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Sanjay Kumar Sainani - Huawei and Daniel Bizo - 451 Research

The datacenter industry saw spectacular growth in the past decade on the back of insatiable appetite for digital services from consumers and businesses alike. Cloud services have established themselves as standard for next-generation workloads and provide fertile ground for the adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics and novel application designs for 5G networks enhanced by edge computing, generating need for additional ever cheaper compute and data storage. In turn, demand for more datacenter capacity will only grow in the foreseeable future. However, this puts supply chains under strain, from construction materials and contractors to the critical electrical and mechanical datacenter equipment. Datacenter builds also need to retain some flexibility to be able to react to future requirements as IT systems technology cycles are much shorter and sudden. More datacenter facilities also mean maintenance and operations staff will be challenged to increase their productivity and minimize the need for manual interventions. In this webinar we will discuss datacenter technology trends reshaping requirements for datacenters by 2025.

Tarun Desikan - Banyan, and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

Deciphering NIST Guidelines to replace your legacy VPN and deliver secure remote access Enterprise IT & Security teams tasked with delivering secure remote access for their organizations have to plan for 2 secular trends: (a) more critical business applications are moving to the Cloud (b) more employees are working remotely, across multiple devices, than ever before Traditional Enterprise VPN-based approaches create complex unmaintainable architectures and security gaps. Zero Trust security models promise to reduce complexity while enhancing security but are often thought of as unclearly defined and too complicated to implement. In this webinar, we’ll describe a practical approach to Zero Trust security using NIST’s recently released Special Publication on Zero Trust Access.We’ll deep-dive into, and decipher, 3 core requirements for Zero Trust Access. Executing on these 3 principles will enable you to replace your legacy VPN and deliver secure remote access to your organization.

Matt Kraning - Expanse and Eric Hanselman - 451 Research

Most organizations believe they have their network locked down: they know what they have exposed to the Internet and what they have safely protected behind the firewall. But the truth is that almost no major organization has a complete picture of its true Internet attack surface. This webinar will explore the findings from an exclusive research collaboration between Expanse and 451 Research on attack surface visibility and reduction in the Fortune 500. Among other findings, we discovered that more than half of Fortune 500 organizations had at least one Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server exposed during a two-week period in 2019. 451 Research Chief Analyst Eric Hanselman and Expanse Co-Founder and CTO Matt Kraning will do a deep dive into our research findings and steps organizations can take to reduce their attack surface.

Ben Vanderberg - Adobe and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

Ben Vanderberg, Sr. Evangelist and Technical Product Marketing Manager for Adobe, will be speaking with Sheryl Kingstone, VP of Customer Experience and Commerce at 451 Research to understand how IT can empower sales organizations with end-to-end digital workflows to meet sales targets and increase customer retention. This session will address: The role of digital transformation to eliminate manual processes How the adoption of new technologies benefits both Sales and IT Real-life examples of how new digital platforms and applications promote real-time operational agility

Mohan Kompella - BigPanda and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Imagine two IT Ops teams. One lives in constant fear that somewhere, someone will change something seemingly benign and trigger the dreaded P1 incident. They spend entirely too many hours of their lives on calls between 15 different teams trying to figure it out what caused the outage, while the clock ticks, MTTR rates skyrocket and customer satisfaction plummets. The other decided to take a phased approach to IT Ops modernization. As the business adopted new technologies, so did they. Consolidation of data across all monitoring tools. Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) to automatically reduce the noise and identify root cause in real-time. And automation of key incident management workflows. Improved NOC productivity, increased L1 resolution rates, prevented P3s and P2s from becoming P0s and P1s, reduced ticket volume, reduced MTTD, MTTA and MTTR, and most importantly, made customers happier.

Jordan Sher - OpsRamp and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Join OpsRamp and 451 Research senior analyst Nancy Gohring for an insightful webinar on the four stages of IT operations maturity, and how you can advance your organization incrementally through each. In this webinar we’ll discuss: The platform approach to ITOM including the rise of new organizational models in monitoring, management, and analytics. Artificial intelligence adoption in the modern enterprise, dispelling some common myths and fallacies. The journey to IT operational excellence and what it will take to move your enterprise forward. Speakers

Amiram Shachar - Spot and Jean Atelsek - 451 Research

The wealth and variety of cloud infrastructure options is both a blessing and a curse – with literally millions of products and multiple providers to choose from, making the best choices for your applications can be daunting. Automation can help ease the burden but needs to be planned for and used wisely. This webinar will look at how enterprises are leveraging automation and orchestration software for cloud infrastructure, capabilities they're most likely to source from third-party service providers, and the benefits of using a data-driven approach to infrastructure management.

Sazzala Reddy - Datrium and Steven Hill - 451 Research

Success in today’s rapid-paced business environment means that most companies are increasingly reliant on a dependable IT ecosystem to remain efficient and competitive. The flexible options offered by the hybrid cloud levels the technology playing field for companies of every size, and enables a cloud-native approach to protecting workloads and data that can minimize the effects of downtime, ensure system security, and defend against evolving threats; on-premises and off. You are cordially invited to join Steven Hill – Senior Analyst, Applied Infrastructure and Storage Technologies at 451 Research and his guest, Sazzala Reddy - Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Datrium for a frank discussion of next-generation disaster recovery and how a cloud-native approach can increase the protection of your critical IT environment.

Ryan Kalember - Proofpoint and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

The reasons for implementing cloud security access brokers have steadily moved from an original use case around discovery and asset inventory of SaaS applications to data loss prevention (DLP), monitoring user activity and adaptive access controls. Loss of in-house data control, data breaches, data residency and confidentiality are the top concerns for cloud applications and services. Join Garrett Bekker from 451 Research Group and Ryan Kalember, SVP of Cybersecurity at Proofpoint, as they discuss: Insights from the Voice of the Enterprise research report on Information Security in the cloud. Top cloud security pain points Need for preventative and responsive cloud security measures Why a people-centric approach to cloud security is imperative

Sanil Puthiyandyil - Altiostar and Eric Hanselman - 451 Research

Operators are working through the opportunities that the next generation of Radio Access Network (RAN) technology presents, but often overlook one of the key benefits that open approaches can deliver – improved network security. It is a critical requirement for mobile network operators who are deploying next generation 4G and 5G networks, and with the expanded ecosystem, functional modularity and supply chain diversity can make strategic differences in security posture. Join us for a lively panel discussion that will dig into the varied and various aspects of open RAN security that will include panelists with deployment insights from Altiostar, Cisco, Intel and Red Hat.

Tony Fisher and Craig Chaplin - Magnitude and Jim Curtis - 451 Research

Headlining terms like the “data-driven enterprise”, “big data” and “moving data to the cloud” all boil down to one thing - agility in the way data is managed. No matter your focus, the key enablers are new approaches to data processing, data management and analytics in the hands of a far broader set of application enabled data users. We call this data democratization, which will catapult businesses to new heights of performance—when done right! The proliferation of data sources and applications capable of making data usable by non-data scientists means that data analysis has gone from the hands of the few to the many in an organization. But the architectures necessary to accomplish this require a new breed of data management thinking. In this webinar, 451 Analyst James Curtis talks with Magnitude Software’s Tony Fisher and Craig Chaplin about the technology trends shaping democratized data access and the role of agile data management in the data-driven enterprise.

Justin Sears - Lucidworks and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

The agility of microservices appeals to many, but where to start can be a journey in itself. Meanwhile, microservices are often conflated with Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform. This can lead folks down the wrong path by putting the proverbial technology cart before the architectural horse.

For ecommerce companies, times of peak demand represent a key business moment loaded with opportunity and fraught with risk. This webinar will discuss the pain points, use of AI to predict customer intent, and key performance metrics expressed by more than 120 online retailers in Lucidworks’ 2019 Retail Benchmark Survey. The webinar will also provide insight from 451 Research on the strategies, tools and techniques for achieving ecommerce success in 2020.

Nathaniel T. Schutta - VMWare, Joe Nedumgottil - Solstice, and Jay Lyman - 451 Research

The agility of microservices appeals to many, but where to start can be a journey in itself. Meanwhile, microservices are often conflated with Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform. This can lead folks down the wrong path by putting the proverbial technology cart before the architectural horse.

