MegaCast - Converged, Hyperconverged, & Composable Infrastructure

Hybrid is important since only 20% of current IT load has been moved to the cloud, and it is expected that a large portion will stay in the local DC’s for a long time. Using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions can make initial cloud adoption faster and easier, helping you to optimize the value of your existing on-premises infrastructure. Next step is moving into container based Multicloud environments, both on-premise and in the cloud. Here Open is important to avoid vendor lock-in. And to stay in control with both on-premise and cloud, Management tools and Security is needed.

As digital transformation of business operations and our personal lives accelerates, Data Center capacity needs to keep up. At the same time pressure is mounting to grow capacity in an environmentally responsible way. Data Center operators must mobilize plans that include energy optimization, reductions of waste, restrictions on water usage and minimized greenhouse gas emissions. A holistic plan will cover the lifecycle from Data Center design, construction and operation. We will discuss how companies can respond to the drivers of sustainability with a holistic environmental Data Center sustainability strategy including metrics to use, ways to measure, planning and designing software, sustainable hardware solutions and the portfolio of sustainability services available.

Demand for edge data centers is expected to grow across the world in the short-term, particularly for shared data centers and especially in North America. Uptime Institute research shows a continued usage of redundant power and cooling systems, while at the same time showing an interest in distributed resiliency involving multiple edge data centers.

Digitalization, work from anywhere and cloud-based computing accelerated the need for a cloud-based security approach that enables anywhere, anytime access from any device. However, current network security architectures were designed with the enterprise data center as the focal point for access needs. Join this complimentary security & risk webinar as Gartner experts help you build a migration plan from legacy perimeter and hardware-based offerings to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model. You will find out how to implement software-defined and cloud-delivered security, forcing changes in security architecture and vendor selection.