[1 CPE] The Future of AI-Enabled Data Platforms

  Presented by Ian Clatworthy, Global Director, Infrastructure Product Marketing • Hitachi Vantara

Removing the infrastructure silos and administration complexity around your application’s data gives you the flexibility to consume solutions and deliver total data freedom. Join us as we showcase the future of data storage as a single hybrid cloud platform for applications. Allowing you to consume the data services you need, where and when you need it! Offering a single data plane and control plane across block, file, object, and mainframe, with one common experience for administration, analytics, and automation.

Ian comes from a customer background in Formula 1 and World Rallying. Having a deep understanding of technology and its benefits he took his skills into technology sales and marketing with Dell and HDS. Today he leads Product Marketing for data infrastructure technologies at Hitachi Vantara.

[1 CPE] Intelligent SSE: Secure Everything from Anywhere

  Presented by Matt Senechal, Regional Sales Manager • Netskope

This session will provide a technical overview of Security Service Edge (SSE), focused on the following topics:

  • Unintentional or unapproved data movement
  • Data protection for internal and external threats
  • Conditional and contextual access to safely enable cloud & SaaS applications
  • Protection from cloud-enabled SaaS and web threats
  • Work from anywhere with a secure, fast experience

You will walk away understanding the fundamentals of SSE and how it will benefit your business.

[1 CPE] The Future of AI-Enabled Data Platforms

  Presented by Ian Clatworthy, Global Director, Infrastructure Product Marketing • Hitachi Vantara

Removing the infrastructure silos and administration complexity around your application’s data gives you the flexibility to consume solutions and deliver total data freedom. Join us as we showcase the future of data storage as a single hybrid cloud platform for applications. Allowing you to consume the data services you need, where and when you need it! Offering a single data plane and control plane across block, file, object, and mainframe, with one common experience for administration, analytics, and automation.

Ian comes from a customer background in Formula 1 and World Rallying. Having a deep understanding of technology and its benefits he took his skills into technology sales and marketing with Dell and HDS. Today he leads Product Marketing for data infrastructure technologies at Hitachi Vantara.

[1 CPE] Zero Trust Microsegmentation: It’s Easier Than You Think

  Presented by Tony Steffe, Sr Systems Engineer, CISSP • Illumio

Regardless of the sophistication of the ransomware, the end goal is always the same: get in through a vulnerability and move laterally through your network. Join this presentation as we help peel back the layers to provide you with simple steps to get started that include:

  • Gaining visibility to where you are the most vulnerable
  • Closing risky ports
  • Leveraging tools you already have in place without adding layers of complexity

Tony is a knowledgeable technical professional with 20+ years of experience developing, selling, and integrating technology for enterprise customers. He is effective in sales engineering, Internet security, project management, computer networking, and interpersonal relations. Exceptional at managing the personal and technical challenges that arise from building something new, Tony has successfully built out several high-impact IT projects.

[1 CPE] The Future of AI-Enabled Data Platforms

  Presented by Ian Clatworthy, Global Director, Infrastructure Product Marketing • Hitachi Vantara

Removing the infrastructure silos and administration complexity around your application’s data gives you the flexibility to consume solutions and deliver total data freedom. Join us as we showcase the future of data storage as a single hybrid cloud platform for applications. Allowing you to consume the data services you need, where and when you need it! Offering a single data plane and control plane across block, file, object, and mainframe, with one common experience for administration, analytics, and automation.

Ian comes from a customer background in Formula 1 and World Rallying. Having a deep understanding of technology and its benefits he took his skills into technology sales and marketing with Dell and HDS. Today he leads Product Marketing for data infrastructure technologies at Hitachi Vantara.

[1 CPE] Intelligent SSE: Secure Everything from Anywhere

  Presented by Travis Pinto, Regional Solutions Engineering Manager • Netskope

This session will provide a technical overview of Security Service Edge (SSE), focused on the following topics:

  • Unintentional or unapproved data movement
  • Data protection for internal and external threats
  • Conditional and contextual access to safely enable cloud & SaaS applications
  • Protection from cloud-enabled SaaS and web threats
  • Work from anywhere with a secure, fast experience

You will walk away understanding the fundamentals of SSE and how it will benefit your business.

