Presidential Commission on Cloud Computing: What you need to know

The application development language, COBOL, is 60! September 1959 saw the first mention of the technical acronym “COBOL”, which was then adopted as the name for the language being specified and developed. Our first COBOL SIG session will kick things off describing the computing language’s contemporary relevance, use cases and prevalence. The language’s history is a fascinating study - the way in which it was designed, its continued evolution and relevance, and a number of defining characteristics have ensured it remains in widespread usage. Join us as we discuss and outline those attributes.

Microservices is not a buzz word anymore. You may be starting fresh or you may be migrating the existing applications to micro services architecture.

This session will cover some pragmatic approaches to implementing microservices architecture. Here are the key take-a-ways from this session:

· Design approaches for microservices
· How to migrate existing applications to microservices
· Role of Gateway’s in building scalable microservices based applications
· Considerations for moving to microservices architecture

With the cloud based technology solutions storming the market and every organization with all possible angles, internal IT teams are fighting a loosing battle on simplifying desktop images that control desktop resources, flexible deployment.

The constant pressure of cost reductions only has accelerated with maturing cloud services providing optimal data security forcing traditional desktop/laptop based device management into considering Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) allowing for employees to leverage the power of cloud with Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) anywhere anytime.

Join to learn, new methods, models and tools are needed which help to put the strategy into action!

Find out what's trending in BrightTALK's Enterprise Architecture community and the opportunities and challenges presented by Digital Transformation.

One of Fibre Channel’s greatest strengths is its ability to scale to thousands and thousands of nodes, while providing predictable performance. So, when we say that Fibre Channel has unmatched scalability, what does that actually mean? And how does it work?

We often hear about “designed from the ground up,” but in this case it’s actually true. From each individual link, to the overall domain architecture, each step along the way is intended to be approached in a scalable fashion.

In this webinar, we’ll be breaking down the pieces of the puzzle that help give Fibre Channel its robustness when you’re working at fabrics even greater than 10,000 nodes. We’ll be talking about:

•What a deterministic storage network is
•Fabric management principles
•Negotiated credit transfers (buffer-to-buffer credits)
•Network Engineering/Design Principles
•Oversubscription and Fan-In Ratios
•Topologies that help scale
•Domains and Fabric limits
•Consistency of performance at scale

Along the way, we’ll be talking about some of the ways that Fibre Channel differs from other popular storage networks as they approach large-scale environments, and how it handles issues that arise in such cases.

Please join us on November 6th at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET for another educational webinar on Fibre Channel!

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.6]: Next-Generation Cybersecurity: Policy Process and Organization

Resources are finite. So deploying them wisely is what differentiates successful cybersecurity organizations from those that are less successful. Find out how these successful cybersecurity organizations are structured, what policies they have in place, and what strategies they do—and don’t—follow to protect their enterprise organizations.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.5]: Application Security Meets Multicloud

Enterprises are developing and buying applications to run everywhere: across multiple clouds, multiple data centers, desktops, mobile devices, and IoT devices. In a multicloud environment, IT needs to take a multipronged approach to securing applications.

We'll how organizations approach securing their applications for the multicloud, ranging from changes in the development process to the embrace of security technologies including IAMaaS, microservice authentication, and enterprise secure cloud access and policy enforcement (ESCAPE).

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

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.6]: Setting Budgets, Finding Stakeholders for AI-Enabled DCX Projects

As IT and business leaders evaluate their how to use AI to improve customer experience, one of the biggest roadblocks is funding.

This webinar provides step-by-step guidance on finding stakeholders to fund the projects, with specific data on how much companies are spending today on their AI-enabled initiatives.

It can be tricky to know how to modernize and mobilize business in the digital era. From retail to manufacturing, and transport to healthcare, digital transformation is changing the face of how many industries run, plan, and interact with customers, suppliers and partners.

The right strategy can increase revenue, reduce cost over time, and allow a business to remain agile. Join this panel of experts as they share different digital transformation success stories and use cases, and show you how it can aid expansion into global markets.

Speakers:
Elisabeth Thomas, Founder, Launch Product Marketing (moderator)
Arun Trivedi, Partner, Wipro Technologies
Monica Kumar, SVP Marketing, Nutanix
Tyler Ramby, Inside Systems Engineer, Veeam

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Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.5]: CX Success Stories Require Technology, Leadership, Data

A great story requires more than a compelling narrative. Marketing teams can significantly elevate their success with the right combination of leadership, technology, and data derived from well-planned customer interviews.

Crafting that perfect story requires an expanded mindset about what comprises “marketing.”

In this webinar, join Nemertes Research President Robin Gareiss, who recently completed detailed research with 518 companies on how they use advanced technologies and reshape their organizational structure to improve customer experience. Based on this research and her experience as a journalist, marketing content developer, and CX advisor, she will cover:

1. Organizational overhaul: Why a Chief Customer Officer is vital, and how the CMO and CCO work together for joint success.
2. Technology leverage: What are the key technologies and contact-center initiatives that result in measurable CX success—ultimately delivering crucial data to marketing teams that support their success stories?
3. The perfect story: How to conduct interviews that get real-world data to support your mission.

What does it mean to be protected and safe? You need the right people and the right technology. This presentation is going to go into the broad introduction of security principles in general. This will include some of the main aspects of security, including defining the terms that you must know, if you hope to have a good grasp of what makes something secure or not. We’ll be talking about the scope of security, including threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks – and what that means in real storage terms. In this live webcast we will cover:

•Protecting the data (Keeping “the bad” out)
•Threat landscape, Bad actors/hackers
•Attack vectors, attack surfaces, vulnerabilities
•Physical security issues
•Layers of protection (encryption – last line of defense)
•Remediation after a breach/incident

After you watch the webcast, check out the Q&A blog: http://bit.ly/2JQ1s5L

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.4] Next-Generation Cybersecurity - Technology Foundations

The bad news? Threats evolve. Bad actors continue to improve their games.
The good news? Cybersecurity technology is also evolving and improving. This webinar drills down into the emerging technologies that successful cybersecurity organizations are deploying to protect their firms. Find out what works, what's a waste of resources--and how to deploy the technologies that work.

Intelligent Customer Engagement Series [Ep.4]: Analytics' Role in Improving DCX

Information is king, and without both real-time and historical data, it's nearly impossible to deliver the experience customers are expecting.

Analytics tools are providing incredible insight to companies about customer sentiment, agent performance, and predictive actions.

In this webinar, learn how successful organizations are using analytics to drive more revenue, reduce costs, and improve the customer experience.

Cloud and Cybersecurity Series [Ep.3]: Succeeding in the Multicloud

With most IT work being done in the cloud, what does it mean to be successful and what are the characteristics of highly successful cloud enterprises?

We'll dig into the what it means to be successful in the cloud and what successful organizations do more of (and less of) than their less successful peers. We'll look across technologies adopted, organizational and operational practices, and vendors embraced.

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 security topics as well as focusing in on application development and security.

Seeking a SOC? The Time is Right!

If you're like most enterprise security professionals, you know you need a security operations center (SOC). But should you build out your own, engage a third party, or take a hybrid approach? This webinar provides you with the answers. Nemertes helps you make that decision, based on objective data from our research studies. And we provide a detailed playbook and roadmap for taking action.

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.