IT organizations often struggle to find operational alignment with business goals. With greater visibility into how IT is serving and interfacing with the business, your team can deliver better, more efficient, and more valued services. This session explores how IT teams can demonstrate value back to the organization through approaches including: financial transparency into strategic and operational activities, better and faster delivery of services, resource optimization, and streamlining communication and request intakes.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current state of the ITBM product suite
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Explore how the Common Services Data Model can help build your organization’s business model and services construct
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Understand valuable tools including a best practices strategy, road mapping, and a maturity model surrounding ServiceNow’s ITBM product suite
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Cover topics including enterprise PPM, Agile, and Hybrid best practices, managing the financial aspects of IT, and how the user experience is affected by ITBM
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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PMO Director / Team Lead
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Product and Service Delivery Management
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Resource Managers
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Demand Managers
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Architecture Review Board
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IT Chief Architect
Increasing uptime and flexibility, improving performance, and reducing costs are critical to IT success. Whether companies generate the bulk of their revenue through IT services or other means, enterprise storage has a significant impact on organizational capabilities and costs.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the state of the market of enterprise storage including an overview of types of storage and architectures and insight into market-leading options
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Discuss current trends and points of intersection between on-premises and cloud storage and other IT disciplines (automation, security, data protection)
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Discuss current storage-related challenges and/or upcoming lifecycle events within your organization
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Understand how current busines objectives could be better met with enterprise storage strategies
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Storage Manager
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Storage Engineer
Resolving performance issues quickly reduces downtime, creates satisfying user experiences, and frees your team’s resources to focus on proactive projects. This session starts with the basics of APM and dives into how it can help your team identify and resolve issues more quickly and efficiently.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your team’s current performance pitfalls and challenges
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Introduce solutions to gain uptime and stability
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Work with your key stakeholders on building consensus towards next steps
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Cover topics including standardizing APM during cloud transformation, application performance monitoring, business performance monitoring, targeted personas, near real-time dashboarding, and RUM (real user monitoring) on web and mobile
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Application Owners
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DevOps Manager
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Anyone who has responsibility for the uptime, health, and performance of critical business services, applications, or IT infrastructure
As organizations move to the public cloud and embrace new computing abstractions (like containers), there is an impetus to understand what to run and where to run it. In this briefing, we will look at the enterprise app portfolio and discuss how to create a holistic strategy to drive success.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your current applications state and modern app development approach
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Discuss the role of COTS and SaaS and how buy versus build continues to be a weighty decision among IT leaders
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Highlight how API platforms provide the stitching required to create a cohesive and connectable application strategy
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Cover topics including custom apps, app migration to cloud-ready, app modernization to cloud-native
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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VP of Applications
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Chief Digital Officer
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Chief Architect
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Application Delivery Manager
Automation is a key contributor to IT teams becoming more efficient and effective. Most organizations struggle with implementing automation concepts, as it challenges the conventional workflow of many of their processes. In this briefing we will explore proper automation implementation, best practices, and benefits.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current state of your automation approach and find areas for improvement
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Cover topics including ServiceNow as the gateway to the enterprise, automation roadmaps, AHEAD Automation Hub, and automation integration capabilities
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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ITSM Leaders
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Infrastructure Owner (virtual or physical)
Cloud networking can be surprisingly complex, especially when it involves multiple providers and when integrated with complex enterprise networks. AHEAD partner, Aviatrix, offers a cloud networking orchestration platform that greatly simplifies the design, build, and maintenance of public cloud networking and network security constructs. In this session, we will explore the complexities of public cloud networking as environments scale and grow more diverse, and how Aviatrix can help.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review the Aviatrix platform and the problems it solves
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Explore multi-cloud approach and considerations
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Discuss and gain understanding of automation and infrastructure-as-code integrations
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Explore the theory and operation of next-generation firewalls in public cloud environments with the aid of Aviatrix FireNet
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Cloud-focused Network Engineers
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DevOps Teams (specifically network-focused members)
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Automation-focused Team Members
The public cloud comes with tremendous benefits including flexibility, low maintenance costs, and high resource availability and security. But to fully reap these benefits, all stakeholders—including both business units and IT security professionals—must be well versed in how to securely leverage public cloud within their organization. This session will guide your team through the ins and outs of a security program that protects resources in the cloud.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Educate key stakeholders on the themes, frameworks, and potential security pitfalls of the cloud
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Walk through the primary security challenges your organization faces
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Cover cloud security topics including cloud security process development, cloud native vs third party security tools, cloud security tool integration
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CISO
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Security Director
