Data Center Management

Many look at their Service Desk mainly as a means to means to manage incoming requests. In this webinar, we will discuss how to configure your service desk to provide you with an ongoing means to increase your service efficiency.

We will review:
•What types of information you need to look at within your systems
•Setting up a regular cadence for review
•What to do with the data you find

According to the Global Data Protection Index Survey, more than 51% of the organizations are not fully confident their data stored in the cloud is protected against deletion and corruption.

Storing backup data in the cloud may also generate multiple hidden fees as well as raise concerns regarding service levels, availability, and control.

Join our webinar to learn how Dell EMC is helping organizations to build a cost-effective data protection strategy for the cloud environments, including:
· Highly efficient and secure backups to and within the cloud
· Cost-effective data protection of enterprise applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
· Natively tiered de-duplicated data sent directly to the cloud platforms, providing significantly lower TCO

The video surveillance market continues to see robust growth, with organizations and governments requiring to deter, protect, prosecute and predict with their CCTV systems.

Body cameras, as an example are starting to be widely implemented, from places of work with signs ‘it is against the law to insult a staff member’ to police officers roaming the street. Independent studies prove that body worn cameras will reduce complaints, reduce the need for the use of force, and provide incontrovertible evidentiary video - Cameras change behaviour.

Pelco & Dell EMCs skill-set and qualifications are helping many customers in the Video Surveillance space, centralize data from hundreds to thousands of cameras, static, body-worn or vehicle mounted.   

Join the webcast to learn;
- Video Surveillance Market
- Customer concerns with technology migration
- How Pelco & Dell EMC solutions are solving Customer requirements
- Customer Success Stories

Gain the ability to simply Store, Manage, Protect & Analysis petabytes of CCTV data

Understanding the customers’ business model and reaching a healthy consensus between the push of technology (e.g., IoT and 5G) is required in data center design and planning to meet the demand for ubiquitous coverage and the demand of data anytime, anywhere. This presentation will provide an overview of data center design, the changes in the upcoming revision of ANSI/TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, and review use cases in the implementation of ANSI/TIA-942.

Speakers:
 Jonathan Jew, J&M Consultants
 Glenn Sexton, President and Principal Consultant, NIS

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About TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Committee:
The TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Committee develops and maintains voluntary telecommunications standards for telecommunications cabling infrastructure in user-owned buildings, such as commercial buildings, residential buildings, homes, data centers and industrial buildings. The generic cabling topologies, design, distances and outlet configurations as well as specifics for these locations are addressed.

The ANSI/TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers is developed by the TR-42.1 Generic and Premises Cabling Subcommittee. TR-42.1 develops and maintains cabling standards for generic customer-owned telecommunications networks. These standards are intended to specify open systems designed to support a wide variety of voice, data, video, and other low voltage, power-limited applications. TR-42.1 also develops and maintains telecommunications cabling standards for premises networks such as commercial buildings, data centers, building automation, etc. This Subcommittee specifies cabling system topology, architecture, design, installation, testing and performance requirements. Go to https://www.tiaonline.org/all-standards/committees/tr-42 for further info.

Participate in TR-42: Stephanie Montgomery: [email protected].

A decade ago, tech deal flow barely trickled into and out of China. While M&A in the world’s second-largest economy is still relatively small, it has dramatically accelerated in recent years, with the overall number of tech transactions in China having doubled over the past half-decade to a record level in 2016. Spending on deals also surged to unprecedented levels last year. However, there are some concerns about whether the M&A boom will continue. China’s currency has weakened, economic growth has slowed and relations with its main tech partner – the US – have soured. Will M&A falter, too?

Join 451 Research’s Brenon Daly, Research Director, Financials, Agatha Poon, Research Director of APAC Services, and Tim Miller, VP of Financial Markets for a 45-minute webinar on the state of M&A in China now, as well as the outlook for the coming years.

