Name: 10 Questions to ask a Managed Service Provider Before You Sign
Start: 2016-07-14T19:00:00Z
End: 2016-07-14T19:00:32.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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We are excited to announce Hostway and HOSTING have merged to form one of the world’s largest managed cloud services platforms. Learn more about the merger and expanding services: hostway.com/press-releases/hostway-hosting-merger/

HOSTING is a leading provider of managed cloud hosting services for mission-critical applications. Using enterprise-class networking and connectivity technologies, we provide the highest levels of availability, recovery, security, and responsiveness. We own and operate six geographically-dispersed data centers across the United States under an ITIL-based control environment independently validated for compliance against the PCI DSS and SOC (formerly SAS 70) frameworks. We offer monthly How To and Best Practices webinars for Managed Cloud Hosting.

On July 9th, 2019 Microsoft will end all support for SQL Server 2008. How can you prepare your organization? Start by understanding your options.

Why should you attend? 
Doing nothing is not an option this time. Data security is a risk to your organization, as all critical patches and security updates for SQL Server 2008 will end. Your Lack of compliance with industry standards and applicable regulations may lead to security breaches, data loss, litigation, and reputational risk.

Join Jim Haas, Vice President of Managed Services at Hostway|HOSTING, as he discusses how you can go about making a compelling case:

• Upgrade Options: Migrate to Azure, Upgrade SQL Server
• The many advances since SQL 2008.
• How to get started. What you can do yourself. Where you may need help and where to find 
help.

Register Today!

How to Prepare Your Organization for SQL Server 2008 End of Service

The recent merger of Hostway and HOSTING didn’t just multiply our office space and workforce. More importantly, it’s allowed us to meld our most valuable offerings and the expertise of each company to provide a healthy list of unmatched products and services. 

This is a particularly critical time for IT organizations as they come to grips with the fact that the “easy migration” to public cloud preached a few years ago is not so simple. And “One-size-fits-all” is a risky and costly approach to take when you’re trying to control IT spend, maintain compliance, and stay secure—all while bringing real value to the entire business.  

During this 45-minute webinar, two Hostway|HOSTING technology experts will share our most exciting combined services, including: 

Monitoring Insights: Offering an unmatched, game-changing single view of your infrastructure, operating systems, and applications.  

Guidance Level Agreements (GLAs): Uniquely going ten steps further than standard SLAs to offer a regular cadence of actionable recommendations that guarantee positive outcomes.  

Critical Availability Services: Offering the BEST availability guarantee in the industry.  

Database Services: Not many companies in our space also offer full data lifecycle management capabilities. A service not to be understated, Gartner Analysts have found that nearly 90% of businesses have little or no analytics expertise in house.

InnovationX2 – Doubling down to overcome cloud complexities

On July 9th, 2019 Microsoft will end all support for SQL Server 2008. How can you prepare your organization? Start by understanding your options.

Why should you attend? 
Doing nothing is not an option this time. Data security is a risk to your organization, as all critical patches and security updates for SQL Server 2008 will end. Your Lack of compliance with industry standards and applicable regulations may lead to security breaches, data loss, litigation, and reputational risk.

Join Jim Haas, Vice President of Managed Services at Ntirety (a Division of Hostway|HOSTING), as he discusses how you can go about making a compelling case:

  •  Upgrade Options: Migrate to Azure, Upgrade SQL Server
  •  The many advances since SQL 2008.
  •  How to get started. What you can do yourself. Where you may need help and where to find 
     help.

Register Today!

How to Prepare Your Organization for SQL Server 2008 End of Life

Around July 9th, 2019 Microsoft will end all support for SQL Server 2008. How can you prepare your organization? Start by understanding your options.

Why should you attend? 
Doing nothing is not an option this time. Data security is a risk to your organization, as all critical patches and security updates for SQL Server 2008 will end. Your Lack of compliance with industry standards and applicable regulations may lead to security breaches, data loss, litigation, and reputational risk.

Join Jim Haas, Vice President of Managed Services at Ntirety, as he discusses how you can go about making a compelling case:

  •  Upgrade Options: Migrate to Azure, Upgrade SQL Server, or Purchase Extended Security 
     Updates. 
  •  The many advances since SQL 2008.
  •  How to get started. What you can do yourself. Where you may need help and where to find 
     help.

Register Today!

Join Hosting’s Dan Waymire, SR. Manager of Unified Cloud, to see first-hand how Hosting can help your organization monitor assets in any environment, all within a single pane of glass.