[1 CPE] Intelligent SSE: Secure Everything from Anywhere

  Presented by Ramien Ebadypour, Principal Solutions Engineer • Netskope

This session will provide a technical overview of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), focused on the following topics:

  • SASE Overview
  • What Your Future Network May Look Like
  • The Truth Behind Inline Malware Prevention
  • New Technologies That Make Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Easier
  • Zero-Trust Network Access VPNs are Difficult to Deploy
  • Maximizing Value Through Integrations and Automation

You will walk away understanding the fundamentals of SASE and how it will benefit your business.

[1 CPE] Navigating the Post-Quantum Encryption Landscape in Data Management Technologies

  Presented by Mauricio Daher, Technical Expert, Data Intelligence and Content Solutions • Hitachi Vantara

Post Quantum Encryption, and how products need to adapt in this brave new world. There is a lot of talk about Generative AI, LLMs, GTP, but if we cannot secure our data – confidentiality, integrity, and availability – perimeter, then nothing else matters. This session will dive into security topics relevant to the landscape of data management technologies we have on-hand today from the top storage solution companies. The challenges for the next five years will require game-changing innovation to keep up with an exponentially expanding threat surface. The winner will be the one to secure the future for the rest until the next bubble comes along.

Currently, Mauricio is a Technical Expert for Data Intelligence and Content: A technical leader in support of Hitachi Vantara’s content business for the Americas. This involves providing technical guidance, and solutions crafting to the sales teams across the organization, working hand in hand with the solution sales specialists.

Before joining HDS, Mauricio was the Regional Solutions Advisor for Dell in the Northeast, focusing on Compellent and EqualLogic storage solutions, and supporting 5 systems engineers from a knowledge management, measurement, and orientation perspective. Prior to Dell, Mauricio was AVP of Data Protection for RBS Citizens Bank based in Rhode Island where he provided strategic leadership in the bank’s data protection architecture and the creation of a service catalog and storage economics model for production storage and BURA. Before RBS Citizens, Mauricio was a Principal Consultant with Glass House during which time he delivered some two dozen strategic engagements in storage and data protection to companies spanning segments like government, airlines, healthcare as well as financial institutions. Before Glass House, Mauricio ran a delivery practice at McData that implemented SAN-based storage and tape virtualization solutions to a variety of enterprise clients such as Wells Fargo, Bank of New York, and a dozen smaller companies.

Mauricio holds an S.M. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on Information Systems from M.I.T. and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.

[1 CPE] The Future of AI-Enabled Data Platforms

  Presented by Ian Clatworthy, Global Director, Infrastructure Product Marketing • Hitachi Vantara

Removing the infrastructure silos and administration complexity around your application’s data gives you the flexibility to consume solutions and deliver total data freedom. Join us as we showcase the future of data storage as a single hybrid cloud platform for applications. Allowing you to consume the data services you need, where and when you need it! Offering a single data plane and control plane across block, file, object, and mainframe, with one common experience for administration, analytics, and automation.

Ian comes from a customer background in Formula 1 and World Rallying. Having a deep understanding of technology and its benefits he took his skills into technology sales and marketing with Dell and HDS. Today he leads Product Marketing for data infrastructure technologies at Hitachi Vantara.

[1 CPE] Rapid Growth of Unstructured Data Across Industries and the Challenge of Protecting It

  Presented by Paul Swanson, Account Executive, PLS NAS • Rubrik & Structured

In today’s digital economy, nearly every industry is finding that data is becoming increasingly critical to its core business success. Data enables innovation and discovery, powers advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and drives medical and earth-science breakthroughs. Most of the collective data fueling today’s technological and scientific advances consists of unstructured data files – trillions of them. For effective stewardship of both infrastructure and data, IT needs to have insight into the depth and breadth of your organization’s unstructured datasets and the workflows that use them. Join this session for a discussion of the rapid growth of unstructured data across industries and the challenge of protecting it.