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Director of Public Cloud
Data gravity is a common challenge faced by enterprises. Data gravity is the concept that large storage sets are not easy or cheap to move between data centers, creating headwinds for organizations trying to leverage public cloud services. This session explores cloud storage gateways as a solution to streamlining data transfer.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the state of the market of storage cloud gateways—appliances that automate and streamline data movement between private and public data centers
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Discuss current business objectives that could benefit from public cloud services and, in turn, from storage cloud gateways
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Introduce types of storage and architectures and provide insight into current and future market leaders
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Storage Manager
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Storage Engineer
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Cloud Director
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Cloud Manager
Achieve success in Day 2 optimization and operations by ensuring a secure and efficient cloud environment. This session explores how AHEAD’s proprietary cloud optimization solution provides enhanced cloud control for more secure, efficient, and effective cloud environments.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Explore the challenges specific to your organization’s cloud environment
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Discuss how to select and test tools for cloud optimization
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Demo of AHEAD CoPilot
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CCOE Stakeholders
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CISO/Cloud Security Lead
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Cloud Engineers
From an IT cost awareness perspective, it is rare that an organization has full insight into the costs associated with managing IT assets. However, cost awareness is paramount to fully understanding and managing your IT asset landscape. In this session, we will explore the current state of inventory management and how your organization can benefit from deeper knowledge of where your IT costs are spent.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Explore consumable versus asset inventory management
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Discuss the importance of stockrooms and keeping them up to date
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Explore the efficacy of your organization’s current approach around ITAM points of control, your procurement catalog, and ERP system integration with the CMDB
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Cover topics including hardware asset management, inventory management and cost centers, asset depreciation practices, CMDB software asset management integration, dashboards and reporting for spend detection and license entitlements, and software distribution and reclamation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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IT Financial Controllers
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Configuration Item Owners
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IT Leadership
Data center networking has advanced significantly with new software-defined and automated capabilities. However, each major vendor approaches the problem differently and the solutions often overlap, resulting in confusion around their optimal use cases. This session helps your team establish an understanding of common vendor offerings and their pros and cons based on your unique requirements.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss your organization’s current data center networking challenges and needs
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Explore best practices for selecting and integrating common vendor platforms
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Cover topics including an overview of data center networking, automation capabilities, and potential use cases
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Explore the current state of Cisco ACI, VMware NSX-T, and Cisco VXLAN-based fabrics
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Network/IT Director
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Senior Network Team Manager
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Network Team Leads
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Automation-focused Team Members
Data is everywhere. There are components of data that fit into application and data architecture, along with infrastructure and services that need to be stood up within the cloud to support that data. Each facet of your IT infrastructure lends to your overall data landscape. In this session, your team will learn how to access and analyze data to make informed business decisions by leveraging advanced modern architecture patterns.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Explore potential data migration paths, targets, and tools
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Review your organization’s current data estate
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Provide clarity around different migration opportunities and cost savings
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Discuss how various components of your IT infrastructure impact data (including cloud, DevOps, security, and intelligent operations)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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Chief Data Officer
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DBA Team or Manager
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Infrastructure Team or Manager
Learn more about building a centralized data repository to collect, manage, analyze, and visualize your data in Azure. This session will better prepare your team to implement a data lake, data warehouse, or self-service BI solution to support strategic data road mapping.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your organization’s current data estate
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Prioritize data initiatives within Azure
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Review modern data architecture patterns
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Explore topics including provisioning data platform services, how to implement, secure, and manage data flows, Azure data services and tools, management and monitoring of data privacy and security, extracting, loading, and transforming data at scale in a cost-effective manner, and performance tuning and optimization
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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CISO
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Chief Data Officer
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DBA Team or Manager
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Infrastructure Team or Manager
Learn how to improve visibility, enable faster time to resolution, and provide a better end user experience by integrating your data protection solution with the leading Enterprise Service Management platform, ServiceNow.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Identify current business challenges impacted by a lack of integration between data protection and ServiceNow
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Discuss industry and organization data protection requirements
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Explore possible integration points between data protection and ServiceNow
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Discuss your current data protection strategy and configuration
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Data Protection Manager
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Data Protection Engineer
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ServiceNow Manager
Using data science, you can uncover patterns in your data you never knew existed. In this session, we will explore how data science through AI and ML can help you extract deeper business insights from broader data sets—at scale.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Gain an understanding of how to use data science to make better business decisions