Enterprises today are aware of the risks of taking an exclusively public cloud approach. Companies need a holistic cloud strategy spanning deployments in:

  •  Private Cloud 
  •  On-premise
  •  Public Cloud 

As IT professionals distribute workloads across various clouds, it is more critical now than ever to manage the performance, availability, and cost of your IT assets. 

In this webinar, you will learn how you can effectively manage all of your environments, as Dan demonstrates the true value of adopting a single-platform monitoring tool.

Managing Hybrid Clouds like a Pro

In this webinar, learn the benefits of moving your workload to a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) environment and the key differentiators between Amazon RDS and Azure SQL Database.

Join Rodney Landrum, Senior DBA/BI Consulting Services at Ntirety, a division of HOSTING, and learn: 

• The benefits of moving your workload to a DBaas Environment 
• How to assess if your workload is compatible with a DBaaS Environment
• How you can optimize your workload for a DBaaS Environment

In addition, Rodney will give a full comparison of Amazon RDS verse Azure SQL Database to help you make the right decision for your business. Including:

  •  Security
  •  Cost
  •  Performance
  •  Migration strategies 

See Rodney's Amazon Author Page Here: http://bit.ly/RodneyLandrum-Amazon

Migrating to Azure SQL DB or Amazon RDS

Coming so quickly on the heels of SQL Server 2016, one has to wonder what astounding features SQL Server 2017 brings to the table.

While these new features may not be as momentous as the previous release features, some do still carry a “wow” factor that are worth taking a closer look at.

Join Rodney Landrum, Senior DBA/BI Consulting Services at Ntirety, a division of HOSTING, as he discovers several of these new features and demonstrates how they can benefit your organization.

These features include: 
  •  SQL Server on Linux
  •  New T-SQL functionality
  •  More Dynamic Management Views added
  •  Availability Group enhancements
  •  Automatic database tuning
  •  R-Services rebranded

See Rodney's Amazon Author Page Here: http://bit.ly/RodneyLandrum-Amazon

SQL Server 2017 Hidden Gems

Microsoft Power BI is an affordable, powerful data modeling and visualization tool, with widespread adoption and universal appeal for many reasons. 

The main reason everyone loves Power BI is the rapid update schedule and all of the cool, new features regularly added to both the desktop and web versions. With these rapid updates, it can be hard to stay on top of what is available from one release to the next. 

Join Rodney Landrum, Senior DBA/BI Consulting Services at Ntirety, a division of HOSTING, as he demos his top 5 favorite features of the latest Microsoft Power BI including: 

• Anchor Dates for Slicers
• Drill Through
• Quick Measures
• Data Gateways
• Custom Visual (Power KPI)

Microsoft Power BI Review: Top 5 New Features

During this session, attendees will learn how they can reduce their AWS spend through invoice transparency, architectural optimization and strategic procurement.

How to Reduce Your AWS Spend

To take full advantage of platforms such as AWS or Azure, organizations need to be able to manage cost, compliance, security, policies, and overall visibility. Many are finding that this is a lot to tackle on their own.

Join Tricia Pattee, Vice President of Product, and Mike McCracken Vice President of Advanced Solutions for this interactive seminar where they will discuss HOSTING’s built-in optimization solutions that prevent wasted spend and help maximize the move to public cloud. 

During the webinar, they will cover the following topics:

- Understanding various clouds and discount options
- Uncovering wasteful cloud spending (i.e. under-utilization)
- AWS Reserved Instance savings
- Leveraging built-in cloud services

Built-in Guidance: Optimizing Public Cloud Costs

The average investment to meet cloud compliance obligations is $250,000 per year, and the fees for not complying can be as much as $100,000 a month. So while the investment is worthwhile, many companies are unable to achieve such standards due mainly to budget constraints and a lack of expertise.

Join Tricia Pattee, VP of Product at HOSTING, Brandon Bennett, VP of Customer Success at Allgress, and Jeff Bennett, CEO of Allgress as they discuss the following:

•Public cloud (AWS and Azure) compliance considerations
•Compliance standards and common industry trends
•SecComp cloud best practices
•Factors that contribute to a Compliance Crisis 

We also demo a couple new solutions such as an industry-leading compliance dashboard and a (free) Compliance Posture Evaluation tool recently launched to provide you with actionable items for passing an audit.

