Summit By ActualTech Media Enabling Next-Generation IT
Summit
Already pushed by operational needs and digital transformation efforts, IT is finding itself front-and-center as organizations grapple with pandemic. The technology landscape, already fluid, has become a whitewater current. Far from maintaining the status quo, IT pros and CIOs now have a mandate to evolve and implement new IT solutions that support a rapidly changing business landscape.
During this day-long Summit webinar event, join 14 companies working to help their customers revolutionize their IT function. Discover new products and services that help you realize your transformation goals. You’ll be treated to presentations from all corners of the IT vendor market and learn about solutions that support enhanced security, robust data protection and disaster recovery, AI, cloud, data center infrastructure, end-user computing, DevOps, and much more.
Here's why you should join
- Gain insight into the most innovative enterprise technology solutions from our lineup of expert presenters
- Be treated to a compelling conversation from thoughtful independent speakers around the challenges facing today’s IT pros and decision makers
- Get all your questions answered from representatives from some of today’s most interesting and compelling enterprise IT companies
- Find out what your peers are looking for in emerging technology and how they are leveraging these solutions in their company
Agenda & Speakers
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Kick-off & Housekeeping
David Davis Author, Speaker, and vExpert ActualTech Media
About This Session
How will this Summit unfold? What can you expect and how will prize drawings work? Tune into the Summit kick-off with ActualTech Media's David Davis!
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Now That Ransomware Has Gone Nuclear, How Can You Avoid Becoming the Next Victim?
Roger A. Grimes Data-Driven Defense Evangelist KnowBe4
About This Session
There is a reason more than half of today's ransomware victims end up paying the ransom. Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful; taking time to maximize your organization's potential damage and their payoff. After achieving root access, the bad guys explore your network reading email, finding data troves and once they know you, they craft a plan to cause the most panic, pain, and operational disruption. Ransomware has gone nuclear.
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Accelerate with HPE GreenLake for Storage
Clesmie Burden GreenLake Consumption Consultant HPE
About This Session
In this presentation, we will cover the challenges IT organizations are facing in keeping up with storage demand and how HPE GreenLake can help to keep storage capacity readily available as an as-a-service consumption offering, where you will only pay for what you use. Also, we will give a quick overview of HPE GreenLake Central, a single control pane to unify and simplify operations across the hybrid estate.
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What is Digital Transformation?
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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React Earlier in the Kill Chain with Integrated Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Dave Martin Sr. Director Product Management Open Systems
About This Session
In a recent survey, nine out of 10 organizations that suffered a significant security attack were running up-to-date cybersecurity software. They did what everyone told them to do, and it wasn't enough.
Traditional security practices are just not working. Threats are becoming more sophisticated, you are managing too many disconnected products, with too many manual processes. You can't get the skills and the costs of securing your infrastructure are spiralling.Is this you? If so, you need to integrate your disconnected products and management if you want to survive. Managed detection and response (MDR) is the new best practice. Join Dave Martin from Open Systems where he will explain why your organization needs MDR, how to convince the business that it needs it too, and how to implement it.
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2020 DR Trends & Guidance
Dale Levesque Director of Product Management TierPoint
To Be Announced HPE Zerto Software
About This Session Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and the cloud. Tierpoint is a leader in national provider of hybrid IT solutions that help organizations of all shapes and sizes improve agility, drive performance, and manage risk.
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Business 2030
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT
Thomas LaRock Head Geek SolarWinds
About This Session
In the seventh year of its annual report, SolarWinds studies how the breakdown of traditional IT siloes has affected technology professionals across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. While the survey data was gathered before the COVID-19 (or Coronavirus) pandemic elevated technology professionals as essential workers, the findings are underscored by this challenging period of remote work and increased burdens on the IT environments keeping global organizations operating at full capacity. The study reveals a new reality for tech pros where roles have converged yet budgets remain focused less on emerging technologies and more on infrastructure, hybrid IT, expanding their charter from operations to optimization.