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Review your organization’s current opportunities for applying ML and AI
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Explore how to realize the value of your current data
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Discuss topics including the role and structure of data science teams, accessing data streams in real time, and how to reveal new patterns from existing data, cloud approaches to AI, ML, and deep learning, and building a data community of excellence
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CDO
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CEO
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Data Analytics Team
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Specialty Infrastructure Team
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Applications Team
Business demands require quality, secure applications to be deployed with more urgency than ever. This often leads to security being an afterthought. However, building security into the DevOps development process is a vital step that provides much-needed protection to your business.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss how patterns can help improve the security posture of your DevOps practice, while also improving efficiency and communication with your InfoSec team
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Explore common challenges including a lack of consistent security policies, little to no visibility into application health and security risk, a lack of automation processes, and vulnerabilities of microservices
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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InfoSec Team
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DevOps Team Lead
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Security Team
Protecting valuable data, meeting company and industry compliance requirements, providing acceptable restore times, and controlling costs are critical objectives of most IT organizations. Whether companies generate the bulk of their revenue through IT services or other means, enterprise data protection has a significant impact on organizational capabilities and costs.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Identify current business challenges impacted by past and future data protection decisions
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Discuss industry and organization data protection requirements
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Introduce various data protection strategies and provide insight into current and expected future market leaders, covering both the major players as well as up and coming startups
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Discuss current trends and points of intersection between on-premises and cloud data protection along with other IT disciplines (automation, security, data protection)
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Document possible areas of improvement for your environment
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Data Protection Manager
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Data Protection Engineer
The ability to peek into your organization’s infrastructure to understand dependencies, monitoring strategy, and management of cloud resources gives IT teams an edge. The ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite brings the visibility you need, along with tools to optimize your current environment. This partnership ensures a healthy relationship between IT service management and the infrastructure it supports.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss mapping and dependencies of your infrastructure in the CMDB
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Gain understanding of the importance of automated discovery for your CMDB population initiatives
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Cover topics including event management strategies, using AI Ops to manage monitored environments, cloud management, and ServiceNow as the gateway to the cloud
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Owners and Leaders
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ServiceNow Team
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ITSM Leaders
To gain a seat at the business decision table, IT must mature in its ability to understand costs, map to consumers, dynamically view budget spend and forecast, and align with business requirements through financial transparency.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current state of your financial transparency within your IT organization and discover areas for improvement
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Cover topics including cloud billing, contracts and procurement, asset management, and showbacks, chargebacks, and shamebacks
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Explore cloud cost management and governance within AWS and/or Azure
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Dive into how ServiceNow can be used as a platform for ITFT
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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SVP of IT
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Finance executives sitting in IT
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Finance liasons with IT
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Contract procurement specialists
IT is increasingly more than just the organization that runs infrastructure. It is now critical to the success of the business and must reach maturity to support internal and external IT consumers. For true IT maturity, enterprises must break down silos and stitch together capabilities so that infrastructure tools and teams communicate regularly and effectively. This session will help your team get a “seat at the table” through strategic planning that optimizes budgets.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current maturity of your IT organization
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Cover topics including automation, capacity management, proactive monitoring/alerting responses, automated responses, cost visibility, transparency and reporting, mature processes, asset management, cost optimization, modern security, and modern applications.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CISO
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SVP
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IT Team
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Enterprise Architects
Automated testing code has grown in capability and complexity and few organizations have mastered achieving the right number of tests and test coverage to enable modern practices like continuous delivery (CD) and deployment.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the evolution of automated testing in applications
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Discuss the maintenance required to keep tests valuable, manageable, and sustainable
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Highlight new testing approaches for modern application architectures
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Discuss the importance and highlight the strategy of automated testing in conjunction with continuous delivery/deployment
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Cover topics including finding the balance with automated testing, unit testing fundamentals, integration testing fundamentals, and how CD should look/feel with the right level of automated testing
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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VP of Applications
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Chief Digital Officer
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Chief Architect
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Application Delivery Manager
Cloud security is more than just how the cloud is architected. It is also about process—therefore, gaps in tooling can exist and cause problems. This session explores the fundamentals of keeping your cloud secure with best practices, appropriate infrastructure, and proper processes.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss cloud security, architecture, and cloud security products and tools (Virtual Palo Alto, Rapid7 for Azure, etc.)