When it comes down to it, not everything should be a microservice and not everything should run in Kubernetes. How do you decide when, where, and how to take advantage of this powerful application pattern and technology paradigm combination? Join Joe Nedomgottil, Principal at Solstice, Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst at 451 Research, and Nathaniel Schutta, Developer Advocate at VMware to learn:

Melanie Posey - 451 Research

Driving innovation, business value, and competitive differentiation are increasingly dependent on your business’s IT, data and connectivity services. Forward-looking IT and business leaders are embracing the challenge, but there are multiple transformations to navigate. In an increasingly digitized world, the challenges your business faces can be varied - from modernizing legacy workloads to maximizing the potential value of your data, or to developing “born in the cloud” apps. “Hybrid cloud” or “multicloud” was once an unintended consequence of unchecked technology sprawl - but is now emerging as a strategy to manage IT transformation.

Learn from leading cloud industry analyst - Melanie Posey, the 451Group - on how your cloud can work for you and how cloud services can be architected to take advantage of your network capability. Hear more about how your business can achieve greater agility, scalability and speed – not to mention unprecedented innovation, and a future-ready workforce.

Craig Cook - Flexential and Melanie Posey - 451 Research

As intensity around cost management, security, compliance, and latency grow, businesses are more entrenched than ever in balancing a hybrid IT environment. Cloud solutions are a significant consideration in this ecosystem. Many enterprises that have gone all-in on public cloud infrastructure models only to discover unexpected costs, security and compliance limitations, and unsatisfactory latency. In fact, 1 in 3 organizations have "Boomeranged," migrating workloads from the public cloud back into colocation and private cloud environments in the last 12 months.

Register for The Boomerang Effect: Why Hybrid Architectures are Becoming the Norm to discover how companies are managing the Boomerang Effect by evaluating workloads, costs, and manageability of public vs. private cloud solutions

Neeraj Poddar - Aspen Mesh, Zach Arnold - Ygrene and William Fellows - 451 Research

Operating Istio in production is challenging as it involves a lot of complex pieces with the possibility of failures at various stages from invalid configuration to runtime component mismatches. Ability to identify and debug these problems is key to successfully operating Istio in production.

Stan Stevens - Hitachi Vantara and Henry Baltazar - 451 Research

IT automation is gaining more awareness and top-of-mind traction among IT executives and teams as they seek to modernize their management operations that can help address their IT infrastructure complexities and rapidly improve delivery of IT resources. After all, by automating routine management tasks, IT administrators can gain greater efficiencies, lower costs, minimize human error, and provide proactive problem remediation. The challenge however is that IT and storage automation can be challenging and cumbersome to implement such as:

• Where do I start my automation journey?
• Do we have the right skills and resources?
• What are the financial implications? Will I really see efficiency gains, what is my return on investment?
• How do I automate these repetitive storage provisioning tasks?
• Where are my peers and the market as it relates to IT automation? Am I behind or in the right position?

Join Hitachi Vantara and 451 Research as they will share some key insights into the current state of IT and storage automation, what the right approach to automation, and some lessons learned from early adopters of automation.

Sheri Atienza - Vonage and Keith Dawson - 451 Research

The modern customer experience spans many scenarios, touchpoints, and communication channels. The experiences that win loyal customers engage people in ongoing conversations, delivering exactly what the customer needs in a given moment by leveraging what’s happened in their journey up to that point.

Register for this insightful webinar to find out how communications APIs are enabling businesses across industries to build these exceptional customer experiences. You’ll gain insights such as:

• The current challenges in creating omnichannel customer experiences
• The market dynamics shaping the customer experience landscape in 2020 and beyond
• How communications APIs can be used to orchestrate meaningful customer journeys

Don’t miss this timely event featuring perspectives from 451 Research Analyst Keith Dawson and Vonage Global Marketing Director Sheri Atienza.

Eric Hanselman - 451 Research

The race to 5G has undoubtedly put pressure on established mobile network operators (MNOs) around the globe. To compete in this rapidly evolving market, including with emerging ‘greenfield’ networks unencumbered by existing infrastructure, legacy operators need to be efficient and innovative as they bring their networks of the past into the future.

Transitioning from traditional to open RAN is a path forward for operators looking to deploy next-generation wireless infrastructure. On this webinar, 451 Research Chief Analyst Eric Hanselman will be joined by speakers from Altiostar, Red Hat, Cisco and Intel and they’ll discuss:

• Key benefits of open RAN for established MNOs, including flexibility, agility and cost savings in deployments
• How decoupling hardware from software in RAN enables operators to build best-of-breed supply chains
• Recommendations for how operators can transition from traditional to open RAN

Jordan Morrow - Qlik and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

In the world today, organizations of all shapes, sizes, and industries, are investing, collecting, and trying to make sense of data. Unfortunately, there is a large skills-gap with regards to data and analytical skills, causing issues with adoption and analytical success. Come join this session to learn about data literacy, two main trends that are permeating the world with regards to data and analytics, and what organizations can do to empower their workforces to utilize data and analytics more effectively, and make smarter data-informed decisions.

Maya Ber Lerner - Quali and William Fellows - 451 Research

Each team along the traditional DevOps toolchain has their own approach to application orchestration—creating sequential hand-offs that don’t scale. But, what if everyone had simultaneous access to instances of the application environment from the planning stage all the way to production?Having a unified approach to orchestrating application and infrastructure environments can enable you to scale productivity, measure utilization, and accelerate innovation.

Join Maya Ber Lerner, Quali CTO and Chief Evangelist, and William Fellows of 451 Research as they discuss the strategy behind Parallel Application Delivery for rapid development, testing, deployment, and innovation.

Zachary Jarvinen - OpenText and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

Experience has become critical across industries from the private to the public sector to drive value. Heightened demands for context, convenience and control in all customer interactions require companies to re-evaluate how they provide contextually relevant experiences for their customers.

451 Research data shows that digital leaders are prioritizing customer experiences as a key differentiator, where finding the collective customer voice needed for CX optimization has become an ongoing challenge. Enterprises find themselves switching between inefficient analytics tools. Disparate tools lacking the necessary capabilities increase organizational risk of not having deep customer knowledge leading to suboptimal brand perception, customer churn (estimated to represent an annual $136.8 billion loss), inaccurate targeting and ultimately loss of revenue and program inefficacy.

Enterprises and governments need a complete picture of their customers, citizens, and products—along with accurate targeting to serve them better. Using AI, machine learning, and text analytics enterprises can now evaluate their brand and collective customers’ pulse to:

• Maintain a healthy reputational/brand image.
• Reduce churn and dissatisfaction risks.
• Increase revenue while increasing upselling and cross-selling rates by 15 to 20%.

Join this webinar and learn how to optimize experiences, improve program efficacy and increase revenue using AI and text analytics. Discover key tools needed to transform feedback sources such as operational data, free form surveys, customer service calls, social, web content, email, etc. into brand and voice of the customer insights along with effective targeting. Additionally, dive into specific use cases to track product enhancement needs, voice of the customer and citizens.

Don’t miss this opportunity to know how leading organizations are leveraging the latest innovations in technology to drive revenue and citizen engagement..

Joshua Moore - NetApp and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

The adoption of DevOps practices, designed to speed development and improve collaboration, often comes with downsides, too. For instance, with the embrace of DevOps, we commonly see tool sprawl emerge as a barrier to achieving unified visibility into hybrid environments. The result is that while the number of tools goes up, application performance goes down.

Please join Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst at 451 Research, and Joshua Moore, Principal Technologies at NetApp, as we discuss some of the ops-related pitfalls to DevOps adoption, as well as some approaches – including recommended shifts in organizational models – that can help organizations solve or avoid these common challenges.

Michael Hiskey - Avanan and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

87% of security professionals have deployed an email security solution, according to data from 451 Research. Yet phishing is among the top three pain points for CISOs.

Because of this, 46% of security practitioners think email is the greatest threat to data security — nearly 5x higher than the next-highest responses, which were web browsing and internal network traffic, at 10% respectively. With only 7% of firms planning to invest in email security over the next year, this problem is more urgent than ever.