With the advent of Software, Platform, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings in the public cloud, many enterprise IT organizations have a mandate to leverage the public cloud to deliver applications and services. Meanwhile, organizations with petabytes-scale rich content depots are finding moving persistent data storage wholesale to the public cloud is more expensive in the long run. IT has an opportunity to add value by delivering a catalog of standard, S3- and Swift-compatible, object storage services at a cost, quality, and speed comparable to the best external cloud providers.  To address this, IT organizations are turning to the Hybrid Cloud to streamline and automate management of their rich content data at scale.

In this webinar customers will learn how to evolve to succeed in the data-powered digital era utilizing flexible deployment options, multi-tenant global namespaces, automated data policies, and ease of configuration— all powered by NetApp StorageGRID Webscale software and Intel X86 servers.

Protect your vital email records and simplify compliance with Arcserve UDP Archiving.

Malware has been a thorn in the side of IT pros for years, and will continue to be for years to come as new strains and variants evolve. The impact of malware to your business can be huge, as was demonstrated last year by the Mirai botnet, one of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks of 2016. Join us for a webcast covering the essentials of malware detection, along with a demo of how to detect malware with AlienVault USM Anywhere.

In the webcast, you'll learn:

Common types of malware and the challenges of detecting them
Why you need both signature and anomaly detection to protect against malware
How USM Anywhere can alert you of malware infections so you can take action quickly
What to do when you detect malware activity on your network

Hosted By
Sacha Dawes
Principal Product Marketing Manager
Sacha joined AlienVault in Feb 2017, where he is responsible for the technical marketing of the AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) family of solutions. He brings multiple years of experience from product management, product marketing and business management roles at Microsoft, NetIQ, Gemalto and Schlumberger where he has delivered both SaaS-delivered and boxed-product solutions that address the IT security, identity and management space. Originally from the UK, Sacha currently lives in Seattle, though soon moving to Austin, TX where he is based.

Many organizations struggle to release a service request catalog that gains adoption of the enterprise. It’s too technical, too difficult and fails to offer a modern Internet experience. In today’s world of empowerment Phyllis Drucker, author of “Service Management Online: Creating a Successful Service Request Catalog, provides practical tips to ensure your efforts deliver the “WOW!” your customers are seeking.

Welcome to the first session in our Tech food fight (TFF) webcast series on Convergence and Hyper-convergence. TFF is a short 20-30min webcast series suitable both for Audio and Video format for you as a participant. The goal with the series is to explore different areas of the Converged and Hyper-converged universe and the key “Food for Thought” to consider for you as a customer.

In the first session we will cover 3 questions within Technology trends
1. Tech trends – What are we seeing out there, what are the analysts talking about and what’s happening in the industry in general
2. This month’s tech food fight is one of the big ones out there – aligned to industry tech trends – Hyper-converged infrastructure
3. How to get started – what steps should you take if you are considering this month’s tech food fight!

Speaker Bios:

Alan Butler is a business technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in B2B Technology driven business. Understanding how technology connects consumers to business experiences that deliver new digital opportunities and create new business models that add value to the consumer. Alan has worked for many leading global technology companies such as Computer Associates, Cisco, Juniper Networks, VCE, DELL EMC and technology media companies IDG and VNU. You can follow Alan on twitter @NextGenCloudIT

Paul Mackay is a technology futurist at heart, with over 20 years’ experience in Technology driven environments. He has a passion for technology that simplifies the build to buy IT environments, embracing of new thinking and design to validate IT leadership. Paul has run his own vitualisation consultancy practice giving him a unique insight into the build IT rather than buy approach many organisations find themselves in today. Paul has also been a VMware delivery consultant, with many years spent designing and delivering complex virtualisation platforms. You can follow Paul on twitter @phmackay