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Explore the processes that drive true cloud security
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Cover on-prem security in relation to the cloud
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Explore the risks and rewards associated with K8s/containers and application security in the modern app world
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CISO
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Director of Security
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Enterprise Architects
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Cloud Architects
Kubernetes is a portable, open source platform for container orchestration. It facilitates both declarative configuration and automation by managing containerized workloads and services. Dive into the Kubernetes container management & orchestration platform, and learn how you can automate deployment, scaling, management, and the orchestration/integration of containerized applications. Based on your environment and needs, this session can provide either an overview or deep dive into Kubernetes. The session can also include a comparison and analysis of Enterprise solutions such as VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, and Rancher, as well as cloud-based solutions such as AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review the Kubernetes container management and orchestration platform
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Cover topics including how to automate deployment, scaling, management, and the orchestration/integration of containerized applications
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Identify and compare modern Enterprise and Cloud solutions aimed at reducing the time to value for Kubernetes orchestration platforms such as VMware Tanzu and Red Hat OpenShift
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Understand the value Kubernetes could provide to your organization
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Containers Team
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Platform Team
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Infrastructure teams supporting containers/Kubernetes
The world no longer consists of just virtual machines and physical servers running in your own data center. Newer technologies like containers offer many benefits, but are often built, run, and maintained in separate environments—increasing complexity for IT professionals who are already struggling to keep up. VMware’s Tanzu portfolio aims to ease this burden by allowing for consolidation and consistency in today’s hybrid landscape.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your organization’s current state and needs around technologies like containers and Kubernetes
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Discuss the operational efficiencies created by building and maintaining many disparate environments
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Discuss the impact of running and managing VMs and containers in a consolidated environment
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Compare use cases and success stories
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Work with your key stakeholders to understand your long-term vision and strategy for running workloads
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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VP of IT
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Infrastructure Director
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Storage/Virtualization Manager
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Storage/Virtualization Engineer
VMware Cloud Foundation is an opinionated software-defined architecture that focuses on automating and simplifying VMware’s core offerings, enabling organizations to leverage the value that VMware provides, while at the same time limiting its complexity. This session explores VMware Cloud Foundation and its use cases that fit your environment.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current and future capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation
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Identify your current business challenges around VMware’s core offerings
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Compare features and capabilities of public cloud and on-prem infrastructure
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Explore how other organizations are leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation to automate lifecycle management of their infrastructure and explore possible use cases
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Virtualization Manager
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Storage/Virtualization Engineer
Constant changes in regulatory requirements make managing compliance controls a challenge for many organizations. When you add on the need to identify and manage risk across the organization, it becomes a major painpoint. This session covers approaches IT teams can take to gain control over Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Information Rights Management (IRM).