Clearly, there is a disconnect. We need a new approach to securing email, since what we’ve been doing clearly isn’t working.

Join us to find out why traditional email gateways and user awareness training are not sufficient to protect against modern email threats.

Adam Denenberg - Fastly and Craig Matsumoto - 451 Research

Whether you’ve just migrated to the cloud or you’re already exploring more sophisticated cloud architectures, a multi-cloud end goal can seem painfully out of reach for many organizations. Challenges like added operational complexity and working with legacy, monolithic applications can seem like insurmountable blockers to maturing and evolving your cloud strategy over time. But the path from hybrid cloud to public cloud to multi-cloud doesn’t have to be as intimidating as many make it out to be.

Join industry veterans Craig Matsumoto from 451 Research and Adam Denenberg from Fastly, as they explore the pros and cons of each stage of the typical cloud journey and share recommendations on which stage is right for your organization today and in the future. Having discussed this topic with hundreds of companies globally, Craig will share his observations about the initiatives and projects that move an organization from one stage to another. Adam’s personal experience spearheading cloud initiatives while he was CTO at iHeartRadio gives him a good understanding of what it takes to get these types of projects planned and implemented. Attend the webinar to learn how organizations like yours have made this seemingly daunting cloud journey much more manageable. This discussion is sure to be a lively one that you will not want to miss..

Amy Feldman - Broadcom and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

For businesses today, delivering optimized, high-value digital experiences is not just important, it is a matter of survival. Consequently, the pressures on IT teams continue to mount. IT teams work under this pressure while they strive to track and manage service levels, and contend with the increasingly dynamic, hybrid, and distributed nature of their computing environments. To meet their charters, operations teams need an AI and ML driven solution that helps establish proactive, automated remediation capabilities that fuel superior user experiences, while offering fundamental breakthroughs in scale and efficiency.

Shyam Potta - Riversand and Paige Bartley - 451 Research

There is a pervasive perception amongst organizations that data-specific regulations such as GDPR and their associated compliance requirements are a net burden on business. The rationale is that data privacy requirements, in particular, restrict access and use of data and that compliance initiatives are cost centers. This can be true if the enterprise takes an ad hoc or “checkbox” approach to meeting individual requirements as they arise. But with a strategic approach, organizations can take advantage of evolving regulatory requirements to align them with proactive business objectives. After all, what these data-oriented regulations mandate is complete, granular control of enterprise data. With full control of data, the business can realize numerous downstream benefits in data quality, self-service data access, security, and more. This webinar will explore how compliance requirements can be an opportunity for optimization of data management practices, and how technology approaches such as master data management (MDM) can complement these initiatives for business benefit.

Carolyn Crandall - Attivo and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

Endpoints are the primary target of attackers, with research sharing that, on average, attackers can compromise them in under 5 hours and can break out (move to another system) in under 4.5 hours. Today, the stakes are higher than ever. With the rapid decentralization and proliferation of connected devices, endpoints are the new battleground. Antivirus is foundational, and EDR solutions add valuable improvements. However, even with these controls, attackers have demonstrated that they can successfully bypass them, and once they have, are extremely difficult to detect. Locking down the endpoint from lateral movement would massively valuable in reducing risk. So, is it really possible to lock down the endpoint? Can this same technology go so far as derailing even the act of active observation?

Tune in with Fernando Montenegro, Analyst at 451 Research, and Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer, and CMO at Attivo Networks, for an engaging discussion on the latest Endpoint Security research, challenges organizations are facing today, and why deception technology has created a winning strategy for locking down the endpoint.

Dhanush Paul - rankingCoach and Liam Eagle - 451 Research

Achieving growth in the market for SMB web services is becoming more of a challenge, and acquiring new customers has become a constant struggle as well. Service providers are increasingly challenged with finding new ways to reduce customer churn, and incrementally increase the value of individual users. In this webinar, 451 Research and rankingCoach will examine and evaluate some of the opportunities for adding value that reside in new services and capabilities, and help construct a framework for understanding the impact these services can have on a service provider and its SMB customers, including an emphasis on online marketing solutions.

Oz Basarir - Pivotal, Bob Glithero - Pivotal and Jay Lyman - 451 Research

More and more enterprises are deploying applications in containers on Kubernetes. But until now, the data layer hasn’t received as much attention. Yet an automation framework like Kubernetes has the potential for easing operational challenges over thousands of database instances, enabling enterprises to manage the data layer like their application stacks for agile development.

Join this webinar with Pivotal and 451 Research’s Jay Lyman to learn how to navigate the data automation opportunity presented by Kubernetes. .

Cory Watson - Splunk and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

As the way companies build and operate systems continues to increase in complexity, traditional approaches to monitoring are no longer enough for effective insight and decision making. The elastic and ephemeral nature of today’s infrastructure and the applications they support requires a new approach: Observability. Observability goes beyond monitoring to give you greater operational insight, leading to shorter incidents, fewer quality problems, a better product, and happier customers. In this webinar, you’ll learn what Observability is, why it’s critical for the success of your digital initiatives and what tools and strategies you can use to implement Observability across your enterprise.

Amit Khetawat - Aeris and Brian Partridge - 451 Research

Please join 451 Research and Aeris subject matter experts as they share the opportunities and challenges of scaling from small, localized IoT projects to global services that operate across national borders. Learn how 451 Research and Aeris incorporate real-world experience and emerging technologies to help de-risk and simplify your global expansion.

Rehan Jalil - Securiti and Paige Bartley - 451 Research

Privacy regulations such as CCPA give broad rights of access, control, and consent of personal data held by corporations to individuals. These stringent new requirements challenge traditional compliance and privacy management practices which are driven by cyclical, rather than iterative, surveys and assessments that are often manual in nature. It instead demands real-time and precise intelligence about personal data and consent amidst a myriad of IT systems and third-party vendors across a company. It also pressures organizations to adopt automated orchestration to streamline fulfillment of various privacy compliance requirements, such as the fulfillment of data subject requests, breach notifications, vendor assessments, and consent management. Compliance today, when executed systematically with automation, can be an opportunity to better manage and control enterprise data resources: fulfilling not only reactive regulatory requirements, but also accelerating proactive use cases such as data science and self-service analytics initiatives.

Join Paige Bartley, Senior Analyst of Data, AI & Analytics from 451 Research and Rehan Jalil, CEO of SECURITI.ai as they discuss these new regulatory compliance challenges as well as best practices to enable your organization to effectively comply with CCPA and beyond.

David Craig - Iceotope and Brian Partridge - 451 Research

Distribution of mobile core and edge computing capabilities for 5G is key for latency sensitive applications, but it comes at a cost. A distributed network will increase power demands and bring new power requirements at the core and the edge, so new power saving techniques will be necessary to support 5G functional foundations such as multi-access edge computing [MEC]. Placing more resources in these IT hostile environments not only requires new power saving techniques, it also requires impervious to everything, use anywhere technologies to enable rapid 5G deployment and scalability.

This webinar will discuss the opportunities and challenges that 5G will bring and how distributed network topologies will impact core and edge data center design, deployment and operations. Leaders from ICEOTOPE will share how their next generation liquid cooling technologies offer a game-changing reduction in power consumption, how their silent, sealed and use anywhere cooling technologies are key to enabling rapid 5G deployment and scalability, and how their business model will support the telecom ecosystem in realising its 5G vision.

Simon Taylor - Lucidworks and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

Join us for a webinar with Lucidworks to get the inside scoop on how industry leaders in Europe are developing and executing their digital transformation strategies.

451 Research VP and expert analyst, Matt Aslett and Lucidworks VP Channel, Simon Taylor will share and discuss key insights on:

• The top challenges and aspirations European business and technology leaders are solving using AI and search technology
• Which search and AI use cases are making the biggest impact in industries such as finance, healthcare, retail and energy in Europe
• What characteristics technology buyers should use when evaluating AI and search solutions

Nathan Burke - Axonius and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

Although admittedly not the most exciting part of cybersecurity, asset management is having a moment and becoming a priority for CISOs and security teams. In this webinar, 451 Research Analyst Fernando Montenegro and Axonius CMO Nathan Burke will look at why asset management is still a challenge, why it’s becoming even more critical to address, and a framework to getting a credible asset inventory, finding security solution coverage gaps. And automating policy enforcement.

