Topic: Infrastructure

Seminar Topics

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.

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

Asset Management in the World of IOT

  Presented by Quest Software

IOT is upon us all, like it or not. Gone are the days of just managing Windows Desktops and their respective software. Today we are responsible for managing the life-cycle of many types of devices. Anything from a Raspberry pi, to iPad, and anything in between must be managed and tracked during its life. With the exponential growth of network connected devices we are also seeing growth in the regulations surrounding those devices. Regulations means compliance audits which increases our need to manage and track out IT assets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Transforming IT Ops and Network Experiences with A.I.

Presented by Juniper & Structured

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.

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.