Topic: Infrastructure

Seminar Topics

Unified Endpoint Management

  Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

A Regional Approach to Public Safety Infrastructure

  Presented by Bill Zielinski • Chief Information Officer, City of Dallas

Developing regional partnerships which leverage shared interests and common mission can create opportunities for significant cost savings, heightened capabilities and improved interoperability that can benefit the entire region. Join Bill Zielinski, CIO for the City of Dallas, as he discusses the model used in developing a regional Public Safety digital mobile radio network covering more than 1000 square miles across the greater Dallas area.

Bill Zielinski is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Dallas, Texas where he directs IT operations for the 9th largest city in the United States, serving a population of more than 1.3 million people.

Most recently, Mr. Zielinski was the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category (ITC) in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) where he managed a portfolio of government-wide IT acquisition contracts providing more than $25 billion in IT products and services from more than 5,000 providers to government at a Federal, State and Local level.

Mr. Zielinski formerly served as the Acting Unit Chief for Agency Oversight in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OCIO) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). There he provided oversight of the Federal Government’s Information Technology Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process on behalf of the Federal CIO. The Federal CIO is responsible for providing guidance on the formulation and oversight of an annual IT investment portfolio in excess of $85 billion.

Additionally, he has served as the Chief Information Officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he was responsible for the delivery of IT solutions that allowed the Agency to effectively manage more than $800 billion in annual benefits to more than 60 million people around the world.

CI/CD for Networking: Adopting DevOps Principles for a More Robust Network

  Presented by Infoblox

In recent years, continuous integration and continuous deployment, aka CI/CD, have become de facto standards for DevOps-minded software development organizations. Adoption of CI/CD enables software architects and IT specialists to create more flexible, secure and agile infrastructure with new features and functionality that are continually improved and deployed. While compute and storage aspects of environments have benefited greatly from CI/CD, network infrastructure has lagged behind.

This presentation pulls back the covers on efforts taking place to bring CI/CD philosophies to the work of revamping legacy, monolithic network architectures using cloud-native principles, microservices and containerization. The end goal is to create networks that are inherently more adaptable, scalable, automated and simpler to manage.

Speaker Bio: Glenn Sullivan is a Principal Product Manager for Emerging Technologies at Infoblox and joined the Infoblox team when SnapRoute, a company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Infoblox. At SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for product direction by advocating for the end-user. Prior to founding SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for building out hyperscale data center environments at Apple. In addition to core network operational functions, Sullivan led efforts to automate the lifecycle management of various platforms in a multivendor environment. Before Apple, Sullivan was a specialist support engineer on the LAN Switching team in Cisco TAC. While there, his specialty was in turning around customer sentiment by focusing on escalated issues and transforming the customer experience into a positive one. Sullivan has a BS in Network and Systems Administration from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Managing the New Team Dynamic in a Teleworking World

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

Migrating data to the cloud has been a transition many years in the making. With the move to teleworking in 2020, many organizations have sped up their cloud usage out of necessity. Many new security challenges have come from this. In addition, monitoring productivity of staff has been difficult. Managing all team dynamics has brought questions of effective policies and procedures.

Join the INTERFACE-Sacramento Advisory Council for a discussion of these topics and more. We will present practical suggestions in managing your cloud providers to allow maximum work efficiency while also meeting your cyber security needs.


Panelists:
Keson Khieu • Chief Information Officer, Emergency Medical Services Authority
Maisha Dottery • Chief Technology Strategist, California State Treasurers Office
Tony Coronas • Director of Information Technology, Roebbelen Contracting, Inc

Digital Transformation in 2020 and Beyond: What’s Changed and What’s the Same

  Presented by Ann Dunkin • Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Dell Technologies

While our lives have changed dramatically this year, some things, like the need to have a highly capable, well trained and motived workforce haven’t changed. We’ll discuss how the pandemic accelerated government digital transformation and the challenges that still exist.

IT departments worked quickly and efficiently to support remote workforces. While productivity in many departments and industries has been effective, there have been adverse effects from remote working. While technology has been a driving force, it can’t replace some elements. Join Ann Dunkin for a look at the gaps that have been created and what lies ahead.