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss how to identify, prioritize, and manage risks across your organization
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Explore tools including frameworks, risk universe and risk register management, policy and compliance management, testing and audit management, and vendor risk management
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Cover how continuous monitoring and assessment and comprehensive reporting can aid your IT organization
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CISO
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Risk Team
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Compliance Team
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Vendor Management
Modern endpoint management tools enable organizations to deliver a consistent and enjoyable user experience, whether users are accessing resources from their smartphone or a corporate laptop, on or off the network. This session will delve into endpoint management solutions from VMware and Microsoft, as well how these technologies help organizations address the current security and business continuity challenges many organizations are facing.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the state of the market for endpoint management and common challenges related to business continuity
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Explore your organization’s current remote work-related challenges and upcoming initiatives
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Discuss current security challenges and impacts to user experience
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Review tools including VMware Workspace One (including AirWatch), Microsoft Endpoint Manager (SCCM/Intune), and Citrix Endpoint Management
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Security Director
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Operations Director
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Desktop Architect
Many organizations live in a hybrid world where they must support new cloud native applications while maintaining the legacy applications that generate the bulk of the company’s revenue. For these organizations, a modern infrastructure strategy is a key enabler of speed and agility. This session covers how your business can gain a competitive edge while ensuring investment dollars can be allocated to innovation vs. “keeping the lights on.”
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Identify your current business challenges that could be solved with a modern infrastructure strategy
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Discuss anticipated future requirements and long-term business vision
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Compare features and capabilities of public cloud and on-prem infrastructure
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Explore types of infrastructure platform strategies and provide insight into current and expected future market leaders
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Discuss current trends and points of intersection between on-prem infrastructure and public cloud, along with other IT disciplines (automation, security, data protection)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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VP of IT
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Infrastructure Director
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Virtualization Manager
First-level network troubleshooting can be cumbersome, error-prone, and time-consuming—making it a perfect candidate for automation. Automating the process of data gathering following a routine incident can greatly reduce time-to-resolution, saving time and money.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Map your organization’s current processes to potential automation workstreams
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Review the basics of the ServiceNow platform in the context of network troubleshooting automation
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Perform a real-world demonstration using ServiceNow and Ansible
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Discuss other common use cases for network automation combined with ServiceNow
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Cover topics including ticket enrichment using ServiceNow and network automation, the basics of Ansible for network automation, Infrastructure as code tools including Terraform
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Network/IT Director (specifically those with Operations focus
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Senior Network Team Manager
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Network Team Leads
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Automation-focused Team Members
The services your IT organization provides are the gateway to business efficiency and performance. However, providing exceptional service delivery across the business can be a daunting challenge. This session holistically explores service delivery and how to optimize it for greater impacts on IT and business results.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the current state of your ITSM suite and best practices for IT service delivery
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Discuss how service delivery impacts the user experience
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Share organizational adoption best practices
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Cover topics including CMDB, CSDM, and ITIL
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Review ITSM-specific topics including incident, problem, knowledge, and change management, service catalog and request fulfillment, and service portals
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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ITIL Decision Makers
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IT Leadership
Data breaches, data corruption, and malware bring business operations to a halt with no notice. Today’s sophisticated phishers even target backups to guarantee payment. This session explores the dangers of unprotected data and how you can protect your organization from ransomware attacks.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Identify threats that expose your backup environment
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Discuss levels of cyber threat protection with select vendors
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Discuss your data protection environment vault
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Discuss potential cyberthreat designs to fit your organization
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Demo cyber recovery solutions
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Data Protection Manager
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Data Protection Engineer
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Security Manager
The wide variety of monitoring tools available in AWS and/or Azure can be overwhelming. In this session, our team of tool experts will walk you through the options and discuss which tools provide the best fit for your organization.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss which native cloud platform tools are available within Azure and/or AWS
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Cover best practices of public cloud monitoring and integrating DevOps tools like Terraform and monitoring solutions
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Explore tool topics including best-of-breed third-party options, cloud native tools, CI/CD pipeline integration (observability as code)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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DevOps Business Unit Lead
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DevOps Manager
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Application Owners
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Anyone who has responsibility for the uptime, health, and performance of critical business services, applications, or IT infrastructure
Deploying, networking, and maintaining next-generation firewalls in public cloud environments can be a complex endeavor, but is a common need of most enterprises. Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform can make the task much more approachable and scalable.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Perform a current state assessment of your organization’s challenges and needs
