Actualtech Media
IT organizations have grown accustomed to traditional IT infrastructure and virtualization technology that requires care, feeding and large budgets. Sadly, this keeps them focused on the speeds and feeds and not on what matters most – business outcomes and customer experiences. Join us to hear how Faisal Jawaid, IT Manager at TELUS Spark, a leading science museum in Calgary, CA, rose above the daily grind of managing complex infrastructure and mundane maintenance tasks.
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CNCF
When it comes to modern infrastructure adoption, which organizations are ahead of the curve? How do they successfully support their infrastructure to build and operationalize cloud-native applications? What do their architectures and operations look like? And how do they maintain total visibility by using a large, complex open source stack? Join two long-time networking industry pros on June 18 to understand “The State of Infrastructure, Architecture & Operations to Support Cloud-Native Applications.” Co-founder and CEO of Kentik Avi Freedman, founder of Philly’s first ISP and former Chief Network Scientist at Akamai, will present alongside Kentik CTO Jonah Kowall, former Gartner Research VP and AppDynamics VP.
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The benefits of cloud transformation and app modernization initiatives are clear for large, mature organizations: cost savings, flexible software development, faster app release cycles, business agility and innovation. Application security postures are evolving to include shift-left patterns during development in addition to production-specific security requirements that are unique to cloud environments. This impacts customers who are unclear or unprepared for the separation of concerns between development and production and who are uncertain how to prepare for a changing threat landscape.
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Gigaom
Last week I had a speech at a small workshop in Italy around hyper-convergence. It was a group of more than 20 end users, mid-to-large sized companies that were evaluating if hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) makes sense for their projects. In fact, only a few of them are already utilizing hyper-convergence, and some have special use cases for which solutions they have evaluated so far are too expensive or not flexible enough for their needs. Edge computing, for example, is pretty challenging for most HCI solutions. That was an interesting discussion and I’m trying to take advantage of it for the slide deck I’m preparing for a webinar I’ll host next week here on GigaOm: “Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Maximizing TCO and ROI” I’m focusing the presentation on a few aspects that I consider fundamental to choose the right HCI solution: One-size-fits-all does not exist when it comes to IT infrastructures. It is important to understand your real needs and proceed accordingly.
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