Register for The Boomerang Effect: Why Hybrid Architectures are Becoming the Norm to discover how companies are managing the Boomerang Effect by evaluating workloads, costs, and manageability of public vs. private cloud solutions

Sandeep Nawathe - Adobe and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

Better e-commerce isn’t exclusive to a faster web or mobile site: it’s about delivering contextual, personalized, relevant experiences in real-time. The challenge is collecting transactional information and combining it with historic and interactional data. These sources can range from CRM, ERP, and marketing technology systems. The experiences need to be delivered in real-time from these disparate sources for any channel. At the heart of unforgettable experiences that increase customer loyalty is a real-time customer profile that aggregates every identity fragment created by an application or system. Additionally, these real-time profiles need to scale to deliver insights for the next best actions from not terabytes but petabytes of data in the Experience Era.

In this webinar, guest presenter Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President and General Manager for 451 Research, and Sandeep Nawathe, Senior Director of Engineering for Adobe Experience Platform, will discuss:

Tripp Partain - HPE and Rich Karpinski - 451 Research

The goal for IoT has always been to leverage data from connected “things” improves insights to create operational efficiencies and uncovers new revenue streams for industrial enterprises. However, many IoT projects get stuck in proof of concept before scaling across the enterprise. To get the latest tips on moving industrial IoT projects forward, we invite you to join Rick Karpinski of 451 Research and Tripp Partain, CTO of HPE IoT & Edge Systems. Tripp and Rick will discuss multiple case studies that illustrate how companies scale and bridge projects across IT and Operational Technology (OT) to greatly improve future deployment beyond IoT pilots.

Nadeem Zahid - cPacket and Mike Fratto - 451 Research

Digital transformation relies on creating a distributed IT environment that is optimized for business agility. The features and capabilities IT can deliver to the business quickly and reliably is far more critical than where the application, service components, or services reside. The net result is improved operational IT efficiency, selecting an operating environment that best suits the applications requirements, allowing developers to use the tools and services they know best, integrating applications with minimal disruption, ensuring business continuity, and maintaining good user-experience. Service assurance can’t be an afterthought. Ensuring applications are delivered as promised and are maintained at high service levels means monitoring that is architecturally aligned with the application environment so that it is continuous and reliable.

Ryo Koyama - remote.it and Eric Hanselman - 451 Research

Internet connectivity has become a must-have feature for digital business operations. Devices on the edge provide significant value, but the constant connectivity comes with a price in terms of security risk. Hackers may target industrial controls, healthcare devices, sensors, or vehicles through their open ports and global IP addresses. Traditional VPN solutions are inflexible and expensive. How do enterprises connect devices and services securely over land lines, and increasingly, cellular data in ways that thwart adversaries but don't bust budgets or stymie flexibility? Learn how a new concept called virtual private internet is meeting the needs with lightweight technology that can be applied to existing deployments and new designs in the coming post-VPN world.

Register for The Boomerang Effect: Why Hybrid Architectures are Becoming the Norm to discover how companies are managing the Boomerang Effect by evaluating workloads, costs, and manageability of public vs. private cloud solutions

Vishal Ganeriwala - Citrix and Chris Marsh - 451 Research

Measuring ROI for employee experience isn’t just HR responsibility anymore. CIOs and IT leaders are playing a more active role in improving employee engagement and productivity. IT leaders are working cross-functionally and focusing on improving employees’ daily work experiences through technology. This webinar will present IT leaders with a framework to measure the employee experience. Chris Marsh from 451 research will also articulate the most important factors to consider when making a purchasing decision for an employee experience solution.

Sasha Gilenson - Evolven and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

The practice of operations has evolved dramatically in most organizations over the past few years. The adoption of new technologies like the cloud, containers and Kubernetes, as well as new application development practices like DevOps, have had profound implications on approaches to driving top application and service performance. In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

• How new technologies add significant complexity – including fast-paced change -- to modern application environments
• Why DevOps adoption continues unabated, and how it contributes both benefits and challenges
• The emergence of an IT Ops Maturity Model that demonstrates both pitfalls to avoid and practices that can support this new world
• Why change awareness and and analytics is critical for maintaining stability and performance in this new world
• How Evolven Change Analytics helps organizations accelerate with confidence

Elik Eizenberg - BigPanda and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Legacy root cause analysis (RCA) techniques based on CMDBs and topology maps are failing IT Ops, NOC and DevOps teams.

CMDBs and topology maps are out-of-date and struggling to be relevant because IT today is fast-moving and application and service architectures are increasingly ephemeral.

What’s the impact? Incidents and outages that are:

• more frequent
• more prolonged, and
• more painful for customers and users.

Kowsik Guruswamy - Menlo Security and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

When it comes to dealing with cyberattacks, 61% of IT professionals are not satisfied with the de facto cybersecurity protection method of after-the-fact investigations. Does this frustration sound familiar?

The top three IT pain points have not been alleviated with this method. Users continue to click phishing links, IT teams don’t trust their end users, and there is still a distinct lack of cybersecurity experts. In addition, the typical answer to a data breach or ransomware attack is still reimaging the infected machine, causing worlds of pain for everyone involved.

Data collected by 451 Research reflects a growing and commonly accepted trend: Phishing and staff shortages are the norm, and your budget isn’t factoring in the cost of an attack.

Thankfully, approaches such as isolation can be an efficient way of tackling key areas of concern for security teams.

Bennett Borofka - LogicMonitor and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Moving applications and workloads to the public cloud isn’t just about choosing the right provider and cloud-native technologies. Related functions, like monitoring, must also transition to ensure top performance in a complex, dynamic cloud environment. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the most painful challenges companies experience when maturing their monitoring practices and talk about how to address them:

• Figure out why tool sprawl happens, and how you can avoid it. As teams seek visibility into their cloud-native environments, they often add more tools, leading to degraded visibility. We’ll discuss solutions for unifying the collection of IT Operations data.
• Understand the impact of brownouts and outages as a result of tool sprawl. More than half of outages and brownouts are avoidable, with common causes like passing capacity thresholds and hardware or software failure after a period of deterioration. Learn how tool sprawl contributes to this problem and what you can do to avoid it.
• Learn how to address organizational and cultural challenges that come along with tool sprawl. Concurrent with cloud adoption, DevOps adoption is on the rise, but what happens to the existing IT Ops team? We’ll discuss a common Maturity Model that we’ve observed from an organizational perspective, and ways to prevent some of the challenges we’ve seen businesses face.

Join 451 Research and LogicMonitor to discuss how you can future-proof your monitoring.

Chetan Venkatesh - Macrometa and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

As enterprises seek to create new competitive moats to not just survive disruption but to become disruptors themselves, it's not enough to pursue digital transformation with just implementing cloud native architectures. The combination of serverless infrastructure with technologies like geo distributed databases, and edge computing enable a holistic new approach to creating applications with rapid time to market, global scalability and extreme performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional and cloud native approaches. We present an entirely novel way for enteprise architects and developers to think about building and running next generation apps using technologies like JAMStack, Single Page Apps, Progressive Web Apps for the front end coupled with Macrometa's globally geo distributed edge data platform as the backend.

Rich Weber - Panzura, Jake Burns - AWS, Jeffrey Foydl - Lincoln International and Melanie Posey - 451 Research

In the digital era, the ability to drive innovation, business value, and competitive differentiation is highly IT-dependent and increasingly data-centric. Forward-looking IT leaders are embracing cloud as the deployment approach for IT resources, but migration brings complexity. How are enterprises approaching the many challenges of transformation, which include legacy workload modernization; rationalizing pre-cloud IT infrastructure, determining optimal workload execution venues for enterprise applications, and enabling unified IT/data management across clouds? Hybrid-cloud IT, once an unintended consequence of unchecked technology sprawl, is emerging as a strategic posture to manage the transformation.

In this webinar, Melanie Posey of 451 Research will examine the cloud-driven changes in the enterprise IT landscape and discuss how organizations can achieve agility and flexibility across unified IT environments with the consistency, scale, speed, operational efficiency, and governance required. Following the 451 presentation we will have an engaging panel discussion with industry experts.

