Smartphones, Tablets and Mobile: Collaborative Tools or Productivity Killers?

The advent of 5G mobile network technology is upon us, and implementation is quickly approaching.

For mobile network providers, vendors and enterprises, achieving a 5G version will require new technology innovations for scalability, efficiency and security. For consumers, it means a whole new wave of digital customer experience.

These next-generation networks will no doubt be in high demand for improving latency and bandwidth, but with more people connected than ever before, what are the potential security implications or concerns for both the enterprise and the consumer?

Join this expert panel moderated by Ahmed Banafa, Faculty member at SJSU & IoT Expert. He will be joined by expert panelists Lindsay Notwell, VP of 5G Strategy, Cradlepoint, Upkar Dhaliwal, System Architect, Future Wireless Technologies, and Mansoor Hanif, Director of Converged Networks and Innovation, BT.

Join Rob Anderson, Director of Product Marketing at NetFoundry, as he reviews how hybrid device, site, and cloud networking will evolve to meet digital transformation needs.

Learn how to make your networks as agile as the applications they need to support in your data center.

About the presenter:
Rob is Director of Marketing at NetFoundry. NetFoundry believes in enabling edge innovation. NetFoundry frees individuals, apps, groups, and businesses from traditional network, telco, and hardware constraints, enabling applications and business policies to control underlying networks, with security, compliance, reliability, & performance.

Prior to NetFoundry, Rob's roles included Director of Global Marketing & Product Management at Modern Systems, along with various management and product development roles in the telecommunications industry. Rob graduated from Clemson University in 2003, holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute, and a New Product Development Professional (NPDP) certification from the Product Development and Management Association.

With the recent advances in the telco domain such as virtualization, cloudification, software-defined everything, network slicing and IoT, telcos moving into the cloud face a fundamental challenge on how to take benefit of things that these technologies provide such as automation and machine learning. This poses a question on whether automating the network is something that can be achieved from day one or whether it should be taken as a step-by-step approach.

In this webinar, we will be exploring various tranches that can be and should be automated to support this journey. We will also explore the challenges around them and the industry readiness for a fully automated telco cloud.

Join us on this expert panel to hear the views from both sides: operators and vendors.

Moderator: Omar Alassil, Cloud & Data Center Solutions Lead, Nokia Global Services
Panelists: Kalyanjeet Gogoi, Cloud Portfolio Innovation Lead, Nokia Global Services, Sahin Chickballapur Venkatrao, CTO GS Cloud/Data Center Services, Nokia, Umair Zahid, Cloud Automation & Infrastructure Lead, Three UK, and Dimitris Vasilaras, E2E Cloud Solutions Lead, Three UK

Container based applications are exploding in popularity as they simplify and speed up application development and deployment. Thankfully, technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos help to orchestrate and manage the containers. But with their dynamic nature, how do operations teams get their heads wrapped around inter container connectivity? How do they get full visibility across the entire fabric? How do they understand what was, or was not, working 10 minutes ago and why?

In this webcast, you’ll learn about the popular container networking models and the pros and cons of each. You’ll also see how to track each container’s identity and bandwidth, how to simplify network port mapping, and realize the benefits of telemetry analysis through the entire fabric for enhanced troubleshooting.

Orchestration tools for Linux containers can work in concert with Linux networking tools to help operationalize container based applications -- it’s just common sense. Come join us to find out how to make this a reality in your environment.

Listen to Sophie Legault, Director of T&D Business Unit at EXFO as she talks about the 4G to 5G transition, the implication of highly dense networks, impact on the costs of maintenance on fronthaul networks and the challenges MNOs may face. She will also delve into best practices for addressing interference and PIM in mobile networks and improving the quality of fiber-based fronthaul and CRAN deployments.

Today's Fibre Channel SANs are tasked with reliably delivering huge amounts of data with almost zero latency in an environment with a large variance of end device capabilities. Fibre Channel is a lossless network protocol but what ramifications does that have? What is considered a good SAN design and what are best practices? What situations can lead to suboptimal performance? How can a device that is not performing well affect the performance of devices even on different parts of the SAN? Can a device that is returning credits without delay affect the SAN just like a device that is returning credits slowly?

Get answers to these questions and more in this live FCIA webcast where you’ll learn:

•How Fibre Channel achieves a lossless data delivery
•The definition of "slow drain“
•Basic slow drain indications and what they mean
•“Over” Utilization - How a device that isn't "slow drain" by the typical definition can affect a SAN in a similar fashion as a slow drain device
•How to prevent, Identify, and resolve performance problems

After you watch the webcast, check-out the the FCIA Q&A blog http://bit.ly/2ouWq4b

In the enterprise, block storage typically handles the most critical applications such as database, ERP, product development, and tier-1 virtualization. The dominant connectivity option for this has long been Fibre Channel SAN (FC-SAN), but recently many customers and block storage vendors have turned to iSCSI instead. FC-SAN is known for its reliability, lossless nature, 2x FC speed bumps, and carefully tested interoperability between vendors. iSCSI is known for running on ubiquitous Ethernet networks, 10x Ethernet speed bumps, and supporting commodity networking hardware from many vendors.

