Archives: Seminar

Plan, Mobilize and Act: How the IT Industry in Alaska Securely Responded to a Pandemic

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

In March, we were all forced to react quickly to a global pandemic. Companies had to mobilize to enable employees to work from home. This task was placed on the shoulders of IT departments all throughout Alaska. How does this remote working environment change workflow? What challenges still remain for IT departments? Will we see permanent remote working in many industries? What security vulnerabilities did this expose and in what ways have we responded?

Join the INTERFACE-Alaska Advisory Council to discuss these topics and more. Each panelist will share their experiences from leading the deployment of remote working and offer insight into what lies ahead. The group will also touch on new security challenges that have risen from a remote working environment.

    Panelists:
    Mark Merchant • Chief Information Security Officer, Municipality of Anchorage
    Jim Bates • President, LMJ Consulting
    Ubon Boutsomsi • Chief Technology Officer, RIM Architects
    Ulf Asplund • Manager, Technical Services, Alaska Court System

Gain Confidence, Skillsets, and Knowledge to Migrate to The Cloud

  Presented by Alaska Communications

This discussion will focus on the methodology and criteria when selecting business applications for migration to public cloud. Topics will include myths debunked, collaborative applications, IT support following transition, and OPEX versus CAPEX. Hear from experts that have helped moved business applications to both public and private cloud instances.

Find Your Balance in the Cloud

  Presented by Quest Software

Feel like you’re performing a high-wire balancing act in your role as IT Manager or Infrastructure Admin? Performance monitoring and capacity planning can be a real challenge, regardless of your infrastructure design. You’ve got to decide what compute and storage resources are needed and predict when they’ll be needed. You’ve also got to balance the competing priorities of staying within budget and providing acceptable service levels to users. But these days you’re no longer simply managing an on-premises data center, you’ve also got to figure out which workloads to move to the cloud, how best to get them there, and how to manage them in the cloud for the long term.

With all this increased complexity, comes the need for more robust performance monitoring tools to help you manage your hybrid environment and give you the means to resolve issues quickly. Finding the right solution can even help simplify the planning and execution of your cloud migration. Come join Quest to learn more.

SD-WAN Edge Transformation for the Cloud-First Enterprise

  Presented by Silver Peak

As cloud adoption and SD-WAN innovation hastens, global enterprises are transforming how they build and secure wide area networks. Leveraging automation, enterprises can deploy, connect and secure hundreds of sites per week, a feat not possible with a traditional device-centric approach.

During this session, we’ll discuss how the unification of SD-WAN, WAN optimization, routing and security in a single, centrally orchestrated platform:

  • Delivers superior application performance wherever apps are hosted
  • Increases the quality of experience for end users and for IT
  • Simplifies branch WAN edge architecture

IT Interrupted: Best Practices in Disaster Recovery Planning

  Presented by Zerto

As IT application availability requirements continue to evolve, technology continues change to meet the new requirements.  Join us as we discuss planning considerations for bringing your virtualized workloads into the next generation of IT resilience.  You will learn about data center options to consider as part of your recovery strategy, business and technical trade-offs that will have to be made, capacity planning considerations, and testing approaches to that are possible that will optimize application up-time.

One Company’s Journey to a Modern Data Center

  Presented by Structured

Are you dissatisfied with your current data center strategy and know you need to make a change? If so, you are not alone. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80% of enterprise on-premises data centers will be shuttered. Get ready for a mountain of migration activity and attend this session. In addition to covering some best practices and important considerations, we will present a case study of one company’s journey to a modern data center environment.

Just Another Day on The Internet: Today’s Threat Landscape

  Presented by Palo Alto Networks

Sometimes, the best offense is a really great defense. This can be especially true in the world of cyber threat hunting and prevention. With all that lurks on the dark side of the internet, it is comforting to know you can improve your defensive posture with actionable intelligence. Join this session to receive a detailed picture of today’s actual threat landscape — brought to you by a seasoned professional with one of the world’s preeminent global threat intelligence teams, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

Leave Legacy Behind and Drive Better Business Outcomes

  Presented by Nutanix

Flexibility and choice have become the cornerstone of long-term decision making for IT leaders, yet the leading legacy hardware manufacturers of the past 20 years have struggled to match that demand. Companies are all too often pushed to lean on one manufacturer’s server, storage, and virtualization products, or commit completely to the public cloud to achieve necessary business agility.

Unshackled by legacy lines of business that have stifled innovation in the datacenter, Nutanix was free to take a different approach. Please join us to learn exactly how they did it, and how their private cloud platform, built from the industry-leading HCI solution, has helped organizations of all sizes deliver positive business outcomes inside data centers – internal or external.

Deliver Amazing Branch Experiences

  Presented by Aruba

A software-defined wide area network delivers secure connectivity with enterprise-level performance over disparate WAN links and technologies. SD-Branch extends beyond SD-WAN to support all elements of the branch – WAN, WLAN, wired networks and security to address all your IT network connectivity needs. Attend this session to learn how to achieve simplicity at scale and deliver amazing branch experiences all the way to your workers, customers, patients, guests, students, and more.

Tech Demo: MiCloud Connect, Your Complete Business Communications Solution in the Cloud

  Presented by Mitel & Structured

Are you ready to move communication and collaboration to the cloud with confidence? If so, attend this session to learn how. MiCloud Connect is a full-featured communications and collaboration solution that is easy to deploy and manage. Blend traditional phone system features such as call transferring, extension dialing and more with instant messaging, conferencing, video and screen sharing. This allows you and your team to save time, reduce travel and efficiently collaborate with others. Plus, with the ability to make changes in real time, you can change your call routing or presence on the fly.