Denver Mar 18: Cloud/Virtualization, Storage, UC, Wireless/VDI, Security
Event on 2014-03-18 07:30:00
Program Description:
This comprehensive yet focused seminar including a full hot lunch focuses on cloud/sdnvirtualization, data security/compliance, storage/backup and wireless/byod/vdi. Angelbeat coordinates expert speakers from several leading firms listed below – scroll down to see the agenda – who deliver concise, technical and complementary talks. Content is pre-approved by Angelbeat and past attendees to maximize learning. CISSP's and other individuals can receive CPE credit hours for attending.
Join your peers from Vail Resorts, Western Union, CableLabs, CoBank, Bankrate Insurance, TIAA-CREF, AMG National Trust, Golftec, MDC/Richmond American Homes, University of Denver, University of Colorado, Swanson Rink, Northrop Grumman, Denver Health, Catholic Health, Poudre Schools and many more leading organizations who are confirmed attendees.
Listen to Angelbeat CEO's Ron Gerber podcast to hear why you should attend. Watch Angelbeat on Youtube to see clips from past events and hear other attendee testimonials. Full Hot Lunch, Wi-Fi and parking are provided at no charge, with raffle drawings for an HP Slate 7 Tablet, gift cards and other great prizes at the end.
7:30 – 8:40: Registration, Exhibit Area Open, Peer Networking, Product Demonstrations
8:40 – 9:00: Security/Compliance: Securing Unstructured Data, The Next Evolution of eDiscovery and Data Loss Prevention with Varonis
The importance of securing and managing sensitive & confidential data was vividly reinforced by the recent NSA/Snowden and Wikileak incidents. Organizations must protect the rapidly growing volume of unstructured and semi structured data—documents, spreadsheets, presentations, media files and other business data – that can be stored in file servers, NAS devices, SharePoint, virtual data centers, cloud-based storage platforms, etc. This is taking ediscovery and data loss prevention (DLP) to the next level.
Attendees will learn about solutions to this important issue from Varonis, the foremost innovator and provider of access, governance, and retention solutions for human-generated data, the fastest-growing and most sensitive class of digital information. Based on patented technology and a highly accurate analytics engine, Varonis solutions give organizations total visibility and control over their data, ensuring that only the right users have access to the right data at all times from all devices, all use is monitored, and abuse is flagged.
Varonis makes digital collaboration secure, effortless and efficient so that people can create and share content easily, and organizations can extract more value from their content while being confident that it is protected and managed efficiently.
9:00 – 9:20: Understanding Security Challenges in Application Delivery and Cloud/Virtualization Platforms with Juniper
Securing technology is an age-old struggle. As attackers have moved ‘up the stack’, applications have become the target for more sophisticated attacks. The next attacker will most likely be talking through a secured connection and acting like a real client; are you prepared to handle their intrusion attempts? Learn from Juniper how to guarantee secure application delivery, over wired or wireless connections, through physical, virtual and/or cloud architectures, with no performance/QoS impact.
9:20 – 9:40: BYOD Bring Your Own Device, High-Speed Wireless, 802.11n/ac Migration with Adtran
Gartner estimated that manufacturers shipped one billion smartphones and 195 million tablets this past year. These devices are often employee-owned and are rapidly making their way to the workplace – the Bring-your-own-Device (BYOD) revolution – creating a new set of security and management challenges for IT departments. Experts will share best practices on supporting tablet, laptop, smartphone and other devices on your network, which often run different operating systems and rely upon different security protocols. For instance, how can sensitive corporate data be segmented/separated/encrypted from personal information when using the same device? How can you integrate a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution with existing end point/anti-virus security products? Should you create specialized apps for your employees and/or customers, or do smartphone browsers have sufficient functionality?
Every tablet and smartphone shares a common feature – they can only connect to the Internet via wireless, which greatly increases the importance of a comprehensive wi-fi infrastructure and strategy. With unlicensed wireless device growth measured in the billions of units, combined with a growing role for machine-to-machine mobile communications (the "Internet of Things") and more wireless-based mission-critical applications, it is essential that IT professionals eliminate rf interference, ensure end user wi-fi performance and understand the next generation of standards including 802.11n and 802.11ac, which enables multi-station WLAN throughput of 1 gigabits per second. Learn how to combine existing a/b/g access points with higher-speed solutions now available, plus create an
integrated Wi-Fi/4G wireless strategy for your mobile workers.
9:40 – 10:00: User-Driven Virtualization Stratgies and Platforms with Appsense
From Bring Your Own Device, to Bring Your Own App, Bring Your Own Cloud, Bring Your Own Identity……through to Bring Your Own ‘You’, people are now using technology to create their own set of tools to do their job. This is the new IT world – focusing on the user and not the device/hardware – and if leveraged effectively, can have a fundamental and positive impact on business. And not just newbies coming into the workforce.