As you've likely heard, WannaCry is a new ransomware variant that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the Windows operating system (MS17-010) to encrypt the infected computer’s data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. In addition, the vulnerability enables WannaCry to quickly spread to other machines in the same environment – all without any human intervention. While Microsoft issued a patched to the vulnerability in March 2017, millions of computers have not been updated and remain susceptible to the attack.
Join us for a technical webcast to learn more about WannaCry, and how the unified security controls in AlienVault USM Anywhere can help you quickly identify vulnerable systems and attacks.
What the AlienVault Labs security research team has uncovered about this threat
How to scan your environment (cloud and on-premises) for the vulnerability with USM Anywhere
How USM Anywhere leverages threat intelligence for early detection of threats like WannaCry
How built-in response orchestration capabilities in USM Anywhere can stop the threat from spreading

Quali’s CloudShell has become the de-facto cloud sandbox software platform for a variety of use-cases ranging from DevOps automation, continuous testing, cyber ranges, lab-as-a-service, hybrid cloud, demo and POC compliance and many more. With hundreds of marquee customers worldwide, it continues to add new capabilities that significantly increase Dev/Test productivity and innovation velocity while lowering costs. Release 8.0 expands upon these capabilities focusing on a multi-cloud offering with “one-click” cloud deployment paths for Microsoft Azure and OpenStack. It also includes Ansible integration.



Quali’s VP of Engineering, Edan Evantal, shares what’s under the hood of Release 8.0 and provides a no-BS engineer’s perspective.

Join us as Paul Scott-Murphy, WANdisco VP of Product Management, discusses disaster recovery for Hadoop. Learn how to fully operationalize Hadoop to exceed the most demanding SLAs across clusters running any mix of distributions any distance apart, including how to:

- Enable continuous read/write access to data for automated forward recovery in the event of an outage
- Eliminate the expense of hardware and other infrastructure normally required for DR on-premises
- Handle out of sync conditions with guaranteed consistency across clusters
- Prevent administrator error leading to extended downtime and data loss during disaster recovery

Are you facing challenges such as long upload times to S3 compliant cloud storage and high on-premise or in-cloud storage costs? Do you need to preserve your files long-term while still keeping them accessible? Join us for this webcast so you can learn how to
dramatically increase reliability and security of file transfers, send large files in minutes, increase searchability and reduce storage TCO by 75% with FileCatalyst and Caringo Swarm.

Understanding and adhering to data privacy regulations has become much more complex. Security officers must be well versed in not only industry specific data privacy regulations but also at the government level, for example - the EU’s GDPR regulations impact on any business holding EU citizen data, the impact of US-EU’s privacy shield regulations, as well as the 47 separate states’ regulations dealing with personally identifiable information (PII). This leaves organizations struggling to understand how PII data – in the form of customer data and employee records - should be handled, and protected in a changing regulatory environment. Learn how emerging best practices and solutions are assisting organizations in securing their most critical data.

A rapid rate of change complicates every facet of datacenter management, and server-centric compute models are too cumbersome for today’s highly variable workloads. Is it possible to optimize resources and operations in such dynamic environments? In this presentation, learn how to replace manual, hardware-defined application provisioning and management with a highly automated, software-defined resource model and orchestration layer that enables flexibility, simplified on-demand capital efficiency, and lower TCO. Find out how to compose more agile pools of datacenter resources, and simultaneously drive up IT efficiency, optimize energy requirements, increase datacenter resilience, and strengthen disaster recovery plans.

As a partner in the oneM2M global IoT standards development Partnership, TIA supports its deployment around the world. oneM2M is designed as an architecture and standards platform for IoT deployments in many industry sectors including Smart Cities, Industrial Automation, Home Automation and eHealth and Telemedicine, among others.

Now in its second published release, it is being deployed in a number of projects.

Now in its second published release, it is being tested for resilience as an IoT standard in a number of projects. This webcast will focus on:

• 3 projects such as Korean Smart Cities(Busan, Ilsan) and Wise-IoT which is the Joint European-Korean project.
• In England, U.K.’s oneTRANSPORT intelligent system trial which serves four U.K. counties. This trial involves England’s highways transportation agency and two private sector sensor-network owners over a single, interoperable IoT platform powered by the oneM2M™ standard.
• Overview of oneM2M certification(including background of the need for oneM2M certification program).
• Introduction of Certified Product (Target service and use cases are included per each company).
• An update from the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) on its IoT-enabled Smart City Framework and oneM2M smart city collaboration.

