Webinars

Webinars

  • Protect, Recover, and Secure Mission-Critical Data with Druva

    What happens when ransomware strikes and your last line of defense is recovering from backups? In this short solution demonstration, see how Druva's Accelerated Ransomware Recovery provides visibility into backup security posture, insight into anomalous data changes in your backups, curated and scanned recoveries of clean data, and last known good versions of all affected files. See how Druva: - Provides a single unified management interface for all your backups - Provides a customized dashboard for backup security posture - Improves your readiness with insights into relevant security events and unusual data anomalies - Enhances response with quarantine actions and curated recovery for a quick and clean restoration Read More

  • Practical considerations for cloud backups

    In recent years, cloud backups have become all the rage, and for good reason. Cloud backups solve many of the most pressing challenges associated with conventional backups. Even so, not all cloud backups are created equally, and in some situations it might even be better not to use a cloud backup. This informative and vendor neutral presentation from best-selling author and expert Brien Posey will explore numerous practical considerations as they relate to cloud backups. In it, you will learn various strategies for keeping your data better protected while also keeping costs in check. A few of the topics of discussion include: - When you should and shouldn’t back up to the cloud. - Important features to look for in a cloud backup solution. - Strategies for meeting your backup SLAs. - The true cost of cloud backup and restoration. About the speaker: Brien Posey is an internationally best-selling technology author and speaker, and a 21x Microsoft MVP. Prior to going freelance, Posey served as CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities, a network engineer for the United States Department of Defense at Fort Knox, and as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America. In addition to his ongoing work in IT, Posey has been training to be a commercial astronaut since 2015 in preparation to fly on a mission to study polar mesospheric clouds from space. Read More

  • Why Magnetic Recording Creates Substantial Value for Cloud Storage

    Most Cloud Service Provider’s use HDDs and Tape to deliver Storage Services, contain CapEx budgets, easily scale their infrastructure and to manage power consumption. As big and unstructured data becomes more prevalent in society and at the same time data growth is approaching 165 ZB’s by 2025, organizations and CSP’s are grappling with data retention compliance and the most cost-effective architectures to manage and deliver storage services to their users and customers. Additionally, budgets for IT and operating expenses for power and cooling continue to be challenging for both Data Center Operators as well as CIO’s. This Session will explore: - HDD based cloud architectures for scale and cost - Data Tiering - Areal Density Growth Strategies Narrator: John Collins, VP of Marketing, Western Digital Interviewee: Barrett Edwards, CTO Platforms Business, Western Digital Read More

  • Management of Cloud Storage: Securing Data and Automating Account Management

    Cloud storage has become incredibly user-friendly, whether you’re an administrator, developer, or end-user, the centralized portal and API tools facilitate quick and efficient operations. Despite the protections that cloud storage providers have in place, storing data in the cloud increases the attack surface area. Users must take the additional safeguards of protecting root account information, configuring MFA, and using data immutability options. At the same time, the administrator must oversee all back-end operations that go with maintaining cloud storage and delivering storage services. New storage management tools make it simple to provision storage, forecast capacity trends, and share usage information other users. This session will explore: - The cloud storage management policies that protect your data from accidental loss or malicious attack - How to combat cloud account sprawl - Monitoring for the bigger picture - The creation and modification of subaccounts for charge-back or show-back purposes Read More

  • Ever changing clouds: Is that a castle or a cloud?

    By now, we all see the opportunity with core cloud storage services. The object storage that seems to underlie everything we do in IT these days. But cloud storage is becoming more than just objects in space -- it's evolving up the stack to include more layers of critical management, security, functionality, and even utility! And of course, most IT vendors are claiming their solutions, whatever they really are, are now also cloud solutions. Overall cloud adoption is still growing, but the very definition of cloud itself is changing too. What does cloud storage really mean today and where is it going? In this webinar, Mike Matchett, Principal Analyst with Small World Big Data, will look at some key data and cloud storage trends driving our use of the word “cloud”. We'll unpack some new ways to stay in control of hybrid architectures, securing the no-longer centralized data center, and manage edge data intelligence. Users need to stay ahead of the latest trends driving big changes in data storage. How do we handle support for new big AI models (i.e., when every LOB wants their own ChatGPT...), end user expectations for seamless global access to data anywhere, clean data security in a hostile internet, and what the heck is zero trust, really, just between you and me? Starting today, where should we put our mighty but limited data storage efforts in 2023? Should we still be managing storage, or should the AI be managing it for us? About the speaker Mike has been writing and publishing expert IT industry analysis and nuanced market-focused opinions, articles and technology reports for over 17 years. In addition to being widely quoted, you can find his analysis and opinions in publications like SearchStorage, SearchDatacenter, Virtualization Review, InfoStor and Enterprise Systems Journal. Read More

