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The architectural pattern of decomposing an application into microservices has proven extremely effective at delivering software faster. However, this type of an architecture comes with its fair share of challenges.

Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many services that can be leveraged to overcome these challenges and adopt microservice best practices. If you are just starting to consider using AWS for running your microservices or if you have already started on the journey and looking for opportunities to improve, then this webinar will be beneficial for you.

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].

From pilot to production, eG Enterprise empowers enterprise organizations to deliver a better user experience and increased ROI by delivering comprehensive, converged performance management of Java application services. With optimized Java platforms delivered through Zing, Azul Systems enables Java-based businesses to focus on functionality and long-term lower operating costs rather than daily firefighting. Together, eG Enterprise and Azul Systems offer a proven Java environment designed to optimize the deployment, management, and scale of Java application services.

Join us for this webinar where Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations and Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO of Azul Systems will present how:

- Java Application Service Management can be simplified and made more cost-effective, while delivering a better user experience
- eG Enterprise enhancements provide insights into Java applications running on the Zing runtime
- eG Enterprise and Azul Zing working together in a production Java installation can reduce costs, optimize deployments and deliver optimum user satisfaction

Today, consumerization is driving Digital Transformation. VMware empowers the Digital Workspace your business needs through consumer simple, enterprise secure solutions. Workspace ONE is the simple and secure enterprise platform that delivers and manages any app on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. By integrating identity management, real-time application delivery, and enterprise mobility management, Workspace ONE engages digital employees, reduces the threat of data leakage, and modernizes traditional IT operations for the Mobile Cloud Era. Join our 3-part webcast series to learn the unique paths to move to Workspace ONE.
In Episode 1, Your Path to Workspace ONE using Horizon you will learn:

About the benefits and value of the digital workspace
The prerequisites for integrating Horizon with Workspace ONE
The process for taking your Horizon and connecting it to Workspace ONE in the cloud

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

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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.

Last year ransomware attacks targeting businesses grew exponentially, with 638 million reported attacks – that’s 167 times the number reported in 2016*. There’s no indication of the trend shifting in 2017. Attackers are continuing to target organizations and individuals for financial gain, and the attacks are escalating to potentially impact civilians if ransoms are not paid.

Attend this webinar for an in-depth, expert examination of ransomware – how it’s evolving, what you need to know to protect your organization as well as a demo of a simulated ransomware attack.

We’ll discuss:
•Findings from the research and analysis of hundreds of thousands of samples by the CyberArk Labs team
•Strategies on how to limit the damage that can be done by ransomware
•Recommendations on protecting you and your organization from falling victim to an attack

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

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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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.

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..

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

In today’s perimeterless world, enterprise security teams are challenged with maintaining visibility and control over the exploding number of assets on their networks.

The IT assets that pose the greatest risk to your organization’s security are the ones you don’t know are there. Lack of visibility into your IT environment undermines the foundations of your enterprise security and compliance infrastructure and puts your organization at serious risk of a breach. Without knowledge of which software and devices exist in your network — whether on-premises, on endpoints, or in elastic clouds — InfoSec professionals are unable to enact proper security and protection.

During this webcast, Jimmy Graham, Director of Product Management for Qualys AssetView and Darron Gibbard, Chief Technical Security Officer for Qualys EMEA will cover the six key elements of an ideal cloud-based IT asset inventory system:

1. Complete visibility of your IT environment
2. Deep visibility into assets
3. Continuous and automatic updates
4. Asset criticality ranking
5. Interactive, customizable dashboarding and reporting
6. Integration with your CMDB


Those of you in the EU will also be interested to learn about asset inventory for GDPR compliance.

This webcast will include a live Q&A session.

Many of our customers sought out Cylance because it is highly effective in preventing ransomware attacks. We have learned firsthand how ransomware is affecting organizations of all sizes, and across all industries. In this live demonstration, Brian Robison, Senior Director, Technical Marketing at Cylance® will show how ransomware works. He will launch several attacks on unprotected machines to deliver a real-world view into how ransomware compromises systems, and how Cylance prevents ransomware attacks.

Brian will provide a live demonstration of CylancePROTECT® blocking attacks, and will discuss:

•Different ransomware types
•Delivery methods, including drive-by downloads and fileless malware
•Why launching attacks is cheap and easy with ransomware-as-a service
•How Cylance prevents both file-level and disk-level encryption

We’ve all heard of containers, and as Docker’s tagline suggests, they let you “Build, Ship, Run, Distributed Applications, Anywhere”. In some ways they are a bit like a lightweight Virtual Machine, but what does that really mean? In this presentation we will go through some container basics, and then show what a container really is (and how container engines like Docker work) by writing a container in a few lines of code.