John Martinez - Palo Alto Networks and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

Ensuring your cloud environments are correctly configured and adhere to your organization’s compliance standards is essential to prevent successful cyber attacks. Additionally, making sure these applications as well as the data they collect and store are properly protected and compliant is critical to avoid costly fines, a tarnished image, and loss of customer trust.

According to 451 Research, 37% of IT and security professionals cite governance and compliance as the most important workload-related IT challenge currently faced by their organizations. Despite the availability of numerous tools, most organizations struggle to effectively control their exposure and maintain compliance across their ever-changing cloud environments.

David Corrigan - Informatica and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

The pressure to deliver differentiated and consistent customer experiences is increasing as a result of significant disruption occurring across industries. For businesses to effectively compete in this new environment, they need to capture, analyze, understand and act upon information.

For decades, businesses have sought a comprehensive picture of customer activity and behavior, but also have been thwarted by data that remains siloed or unanalyzed. Finally, processes for getting a reliable and complete view of what customers want (and how they want to be contacted) are taking shape. Tools, such as customer intelligence platforms (CIP), that synthesize different data sources across enterprises provide insights into moments of influence and leverage, enabling faster, more personalized interactions with customers.

In this webinar, Sheryl Kingstone, VP Research at 451 Research, will share why a CIP is critical for businesses that demand a transparent data science architecture and platform that empowers line of business and IT collaboration.

Jeff Budge - OneNeck and Melanie Posey - 451 Research

Todays’ IT landscape is all about the pressure to change. Cloud adoption and transformation dominate the priorities of IT organizations. It’s not all bad: Enterprises have a huge variety of options for infrastructure and software today, but also a set of challenges that aren’t necessarily technical. This webinar dives into the market trends and demand drivers for Enterprises and service providers alike.

Patrick Donovan and Mark Hurley - Schneider Electric and Kelly Morgan - 451 Research

According to the Uptime Institute's 2019 enterprise data center survey, the "greatest challenges" related to the infrastructure is aging infrastructure and keeping up with demand. Indeed, significant downtime risk exists when physical infrastructure systems approach the end of their useful life, software management tools no longer reflect or comprehend reality, and operations & maintenance programs become outdated. Aging data centers must either be modernized or have their business functions outsourced to cloud or colocation service providers to minimize the risk of disruption. Sites that postpone modernizing also fail to benefit from recent technological advances. These improvements make data centers simpler, more efficient, easier to manage, and more cost effective to operate today. In addition, IT demands change over time, and modernizing represents an opportunity to re-assess the requirements of the data center, such as redundancy and capacity needs. Fundamentally, you have a choice of buying new, upgrading/fixing what you have, or doing nothing. The right answer might depend on your future growth and outsourcing plans.

In this webinar, we present a simple four-step framework for how to modernize a data center facility. Often, when modernization is discussed, the focus is only on upgrading the equipment hardware, but as we discuss in this webinar, these steps should be carried out for three key domains – equipment hardware (electrical & mechanical), software management systems, and operations & maintenance programs, since keeping the IT systems running depends on all three.

Tarun Desikan - Banyan, Sadiq Khan - BlueVoyant and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

Zero Trust is attracting lots of attention, but enterprises are being asked to scrap or revamp their existing investments to achieve it. Such efforts can be expensive without necessarily delivering improved security. In this webinar we will discuss how enterprises can leverage existing investments in SSO, MDM, MFA, EDR and cloud to replace traditional VPN-based access with their own flavor of Google’s BeyondCorp to achieve a modern Zero Trust security posture.

Sazzala Reddy - Datrium and Steven Hill - 451 Research

The growing availability and adoption of hybrid cloud infrastructure offers a truly flexible model for business IT, but along with it comes new challenges for managing, protecting and effectively using data that’s increasingly outside the enterprise datacenter firewall.

While this presents issues for companies using traditional infrastructure, the future of IT productivity will no longer be limited to the physical systems on hand; and makes automation based on global workload and data visibility the next major step for the modern enterprise.

In this program we’ll examine some of the current and future capabilities of hybrid cloud IT and explore some of the ways that hybrid-ready automation can move you toward the freedom of next-generation hybrid cloud adoption.

Nadav Maman - Deep Instinct and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

Stating the importance of having modern cybersecurity defenses has become a truism. Organizations of all sizes are rethinking how to apply security controls across diverse areas; such as Network Security, Application Security, Security Management, and Endpoint Security. As they do so, multiple questions arise: what are other organizations doing? How should we respond? What new challenges should we be prepared for?

Join 451 Research and Deep Instinct on a live webinar in which we’ll discuss:

• Current state and future trends for security across organizations.
• What’s required in modern endpoint defense?
• The role of AI both in terms of attack and defense. How are cyber threats of the future (is-delete) going to use AI and how we can protect against it?

Knox Anderson - Sysdig and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

When the trade-off for agility is complexity and the reward for efficiency is doing more with the same or fewer resources, modern software development can often feel like one step forward, two steps back.

Join 451 Research and Sysdig for this 45-minute session in which we’ll:

• Share recent findings from IT decision makers that highlight how containers, multiple clouds and other modern technologies both solve and create problems
• Provide insights into how organizations are digitally transforming and determining cloud migration approaches
• Address barriers that remain and tools, models and strategies to overcome them

Anke Conzelmann of Iron Mountain and Nick Patience of 451 Research

The vast amount of unstructured data that exists in organizations represents both a risk and a new set of opportunities. Until recently, that vast – and growing – set of data represented something to be tolerated at best, or feared at worst, given the risks inherent in ignoring the sensitive nature of some of the content. Now, machine learning enables not only the classification and management of that data, but also the ability to create new revenue streams from previously dormant data.

Mohan Kompella - BigPanda and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Understaffed, overwhelmed and overworked. IT Ops, NOC and DevOps teams are under siege like never before. IT execs, leaders and managers must answer three burning questions:

Join Nancy Gohring from 451 Research and BigPanda on July 11th at 10am PST as they discuss the future of IT Ops, how AI and ML are opening up a new frontier of autonomous operations, and why forward-looking IT leaders must embrace it to succeed.

Jan-Pieter Nentwig - Interxion and Craig Matsumoto - 451 Research

Cloud migration needs an anchor, a way for the enterprise to regain control over all this connectivity. But that anchor point also must be flexible, to accommodate new clouds and SaaS providers that the enterprise might use. This webinar will discuss the use of a multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) as a partner in the enterprise's migration to the cloud. We will describe how colocation can create that anchor point for tapping a richly connected community of services, while provided added benefits of security, reliability and low latency.

Charles Foley - Talon and Henry Baltazar - 451 Research

Enterprise infrastructure professionals are facing difficult challenges and must find new ways to deliver consistent performance and data access in a cost efficient manner. With distributed and multi cloud environments becoming the norm for enterprises, this will only increase the burden of data management going forward. The ongoing rise of cloud based file services and the evolution of global caching technologies, will disrupt the market by not only simplifying data consolidation, but also accelerating storage performance and data access in remote locations.

Join us on July 11th for a webinar discussing the current challenges with data management and how organizations can optimize their environments.

Justin Crotty - NetEnrich and Aaron Sherrill - 451 Research

Vendors, distributors, VARs, system integrators, and others are discovering what MSPs have known for years - that managed services are a growth engine driving revenue and profitability. However, many organizations quickly hit a wall in their managed services growth. This is the same growth barrier that most managed IT service providers have been struggling to overcome for many years – scalability. Scalability is about achieving profitable growth, but scalability becomes an increasingly bigger obstacle as a service provider grows. Service providers that have reached the scalability tipping point are finding that margins on existing services are declining as the costs and complexity to deliver those services continue to increase.

Join 451 Research Senior Analyst Aaron Sherrill and NetEnrich’s Senior VP of Channel Sales and Marketing as they discuss the importance for scalability for MSPs, the challenges service providers are facing as they scale their business and services offerings, and how MSPs can overcome these challenges and eliminate capacity constraints while also enriching their overall value proposition to customers.

Boris Bulanov - NuoDB and James Curtis - 451 Research

Enterprise organizations depend on applications to deliver services and to connect with customers. As software becomes and increasingly critical driver for every industry, organizations must accelerate application delivery and optimize availability to stay ahead of evolving customer demands and market expectations.

