Converged OSS - The Key to Tackling Complex Subscriber Demands

Whether a datacenter refresh or new build, IT is moving toward all-flash storage for their business critical cloud infrastructure, and consolidating their secondary storage for all other workloads. But with a growing number of vendor choices, whom can you trust to provide a complete storage solution, from primary through secondary? Pure Storage and Cohesity have partnered to develop tight integration between all-flash primary and hyperconverged secondary storage platforms, to simplify your overall storage environment.

Join experts from Pure Storage and Cohesity to learn:

-Which of your secondary workloads, including data protection, file archive, and test/dev, can be consolidated into Cohesity
-How the integration between Pure and Cohesity simplifies day to day operations
-Why many Pure and Cohesity joint customers bet on this combination - and are taking advantage of their investment.

Featured Speakers:
Sunil Moolchandani, Director of Product Management, Cohesity
Ravi Venkat, Data Center Architect, Pure Storage

Every company today is a technology company. This trend has opened up new possibilities for every organization in any industry. Imagine if media companies let consumers experience scenes from their favorite TV show with augmented reality. Imagine if IT played an active role in retooling high-cost training and simulation environments with virtual reality.

Join Bill Briggs, CTO at Deloitte, and Ross Mason, Founder and VP of Product Strategy at MuleSoft, to learn what organizations and your business can look like in the future and how you can start today to make the imaginative possibilities into a reality.

Attendees will learn:

– How virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, microservices, and the Internet of Things will disrupt businesses in the next 18-24 months
– How the digital future of businesses will impact the way IT plays a role within enterprises
– How companies can leverage API-led connectivity to build application networks that set the foundation for making the future into a reality sooner

Ransomware protection has been top of mind of many of our clients. Join our senior consultant and security expert, Artom Harchenko, for a walkthrough of how to use Microsoft security technologies to prevent a successful ransomware attack. In the case of a breach, learn about telltale signs of ransomware presence in order to protect your corporate data. Artom will be presenting a sample architecture as well as an overview of the technologies involved in ransomware protection.

Load balancing and what load balancers can do are undergoing significant changes as enterprises seek to deploy cloud-native applications in data centers and public clouds. According to Gartner, “Application-centric personnel are driving a return to lightweight, disaggregated load balancers, creating challenges and opportunities for I&O leaders.”

Simultaneously, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is now reaching mainstream enterprises with the Cisco Cloud Services Platform (CSP) 2100. Avi Networks and Cisco CSP integrate to provide a turn-key solution for the rapid deployment of application services such as load balancing, analytics, and autoscaling on an elastic NFV platform, without requiring any additional expertise. The joint solution ensures that administrators can efficiently roll out elastic, high-performance, load balancing and application monitoring capabilities.

Join Avi Networks and Cisco guest speaker, Gunnar Anderson to learn how enterprises now have an opportunity to take advantage of software-defined load balancing and NFV quickly and easily using:

• Standard x86 servers
• Virtualized/software-based functions
• API-driven approach
• Elastic scaling to millions of SSL TPS

Everybody is joining the microservices bandwagon and only some enterprises truly see the benefits of adopting microservices. The real challenge is not only cultural adoption but also a question of choosing the right technical tools to enable and secure your microservices.

In this webinar we'll provide practical guidance on building and deploying a microservice architecture for speed, scale and safety.

Join this webinar to learn:

- Key considerations of enabling microservices within your enterprise
- How DevOps fits in the microservices lifecycle and how to align team culture
- How to use an API gateway for securing and governing your microservice architecture

Every one of our PPM customers is pursuing the same end goal – how to deliver the highest value to the organization. Working with hundreds of customers, we have learned that the answer requires a comprehensive approach across multiple disciplines. To drive bigger results and achieve greater PPM maturity, organizations need to improve PPM leadership, governance, change management, product management, development, support and other disciplines.

Please join us for this presentation that discusses how to achieve PPM excellence by building competencies across disciplines in-house with the option of augmenting that approach with Application Managed Services for CA PPM.

High Definition Video is prevalent in our everyday lives. From the board room to the classroom, the sports bar to the sports stadium, the demand for dynamic audio-visual content is rapidly increasing. Traditional methods of transporting content to displays are a thing of the past. This presentation explores technologies and methods for connecting A/V sources to HD displays using twisted pair cabling and provides guidance for successful deployment.

By attending this presentation, you will learn:
- Cabling system requirements needed to support a high density digital AV distribution environment
- Alternative methods and equipment that can be used to extend the reach of an HDMI connection

* One BICSI CEC will be provided after viewing this presentation up until April 15, 2017*

Digital transformation is moving at lightning speed. Join OutSystems CEO Paulo Rosado and a panel of battle-proven experts from PWC, HaelthTech, and Thrivent as they dish out best practices for planning, launching, and expanding your digital transformation journey without crashing.

Every organization’s Agile transformation is different, however there are key landmines that can cause an organization’s Agile transformation to struggle. Join Andy Jordan, ProjectManagement.com as he discusses how you can avoid seven common Agile transformation mistakes and put your organization on the right path with Agile.

This session is approved for 1 Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP PDU Credit.

Digital transformation is a top business priority and it includes embracing consumer trends around mobility. However, recent stats on the state of mobile app development in the enterprise are dismal. Gartner has also concluded that the enterprise mobile app journey is a complicated one for IT.

All too often mobile apps fail before they’re off the ground because companies try to do too much, too quickly. The road to digital transformation – and mobile – is a journey, not a race.

Join Tom Ku, VP Enterprise Mobility and hear him share our recommendation around breaking this journey down into digestible, easy to rollout and test steps before achieving ultimate mobile nirvana!