Topic: Data Storage

Seminar Topics

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.

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.

Simplifying Container Orchestration

  Presented by IVOXY Consulting & NetApp

Public clouds set a high bar for IT expectations of agility, scale, and services. Regardless of location and infrastructure, teams’ consumption experience with public cloud providers is driving their decisions and spending on IT today. Along with the ability to consume services across a choice of public and private clouds, teams must consolidate enterprise workloads without performance impact, deploying from a private cloud platform with service catalogs. Public clouds automate management and lifecycle, and they simplify how users consume IT.

Attend this presentation to learn how to simplify container orchestration and automation across the hybrid multi-cloud.

Data Protection for the Cloud Era

  Presented by Druva

While more companies are now leveraging the cloud to increase their level of data protection and management, there are still many wondering “why?” The answer: the cloud actually brings substantial advancements to the data protection and management table that simply aren’t possible without it. The easiest advantage to envision? Unlimited scalability. If a data protection tool is properly designed, the capacity should automatically expand to meet any customer’s needs. The second advantage: the cloud is the simplest way to centralize the storage of all secondary data sources while also providing unlimited compute that can be used to gain additional insight and business value from that data. Finally, the ability to do automated Disaster Recovery (DR) without maintaining a DR facility is unquestionably a major value of the cloud, and simply isn’t possible otherwise.

Innovation and Evolution: BC/DR for Today’s Multi-Cloud Environments

  Presented by Unitrends

We are living in a “Less is More” world. In a landscape that’s rapidly changing, IT professionals are managing more work, projects, and risk than ever before. While external threats such as malware and natural disasters cause significant downtime and data loss without proper BC/DR implementation, organizations must also be prepared to safeguard from within. Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and not only on-premises. As cloud-delivered solutions such as IaaS and SaaS are rapidly adopted by an increasing number of organizations, and the workforce itself is becoming increasingly dispersed and mobile, organizations must consider data protection strategies to address gaps in BC/DR outside the traditional data center. Join Adam Marget, Technical Specialist from Unitrends, as we explore the evolving landscape of data protection, cloud’s growing role, BC/DR strategies to safeguard local, remote, and cloud-based workloads, and best practices in planning your DR approach.

Transforming Traditional Infrastructure with Private IaaS and Private Cloud

  Presented by Insight

During this session you’ll learn how to provide enable scale and burstable infrastructure, use OPEX-based utility models to transform traditional infrastructure, and build the foundation for next generation IT services. We’ll also discuss how to facilitate demand and attributes of the cloud within private infrastructure.

Does Your Cloud Have a Silver Lining?

  Presented by Yellow Dog & Unitrends

In this presentation, we will share common errors that customers make while leveraging the cloud, best practices in preparing your disaster recovery plan, key considerations to look at when selecting your cloud vendor, automating disaster recovery testing, and a whole lot more!

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…

    Securing the Public Cloud

    Presented by Check Point

    Securing the public cloud requires a different approach than what was required historically. We need to not only utilize a different design and tools but also shift the security focus to the user and not the location of a device.

    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!