Appsense's approach to user virtualization is driven by this user-centric thinking. It unlocks the user from their devices, their operating systems and applications. For the first time, IT managers only need to manage a single layer of an individual’s digital existence, instead of an exploding number of devices and applications, with millions of potential user configurations. Its policy templates can manage thousands of users; automatically and intelligently re-configuring for each device, location and application, with massive improvements in security and reliability.
User virtualization means people can now choose the device that suits them, instead of the application choosing the device. That’s why thousands of people at leading, forward-thinking companies rely upon Appsense to free IT staff from the ever-growing burden of user complexity. They’ve liberated their workforce from device-based technology. Their workforce has become the technology.
10:00 – 10:20 Flash Primary Storage with Pure
Flash storage has revolutionized everything from smart phones and mobile computers, to web searches and social media. Unfortunately, its been nearly impossible to deploy flash across a data center without breaking the bank. Pure Storage has cracked the code and destroyed the disk status quo. We made all-flash storage affordable enough to use broadly across any enterprise. We believe every company should enjoy the performance, space and efficiency advantages of flash as well as the lower maintenance, power, cooling, rack space and management costs. With Pure Storage, your business can achieve things that weren’t even imaginable with disk. No more wondering how much data you can analyze, how fast you can respond to a customer, or how quickly you can launch a new service. It’s time to unlock the productivity and creativity of your company while delivering a responsive experience to both customers and employees. All applications. All customers. All budgets.
10:20 – 10:40: Next-Generatio Data Center Infrastruture and Virtual Computing Platforms with Nutanix
Nutanix delivers web-scale IT infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-driven Virtual Computing Platform, natively converging compute and storage into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity in the datacenter. Customers can start with a few servers and scale to thousands, with predictable performance and economics. With a patented elastic data fabric and consumer-grade management, Nutanix is the blueprint for application-optimized and policy-driven infrastructure.
Break, Exhibit Area Open, Peer Networking, Product Demonstrations
11:20 – 11:40: HP: Software Defined Networks (SDN)
HP Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides an end-to-end solution to automate the network from data center to campus and branch.
The world is moving faster than ever. Transactions must be processed at lightning speed. Mountains of data must be transformed into insights. Customers want exceptional service. Employees want access to information and applications from any device. Delivering on those expectations requires data centers that are more powerful, agile, and automated than ever before, and a campus environment that responds to a dynamic and changing workforce.
Server and storage architectures have modernized to keep pace with the unyielding expectations of an always-on world, but the underlying network has not. The data center network itself, while certainly bigger and faster, has largely been built the same way for two decades. Evolution of campus networks has been slow, despite the mobility revolution. Whether in the data center or on the campus, when legacy networks are pushed to the limit, they become fragile, difficult to manage, vulnerable, and expensive to operate. Manual configuration and operation simply won’t scale to the demands of today’s applications, users, and business requirements. Businesses whose networks are at this breaking point risk missing the next wave of opportunity.
This session provides an overview of the HP Virtual Application Networks (VAN) SDN Controller and how HP is fostering the development of a vibrant SDN ecosystem to help enterprises, cloud providers, and developers unleash new levels of automation and efficiency in data center and campus networks.
11:40 – 12:00: Software Defined Cloud Networking from Arista
Arista has defined a number of guiding principles for integration with Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies, including controllers, hypervisors, cloud orchestration middleware, and customized flow-based forwarding agents. These guiding principles leverage proven, scalable, and standards-based control and data plane switching technologies from Arista. Emerging SDN technologies complement data center switches by automating network policies and provisioning within a broader integrated cloud infrastructure ecosystem. Arista defines the combination of SDN technologies and the Arista Extensible Operating System (Arista EOS®) as Software Defined Cloud Networking (SDCN).
The resulting benefits of Arista’s SDCN approach include: network applications and open,
scalable standards integration with a wide variety of cloud provisioning and orchestration
tools; seamless mobility and visibility of multi-tenant virtual machines via Arista’s
OpenWorkload technologies; and real-time Network Telemetry data for best of breed
coupling with cloud operations management tools.
12:00 – 12:20: EVault, A Seagate Company: Cloud-based DR, Backup and Business Continuity
More than 43,000 companies rely on EVault cloud-connected backup and recovery services. Delivered by a team of data recovery experts and using the very best cloud-connected technology, EVault backup solutions seamlessly integrate on-premise and online backup data protection for fast, local data access and ensured cloud disaster recovery. Optimized for distributed environments, EVault technology also powers the offerings of cloud services providers, data centers, telcos, ISVs, and many others. EVault is a Seagate company.
12:20 – 12:35: ROI of Performance Management with Network Instruments
Network downtime and delay can cause companies to lose billions of dollars every year. According to an Aberdeen Group Report, the average downtime cost per hour in 2012 was over 0,000. Application challenges wreak havoc with their complex and highly distributed nature. When something goes wrong, it is often difficult and time-consuming to find the root of the problem. Technologies like cloud and virtualization can compound these issues by reducing visibility even further, making it critical for companies to take a proactive role in their network monitoring solutions.
