Topic: Infrastructure

Seminar Topics

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.

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

Zero-Trust Network Access

  Presented by Fortinet

Controlling users and devices on today’s networks is challenging. Many types of users requiring different levels of access need an automated solution. Devices are sneaking onto networks without approval and require visibility and control. Learn how Zero-Trust Network Access solution addresses the issue of knowing who, what, where and when and controlling everyone and everything on and off the network.

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

Architecting for the Agentless

  Presented by Gigamon

Today’s networks are swarming with IoT, OT, and virtual devices of every size and shape. As they have proliferated, and the security attack surface has likewise increased, the market has responded with a wide variety of technologies to help understand, manage, and secure just what is on your network. This is the rise of the technologies classified as “agentless” and there is a good chance you will be looking, now or in the future, at a project that comprises such technologies. While much of what is fundamentally required to enable these technologies is not new, organizations struggle with trying to implement these on an “ad hoc” basis, with little thought to future considerations or scale. This presentation will take about a more strategic approach to handling these implementations, what a visibility fabric is, and how today’s organizations can architect their environments for their future needs.

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).