Archives: Seminar

Achieving Cloud Maturity and Optimization

  Presented by Insight

When it comes to IT modernization, cloud computing plays an undeniably important role. The rise of private, public, hybrid, and multicloud models, and the proliferation of vendors and providers, give today’s IT decision-makers more options than ever. During this session we’ll provide best practices for taking full advantage of the benefits you can realize with cloud solutions, while still maintaining control of costs. We’ll discuss cloud governance strategies, proper workload alignment, overutilization, and operationalizing the cloud.

Mobilizing to Work from Home: How Chiefs’ IT Responded to a Pandemic

  Presented by Justin Johnson • Manager of Information Technology, Kansas City Chiefs

It may seem like a long time ago, but the Kansas City Chiefs are just a few months removed from winning the Super Bowl. Since that time, we have all dealt with the realities of COVID-19. Join us for a review of how the Chiefs prepared their staff to work from home. We will cover certain challenges that were faced and look at how work may (and will) be affected for the foreseeable future.

Data Protection and Management

  Presented by StorageCraft

Managing storage continues to be complex, and often expensive. Something needs to change, and it certainly won’t be a dramatic increase in staffing. Fortunately, object storage is the answer. By eliminating the use of legacy RAID, object storage, can be the foundation for a scale-out converged storage solution that solves both data protection and data storage challenges. Want to recover a multi-TB VM in less than a second? No problem. Want to protect files from ransomware? No problem. Need an enterprise file serving, archiving, or virtual server storage solution? No Problem. Attend this session to learn how object storage is changing the landscape for IT admin and the technology of the future.

How to Assess Your Organization’s Threat Hunting Readiness

  Presented by Corelight

Many organizations want to threat hunt, but don’t know where to begin, how to measure success, or how to scale an effective program. The bar to successful hunting can appear intimidatingly high, reachable by only the most sophisticated, well-staffed SOCs. But the reality is that existing staff–with the right data and some directional guidance–can begin hunting today and start making immediate security contributions to your organization.

Join Corelight for this session to learn about the threat hunting maturity model, obtain guidance on best practices, and see examples of threat hunting scenarios. We’ll also discuss how to assemble the systems, data, people and processes your organization needs to start hunting.

Data Protection and Management

  Presented by StorageCraft

Managing storage continues to be complex, and often expensive. Something needs to change, and it certainly won’t be a dramatic increase in staffing. Fortunately, object storage is the answer. By eliminating the use of legacy RAID, object storage, can be the foundation for a scale-out converged storage solution that solves both data protection and data storage challenges. Want to recover a multi-TB VM in less than a second? No problem. Want to protect files from ransomware? No problem. Need an enterprise file serving, archiving, or virtual server storage solution? No Problem. Attend this session to learn how object storage is changing the landscape for IT admin and the technology of the future.

Monitoring Considerations to Maintain Healthy Environment

  Presented by Quest Software

IT Administrators need to keep an eye on Availability, Performance, and Storage of mission-critical environments. There are several things to consider and prioritize.

In this session, the following topics will be covered:

  • Architecture: Agents? Overhead? Flexibility?
  • Configuration: On-premise? Cloud? Hybrid?
  • Real-time diagnostics vs. 24×7 monitoring
  • Build vs ‘Out of the box’ vs Custom
  • Alerting, Notifications, Actions
  • How do I determine what is ‘normal’ activity?
  • All-in-one or Specialized?

    • …and more…

    What I Wish I Knew BEFORE I Moved to the Cloud

    Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

    As more companies have to interact with cloud to drive their business forward, more do so without truly understanding security and the long-term ramifications in doing so. Join our experts for an in-depth discussion. This session will talk about what things we wish we knew before moving to the cloud. Bring your questions for this interactive discussion!

    How Can a Diverse Workforce Contribute to the Success of Your Business?

    Moderated by INTERFACE Advisory Council

    Now, more than ever, the workforce is comprised of a diverse group of talented professionals. With more women in the tech industry than ever before and a broad range of generations bringing different work styles and values to the table, ultimately organizations can benefit from having a diverse group of individuals on their team.

    Join our panel discussion as we discuss the tech landscape, workforce diversity and how to hire and retain top talent to obtain the high achieving teams we desire.

    Panelists:

    Deveeshree Nayak • Instructor, University of Washington Tacoma

    Alicia Evans • Metro Market Manager, Robert Half Technology

    You Are Never Alone: How to Humanize Tech and Work in Your Organization and in Life

    Presented by Dan Gaul • CTO, Digital Trends

    As one of the world’s largest technology curators, Digital Trends’ co-founder Dan Gaul explores what it takes to balance technology inside and outside of the organization while challenging traditional Silicon Valley ideas about what it takes to thrive.

    Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech (which reaches over 30 million viewers each month); its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual, an aspirational-living site.