Because, FCoE also delivers increasing performance as Ethernet speeds increase – and, Fibre Channel also delivers increasing performance as FC speeds increase. Historically, FC delivered speed bumps at a more rapid interval (2x bumps), while Ethernet delivered their speed bumps at a slower pace (10x bumps), but that has changed recently with Ethernet adding 2.5G, 5G, 25G, 40G, and 50G to the traditional 1G, 10G, 100G timeline.

As the storage world moves to more flash and other non-volatile memory, more cloud, and more virtualization (or more containers), it’s time to revisit one of the great IT debates: Should you deploy Fibre Channel or iSCSI? Attend this SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum webcast to learn:
•Will Fibre Channel or iSCSI deliver faster performance? Does it depend on the workload?
•How is the wire speed race going between FC and iSCSI? Does anyone actually run iSCSI on 100GbE? When will 128Gb Fibre Channel arrive?
•Do Linux, Windows, or hypervisors have a preference?
•Is one really easier [to install/manage] than the other, or are they just different?
•How does the new NVMe over Fabrics protocol affect this debate?

Join SNIA experts as they compare FC vs. iSCSI and argue in an energetic yet friendly way about their differences and merits of each.

After you watch the webcast check out the Q&A blog http://sniaesfblog.org/?p=680

Would you like to stay ahead of the curve with your network management solution? Are you thinking about how new technology could impact your teams? What about managing software-defined networking segments within your enterprise network? And, how about security being a much larger component of your day to day activities?

Join us for this webinar to learn:

How these disruptions will impact your business. Discuss what Gartner calls, “NetOps 2.0” where network operations teams must evolve to support analytics and automation. As part of your attendance, receive full access to this important document that we believe could re-shape the future of your teams.

Key insights from our exclusive survey of network professionals around SDN. Did you know that 57% of your peers have deployed or are actively deploying SDN? We discuss their insight that speaks to the future of network management with SDNs.

Learn about the important new capabilities of Network Operations Management and new features included in the latest releases of Network Node Manager and Network Automation. Learn how we’re supporting SDN, enabling security risk visibility and compliance, and implementing advanced lifecycle management with our latest releases.

In this last of a 3 part webinar series presented by Greenlight, Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will provide an overview of the current state of IT Operations Management technologies running on enterprise grade cloud native technology stacks.  Join us, and come up to speed as the experts provide a high level overview of Network Operations, Hybrid Cloud, and Datacenter Automation suites from the Micro Focus ITOM portfolio running in a Docker & Kubernetes orchestrated environment.

What's the status of FirstNet's state opt-in benefits and how does the network help support public safety? Also, what are the benefits of connecting first responders to IoT and Smart Cities? These are the question that Bill Schrier will answer on this LIVE PODCAST by NMG Media.

Businesses today rely heavily on their data. Disaster may strike anywhere and occurs in many shapes and sizes. Transporting data over significant distance beyond the reach of a threatening event preserves data so organizations can rapidly recover in the event of a site going down.

This makes deploying a disaster recovery infrastructure between data centers with fast, continuous, and easy replication of mission-critical data to anywhere in the world essential.
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), often referred to as “Extension,” is used to connect SANs across distance using IP networks. FCIP is commonly used for Remote Data Replication (RDR) between Enterprise Storage Arrays and Remote Tape applications, for the purpose of Business Continuance via Disaster Recovery (BC/DR).

Join storage technology and industry experts as they discuss their experience and deployment knowledge in:

•Best known methods for deployment with extension architectures, extension in routed topologies, and performance optimization for remote replication
•Industry best practices: topologies to achieve high-availability goals, advantages in trunking, encryption, etc…
•Customer examples and use cases of a variety of critical production environments ranging from SMBs to the largest most demanding enterprises and government institutions

After you watch the webcast, check out our Q&A blog: http://fibrechannel.org/fcip-extension-questions-and-their-answers/

Listen to GlobalData's Peter Jarich – VP, Consumer Services and Service Provider Infrastructure talk about who is in the lead for 5G test trials and deployments and what regions of the world we can expect the next generation of network communications?

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group.

Businesses need to be more responsive to market changes and meeting customer demand for improved services and better user experiences. In order to meet such high expectations and be competitive in your market, it requires great flexibility and speed throughout the organization. DevOps enables your software development, infrastructure and operations teams to identify and eliminate inefficiencies through communication, collaboration, and automation.

Join us for this webinar to learn:

•How you can build a culture of DevOps
•Accelerate time-to-market

As people learn more about Fibre Channel and are curious about NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe), more questions arise that relate to how storage solutions are going to be affected by the new technology. Perhaps the least understood aspect of storage networks involves distance solutions, and so FCIA has decided to tackle this issue next.

In this webinar you will learn:

•How does Fibre Channel work over distances?
•What are some of the limitations of distance?
•What happens when you are using FC-NVMe?
•What special equipment do you need?

Come spend time with FCIA and speaker Mark Allen, Technical Marketing Engineer Manager for Cisco, to learn how to understand and plan for distance solutions using Fibre Channel.