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Identify the complexities and challenges of networking public clouds manually
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Demonstrate the basics of working with Terraform to develop network security infrastructure as code
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Gain an understanding of the skills necessary to support an infrastructure-as-code based network security environment
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Cover topics including the basics of public cloud networking, the theory and operations of next-generation firewalls in public cloud environments, the benefits of multi-cloud platforms such as Terraform, and the provider basics of Terraform and Palo Alto
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Security/Network Security Director
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DevOps Teams (specifically network security-focused team members)
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Automation-focused team members
The dividing line between a successful cloud adoption and failure lies in your organization’s cloud strategy. This briefing covers the foundational pillars required to ensure a successful adoption of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss public cloud best practices, use cases, and success stories
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Provide high-level guidance and best practices to help build and maintain secure, reliable, and efficient applications in the public cloud
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Compare and contrast cloud providers and their account structures, offerings, and capabilities
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Cover topics including naming, tagging, policies, and auditing techniques necessary to ensure appropriate governance of your enterprise cloud environment spanning on-premise and off-premise resources
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CTO
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Director
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VP
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IT Manager
Security should always fit IT functions, but with automation and DevOps it has to fit like a glove. Learn about proper security and automation deployments and how to drive both with HashiCorp Vault.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your organization’s current security toolset
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Discuss the current state of HashiCorp Vault integration and capabilities
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Explore the challenges of integrating security tools with automation pipelines
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Cover topics including managing SSL certificates, application deployment, HashiCorp Vault features, secrets management, and DevOps best practices
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CISO
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Security Director
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DevOps Director/Team Lead
The use of multiple systems and applications to monitor security in the environment causes screen fatigue and increased noise. This session explores how your IT organization can consolidate security tool data for better alerting and actioning.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the identification, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities
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Cover topics including identifying incidents, enriching security incidents before assignment, appropriate assignment and consistent process execution, risk analysis, automation and SOAR, grouping vulnerabilities, and comprehensive reporting
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CISO
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Security Team
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Vulnerability Team
Security operations is a complex problem due to the large volumes of data often generated. Security automation can be leveraged to reduce the time required to perform security investigation and reduce the overall cost of your information security program. This session covers the basics of SOAR and how your organization can adopt this approach for more efficient overall security operations.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss the basics of SOAR
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Cover specifics of how your organization can benefit from security automation
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Dive into topics including SOAR platforms, API-driven security, and process automation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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CIO
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CISO
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Security Director
Learn how Splunk, an industry leading log aggregation and analytics platform, can increase operational efficiency by improving visibility and increasing the speed of analysis for your organization.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Discuss how Splunk can help the efficiency of your IT ops
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Cover log management and log analytics
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
Business critical applications are often run in virtual machines and require quick recovery and minimal data loss in the event of a disaster. Creating a strategy to protect the various workloads in your virtual environments not only minimizes the impact of an event, but also aligns appropriate protection methods to the application’s business value. Understanding your options and how to effectively use resources like public cloud providers is critical to ensuring a cost-effective and functional solution.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Review your organization’s current state related to disaster recovery (DR) strategies for virtualized environments
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Discuss the potential business impact of a DR event as well as recovery and data loss requirements
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Compare use cases and success stories
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Work with your key stakeholders to understand your long-term vision and strategy to protect your virtual environment
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Cover topics including strategy development for protecting virtualized environments and an overview of methodologies and solutions to protect your environment (including public cloud and hybrid options)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Storage/Virtualization Manager
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Storage/Virtualization Engineer
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Data Protection Engineer
Enterprises continue to increase the rate at which they create data, whether from traditional processes that have been digitized or due to the increase of internet-connected devices. This data proliferation challenges businesses to store, back up, and properly secure their ever-growing data sets.
IN THIS BRIEFING WE WILL:
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Introduce types of storage and architectures and provide insight into current and future market leaders
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Provide industry knowledge on unstructured data solutions around storage arrays and migration and analytics tools
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Identify current business challenges impacted by unstructured data
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Document possible areas of improvement for your environment
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS BRIEFING:
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Infrastructure Director
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Storage Manager
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Storage Engineer
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Cloud Directors
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Cloud Managers