In this session, you’ll learn monitoring strategies for a variety of technologies, how to utilize reports and views associated with Performance Management solutions, troubleshooting workflows and perhaps most importantly, building an irrefutable business case for better Performance Management in your organization.
Full Hot Lunch, Exhibit Area Open, Peer Networking, Product Demonstrations
1:15 – 1:45: VMware: Private/Public Hybrid Cloud, Software Defined Data Center and Virtual Desktops/End User Computing
VMware will first discuss their vCloud® Hybrid Service™ (vCHS) , an exciting hybrid cloud offering. vCHS is a VMware owned and operated external cloud offering that uses the same software stack as our customers and thus provides unmatched operational efficiencies that reduce operational complexity, risk and TCO. In essence, it is infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or capacity on demand recognized in an OpEx model that will enable firms to easily and confidently execute your Hybrid Cloud strategy.
Along with inherent data center compatibility and agility benefits, vCloud Hybrid Service offers:
- Seamless networking, burstable traffic and security (use your same IP and MAC addresses, FW, LB, NAT and VXLAN).
- Common management and orchestration platform (automation and provisioning) that spans on-premise and off-premise.
- No changes to new or legacy applications – move workloads to and from our external cloud without having to make any changes to the VM, vApp, network configurations or security policies.
- VMware world class support
Enterprises worldwide have used VMware vSphere® to significantly improve IT efficiency and performance, yet the mobile cloud era presents new challenges. To meet this challenge, IT organizations need to virtualize the rest of the data center so all infrastructure services become as inexpensive and easy to provision and manage as virtual machines.
The answer is the software-defined data center (SDDC): the ideal architecture for private, public, and hybrid clouds. Pioneered by VMware and recognized by the industry and analysts alike, SDDC extends the virtualization concepts you know— abstraction, pooling and automation — to all data center resources and services. Components of the SDDC can be implemented together, or in phases:
- Compute virtualization, network virtualization and software-defined storage deliver abstraction, pooling and automation of the compute, network, and storage infrastructure services.
- Automated management delivers a framework for policy-based management of data center application and services.
In a software-defined data center, policy-driven automation enables provisioning and ongoing management of logical compute, storage and network services. The result is unprecedented IT agility and efficiency, with flexibility to support today and tomorrow’s hardware and applications. Benefits include:
- Virtualization economics across your data center: Software-defined data center technology helps attain new levels of infrastructure utilization and staff productivity, substantially reducing both capital expenditures and operating costs.
- Applications at business speed: Enabling deployment of applications in minutes or even seconds with policy-driven provisioning that dynamically matches resources to continually changing workloads and business demands.
- Business-aware IT control: Driving right availability, security and compliance for every application via automated business continuity, policy-based governance and virtualization-aware security and compliance.
- Your data center on your terms: The software-defined data center can be leveraged as a private, hybrid or public cloud—in each case, infrastructure is fully abstracted from applications so they can run on multiple hardware stacks, hypervisors and clouds.
The final section of this VMware keynote will focus on today's modern, mobile workforce, which demands access that extends mobility and productivity beyond traditional confines. What users now need to be productive is a virtual workspace: a central hub for accessing all of their desktops, business applications, services and files. VMware's Horizon family of products transforms desktops, business applications and data into centrally managed IT services, so IT can deliver a consistent, intuitive end-user experience across multiple devices—anytime, anywhere.
1:45 – 2:00 The Consumer Imperative: New Rules in Delivering and Supporting IT Services from BMC
What makes a great service experience? Is it the ease and simplicity of the transaction? Or is it about convenience? Maybe it’s about predictability and consistency? One thing is for certain: in the consumer world, many businesses have mastered the art of delivering service to their customers. What can IT Support teams learn from the organizations that have perfected the service experience? You will gain new insights into the guiding principles that are fundamental to outstanding service delivery – and how these best practices can be applied to your business.
Bill Emmett from BMC is the speaker, and has been a practitioner, innovator, and marketing leader in the IT management software industry for nearly 20 years. He joined BMC in 2008 and has held various product and solutions marketing management roles for BMC Remedy, Atrium, and mobility product lines. Bill is a graduate of Colorado State University where he earned a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Computing Information Systems.
2:00 – 2:30: Microsoft Cloud-Based Solutions: Office365 and Azure
Microsoft will discuss its two cloud-based platforms. Office365 allows users to access all Office applications including word, excel, powerpoint, outlink from the cloud, from any device, from any browser. Azure Instantly provisions Windows and Linux Virtual Machines, applications, and infrastructure within Microsoft-managed data centers around the world.
End of Event, Raffle Drawings for an HP Slate 7 Tablet, Gift Cards and Other Great Prizes
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