  • Why storage management standards matter in complex virtualized environments

    Cloud storage providers and anyone developing enterprise data centers have an unprecedented array of new technologies to choose from to build their next-generation environments. These new technologies present more potential permutations to work with, enabling even greater opportunities for optimization. Adding additional virtualization and acceleration technologies presents more flexibility and options to build a custom configuration, but doing so increases the management challenges exponentially. With the proliferation of different technologies and multiple vendors, standards-based management is more critical than ever to successfully develop, integrate, deploy, and manage systems and storage at scale. This session will provide an overview of: - The latest technologies in storage for virtualization, acceleration, and fabrics. - The organizations delivering standards-based management. - A discussion of open-source projects delivering value-add using standards-based management. Read More

  • Automation: Can’t Live Without It, Learn to Live With It

    IT’s love/hate affair with automation is long-standing and complicated. The continuing spread and complexification of the IT environment has made automation more and more essential, whether embedded deep inside a product (think RAID array or SD-WAN appliance) or written within a specific application environment (think Salesforce) or written at the OS level to manipulate or integrate systems and data (think PowerShell). Join expert John Burke from Nemertes as he discusses how to think your way clear to expanding your embrace of automation, and some key behaviors to embrace to make automation mature and sustainable at the enterprise level. Read More

  • The future of automation with AI

    In an ever-changing disruptive and very challenging world, the combination of digital platforms, automation and AI have transformed how businesses interact, communicate and execute to meet and exceed client outcomes. COVID-19 accelerated the advent of the future of automation with AI. As the global economy becomes more accustomed to automation and AI, changing the nature and speed in how we consume data and information, organizations and industries are learning to synchronize with the new realities of the future of automation with AI. The largest impact of this is felt in the workforce and across several industries, in manufacturing, healthcare, retail, real estate and the like. Concrete examples of how automation and AI aided growth in multiple industries include, but are not limited to: - Using AI-backed analytics and data to reduce unplanned downtime - Improving efficiency and product quality, such as the use of co-bots, collaborative robots assisting humans in complicated tasks - Product augmentation - Enhancing a customer’s experience in their “buying” journey It is evident through these examples that the future of automation with AI is here to stay. However, many organizations struggle with re-skilling, up-skilling, retaining and training their existing workforce who may be resistant to the speed of change. While machines do and will continue to fulfill certain functions, complex functions and roles still require human assistance to enable true business transformation. Tune into this webinar, presented by industry thought leader, Dr. Sue Tripathi to learn: 1. The current and future state of automation with AI 2. The impact of the future state on the workforce that generates a different type of value in their roles and businesses 3. Working knowledge of the latest technologies used in various industries that have shown good results 4. Concrete examples of how the future of automation with AI has helped in meeting client needs Read More

  • How Zero Trust Fares Against Current Cyber Threats

    While zero trust has been touted as a north star for enterprise security, some experts argue that it may not be effective in all scenarios. With this reservation in mind, how can organizations, like yours, ensure that their Zero Trust strategies are effective, aligned with their security goals, and thwart today’s persistent phishing threats? Find out by tuning into this Fireside Chat between ESG Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik and Deepen Desai—Global CISO and Head of Security Research & Operations at Zscaler—as they survey how Zero Trust fares against the current threat landscape. Agenda items include: • Zero Trust challenges & strategies for effective adoption • A review of the 2023 ThreatLabz Phishing Report with the latest trends & techniques • Tactics to pivot for supply chain, IoT, and MFA attacks • The rise of AI chatbots and their impact on cybersecurity defenders • And much more Read More

  • Cybersecurity in 2023: The Good, The Bad, and The Strategy

    With the ever-increasing number of cyber breaches, a significant question remains: have we accepted or turned a blind eye to the problem? The recent breach reporting mandates and global regulatory requirements make it clear that we need to do more to protect our assets. Although challenged by the cost of cyber insurance, talent gap, increased complexity, more audits, and deeper analysis by investors, it is still essential to find ways to reduce costs, retain skilled talent, demonstrate risk management, and improve cybersecurity. Join ESG Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik and Ross Brewer, Chief Revenue Officer at SimSpace, for an exciting Fireside Chat that delves into the world of modern cybersecurity strategies to help you stay ahead of the attack curve. This event will cover: • Tactics for satisfying investors • Ways to fill the talent gap while moving from cyber assumptions to cyber certainty • And how you can put your cybersecurity strategies to the test, balance the checkboxes, and create predictability in a cyber range Read More