Modern application architectures and infrastructure now deliver the agility necessary to move enterprise digital transformation initiatives forward. The question many enterprises struggle with is how to choose the right technologies to move forward with.

Jason Pfeiffer - ReliaQuest and Aaron Sherrill - 451 Research

Managing security and protecting the organization from a growing number of threats is a complex endeavor. Unfortunately, it is not to get easier any time soon as the corporate network perimeter disappears and organizations adopt an increasing number of cloud services, IoT devices, and emerging technologies. Visibility into the entire IT ecosystem is one the most essential components of a strong cybersecurity posture yet organizations report that visibility is one of the biggest challenges to improving their cybersecurity posture. Join this webinar to hear Aaron Sherrill, Senior Analyst with 451 Research and Jason Pfeiffer, Vice President, Product Management with ReliaQuest discuss the findings of 451 Research’s recent survey exploring the impact that visibility can have on both security and business operations.

Chris Marsh of 451 Research

Improving workforce productivity has risen in list of IT priorities, and in 451 Research’s corporate software survey, it’s now the number one initiative for IT-led digital transformation. IT can make a significant impact by alleviating the pervasive friction employees face in getting their work done.

Sameer Parulkar - Red Hat and Carl Lehmann - 451 Research

The modern phenomenon called ‘digital transformation’ has emerged to craft more engaging customer experiences, improve business efficiencies, and fend off threats from rivals. The need for competitive advantage has driven organizations towards cloud computing, agile programming, and the move toward DevOps unification; and, it’s forced the modernization of IT architecture using innovative technologies such as containers, microservices, and artificial intelligence.

But unintended consequences now burden organizations with disaggregated IT infrastructure composed of redundant data centers, multi-clouds, managed services, edge computing, devices, and things. To cope, business and IT leaders must conceptualize new agile means to integrate workloads across highly distributed and disparate hybrid multi-cloud architecture..

Ian Hermon - Thales and Jordan McKee - 451 Research

There is perhaps no more important security priority than protecting financial transactions. At the rate that FinTech is moving, how will security keep up? How will merchants and financial intuitions find new ways to reduce costs, increase their value proposition and simplify the payment experience for their consumers? The answer is to understand the trends that will be affecting your business and design your security to be ahead of it.

Join 451 Research and Thales for a closer look at some of the most significant trends emerging in payments today and the technology developments seeking to address a broader range of security threats while supporting a diverse range of new payment approaches.

Martin Gontovnikas - Auth0 and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

As organizations pile cloud services onto their environment, and digitally transform legacy applications to microservices, the already complicated task of managing identities quickly becomes increasingly complex and fragmented. But it doesn’t have to be.

Scaling the business and modernizing applications doesn’t mean you’re relegated to a siloed and disparate approach to identity. Identity, development, and engineering leaders are realizing there’s a better way to keep pace with changing business and customer demands by taking a centralized and customizable approach to identity management. By turning to a low code and extensible identity platform, immediate benefits such as removing operational silos, scaling without boundaries, and meeting security/compliance requirements, are realized.

Ryan Duguid - Nintex and Carl Lehmann - 451 Research

Digital business is all about enabling new competitive advantages – achieved by conducting business in ways that prospects and customers recognize as superior to rivals and thus award you their business. ‘How’ an enterprise delivers customer value determines its competitive advantage, and another word for ‘how’ is ‘process.’

The essential technologies needed for digital business treat business processes as a portfolio of strategic assets. They include next-generation capabilities for process discovery, mapping/documentation and analysis, automation, and means to extract intelligence from execution to improve outcomes.

Richard Walters - CensorNet and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

Cybersecurity professionals are overwhelmed by the unprecedented scale of alerts and events they’re faced with as a result of having to manage an increasing number of point products. The complexity of multi-layered cyber security solutions, combined with ‘alert fatigue’ is having a striking impact on organizational effectiveness and a business’ ability to protect its people, network and assets.

In this webinar, 451 Research and Censornet will discuss automated security controls and why autonomous security will transform the future of cyber security.

Robert Reeves - Datical and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

The concepts of automation and autonomy are by no means new to the IT industry but attempts to bring them to the database and data management sectors accelerated in 2018, in part thanks to the fanfare that surrounded the launch of Oracle’s Autonomous Database. As we move into 2019 and beyond the push to incorporate database automation into IT initiatives such as DevOps, test auto­mation and container orchestration is also gaining momentum.

Since there are multiple ways automation can be applied to database and data management work­loads it’s no surprise there is potential for confusion when trying to figure out how this all fits into a larger IT automation strategy. Please join us to clear up the confusion and learn what you should know about automation, autonomy and the database.

Michael Murray - Blackridge and Christian Renaud - 451 Research

The convergence of Information Technology and Operational technology required for digital transformation has exposed security vulnerabilities that need to be addressed to secure critical and production infrastructure. The security of legacy ‘brownfield’ devices requires a strong identity component in order to determine entitlements for equipment, as well as inform process and organizational changes necessary to secure the Industrial Internet of Things. Join this webinar to understand the key role that Identity plays in IIoT security, key use cases and buyers, and what technology options exist today to solve these challenges.

Steve Witt - Nintex, Evan Pfaff - City and County of Denver and Carl Lehmann - 451 Research

Governments now pursue transformative means to better serve citizens, offer new or improved services and extract greater operational efficiencies. They will require holistic and uniform means to design, develop, deploy and manage self-service applications and automate government operations across distributed IT infrastructure and cloud services that now compose modern IT.

The essential technologies needed for to enable digital governments treat the processes used to create and deliver services as a portfolio of strategic assets. They include next-generation capabilities for process documentation and analysis, automation, and means to extract intelligence from execution to improve outcomes.

Zachary Scott Jarvinen - OpenText and Nick Patience - 451 Research

71% of enterprises across industries struggle to harness the true value of textual data given its complex nature. Apart from missing opportunities to tap into valuable sources of insights, enterprises are putting themselves at risk by not being able to classify and process information in a contextual yet scalable manner. Traditional approaches to process information manually to avoid risks can waste as much of a quarter of a teams’ time only to be unsuccessful 56% of the time representing great unproductivity threats. At the same time, manual processing of large volumes of information delays processes along with an inability to share knowledge across the enterprise translating into an annual 47-million-dollar loss and risks of incompliance that can add up to 14.82 million dollars annually.

To replace incompliance and inefficiency risks with compliance and scalable content value maximization, enterprises need to be able to increase the value of content by means of making it matter when it comes to kickstarting content-driven processes such as process automations, data migrations and privacy governance.

Attend this webinar and learn how advanced text analytics and machine learning can intelligently classify volumes of information taking its context into consideration to prevent risks, save costs, and overall increase the value of your enterprise content.

Michael Elder - IBM and Melanie Posey - 451 Research

In the digital era, the ability to drive innovation, business value, and competitive differentiation is highly IT-dependent and increasingly data-centric. Forward-looking IT leaders are embracing the challenge, but also need to address the reality of rationalizing pre-cloud IT infrastructure and applications.

Hybrid/multicloud IT, once an unintended consequence of unchecked technology sprawl, is emerging as a strategic posture to manage the transformation. By modernizing with cloud technology, it can provide greater agility and flexibility across unified IT environments with the consistency, scale, speed, operational efficiency, and governance needed.

Bryan Lubel - Integron and John Spooner - 451 Research

It has been well-documented how recent CPT billing code changes have the ability to pave new trails for remote patient monitoring. Equally documented are the potential patient care benefits to be enabled by connected technology deployments. In this webinar, experts will not only discuss how healthcare providers can build meaningful and profitable services to correspond with the updated Medicare/Medicaid billing models, but equally important, how those same companies can navigate the challenges associated with the diverse technology deployment requirements.

Tim Parker - Flexential and Craig Matsumoto - 451 Research

Join 451 Research and Flexential experts as they discuss what makes up The Edge and the heightened importance of a low-latency edge computing strategy in wake of the growing digital world. Expert analysis will include discussions around:

• The new age of digitalization
• The question of location for edge compute resources
• The case for a service-rich, low-latency near-edge for mission-critical applications, data storage and analysis.

