Topic: Infrastructure

Seminar Topics

Transforming IT Ops and Network Experiences with AI

  Presented by Juniper Networks

Today’s networks and IT teams are challenged by the soaring numbers of mobile and IoT devices and apps. Learn how data science, AI, and a modern microservices cloud architecture can deliver the agility, scale, and reliability that businesses need to succeed. We are transforming user and IT experiences with an AI-Driven Enterprise through proactive automation and relevant insights while ultimately evolving towards a self-driving network.

In this session, you’ll learn why three of the Fortune 10 companies, along with thousands of other organizations, are AI-driven wired and wireless networking customers, to deliver new services, assure network performance, and streamline help-desk operations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mobilizing to Work from Home: How Chiefs’ IT Responded to a Pandemic

  Presented by Justin Johnson • Manager of Information Technology, Kansas City Chiefs

It may seem like a long time ago, but the Kansas City Chiefs are just a few months removed from winning the Super Bowl. Since that time, we have all dealt with the realities of COVID-19. Join us for a review of how the Chiefs prepared their staff to work from home. We will cover certain challenges that were faced and look at how work may (and will) be affected for the foreseeable future.

Administering Responsibly

Presented by One Identity

Managing elevated and shared access credentials is one of the biggest challenges facing complex heterogeneous organizations today. Administrators must be able to access the systems they manage with sufficient rights to do their jobs, but organizations must control that access to ensure security and regulatory compliance. The days of administrators sharing accounts and passwords and operating without auditing are gone (or they should be).

Large enterprises face unique challenges. They too must control the use of elevated privileges, but they need to find ways to enhance authentication for these accounts to meet mandates while still enabling administrators to administer. Even with multifactor authentication to “check out” a privileged account or session, we still need to take steps to mitigate potential account compromises–making sure the admin that authenticated today is still who they say they are. We’ve come to the point where we need to continuously analyze administration by watching normal behavior and comparing it to current behavior – with real-time in-line remediation to add a powerful layer of risk mitigation.

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!

Stay Ahead: Embracing New Technology

Presented by Tony North • President, Seattle HDI Chapter

Technology can be a hinderance if not well planned or deployed. With new tools like AI, IoT and Apps, it can be difficult for employees and employers to embrace it. Join the Seattle chapter of HDI, Help Desk Institute, for an interactive session. You will learn about the issues facing us all today while finding recommendations on how to improve adoption of technology in a very simple way.

You Are Never Alone: How to Humanize Tech and Work in Your Organization and in Life

Presented by Dan Gaul • CTO, Digital Trends

As one of the world’s largest technology curators, Digital Trends’ co-founder Dan Gaul explores what it takes to balance technology inside and outside of the organization while challenging traditional Silicon Valley ideas about what it takes to thrive.

Dan Gaul is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Digital Trends, a Portland, Oregon-based publisher of consumer-targeted websites. In his role, Dan is charged with oversight of tech operations for Digital Trends’ suite of platforms including: Digital Trends, the popular site for news, information and reviews on personal tech (which reaches over 30 million viewers each month); its Spanish-language companion, DT Español, and The Manual, an aspirational-living site.