Mainstreaming the Mainframe: Igniting the Untapped Power in Your Enterprise IT

The need for rapid deployment of scalable clusters is creating an opportunity for container solutions such as Kubernetes. But what are the implications of multiple Kubernetes clusters in a broad deployment? What happens if a cluster goes down? What’s the impact on business resiliency? Managing and securing multiple clusters is becoming a key topic and area of debate. Multi-cluster Kubernetes that provides robustness & resilience is rapidly moving from “best practice” to a “must have”.

In this webcast we’ll dive into:
•The history of multi-cluster Kubernetes
•How multi-cluster setups could affect data heavy workloads (such as multiple microservices backed by independent data stores)
•Managing multiple clusters
•Keeping the business functioning if a cluster goes down
•How to prepare for the coming datapocalypse

The days of manually deploying infrastructure are over. IT teams need automation tools to modernize towards IT-as-Code. This is achieved through flexibility; IT teams must operate on a platform that accommodates CI/CD pipelines. The pipelines, in turn, must meld with DevOps tools to integrate with ticketing systems, run security remediation playbooks, deploy Kubernetes with a security benchmark, and even harden on-premise sensors.

Takeaways:
- What is DevSecOps and what are CI/CD pipelines
- How CI/CD Pipelines work for DevSecOps
- Why enterprises need hybrid CI/CD pipelines
- Use cases

Organizations embracing cloud pre-COVID are accelerating their journey by creating core services in cloud. The concern of privacy & security of business intellectual property is being addressed aggressively adopting evolving Confidential Computing Framework.

Confidential computing allows users to upload encrypted code and data to cloud and get encrypted results back with guaranteed privacy.

Confidential Computing means cloud providers can’t see customers’ secrets even if cloud administrators are malicious or hackers have exploited kernel bugs in hosts.
Join the Webinar to learn more about industry adoption and how you can embrace with developing your own applications with data security in-use offered by cloud service providers

COVID-19 was (and is) a wake-up call for CIOs and their teams as to the flexibility, resiliency, and scalability of their hybrid cloud and WAN infrastructures. We look at how enterprises prepared for this ‘black swan’ event, how they were able to quickly adapt in a ‘lights-out’ operation, and best practices for the future. I’ll cover architectures, support for remote workers and remote operations, and what we’ve learned for the future.

Enterprises accumulate new cloud solutions rapidly, but still run 40% of their workloads in their own data centers. Without a plan, the result is an unsupportable mess. Join Nemertes Research as we discuss how to pull all the pieces together to make a coherent hybrid multicloud IT can manage, and use to deliver real business value.

Discover how to adopt, migrate, scale and secure a multi-cloud infrastructure.

Adoption of multi cloud is soaring. According to ITPro, 76% of the organisations surveyed reported that they were already using from two to 15 hybrid clouds. The transition to cloud introduces a very different operating model for IT.

During this session the focus areas will include:

- Utilizing a multi cloud strategy, formal multi cloud architecture and tooling
- Discussion around running, connecting and securing workloads in this model
- Defining the unique challenges for operations, security, networking, and development teams in the multi cloud model


Moderated by:
Jo Perterson, Vice President, Cloud and Security Services, Clarify360

Panelists:
Bobby Allen, CTO & Chief Evangelist at CloudGenera, Inc.
Matthew Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect, Sentara Healthcare
Alvaro Gonzalez, AVP of Partner Strategy & Enablement, TierPoint

As data growth in enterprises continues to skyrocket, datacenter cloud scalability, whether on premises, in hybrid cloud or in multicloud deployments, is key for businesses. So, what are enterprise IT organizations supposed to do, given that 'run anything anywhere' is becoming more important than ever? Customers are finding that hybrid cloud storage solutions better meet their IT and business growth needs, so they can rapidly scale their IT infrastructure and cover a wider array of services. This webcast will help architects and consumers of hybrid cloud storage solutions better understand:
oTrends and benefits of hybrid cloud storage and multicloud deployments
oThe range of technologies and capabilities under development to help enterprise hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) serve IT customers
oHow scalability differs in block vs. file workloads
oThe important requirements to keep in mind when considering a 'run anything anywhere' objective

Who is in the BrightTALK Enterprise Architecture community, what topics are of most importance to them, and what type of content do they prefer?

Join this webinar to learn:
- How the community has grown and evolved
- What topics are trending and which are declining
- What to look forward to in 2020

In order to effectively use cryptography to protect information, one has to ensure that the associated cryptographic keys are also protected. Attention must be paid to how cryptographic keys are generated, distributed, used, stored, replaced and destroyed in order to ensure that the security of cryptographic implementations are not compromised.

This webinar will introduce the fundamentals of cryptographic key management including key lifecycles, key generation, key distribution, symmetric vs asymmetric key management and integrated vs centralized key management models. Relevant standards, protocols and industry best practices will also be presented.

After you watch the webcast, check-out the Q&A blog at: https://bit.ly/3dcnpId

The T11 specification for NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) was completed in 2018, since that time, the FCIA has held numerous plugfest events and products have been shipping for a few years. So where are we today with NVMe over Fibre Channel solutions?