Sean Byrnes - Outlier and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

Your organization has plenty of data. Your team likely spends hours, days or even weeks trying to uncover the hidden insights in all of your different data sources, within your vast amount of data or even your dusty data lake.

• What if you could automate the data analysis process?
• What if you could spend less time reviewing data and more time leveraging insights and monetizing your actions?
• What if your stakeholders were delivered relevant insights every morning?

Join our webinar where we will review the current challenges that complicate data analysis for many companies. We’ll discuss how companies are analyzing their data automatically with the help of Outlier’s Automatic Business Analysis platform. And we’ll explore how companies are using the unexpected insights they’ve learned with Outlier to optimize their actions and make data-driven decisions for their business

Greg Pierce - DXC and William Fellows and Melanie Posey - 451 Research

Making clouds work “as advertised” to deliver key benefits of speed and scale is getting harder– especially for small to mid-sized organizations without a deep bench of cloud expertise. Cloud management challenges have grown because of the jumble of clouds available, complex cost models and venues. The investment, time and skills needed to build a control pane and processes to streamline multi-cloud management is often out of reach for all but the biggest companies.

Instead SMBs can take advantage of DXC Concerto’s approach which overcomes these constraints by packaging best practices and managed services to co-ordinate the use of hybrid IT and multi-cloud services through a cloud management platform. This integrated approach prioritizes the principles of right-sizing and cost management, DevOps enablement and automation with a “Safety First” posture to ensure SMBs get the maximum cloud benefits with the best cost structure.

Rich Harper - NTT and Carl Lehmann and Liam Eagle - 451 Research

The need to quickly adapt to rapidly changing customer expectations and the actions of aggressive digital rivals demands a vigilant transformative approach. One that crafts new customer value and enables unique competitive advantages over rivals. Business and IT leaders now pursue new means to align business strategy, processes and operations within the modern cloud era.

But today, IT planners have far more options as to how and where to run their business than ever before. On-premises data centers, co-location facilities and managed services providers are now joined to form hybrid multi-clouds – a combination of Software, Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) execution venues. Hyper-distributed IT infrastructure is often the by-product. But this approach can have profound implications on how digital businesses perform and whether competitive advantage, or unintended disadvantage, is the outcom

Terri Schlosser - Suse and Jay Lyman - 451 Research

Digital transformation is critical to remain relevant, ensuring your business can continue to compete without disruption. Open Source software tools and infrastructure are key to a successful transformation strategy and advantages including agility, efficiency and responsiveness. Open source also plays a critical role in key enterprise trends such as DevOps, software-defined infrastructure (SDI) and cloud-native technologies that include containers and Kubernetes. Join us to learn more about the latest enterprise requirements, key open source technologies and how SUSE solutions address these.

Lisun Kung - Cloudvisory and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

The adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and services has become nearly synonymous with transformation and modernization. Cloud environments are responsive, elastic, and better tailored to specific user needs. They also have newer security requirements. Security teams now must support these environments, working alongside the rest of the IT organization, which itself has realigned along practices such as devops.

In order to be successful in the evolution of their practices, security teams should understand how these transformations are taking place, what new challenges they introduce, and how to address those challenges.

This webinar, featuring 451 Research Senior Analyst Fernando Montenegro and Cloudvisory Founder Lisun Kung, will cover:

• How enterprises are modernizing their environments, and what security considerations are needed
• Thinking through how Visibility, Compliance, and Governance build upon each other to achieve security outcomes
• Use cases and advice for implementing security in modern cloud-based environments

Josh Bosquez - Armor and Aaron Sherrill - 451 Research

A new survey from 451 Research found that small and midsized enterprises (SME) are making big strides in cybersecurity. Eighty-nine percent reported that their organization now has a single executive leader whose primary responsibility is information security while eighty percent indicated they are increasing their security budgets by an average of 14% for the coming year. It’s clear that many SMEs have shown an increased awareness of cyber risk and the impact a breach could have on their organizations. However, big decisions still loom ahead. Chief among them, embracing digital migration to the cloud when that migration opens up new attack surfaces to increasingly advanced threats and misconfiguration challenges.

Gal Helemski - PlainID and Paige Bartley - 451 Research

There’s a pervasive perception held by many organizations that data governance or effective access management for data somehow reduces the ability to leverage and derive insight from information. This could not be further from the truth. Full control of data is necessary for both data protection and data leverage. In this webinar, 451 Research and PlainID will explore the benefits of sophisticated access management strategies as a facilitator for business insight, examining how a data-driven – rather than identity-driven – access management approach protects sensitive informational assets while ensuring that information is still leveraged to its maximum potential, by the maximum number of people within the organization. Consistent control of data access, with automated functionality, is critical to enabling today’s broad self-service initiatives while remaining compliant with evolving data privacy and data protection regulation. Deriving business value from data requires strong governance, as data protection and data leverage are two sides of the same coin defined by strong data control capabilities

Will Krause - AppBus and Carl Lehmann - 451 Research

Market rivals and empowered customers are forcing enterprises to reconsider how they do business. ‘Digital transformation’ has emerged as a means to craft engaging customer experiences, automate business operations and fend off threats from rivals. It’s driving the need to rethink how enterprises engage and interact with customers, partners and their workforce.

To cope, business and IT leaders must conceptualize new means to align business strategy and operations with modern IT automation platforms that can create new competitive advantages.

Nick Santilli - OneNeck and Scott Crawford - 451 Research

IT is at the threshold of a revolution. From the growing prevalence of technology that can analyze and learn, to the impact of cloud, DevOps and digital transformation, security risks are expanding and their nature is changing – and enterprises can’t manage them alone.

Dan Thompson and Daniel Bizo - 451 Research

Today’s IT end-user is anywhere at any time. As a result, the battleground for industry and market share dominance has moved global in a big way, with IT personnel and capabilities tipping the scales like the introduction of the cannon in historic battles.This race to connect the world is why we see hyperscale cloud providers expanding globally at an accelerating pace, driving ecosystems that feed off their local investments.

In this presentation, we will obtain global perspective from Dan Thompson and Daniel Bizo from 451 Research as well as global executives from Iron Mountain Data Centers. The team will cover the following topics prior to interactive Q&A.

Ryan Kalember - Proofpoint and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

As more enterprise data and workloads migrate to the cloud, security needs and practices continue to evolve. The perceived “big risks” -shadow IT and the security practices of SaaS companies – have been surpassed by attacks on individual cloud users and data. The good news? There are reliable, high fidelity ways to detect and mitigate cloud threats and risks to data.

Join Garrett Bekker, Principal Security Analyst at 451 Research and Ryan Kalember, SVP of cybersecurity at Proofpoint as they discuss:

• How the industry’s conceptions of what matters in cloud security have evolved, from the initial emphasis on shadow IT and the security practices of cloud vendors to the current focus on the identity-defined perimeter
• What the most successful and prevalent attack vectors are in the cloud, from brute force attacks to new forms of phishing that bypass multi-factor authentication
• What to look for in a CASB solution to mitigate the risks your organization is likely to face

Arik Pelkey - Hitachi Vantara and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

Why do more than 80% of IoT projects fail to make it out of the proof-of-concept stage? One unfortunate reason is that most companies get stuck analyzing sensor data alone and fail to attach projects to clear and compelling business cases with hard ROIs.

Join Matt Aslett, Research Vice President at 451 Research and Arik Pelkey, Sr. Director at Hitachi Vantara, to discuss how correlating IoT data together with business data about customers, products, marketing, social media, etc. enables you to take a more business-centric approach to your IoT projects – and get them out of the labs.

Rohit Goyal - Nutanix and Christian Renaud - 451 Research

Across the globe, enterprises are actively transforming their businesses with digital technology. The amount of investment varies from industry to industry depending on maturity and previous investments in business transformation.

This transformation requires line-of-business owners to rethink the entire digital transformation journey—from technology to organizational structures to redesigning company processes—to find new revenue streams.

Join 451 Research’s Research Vice President Christian Renaud and Nutanix’s Rohit Goyal Principal Product Marketing Manager on March 26th at 12pm ET for a webinar where they will share thoughts IoT adoption trends, creating new insights at the edge, and best practices for digital transformation. Please come armed with questions for the Q&A session at the end of the webinar.