Compliance-as-a-Crisis: Managing Cloud Compliance

In a special webcast, Bill Santos, President at HOSTING, and Wayne Shaw, Cloud Architect at HOSTING, cover leading DRaaS and Ransomware solutions that can help protect your company from a data disaster.

HOSTING + Zerto Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service

Join Dan Waymire, Senior Manager of UCSL Feature Development at HOSTING, as he dives into hybrid cloud best practices and how companies can align business and IT objectives to achieve organization goals. During the webcast, he will go over the following:

- Utilizing hybrid environments to drive better business outcomes
- Aligning IT and business goals to deliver solutions
- Case Study: A look into how HOSTING built a brand new service to resolve a real-life company need
- An introduction to HOSTING’s Monitoring Insights Service, a first-to-market solution that provides a single-pane view of all of your hybrid IT tools

Monitoring Hybrid Environments: Best Practices and New Services

Join Rodney Landrum, Consulting Services Manager at Ntirety, a division of HOSTING, as he demonstrates his favorite features of the latest Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1.

During the webinar, Rodney will touch on the following:

•  A demo of his favorite new features in SQL Server 2016 and SP1 including: 
        
         o  Query Store 
         o  Database Cloning 
         o  Dynamic Data Masking 
         o  Create or Alter 

•  A review of Enterprise features that are now available in standard edition 
•  New information in Dynamic Management Views and SQL Error Log that will make your DBA's job easier.

SQL Server 2016: Just a Few of Our DBA's Favorite Things

At HOSTING, we understand the importance of setting up success criteria (KPIs) to measure your IT team’s impact (value) in direct partnership with the business.

Join me, Tricia Pattee, Vice President of Product at HOSTING, for KPI: Aligning Your IT and Business Objectives, a live webinar in which I’ll discuss common problem areas that companies experience when trying to align their IT teams and business departments. I’ll go over:

- How to define IT objectives
- Common challenges
- Common Approach Challenges
- Common Tool Challenges
- Proposed Strategies

KPIs: Aligning Your IT and Business Objectives

No company is safe from a Ransomware attack (malicious forms of software programmed to steal company data and hold it for "ransom"). However, technology has allowed us to mitigate these attacks by implementing proper recovery systems that can ensure that cyber criminals will not see a dime from your business.

Join me, Ed Schaefer, Director of Cloud Services at HOSTING, and Donal Farrell, Cloud Architect at Zerto, on November 10th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, "Ransomware: Mitigation through Preparation". During the event, we will be going over:

-The origin and rise of the current wave of Ransomware threats
- What businesses are most vulnerable to these types of attacks
- Security practices that you can adopt to protect your company data

Ransomware: Mitigation Through Preparation

"Cyberhunting" actively looks for signs of compromise within an organization and seeks to control and minimize the overall damage. These rare, but essential, breed of enterprise cyber defenders give proactive security a whole new meaning.

Join me, Mike McCracken, Director of Professional Services at HOSTING, and Chris Dodunski, CTO of Phirelight Security Solutions on October 27th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, Cyber Threat Hunting: A New Dimension of Cyber Intelligence.

During the live webinar, we will be going over:

-The technology behind "cyberhunting"
-What threats your organization is at the most risk for, both internally and externally
-A 20 min live demo of Phirelight's security solution.

Be sure to bring your questions, there will be a live Q&A during the event. See you there!

Cyber Threat Hunting: A New Dimension of Cyber Intelligence

The threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is a growing problem for mission-critical websites, such as eCommerce shops, SaaS applications, gaming forums, and University portals; in addition, politically or artistically important organizations and journalists can be especially at risk of attack, due to the nature of their website content.

The company CloudFlare delivers DDoS protection to over 4,000,000 websites globally, from personal blogs to large enterprises, while also offering a free protection program for respected free speech, public interest, and civil society organizations, called “Project Galileo”.

Join Larry Collins, Product Manager at HOSTING, and special guest, James Askham, Solutions Engineer at CloudFlare, on October 20th at 3 PM EST for the webinar Hacktivism Culture: DDoS 101. During the live event, they will go over:

•What a DDoS attack is from a technical perspective
•The most common types of DDoS attacks
•Best practices for mitigating against these attacks and how CloudFlare’s “Project Galileo” protects political    and artistic organizations.

Hacktivism Culture: DDoS 101

Key topics that need to be discussed when partnering with a cloud service provider, including:

-Architecture of cloud-based environments
-Interacting with IT teams
-Compliance
-Migration and Project Management
-Evaluating the customer experience

10 Questions to ask a Managed Service Provider Before You Sign

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