities, and plans, Aryaka conducts an annual State of the WAN survey administrated to almost 800 global IT and network practitioners. In this report they discovered that almost 50% have over 100 applications, and because of this increasing complexity, IT professionals are having a hard time provisioning, optimizing, and securing their Cloud and WAN deployments.

Join us for this panel discussion as we reveal findings from the third annual global survey and insights into the State of the WAN in 2019, including:

• The biggest challenges companies are facing with their WAN
• Features IT professionals are looking for in an SD-WAN solution
• Top Applications driving WAN transformation
• Insights into N.America, Europe and APAC trends

We will also be hosting a panel at 14:00 GMT for our European folks. Please visit,
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/17572/365909?utm_source=AryakaEMEA

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep 3]: The Agent Experience - From Good to Great

Although organizations are busy adding self-service channels, and AI-enabled chatbots or virtual agents to their customer engagement strategies, there is no replacement for the human touch.

Successful companies are transforming the agent experience, delivering better coaching, more analytics, and improved compensation packages.

Learn how you can leverage AI and analytics to reduce contact center agent turnover rates--and ultimately improve the customer experience.

Enterprise networking needs are shifting--cloud models and new applications are driving digital transformation, according to this newly released State of the WAN Report.

To better understand networking and application performance challenges, priorities, and plans, Aryaka conducts an annual State of the WAN survey administrated to almost 800 global IT and network practitioners. In this report they discovered that almost 50% have over 100 applications, and because of this increasing complexity, IT professionals are having a hard time provisioning, optimizing, and securing their Cloud and WAN deployments.

Join us for this panel discussion as we reveal findings from the third annual global survey and insights into the State of the WAN in 2019, including:

• The biggest challenges companies are facing with their WAN
• Features IT professionals are looking for in an SD-WAN solution
• Top Applications driving WAN transformation
• Insights into N.America, Europe and APAC trends

And so much more...

Cloud & Cybersecurity Series [Ep.1]: Success Metrics, Best Practices & More

What does it take for enterprise cybersecurity teams to "up their games" to the next level of cybersecurity? What does it mean to be a "successful" cybersecurity organization, and what technologies and practices does it take to become one?

This webinar presents the highlights of Nemertes' in-depth research study of 335 organizations in 11 countries across a range of vertical industries.

We separated the best from the rest, and took an in-depth look into what made the most successful organizations that way. Participants will come away with best practices, tools, technologies, and organizational structures that contribute to success. Most importantly, they'll learn how to measure cybersecurity success--and their progress towards it.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.2]: Top 5 'Must-Haves' for Your Next-Generation Contact Center

Contact centers are changing--drastically and swiftly. If you're not keeping pace--or exceeding it--you'll be at a competitive disadvantage.

Learn what successful companies are doing with areas such as agent experience, interaction channels, and emerging technologies.

Based on Nemertes' brand new, detailed, Customer Experience research study with 518 organizations, this webinar will explain the five crucial items that must be on your priority list to ensure your contact center is positioned to deliver successful customer experiences.

Fibre Channel has long been known to be a very secure protocol for storage. Even so, there is no such thing as a “perfectly secure” technology, and for that reason it’s important to constantly update and protect against threats.

The sheer variety of environments in which Fibre Channel fabrics are deployed makes it very difficult to simply rely only on physical security. In fact, it’s possible to access different storage systems by different users, even when spanned over several sites. Fibre Channel enables security services to specifically address these concerns, and prevent misconfigurations or access to data by non-authorized people and machines.

This webcast is going to dive deep into the guts of security aspects of Fibre Channel, looking closely at the protocols used to implement security in a Fibre Channel fabric. In particular, we’re going to look at:

•The definitions of the protocols to authenticate Fibre Channel devices
•What are the different classes of threats, and what are the mechanisms to protect against them
•What are session keys and how to set them up
•How Fibre Channel negotiates these parameters to insure frame-by-frame integrity and confidentiality
•How Fibre Channel establishes and distributes policies across a fabric

Please join us to learn more about the technical considerations that Fibre Channel brings to the table to secure and protect your data and information.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.1] AI Drives Measurable Success in Customer Engagement

Nearly 50% more companies are using or planning to use AI in their customer engagement initiatives.
Nemertes recently studied how 518 companies are using AI and analytics to improve their customer experiences. This webinar details:
• how these companies use AI
• what measurable improvements resulted.

Kubernetes is great for running stateless workloads, like web servers. It’ll run health checks, restart containers when they crash, and do all sorts of other wonderful things. So, what about stateful workloads?

This webcast will take a look at when it’s appropriate to run a stateful workload in cluster, or out. We’ll discuss the best options for running a workload like a database on the cloud, or in the cluster, and what’s needed to set that up.

We’ll cover:
•Secrets management
•Running a database on a VM and connecting it to Kubernetes as a service
•Running a database in Kubernetes using a `stateful set`
•Running a database in Kubernetes using an Operator
•Running a database on a cloud managed service

After you watch the webcast, check out our Kubernetes Links & Resources blog at http://bit.ly/KubeLinks