Sirish Raghuram - Platform9 and Jay Lyman - 451 Research

Kubernetes is a key enabler of cloud-native applications which are meant to be portable and capable of running on any underlying infrastructure whether it is on-premises, in the public cloud, or on the edge. However, Kubernetes is enormously complex to deploy and operate at scale in a single cloud. Running in a hybrid environment adds more complexity and risk.

In this webinar, Jay Lyman, Principal Analyst, Cloud Native and DevOps, will discuss the benefits of deploying Kubernetes for hybrid cloud infrastructure, and the challenges enterprises face. He will be joined by Sirish Raghuram, CEO, Platform9 to cover:

• Key drivers for container adoption
• Challenges of deploying Kubernetes
• Why Kubernetes for hybrid cloud?
• The benefits of a services-based deployment model

Saira Guthrie - Ping Identity and Garrett Bekker - 451 Research

Have you noticed that many of the leading banks and insurance companies have developer portals with APIs? In this webinar, we’ll discuss how customers’ needs for financial freedom are shaping the financial ecosystem, leading to an explosion of open APIs and a more integrated customer experience. We’ll discuss how and why finance companies are voluntarily adopting API standards and best practices from around the world—even though there is no US “open banking” regulation. And finally, we’ll discuss cybersecurity and access management capabilities necessary to protect financial services companies from the risks introduced by this new attack vector.

Josh Bosquez - Armor and Aaron Sherrill - 451 Research

A new survey from 451 Research found that small and midsized enterprises (SME) are making big strides in cybersecurity. Eighty-nine percent reported that their organization now has a single executive leader whose primary responsibility is information security while eighty percent indicated they are increasing their security budgets by an average of 14% for the coming year. It’s clear that many SMEs have shown an increased awareness of cyber risk and the impact a breach could have on their organizations. However, big decisions still loom ahead. Chief among them, embracing digital migration to the cloud when that migration opens up new attack surfaces to increasingly advanced threats and misconfiguration challenges.

Join Josh Bosquez, Armor Chief Technology Officer, and Aaron Sherrill, Senior Analyst at 451 Research and a former CTO, for a 45-minute webinar.

Craig Monson - 2nd Watch and Jay Lyman - 451 Research

Many organizations want to implement some type of microservices strategy, commonly by way of containers. Running containers in development can create fast feedback cycles and gives developers additional autonomy while working, but how does this translate to running containers in production? In this webinar we will talk about the main drivers and challenges with containers, as well as the huge divide between running containers in development and operationalizing your application at scale and for production release.

Jennifer Cheplick - Syncsort and Matt Aslett - 451 Research

As enterprises strive to create a more data-driven culture, they want to put more data in the hands of more users across the organization. However, not all enterprise data is easy to access and understand, and most decision-makers lack the expertise to evaluate the quality of the data they’re using to know if it’s fit for purpose.

To enable a culture of self-service analytics companies must get all of their data into one place where it can be accessed – like an enterprise data marketplace – and ensure its quality so it can be trusted by the data consumers.

Join this webinar to learn from Matt Aslett, Research VP, Data, AI and Analytics, 451 Research and Jennifer Cheplick, Senior Director, Syncsort to hear about how a combination of technology and cultural change can enable enterprises to provide a foundation of data integration and data quality that arms your organization’s data consumers with the functionality to enable self-service analytics.

Lauren Clark - Mint and Chris Marsh - 451 Research

HR departments, like many lines of business, typically struggle with the pervasive friction that comes with using disparate applications and having content, information, people and process stuck in silos. The time and effort spent doing often very manual, administrative work not only can diminish productivity but it also can hinder employee satisfaction, and often means spending less time on more impactful work that drives better business outcomes.

In fact according to a recent Nintex study “Definitive Guide to America’s Most Broken Processes” the 5th most broken process within corporations is employee onboarding.

Paul Hughes of Netcracker and Sheryl Kingstone of 451 Research

This webinar will examine some recent 451 Research data highlighting the importance of organizational alignment around customer and the sales process and will provide Netcracker’s perspective on how telecom and cable providers can prioritize their next moves to best address these critical issues. .

Darren Cunningham - OpsRamp and Nancy Gohring - 451 Research

Serverless. Kubernetes. Multi-Cloud. IoT. AIOps. With so much innovation and change in the world of digital and IT operations management and monitoring, how do you keep up?

This interactive webinar will review the latest research and feature a live Q&A on what's hot, what's new, and what's next in this dynamic and distributed market. Sponsored by OpsRamp, this webinar will also provide an overview of OpsRamp's service-centric AIOps platform and how OpsRamp customers are controlling the chaos with a new approach to IT operations as a service.

Join Nancy Gohring, Senior Analyst Application and Infrastructure Performance at 451 Research, on February 21st for a review of the market trends and insights from the 451 Market Map on Performance Management.

Taeil Goh - Opswat and Fernando Montenegro - 451 Research

Why are document-borne threats still able to bypass traditional defenses? Learn about a technology called Content Disarm & Reconstruction (CDR), which prevents unknown threats in files without having to rely on detection. In this session you will learn:

• How CDR can prevent threats in files by converting ‘unknown’ to ‘known good’
• How CDR has evolved to overcome the loss of file usability, a major concern for organizations
• The future of CDR and a simulation of real-world hacks that could have been prevented with CDR technology

Erik Ottem - Western Digital and Steven Hill - 451 Research

Data protection has always been one of the top priorities of IT; but the very nature of business data has been quietly changing behind the scenes. Today, unstructured data in the form of documents, images and other types of media files are making up the lion’s share of new data growth, and traditional storage and backup models are unable to provide the information and visibility needed to protect, manage and realize the full potential of the growing mountain of unstructured business data. Please join Steven Hill, Senior Analyst of Applied Infrastructure and Storage Technologies at 451 Research and his special guest, Erik Ottem, Senior Director of Product Marketing , Western Digital, for a lively conversation on the future of data management and an opportunity to answer some of your questions about next-generation storage.

Shane Johnson - MariaDB and James Curtis - 451 Research

The need to monetize data has become a strategic imperative for businesses undergoing digital transformation, whether it’s using data to improve customer engagement, identify compelling opportunities or deliver actionable insight.

However, as businesses look to expand revenue-generating, customer-facing applications beyond operational processing to include analytics, they find themselves outgrowing the their transactional database. They need full operational and full analytic capabilities.

In this webinar, we’ll share how MariaDB customers are combining row storage and operational processing with columnar storage and analytic processing to apply HOAP in the real world, complete with use cases, reference architectures and success stories.

Charles Dordevich - Nintex and Sheryl Kingstone - 451 Research

70% of organizations are in the midst of plans to digitally transform the way they conduct business for more process efficiency, reduced cost, optimized customer experience and competitive advantage. Experiences not price or products will be the battleground of the future. Sales and marketing departments has invested in CRM systems, like Salesforce, to improve operational efficiency.

Now they need to complement their investments with systems of engagement that improve performance effectiveness. In other words, corporations need to keep their salespeople selling while ensuring customer expectations are consistently met. But in today’s world, the actual act of selling often takes a back seat because of manual and time-consuming business processes.

Stan Stevens - Hitachi Vantara and Tim Stammers - 451 Research

IT infrastructure has never stopped becoming more complex and more critical to business, and the load on both that infrastructure and the personnel that run it has never stopped growing. As a result, automation has become a major competitive area for infrastructure vendors. This webinar looks at the way to approach automation, and the way it is being affected by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Matthew Gardiner - Mimecast and Scott Crawford - 451 Research

Organizations have become highly sensitive to security threats that originate from the outside, such as malware and phishing, and consequently most have taken steps to block them at key points of entry –including the web and email. But what about the email and web content that makes up most enterprise traffic – that which is generated internally? In many organizations, this goes largely uninspected.

Did you know that, according to Mimecast research, less than half of all enterprise email traffic is inbound into the organization? The remaining traffic is generated internally and sent internally or outbound from the organization. Why is this important? According to Mimecast’s 2018 State of Email Security Report, 80% of organizations encountered threats caused by attackers infiltrating and compromising users’ email accounts.