Strategies for Building Cloud Confidence

Organizations are deploying more applications in the cloud, implementing more devices in branch offices and consuming more bandwidth. Traditional connectivity options such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Frame-Relay, Leased Line etc. can be expensive and slow to provision, and provide limited bandwidth in many locations.

Many organizations are looking for an agile connectivity solution for their digital transformation into the cloud era. SDWAN (software defined Wide Area Network) fundamentally creates a secure scalable fabric with the most limited amount of state on the edge device and performs most of the fabric decision making in the controller. This allows organizations to have the flexibility to make topologies as needed, add segments as needed and to be able to deliver into the environment new and old styles of capabilities while maintaining a well-developed routing environment.

Key takeaways:
- The combination of app content, app delivery and app consumption are resulting in an evolving WAN situation

- Challenges such as poor application experiences, increased WAN services spend, and a lack of visibility and control are making it difficult for IT to provide the business with a platform to support faster innovation

- Most IT organizations are interested in realizing a common set of benefits such as consistent high-quality user experiences, reduced cost, simplified operations and lower risk

- The journey to the next generation software defined WAN requires considering various technical capabilities such as transport independence, ubiquitous data plane, automatically secure routed endpoints, resiliency, application aware routing, cloud readiness, simple secure network segmentation, centralized policy enforcement and layer 4-7 flexible services insertion

- Migrating to a software defined WAN does not need to be difficult as long as one knows the best approach to a software-defined WAN environment.

Get prepared for SNIA’s Persistent Memory Summit with this webcast from Objective Analysis and Coughlin Associates. Following up on their 2018 groundbreaking report on emerging memories, Jim Handy and Tom Coughlin will update us on 2019 advances in support from SNIA, the launch of Optane memory on DIMMs, new MRAM types, and more. You won’t want to miss their analysis on the progress made, and their perspective on the groundwork that still needs to be covered to bring persistent memory to mainstream computing.

The Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) has gained industry-wide recognition as a framework for building highly performant and efficient storage software with a focus on NVMe. This includes software drivers and libraries for building NVMe-oF host and target solutions. In this presentation, technical leaders from SPDK will provide an overview of the project, NVMe-oF use cases that are best suited for SPDK, and insights into how SPDK achieves its storage networking performance and efficiency, discussing:

•Overview of the SPDK project
•Key NVMe-oF use cases for SPDK
•Examples of NVMe-oF use cases not suited for SPDK
•NVMe-oF Target Architecture and Design
•NVMe-oF Host Architecture and Design
•Performance data

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

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.