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Ransomware attacks are on the rise — and they’re estimated to cost global organizations $20 billion by 2021 with government agencies, healthcare providers, and educational institutions in the U.S. impacted by ransomware attacks at a cost of more than $7.5 billion in 2019 alone. As ransomware attacks become more targeted and damaging, your organization faces increased risk that can have your networks down for days or even weeks. So, how can your organization avoid getting held hostage? Join Erich Kron CISSP, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 we look at scary features of new ransomware strains, give actionable info that you need to prevent infections, and provide tips on what to do when you are hit with ransomware.

You should consume cloud on your terms. It’s your data, it’s your business, not a location and buy it however you want, even as a service. NetApp is consistently recognized as the industry leader in block and file storage by the likes of Gartner, IDC, etc. Join Jeff Dickey, Chief Technologist, Cloud and Data Services, as he shares real-world examples of how NetApp is the only ubiquitous cloud storage platform for provisioning both NAS and SAN storage with Linux, Windows or multi-protocol support to seamlessly handle multi-cloud environments with the same architecture in any cloud of business-critical workloads.

The Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) market has rapidly become the fastest-growing cloud service worldwide and is expected to grow to $320 billion by 2025. This is because DBaaS enables faster time-to-value for applications by improving standardization, security and developer productivity. But with so many options to choose from, where do you start? How about a DBaaS with no equal? In this session, we will explore how quick and easy it is to start using Couchbase Cloud and become a DBaaS Badass in your organization. Learn how to leverage the advantages of in-VPC deployment, multicluster management, hybrid cloud replication, and more, all while delivering operational transparency and low TCO.

Are you a server or infrastructure manager who longs to offer a more self-service infrastructure approach for your application owners? Meet Cloud-Defined Storage: A revolutionary approach for cloud managed, server-based enterprise storage providing storage operations-as-a-service with easily accessible AIOps, self-managed updates, and powerful programmability at any scale.

The rapid shift to remote, distributed workforces has forced IT professionals to quickly support new/expanded ways of working. In addition to extending access to resources and enhancing security from more locations and devices, IT now is challenged with rethinking already time-intensive onboarding and offboarding processes. According to a recent survey of IT leaders, these manual efforts sap budgets and productivity and increase your security gaps. Okta can help you reduce the burden on IT and provide more security. In this live webinar, we’ll talk about the benefits of automating onboarding and offboarding and how Okta Lifecycle Management can help streamline many of the manual processes that you likely have in place today.

Most IT architects will tell you that the future of infrastructure is a mix of on-prem and cloud working together. But few have taken the leap to a true hybrid cloud model. The reason is that creating a true hybrid cloud can be complex and expensive without delivering the flexibility that organizations seek. Join us to understand how Nutanix approach to hybrid cloud is different and will deliver on the promise of simplicity and flexibility.

This session will cover the importance of Multi-Cloud Data Management. Specifically, we will discuss: identifying where the data is, uncovering multi-cloud challenges, integration considerations, and cloud-agnostic solutions.

Complexity is the enemy of security, and as your AWS and VMware environments grow there's a nasty tendency for complexity to be introduced. In this session Kev Johnson will show how Runecast Analyzer can really help you to secure your environments, reduce risks, ensure security compliance and help you to plan for the future. Strap in, it'll be rocket paced!

As more and more workload is being containerized, several companies are starting to wonder how to implement DR strategies for those applications. Is DR different for containerized workloads? Can we reuse the same DR strategies as for traditional VMs or do we have better alternatives? In this talk, we are going to explore some common DR strategies for containerized workloads.

Join Tony Carrero, Enterprise Systems Manager, as he shares how the University of the Pacific is adapting to these rapidly changing times by leveraging cloud. He’ll walk through not only how he increased operational efficiency with Rubrik’s simplicity, but also his experience archiving to AWS S3, CloudOn for DR, Polaris GPS, and Office 365 protection, and how these advances have enabled his team to effectively shift the university to remote learning.

Have you struggled troubleshooting business-critical application outages and slowdowns? Are you not able to pinpoint the real root cause of your application performance issue in the complicated multi-tier architecture? Have your silo tools for application, network, or infrastructure not helped? Do you struggle with planning your Disaster Recovery, NSX-T™ micro-segmentation and migration plans? Knowing the application dependency mapping all the way down to infrastructure for your deployment can highlight and resolve your operational and planning challenges you and your team face every day. This session will talk about the importance for any IT team of being able to “Connect the dots” using Application and Infrastructure Dependency Mapping and how to build it in minutes.

Have your cake and eat it too? Not just the dream of every 2 year old, it’s also possible for your datacenter infrastructure. FlashStack, a partnership between Cisco & Pure Storage, combines the benefits of Reference Architectures, CI, and HCI - trade-offs begone! Thinking about Storage? Infrastructure? Cloud? DR? Security? With FlashStack, we’ll show you how the answer is simply “yes”. Join Andrew Miller, Principal SE at Pure Storage and Eric Blonda, Global Alliance Executive at Cisco, for a whiteboard walkthrough of FlashStack architecture and unique benefits across Day 0 (Architecture), Day 1 (Implementation), and Day 2 (Operations) experience incorporating Intersight.

From accelerating recovery to speeding transformation, data is the lifeblood of your business. You need an intelligent data strategy to simplify, overcome IT fire-fighting and be the change agent to transform your business and IT. Learn what it takes to have an intelligent data strategy and what outcomes can be achieved with an Intelligent Data Platform from HPE that’s AI-driven, built for cloud and delivered as a service. Watch how intelligence can change everything.

The journey to consolidate and simplify IT infrastructure is not new or a one-stop process. Eliminating complexity and simplifying both production and backup and archive infrastructure is now a natural part of the evolutionary journey many leading companies are doing. The same concepts that have accelerated the interest in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) also apply to integrated data protection. In this session, we’ll share more on how integrated data protection can: • improve backup efficiencies • provide easier data restores, and • simplify operations management for secondary storage and archives • provide the foundation for an effective ransomware strategy

Veeam integration with FlashStack provides advanced data protection. Augmented data protection strategies to provide flexible solutions for any environment. Learn how Veeam can solve all of your challenges with solutions designed for your new hardware.