Speakers:
-- Ken Figueredo, IoT Strategy Industry Advisor, InterDigital
-- Sookhyun Jeon, Senior Engineer, Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA)
-- JaeSeung Song, Associate Professor, Sejong University and Korea Electronics Technology Institite (KETI)
-- David Wollman, Deputy Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office NIST

To speak to TIA about oneM2M for further information, contact: Victoria Mitchell, Director, Global Standards Programs, at [email protected].

To learn more about oneM2M, visit: http://www.onem2m.org/
To learn more about oneM2M certification by TTA, visit: http://www.onem2mcert.com/main/main.php

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Spark is a dynamic execution engine that can take relatively simple Scala code and create complex and optimized execution plans. In this talk, we will describe how user code translates into Spark drivers, executors, stages, tasks, transformations, and shuffles. We will describe how this is critical to the design of Spark and how this tight interplay allows very efficient execution. Users and operators who are aware of the concepts will become more effective at their interactions with Spark.

As part of the successful “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask” series, we’ve discussed numerous topics about storage devices, protocols, and networks. As we examine some of these topics further, we begin to tease out some subtle nuances; subtle, yet important nevertheless.

In Part Sepia, we’re going to take a look at some of the terms and concepts that affect Storage Architectures as a whole. In particular, we’ll be looking at those aspects that can help or hinder storage systems inside the network:

•Encapsulation versus Tunneling
•IOPS vs Latency vs Jitter
•Quality of Service (QoS)

Each of these topics has a profound impact on storage designs and performance, but they are often misunderstood. We’re going to help you become clear on all of these very important storage concepts so that you can grok storage just a little bit more.

Cloud apps are being pulled into the enterprise hand-over-fist, with 93% of organizations using cloud-based IT services. But the efficiencies and convenience offered by cloud apps come at a price. While organizations have long been applying two-factor authentication to their network, VPN and email portals, they have failed to extend that same level of security to cloud-based applications, such as Office 365, AWS and Salesforce.

But the need for stronger cloud access security is only part of the story. Businesses looking to scale and increase their cloud adoption find there are other issues to contend with. Visibility into cloud access events and regulatory compliance become challenging to maintain. Helpdesk staff are burdened with password resets, and the most important link in the chain—users—are plagued with password fatigue.

This webinar explains:
•Challenges to greater cloud adoption in the fintech space
•How strong authentication complements access management
•Why cloud access management is critical to an organization’s cloud adoption strategy

As communications service providers are figuring out their way towards wide-scale deployment of network functions virtualization, they need a practical approach to engineer their network and service architecture with the new technologies. In this webinar, RAD’s Dr. Yuri Gittik, Head of Strategic Developments and Innovation, and Ron Insler, AVP R&D, Head of Innovation Labs, will discuss the challenges and deployment scenarios of virtualized business services in 2017, for SD-WAN, security and other value added capabilities. They will explore various vCPE implementation options enabled by x86 to allow network operators to increase service agility and revenues..

Using Authentication and Identity Management to Secure a Financial Network:
The Door is Still Open and the Horse is Almost out of the Barn

Carbanak. JP Morgan/Chase. Dyre Wolf. Bank of America. Bangladesh. Tesco Bank. This roll call should be proof enough of the attractiveness of the FSI to the hacker/cyber criminal community. While not all of them can be associated with Authentication and Identity Management issues, it’s undeniable that they have played a prominent role.

An increased focus on authentication and identity management is a right step forward but just confirming a user’s identify is only half the task. With the concept of Zero Trust gaining momentum, authentication and identification must be reinforced by the network itself through policy based access and segmentation.

This session will look back at some of the data breaches that have been attributed to weak authentication methods and how they might have been prevented. At the same time, the concept of internal network segmentation will be presented to show how both halves of the equation need to be brought together to effectively close off this common attack vector.