Summit By ActualTech Media IT Renovation Day: Analyzing the Next Wave of Tools, Products, and Services

  • KnowBe4
  • Couchbase
  • Nutanix
  • Faction
  • Progress Software
  • HPE Zerto Software
  • TierPoint
  • NTT Data
  • Dell Technologies
  • Rubrik
  • NetApp
  • Espressive
IT Renovation Day: Analyzing the Next Wave of Tools, Products, and Services

Summit

Just like your house, your IT environment requires constant refresh and renewal. With new tools, products, and services hitting the market practically every day, it can be difficult for IT practitioners to stay current on the broad swath of options at their disposal. The goal of the Virtual Summit is to help IT pros and decision makers learn about new solutions to help solve their IT challenges, refresh aging systems, and take the next step. The ActualTech Media Summer 2021 Summit is your perfect opportunity plan your IT renovation for the future!

This one-day event brings together market-leading technology vendors in a uniquely consumable format and provides you with the opportunity to quickly assess each vendor’s potential to help you solve your most vexing technology challenges quickly and efficiently.

Register now and join us on August 18th!

Here's why you should join:

  1. Gain insight into the most innovative enterprise technology solutions from our lineup of expert presenters
  2. Be treated to a compelling conversation from thoughtful independent speakers around the challenges facing today’s IT pros and decision makers
  3. Get all your questions answered from representatives from some of today’s most interesting and compelling enterprise IT companies
  4. Find out what your peers are looking for in emerging technology and how they are leveraging these solutions in their company

Agenda & Speakers

  1. Many Ways to Defeat Multi-Factor Authentication and How To Stop the Bad Guys

    Roger A. Grimes
    Roger A. Grimes Data-Driven Defense Evangelist KnowBe4
    About This Session

    Everyone knows that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more secure than a simple login name and password, but too many people think that MFA is a perfect, unhackable solution. It isn't!

    Join Roger A. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, and security expert with over 30-years of experience, for this Summit where he will explore the many ways hackers can and do get around your favorite MFA solution.

  2. Mark Gamble
    Mark Gamble Product & Solutions Marketing Director Couchbase
  3. Top Use Cases for Hybrid and MultiCloud

    Allan Waters
    Allan Waters Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager Nutanix
  4. Gaming, Healthcare, Convergence, and Edge to Core to Cloud

    Jay Cuthrell
    Jay Cuthrell VP of Solutions Faction
    About This Session

    Join us to learn about multi-cloud data services patterns within gaming and healthcare, convergence, and the world of AR / VR in our future. Along the way, we'll share successful data first strategies in the Edge, Core, Cloud, and all points in between.

  5. David Atkins
    David Atkins Principal Solutions Architect Progress Software
  6. Instant Ransomware Recovery at Scale

    Andy Fernandez
    Andy Fernandez Senior Product Marketing Manager HPE Zerto Software
  7. Migrating to the Cloud and SAP S/4HANA

    Alvaro Gonzalez
    Alvaro Gonzalez AVP, Channel Sales and Alliances TierPoint
    Ted Tavrides
    Ted Tavrides Channel and Strategic Alliance Director, North America NTT Data
    Rickey King
    Rickey King SAP Technical Architect Dell Technologies
    About This Session

    SAP is the most widely-deployed ERP suite over the last 20 years, supporting many large-scale, mission critical environments. S/4HANA is the current generation offering, an intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that enables the company's vision of the enterprise digital core. Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA can be transformative and provide a competitive edge for an organization, but can also be a complex and expensive undertaking. Businesses can modernize their ERP infrastructure or evolve with new SAP applications and technologies to deliver real- time innovation, maximize efficiencies and support digital initiatives.

    Join TierPoint, NTT Data and Dell Technologies to learn about how leveraging the right partners and infrastructure businesses can rapidly deploy, flexibly scale, and conveniently manage this application.

  8. Radically Simple Data Protection That Does More

    Zak Pellecchia
    Zak Pellecchia Senior Sales Engineer Rubrik
    About This Session

    Come see how Rubrik can modernize and automate your data protection with a single solution that covers workloads across on-premises and the cloud. Easily archive to the cloud, scale to meet enterprise demands, and get built-in ransomware recovery.

  9. Jeff Dickey
    Jeff Dickey Chief Technologist, Cloud and Data Services NetApp
  10. How to Achieve the Gold Standard of IT Service Desks

    Pat Calhoun
    Pat Calhoun CEO Espressive
    Dennis Vazquez
    Dennis Vazquez Manager of IT Dexcom
    About This Session

    In this session you will learn:
    - How Dexcom delivers a highly efficient IT service desk through automation
    - How this resulted in service desk agents that are upskilled and highly motivated