This webcast will take an early 2020 point-in-time snapshot of where the industry is, discuss products available today, and address common questions around:

•Which host environments can use FC-NVMe
•What is required from the fabric
•Breadth of supporting storage solutions
•Application benefits we have seen so far
•FC-NVMe strengths and differentiators

And most importantly, is FC-NVMe ready for prime time?

IoT initiatives are exploding. Nemertes has found that companies with successful IoT initiatives are increasing both the number of projects and the device count, with growth that ranges up to 100%+ year over year.

Scaling these initiatives requires scaling not only the IoT solutions, but also the infrastructure and cybersecurity environments in which they operate. As enterprise technologists begin to apply next-generation cybersecurity approaches like zero-trust, they need to think seriously about how to automate the control and management of their cybersecurity and infrastructure.

The answer? Automation. Successful organizations are more likely to automate earlier, more aggressively, and more comprehensively—with dramatic improvements in performance, security, and reliability.

Find out why automation is critical to securing, managing, and scaling IoT—and what best practices can help ensure success in implementing it.

Get an overview of the possibilities and ways of Industry 4.0 – starting with how you can benefit from IO-Link.

IO-Link is a key pillar in the path to Industry 4.0. What exactly is it? And are you already embracing IO-Link? Let us show you how to get the most out of your IO-Link investment and how you can use it to enable real Industry 4.0 use-cases. You will walk away with know-how on real industrial applications of IO-Link and get set on a sustainable path to Industry 4.0

What you will learn:
- The Basics of IO-Link
- How to use IO-Link in Automation Systems
- Visualization of sensor data for efficient troubleshooting and predictive maintenance
- Read/write process and service data as basis for flexible production (keyword lot size 1)
- Outlook REST API - the way to the cloud (ERP, MES)

Live demonstrations of:
- Sensor self-diagnosis in action with IO-Link
- REST API in action with an IO-Link Master
- Data visualization and recording for Cloud applications

The APAC region reportedly spent $375 billion on Digital Transformation projects in 2019. According to IDC, “The adoption of emerging technologies supporting digital transformation strategies in APAC is shaping up as it’s helping organizations reimagine their businesses, re-evaluate their value chain, reconnect with their customers, and rebuild their organization into a digital native enterprise”.

But with reimagining and reevaluating comes the challenge of navigating what’s currently in place. Nowhere is this more apparent than with technology and legacy systems. For organisations that have been around since before the internet, Digital Transformation has a whole host of extra challenges.

Join this expert panel as they address these challenges, including:

- How the functionality of legacy systems can make it tricky to know when to stick or twist
- How to ensure your Digital Transformation strategy is robust enough to avoid failures and gain competitive advantage
- How to manage the impact of Millennials in the workplace - who expect continuous change and evolution

Speakers:
Ruchir Shastri, President & Founder, SoftSys Hosting (Moderator)
Philip Ng, CEO, BitCyber
Adnyesh Dalpati, Chief Technology Officer, 4 Marketing Technology Venture
Okta, Speaker TBD

Digital transformation has now become an important strategic choice for business and governments to deliver secure and fit for purpose solutions fast. Implementation methodologies like Agile and DevOps are tools in this transformational tool kit. You and your team’s creativity and innovation underpin success, and quality data is the currency that will create trust and unlock delighted customer and citizenry experiences, delivered quickly.

Speed of implementation, ability to pivot and delivery resilience of the teams and the delivery environment have become foundational to how we need to approach delivery. Without a robust delivery chain in the SaaS implementation, you will be vulnerable - it is just a matter of time before the rainy day turns into a perfect storm. Data, data sovereignty and increasing awareness of privacy and social contracting is vital to create trust, and to keep it. SaaS vendors need to be able to respond regardless of set ideas, their economies of scale plans may have to be thought of from a geo-social perspective now also, not just a one-sided business argument. Customers and users vote with clicks and their feet. Ensure you are the on the receiving end of the shopping cart.

Speakers:
Kobus Dippenaar, Director & Digital Transformation Implementer, The Practitioners Limited
Blair Loveday, Co-Founder & Chief People Officer, CultureXP

The current pandemic has forced all organisations to face into the new normal. The survivors are already restarting by adapting to new market opportunities, optimising change and preparing for uncertainty. This dramatic shift has also changed the face of digital transformation (DX).

Learn from industry experts Rod Crowder and Chris Shannon as they guide us through the key learnings from previous events and apply these to reshaping the new face of DX. They will analyse key requirements every market is demanding right now in the search for control, agility and speed.

The presentation will also explore the key success factors for organisations considering changes to their digital strategy and outline why Digital Resilience has become the new currency for strategic transformation.

Discover how the themes of computational storage, persistent memory, and solid state come together in a webcast from the new SNIA Compute, Memory, and Storage Initiative. We’ll explore how expertise in these three areas can help understand storage architectures, common solution areas, and their impacts on storage devices, systems, and software.