Ann Dunkin is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Dunkin was the Chief Information Officer for the County of Santa Clara. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is the 15th largest county in the United States. Ms. Dunkin also served in the Obama Administration as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to her time in Washington D.C., she was the Chief Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Ms. Dunkin joined the School District after a long career at Hewlett Packard in a variety of leadership roles.

Ms. Dunkin is a published author, most recently of the book Industrial Digital Transformation, and sought-after speaker on the topics of technology modernization, digital services and organizational transformation. Throughout her career she has served on a wide range of professional boards and committees. She currently serves on the OptimEyes.io Board of Advisors, the WSC Board of Directors, the Agile Government Leaders (AGL) Board of Directors and the Georgia Tech President’s Advisory Board.

She holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, both from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Washington.

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

Own Your Data

  Presented by Commvault

Take ownership of data that already belongs to you.

Today organizations are storing their corporate data across multiple locations and platforms. On prem data centers, co-lo facilities, hybrid/multi cloud, SaaS and endpoint devices. With company data being so widely dispersed it’s difficult to know if you have full visibility, access and the flexibility to move data and workloads across locations and platforms. Protecting your data is only one component to maintaining ownership of your data. Along with having a robust data protection platform for on prem data you would also need the same level of control/protection of data assets that live outside the data center.

To truly own your data you must:

  • Protect and secure your data regardless of location or platform
  • Have access to it all
  • Have the tools to move your data/workloads where it makes sense for the business today and the flexibility adjust as business circumstances change.
    (On-Prem, hybrid/multi cloud, SaaS)
  • Have insight into your data, not only to understand the “what and where” but to provide governance and compliance

We will discuss what this all means and why you should rethink your approach to data management.

CI/CD for Networking: Adopting DevOps Principles for a More Robust Network

  Presented by Infoblox

In recent years, continuous integration and continuous deployment, aka CI/CD, have become de facto standards for DevOps-minded software development organizations. Adoption of CI/CD enables software architects and IT specialists to create more flexible, secure and agile infrastructure with new features and functionality that are continually improved and deployed. While compute and storage aspects of environments have benefited greatly from CI/CD, network infrastructure has lagged behind.

This presentation pulls back the covers on efforts taking place to bring CI/CD philosophies to the work of revamping legacy, monolithic network architectures using cloud-native principles, microservices and containerization. The end goal is to create networks that are inherently more adaptable, scalable, automated and simpler to manage.

Speaker Bio: Glenn Sullivan is a Principal Product Manager for Emerging Technologies at Infoblox and joined the Infoblox team when SnapRoute, a company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Infoblox. At SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for product direction by advocating for the end-user. Prior to founding SnapRoute, Sullivan was responsible for building out hyperscale data center environments at Apple. In addition to core network operational functions, Sullivan led efforts to automate the lifecycle management of various platforms in a multivendor environment. Before Apple, Sullivan was a specialist support engineer on the LAN Switching team in Cisco TAC. While there, his specialty was in turning around customer sentiment by focusing on escalated issues and transforming the customer experience into a positive one. Sullivan has a BS in Network and Systems Administration from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).

SD-WAN Edge Transformation for the Cloud-First Enterprise

  Presented by Silver Peak & Structured

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

Software Implementation, Governance and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

  Presented by Puget Sound PMI

Join President of the Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network (www.PNODN.org), Chris Crosby, as he shares the governance strategy that he created as the Change Management lead on a global ERP implementation.

Mr. Crosby developed and executed the change strategy for the largest software implementation (Oracle) in the history of Alcoa CSI spanning 18 locations throughout USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, Hungary, and Germany. Each location reached stability in one month, five months faster than any previous Alcoa Business Unit. Chris’s plan was recognized as the benchmark change plan in Alcoa by the Project Management Office. He then repeated his success in 2010 in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2011-2012 in Asia-Pacific (China, Korea, HK, and the Philippines), and 2013 in South America (Peru and Columbia).

What does EQ have to do with it? Chris will weave throughout the conversation various core Organization Development principles and talk about their relationship with Emotional Intelligence.


Presenter:
Chris Crosby • President of the Board, Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network