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SaaS for DR: The Flywheel of Delight
Sazzala Reddy CTO & Co-Founder Datrium
About This Session
The convenience and on-demand economics of SaaS products in the public cloud make it an unstoppable trend - so much so that using a SaaS model for disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) has become a reality and viable solution for many organizations that simply cannot afford downtime. Learn how IT leaders have gained confidence in their DR/BC strategies by adopting a one-click SaaS experience.
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The CIO: Blurred Lines
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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A Venture-backed Cybersecurity Software
Shreyans Mehta CTO & Co-Founder Cequence
About This Session
An AI-driven software platform that discovers apps, detects attacks, and defends your business from bad bots.
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Making Hybrid Cloud a Reality
Greg Smith VP of Product Marketing Nutanix
About This Session
A virtualized datacenter platform that provides disruptive datacenter infrastructure solutions for implementing enterprise-class.
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Coronavirus: Leading Through the Crisis
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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DevOps your way to the API economy
David Codelli Product Marketing Manager Red Hat
About This Session
Microservices, agile development, and the hybrid cloud are the dominant principles of innovation at governments and private industry today. The most advanced platforms support those principles in a seamless manner such that DevOps controls the full lifecycle of innovation, not just development and deployment, but security, testing, contract definition, socialization, and even analytics. Come listen to Red Hat's vision and roadmap to this new Nirvana.
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From Firefighting to New Normal: 3 Tips to Bridge Workforce Security and Productivity
Frederico Hakamine Field Solutions Marketing Director Okta
About This Session
As the COVID-19 outbreak drove people to shelter in place and businesses to work from home, IT and Security teams went above and beyond to quickly enable remote work with the resources readily available to them. The positive results deeply transformed how organizations see remote work as a strategic opportunity (the 'new normal') for the future of their business and creates enormous pressure over current IT technology and processes. In this presentation, Frederico Hakamine of Okta will walk us through his top three tips to help IT and Security transitioning from emergency solutions to the future-proof technology and process to support the new normal at scale.
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The Real Story of Artificial Intelligence
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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20 years of CI in 20 minutes
Parker Ennis Senior Product Marketing Manager GitLab
About This Session
Learn how continuous integration is paramount to effective and efficient software delivery. Continuous integration isn't new. It's evolved from first being coined as a term in 1994 by Grady Booch, to Martin Fowler/Thoughtworks promoting CI as a *practice* **critical** to any software development process in the 2000s, to the world of DevOps and CI/CD today.
Come see how the growth of CI has impacted modern software development, why it's so important for businesses, and what it means for their ability to react, and adapt, to a rapidly changing software development landscape.
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Evolution of Analytics
Stacie Brown Chief Technology Evangelist Everpure
About This Session
Past, present, and future of analytics - how to advance your journey to modern analytics. Common constraints limiting companies from evolving and how to overcome them.
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AIOps of the Future
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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Your Trusted Partner to the Cloud
Jeff Dickey Chief Technologist, Cloud and Data Services NetApp
About This Session
NetApp is consistently recognized as the storage industry leader by the likes of Gartner, IDC, etc. The NetApp Cloud Volumes portfolio of enterprise-grade cloud storage and data management delivers greater levels of performance, resilience, and intelligence for file-sharing services in the cloud.
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The IT Professional of the Future
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker
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Why Office 365 Backup is ESSENTIAL for Remote Workers
Edward Watson Principal Product Marketing Manager Veeam
Karinne Bessette Technologist, Microsoft 365 Lead Veeam
About This Session
Microsoft Office 365 enables your enterprise to work remotely, enabling employees to stay productive and connected in the comfort and safety of their home. With a massive influx of remote workers, businesses more than ever before are storing, sharing and accessing data within Microsoft Teams, OneDrive for Business as well as Exchange and SharePoint Online, and that data needs to be protected.
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Navigating an Uncertain Future: Scenario Planning
Shawn Kanungo Disruption Strategist Guest Speaker