Join our webinar in order to learn:
•Containers basics
•How a container engine uses namespaces and control groups to create containers
•What makes containers so appealing to developers

This webinar will clear up a common misconception that SD-WANs obsolete the need for WAN optimization. All the bandwidth in the world doesn’t diminish physical distance and therefore the latency across long distances. WAN opt is all about improving application performance over distance and transporting large data sets efficiently. No longer is it necessary to have WAN opt deployed across the entire network – just selectively where and when you need it.

If you're like most organizations we work with, your IT budget is not increasing at the same rate that your data needs are expanding. With the storage industry in considerable turmoil and the rise of the cloud, it's time to consider new technologies. Pure Storage is putting data to work by delivering a data platform powered by cloud-era flash. With explosive growth in data, increasing constituent demands, and the need for real-time analysis, Pure is helping organizations across the country accelerate into the future. Join us and learn:

· How flash is impacting state and local government organizations
· Discovering savings: a look at the total cost of ownership
· A data platform for the cloud era

We think differently. We innovate through software and challenge the IT status quo.

We pioneered software-based storage virtualization. Now, we are leading the Software-defined and Parallel Processing revolution. Our Application-adaptive software exploits the full potential of servers and storage to solve data infrastructure challenges and elevate IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business.

DataCore parallel I/O and virtualization technologies deliver the advantages of next generation enterprise data centers – today – by harnessing the untapped power of multicore servers. DataCore software solutions revolutionize performance, cost-savings, and productivity gains businesses can achieve from their servers and data storage.

Join this webinar to meet DataCore, learn about what we do and how we can help your business.

Picking up where our last container-focused webinar, "Learn How SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Takes Containers to the Next Level", left off, Bich seeks to provide more visibility on the path down containerization. In this webinar, he'll go over deploying Kubernetes on-prem vs public infrastructures, walk through cluster creation, and how to dynamically expand the capacity of an on-prem cluster with public cloud resources.

It’s commonly said in packet capture that the one packet you miss is ALWAYS the most important packet. That’s why lossless network packet capture is a vital component in the security and performance of your mission. Today given the huge traffic volumes common in most missions it’s not surprising to learn that many monitoring tools never see a complete picture of what it is they’re really monitoring. It is challenging to launch a forensic investigation into a problem knowing that perhaps some pieces of the puzzle may be missing.

Please join us to learn how lossless network packet capture from Solarflare can provide agencies with an effective means of natively enhancing the security, and performance of their mission systems and applications.

Virtualization, hyperconvergence, and the cloud bring a host of benefits to IT landscapes, including management simplicity, enhanced resource utilization, better availability, and increased business agility. So what options are available for bringing these advantages to your business-critical SAP landscapes? And what considerations are involved when migrating your two or three-tier SAP architecture to a virtualized cloud platform built on hyperconverged infrastructure?

In this webinar, we’ll show you how to implement an optimized, protected and high performing cloud platform on HCI across your SAP landscape, including NetWeaver, S/4HANA and RDBMSs. You will hear real-world customer experiences and learn about:

• The technical details involved in a virtualized deployment of SAP Business Suite
• Performance, availability, and scalability best practices for using HCI to build a private cloud solution
• How to simplify and speed system copy and refresh with a web-scale architecture to benefit development, testing, quality assurance, copying, and migration in your SAP landscape

How does SD-WAN shift the status quo for Operations teams? SD-WAN technology possesses sophisticated, in-built capability for operations and management, and advanced automation to address network problems in real-time. However, network operations teams need to seamlessly integrate this network and health status intelligence from their new SD-WAN infrastructure into their existing monitoring and management infrastructure. Additionally, monitoring solutions must provide visibility across all network architectures including highly dynamic and complex hybrid clouds and other SDN elements and should:
- Eliminate visibility gaps between traditional networks and SD-WAN providing administrators with insights to optimize and transform their large hybrid networks
- Provide relationship mapping of major IT events
- Visualize physical and logical dependencies in applications and service chains
- Extend visibility for operators with network performance monitoring across traditional, SDN, NFV, SDDC, SD-WAN, NFV and cloud networks (including service chains)
- Enable operational insight into how all elements of traditional and overlay networks affect service integrity

Businesses are accelerating their shift to digital enterprises. IT must accelerate to the speed of DevOps to support this transformation, and must be able to iterate, deploy, and scale faster than ever before. To enable IT to meet these needs, the HPE ITOM suites are evolving to embrace agile best practices.

HPE announced the launch of containerized versions of its HPE IT Operations management suites on April 12, 2017.

In this webinar, HPE will present the new HPE ITOM go-forward strategy, discuss the role of containerized IT Operations management in accelerating and streamlining continuous operations and showcase the new HPE Container Deployment Foundation.

Attendees will learn about:

The core requirements for continuous operations
The benefits of the new ITOM containerized suites, whether you are leveraging container deployment or managing containers with the new features
Container Deployment Foundation – the future of IT Operations Management software
Latest transformative innovations from HPE
Proven ways to accelerate your IT to the speed of DevOps